THE LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY E-BULLETIN FOR NOVEMBER 2007 November 3, 2007 ======================================================= SUMMARY OF EVENTS FOR NOVEMBER 2007 (See details on a later screen.) - Family Tree Maker Group: Thursday, November 1 - General Meeting: Tuesday, November 13 - The Master Genealogist: No meeting in November - Study Group: No meeting in November ======================================================= N O V E M B E R 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, November 1, 7:30 p.m. Always the first Thursday of the month. Place: We have moved rooms again. We are still in the back - check around - we will be looking for you also Almond Avenue School, 1401 Almond Avenue, Livermore Map to the meeting site: http://www.L-AGS.org/maps/Liv-AlmondSchool.html The November meeting has already taken place. Dick Finn, leader of the group, has posted notes from the meeting on the FTM e-mail forum at ftm.group@l-ags.org. The next FTM meeting, on December 6, will be led by Duncan Tanner in Dick's absence. 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, 1st Vice President, Program mailto:program.chair@L-AGS.org Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Time: 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 Visitors are welcome at all of our meetings. Guest Speaker: Shirley Reimer Topic: "German Genealogy" Examine cultural and historical bases of ancestors' lives to gain clues to genealogical problems; to look into the many resources available for finding ancestors' often elusive place of origin in Germany. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TRI-VALLEY TMG USERS GROUP Leader: Kay Speaks, mailto:tvtmg.chair@l-ags.org There will be no TMG meeting in November because of Kay's absence. The next meeting will be held on December 15. 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STUDY GROUP MEETING Co-Leaders: Kay Speaks & Dick Finn mailto:study.group@l-ags.org There will be no meeting in November or December because of conflicts with holidays. 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. The Study Group Forum is NOT closed for the holidays. ======================================================= FUTURE GENERAL MEETINGS Arleen Wood, 1st Vice President, Program mailto:program.chair@L-AGS.org ** November 13 - Shirley Reimer, "German Genealogy." Examine cultural and historical bases of ancestors' lives to gain clues to genealogical problems; to look into the many resources available for finding ancestors' often elusive place of origin in Germany. ** 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.