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SDGS NEWSLETTER San Diego Genealogical Society 49:04 May 2016
World War I: History and Resources By Randy Seaver
John Finch was the program speaker for both sessions of the 9th April SDGS program. His topics were “World War I and Ancestral Records (A War to End All Wars)” and “Between the Wars (A Peace to End All Peace).”
On the eve of World War I, the United States was becoming a world power, stretching from sea to shining sea, and had a “Manifest Destiny” outlook on the world. In Europe, the colonial powers were the empires of Germany, Austro-Hungary, Ottoman, United King-dom, France, and Russia. There were two rival blocs – the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire;
and the Allied Powers of the United Kingdom, France, and Russia with Italy, Serbia, Greece and Romania. Other European countries, such as Spain, Nor-way, Switzerland, and Sweden, were neutral. There was competition and intrigue between the two rival blocs. Many of the rulers of these countries were royal cousins, including Kaiser Wilhelm of Ger-many, Czar Nicholas of Russia, and King George of the United King-dom.
On 28 June 1914, Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand of Austro-Hungary was assassinated in Sarajevo, Serbia by members of “The Black Hand,” a nationalist Serbian group. Austro-Hungary wanted to inves-tigate the event, but Serbia declined. Austro-Hungary invaded Serbia on 25 July 1914. This upset the Russians, which drew Great Britain and France into the war. The Germans invaded to the east, into Rus-sia, but were stopped short of Moscow. They turned their attention to the west and invaded France, but were stopped before reaching Par-is. This developed into trench warfare, with little real movement for the remainder of the war.
World War I saw the introduction of aircraft, first for observation and then for bombing and air-to-air engagements. Remember the Red Baron? It also saw the first use of tanks for ground warfare; they could smash through barbed wire and over trenches.
As the war continued, the United Kingdom was supplied by the USA and Canada, which resulted in German submarine attacks that start-ed sinking ships in January 1917, and drew the
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In This Issue
John Finch 1
President 2
Gen Classes 3
May Meeting 4
Webinar Watch 5
User Groups 6
Gen Council 8
FamHist News 9
Remembering
Mama 10-11
Calendar 12
John Finch photo by J. Paul Hawthorne
President’s Profundity
There are probably lots of things I should be sending you to see for
your research. No such luck. I’ve been working on my brick walls
like many of you and have even found some new ones in my wife’s
family.
For example, looking through an album that my Mother-in-Law had
built over many years, flipped a page and found a GAR ribbon for
the 20th Anniversary of the Civil War … The encampment was held
in San Francisco in 1886….trouble is no name on nor near the rib-
bon to be able to associate a person….really maddening….now I’ve got to go on another
fishing expedition to try and figure out which family and which person….The one person who
we can absolutely reference with newspaper articles and personal family letters, didn’t seem
to have parents nor siblings….[ya, right !] oh well into the breech once more dear friends.
Board meetings have been productive, and we haven’t stormed out in a huff…..
I nominated Vikki Grieshaber as the Hospitality Chair, and the Board approved….Please give
her your support so that you will have some munchies to eat between sessions…Thanks
Vikki.
As an older dog, I don’t like to learn new tricks…But, I’m trying…First it was WINDOWS 10,
and now ROOTS MAGIC 7…..along with keeping up with Ancestry.com and Family Search,
it’s a real plateful…Wonder what changes will be forthcoming from MAC Kiev Software to
keep FAMILY TREE MAKER alive, only the Shadow knows, eh.
Well, that’s about all…Enjoy the coming of Spring
Here’s a Geo Carlin “ism” to finish:
“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where's the self-help section?’ She said
if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”
Cheers, Dave
WANTED!
The Newsletter would like to share the stories, finds, and re-
membrances of our members’ family histories.
Do you have a memory that you would be willing to share?
Photographs, short and long memories — all are welcome.
Contact [email protected].
Sept Seminar with
Maureen Taylor the
Photo Detective
We’ve lined up national-ly recognized speaker, Maureen Taylor, for our September Seminar — save 10 September 2016 for this exciting day!
