CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY (Exhibitor) and KAREN PAIGE, Speaker, at Family History Day

California State Library
Sacramento

It is a pleasure to have a "double bill" at Family History Day at the California State Archives:  the California State Library will be an exhibitor and Karen Paige, a librarian there, will be a speaker.

The California State Library, a California public research institution, provides its customers with the accurate, up-to-date information they need to do their jobs easily, quickly, and confidently. Whether you are an elected official, a state employee, a representative of one of California’s libraries, a person with special reading needs or a member of the general public, the California State Library is here for you. Our staff, including librarians, researchers, and consultants are at your service.

What We Do
The 157-year old California State Library serves the people of California in several ways:

• It is the central reference and research library for state government and the Legislature
• It provides non-partisan research to the Legislature and the Governor.
• It collects, preserves, generates and disseminates information ranging from California's priceless historical items to today's online texts.
• It advises, consults with, and provides technical assistance to California's public libraries, and it directs state and federal funds to support local public libraries and statewide library programs, and services.

Some history
In 1850, California’s new legislature, seeing that the state’s facts, figures, and documents needed to be in a central location, established the California State Library in the State Capitol. In 1917, the California State Library established the Sutro Library in San Francisco from the private library of Adolph Sutro.

California History Room
in the Library Courts II building  

Karen Paige is a Librarian at the California State Library, California History Room. This division of the library holds a major collection of documents from and about California's rich history. The documents range from books, maps, newspapers, and periodicals, to pictorial materials (including daguerreotypes, lithographs, stereographs, and paintings) and ephemera (such as posters, programs, pamphlets, and sheet music). Researchers of all types—authors, historians, reporters, legislators, filmmakers, genealogists, historic preservationists, graduate students, teachers, and California citizens—visit the California History Room to use these resources. All are welcome!

Karen Paige will be presenting Genealogical Resources at the California History Room of the California State Library.  Learn about the materials in the California History Room, useful research guides, library rules of use and etiquette, photocopy service, and how to get there.

California State Library

California History Room

900 N Street, Room 200

Sacramento, CA 95814

(916) 654-0176

FAX (916) 654-8777

Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov

DONNA DUGLE YOUNG, Speaker at Family History Day

Flag of Ireland

It is a pleasure to introduce Donna Dugle Young who will be a speaker at Family History Day at the California State Archives.

Donna Dugle Young started researching her family history shortly after moving to Grass Valley from Los Gatos in 1996 and has been very active in the genealogy community ever since giving presentations at genealogy societies and seminars. She is currently Education Chairman of the Nevada County Genealogical Society and is leader of their monthly study group. She is also a member of the Placer County Genealogical Society and the Genealogical & Historical Council of Sacramento Valley. Donna was the leader of the Grass Roots Genealogy Group for six and a half years. Both Donna and Ron (her husband) are volunteer librarians at the Family History Center in Nevada City. They have made numerous research trips to Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, West Virginia, North Carolina and most recently Ireland tracking down information on their ancestors.

Donna Dugle Young will be presenting Beginning Genealogy I and II.   These classes are both an introduction for beginners and a refresher course for those who have been doing genealogy research for awhile. The presentation starts with the basics of how to write names and dates then continues to explain the reasons for the different charts and gives suggestions on how to organize your finds. In Beginning Genealogy II the emphasis is on where to find the information and documents that will enhance your family history including vital records, census and internet resources.

DAUGHTERS OF THE UTAH PIONEERS, Exhibitor at Family History Day

It is a pleasure to introduce the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers who will be an exhibitor at Family History Day at the California State Archives.

The International Society of Daughters of Utah Pioneers, ISDUP or just DUP is an association devoted to preserving the legacy of those pioneers who came to the State of Deseret/Utah Territory before the railroad in May 1869. More than 60,000 pioneers traveled in more than 300 companies to find their place in the west. The objective of DUP is to perpetuate the names and achievements of those men, women and children by preserving old landmarks, marking historical places and collecting artifacts and histories.

The State of Deseret/Utah Territory covered much more than the present-day state of Utah and, in fact, covered much of southern California. Some of these Mormon pioneers first settled in California before relocating to Utah. Locally, the Slough House Pioneer Cemetery is the burial spot for many of the Sacramento pioneers with tombstones dating from the 1850‘s. It is owned by the ISDUP and maintained by the many companies and camps in the Sacramento area.

Members of DUP meet monthly in camps to learn more about and share pioneer histories and artifacts. Camps and Companies are organized in geographical areas.

Visit our exhibit at the Family History Day to see pictures and newspaper articles about the Slough House Cemetery and other local DUP historical markers. We plan to have internet access available for visitors to search the indexes listed below. (The actual photos and histories are not available for viewing online, only the indexes.) We will also have a book display of other DUP publications that can be purchased online.

Photo index - The photo department houses, maintains and preserves a collection of over 25,000 images of pioneers, their homes, communities, organizations and artifacts. Copies of photo prints or CD images can be ordered and purchased online.

History Card Index - The history department presently has over 100,000 pioneer histories on file of pioneers who came to the geographic area covered by the Utah Territory/ State of Deseret. It also includes those who died crossing the plains and those born in the Utah Territory before May 10, 1869 and some locality histories.

Pioneer Pathways Index - Volumes 1 through 11 consolidated index - Each year DUP sponsors the publication of historical material which has been used as lesson material in the camps. At the present time, there have been 5 multi-volume sets of books published. Pioneer Pathways is the latest of them.

We look forward to meeting others interested in pioneer legacy at Family History Day.

International Society of Daughters of Utah Pioneers
Headquarters

Pioneer Memorial Museum

300 North Main Street

Salt Lake City, Utah

NUEVA GALICIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, Exhibitor at Family History Day

It is a pleasure to introduce the Nueva Galicia Genealogical Society as an exhibitor at Family History Day at the California State Archives.

The Nueva Galicia Genealogical Society is a small group of genealogists who focus their research on the area formerly known as Nueva Galicia and surrounding areas. This includes the modern day states of Jalisco, Zacatecas and Aguascalientes in Mexico. Although our primary focus is Nueva Galicia, membership is not strictly restricted to those areas and any interested researcher is welcome to join.

The Nueva Galicia Genealogical Society holds quarterly meetings. If you are interested in becoming a member or visiting during one of our meetings, please contact David Mitchell, at dlmitch3@hotmail.com, or visit our website at http://www.nuevagalicia.org./

We look forward to talking to you on Family History Day and helping with your family research in Mexico.