“Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine – Family History Update”
Donald R. Snow
8/16/23
Categories: IR, RT
Talk Abstract:
Internet Archive is a free website with a goal of preserving the world’s knowledge and making it available to everyone for free. They do this by preserving copies of books, images, videos, music, and, every few days they do a “snapshot” of the entitire world wide web. The copies of the entire internet are stored in the Wayback Machine and you can view old websites there, even those that have been changed or deleted. It is a major source of information for family history. This class will discuss the Wayback Machine, what it contains and how to use it. We will also show how to be sure that webpages you are concerned about are saved on it. The notes for this class and related articles, all with active internet links, are posted on my website https://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html .
Speaker Bio:
Don is a Californian by birth, with Snow ancestors from Southern Utah. He is a retired Professor of Mathematics from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, and has lived in several foreign countries, both for mathematics and church assignments. After retiring from the BYU Math Faculty, he and his now deceased wife Diane Snow who taught Humanities at BYU, served four Family History missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These included being Directors of the New York Family History Center in Manhattan, in the Illinois Nauvoo Mission on a FH project ( http://earlylds.com ), and in the London England Family History Centre in the Hyde Park Chapel. Don served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Utah Genealogical Association, where he was the Host of the online UGA Virtual Chapter Meetings, and has been a VP of the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group since the early 1990’s. He is a frequent speaker at FH venues and loves teaching and playing his accordion. He has 6 children and 30 grandchildren. His FH class schedule and notes are posted on his webpage.
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