Create a story of a meaningful place that matters to your family.
Our ancestors did live in a certain place and time, which affected their lives and work. There are a number of ways which can be used to find more information about their residences and could help us to understand a little of why they did what they did. Even a “summer” place allows a family to see one another though they may be widely scattered. There are more tools to do this easily than ever before. Examples are given from the speaker’s own life.
About Our Speaker
Larry Naukam holds degrees in Geography, Library Science, and Divinity. He has written for genealogical publications for 40 years and is very interested in the intersection of computers and genealogy research.
With 35 years of public library reference work, his experience includes years in Acquisitions, Cataloging, the Bookmobile, and his favorites, Genealogy, Local History, and Digitizing. He has written for Genealogical Computing, GenWeekly, and a Rochester History pamphlet on "Family History more than Genealogy," published in 1990 by the Rochester City Historian. He gives many talks each year, and is currently involved with the Rochester NY Genealogical Society as immediate past president; with the Digital Public Library of America; with the Church Records Preservation Committee of the RGS; and as a volunteer scanner and cataloger for various local historical societies, libraries and town historians in New York State.
Recently he was honored to receive the Rabbi Malcolm I. Stern Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Genealogical Society.
This program is not sponsored or endorsed by L.A. County Library.