Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society

Check out the display case at the Goleta Public Library, our Outreach Committee has done a fabulous job researching and presenting Santa Barbara African American Life Culture and Contributions of the past 100 years.

This month's meeting is our annual meeting and election. Our program is about planning for the future of your research: Ancestors' photos, stories, documents, and heirlooms are part of your family's past, and they deserve to be protected to share with future generations. Even if you have no obvious heirs for your genealogy collection, this presentation will offer ideas for paths forward. Learn about the PASS process for organizing and storing family history materials with today and tomorrow in mind; curating your collection to keep key items while finding new homes for other items; writing a "genealogical will" to safeguard your collection for the future; and sharing your family's history now, before joining your ancestors. Hear Marion Burk Wood suggest was to Plan for the future of your family's past. https://sbgen.org/index.php

Check out this week's events: https://sbgen.org/eventListings.php?nm=216 Remember registration is required.

Look for our virtual booth at the Genealogy Jamboree, opening Friday, June 4th at 9am https://next.scgsgenealogy.com/jamboree-2021-exhibitors/

Hello fellow genealogists, did you just discover that an ancestor once lived in Santa Barbara, California? Now you're wanting to find some records or an obituary. Well, you've come to the right place. We have been busy scanning and indexing thousands of records and obituaries just so you could find them. Search our database and see what you find, then request the record. https://sbgen.org/cstm_sbcgsDB.php

Great tips for searching YouTube for family history research.

Free access to Fold3 over Memorial Day weekend. https://go.fold3.com/freeaccess?xid=2690

Hot off the press, our latest issue of Ancestors West. https://sbgen.org//AncestorsWe/AncestorsWest_Vol_46_N2.pdf

Live from London!Virtual General MeetingSaturday, May 15, 9:30am"Searching for Ancestors When You Are Adopted"Speaker: Dr. Penny Walters

May classes via webinar presented by FamilySearch.org https://www.familysearch.org/.../0/01/May_FHL_Webinars.pdf

In lieu of the autumn 2020 Virtual Genealogy Fair that could not be held due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are pleased to offer a new Genealogy Series! Join us during May and June for this special event! https://www.archives.gov/calendar/genealogy-fair

Current Outreach Exhibit: Santa Barbara African American Life, Culture, and Contributions, 1890-1990 https://sbgen.org/cpage.php?pt=356#Resources

We haven't skipped a beat during the Pandemic. Please consider making a donation to help with our free educational classes and events and maintaining the Sahyun Genealogical Library. https://conta.cc/3qkz4fG

November Newsletter: Don't miss our meeting on Nov. 21st with Annette Burke Lyttle, and sign up for November events and classes!

This is very exciting! and it's great to see Crista Cowan again, such a terrific presenter.

Remember how excited we were to get the 1940 census? now here we are talking about 1950! but you can never be too prepared after all it's only 1 year and 164 days until it's released to us. Here is a great presentation on that 1950 census.

SBCGS preserves local records for use by genealogists around the world. Here is our index of digitized documents, they may be requested for a fee that helps support our continued efforts to make them available to researchers. https://sbgen.org/cstm_sbcgsDB.php

October 17th, General Meeting: Joel Weintraub, "Introduction to Jewish Genealogy," Register at www.sbgen.org

Don't miss this opportunity for a day of genealogy with Tom Jones.

Upcoming Events for September: Monday, September 14, Finding & Researching Your Civil War Soldiers, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

A day of genealogy with Tom Jones, register now!

Saturday, September 19, 10:30 am. Cheri Mello, "Overcoming Brick Walls with DNA"

Hot off the press, the latest issue of Ancestors West. https://sbgen.org//Ancestor/AncestorsWest_Vol_45_N3web.pdf

Researching German ancestry, check out this site. https://www.germanroots.com/index.html

Pirates! who doesn't like a good pirate story? Join us Saturday at 10:30am for our monthly meeting followed by our featured program presented by Daniel Earl."AncestArrrghs!: The Life and Records of the Atlantic Pirates" (SBCGS Members will be invited by email and provided a unique link to login.)If you are not a member and would like to attend please message us here and we'll send you the link. https://sbgen.org/index.php