Regional Research With Southern California 1890 Project

Are You Researching

 Los Angeles? 

The 1890 Project® is a must! 

The history of Los Angeles is tightly tied to oil in the late 1800s. Arthur Fremont Gilmore is responsible for commencing the city's production.  He purchased land that was once a dairy farm and converted use to oil production.

This land is now the home of The Original Farmers Market, The Grove, and CBS Studios.

The family is a mainstay in local history; they also introduced car racing and professional baseball to this burgeoning city.^[1]

Researching Los Angeles and its inhabitants is easy now using the Southern California 1890 project®.

There are 75 search results for the Gilmore Family. They include voter registries, city censuses, and other records to include hotels, deaths, jails, births, baptisms, properties, churches, schools, and Saloon permits. 

This is a great research tool!

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Some Gilmore Results

    1. The Original Farmers Market, History (https://farmersmarketla.com/history : accessed 20 June 2020).

Southern California Genealogical Society 

Southern California Genealogy Jamboree 

www.genealogyjamboree.com 

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Jamboree: Ancestry Will Scan Your Documents FREE! #SCGS2013

Our good friends at Ancestry.com are again bringing their huge machines and staff to provide free scanning services for Jamboree attendees. Scanning will be available Friday through Sunday. You can sign up to scan up to 50 documents.

Jamboree attendees can sign up for 15-minute scanning sessions on Friday, June 7, through Sunday, June 9 during the exhibit hall hours.

Scanning will be done in PARLOR A and B, which is located at the end of the High Tech Hallway on the right side of the hallway. Signs will point the way, but feel free to ask for directions.

According to conference organizer Elizabeth Little, "Ancestry.com is excited to provide Jamboree attendees the opportunity to have their family photos and documents scanned at the conference, for free, on our professional scanning equipment. It’s a unique opportunity to have your family history records digitized!"

Please register in advance 

Please help Ancestry plan by registering in advance and letting them know how much and what you’ll be bringing. (http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6496606525). This is just a preliminary sign-up and you are not locked in to the schedule or number of documents you provide here.

You will also register on site to confirm your appointment.

Scanning Details You’ll Want to Know

Document types accepted

•    We can scan any document type, but the maximum size supported is 22" by 15". Any type of photograph, including tintypes, is accepted. Unfortunately we can not scan slides.
•    More recent photographs or stable documents can be scanned at a much quicker rate on our high-speed scanner – meaning that you can have more documents scanned during your scanning session. Fragile or historical documents, photographs, bound books or albums and similar will be photographed.
•    Copyright and re-publishing rights for the material are strictly the responsibility of patrons, but we reserve the right to reject any document for any reason.
•    There is always a possibility that damage to older, more fragile documents may occur during the scanning process. Ancestry.com urges patrons to use their best judgment when choosing documents to be scanned.

Document preparation

•    Before your scanning session, please remove all staples, pins, and fasteners as well as any tape or sticky material from your photos and documents. These items can harm the scanning equipment.
•    Please sort all of your documents and pictures by size, largest to smallest, before entering your session. This will enable our scanners to more effectively finish your documents in the time allotted.
•    Photos mounted in an album will be digitized as a single image. Bound books do not need to be unassembled, but can be quite slow to digitize.
•    Material stored in sleeves should be removed prior to the scanning session; materials remaining in sleeves will be digitized with the sleeves in place.

Scheduling

•    You will be able to sign up for a 15-minute time slot, on a first come, first served basis. This time slot will include any document preparation not completed prior to the scanning session, so proper document preparation is crucial (see above).
•    Generally we can scan about 50 documents per person in a 15-minute slot, more if documents and photos are newer and/or not fragile.
•    Due to demand, we can accommodate only one scanning session per person during the conference.
•    The scanned files will be saved to a thumb drive (provided by Ancestry.com) and given to attendees for their own use.

Family History: The Mother's Day Gift that Will *REALLY* Keep On Giving!

One year for Christmas, I gave Mom lessons to learn cake decorating at the local community college. The adult ed term started in January. I bought her all the Wilton stuff she would need, including those small metal tips, and stuck them in a small package along with the gift certificate to the class.  I loved taunting her by shaking the package so she could hear all those metal tips tinkling inside.

