Meetings are held on 2nd Thursdays,  7:00-8:30PM

Christ Community Church,

5025 Manzanita Avenue, Carmichael

 

Meets monthly on the 3rd Thursday from 11:30am until 1:30pm.

Sylvan Community Center

7521 Community Drive

Citrus Heights

 

This SIG meets to discuss use of the popular Family Tree Maker genealogy software. The first thirty minutes of each month's meeting are dedicated to those individuals who are beginning with the Family Tree Maker software and those who would like to sharpen their knowledge of the basics of the program. Everyone currently using or just starting with FTM should attend.

 

Open to all.

 

 

Meetings are held on the 4th Thursday of each month from 11:30am to 2:30pm

Sylvan Community Center

7521 Community Drive

Citrus Heights

 

This support group will address the Legacy genealogy software, use of the Flip-Pal portable scanner and related topics. The Group's objectives are to increase participants' knowledge with discussion and demonstrations, provide hands-on experience and perhaps establish a mentor system.

To help attendees plan their thoughts before the meeting, we have attached a guided reading to stimulate the discussion. Please download and complete the questions prior to the meeting.

Stephen Morse will present two topics: 

Getting Ready for the 1950 Census: Searching with and without a Name Index

When the 1950 census will be released in April 2022, it will not have a name index. So finding people in the census will involve searching by location instead. Even when a name index becomes available, there will still be many reasons for doing locational searches.

and 

Finding Presidents and their Ancestors in the Strangest Places

We are used to looking for our ancestors in ship manifests and in census records. We have mastered a variety of tricks for finding people in spite of name misspellings and incorrect birth dates. You might think that US presidents are a breed apart from our ancestors, but they are not. They also arrived on ships and have come face-to-face with the census taker.

This talk will show you how to search for presidential records, and you will see that it is no different from searching for ancestral records. We will encounter some of the same problems with both searches, and we'll see how these problems can be solved.

 

Our workshop meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm at the Sylvan Community Center.  All are welcome to our free workshop -- from beginners to more experienced genealogists.  A question and answer period on the presentation subject follows the talk.  The second hour is open forum.  Share your great research successes or bring your questions and brick walls to share.  Someone there may have the answer.   

Reference books, lectures, demonstrations, consultations and more! This event is open only to Root Cellar members.