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Book Launch: Come Celebrate Our New Books!

by Kathryn Doyle (7/29/2010)

Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Coffee and cider 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Program 11:00 a.m.
Refreshments and book browsing 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

California Genealogical Society and Library
2201 Broadway, Suite LL2
Oakland, California 94612

Fall Book Party! You Are Invited! Come Leaf Through the New Publications!

Join us at the society for “An Autumn Celebration of Books” as we launch three significant new titles and celebrate the resurrection of our journal, The California Nugget.

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow and the sturdiest family trees are rooted in sound research. Our publications will help you find your way through the forest! We are very excited about presenting these new “leaves,” and we’re proud of these meticulously researched publications that will contribute valuable information and new resources to the genealogical community.

This event heralds the publication of three new titles:

San Francisco Probate 1906 – 1942: Register of Actions
San Francisco Deaths 1865-1904: Abstracts from Surviving Civil Records
The Ancestry of Theodore Timothy Judge and Ellen Sheehy Judge: Including the Families of Boland, Roussel, Harman, McMurphy, Kelley, Bohane, Chapin, Freiermuth, Taylor, Moore and Farneman

We’re also asking our member authors with new titles to join the celebration and to be available for questions and books signings. Please email me if you can join the fun!

Update (8/9/2010): Three member authors will be celebrating their books with us.

Linda Foster Arden – Letters From the Storm: The Intimate Civil War Letters of Lt. J. A. H. Foster
Ron Arons – WANTED! U.S. Criminal Records
James Smith – The California Snatch Racket: Kidnappings During the Prohibition and Depression Eras

Wordless Wednesday

by Kathryn Doyle (7/28/2010)

Tech Workshop with Tim Cox

Using Microsoft Word 2007 for Genealogy

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Photographs courtesy of Tim Cox, Oakland, California.

Will You Join Us on Thursday Night?

by Kathryn Doyle (7/26/2010)

Last Thursday, July 22, 2010, five participants attended the discussion group on French Canadian genealogy. Attendees had varying levels of expertise using French-Canadian records and by the evening’s end, everyone had learned something new.

Some members came in to take advantage of the extended open hours at the library – until 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays in July and August. Between her weekday work schedule and weekend family commitments, member Lynn Theuriet rarely gets to visit the library. She was thrilled to be able to grab a few hours of research time and she is looking forward to the remaining five Thursday evenings to catch up on her genealogical pursuits.

Gary Darnstedt planned to attend the French Canadian discussion group but arrived at 9:00 a.m. to get in a full day of research. He spent his day with Dutch ancestral pursuits and worked on French-Canadian in the evening.

This coming Thursday, July 29, 2010, Tom Gesner will be leading a discussion on using NewEnglandAncestors.org – one of the subscription databases available at the library. Won’t you join us?

RSVP online and let us know you are coming.