The African American Genealogical Society of Northern California and the Oakland FamilySearch Library are presenting the fourth Black Family History Day, this one timed for Family History Month. It will run from 1:00-5:00 p.m. The event is free, but you are encouraged to register for a free consultation, either through the Web site or by calling (877) 884-2843. If we follow the same procedure we used in February, attendees will register, then go to a short introductory workshop for
beginners, to assistance in filling out a basic four-generation family
chart, to one-on-one assistance in research and looking for information
on their families.
At the February 2012 event we had about 125 attendees and 35 volunteer researchers. The October 2011 Family History Day drew fewer people, but we volunteers were able to give more assistance to each attendee. We almost always manage to find records for each person who comes. This year I've invited several friends to come. I'm looking forward to another great day of introducing people to family history!
Genealogy is like a jigsaw puzzle, but you don't have the box top, so you don't know what the picture is supposed to look like. As you start putting the puzzle together, you realize some pieces are missing, and eventually you figure out that some of the pieces you started with don't actually belong to this puzzle. I'll help you discover the right pieces for your puzzle and assemble them into a picture of your family.
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