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Program Meetings

Mon. January 12, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. “What’s Changed and What’s New in Family Search-Family Tree” Speaker: Gordon Taylor

Mon. March 9, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Program TBA

In This Issue : CIG & CGS Programs……..2 From the President…………3 Spring Seminar……………..3 Workshop & Tech Talk Meeting Legacy Family Tree……...... 5 Genealogical Kindness…….5 Reunion for Mac……………6 Mon. February 9, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Free Military Records…..….7 Digital Photobooks…………8 Workshop Sessions: My Heritage Cookbook…….9 Cloud Storage…………….10 Legacy Roots Magic 7…....……....10 Family Tree Maker Password Trick………....…11 The Master Genealogist Genealogy Do-Over…..….13 RootsMagic Stephen Hart Library……..15 Meeting Location……….…16 Beginning Scanning CIG Website……………….16 Internet Research Committee Members……..17 Saturday Workshop……....18 Seminar Registration……..19 The mission of the Computer Interest CIG Program Group: To inform and update members as Monday, January 12, 2015 well as the larger genealogical community about the use of technology, especially at 7:00 p.m. software computer programs and emerging resources, in genealogical research. “What’s Changed and What’s New in Family Search-Family Tree” Briing a Friiend to CIG Speaker: Gordon Taylor Have a friend interested in Genealogy? Bring them to our meetings. What are the changes in Family Search, mobiles, and Family Search's impact of their * * * * * * recent partnership/relationships with Ancestry, My Heritage, and Findmypast.com. UPCOMING CIG PROGRAMS : All Monday CIG meetings are held at: CIG Tech Talk & Workshops Christ the King Lutheran Church, Monday, February 20, 2015 2300 So. Patton Ct., Denver, Colorado at 7:00 p.m.

Monday, January 12, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Gordon Taylor Using Mixbook (see article page 9) “What’s Changed and What’s New in Family Sandy Ronayne made 2 books and 4 Search-Family Tree” calendars using mixbook.com in 2014. She has made more than 60 other electronic books Monday, February 9, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. using various software. Sandy will show how Tech Talk and Workshop Meeting she is using mixbook.com to make a book on her family's World War II experiences. * * * * * * Special Workshop

UPCOMING CGS PROGRAMS: Beginning Scanning by Nancy Ratay All Friday night programs held at: Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2300 S. Patton Ct., Denver, Colorado

Friday, January 16, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Sandy Sweeney From Sharon Mahler, Treasurer “Underground Railroad” Total Cash & Bank Accounts $12,441.45 Friday, February 20, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Emily Moazami 7/1/2014-10/31/2014 “Care and Preservation of Family Photos” Income $ 121.58 Expenses ($ 513.40) TOTAL ($ 391.82)

Time to Renew Your CIG Membership!

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From the President classes offered, this could prove to be the best RootsTech yet. We will share updates in technology S. Kelly Glenn learned at RootsTech at our CIG meeting in March. Thanks all our members and guests for supporting

CIG. Don't forget to renew your membership online The holidays are a great time for at cigcolorado.org or at the next CIG meeting. genealogy. It's an opportunity to Paypal is available on the CIG “Membership” page. meet with family and listen to their stories. I make mental recordings of it all and then try to get it all recorded on my computer. Quite a challenge. I'm not one to carry a recording device, so I depend on my memory.

So, is it time for a new year's resolution as to how I Joint CIG and CGS Seminar can make my genealogical research better? How Saturday, March 21, 2015 about our former CIG seminar speaker, Thomas 9 am - 4 pm McEntee, wanting to hit the “reset button” and start Lower Level Conference Center, Denver Public over from the beginning? This has been the chat on social media this holiday season. I have seen other Library, 14th Ave. & Broadway, Denver professional genealogists jumping on board. They are using their previous resources and knowledge Featuring: Cyndi Ingle of searching and documenting the evidence as if they had not done it before. But, the experience gained over the years sets up a different approach. How can I do it better the second time around? To make it a little easier for myself, I have started with the steps that I call the “sweet sixteen”. I am starting with myself and working back through my great great grandparents. There is a significant amount of new resources online to add to my documentation. I suppose I am starting from scratch as I am building and posting documents to my “Family Search Family Tree” starting with myself. Just a few days ago, I found my 2nd great grandfather’s gravestone photo on findagrave.com. The Colorado Genealogical Society (CGS) and It was posted this past November. I had been the CGS/Computer Interest Group (CIG) are looking 10 years for his death date and location. pleased to announce that Cyndi Ingle will be Voila! the speaker at their joint seminar.

I am looking forward to our upcoming meetings at CIG. We have three great presentations coming up Cyndi is the creator, owner and “webmaster” of along with three workshops and tech talks. Then, the award-winning web site Cyndi’s List of what a treat to have Cyndi Ingle coming March 21st Genealogy Sites on the Internet , for our CGS/CIG joint seminar. Cyndi's list has been www.CyndisList.com, a categorized index to one of the best resources a genealogist could ever more than 330,000 online resources. In its first wish for. Tickets are selling fast so purchase yours three years, Cyndi’s List was three times voted soon. (Registration form page 19) the best genealogy site on the World Wide Web. It helps millions of visitors worldwide What about those family stories? Maybe it's time to each month and has been featured in the start writing them down. Join us on Sat. February 28th with Carol Darrow for an all-day CIG media and diverse publications, including ABC workshop; “Publishing—From Computer to Printed News, NBC News, USA Today, Time, Page”. (more information on page 18) Newsweek, Parade Magazine, Wired, Family Tree Magazine, Family Chronicle, and Internet Several CIG members will be going to RootsTech Genealogy magazines. Cyndi has been 2015 this year. From the list of speakers and interviewed for many television and radio CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 4 Jan-Feb 2015 broadcasts including ABC News, NBC News, the BBC, and National Public Radio. She has Timelines: The Straight Line Between You also participated in the Ancestors II television and Your Ancestor series on PBS. Using online tools and software we will learn how important a timeline can be to breaking Cyndi, a genealogist for more than 34 years, is through a research problem. a past-member of the board of directors for the National Genealogical Society. Cyndi is an The Internet: Lower Your Expectations to internationally known guest lecturer for various Raise Your Research Potential genealogical society meetings and seminars. People say, "I've looked everywhere," "That She has lectured for the Salt Lake Institute of site doesn't have anything useful," and "I've hit Genealogy, GENTECH, Brigham Young a brick wall" all because their expectations University, the Federation of Genealogical aren't met for what they assume should be Societies, the National Genealogical Society, available online. Genealogists should never the Washington Library Association, the assume anything in their research. That goes Florida Library Association, the American double for research on the Internet. We will Library Association and numerous local explore several examples that demonstrate genealogical societies in the United States, research success by moving beyond your Canada and the United Kingdom. Cyndi has expectations and using the Internet as it truly authored numerous articles and three books. is. Before her life on the Internet, Cyndi worked as an international banker specializing in foreign On Friday 20 March 2015, Cyndi will present a exchange and computer networks. Cyndi, her FREE program, 7:00 pm at Christ the King son, Evan, and three Boston Terriers live in Lutheran Church, 2300 S. Patton Court, Edgewood, Washington. Denver:

Cyndi will present four programs at the Ten Resources I Use Every Day: seminar: Miscellaneous Tips for the Online Researcher A Guided Tour of Cyndi's List 2.0 From Internet tools to specialty databases and This begins with a brief history of Cyndi's List, tools, you’ll learn about some of the things I followed by an overview of how to navigate the use each day in my research online. newly updated site and how to tell when the site is updated. Learn how to effectively use this valuable resource tool to as your jumping- The materials fee for the Saturday seminar is off point onto the Internet. $35. You may register online via PayPal at http://www.cogensoc.us/ or The Hidden Web: Digging Deeper http://www.cigcolorado.org/ When Google and traditional search engines or mail your check and registration (form on don't return useful information, don't stop there. page 19) to: We will explore resources that are invisible to Sharon Mahler, Seminar Registrar, 2962 S. Google and hidden deep within web sites and Pontiac St., Denver, CO 80224 proprietary databases. The "hidden web" lies buried within the collections for commercial Registrations received by 1 February will be web sites, libraries, archives, and museums. entered into a drawing for a free lunch with We will also talk about the importance of Cyndi on the day of the seminar. indexes that deep-link into web sites online, thus uncovering hidden gems of information For more information, contact Kelly Glenn at that may not be found easily through a search [email protected] or Sandy Ronayne engine query. at [email protected]

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Simple Acts of Genealogical Kindness by Zoe von Ende Lappin

As I’m cleaning out my genealogy files, I am coming upon many documents that do not by S. Kelly Glenn connect to my family – mostly Civil War pension files and bounty land files. I’d purchased Legacy Family Tree Webinars photocopies of the originals from the National Archives when such documents were cheap. In the Legacy’s software for keeping your family records 1980s, for instance, an entire CW pension file cost can’t be beat. What’s more, their upcoming $5; a complete file costs at least $80 now. webinars for 2015 are some of the best yet. Here My first thought was simply to toss these are January, February and March Webinars. Go to files. Many pertained to people with surnames in my Family Tree Webinars.com to sign up. family but with whom in 20 years or more I have never established a connection. If not in two or January 2015 three decades, the likelihood is never, I decided. • Tracking Migration Using the Big 4 U.S. Others were CW pension files of soldiers who were Record Sources by Mary Hill. 1/14 named in letters from a trio of brothers which I • Expanding Your Research from a Single turned into a book in 1989. For $5 each, I obtained Fact by Marian Pierre-Louis. 1/16 as many of these as possible so that I could describe the postwar lives of those soldiers, most of • My Genealogy DO-Over—A Year of them friends of the letter writers. (The book is titled Learning from Research Mistakes by Yours in Love, the Birmingham Civil War Letters . Thomas MacEntee. 1/21 The 80-plus letters, saved by a family member in • Getting Started in Scrapbooking by Susan Michigan and passed on to me, were written by Budge. 1/28 three Birmingham men – Orlo, my husband’s great- grandfather, and his two brothers, James and February 2015 Theodore. All served in Michigan regiments.) • One-Place Studies: Tracing the History of a Wait a minute, I said to myself. These are Community by Kirsty Gray. 2/4 valuable documents, and somebody somewhere • Step-by-Step—Finding Confederate Soldiers must be interested in these people. How do I find and Their Records by Mark Lowe. 2/6 them? • Zigzagging through German Church As it turned out, that was fairly simple, and Records by James M. Beidler. 2/11 it took my computer to do it. I went to the Public Member Trees at Ancestry.com and did a common • Researching Your New Zealand Ancestors search: First name, surname, maybe one or two by Jan Gow. 2/18 other details such as spouse’s name or date and • Researching Ancestors in the Era of place of death. I’ve discovered about half-a-dozen Freedom by Angela Walton-Raji. 2/20 trees that include the names I entered, and so far • 9 Strategies for Finding Living Relatives by have made contact with two researchers who are Lisa Louise Cooke. 2/25 working on ancestors whose files I have – one in Pennsylvania who connects to a John H. Godfrey March 2015 whose War of 1812 bounty land application file I • Researching with Karen! by Karen Clifford. have and another in New York who is working on a 3/4 Civil War soldier from Illinois, Samuel Metz, and his • Technology & Techniques for wife Barbara Disert. Both were very pleased to hear Differentiating Two People with the Same from me and accepted my offer of free documents. Name by Geoff Rasmussen. 3/6 It gave me a bit of a lift to slip the fat files into • Crafting Ancestor Profiles from Start to manila envelopes and send them on their way. I paid the postage, glad to find a home for them. Finish by Lisa Alzo. 3/11 • As time goes by and my clean-out project Irish Genealogical Records in the 17th-19th progresses, I expect to find even more of these Centuries by Judy Wight. 3/18 genealogy gems that mean nothing to me but a • Where Does It Say That? Learning to Love great deal to their descendants, or so I hope. I have Direct Evidence by Chris Staats. 3/25 at least 25 of them, all with information somebody would love to have.

Reunion 10 for Mac – Sharing with Others by Nancy Ratay

I know… the holiday giving season is over. But sharing your research with others in your family often takes more time to set up, clean up, learn how, try it out and sometimes do over. So you should think about a project you might want to share with relatives for next holiday season. Especially if you are trying to share with family that does not have a Mac.

Reunion has a few nice bells and whistles that allow you to share with others. For this article let’s start with the Web Project in Reports. You’re saying, “I don’t want to make a web site. I can’t afford it; I don’t know how to do that; why would I want to learn that ?” Even if you never plan on having a personal web site for your genealogy, you should learn how to make a web project. Reunion does almost all the work for you. You don’t have to know any html, web software, ftp protocols or other techie talk about an online presence. Make a web project for one simple reason– it gives you a venue to share your work with your non-Mac friends and relatives. They can all use a web browser. If you make a web project and burn it to DVD you can send that to your friends and family. They can look at your work on their computer! The people you send it to only have to click on the index.html page to start it up. Be sure to tell them that!

When you go to Reports and select Web Project, you will see the window shown here. You can choose to include all the families or one you have selected and marked just for a certain branch of your family (see a previous article on marking). You have a choice of Elements including: Family cards, Person sheets, Trees, Media pages. To share the most information with others you should include all of these. If you must leave out something, leave out the Trees. This element allows the user to navigate more quickly to other people related to the card they are looking at.

Family cards show the basic vital information. You can choose which events and facts to share, but none of the note fields would be included in this element. Person sheets are where any of your notes can be added to the basic information. You can select which of your note fields you wish to include. I have used the Misc Notes field to write short narratives on some of my relatives. I have used the Research field to dump all those stacks of notes that are only for me. So I don’t ever select the Research field for the web project.

If you have linked photos or document images to the Multimedia window of your people, be sure to include Media pages in the web projects. It makes the photo pages for you.

You can decide if you wish to include your sources and pictures (the preferred ones that show up on your Family View window) and if you want to use privacy filtering. If you are sending to immediate family, it may not be as critical to select the privacy filtering as it would be if you were posting this online for the world to see. This would enable your family to see what information you have on them and send you corrections or additions.

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Use the Web Preferences button to select what style and colors you want your site to have. You can also go to the Reports preference here and specify what information you want on the cover page, page footers and contact information. You can also choose how many sources or surnames appear on each page in the indexes. This holds down the amount of scrolling someone has to do to use these functions.

The Web Project is a very complex part of Reunion. However, it does so much for you that it is worth looking at. It would be an interesting experiment for you to try. Make a web project for yourself. Then you can see what it looks like, how it works, what is available and how little you have to do. You can always delete the project if it isn’t how you want it. If your database is large you might want to mark some people (one line or branch) to experiment with and see what you like. I did this several times to try out the styles because I didn’t feel I could see what all the pages would look like from their thumbnails in the Styles in Web Preferences.

Remember, to find help for any part, use the ? to go immediately to the appropriate section of the Help manual. You can also get to information about the Web Project by searching the Manual (under Help in the top main MenuBar) for Web Project. If you would like to see what Reunion can do for you, view my own web site at: http://www.ng-tek.com/nrgen/index.htm The only thing I added without Reunion was Other Content on This Site that has links to other pages I have done myself on the cover page. All the other pages accessible from the first menu listings are done by Reunion.

REMEMBER: NO Reunion workshop in February. I will be doing Beginning Scanning!

New Additions to FamilySearch.org

FamilySearch.org recently added three FREE World War I collections containing information on millions of American and British citizens who served and registered for military service between 1914 and 1920. These genealogical resources were made available in collaboration with the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington DC, The National Archives in Kew, Surrey, England, and findmypast.com.

The United States’ resources include the U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918. Out of those who registered, approximately 4.8 million served and 2.8 million were drafted.

FamilySearch, with the help of The National Archives in Surrey, England, and findmypast.com, have also added the United Kingdom WWI Service Records 1914-1920 collection and the United Kingdom WWI Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Records 1917-1920 collection. These two collections combined to add more than 43 million images to FamilySearch's military databases.

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Mixbook is a totally online digital book publishing system. You go to http://www.mixbook.com/ to select what you would like to make – a book, calendar, or cards. You can select books ranging from a small square (8.5 x 8.5), landscape or portrait (8.5 by 11), or a large square (12 x 12). There are many themes, including Family, Vintage Year in Review, Seasons, Romance, Baby, Wedding, Crafts, Sports, Yearbook, and Travel etc. Or, you can also choose a “Blank Canvas” My Adventures in Digital Photobooks and design your own theme. Using Mixbook.com By Sandy Ronayne After you select your book size and theme, you upload the photos you want to use. You can I started making digital photobooks in 2006 – upload from your computer or pull pictures in my first book celebrated my grandparents and from Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, great grandparent and their driving trip to PhotoBucket, Picasa, and Smugmug. You can Colorado from Cleveland in 1928. Since then, add your pictures to predesigned formats or I’ve made at least 60 books: the majority of design your own layouts. You can customize which celebrate my three grandchildren – their the predesigned format by changing photo births, first days at school, parties, sports sizes and positions, adding stickers, and events, etc. I’ve also done books that writing captions and/or paragraphs. You can memorialize my mother, document my parents’ be as creative as you want. romance and wedding during World War II, show my ex-husband’s family from the 19th to You can also invite others to collaborate on a the 21st centuries, celebrate my stepmother’s book. Send an invitation and they can add life for her 90th birthday and my son-in-law’s pictures and text. 50th and show off the fun of my daughter’s Celtic wedding. There are many online digital The Mixbook website has some online help. photobook companies – blurb, Shutterfly, You can also “chat” with a customer mypublisher, and Mixbook. Additionally, representative. There are also good video Walgreens, Costco, Mike’s Camera and many demonstrations on Youtube.com. Digital other companies offer digital photobooks. photobooks can be pricey, but discounts are Mixbook is one of the highest rated digital book available on the website or through other sites, firms. such as groupon.com. These books can preserve family pictures and stories and delight In December 2014, I finally did something I’ve everyone. wanted to do for years – preserve the pictures of my daughters’ Christmas fun from 1972 – I’m doing a tech talk on Mixbook at the 82. So, I made a digital book with February 9 CIG Workshop meeting. I’ll bring Mixbook.com. books and demonstrate with a book I’m doing on World War II. This was my second Mixbook – my first was in August when I used pictures from summer road trips with the grandkids. But, this Christmas book was a true labor of love – seeing, scanning, and using all the pictures brought back so many memories of fun holidays in Colorado and Florida.

