2025 WAGS Meeting Speakers and Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/18/2025 | Jan General Meeting | Christine Cohen | Alienation of Affection: Divorce in the US |
| 02/15/2025 | Feb General Meeting | Larry Naukum | History of a Place That Means a Lot to a Family |
| 03/15/2025 | Mar General Meeting | Marian Burk Wood | Researching Military Records and More on Fold3.com |
| 04/19/2025 | Apr General Meeting | Bill Cole | Move Beyond US Censuses Records to Overcome Obstacles and Brick Walls |
| 05/17/2025 | May General Meeting | Steven W. Morrison | START WRITING - Your Ancestor's Legacy Depends Upon You! |
2024 WAGS Meeting Speakers and Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/20/2024 | Jan General Meeting | Cheri Mello | Overcoming Brick Walls with DNA |
| 02/17/2024 | Feb General Meeting | Mary Anne Vincent | Forget GPS - You Need Maps! |
| 03/17/2024 | Mar General Meeting | Brian Rhinehart | I Have a Civil War Ancestor . . . Now What? |
| 04/20/2024 | Apr General Meeting | Lisa Vogele | Heritage Travel: How to Walk in the Footsteps of Your Ancestors' Footsteps |
| 05/18/2924 | May General Meeting | Hal Bookbinder | Practicing Safe Computing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence |
| 06/15/2024 | Jun General Meeting | Beth Swartz | Centi What, Morgan Who . . . Working with Your DNA Results |
| 07/20/2024 | Jul General Meeting | Dana Palmer | Finding Records Using the Resources on FamilySearch |
| 08/24/2024 | Aug General Meeting | Road Trip | Road Trip! Orange County FamilySearch Library |
| 09/16/2024 | Sep General Meeting | Christine Cohen | Naturalization and Citizenship |
| 10/19/2024 | Oct General Meeting | Sunny Jane Morton | Introduction to US Church Records: Why We Care Where Grandma Went to Church |
| 11/16/2024 | Nov General Meeting | Sara Cochran | From a Box in the Closet to a Treasured Family Heirloom: Organizing and Digitizing Your Family Photos |
| 12/21/2024 | Dec General Mtg | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
2023 WAGS Meeting Speakers and Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/21/2023 | Jan General Meeting | Bill Cole | Breathe More Life into Your Genealogy: Storytelling Tips & Writing Techniques |
| 02/18/2023 | Feb General Meeting | Hal Horrocks | Early Migration to Kentucky and Beyond |
| 03/18/2023 | Mar General Meeting | Kate Townsend | Follow the Records and See Where They Go |
| 04/15/2023 | Apr General Meeting | Lisa Medina | Joy, Loss and Perserverance: The Story of an American Woman |
| 05/20/2023 | May General Meeting | Julie Huffman | The Basics of GEDMATCH |
| 06/17/2023 | Jun General Meeting | Geraldine Knatz | Finding the McCormacks in Ireland Using Indirect Evidence and DNA Matches |
| 07/15/2023 | Jul General Meeting | Rebecca Whitman Koford, CG, CGL | Land Records: Rich Resources for Relationships |
| 08/19/2023 | Aug General Meeting | Mark Cross | Indexing Errors: How to Find Records When You Can't Find the Records |
| 09/16/2023 | Sep General Meeting | Tamara Hallo | Telling Your Family Story with Google Earth |
| 10/21/2023 | Oct General Meeting | Christine Cohen | Mysterious Codes: Passenger Manifests Letters and Numbers |
| 11/18/2023 | Nov General Meeting | Jeanette Sheliga | Newspapers: Above the Fold, Your Ancestors in the News |
| 12/16/2023 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
2022 WAGS Meeting Speakers and Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/15/2022 | Jan General Meeting | Mark Cross | New Money in a New Century |
| 02/19/2022 | Feb General Meeting | Kimberlie Guerrerie, MA | Tips for Writing About Your Family History |
| 03/19/2022 | Mar General Meeting | Gregory Beckman | Dual Citizenship: EU, Mexico, Great Britain, Ireland, and Israel |
| 04/162022 | Apr General Meeting | Dana Goolsby Jones | Our Mother's Mother's Mother's Mother: Discovering the Story of Our Mothers |
| 05/21/2022 | May General Meeting | Christine Cohen | Grand Army of the Republic: Researching Your Union Civil War Ancestor |
| 06/18/2022 | Jun General Meeting | Christine Cohen | Using Fold3.com |
| 07/16/2022 | Jul General Meeting | WAGS Members | WAGS Summer Show & Tell |
| 08/20/2022 | Aug General Meeting | David Flint | England Censuses: 1841-1921 |