We’ve got the following talks lined up:
Identifying and Da-ting Family Photo-graphs
Preserving Family Photographs, 1839 to the Present
Buns, Beards, Bodic-es, and Bustles: Un-derstanding Ances-tors Through Cloth-ing
The Perfect P.O.P.—Photo Organizing Plan
Maureen Taylor
Beginning Genealogy Workshops
“Introduction to Genealogy Workshops” have been scheduled for the Carmel Valley/Del Mar Heights area and La Jolla.
Join Peter Steelquist, Wednesday, 22 June from 11:30-1:30 at La Jolla Library, 7555 Draper St.
Join Del Ritchhart, Saturday, 23 July, from 1:00-3:00 at Carmel Val-ley Branch Library, 3919 Townsgate Dr.
Topics covered in all workshops include How to Get Started, Census Records, Helpful Forms & Charts, Online Research, Identifying Re-sources, Popular Software Programs, Tips for Getting Organized, and more! For ample handouts, please RSVP to [email protected]. Tell your friends and neighbors!
Saturday Classes
Seating is limited. RSVP to [email protected].
14 May
“Sourcing” with Dona Ritchie, Upstairs Classroom.
11 June
“DNA SIG: Family Tree DNA & Interface Triangulation” with Kathy Fernandes, Main Room.
“Computer Resources” with Peter Steelquist, Upstairs Class-room.
Keynote Speaker Announced!
Anne Mitchell, from Ancestry.com, will be the featured speaker at the 2nd Annual San Diego Genealogy Day!
The partnership between the San Diego Genealogical Society and the San Diego History Center will also feature breakout ses-sions, educational assistance from local genealogical societies and a continental breakfast! Save the date, Saturday, 15 October for Genealogy Day, held at the San Diego History Center in Bal-boa Park.
For more information, or to offer your help, contact Penny McBride at [email protected].
“DNA Series: Ancestry DNA & 23 and Me
Interfaces” with Kathy Fernandes in February
2016 Monthly Schedule
SDGS has lined up some great speakers for the 2016 Monthly Meetings!
11 June 2016
Linda Serna -War of 1812
-Solving Mysteries: Step
by Step
9 July 2016
Ice Cream Social
with Randy Seaver -Using FamilySearch Dig-
ital Microfilm
-Social Media and Net-
working
13 August 2016
Debra Anderson -Carrie’s Letters: Bringing
Ancestral Letters to Life
10 September 2016
Maureen Taylor -See Page 3
8 October 2016
Del Ritchhart -Evernote
12 November 2016
Kitty Cooper -Using DNA Testing for
Genalogists: Breaking
Brick Walls
-Researching Your Nor-
weigian Ancestors
Online
14 May Meeting with Blythe Stokes
Blythe has been involved in genealogical research since the 1970’s. She just re-cently received her certificate in Genea-logical Research from Boston University. She has given genealogy presentations to a variety of groups from the Orange County California Genealogy Society, The Jewish Genealogy Society of San Diego and the North San Diego County Genea-logical Society. She has taught genealogy classes offered by the Cole Genealogical Library in Carlsbad and in cooperation with the North San Diego County Geneal-ogy Society. She was a science educator for 16 years and a Mentor teacher for the State of California. In the early 1990’s she worked for NASA, California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She assisted in re-searching the effects of cosmic radiation on small nematodes. The ex-periment rode on the Discovery Space Shuttle for nine days.
Find A Grave: Gone But Not Forgotten Find A Grave can be a great resource for genealogical research. It can also provide a wonderful feeling when you can “see” the resting places of loved ones. Personally, Blythe has been able to find family grave sites that she never thought would be possible. Find A Grave allows you to search for ancestor resting places even around the world.
In this presentation you will learn how to search for ancestors using a variety of options including name, birth date, death date and location. If you know the cemetery, you can also search by the cemetery name. You will also learn how to narrow your research options to provide the best results. If your ancestor has yet to be added to Find A Grave you will learn how to set up a memorial and request photographs from the numerous volunteers around the world.