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My Heritage Holiday Cookbook Ingredients By Lori Collins 2 cups (300g) Zwieback crumbs 1/2 cup (120g) butter 2 Tbsp (25g) superfine sugar Over the holidays, I 2 1/2 cups (580g) sweetened applesauce received an email from MyHeritage and it was For Serving “A Holiday Cookbook by Heavy Whipping Cream MyHeritage”. As I Lingonberry jelly started to read it, I decided that I had to print it out to get the full extent of what the recipes Method and the stories were. These were written from •Crush Zwieback cookies with a rolling pin to people in the United States, Denmark, France, make 2 cups of fine crumbs. Add sugar and Sweden and etc. combine. •Melt butter in large skillet on medium heat. It has different categories like: When butter begins to foam, add crumbs and Starters/Slides/Salads, Mains, and Desserts. sugar mixture and stir to coat crumbs evenly. One of the recipes was a Æblekage (Danish •Reduce heat to medium low and continue to Apple Cake). It was written by Brad Owens stir until crumbs just begin to brown. Turn off from the United States. Along with the recipe, heat and allow to cool. he talks about his great-grandmother and how •In a 9x9 baking pan, cover the bottom of the she came to the US from Denmark. She only pan with a layer of bread crumbs and press brought a few of the recipes with her, and the together. Gently spread a layer of applesauce best part is that we can make them today. He over the crumbs. tells how the “cake” is made from butter- •Continue placing alternative layers in the pan browned bread crumbs layered with until all the crumbs and applesauce have been sweetened applesauce. (Is your mouth used, ending with a layer of crumbs. Place a watering yet?) His grandmother made hers in a sheet of wax paper on the top layer. square metal pan. She had a wooden board •Cut a layer of heavy cardboard to fit just that she placed on top of the assembled cake inside the rim of the pan and place it on top of (separated by a sheet of wax paper). She then the wax paper. Place a weight of your choice put a large rock on top of the board to to help compress the cake while it rests in the compress the cake and make it solid. When a refrigerator for several hours. neighbor saw this, she dubbed it “rock •Remove and slice into squares. Garnish with pudding”. whipped cream and Lingonberry jelly. A traditional ingredient was Nabisco Zwieback toast crushed for the required crumbs. Taken from the MyHeritage Holiday Cookbook, Unfortunately, times have changed and by Brad Owens Nabisco has stopped making this item. Fortunately, other brands of similar products To download the cookbook: are available on the internet, but, by all reports, http://blog.myheritage.com/2014/12/the- they are not quite the same as Nabisco's. myheritage-holiday-cookbook-recipes-and- Once the dessert has had time to chill and stories-from-around-the-globe/#more-41074 become solid, it is cut into squares and served with a large dollop of silky, hand-whipped, sweetened cream the final Scandinavian touch, a dash of Lingonberry jam (which can be purchased at Ikea) CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 10 Jan-Feb 2015

for free for every person you refer to Dropbox. For 100GB there is a monthly fee of $9.99 or $99 yearly. I like keeping documents in Dropbox rather than photos.

Evernote: This is a note taking app that can sync between your home computer, Saving Information to the Cloud: The smartphone, and other computers you might Comparisons use. It used a variety of formats from photos, By S. Kelly Glenn typing text, voice, clipping text from a website and more. You can store almost any kind of Some of the most well-known and widest used note you want. You can take photo notes with cloud data backup systems are now Google your phone. Just photo all those notes, scraps Drive, Dropbox, Amazon Cloud Drive and of paper on your desk and throw the paper Evernote. I am currently trying all these to see away. There is a web browser add-on for if I prefer one over another. Here's the Evernote in Mozilla, Chrome, and Safari. Just breakdown. take a clipping from a webpage and store it away. Evernote is free but you can upgrade to Google Drive: Google Drive gives you a fair $45.00 a year for a lot of extra features. amount of free storage of 15 GB. This is shared across Gmail, Google Drive and google photos. I use Google Drive to store Word documents, Powerpoints, Excel spreadsheets, PDFs and photos. I also have Google+ configured to back up all my photos I take on my iphone. You can also create PowerPoint and word documents from Google Drive, but is RootsMagic 7 a bit limited to what is available on the full versions from Microsoft Office. by Lori Collins [email protected] Amazon Cloud Drive : The strong point of Cloud Drive is photo storage. I use it to back RootsMagic Workshops return up my photo files. When you first set it up, it prompts you on which files to back up. I only Mon. Feb. 9 selected the “picture folder” on my hard drive to back up. It backed up my pictures putting Welcome Back, Everyone. I hope you all had a them into folders by the month and year the wonderful holiday season. During the month of photos were taken. There is 5 GB available for December, the RootsMagic team was at it free with 20 GB available for $10.00 a year. again. They came out with RootsMagic 7. Do You can give friends or family a link if you these people ever sleep?! would like to share these photos. The new version has some things that have Dropbox: After signing up, Dropbox creates a been in the beta stage, like DataClean. folder on your computer. You can then “drop” DataClean helps you find and fix problems files from your computer into the Dropbox within your tree. You can look at their folder. I like this feature in that I can work on suggestions and use them or go by your own. my desktop, drop a genealogy file into It is up to you. Dropbox, then pull it up on a different computer to continue my work. It is great for syncing data across different operating systems. Dropbox offers 2 GB free. You can get another 500 MB CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 11 Jan-Feb 2015

Prefix + Secret Core Password + The Password Suffix Trick – A Foolproof Let’s look at each element up close and see how to create them. Once we’re done, we can System combine them for one strong password! From Thomas MacEntee Prefix: 2 to 3 Character Variable The Prefix is the part of the password that is tied to the website you are using. It is a If you’re like me, I might visit 20 or more variable and changes for each website. It websites in a given day which means logging always starts with a capitalized letter. Why? in and logging out multiple times. I’m also sure Well many websites have certain requirements you worry about not having a password that is for passwords such as you must have at least strong enough to deter hackers or others who one capital letter, at least one number, or at would want to gain access to your personal least one special character, etc. So if we information. always use a capital letter to start our prefix, that’s one requirement out of the way! What if I told you that there was a way for you to have a different password for each website The Prefix varies from website to website. If I you visit, that each password would be visit Amazon, the Prefix will be Ama with the considered “strong,” and that all the passwords first letter capitalized. If I visit Ebay, the Prefix would be easy to remember? I’ll let you in on will be Eba , for example. Here are some other my secret that I call The Password Trick. examples based on their respective websites:

Why Not Use A Password – Anc for Ancestry Program? – Myh for MyHeritage for RootsWeb Yes, you could use any one of various – Roo programs that preserve your password and builds a virtual “locker” to be used online when you need to access a site. For me, those Secret Core Password: programs are problematic in the same way that Short and With a Number speed dials are on my cell phone: they serve The Secret Core Password is your master as a crutch and actually make you forget the password and a segment in the formula that is actual information. Do you actually remember always constant, always the same. It never the phone number for your best friend? Or do changes. you just use Speed Dial #5? What if you didn’t have your cell phone, could you call that You should use at least one number in the person in an emergency? Secret Core Password and limit yourself to up to five characters. Why? Well, you already Now you see what I mean. I’d much rather have three characters for your Prefix and some come up with my own system of remembering sites still limit passwords to a total of eight passwords that incorporates a few tricks. characters . . . .

The Formula

Here is how to “build” a complex password based on this simple formula: CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 12 Jan-Feb 2015

I often use a “play on words” or a “phrase” to Variations this segment. An example: my optometrist friend might use c2020 (“See 20-20”) for her You can switch the order of the elements if core password. If I have a cat named Sam that you’d like. So use Secret Core Password + is 9 years old, I could use sam9 (or Sam9 ). Prefix + Suffix or even Suffix + Prefix + Secret You can use your birthdate ( may15 ) or Core Password. Just be consistent and don’t anything else that is short and has at least one use one formula for one website and a different number. Let’s say I want to use my daughter’s one for another website. Over time you won’t name and age for our example. So I’ll pick remember any of your passwords. lyn23 . Forced Password Resets Suffix: The Special Character Some sites force you to select a new password on a set schedule such as every 90 days. My Finally, at the end of our formula we will add a solution: simply add a number or letter at the special character such as $ or & or *. Why at end with the Suffix and increment it each time. the end? There’s a good reason: some websites, like Ancestry.com, don’t allow a This means Anclyn231 for the first password special character in their passwords. This way at Ancestry.com, then Anclyn232 for the next if it is on the end, we can just “lop it off” and if password, Anclyn233 for the next etc. Or for the first try with the special character doesn’t letters use Anclyn23A , then Anclyn23B , etc. work, we try it without our suffix, the special character. For our example, I will use the exclamation point or ! Video

You Put It All Together and What Do You Get? So I have all my elements and I am ready to set up my passwords:

– Amazon: Ama + lyn23 + ! = Amalyn23! You can also view The Password Trick as a video at Hack Genealogy. Visit – Netflix: Netlyn23! http://bit.ly/pwtrick for more information.

– Ancestry.com: Anclyn23 (because Ancestry doesn’t allow special characters!) Conclusion Easy peasy, right? I guarantee that 99% of the – FindMyPast: Finlyn23! time you will remember your password for each website using this formula method that I call “The Password Trick”. Variations and Problem Areas Well for every well-functioning system there has to be problems or times you might want to ©2015, copyright Thomas MacEntee. All rights vary your setup. reserved. For more information, please visit High-Definition Genealogy at http://hidefgen.com . CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 13 Jan-Feb 2015

the need to collect facts and track them properly, including the use of source citations. Many understand the process of analyzing evidence and proving facts to reach a conclusion. In essence, as Thomas puts it: “I know a lot more about the ‘process’ of genealogical research and I want to put it to

Is Your Genealogy Ready use.” for a “Do-Over”? How Does the Genealogy Do-Over Work? From Thomas MacEntee The Genealogy Do-Over journey is constructed of 13 mileposts or journey markers spread out With each new year, many consider making over 13 weeks. Participants can choose any changes in their lives such as losing weight, pace they want, and even spread the topics getting more exercise, etc. Even genealogists out over the course of a year. Or some may like to get in on the act and in 2015 there’s a decide to drop some of the less important special online educational program that can tasks and add different topics. The goal is to help you get rid of “bad research habits” and do whatever it takes to ensure that a firm learn some new tricks. footing to finding ancestors.

The Genealogy Do-Over™ is the brainstorm A synopsis of the planned route – the of genealogy author and educator Thomas Schedule of Topics – can be found at MacEntee and since its announcement in mid- http://www.geneabloggers.com/genealogy- December 2014, has attracted over 1,000 doover-schedule-topics/ . As each week participants from around the world. And the progresses, participants will continue best part? The entire 13-week program which researching and add more and more skills and starts on January 2, 2015, is FREE. Visit the areas of focus including citing sources, Genealogy Do-Over at tracking searches, building a research toolbox, http://www.genealogydo-over.com to see the creating an educational plan, researching announcement and the latest news. offline as well as online, and more.

Genealogy Do-Over: A New Journey of By the end of the 13 weeks – or 13 journey Genealogical Discovery markers – the group will have covered a firm Here is the short summary of Genealogy Do- foundation in genealogy and family history Over as Thomas sees it: research. For individual participants, some focus areas may differ; participants have the I set aside everything* related to my freedom to add or remove content from their genealogy research including own Genealogy Do-Over plan. As Thomas notebooks, papers, and even digitized says, “This program has to work for you and files and my genealogy database files not something that you dread each week or and START OVER. I’m hitting the reset that you find you are working against .” button. I’m allowing myself to have a do-over! (*certain items such as vital What’s the Cost? What’s the Catch records ordered and paid for or research gathered on a long-distance There is no price. A journey that could very trip will be retained). well revolutionize the way you’ve been doing genealogy research is priceless. When you join Since genealogists started their research 10, the Genealogy Do-Over (see below), you’ll 20 or 30 years ago (or more), much has receive weekly updates about the current changed in the areas of genealogy research topics, you’ll be part of an active and methodology and education. Many now realize passionate collaborative group sharing CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 14 Jan-Feb 2015 genealogy tips and tricks, and more. Legacy Week 4 – 23-29 January 2015 Family Tree is hosting a FREE webinar entitled My Genealogy DO-Over - A Year of • Managing Projects and Tasks Learning from Research Mistakes • Tracking Searches (http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=461 presented by Thomas MacEntee on Week 5 – 30 January-5 February 2015 Wednesday, January 21, 2015. • Building a Research Toolbox Here’s How to Be a Part of the Genealogy Do- • Citing Sources Over: Visit the following sites to get involved and set out on your own Genealogy Do-Over Week 6 – 6-12 February 2015 journey in 2015! • Evaluating Evidence • Website: http://www.genealogydo- • Reviewing Online Education Options over.com Week 7 – 13-19 February 2015 • Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/genea • Reviewing Genealogy Database logydoover/ Software • Email List (weekly updates): • Digitizing Photos and Documents http://www.geneabloggers.com/gendo- over-emails Week 8 – 20-26 February 2015

Schedule of Topics – Genealogy Do-Over Week 9 – 27 February-5 March 2015

Week 1 – January 2-8, 2015 • Conducting Cluster Research • Organizing Research Materials – • Clean house Documents and Photos • Prepare to research • Review the Golden Rules Week 10 – 6-12 March 2015

Week 1 – 2-8 January 2015 • Reviewing DNA Testing Options • Organizing Research Materials – Digital • Setting Previous Research Aside • Preparing to Research Week 11 – 13-19 March 2015 • Establishing Base Practices and Guidelines • Reviewing Social Media Options • Building a Research Network Week 2 – 9-15 January 2015 Week 12 – 20-26 March 2015 • Setting Research Goals • Conducting Self Interview • Sharing Research • Conducting Family Interviews • Reviewing Research Travel Options

Week 3 – 16-22 January 2015 Week 13 – 27 March-3 April 2015

• Tracking Research • Securing Research Data • Conducting Research • Reviewing the Journey CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 15 Jan-Feb 2015

many words in this search field might end up with zero hits. If you are interested in railroads , just type railroads. If you want a specific location of railroads , narrow it down to a certain city. If you are looking for information about Breckenridge, just type the city name and narrow it down from there.

Use Genre Headings for your search: Here are some examples. map manuscript collection serial Searching the History Colorado's periodical broadside Library Catalog newspaper microfilm By S. Kelly Glenn compact disc interview

One of my New Year's resolution s is to take By using these Genre Headings, you can advantage of the Stephen H. Hart Library and narrow it down to just the type of material you Research Center at History Colorado. want to use.

I visited my hometown historical Society a few Use the subject field to search the collections. years ago in Western Colorado to find that the Examples of subject headings are: Native microfilm for the local newspaper was in their Americans, Railroads, Mining, People's names, possession. I was thrilled and looked through Companies or Corporations. There are good several reels of film to find some history about search instructions on the search page if you my family's business. Disappointed that I could get lost. not spend more time, I drove home planning my next trip to Western Colorado. Then, to my I can't wait for my next trip to the Library at surprise I find that the Stephen H. Hart Library History Colorado. The library at 1200 has my home town newspaper digitized from Broadway, Denver, is open Wednesday 1940 to present with only a few years missing. through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (phone That was exactly the time frame I was 303-866-2305). Just sign it at the front desk, researching, The 250 mile one way trip turned and they will give you a pass to the library on into a 7 mile trip to downtown Denver. This the second floor. There is no charge to use the newspaper can only be viewed on the library. computers at the Stephen H. Hart Library. Check online to see what is available.

To Access History Colorado's online Catalog, visit http://www.historycolorado.org/researchers/libr ary-catalog This is the link to the “Search Collections Catalog” page. Click on “Library and Research Center Catalog” to begin your search.

Bookmark this page to make it easier to find the next time you search. The “simple search” is a great place to start. Use simple search in Martin Luther King Jr. Day the beginning and not advanced search. Use Monday, January 19 only a few keywords to cast a wide net. Too CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 16 Jan-Feb 2015

Meeting Location CIG’s New Website Address !

The Colorado Genealogical Our Monday meetings are held at 7:00 pm at Christ Society-Computer Interest the King Lutheran Church, 2300 So. Patton Ct., in Group’s new website southwest Denver. The church is at the corner of address is Iliff Ave. and So. Patton Ct. in the Harvey Park www.cigcolorado.org area. CIG President, Kelly Glenn, created the When coming from the north: Take Federal or wonderful CIG web pages. The site has Sheridan Blvd. south to Evans Ave. Turn right information about family tree software from Federal or left from Sheridan and take Evans programs and links to contact the workshop to Patton Ct. Turn south on Patton Ct. two blocks leaders. There is also information about our to the church at Iliff Ave. program and workshop meetings, seminar

When coming from the south: Take Federal or registrations, copies of past newsletters and much more. Sheridan Blvd. north to Yale Ave. Turn left from

Federal or right from Sheridan and take Yale to Patton Ct. Turn north on Patton Ct. three blocks to Need to Contact Us: the church at Iliff Ave. Our Email Address is: [email protected]

CIG on Facebook

Linda Hartlaub does a wonderful job maintaining our CIG Facebook page for CIG members and other interested persons. Facebook is the leading "social networking" site on the Internet. You must already be a Facebook member to access this group site. Joining Facebook is free!

Email your question to the editor at [email protected], and it will be forwarded to one of our workshop leaders. Then, watch for your question and answer in the upcoming newsletter. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 17 Jan-Feb 2015

Steering Committee Elected Officers President………….….. Kelly Glenn Help the Editor! 303-810-9975 [email protected]

Immediate Past President…..Sandy Ronayne Please help make this 303-750-5002 [email protected] newsletter a success by Vice President/Programs..Lori Collins submitting articles or ideas 303-237-4531 [email protected] for articles relating to computer genealogy to Secretary…………….Ray Henney me to include in this newsletter. Please be 303-758-0792 [email protected] Treasurer…………….Sharon Mahler generous with your submissions of your 303-757-3669 [email protected] favorite genealogical websites, a new website Steering Committee Appointed Officers you have discovered, breakthroughs using your Membership………..Charlotte Weiler computer, and genealogical news and meetings 303-548-7250 [email protected] of other societies. Articles and ideas for Membership Host.….Marilyn Elrod 303-979-8435 [email protected] articles may be emailed to me at Publicity…………….Lori Collins [email protected] . Deadline for articles is 303-237-4531 [email protected] th the 25 of even-numbered months. Newsletter & Hospitality…Lynette Dick 303-986-7910 [email protected] Next deadline is February 25, 2015. Historian…………….Sharon Mahler 303-757-3669 [email protected] Lynette Dick CGS Liaison………..Nancy Ratay 303-972-2701 [email protected]

Council Liaison…….Kelly Glenn Editions of this newsletter are printed five times a 303-810-9975 [email protected] year in Jan-Feb, Mar-Apr, May-Jun, Sep-Oct and Seminar Co-Chairs…Sandy Ronayne Nov-Dec. 303-750-5002 [email protected]

………….…Linda Hartlaub ©You may re-distribute articles from this newsletter 303-884-1858 [email protected] only with the permission of the Editor. Facebook Administrator…Linda Hartlaub All images ©2015 Colorado Genealogical Society – 303-884-1858 [email protected] Computer Interest Group Website Administrator……Kelly Glenn

303-810-9975 [email protected] Workshop Leaders MEMBERSHIP ROSTERS If you have a question, comment or suggested topic for a Workshop, feel free to call or email a Workshop Leader. CIG Members may request a membership roster from Membership Chairman, Charlotte Weiler by Family Tree Maker….Ed Richard emailing her at [email protected] . A roster 303-355-2592 [email protected] of specific genealogy program users is also The Master Genealogist available. …….Patrick Purcell 303-973-2185 [email protected] …….Bobbi King 720-839-4952 [email protected] ……Mike Jones RIDE ARRANGERS 303-447-9649 [email protected] Legacy Family Tree…Vern Tomkins Do you need a ride to our program 303-922-3639 [email protected] meetings? If so, contact our membership Scanning & Digital Imaging…Gary Ratay chairperson, Charlotte Weiler, by email 303-972-2701 [email protected] at [email protected] and she will put you in RootsMagic…..……..Lori Collins contact with persons who may be able to help. 303-237-4531 [email protected] If you would like to provide a ride, also contact Reunion for Mac……..Nancy Ratay Charlotte. 303-972-2701 [email protected]

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Computer Interest Group Saturday Workshop “ Publishing—From Computer to Printed Page ” Presented by Carol Cooke Darrow Saturday, February 28 th , 2015

Carol Cooke Darrow is a Certified Genealogist who works as a lecturer and researcher. She has a degree in history from the University of Texas and has been a Certified Genealogist since 2005. She is the co-author of The Genealogist's Guide to Researching Tax Records published in 2007. She is the facilitator for the “Write Now” class for the Colorado Genealogical Society.

