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CLASSES & EVENTS Registration Now Open! Volume 6 | Issue 5 | May 2021 CLASSES & EVENTS IN THIS ISSUE The following RVGS classes and events are all offered via Zoom. Classes & Events • Most classes and events require online Local Happenings Virtual Opportunities advanced registration, see the Programs & RVGS News Classes menu on our website. Registration Family History Library Trip closes for most events the day before the Translation Services event unless capacity is reached before then. Newspapers.com Extended • New members to Interest Groups will need to Scholarship News JCGL News register by clicking here to find the interest New Additions to the Library group of your choice. AND MORE! • For more details, click here to view our website calendar. • Click here to find Zoom help on our website. OUR MISSION • All times listed are Pacific Time Zone. The mission of the Rogue Valley Genealogical Society, Registration Now Open! Inc. is to inspire interest in genealogy, inform and educate Monday, May 10, 9:30 AM - Noon, Board Meeting the public, and maintain a growing sustainable library All members are welcome to attend. Free to all. Email with a strong online presence. [email protected] for a Zoom link. CONTACT US Monday, May 10, 1:30 - 3:00 PM, “Introduction to Canadian Research and Resources” Rogue Valley Genealogical Society – Jackson County Kathy Griffin will lead this class. If your family Genealogy Library story includes ancestors who emigrated from Canada to the United States, this class may help 3405 S Pacific Hwy Medford, Oregon 97501 you find out when and where they arrived in Canada, where they were born, where they 541-512-2340 [email protected] lived, and what they did on the way to the www.rvgslibrary.org United States. The class will explore resources available to trace your Canadian ancestors, with a focus on the Library and Archives of Canada and LIBRARY HOURS its wealth of information. We will talk about how to access the Archives, which includes – Birth, Marriage, and death records – Census records – The Jackson County Genealogy Library is temporarily closed Immigration records– Military records – Much more. We will also look at due to COVID-19. resources available here in the United States. The RVGS eNews May 2021 Page 1 Cost: $10 for members, $20 for non-members sources with emphasis on 1850's Rogue Valley and early Medford history. From a modest beginning, Tuesday, May 11, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, German Ben's website has greatly expanded in quantity and Interest Group regional reach. Check it out at http:// This group is facilitated by Mary Robsman. truwe.sohs.org/files/index.html. Cost: Free for all. Tuesday, May 11, 1:30 - 3:00 PM, Family Tree Wednesday, May 19, 10:30 AM - 12 Noon, Maker Interest Group “Mapping Your Ancestors” This group is facilitated by Barbara MacMillen. Come In this class, Jeanne Hoadley with any questions about using “Family Tree Maker” will review the types of software. maps that may be useful to a genealogist, including an Wednesday, May 12, 10:30 - 12:00 PM, Genetic overview of the map Genealogy Interest Group collection at the Jackson This group is facilitated by Jeff Roberts. County Genealogy Library. The class will take a look at Thursday, May 13, 1:00 - 3:00 PM, the David Rumsey Collection of Historical Maps and “Introduction to Genealogy” discuss how these can be used to help tell your Anne Billeter will teach this class ancestor’s story. Finally, we will have a lesson in for genealogy beginners: how to understanding the Public Land Survey System with start, forms to use, case studies showing how to locate your ancestor’s documentation to seek, helpful homestead on a topographic map. Cost: $10 for clues, FamilySearch and subscription websites, members, $20 for non-members. online library catalogs, and why deduction is important. Cost: $5 for all. Monday, May 24, 1:00 - 3:00 PM, DNA Class Series: “Color Clustering Plus” Saturday, May 15, 10:00 - 11:30 AM, “Brick Wall Learn what color Roundtable” with Jan Dole. clustering is and how to This discussion is open to all. Bring your questions, do it. You will see tools your puzzles, your brick walls, and we will put our Lorita Cushman has heads together to see if we can find a way to get you developed to enhance closer to your goal. You don’t even have to have a color clustering. We will “wall” to join us. We welcome you anyway and who take time in class to work knows? You may have a nugget that would help on your DNA color someone else. Cost: Free to all clustering. Cost: $5 for members, $10 for non- members. Tuesday, May 18, 1:30 - 3:00 PM, Program & Member Meeting: “Ben Truwe’s Southern Oregon Tuesday, May 25, 1:30 - 2:30 PM, Heirloom History Website” Genealogy - “Finding Friends in Talent” After a brief member meeting, Jan Wright will present this talk. Who knows you Southern Oregon historian Ben best? Is it your family or your friends? An example of Truwe will share his website, how genealogical research can