Becoming a contributor (no cost, no volunteering necessary) will open the door to even more tools such as Virtual Cemeteries where you can place your ancestors into a cemetery that you name. This allows you to place family members together even if their resting places are around the globe. This is just one of the great tools available to you on this web-site.
Bring your computer charged and ready to go. After the formal presenta-tion Blythe will spend time helping you find your own “gone but not for-
gotten” family ancestors.
WANTED!
Are you a Family History blogger? The Newsletter
would like to highlight SDGS members’ blogs.
Contact [email protected].
Webinar Watch
Check out the following webinars for April
Legacy -Google Drive for Genealo-gists 4 May
-Dirty Pictures—Save Your Family Photos 11 May
-Messages from the Grave—Listening to your Ancestor’s Tombstone 13 May
-Mining the Über-sites for German Ancestors 18 May
-Discover American Ances-tors 25 May
Family History Library -Check out all of the May webinars — 19 total!
-All past Webinars and handouts are online
Southern Cal GS -Once Upon a Time at an Antique Store 7 May
-Translating Latin Records of Catholic Churches 18 May
Minnesota GS “Manuscript Collections” 4 May
Ontario Canada GS “Geotagging and Reverse Geocoding Your Photos” 5 May
Illinois SGS “Polish Immigra-tion to America” 10 May
Wisconsin GS “Using Social Media to Break through Brick Walls” 17 May
Georgia GS “DAR Genea-logical Research System” 18 May
Florida SGS “Using 3rd-Party Tools in DNA” 19 May
Utah GS “Finding 19th Cen-tury Land Records with 21st Century Tools” 19 May
BYU Webinars Various Webinars, past and present
April Meeting with John Finch, cont.
USA and Canada into the war by April 1917. Russia pulled out be-cause of their own revolution in October. There were thirteen USA campaigns in northern France during 1917 and 1918. Germany saw that they were losing, and an armistice was called on 11 November 1918. The Central Powers lost 3.4 million in battle, with 8.4 million wounded and 3.6 million prisoners. The Allies lost 5.1 million persons, and 12.8 million wounded with 4.1 million prisoners.
The most conspicuous USA records from World War I were the World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. There were three registra-tions – first on 6 June 1917 for men born between 1886 and 1896; second on 6 June 1918 for men born between 1896 and 1897; and third on 12 September 1918 for men born between 1872 and 1900. The forms were somewhat different for each of the registrations. These are available on the fee services of Ancestry.com and Fold3.com, and FamilySearch for free.
There is a Connecticut Military Census available on Ancestry.com and Fold3.com for a fee; there are also British Army Medal, Service and Pension records, and German Casualty Lists available on Ances-try.com. FamilySearch also has an Index to Naturalizations of World War I soldiers and United Kingdom World War I service records.
After the armistice in November 1918, the Treaty of Versailles was negotiated. Germany lost territory to Denmark, Belgium, France, Po-land, and Lithuania. Reparations were demanded by the Allies. These payments destroyed the economy of Germany in the 1920s.
As a result of the war, there was social upheaval, including African-American migration from the farms in the south to factories in the north, improvements in medical care, women's suffrage, improved education, expanded entertainment, and personal freedom. In the USA, the soldiers brought the Spanish flu home, which killed about 675,000 Americans in 1918 and 1919, while thirty to fifty million died worldwide. Immigration laws changed in the 1920s. Prohibition was imposed in 1920. The 1929 stock market crash, the Great Depression and the weather (Dust Bowl) caused hardship and migration of work-ers to the west.
The WPA and CCC produced records of deceased and survivor sol-diers from World War I and the 1920s and 1930s.
John used movie posters to highlight some of the films depicting the era of World War I to World War II, mentioning “The Red Baron,” “War
Horse,” “Gallipoli,” and “Lawrence of Arabia.”
Draft Registration, 1917
Software User Group News By Anne Alves
Do you use Genealogy Software—Reunion, Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, or Legacy?
If you do, SDGS offers a software user group for YOU!
