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Chinese Settlers in Qld: Chinese gold digger ca. 1860; Ah Coy and his wife at St. George. State Library of Queensland.

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Date and time: 16 Oct 2024 8:31 AM

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 Family Tree Maker Seminar

10 October 2024

DRAFT Seminar topics: Two sessions will be split by morning tea and lunch, and the presenters will share each session. Each of the sessions is expected to be about 1 to 1.5 hours in length. 

Session 1: Getting the Most Out of Family Tree Maker & Family Book Creator

Session 2: What’s Coming in Family Tree Maker 2024 & Family Book Creator

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DRAFT Seminar topics: Two sessions will be split by morning tea and lunch, and the presenters will share each session. Each of the sessions is expected to be about 1 to 1.5 hours in length.

Session 1: Getting the Most Out of Family Tree Maker & Family Book Creator

  • Why Family Tree Maker among so many alternatives for building a family tree?
  • Exploring approaches for getting started with building a family tree.
  • Customizing to make things work for you.
  • Seven family history workspaces. Soon to be eight
  • Working with Ancestry and FamilySearch
  • Introduction to Family Book Creator
  • The story behind Family Book Creator.
  • How to use Family Book Creator.
  • Family Book Creator and Microsoft Word a perfect match?
  • And more…
  • Q & A

 Session 2: What’s Coming in Family Tree Maker 2024 & Family Book Creator

  • Introduction to Family Tree Maker 2024
  • Connect! A completely new workspace and new Relative Hint™ feature that make it easier than ever to share your tree and collaborate with your family.
  • Easy on the Eyes™: a revolutionary way of enlarging parts of the screen right when you need it. An answer and relief for those of us with tired old eyes.
  • Introducing AlbumWALK® — Making your photos talk — literally.
  • Turn Back Time expansion to remembering your last 5,000 changes.
  • Hyphenated dual surnames support following the Hispanic tradition.
  • Improved support for managing and reporting relationships.
  • Tools for cleaning up orphaned items (media, sources, and citations).
  • Advanced features of Family Book Creator.
  • How to publish your results.
  • Q & A

Bookings: via Eventbrite (PayPal is the secure method of payment).  Should you prefer to pay by bank transfer, contact the organiser for details (familytree@qfhs.org.au).

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This is an in-person event & will not be available via Zoom. Recordings will be made available to registrants for a limited period after the event. 

We Remember Them: wartime stories in our family tree

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A group portrait of nine Australian soldiers, most in uniform, posing somewhere in South Africa during the Boer War. (Image: State Library of Queensland)

The We Remember Them project will gather stories from our members focusing on the wartime stories in their family trees.  A virtual Honour Board will be created on this website to display an image of the individual and a few vital statistics. Each image will be linked to the story of that person’s wartime experiences. Read More

QFHS Seminars and Training Courses

Finding your family: the fundamentals of…

Presenter: QFHS Tutors

When: Commences Monday 10 February 2025 weekly for six weeks - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm AEST (QLD time - no daylight saving)

Finding your family: the fundamentals of research

This event will be delivered online.

This six week course will be very comprehensive for someone wanting to start researching t…

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