Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Back to School!

Summer’s Over – Back to School!



Labor Day traditionally marks the end of summer.  Now that Labor Day has passed, it’s time to think about the new “school year" – known to those whose schooldays have passed as the season we get back into genealogy classes and workshops.


Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society has put together over 25 workshops in October, to celebrate Family History Month and the completion of the renovated and expanded Sahyun Genealogical Research Library. 

Check out the sessions and register soon...class sizes are limited. 

Sample workshops beginning October 1 include:
  • Researching in New York City
  • Get more data from US and Canadian Census Records
  • Delving Deeper into Germanic Databases
  • Lineage Societies: Panel Group
  • Brick Wall Problem Solving
  • Locating Irish Records on the Internet,
and featuring: The Road Less Traveled, a different approach for finding European ancestors

Free to SBCGS members; non-members pay a nominal $10 fee. 
Registration is necessary as class sizes are limited.

Visit http://www.sbgen.org/ or download below PDF:


Also Santa Barbara City College Continuing Education (also known as SBCC Adult Ed) classes begin next week.  This session is rumoured to be the last chance to take these popular and very educational genealogical workshops at no tuition cost (i.e., "free").

Family History Research: Beginning/Intermediate 
Tuesdays (10 weeks), starting  9/13, 5:15 - 7:15 p.m. 
Instructor: Louise Matz

Family History Research: Intermediate/Advanced (Problem Solving)  
Wednesdays (10 weeks), starting  9/14, 10:00 a.m. - noon 
Instructor: Janice Cloud


Both classes are highly recommended and each has something for everyone.

Louise Matz takes the Beginning/Intermediate class  through the basics of genealogical research techniques and, also, uses the latest databases and resources to help those who have been doing genealogy for awhile, but maybe not recently. 

Jan Cloud deploys not only her extensive skills and experience in genealogy research, but also those of the class to help with methodology and brick wall problem solving.  Jan Cloud is legendary for her breadth of genealogical knowledge and experience-based storytelling.  You never know what you'll learn from  Jan and "the Wednesday class" and who might have a hint for solving a longstanding family history mystery.

Don't miss what could be your last chance to take these classes at a real bargain price: $0!






Saturday, July 2, 2011

Members go to Salt Lake City

Ready for dinner at the Olive Garden
 In May 2011, 12 society members traveled to Salt Lake City's Family History Library to spend a week researching family history.  The arrangements were made by Jim and Marj, which they do every year in May.  Here we are gathered to walk to dinner at Olive Garden, a few blocks away,  in the rain. Luckily, the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel's van offered a ride back after dinner as by then it was raining harder than before.
Edie







Here Edie is finding films that she has located on the library's catalog.
Patsy



















Patsy browses the Internet for sites relating to her current research project. They are probably Swedish record sites, don't you think?
Edie









Edie gets help from the expert at the desk. 
Gretchen looking for those elusive ancestors

Edie getting help again.

B Jo joins us this year again from N.C.

B Jo gets help

Marj is cranking away at the film reader

Diane is enjoying the hunt

Rosa loves this place!

Dorothy posing in front of a dark screen, it appears

Jim still searching for Marj's ancestors

Kathie cranking away too.

View showing how large this floor is

Phyllis browsing the Web