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Next CGS Program Meeting is 16 May 2020

Come down to the Downtown Denver Public Library and join us at 9:30 a.m. to socialize with other local genealogists. The program meeting will start at 10:00 and end at noon.

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Inside this issue: CGS Meets at the Denver Public Library 2 Free CGS Classes Meet at the Denver Public Library 3

Computer Interest Group 4

Upcoming CGS Program Meeting Announcements 7

Save the Date Spring Seminar 9

Calendar of Events 10

Meeting Location Central Denver Public Library

3rd Saturday of Each Month (no meeting in July, Aug., and Dec.) 9:30 am, 7th Floor Training Room

The Colorado Genealogical Society holds its monthly meetings on the third Saturday morning of each month except July, August, and December at the Central Denver Public Library, on the corner of Broadway and 13th Avenue.

Parking Downtown Rates subject to change without notice.

Cultural Center Parking Garage 0-59 minutes ..... $2 Cultural Center Parking Garage 1-2 hrs .............. $4 Cultural Center Parking Garage 2-3 hrs .............. $6 Cultural Center Parking Garage 3-5 hrs .............. $8 Cultural Center Parking Garage 5-7 hrs ............ $15 Cultural Center Parking Garage 7-12 hrs .......... $30 Cultural Center Parking Garage 12-24 hrs ........ $40 Flat Lots on 12th Ave. .................................. $7/day

A Note From Your Editor

Welp – here’s the revised March newsletter. Just as I finished the last version everything fell apart. You didn’t get the first version, but rest assured, the fun and exciting events that were planned are being rescheduled so you won’t miss out on anything. I know we’re all a little bummed right now about all of the cancellations, but we will all get through this together. Once we are together again, we will have a lot to catch up on.

Do you have projects on your list you’ve been wanting to do? Now is a great time to organize those photographs and/or documents, take an online class through the National Genealogical Society, or call up a family member and conduct an interview. Or gather together all of your DNA results and prepare for the Spring Seminar next month (Note: at the moment the Spring Seminar IS scheduled to go forward on April 18. We will let you know if that changes.).

I have decided to take this opportunity to explore Colorado with my dog. I am also going to make more progress on scanning and organizing my family photos.

I look forward to seeing everyone at the next Program Meeting. In the meantime stay healthy everyone.

If you wish to submit an article to include in the newsletter please send it to cgsnews@cogensoc.us.

Kim Smith -

Ready. Set. Research.

 

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Regular monthly meetings of the Colorado Genealogical Society meet at the Central Denver Public Library (DPL) in the 7th Floor Training Room. Meetings will be held on the third Saturday of each month except July, August, and December.

16 May 2020

Speaker: Diana Allen Kouris

Topic: TBD

Diana is the author of Nighthawk Rising. More information to come later.

20 June 2020

Speaker: S. Kelly Glenn

Topic: Discovering Family Through DNA Testing, Ethics and Possibilities

Kelly Glenn will give his final farewell address as CGS President.

In this presentation Kelly will interview adoptees and their challenges in making contact with their newly found biological family. Many of these contacts are successful but some are not. Once again, the adoptee might deal with rejection. DNA matches and discoveries have brought about new ethical questions in connecting families. The adoptees Kelly will interview will address some ethical questions. Epigenetic comparisons will be evaluated with adoptees. What do they have in common with their biological family?

Free luncheon for CGS members following the morning program (see page 8 for more information).

CGS Meets at the Denver Public Library

Lunch Bunch Lunch Bunch is a fun way to enjoy

conversations, stories, and good food

with fellow family researchers.

26 March 2020

The Irish Snug

1201 E Colfax, Denver

(there’s a parking lot in the back)

Please RSVP to Kelly Glenn at

president@cogensoc.us

Colorado Genealogist

The current issue is in the members only section of the website. The issue on the website is in color. You should have received your copy in the mail.

Cell Phone

Please remember to turn off your cell phones when the meetings or classes begin.

Photography During Presentations

If you wish to take photographs of the speaker’s presentations please ask the speaker first. Some speakers copyright their presentations and as a result do not allow photographs to be taken.

IN THE CASE OF SNOW CHECK

YOUR EMAIL FOR NOTIFICATION OF CANCELLATION

OF ANY MEETING OR CLASS.

