For those with Texas roots. Barbara > > We're pleased to once again announce the annual Angelina College Genealogy > Conference. July 15-17, 2010 > in Lufkin, Texas. This year's featured speakers will be BARBARA BRISEY > WYLIE and her husband, JOHN VINCENT WYLIE. Along with other speakers, > attendees will have over 24 sessions to choose from. > > Note the two optional all-day Thursday workshops - especially the land > workshop by Kelvin Meyers, which is a hands-on session limited to 25 > people (early registration is recommended if you want to get in this > one!). > > Note the research possibilities for before and after the Conference - come > early and stay late. > > Teachers, not that the conference carries CPE credits. > > Check out the website at http://www.angelina.edu/genealogy/genealogy.html > > Comments or questions, please contact me. > > ~ Trevia > Trevia Wooster Beverly > Houston, Texas > 713.864-6862 > treviawbeverly@comcast.net > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXLIMEST-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2720 - Release Date: 03/03/10 07:34:00
MCGS COMPUTER INTEREST GROUP MEETING -- Our next meeting will be on Saturday, March 20, 2010 from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm -- Topic: GenSmarts - Tips and Tricks. Presented by Gene Pennington. -- Location: Villa Marin, 100 Thorndale Drive, San Rafael - The Meeting will be held in the Auditorium, which is to the left and down the hall from the entrance. Villa Marin has wireless Internet access! Be sure to bring your laptop computer and wireless network card so you can follow along with the presentation. Contact Gene Pennington (webmaster@maringensoc.org) if you need more information. These meetings are free to the public. Visit the MCGS website at --> http://www.maringensoc.org/Meetings/cigschedule.htm to see the 2010 schedule, topics, locations and directions. Happy Holidays! Gene Pennington MCGS Webmaster, CIG & TMG User Group http://www.maringensoc.org MCGS Blog: http://maringensoc.blogspot.com/
Who Do You Think You Are? is a unique show that takes a personal look into the family stories of seven celebrities, while helping people everywhere understand what they could discover about their own family history. It's also a great excuse to gather your family on a Friday night to watch an interesting story unfold and then talk about the ancestors who paved the way for you. Tune in this Friday night, March 5, 2010, on NBC. To watch a preview clip from YouTube go to --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiaTmY1wKOA Go to the MCGS blog < http://maringensoc.blogspot.com/> to read the full article and to use the website links to this article. Gene Pennington MCGS Webmaster, CIG & TMG User Group http://www.maringensoc.org http://mcgs.camp9.org/ MCGS Blog: http://maringensoc.blogspot.com/
9 A.M.at Star restaurant in Novato this coming Saturday, March 6th! Breakfast for genealogists and friends........ always good food and conversation Cathy Marin Co., CA
It was a very good program. Thanks for the reminder! Susan Trumbull ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Bill Bryant <w.bryant@comcast.net> To: MCGS <maringensoc@rootsweb.com> Subject: [MarinGenSoc] Census Season Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:18:17 -0800 Are you tired of the political gridlock in Washington, DC? As we prepare for the 2010 census do you expect a period of relative peace and quiet? Yes, this period is a time when census takers diligently canvas their neighborhoods to quantify and record, followed by a long period when number crunchers labor over banks of computers to arrive at just who we are as a nation. Yet although the work is quiet the politics are not. On the contrary, politicians raise the stress level even higher because their jobs may depend on the results. The size of voting blocks will change; the number of each state's Congressional delegation may rise or fall. The only sure winners are the genealogists! Census data are our bread and butter even though we have to wait 72 years to enjoy it! The rationale for that weird 72 number is one of the items to be cleared up at this Wednesday's general meeting, "Preparing for the 1940 Census Opening in 2010." More important, the presentation by Joel Weintraub, Professor Emeritus of Biology at Cal State Fullerton, and an expert on national archives data, will also provide strategies and tools for your census-searching needs. That is why you will want to be at the LDS Church by 7:30 pm this Wednesday the 24th. Also bring any recyclable bottles and cans to be left just outside the Church. Bill Bryant, MCGS Secretary ______________________________________ A big "THANK YOU" to all of you that give so generously of your time volunteering for the Society. --------------------------------- Visit our website: http://www.maringensoc.org Read the meeting notices: <http://www.maringensoc.org/News/newsletters.htm> Read the Society's blog run by Gene Pennington: http://maringensoc.