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...
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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...
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 Book Club – The Lost Ancestor by Nathan Dylan Goodwin (2014)
As requested for the DGC Book Club, we’re continuing the Summer 2023 “Book Club”. This pick is the second in the Morton Farrier genealogical mystery series, also as requested by the...
Topic Talk – The Great Depression
Tent cities, soup kitchens, lost jobs, holes in soles…holes in souls. Unemployment at 25%. Forget the causes and the politics; people suffered to greater or lesser extent. In the 2020s,...
Annual Meeting and Harvest Festival
Please join us for all the fun at our Annual Meeting and Fall get together on November 28th, starting at 1:00pm as we again celebrate the season with refreshments and...
DNA Study Group
Via Zoom (Members Only - Contact president@davisgenealogy.org to join)
DGC Book Club – Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love (2020) by Dani Shapiro
After whimsically submitting her DNA to a testing company, author Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. In one morning, her entire history–the...
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...
From a Box in the Closet to a Treasured Family Heirloom
If you're overwhelmed by the collection of photos your family has accumulated, you're not alone! After a brief history of photography, we look at organizing techniques, digitization basics, and options/ideas...
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...
Topic Talk – Local Historical Societies
The mission: “Collect, preserve, research and interpret.” Local people with local knowledge about local peculiarities = “X” Local Historical Society. Best approaches to research in-person at the facility? From afar? What role in genealogical...