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Members of the Mt. Diablo Genealogical Society Board of Directors always strive to make parcipaon in our acvies as enjoyable and producve as possible. Embracing change has not been difficult for us, as we’ve modified the approach to general meengs in the past. Addion of a social break including snacks, inclusion of mini-talks, celebrang the December holidays with that meeng focused on a mix of desserts and genealogy, even changing the meeng me have been approaches that have been taken. All of them have met with success and many were brought about through the efforts of our Program Chair at the me, Mary Ellis. The latest experiment was the mini-seminar held at our general meeng in July. Gena Philibert-Ortega gave a wonderful presentaon, in two parts, covering the usefulness of the Works Progress Administraon (WPA) records and images to the family researcher. We asked for aendee response to the different format and it was overwhelmingly posive. That feedback will be useful in assisng the new Program Chair, Karla Henderlong, in planning for the future. I hope that you’ll take some me to think about what topics would be helpful to you, how the format of the meengs could be strengthened or anything that would provide a more meaningful experience as a member of the MDGS. Please do take that extra step, aend the September meeng, and share your thoughts with Karla or me. Your ideas help keep our organizaon relevant. Diane de Golia President Mt. Diablo Genealogical Society 2017 2016/2017 MDGS Board Members President: Diane de Golia Vice President: Arta Fleming Rec. Secretary: Shirley Thomson Treasurer: John Gilbert Directors: Bill Steinmetz & Margaret Ready Past President: Stan Wells Historian: Bob Wolf Program Chair: Karla Henderlong Publicity Chair & Newsleer: Susan Rush Membership Chairs: Cheryl Sibthorp & Gretchen Hansen Hospitality Chair: Mary Ellis T HE D IGGER P RESIDENT ’ S M ESSAGE – D IANE DE G OLIA INSIDE THIS ISSUE: President’s Message & New Members 1 Speakers & Programs 2 Other Societies & Upcoming Events 3 Changes to Find A Grave 4-5 Family Tree Maker 2017 6 Roots Magic 7 Working with No-Tree DNA Matches 8-9 Resources: My Genealogical Will 10 Membership Application 11 Volunteer Form & Publicity 12-13 Calendar of Events 14 / Board Meeting: 2nd Friday of Month 1:30 Rossmoor Creekside Clubhouse in the Mulligan Room. General Meeting: 3rd Friday of Month 10:00 Rossmoor Creekside Clubhouse in the Club Room. Everyone is welcome to both meetings. Rossmoor Creekside Clubhouse 1010 Stanley Dollar Dr, Walnut Creek, CA 94595 New members: Sally Nordwall Carol & Stan Sco Janine Vanier
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Members of the Mt. Diablo Genealogical Society Board of Directors always strive to make participation in our activities as enjoyable and productive as possible. Embracing change has not been difficult for us, as we’ve modified the approach to general meetings in the past. Addition of a social break including snacks, inclusion of mini-talks, celebrating the December holidays with that meeting focused on a mix of desserts and genealogy, even changing the meeting time have been approaches that have been taken. All of them have met with success and many were brought about through the efforts of our Program Chair at the time, Mary Ellis.
The latest experiment was the mini-seminar held at our general meeting in July. Gena Philibert-Ortega gave a wonderful presentation, in two parts, covering the usefulness of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) records and images to the family researcher. We asked for attendee response to the different format and it was overwhelmingly positive. That feedback will be useful in assisting the new Program Chair, Karla Henderlong, in planning for the future.
I hope that you’ll take some time to think about what topics would be helpful to you, how the format of the meetings could be strengthened or anything that would provide a more meaningful experience as a member of the MDGS. Please do take that extra step, attend the September meeting, and share your thoughts with Karla or me. Your ideas help keep our organization relevant. Diane de Golia President
Mt. Diablo Genealog ical Soc iety
2017
2016/2017 MDGS Board Members President: Diane de Golia Vice President: Arta Fleming Rec. Secretary: Shirley Thomson Treasurer: John Gilbert Directors: Bill Steinmetz & Margaret Ready Past President: Stan Wells Historian: Bob Wolf Program Chair: Karla Henderlong Publicity Chair & Newsletter: Susan Rush Membership Chairs: Cheryl Sibthorp & Gretchen Hansen Hospitality Chair: Mary Ellis
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P R E S I D E N T ’ S M E S S A G E – D I A N E D E G O L I A
I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :
President’s Message & New Members
1
Speakers & Programs 2
Other Societies & Upcoming Events
3
Changes to Find A Grave 4-5
Family Tree Maker 2017 6
Roots Magic 7
Working with No-Tree DNA Matches
8-9
Resources: My Genealogical Will 10
Membership Application 11
Volunteer Form & Publicity 12-13
Calendar of Events 14
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Board Meeting:
2nd Friday of Month 1:30
Rossmoor Creekside
Clubhouse in the Mulligan
Room.
General Meeting:
3rd Friday of Month 10:00
Rossmoor Creekside
Clubhouse in the Club
Room.
Everyone is welcome to
both meetings.
