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Two Helpful Programs for Genealogists in SecondLife

February 4, 2019 /

SecondLife Virtual Genealogical Society February Meeting

We’ve got an excellent program for our February meeting on Sunday, February 10 at 5:30 pm SL (Pacific).  Craig Scott, CG, will be answering questions and helping solve your brick wall problems. Not only is Craig a genealogy expert, particularly in the are of military research, he is also one of the founders of the Just Genealogy area in SecondLife.  Here’s more about Craig:

Craig R. Scott, CG, FUGA is President and CEO of Heritage Books, Inc., a genealogical publishing firm with over 6.300 titles in print. A researcher for more than thirty years, he specializes in the records of the National Archives, problem solving, genealogical skill building and publishing. He has been lecturing steadily since the 1990 National Genealogical Society Conference in Crystal City at local, state, and national levels. He has coordinated lecture tracks at IGHR, SLIG and GRIP. He was awarded the Grahame T. Smallwood, Jr. Award by APG in 2008 and the UGA Silver Tray Award in 2009. A nationally known lecturer and educator he has appeared in the Ancestry Show and the Neil Leherer News Hour. He brings enthusiasm and a wealth of knowledge to each engagement.

But first!!

But before next Sunday’s meeting, we’re starting what will hopefully continue a couple times a month — for now the first and third Monday — a very informal get together at the Just Genealogy Fire Pit, to answer questions about SecondLife and help new folks get more comfortable in the virtual world.  We’ve all been newbies at one time!  Everyone is welcome to attend and we’ll try to cover some of the basics as needed, depending on the needs and questions of the attendees.  Sign up for a free account, sign in and head on over to the Just Genealogy Fire Pit. You can teleport there by either using the Search option, or use this link – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wollah/48/82/68

genealogists in second life meet and greet

Hope to see y’all there!!

SLVGS Meeting January 2019

SLVGS January Meeting to Focus on Newspaper Research

January 10, 2019 /

The Second Life Virtual Genealogical Society will kick off 2019 with a round table discussion of newspaper research! Please come and share your favorite newspaper websites, as well as best practices and effective search strategies.

Prior to the discussion, we will hold a brief business meeting to talk about the exciting changes to the 2019 schedule of meetings and events. We will also hold the election of officers for 2019-2020.

NOTE: We were unable to hold the election in December as required by our bylaws due to the lack a quorum. We urge all members to attend this meeting if possible, so we can get this important business done. Thank you!

WHEN: Sunday, 13 January 2019
TIME: 5:30 p.m. SLT (same as Pacific Time)
WHERE: The Fire Pit at Just Genealogy SLurl

Halloween Dance Party & Hunt

October 15, 2018 /

Second Life Halloween Dance 2018

Don’t Miss the 2018 Halloween Party

Dee Dee and Sherlock Aedipo are once again hosting the annual Halloween dance party!

WHEN: Saturday, October 27, 2018
TIME: 5:00 p.m. SLT (same as Pacific)
WHERE: Sherlockville – Cairnlow

Follow the sign into Halloween world to the dance floor after landing.

Come dressed in your favorite costume and bring a friend! There will be a costume contest with L$1,000 – 1st prize, L$500 – 2nd prize & L$250 – 3rd prize.

Jaffee Gaffer will be our DJ for an evening of a haunting good time.

Halloween Hunt

Stop over anytime for the Halloween Hunt! The Halloween Hunt has 30 gifts and runs from October 1st – October 31st.

It won’t be an easy hunt, but it should be fun and a bit challenging.

Halloween Hunt instructions available at the landing point.

We have had lots of compliments on our decorating and the hunt, so it should be a winner for everyone!

SLVGS to be Live-Streamed on YouTube!

October 9, 2018 /

Tami Mize to Discuss Joyflips

Watch SLVGS Live on YouTube

Have you missed out on our genealogy events because you thought Second Life was too difficult to use?

Then please join us for our next meeting LIVE on YouTube on 14 October 2018 at 5:30 p.m. PT!

Be sure to head over to our YouTube Channel and hit the SUBSCRIBE button so you won’t miss any of our videos. You can also hit the bell icon on our upcoming live video to get a reminder sent to you.

Members can watch recorded videos of our meetings and speakers. Please JOIN our group to take advantage of this, and other benefits.

October Meeting to Feature Tami Mize

Popular genealogy speaker Tami Mize will give a talk entitled “The 21st Century Family Photo Album – Audio, Video, Always with you and All For Free.”

