23 members in were in attendance to hear Richarad Finn speak about Civil War Veterans who lived in the greater Tri-Valley area (from Alamo down to Sunol and from Dublin/Pleasanton to Altamont). He is very active with genealogical and historical societies in the Tri-Valley area. One fact he mentioned was that Danville was a hotbed of the Confederacy. He recommended using “Footnote.com”. Other sites recommended were “Find a Grave”, “Interment.net”, ”CA Pre-1905 Records at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cabf1905/, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War at http://suvcw.org/, National Park Service website on the Civil War at http://witd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html, Alexander Street Press at http://alexanderstreet.com/, and Cyndi's List http://www.cyndislist.com/. This was also our first meeting with a new time and format. We began the general meeting promply at 7 PM with some announcements:
Following the announcements was the new "Teaching Moment."
Refreshments served - general genealogy chat ensued, followed by the speaker. |
June 20, 2011
General Meeting -- Jun 9, 2011 -- Richard Finn on Tri-Valley Civil War Veterans
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General Meeting -- July 14, 2011 "Genealogy Records at Granite Mountain"
The Contra Costa County Genealogical Society will meet promptly at 7:00 PM, July 14, 2011 at the LDS Church, 1360 Alberta Way, Concord. Following a short business meeting and refreshments, a video will be shown on the underground storage of genealogy records in the Granite Mountain Facility in Utah.
The Granite Mountain facilities feature a dry, environment-controlled facility used for long-term record storage, as well as administrative offices, shipping and receiving docks, a processing facility and restoration laboratory for microfilm.[1] Records stored include genealogical information contained in over 2.4 million rolls of microfilm and 1 million microfiche. This equals about 3 billion pages of family history records. The vault's library of microfilm increases by up to 40,000 rolls per year. Since 1999, the church has been digitizing the genealogical microfilms stored in the vault. The church makes the records publicly available through its Family History Centers, as well as online at its FamilySearch website.
The Granite Mountain facilities feature a dry, environment-controlled facility used for long-term record storage, as well as administrative offices, shipping and receiving docks, a processing facility and restoration laboratory for microfilm.[1] Records stored include genealogical information contained in over 2.4 million rolls of microfilm and 1 million microfiche. This equals about 3 billion pages of family history records. The vault's library of microfilm increases by up to 40,000 rolls per year. Since 1999, the church has been digitizing the genealogical microfilms stored in the vault. The church makes the records publicly available through its Family History Centers, as well as online at its FamilySearch website.
[1] "Granite Mountain Records Vault", Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Mountain_(Utah): accessed 20 June 2011).
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