[Genealogy-SIG] GENEALOGY NEWS 20080228

[jotaito]

GENEALOGY SIG MEETING REMINDER

Next Meeting:  6 Mar 2008, Thursday

Location:  DMA Conference Room, 119 Valley St., Dayton, OH

Speaker:  Mrs. Sandra Gustin, demonstration of some subscription websites.

Our February Meeting went over really well.  I think everybody was surprised and pleased with Mrs. Lorrain Wagenmann's presentation on Digital Scrapbooking for Genealogy  .  I was pleased to see how much could be done on the computer.  I think everyone was interested in seeing all the examples in the four books she passed around as well as just hearing the reasons for her work and a little of her own personal family history.  She also demonstrated the process of creating new items from genealogical records (as seen in her books). Lastly, she left a list of reference websites where supplies and help may be found on the web.  She also promised to recontact us once she is settled in her husband's new assignment.  She point out that many sites have free packages that include the items you need to make items and most are color coordinated so that it is harder to turn out a truly bad product.  Mostly, the works are all created within the imagination of the builder.     

A copy of her slides are available and will soon be posted on our new website as ... soon as I can get it operational (which will be soon).

I have been working on the DMA Genealogy SIG Website; but I am not a website developer, so it takes me longer to do everything.  It is coming along and I might be able to post it for comments by this meeting date.  

Members can be website helpful by thinking about how to intuitively lead a visitor through our site, to learn more about us or to learn more about genealogy and family history.  

While we have not discussed it yet, my plan is to design the site to accomplish several goals:  

(1) to expose the DMA Genealogy SIG to the world, 

(2) to provide an administrative structure for SIG business, 

(3) to provide an educational base for new genealogists and members (our service to the local community), and 

(4) to develop a research reference structure.

We said earlier that we would like to take a trip together up to the Ft. Wayne library to see their new facility. If anyone has preferred dates to go or dates which will prevent you from joining us, please make a list for me and bring it to the meeting.  

We need to start planning that trip now if there is any chance we will go in April or May.  This would be a one-day trip, up and back the same day.  I think it is feasible in that I recently made a one-day trip there.  We left at 8 AM, arrived there about 2.5 hours later, spent close to 8 hours doing research, had supper together and returned home.  I was back home by 10 PM.  If we let it be known that we are going to visit the Ft. Wayne library, some others might want to ride with us (possibly from the OGS-MCC).  We need to account for people and number of vehicles needed.  Probably, identify who has the biggest vans.

Jay Finley
Chairman
DMA Genealogy SIG
   
 
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