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MEETINGS AND AGENDAS

Roots and Gold Dust Genealogical Society Meetings

Date:      The third Tuesday of every month (Except December)

Time:     1:00 p.m.

Where:   The LDS Church

               3275 Cedar Ravine

               Placerville, CA.

Visitors are always welcome and refreshments are served.

Upcoming Meeting Agendas:

May 15, 2012                        Resources Within The Family History Center, Presented by Bill Taylor

Bill will introduce you to the resources available within the local FAMILY HISTORY CENTER.  The Family History Center is a branch of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City containing the world’s largest collection of genealogical records that include names of more than 3 billion deceased people.  The Family History Center is also a portal to many premium subscription family history websites through FamilySearch and it’s many partner organizations.  Literally mountains of information are waiting at your fingertips and you can search through them from the convenience of a computer in the Family History Center.  This class will show you how to access these online libraries to find records and original documents of your ancestors then take digital images of those records home with you, even including full digital copies of books.  The online resources are continually expanding.  Currently they include large local history collections, US and UK census records, birth, marriage, death and parish records, extensive military record collections, complete digital images of Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files (that are often full of genealogical information), Civil War Pensions, digitally archived newspapers and publications, naturalization documents, passenger lists, over a million maps and atlases, libraries of photos, and much more. 

Bill Taylor currently serves as the assistant director for the El Dorado Family History Center.  He has been active in family history research for over 15 years.  Bill is an experienced Internet researcher and has a knack for finding elusive ancestors, dates and places.  He brings 20+ years of experience teaching professional seminars in industry to his love of family history. 

June 19, 2012                        Preserving Your Family’s Archival Heritage, Presented by Patricia J. Johnson

This workshop discusses how to preserve your family history safely. It will teach you how to store photographs, scrapbooks or albums, and how to flatten rolled or folded documents such as diplomas, wedding certificates, letters, naturalization papers, and other papers.  There will be a demonstration on “encapsulating” documents for their protection. We will examine an assortment of storage containers and discuss how best to use these items for protecting photos and documents. You will also learn about “de-acidification” processes for newspapers and other highly acidic materials.  I invite Roots and Gold Dust members and their guests to bring photographs, letters, certificates, or other documents to the meeting on June 19^th for a discussion on how best to preserve them.  Patricia Johnson is the Senior Archivist and the Volunteer Coordinator at the Center for Sacramento History, located on the north side of Sacramento. 

July 17, 2012                         Genealogical Information of Locating Family During the Civil War, Presented by Brad Schall

Brad’s Civil War interest has evolved as he has twenty-two relatives who fought for the Union in the Civil War.  He has done much historical research on the Civil War.  His Civil War interests and memberships are Past National Commander-In-Chief, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War; Memorial officer for General George Weight Camp #22 in Sacramento; Co-Chairman and founding board member of Friends of Civil War Alcatraz; and Active member of the Northern California Civil War roundtable Speakers Bureau.

The 2012 schedule of programs is being completed at this time and we’ll post the rest of the monthly programs as soon as we confirm them.

Rev 05-09-2012