Programs and Monthly Meetings

Christine Green, Chairperson

The next meeting(s) are..

August Meeting - NONE

Topic: “But It's My Family -- Copyright Issues for the Twenty-first Century Genealogist”
Speaker: Cath Madden Trindle, CG

Whether you are writing or collecting a family history, you need to understand current US and International copyright law, pending legislation and court actions and ethical issues of copying and sharing genealogical information electronically or in print. This is a talk you won't want to miss. Cath Madden Trindle is a certified genealogist, currently serves as Treasurer of Federation of Genealogical Societies and is a popular speaker on the national, state and local level.

Topic: “Hard Luck Coast: The Perilous Reefs of Point Montara”
Speaker: JoAnn Semones, Ph.D.

JoAnn Semones (pronounced sea-moans) boarded her first ship at age three. The voyage made a lasting impression, and she has loved sea sagas ever since. She made her mark as a maritime historian with her fascinating book, Shipwrecks, Scalawags, and Scavengers: The Storied Waters of Pigeon Point. Her most recent work, Hard Luck Coast: The Perilous Reefs of Point Montara, is the second of a trilogy she is preparing about shipwrecks along the central California coast. She has focused her attention farther north, a few miles south of San Francisco, in San Mateo County.

JoAnn is both a scholarly researcher and an author who knows how to make her stories of shipwrecks, disasters and near disasters come to life. So bring your relatives and friends to what promises to be a fascinating evening.

Topic: “to be determined”
Speaker: to be determined

December Meeting - NONE