Flash: Reunion 10 released 8 May 2012. See News below for more...

2012 Upcoming Mac Meetings:

Please Note: The Oakland MacGen 4th Sat. meeting will be a week earlier, on May 19th for May, 2012 only.

MacGen General Meeting, Sat., May 19, 2012 - 1:30pm, Oakland RFHC, Subject: Reunion: Entering Events & R10

DVMUG Genealogy SIG, Wed., May 23, 2012 - 10am, Pleasant Hill, DVMUC Offices. Subject: Reunion: Comprehensive Reports & R10

MacGen Workshop, Wed., June 13th, 2012 - 7pm, Oakland RFHC

News

Reunion 10 was released Mon, 7 May, 2012. Ben Sayer has excellent Reunion 10 information that you should absorb before or after you install it. It's a separate program so no worries about overwriting your old Reunion 9 program. This will be our hot topic in upcoming meetings. He has a number of videos already. A great source of information from the Leisterpro web site are the Reuniontalk Forums. This is the main place users discuss Reunion version 10. It is a real education to go through all these forum messages.

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. VERY GOOD NEWS

Sat. May, 19, 2012 Oakland MacGen
Subject: Reunion Events

May's meeting at the Oakland RFHC will cover Reunion's "Events" using both Reunion 9 and 10.

Entering events is a "Basic Skill" you need to update your Reunion familyfile with all that information that's been passed down to you. We will go through the different record types and preferences that affect event entry. We'll also cover how to add event types, sources and citations.

Upcoming Oakland MacGen Topics
o Changing Views
o Reunion 10
o Keeping places accurate
o Uses of Multimedia in Reunion
o Adding and merging people
o Web 2.0 - Google Plus, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Blogger, Google, Wordpress, Weebly, Tumblr and many more
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 10's Research Tool

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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Last updated 18-May-2012