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Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico's Blog – August 2010 Archive (4)

Are You Ready?, New Adventures by the Chula Vista Genealogy Society starting Sept 11

Come Join Us At These Events

Guest Speaker: Alfredo Pena, head genealogist for CorGoMiUri

Sept 11 is the start of a three part series presented to help Hispanic Researchers find their past.

Sept 11, 2010 Bonita Library on Bonita Road, by the Museum and golf course at 1-3 pm

Conference Room in the door to the left.

"The CONQUEST OF MEXICO: FINDING YOUR ANCESTORS AMONG THE…

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Added by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on August 30, 2010 at 8:47pm — No Comments

August Picnic for Chula Vista 5 Gen Charts Everyone

This month we have been focusing on learning the how's and why's of filing out our paperwork.

To also learn how to fill it out properly, sourcing it to another place and completing it as best we can.

There are a plethora of charts for us to us. Each serves a different purpose or carries a different agenda. There are round charts, fan charts, regular 9 x 13 charts, ha ha got you.

Now we learn if you color code some, the way they are…

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Added by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on August 22, 2010 at 9:37pm — No Comments

Blogging is a great research tool.

We are so lucky to have the ability to blog and enhance our research by blogging. It never ceases to amaze me when some one new blogs and about 6 to 8 weeks later say,"I found a relative via the new blog."

Thomas M. really said it all two years ago at the Burbank Conference about why to blog and what the advantages were.

1. The search engine technique of today is different than ten years ago or less. The webcrawlers need a larger query to locate…

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Added by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on August 14, 2010 at 12:03pm — No Comments