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Subject: [UT-PAF-NOTICES] Press Release UVPAFUG meeting 2007-09-08
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:01:58 +0100 (BST)


28 Aug 2007

Journalists, please run this as a news item and/or in your calendar of
events. Ward newsletter editors, please include in your newsletters parts
of the first paragraph and mention that there are classes for everyone.
Call or email me if you need further information. Thanks.

Elder Snow


UTAH VALLEY PAF USERS GROUP
The next regular, second-Saturday-of-the-month meeting of the Utah Valley
PAF (Personal Ancestral File) Users Group will be on Saturday, 8 Sep 2007,
from 9 am until noon in the LDS "Red" Chapel at 4000 North Timpview Drive
(650 East), in Provo. The main presentation will be by Thomas Jay Kemp on
GENEALOGYBANK – UNIQUE CONTENT FOR DOCUMENTING YOUR FAMILY TREE. The
website Tom will be discussing is at http://www.genealogybank.com and
has historical newspapers, books, and documents, plus modern obituaries
and the Social Security Death Index, the only site that updates the SSDI
weekly. The information is completely word-searchable so you might find
your ancestor's name in obscure historic newspapers and books. Anyone can
see the index and snippets of the references and you can subscribe for a
nominal rate and then download any of the articles in pdf format. Tom
Kemp is the Director of Genealogy Products at NewsBank which includes
GenealogyBank. A well-known librarian and genealogist for more than 30
years, he is the author of more than two-dozen books. His numerous
articles regularly appear in state and national library, archival and
genealogical journals. He has served on many national and regional
library genealogy boards and is currently on the Board of Directors of the
Utah Genealogical Association. His most recent books include: Virtual
Roots 2.0: A Guide to Genealogy and Local History on the World Wide Web
and The 1930 Census: A Reference and Research Guide. Tom and his family
live in New England, but he will be in Utah Valley this weekend helping
one of his children get settled into BYU.

Following the main presentation there will be several classes taught
concerning technology and family history. As usual, there will be
something for everyone at all levels of expertise. Following are the
classes currently scheduled for this meeting. (1) PAF 5 Basics, by Ralph
Hansen; (2) Documenting Sources in PAF 5, by Duane Dudley; (3) Cleaning Up
Your PAF Database, by Laurie Castillo; (4) GenealogyBank Q&A, by Tom Kemp;
(5) Individual Mentoring (in the FHC), by LaRita Evans and Vivian Brown;
(6) Video of a Past Main Presentation (Your choice); (7) Legacy, by Joel
Graham; (8) RootsMagic 3, by Bruce Buzbee; and (9) Ancestral Quest 12, by
Gaylon Findlay.

All meetings of the Users Group are open to the public whether members of
the Group or not. The Users Group has the goal of helping individuals use
technology to further their family history and there are usually 100-125
attending the monthly meetings on the second Saturdays. Several of the
officers, including Gerhard Ruf, President; Brian Cooper, 2nd VP; Lynne
Shumway, PAFology Editor; Kay Baker, Membership Chairman; and Bruce
Merrill, DVD & Video Librarian, will be there to help with membership,
questions, distribute the current issue of the monthly newsletter
PAFology, and to check out videos and DVD's of past presentations and
classes to members of the group.
Information about the Users Group, main presentations, classes, and class
notes are available on the Group's web site http://uvpafug.org . For
further information see the web site or contact President Gerhard Ruf at
(801-225-6106), VP1 Elder Don Snow at ,
or VP2 Brian Cooper at .

Elder Donald R. Snow, 1st Vice President of Utah Valley PAF Users Group

--
Elder Donald R. Snow, England London Mission, Hyde Park Family History
Centre; retired Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo,
Utah, USA;




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