Held at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2300 S. Patton Ct., Denver, CO

9:15 a.m. Registration (FREE to CIG members, non-members $10.00. RSVP at [email protected]) 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. – Session 1: Formatting and Editing Your Project Figure out how much technical help you will need: a. Computer input b. Formatting (Margins, footnotes, page numbers) c. Photo scanning and editing d. Copyright issues on photos, maps, drawings

Put Your Editor Hat On: a. Ask another family member to read your story (to avoid conflicts) b. Ask a knowledgeable friend to edit (read) your story c. Follow their suggestions about clarifying your story Create a camera-ready book inserting blank pages as needed and section breaks

Lunch Break 11:30-12:30 (lunch on your own or bring a sack lunch)

12:30 – 2:30 p.m. – Publishing with Pride Select a Publishing Method a. Copy Shop b. Online Publisher (Lulu.com, MyPublisher.com) c. Publishing Services (Tattered Cover Press) d. Regional Publisher e. Practice using Lulu.com

F or thiis workshop, partiiciipants are encouraged to briing theiir projject that they want to p ublliish. It can be a piicture book, a famiilly story (5-50 pages), or any other type of “book” t hey want to see iin priint. cigcolorado. org CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 19 Jan-Feb 2015

CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 20 Jan-Feb 2015

Jan. 12, 2015 Program Meeting “What’s Changed and What’s New in Family Search-Family Tree” by Gordon Taylor

Feb. 9, 2015 Workshop & Tech Talk Meeting

March 9, 2015 Program Meeting “TBA”

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Program Meeting s

Mon. March 9, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. “Genealogy Potpourri: Bits and Pieces Newest Technologies from RootsTech 2015” Speaker: S. Kelly Glenn

Mon. May 11, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. “Using Google For Much More Than Searching” Speaker: Scott Henke

In This Issue : CIG & CGS Programs……..2 Workshop & Tech Talk Meeting From the President…………3 Spring Seminar……………..4 Roots Tech 2015…………...5 Mon. April 13, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. RootsMagic 7…....………....5 Legacy Family Tree……...... 6 Healthy Laptop……………..6 Workshop Sessions: Reunion for Mac……………7 Legacy Facebook Legacy…………..9 Family Tree Maker Favorite Websites……….…9 Surname Origins………….10 The Master Genealogist Colo. First Families..…..…11 RootsMagic Meeting Location……….…12 Using a ScanSnap Scanner CIG Website……………….12 Internet Research Committee Members……..13

May Forum Information.….14 The mission of the Computer Interest CIG Program Group: To inform and update members as Monday, March 9, 2015 well as the larger genealogical community about the use of technology, especially at 7:00 p.m. software computer programs and emerging resources, in genealogical research. “Genealogy Potpourri: Bits and Pieces – Newest Technologies from Briing a Friiend to CIG RootsTech 2015” Have a friend interested in Genealogy? Bring Speaker: S. Kelly Glenn them to our meetings. Discover the newest technologies from RootsTech 2015. Let's find out what's new in * * * * * * DNA, Ancestry.com, Family Search and other innovations for today's genealogist. CIG UPCOMING CIG PROGRAMS : members attending RootsTech will share their All Monday CIG meetings are held at: impressions. We will take a look at StoryWorth, Christ the King Lutheran Church, KinsPoint and History Lines to name a few. 2300 So. Patton Ct., Denver, Colorado CIG Tech Talk & Workshops Monday, March 9, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Monday, April 13, 2015 Speaker: S. Kelly Glenn at 7:00 p.m. “Genealogy Potpourri: Bits and Pieces - Newest Technologies from RootsTech 2015” Family Tree Software: Family Tree Maker, Friday, March 20, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Legacy, RootsMagic, The Master Genealogist, Speaker: Cyndi Ingle (no Reunion for Mac workshop in April) “Ten Resources I Use Every Day” Also: Internet Searching AND FREE Pre-seminar presentation April’s Special Worksh op Monday, April 13, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. “Using a ScanSnap Scanner” Tech Talk and Workshop Meeting by Nancy & Gary Ratay

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UPCOMING CGS PROGRAMS: All Friday night programs held at: Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2300 S. Patton Ct., Denver, Colorado From Sharon Mahler, Treasurer Friday, March 20, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Total Cash & Bank Accounts $13,414.39 Speaker: Cyndi Ingle “Ten Resources I Use Every Day” 7/1/2014-2/28/2015 FREE Pre-seminar presentation Income $ 1,709.11 Expenses ($1,127.99) Friday, April 17, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. TOTAL $ 581.12 Speaker: Julie Miller, CG “Emigrant Guides”

CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 3 Mar-Apr 2015

From the President •We could increase attendance from those already S. Kelly Glenn at the library. •Members could do research before or after our

meeting Dear CIG Members, •Members that attend both CIG and CGS meetings

can attend both in one day. For those of you that have not •For those who don’t drive, public transportation will heard, our meeting place, Christ the King Lutheran make it easier to get to the library from almost any Church, will be making changes in 2016. We will no location longer be able to use the church for our meetings. •DPL sets up the room and takes it down.

(Refreshments and coffee are allowed in the We had just started our search for a new venue training room) when James Jeffrey and Jim Kroll from the Denver •The computer labs could be used for workshops if Public Library made us an exceptional offer. They reserved in advance would like CGS and CIG to have their monthly •We could attract new and/or younger members meetings at the Denver Central Library. that do not work on Saturdays.

Being that the library closes at 8 p.m., and many do Note: W.I.S E. (4th Saturday) and Swedish not want to go downtown during the evening, both Genealogy (1st Saturday) are attracting 50-80 per CGS and CIG would have their meetings during the meeting at the library, and have not had any daytime on the 3rd Saturday of the month. This was complaints about parking. the only time they could accommodate our meetings. The library has already reserved us these Disadvantages: dates for the next 3-4 years. We would meet in 7th Parking will cost from $5.00 & up. The floor training room which has adequate space for up Cultural Center Garage and the garage to 100 people. next to History Colorado are $5.00.

(Handicap placards can be used all day at The Colorado Genealogical Society has already no charge on the street in a handicap confirmed the change. The CIG Steering committee designated space, or for four hours at a will meet March 9 before the regular meeting to metered parking space) discuss the offer and present it to the members. Some current members will not be able to Here are some of the details: meet on Saturdays and/or location might be CGS would meet in the morning and CIG difficult. would meet in the afternoon (3rd Saturday of the month). This would begin with the Several of us have already checked churches, September 2015 meeting. libraries, some schools, colleges and rec. centers. The facilities are FREE, and DPL would They all would have a fee with no guarantee or provide all the equipment. commitment to CIG. Every place I have checked so Workshop leaders would bring their far has had some kind of glitch. projectors on workshop days. The room can be divided for 5-6 workshops. There Suggestions have been: Englewood Public Library, Bemis Library, Colleges (Arapahoe, Aurora, also are partitions in the room that can be Colorado Christian, Colorado Heights, Johnson and closed. Wales, Red Rocks), Churches, Recreation Centers The PA system and Wi-Fi were just and Assisted Living Centers. upgraded in the training room. Please email me at [email protected] before our Benefits: meeting on March 9 with your thoughts about the •DPL location will provide a central location to move. From what I have heard so far, many like the attract members from a larger area idea of changing to DPL. •Members that do not like night driving or weeknight meetings would be happier with a daytime meeting I know it’s difficult to make changes, but the Denver •CIG could draw people from the morning CGS Public Library seems to be a win-win situation for meeting both CIG and DPL. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 4 Mar-Apr 2015

Joint CIG and CGS Seminar Saturday, March 21, 2015 9 am - 4 pm Lower Level Conference Center, Denver Public Library, 14th Ave. & Broadway, Denver

HURRY!! Hospitality Person Needed for Only a few spots left! Spring Seminar Register online today! Saturday, March 21

Lynette Dick, our seminar hospitality chair, will not be able to attend our seminar. We need a volunteer/volunteers to be responsible for our refreshments on Saturday, March 21. This would include arriving at the Library by 8:00 a.m., preparing coffee and hot water (Library will provide coffee pots), setting out coffee and tea supplies (creamer, sugar, tea bags, etc.), setting out breakfast items, cookies (and any Featuring: Cyndi Ingle other food), and keeping coffee and hot water available during the day. Cyndi is the creator, owner and “webmaster” of the award-winning web site Cyndi’s List of Lynette has the supplies needed in two large Genealogy Sites on the Internet , plastic tubs at our meeting place at the church www.CyndisList.com. (Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2300 S. Patton Ct., Denver) filled with all of the Everyone is invited to hear Cyndi at the FREE supplies and instructions you will need. The program on Friday 20 March 2015, at 7:00 pm tubs can be emptied at the Library and used at our regular meeting place at Christ the King for ice and soft drinks. Lutheran Church, 2300 S. Patton Court, Denver. If you would like to take on this responsibility (we have several people who have signed up That night, she will present:: “Ten Resources I to help the main volunteer), please call Lynette Use Every Day: Miscellaneous Tips for the Dick at her office 303-935-4669 or email Sandy Online Researcher” Ronayne at [email protected] . This From Internet tools to specialty databases and volunteer may take the tubs after the Friday tools, you’ll learn about some of the things night, March 20, Cyndi Ingle free program at Cyndi uses each day in her research online. the church. The tubs and leftover supplies can be returned to Lynette at the church at any The materials fee for the Saturday seminar is time that following week. $35.

CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 5 Mar-Apr 2015

What Was RootsMagic 7 New at Personalize Your RootsTech “Add Person” 2015 Screen

by Lori Collins By S. Kelly Glenn Have you ever wanted After attending RootsTech the last three years, it is to customize your “Add Person Screen” and were interesting to note the trend changes in technology not sure how to? There is a way to put what you and genealogy. The “BIG THREE” are sharing more want on this screen. When you are looking on the data with FamilySearch.org. They are screen, you will notice that you have the Birth Date Ancestry.com, Findmypast.com, and My and the Place, the Death Date and Place, and the Heritage.com. It’s great to see these four working Burial and Place. These can be changed or you can together. For instance, soon you will be able to add to them. attach sources from Ancestry.com to your tree in FamilySearch. While you are looking at the “Add New Person” form, look at the lower left hand side and you will Each year there seems to be more companies see “Customize this Form”. Click on it. This will wanting to get into the market of preserving your bring up a screen that says you can customize it. family stories. Three of the four finalists at the best (see figure below) of RootsTech Innovator Showdown were associated with sharing or saving those family stories. The winner was “Story Worth”. This is a program that will email up to six of your relatives weekly with a question about your family. My first week’s question was just emailed to me. The question was “Describe the first vacation you remember as a child”. You can define your questions on their website. I will demonstrate this program at our March 9 CIG meeting, “Genealogy Potpourri, Bits and Pieces.” I will also show some new features on Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.

Each year, the advancements of DNA testing become more dominate at RootsTech. DNA is changing the way we do genealogy. We will have more discussions on DNA at future CIG meetings to This form is where you can “add” or “delete.” If you keep up with changes and advancements in this click on the “Add fact to form,” a long list of choices type of genealogical research. will pop up. All you need to do is click on the word and it will add it to your list. You can also arrange How about Argus Search? This is a search engine them in any order you want. To rearrange them is that will find matches for any search request within click the up and down arrows. billions of ancient handwritten documents within seconds. This is all without indexing. When you have finished rearranging, just click OK,

and RootsMagic will put in your new fact types. You Join our CIG meeting on March 9 for a can change it any way you want, and you can have demonstration of new software from RootsTech as many as you want. Try it out and see what a 2015. difference it can make in saving you time.

If you have questions, you can email me at [email protected] CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 6 Mar-Apr 2015

Legacy Family Tree Webinars - Monthly Membership

Don’t forget that monthly memberships can be purchased if you don’t want a full year. by S. Kelly Glenn

It’s time to update. Take a look at the webinars for each month and see what interests you. There are some On February 27, Legacy announced Version great speakers for these webinars. 8.0.0.473. This is a fix for: Go to family tree webinars.com • Dates - any [field] before a Normal price: $12.95 <\[CoupleFirstNames]::[FirstHeShe]> Price: $9.95 per month condition was being lost. Fixed. • Family Group Record - Marriage 1-month unlimited access to their recorded notes were being included even if that webinars are at option was turned off. Fixed. www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com . It also • GEDCOM Export - Marriage Notes includes access to the instructors' handouts, were not being exported if a living chat logs from live webinars, and 1 month of child's info was being suppressed. 5% off anything in the store (must be logged in Fixed. at checkout), and a chance for a bonus • Marriage List Report - fixed a double subscribers-only door prize during each live webinar. colon issue (::) • Media - Right Click on a picture in the Media Gallery and selecting Cut was not removing the picture. Fixed. • Parents List - Names weren't showing if set to Private. Fixed. • Publishing Center - Reports after a colored Pedigree chart would sometimes have colored text. Fixed. • RTF Notes - A space was getting

added before any formatting with each Keeping Your Laptop Healthy Save. Fixed. • Reports - Vital dates were sometimes Did You Know?. . . getting a leading "from" inserted. Fixed. Have you ever shut down your laptop and closed it before it shut down? Don’t! Never close your laptop until it is completed logged off and shut down. If you become impatient and close it up before it shuts down, it goes into sleep mode. Not a good thing.

**New Season of “Who Do You Think You Are? Coming Sunday, March 8 on TLC

Reunion 10 for Mac – Sharing with Others by Nancy Ratay

This article is going to presume that you have spent some time attaching photos to your Reunion family file as outlined in a previous article. Like last issue’s article this is going to be about sharing with others. If you have attached photos to your files, you can make a slideshow of a few or of all of the photos you have attached. This can be exported as a movie. For trying this out, I suggest you start small so you can see what it does and learn how to set it up the way you want. You can see a slideshow of any of your photos easily by having the Multimedia window open and selecting the screen icon at the bottom. You will get the pop-up window to the right. The top list will immediately play on your screen the slides in the open window with the current default preferences.

The bottom two items allow you to make a slideshow that you can share with others. By clicking on the Slideshow Preferences you will get the window to the right. This allows you to be very specific in your selections. To start, you may just want to run a short one to see how it is presented. Then you can experiment with some of the settings to see how it changes things. Besides changing the look (colors, timing, shadows, transitions and fonts) you can decide if you want the title of the slide to be the person’s name, the description you wrote for the photo, or the comment information you added in the multimedia window. This can appear top of screen, bottom of screen, above image or below image. When you get really good, you can add different music to play while the slideshow runs. The default is music by Reunion creator Frank Leister.

When you click on Create Slideshow for Family File, you get a pop-up menu that asked where to get pictures: all people, marked people, unmarked people. There is also a check box to include family pictures; those are the ones that are the bottom pane of the multimedia window. You also have the choice to open a previously saved slideshow. The right side of the window allows you to prune out preferred pictures only or exclude “sensitive” pictures that you have marked as such in your multimedia. You can set a maximum number of pictures per person. When you hit Create, it will put together a list similar to the one on the right that shows you all the pictures that go with this slideshow. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 8 Mar-Apr 2015

In this window you can change the order of the slides by clicking and dragging them to a new location. The Tool icon (hammer) at the bottom of the window has choices: Reveal in Finder, Show Slide, Remove Item, Insert Text, Remove Duplicate Items and Export Movie… The first 3 choices refer to a selected or highlighted slide. Insert Text is very useful. When nothing is selected, it allows you to add a blank slide with text you type in. This works nicely if you want to separate groups of slides with a clarifying title.

If you need a break and want to work later on it, you can Save or Save As from the File menu. You can play the slideshow from this window using the Play button. The esc key will always take you out of the show. When you have the slideshow the way you want it, go to the Tool icon again and select Export Movie… You have choices of Presets: iDVD, iDVD HD, Computer Small, Computer Large, Web Small, Web Medium and Web Large. By choosing a Preset, the values beneath it will change to those appropriate for that method. So you don’t have to understand all the boxes. Quality choices are Lossless, High, Normal and Low. These affect the file size from largest to smallest. The lossless is needed for high quality DVD which can be played on a TV. You need Low for web usage. Check the Include Sound Track box if you want the music to be recorded with it. The slideshow will be recorded as a QuickTime movie.

Lost or confused? Remember: all windows have a ? in the bottom left corner that will take you directly to the part of the Help Manual that you need for that window. If you have other questions, you may email me at [email protected].

Again, no Reunion workshop in April. Gary and I are doing a demonstration of ScanSnap Scanner

In Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day is a religious holiday similar to Christmas and Easter. Erin go Bragh translates to “Ireland forever.” The very first St. Patrick’s Day parade was not in Ireland, but in Boston in 1737. The largest parade in the United States, held since 1762, is in New York City, and draws more than a million spectators each year. Green is associated with St. Patrick’s Day because it is the color of spring, of Ireland, and of the shamrock. There are 33.7 million US residents who are of Irish ancestry. That number is almost nine times the population of Ireland itself.

