DON SNOW'S CLASS NOTES PAGE

• Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009  2 pm -- Genealogy a la Google by Don and Diane Snow
• Monday,  23 Feb 2009  2 pm -- HeritageQuest Online by Don and Diane Snow 
• Monday,  02 Mar 2009 2 pm -- Freeware and Shareware for Family History by Don and Diane Snow
• Monday,  09 Mar 2009 2 pm -- No class -- Family History Training Week at SGRFHTC
• Monday,  16 Mar 2009 2 pm -- I Didn't Know PAF Could Do All That! by Don and Diane Snow
• Monday,  23 Mar 2009 2 pm -- Cleaning Up Your Database by Don and Diane Snow
• Monday,  30 Mar 2009 2 pm -- RootsWeb and USGenWeb by Don and Diane Snow
• Monday,  06 Apr 2009 2 pm -- Newspapers in Family History by Don and Diane Snow
• Monday,  13 Apr 2009 2 pm -- No class -- Family History Training Week at SGRFHTC
• Monday,  20 Apr 2009 2 pm -- Online Maps in Family History by Don and Diane Snow
• Monday,  27 Apr 2009 2 pm -- What's New in Family History from the LDS Church by Don and Diane Snow
• Monday,  04 May 2009 2 pm -- LDS and Utah Records by Don and Diane Snow
• Monday,  11 May 2009 2 pm -- No class -- Family History Training Week at SGRFHTC
• Monday,  18 May 2009 2 pm -- Searching the IGI and Using Batch Numbers by Don and Diane Snow
• Monday,  25 May 2009 2 pm -- No class -- SGRFHTC closed for Memorial Day Holiday
• Family History Update Series will begin again in the Fall.

• Links to each of the REGIONAL FAMILY HISTORY CENTERS
• Finding Grandma Through the London Family History Centre
• Genealogy a la Google 
• The Website HeritageQuest Online 
• Finding GEDCOM's Containing Your Ancestors 
• Family History Books Online
• Tracing Your US Immigrant Relative
• Using City and Other Directories in Family History
• FamilySearch and Other Helps 
•         Glossary, Research Outlines, Helps, and Guidance, Helps for the FHLC, and other FH help websites
• Online Maps For Family History  
• Searching the IGI and Using Batch Numbers
• What's on FamilySearch.org 
• FamilySearch.org
• The Family History Library Catalogue
• The Ancestry Website in Family History Centres
• Introduction to Internet Genealogy
• Annotated List of Helpful Family History Web Sites
• RootsWeb and USGenWeb
• GenSmarts

• Don's Top 30 English Genealogy Websites  
• Finding Parish Records for the UK 
• Jewish Genealogy in Great Britain  
• How to Find Jamaican Films 
• Irish Church Records  
• Free BMD: The Free Online Civil Registration Index for England and Wales
• What's on GENUKI?
• English Wills and Probates 
• U.S. and British Censuses

• Genealogy a la Google 
• Cleaning Up Your Database 
• Backing Up Your Data 
• Freeware and Shareware Programs for Family History 
• Fun With Your Genealogy 
• Ancestral File and Pedigree Resource File
• Photos, Images, Scanners, and Digital Cameras
         Dealing with images, digital cameras, screen captures, scanners, and slideshows
• Computer Sound Files and Digital Recorders
         Using a digital recorder, transferring old tapes to digital sound files, and editing sound files
• Comparing and Combining All Those Old PAF Files
         How to get the data from all those old databases into your Master File or working files, so you can throw away the old files
• Internet Links in Web Pages Generated From a PAF Database
         How to enter Internet links into a PAF database so the web pages formed include working Internet links
• Windows for Genealogists
         Tips about using the Windows operating system in genealogy
• Email for Genealogists
         Email programs, accounts, sending attachments, tips, and ISP's
• The GENViewer Program
         Helpful program to search, examine, analyze, and sort PAF or GEDCOM data in ways that PAF can't do
• Working With Large Databases:  The Early LDS Members Online Database
         Techniques for working with large databases - illustrated with our Early LDS Members Database on http://earlylds.com
• U.S. Cities Galore
         Program that helps in cleaning up family history location data

• What's New in Family History From the LDS Church
• New FamilySearch 
• LDS and Utah Records 
• Was Your Ancestor a Mormon? by Diane M. Snow 
• Family History Training for LDS Church Members and Leaders  
• Working With Large Databases: The Early LDS Members Online Database
         Techniques for working with large databases; illustrated with our Early LDS Members Database on http://earlylds.com
• PAF Insight
• The Nauvoo Databank
          The contents and how to use the Nauvoo Databank text file
• Suggestions for Working with Gift of Family History Cards
         The Gift of Family History program
• TEMPLE NAMES SUBMISSION USING TEMPLEREADY AND THE INTERNET IGI
         Getting your PAF database ready and submitting names to the temple using TempleReady 
  • Class 1 -- Cleaning Up and Verifying Your Data  
  • Class 2 -- Getting Completed Ordinance Data into Your PAF Database
  • Class 3 -- Submitting Names to the Temple Using TempleReady for Windows
• FIVE-DAY FAMILY HISTORY TRAINING COURSE
          9am - 6pm for 5 days at St. George Regional Family History Training Center, St. George, Utah
          See details at http://www.familyhistorycenter.org
  • Cleaning Up Your Database 
  • LDS and Utah Records

• I Didn't Know PAF Could Do All That! 

• Class 1 -- Cleaning Up Your Data 
• Class 2 -- Entering Notes, Sources, and Document Images
• Class 3 -- Reports, Custom Reports, Web Pages, and Tools
• Class 4 -- Importing and Exporting Data and Comparing Two Databases
• Class 5 -- Changing Columns, Templates, Fonts, and User Events
• Class 6 -- Photos, Slide Shows, and Scrapbooks in PAF

• Class 1 -- Getting Started with PAF 5.2
• Class 2 -- Data Entry and Sources
• Class 3 -- Notes, Reports, and Filter Lists
• Class 4 -- GEDCOM:  Transferring, Splitting, and Merging Data