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June 2012, Vol. 6, No. 6
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Mountain View Cemetery Tour
| Sunday, June 3, 2012, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Mountain View Cemetery, 5000 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA 94611 | This Sunday, CGS member and cemetery docent Gaye Lenahan will lead a special tour of an Oakland gem - Mountain View Cemetery. The tour will have a genealogy focus. Learn more at the blog.
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Last Two Days to Register!
| Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Veterans Memorial Building, 3780 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette, CA 94549
|  Maureen Taylor, the Photo Detective, is bringing her blend of photo curation, genealogy, and history back to the Bay Area. She will present four new lectures at
A Day with the Photo Detective.
Visit our event site for full information and registration. |
Join Us at the Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree!
| June 8-10, 2012, Marriott Burbank Airport, 2500 Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA
|  The California Genealogical Society will have a table in Society Row again this year on Saturday, June 9, 2012, at SCGS Jamboree. We will be selling Raking the Ashes and the Insider's Guide to California Genealogy so we're looking for member volunteers to help us staff the table.
If you are attending and can volunteer us an hour or two of your time, please email Kathryn Doyle.
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Open House & Dessert Bar - June 14, 2012, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
| Library Open Thursday Evenings through August
CGS Library, 2201 Broadway, Suite LL2, Oakland, CA 94612
|  For the third year in a row, the California Genealogical Society will offer summer extended research hours, designed especially for our working members and patrons. Beginning June 14, 2012, and continuing every Thursday through August, the library will be open from 9:00 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. Join us for a celebratory open house on June 14, 2012.
Informal discussions will be scheduled every Thursday evening. Participants of all levels of research experience are welcome to network and join the conversation from 6:30 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. Everyone is welcome! Learn more at the blog.
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| On the Street Where We Live | Saturday, June 16, 2012, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
CGS Library, 2201 Broadway, Suite LL2, Oakland, CA 94612 |
Michael Nolan, Julie Legarde, and Marty Combs are neighbors in the Bernal Heights district of San Francisco. They used recently released 1940 census data to look back in time at the street where they live. Join us for this fascinating comparison of then and now.
Register online.
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Writing Your Family History: Start Now!
| Course Begins Saturday, July 7, 2012, 10:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
CGS Library, 2201 Broadway, Suite LL2, Oakland, CA 94612
|  The California Genealogical Society is offering an intense writing course to help you begin writing your family history. The course will meet for a five-hour session one Saturday a month through October. Class size is limited so enroll now!
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Summer 2012 Best Genealogy Website Series
| Course Begins Thursday, July 19, 2012, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
CGS Library, 2201 Broadway, Suite LL2, Oakland, CA 94612
|  The California Genealogical Society is offering our first summer series of evening classes: Best Genealogy Websites - Tips & Tricks. Seven weekly 90-minute sessions will give you the skills you need to navigate your way to better and more efficient search results on the best sites for family history research. Download the course flier. |
CGS Boston, Massachusetts Research Tour - September 23-30, 2012
| New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS)
| Join Jane Lindsey, former CGS president and past NEHGS Trustee, on a CGS Research Tour to Boston and NEHGS. Whether you have visited before or this is your first time, you will enjoy your week at one of the nation's leading research centers for genealogists. For full information, download the registration flier.
Register online.
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| In Memorium | Charles J. Freeman (1909 - 2012)
|  San Francisco native Charles J. Freeman, 82, died at his home in Novato, California, on May 6, 2012. He held a Master's in Library Science from USC and was the librarian at San Rafael High School for many years, until his retirement in 1990. Charles was a longtime member of the California Genealogical Society. He joined CGS in 1992 and for a time was a frequent visitor to the library who participated in the New York research group. His obituary was published in the San Francisco Chronicle on May 14, 2012. |
California Ancestors: They Came from Everywhere
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Photo Tributes to the CGS Family
Edited by Lorna Wallace
This month, CGS member Virginia Kysh, honors her husband's great-grandmother Hannah Marie (Job) Avery.
 | Hannah Marie Job Avery - aka "Fannie H. Avery"
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Hannah Marie Job was born in San Francisco, 7 August 1860. She was the daughter of Pierre Marie Julien Job, a respected French chef, baker and San Francisco restaurant owner, and Christiana Fraser. At the age of eighteen she married George H. Avery, a native of Melrose, Massachusetts, who came to San Francisco before he was two years old.
Little was known of Hannah until I found her biography on Google Books in Ella Sterling Cummins' The Story of the Files: A Review of Californian Writers and Literature,1893.
I learned Avery was a writer and poet who wrote for the San Francisco Evening Post and San Francisco Newsletter.
"She was a talented and pretty little brown-eyed woman, spoke French fluently and sang Scotch ballads with taste and expression, was modest and unassuming. She attempted to support herself and children, and succumbed at the age of 27, December, 1887."
-Virginia Kysh
Call For Submissions - Are you a member with a great family photo to share? If you would like to pay tribute to your ancestor in a future edition of the eNews, please email Lorna Wallace and send your image with a brief narrative. |
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Kathryn Doyle, eNews Editor
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