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Membership Coordinator Diana Edwards and Volunteer Coordinator Linda Okazaki are busy making plans for the April membership meeting. The theme will be: Preserving Your Genealogical Work through Publishing.
Members who have published genealogical books, articles, and other materials are invited to bring them to the meeting on Saturday, April 13, 2013. Please email Diana Edwards if you have a work to share. You will not be required to give a presentation.
In anticipation the meeting, we've added the new Books by CGS Members board to Pinterest.
We'll have more about the April meeting as the date approaches.
Copyright © 2013 by Kathryn M. Doyle, California Genealogical Society and Library.
The San Francisco History Expo brings local and neighborhood history groups together under one roof. This is an opportunity for people of all ages to learn about—and participate in—San Francisco history though presentations, photographs, artifacts, children’s activities, and historical reenactments.
The exhibits are all very interesting, covering many aspect of SF's past and present. Last year, the Maritime Museum exhibit was particularly noteworthy with a whole room full of items including a model ship with working rigging, and the parts labelled. It is also one of the few times when the mint is open to the public.Judy Bodycote and Nancy Servin are overseeing our presence this year. They are coordinating schedules for volunteers to staff our booth. If you can help, please email Nancy.
A half dozen or so San Franciscans interested in genealogy gathered at Dr. Edward Stephen Clark's office at 16 Geary. They pooled their knowledge of family history research and shared the materials they'd separately gathered. In fact, they held the first meeting of what would become the California Genealogical Society, the state's first organization of family history researchers.Dr. Edward Stephen Clark was elected the society's first president. Today President Jeffrey Valliant is the thirty-sixth to hold the office. Today we honor those who came before.
Dr. Edward Stevens Clark 1898–1900
Col. Adolphus S. Hubbard 1900
Mr. Herbert Folger 1901–1903
Mr. Zoeth A. Eldridge 1904
Mr. Herbert Folger 1905–1907
Mr. Orville Dwight Baldwin 1908–1909
Mr. Henry Byron Phillips 1912–1920
Mr. Delmar Leon Thornbury 1921
Mr. George Henry Andruss 1922
Dr. Charles Francis Griffin 1923–1931
Mr. George Arthur Merrill 1932
Mr. Charles Hancock 1933–1941
Mr. Robert T. C. Head 1942–1944
Miss Margaret Griffith 1945–1948
Mrs. Heward Armstrong 1948–1962
Mr. H. Lewis Mathewson 1963–1964
Mrs. Scott Rountree 1965–1970
Mrs. John Peirce 1971–1973
Dr. Albert Shumate 1974
Mr. J. Roger Jobson 1975–1976
Mrs. Charles C. Bowen 1977–1978
Mr. John Hale 1979–1982
Mrs. Constant Vaughn 1983
Mr. David Adams 1983–1977
Mrs. Jane Steiner 1987–1988
Mr. James Schuyler 1989
Mr. David Mason Adams 1990
Mrs. Mary Sweetman 1991
Mrs. Mary Lou Grossberg 1992–1993
Dr. Frederick S. Sherman 1994–1997
Mr. David Wilma 1998
Mr. Vernon A. Deubler 1998–2001
Mr. Glen S. Schimelpfenig 2001–2004
Mrs. Jane Knowles Lindsey 2004–2010
Dr. Stephen Harris 2010–2012
