Genealogy Club
The Genealogy Club will meet Wednesday, Aug. 23, in Clubhouse 3, Room 1. All are welcome. Social time begins at 9:30 a.m. and the meeting starts at 10 a.m. Larry Naukam will present “Where in the World do you Think You Are?” via Zoom, which will be broadcast during the meeting. People can attend in person or online. Those attending online should sign in a few minutes before 10 a.m. by visiting rb.gy/0xu4j.
Naukam will use maps to find historical and ancestral locations, then and now. He will present an overview and collection of sources to help find local history and family information using maps. Naukam holds degrees in geography, library science and divinity, and is very interested in the intersection of computers and genealogy research. With more than 30 years of public library reference work, his experience includes years in acquisitions, cataloging, the bookmobile, and his favorite: genealogy, local history and digitizing.
He has written for Genealogy Computing, GenWeekly, and a Rochester History pamphlet on “Family History more than Genealogy”—published in 1990 by the Rochester city historian. He gives many talks each year and is currently involved with the Rochester, New York, Genealogical Society (RGS) as immediate past president, with the Digital Public Library of America, with the Church Records Preservation Committee of the RGS, and as a volunteer scanner and cataloger for various local historical societies, libraries and town historians in the state of New York.
Theme Thursdays are held weekly from 1:30-2 p.m. in the Genealogy Library. People should arrive early. Upcoming topics include: colonial research on Aug. 10; city directories on Aug. 17; using newspaper.com, Fold 3 and Family Search on Aug. 24; and an open chat on Aug. 31 where people can ask questions and share their findings.
The Genealogy Library is open Monday-Thursday from 1-4 p.m., closed Fridays, and open on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. The club needs volunteers and donations of computers, office chairs, mouse pads and a shredder. For more information, call club president Janet Lessin at 316-650-8509.
