It's All Online–Saturday, January 20, 2018

The January PCGS meeting is all about social media and using the PCGS website.

Sherri Hessick will Explore the PCGS Website, giving us tips on managing the Members Only section and purchasing workshops and seminars.

Sherri was the eighth person to join PCGS. She has served on the Steering Committee since its inception, was a guest blogger on the PCGS blog in 2013-2014 and became the main blogger in 2015. She accepted the Web Manager position in October 2017 and the 2nd Vice President role in January 2018. She is a member of the Tucson chapter of the DAR, a certificate holder from Boston University's Genealogical Research Program, and a graduate of the inaugural Research Like a Pro Study Group.

Nicole Dyer will follow the class with our featured program How Can I Use Twitter and Other Social Media in My Genealogy Research? Collaborating with a community of like-minded genealogists can aid your research in a number of ways. Nicole will discuss monthly genealogy chats on Twitter, the hundreds of genealogy Facebook groups, and how to share a #GenealogyPhotoADay on Instagram.

Nicole has been researching her ancestors and delighting in their stories for over fifteen years. She and her mother regularly write on their Family Locket Blog where they share tips and ideas on how to get children interested in their family history, share research tips, talk about family reunions, crafts, FamilySearch, and much, much more. Nicole spoke at RootsTech 2017 on Kid Genealogists - Inspiring the Next Generation and is speaking at RootsTech 2018. She is also the developer of the Preschool Family History Storytime and the Family History Craft Day at the Tucson Family History Center (visit the Tucson Family History Center Facebook group at for details). Nicole is a PCGS member, serves on the Steering Committee and the Social Media Committee as our Tweeter.

Non-members are welcome to attend up to two meetings as our guest. All attendees are eligible for the door prizes. Handouts are available to PCGS members under Secure Download in the Members Only section of our website: https://azpimagensoc.org.

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN LOCATION

DATE:	Saturday, January 20, 2018
TIME:	1:00pm – 3:00pm
PLACE:	Operations Division Midtown Hardesty Multi-Service Center 1100 S. Alvernon Tucson, AZ
	Parking is free

Happy New Year! What's Happening this Winter 2018?

Happy New Year! 2018 promises to be an exciting year for genealogists. Here is a preview of what is happening in and around Tucson this winter.

Visit our website at https://azpimagensoc.org for details of these and other events.

JANUARY
Pima County Genealogy Society Special Interest Groups are all meeting in January: RootsMagic on January 6, DNA Group on January 13, and Family Tree Maker on January 20. SIGs are a benefit of PCGS membership and are open to members only. Visit our website for meeting location and times.

Top: Sherri Hessick
Bottom: Nicole Dyer

Our first meeting of the year featuring Sherri Hessick and Nicole Dyer will be on January 20 from 1 to 3 p.m. Sherri will Explore the PCGS Website, giving us tips on managing the Members only section and purchasing workshops and seminars. Nicole will answer the question How Can I Use Twitter and Other Social Media in My Genealogy Research? Non-members are welcome to attend up to two of our meetings as a guest. All attendees are eligible for the door prize.

Note Location Change for This Month’s Meeting
DATE:	Saturday, January 20, 2018
TIME:	1:00pm – 3:00pm
PLACE:	Operations Division Midtown Hardesty Multi-Service Center 1100 S. Alvernon Tucson, AZ
	Parking is free

The Pinal County Genealogists will host their 15th annual genealogy workshop in Casa Grande. All workshop information, registration forms, and lecture descriptions are at http://www.pinalctyazgen.com/workshop2018.htm.

FEBRUARY

February starts out with the annual Tucson Family History Fair on February 3 at the LDS East Stake Center, 6901 E. Kenyon Dr. The Fair opens at 8:30 a.m. with Bob Ives, Executive Director of The Family History Guide, presenting A Digital Revolution in Family History. The Fair is offering a choice between seven different classes during each of the five hour-long class sessions. The class descriptions, schedule, and handouts are on the Tucson Family History Center wiki page. 

NOTE: Handouts will not be available at the Fair. Attendees must print them in advance from the wiki page.

PCGS is back at the Banner-University Medical Center on February 17 when we will be talking about researching our German ancestors.  The Family Tree Maker members-only SIG meets from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on the same day.