| 09/17/2022 | Sep General Meeting | Ted Gostin | Finding Vital Records Online: Beyond Ancestry and FamilySearch |
| 10/15/2022 | Oct General Meeting | Jane Neff Rollins | A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Dating Your Early 20th Century Photographs |
| 11/17/2022 | Nov General Meeting | Diane Henriks | It's All in the Clues |
| 12/17/2022 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
2021 WAGS Meeting Speakers and Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/16/2021 | Jan General Meeting | Lisa Louise Cooke | Future of Technology & Genealogy: 5 Strategies You Need |
| 02/20/2021 | Feb General Meeting | Lisa Lisson | Find and Use Uncommon Resources in Your Genealogy Research |
| 03/20/2021 | Mar General Meeting | Dr. Penny Walters | Mixing DNA with a Paper Trail |
| 04/17/2021 | Apr General Meeting | Christine Cohen | Probate: Where There's a Will or Not |
| 05/15/2021 | May General Meeting | Rick Crume | Tree Keeping: Genealogy Software vs. Online Family Trees |
| 06/19/2021 | Jun General Meeting | Rick Frohling | What's In a Name? |
| 07/17/2021 | Jul General Meeting | Tamara Hallo | How to Get the Most Out of FamilySearch,org |
| 08/21/2021 | Aug General Meeting | Pam Vestal | What the Heck Does That Say? Overcoming the Challenge of Difficult Handwriting |
| 09/18/2021 | Sep General Meeting | Gena Philibert-Ortega | We're Related to George Washington? Proving (or Disproving) Family Stories |
| 10/16.2021 | Oct General Meeting | Sara Cochran | My DNA Brought Me to the Forest, But Where Are All the Trees? |
| 11/20/2021 | Nov General Meeting | Jean Wilcox Hibben, PhD | Epidemics: An Issue of Politics, Economics, and Religion |
| 12/18/2021 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
2020 WAGS Meeting Speakers and Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/18/2020 | Jan Morning Class | Christine Cohen | Indexes Are the Key to Unlocking Records |
| 01/18/2020 | Jan General Meeting | Paul, Phil, and Ted White | The History of Funeral Services in Whittier |
| 02/15/2020 | Feb Morning Class | Rick Frohling | Don't Miss Out on What's New in Genealogy |
| 02/15/2020 | Feb General Meeting | Bill Cole | Stagecoach Robbers, Murder Trials, and the California Supreme Court, Oh My! |
| 03/18/2020 | Mar General Meeting | Meeting Canceled | Meeting Canceled Due to Pandemic Lockdown |
| 04/18/2020 | Apr General Meeting | Christine Cohen | Read the Instructions: Census Records |
| 05/16/2020 | May General Meeting | Sara Cochran | Networking for Genealogists |
| 06/19/2020 | Jun General Meeting | Lisa Lisson | Before She Was a Mrs. . . . Discovering Your Female Ancestors |
| 07/18/2020 | Jul General Meeting | Kristi Sexton | Grandma's Dress Quilt: From a Bed to a Book |
| 08/15.2020 | Aug General Meeting | Dr. Penny Walters | The Psychology of Searching |
| 09/19/2020 | Sep General Meeting | Amy Johnson Crow | The Genealogy Research Process: The WANDER Method |
| 10/17/2020 | Oct General Meeting | Randy Seaver | Using Collaborative "BIG" Family Trees |
| 11/21/2020 | Nov General Meeting | Mark Cross | Cite Your Sources: Ways to Communicate Your Searches to the World and Prove You're Trustworthy |
| 12/19/2020 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
2019 WAGS Meeting Speakers and Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19/2019 | Jan Morning Class | Christine Cohen | Was Your Ancestor an Inventor? Did They Have a Patent or Copyright? |
| 01/19/2019 | Jan General Meeting | Mary Ann Vincent | Those Who Served and Those Who Could Not or Would Not: War of Independence to WWII |
| 02/16/2019 | Feb Morning Class | Gena Philibert-Ortega | That's New to Me: Unfamiliar Websites for Your Genealogy |
| 02/16/2019 | Feb General Meeting | Gena Philibert-Ortega | Her Name Was Not Unknown: Researching Female Ancestors |
| 03/16/2019 | Mar Morning Class | Barbara Randall | Are You Registered? . . . Using the National Register of Historic Places |
| 03/16/2019 | Mar General Meeting | Barbara Randall | Beyond the Passenger List |
| 04/20/2019 | Apr Morning Class | Linda Serna | Hints for Maximizing Results Using FamilySearch |
| 04/20/2019 | Apr General Meeting | Linda Serna | Tales to Docs to Stories: Building Your Family Story from Family Tales and Docs |
| 05/18/2019 | May Morning Class | Rick Frohling | Newspapers & More: Using GenealogyBank and NewsBank |