Rossmoor Creekside
Clubhouse
1010 Stanley Dollar Dr,
Walnut Creek, CA 94595
New members: Sally Nordwall Carol & Stan Scott Janine Vanier
July 21, 2017 - Thank you Gena Philibert-Ortega for your fabulous Mini Seminar on all aspects of WPA records, photos & ephemera. You always provide fabulous information & resources. We look forward to your return trip to our group next summer! Gena’s outline is posted on our website mdgs.webs.com
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September speaker, Kathryn Miller Marshall, Ph.D. Kathryn was Director of the Lodi Family History Center for 16 years. Her Ph.D. is in psychology from UC Berkeley where she taught for many years. She also served as a senior research scientist in Bethesda, Maryland, evaluating the nation’s substance abuse programs for congressional reports. Upon returning to California, she has designed curricula & specialized in California history between 1840-1865. Dr. Marshall does editing of books for
fellow historians as well as writing books of her own on the Gold Rush era. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the California Pioneer Heritage Foundation, which provides living history re-enactors at State Parks and Preserves Historical sites in California.
October speaker, Madeline Yanov, formerly of MY Genealogy Services, is the owner of Time Travel Genealogy. She has more than 30 years of genealogy experience; specializing in American research but is familiar with European genealogy; specifically, Irish, British, Slovak, and Russian with a little German on the side. She also has been instrumental in locating and helping to reunite adoptees with their birth parents. In her “other life”, prior to becoming a full time genealogist, Madeline was a paralegal whose
expertise included the “discovery” for cases. This has helped her in analyzing what to search for and how to find it. She is a weekly volunteer at the Oakland, California Regional Family History Center. Since 2011, she has been an indexer with FamilySearch.org. In 2012, Madeline was elected to the Board of Directors of the Contra Costa County Genealogical Society and in May of 2017 was elected Co-President of that society. She is a member of APG, the Association of Professional Genealogists. Madeline loves traveling around the Bay Area, meeting people and hearing their family stories.
T H A N K S T O O U R J U L Y S P E A K E R
P R O G R A M S - K A R L A H E N D E R L O N G
Date Mini Speaker Main Speaker & Topic
15 Sep 2017 Martha Whittaker- “California County Records in the State Archives”
Kathryn Marshall—”Latest & Greatest in Genealogy Software and Databases”
20 Oct 2017 TBA Madeline Yanov— “Finding Great Grandpa: Or How to Locate Lost Ancestors in 1890 Census Substitutes”
17 Nov 2017 Terry Richards—”Genealogy Rec-ords in the Oakland Law Library”
Melinda Kashuba– “Migration to the Gold Rush”
15 Dec 2017 Time & Place TBA Holiday Dessert Traditions
S E P T E M B E R & O C T O B E R S P E A K E R
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OT H ER GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES
C o n t r a C o s t a C o u n t y G e n e a l o g i c a l S o c i e t y — 2 n d T h u r s d a y o f M o n t h 14 Sep 2017 7:00 p.m. LDS Church, 1360 Alberta Way, Concord Janice Sellers “Using Jewish Resources to Find Non-Jewish Ancestors”
12 Oct 2017 7:00 p.m. TBA
More info at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cacccgs/cccgs/membership.htm
S a n R a m o n V a l l e y G e n e a l o g i c a l S o c i e t y 3 r d T h u r s d a y o f M o n t h Latest 10:00 a.m. LDS CHURCH, 2949 Stone Valley Road , Alamo, CA
Sep 19, 2017 Kathryn Marshall -”The Latest & Greatest in Genealogy Software & Databases”
Oct 17, 2017 Jan Aherns -“ Workshop—Making a Family Research Video (2 hours)
More info at http://srvgensoc.org
S o l a n o C o u n t y G e n e a l o g i c a l S o c i e t y 1 s t S a t u r d a y o f t h e M o n t h 11:00 a.m. Moose Lodge, 623 Taylor St., Fairfield, CA
Sep 2, 2017 Katheryn Marshall -”FamilySearch.org’s Historic Records Collection & Family Tree”
Oct 7, 2017 Ronald Cannon -“Documenting & Citing Your Research”
More Info at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cascgsi/
L i v e r m o r e A m a d o r G e n e a l o g i c a l S o c i e t y 2 n d M o n d a y o f M o n t h 10:00 a.m. at Congregation Beth Emek, 3400 Nevada Ct., Pleasanton, CA
Sep 11, 2017 TBD Oct 9, 2017 TBD
More Info at http://www.l-ags.org/
U P C O M I N G E V E N T S
2017 Fall Seminar Contra Costa County GS— Saturday, October 21, 2017 8:00 a.m.—4:00 p.m. Gena Philibert-Ortega, 4 Topics on Finding Your Female Ancestors: Her Name Was Not Known; Wives, Widows, Spinsters, and Mistresses; The Secret Lives of Women; I'm in the Book
To Register: click on this link http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cacccgs/cccgs/
Fall%202017%20Flyer%20Final%20Ver%203.htm
California Genealogical Society (CGS) Two Upcoming Events: 1) September 23, 2017 Judy Russell 4 Topics Seminar at David Brower Center in Berkeley. • Facts, Photos, and Fair Use:
Copyright Law for Genealogists • Martha Benschura-Enemy Alien
• Rogues, Rascals and Rapscallions: The Family Black Sheep
• ABCs of DNA More information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/judy-g-russell-the-legal-genealogist-seminar-registration-33072744469?aff=Website 2) February 11-18, 2018 CGS Genealogy Caribbean Cruise Joined with The Genealogy Guys to host a 7-day genealogy cruise to 3 Caribbean islands. More Information: http://californiaancestors.org/genealogy-cruise
Genealogy: begins as an interest, becomes a hobby, then takes over as an obsession!! Twisted Twigs on Gnarled Branches
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W H A T ’ S N E W ? C H A N G E S C O M I N G T O F I N D A G R AV E
Why change the site? We need to update the site to: Make it more secure; Improve performance & speed; Support mobile
devices & other languages.
