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PINELLAS GENEALOGY SOCIETY |
Saturday, February 13, 2010Largo Public Library
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Topics for the seminar will be: |
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| Genealogy Searches on Google | |
| Extracting the most genealogy information possible from everyone's favorite search engine. | |
| Where is Genealogy Software Headed? | |
| In fact, most of our latest genealogy programs are very old-fashioned. Many have not changed significantly in 20 years. Yet there is hope on the horizon. |
Dick Eastman has been involved in genealogy for more than
30 years. He has worked in the computer industry for more than 40 years
in hardware, software, and managerial positions. By the early 1970’s,
Dick was already using a mainframe computer to enter his family data on
punch cards. He built his first home computer in 1980. In the mid-1980s, Dick actually went knocking on the door of a rising online star called CompuServe to propose a genealogy forum: a move by which he built a community of family historians over the next 14 years. At the same time, he preached the benefits of technology to an even wider audience of genealogists, including national and international genealogical organizations, and of course, GENTECH, an organization that helped him to spread his message. In late 1995, before most people had heard of the World Wide Web, Dick had a conversation with Pam Cerutti and expressed an interest in creating a weekly newsletter that he could e-mail to genealogists all over the world. On January 15, 1996, the two launched Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter as an e-mail publication and announced it to 100 surprised friends and acquaintances. |
| The Organized Genealogist | |
| Some hints and tips on how to be organized and stay that way. | |
| Photographing Old or Delicate Documents and Photographs | |
| Use your computer BEFORE you snap the picture! | |
| The weekly newsletter has since grown into a daily publication, still available in e-mail but also now available on the World Wide Web. The present newsletter is read by more than 40,000 genealogists all over the world. Instead of all articles written by one person, the newsletter now features articles from George G. Morgan, Lloyd Bockstruck, and Michael John Neill, in addition to the many articles by founder Dick Eastman. Other guest authors occasionally publish articles in EOGN.com as well. | |
| After lunch there will be four group classes conducted by society members. These will be led by: | |
| Damon Hostetler - Publishing, So you are ready to publish | Peter Summers - Immigration and Ship Passenger Lists |
| Carla Kerns - Libraries and the Genealogist: "Dewey" really know what they have in store for us? | Bob Bryan - "What do I do now?" - Focusing on some ideas and suggestions for getting around, over or through some of the "brick walls" in your family history research |
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Additional Information
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| Location – The seminar will be held in the Jenkins Conference Room of the Largo Public Library, located at 120 Central Park Drive, Largo, 33771. Free parking is available in the front lot of the library. | |
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Driving Directions: From the north: Travel south on
US Hwy 19 to SR 686 (East Bay Dr.) Make a right on East Bay and follow
to Largo. Turn left on Central Park Drive. The Library is on the left
side of the road. From the south: Travel north on I-275 to Exit #30 (Clearwater/Largo SR 686, Roosevelt Blvd. West). At the fork in the exit ramp bear left which leads to Roosevelt Blvd. Follow on Roosevelt. At the fork in the road bear left and follow the overpass that merges with Ulmerton Road (SR688) Follow Ulmerton past the 2nd traffic light and veer right to SR 686(Roosevelt Blvd). Follow Roosevelt Blvd/East Bay Drive. |
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| Click here for a registration form. | |
Updated 06 October 2009 . Copyright 2009 by Pinellas Genealogy Society, Inc. All rights reserved.