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Meeting Location:
Christ the King Lutheran Church
2300 S. Patton Ct.
Denver, CO 80219


Mailing Address:
P. O. Box 9218
Denver, CO 80209-0218

The Computer Interest Group (CIG), a special interest group of the Colorado Genealogical Society (CGS), operates under the charter issued to the Colorado Genealogical Society by the State of Colorado. The CGS-CIG meets on the second Monday of every month.  The CIG now holds its meetings at Christ the King Lutheran Church in southwest Denver. Here is a map to the CIG meeting place.

Program meetings will be held in odd-numbered months (September, November, January, March and May). Beginner's Corner and Workshop meetings will be held in even-numbered months (October, February, April and June). A short business meeting will precede all monthly meetings. No meetings are held in December, July and August.

Future Programs

9 January 2012

KeepYour Computer Humming
Presented by Art Thayer

Art will tell us how to keep our favorite machines up and running for a long time. Learn the common pitfalls that put us in danger of losing our data, and how to prevent disaster.


13 February 2012

Workshop Meeting

Workshops on popular genealogy programs, including Legacy, Family Tree Maker, The Master Genealogist, Roots Magic, and Reunion for MAC.


12 March 2012

What is OCR Anyway and Why Should I Care?
Presented by Nancy and Gary Ratay

OCR is the system that allows you to search newspapers and books on the internet among other things. Optical character recognition (OCR) is the translation of scanned print into electronic text. Find out how this works and why you need to know at our program. Also discover how it can help you in organizing your scanned documents and what it means for the future.


9 April 2012

Workshop Meeting

Workshops on popular genealogy programs, including Legacy, Family Tree Maker, The Master Genealogist, Roots Magic, and on Scanning and Digital Imaging.


14 May 2012

Cemetery Photography
Presented by Sandra Gill


26 May 2012

Spring Seminar at the Denver Public Library
Featured Speaker Dick Eastman

Watch for coming seminar announcement and registration form


11 June 2012

Workshop Meeting
Annual Ice Cream Social

Workshops on popular genealogy programs, including Legacy, Family Tree Maker, The Master Genealogist, Roots Magic, and Reunion for MAC .


 

CIG Newsletters

The Computer Interest Group newsletter is found here. We will provide current and past issues of the CIG Newsletter as Adobe Reader (pdf) files. The most recent issues will be at the top of the list.


January - February 2012 Newsletter
November - December 2011 Newsletter
September - October 2011 Newsletter
May - June 2011 Newsletter
March - April 2011 Newsletter
January - February 2011 Newsletter
November - December 2010 Newsletter
September - October 2010 Newsletter
May - June 2010 Newsletter
Special Edition - Birdie Holsclaw Memorial
March - April 2010 Newsletter
January - February 2010 Newsletter
November - December 2009 Newsletter
September - October 2009 Newsletter
May - June 2009 Newsletter
March - April 2009 Newsletter
January - February 2009 Newsletter
November - December 2008 Newsletter
September - October 2008 Newsletter
May - June 2008 Newsletter
March - April 2008 Newsletter
January - February 2008 Newsletter

Program Handouts

Here's another new addition to the CIG page! When available, Adobe Reader (pdf) copies of handouts from CIG programs will be provided here on the website. The most recent handouts will be on top of the list.

March 2010, Basic Tweaks
September 2009, Digitizing Photographic Slides

CIG is on Facebook

Linda Jaster Hartlaub has established Facebook group for CIG members and interested persons. Facebook is a leading "social networking" site on the Internet. You will already have to be a Facebook member to access this group site. Joining Facebook is free!

Connect with Facebook  CIG on Facebook


Bylaws of the Computer Interest Group


CIG Membership Application (html)
CIG Membership Application (pdf)