google-site-verification: google82af41cbbb927c7d.html Grove Creek Family History: November 2014

Mt. Timpanogos Temple, photo by Rick Satterfield, used with permission

Friday, November 21, 2014

Family Discovery Day at RootsTech 2015

If you haven't realized it by now, the face of family history is changing! It used to look like this:




However, the people working on family history are starting to look more and more like this: 

Photo Credit: LDS.org  Media Library

We used to work individually on "OUR" families, but now we work together on the family of mankind and realize that we are "ALL" related.

Photo Credit: LDS.org Media Library

Come join the crowd and work with your family on Family Discovery Day at RootsTech 2015.

2015 Featured Speakers & Performers on Family Discovery Day
It's going to be awesome!

Thursday, November 20, 2014

David Archuleta and Studio C at RootsTech 2015

David Archuleta

Studio C

David Archuleta and Studio C are the latest acts to be announced for RootsTech 2015. If you have no idea who Studio C is, you have to learn more about this very funny and talented group from BYU. Check them out here! This is going to be one whale of a conference! For more information, click here. To learn more about RootsTech 2015, click here.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group (UVTAGG) Meeting--November 8, 2014

Peg Ivanyo
Image: UVTAGG
UVTAGG] Press Release for UVTAGG meeting Saturday morning 08 Nov 2014

The next regular, second-Saturday-of-the-month meeting of the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group - UVTAGG (Formerly the Utah Valley PAF Users Group - UVPAFUG) will be on Saturday, 08 Nov 2014, from 9 am to noon in the LDS "Red Chapel", 4050 North Timpview Drive (650 East), Provo.  Information about the Group, meeting location, main presentations, classes, and class notes are available on their website  http://uvtagg.org  and the press releases are at  http://blog.uvtagg.org .  On the blog you can subscribe to receive the press releases via email when they are posted a week before the meeting.

The main presentation this month at UVTAGG is by Peg Ivanyo on ADDING A VISUAL DIMENSION TO YOUR RESEARCH.  In spite of the technical tools available to us today, we often resort solely to the written word to analyze, plan, and summarize our research. This presentation will explore some simple tools that can help us "see" our research more clearly, and perhaps even break through a brick wall or two.  Peg Ivanyo is owner of All Things Related, which blends her former career as a meeting planner/consultant with her love of genealogy and teaching.  She serves as a ward family history consultant, as a member of the Springville Family History Center Education Committee, Assistant Director of the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG), and conference administrator for the Foundation for East European Family History Studies (FEEFHS).  She earned a bachelor’s degree in merchandising and business through Utah State University, completed graduate courses in Tourism Administration at George Washington University, and has taken courses in Family History at Brigham Young University.  In addition to her membership in UGA, Peg maintains active membership with the National Genealogical Society (NGS), the International Society for British Genealogy and Family History (ISBGFH), the Leicestershire and Rutland Family History Society (LRFHS), the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International (CGSI), and the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG).  More information about her is at https://www.apgen.org/directory/search_detail.html?mbr_id=5747 .

After the main presentation the following classes are scheduled; check the meetings page at  http://uvtagg.org/  for last minute changes or additions.   (1)   Making a Case for Re-proving Old Work, by Peg Ivanyo;  (2)  Video of last month's main presentation, The FamilySearch Catalog: Key to the Collection, by Sharon Monson;  (3)  Ask an Expert (Personal Help), by Don Engstrom & Finn Hansen;  (4)  Ancestral Quest, by Gaylon Findlay;  (5)  Legacy:  Multimedia, by Brad Monson; and  (6)  RootsMagic, by bruce Buzbee.  There will be no MAC class this month.

MyHeritage.com Now Available at Family History Centers and Libraries!


This is big! MyHeritage.com is an affiliate of FamilySearch.org. Yes, they are a  subscription database, BUT now you can use their site for free at family history centers. With 73 million worldwide subscribers, they definitely have something to offer everyone! Maybe you will even find that cousin you didn't know about living in one of the former communist countries of eastern Europe. Maybe they will have information that you didn't know existed! Maybe they will know where you need to look for that particular record! That is one of my fondest dreams! However, until that day comes, I will continue to leave no stone unturned and MyHeritage.com is one of many weapons in my arsenal. Click here for the information on the FamilySearch blog.

MyHeritage.com has some awesome tutorials to get you started. To start, click here. YouTube has lots and lots of videos relating to MyHeritage.com.
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