THE LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN FOR November 2010 Web Site: http://www.l-ags.org ========================================================================== SUMMARY OF L-AGS MEETINGS FOR NOVEMBER 2010 o General Meeting - Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Marge Bell Topic: What's New at Familysearch.org o Master Genealogist Group - Saturday November 20, 9 a.m. - noon Topic: More TMG Templates for Citing Land Records o Study Group - No Meeting in November or December, 2010 due to holidays Next meeting will be January 27,2010 o L-AGS November Board meeting - Tuesday, November 30, 7:30pm - Members are welcome to attend board meetings. Please contact recordingsecretary@L-AGS.org ========================================================================== DETAILED L-AGS MEETINGS FOR NOVEMBER, 2010 Visitors are welcome free of charge at all of our meetings. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monthly General Meeting GUEST SPEAKER: Marge Bell TOPIC: What's New at Familysearch.org DATE: Tuesday November 9, 2010 - 7:30 p.m. LOCATION: Congregation Beth Emek, 3400 Nevada Court, Pleasanton Map to Meeting Site: http://www.L-AGS.org/maps/Pls-BethEmek.html What's New at Familysearch.org Marge Bell, asst. director of the Oakland Regional Family History Center will be speaking on What's New at Familysearch.org - the whole new look and feel as well as an overview of new information that is/will be on the web site.. For additional information contact: Dick Finn, Program Chairperson Email: program@l-ags.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tri-Valley TMG Users Group The Master Genealogist Software Date: Saturday, November 20, 2010 Meeting Time: 9 a.m. - Noon Location: 7077 Koll Center Parkway, Suite 110, Pleasanton, CA 94566 Lunch Meet Up, Noon: Rage Super Burgers, Bernal & Valley, Pleasanton Map to the meeting site: http://www.l-ags.org/maps/Pls-KollCenter.html Chair: Kay Speaks, tvtmg.chair@L-AGS.org Instructors: Sue Johnston and Kay Speaks Topic: More TMG Templates for Citing Land Records November is Land Record Month Too! A Study of Elizabeth Shown Mills’ Evidence Explained Our November meeting will once again focus on citing land records. October we created templates for citing original county-level land record registers and FHL microfilm copies of those records. November we will be creating Bureau of Land Management General Land Records templates. Check out their great new GLO beta website, http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/beta/. Mills covers these records in the following sections: 10.1-10.21, pp. 497-514 and 10.28-10.29, pp. 520-521. Bookmark the following QuickCheck Models: pp. 488, 494-496. If you are working with federal records, be sure to read these sections: 11.22-11.31, pp. 582-595. Kindly R.S.V.P. if you plan to attend the meeting and indicate if you will bring a laptop. Do not forget to check our blog, “Tri-Valley TMG User Group” at http://tvtmgug.blogspot.com/. This is a great place to record our citation decisions, post notes and ideas from the meeting, and ask and answer questions. Learning assignments and challenges are posted on this website. If you have not received an invitation to join the blog readership, please e-mail Sue Johnston at tvtmg.chair@L-AGS.org. NEW!!! The TV-TMG Users Group has a new public blog, http://tvtmgee.blogspot.com/ where we are publishing and sharing our TV-TMG source templates that approximate Mills’ Evidence Explained. These templates may be downloaded for personal use by individuals. Societies and groups of individuals wishing to use our templates should contact the L-AGS’s TV-TMG chair at tvtmg.chair@L-AGS.org. Resources: A free demo version of the software may be downloaded at http://www.whollygenes.com. Mills’ book may be purchased online from any of the following websites, plus many other websites: Amazon, Wholly Genes, Footnote and Ancestry. For additional information contact: tvtmg.chair@l-ags.org. The user group e-mail address is tvtmg@L-AGS.org. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Study Group Meeting Kay Speaks, Chair Date: No November or December Meetings Due to the Holidays – Watch for special online forum events during this vacation break. See the “Special Note” below. Next Meeting Date: Thursday, January 27, 2011 – Mark your calendars! SPECIAL NOTE: Watch the study.group@L-AGS.org forum during this holiday break for special Ancestry, FamilySearch, Footnote, GenealogyBank, SFgenealogy.com, Google Search, Yahoo! Answers, Newspaper Archive, NARA and other research/computer tips and tricks! You will also receive challenges, on-line scavenger hunts, etc. Break time will be fun time so stay tuned to your L-AGS Study Group forum. If you aren’t a member of the L-AGS Study Group, please send a request to list.manager@l-ags.org and request to be added. Do you have a genealogy brick wall? Let the Study Group help you brainstorm your research options. Use our L-AGS Study Group forum for any genealogy topic discussion or computer interest questions. L-AGS has many knowledgeable researchers willing to share their expertise! Give them the opportunity to help you by e-mailing your questions to the L-AGS forum at study.group@L-AGS.org. Please send your suggestions for future Study Group meetings to study.chair@L-AGS.org. We would appreciate your input and feedback. ========================================================================== Summary