Lisa Louise Cooke from Genealogy Gems
Sacramento Genealogical Society Spring Seminar Speaker
When: Saturday, April 6, 2019
Where: Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church 11427 Fair Oaks BLVD Fair Oaks, CA
Time: Doors open at 8:30A.M. Seminar at 9:00A.M. until 4:30P.M.
See the following website for the flyer and registration.
https://rootcellar.org/cpage.php?pt=42&fbclid=IwAR23myHavoTWkY2GwHBLsNxcmqM_GxyG_jHVvCQPW-r9dPhbUHhRd_vE7i0
Topics of Discussion:
Google Search Strategies for Common Surnames
Time Travel with Google Earth or How to Excite your Non-Genealogist Relatives
Cutting Edge Strategies for Solving that Cold Case! Featuring Family Tree identification for DNA Matches.
How to use Evernote for Genealogy (Aka "Note taking strategies")
Brief bonus "How-To" feature.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Monday, February 11, 2019
Special Collections Room
Special Collections Room-- Jackie Niemeyer
We have some great books in the
special collections room at the library. A lot of hard work went into writing
and indexing different county and state books in the collection. Our society
has done several cemetery books of our local cemeteries such as Acacia,
Pioneer, Citizens, Turlock and Ceres among others. GSSC has also done an every
name index for a couple of Stanislaus County History Books. They are " The
History of Stanislaus County " by George Tinkham and also " Stories
of Stanislaus" by Sol P. Elias. They were both published in the 1920s and
our society indexed them years later. Tinkham's book has biographical sketches
and photos of prominent county men including Sol. P. Elias. Sol was a former
mayor of Modesto and he wrote his book about various happenings and history of
the county.
Use the indexed books in our collection as a finding aid
for your genealogical documentation. One good example are the books done by
Virgil D. White. He has abstracted and indexed a lot of the early wars pension
and service records from the National Archives. His best-known work is "
Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files". It is a
4-volume set with an every name index. It gives a good synopsis of the pension
information. If you find your person in the book you can find the original
papers either on line or you can order from the archives. His other books that
we have are indexes for Old War Pension files, Indian Wars and the War of 1812
pensions. Come visit us at the library to use these and all the other great
books we have.
I also still need volunteer help at the Special
Collections room on the second and fourth Monday's of the month. We are open
from 10 am to 3 pm but I would only need a couple hours of help on those Mondays.
I want to especially thank Marge Schueber for her help at the library on the
other Mondays. It is very much appreciated!
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