Meet with other folks who use the same software; explore and share tips to get the most out of your application.
Our groups each meet once a month for a 2-hour session:
Reunion (for Mac) 1st Tuesday from 12-2 at the Scripps Ranch Library, Seminar Room, 10301 Scripps Lake Dr; Anne Alves, facilitator.
Family Tree Maker (PC and Mac) 1st Saturday from 10:30-12:30 at the FamilySearch Library, 4195 Camino del Rio South; Dave Tooley, facilitator.
RootsMagic 4th Saturday from 10:30-12:30 at the FamilySearch Library, 4195 Camino del Rio South; Randy Seaver, facilitator.
Join Us!
ATTENTION LEGACY 8 USERS
Do you have any interest in a Legacy Users Group?
We had a Legacy Users Group and we all learned a lot about using the software. I am willing and able to facilitate another user group, if there is interest. However, I need to know the interest level.
Please contact me if you would attend these meetings. Also, please let me know what day of the week works best for you. Diane Gould Hall, [email protected].
A Note From Membership
Some members have enquired about the date that appears in their online mem-bership record. It reads 21 April 2015 even though they have belonged to SDGS for many years. Unfortunately we did not have a precise date that people joined for about a third of the membership. For those without a date, the new software uses the date that our records were loaded into the Wild Apricot system, which is 21 April 2015. However the year that people joined is embedded within their member-ship number. So we will slowly begin adding the correct year into those member-ship records. Confused? Anne Turhollow, VP for Membership can be contacted at [email protected].
A Note From the Webmaster The surname indexes for Leaves and Saplings are now available on our website under San Diego Records.
Welcome to our New Members
Beverly Downing
John C. Finch
Patti Kievlan
Kathy Lehtola
German Interest Group
By Anne Lambert
The SDGS German Interest Group (GIG) meets at the San Diego FamilySearch Li-brary, 4195 Camino del Rio South, in Mission Valley on the third Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00. New members are welcome.
The presentation on April 20, 2016 was "Family History on Display," inspired by mem-ber Carole Sobke's impressive presentations of her family history discoveries. Several group members shared that day, including Anne Lambert, who showed her original fami-ly books and explained how she uses her chromosome spreadsheets to make new discoveries.
In May, Dona Ritchie will be talking about deciphering German and Latin records and in June, Julie Purdy will present German Naming
Patterns.
Germanic Genealogy Conference set for July 2017 in Minneapolis
Save the dates, 28-29 July 2017, for the first international confer-ence organized by the German-American Genealogical Partner-ship.
SDGS has joined this new and growing international partnership of Germanic societies across America and Europe. Our members will receive a special artnership discount off the regular conference rate. Registration for the conference, to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, opens in January 2017.
The conference theme — “Connections: International. Cultural. Personal.” — will shape presentations and per-sonal opportunities for both Germanic genealogy pro-fessionals and individual hobbyists.
A block of rooms has been reserved for conference at-tendees at the Minneapolis Marriott Northwest Hotel. You will be able to book rooms at a special rate begin-ning in August. A special reservation phone number and Marriott link will be available. Watch for more infor-mation.
The German-American Genealogical Partnership was begun last year by genealogical society leaders in America, Germany, and other countries. Their purpose is to expand cooperation among so-cieties nationally and internationally for the benefit of their individu-al members. The 2017 international conference is one of several major Partnership initiatives. Hosting the 2017 Partnership confer-
ence is the Minnesota-based Germanic Genealogy Society.
