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WELCOME TO THE NORTHERN ARIZONA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY - We are a non-profit dedicated to all aspects of genealogy, providing access to local records and other genealogical information. The Society serves genealogists throughout Yavapai and Coconino Counties. Explore our website and consider becoming a member.

See News/Events for upcoming Genealogical Zoom Meetings available to NAGS members!

NAGS Monthly Meetings, 4th Saturday of the Month @ 1 PM:

Saturday, 23 September 2023, 1 PM @ The FamilySearch Center on Ruth Street, Prescott.
Is that Grandma Mathilde or Aunt Louisa? – Enhancing Genealogical Searches with Photos -
Tina LaFreniere, Founder, Related Faces

We are Related Faces, and our goal is to utilize state-of-the-art technology for good purposes by putting it in the hands of everyday people to help them discover the identities of unknown people in their inherited photos. It is a mission which stems from me inheriting thousands of photos from my family, with hundreds unidentified. But when I inherited my photos, there wasn’t a website that gave me the power of facial recognition, a metric for measuring similarities and differences in faces, plus the ability to create profiles for my people, even unidentified ones, so we invented and patented it!
Founded in 2022, Tina explains how to utilize technology to identify unknown people in photos. She has given classes to societies all over the US and even in Italy, to include the Allen County Indiana Public Library, the International Institute for Genealogical Studies, the Omaha, Carlentini and Beyond Group and so many more.

Is that Grandma Mathilde or Aunt Louisa? – Enhancing Genealogical Searches with Photos teaches how to combine Related Faces Resemblance Numbers with investigative skills to positively identify people in photos using several methods, and how those results can enrich your family tree. The results can open the doors to new avenues for your genealogical searches, add people to your family tree and put faces to those names. We also discuss digitizing photos with your cell phone, the basics of facial recognition, and looking for family traits in your unknown people.

Tina will appear as a remote speaker at the FamilySearch Center and also available by Zoom. Please register if you plan to attend remotely:

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsceysqzsqH9DYuhcnG_TnFk7kX9dq-e3J

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Saturday, 18 November 2023, 1 pm @ the FamilySearch Center on Ruth Street, Prescott.
Bill Wolf - Researching & Writing War Biographies of Our Veteran Ancestors

Arizona State Library offers lectures - must register as space is limited

- https://azsos.libcal.com/

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GETTING STARTED WITH ZOOM - You may connect by using a desktop computer, laptop, tablet or mobile telephone. Each type of device will participate in the meeting a little differently. For tablet and mobile you may want to download the Zoom App. You can download the Zoom Client app. For iOS devices look in the app store for “Zoom Cloud Meetings” and for Android it’s in Google Play. Alternately you can get the download at https://ZOOM.us/download#client_4meeting

Here is a link to a 1 minute YouTube Video "How to Join a Zoom Meeting."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIkCmbvAHQQ
If you just want to sit in on a Zoom meeting all you need is the ability to watch a video on your computer. If you want to participate you need a microphone. Many computers have a speaker and a microphone built in. If yours does not, you can obtain a headset with a boom microphone. External speakers will improve your experience. If you want to be seen by others you need a web camera. If your computer does not have a camera you can purchase one.
There is a good video tutorial at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_8vQDfSzdY
And zoom.us has some demonstrations.
To run a test of your setup type zoom.us/test into your search bar.

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Meetings are open to the public and are held the fourth Saturday of the month (unless otherwise noted). The meeting starts at 1:00 pm. Meetings during the pandemic will be held online via Zoom.
Email: AskNagsPrescottAz@gmail.com for meeting information.

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