| 05/18/2019 | May General Meeting | E. Randol Schoenberg | Privacy Issues with Online Family Trees |
| 06/15/2019 | Jun General Meeting | Glen Creason | Secrets of the Los Angeles Public Library Map Collection |
| 07/20/2019 | Jul General Meeting | WAGS Members | WAGS Members Show & Tell and Ice Cream Social |
| 08/17.2019 | Aug General Meeting | Road Trip | Road Trip! Huntington Beach Public Library |
| 09/21/2019 | Sep Morning Class | David Flint | Overview of Genealogy Research in England |
| 09/21/2019 | Sep General Meeting | David Flint | Location Finding Aids: Maps, Gazetteers and Websites to Find Your Places in England |
| 10/19/2019 | Oct Morning Class | Christine Cohen | AmericanAncestors.org |
| 10/19/2019 | Oct General Meeting | Steven Dugan | Homestead Museum |
| 11/16/219 | Nov Morning Class | Rick Frohling | Websites Top to Bottom and Side to Side: Getting the Most Out of Your Online Visit |
| 11/16/2019 | Nov General Meeting | Dan Earl | Funeral Homes and Family History: They Are Dying to Meet You! |
| 12/21/2019 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
2018 WAGS Meeting Speakers and Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/20/2018 | Jan Morning Class | Christine Cohen | Immigration Ports of Entry |
| 01/20/2018 | Jan General Meeting | John Garside | Forgotten Tales of Southern California: Behind the Scenes of Local History Documentaries |
| 02/17/2018 | Feb Morning Class | Roger Mount, Moderator | WAGS Panel Discussion: Genealogy Q & A |
| 02/17/2018 | Feb General Meeting | Gregory Beckman | A Civil War Mystery: The Case of the Wrong Headstone Surname |
| 03/17/2018 | Mar Morning Class | Colleen Robledo Greene | Social History: Painting a Bigger Picture of Your Hispanic Ancestors' Lives |
| 03/17/2018 | Mar General Meeting | Christine Cohen | Naturalization Research |
| 04/21/2018 | Apr Morning Class | Barbara Randall | Context is a Pro . . . Not a Con |
| 04/21/2018 | Apr General Meeting | Barbara Randall | Mine Your Local History for Gold |
| 05/19/2018 | May Morning Class | Joel Weintraub | What Happened at Ellis Island? The Name Change Myth |
| 05/19/2018 | May General Meeting | Joel Weintraub | Crowdsourcing: The Path to the 1950 Census |
| 06/16/2018 | Jun General Meeting | Road Trip | Road Trip! Los Angeles Public Library |
| 07/21/2018 | Jul General Meeting | WAGS Members | WAGS Members Show & Tell and Ice Cream Social |
| 08/18/2018 | Aug General Meeting | Gary Fredericksen | Identifying Old Pictures in a Family Collection |
| 09/15/2018 | Sep Morning Class | Sara Cochran | Locating Old Records in Archives from Your Couch |
| 09/15/2018 | Sep General Meeting | Sara Cochran | Getting Around the Missing 1890 Census |
| 10/20/2018 | Oct Morning Class | Bill Cole | Breathe Life into Your Genealogy Through the Power of Story |
| 10/20/2018 | Oct General Meeting | Diane Henriks | Publishing Your Family History |
| 11/17/2018 | Nov Morning Class | Rick Frohling | Personal Historian 3 Software |
| 11/17/2018 | Nov General Meeting | Megan Lee | Beginning Autosomal DNA & Tricks of the Trade |
| 12/15.2018 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
2017 WAGS Meeting Speakers and Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/21/2017 | Jan Morning Class | Barbara Randall | Transported Convict Records |
| 01/21/2017 | Jan General Meeting | Barbara Randall | Decoding the National Archives Online |
| 02/18/2017 | Feb Morning Class | Christine Cohen | Online Cemetery Indexes |
| 02/18/2017 | Feb General Meeting | Larry Naukum | Maps and Land Records |
| 03/18/2017 | Mar Morning Class | Rick Frohling | State Census Records |
| 03/18/2017 | Mar General Meeting | Jean Wilcox Hibben | Southern California Association of Professional Genealogists (Panel) |
| 04/15/2017 | Apr Morning Class | Christine Cohen | MyHeritage.com |
| 04/15/2017 | Apr General Meeting | Erin Fletcher Singley | Whittier Public Library History Room Genealogical Resources |
| 05/20/2017 | May Morning Class | Roger Mount | Digital Document and Photo Restoration |
| 05/20/2017 | May General Meeting | Jane Neff Rollins | Stickin' to the Union: Union Records |
| 06/17/2017 | Jun General Meeting | Julie Huffman | Genealogy Resources of the Los Angeles Public Library |
