CLARIFICATION:

The UGA Virtual Chapter is not an APG chapter, but an online genealogy
society meeting sponsored by the Utah Genealogical Association. See:
http://infouga.org/

-- Thursday, October 13th - UGA Annual Meeting (Virtual Chapter
Presentations)7:00 pm to 8:00 pm - Member's Area
-- Thursday, Oct 20th - Genealogy in Prime Time:  Family History's Next
Generation with Josh Taylor
-- November (no date specified on the UGA website) The New Sourcing
Feature on New FamilySearch with Tim Cross


The Second Life Chapter of the APG meets Oct 13th and Nov 10th at the
Just Genealogy Fire Pit area in Second Life. See the Genealogists in
Second Life Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/194494987246029/

Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt      :)
DearMYRTLE,
Your friend in genealogy.
Myrt@...
http://blog.DearMYRTLE.com



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: [UtahValleyAPG] Re: Nov mtg
From: Joe Everett <joe_everett@...>
Date: Wed, September 28, 2011 8:26 pm
To: <UtahValleyAPG@yahoogroups.com>

       Hi Susan,

That’s unfortunate.  We had to move the meeting due to Thanksgiving,
not aware that the Second Life chapter has a meeting at the same time.
Whichever you choose, thank you for supporting APG either way!

Joe Everett

From: UtahValleyAPG@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:UtahValleyAPG@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Susan Bankhead
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 8:08 PM
To: utahvalleyapg@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [UtahValleyAPG] Re: Peggy Huber




I'm conflicted.  I see you've moved the Nov mtg to the same night as the
UGA Virtual Chapter.  So.... I guess the topic/speaker may pull me one
way or the other.  Sorry.

Hello UVAPG members,

Don't forgot that our UVAPG meeting is tomorrow, Thursday Oct 27, at 7:00 p.m.
in Room 2242, HBLL, Brigham Young University.

Come prepared to discuss experiences at genealogy conferences over the past
year. Even if you have not attended any, come learn from those who have.

Joe Everett
UVAPG President

Members and potential APG members,
Our Utah Valley APG meeting has been moved to next Thursday, November 17 because
of Thanksgiving.  We will meet in the usual place at the Harold B. Lee Library,
Family History Center, Room 2242, time
7 p.m.  Join us for a lively forum on forecasts with insights into future trends
for genealogy.  We will include clips from a web presentation by Joshua Taylor
titled "Genealogy in Prime Time: Family History's Next Generation."  We would
like to hear your future predictions.  Come participate with us.

Reminder—No December meeting.

Hello Utah Valley APGers!

I need your input on communications for our Chapter.  We have created a UVAPG
Facebook page, Facebook group, and Twitter account (linked to the Facebook page)
as a means of reaching out to more genealogy professionals in and around Utah
Valley.  Initially I had considered phasing out this UVAPG Yahoo! group and
email in favor of using Facebook.  However, I am finding some limitations with
the Facebook format.  For one thing, it does not support the uploading of files
(other than photos and videos), which makes it kind of hard for us to share such
things as a speaker's PowerPoint presentation (with permission), or to post our
bylaws, etc.

Another issue is that not everyone has joined the Facebook group yet
(http://www.facebook.com/groups/uvapg).  Several of you have, but not everyone
in this Yahoo! email list.  I wonder if not everyone is aware of it, or if some
of you prefer not to use the Facebook format.

The upside of Facebook is that it is very accessible and well known.  An
immediate benefit to adding the pages is that we have been able to make contact
with more than a dozen people (so far) who are not already members of this
Yahoo! group, but who found us on Facebook.

This Yahoo! group has its own limitations.  For one thing, for anyone to join,
they have to create a Yahoo! account, something not everyone wants to do.  Also,
Yahoo! Groups are not as easy to find or to add people to as in Facebook.  And
it is harder to maintain a public facing aspect of the group to draw people in
than it is on Facebook.  Yahoo! Groups just aren't that visible.  A more serious
potential concern is that Yahoo! has not supported any upgrades to their groups
feature for some time. The interface has remained the same for years.  And if
you go to Yahoo! homepage, groups is not even among the main links.  One wonders
how long Yahoo! will continue to maintain this feature.  The decision of whether
to keep using it could be made for us if they phase it out.

