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-<div class="left" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 150%">''' &nbsp; &nbsp;      March 9, 2021 <br> 10:00 am - 11:30 am'''</div>
+<div class="left" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 150%">''' &nbsp; &nbsp;      May 6, 2021 <br> &nbsp;   &nbsp;      6:30 pm PDT'''</div>
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-<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding:20px; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 1.10em">'''  Learning to Use Foreign Language Newspapers Without Knowing Foreign Languages
+<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding:20px; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 1.10em">'''Our Portuguese-American Ancestors: From the Azores and Madeira to the U.S.
-<br>'''- by Karina Robinson'''</div>
+<br>'''- presented by Ralph Severson'''</div>
-<div style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding:20px; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 150%">'''This brand new class introduces useful strategies, tips, and websites which will help you make the most of these amazing untapped resources and advance your family history research.
+<div style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-left: auto; padding:20px; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 150%">'''There are over one million people living in the United States who have Portuguese roots, the majority coming from the Azores and Madeira. This class will explore various methods of tracing one's Luso-American ancestors across the Atlantic and back to the islands, and to the Portuguese mainland.
-<br> Historian Karina Robinson holds a B.A. in art history and foreign languages, a Masters degree in history, a Certificate in Genealogical Research (Boston University), and has experience conducting research in over 75 countries (nearly 30 in person).
+<br> Ralph Severson is currently the director of the Oakland FamilySearch Library, and has been researching his Azorean ancestors since the 1980's. He continues to spend his working day as an investment adviser, and previously worked at Goldman Sachs for 30 years in the investment banking business. Ralph is married to Elizabeth Susan "Sue" Severson, also an avid genealogist, and has 5 married children and 22 grandchildren. Besides family history, Ralph's passions are family, baseball, the stock market, gardening and reading.
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-[https://churchofjesuschrist.zoom.us/j/98482229858?pwd=WTRCZ3B1V09tZVI3UWduTGlIaFFFUT09 Karina Robinson Presentation Zoom Link]
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