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Come with the Socie-
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See the attached flyer
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30 Apr—1pm—Chula Vista GS Chula Vista Library with Mark Olsen from My Heritage (see attached flyer)
8 May—1pm—SD Jewish GS Monthly Meeting at Lawrence Family JCC with Sandra Seay “Romania : At Last!!!”
14 May—10am—SD African American GRG at Mal-colm X Library
24 May—9am—North SD County GS Monthly Meet-ing at Carlsbad City Council Chambers with Randy Seaver “Discovering Your Pennsylvania Ancestors”
25 May—12pm—Chula Vista GS Monthly Meeting at Bonita-Sunnyside Branch Library with Jim Bregante “San Diego’s Waterfront—Through the Eyes of a Child”
6-10 November 2016; depart Sun., 5:30 pm; return Thurs., 8:00 am
Enjoy and learn from presentations by Gena Philibert-Ortega,
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Irish Genealogy Summer School
If you have an interest in tracing your Irish roots in Ireland then this is perfect for you. Running from 26 June to 2 July the Ancestral Connections 2016 at The Irish Genealogy Summer School at UCC in Ireland is directed towards the 1916 Uprising and tracing the many charac-ters of early 20th century Ireland. It involves talks, workshops, and field-trips with Genealogi-cal experts. Ancestral Connections promises to delight those with a strong interest in tracing family history.
Run by Lorna Moloney along with help by various lecturers and professionals, this week-long course is for people from all walks of life, from the casual newcomer, to the seasoned profes-sional. Booking is available for 1 day.
Registration is now open. For more info go to www.ucc.ie/en/ace-genealogy/ or contact Lorna Moloney at [email protected].
News from the Family History World By William Zeigler
I was listening to NPR on the way to work the other day and heard an incredible story of one woman’s search for her birth parents. What gave the story an extra edge was that the adoptee was a Chinese girl that had been abandoned by her parents on a street in Wuhan, China. Now, as a student at Yale University, Jenna Cook had decided to go back to Wuhan and see if she could locate her parents.
The poster that she created, and the subsequent story in a local newspaper, set off a flurry of activity, leading to her meeting with fifty families that may have been her parents. A great listen!
Our own J. Paul Hawthorne has created quite a stir in the Genealogy World with his 5-generation Ex-cel chart, using colors to denote states or nations where the ancestor was born. It is a great way to see patterns of geography that I had not otherwise noted. See Paul’s GeneaSpy for details.
Speaking of world famous genealogists, our own Randy Seaver and his GeneaMusings blog has hit a milestone — 10 years! Congratulations Randy.
Quite a shocking, but somewhat redemptive, story has risen out of Britain. The current Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, has found out through DNA analysis that he is the son of Winston Churchill’s last private secretary, Sir Anthony Montague Brown. Welby’s narrative was al-ready quite remarkable, and this only adds to his extraordinary life story. Read the BBC report here.
Use of Timelines — Many of us use timelines in our research and they are notably found in all gene-alogy programs. Recently, I was looking through a timeline that I had made for my great-grandfather and I was able to use it to access some additional resources that I had not found. Due to this experi-ence, I started to look a little deeper at developing different types of timelines.
The In-Depth Genealogist website has a good primer for using and gaining knowledge from timelines in genealogy and is worth a look. The article is a little generic, but should give you some general ideas as to how to use timelines as a tool.
Archives has a much more in-depth look at timelines, giving rationales, tips for creation, and exam-ples. This article from 2013, written by Diane L. Richard, is a much more advanced look at timelines and should give any genealogist a real foundation from which to build.
Out of My Tree Genealogy News, the Armchair Genealogist, and Genealogy Decoded all have great suggestions for timelines with specifics on how to develop them, often giving templates.
Finally, About.com and Free Technology for Teachers have lists of electronic timelines that can be
used relatively cheaply or free; the Teachers site showcases applications that are completely free.
Remembering Mama — Elva Bayles Brown, 1906-1977 By Diane Altona
For as long as I can remember, I knew I could tell Mama anything and she never made me feel that I had displeased her. As I grew into my teens, she became “Mom,” but she is always Mama in my heart.
Maybe she knew it, maybe not, but she was not only my mother, she was my best friend. I miss her still.
Of course I had friends my own age as I grew up in Toledo, and she had her women friends, too, whenever she could break away from all the responsibilities she had as my father’s wife and the mother of my kid brother and me. But when she and I were together, anyone who first heard the sound of our voices would have thought we were two giddy girls. I think she saw in me an ally in the struggle to maintain her equilibrium despite my father’s domination and unpredictability.
