October Semi-Annual Meeting

THOMAS TOLMAN FAMILY ORGANIZATION

Semi-annual Meeting

Family Research Center-Bountiful

Oct 20, 2012 1:00 pm

PRESIDING & CONDUCTING: John Tolman, President

OPENING PRAYER: Tonga Titcomb

WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS: John Tolman, President

BUSINESS:

Discussion of getting young people to pay dues. Problems with the last magazine going out to all it should have on email.

THOSE IN ATTENDANCE & VOLUNTEER HOURS: 23 in attendance 147 hours

MINUTES :

FINANCIAL REPORT: presented by Treasurer, Barbara L Tolman, and is attached

RESEARCH REPORT: presented by Genealogist, Loraine Tolman Pace and is attached.

INTRODUCTION OF GUEST SPEAKER: Wife of Ben Baker

GUEST SPEAKERS: Ben Baker – working on Family Tree

Ben gave a whirlwind tour of Family Tree. He discussed the Learning Resources that are available, indexing, blogs and how to get help. A list of web sites was reviewed and is included with the minutes.

Right now to get into Family Tree you have to be invited but soon it will be available to everyone. He encouraged all to go to Family Tree training. These are some of the characteristics of Family Tree:

1. Replaces New Family Search
2. Ability to attach sources
3. Can edit data/relationships others contributed
4. Flag no-matching duplicate people
5. Provide justification for all changes
6. Change history-can restore previous edits

Ben then demonstrated how each one of these possibilities works.

Take some time to look over his presentation and handout. 

CLOSING PRAYER: Glen Tonge