Speaker will explain newly released genealogy index
GENEALOGY CLUB
All residents are invited to attend the Leisure World Genealogy Club meeting on Wednesday, May 22, at 10 a.m. Social hour starts at 9:30 in Clubhouse 3, Room 1.
This month Lisa Baker will speak about Ancestry’s new Newspaper (military records) index “Stories and Events,” just released in March. This new index will help members find new information about their families. Also new from FamilySearch is the use of a Family-Search Labs experiment using AI (Artificial Intelligence) to assist with full-text search. Currently, the following collections are available to use this search feature: US Land and New Zealand Probate Records, and US Plantation Records.
Baker is the assistant director of the Hemet Family History Center at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She also serves on the board of directors of the Hemet San Jacinto Genealogical Society as the treasurer and director of communications, maintaining the society website and newsletter. After researching her own family for over 28 years, she began looking into her mother’s family and discovered that her German roots extend back to the 1500s. Baker and her family have lived in Hemet since 1990. Before that, her husband was on active duty with the US Army, and they lived in Colorado and Germany. She has two adult children and one granddaughter.
The Genealogy Club annual picnic will be held June 26.
Theme Thursdays are held on Thursdays from 1:30-2 p.m. in the Genealogy Library. On May 23, the focus will be researching with Janet Lessin and Liz Rasmussen. On May 30, the meeting will be a “chew and chat” with beverages available. People may bring snacks.
The library will be closed on Sundays until the club has a new volunteer. A volunteer is also needed to share Fridays with another member.
The Genealogy Library is open Monday through Thursday from 1-4 p.m. and closed Friday unless there is a special event.
