MOVING AHEAD

On Feb. 1, TriMet staff provided an update to its estimates for property acquisition along Gideon Street. It now projects conducting appraisals and negotiations during the winter of 2010-11, moving up the actions on our current building by about 6 months from the previous estimate. Formal notice to move is now projected for Feb. 2011, which means beginning our property search about November, 2010. Action estimates from TriMet change from time to time as more information and approvals are available, so precise dates will be hard to come by for a few months. The Relocation committee and Board are in the process of drawing together a set of requirements to guide our search. The list will be made available to members, and interested members will be encouraged to report to the committee any properties they know of that might be good candidates.

NEW OPB GENEALOGY PROGRAM FEB 11th

Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Harvard scholar turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans — professor and poet Elizabeth Alexander, chef Mario Batali, comedian Stephen Colbert, novelist Louise Erdrich, journalist Malcolm Gladwell, actress Eva Longoria, musician Yo-Yo Ma, director Mike Nichols, Her Majesty Queen Noor, television host/heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, actress Meryl Streep, and figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi.

Schedule
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. premieres nationally Wednesdays, February 10 - March 3, 2010 from 8 - 9 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings) Watch the first full-length episode online on Thursday, February 11.

THE GFO ILLINOIS INTEREST GROUP

To all interested in Illinois...
or in learning more about events in February...
or just in the fun of a little party!


February is a special month in Illinois!
The time is filled with important events And the Illinois Interest Group Is going to celebrate several of them On Saturday, February 13th

And we want YOU to join us
For the Party!

And even the State of Oregon thinks it¹s a special month in February!!!

We need YOU to party with us too!

If you can come, please RSVP to Kristy at Hannah@teleport.com So that we can prepare for the party!
We want to be sure to save you a place at the table!!

HERITAGE SCRAPBOOKING

It's that time again! I realize some of you will have "Superbowl" plans, but if football is not your thing, do plan to join us this Sunday at 1 p.m.
at the GFO Higgins Room.

This month, Brina Bolanz will give a talk on “Photo Dating : Costumes & Hairstyles 1840-1900”, an overview of the style trends typically seen in studio portraits during the Victorian era. You will learn to establish surprisingly accurate dates for your undated family photographs!

After Brina's talk, you'll have time to work on your album or continue to sort your photos or do some planning.

Please let me know if you are coming so we can properly set up the room to accommodate everyone.

See you there!
Bonnie
BLaDoe [bladoe@aol.com]

New Index: Little Chapel of the Chimes

In 1990, the Little Chapel of the Chimes ran an advertising supplement in the Oregonian newspaper showing photos of the original Little Chapel on North Killingsworth Street in Portland, and then expanding to the Little Chapel in Gateway area. The next location for the Little Chapel was on North Lombard, and then the “newest” Little Chapel opened in the Sunnyside area.

The supplement included a list of all the persons they had cared for in their 71 years of service to the community. The list, with the year in which they passed on, is given in this database. We do not have further information to offer at the Forum. We hope this list will assist you to locate further documents on your ancestors.

36,803 deaths listed

JANUARY 18TH-COMPUTER INTEREST GROUP

The Computer Interest Group will meet at the GFO on Monday evening January 18th at 7:00 p.m. This evening's program will be an Introduction to Microsoft EXCEL spreadsheet program. This is aimed at all of you users that have Excel on your computer but that you use very infrequently or have yet to use it.

Topics we will include:

The Basics of entering, editing, and deleting information.

Using formulas

Freezing panes to keep column or row columns visible.

Utilizing the 'Side by Side' feature in Excel

Using fill handlesFormatting and Conditional formatting.

Printing options

Making Charts

Utilizing Functions. This will be the first time this class has been offered so I am not sure how much we will be able to cover in our hour and a half class.
Feel free to bring along your questions.



Marty Krauter

Computer Interest Co-Chair

Long Awaited Genealogy Show Arrives

New shows on NBC, filling in its spring schedule includes the Lisa Kudrow-produced genealogy-reality series "Who Do You Think You Are?" beginning March 5 (Fridays at 8 p.m.).