THE LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY E-MAIL BULLETIN FOR August 2009 ======================================================== A U G U S T E V E N T S SUMMARY OF EVENTS For August 2009 o General Meeting - Tuesday - August 11, 2009, 7:30 p.m. Richard Rand - Getting Organized o Master Genealogist Group - Saturday August 15, 9:00 a.m. Witnesses (Chapter 12 of Terry Reigel's Book) "A Primer for The Master Genealogist") o L-AGS Board Meeting - Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 7:30pm Board Meeting Visitors are welcome, request the location And a seat by emailing corresponding@L-AGS.org. o Study Group - Thursday, August 27, 2009, 7:30 p.m. TBA ======================================================================== O T H E R I N F O R M A T I O N ======================================================================== AUGUST ROOTS TRACER AVAILABLE AT AUG 12 GENERAL MEETING The August Roots Tracer will be available at the Aug. 12 meeting. The next ROOTS TRACER article submission deadline is October 15 and the publish date is November 10. L-AGS NEEDS ROOTS TRACER EDITOR AND COMPOSITOR Jane Southwick, editor of our quarterly publication, The Livermore Roots Tracer, and George Anderson, the compositor, have worked hard on the magazine for over four years. They both feel the need to move on to new challenges. We need volunteers to step into their shoes. Here is a description of the positions. Editor (with the help of the current assistant editors): Solicits articles, Remains on the alert for potential articles during general meetings and meetings of special interest groups, Judges the suitability of submitted articles for the Tracer, Possibly rewrites submitted articles,, Edits articles for clarity and precision, Generally ensures the articles will meet the needs of the membership and reflect favorably on the public image of L-AGS, Time requirements: approximately two to four hours daily during the last two weeks of January, April, July and October, which should be left free of travel on the person's calendar. Compositor (Layout person): Maintains a good rapport with the editor (as above) and the publisher (as follows), Possesses a computer with word-processing (currently using MSWord) and e-mail software, Produces the print-ready copy and forwards it to the publisher. Time requirements, same as above: approximately two to four hours daily during the last two weeks of January, April and October, whick should be left free of travel on the person's calendar. The nominal deadline for delivering the print-ready copy to the publisher is the first of the month of publication, namely, the first of February, May, August and November. Publisher: Sandra Caulder, continues in her position. The publisher seeks the best bargain in printing services for L-AGS, takes the print-ready copy to the selected printer, attaches address labels to the copies, distributes them at the next general meeting, attaches stamps to the unndistributed copies, and takes them to the post office. If the incoming editor and compositor want, Jane and George will work closely with them for the November issue of the Tracer. Barbara Huber, President If you are interested in either of these very important positions please reply to me at: president@l-ags.org BARBARA HEMPHILL AWARD (Active L-AGS Board Member) From a Friday, July 10, 2009 issue of the PleasantonWeekly.com, Page 8, forwarded by George Anderson. ...... "At the celebration, it was also announced that Barbara Hempill and Ken Mercer had won this year's Ed Kinney Community Patriot awards. The awards are named for Mr. Kinney, a respected civic leader and former mayor and City Councilman, who died in 2005. Mercer, also a former mayor, was honored for his "influence on the destiny of Pleasanton." During his 10 years on the council, as mayor and as a civic leader before and afternhis government service, Stoneridge Shopping Center, Hacienda Business Park and Pleasanton Sports Park were planned and developed. Today, Mercer is president of the ValleyCare Health System Foundation. Hempill was honored for her work in securing decent housing for senior citizens, low-income families and the disabled both in Livermore, where she worked for 21 years, and in Pleasanton, where she and her family have lived since 1971. She continues to volunteer on civic committees. " Ref: http://www.pleasantonweekly.com/morguepdf/2009/2009_07_10.pls.section1.pdf CGS LAND RECORDS WORKSHOP - August 8, 2009 10am Limited to 15 people. Free to CGS members, $10 donation otherwise. http://www.calgensoc.org/ (in "What's Happening" section) NARA WORKSHOP SAN BRUNO - AUGUST 17 National Archives, Pacific Region (San Francisco) offers some wonderful genealogy workshops and public programs. August 17 is Federal Land Records and August 14 is Preserving your history. 