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memorialized, or you can choose the option to What Will Happen to My contact them right away. Facebook Account When I Pass Away? How do you memorialize an account? You By S. Kelly Glenn make a memorialization request to Facebook. They will want to know when the person Last fall, I did a passed away and some proof such as a link to presentation on “Leaving a Legacy through the person’s obituary. Facebook.” At that time there was not a way for a family member to access a family I have several in my family where their member’s account without a lot of legal actions Facebook page still exists and no one knows and requests to Facebook. That changed what do to with them. After reading the new according to an announcement from Facebook rules, I will memorialize their page. Facebook on February 12, 2015. will use the word REMEMBERING next to their profile photo. Their content will remain on Memorialized accounts are a place for friends Facebook. No one can log into the memorial and family to gather and share memories after account and the page cannot be changed if a person has passed away. they did not choose a Legacy Contact which is unlikely since this went into effect the first of A Legacy Contact is a family member or a this year. friend who can manage your account after you pass away. When a person passes away, their I am so glad to see these changes and to see Facebook account can be a memorial to their my deceased family member’s legacy remain life. Once someone lets Facebook know that a on Facebook. person has passed away they will memorialize their account. The Legacy Contact will be able to post at the top of the Timeline of a memorial service or a special message. They can respond to new friend requests and update the profile and cover photo. http://www3.familyoldphotos.com/ Old Family Photos If someone chooses, they may give their Free Photo Archive of over 30,000 vintage Legacy Contact permission to download and photographs. Find people and the places were archive the photos, posts and profile they lived. Search for your surnames. Find information the deceased shared on Facebook. photos of your ancestors. Make connections Other settings will remain the same as before with genealogy cousins. You can add your the account was memorialized. The legacy family photos. contact will not be able to log in as the person who passed away or see that person’s private http://www.from-ireland.net/ messages. Of course, a person can choose to An Irish genealogy website, created in Ireland, have their Facebook account totally deleted carrying information on genealogical after death. resources, databases, indices and more. A page for each of the 32 counties. Millions of You can choose a Legacy Contact on free records, compiled by Dr. Jane Lyons, Facebook by going to Settings>Security> including: gravestone records, gravestone Legacy>Contact at the bottom of the page. photographs, 1901 census records, 1911 You will then be asked to choose a Facebook census records, 1931 trade directory records, friend to manage your account. That friend will birth records, marriage records, death records, not be contacted until your account is Lewis’ topographical records, Griffith’s valuation records, and much more. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 10 Mar-Apr 2015

How Our hyphenating the two. Like these surnames: Surnames Came “Henricksen (meaning son of Henry; home rule), Krogh (meaning a worker at an inn, or a dweller in a To Be corner), Pedersen (meaning son of Peter; a rock) Part 1 and Jorgensen (meaning son of George; a farmer)”. By Lori Collins DUTCH: I recently came across an old family book. I started These surnames began around the 13 th and 14 th to read it and was fascinated at the articles that centuries. They did not get to the Low Countries were in this book. One of the articles was on the until the middle of the 17 th century. Many Dutch origins of Surnames from around the world. names were recognized by their prefixes like, van, van der, van den, and ver which means “from” or BELGIAN SURNAMES: “from the”. Characteristic nicknames were used as These names are either French or Dutch in origin. If surnames. These are some of the names that are of you live in the Northern area, you would be of Dutch Dutch origin: Drukker: meaning: one who prints or origin and are more similar in nature to the works as a pressman), Zylstra (means: a dweller Netherlands. The rest of the country falls under the near a lock or drainage sluice), Groen (means: the French with more towards the Walloon dialect. young, inexperienced, vigorous person) and Hartig Even though this dialect is almost gone, it was (meaning: a strong, robust man). sometimes called the “Romance Language”. ENGLISH: CHINESE SURNAMES: At the end of the 13 th century, Englishmen and With over a billion + people living in China, there English personal names were not just in England are roughly around 1000 surnames and of those, but in parts of Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Some only 60 are common ones. Most are one syllable of these were biblical in origin, or they were named and are characteristic or descriptive in origin. The from saints and martyrs from the early Christian words in parenthesis are their meanings. Church. Many were named Norman. Saints were The most common surnames are “Wang (meaning also very popular in some regions, like Cuthbert in yellow), Wong (meaning field or wide water), Chan the North, which may have influenced the choice of (meaning old) and Chew (meaning mountain)”. personal names within those areas. Here are some The Chinese family and ancestral ties, very few of the surnames of English origin and their usage names have been changed. Some of the Chinese throughout Great Britain: Palmer (a palm-bearing still put their surnames first. pilgrim returned from the holy land), Weedman (one in charge of a heathen temple), Yale (a dweller at a CZECH: corner, nook or a secret place), and Schoolcraft (a The Czech surnames are closely related to Poland. dweller in a hut in a small field or enclosure). The names tend to be shorter and easier to pronounce since they contain fewer consonants. It FRENCH: is also common to have a Czech surnames derived French names closely resemble English names. from a nickname and diminutive forms are The French had contact with the English during the widespread. Many have German or “Germanicized” development of English surnames and this is why names. Some Czech names are “Hovorka they are very similar. Here is an example of the (meaning overly talkative), Kostal (meaning a surnames in France: Chevrier (meaning, takes dweller in a field where cabbages have been cut), care of goats), Legault (dweller by the woods), and Melnick (one who ground grain, a miller)”. Pegues (one who produced and sold pitch), Rozier (dweller near a rose bush). DANISH: Most of the Danish surnames are patronymic GERMAN: (derived from the name of the father or ancestor, Many German surnames are derived from especially with the addition of a suffix or prefix occupations, colors and locations. Some were also indicating descent) and end in -sen. In the late very descriptive like: Klein (little) and Gross (big). 1860's, their surnames were not hereditary, but they Here are some German surnames: Kreuser (one changed with each generation. In 1904, the Danish who has curly hair), Schluter (doorkeeper at a government encouraged them to use surnames prison), Tobler (dweller of forest or ravine) and other than the -sen names. People began adding a Shuck (made and sold shoes). place or occupational name to the -sen ending by CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 11 Mar-Apr 2015

what is now Colorado, before 28 February, 1861.

Territorial Family , whereby an ancestor must have been born in, or settled in, a territory that is now Colorado, between 28 February 1861 and 1 August 1876.

Centennial Family , whereby an ancestor must have been born in, or settled in, Colorado at least 100 years prior to the date of Centennial

Colorado First Families Recognition Family application. Program Submitted by Roberta "Bobbi" King You may learn more about the First Families Treasurer, Council program at: http://www.cocouncil.org/familyrecognition.html As genealogists, we're proud of where we came from and the stories of our ancestors' Applicants need not be current residents of travels, lives, and histories. And we're proud of Colorado. Indeed, many descendants do not our ancestors' contributions to the places in reside in Colorado, but proudly remember their which they settled and raised their families. Colorado heritage.

The Colorado Council of Genealogical Applicants may submit documentation tracing Societies, commonly known as the Council, their ancestors' activities and existence in administers the First Families of Colorado Colorado by way of census records, church program whereby descendants of Colorado records, and birth, marriage and death records. pioneer families receive certificates of lineage For an application, visit honoring their Colorado heritage. The http://cocouncil.org/familyrecognition.html. certificates are handsome, very suitable for framing (I'm sure most of them are), and memorialize Colorado early families.

The First Families of Colorado Recognition Program has been in place since 1983, and so far, hundreds of descendants have submitted proofs of lineage to Colorado ancestors and received certificates. The people who apply for and receive the certificates often include their children and grandchildren, giving proof of a personal connection to Colorado. You can see the names of these descendants and their pioneer connections at: http://www.cocouncil.org/documents/PioneerLi st.pdf. Editor’s Note: The recognition certificate I received There are three categories of recognition: in 1998 (when the Governor signed them). This was for my great grandparents who were married and First Family , whereby an ancestor must have lived in Pueblo, Colorado. been born in, or settled in, the land area of CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 12 Mar-Apr 2015

Meeting Location CIG’s Website Address

The Colorado Genealogical Our Monday meetings are held at 7:00 pm at Christ Society-Computer Interest the King Lutheran Church, 2300 So. Patton Ct., in Group’s website address is southwest Denver. The church is at the corner of www.cigcolorado.org Iliff Ave. and So. Patton Ct. in the Harvey Park area. CIG President, Kelly Glenn, created the wonderful CIG web pages. The When coming from the north: Take Federal or site has information about family tree software Sheridan Blvd. south to Evans Ave. Turn right programs and links to contact the workshop from Federal or left from Sheridan and take Evans leaders. There is also information about our to Patton Ct. Turn south on Patton Ct. two blocks program and workshop meetings, seminar to the church at Iliff Ave. registrations, copies of past newsletters and much more. When coming from the south: Take Federal or

Sheridan Blvd. north to Yale Ave. Turn left from Need to Contact Us: Federal or right from Sheridan and take Yale to Patton Ct. Turn north on Patton Ct. three blocks to Our Email Address is: the church at Iliff Ave. [email protected]

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Steering Committee Elected Officers President………….….. Kelly Glenn Help the Editor! 303-810-9975 [email protected]

Immediate Past President…..Sandy Ronayne Please help make this 303-750-5002 [email protected] newsletter a success by Vice President/Programs..Lori Collins submitting articles or ideas 303-237-4531 [email protected] for articles relating to computer genealogy to Secretary…………….Ray Henney me to include in this newsletter. Please be 303-758-0792 [email protected] Treasurer…………….Sharon Mahler generous with your submissions of your 303-757-3669 [email protected] favorite genealogical websites, a new website Steering Committee Appointed Officers you have discovered, breakthroughs using your Membership………..Charlotte Weiler computer, and genealogical news and meetings 303-548-7250 [email protected] of other societies. Articles and ideas for Membership Host.….Marilyn Elrod 303-979-8435 [email protected] articles may be emailed to me at Publicity…………….Lori Collins [email protected] . Deadline for articles is 303-237-4531 [email protected] th the 25 of even-numbered months. Newsletter & Hospitality…Lynette Dick 303-986-7910 [email protected] Next deadline is April 25, 2015. Historian…………….Sharon Mahler 303-757-3669 [email protected] Lynette Dick CGS Liaison………..Nancy Ratay 303-972-2701 [email protected]

…….Bobbi King 720-839-4952 [email protected] ……Mike Jones RIDE ARRANGERS 303-447-9649 [email protected] Legacy Family Tree…Vern Tomkins Do you need a ride to our program 303-922-3639 [email protected] meetings? If so, contact our membership Scanning & Digital Imaging…Gary Ratay chairperson, Charlotte Weiler, by email 303-972-2701 [email protected] at [email protected] and she will put you in RootsMagic…..……..Lori Collins contact with persons who may be able to help. 303-237-4531 [email protected] If you would like to provide a ride, also contact Reunion for Mac……..Nancy Ratay Charlotte. 303-972-2701 [email protected]

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CIG May Genealogical Forum Computer Interest Group

Saturday, May 9, 2015 9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Christ the King Lutheran Church 2300 S. Patton Ct., Denver, CO

Cost: FREE Registration: 9:15 a.m. ------9:30 a.m. – Introductions

9:45– 10:45 “Evernote” presented by Robert Miller Evernote is perfect for genealogical research. If you have not used Evernote recently, it has changed making this free note-taking software the best for syncing across several platforms and devices. Evernote is an organizational tool, research notebook, planner, and search tool for websites, files, records and more.

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 “Findagrave vs BillionGraves, What’s Really the Difference?” presented by S. Kelly Glenn Findagrave and BillionGraves have made significant changes the last several months. This presentation will compare the two sites and demonstrate recent changes to both that will change how we search cemetery records.

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch on your own. You are welcome to bring your lunch.

1:00 - 2:00 p.m. “Using WikiTree” presented by Michael Sills Join WikiTree to connect to the human family. • Pool your research with other genealogists • Make it easy for family members to enjoy the fruits of your labors, and to add their own tidbits, memories, photos, and comments • Create awesome "cousin bait". Some genealogists consider WikiTree the best way to attract distant cousins • Help ensure your valuable research won't be lost • Download a GEDCOM at any time for safekeeping or to upload elsewhere

2:00 - 3:00 p.m. “Getting the Most Out of Your Genealogical Software” presented by Deena Coutant Deena will focus on the reports that can be used for analysis to expose gaps in your research that need to be corrected. She is a professional genealogist, technology and business coach and owner of Digi Deena Consulting.

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March 9, 2015 Program Meeting “Genealogy Potpourri: Bits and Pieces – Newest Technologies from RootsTech 2015” by S. Kelly Glenn

March 20, 2015 FREE Pre-Spring Seminar Program “Ten Resources I Use Every Day” by Cyndi Ingle

April 13, 2015 Workshop & Tech Talk Meeting

May 9, 2015 Genealogical Forum “Evernote – WikiTree – Findagrave & Billion Graves – Genealogical Software” by S. Kelly Glenn, Deena Coutant, Bob Miller, and Michael Sills

May 11, 2015 Program Meeting “Using Google For Much More Than Searching” by Scott Henke

June 8, 2015 Workshop & Tech Talk Meeting +Ice Cream Social before meeting

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Mon. May 11, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. “Using Google For Much More Than Searching” Speaker: Scott Henke

Beginning Saturday, September 19, 2015, CIG will meet at the DPL

In This Issu e: CIG & CGS Programs……..2 From the President…………3 Workshop & Tech Talk Meeting Website Recommends…....3 Family Tree Maker…………4 ArchiveGrid…….…………...5 Mon. June 8, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. In Memory of Paul Peak..…6 Family Search………………6 Workshop Sessions: RootsMagic 7…....………....7 German Research…………8 Legacy Spring Seminar Photos…...9 Family Tree Maker Legacy Family Tree……....10 The Master Genealogist Surname Origins, Pt. 2..….10 RootsMagic Meeting Location……….…13 CIG Website……………….13 Scanning/Digital Imaging Committee Members……..14 Internet Research May Forum Information.….15

The mission of the Computer Interest May CIG Program Group: To inform and update members as Monday, May 11, 2015, 7:00 p.m. well as the larger genealogical community about the use of technology, especially software computer programs and emerging resources, in genealogical research. “Using Google For Much More Than Briing a Friiend to CIG Searching” Have a friend interested in Genealogy? Bring Speaker: Scott Henke them to our meetings. Scott Henke was our speaker in May 2014. Back by popular demand, Scott will give us some tips * * * * * * on using the Google search engine.

UPCOMING CIG PROGRAMS : Monday CIG meetings are held at: Christ the King Lutheran Church, CIG Tech Talk & Workshops 2300 So. Patton Ct., Denver, Colorado Monday, June 8, 2015, 7:00 p.m.

Monday, May 11, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Family Tree Software Workshops: Family Speaker: Scott Henke Tree Maker, Legacy, RootsMagic, The Master “Using Google For Much More Than Genealogist Searching”” Also: Internet Searching and Scanning/Digital Monday, June 8, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Imaging Tech Talk and Workshop Meeting ++Ice Cream Social before meeting **NOTE: No Reunion for Mac workshop in June. If Reunion users wish to have a workshop next year, please email Nancy Ratay at [email protected] * * * * * * ATTENTION!! CIG has several overhead projectors FREE to UPCOMING CGS PROGRAMS: CIG members. If you are interested, please Friday night programs held at: email President, Kelly Glenn Christ the King Lutheran Church, @[email protected]. 2300 S. Patton Ct., Denver, Colorado

Friday, May 15, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Various CGS Members “Heirloom and Family History Member Sharing” From Sharon Mahler, Treasurer Friday, June 19, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Tom Tyler Total Cash & Bank Accounts $13,634.43 “Glimpses into 19 th Century Lives from Unique 7/1/2014-3/31/2015 Family Documents” Income $ 1,960.80 6:30 pm Potluck Supper Precedes Meeting Expenses ($1,159.64) TOTAL $ 801.16 CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 3 May/June 2015

From the President

S. Kelly Glenn “How Much Is Your

Research Worth?” Genealogical At Rootstech 2015, I was fascinated by a Websites and company called Gen Market Place (genmarketplace.com). If you run into that brick Recommendations wall, you can pay to have others find from RootsTech information that you are missing. Research 2015 starts at 10 cents for easier questions, up to By S. Kelly Glenn any amount that you are willing to pay for the tougher questions to be answered. The highest History Lines (historylines.com) amount being offered on their site right now is If you are having second thoughts about $85-to prove a person’s birth date. writing your family history, then HistoryLines This made me think, “how much is my might be for you. This program uses a timeline research worth?” If I could put a dollar figure to compare your ancestors’ timeline with what on the past eight years, what would be the was happening at that moment in history. Here value? I think my time is worth more than $10 is an excerpt from HistoryLines from 1883 an hour, but let’s start with that figure. when Mable Claire Wade was 4 years old. Let’s take a stab at this: 10 hours per week research on the average HistoryLines Time Zones, 1883 10 hrs. research per week at $10/hour = 520 “When Mable Claire Wade was 4, time zones hours/year ($5200/year) were introduced in the US for the first time. Subscriptions: Ancestry.com etc… $465/year Before 1883, most local communities rendered Seminars, RootsTech, books, DNA and other time based on "high noon," when the sun was misc…….$1200/year at its highest point. As railroads led to faster Add up the above, and the total value per year travel and commerce between distant is $6865. For an eight-year period that would communities, the lack of a standardized time be $52,500. zone caused confusion and chaos with regards How much would it be worth for me to hire to times of arrival and departures at train someone to do this research? Might I save stations. Railroad companies created time some money? How much would it be worth for zones in 1883 to make travel and commerce me to pay a researcher on Gen Market Place easier and more organized for people around to find out what happened to my great Mable Claire Wade. This change was well- grandfather? He disappeared just after the received and very successful, and within a 1920 Federal Census was taken. I would be year, international time zones were willing to pay up to $150 to find out when and established, improving navigation around the where he died. Just think of the hours I might world.” save by paying others to do this work. But, of course, the thrill of genealogy is making that HistoryLines stories are currently available for big discovery. It’s like finding a piece of a England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, United puzzle that fell under the rug that you States, Denmark and Germany for the periods eventually find to complete the process. of 1600 to 1950. Currently out for Beta testing - If I had only known when I was a kid that I there is a subscription fee. would be so interested in genealogy, I would (continued on page 4) have asked the questions. Now that my ancestors are deceased, I have to figure it out on my own. And at the estimated value of $6865 per year, I wish I had asked. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 4 May/June 2015

(from page 3) soliciting information from family members. Sharing StoryWorth (storyworth.com) charts and genealogy, family and relationship StoryWorth was the grand prize winner of the reports created to focus on unknown data and then Innovators Summit at RootsTech 2015. I have asking family members to help close the gaps, can enjoyed using this program to record my own be very productive. family stories. Once a week, StoryWorth Other FTM output products, such as the Place emails me a question. The question emailed report, Media report and Source reports can be this week asked, “How did you get to school as used for reviewing this data for consistent content a child?” This question does bring back many and format both of which make for easier reading of memories that I had not thought of for years. In our genealogical products. Issues identified in these the email I can type my story or click on “reply reports can be reviewed and corrected using the by phone.” I will immediately get a phone call corresponding work space (Place, Media and and I can start recording my story on my Source) and using the Edit menu for Manage Facts, phone. The written story can be viewed on and Manage Sources. Tools on the menu bar has their website and can shared with others. You a great place editing feature: Resolve All Place Names is where any issues found in the Place can invite up to six friends or relatives to help Usage report can be resolved. Latitude and write your stories. Photos can be added. This Longitude coordinates can also be added to the is a refreshing technology to help write our data. personal and family stories. StoryWorth is now out of beta testing - there is If you are not already using these Publish a subscription fee. workspace products, take a little time to review them for sharing family data and for their utility in achieving data consistent with your own style objectives and increasing readability. Products can Family Tree Maker be used directly or used to create a FTM book. A 2014 FTM book may also be moved to a word processor. By Dave Nelson Planning ahead can facilitate presentation of results and how we enter data. Happy Hunting!

