Devin Ashby presents “The Google Genealogist”
April’s Virtual Chapter Meeting!! Date: April 21.7:00pm MDT (Your time zone) Address to access the chapter meeting:http://ugagenealogy.na5.acrobat.com/vc_april_2011 Title of Presentation: The Google Genealogist Synopsis: What are the latest tools from Google and how can I use them in my research? Come learn …
Friday at SLIG: Our revels now are ended — or just begun?
If I had skipped the homework discussions, I would have missed the best part of Tom Jones’s class on Advanced Methodology. More than anything else they gave me a new and different sense of what should be going on when you tackle …
Thursday at SLIG: snow and the library
Two blocks from SLIG HQ at the Radisson is the Family History Library, overshadowing our in-class and after-class thoughts. Almost everyone has research work to do at the library, either for themselves, or for paying clients, or both. Our time management revolves …
Wednesday at SLIG: the pace picks up
As the week goes on, there’s more happening and less time for non-essentials like blogging and sleeping. And some of what’s going on is, well, secret, like Tom Jones’s mind-bending evidence-evaluation homework assignment. (Just don’t sneak up behind me and say “Spotsylvania,” …
Tuesday at SLIG: old things new
I know it’s a good genealogy day when I’m seeing supposedly familiar things in a new light: * indirect evidence (we won’t go there, but it kept me up late!), * the value of fraud and failure (they generated records!), * federal …
Monday at SLIG: shifting gears
(Thanks to Christy for the invitation to guest-blog here during this week of the 2011 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy.) I’ve found myself switching gears again on my second SLIG trip . . . . . . from the wet snowy Midwest …
New UGA Executive Board
We are also happy to announce that the UGA Board of Directors has elected a new Executive Committee for 2011. They are: President–Janet Hovorka1st Vice-President–Christy Fillerup2nd Vice-President–Sue Maxwell We are excited to serve UGA in 2011 and we are excited to work …
Committe Displays at Annual Banquet
UGA is excited to be able to offer its members so many ways to get involved. Each committee was represented by a table-top display. Each committee is in place to provide a service to UGA’s members. We are so grateful for the …
Utah Genealogical Association’s New Look
It seems like UGA has been doing a lot of “renovating” lately with our newsletter, Facebook, the addition of Twitter, and even our blog. We have been working on getting more involved in the social media of things as well as keeping …