SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
July 15, 2023
“That’s in the Archives! Digging Deeper in the Archived Records”
Presented by: Melissa Barker
Most of us do the majority of our genealogy research online, but many genealogists also use archives every day to locate records about their ancestors. Are there records that you are not accessing because you don’t know they exist? Not all records are online, indexed, or microfilmed. Digging deeper in the local and state archives to find unique and relatively unknown records just might be the next step in your genealogy research.
About the speaker: About the speaker: Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Manager and Public Historian currently working at the Houston County, Tennessee Archives. She is affectionally known as The Archive Lady to the genealogy community. She lectures, teaches, and writes about the genealogy research process, researching in archives and records preservation. She conducts virtual presentations across the United States and Canada for various genealogy groups and societies. She writes a popular blog entitled A Genealogist in the Archives and is a well-known genealogy and history book reviewer. She has been a Professional Genealogist for 19 years with expertise in Tennessee records. She has been researching her own family history for the past 33 years.
This month we will be offering our speaker’s presentation In-Person AND Online!
Meeting Place:
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
27976 Marguerite Pkwy, Mission Viejo, CA 92692
and
Online
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