Using our genealogy Publish work space products of Family Tree Maker software to create paper 2014: reports, editing tools, charts and books is sometimes a delayed priority. Charts (10): Pedigree, Descendant, Relationship, Genealogists often focus on, and excel at, finding Hourglass, Vertical Pedigree, Horizontal Hourglass, facts and family stories and creating a database. Bow Tie, Family Tree, Extended Family and Fan Sometimes we delay defining what will become of Chart the data and how we will share our findings. Genealogy Reports (2): Ahnentafel and Priorities then become sharing and preserving the Descendant database online. The purpose here is to encourage Person Reports (8): Individual, Custom, Notes, FTM users to review the chart and report products Task, Data Errors, Timeline, Surname, and List of of our software to meet those needs, and also to Individuals use FTM reports as tools for editing and ensuring Relationship Reports (7): Family Group Sheet, our own quality and consistency standards. Kinship, Marriage, Parentage, Outline Descendant, Defining and writing out personal practices, our own Outline Ancestor and Family View style manual, is useful in creating reader friendly Place Reports (1): Place Usage products. Media Reports (3): Media Item, Photo Album and Media Usage The Publish work space in Family Tree Maker 2014 Source Reports (4): Source Usage, Source provides 37 products, charts and reports, listed Bibliography, Documented Facts and below. Users can tailor each output for people Undocumented Facts coverage and data content. Many output products Other (2): Calendar Report and Smart Story are primarily for sharing results with others, or better yet, as parts of a book created using FTM. The reports can be also become a research tool for CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 5 May/June 2015

Nathaniel, and Schuyler R. Oviatt and several letters from the abolitionist, John Brown.

The records are not online, but the next time I By Sandy Ronayne visit Ohio, I will definitely spend time at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland. At RootsTech 2015, I enjoyed learning about The last time I was in Cleveland, I decided to go many new and exciting technologies that can to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – it has an help us in our family research. One of my archive also which can be searched via favorites is ArchiveGrid. Well, to many, ArchiveGrid. ArchiveGrid is not that new – it was launched in March 2006; however, it was not always Another great archive is the Andrews Library at available, nor fully accessible. the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. Several ArchiveGrid is now part of WorldCat.org – the years ago, I looked at some of the special great library database. You can visit ArchiveGrid collections materials related to George W. at https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/ Bradford, my great uncle and English professor at the College. However, I did not realize what ArchiveGrid now includes more than four million other gems are at this archive - including records, describing archival materials, bringing textbooks from the 1800s; an interview with together information about historical documents, Mother Teresa; Presbyterian Church of Wooster personal papers, family histories, and more. papers from 1818-1984; papers on the More than 1,000 different archival institutions are organization of a Presbyterian church in Fairplay, represented on ArchiveGrid. Colorado in 1872; and College of Wooster class ArchiveGrid is fun to search. When you get to the files (including pictures) from 1874 to the present. website, you can use a map to identify archives I can’t wait to go back to the Andrews Library and that are available in a particular area. For look at the material – especially the class files. example, ancestors of my paternal grandmother Walter Myers (my grandfather) and Jim Myers were early settlers in the Western Reserve (my uncle) attended the College. section of Ohio. As shown in the map below, there are several archives that might have documents on these families.

Closer to home, ArchiveGrid includes many Colorado archives. One you may not have visited is Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection. It has more than newspapers – there are plays, photos, I decided to click on the pin for the Western 1940 radio scripts, and many more items. It is Reserve Historical Society archives and definitely interesting, informative, and fun. discovered there are two collections of Oviatt family records. These records include deeds, Check out ArchiveGrid to learn more about agreements, financial papers, and certificates of collections that may help in your family research. Benjamin, Heman, Elizabeth, Orson, Marvin, CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 6 May/June 2015

In Memorium – Paul Peak

New Family Tree Views at FamilySearch.org

If you haven’t checked out FamilySearch for a while, you might pay it a visit. There are some great new views for your family trees. Go to your family tree and checkout the new “Landscape View.” There are also some Paul Peak was very active in the 1980s and changes in the Portrait View, Fan Charts and 90s in several Colorado genealogy societies, the new Descendancy View. including: CIG, CGS, and the Colorado Through the Landscape View, you will see tips Chapter of Palatines to America. Paul died on for record matches and suggestions similar to 19 October 2014 in Virginia. the shaky leaf technology on Ancestry.com. Paul, a retired Coast Guard officer, was born Colorful icons appear in the couple card to the on 19 March 1923, and married Jane Wood right of each individual and also to the right of Worley on 8 June 1944. Paul, who was born marriage information. These icons indicate and raised in Denver, spent 33 years in the what steps you can take to discover more Coast Guard. He began his family research in information about that person or relationship. the 1950s when he was stationed in Scrolling —You can now use a mouse scroll Tennessee. Following up on a tip from a wheel to move the view and see different parts County Clerk, Paul met his “5 th ” cousin, Clyde of the tree. You can still click on the Peak. surrounding area around the tree and drag to After retiring, Paul and Jane moved to Denver, change your view. where they were both active in CGS, and No Hover Actions —The controls available on joined a group formed to start the CGS each couple box are always displayed, Computer Interest Group (CIG). Paul meaning that you no longer need to hover to volunteered at the National Archives, and Jane see children or additional spouses. volunteered with the Western This updated look is being slowly rolled out at History/Genealogy Department of the Denver random to some members of the FamilySearch Public Library. Paul became an expert on community. Right now only about 5% of users interpreting census schedules. can see the changes. Don’t fear! If you have After many years in Denver, Paul and Jane not seen these changes yet on your own moved into McLean, Virginia. Paul served at Family Tree, they are coming! the national level in the Retired Officers’ Association, the US Coast Guard Auxiliary, the Clan Ross Foundation, and Palatines to America. Paul is survived by Jane and his children, Roger Peak, Lucy Peak Birch, and Martha Peak Helman; three grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. As Jim Kroll, director of DPL Western Memorial Day History/Genealogy Department wrote on May 25, 2015 learning of Paul’s death, “Paul’s passing is a loss for our small world, even though they lived in Virginia for many years.”

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RootsMagic 7 corruption has occurred. Sometimes this can by Lori Collins be fixed by running one of the other boxes.

Recently, I was asked if You can run this test when you open up your there was a way to keep program, so that there isn't any corruption our RootsMagic database before you start entering new information, or in check. And, there is. It you can run it before creating a backup, to will check the integrity of your database and fix make sure it is good. any issues that you are having. Here is how we get this applied to our program: Rebuilding Indexes Your RootsMagic program contains two things. First, you need to open up your program and It contains your data and indexes. The data is go under FILE. When you click on file, scroll all of the information that you have typed into down to Database tools. It will look like this: your program, like names, dates and the like. The index will create a search for and find that data faster. If you click on this, it will rebuild the index.

Clean Phantom Records This is one of the most useful tools that RootsMagic uses. Sometimes, your database will pick up some “phantom records”. These records are pieces of information that you do not want in your database. Database Tools (at arrow) Here is an example to help you out: you have your sister and her family, and you notice that You will find that this is very simple and easy to there is a person that you don't know, and did use. The next screen looks like this: not put in there. If you tried to get rid of it yourself by deleting or using the unlink features like: (Edit, Unlink or Edit, Delete command), it would not let you. The only way to get rid of these, is to run the “Clean Phantom Records.”

Compact Database When you delete a person in RootsMagic, your program will mark the record as deleted, however, it does not free up the space where the record was at. This is not usually a problem, but if you happen to delete a lot of records, then this will reclaim that space that The first box “Test database integrity,” will was once used by that deleted person. check to see if there are any problems within your database structure. This is NOT saying When I read about this, I was amazed because that there is a problem with your database. I never knew that anything could be done with This is just making sure that there is no these (what I call, little oopses). So, I tried it, corruption within the data structure. and, boy, was I shocked. This can be done anytime. I have decided that I will do this once When it is finished, it will have you click OK a month when I make a backup of all my files. (which you do want), or it may list what CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 8 May/June 2015

German Genealogy on region. A listing of all such places which the Internet: a Review contain that name will appear on a map with the listing of all the individual locations. by Nancy Ratay http://gedbas.genealogy.net – GedBas. Genealogical databases that are user- While at RootsTech/FGS in Salt Lake City last submitted. February, I attended a session by Dr. Michael D. Lacopo, DVM. He was a very interesting speaker http://www.dad-recherche.de/hmb/index.html – and had a lot of information on internet sites to help English and German, an online search of German with German research. While I cannot repeat his Emigrants, mostly through Bremen. It is a joint talk here, I can pass along some of the links he project of several museums and businesses. showed and reviewed with my comments on them. http://icar-us.eu/en/cooperation/online- http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=10 portals/matricula –Matricula. This is an online portal 74 – Meyers Orts-Und Verkehrs-Lexicon Des to other church records in Europe. There are not a Deutschen Reichs (Meyers Gazetteer of the lot of churches online yet, but worth continuing to German Empire). Most libraries have this, but it is check. If you do not get the English version with this free online to search places at Ancestry. He link, there is a choice in the very upper left corner. recommends using it with an aid like Wendy Uncapher’s book, How to Read & Understand https://www.archion.de – Kirchenbuchportal (old Meyers Orts… name) Church Book Portal. Dr. Lacopo says this is their new URL. Supposedly they have finished beta- http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen/en/ – Geogen testing and were going to be a pay site in March Surname Mapping. This is in English. You enter a 2015. He said level of subscription rate would be surname and it searches recent phone books and determined by the number of downloads desired on gives you a map of frequency of that name. You a monthly basis (roughly $200/year). They will have can also select sorted by federal states which yields digital church records that were previously a pie chart of smaller locations for more narrowing. unavailable in the United States. It will be This might help you narrow down where your searchable from home. Right now it is only in people were from unless your name is like Schmidt German, but looks like they are preparing for a or Friese (mine) where they appear everywhere like translated version. Click the DE in the upper right. It Smith and Johnson do in the U.S. is supposed to be the language choice, but says English not yet available. http://wiki-en.genealogy.net/Main_Page – GenWiki. There are many sub-categories at this site. The https://www.archivportal-d.de – Archive Portal. Main Page may be viewed in English, German, Many places are digitizing their collections on their Danish, French and Dutch, by clicking a choice in own. This link allows you to select the type of the lower left of the front page. archive you are looking for and choose a location. I have not spent a lot of time with this site, They have links to sites that have collections online. but I did use a link to Ortsfamilienbücher Dr. Lacopo also said to Google (local heritage books) at http://www.online- Landeskirchenarchiv, Kirchenarhiv, Staatsarchiv or ofb.de . This is a listing of Family Histories Stadtarchiv (Lutheran Church Archives, Church for various towns in Germany that are Archives, State Archives or Municipal Archives) with available online. These have been a place name to see if a location has an online researched by local or interested people presence. and uploaded to the site. The one I looked at listed the church book number and folio I do not speak German. I only know a lot of for sourcing. “genealogy German,” those words that appear http://wiki- regularly in church records. However, if English is en.genealogy.net/Portal:Societies –listing not a language choice on the site, you can try of genealogical societies that participate letting Google translate the page for you. I very online. Yes, these are mostly in German. much enjoyed Dr. Lacopo’s presentation and hope http://gov.genealogy.net/search/index – to try out many of these sites. I know from the Historic Gazetteer. You can type in a Ortsfamilienbücher site that there is a lot of useful village name or even a church, district or (continued on page 9) CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 9 May/June 2015

(from page 8) information if you can just get to it. I was able to research a big part of Gary’s German heritage in Winden/Pfalz from that site. Many of those families I later checked on at the Family History Library in Salt Lake where I could view the church record microfilms. Happy hunting!

Successful Joint Seminar, Saturday, March 21, 2015 Speaker: Cyndi Ingle, Cyndi’s List

Sandy Ronayne Welcoming Attendees

Cyndi gives a free talk at Christ the King church on Friday, March 20.

It’s Door Prize Time!

Cyndi (center) with Society Presidents, Kelly Glenn (CIG) and Sandy Ronayne (CGS)

A Full House

Jim Kroll, Director of Western History &

Genealogy at DPL One of Cyndi’s Presentations CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 10 May/June 2015

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from most any source. I recently came across an old family book. I started • Edit, narrate, add mouseover face to read it and was fascinated at the articles that labels and sound to your photos. were in this book. One of the articles was on the • Quickly organize your files into folders, origins of Surnames from around the world. This is in any order you choose. the continuation from Part I in the last issue • Automatically imports your Legacy family file GREEK: Many Greek surnames are patronymic in origin or Map My Family Tree-$39.95 by geographical place names. The most popular Features name is Pappas (descending from a priest). These • surnames come from either religious or Map My Family Tree automatically characteristic origins. geocodes your family tree in seconds, (continued on pages 11 and 12) CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 11 May/June 2015

(continued from page 10) Yamada (mountain, rice fields), Hata (farm), and HEBREW : Shishido (flesh, door). From the early 19 th Century, most Jewish names were patronymic or locational. But, during the POLISH : persecutions in Germany, they were forced by law One of the biggest characteristics of Polish to take permanent surnames. Some paid off the surnames is their endings, like -ski and -orocki. officials so that they could pick their own with them These were used by the nobility as a way to picking names of beauty. Many were not able to distinguish themselves, but that eventually changed pay and were given names that were very when the peasants started to use them. The two offensive. The European Jews were strictly limited suffixes mean “son of.” Some started to use in their professions and there were not many that German names because of the German influence had surnames of occupation. that was present. That all changed after WWII. They reverted back to their namesakes. Here are a Here are a few of Hebrew surnames mostly few: Drozd (a dweller at the sign of the thrush), descriptive in nature: Meier (the scholarly man) Ury Pajak (one with spider-like characteristics) (fire, light) Joffe (handsome or beautiful person). Rudzinski (a dweller near a mine where ore was obtained), Gorcyzka (one who raised and prepared IRISH : mustard). Hereditary surnames were first used in Ireland as early as the 10 th century. It did not become PORTUGUESE : widespread until the 12 th century. Ownership of the The Portuguese nobles and wealthy landowners land was determined by family relationships and began using surnames in the 11 th century, but it pedigrees were accurately maintained. With the didn't start to become hereditary until the 16 th interest in descent, many of the names are of century. Wealthy nobles would choose the name of patronymics, which are mostly integrated with the O their estates as a surname, and this spread or Mac. The O stands for the old Gaelic word ua, throughout the land. Commoners began using place which means descended from. Mac means son. names. There is a very unusual type of surname Mac is usually abbreviated to Mc or just plain M. found in Portugal, and it refers to the “religious People dropped the O and the Mac in fear of devotion,” like de Santa Maria. Other names persecution. Now, surnames are back to adding the include: Henriques (son of Henry; home rule), O and Mac. Here are some interesting Irish Marques (descendant of Marcus; belonging to surnames: McClary (son of a clerk), Rogan (one Mars), Souza (one who came from a salty place). with red hair, or ruddy complexion), Ryan (grandson of Rian; little king). RUSSIAN : Every person in Russia gets a first name, and a ITALIAN : second name (derived from the father's name and All Italian surnames end in a vowel and many are the surname). Most are locational. After the derived from a descriptive nickname. Even after Revolution of 1917, many religious names were hereditary surnames became the rule, descriptive changed, so they could join the Communist Party. nicknames were passed on from one generation to The peasants also changed their names. Here are another. With them doing this, it produced names of a few examples: Shiroff (son of a big, or wide man), animals, fish, birds and insects. Some Italian Droski (one who drove a coach), Kosloff surnames are: Cannella (a dweller where bent (characteristics of a billy goat). grass grew), Medici (one who practiced medicine), Pellicano (one thought to possess the SCOTTISH : characteristics of pelicans), and Rotolo (one who During the Middle Ages, there were many infants made or wrote on scrolls). born. Because of this, families would use their surname over and over again. They did this due to JAPANESE : the children not living long. They would change their Throughout Japan's history, only nobility had surnames when they moved. The Scottish women surnames. In the late 1800's the Emperor said that would keep their names even when they married. everyone must have a last name. Many whole This may have carried over from an older custom of villages took the same name. There are only the man taking the wife's name at the time of around 10,000 surnames in use, most are marriage. locational. Examples are: Arakawa (rough, river), There are two groups of Scottish surnames, the CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 12 May/June 2015

Highland and the Lowland. The Highland surnames (dweller near a marsh or swamp), Gonda (dweller started slowly. It wasn't until the 18 th century that at the stony slope), Rush (excitable person), men quit taking on their father's name. The clan Pestalozzi (one who cuts bones, a bonecutter). was responsible for making sure that the old ways were preserved. A man could join the clan for WELSH : protection and to show their allegiance, and then Fixed family names are more recent to Wales. was given a clan surname, usually Mac followed by Before they were imposed for legal purposes, fixed the chief's name. family names were neglected in favor of patronymic In the Lowlands, surnames developed like the ones. This was essentially the genealogical history English surnames, but at a much slower pace. The of the family; where one generation was connected surnames are indistinguishable from English ones. to another by ap, which means “son of”. Names like Examples are: Mawhiney (soldier of Suibhne; well Llewelyn ap Dafydd ap Lellan ap Griffith ap going), Peebles (dweller in a tent; or assembly hall; Meredith, were not uncommon. one who comes from Pebbleshire). Scrimqeour At the end of the 19 th century, this ended and ap (one who taught fencing; a fencing master) and was usually combined with one name to yield Rutherford (one who came from a river passage surnames like: Upjohn (from Apjohn) and Powell used by cattle). (from Aphowell). These are some Welsh names: Heavens (descendant of Evan, the welsh form of SPANISH : John), Mattock (son of Madog, or Madoc; According to legend, Spanish names actually began fortunate), Parsons (son of a parson, or son of as cries between Christian families warning each Peter) and Ryder (the rider, or trooper, a mounted other of the approaching Moors. Spanish surnames guardian of a forest). today are patronymic and vocational in origin. Before they became hereditary, the father’s name AMERICAN INDIAN : was used as the surname. You could tell by the Indian names reflect the culture of a particular tribe. endings -es and -ez, which means “son of.” Lords Most have a birth name, like, “Sunrise Beauty”, would use their estates as surnames and which is a family name. “White Mountain” is an sometimes it was with a patronymic. It was normal adult name that is given. Names are symbolic, even to use the father's surname along with the mother's. though each tribe has their own naming ways. The father's name would be first and is then joined A child is given one name at birth and more are by the mother's by the letter “y” and sometimes they than added during different phases of their life. will use a hyphen. They all have “Americanized” names for identification purposes only. Examples: Palo (a dweller near a tree), Tirado (sharpshooter or marksman), Labrador (one who EMIGRANT BLACK NAMES : cultivated the land; a farmer), and Seda (one who Most of the names of black North Americans are dealt in silk). close to those of the white population. During slavery, many were given names that were biblical SWEDISH and NORWEGIAN : and by plantation owners. After slavery, many took Since the early 10 th century, Norwegians have the surnames of their former owners. After the Civil taken on a surname associated with the family Rights Movement, some changed their names for farm. Swedish surnames are more recent and religious reasons or to reflect their African heritage. patronymic. There were so many “sons” that the Sweden government asked for new family names to I hope that you all get something out of this article. I be used. The National Family Name Committee was really surprised on what different nationalities approved 56,000 new names. Some examples are: did with surnames. I have decided that I am going Utter (otter), Raske (one who was daring, a soldier to be checking out why my families’ names are name), Seaberg (sea, mountain) and Hallberg what they are. (boulder, mountain).

