Our January 17th program will be hybrid (in-person & on Zoom)!
President Larry Doyle provides a brief overview of our society with the latest committee reports followed by our annual election of officers plus a special video by Legacy Family Tree with tech genealogist Thomas MacEntee on genealogy research!
Read our January newsletter or previous society email on the new officer candidates! Your vote is important!
Program Description
A special video by Legacy Family tree on Genealogy A to Z: A Trivia Adventure with tech genealogist Thomas MacEntee will be provided. Learn to harness the Internet Archive’s free digital library—a treasure trove of digitized family histories, city directories, census and church records—to enrich your genealogy research. Learn how to build complex prompts to build an index of surnames on a 400-page genealogy book from 1898. Learn how to extract a list of migration routes from the same book, organized by surname, then in generation order, and placed in an Excel file. With the help of AI, you can get the most out of Internet Archive.
Presenter Profile
Thomas MacEntee
Thomas MacEntee is a guy with a love of punk rock music but also art history who somehow “fell” into the technology industry years ago. He left a lucrative tech career to pursue his love of family history and genealogy. Technology and historical research seem like opposites, but “tech people” like Thomas are needed to guide you through the maze of options so you can find your ancestors and bring their stories to life.
Reminder: Visitors are welcome and can register below to receive the Zoom info and handout! You will receive the Zoom info between 7 to 10 pm on the day before the event!
Be sure to use our Thursday afternoon (except holiday weeks) genealogy help session from 1 to 3 pm at the Fort Collins Downtown Library. Members or visitors: please send an email to [email protected] with your request, and if for an ancestor, please send your family tree info from Ancestry, MyHeritage or a family tree image from your genealogy software.
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Bookings
Registration is closed for this event.