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...

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,...

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...

Via Zoom (Members Only - Contact president@davisgenealogy.org to join)

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Jonathan will present an initial dive into Y DNA results for Lisa's Wilson ancestors — interpretation, next steps, and how to work through a surname project to collaborate with other...

At 33 and with her future unclear, Ali Waller finds her way home again. A box of long-forgotten love letters written to her great-grandmother holds the unlikely key to Ali...

Invention of early 2001, we’re almost a genea-generation (a quarter of a century!) into having this tool as genealogists. How has Wikipedia evolved?  What techniques maximize the benefit?  “Wiki” – fast; “-pedia...