sometimes be Southern Oregon History, productive through associations outside of the Revised. The site contains nine family will be revealed through a 1937 friendship hundred pages of Southern quilt from Talent, Oregon. Cost: $5 for members, Oregon history, almost $10 for non-members. exclusively transcriptions of primary and secondary The RVGS eNews May 2021 Page 2 Thursday, June 3, 1:30 - 3:00 PM, Tuesday, June 15, 1:30-3:00 PM, Program and Program: “PowerPoint Basics” Member Meeting: “History of Your House and with Cheryl Azevedo Johnson Neighborhood” In this FREE program, you will Betsy J. Green has been a learn the steps to create a basic writer for more than 25 years. PowerPoint slide deck. Learn how As a freelancer, she contributes to add new slides, photos, change formatting, and articles to newspapers and run the slide show. Sharing your slides via Zoom magazines in the U.S. and screen share will also be covered. Cost: Free for all. abroad. She specializes in writing about local history, Friday, June 4, 10:00 - 11:30 AM, Class: “Using architecture, and the MyHeritage Library Edition for Research” environment. She researched and wrote about the Are you looking for a new history of more than 85 homes and was responsible research option other than for nominating five properties to the National Ancestry and FamilySearch? Join Register of Historic Places. In 2020, she began us as Kim Thurman will writing "The Best House Detective" column for The demonstrate how to effectively Santa Barbara Independent weekly paper. Green is a utilize the numerous records former associate editor of Reader's Digest and staff found on MyHeritage Library editor of World Book Encyclopedia. Cost: Free to all. Edition. Both catalog browsing and search strategies will be demonstrated, as well as a review of records Tuesday, June 22, 1:30 - 2:30 PM, Heirloom you may not find anywhere else. MyHeritage is Genealogy Case Study: “Maryum’s Yellow Rose” particularly useful for Scandinavian and European “Maryum’s Yellow Rose” is a research, so prepare to expand your research quilt, a book, a rose, and John horizons with us! Cost: $10 for members, $20 for and Maryum McKee’s local non-members. pioneer life story. Anne Billeter will explore how much of the Saturday, June 12, 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM: “Finding story can be documented. Cost: Your Native American Ancestors” with Kate $5 for members, $10 for non- Eakman members. One of the most cherished beliefs in US Genealogical Save the Date research is the presence of a Native American in our past. In Saturday, September 25, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, this class we will walk through Seminar: North American Migration: In, Out, and the key first steps used to Across with Tricia Oberndorf. determine if there is a Native American in your ancestry. Local Happenings These steps include examining your family stories, tracing your lineage to that specific person; noting Wednesday, May 5, Noon – 1:00 PM, Windows in race/color in birth, marriage, death, and census Time: "Scandals from the Oregon Railways, 1884- records; the geography of a particular tribe; the 1923" by Sue DeMarinis history of that tribe; and comparing the facts of your The 1880s arrival of the railroad to Southern Oregon family’s story. There will be two sessions with a 30- brought many lifestyle changes and advantages to minute lunch break between them. Registrants may our small, then isolated communities. However, Sue submit questions on the registration form up to June DeMarinis, a local Ashland author, has dug deeper to 5. Cost: $25 for members, $35 for non-members. expose the scandals that also linked the rails to little The RVGS eNews May 2021 Page 3 known history. Collaborating information from panel discussion on a specific topic. Another aspect County documents, historic newspapers, and of the Virtual NERGC 2021 is a set of 60 additional ancestry records, Sue uncovered mostly forgotten presentations that are recorded and available ‘on- historical events and characters that shaped the demand’ until May 31, 2021. Additional activities foundation of our Southern Oregon Valley. throughout the 61 days include – SIG’s, Ancestor Presented via zoom by Southern Oregon Historical Road Show, Society Fair, Library & Archive, and Society and Jackson County Library Services. Click Exhibit Hall, open 24x7 for 61 days, with many here for more information and to register for this vendors opting to include scheduled appointments FREE event. and/or video chats as optional activities at their booths. Click here for more information. Wednesday, June 2, Noon – 1:00 PM, Windows in Time: "Ten Quirky Things to Know About Historic May 2021, Family History Library Class Calendar Ashland" by Peter Finkle Whether you’re a FamilySearch beginner or you’re Ashland began in the 1850s as a looking for more advanced topics, the Family History mill town and an agricultural Library offers free classes every month for anyone town.
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