I'm interested to hear your ideas for how best to communicate.  I want to
continue to use a variety of social media to spread the word and draw interest
in the Chapter, but we need to have one main place to call home. Should it
continue to be this Yahoo! Group?  Should it be Facebook, (possibly in
conjunction with some kind of linked file-sharing tool)? Or are there other even
better alternatives we should consider?

Whatever we choose, we need to have a mix of private and public communication
options.  We need to be able to have private conversations within our group, and
be able to privately share photos, files, etc.  We also need a public facing
side that gets information out to those who have not yet joined and helps them
find us and easily join us.  Finally, we need something that everyone in the
Chapter can feel comfortable with and access readily so you don't miss important
information and so that you can easily respond and share.

With so many social media options available today, I'm afraid that we may not be
able to find one thing that is ideal for everyone, but hopefully we can
accommodate most the vast majority.

Please send me your thoughts on this by replying to this post/email.

Thank you!

Joe Everett
President UVAPG

We just received word that the APG Board of Directors is considering our
Chapter's proposal to add a new student membership status, with a discounted
rate on annual APG dues. Kathleen Hinckley, Executive Director of APG, had this
to say:

      "Thank you for the proposal from UVAPG Chapter regarding student
memberships.  The Board of Directors will be participating in a Strategic
Planning Session on January 30, 2012, in Salt Lake City. We have hired a
consultant to facilitate the planning. Your proposal will be included in the
discussions. Please let your chapter members know, and thank you again for
contacting APG with your recommendation."

Renee and I would like to thank Charlene Pipkin, for making the suggestion to
submit this proposal, and Michael Melendez, for drafting the wording for the
proposal.

We will keep you posted on what we hear from the Board.

Thanks for sharing your good ideas.

Joe Everett
President UVAPG

Each quarter, our Chapter has the opportunity to submit news about our  Chapter
and its members.  The Chapter Spotlight highlights the collective activities of
UVAPG.  Member News is a chance to highlight individual contributions.

We would love to share news about APG members in our area who are making
significant contributions to the profession.  Some examples of newsworthy items
include awards received, books published, articles published in major national
publications (such as NGSQ, TAG, etc.), or a member featured in print,
electronic, or Internet media.  (APG Quarterly is not looking for information
about speaking engagements at a local or state gatherings or publications at the
local or state level.) This is also an opportunity to honor any local APG
members who have recently passed away.

If you have something to share about your own activities, or you have news about
another local APG member you know, please email that information to me.  We have
just a few days left to get something in for the next issue, but if it comes
later, we can submit it for the following issue.  Throughout the coming year,
please continue to submit this kind of news, so that we can include it in
upcoming issues of APGQ.

Thank you!

Joe Everett
President UVAPG





Pictures may be submitted with the Chapter Spotlight and/or the Member News
sections. They will be included if space allows.

For our January UVAPG activity, we will be traveling up to Salt Lake to
participate in the Plenary Session of the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy,
featuring the venerable Thomas W. Jones.  Tom will be speaking on the topic "The
Genealogical Proof Standard: What It Is and What It Is Not."  The session is
free to the public.

The event will be held on Monday night, January 23rd at the downtown Salt Lake
Radisson Hotel.  Tom's presentation starts at 7:00 p.m. Plan to arrive early to
get a good seat, as Tom's lecture will be quite popular.

Those interested in carpooling up from Utah Valley will meet at the American
Fork Park & Ride lot (just west of I-15 at American Fork Main Street) at 5:15
p.m. Please contact me if you are interested in carpooling so that we can
coordinate rides. (Some of you may be attending SLIG anyway and will already be
there.)

Please note: This event will take the place of our regular meeting.  There will
be no UVAPG meeting on Thursday, January 26th.

