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MCGS General Meeting

  • January 25, 2018
  • 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
  • Marin Family History Center, 220 North San Pedro Rd., San Rafael

General Meeting:
"Discovering your German Roots"
"Part 1 - The Great Migration: 1815-1914"
Presented by Robert Jackson, Ph.D.

German-Americans are America's largest single ethnic group. Even today,
after waves of later immigration, more than twenty percent of all Americans
claim primarily German descent, and many more have at least one German
ancestor.
In this, the first of two presentations, we'll discuss the challenging task of
discovering the hometown of your German ancestors, even if they arrived
150 years ago. The documentary sources available in Germany, many of them
now available in the U.S., facilitate the assembly of family trees of great age
and depth, often back to the 1500s, even for simple peasant stock.
In a second presentation, later this year, we'll explore techniques for accessing
and using original German documents to build your family tree and to prepare a truly engaging family history.

Robert Jackson holds a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. After several years’ teaching at the college level, he pursued a professional career in international and corporate finance. Since retiring he has assisted a variety of not-for-profit and community organizations. He lives in Berkeley and lectures frequently on genealogical subjects .

The share and tell segment of the meeting will focus on German ancestors.

About our Meetings:

The Genealogical Society General meetings are open to the public, with no admission fee. Feel free to drop in! Bring your friends as everyone is welcome. Come early and ask your burning genealogical questions of other members before the meeting.

We meet on the 4th Thursday of every month, with a couple of exceptions. November's meeting is held on the 3rd or 5th Thursday, due to Thanksgiving. There is no general meeting in May, due to our Annual Picnic, nor in December, due to the holidays and our Winter Holiday Party.

Annually, several of our regularly scheduled meetings have a certain focus: April, we hold our Annual General Meeting and Elections (but there's usually a presentation also); May of each year we hold an Anniversary Celebration or Annual Picnic; and in September, we have a workshop.

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