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Agenda:

The Planning Meeting will cover the goals of the SGG, group structure, meeting times/locations, meeting structure, dues structure, and possible uses of funds.

At our 2006-2007 Planning Meeting last year we agreed on the following guidelines.  Please review them and determine if you would add, delete or modify these guidelines for 2008 prior to the meeting.

SGG Guidelines and Plans for 2007 - 2008:

• 1.     The prime goal of the SGG organization is to assist members in conducting their genealogical research efforts.
• 2.    SGG will have 10 meetings per year (none in July and August) and meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 3:30 PM for 1.5 hours.
• 3.    Each meeting will have a key topic presentation (determined by the members) that will last 15 – 30 minutes (unless the whole meeting is used for a specific task like training or research).  This will be followed by a roundtable discussion where each attendee will have the opportunity to ask questions regarding the key topic presentation or bring up items of interest (new web sites, software, publications, etc.) to the SGG members in attendance.
• 4.    Uses of the dues that members have contributed – decide where we should spend our money:
• ·         New versions of Genealogy Software (MAC or Windows)
• ·         Purchase a full membership in Ancestry.com that would be able to be accessed by SGG members on their home systems or in the computer room 
• ·         Printed Matter – purchase general purpose reference books
• ·         Subscriptions to genealogy newsletters

• 5.    One of the goals of the Planning Meeting is to establish a priority list of presentations from the following list.  Please review the list and rank the topics that you would like to see scheduled (and any that you could present).  Also feel free to add any topics you would be interested in.  Please bring this list with you to the Planning Meeting.

                         Ranking

• ___  A.          Accessing Church records
• ___  B.         Black American genealogy
• ___  C.         Cemetery records – where to find and how to access
• ___  D.         Conducting ethnic research
• ___  E.         Dating and restoring photographs
• ___  F.          Digital photography use in genealogy
• ___  G.         Finding and accessing Vital Records (Fed, State, Town)
• ___  H.         Finding and Buying Genealogy Materials on eBay, Amazon, etc
• ___  I.             Immigration data – ships, port of entry, etc
• ___  J.           Location Specific Research – West Virginia, Canada, Mid-west
• ___  K.         Military records – what, where and how to access
• ___  L.          Overview, training – how to use Family Tree Maker
• ___  M.         Overview, training – how to use Genealogy Utility Programs
• ___  N.         Overview - Macintosh for Genealogists
• ___  O.        Overview - The Master Genealogist
• ___  P.         Hand-on training – how to Scan Pictures & Documents into FTM
• ___  Q.        Use of Search Engines for Genealogy Research
• ___  R.         New resources at the local Family History Center

• 6.     Additional Activities for Members
• ·         Hands-on training sessions in the computer room (as guest of computer club member if you are not currently a member)
• ·         Group research (computer based) of a club members ancestor “brick wall”
• ·         Installation of our Genealogy software on all of the systems in the computer room to make it available to all Computer Club members and hopefully get more people interested in genealogy and becoming members of our group
• ·         Hands-on training in the use of our CD library
• ·         How to use and improve our web site
• ·         Guided tour of the LDS Family Research Center (Tucson or Mesa)

The planning team would also like your feedback on the value of continuing to build and maintain lists of SGC member’s personal genealogical printed materials, genealogical CD data files and web sites that SGG members have found to be of value.