Society meetings are held monthly. Please come 30 minutes before the start of the business meeting for a half-hour of coffee and friendship. A short business meeting will be held to be followed by a program on subjects of interest to all levels of genealogists.The meetings are alternately held on the 3rd Wednesday night or the 3rd Saturday morning of the month (watch this space or your newsletter for changes) at Silicon Valley Community Foundation at 1700 South El Camino in San Mateo.
The next meetings are...
June General Meeting
Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 7:30 pm
Silicon Valley Community FoundationTopic: “Your Genealogy Stay Vacation on the Peninsula”
Speaker: Guest panelYes the Internet IS an important resource for genealogy - but not everything we need for our genealogical research is on the Internet. Once in a while we need to get away from the computer and discover the wonderful repositories here on the peninsula - less than an hour's drive from home.
Our panel of experts will briefly tell you about the highlights of the collection at the National Archives, San Bruno, Sutro Library, Stanford Green Library, SMCGS Library and the Menlo Park Family History Center and answer any questions you might have.
July General Meeting
Saturday, July 18, 10:30 am
Silicon Valley Community FoundationTopic: ““Westward Migration – It's a Matter of Perspective””
Speaker: Marcia HolstromIn the earliest years of the development of our United States territory, the "west" was the Hudson River, then the Cumberland Gap, Ohio, and on to the Mississippi River. Let's explore together this movement of our ancestors from the Atlantic Coast to the Big Muddy.
NO August General Meeting
September General Meeting
Wednesday, September 16, 7:30 pm
Silicon Valley Community FoundationTopic: “Mapping Madness”
Speaker: Ron AronsIn this talk Ron discusses websites providing historical maps and several online mapping tools. Ron demonstrates how both Microsoft Maps (maps.live.com) and Google Maps (maps.google.com) operate. The presentation also covers Microsoft’s MapCruncher tool, which “mashes” two similar maps together. Ron will also briefly cover IBM’s Many Eyes, Muckety.com, and Whitepages.com.
NO October General Meeting
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