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Our Next Meeting: 

Feb 9, 2019
Click here to watch live on Facebook

 Presentation: Marilyn Markham

What’s Available and How To Find it?

Using the FamilySearch Catalog Effectively
Meeting Location – The LDS “Red Chapel”, 4050 North Timpview Drive (650 East), Provo, Utah
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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.

Marilyn Markham

The FamilySearch Catalog is an important help for family historians.  It has information about everything available through FamilySearch, including online, at the FamilySearch Library and at many of the Family History Centers.  Learn how to effectively use this significant resource to find records about your family.

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Marilyn Markham, AG, CG, MLS, worked in the Family History Department for almost 34 years. She first cataloged records from Spain and Columbia for two years. After that she worked in the US/Canada Reference Unit at the Family History Library.  She also helped design various computer projects as a users representative and has taught at many genealogy conferences.

The following classes are scheduled after the main presentation this month.

(1) More Using Occupational and Work Records in your Genealogical Research  –  Barbara Robertson   (also on Windows Live)
(2) Ask an Expert (Personal Help)  – Don Engstrom, John Blake & Lee Cox
(3) Video:  Family History and Other Books Online by Don Snow
(4) Ancestral Quest – Gaylon Findlay

 

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 general session 8 to 10 classes are taught relating to technology and genealogy. These are at all levels from beginning to advanced and typically include classes about various features of FamilySearch, RootsMagic, Legacy, Ancestral Quest other 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. Eileen Phelps, Editor of the UVTAGG’s monthly Newsletter, TAGGology, and Donald Engstrom, Membership Secretary will have copies of the current issue available for distribution to members at a table in the corner of the Cultural Hall. Following the meeting unclaimed copies of the newsletter are mailed to the contributing members. For telephone information about the meetings or about the Group, call Gerhard Ruf at 801-225-6106.