December - Happy Holidays - No Meeting

December is a time for family and friends. Enjoy this time, talk about traditions, find out how everyone celebrated the holidays when they were 10 years old.

I lived with my parents and my younger sister and brother. We were here in California and all of our extended family lived in Alabama or Louisiana so Christmas was always just the five of us. We had a house with a floor furnace located in a central hall. You could look through the slats and see some of the tree and, as all our gifts came from santa and they were never wrapped, this was were we hung out until we could get our parents out of bed. Christmas was one of the few times we had a formal dinner and Christmas is when I learned to set a table: silverware 1 inch from the edge of the table, napkin placed with the fold in so you could easily grab the edge, knife and spoon on the right, fork on the left. What was your Christmas like?

Footnote is now fold3

"On August 18th, Footnote announced it will focus on offering the finest and most comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records available on the internet. As part of this new focus, the name of the site has changed from Footnote to Fold3. The Fold3 name is derived from a traditional flag folding ceremony in which the third fold in the ceremony honors and remembers veterans for their sacrifice in defending their country and promoting peace in the world."

"Fold3, the Web's premier collection and destination for original U.S. military records. "

http://www.fold3.com

Visit The official blog of Fold3.com at http://blog.fold3.com/

Hal Horrocks - British Research Beyond the Census - Wed, August 17, 2011

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

The Genealogical Society of North Orange County

presents

HAL HORROCKS

British Research Beyond the Census

OK, so you found those old Brits in every census from 1841 to 1901--now what? What other paths might you follow? What other sources should you research? And which of those can you investigate before personally crossing the Atlantic? Hal Horrocks will provide some excellent suggestions!

A native Californian and longtime Orange County resident, Mr. Horrocks is a professional genealogist, teacher, and lecturer. He has been doing family research for 15 years and is a member of Association of Professional Genealogists, Genealogical Speakers Guild, Orange County California Genealogical Society, Genealogical Society of North Orange County California, Guild for One-Name Studies, Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society (UK), and Cheshire Family History Society (UK). In addition, he has developed a web site for the Horrocks surname that includes a one-name study, a DNA study, and family trees for Horrocks researchers.

6:15 p.m.: Beginners’ class (open to experienced folks, too!)

7 p.m.: A brief business meeting

7:15 p.m.: The program

At the end: Refreshments and conversation

Yorba Linda Community Center

4501 Casa Loma Avenue (at Imperial Highway)

Yorba Linda

For additional information, please call GSNOCC at 714-996-9511, visit our web site at , our blog at or find us on FaceBook.

Barbara Renick - ePublishing Your Manuscript - Wednesday June 15, 2011

Beginners and visitors welcome!

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The Genealogical Society of

North Orange County

presents

BARBARA RENICK

ePublishing Your Manuscript

So you've completed work on one of your key families and you’re ready to write about them. Do you want the world to know--or other researchers--or perhaps just your grandkids? Want your work available in perpetuity--or just for a while? Plan to include charts or photos or maps or scanned correspondence--or just text? Our June program will help you solve these quandaries!

Barbara Renick, genealogical researcher and longtime member of GSNOCC, teaches people how to “do” genealogy--especially on the Internet. Barbara has lectured and taught genealogical computer labs at national conferences and the Regional Family History Center in Orange for more than 25 years. A National Genealogical Society contributing editor for eleven years and current member of the NGS Board of Directors, she co-authored The Internet for Genealogists: A Beginner's Guide, made two instructional videos on using the Internet for genealogy, and publishes short instructional videos online at her ZRoots.com Web site. Her last book, Genealogy 101: How to Trace Your Family’s History and Heritage was sponsored by the NGS for their 100th Anniversary.

6:15 p.m.: Beginners’ class (open to experienced folks, too!)

7 p.m.: A brief business meeting

7:15 p.m.: The program

At the end: Refreshments and conversation

Yorba Linda Community Center

4501 Casa Loma Avenue (at Imperial Highway)

Yorba Linda

For additional information, please call GSNOCC at 714-996-9511 or visit our web site at

http://gsnocc.org

http://gsnocc.blogspot.com

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Kerry Bartels - Introduction to the National Archives - May 18

Kerry Bartels is a great storyteller and a dynamic speaker. He became a genealogist before he was an Archivist, so he understands the need for documents. His goal at his NARA branch is to make the Archives useful to genealogists. Kerry Bartels is an Archives Specialist at the Narional Archives in Perris, California. He has been a professional archivist since 1977 and has worked in historical societies, libraries, museums, universities, and state archives. He has extensive experience with county, state, and federal records as well as private manuscripts of individuals and records of private organizations. Over the years, he has also done a great deal of oral history and has administered a state micrographics laboratory and a state conservation laboratory among other specialties. He has been a genealogical practioner since 1962 and has done extensive research in the United States and Canada as well as many nations in Europe.

Mr. Bartels will demonstrate how genealogists can utilize the various descriptive tools on the National Archives website to determine for themselves records that may be useful in their particular Family History Center. Also discussed will be the National Archives itself and how the billions of documents in its holdings are organized. The session will concentrate on locating descriptions of records in the National Archives that are valuable to genealogists but are little known and little used. Handouts illustrating each of the searchexamples will be provided to participants.

Welcome to the GSNOCC Blog

The Genealogical Society of North Orange County California (otherwise known as GSNOCC) is jumping feet first into the Social Networking world. We hope that by developing this blog we can communicate with our members in a more immediate fashion and keep you better informed about happenings in the genealogy world and with the happenings of GSNOCC. We hope that you are able to participate by leaving comments to further the sense of community with GSNOCC. Expect lots of changes and lots of updates, we're new at this. Come back often to see what is new!

Jamie Mayhew

President, GSNOCC