User:Dggard

About Me
My interest in family history came when I was young. My first 2-1/2 minute talk in Senior Sunday School was about a pioneer ancestor, Parley Parker Pratt, Jr. I took two 2-credit classes in Genealogy at BYU. I helped my aunt Dorothy Topham, who was serving as the president of the Pratt Family Association, by creating Hollerith cards from her 3x5 card file of about 1500 names and addresses of association members and then printed address labels to simplify the mailing of the newsletters. I have taught genealogy classes for Sunday School. The Howard County (Maryland) Genealogical Society elected me President and I served for 3 years, publishing their newsletter as well. I was called as Assistant Family History Center Director in Columbia, Maryland where I served for 3 years. I also taught genealogy classes at Howard Community College ("New Genealogy on the Internet Parts I & II").

Things to Remember
How to make a source out of a memory: 
 * To suggest a new standardized place name (like a cemetery) go to https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/ (in Chrome if necessary)
 * check for response: placefeedback@familysearch.org
 * My most recent African-American ancestor is Thomas Norris Jr. M9SV-K2X
 * Fixing sticky (over merged) problems
 * Finding With Family History, a video about the Houston, Texas Mission
 * PDF Merge, convert, edit and much more
 * 20 ancestors who lived in Nauvoo
 * To calculate a birth date from a death date and age at death
 * in "Memories" click on the obit > click on "Share" > click on "Copy Link" (this gives the exact URL of the obit)
 * in "Sources" click on "Add Source" > click on "Add New Source"
 * (choose Add New Memory Source" only if you uploaded the obit so that it is in your Gallery)
 * The date should be the date of the obit, not the death date.
 * paste the URL above into the "Web Page URL" box.
 * This gives direct access to the image of the obit in memories.
 * Fill in the remaining boxes with the information in the obit.
 * the title should be a reference to the title of the obit, the newspaper name, the town of publication, the date of the obit and the page number
 * the notes field can contain a summary of the obit
 * click on the "Tag" boxes that pertain to text in the obit

Ancestor Groupings

 * Campaigns

Mayflower (Davis)

 * Mayflower Campaign

War of 1812 (DGG)

 * War of 1812 Campaign