Our Next Meeting:Oct 14, 2017 |
Presentation: Kory L. MeyerinkThe Best Websites For Your Research That You Probably Aren’t Using |
The regular monthly meetings of the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group are held on the second Saturday of each month, except December, from 9 AM to noon. The meetings are free and open to the public. They are held at the Red Brick LDS Chapel, 4050 North 650 East (Timpview Drive), Provo, Utah, usually in the Cultural Hall. If you would like to receive email notification of classes planned for the next meeting, go to our blog page for instructions on how to subscribe. The Group is experimenting with live streaming of the main presentations through Facebook. To watch it online live click on UVTAGG Facebook website link in the box above and view the meeting remotely.
Kory L. Meyerink
This will be a discussion of many helpful websites for family history research for genealogy, locations, types of records, finding aids, search engines, and more.
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Kory L. Meyerink, AG (Accredited Genealogist) and FUGA (Fellow of the Utah Genealogical Association), has been involved in nearly every aspect of genealogy and family history for the past 40 years. He started as a record searcher while attending Brigham Young University where he received an Associate Degree in Family and Local History, as well as a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology. He later completed a Masters of Library and Information Science Degree. His fluency in German came from spending two years in Germany and it helps in his professional work. He is accredited in four areas of genealogy research: Germany, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and New England U.S., specializing in tracing the origins of German and Dutch immigrants. He also served on the staff of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City as a reference consultant and later was the editor and coordinator of the Library’s publications. In this position he developed instructional and reference material for the thousands of Family History Centers. He also served as the primary content consultant for the PBS Ancestors television series. In his work developing electronic products for Infobases, Kory’s tasks included serving as product manager for the LDS Family History Suite CD and he also developed the largest genealogical gazetteer and genealogical bibliography available on CD-ROM. He was a vice-president of Ancestry Publishing during its acquisition by Infobases and migration to the Internet as Ancestry.com and became the first manager of acquisitions. As a teacher, Kory has spoken at many local, state, and national genealogical conferences throughout the U.S. and Canada, including NGS, FGS, GENTECH, RootsTech and the annual BYU Family History Conferences. For 20 years, he served as an adjunct history faculty member for the BYU Salt Lake Center and as a part-time professor for San Jose State University’s well-known Masters’ program in Library Science. As the founding director of the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, he developed one of the nation’s largest such institutes. His extensive publications include chapters in The Library, all editions of The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, and numerous articles and book reviews for the Genealogical Journal, Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly, Genealogical Computing, New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, The Genealogist, and more. He contributed numerous articles and columns for both Ancestry and Heritage Quest magazines and is the author/presenter of Doing Genealogy: Foundations for Successful Research, an audio presentation with workbook. His major reference book, Printed Sources: A Guide to Published Genealogical Records (Ancestry: Salt Lake City, 1998), was named “Best Reference Book of the Year” by the American Library Association. He recently served as the lead editor for the ground-breaking new methodology book, Becoming an Excellent Genealogist, published by the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen), where he served for eight years as a commissioner. His volunteer work also includes serving as a officer of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) and having been on the Board of Directors and President of the Utah Genealogical Association (UGA). In 2000, along with two colleagues, he founded ProGenealogists, which soon became the nation’s largest professional genealogy research firm with hundreds of clients, worldwide. After acquisition by Ancestry in 2010, Kory continued to serve in the new company, rechristened AncestryProGenealogists, where he has worked with Ancestry’s management to help build the staff to more than 100 researchers, serving thousands of clients each year. He continues to provide training, evaluation and support to management while managing a large research case load. In 2017 the company named him one of their first “master genealogists.” He is always a popular speaker. Further information about him is at https://www.progenealogists.com/expert/kory-l-meyerink and https://www.linkedin.com/in/kory-l-meyerink-8085497 .
The following classes are scheduled after the main presentation this month.
(1) Kory L. Meyerink, THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT ONLINE RESOURCES FOR YOUR U.S. GENEALOGY RESEARCH
(2) Don Snow and Linda Snow Westover, HELPS FROM GENEALOGY NOTES AND ARTICLES
(3) Don Engstrom, John Blake, and Lee Cox, ASK AN EXPERT (Personal Help)
(4) Video of last month’s main presentation, Tom Sederberg, THE BYU FAMILY HISTORY TECHNOLOGY LAB
(5) Gaylon Findlay, ANCESTRAL QUEST