| 07/15/2017 | Jul General Meeting | Roger Mount, Host | WAGS Members Show & Tell and Ice Cream Social |
| 08/16/2017 | Aug General Meeting | Sara Cochran | From a Box in the Closet to a Treasured Family Heirloom: Organizing & Digitizing Your Family Photos |
| 09/15/2017 | Sep Morning Class | Rick Frohling | Legacy Family Tree 9: A Review and What's New |
| 09/15/2017 | Sep General Meeting | Letty Rodella | Researching Your Hispanic Ancestors |
| 10/21/2017 | Oct Morning Class | Pat Chavarria | Using Genealogical & Historical Societies & Museums in Your Research |
| 10/21/2017 | Oct General Meeting | Bill Beigel | Researching WW2 Veterans' Military Records |
| 11/18/2017 | Nov Morning Class | Christine Cohen | Cousin Baiting & Cousin Stalking |
| 11/18//2017 | Nov General Meeting | John Richardson, Jr. PhD | Dear Distant Cousin: The Role of DNA and a Good Paper Trail |
| 12/16/2017 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
2016 WAGS Meeting Speakers and Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/16/2016 | Jan Morning Class | Rick Frohling | What We Can Learn from Other Genealogical Societies |
| 01/16/2016 | Jan General Meeting | Gena Philibert-Ortega | Advance Your Family History through Social Networking |
| 02/20/2016 | Feb Morning Class | Jamie Mayhew | Stories of Women Homesteaders |
| 02/20/2016 | Feb General Meeting | Jamie Mayhew | Finding 19th Century Land Records with 21st Century Tools |
| 03/19/2016 | Mar Morning Class | Christine Cohen | Using Fold3.com |
| 03/19/2016 | Mar General Meeting | Tim Traeger | The State of Newspapers & Community Journalism in Whittier |
| 04/16/2016 | Apr Morning Class | WAGS Writers Group | Read YOUR FAMILY STORY |
| 04/16/2016 | Apr General Meeting | Barbara Randall | Weaving the Ancestral Quilt: How to Create the Stories of Your Ancestors' Lives |
| 05/21/2016 | May Morning Class | Marilyn Pope | Create, Use, and Grow Your FamilySearch Family Tree |
| 05/21/2016 | May General Meeting | Marilyn Pope | Fixing and Verifying Your FamilySearch Family Tree |
| 06/18/2016 | Jun General Meeting | Mary Ann Vincent | Civil War POW Camps |
| 07/16/2016 | Jul General Meeting | WAGS Members & Friends | WAGS Members Show & Tell and Ice Cream Social: Share Your Summer Memories |
| 08/20/2016 | Aug General Meeting | Linda Serna | Foreign Research |
| 09/17/2016 | Sep Morning Class | Roger Mount | Knocking Down a Brick Wall |
| 09/17/2016 | Sep General Meeting | Mary Van Orsdol | New Netherlands Research |
| 10/15/2016 | Oct Morning Class | Christine Cohen | How and Why to Join Lineage and Hereditary Societies |
| 10/15/2016 | Oct General Meeting | Ted Gostin | Breaking Down Brick Walls: Three Case Studies |
| 11/19/2016 | Nov Morning Class | Butch Hibben | Free Apps for Smart Phones for Smart Genealogists |
| 11/19//2016 | Nov General Meeting | Jean Wilcox Hibben | Doing Background Research for Genealogy Television: It's NOT Like It Looks on TV |
| 12/17/2016 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
2015 WAGS Meetings Speakers and Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/17/2015 | Jan Morning Class | Pat Chavarria | Making Sense of Each US Census |
| 01/17/2015 | Jan General Meeting | Bill Beigel | Return of the Dead: Repatriation of WWII Fallen |
| 02/21/2015 | Feb Morning Class | Rick Frohling | GenealogyBank and Other Newspaper Resources |
| 02/21/2015 | Feb General Meeting | Linda Serna | Dispelling the Myths and Finding Out If They Really Are "My" People |
| 03/21/2015 | Mar Morning Class | Cheri Mello | DNA and Genealogy |
| 03/21/2015 | Mar General Meeting | Cheri Mello | Getting the Most Out of Your DNA Results |
| 04/18/2015 | Apr Morning Class | Christine Cohen | Homestead Records |
| 04/18/2015 | Apr General Meeting | Ted Gostin | Finding Your Immigrant Ancestors Online |
| 05/16/2015 | May Morning Class | Pat Chavarria | WWI Draft Registration Cards |
| 05/16/2015 | May General Meeting | Randy Seaver | Probate Records: My Favorite Record Type! |
| 06/20/2015 | Jun General Meeting | Nancy Carlberg | Brick Wall Busting: Using WAGS Members' Problems |
| 07/18/2015 | Jul General Meeting | WAGS Members | WAGS Members Show & Tell and Ice Cream Social |
| 08/15/2015 | Aug General Meeting | Hal Horrocks | Colonial Research |
