Lodi California FamilySearch Center
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This article describes the services and resources available at a FamilySearch Center, a branch facility of the FamilySearch Library. |
The Lodi California Family History Center is located in San Joaquin County, California, north of Stockton.
Center Contacts and Hours[edit | edit source]
Location & Map:
- 731 North Ham Lane, Lodi, CA 95240 (Google Maps)
- Parking is accessible from Daisy Avenue, on the church's west side. Please ring the doorbell if the door from the parking lot is locked.
Phone: (209) 369-4148
Open Hours: Monday 10am-5pm, Tuesday 10am-5pm and 7-9pm; Wednesday 7-9 pm; Thursday 10am-5pm and 7-9pm, Saturday 9am-12noon
Calendar and Events[edit | edit source]
Scheduled classes: Please call 209-369-4148 to reserve a space.[edit | edit source]
Tuesday, November 15 at 2 pm: Military records (off-site with Tuolumne County Genealogical Society. Call for details.)
Staff Training Meetings[edit | edit source]
Staff meetings are held the first Friday of every month at 6:30 pm
Next Staff Meeting: Nov. 4 at 6:30 pm -- military records, working with missionaries, web site updates
Center Resources[edit | edit source]
Collections[edit | edit source]
- Family History Library Catalog: This center receives any of the films and fiche available through the Family History Library Catalog.
- For Lodi's large German from Russia population, the Lodi center has a number of resources relevant to that community, such as the 81 microfilm set of the Saint Petersburg Lutheran Consistory parish records. Dictionaries, gazetteers, and other books relevant to a variety of locations are also available.
- Over 200 microfilms with Finnish church and vital records
- An index of births, deaths, marriages extracted from the Lodi News-Sentinel from 1881-2005, and from the Valley Review, a defunct newspaper.
Databases and Software[edit | edit source]
- FHC Portal: This center has access to the Family History Center Portal page which gives free access in the center to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
- Genealogy Bank offers collections of digital images of newspapers.
- New England Historic Genealogical Society web site.
- AniMap displays and prints changing county and state boundaries over time.
- DeedMapper plots maps from metes and bounds descriptions in land records.
- Photoshop Elements enhances readability of old documents and restores family photos.
- PAF, Legacy, RootsMagic, and Family Insight.
Hardware and Equipment[edit | edit source]
- Approximately ten computers are available for patrons.
- Use of the 14" scanner and other equipment is free. Printouts or making copies cost ten cents a page.
- There are three microfilm readers, three microfiche readers, and a film/fiche reader printer for which the charge is 25 cents a page.