NEXT MEETING - FEBRUARY 14, 2015

**SAVE THE DATE**

San Diego Genealogical Society Monthly Meeting

Saturday, Feb. 14 2015
 

Session 1 (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM)
Yvette Porter-Moore

Blogging Your Family History: What Will You Do With All Your Research?

 

Yvette will speak about our boxes of files and research and how to put it to use, so that we can resolve issues we are having finding answers by sharing with others. Yvette’s talk covers the basics of blogging and how to blog your family research on line so your family stories can be told for generations.
 

Session 2 (11:15 AM – 12:15 PM)
Jean Moss

 My Adoption Search - Follow My Journey in Solving the Puzzle Pieces

Jean is an adoptee who searched for her birth family.  With many events and activities, they have been found. She will share with you how she went about it . Follow her journey in solving the puzzle pieces, including road blocks, overcoming them and where she is in her research today.            

Bring yourself out to a great learning adventure for yourself.

Bring a Friend *  Free Event  *  Refreshments are served

St Andrew's Lutheran Church
8350 Lake Murray Blvd. 
San Diego, CA 92119

MONTHLY MEETING - SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 2014

Linda Serna

“Ethnic Groups:  They Came Into America” Looks at the Polish, German, French, Belgium Walloons, Italian, Irish, and Dutch and explores where they came from, when they came, why they came, and where they went in America to aid us in our research of these particular groups.

“Foreign Research” Looks at how to go about tracing our ancestors across the ocean.  It addresses beginning here in the States, discovering the clues as to where to go next, and then finding resources that are available here and overseas, both online and in repositories, as well as other suggestions that may open the doors to success.

*** BONUS ***

An Italian and German genealogy help desk will be available.

Toni Perrone and Gordon Seyffert, experts from the Immigrant Genealogical Society of Burbank,

will be there to assist and answer questions.

Bio:

Linda has been involved with genealogy in researching and writing family stories for over 30 years. Just recently, she was honored to work on the PBS program Genealogy Roadshow. Currently, Linda is a member of the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists (SCCAPG), the Genealogical Speakers Guild (GSG), the California State Genealogical Alliance (CSGA), the Polish Genealogical Society (PGS-CA), and the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America (GSHA-CA) as well as being Vice President of Programs for the Orange County California Genealogical Society (OCCGS). Over the last 5 years, Linda has written and given several presentations on various topics for different groups in Southern California and New Mexico, as well as teaching the Intermediate/Advanced class at her home group about twice a year. Linda is always in the process of writing new presentations. Her loves, in addition to public speaking, include history, writing, and traveling. She especially likes seeing how individual family stories fit in and make up the fabric of history.

Monthly Meetings

Meetings of the San Diego Genealogical Society are held on the second Saturday of each month, except December. Most meetings are held at

St. Andrew's Lutheran Church

8350 Lake Murray Blvd.(at the corner of Jackson Drive)San Diego, CA 92119

Meetings begin at 10 a.m. with guest speakers from throughout Southern California, and include two presentations on topics of interest to genealogists and family historians of all levels. The meetings, which are free and open to the public, include refreshments and a discussion of Society business. Beginners are always welcome.

We hope to see you there.

Important Meeting on November 13

Our monthly meeting on November 13, at St. Andrews Lutheran Church, is really important for a couple of reasons.

Number one is that it is time to vote for next years board of directors. If you don't come and vote for the board of directors you don't have any room to complain about them. Of course that is just my opinion.

Number two reason is the announcement of our monthly meeting hours for 2011. There are going to be some changes made and it would behoove you to show up for the announcement. This will also affect the beginning genealogy classes and the RootsMagic Users group.

See the previous blog entry about our speaker.

I'd better get back to work

I am back from my summer in Nebraska. I had only planned on being gone for two months but that dragged on to almost four months. My online time was limited to only about 2 hours a day so I certainly didn't spend much of it doing SDGS stuff.

A lot has happened at SDGS during my stay in the hinterlands.

There is a major change coming concerning the people who come to the Rootsmagic Users Group before each monthly meeting.

I don't know if the change in the monthly meeting schedule has been promulgated, but you will get it, unofficially, right here.

Effective with the February meeting we will start the regular meetings at 10 A.M. and be finished by 1 P.M.

That means that the RootsMagic Users Group will not be held before each meeting. We are going to have to come up with some other time and place.

I am considering changing to meeting at the SDGS library at 7347 Ronson Rd, Suite O. That will be a pain for you folks that live in the East County. However it is pretty easy to get to the library.

As for meeting time I am looking at the 4th Saturday of the month. Our monthly meeting is on the 2nd Saturday and several of us go to the CGSSD meeting on the 3rd Saturday. There is a Senior Computer Users group that meets in Mission Beach on the 1st Saturday, I think. I don't know of anything on the 4th Saturday.

I chose Saturday as there is not a lot happening at the SDGS library on Saturday and the freeway traffic is usually lighter than during the week.

Go ahead and post any comments here. I will also discuss this at our November 13 monthly meeting.

This Week at the Library - 2 May - 8 May 2010

Monday 3 May 10 a.m. - noon - Writers Group

Wednesday 5 May 10 a.m. - noon - Genealogy Class - Church records/Cemeteries
6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. - Board of Directors Monthly Meeting

Thursday 6 May 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. - Library Open to the Public

Saturday 8 May - Saint Andrews Lutheran Church, 8350 Lake Murray Blvd.
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Basic Genealogy - Vital Records
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - RootsMagic Users Group
12 a.m. - 2 p.m. - Monthly Meeting - Wendy Elliott, presenter

Wendy's topics are: "Tracking our Fore-Mothers" and "Writing and Publishing Your Work"