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

 Creating History Family Book Part 4 with Canva and intro to Family Book Creator

There was a light turnout today, with wonderful weather, the beach close by and summertime activities with visitors, this makes sense. For anyone who would like to catch up on our session, feel free to watch the videos.

After our discussions about personal genealogy by members, we went over upcoming genealogy webinars and top 11 genealogy TV shows, then on to our main topics.

1) Creating Family History Book Part 4, using Canva and Q&A. For recording: Click here

2) Creating Family History Book, introduction to using Family Book Creator as a plugin to Family Tree Maker (for an example product: Click here): For recording: Click here

We talked about setting up a workshop for those that are interested in learning how to use the Family Book Creator for creating a Family History Book.  It is more complicated than the on-line Canva, Snapfish, Mixbook or others.  With the more complications also brings much more capability, not only pulling data directly from Family Tree Maker, but also allowing you to import Word documents (txt, doc) or pages of your pdf files.  Please send me an e-mail if you are interested in the workshop.

See you next time.

 Creating Family History Book - Part 3 - Building with Canva.com

Our focus today was on building a Print-Resolution PDF file using Canva.  This is different from building a file in Snapfish, Mixbook, MyCanvas, Shutterfly or others where they own the content that you build and it is all about selling you a hardcover book from their sites. This is an i-cloud based platform (free) where you build out your book and you own the print-resolution pdf that you can take to any printer to make a book or you can electronically share your high quality pdf with others.

We went through the introduction to Canva.com, how to use it, click here for video, then each member used their own free version of Canva to start building their own stories.  Each member who attended was given access to 2 templates that were designed for Family History Book and Lynn Baker's sample book template.  A handout was provided with helpful tips on using Canva: click here for handout.