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Free CGS Classes Meet at Denver Public Library CGS conducts its Beginning Genealogy classes at the Central Denver Public Library on the second Saturday of each month. (There is no class in July, August, or December.) The class is held in the Gates Room on the 5th Floor. The instructor is Carol Darrow. Classes run from 10 am to noon. The next Beginning Genealogy class is 9 May 2020. This is a basic course for the beginner, repeated each month. However, feel free to come for a refresher as desired. Attendees will be introduced to thinking genealogically through the exploration of the following:

Introduction to the census using Ancestry.com Pedigree Charts and Family Group Sheets Other Major Record Groups

________ The WriteNOW writing group meets on the second Sunday of the month to work on writing family history. The group offers ideas, technical information, and support for anyone trying to preserve their family history in writing.

The group is open to all beginners and more experienced writers who want to put their genealogy into a written document. Please join at any time. Assignments are for various levels of experience. There is an opportunity to share your writing with the group as you wish. Shape your writing to the goal of the month. WriteNOW will not meet in June, July or August. WriteNOW meets from 1:30 to 3:30 pm at the Denver Central Public Library. The meeting is usually held in the Gates Room 5th floor. Calendar Sunday, 19 April 2020: (3rd Sunday in April) Bring your project in progress; do revisions; discuss other aspects of project. Assignment: Complete your project. Sunday, 17 May 2020: (3rd Sunday in May) Present your project to the group.

Possible Projects: Memoir of a key aspect or event in your life. Collection of individual narratives of your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. Story of significant event(s) in life of your ancestor. Three generation study of your family. House history or Cookbook.

________ The CGS Special Interest classes meet on the fourth Saturday of the month in the 7th floor training room, Denver Central Public Library. Stay turned for class announcements. ________

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New Screen and Cart donated by CGS The Colorado Genealogy Society is excited that we were able to fill this request for the Department of Western History and Genealogy at the Denver Public Library. Our donation of $3000.00 enabled the department to purchase this screen and cart for educational purposes. Thank you members for making this donation possible.

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April – no meeting due to the Spring Seminar

May 16 – Software workshops

June 20 – presentation by Gary and Nancy Ratay

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Tip for 2020 Census April 1 is Census Day 2020, and CGS offers this suggestion for genealogists, present and future: If your surname that day is different from the one you were born with, used as a child or in a previous relationship, you should include that name on your census enumeration. That way, when family historians come looking for you 72 years hence – in 2092 when the 2020 census is supposed to be open to the public – they will learn your full name. For example, if Person 1 is Patrick Smith and Person 2 is his wife, Joanna, and she uses Smith as her surname, she should identify herself as Joanna Jones Smith. The 2020 census form will offer 16 options for relationships to Person 1: opposite-sex husband/wife/spouse; opposite-sex unmarried partner; same-sex husband/wife/spouse; same-sex unmarried partner; biological son or daughter; adopted son or daughter; stepson or stepdaughter; brother or sister; father or mother; grandchild; parent-in-law; son-in-law or daughter-in-law; other relative; roommate or housemate; foster child; other non-relative. There will be three options to respond: U.S. Mail, telephone or online. The 2020 Census will ask for the whereabouts of everyone on April 1. Those of you who choose to give both an earlier surname as well as the current one will make some researcher happy as the 21st century draws to a close in 2092. ________

FamilySearch Spotlight

By: Cina Johnson FamilySearch Tree App 

Since I didn’t attend RootsTech, a friend kindly shared his notes from the “What’s New on FamilySearch” class. Basically, what was announced at RootsTech was announced in the blog I mentioned last month. Therefore, I decided to write about the FamilySearch Tree app this month.

Do you ever feel guilty about the long list of “ought-to-dos” you never seem to get around to? The FamilySearch Tree app can help you get some of them done. While on the go, you can open the app and add sources, merge duplicate records, edit records, or anything else that you would normally do on FamilySearch. Oh, what a relief it is!

If you haven’t installed the app onto your mobile device, you will find it in Google Play or the Apple App Store. Search for it by entering “FamilySeach”. The FamilySearch Tree and FamilySearch Memories apps should be at the top of the list. Install both while you are at it! That way you’ll be ready for next month’s article.

After downloading and installing the app, log in with your FamilySearch login, which is free. After exploring to get a feel for what it can do, go to the app’s settings, which is found on the main menu. There are many settings; reviewing them is another good way to see what the app can do. The default pedigree is a standard tree, but in Settings there is an option to enable the fan chart. I prefer the fan chart, not just as an easier way to maneuver within my tree, but because you can set it to show up to 7 generations AND select overlays to see who has sources, stories, photos, research helps (hints), or possible duplicates records. These are all things that can be worked on easily while on the go.

