Pat Burrow: Reunion Reports Feb. 27, 2010

Our presentation for February features Pat Burrow with a presentation titled, ROCK'N REPORTS. She's covering these topics:
o Getting the Report you want
o Rewording a Report
o Creating batch reports of just one branch of your tree
o Where is my report going (Word, Pages, Textedit)

Pat will show us how to customize and generate genealogy reports using the Reunion lineage software program by Leister Productions (leisterpro.com).

The meeting will be held at 1:30pm as usual, at the Oakland Regional Family History Center at 4766 Lincoln Ave., Oakland, CA 94602. Come early and search their library or review some microfilm.

Pat is the Macintosh leader of the Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group. http://www.plumlady.com.

Ed Mason: Family History iMovie Jan. 2010

The topic of our Saturday, January 23, 2010, 1:30-3:30pm Macintosh Genealogy Group (MacGen) General Meeting is "Making Family History Movies: with iMovie and Final Cut Express. The presenter is Ed Mason, a co-founder of MacGen. Ed did a similar presentation last October in Concord, CA that was well-attended. It should be a great meeting with Mac Tips, Reunion Tips and your questions and answers on Mac and Genealogy topics. Come early and do research at our meeting place, the Oakland LDS Regional Family History Center, 4766 Lincoln Ave., Oakland, CA, 94602 510-531-3905.

Marge Bell: Vital Records, Nov. 21, 2009

This Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 Marge Bell from the Oakland Family History Center will be speaking to MacGen members about Vital Records at the Oakland LDS Family History Center. The meeting starts at 1:30pm at 4677 Lincoln Ave, Oakland, Calif. This will be our seventh session, this year. Please see the MacGen web site at http://www.macgen.org for more details. There will only be a workshop on December 8th and no general meeting. In January, 2010 we will show iMovie and March, various ways of creating Slide Show, mainly with iPhoto.

GenWise

Genealogywise.com is a new genealogy social networking site. It has a lot of promise, but appears to be just getting started They do make it easy to upload photos, start groups and read forums. Stay tuned.

Macintosh Genealogy Meeting April 24, 2009

I live in Castro Valley, Calif. and belong to four Bay Area genealogy groups. Each has a small number of people that use Macs to help with their genealogy research. There are just not enough people in these PC-dominated genealogy groups to have substantive meetings that cover the wonderful advantages a Macintosh can bring to your genealogy avocation. The best group for Mac Genealogists I've encountered so far is the Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group (used to be Silicon Valley Personal Ancestral File group) in Santa Clara. They have a sub-group headed by Mac Guru Pat Burrow (plumlady.com) who is a treasure of Mac information. Every second Saturday, they have their two hour Mac presentation in the South Bay. They also have a Getting Started Class taught by Pat Solomon. But, it's not enough for me. I think our East Bay Mac users deserve a way to share their two passions, genealogy and their Macs.
So, I'm exploring this month to see if such a need exists. On Saturday, April 25th, at 1:30 pm at the Oakland LDS Family History Center, a meeting will occur with as many genealogy enthusiasts that use Macs, as can be found. Please see a flyer I created with more details, and hopefully I'll see you on the Saturday the 25th.

Geni.Com Genealogy Web Site

I and millions of others, it seems, have discovered this excellent genealogy for the masses, web site. It's easy to use and motivates you to put up your family trees and share your life with your family. One great feature is that it only allows people you choose to view information about live members of your family. It's at http://www.geni.com.

Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group

I attended the Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy group's Santa Clara meeting last Saturday (the 2nd Saturday of the month). They had open discussion then split up into classes. It lasted from 9-11 am. I chose the class demonstrating how to insert graphics and movies into the Reunion Genealogy Program. They had five classes to choose from this day including, "Organizing your stuff", "Scanning Techniques" , "Using New Family Search (from LDS)" and "PAF and PCs for Beginners". They used to be the Silicon Valley PAF User Group, but morphed into the Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group. Nice move I think, since our Genealogy obsession requires a lot of computer technology. They had about 70 people in attendance at their LDS location at 875 Quince Avenue, Santa Clara, CA. Their web site is http://www.svcgg.org/ (http://www.svpafug.org/ works too).