The San Antonio Genealogical & Historical Society presents its 49th Annual Fall Seminar on Saturday, November 8, 2008.  The gu­est lecturer will be Dick Eastman, writer, lecturer and creator of "Dick Eastman's Online Newsletter."

For some 30 years, Dick Eastman has been honing his vision of the future to improve our picture of the past. Along with this growing curiosity about his roots, an early interest in ham radio awakened his penchant for all things electronic, and by the early 1970’s, Dick was already using a mainframe computer to enter his family data on punch cards. It was only natural for him to play with PCs and Macintosh computers when the information age invaded households across the continent. He immediately saw new and better and faster ways of researching his family. The internet became his playground, where he would exhort others to bring their ancestors into this digitized world.

Dick actually went knocking on the door of a rising internet star called CompuServe to propose a genealogy forum where he built a community of family historians over the next 14 years. At the same time, he preached the benefits of technology to an even wider audience of genealogists, including national and international genealogical organizations, and of course, GENTECH, an organization that helped him to spread his message.

For the last 9-plus years, Dick has pursued his mission through an online periodical he writes every week, simply called "Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter." He loves to share technology "finds" that can help both new and seasoned genealogists, as well as dethroning the scams and shams that can lead the unwary astray.

Morning Session

• “The Latest Technology for Genealogists” – A look at today’s latest technology
• “Genealogy Searches on Google” – Extracting the most genealogy Information possible from everyone’s favorite search engine

Afternoon Session

• “The Internet: ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’” – How to avoid pitfalls on the Information Superhighway
• “Photographing Old or Delicate Documents and Photographs” – Use your computer before you snap the picture

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