To learn some of the basics of the app, read the blogs “Have You Seen This?-Cool Features on the FamilyTree App” (February 15, 2020). To learn how to use the fan chart to your best advantage and how to open multiple windows in the app at one time, watch the RootsTech 2020 class, “FamilySearch App for Intermediate/Advanced Users”. It is available for free on the RootsTech video archive.

Armed with the FamilySearch app, I hope you’ll be able to mark a few of your ought-to-dos tasks as DONE!

You can email Cina at familysearch@cogensoc.us if you have questions on using FamilySearch.org and the FamilySearch family tree searching, archiving photos, stories and memories. There is also a link in the research tab of the website. Remember that FamilySearch.org is the most trusted and significant organization to keep or materials for future generations to view.

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Reunion 12 - Flags and Tags

by Nancy Ratay

Our next Reunion workshop will be at the May 16 meeting. I am planning on talking about using Multimedia at that workshop. Several of you indicated an interest in that. I will write the next two articles for this newsletter on Multimedia and what you can do to prepare or what you should consider before coming to that workshop. Hope to see you there!

This article is about Flags and Tags. I have used both the Flag field and the Color Tags. However, I got to wondering what was the difference between them so that I could think about how to better utilize them. Flags have been around since before Reunion 9. Color Tags are a recent addition with Reunion 12. Both of them are searchable through the Find

function in the Nav Bar. Both allow you to set some parameters for categorizing people in your database. Color Tags can automatically be seen on the Family View and so are easily spotted. Flags appear only in the Edit window unless you use Preferences and change how your Family View window looks. You can read Reunion’s information about Flags and Color Tags by going to Help>Contents and finding Flags or Color Tags under Entering, Editing, Finding & Changing Information.

Flags – a Flag is considered to be an attribute of a person which can be checked or unchecked (as in yes or no to the item). The Default Family View does not show you Flags. You can choose to go to Preferences and change how your window looks, but I will not go into that at this time. You can see Flags for an individual in that person’s Edit View window. Reunion gives you some Flags to start with as examples of things they thought were useful: Clergy, Earliest Ancestor, Military, Private, Stray, and Research Complete. The last one made me laugh! You can add new Flags by going to Preferences>Fields>Person>Flags. I have added some categories that were important to me: Census Complete (meaning I have all the censuses available for that person), Needs Citations (meaning I got some facts about the person, but haven’t entered the sourcing for them), and a recent one -– DNA Match. Flags are usually clicked on individually for each person, but can be set in groups of people by first Marking a set of people – say, all the Johnson descendants, then going to Change in the Nav Bar>Set Flags. You can then pick the Flag you want to tag these people with, click Marked People and Set. In the Manual (Help>Contents>Flags) the last link at the top of Flags page is to Examples of Flags which are examples gleaned from ReunionTalk, Reunion’s Q&A Forum.

Color Tags – a Color Tag is a visual clue to groups of people or attributes. These are easily seen on the Family View. They appear in the upper right corner of the name bar next to the drop-down arrow. Reunion has set some parameters to work with to choose how you are grouping people. The choices (rules) they have are: People of sex; People modified; People with flag checked; People with multiple sets of parents; People with multiple spouses; Relatives of; Descendants of; Male descendent line; Female descendant line; Ancestors of; Paternal ancestors; Maternal ancestors; Treetops. Color Tags are automatic, so once you set a criteria for the tag, any new people added who fit the criteria will receive the correct color tag. Color Tags may also be seen in the Sidebar listings for People, Relatives, Results, and Bookmarks. Color Tags are easy to set. There are 12 different colors, so you have to limit yourself to 12 categories or filters. Go to the Nav Bar>Change>Color Tags. From this window you can add Color Tag (+) by choosing a color, then selecting a rule. Depending on the rule you may have more choices to make. Then you will name the Tag and click Save. If you select a color that has already been used you may end up with conflicting tag information. The Color Tags can be changed as easily as set if you finish using one and decide you need a different one. If you need to change the rule and name on a existing Color Tag, go to Change>Color Tag and double click on the tag you want to change. If you forget what a Color Tag means on a person’s name card you can click on it, and it will pop-up the names of all the tags you have for that person and their color. This pop-up window will also give you the choice of changing Color Tags and sending you directly to the Change window.

