John Phillip Colletta - Seminar - March 10, 2012- GSNOCC

A SPECIAL ONE DAY SEMINAR WITH

NATIONALLY KNOWN SPEAKER AND AUTHOR

JOHN PHILIP COLLETTA, Ph.D., FUGA

Learn about United States Federal Records from an expert who taught workshops at the National Archives for 21 years. Dr. Colletta is famous for the liveliness, humor, clarity and effectiveness of his presentations.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

8:15 am - 4:00 pm

Brea United Methodist Church

480 N. State College Blvd.

Brea, CA 92821 (at Lambert)

Pre-Registration by March 3, 2012

Donation: Members $30.00 Non-Members $35.00

Registration at the door: $40.00 (No lunch available)

Box Lunch: $9.00 pre-registration only

Morning and afternoon snacks included

FREE BONUS TO FIRST 35 REGISTRANTS!

DOOR PRIZES/ SALES TABLE/ DISPLAYS

For More Information: Call 714-777-2379 or go to www.gsnocc.org for map

Registration Form

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.

Randy Seaver - Using Ancestry,com Effectively - Wed July 20, 2011

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

RANDY SEAVER

Searching Ancestry.com Effectively

Ancestry.com has many wonderful features--a lavish buffet where it is hard to choose what to use and how to use it. Randy will discuss the effective use of such features as new or old search algorithms, basic or advanced search forms, exact or ranked matches, full names or wild cards, specific or all databases, restricted or whole collection, and site navigation.

Randy Seaver is a native San Diegan, a graduate of San Diego State University in Aerospace Engineering, and a retired aerodynamics engineer with a 38-year career at Rohr/Goodrich in Chula Vista. His ancestry is mainly colonial New England and Upper Atlantic, with some colonial German, French and Dutch forbears, and several 19th-century English immigrants.

Randy's activities include serving the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (former President, currently Newsletter Editor and Research Chairman); speaking to Southern California genealogy groups; teaching senior adult genealogy classes at OASIS; and writing the Genealogy 2.0 column for the FGS’s FORUM Magazine. He is a member of NGS, NEHGS, SDGS, CVGS, and CGSSD, and blogs daily about genealogy at Genea-Musings (www.geneamusings.com), The Geneaholic (www.geneaholic.com), and the Chula Vista Genealogy Cafe (http://CVGenCafe.blogspot.com).

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 http://gsnocc.org, our blog at http://gsnocc.blogspot.com or 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

We are now on Facebook - search on Genealogical Society of North Orange County California

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