Are you a beginner? Free session - Vital Records

The Pima County Genealogy Club is offering a session for those people new to family history.  This session will concentrate on vital records.  We will have several experienced family historians at each session to help those attending.

You can join us at one of the following two sessions:

            Friday, September 2, 2011          3:15 to 4:45 p.m.       

            Himmel Park Branch Library

            1035 N. Treat Avenue 85716

            Saturday, September 3, 2011      3:15 to 4:45 p.m.

            Eckstrom-Columbus Branch Library

            4350 E. 22^nd Street 85711

Please reserve your spot at one of the sessions by contacting 

Barbara Salyer   296-1498 or bsalyer@cox.net

Footnote.com is now Fold3

Footnote announces a name change and revamped website.  Check out their blog at http://blog.fold3.com/footnote-is-now-fold3/ for information on their changes.  The focus of the website will be U.S. Military records.  The other records are still on the website it just takes a little more navigation to get to them.  Like any changes we just need to wander around the site and get familiar with the changes.  What are your thoughts on the change?

August 20th Meeting

Our next meeting is this Saturday, August 20th at the Wilmot Library.  Please remember to bring your dues, $20, for the next year and four months.  Dues will then be payable every January beginning in 2013.  The $20 will pay for the remainder of this year and the entire calendar year of 2012.   Dues will be collected at the end of our meeting.

Please download your own copy of the presentation handout to bring with you to the meeting.  Copies will be available for 50 cents if you forget to download a copy - first come first serve basis.  The handout can be accessed by August 20th Handout clicking the link and downloading it to your computer and then printing it out. The handout will be available for the next seven days. We thank you in advance for downloading the handout.

Our first presentation will be a tour of the blog, then a full presentation on Research Resources in Arizona For Your Ancestors--Those Who Lived in Arizona and Those Who Never Lived  in Arizona , presented by Barbara Salyer.  

 

We have a new name and blog!

The results of our survey are in.  Our new name is the Pima County Genealogy Society (PCGS).  Meetings will take place the third Saturday of the month at varied locations until a final decision is made on a meeting location.  We appreciate all of the wonderful suggestions for programs.  Many of the suggestions have already been utilized for our upcoming programs.  I will be posting a listing of our programs as soon as we have our speakers and locations confirmed.  We have decided to meet ten months of the year.  There will be no meeting in July or December.


The group decided on dues of $15.00 per year.  We will be converting to a calendar year.  Dues for the remainder of the year are $5.00 or $20.00 for August 2011 through December 2012.  Please bring your dues to our August meeting on the 20th at the Wilmot Library.  Our Financial Coordinator is Jo Clark  Checks may be made payable to the Pima County Genealogy Society.  Thank you Jo for volunteering.

Please join us  20 Aug 2011  at the Wilmot Library - 530 North Wilmot Road

1:15 to 1:45 p.m. Blog Tour by Amy Urman

2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Research Resources in Arizona For Your Ancestors--Those Who Lived in Arizona and Those Who Never Lived  in Arizona , presented by Barbara Salyer

New Webinars from RootsMagic

RootsMagic announced today three new user webinars.  They are:

Research Tools in RootsMagic

Getting Help Using RootsMagic

Running RootsMagic on your Mac
 
For additional information and to register go to  http://www.rootsmagic.com/webinars/

Beginner's Group Volunteers: A Big Thank You

We had two beginners groups meet last week.  One on Friday at the Himmel Park Branch Library and one on Saturday at the Eckstrom-Columbus Branch Library.  The meetings were so successful both groups of beginners want to meet again! 

We wanted to thank our volunteers for showing up and giving our beginners a helping hand. Thank you to Jean Banowit, Marc Kaplan, Barbara Sayler, Amy Urman,  Leslie Carney, Jackie Fry, Nan Hallman, Robin Harris, Sherri Hessick, Colleen McHugh, and Edie Sly.

Google - Useful search techniques

In our beginning class today we discussed a few techniques to get more from a Google
 search, here are two of my favorites.

The ~ included in a Google search will search for similar words to the keyword.

For example:  poundstone ~genealogy

the above search will search genealogy, family, ancestry, family tree, genealogical,
genealogical records, records, roots, surname, vital records. etc - all the words
 similar to genealogy.

- will exclude information

For example:   poundstone ~genealogy -paula

the above will exclude Paula from the search

Try these techniques on your next Google search!