Website that posts your home address -- Do you want it too?

Website that posts your home address -- 

Do you want it available so easily?

A new family tree website is up and running.  It is called Family Tree Now.  The most unique factor that sets Family Tree Now apart from other people search sites is the fact that all of the information here is available for free in one place, no registration required. Anyone who has just a first and last name is able to dig up anything: cell phone numbers, work information, relative’s addresses, and a whole host of other information. This information is publicly available if you’re willing to dig in and search for it at a variety of different sites, but Family Tree Now takes it quite a few steps further, putting it all in one place for free. 

According to Kim Komando, you would be able to opt out of having your personal information on this site as well as others.  Read this link for more information.  http://www.komando.com/tips/391215/how-to-opt-out-of-the-most-popular-people-search-sites

Another link that explains it more fully is at LifeWire.  https://www.lifewire.com/family-tree-now-4129031?utm_campaign=todaysl&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_content=9067687&utm_term=bouncex15

While it may be good for your search for relatives, you may want to think about what can be found out about you.  Ancestry and other family tree sites do not provide information on living people to the general public.

March 8 PC Club Meeting, Wednesday, 7:00 pm, Classroom 2

The March 8th meeting will be "What is the Cloud?" presented by Chuck Webster.  Chuck worked in the server industry and has a unique perspective on what that nebulous thing is and where it came from. His knowledge will help you not only with understanding the "Cloud" but also its security and structure.

I would also like to share some information from another blog that I manage called Traveling-with-technology.  This blog contains information and sites I have found useful that I want to maintain for myself and traveling friends.  This current post has some current information on the increasing of Gmail attachment size and a free software that allows you to save and backup your Gmail messages to your PC, quite useful in preventing the  😭"heartbreak"😭 of lost or accidently deleted messages.  It can also provide the archive needed to delete emails to free up Google space for more.

Hope to see you on Wednesday!
Ann Dixon, President

Computer Snacks for March 1, 2017

The March 8th meeting will be "What is the Cloud?" presented by Chuck Webster.  Chuck worked in the server industry and has a unique perspective on what that nebulous thing is and where it came from. His knowledge will help you not only with understanding the "Cloud" but also its security and structure.

I would also like to share some information from another blog that I manage called Traveling-with-technology.  This blog contains information and sites I have found useful that I want to maintain for myself and traveling friends.  This current post has some current information on the increasing of Gmail attachment size and a free software that allows you to save and backup your Gmail messages to your PC, quite useful in preventing the  😭"heartbreak"😭 of lost or accidently deleted messages.  It can also provide the archive needed to delete emails to free up Google space for more.

Hope to see you on Wednesday!
Ann Dixon, President

PC Club March 1 Meeting

The RCW PC Club will be meeting Wednesday, March 1 at 7:00 in Classroom 2.  This will be our monthly business meeting and election of officers for next year.  There will be an open forum for questions and problems followed by a few "computer snacks", short presentations on individual topics that will help increase our skills and knowledge.

Party, Party, Pizza Party

Wednesday, February 22 will be a get together in the Rally room with pizza, dessert, and entertainment.  The club will provide the pizza and entertainment.  Please bring your own  drink.  If possible, bring a dessert (even store bought cookies) to share.  This is for paid members who have already signed up at one of the meeting.  If you want to bring a non-member such as a spouse it will be $5. We will begin set up at 4:30 and start the festivities at 5:00.  Help with set up at 4:30 would be appreciated.  Call Ann Dixon if you need to sign up.  Get ready for fun!


Passwords and the difficulty of keeping up with them has been a hot topic lately.  What to do with all those passwords floating in your head.  This page will give you a printable password keeper to save them in.
http://www.petalstopicots.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Password-Book-Blank.pdf

These other sites give you strategies for creating strong passwords you can remember.  Check them out.

Healthy passwords  http://www.healthypasswords.com/content.Healthy_Passwords_the_four_password_strategy_options.html

Create Strong Passwords http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368484,00.asp

Business Insider  http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-create-strong-password-heartbleed-2014-4

Thanks to Our Guest Speaker for February 15

We would like to extend our thanks to Dr. Bryan Heidorn from the University of Arizona for a wonderful presentation on his citizen science project to measure the feeding patterns of two species of Arizona bats.  Dr. Heidorn has taken science and technology to new heights by using a digital recorder and software for measuring the night time feeding by bats at hummingbird feeders.  Hopefully, this will give scientists data for studying the bats.  If any of our members are interested in helping construct the monitoring devices when the cards are available, you can let Ann know and she will forward your information to Dr. Heidorn.  Thanks to Dr. Heidorn for a wonderful program.

Great Speaker for Wednesday, Feb. 15

Be sure to put this Wednesday's PC Club on your calendar.  We are extremely fortunate to have Dr. Byran Heidorn, Director (School of Information Resources and Library Science) as our speaker. https://ischool.arizona.edu/users/bryan-heidorn He will give us an overview of the Internet of Things, the network connection of many things even down to kitchen appliances.  He will also tell us about a citizen science project he is conducting that is based on wifi enabled hummingbird feeders that count licks of the sugar water from feeders for feed the nectar bats (Lesser Long-nosed bats) that migrate through Tucson.  I am especially excited about the topic of this meeting, so be sure to attend.

Ann Dixon, President
RCW PC Computer Club

Upcoming Events of Interest

Family History Fair, Saturday, February 25

Tucson Festival of Books  https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/