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2009-2010 Meeting Schedule
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For updates on the meeting topics and last minute change of dates, be sure to subscribed to the mailing list so that you can stay abreast of time and date changes and information relating to the group.
- Tuesday, 10 Sept 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm
- Topic: BIG Charts!
Many of our members have asked how the extended and oversized print charts were produced for the Adeline Moses Loeb book earlier this year. In this evening's presentation we'll walk all the way through producing good looking genealogy/family history charts (small or large). The program covers simple charts directly from your genealogy software (with some tricks you might not already know), to going beyond and producing high-end, high-resolution, pieces that combine multiple family lines (definitely done outside of your genealogy software). We'll also take a look at choosing print specifications and talk about some resources for getting your oversize print jobs done cleanly, professionally, and less expensively. Featured software includes Legacy V7, Family Tree Maker 2009, and Family Tree Supertools V2.
- Tuesday, 6 October 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm
- Topic: "5 Design Rules: Making Your Family History Publications Look Better" Five simple design guidelines help us to generate good looking, easy to read
materials. Learn about these rules, what they can do for us, and when and how
to break them. Use these ideas in word-processing, desktop-publishing, on
straight up on paper to produce a more professional look when publishing
text and graphics.
- Tuesday, 3 November, 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm
- Topic: " PART II - 5 Design Rules: Making Your Family History Publications
Look Better"
We'll continue a deeper exploration of five simple design guidelines help us to generate good looking, easy to read materials. This session - FONTS! Use these ideas in word-processing, desktop-publishing, presentations, websites, and on straight up on paper or computer screens to communicate well.
Meeting Notes for this lecture have been provided by Michelle Frager. Please thank her when you see her at the meetings. If you have notes which you would like to share, please contact the web editor.
- Tuesday, 1 December, 2009, 6:00-8:00 pm-8:00 pm
- Topic: Special Software Session — "FTM 2010" and "Content Management for Genealogy Websites."
Firstly we'll get a look at the newest enhancements and features in Family Tree Maker 2010. Secondly we'll explore the idea of "content management systems" (CMS) for homespun genealogy websites and take a spin through Word Press (a CMS) and Artiseer (an inexpensive and easy to use webpage generator).
Definition: What is content management (CM)?
- Tuesday, 1 January, 2010
- Topic: "FamilySearch.org - what is it? new ideas and new data!"
Come and take a look at the latest (and greatest) FREE genealogy data sharing website from the LDS (Mormons). We'll explore their new search interface, look through the new, expanding databases of information, and take a first look at the new Legacy 7.5 (free upgrade) that integrates directly with the
FamilySearch.org website and data.
- Tuesday, February, 2010, 6:00-8:00 pm-8:00 pm
- Topic: To Be Announced
- Tuesday, March, 2010, 6:00-8:00 pm-8:00 pm
- Topic: To Be Announced
- Tuesday, April, 2010, 6:00-8:00 pm-8:00 pm
- Topic: To Be Announced
- Tuesday, May, 2010, 6:00-8:00 pm-8:00 pm
- Topic: To Be Announced
- Tuesday, June, 2010, 6:00-8:00 pm-8:00 pm
- Topic: To Be Announced
Reminder! There are no meetings during the months of July and August.
Thanks again to New York PC User Group for continuing to provide our meeting
space at the New Yorker Hotel. Please consider a membership to support the
organization: http://www.nypc.org
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