Category: Scheduled Events (Page 8 of 10)

Lara Diamond to Discuss Genealogy and Changing Borders

June 7, 2018 /

June Meeting to Feature Lara Diamond

The Second Life Virtual Genealogical Society is pleased to present Lara Diamond as the speaker for the June 2018 chapter meeting. Lara’s talk is titled “Reconstructing the Rutners: Tracing a family through changing borders & Languages.”

European borders were fluid, meaning that records for one family can be written in many languages and kept in disparate locations. This talk examines one large family that lived in the area that now spans the Ukraine/Romanian border. They lived there while it was part of Hungary, Czechoslovakia & Romania, Hungary again, the Soviet Union and Ukraine. Records from this area were kept in multiple languages and are currently held in several modern countries and different archives within those countries. What ended up being a very large family was reconstructed using a variety of methods, including religious records, vital records, census enumerations, Holocaust documents, DNA and more. This talk will discuss how the family was reconstructed over the course of decades, bringing the family back to the 1700s and tracing distant cousins across the world.

WHEN: Sunday, 10 June 2018
TIME: 5:30 p.m. SLT (same as Pacific Time)
WHERE: The Fire Pit at Just Genealogy SLurl

About Lara Diamond

Lara Diamond

Lara Diamond has been researching her family for 25 years, starting as a middle school student. She has traced all branches of her family multiple generations back in Europe using Russian Empire-era and Austria-Hungarian Empire records. Most of her research is in modern-day Ukraine, with a smattering of Belarus and Poland. And she is an Ashkenazic Jew, she gets to have particular fun with her completely endogamous genome.

Lara is president of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland, leads JewishGen’s Subcarpathian SIG, is on JewishGen’s Ukraine SIG’s board of directors. She also runs multiple district- and town-focused projects to collect documentation to assist all those researching ancestors from common towns.

Lara blogs about DNA and her Eastern European research at Lara’s Jewnealogy.

Just Genealogy Halloween Party

October 30, 2017 /

Halloween at Just Genealogy

Hey guys and ghouls! Come out tonight for some frightfully good fun at our Just Genealogy Halloween Party!

WHEN: Monday, October 30, 2017
TIME: 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. SLT (same as Pacific)
WHERE: Just Genealogy Dance Floor in Wollah (click here for Slurl)

Our favorite DJ, Jaffee Gaffer, will be spinning the tunes, so hop on a dance ball and dance the night away (for an hour or so). Be sure to enable your media player so you can hear the music.

Come in costume or come as you are.

You won’t want to miss this fun event! 😀

October 2017 Meeting

October 7, 2017 /

Please join us on Sunday for our monthly society meeting.

When: October 8, 2017
Time: 5:30 p.m. SLT (same as Pacific Time)
Where: Fire Pit at Just Genealogy

We will be voting on an important change to the bylaws at this meeting. Members, please plan to attend so we can have a quorum to conduct this business. A copy of the proposed change to the bylaws was sent to all members in September; if you did not receive a copy, please contact vice president Ellington Sweeney.

Society president Genie Weezles will give a presentation on “visual bookmarks and easy access to your favorite websites.”

The SLVGS is open to all genealogists in the virtual world of Second Life. To join, or for information about membership, please visit this link.

Our meetings are free, and all are welcome to attend!

January SLVGS Meeting

December 13, 2016 /

slvgs-logoWe hope everyone is having a great holiday season. SLVGS met on December 11 to review and adopt the official by-laws for the organization. The by-laws have now been approved and we are ready to start 2017 as an official organization. We have established a dues structure of $5 (1200L$) per year due in January.  Our next meeting will be Sunday, Janury 8 at 5:30pm SLT (Pacific Time). Our topics for this meeting will be about special interest/discussion groups that members want to establish. The meeting will be held in SecondLife at the fire pit in Just Genealogy.  If you need directions, log in to SecondLife and type Just Genealogy in the search bar. We invite all who are interested to attend and look forward to seeing you.

December SLVGS Meeting

December 6, 2016 /

slvgs-logoWe hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! SLVGS wanted to get back together one more time in 2016 as we get ready for Christmas and many other upcoming holidays. Our next meeting will be December 11 at 5:30pm SLT. The meeting will be held in SecondLife at Just Genealogy.  If you need directions, just log in to SecondLife and type Just Genealogy in the search bar. We invite all who are interested to attend. Let’s end this year with a bang and get ready to start the new year on a strong note.

SecondLife Genealogy Christmas Dance

December 6, 2016 /

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Join us this Thursday for the annual SecondLife Genealogy Christmas Dance, hosted by the SL chapter of APG.

When: December 8, 2016
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm SLT
Where: Dee & Sherlock’s Christmastown

All genealogists in SecondLife are invited! Dress is “holiday fancy” – whatever that means to you. Plus they will be announcing the winners of this year’s indexing challenge – with great prizes! The dances are a great time to socialize and listen to some great tunes with our favorite DJ Jaffee Gaffer. Hope to see you there…with bells on! More information can be found on the Genealogists in Second Life Group on Facebook.

