THE LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY E-MAIL BULLETIN FOR DECEMBER 2009 ====================================================================== SUMMARY OF L-AGS MEETINGS FOR DECEMBER 2009 o General Meeting - Tuesday - December 8, 2009, 7:30 p.m. Christine Rose, Topic - Military Records between the Revolution and Civil Wars. http://www.christine4rose.com/ o Master Genealogist Group - Saturday - December 19, 2009 Terry Reigel's TMG Primer, Chapter 15, Customizing Sources o Study Group - On Vacation in December, 2009 o L-AGS Board Meeting - TBA - Board Meeting Visitors are welcome, request the location, date and a seat by emailing mailto:corresponding@L-AGS.org. ====================================================================== O T H E R L - A G S N E W S ====================================================================== OFFICER ELECTIONS The L-AGS election of officers will take place at the December Meeting ROOTS TRACER SUBMISSION DEADLINE JANUARY 15, 2010 The next ROOTS TRACER article submission deadline is January 15th. The publish date is February 9th, and the newsletter will be available for pickup at the February 9th, 2010 General Meeting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MEMBERSHIP REPORT Correction to October Bulletin: New member Shannon RYAN is from Jacksonville, Oregon and Marilyn GLASS is from Livermore, California. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L-AGS OCTOBER, 2009 BOARD MEETING The November 10th speaker for L-AGS General Meeting will be Cath Madden Trindle whose topic is Slogging through Cemeteries. For December 8th the speaker will be Christine Rose. A list of speakers from 2005 through current has been created by Derrell Bridgman. Save the date for our Seminar scheduled for Saturday November 28. Motion was made and passed for Business Manager to research any history of such donations and authorized to donate up to $100 based on his findings. Through the Heritage Families connection Dick Finn has received queries on the following families: Sachau, Bagley, Egan and Hargrave. The Friends of the Pleasanton Library will pay for the digitalization of Pleasanton Times papers stored in the Research Section of the Library. It was moved and passed that L-AGS donate up to $1,500 toward digitalization of the old newspapers in the Museum on Main archives. The same vendor will do both jobs. Roots Tracer will be available for pick up at the General meeting Nov. 10. Future editor/compilers will welcome new articles. Patrick Lofft is now the editor and Dolores Olness is the compiler. Thanks to the many years of effort by Jane Southwick and George Anderson. Nominating committee was appointed and the slate of officers will be announced at the November General Meeting. Discussion concerning updating the handbook given to new members will continue. Input on this topic is welcome to Kevin Gurney or Gail Bryan. ====================================================================== D E T A I L E D L - A G S M E E T I N G S ====================================================================== Monthly General Meeting - December, 2009 TOPIC: Too Young For The Revolution, Too Old For The Civil War Military Records Between These Wars WHEN: Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 – 7:30 PM WHERE: Congregation Beth Emek 3400 Nevada Court, Pleasanton COST: No Charge (Visitors Are Welcome) Christine Rose’s credentials are numerous and very impressive: She is a “Certified Genealogist”, “Certified Genealogical Lecturer”, and author of many genealogical books and articles. She has served as VP for both the “Federation of Genealogical Societies”, and “The Association of Genealogical Societies”. She has also served as a “Trustee Of The Board Of Certification of Genealogists”, and was elected “Fellow, American Society Of Genealogists”. Christine’s contributions to genealogy and genealogical research have been recognized and respectably honored by many additional local and national societies and organizations. Christine has delivered hundreds of genealogical lectures to: local societies, national conferences, plus regional and local seminars. LAGS members and guests now have the opportunity to hear her program on researching various military related records (including pension files, bounty land, and volunteer service records) for the era between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. In this program she will outline how the researcher can find and take advantage of many records that exist for this time frame that are often overlooked. This opportunity is one that you will definitely want to take advantage of. See Christine's web site at http://www.christine4rose.com/ for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tri-Valley TMG Users Group The Master Genealogist Software Date: Saturday, December 19, 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, mailto:tvtmg.chair@L-AGS.org Instructors: Kay Speaks & Sue Johnston Topic: Chapter 15 - Customizing Sources 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: mailto:tvtmg.chair@l-ags.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Study Group Meeting On Vacation December 2009. 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 and expertise! E-mail the forum at: mailto:study.group@L-AGS.org. You can also post suggestions for future Study Group topics. ====================================================================== O T H E R I T E M S O F I N T E R E S T ====================================================================== ====================================================================== U P C O M I N G C O N F E R E N C E NGS 2010 FAMILY HISTORY CONFERENCE APRIL 28-MAY 1, 2010 Salt Lake City, Utah - Salt Palace Visit http://www.ngsgenealogy.org for more information. ====================================================================== L O C A L G E N E A L O G Y G R O U P S ====================================================================== CGS - California Genealogical Society and Library Free Beginners Genealogy Class Saturday, December 5th, 11am - 1pm 2201 Broadway, Ste Ll2 Oakland, CA 94612 http://www.calgensoc.org EBGS - East Bay Genealogical Society Member problems and Cookie Exchange Regional Oakland Family History Center Wednesday December 9, 10am-12pm 4766 Lincoln Ave. Oakland, CA http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~caebaygs/ GSVB - Genealogy Society of Vallejo-Benecia Gary Salvadori from Minute Man Press will talk about getting our history stories published. Thursday December 3, 1-4pm Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum 734 Marin St., Vallejo, CA 94590 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagsv/ MACGEN- Macintosh Genealogy Group Wednesday December 9, 7-9pm Oakland Regional Family History Center 4766 Lincoln Ave., Oakland, CA 94602 Workshop - Recap of this years topics plus QA and member problems http://www.macgen.org * The above genealogy groups are obtained by going to our L-AGS website (http://www.l-ags.org) and clicking on "Internet Genealogy Links", and then clicking on "Genealogical Societies". ======================================================================