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Upcoming Monthly Meeting - Thursday, September 2, 2010: "Homestead Records Plus: Online Records for Finding and Mapping Your Ancestor's Land Claim", Dayna Jacobs
Between 1863-1986 2 million claims were filed under the Homestead Act, and as early as 1788 the first patent for federal land was issued to an individual. Up to 90 percent of all adult white males in the U.S. owned land by the 1850s. Land entry files, surveys, and tract books can be rich sources of genealogy. This presentation will provide step-by-step instruction for obtaining these files via the BLM.gov and NARA.gov websites, and pinpointing the exact location of your ancestor's land on Google Earth.
Dayna Jacobs currently serves on the Board of the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen) coordinating their grant program for cemetery record modernization and digitization, and presenting a class in Mountain West States Research at their annual conference. She has been researching and teaching for twenty years and has participated in the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy four years, including training in Archives and Libraries, United States Methodologies, Computer Genealogy, and Mountain West States Research. Dayna is Assistant Director at the Monterey Family History Center over patron research services and staff training.
The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the Fireside Room at the Family History Center, corner of Noche Buena and Plumas, in Seaside, California. Doors open at 6 p.m. Linger after the meeting to use the Library, check online databases, or to socialize. The Library will be open until 9:00 p.m. Join us!
All MoCoGenSo meetings are free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome.
- Future General Monthly Meetings for 2010:
October 7, 2010 -- "Social Networking for Genealogists -- Facebook as a Research Tool", Madaleine
Laird
Facebook is a social networking site that many people use to keep in touch with family, friends, and professional colleagues. Genealogists have flocked to Facebook and use it to find distant cousins, display family photographs, and meet others who share their interest in family history. Learn more about what Facebook is and how it fits into your genealogical research efforts!
After studying library and information science at UCLA, Madaleine Laird turned a passion for genealogy into a profession. Madaleine works for FamilyLink, the company behind GenealogyWise and WorldVitalRecords. She has attended the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research at Samford University for two years running and currently serves as Secretary of the California State Genealogical Alliance. Her work experience in public and academic libraries has proven to be an asset in doing genealogical research, and her Air Force career as an Arabic cryptologic linguist led her to develop a special interest in military records.
November 4, 2010: "Courthouse Records in Cyberspace", Junel Davidsen
Courthouse and other local records are at the center of family history research. Learn about the extensive record collections and free information becoming available through the websites of forward-thinking public officials. Some sites have indexes ‘building back’ from recent dates or lists of archival holdings, while others have digitized images from the ‘year dot.’ Prepare to search local records across the United States in a new and different way!
Junel Davidsen, a Certified Genealogist, has an AA in Family History Studies and served as President of the Monterey County Genealogy Society, 2008-09. A former Assistant County Clerk/Recorder in San Benito County and Assistant Registrar of Voters in Monterey County, Junel specializes in courthouse and heir research. Her client work includes PBS' ‘Faces of America,’ 2010.
SM Certified Genealogist is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, Wash. D.C. www.bcg.org
- Monthly Board Meetings
The Board meets on the 3rd Monday of each month (except in June) at the Family History Center in Seaside, California at 7 p.m.
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