SLVGS Meeting

November 23, 2016 /

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Happy holidays folks! We will have our next organizing meeting of the SecondLife Virtual Genealogy Society (SLVGS) this Sunday, November 27th at 5:30 PM PST (8:30 PM EST). The meeting will be held in SecondLife at the Family History Center in Adam ondi Ahman.  If you need directions, click on this link (http://bit.ly/SLFamilyHistoryCentre) and log in to SecondLife. We invite all who are interested to attend. This is your opportunity to get in on the ground floor and help  create a genealogy society that can serve people from around the world.

The Second Life Chapter APG is pleased to announce the first ThanksGIVING Index-a-Thon!

November 23, 2016 /

ThanksGIVING Index-A-Thon

Join us on Saturday, November 26, and Sunday, November 27, as we make a final push for the finish line of our chapter community service project, FamilySearch Indexing. This is your chance to give back to the genealogy community and have a little fun while you do it!

You do not have to be a member of the chapter in order to participate. Please visit FamilySearch Indexing for information on how to participate.

Yes, there will be prizes!

Prizes for the top indexers include:

  • (2) 3-month subscriptions to Ancestry.com U.S. Discovery
  • Annual subscription to Ancestry Academy
  • Annual basic subscription to Newspapers.com
  • Annual subscription to fold3.com
  • A copy of Legacy Family Tree 8.0 genealogy software

When setting up your indexing profile, please be sure to select “Second Life Chapter APG -UT” in the Group box under Additional Indexing Information so we will be able to track your progress.

Alternatively, if you participate using the FamilySearch Indexing Beta browser-based program, you will need to report your totals so that you can be included.

Prizes will be awarded at our holiday party on December 8.

Enjoy fun and friendship while you index!

A few of our chapter members and friends have offered to share their in-world homes while you index for a little conversation, networking, and virtual hot chocolate. You will need to log into your Second Life viewer in order to join us.

The schedule and SLURLs of homes to visit will be sent out via our in-world group and posted in our Facebook group. For privacy reasons, the links will not be posted here.

For questions or for more information, please contact chapter president Ellington Sweeney.

We hope to “virtually” see you there!😀

Join Us for the ThanksGIVING Index-a-Thon!

Something Special for August!

August 9, 2016 /

This Thursday, August 11 at 5:30 pm SL time (Pacific) ALL genealogists in SecondLife are invited to a very special meeting followed by a summer dance, at Just Genealogy.

The meeting will be held to discuss the organization of an official SecondLife Genealogical Society. Yes, we already have an award-winning chapter of the APG (Association of Professional Genealogists), but this new group will be for genealogy enthusiasts at any level of skill – beginners to experts, hobbyists to professionals. We can learn a lot from one another!

One hope for this group is  to have this new group become a partner society of FGS (the Federation of Genealogical Societies), which would provide our group members with the benefits of FGS membership: discounts, webinars, and more.

Following this meeting at about 6:30 pm will be a fun, summer dance, with our favorite DJ Jaffee Gaffer.

Please plan on joining us at 5:30 p.m. SecondLife Time (Pacific Time) to share your ideas for this new group!  And of course, you can’t miss the dance – They are always a great opportunity to chat and share our summer genealogy research stories and successes.

Hope to see EVERYONE there!!

July Meeting of the SL-APG

July 13, 2016 /

Genlighten

Be sure to join us tomorrow night for the monthly meeting of the Second Life Chapter Association of Professional Genealogists (APG)!

WHEN: Thursday, July 14, 2016
TIME: 6:00 p.m. SLT (same as Pacific Time)
WHERE: Fire Pit at Just Genealogy SLurl

This month’s featured speakers will be Dean and Cynthia Richardson of Genlighten, who will present “Offering Research Services Online: What We’ve Learned from Our Adventures with Genlighten.com”:

We will share some of the insights that we’ve gained from working with our providers, and give tips for creating strong, effective profiles on whatever platform people chose to use (for example, business website, APG list, blogs, marketplace websites like Genlighten), as well as talk about some things that leave clients feeling happy and satisfied. We’ll also touch briefly on the “Now What?” part of waiting for clients to find us online, and ask for input on what professionals would like to see in terms of marketplace tools to help advertise and manage their online services.

About Dean Richardson: Dean was introduced to genealogy by his wife, who ushered him up to the genealogy section of the local university library one night to show him the New York Times obituary for his Civil War ancestor. That was thirty years ago, and he’s been hooked on family history ever since. Dean’s responsibilities at Genlighten range from front-end design and Rails back-end development to inbound marketing and search-engine optimization.

About Cynthia Richardson: Looking for a way to turn her passion for historical document research into a source of income, Cynthia taught herself HTML and CSS and built chicagogenealogy.com back in 2003. Since then, she’s performed Chicago-area genealogy lookups and custom research for thousands of delighted customers. She’s also served as volunteer and director at the Wilmette Family History Center. At Genlighten, Cynthia handles customer support inquiries, maintains our online help facility, and curates our community-generated content. When you call or e-mail us, she’ll usually be the one you chat with.

SL-APG meetings are held on the second Thursday of every month (except August), at 6:00 p.m. Second Life Time (same as Pacific Time), at the Fire Pit in Just Genealogy. Meetings are open to all interested genealogists. Please contact Ellington Sweeney for more information about this group.

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