Metro New York
Genealogy and Computers Group
Affiliated with NYPC, NYMUG, PAF and Legacy Software Users' Groups
Current Meeting Schedule:
Prior Years' Schedules
2013-2014 Meeting Schedule
Upcoming Events
| Sept | | Oct | | Nov | | Dec | | Jan | | Feb | | Mar | | Apr | | May | | Jun |For updates on the meeting topics and last minute change of dates, be sure to subscribed to the mailing list so that you can stay abreast of time and date changes and information relating to the group. All meetings are now held at the:
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
36 West 44th Street (between 5th and 6th Aves), 7th floor
Turn left out of the elevators and follow the hallway around.
Please remember to bring photo ID for access to the building
36 West 44th Street (between 5th and 6th Aves), 7th floor
Turn left out of the elevators and follow the hallway around.
Please remember to bring photo ID for access to the building
- Tuesday, 10 Sept 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm
- Meeting Postponed!
- Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm (NOTE Wednesday SPECIAL DAY)
- Topic Change! New web searching with Family Tree Maker and Familysearch.com – SIG Member and professional genealogist Avrum Geller will be doing an intial review of the new Family Tree Maker 2014. He will demonstrate creative shortcuts and tricks that can be used to manipulate Ancestry.com searches within Family Tree Maker software to better find the information you actually want. Then learn to show the results in the database in exactly the way that you prefer them to be shown. Avrum will also demonstrate how to better utilize FamilySearch.org by restricting searches to specific published collections. Find out how to manipulate searching within those collections, including a demonstration of obtaining originals of New York City naturalization records not yet otherwise available online.
- Tuesday, 5 November, 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm
Topic: Family History Reports – Beyond the Basics
As genealogical and historical publishers, the folks at Heritage Muse, David & Kate Kleiman, are always pushing the edge of using existing genealogy software to produce clear, well-designed, and readable, charts and reports for clients. We'll start the basics of what Family Tree Maker and Legacy can both do — and then move to what they need help with. We'll take a quick dip into Master Genealogist's SuperTools and the graphics software for enhancing your presentations (including Adobe Creative Suite, GIMP, and others). Lastly, if there is time we'll show a short video that might inspire some creative ideas for your historic maps.
Got a chart/report that you are proud of? Got one with problem you can't solve? Bring them along and show-and-tell! Hope that you can join us.
- Tuesday, 3 December, 2013, 6:00-8:00 pm
- Topic: TOPIC CHANGE! WHAT'S NEW in LEGACY ver. 8.0!
Kate Kleiman will cover this evening's meeting with a first look at What's New in Legacy version 8.0! There are many exciting changes, upgrades, and additions to Legacy Family Tree Software. Join us for a great overview (not a sales pitch) and an evening with some surprises.
- Tuesday, 14 January, 2014, 6:00-8:00 pm
- Topic: Facebook and Me – setting up and managing a Family Facebook account
- Tuesday, 4 February, 2014, 6:00-8:00 pm
- Topic: TBA
- Tuesday, 4 March, 2014, 6:00-8:00 pm
- Topic: TBA
- Tuesday, 1 April, 2014, 6:00-8:00 pm
- Topic: TBA
- Tuesday, 6 May, 2014, 6:00-8:00 pm
- Topic: TBA
- Tuesday, 10 June, 2014, 6:00-8:00 pm, (NOTE 2nd Tuesday SPECIAL DATE)
- Topic: Annual Ask the Experts Panel!
Reminder! There are no meetings during the months of July and August.
Thanks to McKelden Smith and Lauren Maehrlein of
NYG&B for their generous offer to host us for these evenings! All meetings are now held at the:
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
36 West 44th Street (between 5th and 6th Aves), 7th floor
Turn left out of the elevators and follow the hallway.
Please remember to bring photo ID for access to the building
36 West 44th Street (between 5th and 6th Aves), 7th floor
Turn left out of the elevators and follow the hallway.
Please remember to bring photo ID for access to the building
Do you have a topic that you'd like to see here?
Have an idea for a meeting topic? Know a speaker that you'd like to hear? Let us know, we're always open to ideas. You can contact David Kleiman, directly at [email protected] (personal and confidential) or use the mailing list by replying to this message. ALL MESSAGES TO THE MAILING LIST WILL BE READ BY EVERY SUBSCRIBER!If you have notes from one of the meetings which you attended and would like to share them with the group, please contact the web editor.