LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY E-BULLETIN FOR JANUARY 2007 January 1, 2007 ======================================================= Summary of Events for January 2007 (See details on a later screen.) - Family Tree Maker Group: Thursday, January 4 - General Meeting: Tuesday, January 9 - Study Group: Thursday, January 25 - The Master Genealogist Group: Saturday, January 20 - L-AGS Board Meeting: Tuesday, January 2, 2007 ======================================================= Future General Meetings January 9, 2007 - "Preserving Your Family History, an Archivist's Perspective." Maxine Trost February 13, 2007 - "My new book, 'Historic Livermore, California, A to Z'". Anne Homan March 13, 2007 - "My Trip to Germany" - Chuck Wiedel ======================================================= A N N O U N C E M E N T S L-AGS EXECUTIVE BOARD FOR 2007 Results of the election held December 12, 2006 President: .......................Anne Homan 1st Vice President, Program: .....Arleen Wood 2nd Vice President, Membership: ..Patrick Lofft & Larry Hale Recording Secretary: .............Rose Marie Phipps Corresponding Secretary: .........Beth Twogood Business Manager: ................Frank Geasa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PROGRAMS AT THE MONTHLY GENERAL MEETiNGS Arleen Wood, Program Chairperson Do you have a story you would like to present at a General Meeting? Is there a particular topic you would like to have presented or discussed at a future meeting? Your suggestions and comments for future programs are encouraged and welcome! Please contact me at mailto:program.chair@L-AGS.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DUES REMINDER 2007 Patrick Lofft and Larry Hale, Membership Chairmen January first was the deadline for paying your 2007 dues. If you haven't paid yet, don't worry - you won't be declared an ex-member until March 1. Before more time passes, why don't you take a minute to renew your membership? An individual membership is $18.00 and family memberships are $25.00. Names of Benefactors ($40) and Patrons ($100) are published in four issues of the Roots Tracer. You may mail your check, payable to "L-AGS", to P.O. Box 901, Livermore, CA 94551-0901, or give to Jean Lerche or Marilyn Cutting. Please include the filled-out renewal form that came with your November Roots Tracer. Thanking you in advance....Patrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL FOR ARTICLES FOR THE ROOTS TRACER George Anderson A new issue of the Roots Tracer is coming up in February. This is a fresh opportunity for you to gather up some of your research results that might be interesting and instructive to other members of L-AGS, and have them appear in print. Have you discovered a new research technique or an unusual source of data? Have you made a major breakthrough? Have you solved a family mystery? Have you published a book? We welcome articles that help us all become better genealogists. The deadline for the February issue is January 15th, but we can stretch that if necessary. Remember that a picture is worth a megabyte of words. Please send your article to mailto:tracer@L-AGS.org, or write to that address for further informaton. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RIDE SHARING Jane Southwick Some members may find it difficult to attend meetings for a variety of reasons, but if one of those reasons is lack of transportation, we would like to hear from you. Please e-mail the President at mailto:president@L-AGS.org if you need a ride, or if you are able to offer a member a ride to one of our meetings. ======================================================= J A N U A R Y M E E T I N G S Visitors are welcome free of charge at all of our meetings. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FAMILY TREE MAKER FOCUS GROUP Leader: Dick Finn at mailto:XXXX@wecare.net Date and Time: Thursday, January 4, 7:30 p.m. Always the first Thursday of the month. Place: Room 3 (around the back), Almond Avenue School, 1401 Almond Avenue, Livermore Map to the meeting site: http://www.L-AGS.org/maps/Liv-AlmondSchool.html In addition to our usual give and take session we will review some of the little known features for Family Tree Maker. Bring your questions and your FTM finds. Most of our group are FTM users (from beginners to experts) who discuss problems and solutions, share successes, answer questions, and in general help each other with the Family Tree Maker genealogical software. All persons interested or potentially interested in Family Tree Maker are invited to attend. For information on our group please call Dick Finn at 925- XXX-XXXX or e-mail him at mailto:XXXX@wecare.net. Contact Dick for information about topics to be discussed. Visitors are welcome and there is no charge to attend. Bring your questions, comments, and if you have a laptop with FTM loaded (any version) and/or the FTM Handbook, you might bring them. Please avail yourself of the L-AGS FTM e-mail forum at mailto:ftm.group@L-AGS.org to post questions, answers and comments. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MONTHLY GENERAL MEETING Arleen Wood, Program Chairperson Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 7:30 p.m. Location: Congregation Beth Emek, 3400 Nevada Court, Pleasanton Map to the meeting site: http://www.L-AGS.org/maps/Pls-BethEmek.html Topic: "Preserving Your Family History: An Archivist's Perspective" Presenter: E. Maxine Trost, Laboratory Archivist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Visitors are welcome. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STUDY GROUP MEETING Leader: Kay Speaks [For a formatted version of this announcement, go to: http://www.L-AGS.org/temp/study_group.doc ] Date: Thursday, 25 January 2007 Always the fourth Thursday of each month Time: 7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. Location: LDS Church, 950 Mocho Street, Livermore, CA Map to the meeting site: http://www.l-ags.org/maps/Liv-FHC.html Topic: Creating, Storing and Sharing Digital Images You own a digital camera or digital voice recorder and now have digital images. How do you get your digital data from one place to another? Wonder how to copy your digital images to a CD, DVD, USB drive or micro drive? Does all this sound like gibberish? Have old photos and want to make a digital copy with a scanner? Come to our January 25 Study Group meeting and find out how easy it is to transfer your data and share it with other members of your family and fellow researchers. Have a genealogy brick wall? Let the Study Group help you brainstorm your research options. Don't forget to use our L-AGS Study Group forum for any genealogy topic discussion or computer interest question. L-AGS is blessed with people willing to share their knowledge! E-mail the forum at: mailto:study.group@L-AGS.org. You can also post any suggestions for future Study Group topics. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TRI-VALLEY TMG USERS GROUP Kay Speaks, Leader [For a formatted version of this announcement, go to: http://www.L-AGS.org/temp/TMG.doc ] Meeting Date: January 20, 2007 (Third Saturday of the Month) Meeting Time: 9:00 AM - Noon Meeting Location: 7077 Koll Center Parkway, Suite 110, Conference Room, Pleasanton, CA 94566 Directions: http://www.l-ags.org/maps/Pls-KollCenter.html TV-TMG Chair: Kay Speaks, tvtmg.chair@L-AGS.org Presenters: Kay Speaks & Sue Johnston Topic: Merging Duplicate People http://tmg.reigelridge.com/merging-people.htm This month we complete the last lesson in the category Understanding TMG Functions and Features with the topic "Merging Duplicate People". This category of study described TMG's various features and functions, and how to use them to effectively enter and manage your data in TMG. Next month we will start the Intermediate Section to Terry Reigel's tutorials found at http://tmg.reigelridge.com/index.htm. Terry's Merging Duplicate People website documentation states, "Users occasionally find that they have two copies of the same person in their Project, and want to merge them. This sometimes occurs because we failed to recognize someone we found in research was already entered in our Data Set, or we were unsure if the person is the same as someone already entered, so we create a new person. Later we discover the duplication, or find evidence that the two people actually were the same. Or, we might merge Data Sets, or copy a group of people from one Data Set to another, resulting in one or more people appearing twice." Our January meeting will feature the process of merging duplicate people, including some tips on the process, as well as some cases where merging does not apply. A digital projector will be available for ease of viewing our lesson. Laptops are accommodated. Please send questions or comments to our Tri-Valley TMG List at mailto:tvtmg@L-AGS.org. =======================================================