In July 1998, Gary went to the first meeting of many people who wanted to form the society that is now SGGEE. He volunteered for the steering committee and because he was not quick enough to volunteer for another committee position, was elected the chairman of that committee. He helped that committee form SGGEE that first year, and with his son, Matt Warner, set up the SGGEE website and acted as webmaster for the first 7 years of the existence of SGGEE. Gary was President of SGGEE from 1999 to 2000.
He also has been, from the beginning, the SGGEE Databases Manager, and spends time almost every day in merging the Master Pedigree Database (MPD) and collating many of the other SGGEE databases. He has also submitted his digital data to Ancestry and Family Search, and his DNA results to Ancestry, Family Tree DNA, and Gedmatch.
Gary is a registered civil engineer who has finally retired. In his extended family of siblings and cousins (including his mother’s Latvian kin), he is one of only two who is actively pursuing family history, and the only one actually doing research in Europe. He has, however, trained all of his known relatives to send him updates on all births, deaths and marriages in the extended family. It seems that most people want their information written down somewhere so that they can be remembered, even if they do not want to do the recording themselves.
"Preparing for and submitting data to SGGEE for the Master Pedigree Database"
Gary will be leading a back-to-back presentation on the many elements for getting your pedigree data into the SGGEE database. Also covered will be hands-on work with a Legacy sample file, and how to use some of the source websites that are now available to us.
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