DIRT Meeting today.

Our discussion today was:

1) reviewing some of the genealogy research websites submitted by members to be added to our Spreadsheet of websites.  Please send to Lynn Baker any and all websites (urls) that you have found useful in doing your regional and statewide family research.

2) Everyone discussed where they currently are on their own research

3) Recording of the program began with : Click here for video recording of session
    a) How to correct Places and duplicate names in Family Tree Maker (0 - 53 min)
    b) How to use a timeline for structuring research and finding gaps (53-86 min)

DIRT Meeting today.

Our Virtual Meeting today was all about working together.  The first 45 minutes members shared their experiences and what they were working on.  Several new potential members joined the call to see what our club is all about.

The second half of the meeting focused on "Genealogy Websites".  Lynn Baker is putting together a MS Excel spreadsheet of useful Genealogy Websites.  To observe the replay of today's meeting, Click here.  WE reviewed the current list of 137 websites and were asked to contribute other sites that we have personally found useful.  The link to the spreadsheet will be posted after next weeks meeting and after additional inputs are added.  Lynn will then send out a request to everyone on our distribution list to contribute their useful websites.  We will continue to grow the document and have it available to all members.

DIRT Meeting:

Today we covered "Timesaving Apps for Genealogist".  To see the recording of the virtual session, Click here.

For the handout: Click here

Tuesday (yesterday) evening at the FHC, Sarah Nesnow presented on "Navigating FamilySearch Wiki", for a recording of her presentation, Click here.

We discussed both Mind Sharing and Timelines for Genealogy, several members have given me their brick wall or ancestor of concern. In a future session we will use some of the tools together in collaboration to use these two approaches to solving genealogical problems.

DIRT Meeting on Family Tree Maker.  Our session today was a great dialog between members on use of Family Tree Maker, with specific emphasis on correcting errors such as: finding duplicate people and merging them, finding duplicate facts and merging them, finding individuals, resolving relationships and deleting people.  Also we covered Places - resolving place names, using the maps and using FTM to look at migration of individual as well as immediate family and ancestors.  Lastly, we went over media, including into FTM, linking to various individuals and creating your own Movie Slide Show.

If you want to see the entire video of the session, Click here.

Another resource that you may want to take advantage of this Legacy webinar on Google Chrome Bookmarks from Legacy Family Tree Webinars.  Click here to view.

I also did a session with the Summerville Genealogy Club on May 28.  Subject: Using Excel for Genealogy.  Click here if you would like to view this session.

Virtual Session Summary

We had a virtual DIRT meeting today from 1:30-3:30 PM.  We discussed the new Genetic Detective show (I hope you all get a chance to see it on ABC).  There were some great new breakthroughs made by members that were shared.  Some folks took advantage of the Fold3 for FREE over the Memorial Day weekend and found some wonderful family information.

Today our focus was again on Ancestry.com and how to take better advantage of their 24 billion records.  We work with Searching All Collections and also the Card Catalog.  A link to the recording of our session will be posted soon for anyone to review (unfortunately the full video was not captured).  Click here.  New video: Click here

Have a great week and keep busy searching for family information.

Or next meeting will be on Wednesday, June 3, 2020 from 1:30-3:30 PM EST.  The focus will be on using Family Tree Maker.  Please send me your questions ahead of time.

Hi all,

We had our session today from 1:30-3:30 PM,  where we covered some of the new enhancements made by Ancestry.com to their site.  Some of the specific examples are the Search Hints, Connections, AncestryDNA and general navigation of the site.  We drove down to "how to save a file" and either using a subscription account or just an account.

Please click here to see the video of our meeting.

I hope you are all getting a lot done while being locked down.

We had a good session today - Our next Virtual Session will be May 13: 1:30-3:30 PM.

1) General discussion of what members are working on
2) Suggested members to watch some of the Free Videos
     - Legacy Family Tree Webinars: post 1 per day in May, will be free
       for 1 week, if you want the syllabus: Click Here
     - Youtube: BYU Family History Library: Click Here
3) Family Tree Maker, how to do a backup: Click Here
4) How to find yearbook photos in Ancestry.com and download
5) How to colorize your  Black and White photos - For FREE
6) Watched part of the new Legacy Family Tree Webinar, "Smarter Search
     Strategies for Genealogy" by Thomas MacEntee
7) Tips on using Google for Genealogy and the wildcards: Click Here