Monday, February 20, 2012

PGS Events this Week (20-25 Feb.)

Here are the events scheduled this week (all are free and open to the public):

Tuesday, 21 Feb 2012 at 6:00 pm--Genealogy Photos: Organizing, managing and enhancing -- This class will demonstrate how to organize and manage your digital genealogy photos so they can be easily found and how to enhance their appearance. This includes cropping, straightening, one-touch fix, removing blemishes, adding captions and text to the photo, making a collage, and much more. All this can be done using Picasa, the powerful free program from Google. Bryan. Largo Library, Local History Room, 2nd Floor

Wednesday, 22 Feb 2012 at 6:00 pm--Tracking Your Family Through the Census - This class shows a strategy on how to do track ancestors from one census year to the next and thereby uncover relationships and lost or heretofore unknown ancestors. In addition it also shows how to uncover hints on using resources outside of the census itself. Summers, Largo Library, Local History Room, 2nd Floor

Saturday, 25 Feb 2012 at 10:00 am--GENEALOGY SOFTWARE UTILITIES-Part I -- Demonstration of several utility programs useful for genealogy such as: Dropbox, Skype, Google Voice, Google Earth, Evernote, Mozy/Carbonite online backup, Online software (Googledocs), automatic backup software, GEDCOM utilities and more. Bryan, Aging Well Center, 1501 N Belcher Rd, Clearwater, FL

Saturday, 25 Feb 2012, 10:00 am--RootsMagic User Group--Q & A and demos of how to use the RootsMagic genealogy database software program. Summers, Largo Library, Local History Room, 2nd Floor.

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