Our Next Meeting:October 12, 2024 |
Presentation: Laurie Werner Castillo
Protecting Photos & Memorabilia From Disasters: A Practical Beginning |
The regular monthly meetings of the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group are held on the second Saturday of each month, except December, from 10 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.
Laurie Werner Castillo
Title: Protecting Photos & Memorabilia From Disasters: A Practical Beginning
Description:
Many of us wake up one day to find ourselves keepers of the family history or of important family heirlooms and keepsakes. The actions we take now will decide what our posterity knows of their ancestors, including ourselves! Making sure our family photos, documents, histories and memorabilia are protected, fully identified, safely displayed and properly stored. These are some of the most significant things we may ever do for our kin. Done properly, these things will outlast us and help bind future generations to our family trees. Presentation will cover the basics and includes an introduction to websites of major suppliers of archival products, which also contain free educational brochures, articles, videos and examples. We will then visit the websites of major organizations that teach about preservation methods and techniques. These sites offer many additional free guides and resources. You will then be able to start your plan and take the first steps in a logical, ordered and comfortable way.
Bio:
Laurie Werner Castillo was born in Santa Monica and raised in West Los Angeles with beagles and land tortoises for pets and playmates. She played on the girls basketball team for two years in high school and also loved participating in tennis, volleyball and basketball. She misses the palm trees in her front yard and the smell of the ocean every day.
After a really great educational experience in Los Angeles, she attended BYU, earning an AA in Communications and Fine Arts and a BS in Consumer Economics. She met Jerry Castillo, from San Antonio, Texas, in Utah and they have 2 children and 7 grandchildren.
Laurie is currently first vice president of the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group; She is former Vice President, Executive Secretary and Board Member, of the Utah Genealogical Association; She has been a BYU FH Library consultant, tour guide and teacher for 32+ years; She has been a professional researcher and writer 34+ years; She has presented at many conferences including: RootsTech 2016-2020, BYU FH Conference 2014-2019, and BYU Education Week 2016-2017, We Are Cousins Conferences 2-7 (2021-2024); She is a former Red Cross Instructor, Girl Scout Troop Leader, Boy Scout Merit Badge Counselor and Chihuahua breeder. Her research specialties include: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Canada and Hispanic Research; And New England, Midwest, Southwest, Mountain States and Pacific Frontier regions of the US.
She is currently researching her WWI Ancestors, her ancestors in the 1918-1919 Influenza pandemic, her German family and Los Angeles in the early years.
Her interests include: history, mystery, geography and genetics. Add those up and you have family history.
The following class is scheduled after the main presentation (Start Time 11:10).
Class Presenter: Rick Klemetson
Title: Family History That Lasts: Organize, Protect, Preserve & Connect
Description:
The ultimate goal of family record keepers is to create inter generational connections among family members. We need to organize our histories, photos and memorabilia in a way that both protects these important items and is conducive to sharing their meaning, their stories. This presentation will explore ways of using certain archival products to best advantage. We will talk about some of the more prominent bloggers and authors on preservation ideas. Then we will consider creating copies and backups of your preservation efforts.
Bio:
Rick Klemetson caught the genealogy bug while taking a Genealogy Class at BYU in 1984. He helped many people around the world research their genealogy. Rick has been involved in the computer industry since the 80’s and currently teaches online classes for a Denver Software company. He was introduced to DNA a decade ago, and became addicted to helping adopted people identify their birth families. He has helped hundreds of adoptees find their families over the years.
Please note: Additional classes will be taught at the meeting location when meeting attendance justifies it.
The meetings are always open to the public and generally open with announcements that include what is happening in technology that effects family history work. A featured guest speaker will then make a one hour presentation on a topic of general interest relating to some aspect of technology and genealogy. Following the main presentation 3 or 4 classes are taught relating to technology and genealogy. These are at all levels from beginning to advanced and typically include classes about various genealogy programs and instruction for using the Internet for Family History work. The classes vary from month to month. There is a list of teachers and their specialties on the Teachers page. A few of the teachers have provided class outlines or summaries for some of their classes. For information about the meetings or about the Group, email us at uvtagginfo@gmail.com or call or text Gerhard Ruf at 801-602-5048.