The Geography of American Genealogy
Many of our ancestors were part of groups that left homelands at particular times and moved together to specific regions in America. For example, many people left Ireland during a...
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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...
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...
DNA Study Group
DNA Genie-ological Puzzle! DGC members are invited to join a new round of “Brick Wall” case studies with a focus on DNA analysis. DNA study group members will review the case...
DGC Book Club – Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm, (2023) by David “Mas” Masumoto
Per Mas: “I discover a "lost" aunt, separated from our family due to racism and discrimination against the disabled. She had a mental disability due to childhood meningitis. She was...
Writing and Publishing Your Family History
One of the best ways to ensure that all our genealogical research will survive is to publish a book. This presentation covers the entire publishing effort, your publishing options, the mechanics of...
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...
DGC DNA Study Group
The DNA Study Group will discuss member DNA case studies and also discuss the new Protools on Ancestry.com. More detail to come. Want to submit a case study? Questions? Contact Jonathan Long at jwlong.genealogy at gmail.com...
Topic Talk – World War II
Daddy’s war? Mom’s? Defining event of the 20th century, and launcher of the US onto the world stage like nothing before, WWII created a lot of now-public records that can help us track...
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...
DGC Book Club – “Three Times Removed” by M. K. Jones
Three Times Removed is book 1 of 8 in the Maze Investigations - The Genealogy Detectives series. Maggie Gilbert and her children, Jack and Alice, live a pretty normal life....
An Immigrant Family in Pre-1906 San Francisco – a Case Study
San Francisco suffered profound record loss following the 1906 earthquake and fire. Despite this loss, various resources will be examined, analyzed, and correlated in order to document an immigrant family...