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MARINGENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Yep, April 1, 2012 as I understand it. "The past is the cause of the present and the present will be the cause of the future." - Abraham Lincoln EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:41:15 -0800 > From: confido@gmail.com > To: maringensoc@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MarinGenSoc] Census Season > > Given the rule of 72 yrs... wouldn't the 1940 Census be due to open in 2012? > Or have they changed it to 60 years? > > Happy Trails, > > Lauren > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Bill Bryant <w.bryant@comcast.net> wrote: > <snip> > > The rationale for that weird 72 number is one of the items to be cleared up > > at this Wednesday's general meeting, "Preparing for the 1940 Census Opening > > in 2010." More important, the presentation by Joel Weintraub, Professor > > Emeritus of Biology at Cal State Fullerton, and an expert on national > > archives data, will also provide strategies and tools for your > > census-searching needs. That is why you will want to be at the LDS Church > > by 7:30 pm this Wednesday the 24th. Also bring any recyclable bottles and > > cans to be left just outside the Church. > > > > Bill Bryant, MCGS Secretary > > ______________________________________ > > > > A big "THANK YOU" to all of you that give so generously of your time > > volunteering for the Society. > > --------------------------------- > > Visit our website: http://www.maringensoc.org > > > > Read the meeting notices: < > > http://www.maringensoc.org/News/newsletters.htm> > > > > Read the Society's blog run by Gene Pennington: > > http://maringensoc.blogspot.com/ > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > MARINGENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ______________________________________ > > A big "THANK YOU" to all of you that give so generously of your time volunteering for the Society. > --------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://www.maringensoc.org > > Read the meeting notices: <http://www.maringensoc.org/News/newsletters.htm> > > Read the Society's blog run by Gene Pennington: > http://maringensoc.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MARINGENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Given the rule of 72 yrs... wouldn't the 1940 Census be due to open in 2012? Or have they changed it to 60 years? Happy Trails, Lauren On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Bill Bryant <w.bryant@comcast.net> wrote: <snip> The rationale for that weird 72 number is one of the items to be cleared up > at this Wednesday's general meeting, "Preparing for the 1940 Census Opening > in 2010." More important, the presentation by Joel Weintraub, Professor > Emeritus of Biology at Cal State Fullerton, and an expert on national > archives data, will also provide strategies and tools for your > census-searching needs. That is why you will want to be at the LDS Church > by 7:30 pm this Wednesday the 24th. Also bring any recyclable bottles and > cans to be left just outside the Church. > > Bill Bryant, MCGS Secretary > ______________________________________ > > A big "THANK YOU" to all of you that give so generously of your time > volunteering for the Society. > --------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://www.maringensoc.org > > Read the meeting notices: < > http://www.maringensoc.org/News/newsletters.htm> > > Read the Society's blog run by Gene Pennington: > http://maringensoc.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MARINGENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Are you tired of the political gridlock in Washington, DC? As we prepare for the 2010 census do you expect a period of relative peace and quiet? Yes, this period is a time when census takers diligently canvas their neighborhoods to quantify and record, followed by a long period when number crunchers labor over banks of computers to arrive at just who we are as a nation. Yet although the work is quiet the politics are not. On the contrary, politicians raise the stress level even higher because their jobs may depend on the results. The size of voting blocks will change; the number of each state's Congressional delegation may rise or fall. The only sure winners are the genealogists! Census data are our bread and butter even though we have to wait 72 years to enjoy it! The rationale for that weird 72 number is one of the items to be cleared up at this Wednesday's general meeting, "Preparing for the 1940 Census Opening in 2010." More important, the presentation by Joel Weintraub, Professor Emeritus of Biology at Cal State Fullerton, and an expert on national archives data, will also provide strategies and tools for your census-searching needs. That is why you will want to be at the LDS Church by 7:30 pm this Wednesday the 24th. Also bring any recyclable bottles and cans to be left just outside the Church. Bill Bryant, MCGS Secretary
Thanks for the information. If there is desire for further discussion re the DNA testing and genetic genealogy, please be aware that Rootsweb has rules that must be adhered to specifically with regard to this topic. 1) No posting marketing messages from the various DNA testing companies. 2) No statements with specific pricing. It is permissible, however, to include links to pages that provide the above. Happy Trails, Lauren MarinGenSoc List On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:06 AM, HRGG41A <hrgg41a@earthlink.net> wrote: > > >From Genealogy Insider (Family Tree Magazine blog at > <http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/2010/02/16/FamilyTreeDNAIntroducesFamilyFinderTest.aspx> > > <snip>