| 09/19/2015 | Sep Morning Class | Trish Garcia | Books and Ebooks |
| 09/19/2015 | Sep General Meeting | Denise Levenick | How to Scan an Elephant: Digitize Your Family History |
| 10/17/2015 | Oct Morning Class | Pat Chavarria | WWI Draft Registration Cards |
| 10/17/2015 | Oct General Meeting | Gordon Seyffert | German Research and Reading Handwritten German Records |
| 11/21/2015 | Nov Morning Class | Christine Cohen | Using FindMyPast.com |
| 11/21//2015 | Nov General Meeting | Jane Neff Rollins | Is There a Baby Catcher in Your Bloodline? |
| 12/19/2015 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
2014 WAGS Meeting Speakers and Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/18/2014 | Jan Morning Class | Pat Chavarria | Using Naturalization Records for Genealogy Research |
| 01/18/2014 | Jan General Meeting | WAGS Members | WAGS Genealogy Forum |
| 02/15/2014 | Feb Morning Class | Christine Cohen | Naturalization |
| 02/15/2014 | Feb General Meeting | Barbara Randall | Are Your NY, CT, RI, MA & VT Ancestors Playing Hide and Seek? |
| 03/15/2014 | Mar Morning Class | Pat Chavarria | Using Libraries for Genealogical Research |
| 03/15/2014 | Mar General Meeting | Maureen Neeley | Discover the History of Your Home |
| 04/19/2014 | Apr Morning Class | Rick Frohling | What's New in Legacy Family Tree 8 |
| 04/19/2014 | Apr General Meeting | Becky Ruud | Caring for Your Family Photos: Archival Storage and Preservation |
| 05/17/2014 | May Morning Class | Pat Chavarria | Using City Directories for Genealogical Research |
| 05/17/2014 | May General Meeting | David Richardson | Putting the Color Back in Grandma's Cheeks |
| 06/21/2014 | Jun General Meeting | Lisa Schumacher | Pre-1850 Census: Putting Names on the Tick Marks |
| 07/19/2014 | Jul General Meeting | WAGS Members | WAGS Members Show & Tell and Ice Cream Social |
| 08/16/2014 | Aug General Meeting | Connie Moretti | Using Land Records to Expand Genealogy Research |
| 09/20/2014 | Sep Morning Class | Eris Siess | Leaving Brick Walls Behind You |
| 09/20/2014 | Sep General Meeting | Eric Siess | What is the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS) and How Do I Use It? |
| 10/18/2014 | Oct Morning Class | Christine Cohen | Using the DAR Website for Research |
| 10/18/2014 | Oct General Meeting | John Schmal | Researching Your German Roots |
| 11/15/2014 | Nov Morning Class | Lisa Alzo | Genealogy Goals: How to Set Them, How to Keep Them |
| 11/15//2014 | Nov General Meeting | Thomas MacEntee | Managing the Genealogy Data Monster |
| 12/20/2014 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
2013 WAGS Meeting Speakers and Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19/2013 | Jan Morning Class | Pat Chavarria | Organizing Your Genealogy |
| 01/19/2013 | Jan General Meeting | Claire Santos-Daigle | Conversations About Photographs |
| 02/16/2013 | Feb Morning Class | Christine Cohen | City Directories |
| 02/16/2013 | Feb General Meeting | Craig Chyrchel | A Glimpse of Los Angeles in the Civil War Era |
| 03/16/2013 | Mar Morning Class | Pat Chavarria | Using Timelines for Genealogical Research |
| 03/16/2013 | Mar General Meeting | Reverend Gary Beard | "George Washington" to Speak at Meeting |
| 04/20/2013 | Apr Morning Class | Rick Frohling | RootsMagic Personal Historian Software |
| 04/20/2013 | Apr General Meeting | Gena Philibert-Ortega | Secret Lives of Women: Researching Female Ancestors Using the Sources They Left Behind |
| 05/18/2013 | May Morning Class | Pat Chavarria | Important Research Ideas You Can Do This Summer |
| 05/18/2013 | May General Meeting | Nancy Carlberg | You Can't Lie to the Family Genealogist |
| 06/15/2013 | Jun General Meeting | Paul Lipinski | WWII Draft Registration Records |
| 07/20/2013 | Jul General Meeting | WAGS Members | WAGS Members Show & Tell and Ice Cream Social |
| 08/17/2013 | Aug General Meeting | Jean Wilcox Hibben | Elisabeth: The Story of a German Immigrant |
| 09/21/2013 | Sep Morning Class | Dawn Thurston | Turn Your Genealogy Data into a Fascinating Family History - Part 1 |
| 09/21/2013 | Sep General Meeting | Dawn Thurston | Turn Your Genealogy Data into a Fascinating Family History - Part 2 |
| 10/19/2013 | Oct Morning Class | Pat Chavarria | Newspaper Research |
