642
edits
Hurricane Utah FamilySearch Center (view source)
Revision as of 13:37, 18 October 2022
, 18 October 2022→ OCTOBER 2022 CLASS SCHEDULE
| Line 604: | Line 604: | ||
======<u>'''Military Records - Military'''</u>====== | ======<u>'''Military Records - Military'''</u>====== | ||
Military records are found in many places on the internet from 1785 to the Vietnam war. You will learn how to find specific records on different websites, and how to google unusual records. Pension files and how to order them, are so important and you can find much information on other members of the serviceman's family. Death records can be found as well as marriage dates and places. Some explain what they did in the service, and where they served. | Military records are found in many places on the internet from 1785 to the Vietnam war. You will learn how to find specific records on different websites, and how to google unusual records. Pension files and how to order them, are so important and you can find much information on other members of the serviceman's family. Death records can be found as well as marriage dates and places. Some explain what they did in the service, and where they served. | ||
'''<u>MICROSOFT WORD:</u>''' | '''<u>MICROSOFT WORD:</u>''' | ||
'''** <u>Preserving Family Memories using Microsoft Word, even if you can’t type | '''***''' '''<u>Preserving Family Memories using Microsoft Word, even if you can’t type</u>''' | ||
This will be an interactive, participatory demonstration and workshop to get you started with ideas about collecting and organizing family memories, and an introduction to using Microsoft Word. You don’t need to know how to | This will be an interactive, participatory demonstration and workshop to get you started with ideas about collecting and organizing family memories, and an introduction to using Microsoft Word. You don’t need to know how to type. You will be presented with some computer basics, including how to use a mouse, even if your hand shakes. You will learn how to enter stories in the form of text through typing and dictation. We will introduce you to some basic word processing functions including how to change things (editing) if you want to move text around, saving your work and printing your story. We will also talk about a “free” word processing tool: Libre Office Writer. Future classes will build upon the knowledge presented here to teach you how to build a family history book. | ||
====== '''** <u>Preserving Family Memories using Microsoft Word | ====== '''*** <u>Preserving Family Memories using Microsoft Word, The Fun Stuff</u>'''====== | ||
This will once again be an interactive, participatory demonstration and workshop to explore some of the intermediate level tools of Microsoft Word and Libre Office Writer. | This will once again be an interactive, participatory demonstration and workshop to explore some of the intermediate level tools of Microsoft Word and Libre Office Writer. This is a continuation of the first Preserving Family Memories using Microsoft Word class. We will explore tabs, paragraphs, line spacing, headers, footers and page numbering, tables, columns and the find and replace function. Future classes will build upon the knowledge presented here to teach you how to use Word to do scrapbooking. | ||
====== '''** <u>Scrapbooking | ====== '''*** <u>Preserving Memories in Microsoft Word – Advanced Tools and Scrapbooking Part 1</u> (Suggest taking MS Word parts 1 and 2)'''====== | ||
This will | This will be a continuation of an interactive, participatory demonstration and workshop where we explore some of the advanced tools of Microsoft Word and Libre Office Writer. We will explore text formatting, font size, fonts and colors, the Snipping tool, inserting pictures and shapes, cover pages and tables of contents, and layering. A future class will build upon the knowledge presented here to enhance your knowledge of how to use Word to do scrapbooking. (Suggest first taking <u>Parts 1 and 2)</u> | ||
====== '''** <u>Scrapbooking | ====== '''*** <u>Preserving Memories in Microsoft Word – Advanced Tools and Scrapbooking Part 2</u> (Suggest taking MS Word parts 1 and 2)'''====== | ||
We will finish up our series of interactive, participatory demonstrations and workshops as we explore additional advanced tools found in Microsoft Word and Libre Office Writer. We will look at shading, backgrounds, objects and Texts, Text Effects including shadows and reflections, the drawing tool, working with watermarks and borders, comments, balloons and text boxes, and some multi-level, indented lists, tracking changes and how to view two different parts of a given document at the same time. We will see how sample digital scrapbook pages are built. | |||
======<u>'''Newspaper Research'''</u>====== | ======<u>'''Newspaper Research'''</u>====== | ||