Society Saturday - August Calendar of Events

Editor's note: Today's post was written by Denise Hibsch Richmond.

Mark your calendar for all the happenings in August 2013 at Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society.  I hope you can take advantage of these terrific educational opportunities.

Board Meeting
Date: Thursday, August 1
Time: 10am to 12:00pm
Location: Sylvan Community Center, 7521 Community Drive, Citrus Heights, CA
Members welcome

Workshop
Date: Wednesday, August 21
Time: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Location: Sylvan Community Center, 7521 Community Drive, Citrus Heights
Roundtable: Your successes or brickwalls
Mini-presentation: Documentation using the Legacy Family Tree software program by Glenda Lloyd and Marsha Wise.  This is the second of four monthly workshop presentations about the importance of documentation and how to enter it in a genealogy program.  Visitors welcome!

Special Interest Group (SIG): Reunion for the Mac
Date: Wednesday, August 28
Time: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Location: Family History Center, 2745 Eastern Avenue, Sacramento
Roundtable: Brainstorm solutions to users' problems, questions and explore ins/outs of the best Mac genealogy program. Contact Ron Setzer (PreservesEditor@rootcellar.org) to be added to the email list. Visitors welcome!

NOTE: Membership meetings will resume in September.

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Society Saturday - June Events at Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society

Editor's note: Today's post was written by Denise Hibsch Richmond.

Mark your calendar for all the happenings in June 2013 at Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society.  I hope you can take advantage of all these terrific educational opportunities.

Board Meeting
Date: Thursday, June 6
Time:  10am to 12:00pm
Location: Sylvan Community Center, 7521 Community Drive, Citrus Heights, CA
Members welcome


Membership Meeting
Date: Thursday, June 13
Location: Christ Community Church, 5025 Manzanita Avenue, Carmichael.  Park in the back. The meeting room is on the second floor in the two story building (elevator available)

Time: 6:30pm to 7:00pm
Mini-meeting: Glenda Lloyd will present "Planning a Research Trip".  Glenda has many tips to discuss but you can help.  Please join the discussion by sharing your best tips and tricks for research travel and even some "don't do what I did" experiences.  This is a great opportunity to learn from each other.

Time: 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Business: Election Update; Fundraiser update for the Preserve the Pension Records-War of 1812; and more
Program:  "No Forwarding Address - Finding Civil War Soldiers" by Jim Monteton

Program and Speaker Info

Visitors always welcome!

 

 

Workshop

Date: Wednesday, June 19

Time: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Location: Sylvan Community Center, 7521 Community Drive, Citrus Heights

Roundtable: Your successes or brickwalls

Mini-presentation: Sandi Benward will share her experiences at recent national and state genealogy conferences and highlight their value. Visitors welcome!

 

 

Special Interest Group (SIG): Reunion for the Mac

Date: Wednesday, June 26

Time: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm

Location: Family History Center, 2745 Eastern Avenue, Sacramento

Roundtable: Brainstorm solutions to users' problems, questions and explore ins/outs of the best Mac genealogy program. Contact Ron Setzer (PreservesEditor@rootcellar.org) to be added to the email list. Welcome to all!

 

NOTE: The membership meetings will be on hiatus during July and August, resuming in September.  The other meetings continue year-round.

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Society Saturday - Root Cellar's May Calendar

Editor's note:  This post was written by Denise Hibsch Richmond, Publicity Chairperson for Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society.  Image courtesy of Flickr.


Here is a list of events, aka learning opportunities, we hope you'll take advantage of in May 2013:

Thursday, May 2
Board Meeting, members welcome
Time: 10 am – noon
Location: Sylvan Community Center, 7521 Community Dr, Citrus Heights

Thursday, May 9
Membership Meeting, visitors always welcome
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Program: Old Genealogy Books Online by Jim Rader
About the Program and Speaker
Location: Christ Community Church, 5025 Manzanita Avenue, Carmichael
NEW! 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Special Interest Groups - States TBD

Wednesday, May 15
Workshop, visitors always welcome

Program: Help with brickwalls; helpful research and tech tool tips
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Location: Sylvan Community Center, 7521 Community Drive, Citrus Heights

Wednesday, May 22
Reunion for Mac Special Interest Group, everyone welcome
Program: Brainstorming solutions to users’ problems and questions
Time: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Location: Family History Center, 2745 Eastern Ave, Sacramento
Contact: Ron Setzer, PreservesEditor@rootcellar.org

More Information
We'd be more than happy to answer any questions you may have about these activities.  Leave a Comment on the Blog or drop us a line at rootcellarsgs@gmail.com.  See you in May!

