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. 

Our GSNOCC September meeting will be a special Show and Tell for all things related to family history and we need your help.
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Do you have an unusual piece of family ephemera - a special antique or family bible?  Can you showcase a unique collection? Have an unusual family tree presentation in wall art or scrapbook design? Share the unique way in which you have brought your family history to life.

Please consider being part of our September meeting.  Tables will be available for your set-up at 6:30pm and the meeting will begin at 7pm. Members can go from table to table and explore the many ways in which we honor our relatives.  If you're shy, don't worry --no public speaking required.

We'll also have expanded food offerings and a mystery antique contest with prizes.  You are encouraged to wear the dress of your heritage, if desired.  Come out and see what interesting things your fellow members have to share.

​Wednesday, Sep 19, 2018 at 7:00pm
Yorba Linda Community Center (Imperial Room A)
4501 Casa Loma Ave., Yorba Linda, CA 92886.

About the Program

Make Your Own Maps Using Google's My Maps

Place your ancestors on the map and share it with your family.  Using the tools provided free in Google’s My Maps, Francie will demonstrate how to create and edit maps illustrating places your family lived, their migration routes, and different generations.  Further, she will demonstrate how to add notes, photos, and icons depicting your family’s unique history and will present useful ideas for a variety of your own maps, even for planning a research trip.  You can then share these unique maps with family members and continue to add to them in the future.  You can use her handout to follow the presentation step-by-step.

About the Speaker

Francie Kennedy is passionate about microhistory, and inordinately fond of maps and old county histories. She frequently stays up late collecting resources for her students in Beginning Methodology classes. Francie believes that the study of the past through the fascinating lens of genealogy can bring us a new sense of our own place within the world. She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) and speaks to genealogical societies on topics ranging from Google to geography. Francie is a fourth generation native Californian.

​“Researching Your Hispanic Ancestors”
Letty Rodella
President of Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research (SHHAR)
May 16, 2018
 
At the last general meeting, Letty gave a lively, spirited presentation pertaining to investigating Hispanic ancestors.
Much of what she presented also has universal applications in genealogy, regardless of ethnicity.  One admonition was “There is no truth without proof.”  In other words, a genealogist must always have clear concise documentation to verify what is believed to be a fact.  For example, census records, an excellent source of information, are only as accurate as the person giving the information, the person receiving the information and the person transcribing the information.  Census records need to be verified.
When investigating an ancestor, Letty recommended searching various spellings of the last name, plus finding aunts, uncles, grandparents, other relatives, and sponsors at religious events.  Beware of idiosyncrasies on forming letters and entering data.  For example, Spanish priests loved to fill each line of a document with letters.  If they came to the end of a line and still had a couple letters left in the word, they would add a hyphen and place the couple of letters at the first of the next line. This created confusion when the hyphenated word was a last name.
She also illustrated the variations on how letters were formed and numerous spellings of the same last name.  In summary, an entertaining and informative presentation was experienced by all.
 
 
Charles L. Hand
May 27, 2018