Paula Stuart-Warren, Certified Genealogist®, FMGS, FUGA
Paula is an internationally recognized genealogical educator, researcher, and consultant focusing on unusual resources, manuscripts, methodology, and analyzing records. She specializes in the WPA, railroad records, Native American research, and has spent extensive time at libraries, courthouses, libraries, state archives, historical societies, and U.S. National Archives locations. She is a coordinator and instructor for the GRIP Genealogy Institute and has presented courses and sessions for Ancestry Academy, Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG), Texas Institute of Genealogical Research (TIGR), and continues to present virtual seminars and webinars across the U.S. and Canada. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Federation of Genealogical Societies, of the Minnesota Genealogical Society, an officer of the Association of Professional Genealogists, and has been a Board-Certified Genealogist since 1988.
She descends from eight ancestral countries with many cousin connections all over Southern California and her own past residence in the Bay Area in Mountain View where her oldest son was born. Her website and blog are at http://genealogybypaula.com and she is enthusiastic about sharing knowledge and continuing education.
I'm excited to be welcomed back to the Orange County California Genealogical Society.
February 1, 2025 - Hybrid Meeting and Webinar
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in person at the library or virtually via Zoom: OCCGS-02-25
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The Library opens at 9:00 am for in-person attendees.
10:10 am PDT - Family History Details Hiding in Old Historical and Genealogical Periodicals
There's more to genealogical and historical periodicals than there used to be! Online indexes. Mass-media newsstand magazines. E-mail newsletters. Online journals. The more traditional society newsletters and journals remain just as important. This session illustrates the kind of treasures in those periodicals, old and new, that you may not find anywhere else. It demonstrates how periodicals are useful and vital for research, how to access them, and special considerations for using them to benefit your research. Genealogical and historical societies and other organizations in the U.S. have been publishing periodicals for decades. Articles cover culture, migration, ethnicity, military, churches, cemeteries, censuses, court records, and . . . Specialized finding aids, print and online access, and indexes are covered as we delve into the gems these back issues hold.
11:15 am PDT - Did your Ancestors Join Ethnic Organizations? Locating some Excellent Records
U. S. libraries, historical societies, archives, and university library special collections sections hold the records from many organizations that our immigrant ancestors joined. The organization may have been a heritage, charitable, religious, resettlement, political, social, insurance, or other organization and histories and records were created. Additionally, as parts of our families migrated in the U.S., so did the records. Finding these collections with records of membership, donations, necrologies, stories, activities, and more has become easier in recent years. Many finding aids online and off lead you to these research nuggets that represent hundreds of years of material.
Handouts, when available, will be in Member's Only on the Speaker Handouts/Webinars page.
