SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
March 19, 2022
“Community Research Using the National Register of Historic Places and the Historical Marker Database”
Presented by: Peggy Lauritzen
The National Park Service provides valuable information on historic places, tribal lands, and historic homes in their National Register of Historic Places. Coupled with the Historical Marker Database, these two sites can tell us a great deal about the areas where our ancestors lived. Those historic markers by the side of the road may contain valuable history for your ancestors’ stories, and perhaps even mention them by name. At our March presentation, Peggy Lauritzen will take you through the steps of using these resources to discover more about your ancestors’ communities, and the steps required to register new historic sites.
About the speaker: About the speaker: Peggy Lauritzen has been an Accredited Genealogist for nearly twenty-five years and has been involved in genealogy research her entire life. She is the author of several Legacy QuickGuides on Appalachia, an instructor at Ancestry Academy and Family Tree University, and a columnist for Reminisce Magazine. In 2018 she was the recipient of the Laura G. Prescott Award for Exemplary Service to Professional Genealogy and became a Fellow of the Ohio Genealogical Society. She is a former researcher at Ancestry ProGenealogists.
This month we will be offering our speaker’s presentation by webinar!
Meeting Place: Online
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
