Genealogy enthusiasts will learn about new family history research tools and techniques at the annual Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society Spring Seminar featuring genealogy tech expert Thomas MacEntee. Date:  Saturday, March 16, 2013 Place: Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church, 11427 Fair Oaks Blvd, Fair Oaks, CA Time:  9:00 am - 3:45 pm  (Doors open 8:15 am) Cost: $25 – Root Cellar Member; $30 – Non-member;  $35 After March 1st.  Optional Lunch - $7.00. Gift Baskets – Raffle Ticket Sales start at 8:15 am Downloadable Registration Form and Flyer About the Speaker When he’s not busy writing blog posts, organizing the 2,800+ members of GeneaBloggers, teaching online genealogy webinars an

    Tell Your FANs - Friends, Associates and Neighbors.  Especially tell your FANs who are just beginning to build their family tree.. Everybody is invited to the 14th Annual Family History Day at the California State Archives on October 13, 2012 from 8:30 a.m to 4:30p.m. WHAT TO EXPECT "Discover Ancestral Gold" in 24 beginner and basic level genealogy sessions. Each session will be one hour - 15 minutes longer than last year. Topics include beginning genealogy, census, cemetery research, maps, correspondence, forms, German research, Black research, Eastern European research, archives and libraries panel, internet resources panel, and more. Take a class in the State Archives Preserv

June 14, 2012 – Sacramento, California: Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society (RCSGS) is seeking entries for its 2nd annual Family History Writing Contest. The deadline is 1 Aug 2012. Your family history research discoveries deserve to be shared.  Honor your ancestors by writing about their lives – telling the story of their struggles, perseverance and survival. Factual articles about family or local history, character sketches, or memoirs will be accepted. Entries should be between 500 and 2000 words in length and submitted electronically only.  The contest is open to the public; membership in RCSGS is not required. Prizes include a six month subscription to Ancestry.com World Ed

Step back into the Sierra gold fields in the early 1860s. Our guides will be historical novelists Terry Meekins and Richard Hurley from Grass Valley who will present "California and the Civil War" based on their novel the Queen of the Northern Mines, set in Nevada City in the early years of the Civil War.  The novel was inspired by the famous Bullion Bend stage robbery near Placerville in 1863, where Rebel partisans held up a Wells Fargo shipment and left the driver a receipt for $52,000 from the Confederate States of America. Meekins and Hurley will illustrate California’s sudden leap from sleepy colonial outpost to pivotal player in the great national conflict. How close did California

Social media such as Facebook and Twitter can be a wealth of information for the family historian. Oftentimes the information discovered using these new tools is not available in standard research repositories, such as archives and courthouses, or on websites.  Learn more at the Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society program on Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Guest speaker Lorenzo Cuesta will provide examples of great finds others have made using social media for genealogical research and provide step-by step instructions to get you started with Facebook and Twitter.  Free, visitors welcome. 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Citrus Heights Community Clubhouse 6921 Sylvan Road, Citrus Heights. Contact Sa