>From Genealogy Insider (Family Tree Magazine blog at http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/2010/02/16/FamilyTreeDNAIntroduce sFamilyFinderTest.aspx) "While Y-DNA tests match men with a specific paternal line and mitochondrial DNA tests finds potential relatives along only the maternal line, Family Finderan autosomal DNA testcan look for close relationships along all ancestral lines. But rather than simply helping you confirm potential relationships with specific individuals, Family Finder is intended to match you with new relatives. Test results include a list of matching people in Family Tree DNA s databases. Men and women can take the test and match the results to male and female cousins from any of their family lines in the past five generations. Family Finder is available now to current Family Tree DNA clients for $249, and will be offered to everyone in mid-March. Family Tree DNA CEO Bennett Greenspan called the new test the companys most exciting genetic genealogy breakthrough since launching its Y-DNA test." There's more information at the Family Tree DNA website http://www.familytreedna.com/landing/family-finder.aspx. This sounds exciting. Jo Ann
You may click on the following to access the MCGS February Newsletter. http://www.maringensoc.org/News/newsletters.htm#2010_Newsletters
Sorry, Lauren. Trying again.... hope it works cuz I'm catching a taxi in 25 minutes. http://academic-genealogy.com/californiastateinformation.htm Cathy Marin Co., CA
Click Here: Check out "CALIFORNIA State Information" Cathy Marin Co., CA
Cathy: "click here" is an aol feature that did not come across to the list as Rootsweb strips html code from messages. Please supply the actual URL. Happy Trails, Lauren MarinGenSoc List Admin On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:00 AM, <CYLGowdy@aol.com> wrote: > Click Here: Check out "CALIFORNIA State Information" > > > > Cathy > Marin Co., CA > > > > ______________________________________ > > A big "THANK YOU" to all of you that give so generously of your time > volunteering for the Society. > --------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://www.maringensoc.org > > Read the meeting notices: < > http://www.maringensoc.org/News/newsletters.htm> > > Read the Society's blog run by Gene Pennington: > http://maringensoc.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MARINGENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
MCGS COMPUTER INTEREST GROUP MEETING -- Our next meeting will be on Saturday, February 20, 2010 from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm -- Topic: US GenWeb - Tips and Tricks. Presented by Jo Ann Rowley-Minhoto. -- Location: Villa Marin, 100 Thorndale Drive, San Rafael - The Meeting will be held in the Auditorium, which is to the left and down the hall from the entrance. Villa Marin has wireless Internet access! Be sure to bring your laptop computer and wireless network card so you can follow along with the presentation. Contact Gene Pennington (webmaster@maringensoc.org) if you need more information. These meetings are free to the public. Visit the MCGS website at --> http://www.maringensoc.org/Meetings/cigschedule.htm to see the 2010 schedule, topics, locations and directions. Happy Holidays! Gene Pennington MCGS Webmaster, CIG & TMG User Group http://www.maringensoc.org MCGS Blog: http://maringensoc.blogspot.com/
I just noticed a little bird on my patio jumping up on a bush for berries to eat and it reminded me that this Saturday is Breakfast at Star. Hope to see you at 9 a.m. Cathy
Jo Ann: Thank you for the positive comments. I'm glad you found the presentation of value and that you started using Picasa. The face recognition software is pretty amazing. The more you use it, the better it gets in recognizing faces. I've found that as I "tag" pictures of people when they were in they were children, in their teens and 20s the software gets even better. I like your idea of getting others from your family involved. Outstanding! Between all my cousins I'll bet I can get almost all of my pictures identified. A couple of tips to add to yours. 1. Once you've uploaded an album to Picasa Web Album, you can use the geo-tagging feature. Try this and see what you think. This is another fascinating feature and has great potential. 2. You can create "tags" for more than just a person's name. you can then apply a single or multiple tag to a picture. For example, "Aunt Thelma's House on Oak Street" or "Cape Cod". This has all kinds of use when you're searching for all those pictures you have that were taken in Cape Cod or Aunt Thelma's House or the 2009 Pennington Family Reunion. You can see the possibilities. Regarding the problem uploading the photos from your Picasa non-web album to the Web Album, try having Picasa find all the pictures on your computer first. Or, just have it add the folder/s that you want to work on to its folders. Then make sure you have the facial recognition feature turned "on". Then go do something else while Picasa goes through all your pictures. It should find many other people for you to "tag" and others that it thinks belong to a person and will ask you to confirm it's suggestion. Also, make sure you have the "sync" feature turned on for each of the albums you want to sync between your local computer folder/s and your Picasa albums. As you discover more tips or tricks and that something didn't work the way I described, post it to the list and maybe others will join in. How about posting your message to the MCGS blog at http://maringensoc.blogspot.com? I'll send you an invitation to be a contributor to the blog. If anybody else wants to be a contributor, let me know. The more we get, the better. Anybody can read the blog and it's posts and anybody can comment on any of the posts. Enjoy! Gene Pennington MCGS Webmaster, CIG & TMG User Group http://www.maringensoc.org MCGS Blog: http://maringensoc.blogspot.com/
