Inspiring Ways to Capture the Interest of the Non-Genealogists in Your Family
If you are researching your family tree but haven’t shared it with your family in a way that sparks their interest, then you are only experiencing half of the joy...
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Follow-up Discussion
The Monday-After Presentation Follow-up is how Davis Genealogy Club members discuss what we learned at our General Meeting and Presentation the prior week! We discuss what we found helpful from...
DGC Board Meeting
The Davis Genealogy Club Board meets quarterly in January, April, July and October. Board members have voting rights, however, all members are welcome to attend and give input into the...
Summer Book Club – Hiding the Past: A Genealogical Crime Mystery
Hiding the Past: A Genealogical Crime Mystery by Nathan Dylan Goodwin (2013). Patrick Coldrick has no past, but hires Morton Farrier, Forensic Genealogist, to find it. Others are interested, too…and people...
Summer Book Club – The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos (2023) – not to be confused with books with similar titles about pirates and wives! Based on a trove...
Topic Talk – Changing Occupations and Occupations Changing
Sometimes it was push, sometimes pull. It was a step or a leap. Perhaps it was goat herder to farmer? Peasant to shoemaker? Housebuilder to inventor? Maybe someone had a...
Finding Our Italian Ancestors
Nick earned both an MBA in Finance and a bachelor’s in accountancy at California State University, Sacramento, and he has worked both as an auditor and comptroller. Nick enjoys history,...
Follow-up Discussion
The Monday-After Presentation Follow-up is how Davis Genealogy Club members discuss what we learned at our General Meeting and Presentation the prior week! We discuss what we found helpful from...
DNA Study Group
Via Zoom (Members Only – Contact president@davisgenealogy.org to join)
DGC Board Meeting
The Davis Genealogy Club Board meets quarterly in January, April, July and October. Board members have voting rights, however, all members are welcome to attend and give input into the...
Topic Talk – Australia
Used (or misused) as a prison colony, England deported its convicts in the 1700s and beyond…and contributed to the making of Australia. Irish convicts in your line? Some may have...
No, No, Nanette! What Negative Evidence is…and isn’t
Negative evidence is the hardest type of evidence to understand or use in genealogical research. By definition, a “type of evidence arising from an absence of a situation or information...