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Ongoing Events AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH WORKSHOP Meets the 4th Wednesday of every month 6pm - 8pm For Zoom link to virtual workshop, click here. For more information, click here. SUSPENDED TEMPORARILY Chinese Research Meets Tuesdays 1pm - 9pm. SUSPENDED TEMPORARILY East Bay Genealogical Society Meets the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 10am. No appointment necessary SUSPENDED TEMPORARILY French Canadian Meets Wednesdays 6pm - 8pm Jane Lindsey, CGS. No appointment necessary. SUSPENDED TEMPORARILY Swedish Research Meets Thursdays 10am - 4pm Need help with your Swedish research? Join our experts for individual assistance. No appointment necessary.

Upcoming Events     May 6, 2021     6:30 pm PDT Our Portuguese-American Ancestors: From the Azores and Madeira to the U.S. - presented by Ralph Severson 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. 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.

African American Research Workshop - Facilitator, Pat Jenkins - This is an ongoing, free, hands-on research workshop comprised of African Americans, also referred to as Black or Afro-American, or those who harmonize with Sub-Saharan Africa, with ancestry, citizenship, or residency in the United States. The workshop is an interactive exchange of research tools, methods and systems, and discussions necessary for progress at individual levels of family histories and genealogies impacted by the 16th Century removal of Africans to America as slaves. For a Zoom link to the virtual workshop, click here. For additional information E-Mail: pat4gene@gmail.com