DIRT Meeting: You are all welcome to join our sessions via the virtual link.

We had a good round the room discussion of what people are working on and their new discoveries.

The recorded session was on: 

   Finding Graveyards and Cemeteries: click here for replay

   Click here for handout

Hi everyone!  I hope you are all safe.

We had a DIRT meeting today and talked about:

1) General discussion about member reseasrch
2) Brend Larsen took us through her results upon using the Mind Mapping exercise
3) Reading and understanding the 1790 t0 1840 US Federal Census: Click here for recorded session
     - getting Census Cheat Sheets from FamilySearch.org Click here

Two other sources recommended:

Correspondence and writings from Founding Fathers: Click here
FamilySearch is offering 20 minute free consultations: Click here

See you next week.

DIRT Meeting today.  We covered the following major topics:

1) New Free webinars, Family Tree Maker Places, Using Mind Mapping and group help to break down brickwalls (an example): To see the video recording: Click Here
  - I used FreeMind software (free) : Click Here
  - Examples of Mind Mapping for Genealogy use: Click Here

2) Overview on Reading 1850 to 1900 US Census Records: To see replay: Click Here

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.