SCGSGenealogical Society Blog: Rick Crume

01 March 2021

[CA-SCGS] Monday Meet The Speakers - Jamboree 2021

Mark A. Cross, MFA

Mark Cross became interested in genealogy at the age of 12 when he read an unpublished family tree by a distant relative. This included an ancestor's transcribed letter about fighting for the Union in the Civil War. Mark discovered a link to a Mayflower passenger and a Revolutionary War Patriot and is very active in the Sons of the American Revolution.

Presentations:

One Piece of Evidence Is Incomplete: Tell a More Robust Family Narrative

Rick Crume

A contributing editor for Family Tree Magazine, Rick Crume has also written for Family Chronicle, Internet Genealogy, Discovering Family History, the National Genealogical Society’s NewsMagazine and the Minnesota Genealogist, as well as genealogical journals in Canada and Great Britain. He specializes in online research, genealogy software and British genealogy.

Presentations:

Ross E. Curtis, PhD

Ancestry

Ross Curtis, Ph.D., joined the AncestryDNA team in January of 2012. He is a computational biologist specializing in genetics and visual analytics and loves applying his expertise to family history.

Presentations:

How Your DNA Connects You to Your Past

Schelly Talalay Dardashti

Journalist and genealogist Schelly Talalay Dardashti, the US Genealogy Advisor for MyHeritage, has traced her family across Spain, Belarus, Russia, Lithuania and Iran for some 30 years. The former Jerusalem Post genealogy columnist and award-winning pioneer Jewish geneablogger created “Tracing the Tribe – Jewish Genealogy on Facebook" (36,000+ members in 101 countries), and has written for FamilyTree Magazine, NGS Quarterly, JTA and others. She co-administers two DNA projects at FTDNA.

Presentations:

Did Your Abuelita...? Seeking Jewish Ancestry

Southern California Genealogical Society

50th Annual Southern California Genealogy Jamboree

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About the Southern California Genealogical Society

With over 2000 members, the Southern California Genealogical Society is one of the largest genealogical societies in California. SCGS headquarters in Burbank, California, houses a 40,000+ volume genealogy library with resources throughout the US, Canada, and Europe.

SCGS offers several educational activities each month, including its Lunch and Learn, several interest group meetings, and computer user group sessions. The Society sponsors the popular Annual Southern California Genealogy Jamboree which will be held May 31 & June 1-2, 2019 in Burbank. The Genetic Genealogy Conference will be held May 31, 2019 in Burbank at the same location.

For all the details, visit the SCGS Website and the Jamboree Website.

17 March 2021

[CA-SCGS] Researching European Genealogy?

01 March 2021

[CA-SCGS] Monday Meet The Speakers - Jamboree 2021