SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
January 20, 2024
“Those Who Served”
Presented by: Mary Anne Vincent
Military records for our ancestors can provide valuable genealogy information, and fill in important details about our ancestors’ personal lives. There are a variety of military records, which can be tricky to locate and understand, such as pensions, service records, bounty land records for those who served in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and Indian wars between 1775 and 1855, and draft registrations for World War I and II. Mary Anne Vincent’s topic for our January 2024 meeting is “Those Who Served and Those Who Could Not or Would Not Serve”. Her presentation will deal with the period from our War for Independence to World War II.
About the speaker: For most of her adult life Mary Anne was an educator in a variety of
settings: public and parochial schools, incarcerated youth, charter school students and students who are home schooled. Mary Anne has served on the Board of Directors for the Corona Genealogical Society and the California State Genealogical Alliance. She is also the proofreader for newsletters of the Corona society and the Delaware Genealogical Society. In the past few years, using a self-publishing company, she has published eight family histories, including one volume of transcribed letters her maternal grandfather received during his time in the Spanish-American War.
This is Mary Anne’s third time presenting to our society. In February 2015, she discussed Civil War POW camps. In January 2021, her topic was the 1918 flu epidemic.
This month we will be offering our speaker’s presentation In-Person ONLY!
Meeting Place:
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
27976 Marguerite Pkwy, Mission Viejo, CA 92692
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