About the Preview: Changes you make here will affect existing memorials & are permanent; We would love to hear what you
think. Use the feedback button at the bottom right corner of any page to send us your thoughts; You can use the “Back to the
old site” link in the yellow bar at the top of each page to return to the old site.
Finding Your Roots with Henry Gates, Jr. returns to PBS on October 3rd with a new season to explore the fascinating family trees of popular figures: Aziz Ansari,
Scarlett Johansson, Larry David, Garrison Keillor, Amy Schumer, Ted Danson, William H. Macy,
Mary Steenburgen, Ana Navarro, Christopher Walken, Ava DuVernay, Bryant Gumbel,
John Turturro, Dr. Phil McGraw, Bernie Sanders, Tea Leoni, Paul Rudd, Lupita Nyongo,
Gaby Hoffman, Carly Simon, Carmelo Anthony and Janet Mock.
Check your local PBS station for time.
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FamilySearch Ends Microfilm Rental
FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org) is ending it’s microfilm rental service through the FamilySearch Centers
as of August 31. A June announcement cited declining demand for film, increased cost of the service, and the
difficulty of supporting aging microfilm technology. Most FamilySeach microfilm-including the most popular
records-is already digitized online. Digitization should be completed by 2020.
Family Tree Magazine ~September, 2017
http://www.mackiev.com/ftm/features/familysearch.html
http://www.mackiev.com/ftm/features/photo_darkroom.html
http://www.mackiev.com/ftm/features/color_coding.html
http://www.mackiev.com/ftm/features/sync_weather_report.html http://www.mackiev.com/ftm/features/familysync.html
http://www.mackiev.com/store_us.html
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https://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html
http://rootsmagic.com/store/RootsMagic/Ancestry.aspx
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Article by Diahan Southard from Family Tree Magazine ~ September 2017 edition.
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Resources
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlaport/gen_will.htm
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The Program committee is looking for a few members to share an experience, a discovery, a topic or a story at an upcoming meeting in 2017 during our mini-session.
No need for fancy presentations or handouts, just a short discussion about something you found interest-ing and would like to share with the group.
Contact Program Chair, Karla Henderlong at [email protected]
Are you interested in meeting with other MDGS members who are using RootsMagic, Family Tree
Maker or Reunion (mac) software? Send an email to
[email protected] and you will be connected to other
RootsMagic, Family Tree Maker or Reunion users.
Susan Rush, Publicity Chair
HELP WITH REFRESHMENTS? Do you bake? Could you bring
store bought? If you can help, please contact, Hospitality Chair, Mary Ellis at
1941—2017
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P U B L I C I T Y— S U S A N R U S H
Send us an https://www.facebook.com/mdgensoc/ http://mdgs.webs.com/ [email protected]
Do you have something to share in the Digger? Submit it to [email protected] by the last Monday of the month.
1001 Golden Rain Road
Walnut Creek, CA 94595
(mail only)
September/October 2017 Edition
MDGS DIGGER
We’re On The Web:
mdgs.webs.com
Date Mini Speaker Main Speaker & Topic
15 September 2017 Martha Whittaker—California County Records in State Archives
Kathryn Marshall—Latest & Greatest in Genealogy Software
and Databases
20 October 2017 TBA Madeline Yanov _ Finding Great Grandpa: Or How to Locate Lost Ancestors in 1890 Census Substitutes
17 November 2017 Terry Richards—”Genealogy Records in the Oakland Law Library”
Melinda Kashuba– “Migration to the Gold Rush”
15 December 2017 Time & Place TBA Holiday Dessert Traditions
MDGS meets on the third Friday of each month in the Club Room at
Rossmoor Creekside Clubhouse, 1010 Stanley Dollar Dr,
Walnut Creek, CA 94595 at 10:00 a.m.
No Host Lunch at Creekside with the Speaker, immediately Following Meeting on 3rd Friday of month. Reservations MUST be made by Monday afternoon prior to the meeting! For more information or to make reservations, contact Susan Rush 925-674-0929 or [email protected]
Double click on any website or email to go to the website or send an email; they are Hyperlinked.
