2012 Meetings:

MacGen General Meeting, Sat., Jan. 28th, 2011 - 1:30pm, Oakland RFHC, Subject: Relationships in Reunion

MacGen Workshop, Wed., Feb 8, 2012, 7pm. Oakland RFHC. Attendee guided Question & Answers and problem solving.

January, 2012 MacGen Meetings

Our meetings are back in full swing this month.

On January 28th we will show how to explore relationships in Reunion such as: (1) Bold Children; (2) Listing relative reports; (3) The Relative Chart; (4) Building a two person relationship chart. (5) Defining relationships from a source person.

The two meetings on Wed Jan 11 and Sat. Jan 28 are free and are located at the Oakland Regional Family History Center. The Wed., Jan 18th SRVGS meeting requires that you belong to the San Ramon Valley Genealogical Society and takes place at the Danville Family History Center.

The February General Meeting on Sat. Feb 25th will cover Editing Chart Objects and producing various types of visual charts in Reunion.

Upcoming Oakland MacGen Topics
o Relative Charts
o iCloud, as soon as it's fully and understood
o Uses of Multimedia in Reunion
o Adding and merging people
o Web 2.0 - Google Plus, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Blogger, Google, Wordpress, Tumblr and many more
o Family Tree Maker 2.0
o Free Web Sites and Free Mail Lists
o Reunion on the iPad, iPhone, iTouch
o Sources/Citations in Reunion
o FamilySearch.Org features
o TNG (The Next Generation of Genealogy Software)
o Using Reunion interactively to wow your relatives
o Using Reunion as a Research Tool

Other Bay Area Macintosh Genealogy Meetings

There is also a San Ramon Genealogical Society- (SRVGS) sponsored MacGen group meeting, at 10:30am, on Wednesday the day after the SRVGS third Tuesday general meeting at the Danville History Center (2949 Stone Valley Rd, Alamo, CA 94507). All things MacIntosh are discussed, especially the Reunion Genealogy program.

Another East Bay Mac resource is the Diablo Valley Macintosh User Group of Walnut Creek. Past President Verner Laursen runs a Genealogy Special Interest Group that meets at 10am on the fourth Wednesday of the month at DVMUG's office,at 396 Civic Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA. .

A free weekly Macintosh Class occurs In Alameda, at the Alameda Free Library (1550 Oak St, Alameda, CA 94501) on Fridays from 10 am -12 noon. Professor Marvin Winzenread presents different Macintosh computer topics in some depth and documents the sessions on his website, http://winzenread.com/MUG/. Even if you think you know a topic, expect to be surprised at additional features you never knew about. Send an email to mug@winzenread.com to join the mailing list and receive announcements of upcoming free classes.

A Macintosh Special Interest Group occurs monthly, In Santa Clara, hosted by Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group (SVCGG). It is a large (100+ people) meeting on the 2nd Saturday of the month from 9-11am and one of the sub groups is the Mac Group that meets the same day. This Mac Group is headed by Pat Burrow, their endlessly resourceful and energetic leader. Pat has visited and presented to Oakland MacGen in the past as have we, to the SVCGG group (see my presentation notes). The SVCGG group meets from 9am to 11am at the Family History Center in Santa Clara, on the 2nd Saturday of each month at 875 Quince Ave., Santa Clara, Calif. 95051. Pat posts very helpful notes of her meetings at http://www.reunionnotes.com

This MacGen Society is not affiliated with Leister Productions, Apple Inc. or FamilySearch.org, hosted by the Church of Latter Day Saints. MacGen is supported entirely by volunteers as a not-for-profit educational experience.

We do however, thank the Oakland Regional Family History Center for their never-ending help with genealogy activities and use of their conference room and equipment. To see other educational activities of their Oakland Regional Family History Center please review their Web Site and click on Activity Calendar.

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...Bill George Email

Last updated 25-Jan-2012