Your Personal Tour:  Creating a Locality Guide
Date: January 17, 2026 Time: 01:00 PM to 02:30 PM Location: South Whittier Library Meeting Room, 11543 Colima Rd, Whittier CA 90604 + On Zoom

Your Personal Tour: Creating a Locality Guide

Presented by Lisa Medina

WAGS January 2026 Monthly Meeting

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Research in a new place often requires a whole new list of repositories and sources to consult - and research in the same place over and over is best served when you have an organized list of where to look. In this session, we look at information to compile in a locality guide and approaches to formatting and organization.

About Our Speaker

Lisa Medina is an enthusiastic and experienced lecturer who brings together the stories and methodologies of genealogy with the effective pedagogies of a teacher in her presentations. She has experience researching in several U.S. states as well as the Mexican states of Jalisco, Nuevo Leon, Chihuahua, Sonora, and Sinaloa. Lisa is a ProGen and Gen-Fed alum, who is always seeking new learning opportunities. When not researching, Lisa is a busy Director of Admissions at a California State University.

You can find out more about Lisa at her website: https://www.medinagenie.com/.

This program is not sponsored or endorsed by L.A. County Library.