Follow Friday – Conference Keeper Website

[Editor's Note: Today's post was written by Richard Hanson.]

Local genealogist Virginia Kysh recently found a useful calendar of upcoming genealogical conventions called Conference Keeper (www.conferencekeeper.net). It lists local, state, national and international genealogical conferences. It also includes calls for papers, writers events, a #genchat schedule and conference alerts.

If you look on the list for California, you will see an announcement for Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society's 2014 annual seminar.

Spring Seminar: Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society

Apr 5, 2014; Fair Oaks, CA. Website.

Society Saturday - Root Cellar's April Calendar

[Editor's Note: Today's post is by Denise Hibsch Richmond, Publicity Chairperson for Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society.]

Thursday, April 4
Board Meeting, members welcome

Time: 10 am – noon
Location: Sylvan Community Center, 7521 Community Dr, Citrus Heights, CA

Thursday, April 11
Membership Meeting, visitors always welcome
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Program: Your Ancestors are in the Cemetery & Field Work by Paul Hodel
About the Program and Speaker
Location: Christ Community Church, 5025 Manzanita Avenue, Carmichael, CA
NEW! 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Special Interest Groups - States:
(1) Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, & Nebraska
(2) Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota & Ohio

Wednesday, April 17
Workshop, visitors always welcome

Program: Help with brickwalls; helpful research and tech tool tips
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Location: Sylvan Community Center, 7521 Community Drive, Citrus Heights, CA

Wednesday, April 24
Reunion for Mac Special Interest Group, everyone welcome
Program: Brainstorming solutions to users’ problems and questions
Time: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Location: Family History Center, 2745 Eastern Ave, Sacramento, CA
Contact: Ron Setzer, PreservesEditor@rootcellar.org to be added to email list

For more information about these meetings, contact Root Cellar at rootcellarsgs@gmail.com.

WOW - More Genealogy Classes

The San Francisco Bay Area Calendar for May 2012 is now available.  It boasts 50 genealogical events occuring within a 75 mile radius of San Francisco, including Sacramento.  Grab a friend and hit the road!

submitted by Kathryn M. Doyle
posted by Denise Hibsch Richmond

UPDATE - You're Invited! Searching Secrets to Ancestry.com Presentation

New speaker and topic.

All are welcome to hear Victoria Fisch speak at the Jewish Genealogical Society meeting.  Victoria will step in due to the illness of the previously scheduled speaker. 

• Date: Monday, September 19th
• Time: 7 p.m.
• Place: Albert Einstein Residence Center, 1935 Wright St., Sacramento
• Topic:  "Searching Secrets to Ancestry.com"

Victoria will explore little known methods of getting the most out of the Ancestry.com search engines.  She'll explain alternative ways of searching for your ancestors when their names have been mis-transcribed, finding records in lesser-used databases, how to best set up charts, and how to keep your chronological records useful.

About the Speaker
Victoria Fisch is the current president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento and is the northern California editor of the Western States Jewish History Journal. She is currently editing a book on the historical Jewish community of Santa Cruz, and is a researcher of the Jews of the Gold Rush.  Her Ancestry.com trees contain thousands of individuals and her experience with this website has given her insight into how to make it work for you.  During her talk Monday evening she'll go online with Ancestry.com.

For more information, visit the Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento website or send us an e-mail.