The Green Valley Genealogical Society annual seminar featuring Gena Philibert-Ortega is also on February 17. Registration and details are on the GVGS website.

West Valley Genealogical Society is also hosting a seminar on February 17 with Cyndi Ingle in Sun City. Visit their website at http://azwvgs.org/seminar.asp for details and registration.



MARCH

CeCe Moore

The Pima County Genealogy Society is hosting a workshop and seminar featuring CeCe Moore, Genetic Genealogist on March 9 and 10. The March 9 workshop, I Have My Results, Now What??, is sold out. However, there are still seats available for the March 10 seminar. Seminar topics include:

• The Power of DNA
• Autosomal DNA: Discovering Your Ancestors In You
• Using Mitochondrial DNA and X-DNA for Genealogy Research
• Jefferson-Hemmings: Revealing the Truth Through DNA

CeCe Moore has never spoken outside California before. Don't miss this once in a lifetime event. Visit the PCGS seminar webpage for details and registration.

Our March 17 general meeting will feature Howard Mathieson of Winnepeg, Canada and a member of the Guild of One Name Studies, speaking on Surnames and One-Name Studies-the Origin of British Surnames.

The Family History Society of AZ is hosting their annual seminar with Thomas W. Jones on March 23 and 24 in Mesa. Details and registration are on the FHSA website. 

Registration now open for Microsoft Word Workshop

Whether you want to write your family history story for publication in a national magazine, a local genealogy society newsletter, publish a book, or just for yourself, you will need to use a word processing program. Microsoft Word is a popular word processor with powerful and robust capabilities that can help you create beautiful documents.

Pima County Genealogy Society is presenting a Microsoft Word workshop. This workshop will give attendees a solid foundation of the features a genealogist would use most often. Using MS Word 2013, Sherri Hessick will teach participants:

• Basic document formatting skills
• How to create and use Styles and Templates
• How to design and work with tables
• How to insert and place pictures and text boxes into your document
• How to add headers and footers
• How to add endnotes and footnotes
• How to generate a Table of Contents and Index
• How to markup and track document changes

All of the features taught at the workshop can be done in earlier versions of MS Word as well as in LibreOffice 5.0.


The workshop will be especially useful for anyone planning to attend the special 2-part Writing workshop or to enter the 2016 Write-On! competition (details to be announced shortly).

The cost for attending the workshop is $10 for PCGS members and $15 for non-members. Advance registration is required and must be received no later than April 16, 2016.

The workshop will be held on Saturday, April 30, 2016, from 9:30am to 12 noon at the Banner-University Medical Center.

Visit the Pima County Genealogy Society website for details and to register.

ISFHWE Announces Winners of the 2015 Excellence-in-Writing Competition

Members of the Pima County Genealogy Society are among the winners of the ISFHWE Excellence-in-Writing Competition for the third year running!

 

Press Release – September 4, 2015
The International Society of Family History Writers and Editors is proud to announce the winners of the Excellence-in-Writing Competition. All entries were exceptional this year. Submission details for 2016 will be announced soon. For any questions on the competition, email Tina Sansone at competition@isfhwe.org.

ISFHWE’s Excellence in Writing Competition

Category 1 - Columns

1st: Ernest Thode – Ask Ernie
2nd: James M. Beidler – Roots & Branches: Painful, poignant visit to mentor’s grave
3rd: Maureen Wlodarczyk – Genealogy: It’s not a tree or a chart…it’s a story!
HM: Michael McKeag – Where to Finish? 1 - My Family History
HM: Carolyn Leonard – When the Cheering Stopped – the last years of Woodrow Wilson

Category 2 – Articles

1st: Barbara J Starmans, PLCGS – Married to the Army
2nd: Maureen Wlodarczyk – Grazia Fucci Lipari
3rd: George G. Morgan – Managing Your Speaking Engagements
HM: Sherri Hessick – MayDay! MayDay! Lost Behind Enemy Lines
HM: Vi Parsons – Root Cellar Preserves


Category 3 – Newsletters

1st: Michelle D. Novak – The Archivist
2nd: Stephen Gauss – Harriman Family Newsletter
3rd: Kathryn Manz – Penn in Hand
HM: Linda Vixie – Pike Peak Genealogical Society Newsletter
HM: James M. Beidler – Der Kurier