SWISS : Not many surnames originated from Switzerland. No Meetings July and August Most of them are German, French, Italian or Have a great summer! Romansch in origin. Most though, are of German origin. Examples of Swiss surnames are: Pallin CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 13 May/June 2015

Meeting Location CIG’s Website Address

The Colorado Genealogical Our meetings for May and June only will be held Society-Computer Interest at 7:00 pm at Christ the King Lutheran Church, Group’s website address is 2300 So. Patton Ct., in southwest Denver. The www.cigcolorado.org church is at the corner of Iliff Ave. and So. Patton

Ct. in the Harvey Park area. CIG President, Kelly Glenn, When coming from the north: Take Federal or created the wonderful CIG web pages. The Sheridan Blvd. south to Evans Ave. Turn right site has information about family tree software from Federal or left from Sheridan and take Evans programs and links to contact the workshop to Patton Ct. Turn south on Patton Ct. two blocks leaders. There is also information about our to the church at Iliff Ave. program and workshop meetings, seminar registrations, copies of past newsletters and When coming from the south: Take Federal or much more. Sheridan Blvd. north to Yale Ave. Turn left from Federal or right from Sheridan and take Yale to Need to Contact Us: Patton Ct. Turn north on Patton Ct. three blocks to Our Email Address is: the church at Iliff Ave. [email protected]

CIG on Facebook

Linda Hartlaub does a great job maintaining our CIG Facebook page for CIG members and other interested persons. Facebook is the leading "social networking" site on the Internet. You must already be a Facebook member to access this group site. Joining Facebook is free!

?? Ask An Expert ?? Do you have a question about your computer genealogy program? Digital imaging or scanning? Internet research? Location of internet records? This column is for you. No question is too simple. Maybe someone else is wondering the same thing. Email your question to the editor at Note: Beginning in September 2015, CIG [email protected], and it will be forwarded meetings will be held at the Denver Public th rd to one of our workshop leaders. Then, watch Library, 13 & Broadway, on the 3 for your question and answer in the upcoming Saturday of each month (except July, newsletter. August, and December) from 1-3 p.m. in the 7th Floor Training Room. More details to follow. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 14 May/June 2015

Steering Committee Elected Officers President………….….. Kelly Glenn Help the Editor! 303-810-9975 [email protected]

Immediate Past President…..Sandy Ronayne Please help make this 303-750-5002 [email protected] newsletter a success by Vice President/Programs..Lori Collins submitting articles or ideas 303-237-4531 [email protected] for articles relating to computer genealogy to Secretary…………….Ray Henney me to include in this newsletter. Please be 303-758-0792 [email protected] Treasurer…………….Sharon Mahler generous with your submissions of your 303-757-3669 [email protected] favorite genealogical websites, a new website Steering Committee Appointed Officers you have discovered, breakthroughs using your Membership………..Charlotte Weiler computer, and genealogical news and meetings 303-548-7250 [email protected] of other societies. Articles and ideas for Membership Host.….Marilyn Elrod 303-979-8435 [email protected] articles may be emailed to me at Publicity…………….Lori Collins [email protected] . Deadline for articles is 303-237-4531 [email protected] th the 25 of even-numbered months. Newsletter & Hospitality…Lynette Dick 303-986-7910 [email protected] Next deadline is August 25, 2015. Historian…………….Sharon Mahler 303-757-3669 [email protected] Lynette Dick CGS Liaison………..Nancy Ratay 303-972-2701 [email protected]

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CIG May Genealogical Forum Computer Interest Group

Saturday, May 9, 2015 9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Christ the King Lutheran Church 2300 S. Patton Ct., Denver, CO

Cost: FREE Registration: 9:15 a.m. ------9:30 a.m. – Introductions

9:45– 10:45 “Evernote” presented by Lori Collins Evernote is perfect for genealogical research. If you have not used Evernote recently, it has changed making this free note-taking software the best for syncing across several platforms and devices. Evernote is an organizational tool, research notebook, planner, and search tool for websites, files, records and more.

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch on your own. You are welcome to bring your lunch.

CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 16 May/June 2015

May 9, 2015 Genealogical Forum “Evernote – WikiTree – Findagrave & Billion Graves – Genealogical Software” by S. Kelly Glenn, Deena Coutant, Lori Collins and Michael Sills

May 11, 2015 Program Meeting “Using Google For Much More Than Searching” by Scott Henke

June 8, 2015 Workshop & Tech Talk Meeting +Ice Cream Social before meeting

No Meetings July and August – Have a Great Summer!

CGS/CIG Newsletter Lynette Dick, Editor 7440 West Utah Ave. Lakewood CO 80232

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COLORADO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY COMPUTER INTEREST GROUP NEWSLETTER

www.cigcolorado.org Lynette Dick, Editor Sept. -Oct. 2015

Program Meeting

Sat. Sept. 19, 2015 @ 1:30 p.m. Welcome to a new year of “Data Gathering Tools” genealogy meetings at the

Speaker: Mark Rabideau Central Denver Public Library, 14th & Broadway

Workshop & Tech Talk Meeting In This Issue Saturday, October 17, 2015 @ 1:30 p.m.

Sessions: • From the President

Legacy • CGS/CIG Spring Seminar Family Tree Maker • CIG & CGS Programs The Master Genealogist • DPL Parking RootsMagic • Helpful Websites Reunion for Mac • Reunion 11 Internet Research • Legacy Scanning/Digital Imaging • RootsMagic 7

• Committee Members

• Treasurer’s Report

Have a friend interested in Ge So, is it fall and time for genealogy? Not to say I haven’t been doing any nealogy? Bring them to our meetings. research this summer, as I started two new family trees for friends on An cestry.com.

There has been some debate on Ancestry’s new format. I think most of the complaints are annoying and frivolous. Personally, the changes have enhanced how I do research. I love it. There is always room for improve ments and Ancestry.com has listened the past few months and have made appropriate changes.

With that said, I am looking forward to our new season beginning on Sep tember 19 th at the Denver Public Library. The Steering Committee checked out the 7 th floor training room in June, and it is really “high tech.” Recent improvements in their Wi -Fi will make it easier if you want to bring your laptop or tablet. Our Vice President and speaker coordinator, Lori CeCe Moore, Speaker Collins, has done a great job booking some great speakers for our CGS/CIG Spring Seminar presentation meetings. Our September speaker, Mark Rabideau, is pre Saturday, March 5, 2016 senting “Data Gathering Tools," Using different kinds of tools (Mainly free Genetic Genealogist CeCe - ones) to capture your genealogy data. See Mark's website at many Moore is our next Seminar Speaker roads.com. If you missed Julie Miller’s presentation on “How to Plan Your for our CGS/CIG joint Seminar. As Digital Afterlife,” you won’t want to miss this one. an experienced media consultant, she has appeared on "Finding Your Genetic Genealogist, Cece Moore is coming to town! CGS & CIG are Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.", CBS This Morning, 20/20, and the grateful we were able to get Cece for our joint Seminar on March 5 th at the Doctors. The Computer Interest Denver Public Library. She is a very popular personality, having appeared Group and the Colorado Genealogi on ABC’s 20/20, CBS The Morning Show and is the genetic genealogy cal Society are excited to bring consultant for the Genealogy Roadshow . She has also appeared on the CeCe to Denver on March 5, 2016 at the Denver Public Library. TV show Finding Your Roots, w ith Henry Louis Gates, Jr. March’s pro gram will include 4 sections on DNA. This will be a great seminar. CeCe is lead Ancestry Ambassa dor for 23andme, Adoption Search I would like to focus this season on using tools that can really help us in Angel on the DNA Detectives Face our research. After digging for new websites and software the past four book page, and the International years, I have found that many are a lot of “fluff”, and not very worthy of Society of Genetic Genealogy’s Re gional Coordinator for Southern our consideration. We have some great research tools available to us California, just to name a few. right now. I am sure more will be coming our way. CeCe will present four programs Hope to see all of you at our upcoming meetings. I am very much looking that you will not want to miss! Ticket forward to our CIG programs and Workshops. sales begin on October 19.

2 Upcoming CIG Program: Saturday, September 19, 2015 from1:30 -3:30 p.m.

“Data Gathering Tools” by Mark Rabideau

Upcoming CGS Program:

Saturday, September 19, from Denver Public Library, 14th & Broadway, 7th Floor Conference Room 9:30 -11:30 a.m. “Genetic Genealogy A New Meeting Place Overview” Parking and Transportation Options to the Denver Public Library: by Deena Coutant Denver Public Library Parking options webpage : https://

www.denverlibrary.org/content/central -library -parking and https:// history.denverlibrary.org/plan -your -visit Both the Colorado Gene alogy Society and the Computer Interest Group will begin meeting in the 7th Floor Conference Room at the main Denver Public Library in down town Denver on the 3rd Saturday of September.

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The prices for parking in the Denver Library lot or other near lots, have in Parking app for android or i -phone: http://www.bestparking.com/ creased substantially. We denver -parking or spothero.com/denver have included some op Prepaid parking online : spothero.com/denver tions for transportation RTD light rail and bus schedules: http://www.rtd -denver.com/ and parking.

3 Helpful Websites:

From Lori Collins

I came across a website recently that looked pretty interesting, and thought that I would give it a try. The first thing that caught my attention was the name of the company, “Genealogy Go- phers.” They actually go by “GenGophers.” www.gengophers.com

They are a Genealogy company that specializes in being an online genealogy library. It only carries genealogy books. They have one of the “World’s Largest Collections of Online, Searchable, genealogy -only books and other family histories, that any library has.

They currently have more than 40,000 digitized family histories, genealogy magazines and how -to books, gaz etteers, newsletters and medieval histories. The list updates every day. They also have a partnership with FamilySearch. They plan to increase their library by 40,000 books by the end of 2015.

A little information about how this website got started. They wanted to make family history faster, easier and lots of FUN. Dr. Dallon Quass is the CEO and founder. He is an educated computer scientist with a back ground in large databases, artificial intelligence and machine learning and genealogy website technologies. He was the CTO of FamilySearch and the founder of “WeRelate.”

The how to: Search for your ancestors by name, date and place. Start by putting in the Surname and see how many names come up. If you have numerous ones, then add the first name. If you are still getting quite a few, then add a date.

An example: Foreign versions of English names and foreign equivalents of United States military and civilian titles :

This is one of many that came up when I put in my maiden name of “Ludwig.” There were many other hits as well. Give it a try and see what you come up with.

http://www3.gendisasters.com

GenDisasters.com is a genealogy site that contains information on the historic disasters, events, and tragic accidents our ancestors en dured, as well as, information about their life and death. Database and records are searchable by surname as well as by the name of a disaster or by Year or by State. A separate section of the site contains infor mation about disasters in Canada.

Used with Permission of Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter

From Ted Bainbridge

The Pennsylvania Archives is a set of 138 books. These books are transcripts of a wide vari ety of governmental and nongovernmental documents from earliest colonial times through 1848, plus a few items through 1902.

You can search the entire set of books quickly and for free on the internet. Go to http:// www.fold3.com/title_450/pennsylvania_archives/ and sign in. (If you don’t already have an ac count, use the “Join Now” button to create one. Fold3 is a pay site, but you can sign up for free and you can use the Pennsylvania Archives for free.) Type what you want in the search box, then click the “Search” button. Click each image on the hit list to see that page full size. You can save images to a hard disk or thumb drive, or print them on paper.

In the search box type exactly what you want to find, without punctuation or quote marks. (The search algorithm finds each page that contains all of the words or numbers you typed, but it does not look for exact phrases. If you search for CANNON BALLS, you might find a page that talks about cannon wheels and musket balls, but not cannon balls.) Hunt full words and their abbrevia tions in separate searches. Hunting common words creates enormous and useless hit lists. Hunt modern spellings, colonial spellings, and modern mis -reads of old handwriting. Hunt mis -reads of sloppy writing and mis -reads by a hurried transcriber.

The Library of Virginia’s website provides access to much of their vast collection, with finding aides that let you search their hold ings in several different ways. Some of their materials can be read online, then printed and/or saved to a computer. Go to http:// www.lva.virginia.gov/ .

Genealogists would be most interested in the following choices under “For The Public”: 1. Using the Collections. This choice leads to these items: Guides and Indexes Databases and eBooks Alphabetical Listing of Guides, Indexes, and Databases Local Historical Societies in Virginia Virginia Heritage Project (finding aids to manuscripts and archival collections statewide) Professional Researchers (Certified Genealogists and Accredited Genealogists only). 2. Virginia Memory (exhibitions and digital collections). 3. Search the LVA Catalog. Choose a category tab. After a tab is selected, choose the desired search type and type keywords in the search box. The “Images and Indexes” tab also lets you select the database to be searched, years to be searched, and other options. 4. Electronic Discussion Groups (historical and genealogical). 5. Order Materials.

At the bottom of the home page, try “Site Index” which is an alphabetic list of library holdings ac cessible through the web site.

5 Reunion 11 is Here! by Nancy Ratay

Our Reunion group has not met in quite a while. But Reunion 11 is out along with the companion app for mobile devices, ReunionTouch. If you are inter ested in learning about the new upgrade and app in October, please let me know at the email at the end. I will run a workshop if there are interested peo ple. Remember we are now meeting on the third Saturday at DPL downtown at 1:30 pm, usually the 7th floor. Watch the web site and your email for any changes.

Reunion 11 and ReunionTouch were launched in May of this year. Upgrading Reunion from a previous version costs $49.95. Purchasing for the first time is $99.There is a quicky video (about 9 minutes) about the new features and the new mobile app at: http://www.leisterpro.com/doc/video/videoplayer.php

Good news — there is not a whole new interface to learn this time! If you are using Reunion 10, most of the upgrade will seem familiar to you, unlike the last upgrade that changed a whole lot. Probably the biggest new feature involves the new app, ReunionTouch and how it syncs with your computer. In order to get your family tree onto your mobile device before, you had to manually sync the changes while on wifi with both programs open. Now you can sync from anywhere you have wifi by using Dropbox. You can obtain a Dropbox account for free at https:// www.dropbox.com . You can now make changes on your iPad while away from home and as long as you are connected with wifi, those changes will appear on your computer version when you get home when the computer is on wifi. Through ReunionTalk I have learned how to allow my family (hubby and daughter) to access the file on their ReunionTouch app and not have to worry about them “editing” accidentally. That is a bit complicated and perhaps for another article or workshop session. There are also videos on the new mobile app features and the syncing using Dropbox available at the URL above. The new app sells for $14.99, but once you buy it you can download it to your iPhone or iPad or both. Gary and I share an Apple account so he can have the app as well for no additional cost. Previously you paid $9.99 each for the iPad and iPhone versions.

Here are some other interesting new features: Islands Sidebar — An island is defined for this program as “groups of people linked to each oth er, but not linked to people in other islands.” This feature allows you to locate some of those “extra” floating people you might have added because they might be related. I had a lot more of these than I thought I had. This feature would allow to “remind yourself” about avenues of re search to continue. You can rename the Islands from “Island 2” to something of your choice so you can easily see who it is for. I found I had 59 islands, 30 of which were just one person islands! I have some work to do.

Book Creator — The book creator will generate a pdf book which includes sources, multimedia, surnames, table of contents, place index, and person index. I have not used this function yet ex cept to take a look at it for this article. There are many, many choices available for this and sounds like a very interesting new feature. I will probably be doing another article strictly on this, or if we restart workshops, we could do one on this feature.

Family Sources — When you have the sidebar open with Sources, there are now two options, one of which is Family. When you click the Family button, you will see a listing of just the sources used for each person of the couple and sources for their marriage. You can now drag and drop sources from one family to another through this window. You can open this window into Pages 09, Text Edit, Word or any other word processor that will take rtf (rich -text format). A personal opinion here — I am very disgusted that New Pages will not accept rtf documents! I feel that this is the stupidest change Apple has ever put into any of their products. Therefore, I have left “old” Pages 09 on my machine specifically to open Reunion documents.

6 Thumbnails — This is a new item in the Navbar with a thumbs -up icon. It opens a window that provides an image browser in which you can view all of your media attached to people, media for groups of people or media attached to source records. There are also several variations on display for this new Nav item which would also be better covered at another time.

Undo -Redo — Hooray! This is for all of us who make mistakes! They have finally added Undo and Redo buttons bottom left of the Edit Per son window. The buttons will not appear until you have changed an entry. And you can undo up to 10 times on the same window. This also applies to adding or deleting facts or sources and changing marital status. Once you click Done, the Undo/Redo buttons reset and are disa bled until you change something again.

Feasibility List — There is another new Navbar item called Lists. When you click on it you will see your last selected list, plus a left sidebar of the types of lists available. This sidebar list is also available through the selection triangle next to Lists name. One of the lists is Feasibility. We have been told in many blogs and lectures that we should be checking our feasibility. And while it comes up when we enter the data, sometimes we may import other gedcoms or family files that already have a problem. This lists allows you to see any problems that might occur in your file. It allows you to select Ignore if needed. An example of this occurs during the time pe riod where calendars were changing and year dates such as 1662/3 were common. Because of how Reunion enters your dates for its calculations this may cause errors of “born before par ents married,” when in fact it was not true due to the calendar switch. You can click on Ignore and select Show>People with warnings and then not have them shown in your list to check.

