Race, Religion, and Reading Records Right: A Talk at the Society of California Pioneers

April 6, 2013
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

The Society of California Pioneers
300 Fourth Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.957.1849

Lavinia Grace Schwarz, Research Director of the California Genealogical Society and Library, will present a basic genealogy lesson using a fascinating story from her own family research. Her spell-binding talk will help you look at your own research with new openness, strategies and historical insight. The lecture is appropriate for beginning and intermediate genealogists.

The California Genealogical Society is pleased to offer this lecture in collaboration with the Society of California Pioneers at their beautiful facility in San Francisco.

The talk is free and open to members of both the California Genealogical Society and the Society of California Pioneers. Preregistration is required. Registration confirmations will be emailed to registrants.

Register online.

Lavinia Gilbert Schwarz was born and raised in the East Bay. She is a third generation northern Californian (and third generation Cal grad) who has traced her roots to France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Germany, Cuba, and San Domingue (now Haiti). She has been a member of the California Genealogical Society for twelve years, and spent five years on the Board. She presently coordinates the CGS Research and Lookups service. A genealogist since 1999, she completed the National Institute on Genealogical Research (N.I.G.R.) program in 2008 at the National Archives in Washington D.C. and College Park, Maryland. To hone her skills she has attended numerous National Genealogical Society conferences including those in Pittsburgh, PA; Raleigh, VA; Sacramento, CA; Durham, NC; Salt Lake City, UT, and Cincinnati, OH as well as visiting courthouses and genealogically significant sites in Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Louisiana, and California.

It's Story Time at this Week's San Francisco Special Interest Group Meeting

Sandra Britt-Huber and Nancy Hart Servin, co-facilitators of the San Francisco Special Interest Group (SIG), sent this reminder about tomorrow's meeting.

Saturday, March 16, 2013
10:00 a.m.

California Genealogical Society Library
2201 Broadway, Suite LL2
Oakland, California 94612

The March SF-SIG meeting will be a group discussion – it's story time! 

Please come and be prepared to bring a slice-of-life story about your San Francisco heritage family or research interest to share at our meeting this Saturday. Compliment your story by bringing pictures or records to enhance your story-telling experience with others. 

It’s all about sharing what we know about San Francisco to broaden and build our knowledge. If your story has a puzzling piece that you can’t quite fit together, the group
may be able to help you find the missing connection.  

Please bring your copy of Nancy Peterson's Raking the Ashes: Genealogical Strategies for Pre-1906 San Francisco Research for reference.  

We'll also be sharing our experience at the recent San Francisco History Expo. Lot's of people stopped by the California Genealogical Society table and there was considerable interest in our SF-SIG.  

We are looking forward to seeing you this Saturday!

The California Genealogical Society sponsors Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for members to pursue the study of a particular geographical research area or genealogy discipline. These groups are a benefit of society membership and meet on specific days every month. SIG meeting days and times are as

follows:

RootsMagic SIG Meets third Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Next meeting January 15, 2013. San Francisco SIG Meets third Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.  Next meeting January 19, 2013.

Please note: the Genealogy Writing SIG is on hiatus.

Download the San Francisco SIG information flier.


Copyright © 2013 by Kathryn M. Doyle, California Genealogical Society and Library

Wordless Wednesday

San Francisco History Expo

Old San Francisco Mint

March 2-3, 2013

Photographs by Kathryn Doyle, San Francisco, CA, 3/3/2013.


Copyright © 2013 by Kathryn M. Doyle, California Genealogical Society and Library.

Using DNA to Solve Your Genealogical Mysteries

Saturday, April 27, 2013
9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Nile Hall
Preservation Park
668 Thirteenth Street
Oakland, CA 94612

Do you have more questions than answers about how DNA can help with your genealogy research Are you eager to let DNA help you overcome a brick-wall?

Join the California Genealogical Society for a day of DNA and learn how to connect with living cousins around the world.

Schedule

9:00 a.m. Registration, coffee /tea

9:30 – 10:30 Crash Course in DNA, Katherine Borges
Katherine will describe the types of tests and what they reveal, where to get them, what to do with the results.

10:45 - 11:45 Hoskins Y-DNA Case Study, Tony Hoskins
Tony will talk about what happens when your DNA does not match while sharing the twists and turns his DNA research has taken.

11:45 - 1:15 Network during lunch. Visit a local restaurant or order a boxed lunch when you register.

1:15 - 2:45 How Are CGS Members Using DNA?
Ken Haughton will discuss mutations found in his research and how he is using them to break down some of his brick walls. Pam Miller will show how DNA has provided the final irrefutable evidence in proving lineage.

3:00 - 3:30 Panel discussion – questions from the audience.

Register online.

Download the seminar flier.

Katherine Borges

Katherine Hope Borges is co-founder and director of the International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG), which promotes and educates about genetic genealogy. ISOGG has grown to over 8,000 members in 70 countries. Through ISOGG, Katherine has increased professional standards in the practice, research, and discussion of relevant issues in DNA testing, interpretation, and ethics. She organized a speakers bureau and has given many presentations on genetic genealogy to groups across the United States and in the United Kingdom. She administers several surname, regional, and haplogroup DNA projects. 

Tony Hoskins

Tony Hoskins manages and heads the Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library. A frequent lecturer in the Bay Area, he is also the Sonoma County Archivist managing the Sonoma County Archives at Los Guilicos that houses many of the county's original land, probate, tax, naturalization, vital, and court records. Tony’s interest in genetic genealogy began three years ago when he compared his DNA to that of a fifth cousin and found they did not match. He discovered it was his line that was the problem.


Photograph of Katherine Borges used with permission of Dick Eastman.


Copyright © 2013 by Kathryn M. Doyle, California Genealogical Society and Library.

Celebrating 115 Years with our Updated Bookmark!

Ancestor photographs courtesy of our members.
Graphics and design by Lois Elling.


Copyright © 2013 by Kathryn M. Doyle, California Genealogical Society and Library.