CAMARILLO — The Ventura County Genealogical Society presents a Free Family History Mini-Seminar at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 21, 2018, at the Camarillo Library Community Room 4101 Las Posas Road, Camarillo.
- PRESENTATIONS BY COLLEEN GREENE:
- 1:00 P.M. UTILIZING THE DIGITAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF AMERICA & THE HATHITRUST FOR FAMILY RESEARCH
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and the HathiTrust Digital Library are two relatively new innovative resources to incorporate into your family history research. Both house and provide gateways to consortia-shared rich digitized collections that can be accessed online and on your mobile devices for free. Well-designed navigation and collection organization, combined with advanced search and discovery features, make it easy to quickly and effectively locate materials relevant to your research focus, and its mapping and time-focused features make it possible to gain a better understanding of the types of records available for different places and times. HathiTrust’s innovative reading features make it easy to quickly locate your ancestors in its extensive collection of public domain published family histories and historical materials. You will walk away from this lecture with two new favorite websites for your research toolkit.
2:30 P.M. INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCHING YOUR MEXICAN ANCESTORS
This introductory lecture covers key U.S. records and strategies for identifying when and where your Mexican ancestors immigrated, and for identifying their hometown in Mexico. It will also provide an overview of the main Mexican record types available online for tracing those family lines further back in Mexico. We cover the colonial Spanish and Mexican eras. Colleen demonstrates key strategies to set you up for success and explains how to avoid the common mistakes she made initially in her research. This class is ideal for anyone new to researching their Mexican lines, as well as those still relatively new to genealogy in general. Even a non-Spanish speaker can be successful in this research.
Colleen Greene, MLIS, is a librarian, educator, and web developer. She is the Marketing Librarian and Digital Humanities Specialist for California State University, Fullerton, and teaches an online graduate-level genealogical methodology course for San Jose State University. Her teaching focuses on Mexican and Hispanic research, DNA, methodology, search strategies, emerging technologies, and society marketing and communications.
10:30 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.: VCGS DNA SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP MEETING Teri Reynolds, Presenter
This presentation is entitled “Step Up: Take Your Genetic Genealogy to the Next Level.” Teri will provide tips, tricks, and recommendations.
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