9am-1pm, $15. Details at: http://archives.gov/pacific/archives/san-francisco/workshops.html To Register and for more information: Contact Rose Mary Kennedy at 650-238-3488 or send her an e-mail at rosemary.kennedy@nara.gov. Cost: Fees are $15, payable in advance. DIGGING FOR YOUR ROOTS - CONCORD - Sat. October 17, 2009 $7 or $25 ($25 includes syllabus) Concord Family History Center has organized their 16th Family History Seminar. The Keynote speaker will be Clark Groseclose. There will be 45 sessions with unique content and 68 sessions overall from 8am to 4:30pm. Contact Jackie Hein at 925-827-4729. I picked up a registration form at the Oakland Temple FHC but they might have them at local FHCs. Deadline to Register and get a guaranteed Syllabus is Sept. 30, 2009 HERITAGE HARVEST FAMILY HISTORY WORKSHOP - MONTEREY - Sat. October 17 2009 - $30 Featuring Karen Clifford, Accredited Genealogist who will speak about Understanding Migration, British Basics, Electronic Resources for Solving Difficult Research Problems, and Land Records from Colonial Times to the Present Presented by the Monterey County Genealogy Society, Inc. See http://www.mocogenso.org for details. Space limited to 75 people Questions: email genietreas@yahoo.com or call (831) 206-1602. NEHGS SEMINAR - NEGS VISITS CGS - OAKLAND - There will be a Seminar and Lunch and a Seminar and Dinner, both with Michael J. Leclerc and Christopher Child of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society on Friday, October 23, 2009. See the event flyer on the CGS web site with details... http://calgensoc.org/images/stories/cgs-nehgs-flier-2009.pdf FALL FAMILY HISTORY SEMINAR - NEVADA - Sat. October 24 Clark County Nevada Genealogical Society presents Fall Family History Seminar on October 24, featuring Ceil Wendt Jensen. She has an extensive background in Polish genealogy. Her topics will be Professional Techniques for the Family Genealogist, The Google Guide, the ABC's of School Records, and Maps for Genealogy Old, New and Electronic. Seminar begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 3:30 p.m. at the Henderson Convention Center, 200 S. Water St. Registration is $40 and includes a box lunch. For information email CCNGS@COX.NET LAGS SEMINAR PLANNED FOR NOV. 28 Kay Speaks is lining up speakers for a Seminar the Saturday after Thanksgiving. So far Ancestry.com and Susan Goss Johnston will participate. More In next month's bulletin. SEARCH 500 GENEALOGY BLOGS AT ONCE: http://www.geneabloggers.com/search-geneablogger-member-blogs/. This was reported in Randy Seaver's July 13th, 2009 Geneamusings Blog. http://www.geneamusings.com/2009/07/geneabloggers-members-google-search.html. TIP OF THE MONTH: COUNTY FORMATION MAPS http://www.familyhistory101.com, click on "Maps", then click on "County Formation Maps". This is a fabulous site where you can track the evolution of county lines from year to year. It could be very useful to your research. ..bg ============================================================= A U G U S T 2 0 0 9 M E E T I N G S Visitors are welcome free of charge at all of our meetings. ------------------------------------------------------------- Monthly General Meeting GUEST SPEAKER: Richard Rands, of the Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group, on census analysis forms he created to identify missing or erroneous information. TOPIC: Getting Organized DATE: August 11, 2009 - 7:30 p.m. LOCATION: Congregation Beth Emek, 3400 Nevada Court, Pleasanton Map to Church: http://www.L-AGS.org/maps/Pls-BethEmek.html ------------------------------------------------------------- Tri-Valley TMG Users Group The Master Genealogist Software Date: Saturday, August 15, 2009 Time: 9 AM - Noon 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, tvtmg.chair@L-AGS.org Instructors: Kay Speaks & Sue Johnston Topic: Chapter 12 - Witnesses One of TMG's more useful features, and one that may be unique among genealogy programs, is the ability to record an unlimited number of people who were associated with an event. Most Tags can have one or two Principals. Those are the one or two people most intimately involved in the event. Any number of other people can be attached to the Tag as Witnesses. For example, the Witness feature allows you to include in a single Tag any of the following: • All the members in a census household. • Family members who immigrated together. • The executors and heirs named in a will. • The minister and attendants at a wedding. • The pallbearers in a funeral. TV-TMG classes use Terry Reigel's new A Primer for The Master Genealogist book written for Version 7. Read about the book at http://reigelridge.com/press/primer.htm. 