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August 2020 General Meeting

3/4/2020

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1890 Census Substitutes

​Presenter: 
Lisa Schumacher
When: August 19, 2020
Where: This is a virtual meeting via Zoom.  Check your newsletter or the Members Only section of the website for free registration info.
Family history researchers rely heavily on census records from 1790 to 1940. However, most of the 1890 United States federal census is not available due to a devastating fire in 1921. What happened, what survived, and what can be done to fill in the 1890-1900 gap? Learn about other resources that can provide information for this period.
Lisa Schumacher began working on her family history 30 years ago with an interest in computer programs for genealogical research. She is a professional genealogist and lecturer, member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Mayflower Society, and board member of South Bay Cities Genealogical Society. The society's version of "Who Do You Think You Are?" for the 2012 Torrance Centennial Celebration was her most rewarding and memorable accomplishment as a genealogist.
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January 2020 General Meeting

1/12/2020

 
Missing!  Reward!  Locating Widows, Spinsters, and Bachelors
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Presenter: Sara Cochran
When: January 15, 2020 7:00 pm
Where: Yorba Linda Community Center
Widows, spinsters, and bachelors are a part of everyone's ancestral tree.  Widows create tax records and appear in city directories, land records, and estate records. They may be identified with their married name or maiden name. They may or may not have been living with their adult children or buried with their husband. Adults may never have been married or may be difficult to identify because they were the last of their branch of the family. They didn't discuss their life, ceased communication with their family, and didn't leave a written record. Come and join us to learn how to conquer these impregnable genealogical forests.
Sara Cochran has conducted genealogical research for over 25 years in nearly every state of the USA, plus Ireland, Italy, Austria, and Britain. She holds a Boston University Genealogical Research Certificate, a BS in Library Science and is an alumnus of the ProGen Study Group. She began her career as a professional genealogist in 2016. Sara is currently the treasurer of the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the Registrar for the Aurantia Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Secretary of the Amanda Stokes Tent, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and volunteers at the National Archives, Riverside.

GSNOCC June 2019 General Meeting

6/16/2019

 
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Using Maps and Gazetteers in Genealogical Research 
Presenter:  Ted Gostin
When:  Wednesday June 19, 2019 at 7:00pm
​Where:  Yorba Linda Community Center


​All genealogists want to determine where their families originated and then find those locations on maps, but often they look in the wrong places or on the wrong type of maps. This presentation discusses three ways of finding your ancestral homes: 1) finding the location in gazetteers or similar sources; 2) finding the location on maps of the appropriate scale using the gazetteer information; and 3) searching for a town on maps of appropriate scale if it can’t be found in gazetteers. Map scales and levels of detail are discussed, along with historical border changes and the history of map-making itself. Sources for useful maps and gazetteers are summarized
Mr. Gostin has been conducting genealogical research since 1980, and has worked as a full-time professional genealogist since 1994.  He has twice been President of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles, and has taught genealogy at several adult school and university extension programs. He has helped plan and organize three national genealogical seminars, and was a featured speaker at several conferences. He lectures widely on Jewish genealogy. Southern California resources plus naturalization and immigration records. Mr. Gostin is the author of Southern California Vital Statistics: Volume 1, Los Angeles County 1850-1859, and the owner of Generations Press publishing company.  He was featured on the Larry Lamb episode of the original UK version of the popular genealogy television show Who Do You Think You Are?  He is very active in the international Jewish genealogical community, and maintains contact with genealogists throughout the world.

May 2019 Presentation - Colleen Fitzpatrick, PhD

4/24/2019

 
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​“How Genetic Genealogy Brought Buckskin Girl Home After 37 Years”
Colleen Fitzpatrick, PhD, Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 7:00pm
Yorba Linda Community Center

On April 24, 1981, the body of a young woman was found in a ditch along Greenlee Road in Newton Township, Ohio.  The coroner officially ruled her death as the result of strangulation. She was nicknamed “Buckskin Girl,” after the tasseled buckskin jacket that she had been wearing at the time of her death.  Early efforts to identify “Buckskin Girl” involved the creation of a facial sketch published in local newspapers and on television networks.  About two hundred leads were followed as a result of the media attention, yet none resulted in her identification. Learn the fascinating collaborative story of how Colleen used forensic genealogy to solve the case.
​Dr. Fitzpatrick, the founder of Identifinders International, is widely recognized as the founder of modern forensic genealogy.  She has investigated numerous cold case homicides for law enforcement using genetic genealogy analysis.  She is Co-Executive Director of the DNA Doe Project (DDP), applying autosomal SNP analysis to the identification of a John or Jane Doe, sometimes decades old.  Her collaborations include the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, the US Army Casualty and Mortuary Affairs Office, the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, the University of Arizona. Harvard Medical School and other noted professional organizations.  She is an Associate Member of the American Academy of Forensic Science (AAFS).

Joel Weintraub on "Crowdsourcing the Path to the 1950 US Census" for Nov. 14th meeting

11/12/2018

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About the Program
The 1940 US Census opened in 2012 without a name index.  A FamilySearch-led consortium used 160,000 volunteers to name index that census in five months. In addition, Joel Weintraub and Steve Morse, over seven years, with about 125 volunteers, developed free utilities to find which of 150,000 census districts a person was in, when a location or address was known.  These projects are examples of crowdsourcing.  Steve and Joel are now doing a similar project for the 1950 census.  Joel will discuss differences between the volunteer response, Yahoo Group site, cloud storage, software, One-Step utilities, and project phases. 


About the Speaker
Joel Weintraub, a New Yorker by birth, is an emeritus Professor at California State University Fullerton.  He became interested in genealogy about 20 years ago, and volunteered for nine years at the National Archives and Records Administration in Southern California.  Joel produced locational tools for the 1900 through 1940 censuses and the New York City censuses (1905, 1915, & 1925) for the Steve Morse "One-Step" website (stevemorse.org). Joel has published articles on the US Census, searching records in NYC, the Ellis Island "Name Change Myth," and given presentations on census research, immigration and naturalization, Ellis Island, and Jewish genealogy.

Note: Our November meeting will be the 2nd Wednesday instead of the 3rd Wednesday of the month.  See you at Yorba Linda Community Center on November 14th at 7pm.  

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