San Mateo County Genealogical Society
PO Box 5569
Redwood City, CA 94063-5569

telephone: 650.306.3423
website: www.smcgs.org

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Programs and Monthly Meetings

Christine Green, Chairperson

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 (check the Calendar for any changes).


The next meeting(s) are..

August Meeting - NONE

September General Meeting
Saturday, September 18, 10:30 am
Meeting Place: Transfiguration Episcopal Church
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.
October General Meeting
Wednesday, October 20, 7:30 pm
Meeting Place: Transfiguration Episcopal Church
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.
November General Meeting
Saturday, November 20, 10:30 am
Meeting Place: Transfiguration Episcopal Church
Topic: “to be determined”
Speaker: to be determined

December Meeting - NONE


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