What is a digital legacy? How do we create one? Kathy Nielsen will offer some tips on curating your story and your family’s story, preserving those treasures, and sharing them with your family. Kathy will present the process and the tools she is using to create her family’s digital legacy. She will introduce the features some companies offer and will suggest what equipment we might need to begin this project.

Kathy Nielsen is a reference librarian and educator. She has hosted a virtual series, All Things Relative, at the Monterey Public Library and has taught classes at the popular OLLI program at Cal State Monterey Bay. Kathy has been featured on Lisa Louise Cooke’s weekly YouTube program, Elevenses. She is a co-founder of the Monterey County Genealogy Society’s special interest writing group, Off the Charts. Kathy incorporates her skills as a historian, storyteller, and Librarian in her search for her family’s history.

The meeting will be on Thursday May 2, 2024.

We will be meeting in person and via Zoom.

1024 Noche Buena Street, Seaside, CA (between Kimball & Plumas). Doors open at 6 p.m. and the program will start at 7 p.m.

For additional information, call (831) 915-9465.

”Like anything else, to get results, you have to feed the machine. Computers do their best work with more, rather than less, information.” – Roberta Estes

Wanna experiment? Here is a roadmap to using the new AutoLineage tool in Gentic Affairs.

https://patriciacolemangenealogy.com/2024/03/24/autolineage/

The Spring 2024 issue of the Journal of Genetic Genealogy has been released. Volume 12, Number 1 can be found at this url.

https://jogg.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/JoGG-121-Issue-1.pdf

See the top of their site for more information.

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