What started out as a simple photo scanning app has developed into your complete family history media solution. Not only can you quickly and easily scan photos with your smartphone and import already digitized ones, with Joyflips’ groundbreaking technology, you can also add audio storytelling to any or all of your photos and invite others, family and friends around the world, to a shared Family Room chat, and record their stories as well, right within the app!

From scanning, to editing, organizing, videos, storytelling, sharing, and uploading directly to FamilySearch, it’s no wonder that FamilySearch has chosen Joyflips as one of only five top-tier technology partners! Come find out more about Joyflips.

For members and guests attending the meeting in Second Life, please meet at the Fire Pit at Just Genealogy.

About Tami Mize

Tami Mize (a.k.a. Genie Weezles)

Tami Mize (a.k.a. Genie Weezles in Second Life) is a genealogical researcher, author, and speaker specializing in discovering and sharing creative ways to use technology, not only for quality genealogy research but to help simplify and streamline research processes. She has been a speaker, as well as an Ambassador, for RootsTech, has written numerous articles for genealogy publications, and maintains both RelativelyCurious.com and the ConferenceKeeper.org genealogy calendar of events website.

Tami was instrumental in the organization of two groundbreaking virtual genealogy societies: the Second Life Virtual Genealogical Society (SLVGS), the first virtual society to be affiliated with the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS); and the Golden Chapter Award-winning Second Life Chapter Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), the first virtual APG chapter.

Tami is the Communications and Social Media Director for the technology platform Joyflips, a free smartphone app and collection of tools to scan, edit, and organize photos, voice-record memories, create videos, and share and collaborate with family.

We hope you will join us on October 14th, either in Second Life or on our YouTube live-stream!

SLVGS to Take Virtual Field Trip

August 11, 2018 /

SLVGS August 2018 Meeting

SLVGS August Meeting Includes a Field Trip!

This month, the Second Life Virtual Genealogical Society will be taking a tour of the Community Virtual Library to see the new exhibit “Genealogy Journey: Finding Our Ancestors, Discovering Ourselves.”

This instructional exhibit teaches visitors how to: begin researching their family history, conduct responsible research, utilize tools and resources for understanding DNA results, and find genealogy educational activities in Second Life. This exhibit is presented by Cheri Daniels.

Cheri Daniels (a.k.a. Sifriya Devin), curator of the exhibit, will be our special guest host for this event. Read more about her exhibit HERE.

Please meet at the Just Genealogy Fire Pit for a brief business meeting before the tour.

WHEN: Sunday, 12 August 2018
TIME: 5:30 p.m. SLT (same as Pacific Time)
WHERE: The Fire Pit at Just Genealogy SLurl

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.

December news!

December 9, 2017 /

At our last meeting, in October, the vote passed to hold our meetings every other month, so that they now alternate with the SL Chapter of the APG group. Our next meeting will be this coming Sunday, December 10, at 5:30 pm SecondLife Time (Pacific), at the Just Genealogy Fire Pit

For our December meeting, we hope everyone is able to attend what will be a short, but exciting meeting. Elections for next year’s officers will be held, and we’d love to have you participate in the leadership process, either by running for an office or even just voting on those nominated.  We’d also love to hear your ideas on our next choices for book club/study or any other special discussion groups. Please plan on attending!

Dues for 2018 should be paid by the end of this month as well, and it is easy and quick to do so when you’re in SecondLife. Our Clubhouse now has a sign out front that will accept Linden payments with a simple click! Dues are 1200 Lindens, which is roughly $5, for the entire year.

December 18 at 5:30 p.m., Dee and Sherlock are hosting a Genealogists in SecondLife Christmas Dance, with our fave DJ J
affee Gaffer and his fine collection of Holiday music! They always go all out on the decorations, and I excited to see what all they’ve come up with. Past years have included ice skating and snowball fights! Watch the Facebook page for more information, or IM another genealogy group member when in SecondLife for a teleport to the party.

A SL Christmas Dance

 

 NGSQ (National Genealogical Society Quarterly) study group will not be meeting in December. Watch for the schedule and topic list for 2018 to be posted soon.

Ellington recently posted this article from December issue of  The Atlantic “The Digital Ruins of A Forgotten Future.” A long read, but well-written. Of course, there are many views on the pros and cons of SecondLife.

As always, everyone is welcome to our meetings; however, only members may vote in elections.  Membership has its privileges 🙂  Our society is a member of the Federation of Genealogical Societies, so our members have access to all of the benefits of FGS membership as well, including discounts! It’s easy to join, and our dues are the lowest of any I know of. See the About section for more information on joining our society.

I look forward to seeing everyone December 10!

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!

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