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From: "Paula Hinkel" <>
Subject: March at the Southern California Genealogical Society
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 19:54:44 -0800


With another informative Lunch and Learn presentation and our very first
session of the Kids' Genealogy Camp, March is an especially exciting month
at the Southern California Genealogical Society. The 37th Annual Genealogy
Jamboree is only two months away, so now is a great time to join in the
activities at SCGS.

Speaking of Jamboree, be sure to register before April 1 to take advantage
of the early-bird registration discount. You'll find the speaker schedule,
vendors, hotel arrangements, topics and speaker bios at
www.scgsgenealogy.com. Don't miss the special event on Friday night - our
banquet dinner and Cemetery Crawlin' with long-time favorite Bill
Dollarhide.

Lunch and Learn
Saturday, March 11
12:00 noon - lunch
1:00 p.m. - learn "A Look at Courthouse Records" with Lois Burlo
Free and open to the public

The Courthouse handled all land transactions, the buying and selling of the
property and the mortgage, if there was one. Because of the system used in
Europe to divide an estate, land ownership was of prime importance from the
very first settlement on the continent. Land grants were the big incentive
to risk life and limb to cross the ocean. Because these records were more
apt to survive, along with the tax records, land records are sometime the
only way we can trace our ancestors.

The courthouse is also keeper of birth, marriage and death records. When a
person died, it provided for the recording of the person's will, which in
turn contained the names of the heirs; the property the deceased owned -
both land and household possessions, where the land was located and who was
to receive it. Witnesses to the will may have been relatives or neighbors.

Those are the most obvious of the courthouse records, but that's not all. It
is rich in genealogy, if you know where to find it.

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German Interest Group
Saturday, March 18
1:00 p.m. - "Message Boards"
Free and open to the public

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French Canadian Heritage Society of California
Sunday, March 19
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Doug Miller will give a presentation on the French Heritage DNA Project and
demonstrate the project website: home.earthlink.net/~djmill/fcdna.html

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Kids' Genealogy Camp
Sunday, March 26
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public with preregistration

What a great way to introduce your children and grandchildren to genealogy.
Join us for our first Kids' Genealogy Camp and help infect the kids with the
genealogy bug. The program is aimed at students in grades 4 to 6 and will
help the junior genealogists start working on their family trees. The
session is free, but advance registration is required so that we can get
materials to you before the class. Download the flyer and registration from
www.scgsgenealogy.com. Space is limited, so register early.

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March 4 - 1:00 - 3:30 p.m.
TMG - The Master Genealogist User Group

March 5 - 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
PAF - Personal Ancestral File User Group

March 11 - 9:30 a.m.
Jamboree Committee Meeting

March 11 - 12:00 noon lunch, 1:00 learn
Lunch & Learn
Courthouse Records
Library open for research for Lunch & Learn participants

March 12 - 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Writers Group Meeting

March 13 - 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
LUG - Legacy Users Group

March 16 - 6:00 p.m.
Board of Directors Meeting

March 18 - 1:00 p.m.
German Interest Group

March 19 - 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
French Canadian Heritage Society of California
French Heritage DNA Project

March 25 - 9:30 a.m.
Jamboree Committee Meeting

March 25 - 1:30 p.m.
1890 Project Committee Meeting

March 26 - 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Kids' Genealogy Camp

March 26 - 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
FTM - Family Tree Maker Users Group

March 28 - 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Writers Group Meeting

March 31
Last day for Early-Bird Discount for Jamboree
Register online at www.scgsgenealogy.com

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French-Canadian Research Group meets on Wednesdays
German Research Group meets on Thursdays

The Library is open to the public for research on:
10:00am - 4:00pmWednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays
10:00am - 9:00pmTuesdays
10:00am - 4:00pmon third and fourth Saturdays
10:00am - 4:00pmon first and second Sundays
ClosedMondays

All activities held at the
Southern California Genealogical Society
417 Irving Drive
Burbank, California 91504-2408
phone:818-843-7247
email:
web:www.scgsgenealogy.com



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