See you there!

posted by Denise Hibsch Richmond

You're Invited! Nisanen Indians and Genealogy Presentation

Visitors are welcome to hear April Moore at the next Placer County Genealogy Society (PCGS) regular monthly meeting,

• Date: Thursday, September 22nd
• Time: 7 pm
• Place: Beecher Room of the Auburn Library, 350 Nevada Street, Auburn
• Topic: "Nisanen Indians and Genealogy"

About the Speaker
April Moore is an indigenous Nisenan Maidu and Welmelti Washoe of California; she was born and raised in the Auburn area. Her family maintained much of the native culture, meaning they were traditionally taught by their grandparents and elders. She is active within the Maidu/Washoe culture and involved with the Maidu Traditionalists, a group preserving the Maidu songs and traditional dances as well as preserving the knowledge of assembling regalia used in the dances.

Her cultural background enabled her to become a Chapa-De Indian Health board member. She retired from twenty-eight years of service to the Placer Hills Union School District over four years ago. One of her jobs was the Indian Education coordinator, cultural educator, resource person, and tutor for the numerous Native American students within the district. She also conducted demonstrations on Maidu culture and lecture at surrounding schools. She worked as an archaeological technician/Native American monitor in Placer County, Nevada County and Sacramento County as well as with the U.S. Forest Service.  She participated with Placer County Museum system, Maidu Museum and the Coloma State Park (Gold Discovery Park) and various historical and civic groups, which included demonstrations and lectures on Maidu culture.

Recently she has been involved with the Federal Regulatory Commission re-licensing process for Pacific Gas & Electric, Nevada Irrigation District and Placer County Water Agency as a representative for the Nisenan Maidu in the service area. Along with other community folks they have developed Historical Properties and Native American Traditional Cultural properties guidelines which will assist the agencies in any sensitive areas, historical as well as aboriginal history and pre-historical issues.

Her brother, Alan Wallace, and she have been working with Sierra Native Alliance teaching the Nisenan Maidu language to interested people (youth as well). They have also been compiling family history and documenting culturally sensitive sites in their traditional homelands (Maidu & Washoe). She feels that it is her purpose and duty as a Nisenan Maidu to keep their lifeways, knowledge and language alive and to encourage others to remember who they are and help them to broaden their knowledge and take pride in their aboriginal heritage. It is also important to educate others of their rich culture and make aware that there are still Native peoples who still practice and live their culture.

For more information on the Society, its Study Group, Family TreeMaker User Group and regular meeting activity, see the Society's Web page or call toll free at 1-866-894-2076.

See you there!

posted by Denise Hibsch Richmond

FGS Conference 2011 - Epilogue

The Federation of Genealogical Societies 2011 conference in Springfield, Illinois came to a close yesterday.   Today, we attended the first annual FGS Farewell Brunch for the many people who were still in town.  What a ride these past four days! My head is spinning with strategies and techniques for society management and family research (some new, some refreshers).  Once home, I hope to research with renewed vigor and share some highlights with you at the next Root Cellar workshop.

For the first time at a conference we attended every luncheon.  Would it be more convenient than looking for a cafe?  Would it taste better than concession fare?  Yes and yes. It also gave us a special opportunity to interact with many other genealogists at the table and to hear a speaker.  I recommend it if your budget allows.  I may not have otherwise learned about the extensive genealogical collection at the Warren County Ohio library housed in the courthouse building.  In the same building I can go to the archives and recorder's offices - literally a one-stop shop!   My Clark and Brown ancestors lived in and near Warren County.

Silly highlights

• NARA lingo is affectionately called Archi-jive.  If you have used NARA, online or at a research center, you already speak Archi-jive: RG, DP, RIP, PI (record group, descriptive pamphlet, research information pamphlet, and preliminary inventory).
• On the last day (4) of the conference, inside the usually crowded elevator, someone said it was going to the lobby and so, we all broke out in song "let's all go to the lobby, let's all go to the lobby, let's all go to the lobby and get ourself some treats".  We were all howling as we left the elevator!

I took several pictures in the exhibit hall to give a feel of the show if you have not attended a large genealogical conference.  Click on the arrow or box above for a slideshow. Click again to go full-screen and the Esc(ape) key to return to the post.

Classes I attended with speaker's name are listed below. 

