LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY E-BULLETIN FOR JULY 2007 July 1, 2007 ======================================================= SUMMARY OF EVENTS FOR JULY 2007 (See details on a later screen.) - Family Tree Maker Group: No meeting in July and August - General Meeting: Tuesday, July 10 - The Master Genealogist: Saturday, July 21 - Study Group: Thursday, July 26 ======================================================= A N N O U N C E M E N T S ALAMEDA COUNTY FAIR Gail Bryan The Fair is halfway over. There are only a few open slots left. We would especially like those who have never worked at our booth to have a chance at this experience. The signup page is at http://www.L-AGS.org/fair ======================================================= J U L 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 PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO FTM MEETING IN JULY OR AUGUST. The FTM E-Mail Forum is not closed for the summer! Please avail yourself of the Forum at mailto:ftm.group@L-AGS.org to post questions, answers and comments. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TRI-VALLEY TMG USERS GROUP Date: Saturday, July 21, 2007 Formatted version of this announcement: http://www.L-AGS.org/temp/TMG.doc Time: 9:00 a.m. - Noon (each meeting is like a mini- workshop) Location: 7077 Koll Center Parkway, Suite 110, Pleasanton, CA 94566 Map to the meeting site: http://www.l-ags.org/maps/Pls-KollCenter.html Leader: Kay Speaks, mailto:tvtmg.chair@l-ags.org Instructors: Kay Speaks & Sue Johnston We continue with Terry Reigel's website tutorial, http://tmg.reigelridge.com/Census.htm. There are a variety of approaches developed by users to record information found on census records. Terry provides links to four different methods, as well as his personal preferences. Our own Susan Goss Johnston is now the first link on Terry's website for her "very thoughtful overview of the entire process of dealing with census information, including discussion of creating sources and tags." Sue's "Great Census Debate" can be found at http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~mdtmgug/census.htm If possible, please RSVP if you plan to attend the meeting, tvtmg.chair@l-ags.org. About our meetings: With the aid of a digital projector, Kay and Sue work as an instructional team. We discuss, demonstrate, and brainstorm best practices of the software. We use a hands-on method, thus you learn TMG's features by actually entering samples of the lesson into a class TMG database. Each monthly session is like a mini three-hour TMG workshop. Guests are always welcome at our meetings. Accommodations for laptops are available. If you can't stay for the entire 3 hours, come and leave early. TMG questions not specific to all attendees will be addressed in the later part of our meeting. Please bring samples of your problem if possible. A free demo version of the software can be downloaded at http://www.whollygenes.com. For additional information, contact mailto:tvtmg.chair@l-ags.org. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MONTHLY GENERAL MEETING Arleen Wood, Program Chairperson mailto:program.chair@L-AGS.org Tuesday, July 10, at 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 A formatted version of this announcement, with more details, is at: http://www.L-AGS.org/temp/General_Meeting.doc Presentation: "California Genealogical Society New Space" Presenters: Jane Lindsey President of CGS and Colleen Huntley Member of CGS Publicity Committee The speakers will present a slide show of the new space of the California Genealogical Society library, available resources and website for online research For more details, see http://www.L-AGS.org/temp/General_Meeting.doc Visitors are welcome. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Study Group Meeting Formatted version of this announcement: http://www.L-AGS.org/temp/SG.doc Date: Thursday, July 26, 2007 (fourth Thursday of the month) Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Location: LDS Church, 950 Mocho Street, Livermore, CA Map to the meeting site: http://www.l-ags.org/maps/Liv-FHC.html Leaders: Kay Speaks and Dick Finn Contact Mail: mailto:study.group@l-ags.org Topic: Creating a personalized genealogy resource notebook To be more successful in your personal genealogy research, you need to pick the locations your ancestors came from and become an expert in those areas. It is impossible to know everything there is to know about genealogy research in general. This meeting is designed to help you focus on resources specific to your personal areas of genealogy research. We will cover research aids from FamilySearch and research techniques using Google. Have a brick wall that's driving your crazy? Need help brainstorming a particular research problem? Run out of ideas of where to research next? Have a great success story you want to share? How about a challenging research situation? Want to know how to research a specific ethnic group? Use the L-AGS Study Group Forum mailto:study.group@L-AGS.org for sharing, helping, and brainstorming. That is what the L-AGS Study Group is all about! You can also post any suggestions for future Study Group topics. ======================================================= FUTURE GENERAL MEETINGS Arleen Wood, Program Chairperson mailto:program.chair@L-AGS.org ** July 10 - Jane Lindsey and Colleen Huntley- "The California Genealogical Society Library" - Slide presentation of the new space of the CGS library, available resources and website for on-line research. ** August 14 - Marge Bell - "Churches and Cemeteries." For more details, see http://www.L-AGS.org/temp/General_Meeting.doc ** September 11 - Chuck Knuthson - "Newspaper Research: A Window to the Past" - Newspapers provide a window on the lives of our ancestors, including vital statistics, death notices and obituaries, news, photographs and illustrations, legal notices, and social events and "gossip." They are also a rich source of information on individual and community lifestyle. Do not overlook this valuable family history resource. ** October 9 -Cath Madden Trindle - "But It's My Family: Copyright Issues for 21st Century" - This lecture offers a discussion of current US copyright law, international copyright, pending legislation and court actions and ethical issues of copying and sharing genealogical information electronically or in print. ** November 13 - Shirley Reimer, "German Genealogy." ** December 11 - Mary Dillon - "101 Ranch Genealogy" - The 101 Ranch, considered to be the largest diversified ranch of the early 1900s, played a major part in her father's childhood in Oklahoma. Oil, Wild West shows, currency, and much more interesting "stuff" were part of the 101. =======================================================