Kern County Genealogical Society

Happy Veterans/Remembrance Day!!! Thank you veterans for your service and your sacrifice

We are moving forward via ZOOM!

Some humor I found, published long ago by the Ellen Payne Odom Library. Some Commandments of Our Ancestors 1. Thou shalt name thy male children: James, John, Joseph, Josiah, Abel, Richard, Thomas, William. 2. Thou shalt name thy female children: Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Maria, Sarah, Ida, Virginia, May. ... 3. Thou shalt leave NO trace of thy female children. 4. Thou shalt, after naming thy children from the above lists, call them by strange nicknames such as Ike, Eli, Polly, Dolly, Sukey, Mollymaking them difficult to trace. 5. Thou shalt NOT use any middle names on any legal documents or census reports, and only where necessary, thou may use only initials on legal documents. 6. Thou shalt learn to sign all documents illegibly so that thy surname may be spelled or misspelled, in various ways: Hicks, Hics, Hix, Hixe, Hucks, Kicks. 7. Thou shalt, after no more than three generations, make sure that all family records are lost, misplaced, burned in a court house fire, or buried so that NO future trace of them can be found. 8. Thou shalt ALWAYS flip thy name around. If born James Albert, thou must make all the rest of thy records in the names of Albert, AJ, JA, Bert, Bart, or Alfred. 9. Thou shalt name at least five generations of males and dozens of their cousins with identical names in order to totally confuse researchers. 10. Thou shalt leave NO family Bible with records of births, marriages, or deaths. See more

Program has been rescheduled!

Due to the Presidential Debates the program on DNA scheduled for tonight will be postponed. We will let you know when the new date is known.

Due to the Presidential debates the program on DNA scheduled for tonight is being rescheduled. We will let you know the new date as soon as it is set.

Something new for KCGS. Watch your email for a link to join this meeting on ZOOM.

Tony Lee and the Buffalo Soldiers of Bakersfield have been so kind to KCGS and to Tent 93 over the years. I only recently found out that he almost died recently of COVID. This is a podcast in which he describes his experiences. Thank God, he has recovered for the most part. I know all of you will join me in wishing him the speediest of complete recoveries.

How true this is.