Genealogy Club

All our welcome to join the Leisure World Genealogy Club on Oct. 14 at 10 a.m. Charles Beal will speak via Zoom on “Select Biographies of Military Veterans from the War of 1812 to Spanish American War buried in Orange County.”

Charles was born in the City of Orange and grew up in Santa Ana. He served three years in the Army as a military policeman. After discharge, he attended Santa Ana College and was hired by the County of Orange as a deputy sheriff. He next worked for Security Pacific National Bank in its corporate security division.

He later became a land surveyor for the County of Orange and retired in 2014 after 30 years of county service as a senior land surveyor. He holds a bachelor’s of arts from California State University, Fullerton, in criminal justice, and has degrees in administration of justice, business administration and surveying and mapping from Santa Ana College.

Charles has been researching local Civil War veterans buried in Orange County for 21 years. In recent years, he has expanded his graves project to include the War of 1812 and Spanish American War. He is just starting on World War I graves.

Email the Genealogy Club at lwgenealogy@gmail.com or call Mary Romero at (562) 810-4266, to access the Zoom conference.

—Mary M. Romero