Manasota PAF Users Group
2001/2002 Membership Application

Name: E-Mail:
   
Address: City, State, Zip:
   
Phone: Single or Couple?
   
Which genealogy program do you use? When can you serve on the refreshment committee?
  Nov 2001 - Dec 2001 - Jan 2002 - Feb 2002 - Mar 2002 - Apr 2002 - May 2002 - June 2002
Is there anything in particular you would like to discuss at our meetings this year? Check any topics that interest you…
r Adding children/parents
r Beginning genealogy topics
r Citing source documents
r Courthouse records of the US
r Digitizing old family photos
r Editing data
r E-mail as a method of communicating with other genealogists
r Entering data
r Ethnic studies – ______________________
r Ethnic studies – Germany
r Ethnic studies – Pennsylvania/VA Germans
r FamilySearch CD-ROMS at LDS FHCenter
r Family newsletters
r Family Tree Maker
r Finding source documents from web citations
r GEDCOM files on the internet – Are they worth the download?
r Genealogy Chats – Are they worth the time?
r Historical references – Finding them to build a time line of my ancestor’s experiences
r Internet resources – favorite or new genealogy web sites
r Internet resources – Genealogy e-mail lists
r Internet resources – Getting to genealogy web pages
r Land records of the US
r Migration patterns of colonial North America and US
r Naturalization of the US
r Notebook or filing systems
r Ordering microfilm at LDS FHCenter
r PAF 5.0 – Should I upgrade?
r PAF Companion
r Passenger arrival records of the US
r PERSI Periodical Source Index – Online Version
r Photo quilts
r Preparing for a research trip to Ft. Wayne, Indiana
r Preparing for a research trip to Salt Lake City
r Preparing for a research trip to Washington, DC
r Printing your family history book – GENBOOK and others
r Proper bibliographic citations for books, magazines, microfilms, documents
r Proper bibliographic citations for web sites
r Research at local public libraries – Sarasota, Bradenton, Tampa, Bartow, Orlando
r Revolutionary War Patriots – including DAR applications as a resource
r Should I upgrade to WindowsME?
r TMG The Master Genealogist
r Tracing Civil War ancestors
r US Federal Census Records – including soundex, miracode,
r Web Pages – Making your own for family history
r Web sources for the country of _____________________________
Web sources for the state of: _______________________________
r What is new at the FHCenter?
r What to take on a research trip
r What’s new in genealogy books?
r What’s new in genealogy CD-ROMs?
Have you attended any genealogy or computer classes in this past year? Please describe what was helpful, or what was confusing, and whether you would recommend the class to others.
r NGS
r FGS
r a society’s seminar
r local MTI computer classes
r Other _________

 

Do you subscribe to any genealogy e-mail lists? Please describe.
r Ancestry Daily NEWS
r Everton’s Family History Newsline
r Dick Eastman

What genealogy magazines would you recommend to a newcomer?

r Heritage Quest
r Family Chronicle
r Everton’s Genealogical Helper
r Ancestry Magazine
r Genealogical Computing
r _________________________

What local computer users groups have you found useful?

r Manasota Genealogical Society’s CUG
r Genealogical Society of Sarasota’s CUG
r Manasota PC Users Group
r Sarasota PC Users Group
r __________________________

What’s new in your PAF (FTM/TMG, etc) usage that you could share with the group?

 

Name your five favorite genealogy web sites.

r Cyndi’s List : http://www.cyndislist.com
r Roots Web Surnames - http://www.rootsweb.com
r Family Tree Maker – http://www.familytreemaker.com
r Ancestry.com – http://www.ancestry.com
r Everton’s – http://www.everton.com
r USGenWeb – http://www.usgenweb.org
r __________________________

What have you discovered lately in your genealogy research that you could share with the group?

 


List any suggestions you have for improving future meetings of the Manasota PAF Users Group.