Category 4 – Unpublished Authors

1st: Elyse Hill – History Lessons Learned From a Birth Certificate
2nd: Wendy Wilson Spooner – Civil Registration and Census Development in Great Britain & America
3rd: Catherine Smith – In a Flash
HM: Louise A. Eckhardt – A Mystery within a Mystery
HM: Diane Buescher – Finding Elusive Ancestors in Early German Church Records


Category 5 – Unpublished Material/Published Authors

1st: David Harper – Corresponding Hearts
2nd: Robyn Smith, of "Reclaiming Kin" Genealogy Blog – Minty’s Legacy: A Black Family in Slavery and Freedom
3rd: Dave Strausfeld – Hudie Streisfeld and her life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire
HM: Ruth Randall, CG – Evidence of the Parentage of a Buffalo Solder: John Martin Daniels, Company I, 125th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry
HM: Carolyn Leonard – Dutch Letters

Category 6 – Poetry

1st: Luanne Griffin – Going Home
2nd: Casey Lin Brown – If I’d Met You
3rd: Lisa Brahin Weinblatt – Great-Grandmother
HM: Phyllis Matthews Ziller, MLIS – Finding Sarah 
HM: Kenneth R. Castle, PhD – They are Calling to You

Excel Workshop - Learn to use Excel to track and analyze your genealogy data

EXCEL WORKSHOP

Saturday, May 30, 2015 

9:30 AM to Noon

University Medical Center

1501 N Campbell Road

Tucson, AZ

Room 2500 C & D

Free Parking

Learn to use this popular spreadsheet program to help you track and analyze data, visualize it in context, summarize it all in charts and graphs, and a whole lot more!  You will learn:

Basic navigation tools

How to perform the basics of copy/paste and cell formatting

How to insert & delete columns and rows

Sorting, filtering, and color coding

How to use pivot tables to do advanced data analysis

Feel free to bring your laptop!

Workshop Fee:  $10 members, $15 non-Members

Advanced registration required.  

Registration form: Excel Registration

General Meeting This Saturday, November 15, 2014

Sherri Hessick will present: Pajama Skill Building: Podcasts and Webinars. 

Steve Schuldenfrei will present: What are Two Jews doing in the Klondike? 

We will be meeting in our normal room 2117 in the University of Arizona Medical Center.  

We would love to see you before the meeting for lunch in the cafeteria beginning at 11:15 am!

General Meeting This Saturday: FamilySearch Toolbox

Don't forget our meeting is coming up this Saturday, September 20th .  We will be meeting in our normal room 2117 in the Medical College which is located at the University Medical Center, 1501 N Campbell.  New members are encouraged to contact Beth at 820-4488 for help finding our meeting location. 

As usual some of our members will be meeting in the cafeteria for lunch prior to the meeting.  Folks usually arrive for lunch around 11:30 to 12.   

Sherri Hessick will be our featured speaker.  Her program is called "The FamilySearch Family Tree Toolbox".  We hope to see you there!

We are looking for photos to use on our website.  The photos must be scanned images 300dpi or higher.  Please email your pictures and consent for use to our general mailbox at pimacountygenealogysociety@gmail.com.

Check out our member winners that entered the ISFHWE writing competition!!!!

International Society of Family History Writers and Editors

(ISFHWE)

Website: ISFHWE.org                                   Mailing Address: PO Box 152987, Cape Coral, FL 33915

For Immediate Release – August 27, 2014

ISFHWE EXCELLENCE-IN-WRITING COMPETITION WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The International Society of Family History Writers and Editors is proud to announce the winners of the 2014 Excellence-in-Writing Competition.  The winners are:

Category 1 - Columns

1^st Place – Shelley K. Bishop “The Legacy of Mary Comfort Eberhard”

2^nd Place – Nancy Ann Calhoun “People can ‘flesh out’ genealogy at library”

3^rd Place – Maureen K. Wlodarczyk “Precious Paper in the Digital World”

Honorable Mention – Shannon Combs-Bennett “Getting You Pointed in the Right Direction”

Honorable Mention – Michelle Roos Goodrum “Using Social Media to Enrich Stories of the Family Home” (Our November Land Speaker!)

