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The votes are in and a great time was had by all at the CGS Annual Membership Meeting!
Last week we had a post about what each position means on a Board and this week, we want to start the introductions to the new team! Today you will learn about Roger Prince, CGS President, and Rudiger “Rudy” Wolf, CGS Vice President.
CGS President, Roger Prince
Roger Prince, our prior Vice President, worked as a geological oceanographer at Oregon State University, the University of Rhode Island, and Brown University, where he went on numerous research cruises, published more than a dozen original research papers and a nine-sheet color bathymetric map series of the Peru-Chile trench, and earned a PhD in geophysics. He joined Gulf Oil as an exploration geologist in 1983 and worked in Angola, Papua New Guinea and other international locations. He moved to the Bay Area in 1985 and later worked in IT systems. He and his family spent five years in Bangkok and Singapore before returning to San Ramon in 2004. He spent the last few years of his career working on IT Reliability/Planning, before retiring in 2011. Roger became interested in family history when he asked his parents who all the ancestors in the unlabeled pictures were. He has published two papers in the NEHGS Register. He’s also served as a CGS facilities chair and wrote the blogs for the 2022 NGS conference.
CGS Vice President, Rudy Wolf
You may have read about our new vice president in the Genealogy Jukebox (our interactive newsletter for members that you should not miss out on!). I’m reposting that introduction here:
Rudy Wolf is a relatively new member of the California Genealogical Society, but he is an old hand at helping people discover their family history. As the current director of the Oakland FamilySearch Center (OFSC) with his wife, Laurie, Rudy recognizes how important it is to people everywhere to know their family history. He feels that the knowledge we gain from discovering our family stories – truly understanding the experiences our ancestors have had, and how they overcame adversity – can give us and our children and grandchildren a strong foundation for the future. During his time at the OFSC, Rudy has been impressed with the number of CGS members who regularly volunteer there, either leading a Special Interest Group, teaching a class, or assisting patrons with their research or with the center’s resources. He is looking forward to volunteering at CGS, and indeed, Rudy would like to see more genealogical societies and organizations support each other in the goal of helping people with their personal family discoveries. Rudy has been a CGS member since 2023, and is currently on the CGS Board of Directors
Helpful Links
Events: https://www.californiaancestors.org/events-and-education/
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Calendar view: https://www.californiaancestors.org/cgs_calendar/
JAN
2025