Some other quickie changes: Relationships are identified “ on -the -fly” once you have selected the source person. Take photos with your built -in camera and add them directly to your file. Navbar is collapsible to give more room to view families or other apps on smaller screens Logs appear in separate window so it’s easier to add to while viewing your data Results in Sidebar menu has a pop -up triangle (right) to show you previous saved searches List window will allow you to see the names of all spouses via pop -up triangle Marriage button now shows length of marriage and icons indicating if there are notes, additional event facts and multimedia for this couple

There are lots more minor changes listed on the Reunion web site. They have also worked to make the mobile device app appear much more like the computer file. There are a number of new features for the ReunionTouch app as well as the new syncing. Check them both out at: http://www.leisterpro.com

There will be a lot more to cover in future articles or workshops. Remember, if you want to start up the workshops again, you need to contact me at: nratay@ng -tek.com

RootsMagic by Lori Collins

Legacy, Have You Backed up Your Files? As we took a break, our By S. Kelly Glenn RootsMagic people were busy at work. Awhile ago, Microsoft After years of research and collecting data on my Leg came up with Windows 10, but acy Family Tree, I feel secure that my Legacy data were not sure how it would files are backed up. I have them backed up on Car work with other developers bonite, and occasionally copy the file to Dropbox programs. They decided to give these develop where I can pick it up on another computer. ers a pre -ten program, so that they could try it and see if it would work with their programs. It I thought everyone would back up their Legacy file. Here is a person on the Legacy Group on Facebook worked great with RootsMagic 7, RM 6, and who did not back up. She did not backup to any porta RM 5 and so on. Everyone was very excited at ble drives or cloud storage companies: how well it worked. The developers with “Help! I have had a disaster with my pc which crashed RootsMagic were all set to release an update after a WDF violation when trying to uninstall Norton. I that would work with Windows 10. Then, right have taken it to PC World to see if they can repair/ before Windows 10 became available to the restore. I have over 12 years of Legacy data backed public, Microsoft made a last minute change up onto the pc in a zip folder in documents. If they are that did not work so well with RootsMagic. A unable to save the hard drive or restore my Legacy 8, major update was needed. So, the RootsMagic is my family tree information lost forever?” developers hurried and put together an update Some interesting replies: that would work with Windows 10. You need to install the update, whether you have Windows [Tech Support] Did you have any backups saved 10 or not. You can download it through your somewhere other than your hard drive? (flash program by clicking on HELP – Check for up drive, CD, external hard drive, cloud server). dates, then click on update. This update is for Worst case scenario, if you lose your hard the people who are using RootsMagic 7.0.7 or drive, do you have your tree online some- higher. where where you can download it as a gedcom? If you are using RootsMagic 4, 5, or 6, and are using Windows 10, you need to download There are 3 main cloud drives Google, Dropbox the .REG file from files.rootsmagic.com/ and Microsoft versions. Always copy/paste RootsMagic -Win10 -Browser -Fix.reg. You will your sensitive data to one of them and it can- need to run the >REG file to add the necessary not be lost. Google and Dropbox offer it free entries to your Windows registry. You will get up to a certain value and usage. some pretty scary warnings, but just keep tell

ing it “YES” (you do want to make the change.) I back up to a flash drive every time I exit Legacy. Remember: you only do this if you are running Flash drives are so cheap now. RootsMagic 4, 5, or 6, and using Windows 10. This update was needed because RootsMagic The thing with computer crashes is not “if” it hap- users who are using older than 7.0.6.0 can no pens but “when” it happens. It’s gonna happen. I back up to my hard drive on my comput- longer log into FamilySearch Family Tree due er, a portable g -drive, and the airport drive. (I to changes from FamilySearch. The last minute use a macbook). Every penny I’ve spent to change that Windows 10 put in, was to prevent insure I have backups has been worth it. the internal WebSearch from working, and by having some text appear where it shouldn’t be. Don’t forget to back up your files! For Facebook users, the “Legacy Users Group” on Facebook is a great fo Also, RootsMagic has a User Group on Face rum to ask your Legacy questions. Legacy Tech Sup book that is growing fast. If you would like to port monitors this sight and answers many of the get into the group, you need to +Join Group. questions asked.

8 Help the Editor! Steering Committee Elected Officers Please help make this newsletter a success by submitting articles or ideas for articles relating to com- President………….….. Kelly Glenn 303 -810 -9975 [email protected] puter genealogy to me to include in this newsletter. Immediate Past President…..Sandy Ronayne Please be generous with your submissions of your 303 -750 -5002 [email protected] favorite genealogical websites, a new website you Vice President/Programs..Lori Collins have discovered, breakthroughs using your comput- 303 -237 -4531 [email protected] er, and genealogical news and meetings of other Secretary…………….Ray Henney societies. Articles and ideas for articles may be 303 -758 -0792 [email protected] emailed to me at [email protected]. Treasurer…………….Sharon Mahler 303 -757 -3669 [email protected] Next deadline is October 25, 2015. Steering Committee Appointed Officers

L Di Membership………..Charlotte Weiler 303 -548 -7250 [email protected] Editions of this newsletter are printed five times a year in Publicity…………….Lori Collins Jan -Feb, Mar -Apr, May -Jun, Sep -Oct and Nov -Dec. 303 -237 -4531 [email protected] ©You may re -distribute articles from this newsletter only Newsletter & Hospitality…Lynette Dick with the permission of the Editor. 303 -986 -7910 [email protected] All images ©2015 Colorado Genealogical Society - Historian…………….Sharon Mahler Computer Interest Group 303 -757 -3669 [email protected] CGS Liaison………..Nancy Ratay 303 -972 -2701 nratay@ng -tek.com

Council Liaison…….Kelly Glenn MEMBERSHIP ROSTERS 303 -810 -9975 [email protected] CIG Members may request a membership roster Seminar Co -Chairs…Sandy Ronayne from Membership Chairman, Charlotte Weiler by 303 -750 -5002 [email protected] emailing her at [email protected]. A roster ………….…Linda Hartlaub of specific genealogy program users is also availa- 303 -884 -1858 [email protected] ble. Facebook Administrator…Linda Hartlaub 303 -884 -1858 [email protected] Website Administrator……Kelly Glenn 303 -810 -9975 [email protected]

TREASURER’S REPORT Sharon Mahler, Treasurer Workshop Leaders If you have a question, comment or suggested topic Total Cash & Bank Accounts $15,496.00 for a Workshop, feel free to call or email a Workshop Leader. 7/1/2014 -6/30/2015 (Year End) Income $4,942.16 Family Tree Maker….Ed Richard Expenses ($2,662.73) 303 -355 -2592 [email protected] TOTAL $2,279.43 The Master Genealogist …….Patrick Purcell 303 -973 -2185 [email protected] …….Bobbi King STEERING COMMITTEE MEETINGS 720 -839 -4952 [email protected] ……Mike Jones Monday, Sept. 14, 6:00 pm, Bemis Library, 6014 S. 303 -447 -9649 [email protected] Datura St., Littleton. Legacy Family Tree…Vern Tomkins 303 -922 -3639 [email protected] Monday, Oct. 12, 6:00 pm, Englewood Library, Scanning & Digital Imaging…Gary Ratay 1000 Englewood Pkwy., Englewood. 303 -972 -2701 gratay@ng -tek.com Roots Magic…..……..Lori Collins Everyone is welcome to attend steering committee 303 -237 -4531 [email protected] meetings. Reunion for Mac……..Nancy Ratay 303 -972 -2701 nratay@ng -tek.com 9

September 19, 2015 Program Meeting: “Data Gathering Tools” by Mark Rabideau

October 17, 2015 Workshop & Tech Talk Meeting

November 21, 2015 Program Meeting: “How to Plan Your Digital Afterlife” by Julie Miller Contact Us No Meeting December [email protected] January 16, 2016 Program Meeting Visit us on the web at

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www.cigcolorado.org Lynette Dick, Editor Nov. -Dec. 2015

Program Meeting Welcome to a new year of Sat. Nov. 21, 2015 @ 1:30 p.m. genealogy meetings at the

“How to Plan Your Digital Afterlife” Central Denver Public Library, Speaker: Julie Miller, CG 14th & Broadway, 7th Floor Meeting Room

Workshop & Tech Talk Meeting In This Issue Sat. February 20, 2016 @ 1:30 p.m. • From the President Sessions: • CGS/CIG Spring Seminar Legacy • Favorite Genealogy Tool Family Tree Maker • Helpful Websites The Master Genealogist • Backups & Terabytes RootsMagic • Windows 10 Help

Reunion for Mac • Reunion 11

Internet Research • Family Tree Maker

Scanning/Digital Imaging • Legacy

• RootsMagic 7

• New Feature!

• Treasurer’s Report

• Committee Members

From the President The mission of the Computer Interest Group: To inform and update members as well as the larger genealogical S. Kelly Glenn community about the use of technology, especially software computer programs and emerging resources, in genealogical research. Bring a Friend to CIG Have a friend interested Excitement is in the air! Tickets sales are brisk for the March in Genealogy? Bring them 5, 2016, CGS/CIG joint Seminar. I encourage all those inter to our meetings. ested in hearing “Genetic Genealogist” CeCe Moore, to regis ter soon. For those of you who are not that familiar with DNA, don’t worry. The topics CeCe will cover can be understood by all. We’re not making this an advanced biology course. Don’t forget FREE access to Native American Records at Fold3 through November 15. I am excited to see some new faces at our Saturday meet ings. I am so glad that you are able to join us. Bring a friend or family member to our CIG meetings as they will be very welcome. As far as my own personal journey in genealogy, I must say it has been life -changing. It’s not so much collecting the data, but it’s how it has brought my family together. I now com municate with dozens of 1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd cousins I would CeCe Moore, Speaker never had known otherwise. Genealogy is less of an intellec CGS/CIG Spring Seminar tual experience for me, but rather an emotional one. Many of Saturday, March 5, 2016 you probably share the same feelings. As far as technology, I am a little overwhelmed lately with photo storage, and how photos are backed up on all devices. Previously, it was where to store my photos. Now it is where not to store them. Google+ has photo saving technology that sorts your photos by facial recognition. It will also sort by place taken and type of photos. For instance, it will sort all photos taken of flowers. This is similar to Picasa, but in cer tain areas, more advanced. We will keep you up -to -date on new technology at our future meetings. Hope to see you at our next Saturday meeting on November 21.

2 Upcoming CIG Program: Saturday, November 21, 2015 from 1:30 -3:30 p.m.

“Your Digital Afterlife” by Julie Miller, CG

Upcoming CGS Program: CeCe Moore filming a scene for Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Saturday, November 21, 2015 from 9:30 -12 noon

“Thomas Has a CGS & CIG Spring Seminar

Wife —John Has a Saturday, March 5, 2016 Daughter —Is She William’s Mother?” The Colorado Genealogical Society and the CGS/Computer Interest by James Jeffrey Group are excited to present CeCe Moore are our speaker at the joint CGS and CIG Spring Seminar, Saturday, March 5, 2016. The seminar will be held in the Lower Level Conference Room at the Denver Public Library, 10 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver. ********************** As an experienced media consultant, CeCe has appeared on CBS This Morning, 20/20, and The Doctors. Currently, she is working Both the Colorado Ge as the genetic genealogy consultant for two PBS television nealogy Society and shows, “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” and “The the Computer Interest Genealogy Roadshow”. She serves as the lead “Ancestry Advis Group are meeting in er” to 23andMe and is the Co -Director of the Global Adoptee Ge the 7th Floor Confer nealogy Project. She is also the Adoption Search Angel on the ence Room at the main DNA Detectives Facebook page, and is the International Society of Genetic Genealogy’s Regional Coordinator for Southern Cali Denver Public Library fornia. She is frequently consulted by and quoted in the press with in downtown Denver on regard to the emerging personal genomics industry. the 3rd Saturday of She will present four programs: each month (excluding *The Power of DNA: Genetic Genealogy Basics December, July and *Autosomal DNA: Discovering Your Ancestors in You August. *Who am I?: Exploring Ethnicity Estimates *I Have My Results, Now What?

******************* Register online at: http://www.cigcolorado.org/cigweb_009.htm

3 Beginning with this issue, we have created a way to involve more CIG members in this newsletter. At our work- by Jeanne Archer shop meeting on October 17, we announced a drawing for CIG members. To get into this drawing, members My two favorite genealogy tools are Reunion Software were asked to write an article for the newsletter. The topic (for the Mac) and my Scan Snap S1300 sheet scanner. I of this month’s article was: “What is your favorite technol- used Family Tree Maker while I was on Windows. But ogy tool used in your genealogical research?” when I converted to a Mac, I chose Reunion. (At the The four members submitting articles to this issue have time, I don't think Family Tree Maker had a Mac Ver been placed in a drawing for $99 towards a free DNA test sion.) Reunion is easy to use, intuitive, and customiza kit from Ancestry.com, 23andme or Family Tree DNA. We ble. For instance, it's easy to adjust the spacing, fonts, had four members enter the contest. We will draw the and overall appearance of the various ancestor charts winner at our November 21 meeting. and trees. Switching between various views is seamless, Thank you to Bob Miller, Jeanne Archer, Tony Hjelmstad, too. I haven't fully explored all the features of the pro and Carolyn Campbell. gram, but I know that it has extensive capabilities. Plus, I

appreciate Nancy Ratay for her willingness to share her

My Favorite Genealogy Tool expertise in Reunion at our CIG meetings. by Bob Miller Since winning the Scan Snap scanner at one of our The tool that I find most helpful in my genealogy research CIG meetings, I'm not sure how I worked without it. (This is Evernote. I use Evernote at home on my computer or is one more reason to regularly attend the CIG meetings. my tablet, as well as at certain research locations away Thanks again to Sandy Ronayne for donating it.) I'm con from home. The think I like most is the ability to capture verting my genealogy papers to digital files, and the Scan web content into my account quickly and easily. I find it Snap makes that an easy task. It holds about ten pages much easier than taking notes on paper (which I typically in the document feeder, and does an excellent job scan misplace somewhere down the line). ning in color or black and white. The trick is to devise a naming system for the scanned files so that the docu I have captured items from Ancestry.com at a local Family ments are named in a consistent manner and in enough History Center which includes sufficient reference to re detail to be easily found. Occasionally, I want to double trieve the information later to include in my database. The check a source record that I've recorded in Reunion. Be same applies to other subscription services for which I do cause of my particular naming convention, I can readily not keep regular personal subscriptions (particularly find the scanned source document. That sure beats my newspapers). I prefer Evernote over site -specific capture old system of digging through papers! methods (Shoeboxes, etc.) because I can keep infor mation from different sources in the same place, instead of managing multiple sources.

I have used Evernote since 2009, and am still on the free version (much to the dismay of Evernote). I marvel at its capabilities to search textual content from images (including some handwritten text). Even more remarkable is that I can find notes that I would most certainly mis placed if using only paper notebooks and loose slips.

I have used Evernote regularly and have encouraged oth ers to learn and use it as well. Comments that I have heard from others convinces me that Evernote should be Wishing Everyone a Blessed Holiday Season!! in every genealogy researcher’s toolkit. No Meeting in December

4 by Tony Hjelmstad

You should have a backup philosophy and then get software to fulfill it. My philosophy is keep both local and remote copies and several versions of each file and do it so that I don’t have to mess with it – but do get noti fied when there’s problems. And I like to spend little money while I’m doing it.

A lot of people have started using the “cloud” to store their files. This is great – but you don’t have back ups! Microsoft, Google, Amazon, BackBlaze, 1And1, and others all offer “cloud” based file storage. You just save your files to the ”cloud” and open them from the “cloud”. Teri and I use Microsoft. My TMG files are available to any machine I’m on, because the Microsoft version also keeps a local copy on every attached machine. So I can open the TMG projects at work, on my laptop, on my upstairs office or downstairs office, or on my tablet – and always have the latest version. And if the internet isn’t up, I still have the latest version to make changes to which will be saved when the internet is up. Perfect!

Except – what happens if you corrupt the files or accidently delete a large critical section of a tree and then save? All the changes are saved to the “cloud” and now all the computers have the same corrupted database or the same project missing a bunch of critical data. The only difference between using the “cloud” and a lo cal drive is that if the drive just quits, the “cloud” won’t lose your data. But if the local drive goes bad or you corrupt your data or make changes you really don’t want, they are immediately copied to the “cloud”. Time for restoring from a backup – hope you have one!

I use two products – and they both can backup my “cloud” as well as local folders. I use two because one backs up to an internet server and one backs up to a local USB drive. More is better!

For local USB backups, I use a free product called Cobian - http://www.cobiansoft.com/cobianbackup.htm. It allows me to create multiple backup jobs that run on a regular schedule. So I can backup my TMG project nightly and my music files once a week. Cobian can allow you to save several copies and limit how many. So you can have 7 previous backups saved, which is nice if your project got corrupted Tuesday and you didn’t notice till Saturday. I keep a week’s worth. I can set it to email me when the backup completes or when the backup has errors. It backs up to a USB drive or even to a web server using FTP if you have ac cess to one. It starts up when your Windows machine starts up and just runs.

For a “cloud” based backup I use BackBlaze - https://www.backblaze.com/. For $50/year, they will backup all the files you select on one computer. I have one computer that has 6 Terabytes of video files and they back all of that up for $50 a year. Almost all the other “cloud” backup services charge extra when you go over some limit. BackBlaze is a “on change” backup system. When a file changes or gets created, BackBlaze sends a copy to the server. The server keeps 4 older versions of files so that you can recover older versions if a recent change was wrong. BackBlaze notifies you if backups aren’t occurring. The interface allows you to select which folders to backup and how much network bandwidth to use. If you shut down your computer overnight or for weekends, the service “keeps its place” and resumes the backup operation where it stopped. You can set a throttle to keep from using too much internet bandwidth so that your computer won’t run slow. And you get to set your own encryption key so that no one else can download or even see what you backed up. They can’t see the file names or even which drives! BackBlaze also starts when Windows starts up.

Both these products allow me to implement my backup philosophy, are easy to use, and inexpensive.

5 by Carolyn Campbell

We collect a special kind of stuff. We go out of our way to hunt for our genealogy stuff. We stay up late to find more stuff. Our families know we will take their unwanted stuff. Our stuff starts living at the corner of a table, then it takes over the table. It builds up and takes over a corner of a room. Then for us crazies, it takes up a whole room.

Our computers are conservators of our stuff. Mine like yours hold duplicates and possibly triplicates of the same stuff. Each file may have small additions or deletions. We keep backups and backups to our backups. We work on documents and update these documents. We have folders of raw unorganized stuff generated from numerous outings to libraries, and family gatherings, etc.

Thinking of names and versions for all of our stuff can get confusing. We have files that could be named the same but for various reasons each are different. How do we differentiate and rename this stuff? I have a simple naming tip that takes little creative thinking. I give the file its name followed by the present date; written in this format: year -month - date.

For example I have my "Campbell Tree" to backup. My backup from June 21 of last year would be called "CampbellTree20140621". Early this year, I made another backup from last March called "CampbellTree20150309". So, my Tree folder will look like this organized newest to oldest:

CampbellTree CampbellTree20150309 CampbellTree20140621

This naming format is easy because I use whatever the present date is, at the end of a file name. I never have to worry I will name two files the same name. I use the number system in the dates so my computer can organize the files chrono logically, I can see in an instant which backup is which.

