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...
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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...
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...
Topic Talk – Marriage to Marriage to Endogamy – Whys and Wherefores
When it’s true that everyone in the village seems to be related…because they are. And…it’s complicated! Marriages to cousins, then second marriages offering another opportunity to intermarry, it’s all such a...
Annual Business Meeting and Harvest Festival
Stranger than Fiction! ~ //~ Join the Davis Genealogy Club for an unforgettable afternoon of family lore and delicious food at our annual Harvest Meeting! ~ //~ Ever heard a...
DNA Study Group
This month, a club member will bring a case of uncertain paternity. We will discuss how to answer her family's question by leveraging existing autosomal and Y DNA tests, and...
DGC Book Club – “The Stranger in my Genes: A Memoir” by Bill Griffeth (2016 Nonfiction)
Bill Griffeth, longtime genealogy buff, takes a DNA test that has an unexpected outcome: "If the results were correct, it meant that the family tree I had spent years documenting...
Using Maps in Genealogical Research
Maps obviously help us identify where a place is located. For genealogists, there are many other things maps can help us achieve: visualize past environments, document boundary changes, show the...