I hope that many of you will plan to take advantage of this great opportunity to
hear from one of the genealogy professions' preeminent educators.

Joe Everett
UVAPG President

Don't forget: This Monday is your chance to hear Tom Jones speak on the
Genealogy Proof Standard.  Details below.  Contact me if you wish to carpool! My
cell number is 801-380-0072.

--- In UtahValleyAPG@yahoogroups.com, "joseph_blake_everett" <joe_everett@...>
wrote:
>
> For our January UVAPG activity, we will be traveling up to Salt Lake to
participate in the Plenary Session of the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy,
featuring the venerable Thomas W. Jones.  Tom will be speaking on the topic "The
Genealogical Proof Standard: What It Is and What It Is Not."  The session is
free to the public.
>
> The event will be held on Monday night, January 23rd at the downtown Salt Lake
Radisson Hotel.  Tom's presentation starts at 7:00 p.m. Plan to arrive early to
get a good seat, as Tom's lecture will be quite popular.
>
> Those interested in carpooling up from Utah Valley will meet at the American
Fork Park & Ride lot (just west of I-15 at American Fork Main Street) at 5:15
p.m. Please contact me if you are interested in carpooling so that we can
coordinate rides. (Some of you may be attending SLIG anyway and will already be
there.)
>
> Please note: This event will take the place of our regular meeting.  There
will be no UVAPG meeting on Thursday, January 26th.
>
> I hope that many of you will plan to take advantage of this great opportunity
to hear from one of the genealogy professions' preeminent educators.
>
> Joe Everett
> UVAPG President
>

Good news.  We will get to tour the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at BYU this
year.  I'm waiting for confirmation from Russ Taylor, the Department Chair, on
which date would be best.  Stay tuned. Howard Bybee helped to facilitate this
opportunity for us.  I can't promise how far behind the scenes we will be able
to go, but I hope that it will be interesting for everyone. There is a lot of
material in the collection that is of interest to family historians, and you
don't have to be a student to make use of it.

Joe Everett
UVAPG President

Our next UVAPG Chapter meeting is tongith at 7:00 p.m. at the Family History
Library on BYU Campus (Room 2242).  I will be presenting on the topic "Other
Hats in Professional Genealogy." Come find out what other kinds of work exist
for genealogists besides client research and what it means to be a genealogy
professional in other contexts.

In anticipation of further growth to our UVAPG chapter meetings, we are moving
the location of our meetings to the Center for Family History and Genealogy,
Room 1031 in the Joseph F Smith Building on BYU Campus.  We will meet in the
computer lab that is part of the center.  This change will be effective starting
in March, with our meeting on the 22nd.

We hope this will be as convenient, if not more so, than the library location
has been.  With additional space plus the computer lab facilities, we will be
able to accommodate more attendees as well as broaden our options for our
meetings with the computer lab technology.

The Joseph F Smith Building is the building just west of the main Library
building (the above ground portion).  It has a large courtyard with a fountain.
The Center is located on the main floor, in the southeast corner.

Joe Everett
UVAPG President

 

In anticipation of further growth to our UVAPG chapter meetings, we are moving the location of our meetings to the Center for Family History and Genealogy, Room 1031 in the Joseph F Smith Building on BYU Campus. We will meet in the computer lab that is part of the center. This change will be effective starting in March, with our meeting on the 22nd.

We hope this will be as convenient, if not more so, than the library location has been. With additional space plus the computer lab facilities, we will be able to accommodate more attendees as well as broaden our options for our meetings with the computer lab technology.

The Joseph F Smith Building is the building just west of the main Library building (the above ground portion). It has a large courtyard with a fountain. The Center is located on the main floor, in the southeast corner.

Joe Everett
UVAPG President

Reminder: UVAPG Chapter Meeting, Thursday, March 22, 7:00 p.m. in the computer
lab in the Center for Family History and Genealogy at BYU. Crista Cowan will be
presenting on the topic "Increasing Profitability in Client Research."

Sorry, my computer was hacked.  Hope you all know NOT to click on a link with no
message or subject.

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