[UVPAFUG] Press Release for meeting on 11 Jul 2009

30 Jun 2009


Journalists, please run this as a news item and/or in your calendar of events.  Ward newsletter editors, please include parts of the first two paragraphs and mention that there are classes for everyone.  Email me, if you need further information.  Thanks.

Don Snow




UTAH VALLEY PAF USERS GROUP MEETING

The next regular, second-Saturday-of-the-month meeting of the Utah Valley PAF (Personal Ancestral File) Users Group will be on Saturday, 11 Jul 2009, from 9 am until noon in the Edgewood/Riverside LDS Chapel, 3511 North 180 East, Provo, Utah.  The chapel is in the Provo "River Bottoms" behind the Jamestown shopping plaza on the east side of University Avenue.  You get to it by turning east from University Avenue at 3700 North ("Will's Pit Stop") and then south on 180 East.  There is a map showing the new and old locations on the group's website http://uvpafug.org .

The main presentation for this meeting will be by Lance McIntosh on SUPPORT RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO FAMILY HISTORY CONSULTANTS.  He will be discussing the various support resources available to family history consultants and how they can get answers to their questions.  With the Utah LDS temples coming online with New FamilySearch soon he will also be updating us on what is happening in our area.  He will have a PowerPoint presentation as part of his discussion.  Lance McIntosh is the LDS Church's North America Area Manager for FamilySearch Support and that provides family history assistance to priesthood leaders, family history consultants, family history centers, and patrons in the United States and Canada.  He has over 20 years of experience in the area of support and training and holds a BS degree from the BYU College of Life Sciences in 1986.  He is a popular speaker at genealogy conferences throughout the U.S. and will be speaking again at the BYU Genealogy and Family History Conference in July on these same topics.  He and his family live in Lindon, Utah.

Following the main presentation there will be several classes taught concerning technology and family history.  As usual, there will be something for everyone at all levels of expertise.  The classes currently scheduled for this meeting are the following:  (1)  Searching for Completed Ordinances in the IIGI and nFS, by Duane Dudley;  (2)  Genealogy Software for the MAC, by John McKinney;  (3)  Q&A: FamilySearch Support, by Lance McIntosh;  (4)  DVD of last month's main presentation:  Genealogy in 2020, by Beau Sharbrough;  (5)  Legacy, by Joel Graham;  (6)  RootsMagic, by Sue Maxwell; and  (7)  Ancestral Quest, by Donald Engstrom.

All meetings of the Users Group are open to the public whether members of the Group or not.  The Users Group has the goal of helping individuals use technology to further their family history and there are usually 100-125 attending the monthly meetings on the second Saturdays.  The officers are Gerhard Ruf, President; Don Snow and Brian Cooper, VP's; Beth Ann Wiseman, PAFology Editor; Kay Baker and Gerry Eliason working with finances and membership; and Bruce Merrill, Lynne Shumway, and Marie Andersen, working with the DVD Library.  Several of these will be there to help with membership, answer questions, distribute the current issue of the monthly newsletter PAFology, and check out DVD's of past presentations and classes to members of the group.  Information about the Users Group, main presentations, classes, and class notes are available on the Group's website http://uvpafug.org and the press releases are online at http://blog.uvpafug.org/.  For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at pres@uvpafug.org (801-225-6106), VP1 Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu, or VP2 Brian Cooper at vp2@uvpafug.org.

Don Snow, 1st Vice President of Utah Valley PAF Users Group




Donald R. Snow, recently returned from the England London Mission, London Family History Centre
Retired Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
snowd@math.byu.edu