| 10/19/2013 | Oct General Meeting | Eric Siess | Follow the Path to the Old Country with Emigration Records and the GPS (Genealogical Proof Standard) |
| 11/16/2013 | Nov Morning Class | Rick Frohling | FamilySearch.org |
| 11/16//2013 | Nov General Meeting | Randy Seaver | Discovering Jane's Roots in California, Australia, and England |
| 12/21/2013 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
2012 WAGS Meeting Speakers and Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/21/2012 | Jan Morning Class | Pat Chavarria | Using Naturalization Records for Genealogy Research |
| 01/21/2012 | Jan General Meeting | Connie Moretti | Learning to Love the Pre-1850 Censuses |
| 02/18/2012 | Feb Morning Class | Rick Frohling | Biographies for the Common Man and Woman |
| 02/18/2012 | Feb General Meeting | Alice Colby Volkert | Where to Go in Southern California (for Genealogy Research) |
| 03/17/2012 | Mar Morning Class | Pat Chavarria | Using Maps for Genealogical Research |
| 03/17/2012 | Mar General Meeting | Nancy Carlberg | New Sites for British Isles Research |
| 04/21/2012 | Apr Morning Class | Joel Weintraub | The 1940 Census: Content and Controversy |
| 04/21/2012 | Apr General Meeting | Joel Weintraub | The 1940 Census: Finding Your Family |
| 05/19/2012 | May Morning Class | Pat Chavarria | Using Associations and Organizations for Genealogical Research |
| 05/19/2012 | May General Meeting | Leroy Martinez | Spain in the American Revolution |
| 06/16/2012 | Jun General Meeting | Dr. Stephen Baird | Autosomal DNA |
| 07/21/2012 | Jul General Meeting | WAGS Members | WAGS Members Show & Tell and Ice Cream Social |
| 08/18/201 | Aug General Meeting | Linda Serna | Genealogy as Detective Work |
| 09/15/2012 | Sep Morning Class | Pat Chavarria | Writing Effective Genealogical Correspondence |
| 09/15/2012 | Sep General Meeting | Dr. Douglas Daniels | Using DNA to Solve Genealogical Dilemmas |
| 10/20/2012 | Oct Morning Class | Christine Cohen | Probate Records |
| 10/20/2012 | Oct General Meeting | Eric Siess | German Migration Into and Through Pennsylvania |
| 11/17/2012 | Nov Morning Class | Rick Frohling | What is a Bog, Why Should I Care, and What Does It Have to Do with My Genealogy? |
| 11/17/2012 | Nov General Meeting | Jean Wilcox Hibben | Civil War Research: Learning About Your Union Veteran Ancestor |
| 12/15/2011 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
1992 WAGS Meeting Speakers & Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/18/1992 | Jan General Meeting | Wendy Elliott | Social Security and Railroad Records |
| 02/15/1992 | Feb General Meeting | bonnie Jean Donovan Ward | Immigrant Arrival Records |
| 03/21/1992 | Mar General Meeting | Sherry Harris | Civil War Records |
| 04/18/1992 | Apr General Meeting | Diane Wallace | Preserving Our Memories |
| 05/16/1992 | May General Meeting | Dr. Geraldine Knatz | East German Research |
| 06/20/1992 | Jun General Meeting | Beth McCarty | English Probate Records |
| 07/18/1992 | Jul General Meeting | Nancy Lee Bier | Pennsylvania Archives and Western Pennsylvania |
| 08/15/1992 | Aug General Meeting | Betty Gilliland | Handwriting Analysis |
| 09/19/1992 | Sep General Meeting | Janice Gibson Cloud | Create Your Own Luck in Genealogical Research |
| 10/17/1992 | Oct General Meeting | Barbara Doss McKinlay | Genealogical Library Correspondence and YOU! |
| 11/21/1992 | Nov General Meeting | Errol Stevens | Clio Among the Dinosaur Bones: The Seaver Center for Western History Research at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County |
| 12/19/1992 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
1989 WAGS Meeting Speakers & Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/21/1988 | Jan General Meeting | Ivan & Gail Johnson | Research in Sweden |
| 02/18/1989 | Feb General Meeting | Nancy Kepley | How to Read Early American Handwriting |
| 03/18/1989 | Mar General Meeting | Fred Klose | Genealogical Resources in the National Archives |
| 04/15/1989 | Apr General Meeting | Wendy Elliott | The Draper Papers |
| 05/20/1989 | May General Meeting | Gene Cheney | American Dutch & Netherlands Research |
| 06/17/1989 | Jun General Meeting | Barbara Buckwalter | Pennsylvania Germans |
| 07/15/1989 | Jul General Meeting | Jean Landon Taylor | An Orphan's Way Home |
