Topic Talk – Pennsylvania
One of the original colonies, over generations a destination of Dutch and German immigrants (and so many other ethnicities), epicenter of 19th-20th-century steel production and coalmining, haven for Quakers and...
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Topic Talk – Social Media
Networks, virtual community, interactive participation…Social Media as help to genealogists? Has Facebook worked for you? Or maybe Instagram? TIKTOK??? Godsend or annoyance? Blessing or curse? What would our ancestors think? ~ // ~In...
Carved in Stone: Cemetery Research
Gain more from your cemetery research. Learn to prepare for your visit to the cemetery, accomplish more during your visit and glean valuable information from related research. This presentation provides...
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...
DNA Study Group
Updates on DNA problem solving (from any study group participants). Jonathan will revisit new findings since his presentation to the club last month. PLUS consider a return to the brick walls...
Topic Talk – Organizations, Associations, Clubs – Oh My!
Naturally social creatures, (we and) our ancestors gathered not only in churches, but with other groups—local, regional, national—based on secular interests. What attracted them to these gathering hubs? Sometimes politics, other times...
DGC Book Club – The Rosie Project: a novel by Graeme Simsion (2013)
Don Gilman is a brilliant yet socially challenged professor of genetics, who has decided it’s time he found a wife. In the orderly manner with which Don approaches all things,...
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...
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...