There are also some ways to use Flags and Color Tags together to make a more visual indication of a Flag attribute. Reunion’s example of this was marking uncertain or unproven links or people. This would not necessarily be a definable group of people. These are people you would want to add by hand and yet be able to see them or search them easily. You would set up the “check or unchecked” Flag as Uncertain or Unproven. Then one of your Color Tags

7 can be People with flag checked and select a Flag, in this case Uncertain or Unproven. I have not tried this particular suggestion, but it has some interesting uses.

Writing about Flags and Tags has given me more ideas for how to set up these two categories differently on my own database. I hope it gave you some ideas too. Please feel free to email with questions at nratay@ng-tek.com.

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Welcome New Members

Deryn Avritt Justice Cain

Kathy Linstrom Garrett Milks

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Membership Renewal Renew your membership for 2020. Membership benefits include:

Being part of a community of others who share enthusiasm and passion for family history and genealogy. You will be a member of the Computer Interest Group. Subscription to The Colorado Genealogist, published quarterly in February, May, August and November. Newsletter currently published monthly. Member-only email notifications of genealogical events in the area. Access to Members Only section of the CGS website.

Membership is only $25 per person or $30 for two or more individuals in the same household. You can renew online at https://cogensoc.us/membership.php or download and mail the membership form with your check. ________

Upcoming CGS Program Meeting Announcements   

Join us on Saturday, July 18, 2020 as we present a day of Genetic Genealogy. The speakers include Pat Roberts, Greg Liverman, Wendy Dillenschneider, Melissa Gilstrap (genetic counseling) and others to be announced including a genetic counselor.

Place Calvary Baptist Church (corner of Hampden Ave and Monaco)

Time: 9 am – 4 pm

Registration begins soon ($10.00 syllabus fee)

Lunch will be included.

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Members Honoring Members Luncheon  When: June 18, 2020 Where: Denver Public Library Central Branch

Vida Ellison Gallery (7th Floor) Time: 12 noon-1:30 pm Guest Speaker: To Be Announced Cost: Complimentary to our members Please join us for a complimentary lunch catered by The Corner Bakery at our June 15, 2019 meeting. We are honoring you as members of the Colorado Genealogical Society and the Computer Interest Group. Current paid members are welcome. Reservations are necessary and when we reach our maximum allowed we will not be able to take further reservations.

Stay tuned for registration information.

   

NOTIFY CGS OF CHANGE OF ADDRESS

If your home address or email address changes, please notify Sandy Ronayne at sandyronayne@comcast.net. We want to keep in touch with you!

We’re on the Web!

www.cogensoc.us

Find us on Facebook.

COLORADO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

NEWSLETTER Kimberly Smith, Editor

© Colorado Genealogical Society, 2020. All rights reserved.

CGS welcomes your input. Address items of interest, news, and tips and tricks for the Colorado genealogy community to the editor at cgsnews@cogensoc.us.

2017 Luncheon

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Save the Date 2020 Seminar

Featuring Angie Bush

18 April 2020               

The Colorado Genealogical Society and the CGS/Computer Interest Group are pleased to announce that Angie Bush has accepted our invitation to be the speaker at the CGS and CIG seminar on 18 April 2020 at Denver Public Library.

Angie Bush, MS is the Region 1 Director for the National Genealogical Society, and the chair of the Genetic Genealogy committee. She works as Master Genealogist with AncestryProGenealogists® in Salt Lake City, where she specializes in combining genetic and genealogical evidence to answer questions of kinship and identity.

Angie will present 4 programs on Saturday, April 18, 2020 at Denver Public Library:

Building an Online Family Tree - This lecture covers the sites that allow users to build their own family trees, the sites that have a combined tree (like FamilySearch and WikiTree) and how to decide what is best for you and your research needs.

First Steps for Evaluating Your DNA Test - You've taken a DNA test, but aren't quite sure what the first steps should be in reviewing your results. The presenter has evaluated DNA test results for 1000s of clients. Learn the process she uses to review DNA test results to understand how best to incorporate those results to answer genealogical research questions.

Latest Developments in Company Tools for DNA - Competition in the DNA testing space is fiercer than

ever. This is great news for genealogists because each company is pursuing innovations that help users to understand and use DNA evidence in their genealogical research. This session will cover the newest company-based tools to help genealogists make sense of their DNA matches.