When she opened the package, her face took on this "What the ....??" look that we all have seen from our mothers at one time or another. I don't think she thought it was such a great idea at first. If I remember right, she mumbled a benign curse under her breath. Driving to the community college, across town and up, then down, a big, long hill in January in Iowa? Not her idea of fun. Heck, I probably would have had the same reaction!

But she went to the first one class, and then the second. By the third week, she was into it. In a big way. And we ate cake. Pretty, shiny, decorated cake. And she talked about how much fun she had taking the class, and admitted she probably would never had actually done it if I hadn't paid for the class. And with the knowledge she had, she was able to decorate cakes for years afterward ...

...which brings us to the real purpose of this post.

What are you giving as Mother's Day gifts this year? To your mother? or mother-in-law, or grandmother, if you are fortunate enough to still have them with you.  To your sister, or cousin, or daughter who is the mother of your grandchildren?

Let me suggest that you give them a very special gift... an open door to family history.

Pay for them to come to Jamboree in June. Whether it's for one day, two or all three days, present her with information, coaching, support and friends who will help her get started. If Jamboree is "too much" or daunting, accompany her to the free beginner's class on Friday morning.

Give her the knowledge that will last a lifetime. Many lifetimes.

Registration Update: "Family History and DNA" Conference - Burbank June 6, 2013

This is a quick note to let everyone know that interest is very strong for "Family History and DNA: Genetic Genealogy in 2013," and we are already 25 percent sold out. This is well ahead of the registration response that we typically see for Jamboree. If you plan to attend, in the words of my Iowa grandmother, "Don't let the grass grow under your feet." We will very likely sell out.

This is truly becoming an international event, with attendees from the UK, Australia, the Netherlands, and points beyond, as well as locations around the US. We are excited to see that family historians everywhere are embracing the concept of an independent day-long conference about genetic genealogy.

As a reminder, the "Family History and DNA: Genetic Genealogy in 2013" conference will be held on Thursday, June 6, 2013, at the Los Angeles Marriott Burbank Hotel, 2500 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank, California. The event is co-sponsored by the Southern California Genealogical Society (SCGS) and the International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG).

Featured speakers include Dr. Spencer Wells, Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic, and lunch speaker Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  Please note that lunch requires an additional payment. To clarify, lunch is for registered attendees only. Registrants may invite a guest (e.g. spouse), as long as space is available.  I wish we could accommodate everyone at this fabulous luncheon; however, we haven't yet found a way to stretch the walls of the Convention Center.

Plan to stay for Jamboree, which starts on Friday, June 7. Friday morning's sessions are JamboFREE, and Friday afternoon features a DNA panel as well as an African American DNA session. Of course, we encourage you to stay for the entire weekend.

The Early-bird Conference Registration costs (before 30 April 2013) are listed below. Registration costs increase by $25 between 1 May and 24 May. Walk-in registration, if space is available, is $225 for everyone.

• SCGS Members - $175 on or before 30 April 2013
• SCGS Non-Members - $195 on or before 30 April 2013
• $20 luncheon for registrants
• $60 luncheon for registrant's +1 (a guest) if space is available 
• Lunch is not open to the public. Lunch is intended for registered attendees of the "Family History and DNA" conference and a guest. 

Important Links:

• Jamboree Website (www.genealogyjamboree.com)
• DNA Day Webpage, including speaker bios
• DNA Day Schedule
• DNA Day Online Registration 
• Mail-in Registration Form
• DNA Day Tri-fold Brochure
• DNA Day 8.5"x11" Poster 
• Jamboree Online Registration 
• (click the appropriate status - nonmember or current/new SCGS member)
• SCGS Membership 
• SCGS Website

(Edited to clarify luncheon guests must be "Family History and DNA" conference registered attendee or their guest)

Spencer Wells, PhD and Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., PhD to Speak at Conference in Burbank, CA

It’s rare that a new type of event is introduced to the genealogical community. The Southern California Genealogical Society and the International Society of Genetic Genealogy are proud to announce such an event.

“Family History and DNA: Genetic Genealogy in 2013” is a one-day conference designed to fully explore the application of genetic genealogy in researching family history. It will be held Thursday, June 6, 2013, at the Los Angeles Marriott Burbank Airport, Burbank, California. Registrations are open now and an early-bird registration discount is in place through April 30.

“We are so excited that this new conference will break new ground in genetic genealogy gatherings,” said SCGS president Alice Fairhurst, who helped to found the society’s DNA interest group and has been actively applying DNA in her own genealogy research. “Family History and DNA” differs from other DNA events in several ways.

