We 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.
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We 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.
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.
We want to thank all the members who came to our SLVGS meeting on November 27. We had a great discussion and look forward to getting this group going.
Our officers for 2017 are as follows:
- President: Genie Weezles
- Vice President: Ellington Sweeney
- Treasurer: EmBeemer
- Secretary: MilesAMeyer
Our draft by-laws have been posted at the Family History Center in Adam ondi Ahman since August 28. We ask that everyone please review them and provide their comments prior to the next meeting on December 11 at 5:30 SLT.
SLVGS members selected our official logo. There were four logos submitted prior to the vote and all were posted to Facebook prior to the meeting. As you can see, the logo is very impressive. We also discussed having an official mascot, a slug in pajamas doing research.
We established a monthly meeting schedule with meetings held on the 2nd Sunday of each month at 5:30 SLT.
Membership dues were established and will be payable as Lindens (L$), the currency of Second Life. Annual dues will be L$1200 (approximately $5 at the current exchange rate). Instructions for purchasing L$ can be found at https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Buying-and-selling-Linden-dollars/ta-p/700107.
Follow us online at https://slvirtualgenealogy.org/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/GenealogistsInSL/.
We hope to see everyone at the next meeting on December 11.
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.
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!😀
Once again, our friends Dee Dee and Sherlock Aedipo will host the annual Halloween dance!
WHEN: Tuesday, October 25, 2015
TIME: 5:30 p.m. SLT (same as Pacific)
WHERE: Sherlockville – Fircairnlow
Dee & Sherlock have enjoyed creating a seasonal-themed world on their combined land at “Dee’s Retreat” and “Sherlockville – Fircairnlow,” with approx. 7,000 m2 to play on.
Upon your arrival, set your windlight to midnight to enjoy the full effect of their haunting world. Feel free to invite a guest!
You won’t want to miss the place of horrors they have created for your enjoyment:
- Visit the haunted woods!
- See the witches house!
- Shop in the Bloody Shops of Horrors!
- Relax in the gazebo!
- Visit the waterfall!
- Bob for apples!
- Tour the ghostly graveyard!
Most of all, have some fun dancing on the dance floor with dance balls provided for your entertainment! (Be sure to enable your media player.)
BONUS: There will be a Halloween Hunt on the day of the dance starting after 2:00 a.m. SLT and ending after the dance. Look for the color changing pumpkins to claim your gift inside!
In addition to the color changing pumpkins for the Halloween Hunt, there are a number of other objects around this scary world that have free gifts for the taking.
And don’t forget to check out the shops!
Dee and Sherlock have really worked hard on this, so if you enjoyed their fantastic creation, PLEASE consider dropping a donation at one of the donation boxes to help them to continue to bring you a world of fun throughout the year.
Costumes are encouraged – see you there! 🙂
Be sure to join us on Thursday night for the monthly meeting of the Second Life Chapter Association of Professional Genealogists (APG)!
WHEN: Thursday, October 13, 2016
TIME: 6:00 p.m. SLT (same as Pacific Time)
WHERE: Fire Pit at Just Genealogy SLurl
This month’s featured speaker will be Ron Arons, who will present “Data Visualization for Genealogy.”
For more about Ron and the Second Life Chapter APG, please visit https://slapg.wordpress.com > Latest News.
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!!
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.