The same can be used with my raw folders of various genealogy trips. The places are together, organized by dates. My trips folder example:

Pittsburgh20070723 Pittsburgh20100618 Pittsburgh20140729 Salt Lake20080310 Salt Lake20091104 Salt Lake20130412

If you are working on a document that will be revised numerous times, it can be confusing to remember what number should be the next version #4? or #5? Using dates make it easy to name:

CampbellFamilyReport20150728.doc [ version#1 ] CampbellFamilyReport20150801.doc [ version#2 ] CampbellFamilyReport20150812.doc [ version#3 ]

Try this naming format to help organize your files.

6 Favorite Websites: Backups and Terabytes

www.extremegenes.com By S. Kelly Glenn

Extreme Genes is a ra Backups are essential in genealogy. We used to dio show and podcast remind ourselves to back up data at the end of eve about family history. ry month. Today, there are services that backup as Every Sunday listen to a soon as we had data to our files. Even though I use new show hosted by Carbonite to backup up all my data, I have been Mark Fisher, the primary experimenting with external backup drives. You can person behind Extreme Genes Family History Ra now buy 1 terabyte drives online for as little as dio, and national experts. This popular podcast has $59.00. They can be set to back up in minute inter thousands of listeners all over the world. vals, hourly, weekly or however you choose. So what is a terabyte of storage anyway? The latest episode of Extreme Genes, "America's family history show," features a discussion of an • 17,000 hours of music or 200,000 songs Illinois black sheep ancestor, information on creat • 85,899,345 pages of word documents ing digital copies of antique photos, and a database for researching baseball players. NEHGS Chief Ge • 1000 hours of video nealogist David Allen Lambert co -anchors the open ing segment with host Scott Fisher and shares re • 310,000 photos search stories, tech tips, and other news. • The IBM computer Watson, against which Jeopardy contestants competed in February 2011, has 16 terabytes of RAM.

• 1 terabyte =50,000 trees made into paper

and printed

• The Hubble Space Telescope has collected more than 45 terabytes of data in its first 20 years of observations www.ancientfaces.com • Ancestry.com claims approximately 600 TB AncientFaces is a free online vintage photo of genealogical data with the inclusion of US graph sharing service which aims to build a "portrait Census data from 1790 to 1930. of our past" by offering members the opportunity to share and view vintage photographs of their ances I think my 1 terabyte external drive will be quite suf tors. If nothing else, it’s fun to look through the pho ficient!! tos!

7 Is There Any Help For The New Windows 10? by Lori Collins

Since its debut, some people have had problems or have wanted to search for information on Windows 10, and were faced with the dilemma of where to look for answers. But there is help for us. Here are some of the shortcut keys and what they stand. Some are the same as they have been with all Windows programs.

F1: This key still means the same; help documenta tion.

Ask Cortana: This is one of the newest features that is the most talked about. Cortana is a virtual assistant that just doesn't schedule appointments or meetings and National Archives Virtual Genealogy Fair Materi- searching through your files on your computer, but it als are now Available can also help in finding some basic issues. To get her to do what you want, just click on the microphone icon and say, “Hey, Cortana,” and then ask your question. The U.S. National Archives held a Virtual Genealogy The joy of this feature is, she will look up things for you. Fair on October 21 & 22. Presenters included Ar Just remember to enable it on your computer. When the program was built, it added answers to frequently chivist of the United States David S. Ferriero, Execu asked questions. If you need any Reference items, she tive for Research Services William A. Mayer, and a is very good at handling these also. number of other genealogy experts from National Ar

chives locations across the nation. The presentations Chat with Support: The support staff associated with Windows 10 is more integrated than any other Win focused on tips and techniques for using Federal rec dows programs to date. If you need to use this, go to ords at the National Archives for genealogy research. your Search Bar and locate the Contact Support app that has been pre -installed with Windows 10. If you re The lectures are now available on YouTube. The first moved it, you can get it back. Just go to the Windows day's presentations are available at https:// Store and download it again. Once you have it open, www.youtube.com/watch?v=T -rDaFVYJhU while Day navigate to the section that best fits the issue that you are looking for. You can Chat Online with a Microsoft 2 may be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch? Answer Tech. You can ask to Arrange a Call Back. Be v=L4o3_Ox_cUY. ing sent to a text -based chat client is okay, but its not a person. You can also download copies of the slides and the

presentation handouts at https://www.archives.gov/ Ask the Experts: Here you can talk with someone from - - www.makeuseof.com. This group is very into tech calendar/genealogy fair/2015/schedule things and will have you out right away. handouts.html.

8 Foothills Genealogical Society of Colorado

Adds an Index to the State of Colorado “Old 1939 England and Man Draft Registration” Wales Census

The Foothills Genealogical Society of Colorado is building an index to the State of Colorado's "Old Man Draft Registration" of World War II draft registrations in Colorado. Clear Creek, The English and Welsh returns from a 1939 U.K. Gilpin, Jefferson and Park counties have been completed and survey will be released next month, allowing gene are available on the society's web site. The remaining coun- alogists to fill a 30 -year gap in census records. On ties in Colorado are being indexed now and will be added to September 29, 1939, just 26 days after war was the web site as they become available. declared, a survey nicknamed the UK's only "instant census" took place. The information col This Registration was the 4th of 6 draft registrations con- lected enabled the issuing of identity cards and ra ducted by the Selective Service System which commenced tion cards. The register applied to all civilians. on April 27, 1942 and was terminated on March 31, 1947 by an act of Congress. The purpose of this registration was to The war with Germany had just started and officials collect information on industrial capability and skills of men had little time to lose in preparing for the fighting aged 45 to 64 who were born on April 18, 1877 through and and privations to come. It had been eight years including February 16, 1897. It was to designate the men since the last proper census, in 1931, and the next which were not already in the military that could be utilized wasn't due until 1941. for national service if needed. The details requested were: Name, Sex, Age, Oc A description including race, height, weight, complexion and cupation, Address, Marital Status, Membership of obvious physical characteristics are included on the back of naval, military, or air force reserves, auxiliary forces the each card. Papers or extra cards were attached to a few or civil defense services or reserves. that may give more information about the individuals military history, decorations, citations, change of address or The information in this census is highly valuable to death. genealogists because all information in the 1931 census relating to England and Wales was de The web site contains an INDEX to the original records cre- stroyed by a fire at an Office of Works store at ated on index cards. Copies of both sides of the original Hayes, Middlesex, in 1942. Investigators suspected cards may be obtained by writing the National Archives & that a dropped cigarette was the cause, but this Records Administration, National Archives. was never proved. All safeguards in place, includ ing a sprinkler system, failed, meaning nothing You can learn more and also access the index on the Foot- whatsoever remains. And in 1941, the government hills Genealogical Society of Colorado web site at http:// did not carry out a census because it was too im foothillsgenealogy.org. ( Used with Permission from Eastman’s practical and labor -intensive with the war much in Newsletter) tensified by then. This means genealogists in Eng land and Wales face an information gap of 30 years from 1921 to 1951.

Veterans Day, November 11

9 Reunion 11 is Here! by Nancy Ratay

We had a few people at our October Workshop. Thanks for coming! I will hold anoth er in February only if I hear from you that you would like to come. Please let me know at my email: nratay@ng -tek.com before the beginning of February.

Many of the genealogy software companies are touting their feasibility checking. Re union is no exception. While at -the -time -of -entry feasibility checking has always been available as you enter your data, this is the first time that you can bring up a list of all of the suspected problems in the whole database. It is located in the Lists icon in the new Nav Bar. When you click the down triangle, it will give you a listing of all possible lists you might possibly want, including results from Finds you have recently done or saved as Marked Lists. The last list given is Feasi bility. When clicking on a list it will open a separate window.

When you open it you will see something similar to this (on right). Nothing will be checked yet. You can choose what to have it show you: All people, Marked people, Unmarked people, People with warnings, People with ignored warnings and Both (of the last two). After you have done some work on your list you will have some of both.

Why would you ignore a feasibility warning? Sometimes you know that a child was born before the marriage. It did happen. You may also know that a father died before the child was born. As long as he was around nine months before the birth it’s OK. Then there’s the whole issue of those messy 1600s dates which had to do with the calendar change. I have a number listed as 1662/3 or 1662/1663. Reunion had previously asked me if I wanted to save a “custom date” for these and had chosen yes. But it sorts on the first part, i.e. the 1662. Usually the “real” date for these was 1663 so sometimes a birth, death or marriage will seem not correct or “feasible” when it really was. As a researcher you have to make that determination.

When you double click on one of the warnings, it will bring up that family card for you. If you change something which rectifies the error, your Feasibility List will change the item to OK while your window is open. When you reopen the window later, that item will not appear. You can also up date the list at any time by clicking on the circling arrows at the bot tom.

Reunion lets you decide what your criteria are for feasibility check ing. By clicking on the gear at the bottom you will get the Prefer ences for Feasibility Checking window shown here. You can see there are a number of boxes you can check or uncheck regarding the warnings. Also you can select ages for the various facts. Reunion starts you with their default ages. It also gives you the choice to ex clude dates you’ve labeled as before, after, about, circa or ?. Lastly it has click boxes to Show Feasibility List, Add Feasibility to the Cur rent Family View and Clear All Ignored Check Boxes. When you click “Add Feasibility.” it will add a field to the current card which states the feasibility problem in red. You must configure your Family View to see it, but it is there. I would not click on “Clear All Ignored” un less you are really certain you do not want to see them again. I hesitate on this because sometimes you may get new information or discussion on old lines or from other family members. That is for personal opinion.

Remember: clicking on the ? On any card or window will bring up the manual for that topic.

I’m hoping to hear from you regarding the February workshop and please feel free to email questions on Reun ion 11 to the email address above.

Family Tree Maker 2014 Place Name Issues

By David Nelson

Place name data is subject to personal preferences and defining our data standard is a first step. Family Tree Maker provides tools which are helpful for editing to comply with standards we adopt and provide a sanity check on our place data.

I have to confess that entering the place name at the time of an event, birth, marriage, death etc. is less than satisfying. When place names have changed for a location entering both place names, at time of event and the current place name, into Family Tree Maker is helpful. Entry of Place data in earlier FTM versions was a little cumbersome but possible and moved correctly to the place name and place description fields as FTM versions evolved from one field to sepa rate data fields. The current place name and the place description such as the name of a church, or street address, etc. The place name at the time of the event is also entered in the place description field, for example: current place name: Philipstown, Putnam Co., New York and place description: St. Philips Church, Philipstown, Dutchess Co. after 1812

FTM now has a list of currently recognized place names which can help resolve ambiguous or erroneous place names. Place name resolution may also involve mapping software and Google searches. Events at same location over a time span, such as births, which have had multiple place names, are united by using the current place name. Clicking on a place name in the list of place entries shows people with events at the location and so using the current place name can help link people with events at the place.

Other ways to have multiple place names for one place in a data base is through data entry errors. Creative spelling of a place name occurs in sources, and typos have happened at data entry. How many ways can you spell Cincinnati or some other tongue twister? Merging data from Ancestry.com. can also lead to strange place names where the source may have descrip tion data such as a cemetery name, or an incomplete place name, or extraneous data such as a Ward number in place name instead of place description. The FTM Resolve Place Name under Tools will detect place entries not yet in the list of recognized places. Options for correc tion include: Change name, Move to description, Replace with a place name already in the list or Ignore entry as an error and adds the place name to list of recognized place names.

The Place Name window also has a field where a short name can be entered such as the Post al abbreviation for state. Short Place names might be useful in pedigree charts where space is limited. FTM provides for capture of latitude and longitude data for place names by clicking on a map or aerial image for mapping locations.

Planning for use of our hard won data should be important during data entry and data editing. Place name data is used in many reports and consistency is helpful to report readers not steeped in genealogy so that they can easily understand and correctly grasp where our ances tors and kin lived, as well as where to seek further documentation.

RootsMagic 7 by Lori Collins So Why Use Legacy Family Tree

By S. Kelly Glenn

After using other software to enter my family da ta, I have found Legacy’s screen views easy to read and understand. Entry input is easy using A question was asked by a RootsMagic mem Legacy. And even if you don’t use all the bells ber via Facebook: and whistles, they are there if needed. A woman is in the process of making her family a book. She asked if when you are creating a Legacy 8 has some great new feature which book, do you attach all documents to the indi are often forgotten. vidual, and then print them out with the book, or do you save them on your computer and re Reports and Charts. See where you came fer to them? from and the percentage of “blood” you have from your countries of origin with the new Origins Re Some replies included: “It all depends on what kind of book you are port. See how far and wide a person’s descend creating. If it's for a family reunion or will it ants spread out in the world with the new Migra eventually be going into the local library(at a tion Report. Add citations to Pedigree Charts. much later date).” You can even now print Source Labels to attach “It really doesn't matter how you want to do it. It to the top of your documents. will all work. Some reports have allowed for the media to be included in and some have had the Migration Mapping. Legacy 8’s enhanced media separated. It depends on the item and mapping animates the ancestor’s movement how it prints. Is it going to be printed in Land through time. Watch how they migrated from scape or in Portrait?” place to place. Pause and resume the animation, It depends on what you want in the book. If you or click on any location to view it. View their mi want to have all your documents in the book, it gration in street, aerial, or 3D modes. Hover over could be very costly to produce. You might just the balloon to see what happened in each loca want to source the names and include them. tion. “If it is just a regular book that will be for you, Instant Duplicate Checking . As you are add but one that you want to show people, you could make a scrapbook. Many people have ing new individuals to your tree, Legacy instantly decided to go this route, as it is a great way to checks to see if perhaps they are already in your show your work and it is more personalized.” family file, helping you avoid inadvertently adding duplicates. When you put your family tree book together, it comes down to making it how you want it to

FamilySearch Family Tree Integration. Legacy look and what you personally want to include. now interfaces with FamilySearch’s Family Tree (optional). Search the tree for new leads, contrib *Due to family health issues, my article in this ute your information, or even download infor issue is from the RootsMagic Facebook page . mation that fills in your gaps. Legacy monitors the Lori Collins

Family Tree for any new updates.

12 Help the Editor! Steering Committee Elected Officers Please help make this newsletter a success by submitting articles or ideas for articles relating to com- President………….….. S. Kelly Glenn 303 -810 -9975 [email protected] puter genealogy to me to include in this newsletter. Immediate Past President…..Sandy Ronayne Please be generous with your submissions of your 303 -750 -5002 [email protected] favorite genealogical websites, a new website you Vice President/Programs..Lori Collins have discovered, breakthroughs using your comput- 303 -237 -4531 [email protected] er, and genealogical news and meetings of other Secretary…………….Ray Henney societies. Articles and ideas for articles may be 303 -758 -0792 [email protected] emailed to me at [email protected]. Treasurer…………….Sharon Mahler 303 -757 -3669 [email protected] Next deadline is December 31, 2015. Steering Committee Appointed Officers

TREASURER’S REPORT Sharon Mahler, Treasurer Workshop Leaders If you have a question, comment or suggested topic Total Cash & Bank Accounts $17,334.64 for a Workshop, feel free to call or email a Workshop Leader. 7/1/2015 -10/31/2015 (Year End) Income $1,917.48 Family Tree Maker….Ed Richard Expenses ($1,838.64) 303 -355 -2592 [email protected] TOTAL $ 78.84 The Master Genealogist …….Patrick Purcell 303 -973 -2185 [email protected] …….Bobbi King NEXT STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING 720 -839 -4952 [email protected] ……Mike Jones Saturday, November 21, 3:30 p.m., 7th Floor Con- 303 -447 -9649 [email protected] ference Room, Downtown Denver Public Library. Legacy Family Tree…Vern Tomkins (following the Regular CIG Meeting). 303 -922 -3639 [email protected] Scanning & Digital Imaging…Gary Ratay Everyone is welcome to attend steering committee 303 -972 -2701 gratay@ng -tek.com meetings. RootsMagic…..……..Lori Collins 303 -237 -4531 [email protected] Reunion for Mac……..Nancy Ratay 303 -972 -2701 nratay@ng -tek.com 13

My Recipe and Craft Section

By Lori Collins (and others)

Hello Everyone. I wanted to do something that we all could contribute to. These newsletters are for you, our members. I have always been amazed at all of the different recipes and crafts that people have done with things that they have received from their ancestors.

I am hoping that this section of our newsletter will take off with more recipes and crafts that you have all done. It can be something that you have made or if you have seen it on the inter net or overheard someone and thought that maybe that would be neat to make.

Today, I am adding a recipe that was in our family (on my mother's side). This was originally my Grandmother’s Rhubarb Pie Recipe. My family loves it and it is actually pretty easy to make. This is one of the recipes that I did not have to re -figure because of the high altitude.

November/December Recipe —Rhubarb Pie

Make your pie crust (or buy one), you will need a crust for the bottom and one for the top). I find the oil pastry works well out here. Make whatever works for you.

Roll out the bottom pastry and place in the pie plate.

Then in a bowl; add 1 quart of cut Rhubarb (about an inch long) 1 egg; slightly beaten 1 ¾ cups of sugar Little Vanilla and Salt (I put about a teaspoon of vanilla) 2 to 3 Tablespoons of Tapioca

Mix all of this together and put this mixture on your pie crust. Then, roll out your top crust and place on top of the pie mixture.

Place your pie in a preheated 425 degree oven and cook until the rhubarb is soft (anywhere from ½ hour to an hour).

Cool completely, then cut a slice and have with coffee and ice cream. YUM!

Please send recipes and craft project directions to Lori Collins at [email protected]. We would love to include them in upcoming issues of this newsletter.

14 November/December Craft - Family History Quilt by Lynette Dick

I took my love of family history and quilting and married them in this quilt wallhanging. There is a method to the placement of the photos. I started with myself and my son in the middle. Then, branched off with my father to the left. His father’s family spreads to the upper left. His mother’s family spreads to the lower left. My mother and her family are to the right. Her father’s family spreads to the upper right, and her mother’s family spreads to the lower right. In addition to the pho tos, I also added some embellishments, such as jewelry, ribbons, and other mementos.

Photos are placed on white muslin fabric using your color ink jet printer and iron -on photo transfer paper. This paper can be purchased at local craft stores and also on Amazon.com for about $14 for 12 sheets of 8½ x 11 paper. Copy the photos onto the paper and then iron them on the fabric. In addition to quilts, you can make pillows, t -shirts, and anything you can make out of fabric. I have also made memorial pillows of my mother with each of her grandchildren.

The easy quilt block pattern can be found at http://www.generations -quilt -patterns.com/economy - quilt -block.html. Email me at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Lynette Dick’s Family Quilt Wallhanging. On the back of the quilt is a grid key to the identity of the photos.

Close -up of one of the squares. Special four -generation photo.

November 21, 2015 Program Meeting: “How to Plan Your Digital Afterlife” Speaker: Julie Miller, CG

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