Reem Awad-Rashmawi will share a case study from research she conducted for a local society member trying to answer an unknown parentage question. It will show how the methods members...

Andrea Ross is a local Davis author ~ // ~ Brown bag lunch 12:30 - Book discussion begins 1:00 in the Genealogy library.~ // ~Adopted at birth, Andrea Ross grew up inhabiting two...

The public is invited to an "Introduction to Mexican Genealogy Research", hosted by the Davis Genealogy Club on Tuesday, April 21st, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, in the Davis Senior Center’s...

A Rose by any other name…  What and why to give a person a particular first name?  How did someone ever get that last name?  Why even have middle names?  Conventions prevalent in days of yore…up...

Just 250 years ago, this country determined to self-determine.  Did your ancestor play a part for or against independence or perhaps totally disinterested?  What are the greatest sources that help us determine...

Doctors, nurses, midwives, amputators, teeth pullers?   Were your ancestors in practice?  Were your ancestors practiced upon?  What was the world they lived in trying to provide or get care?  In other countries, this one.  From...

Searching for the riches and usually finding…less than life-changing treasure.  Were your ancestors pioneers to California before or after the find was announced?  Where did these folks come from?  How did they adapt?  Or...

“Dear ______” transforms into “Dear .”  Although addressed to someone else, our descendants write to tell us…all sorts of things about their lives and the person they wrote to.  What have you...