Happy Holidays

We had a great meeting with cookies brought by members and a discussion of what people had found in their family history research.

There was a short demonstration of how to use Family Tree Maker when doing on-line research, bringing in text, dates, places easily into FTM and merging with a person.  See video (go to 55 min mark) Click here

We had a lively brainstorming session focused on what we can do differently in 2023 to make our meetings more interesting and how to make it inviting for new members.

Our next meeting will be Wednesday, January 25, 2023.  Before this meeting, I would like to ask you to

1. Review our DIRT Blog and look for areas we have covered in the past that you would like repeated and recorded for the future (presentations before March 2020 were not video recorded.  Send your suggestions to me by January 15, 2023.  For list click here
2. Think about what you accomplished in your genealogy journey in 2022 and what goals you want to set for 2023 (bring your new goals to share at the January 25th meeting).  To see presentation on goal setting click here
3. I will send out a questionnaire to current membership, asking what they would like to see for DIRT that would make it interesting for them.

Have a wonderful and joyous Holiday Season.

We had a FamilySearch consultant spend over 1 hour with us to go over some key questions about using FamilySearch, for video replay, CLICK HERE

After our round robin discussion by members of their own genealogy status, Bob Silkett took the stage and discussed some of the answers to issues about FamilySearch that have been asked by our group, see video replay: Click here  and see his handout: Click here.  He has also arranged for a FamilySearch consultant to join our November 9th meeting to answer more questions about editing and correcting any Familysearch entries.  If you have specific questions, send them to Bob Silkett by Friday, November 4th.

The second topic was a recap of Diane Richard's Legacy Family Tree Webinar on 30Sep2022 titled: 50 Mostly "hot off the press" net sites you want to check out!  See video replay: Click here.

For a list of some of the upcoming free webinars, Click here.

If you have any questions, please contact me.

 New FamilySearch.org Person Page and The Legacy List

At our meeting today these two were the main topics:

New FamilySearch.org Person Page - Replay Click Here

The Legacy List - Replay Click Here

       The Legacy List spreadsheet: Click here

New Irish Research Websites to review:

PRONI Free - https://apps.proni.gov.uk/eCatNI_IE/SearchPage.aspx

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland: https://virtualtreasury.ie/

National Folklore collection: https://www.duchas.ie/en/info/cbe

Duchas.ie: https://www.duchas.ie/en

 Google Earth Map Overlays

Video Replay: Click Here

Handout: Click Here

 WikiTree

Our session covered "Understanding WikiTree": Click Here

 What is new in Ancestry.

Our session today covered: "What is new in Ancestry" and "How to search without using the name".  For a replay of the session: Click Here