Schedule

Each class presentation lasts 1 hour, and there is a fifteen minute break in-between classes. Lunch is from 12:00 noon until 1:00 pm.

Sign up for mini-tours of the California State Archives and the Preservation Lab on the day of the event at the Reception Desk on the 4th floor of the Archives.




TIME
CLASS PRESENTATION
SPEAKER

KEYNOTE
ADDRESS
9:00 am


Comings and Goings in the Golden West:
Resources for Tracing California’s
Settlers and Sojourners


Kathryn Marshall

SESSION 1
9:45 am

Beginning Genealogy:  The Trip of a Lifetime!
Eastern American Migration Trails
Journey Stories:  A Smithsonian Exhibit
Danish Research
Italian Immigration and Research
Cussin' Cousins: An Open Forum for Frustrated Genealogists


Glenda Gardner Lloyd
Melinda Kashuba
Kendra Dillard
Barbara Leak
Nick Bloise
Linda Johnson

SESSION 2
11:00 am

Census Records:  Backbone of Genealogy
Eastern European Research
Je me souviens:  French-Canadian Family History
Using Online Newspapers for Research
British Roots:  4 Colonial Migrations
Panel Discussion:  Using Libraries and Archives

Glenda Gardner Lloyd
Lynn Brown
Robert Jackson
Janice Sellers
Martha Teeter
Jeremy Frankel, Pat
Johnson, Linda Johnson,
Kathleen Correia


SESSION 3
1:00 pm

Chinese American Genealogy Crash Course
Organizing Your Files
German Immigration
Immigration and Naturalization, Part 1
Replacing Courthouse Records
Beginning Black Genealogy

Christine Devillier
Marian Kile
Shirley Riemer
Lynn Brown
Melinda Kashuba
Lisa B. Lee


SESSION 4
2:15 pm

Where there’s a Will - There’s a Probate
Western American Migration Trails
Yes Indeed!  Answers in the Land Records
Jewish Research
Japanese Research and Immigration
Immigration and Naturalization:  Part 2


Vi Parson
Kathryn Marshall
Barbara Leak
Victoria Fisch
Marielle Tsukamoto
Lynn Brown

SESSION 5
3:30 pm

Reading Early American Handwritten Records
Find A Grave
Using Ancestry’s Border-Crossing Database
Beginning Your Cherokee Genealogical Research


Vi Parsons
Marian Kile
Lorenzo Cuesta
Bob Ringo

TOURS

California State Archives (limit 20 participants)
9:45, 11:00, 1:00, 2:15

California State Archives Preservation Lab
9:45, 1:00, 2:15


Archives Staff


Archives Staff