General Meeting Lectures
PROGRAMS OF THE SLOCGS
2024
3 Feb
- Land Records in Genealogy
- Cite Your Sources: Ways to Deliver Your Research to the Future and Prove You’re Trustworthy
6 Apr
- Opening Pandora’s Box: Unraveling Family Secrets Through DNA, Parts I and II
1 Jun
Speaker to be announced
- To be announced
5 Oct
Speaker to be announced
- To be announced
7 Dec
Speaker to be announced
- To be announced
PAST PROGRAMS OF THE SLOCGS
2023
4 Feb
- Working with your AncestryDNA Results
1 Apr
Speaker Bill Cole, The Passionate Genealogist, will be addressing our 2023 theme of writing our ancestors’ stories
Part I: Breathe Life into Your Genealogy with the Power of Story
Part II: Breathe More Life into Your Genealogy with Storytelling Tips and Writing Techniques
Election of officers (Program Director, Membership Chair, Treasurer) will be held between the two sessions
- Fun field trip to genealogical library in Santa Barbara. Click through for more details.
5 Aug
- Think Like an Archivist
- Organize Like an Archivist
7 Oct
No general meeting
PAST PROGRAMS OF THE SLOCGS
2022
8 Jan
Speaker Cafi Cohen
- Identifying Maria’s Biological Mother: A DNA Case Study
5 Mar
Speaker Jim Gregory
- Patriot Graves: The South County’s Civil War Settlers
- San Luis Obispo County’s Wild West, from the book San Luis Obispo County Outlaws: Desperados, Vigilantes and Bootleggers
14 May
Speaker Speaker David Flint
- Overview of Genealogy Research in England
- Location Finding Aids: Maps, Gazetteers and Websites to Find Your Places in England
3 Sep
Speaker Dr. Jean Wilcox Hibben
- Life on the Farm: Records, Reports, and More
- Clue to Clue: Tracking a Family Over Time and Miles – Part 1
- Clue to Clue: Tracking a Family Over Time and Miles – Part 2
1 Oct
55th Anniversary Celebration & Lineage Showcase
- Presentations by local representatives of many organizations in our area, such as The Mayflower Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution, and The History Center of SLO County to name just a few.
- Buck-a-Book (suggested donation) of gently used genealogy books
- Concludes with celebratory Anniversary Cake & coffee
3 Dec
SLOCGS Society Speakers
- Using Facebook in Your Genealogy Research
- Writing Your Holiday Memories
PAST PROGRAMS OF THE SLOCGS
2021
2 Jan
Speaker Thomas MacEntee
- Backing Up Your Genealogy Data
- After You’re Gone: Future Proofing Your Genealogy Research
6 Mar
Speaker Bob Givens
- DNA Bootcamp
- My Heritage – How to understand your DNA results on My Heritage
- Ancestry – How to understand your DNA results on Ancestry
- GEDmatch – How to understand your DNA results on GEDmatch
1 May
Speakers Midge Buchert & Sandy Peterson
- Connecting the Italian-Swiss Families of Our Central Coast
4 Sep
Speaker Pam Vestal
- Voting Records: Genealogy’s Best Kept Secret
- Genealogy Pits I Have Fallen Into and How to Avoid Them!
6 Nov
Speaker Michael Strauss
- Topics: Pennsylvania: Discover your Ancestors in the Keystone State
- Hidden Clues Found Inside the U.S. Federal Census, 1790-1840
PAST PROGRAMS OF THE SLOCGS
2020
4 Jan
Speaker Nancy Loe
- Ten Skills Every Genealogist Needs
- Essential Portals for Genealogy Research
7 Mar
Speaker Hal Bookbinder
- Born in St. Louis, Naturalized in Newark, Why?
- Ships of Our Ancestors
May
(DNA by Katherine Borges)
- Meeting cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic CA state restrictions
5 Sep
Speaker Sheila Benedict
- The Importance of Collateral Research
- Death Certificates, Obituaries and Probates: What the Dead Can Tell You!
7 Nov
Speaker Michael Strauss
- Women’s Suffrage: Their Rights, Roles, and Limitations
- Influenza: The Twentieth Century’s Deadliest Pandemic
PAST PROGRAMS OF THE SLOCGS
2019
5 Jan
Speaker 1) Thomas Kesslet
Speaker 2) Dan Krieger
- In the Shadow of Ramona Wilson
- Adding Context to the History of San Luis Obispo: How Genealogy and Historical Documents Weave Symbiotically into the Fabric of Community History
2 Mar
Speaker 1) Ginger Goodell
Speaker 2) Janet Solverson Thatcher
- What I learned in Salt Lake City at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG)
- Crashing Through Your Brick Walls with Autosomal DNA
4 May
Speaker 1) Karen Leverich
Speaker 2) Mary Hansen
- Optimize Researching Digitized Newspapers to Add Context to Your Research
- How to Access the Huge Amount of Digital Historical Information Available Online
7 Sep
Speaker Cheryl Storton
- Adoption, Deception, Divorce, Desertion, and DNA—Ricka’s Story
The Rest of the Story—Using DNA to Find Family Secrets
2 Nov
Member Share Faire
For more information on all our other previous Speakers & Topics, or to suggest future Speakers & Topics, please send an email to us at slocgscontact@gmail.com