Volunteer Opportunities
The Historical Society operates by
volunteers and is only as good as its participants.
Please take a look at the opportunities that we have for you
to help to continue in making this Organization one of the
best. If you are interested or have questions,
please contact
Hetty McMann or leave your name and message
at (408) 615-2986.
Newsletter Mailers
The Newsletter Mailing Committee is looking for
people to help fold, tape and label newsletters. The Committee meets in the
library from 9:00 to 11:00 am on the 3rd Friday of each month, excluding July
and November.
Greeters for General Meetings
We need volunteers to greet visitors at
the door and have them sign in for meetings. If you are a member and
would like to do this, please arrive at 6:30 pm on the day of the
meeting and add your name to the sign up sheet available at the meetings
.
Book Cart Monitor
1 or 2 people who can come to all the meetings and
bring down the book cart before the meeting, collect the donations and
give it to our Treasurer, and return the book cart to the workroom after
the meetings. Please add your name to the list on the sign up sheet
available at the meetings.
Indexers
There currently two projects that are looking for
volunteers to help Index.
- Kathy Hill is indexing the early Santa Clara birth, death, and marriage
records from the film in the library. This project will need to be done
in the library, but you can set your own hours.
- SCCHGS member, Kristin Rivers has begun an indexing project of Oak
Hill Memorial Park's Cemetery. With the goal to preserve the
genealogically significant information the Cemetery's records contain,
this HUGE, long-term project is benefiting from the collaboration of
volunteers from the Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group as well as
our amazing SCCHGS members. Negotiations regarding the publication of
the records are still in progress. But once completed, volunteers will
be needed to transcribe and photograph tombstones and to digitize
SCCHGS' microfilm of their prior Oak Hill walk-through. If you would
like to know how the project is progressing and to be contacted once
Kristin is ready to ask for more volunteers, please join the Oak Hill
Cemetery Indexing Project Yahoo Group by sending email to:
ohcip-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
New Publications Chairperson
The Publication Committee gathers and preserves
abstracts, indexes and other genealogical records which are posted on
our website or published and sold to interested researchers. We are
looking for someone to head up this committee and also volunteers to
work on the committee as typists and checkers.
Back up person
Positions such as Newsletter Editor, Program Chair,
Webmaster, Treasurer, perform very specific jobs vital to the
organization. We would like to have volunteers who can step in if one of
these people can’t do that job for some reason, like illness or
vacation. We have people who are doing those jobs now and they are
willing to work with you and train you so that you have some experience
before you would actually need to do the job.
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