What a nice report from Jo Ann! Picasa is great. I've used Shutterfly and MyFamily.com to do the same thing JoAnn is doing with her cousins, but one does need to sign up for those sites...so your point about the option that doesn't require one to sign up is well taken! BTW -- do you know that you can put all sorts of information in an image file on your Windows computer? You right click on the image in your directory, then click on properties, and then click on "details" on newer versions of Windows, or "summary" on older versions; then you will see all that you can add -- tags, information about the photo contents and about it's creation and ownership. In the old days I used file names to ID the subjects within, but the file names could easily get too long; by using the feature I described above, I'm able to put in all the information I need and still keep file names short, which is very important to keeping the computer functioning properly (file names should not exceed 32 spaces at most). I much prefer to use the simple Windows system to using an indexing software program that can catalog all my images, but made by a company that will probably go out of business, leaving me with a catalog system that can't be updated.. Have fun. Kathy Devlin
This is a Thank You for Gene and his presentation at the CIG (Computer Interest Group) meeting a few weeks ago on Picasa, the digital photo software that's free from Google. After the meeting, I started using Picasa' s face recognition for, at first, just a few of my digital photos - and then began working with more and more photos. It's so cool! I also investigated the Picasa Web Album, where you can place your photos on the web. I discovered there are 3 options - a public gallery, an "unlisted" gallery, and a Google-account-required-with-sign-in gallery. I ended up using the "unlisted" option because it didn't require anyone to create a Google account (which is very helpful for some of the relatives who can do email but hesitant with much else). This "unlisted" option also kept the photos from going public. I used the Web Album to put photos on the web and then put captions with each photo, as I had some specific photos I needed feedback from a cousin. So I put my questions - "Who's that in the back row 2nd from the left?" - in the captions. This worked GREAT! My cousin got so interested that she got 2 of her daughters involved so I "invited" them to be able to view the "unlisted" gallery I'd placed on the web as a Picasa Web Album. My cousin and I did talk on the phone but this was also wonderful because we could look at the same photo and I could update the caption online while we were talking. There are other software packages that offer some of the same features but Picasa has been easy to setup up and has really helped me identify people - and places ("Think that's the house on Oak Street?") - WITH my cousins. And there's another set of cousins I plan to do the same setup - create another Picasa Web Album and invite them to view that album online. So, Gene, without that presentation, I'd still be rumbling along, trying to identify these people. No need to make a trip to Phoenix to talk with my cousin about the photos. With Picasa's face recognition, I feel I'm leaving behind documentation about these photos. I'm really glad you brought the CIG up-to-date on Picasa! We might need another one when there are more features available. Hope this will also spur some MCGS people to come to future CIG meetings - they can be most helpful. Thanks, Gene. Jo Ann A couple tips/ideas: 1. I decided to setup two names for each married woman in the Picasa People "album" - one with her maiden name and one for her married name. This allows me to keep her younger photos separate from her married photos. I'm interested in seeing how a person changes over time. This could be done for the gentlemen as well, especially if there are a lot of photos in a specific time frame, such as Baseball Jim or Skiing Steve. 2. I had a problem uploading the photos from my Picasa non-web album to the Web Album - I had to re-do the face recognition once photos were online. This seems to be a known but inconsistent problem with Picasa's Web Album.
Thanks for the suggestion, Bill! Hope we have a good turn-out! Susan Trumbull ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Bill Bryant <w.bryant@comcast.net> To: MCGS <maringensoc@rootsweb.com> Subject: [MarinGenSoc] MCGS January 27 Meeting Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:48:23 -0800 How often have you thought to yourself, "Why didn't I get started earlier in genealogy when I had more access to family members and others who could help me build my own family history?" One answer is to help others get started through our annual Family History Contest. At tomorrow's MCGS meeting we will honor and enjoy winning students read their personal family history essays. The names and schools of the winners are listed in January's Society Newsletter, but do come and hear them in person, beginning at 7:30 pm. Remember, future members of MCGS might well come from the ranks of young people like those you will hear tomorrow night. Remember also to bring recyclable cans and bottles to be left near the entrance to the LDS building. These help defray MCGS operating expenses. Bill Bryant, MCGS Secretary ______________________________________ A big "THANK YOU" to all of you that give so generously of your time volunteering for the Society. --------------------------------- Visit our website: http://www.maringensoc.org Read the meeting notices: <http://www.maringensoc.org/News/newsletters.htm> Read the Society's blog run by Gene Pennington: http://maringensoc.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MARINGENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message