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 using a hands-on method. We learn TMG's features by actually entering samples of the lesson into a TV-TMG class practice database. Each monthly session is like a three-hour TMG workshop. Guests are always welcome at our meetings. Accommodations for laptops are available. If you have a laptop, bring it with you to the meeting. A copy of the group's practice database will be provided to you. A laptop is not a requirement as the lesson will be digitally projected. 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. We hope to see you at the next meeting! A free demo version of the software can be downloaded at http://www.whollygenes.com. Terry Reigel's book can be purchased from this website. For additional information contact: tvtmg.chair@l-ags.org. ------------------------------------------------------------- Study Group Meeting Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009 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 Study Group Chair: Kay Speaks Topic: Kay shares little known internet treasures, tips and so much more! I'm often asked, "Why don't you have a Study Group meeting where you show how you find all those things that you share with us?" My response has always been because no one will come to the meeting! At our August meeting we shall see how many of you want to crawl inside Kay's head and see how it works! I'll demonstrate some of my personal search techniques and share some little known or hidden Internet research treasurers that I've discovered along the way. We'll also cover some of my favorite PC shortcuts, tips and how-to's for Word and Excel. This has got to be what I would imagine a blind date feels like-will you be there? 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 questions. 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 or computer related questions. Study Group Meeting Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009 (the 4th Thursday of the 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 Study Group Chair: Kay Speaks, study.chair@L-AGS.org ============================================================= A D D I T I O N A L B U L L E T I N A R T I C L E S ------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMS FOR FUTURE GENERAL MEETINGS Derrell Bridgman, First Vice President, Programs UPCOMING General MEETINGS o Ron Arons program is being rescheduled for later in the year. It is called "Best Internet Sites". http://www.ronarons.com o Cath Trindle - Scottish Genealogy and organizing digital and hardcopy materials The programs are held at our regular meetings on the second Tuesday of each month. Meetings are open to the public at 7:30 p.m. at the Congregation Beth Emek, 3400 Nevada Court, Pleasanton. Visitors are welcome, admission free. ------------------------------------------------ There was no Board meeting held in June. Anne Les, Recording Secretary ======================================================== ** GENEALOGY GROUPS WITH A TOPIC OF INTEREST EBGS - East Bay Genealogical Society No Meeting in August http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~caebaygs MACGEN - Macintosh Genealogy Group More Charts! Extensive Demo of large format charts with multiple pictures and designs. We'll have examples that show Timeline, Fan, Descendant and Ancestral Charts on foam core boards and in frames. Also, your favorite Mac & Reunion tips and your Q & A. Saturday, August 22, 2009 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Oakland Family History Center 4766 Lincoln Ave., Oakland, CA 94602 http://www.macgen.org RGS Roseville Genealogical Society August 11, 2009. Marriage Records: So many ways to Say I Do. Speaker: Barbara Leak Maidu Community Center, 1550 Maidu Dr., Roseville, Calif. 95661 http://www.rgsca.org/ SCCHGS - Santa Clara County Historical & Genealogical Society. No Meeting in August http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cascchgs SMCGS - San Mateo County Genealogical Society No Meeting in August http://www.smcgs.org/ SRVGS - San Ramon Valley Genealogical Society No Meeting in August http://srvgensoc.org/ SVCGG - Santa Clara Computer Genealogy Group Mapping with EarthPoint using PC or a Mac also Some Brick Walls are of Your Own Making August 8, 2009, 9am Santa Clara LDS Family History Center 875 Quince Ave. Santa Clara, CA 95051 http://www.svcgg.org/ ** The above genealogy group web sites can be viewed by going to our web site (http://www.l-ags.org) and clicking on "Internet Genealogy Links", and then clicking on "Genealogical Societies". These web sites are searched right before publication, for upcoming meetings of interest.