Sat. May 25, 2013 Mtg. Cancelled

It turns out the Oakland Family Search Library is closed over Memorial Day weekend, so we are cancelling this month's General Meeting. Next month will have a normal scheule.

Wed. June 12, 2013 Workshop, 7pm:

We will hold our monthly workshop that addresses your Macintosh questions and problems.There is no set topic. It is determined by the attendees.

Sat. Jun 22, 2013 General Mtg, 1:30pm

Subject: Reunion Reports

We will explain how all the reports work in the Reports Menu. The new reports introduced with Reunion 10 will be emphasized, like the Web Project, Obituary, On This Date and Multimedia Usage reports. Sharing your genealogy research with others, is very easily done with reports utilizing graphics, web sites and professional presentations.

Other News:

Ben Sayer has a general list of Reunion tutorials on his web site. They are very well produced and cover a variety of useful topics. He allows you to read the tutorials and view the associated videos. To download the videos to your own system, you must become a premium member (set your own price). You may view the videos without joining. This is VERY GOOD NEWS

Future Oakland MacGen Topics
o Social Media Topics such as Pinterest, DropBox, Flickr, Tumblr, Wiki, Google, Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Wordpress, Weebly, Cloud Storage
o Adding and merging people
o Free Web Sites and Free Mail Lists
o Reunion on the iPad, iPhone, iTouch
o Sources/Citations in Reunion
o Using Reunion interactively to wow your relatives

Other Bay Area Macintosh Genealogy Meetings

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 17-May-2013