North San Diego County Genealogical Society

The third Sunday in May is Ireland's National Famine Commemoration Day to remember an Gorta Mór: the Great Hunger (1845-1852). Over a million died and as many t...ook ship and left, most going to the US but many to Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Afterwards, until about 1950, another million Irish emigrated to the US. This Census Bureau demographics chart shows that 11% of the US population claim Irish ancestry, with a strong concentration centered on New York and Boston where so many ships full of refugees docked. See more

We're set for today's meeting of the NSDCGS DNA Interest Group - see you in less than one hour! If you'd like to join, there is still time to register. Visit webinars.nsdcgs.org/DIG to complete registration and we'll see you at 1pm PT!

We hope you can join us for tomorrow's Intermediate Genealogy Class - see you at 10am PT! To register, please visit webinars.nsdcgs.org/intermediate

In honor of Star Wars Day, Family Tree Magazine gives a little insight to the Star Wars Family Tree! #MayThe4thBeWithYou

Working on German genealogy research? Family Tree Magazine is offering a great set of freebie reference charts to help you decipher commonly used terms!

Reminder - This Saturday is the 2nd of our Beginning/Refresher Genealogy Class series. If you are interested in jump starting your genealogy research or just looking for a refresher course with updates to your genealogy tool-box, this class is for you! 10/27 at 10am PDT | Free | Open to the public | Register at webinars.nsdcgs.org/beginning

Today, we're excited to announce the launch of the first phase of the Newspapers.com Marriage Index collection. This collection adds to the world's largest, se...archable digital archive of newspaper published historical wedding announcements. Since the early 1800s, newspapers across the country have been publishing rich information about engagements, marriage license applications, wedding announcements, and more. Find out more about this collection here: https://www.ancestry.com//ancestry-debuts-worlds-largest-s See more

Gearing up for today's Fall Seminar with Dr. Fritz Juengling - there are a few spots that remain so if you are interested in joining, we'd love to have you! As a reminder, today's meeting of the DNA Interest Group is cancelled in lieu of the Fall Seminar. DIG will be back in November with a great program! More information can be found at https://nsdcgs.org/dig/

Orange County California Genealogical Society is hosting a Virtual DNA Day with Blaine Bettinger this Saturday, 10/3. Visit the Facebook event page or the registration link at bit.ly/OCCGSdna20 for more details.

MyHeritage has announced an update to their Theory of Family Relativity!! This update has added millions of new and improved theories that explain how you and your DNA Matches might be related, as well as enlighten you about family relationships that may have been complete mysteries until now! More at https://bit.ly/360A0y5

The Library of Congress has launched a new AND free tool to search historical newspaper images within their database, Chronicling America. More details on the new Newspaper Navigator with links to instructions and a demo video are available at the LOC website

Google Earth Pro...for Genealogy??? Absolutely!! Lisa Louise Cooke of The Genealogy Gems Podcast will be discussing the ins and out of Google Earth Pro and the different ways you can apply this great tool to your genealogy research! This live webinar is free and open to the public - no advance registration required!

Join us today at 1pm PDT to talk all things Y-DNA and mtDNA with Diahan Southard of Your DNA Guide. Free and open to the public - Registration information is available in the event link below. https://facebook.com/events/s/dna-interest-group/2780154115605052/?ti=icl

Happy Mayflower Day, which commemorates the day the ship set sail from Plymouth, England in 1620. In honor of Mayflower Day, FamilySearch and partners American Ancestors and New England Historic Genealogical Society and General Society of Mayflower Descendants announced today that tens of thousands of Mayflower Society member applications (over one million images) and documented descendant family trees of the Mayflower passengers are now freely accessible online!

Today marks National Grandparents Day! What's your favorite memory of your grandparents?

Don’t forget to register for tomorrow’s Intermediate Genealogy Class and we’ll see you at 10am! Free and open to the public - so share with a friend (Side note: Can you believe tomorrow marks ~6 months since we transitioned to our live webinar format??? We sure miss our NSDCGS Friends! )