of L-AGS Board meeting October 26, 2010 The L-AGS Board passed a motion to renew the Domain for the L-AGS web site for 5 years at a cost of $159.95. The following slate of officers will be presented at the November General Meeting. Further nominations from the floor will be accepted. President: Mary Dillon Program Vice President: Dick Finn Membership Vice President: Teresa Fraser Business Manager: Duncan Tanner Recording Secretary: Patricia Northam Corresponding Secretary: Anne Les Volunteers for non-elected positions are still welcome. Next Board Meeting is Nov. 30. Interested persons are welcome. Anne Les, Recording secretary. ========================================================================== PRESERVE YOUR STORIES IN THE ROOTS TRACER Our Roots Tracer offers all members the opportunity to preserve the stories of their families in print. Please contact the Roots Tracer staff whenever you seek assistance via their email address: tracer@l-ags.org or the editor at XXXX@comcast.net. Approximately 300 to 1,500 words. Photographs and, or, lineage charts always make any article more readable. The next quarterly deadline is the 15th of January of 2011. ... Patrick Lofft, Editor ========================================================================== SPECIAL EVENTS Genealogy at the Alameda Free Library Saturday, November 6, 2010, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Alameda Free Library 1550 Oak Street, Alameda, CA This is a FREE genealogy program open to anyone interested in tracing their ancestors at the Alameda Free Library. This program is presented by East Bay Genealogy Society and the Alameda Free Library. Emphasis is on helping you discover the genealogical resources available in your public library and various genealogical libraries and archives in the Bay Area. Handouts will be available. Open House for John McReynolds, author of "Vanished: Story of Lompoc’s Lost Japanese Community" Saturday, November 6, 2010, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m United Christian Church 1886 College Avenue Livermore, CA 94550 To find out more about this fascinating subject, google "John McReynolds Japanese". ========================================================================== LOCAL GENEALOGY GROUP MEETINGS ========================================================================== CGS - California Genealogical Society and Library Saturday, November 13, 2010 1 p.m. Speaker Jean-Francois de Buren Topic: The History of the de Buren family with Jean-Francois de Buren 2201 Broadway, Ste Ll2 Oakland, CA 94612 http://www.californiaancestors.org EBGS - East Bay Genealogical Society Wednesday November 10, 2010 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Speaker: Richard Torney Topic: Photos of 1906 earthquake and fire 4766 Lincoln Ave. Oakland, CA 94602 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~caebaygs/ MACGEN - Macintosh Genealogy Society Wednesday November 10, 2010 - 7 p.m. Speaker: Bill George Those "Extra" Reunion Reports Oakland Regional Family History Center 4766 Lincoln Ave., Oakland, CA 94602 http://www.macgen.org MCGS - Marin County Genealogical Society Wednesday November 17th, 2010 7 p.m. (a week earlier than normal) Speaker: MCGS Members Topic: Brick Walls and Success Stories Marin Family History Center 220 North San Pedro Rd., San Rafael, CA 94903 http://www.maringensoc.org/ SMCGS - San Mateo County Genealogical Society Saturday, November 20, 2010, 10:30 a.m. Speaker: SMGS Members Topic: Sharing Your Family History Transfiguration Episcopal Church 3900 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo, CA 94403 http://www.smcgs.org/ SRVGS - San Ramon Valley Genealogical Society Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 10 a.m. Speaker: Ed Mason Topic: Missing Cousins Danville Family History Center 2949 Stone Valley Rd. Alamo, CA 94507 http://srvgensoc.org/ SCCHGS- Santa Clara County Historical and Genealogical Society Tuesday, November 16, 2010 6:30 p.m. Speaker: Pamela Erickson Topic: Canadian Family History Research Santa Clara City Public Library 2635 Homestead Road, Santa Clara, CA 95051 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cascchgs/ SVCGG - Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group Saturday, November 13, 2010, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. Topic 1: Finding Descendants and Collaterals Topic 2: Organizing Your Hard Drive Files Topic 3: Using Roots Magic 4 Topic 4: Reunion for the Mac Topic 5: Getting started with Reunion Topic 6: Beginning Genealogy Santa Clara Family History Center 875 Quince Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95051 http://www.svcgg.org Archives of the L-AGS Bulletin in text file format are available in compressed ZIP format. If you missed one, or need to recall some event that was described the past 2 years these bulletins were produced, select one of the following two files. o http://www.l-ags.org/temp/l-ags-bulletins-2009.zip o http://www.l-ags.org/temp/l-ags-bulletins-2010.zip 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". Meetings are chosen from Bay Area groups with a genealogy-related topic of interest. The L-AGS Bulletin is produced monthly as a service of the Livermore-Amador (Valley) Genealogical Society. The information is gathered and distributed by the E-Bulletin Manager, Bill George. ==========================================================================