First, speakers are among the most highly respected and knowledgeable professionals in the DNA and genetic genealogy universe.

The opening session will be conducted by Spencer Wells, PhD, an Explorer-in-Residence with the National Geographic Society. He leads The Genographic Project, which is collecting and analyzing hundreds of thousands of DNA samples from people around the world. Dr. Wells’ presentation is “The Genographic Project and the Rise of Citizen Science.”

Genetics has revolutionized our understanding of human history. Advances in genetic technology have allowed ever deeper insights into the human story. Now whole-genome sequences and large-scale arrays of genetic markers are providing a richer view of our shared past, revealing details that remained hidden using other genetic tools. Since 2005, the Genographic Project has used the latest genetic technology to expand our knowledge of the human story, and its pioneering use of DNA testing to engage and involve the public in the research effort has helped to create a new breed of "citizen scientist." Geno 2.0 expands the scope for citizen science, harnessing the power of the crowd to discover new details of human population history.
 

The luncheon speaker will be Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., PhD, director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Dr. Gates is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer and film maker. His programs for PBS, including Finding Your Roots, African American Lives, Faces of America and Oprah’s Roots, explored family histories of a number of individuals through the use of DNA. (Please note that the luncheon requires an additional fee of $20 for paid registrants of the Thursday DNA conference, and $60 for spouses or guests of those registrants.)

Other speakers include Judy G. Russell, JD, CG; Richard Hill; Emily D. Aulicino; Katherine Hope Borges; CeCe Moore; Tim Janzen, MD; Blaine Bettinger, JD; and Debbie Parker Wayne, CG. We are grateful for the enthusiastic support show by all our speakers, especially Dr. Well and Dr. Gates, through their participation in this conference.

Second, “Family History and DNA: Genetic Genealogy in 2013” is produced by independent groups, not for-profit DNA organizations. The Southern California Genealogical Society (SCGS) and the International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG) have joined forces to offer this inaugural DNA event. While it is independent of financial support by any of the commercial DNA companies, the event will provide equal access to Family Tree DNA, 23andMe, and AncestryDNA. 

CeCe Moore, speaker, conference co-chair and Southern California Regional Coordinator for ISOGG explained, “I've dreamed of a genetic genealogy conference sponsored by ISOGG for a long time, and I am thrilled to be working in cooperation with SCGS on this inaugural event. Holding the conference in conjunction with the Genealogy Jamboree helps us reach many family historians who would otherwise not be able to attend.”

Finally, the event’s three session tracks are organized by the level of experience using genetic genealogy, and not based on the attendee’s knowledge of family history. Sessions include beginner basics, use of DNA in finding adoptee families, famous DNA, autosomal DNA, mitochondrial DNA, analyzing results and other topics. The final hour of the day will be a resource hour, with small-group discussions and supplier assistance.

Complete information about “Family History and DNA: Genetic Genealogy in 2013” and the Southern California Genealogical Society’s 44th Annual Southern California Genealogy Jamboree can be found on the Jamboree website, http://www.genealogyjamboree.com.

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The Southern California Genealogical Society is located in Burbank, California. It sponsors the annual Southern California Genealogy Jamboree, which will be held June 7 through 9, 2013, at the Los Angeles Marriott Burbank, Burbank, California. The pre-event is the inaugural “Family History and DNA: Genetic Genealogy in 2013” conference.

Jamboree: Have You Entered the Photo Contest? Vote Today!

The photos posted in response for the 1000Memories photo contest are just great! If you haven't popped in to see them yet, take a few minutes to look and vote for your favorites.

And by the way... where are YOUR photos? You don't even have to be attending Jamboree to participate. The contest sponsor, 1000Memories, will be awarding three $220 prizes for professional scanning services.

Here’s how it works.

• Visit 1000memories.com and register for a free account.
• Email mike@1000memories.com for an invitation to the Jamboree community shoebox. Put "Jamboree Shoebox" in the subject line.
• Add your favorite ancestor photos at http://bit.ly/HmnmaS and identify the category by adding it as the photo caption. 
• Identify the person in the photo by adding a tag. Please include the name and other information as you wish: time period and location where the photo was taken.
• You can upload as many photos as you like. 
• Please email mike@1000memories.com for assistance using ShoeBox.

Read all the details in our earlier post.