When my parents finally divorced in 1956, Mom was free to do what she loved, to travel. It was to serve, as well, as an escape from my father’s stalking and harassment. Not long after I was married in 1958 and my husband Hans and I had moved to San Diego, she de-cided to go on a bus tour in New England to see the renowned fall leaf show. It was during that adventure that tragedy struck our family.
My brother, just out of the Air Force, died in a car crash in California’s mountainous Donner Pass, and that wrenching news greeted her upon her arrival back in Toledo. Her loyal friends packed her off to San Diego to grieve with me and here she stayed, happy to once again be with loving family.
One by one, her three grandchildren were born and she had the joy of watching them grow. The five of us enjoyed many outings together, but our favorites were one-day travel adventures on foot in Tijuana. We al-ways came home with a fresh supply of still-warm corn tortillas and a bag of pan dulce, reminders of a 1948 trip through Mexico when my brother was alive, and of the year when he and I went to school in Mexico City.
Mom never lost her love of travel. While she worked in downtown San Di-ego as a clerk in the small appliance section of Whitney’s Department Store, she saved her earnings to use for bus travel during her vacation
time. She and I enjoyed one-day escapes, she from her job and I from my kids, on sight-seeing bus trips to nearby towns here in Cali-fornia. And Mom enjoyed her Canadian Rockies vacation immensely.
But there is no question that her absolute favorite trip was the one to Ha-waii’s tropical paradise, the most exotic trip she could afford on her So-cial Security. I still have her Hawaii scrapbook, a scatter of snapshots and a collection of free brochures from the places she enjoyed. I would not have been surprised if she secretly did the hula in her little studio apartment on Adams Avenue in Normal Heights, humming in her off-key way to a Hawaiian melody.
Since she had never learned to drive, Mom walked all over the areas surrounding her neighborhood, keeping active and alert and very much alive. A most inquisitive and observing person, she always found new
things to attract her attention, even in her old familiar haunts. If curiosity is a ge-netic component, then I know from whom I inherited mine.
In 1977, she smiled and saw the three kids and me off on a trip to Toledo, Ohio, the first time I’d been back there since moving West in ’58. From Toledo, the kids and I bused south to the Cincinnati area to attend my husband’s sister’s 25th wedding anniversary.
Elva on her travels in
Mexico, 1948.
Elva with Hans, Erick,
Chris, and Lynette,
1966.
Elva Bayles Brown, Adrian
High School, 1924 or 1925
It was on August 23, 1977, while we were at the anniversary party, that we received the sad news that Mom, petite and trim at 71, had
died of a massive heart attack – while she was out on a walk. Numb with grief, we flew home immediately to make the necessary arrangements.
Once, I had asked Mom what were her preferences in re-gard to her death, and all she would say was that if we had a funeral for her she would sit up in her casket and scold us. Not doubting her one bit, we had her body cremated and her ashes scattered at sea.
The fact of my best friend being gone was impossible to comprehend and it took years before I stopped automati-cally reaching for the phone to share family news with her, or to hear her understanding voice when I poured out my tales of temporary woes.
Then when one by one our three kids flew the nest, I had a sudden feeling of my own mor-tality. As with myriad others, I
felt compelled to learn more about my ancestry. Part of that quest naturally led me to visit graveyards where my ancestors are buried.
Along with those cemetery visits came my realization that no descendants would ever be able to find a tangible end to Mom’s story because she had no grave with a marker to prove that she had existed. An Internet Social Security Death Index record of her death might not exist some years from now. To let the fact of Mama’s life disappear was unthinkable to me.
Although I had never heard of such a thing, I wondered if I could arrange for a marker in a cemetery anyhow. But where would be a logical place? My father is buried in a cemetery in Toledo, but plac-ing a marker next to the one for my father was contrary to how their marriage ended and something I was sure my mother would have vetoed.
Mama was born in the little village of Blissfield, Lenawee County, Michigan, but grew up in Adrian, nearby in the same county. Why not place a marker in Oakwood Ceme-tery where her parents lay buried?
