Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Mark Your Calendars - UVPAFUG Meeting!

UTAH VALLEY PAF USERS GROUP MEETING
The next regular, second-Saturday-of-the-month meeting of the Utah Valley PAF (Personal Ancestral File) Users Group will be on Saturday, 9 Oct 2010, from 9 am to noon in the LDS "Red Chapel", 4050 North Timpview Drive (650 East), Provo. Information about the Users Group, main presentations, classes, and class notes are available on the Group's websitehttp://uvpafug.org and the press releases are at http://blog.uvpafug.org/ .

The main presentation for this meeting will be by Gary T. Wright on PRESERVING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY RECORDS DIGITALLY. This presentation will discuss the challenges and benefits of digital preservation as a means to preserve personal family history materials. It will also explore potential solutions to the challenges, identify what types of family history materials are suitable for digital preservation, and summarize what is required to get started. 


Gary T. Wright is currently Senior Product Manager of Digital Preservation at FamilySearch. In this role, he is responsible for guiding FamilySearch to become a world leader in digital preservation. Gary earned a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado. Before joining FamilySearch, he directed enterprise storage marketing, services, and solution development for prominent storage technology companies such as IBM, HP, LSI, and StorageTek. Gary is also the author of the book The Light of Ancient America, an award winning composer, and a violinist with the Orchestra at Temple Square.

Following the main presentation there will be several classes about family history and technology with something for everyone at any level of expertise. The teachers and classes presently scheduled for this meeting are as follows:

  1. Vital Records Indexes and Records Online, by Laurie Castillo
  2. Family History Books Online, by Don Snow
  3. MAC: Making Reunion and OSX Work For You, by Ron Snowden
  4. Personalized Help, by Don Engstrom and Finn Hansen
  5. Q&A Preserving Your Family History Records Digitally, by Gary T. Wrigh
  6. Video of last month's main presentation: Linking nFS Ancestors to Original Records, by George Ryskamp
  7. Ancestral Quest: Ordinance Reservation and Tracking, by Merlin Kitchen
  8. Legacy, by Dean Bennett
  9. RootsMagic, by Sue Maxwell
  10. Family Insight, by Andrea Schnakenburg.
All meetings of the Users Group are open to the public whether members of the Group or not. The Users Group has the goal of helping individuals use technology to further their family history and there are usually 100-125 attending the monthly meetings on the second Saturdays. The officers are Gerhard Ruf, President; Don Snow, 1st VP; Laurie Castillo, 2nd VP; Liz Kennington, PAFology Editor; Kay Baker, Gerry Eliason, and Don Engstrom working with finances and membership; and Bruce Merrill and Marie Andersen, working with the DVD Library. Several of these will be there to help with membership, answer questions, distribute the current issue of the monthly newsletter PAFology, and check out DVD's of past presentations and classes to members of the group. Information about the Users Group, presentations, classes, and class notes can be found at the websites mentioned above. For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at pres@uvpafug.org (801-225-6106) or 1st VP Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu or 2nd VP Laurie Castillo at laurie@everythingisrelative.net.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

FamilySearch Indexing Update - 22 September 2010

The following is from FamilySearch.


FamilySearch volunteers have been very busy lately, indexing 8,684,146 records in the last nine days. There are also several new projects now available, including the first set of records from Uruguay and two additional states for the 1930 U.S. Census. Completed indexing projects soon to be published on Beta.FamilySearch.org include two state censuses.
New Projects in the Past Two Weeks
(See the chart below for a complete list and current status of all indexing projects.)

Recently Completed Projects
(Note: Recently completed projects have been removed from the available online indexing batches and will now go through a final completion check process. They will be published at http://Beta.FamilySearch.org in the near future.)
  • Canada, New Brunswick—Deaths, 1815–1938 [Part A]
  • Jamaica—Civil Births, 1900–1930 [Part B]
  • Mexico, San Luis Potosi—1930 Federal Censo
  • U.S., Iowa—1885 State Census
  • U.S., New Jersey—1885 State Census
  • U.S., Utah—County Marriages, 1887–1966 [Part B]
Current FamilySearch Indexing Projects, Record Language, and Percent Completion
Spanish
35%
Spanish
56%
Spanish
23%
Spanish
95%
Portuguese
7%
Portuguese
1%
Portuguese
44%
English
3%
English
49%
French
33%
Česká republika, Litoměřice—Matriky, 1552-1905 [část 1]
(Tschechien, Litomerice—Kirchenbücher [Teil 1])
German
72%
Spanish
7%
Spanish
26%
Spanish
11%
Spanish
40%
German
59%
German
31%
Spanish
11%
España, LugoRegistros Parroquiales, 15301930[Parte 1]
Spanish
40%
France, Cherbourg—Registres Paroissiaux, 1802–1907
French
35%
France, Coutances—Registres Paroissiaux 1802–1907
French
30%
French
71%
France, Saint-Lo—Registres Paroissiaux, 1802–1907
French
58%
Spanish
3%
Spanish
11%
Italian
56%
Italian
28%
Spanish
85%
Mexico, Puebla—1930 Federal Censo
Spanish
10%
English
3%
Spanish
(New)
Norwegian
28%
Spanish
46%
Portuguese
19%
Russland, Sankt Petersburg—Kirchenbuchduplikat, 1833–1885
German
3%
South Africa, Cape Province—Church Records, 1660–1970
Afrikaans, Dutch, English
57%
Swedish
50%
Swedish
60%
Swedish
27%
English
92%
English
61%
English
10%
English
29%
English/
Old English
15%
Spanish
(New)
English
(New)
English
23%
English
22%
English
87%
English
11%
English
28%
English
59%
English
(New)
English
35%
U.S., Indiana, De Kalb County—Marriages, 1811–1959
English
59%
U.S., Indiana, Dearborn County—Marriages, 1811–1959
English
55%
U.S., Indiana, Delaware County—Marriages, 1811–1959
English
87%
English
(New)
English
6%
English
7%
English
17%
English
17%
English
19%
English
6%
English
(New)
English
10%
English
44%
Spanish
4%
Spanish
37%
Spanish
79%
Spanish
1%
English
29%
English
4%
English
36%
English
90%
English
(New)
Spanish
17%
Österreich, Wiener Meldezettel, 1890–1925
German
28%
Russian
26%
Russian
61%

Current FamilySearch Partner Projects, Record Language, and Percent Completion 
Australia, Victoria—Probate Records, 18531989
English
95%
Dutch
49%
French
49%
Portuguese
1%
English
18%
German
7%
Spanish
2%
Spanish
76%
French
61%
Norwegian
39%
Spanish
55%
English
1%
U.S., Ohio—Tax Records, Post 1825 [Part 3]
English
51%
U.S., Utah, Salt Lake County—Birth Registers, 1890–1908
English
62%
U.S., Utah, Salt Lake County—Death Registers, 1848–1940
English
32%
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