| 08/19/1989 | Aug General Meeting | Janet L. Powers | Researching Irish Records |
| 09/16/1989 | Sep General Meeting | Jan Jennings | Researching in Washington DC Libraries |
| 10/21/1989 | Oct General Meeting | Barbara Doss McKinlay | Researching a Jewish Family |
| 11/18/1989 | Nov General Meeting | David F. Drake | Dating Old Photographs |
| 12/16/1989 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
1988 WAGS Meeting Speakers & Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/16/1988 | Jan General Meeting | George Otott Steve Madden Tom Horton | The Common Soldier in the Civil War |
| 02/20/1988 | Feb General Meeting | Wendy L. Elliott | How to Find a Wife's Name |
| 03/19/1988 | Mar General Meeting | Nancy Ellen Carlberg | New England |
| 04/16/1988 | Apr General Meeting | Ilene Miller | Preservation - Do's and Don'ts for Genealogists |
| 05/21/1988 | May General Meeting | Liz Stookesbury Meyers | How to Find Yesterday on Today's Maps |
| 06/18/1988 | Jun General Meeting | Irene Shadrick | Libraries for Genealogists |
| 07/16/1988 | Jul General Meeting | Wendy L. Elliott | Indexes: Help or Hindrance? |
| 08/20/1988 | Aug General Meeting | Dr, Laurence P. Gouldrup | Organizing and Writing Your Family History |
| 09/17/1988 | Sep General Meeting | Janet Powers | Erie Canal and Migrations to the West |
| 10/15/1988 | Oct General Meeting | Edna M. Bentz | If I Can, You Can Decipher German Records |
| 11/19/1988 | Nov General Meeting | Benjamin L. Bogossian | Interviewing Techniques for Video |
| 12/17/1988 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
1987 WAGS Meeting Speakers & Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/17/1987 | Jan General Meeting | Wendy Elliott | Quaker Records |
| 02/21/1987 | Feb General Meeting | Mary Pratt | Update o the Los Angeles City Library History and Genealogy Sections |
| 03/21/1987 | Mar General Meeting | Don Hirat | Los Angeles LDS Temple Library on Santa Monica Blvd. |
| 04/18/1987 | Apr General Meeting | Alexander White III | The 1st Century of British Settlement in America: Myths & Realities |
| 05/16/1987 | May General Meeting | Barbara Doss McKinlay | Locating American Records Before 1850 |
| 06/20/1987 | Jun General Meeting | George B. Jenkins | Parishes on the California Frontier: Genealogical Notes of a Black Native Son |
| 07/18/1987 | Jul General Meeting | Eric More Marshall | Family Reunions |
| 08/15/1987 | Aug General Meeting | Gladys Muller | Collecting Collaterals |
| 09/19/1987 | Sep General Meeting | Becky Haver | Pennsylvania Boundary Evolution: Keystone Korners Unto the 3rd & 40th Degree |
| 10/17/1987 | Oct General Meeting | Edwinna Bierman | Our Will-ing Ancestors |
| 11/21/1987 | Nov General Meeting | Howard Nurse | Computers and Genealogy |
| 12/19/1987 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
1986 WAGS Meeting Speakers & Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/18/1986 | Jan General Meeting | Grace O'Brien | Putting Bits & Pieces Together: Breathing Life Through Your Ancestor |
| 02/15/1986 | Feb General Meeting | Deborah Rada | Medical Research and Genealogy - Inherited Diseases |
| 03/15/1986 | Mar General Meeting | Marlin Heckman | Overland on the California Trail |
| 04/19/1986 | Apr General Meeting | Willis Wyant | Researching in Ohio |
| 05/17/1986 | May General Meeting | Alexander White III | The American Civil War Research |
| 06/21/1986 | Jun General Meeting | Afton Reintjes | Scotch-Irish in America |
| 07/17/1986 | Jul General Meeting | Gladys Muller | Land Records in the Courthouse |
| 08/16/1986 | Aug General Meeting | Ivan & Gail Johnson | Genealogical Research Among Ordinary People of Rural England |
| 09/20/1986 | Sep General Meeting | Carlton Smith | Modern Military Records |
| 10/18/1986 | Oct General Meeting | Bernice Gunderson | Writing Family Newsletters |
| 11/15/1986 | Nov General Meeting | Charlene Hobbs | "Hometown" Research: Preliminaries, Actual Research and Uncommon Resources |
| 12/20/1986 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
1985 WAGS Meeting Speakers & Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19/1985 | Jan General Meeting | Gladys Muller | The Genealogical Value of the Land Records at the County Courthouse |
