Jamboree 2016 Speaker Spotlight: Colleen Greene, MLIS

Colleen Greene, MLIS is a librarian, web developer, content strategist, and educator. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History, a Masters of Library & Information Science, and a certificate in genealogical research from Boston University. Colleen is currently the Marketing & Web Systems Librarian for the Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton, and will be teaching a graduate genealogy course online for the San Jose State University School of Information in summer 2016.

Saturday, June 4, 2016  2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
SA035   An Introduction to Researching Your Mexican Ancestors 
The long history of formalized record keeping in New Spain and Mexico provides a wealth of information for researching those ancestors. But these records cannot be of help unless one knows the right place to start looking. This introductory lecture will cover key U.S. and Mexico records for identifying your Mexican immigrant origins and ancestors, explain how Mexican naming conventions can play a role in finding those records, and will highlight the types of genealogical information that can be gleaned from those records. Level: Beg.

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Southern California Genealogy Jamboree
Genetic Genealogy 2016
www.genealogyjamboree.com
jamboree@scgsgenealogy.com
818.843.7247