September 2025 Monthly Meeting and Speaker
September 20, 2025
“Genealogical Research Methodology”
Webinar Presented by: Lisa Medina
September 2025 Mini Class
Join us for our Mini-Classes before the General Meeting on September 20, 2025.
The Mini-Class for September will be “Chinese in California” presented by Carol Lee.
The Mini-Class will be held in the Relief Society Room at the Church of Latter-Day Saints in Mission Viejo, CA, from 9:00AM to 9:30AM.
SOCCGS Announcements for September 2025
Mark Your Calendar – Our Annual Seminar is coming on October 4, 2025!! REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!!!
“The Genetic Detective Tells Her Story” – Solving the Unsolvable – Presented By: CeCe Moore
Registration is Now Open for our Annual Seminar!
NOTE: As a reminder, this will be an in-person seminar. The speaker will be in-person. There will be NO recordings made, and NO broadcast on Zoom. You need to be there or miss out.
Membership
Join us and be part of a society dedicated to learning effective genealogy research strategies, organizing your family’s records and stories, and connecting with other friendly local genealogists. We offer a variety of benefits with membership, including opportunities to hear lectures from leaders in the field as well as access to on-line genealogy subscriptions. Additionally, we have an assortment of Special Interest Groups (SIG’s) dedicated to specific ancestral homelands (England, Ireland, Scotland, and Germany, to name a few), research skills, and writing family histories.
Please join us and consider bringing along a friend. The journey is a rewarding one! Visit the membership section of this website and download and print an application, and mail it to the listed PO address. Your membership will be confirmed promptly. You’ll be glad you joined our society! Do it today!
For only $25/year ($30 joint membership) you will receive access to our general meetings, guest speakers, and SIG’S plus our information-packed newsletter. That works out to $2.08 a month! What a great bargain!
The SOCCGS Genealogy Research Center is OPEN!
The SOCCGS Genealogy Research Center is open, and Docents are on duty (Times Docents are available) to help you with your genealogy research.
We expect that many of you will be eager to access those locked records on FamilySearch and our other databases (including Newspapers.com and Fold3).
Welcome
SOCCGS was founded in 1994 in Mission Viejo, California with the purpose to preserve and disseminate knowledge about, and to stimulate interest and provide instruction in genealogical research.
The Mission Viejo Library opened October 25, 1997 and generously provided a space for our genealogical collection of books and CDs. In May of 2002 the new south wing was opened and the Genealogy Research Center was moved into the new area.
Meeting Location
We have returned to in-person meetings at the Church of Latter Day Saints, 27976 Marguerite Pkwy, Mission Viejo, CA. Our meetings are currently in a hybrid format, so you can also attend online. Please see the calendar for more information.
Monthly meetings are held the third Saturday of each month from 10am to noon.
In October, this year, we will meet for a Seminar featuring renowned genealogy speakers.