| 02/16/1985 | Feb General Meeting | Merrill Reece Prachar | Using Indexes in Genealogical Research: Tips for Success |
| 03/16/1985 | Mar General Meeting | Luana Gilstrap | American Church Records |
| 04/20/1985 | Apr General Meeting | Cecilia E. Layton | Maps and Family Research |
| 05/18/1985 | May General Meeting | Jan Jennings | Short Cuts and Pitfalls Toward Publishing a Family History |
| 06/15/1985 | Jun General Meeting | Marty Hiatt | Genealogical Researching in Iowa |
| 07/20/1985 | Jul General Meeting | Edwinna Bierman | Targeting Your Surname Research |
| 08/17/1985 | Aug General Meeting | Barbara McKinlay | Searching and Researching Naturalization Records |
| 09/21/1985 | Sep General Meeting | Elizabeth Fischgrabe | Researching from Home Via Mal and Newspaper Columns |
| 10/19/1985 | Oct General Meeting | Marge Warmuth | Researching in Tennessee |
| 11/16/1985 | Nov General Meeting | Anita Cheek Milner | Genealogical Research at the Law Library |
| 12/21/1985 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
1984 WAGS Meeting Speakers & Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/21/1984 | Jan General Meeting | Kenneth Rossman | Inside the National Archives |
| 02/18/1984 | Feb General Meeting | Wendy Elliott | Successful Searching in Virginia Records |
| 03/17/984 | Mar General Meeting | Wade Prater | Indian Research |
| 04/21/1984 | Apr General Meeting | Jane Mueller | The Preservation of Documents for Genealogy and Family History |
| 05/19/1984 | May General Meeting | Ilene Miller | How to Use an LDS Branch Genealogy Library Newest Programs & Services of the Genealogical Society in Salt Lake City |
| 06/16/1984 | Jun General Meeting | Frank J. Glover | Genealogy Resources and Services of the Sutro Library |
| 07/21/1984 | Jul General Meeting | Beth J. McCarty | English Research: Before 1837 - Now What Do I Do? |
| 08/18/1984 | Aug General Meeting | Nancy Carlberg | Searching the Midwestern States |
| 09/15/1984 | Sep General Meeting | Wallace Craig | Scotland |
| 10/20/1984 | Oct General Meeting | Mary Schwartz | Directories |
| 11/17/1984 | Nov General Meeting | David Streeter | Heraldry for the Non-Inheritor |
| 12/15/1984 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
1983 WAGS Meeting Speakers & Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/15/1983 | Jan General Meeting | Dr. Laurence P. Gouldrup | Organizing and Writing Your Family History |
| 02/19.1983 | Feb General Meeting | Nancy Carlberg | Genealogical Resources in New England |
| 03/19/1983 | Mar General Meeting | Donna Hotaling | Methods and Sources for Locating Irish Ancestors |
| 04/16/1983 | Apr General Meeting | Ellen W. Robertson | Living History Through American Military Records |
| 05/21/1983 | May General Meeting | Charlene Hobbs | Genealogical Research in the South |
| 06/18/1983 | Jun General Meeting | Marie Northrup | Founding Families of Los Angeles |
| 0716/1983 | Jul General Meeting | Elizabeth Sharp | Some Local Sources for German Genealogical Research |
| 08/20/1983 | Aug General Meeting | Afton Reintjes | Effective Search of a Cemetery |
| 09/17/1983 | Sep General Meeting | Barbara McKinlay | Effective Use of Periodicals |
| 10/15/1983 | Oct General Meeting | Barbara Buckwalter | Genealogical Problem Solving |
| 11/19/1983 | Nov General Meeting | Thelma Grable | Let's Go to the Courthouse |
| 12/17/1983 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |
1981 WAGS Meeting Speakers and Topics
| Date | Meeting | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/20/1981 | Jun General Meeting | Helen Harriss | Migration from the East Cost to the Western Reserve in Ohio |
| 0718/1981 | Jul General Meeting | Jan Jennings | Researching in the Most Outstanding Libraries in the US |
| 0815/1981 | Aug General Meeting | Anita Milner | Genealogy Research Through Newspaper Correspondence |
| 09/19/1981 | Sep General Meeting | Nancy Carlberg | How to Save Money in Doing Your Genealogical Research |
| 10/17/1981 | Oct General Meeting | Leland Pound | Researching Quaker Church Records |
| 11/21/1981 | Nov General Meeting | Barbara McKinlay | Researching Naturalization Records These Are the Holdings of the Southern California Genealogical Society |
| 12/19/1981 | Dec General Meeting | WAGS Members | Annual Holiday Member Show & Tell |