2007
MEETINGS & SEMINARS
Our evening meetings are on the Third Tuesday of the month at the Santa Clara
City Public Library located on Homestead Road. For directions please
see the
map.
Please help brighten up our meetings by providing your suggestions for Speakers
or Topics that you would like to see in the future. Please provide a brief
description of the topic, the Speaker's name, their e-mail address, mailing address
or Telephone number (if known). Send suggestions to
Program Chair
Tuesday, January 16, 7 p.m.
Location: 2635 Homestead Road
Speaker: Stephen P. Morse
Topic: One-Step
Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools
The One-Step website started out as an aid for
finding passengers in the Ellis Island database. Shortly afterwards it
was expanded to help with searching in the 1930 census. Over the years
it has continued to evolve and today includes over 100 web-based tools
divided into twelve separate categories ranging from genealogical
searches to astronomical calculations to last-minute bidding on e-bay.
This presentation will describe the range of tools available and give
the highlights of each one.
Tuesday, February 20, 7 p.m.
Location: 2635 Homestead Road
Speaker: Mary Lou Lyon
Topic: Early Cupertino
Taken from Arcadia Publishing: Author Mary Lou
Lyon taught high-school history in Cupertino for 31 years and now
teaches California history to seniors and writes newsletters for the
Santa Clara County Pioneers and the San Francisco Westerners. Adding
knowledge and personal experience to enhance selections from the
photographic archives of the Cupertino Historical Museum, she traces the
history of Cupertino to the brink of the modern age in 1960.
Tuesday, March 20, 7 p.m.
Location: 2635 Homestead Road
Speaker: Mary Hanel
Topic: Research from the Library's Home Page
Mary Hanel, Local History Librarian & Library Staff
Liaison to SCCHGS, will be the guest speaker at the SCCHGS March 20th
program, 7-9 PM in Central Park Library’s Cedar Room. The topic is:
“Genealogy Research from the Santa Clara City Library’s Homepage.” Learn
about the genealogy databases that the Library subscribes to and how to
access them when starting at the Library’s homepage. Mary will offer
search tips and a look at some “hidden” resources that she has found on
these databases. Learn about other helpful online resources that are
linked from either the Library’s Research Databases or Genealogy
webpages.
Tuesday, April 17, 7 p.m.
Location: 2635 Homestead Road
Speaker: Sharon Pope
Topic: United Daughters of the Confederacy and
Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865
Mrs. Sharon Pope is Vice President of the California
Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She is also a
member of the Daughters of Union Veterans.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~caudc/officers.htm She will provide us
information on the purpose, benefits and activities associated with
membership in these societies. See web site:
http://www.hqudc.org/
The United Daughters of the Confederacy is the
outgrowth of many local memorial, monument, and Confederate home
associations and auxiliaries to camps of United Confederate Veterans
that were organized after the War Between the States. It is the oldest
patriotic organization in our country because of its connection with two
statewide organizations that came into existence as early as 1890 -- the
Daughters of the Confederacy (DOC) in Missouri and the Ladies' Auxiliary
of the Confederate Soldiers Home in Tennessee. See web site:
http://www.duvcw.org/
The DUV is a society for the Daughters of Union
Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865. They are daughters, direct
descendants, from Veterans of the Union Army who fought in the defense
and for the preservation of our Nation during the American Civil War.
They honor our Veterans through service projects which are of benefit to
the public in a local, State and National level. They encourage all
daughters who directly descend from a Union Veteran to join with us in
honoring their Veteran.
Saturday, May 19, Noon
Location: 2635 Homestead Road
Speaker:
Topic: Our 50th Anniversary Celebration!
Tuesday, June 19, 7 p.m.
Location: 2635 Homestead Road
Speaker: Peggy Conway
Topic: Railroads of Los Gatos
Tuesday, July 17, 7 p.m.
Location: 2635 Homestead Road
Speaker: Pamela Bell Dallas
Topic: Help, The Courthouse Burned!!
Pamela is a genealogical lecturer, educator, and
author and is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists,
the Genealogical Speaker’s Guild, National Genealogical Society and the
Association for Gravestone Studies. She has served on the board of
several local societies and currently serves as Vice President of the
Genealogical & Historical Council of Sacramento Valley, Education Chair
for the Roseville Genealogical Society and Regional Director of the
California State Genealogical Alliance. She served as Deputy Local Host
Arrangements Chair for the National Genealogical Society’s Conference in
the States, Sacramento 2004. A national, regional and local speaker, she
has also appeared on local television and radio talk shows discussing
genealogy and has written and appeared on several genealogy
instructional videos aired on local TV.
Tuesday, August
Location: 2635
Homestead Road
No Meeting
Tuesday, Sep 18, 7 p.m.
Location: 2635 Homestead Road
Speaker: Michael Griffith
Topic: Santa Clara County Archives
Santa Clara County's New Archive:
Learn All About it from County Archivist Dr. Michael Griffith
On October 25, 2006 the County of Santa Clara opened and dedicated an
archive of historically important county government records at 1875
Senter Road in San Jose. Learn about what type of materials are in this
archive and how to request access to this facility from Dr. Micahel
Griffith. Dr. Griffith is both a Historian and an Archivist. The
homepage of the Santa Clara County Archives can be viewed at:
www.archives.sccgov.org
Dr.
Griffith's email address is available at the webpage of the County
Archives.
Tuesday, Oct 16, 7 p.m.
Location: 2635 Homestead Road
Speaker:Kenyatta D. Berry
Topic: Getting Started in African American Genealogy
Research
The program will focus on four key areas:
(a) Slave Genealogy
(b) Finding your ancestors during Reconstruction
(beyond census records)
(c) General tips and tricks for African American
researchers
(d) Online and Offline resources for genealogical
research
Researchers will learn ways to overcome the myth that African American
genealogy is impossible to trace prior to 1865. Kenyatta Berry has
worked with the African American Roots DNA Project at the University of
Massachusetts, the Cambridge African American Heritage Trail and the
African American National Biography Project at Harvard University and
belongs to many professional genealogy societies.
Tuesday, Nov 20, 7 p.m.
Location: 2635 Homestead Road
Speaker: Cath Madden Trindle, CG
Topic: Scottish Research
Handout:
Scottish Research
(in a pdf format must have Adobe Acrobat)
Contrary to popular belief, the records of Scotland
begin long before the advent of statutory registration in 1855. In some
cases it is possible to trace families back to the sixteenth century
using easily available records.
Scottish research and retrieval of the records of Scotland is completely
intertwined with the use of the Internet. This lecture provides a look
at some of the basic records [statutory registers, census, old parish
records, testaments] of Scotland and discusses the physical and economic
ease of using Scotland’s government websites to retrieve them. Documents
discussed include those available from the Scotland National Archives
[SCAN] [Scottish Documents] and National library of Scotland websites.
We will look at other Scotland records and internet resources as time
allows.
Even if you have not research in Scotland, the goverment websites of
Scotland provide a model for any government body or society to use when
putting their documentation on the internet.
Cath earned a Certificate of European Research from BYU. She current
serves as treasurer of the Federation of Genealogical Societies as well
as the California State Genealogical Alliance and is publication chair
for SMCGS. Speaking engagements at the national, state and local level
have included Irish and Scottish research, Organization, Genealogical
Storytelling, Northern California Research, and more. Her client work
focuses on the San Francisco Bay Region.
If you would like to see some of our previous meeting topics.
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