To find out if I would even be permitted to place an “empty” marker, I wrote to the head of Oakwood Cemetery. His reply was so amusing that I wished Mama could have read it: “Yes, you can place a marker on her parents’ lot only if her sisters agree to this.” Since this was 2004, and her sisters had died, one in 1981 and the other in 1988, I hardly thought they’d object to their little sister at least having a
marker there – especially since neither was buried in Oakwood any-how!
Now Mama is officially available to be found by future genealogists and her spirit is happy to be remembered, I am sure – but I have a
feeling that her ashes traveled on over to Hawaii.
Elva, c. 1944.
Elva, 1938.
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SDGS Calendar
SDGS Officers
Dave Tooley – President
Linda Brady – First Vice
President, Programs
Anne Turhollow – Second
Vice President, Membership
Lynn Adams – Secretary
Joann Orendurff – Treasurer
3 May 12:00 Reunion Users Group — Scripps Ranch Library
6 May 10:30 Writers Group — FamilySearch Library
7 May 10:30 FamilyTreeMaker — FamilySearch Library
11 May 10:30 Computer Basics — FamilySearch Library
14 May 9:00 Monthly Classes at St. Andrew’s Lutheran: Sourcing
14 May 10:00 Monthly Meeting at St. Andrew’s Lutheran with Blythe Stokes
18 May 1:00 German Interest Group — FamilySearch Library
20 May 10:30 Writers Group — FamilySearch Library
25 May 10:30 Brickwall Brainstorming — FamilySearch Library
28 May 10:30 RootsMagic — FamilySearch Library
11 Jun 9:00 Monthly Classes at St. Andrew’s Lutheran: DNA Series
11 Jun 9:00 Monthly Classes at St. Andrew’s Lutheran: Computer Resources
11 Jun 10:00 Monthly Meeting at St. Andrew’s Lutheran with Linda Serna
10 Sep 9:00—3:00 Family History Seminar at Marina Village
with Maureen Taylor, the Photo Detective
San Diego Genealogical Society presents
Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree June 3-5, 2016
Take an enjoyable train ride to Burbank, California and stay at the Burbank Marriott Hotel for three exciting days of speakers, exhibitors, and special events!
PACKAGE: Jamboree Registration, Hotel (2 nights), and Amtrak (round trip)
SDGS Early Bird registration due by April 20, 2016
[ ] Single: $600.00 [ ] Double: $415.00 [ ] Quad: $325.00=two double beds (if sharing a room, secure your room mate)
Early Bird Price includes: Jamboree registration, 2 nights (June 3 and 4) at the Burbank
Marriott Hotel, and a senior* round trip Amtrak train ticket from/to San Diego * Senior (62+) Oceanside passengers discount available.
$25 fee for cancellations before May 15. No refunds as of May 15
. Pre-registration: Now - April 20 (price increase after April 23
Optional Events *Pre-Reg [ ] Friday Banquet David E. Rencher $70 [ ] Saturday Breakfast with Michael Provard $45 [ ] Saturday Evening (to be announced) $70 [ ] Sunday Breakfast (to be announced) $45 [ ] Sunday Breakfast (to be announced) $45
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Address
Phone Email
Total enclosed Discounts: Senior yes no Oceanside
Make check payable to: San Diego Genealogical Society
Mail this registration form and payment to: SCGS Jamboree 2016
San Diego Genealogical Society c/o Diane Lott: 2161 Clematis Street, San Diego CA 92105
Chula Vista Genealogical Society
Special Presentation
Mark Olsen
“MyHeritage – Amazing Technology Changing the
World of Genealogy”
Saturday, April 30, 2016
1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Chula Vista Public Library
365 F Street
Chula Vista, CA
MyHeritage has created technology that will blow off your socks! From
automatic record matching to new technology not yet announced
MyHeritage is on the forefront of technology. This automation and
these advances in technology are helping millions connect with their
past faster and more accurately than ever before.
To register visit our website: CVGenealogy.org