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Destination Albany
http://albany1820.com/transcriptions/index.php
Genealogy World
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08 May
Next meeting is on this coming Saturday 12 May, starting at 11am.
A few things planned for this meeting: as well as the normal agenda items, Mike will revisit the new developments in DNA testing and look at Ancestry's new DNA offer; Chris will show us the new members only database of WA BDMs; Alastair will review some new South African online records; Ian will give us some insights into Malware and security.
And there's always time to ask questions and offer opinions.
Hope to see you there.
Cheers
Mike
03 Mar
That's a great story Kevin. Glad you found someone.
At the next CIG meeting (Saturday 10 March, starting at 11am) who knows what other jewels will be displayed that just might help someone break down another brick wall?
Every meeting we have a session where we're constantly looking at new websites, new data that emerges on existing websites and generally helpful websites and tools for genealogists.
At this coming meeting, as well as the above there will be demonstrations of Dropbox and Skype (and similar competitor's products).
All WAGS members welcome, and you don't need to be a nerd to join in!
Cheers
Mike
24 Feb
Last meeting we had our attention drawn to the website MUNDIA where there are family trees posted. After the meeting I entered the name of one of my "brick walls"and low and behold up came a tree with two generations of ancestors of my BW. I contacted the person who had the tree and she has provided me with scanned copies of four wills, plus transcripts, plus all the relevant BDM records and scanned copies of the parish records, plus apprentice records, plus websites which cover the occupations of the people concerned. It has taken me a week to digest all the info.
Many thanks Mike for drawing our attention to the website.
Kevin Wulff
06 Feb
The next meeting of the Computer Interest Group is on this coming Saturday 11 Feb 11am to 1pm at WAGS. There will be a short AGM to elect officers and then a packed agenda of interesting things, including some of the new records that have recently appeared on ancestry and familysearch. Come along if you're in town.
Cheers
Mike
PS Notes from the last meeting are on the website.
22 Dec 11
CIG Presentation Notes - Sat 10 Dec 2011
These graphic manipulation software programs were demonstrated:
Faststone Capture
Is a powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool that allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen. Editing tools include annotating (texts, arrowed lines, highlights), resizing, cropping, sharpening, watermarking, applying edge effects and many more.
The latest shareware (payware) version
Freeware version FastStone Capture 5.3
IrfanView
Is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer. Among the many features are the ability to nudge (straighten) images and with a plugin to conduct OCR (optical character regognition) on image files.
Online OCR Tool
Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this service to extract text from any image you supply. This service is free.
08 Dec 11
We are currently (Dec 2011) conducting a Poll of the Genealogy Software packages that people are using, please participate by casting your vote in the Poll.
Cheers,
Chris
19 Nov 11
Meeting notes for our last meeting (Nov 12) are now on the WAGS website.
Next meeting will be Dec 10 - Alastair Honeybun will demonstrate some of the tools he uses to manipulate images.
And we'll do an end-of-year lunch - bring along something to share and we'll celebrate.
Cheers
Mike
03 Oct 11
Next meeting is Saturday 8 October 2011. As well as the usual agenda items we'll look at the more difficult area of finding descendants rather than ancestors. Bring along your success stories (if you have any!)
Cheers, Mike
14 Aug 11
August 2011 WAGS CIG meeting minutes have been uploaded to the Computer Group pages - and we have the answer to the Ultimate Genealogy question...
09 Jul 11
You will find full copies of the past CIG meeting Minutes on the WAGS Website under the >> Computer Group pages. They are in PDF format, and can be accessed via the website, or saved if you wish.
If you have any questions or queries, you can post them here, or start your own topic/s for discussion.
The Minutes for June and July are now available at the above link.
June topics: Mac Viruses, Jewish Genealogy, + Demo of the WAGS Forum, and searching our various tables.
July topics: Opera Browser, Phone Scams and where to report them + Demo of the WAGS EDR project & phpGedView Genealogy software.
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