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The purpose of this Society is to educate the general public and members of the Society in genealogical research, and, to preserve, collect, compile, publish and disseminate genealogical data and family history.OCTOBER MEETING
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Help Sonoma County Genealogical Society with our annual fund-raising efforts.
This year we are all Virtual, so you can order directly from See's Candy and have your purchases sent to your home. Shipments will begin early in November, delivered in time for the Holidays.
The Gift Certificate is a great choice - use it yourself or give as a gift. (Gift Certificates are delivered immediately.)
Check out our new Candy Store.
If you missed one of our recent meetings, the handouts may be available. Check out the ones on the public Handouts Page and also the Members Only page. We may also have received permission to allow our members to view a recording of the presentation - check the Members Only page.
The Santa Clara County Historical and Genealogical Society invites you to join our online General Meeting on Tuesday, September 20 @ 6:30 p.m. for a presentation by Sandra Schaad titled ”Land Records: The Meat and Potatoes of American Genealogical Research.” For more information see the FLYER. You must register in advance for this meeting using the following link: https://tinyurl.com/y3b8yyh7. After you register, Zoom will email the link for the meeting. You will need to register each month to attend our meetings.
Follow the Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library on their Facebook page
There are frequent posts of interest to local historians, and links to their Location page, Research Page and their Newsletters and Blog posts - all good stuff!
There is also a link to a video about the new book Revised and Expanded Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery. Which also leads to the many other videos available, including how to access and navigate the Top Five - Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest, Newspapers.com, the San Francisco Chronicle 1865-1922 and Fire Insurance maps online (FIMo) in this tutorial.
There are so many opportunities to attend meetings and webinars now, with most on ZOOM.
Take a look at the North Bay Events page to see if there is something that interests you
One of our "sibling" Societies, Southern California Genealogical Society, is offering a webinar series for free, with interesting subjects twice a month - check out their website.
You can find many other opportunities to learn new methods of research and right now many of them are free. So go exploring! Here are a few more to get you started …
California Genealogical Society is offering on-line versions of some of their Special Interest Groups and Classes. Check out their listing on our North Bay Events page. They also have a BLOG that keeps up with the news, and offers links to other societies' events.
Legacy Family Tree offers many of their webinars for free. Check out their full listing of amazing webinars, and consider starting your membership to take advantage of all your "free" time. Don't forget that SCGS members get a 50 % discount on membership - see the Members Only page.
The National Genealogical Society’s Free Genealogy Resources
And don’t forget Facebook. SCGS has a page that Jeffrey Vaillant and Trisha Bomar keep populated with interesting links and announcements. If you use the Find feature you can probably see a Facebook page for any possible subject related to your genealogical interests.
Stay connected with SCGS through our Facebook group.
A new benefit to becoming a member of SCGS!
The software Vivid-Pix RESTORE – now save 20% with a special code available in the Members Only section of this website. Vivid-Pix RESTORE works on both Mac and Windows computers – an easy way to work with photographs or documents to restore, crop, add metadata or tags. Try a Free Trial.
Now you can see all the great articles from past issues of our award-winning newsletter. The list is open to the public, and the newsletters are available in the Members Only section Newsletter Archives.
Members of Sonoma County Genealogical Society
receive 50 % off annual subscription for Legacy Family Tree Webinars
Over 700 classes of genealogy education and almost 1000 hours of genealogy based education
Click to view our publications for purchase on Lulu or Heritage Books We have indexes to many of our publications, and are working to make them available here. We have moved some of our indexes from RootsWeb, so check out our Monthly Newsletter This is an example of our Award Winning monthly newsletter. As a member, you will receive the new edition by email each month. You will also have access to all of our past issues in the Members Only section of our website. Join Us to receive all our Member Benefits |