• How to Develop and Implement Affordable Member Benefits, George G. Morgan
• Engaging a New Generation of Genealogists, D. Joshua Taylor
• Finding and Keeping Volunteers, Amy Johnson Crow
• Brainstorming:  Marketing Your Society, Thomas MacEntee and Linda Herrick Swisher
• The Jones Jinx - Tracing Common Surnames, Thomas W. Jones
• Immigrant Cluster Communities: Past, Present, Future, Lisa A. Alzo
• After Mustering Out: Researching Civil War Veterans, Amy Johnson Crow
• Navigating the 1890 Gap - Research with State Census Records, Kris Rzepczynski
• Using Records in the National Archives: A Researcher's View, Marie Varrelman Melchiori
• Using Correlation to Reveal Facts That No Record States, Thomas W. Jones
• Gateway to the West: Researching in Ohio, Diane VanSkiver Gagel
• Workshop: Developing a Basic Research Plan, J. Mark Lowe

Mark your calendars for some of the many future conferences and create a travel budget now:

29 Aug - 1 Sep 2012 - FGS Conference, Birmingham, Alabama
2013 - FGS Conference, Fort Wayne, Indiana
9-12 May 2012 - National Genealogical Society (NGS) Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio
8-11 May 2013 - NGS Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada
8-10 June 2012 - Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree, Burbank, California

posted by Denise Hibsch Richmond  

Calendar Updated

The Calendar tab at the top of the homepage has been updated to reflect the Root Cellar schedule for the rest of 2011 and our Spring Seminar.  If you have a calendar item to add or an edit to the current calendar, please send the pertinent information to rootcellarsgs@gmail.com.  Thanks!

Posted by Denise Hibsch Richmond

Datebook: Reunion Special Interest Group Meeting

Attention Mac users! 

The Reunion Special Interest Group (SIG) sponsered by Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society will meet on Wednesday, August 24th at 10:30 am to 12:30 pm.  The Reunion SIG, open to members and non-members, will meet at the Family History Center at 2745 Eastern Ave, Sacramento.

The program will include Rick Hanson's presentation on:

1. How to transfer Reunion database files via WiFi from your Mac to your iPad or iPhone.
2. How to transfer related photo and scanned-source files (in folders) using GoodReader to your iPad or iPhone.
3. Explain how Apple's WiFi, Apple TV and AirPlay technologies work together and the screen mirroring coming in iOS 5.

Contact: Ron Setzer, PreservesEditor@macnexus.org to be added to email list

Posted by Denise Hibsch Richmond

Datebook: Placer County Genealogy Society Presents Google Earth

The Placer County Genealogy Society (PCGS) will hold its regular monthly
meeting on Thursday, August 25, 2011, at 7 pm in the Beecher Room of the
Auburn Library at 350 Nevada Street.  This month's speaker is Phil Sexton.
Phil will talk about Google Earth. Visitors are welcome.

Phil Sexton is currently a State Park Interpreter III for the Capital
District of California State Parks in Sacramento, where he works on
interpretive planning and training of docents and paid staff, as well as
exhibit and event development. Prior to this, he was the Forest Interpretive
Specialist for Tahoe National Forest east of Sacramento.  His other
professional experience includes working in recreation, fire management and
law enforcement on the Tahoe, Inyo, and Sequoia National Forests and as a
Physical Science Technician with the National Park Service at Redwood NP.

For more information on the Society, its Study Group, Family TreeMaker User
Group and regular meeting activity, see the Society's Web page at
www.pcgs.pcgenes.com or call toll free at 1-866-894-2076.

Posted by Denise Hibsch Richmond

Datebook Reminder

This is a friendly reminder to check out the upcoming July events on the Calendar tab:

• Workshop, July 20th: How to use Facebook
• Reunion SIG, July 27th: Brainstorming issues

Also note the Calendar tab for August - and the HOMEWORK - yikes!  No cramming the night before the workshop - our host John Jay needs your responses in advance of the workshop. 

See everyone there and bring a friend.

Calendar Update

The Calendar tab at the top of the screen has been updated with July and August events.