Practical Application of DNA Testing to Genealogical Mysteries - Theoretical knowledge about DNA

testing can be useful, but seeing this knowledge come together with examples of case studies brings that theoretical knowledge home. This presentation will show examples of case studies of everything from how DNA test results helped adoptees find their biological families to how DNA toppled long standing family rumors and replaced those rumors with the real family story.

For more information contact Sandy Ronayne – sandyronayne@comcast.net or Kelly Glenn - skellyglenn@comcast.net and visit CGS and CIG on the web and Facebook.

http://www.cogensoc.us/ http://www.cigcolorado.org/

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CGS Programs and Classes – Free unless otherwise noted

CGS Regular meetings are every third Saturday of each month except July, August and December. Occasionally dates change: Check website, Facebook, or your email for updates.

Monday, April 13, 2020 – CGS Board Meeting, 5:00-700 pm. Englewood Public Library. All CGS

members welcome. Friday, April 17, 2020 – CGS Spring Seminar – Free Friday event. Central Denver Public Library, 7th

Floor Training Room. Speaker: Greg Liverman. Topic: Getting to Know Uncle Moses. Saturday, April 18, 2020 – CGS Spring Seminar, 9:00-4:30. Central Denver Public Library, Lower Level

Conference Room. Speaker: Angie Bush Sunday, April 19, 2020 – WriteNow!, 1:30-3:30 pm. Central Denver Public Library, 7th Floor Rick Ashton

Room, Carol Darrow, CG, Facilitator [Note: due to the Easter holiday this date has been changed the 3rd Sunday in April.]

Saturday, April 25, 2020 – Special Interest Class. Central Denver Public Library, 7th Floor Training Room. Speaker: To Be Announced. Topic: To Be Announced.

Saturday, May 9, 2020 – CGS Beginning Genealogy Class, 10:00-noon. Central Denver Public Library,

5th Floor Gates Room. Carol Darrow, CG, Instructor. Monday, May 11, 2020 – CGS Board Meeting, 5:00-700 pm. Englewood Public Library. All CGS

members welcome. Saturday, May 16, 2020 – CGS Program Meeting, 9:30-noon. Central Denver Public Library, 7th Floor

Training Room. Speaker: Diana Allen Kouris. Topic: To Be Announced. Saturday, May 16, 2020 – CIG Meeting, 1:00-2:15. Central Denver Public Library, 7th Floor Training

Room. Speaker: To Be Announced. Topic: To Be Announced. Sunday, May 17, 2020 – WriteNow!, 1:30-3:30 pm. Central Denver Public Library, 7th Floor Rick Ashton

Room, Carol Darrow, CG, Facilitator [Note: due to Mother’s Day this date has been changed the 3rd Sunday in May.]

Saturday, May 23, 2020 – Special Interest Class. Central Denver Public Library, 7th Floor Training Room. Speaker: To Be Announced. Topic: To Be Announced.

Monday, June 8, 2020 – CGS Board Meeting, 5:00-700 pm. Englewood Public Library. All CGS

members welcome. Saturday, June 13, 2020 – CGS Beginning Genealogy Class, 10:00-noon. Central Denver Public Library,

5th Floor Gates Room. Carol Darrow, CG, Instructor. Sunday, June 14, 2020 – WriteNow!, 1:30-3:30 pm. Central Denver Public Library, 7th Floor Rick Ashton

Room, Carol Darrow, CG, Facilitator Saturday, June 20, 2020 – CGS Program Meeting, 9:30-noon. Central Denver Public Library, 7th Floor

Training Room. Speaker: S. Kelly Glenn. Topic: Discovering Family Through DNA Testing, Ethics and Possibilities.

Saturday, June 18, 2020 – CGS/CIG Members Only Luncheon, noon-1:00. Central Denver Public Library, 7th Floor. Speaker: To Be Announced.

Saturday, June 20, 2020 – CIG Meeting, 1:00-2:15. Central Denver Public Library, 7th Floor Training Room. Speaker: To Be Announced. Topic: To Be Announced.

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Room. Speaker: To Be Announced. Topic: To Be Announced.

CGS Sponsored Genealogy Classes at Englewood Public Library Location: Englewood Public Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, CO

You must sign up for the classes. Call the Englewood Public Library at 303-762-2555, or contact Michelle Brandstetter at mbrandstetter@englewoodco.gov. Instructor Leah Klocek. The classes are Sundays, 1:30-3:30 pm.

March 15 and 22 at 1:30: Intermediate Genealogy

May 3 at 1:30: Advanced Techniques

May 17 at 1:30: Advanced Land and Military Records

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