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Pastfinders Genealogy Society

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Pastfinders General Meeting February 9, 2012 will be in Conference Room 108 from 5:00:-7:00 pm at Cooper Memorial Library on Oakley Seaver Dr. in Clermont. As February is Black History month, VP Esther Long will be introducing a special video about the life of a prince abducted from his people in Africa and transported in a slave ship to America to be sold as a slave. This film gives a special perspective on one person's drastic change of the status of his life and how he then experiences what has become his new life. A brief business meeting will be followed by the video. The meeting may have to move upstairs to the Special Collections Room for the video due to time conflict with another event needing set up time in our usual Room 108.

FREE Help Sessions/Classes - Special Collections Room on 2nd floor as follows:

Wed. Feb 1 - Basic Genealogy Forms Class begins promptly at !0 am (bring your written names, dates, places and pencil/eraser, small fee for the forms which will be yours to keep and continue with)

Thur. Feb 2 - General Help 9:30 am - 12N

Tues. Feb 7 - General Help 11 am - 2 pm

Wed. Feb 15 - Other Research Forms (class begins promptly at 10 am and see instructions for Feb 1)

Thur. Feb 16 - General Help 9:30 am - 12 N

Tues. Feb 21- General Help 11 am -2 pm

Thur. Feb 23 - Census Records Class - how to find your people and what you may find in given years.

Tues. Feb 28 - General Help 11-2 Please bring your genealogy notes with names, dates, places, etc. with you

Genealogy Computer Users Group meets Wed. Feb 15 from 1-3 pm Room 221 second floor at library with Bob Dill. We'll cover "Getting the Most from Your Digital Camera", including definitions of terms like resolution and aperture, how to view image and camera data (EXIF data), and how to copy the images to your computer. Then we'll cover image processing including resizing for e-mailing; color, brightness and contrast corrections; red--eye correction and basic image manipulation. Also, a few free programs that can help in the storage, organization and processing of your collection, including methods of storage and sharing of your collection.

Guests and visitors are welcome at all events. For questions or more information please call (352) 242-9805.