Honorable Mention – Carolyn Schotts “Fading Family Roots”

 Category 2 - Articles

1^st Place – Schelly Talalay Dardashti “The Other Side of Jewish Genealogy: Learn how to get started exploring your Sephardic roots”

2^nd Place – Shelley K. Bishop “Turning Forests into Farms: the George Clark Family of Licking and Delaware Counties, Ohio

3^rd Place – Mari Margaret McLean, PhD “Finding Maxa Ann Hadden and Mr. McLean: Serendipity and the Brick Wall”

Honorable Mention – Smiljka Kitanovic “Appreciating Genealogy Angels”

Honorable Mention – Carolyn B. Leonard “Early Settlement Leaves Quiet Legacy”

Honorable Mention – Chip Rowe “Who Was Joel Holcomb of Wallingford, Connecticut”

 Category 3 – Genealogy Newsletters

1^st Place – Patricia Mansfield Phelan “Irish Family History Forum”

2^nd Place – James M. Beidler “Der Kurier” – newsletter of the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society

3^rd Place – Kay Waterloo “Goodrich Family Association Quarterly”

Honorable Mention – Carolyn B. Leonard “Dutch Cousins”

 Category 4 – Unpublished Authors

1^st Place – Shirley McKenzie “Sylvira Said ‘They burned My House’- June 1864, Silver Springs, MS”

2^nd Place – Robbi J. Ryan “A Strong Will to Live”

Category 5 – Unpublished Material by Published Authors

1^st Place – Rondie Yancey “Murder at the Post Office: One Family’s Tragedy”

2^nd Place – Leslie Tichenor Mason “Create a Colorful Picture of Your Ancestors from a Grey Palette of Facts”

3^rd Place – Marie Navarro “Fighting on Both Sides of the Alamo”

Honorable Mention – Kenneth R. Castle, PhD “Eden Booth, a Tale of Westward Migration”

Honorable Mention – Sherri Hessick “Al Allan Alton William Wade Wendergren Westman”

Honorable Mention – Barbara Lee “Carolyn 1947-1947 – Hanford Nuclear Site and a Baby’s Death”

Honorable Mention – Chip Rowe “What Happened to Boyd?”

Honorable Mention – Jodie Lynn Strait “William Henry Hunt: An Original Texter”

 Category 6 – Poetry

1^st Place – Smiljka Kitanovic “River Journey”

2^nd Place – Marie Navarro “Another Day, Another Time”

3^rd Place – Andrea Ramsey “Young Girl”

Honorable Mention – Kenneth R. Castle, PhD “There Once Was a Man…”

Honorable Mention – Paul K. Graham, CG, AG “Genealogy Standards: A Poem”

Honorable Mention – Nicole Gilkison LaRue “To My Isa…”

Honorable Mention – Darcie Hind Posz, CG “Generations”

Address questions to Competition@isfhwe.org.

Details on the 2015 Competition will be released shortly.  The competition will open on 1 October. Details may be obtained on the website at ISFHWE.org.

International Society of Family History Writers and Editors announce Winners of Contest -We have members that were recognized

International Society of Family History Writers and Editors
has selected two of our very own members as winners of their Excellence in Writing Competition Category 4 - Unpublished Authors 

Sherri Hessick - 1st Place for "Just Another Love Story"
Jodi Strait - 3rd Place for "Curious Case of Charles Karthaeuser"

Honorable mention to Rondie Yancey who taught our writing workshop earlier this year.

Also, our own Ken Castle won an honorable mention in Category 5 - Unpublished Material by Published Authors for "My Norwegian Ancestors".

Congratulations!!

PCGS Meeting - Saturday May 18, 2013

Our Pima County Genealogy Society Meeting is this Saturday.

WhenSat, May 18, 1:00pm – 3:30pm

WhereUniversity of Arizona, Medical Research Building Room 102 map (map)

DescriptionHost Steve Schuldenfrei 1:15 - 1:45 pm - When Enough is Enough! - Or is it? - Sherri Hessick 2:00 - 3:00 pm - Planning a Research Trip - Jodi Strait
Members please remember to printout your handouts and bring them to the meeting.   Current members were emailed the handouts this past Tuesday, May 14th.  We look forward to seeing you!