2012

MEETINGS

Our evening meetings are on the Third Tuesday of the month at the Santa Clara City Public Library located on Homestead Road. For directions please see the map. Please help brighten up our meetings by providing your suggestions for Speakers or Topics that you would like to see in the future. Please provide a brief description of the topic, the Speaker's name, their e-mail address, mailing address or Telephone number (if known). Send suggestions to Program Chair

DECEMBER 2011

None.

JANUARY

Using Quaker Records. Tuesday, January 17th, 6:15-7:45 p.m., Redwood Room. Jeff Moore, Santa Clara County Historical and Genealogical Society Librarian, will give a talk on Quaker records and how to research Quakers. Jeff spent five years researching his Quaker ancestors in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The extensive church, meeting and other Quaker records he discovered helped him document hundreds of Quaker lives.

FEBRUARY

Tips from Ancestry's Senior Product Manager for Search. Saturday, February 4th, 1:00-3:00 p.m., Redwood Room. Laura Dansbury, Ancestry's 'Senior Product Manager for Search' will bring along other product managers from Ancestry.com to discuss new and advanced product features and techniques that will help produce better results when searching the Ancestry databases. Laura has many years of experience in web, online search and graphical information display focused on making web search easier and more powerful. Topics covered will include: Organizing and sharing your family tree; Breaking down brick walls; Getting the most out of your 'Ancestry.com' membership; and Advanced search techniques. She will also discuss how soon Ancestry will be able to put the 1940 US Census records online after the federal government releases those records in April 2012.

Getting Ready for the 1940 Census: Searching without a Name Index. Tuesday, February 21st, 6:15 p.m., Redwood Room. When the 1940 census is released in April 2012, it will not have a name index. Such an index will not be available for perhaps up to six months after opening day. So finding people in the census will involve searching by location instead. The census is organized by Enumeration Districts (EDs), so the location needs to be converted to an ED before the census can be accessed. Acclaimed genealogist, Steve Morse, will demonstrate how his One-Step webpages: stevemorse.org provides a tutorial quiz on the 1940 Census and numerous tools for obtaining EDs.

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