Hi, I was recently advised, by an alert reader of my column ("Computers & Genealogy") that a live internet broadcast on genealogy will take place next Monday. For those of you who don't know about internet broadcasts, they are broadcasts that come over the 'net and play, in real time, on your computer. This allows you to receive radio and tv content from places outside your broadcast area and from various sources on the internet itself. If you don't have an application called "Real Player" on your computer, you'll need it if you want to "attend" this broadcast and I've included information on how you can get it, FREE, at the end of this letter. But first let me finish about the genealogy program. It's called: "Tracing your Roots" Monday, March 29th, 1999 from 12 pm - 2 pm Pacific Time "How much do you know about your family history? Genealogy libraries are exploding on the Internet as people around the world trace their roots. TalkSpot's News OnLine brings you the experts who will tell you how to access thousands of databases." GUESTS will be: Elon Gasper Senior Designer / "Generations" (genealogy software) SierraHome.com Peg Zitko Director of Public Affairs Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation Charles Merrin Senior Director Online Genealogy Unit FamilyTreeMaker.com Susan Easton Black, Ed.D. Professor Brigham Young University Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG Syndicated Columnist Los Angeles Times http://www.rootsweb.com/~review/index.htm Cyndi Howells Author "Netting your Ancestors" and "Cyndi's Genealogical List" website Marthe Arends Author Genealogy Software Guide David Rencher Manager, Public Outreach / Family History Department The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints YOU CAN CATCH THIS BROADCAST AT: http://www.talkspot.com/events/genealogy/ ABOUT REALPLAYER For those of you who don't have RealPlayer, you can get it FREE by going to: http://www.real.com/products/player/downloadrealplayer.html?wp=dl0399&src=h p_butn&lang=en and downloading it. You can get it for Macintosh, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT. Just fill out the registration form (they keep your information confidential) and choose the version you want to download. Be sure and choose the FREE version for your system. Once it has dowloaded, just install it. Then you'll be ready to go to the address for the broadcast, that I gave, above the REALPLAYER section. I would suggest that you download RealPlayer, install it and then go to: http://www.talkspot.com/ and pick a program and listen to it, so you know eveything works BEFORE the "Tracing Your Roots" program comes on!!! Be there or be square!! Regards, Byron Bray Vice-President, Linn Genealogical Society Linn County, Oregon Listowner: BOVEE-L list ([email protected]) [email protected]