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SBCGS Upcoming Events – 2010

July 17, 2010 Program

Please note the different location for this meeting only.
It's at the Goleta Presbyterian Church, Shirrell Way
(behind Fairview Shopping Center), Goleta

Saturday, July 17, 2010
Time:10:30 - 12:00 Noon
Goleta Presbyterian Church, Shirrell Way (behind Fairview Shopping Center), Goleta
Speaker: Daniel Horowitz, Genealogy and translation manager for MyHeritage.com
Program: Using Facial Recognition Technology in Genealogy

Our July speaker was well received when he spoke at the recent Jamboree in Burbank and we are delighted to be able to present him here.

Daniel Horowitz, Genealogy and translation manager for MyHeritage.com, was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, and holds a BS degree in computer engineering.  He was a founding member and lecturer of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Venezuela from 2001-2005.  Currently he lives in Israel and holds the position of webmaster of the Israel Genealogy Society and the Horowitz Families Society.  He has served on the board of directors of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) since 2008.  He is responsible for the database generation and maintenance of the "MyHeritage Research genealogy search engine.  We are fortunate to have him visit with us this month and present us with information on cutting edge technology.

Facial Recognition technology for genealogy is now publicly available. The same technology used to catch terrorists is now an excellent tool for genealogy research. This state-of-the-art technology organizes photos using facial-recognition to compare faces in all your photos. Upload photos and MyHeritage will automatically find the faces. Tag each person only once and export the tags. The engine is likely to find relatives of those people, due to relatives' genetic facial similarities. Thus, users may find previously unknown people.
Learn how this remarkable technology can help bust your research, identify and tag people and discover people related you didn’t know.

Come early for the 9:30 a.m. mini-groups on Beginning help, Germanic Genealogy, Computer help and DNA interest group.

Upcoming Programs, a reminder that August is Dark. See you in September, back at First Presbyterian Church, for SBCGS's next outstanding Program.

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