Mormon Tavern, Clarksville, CA ca. 1880

Regular Meeting

Our meetings are held on the ​2nd Tuesday of each month (except December), from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm currently held by Zoom as the community room is closed at the El Dorado Hills Library at: 7455 Silva Valley Pkwy, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762. Visitors are welcome!

Genealogy Workshop

Our workshops are held on the ​4th Tuesday of each month (except December), from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm currently held by Zoom as the community room is closed at the El Dorado Hills Library at: 7455 Silva Valley Pkwy, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762. During these informal GENEALOGY WORKSHOPS, members help each other with their genealogical questions and “brick walls”.

EDHGS Upcoming Speakers

October 12, 2021 - 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Featured Speaker: Melinda Kashuba
"Migration Patterns in the US"

She holds a PhD in Geography from UCLA, is an award-winning part-time educator at Shasta College, popular speaker on a variety of genealogical topics, author of many published articles and her book, “Walking with Your Ancestors: A Genealogist’s Guide to Using Maps and Geography” (Family Tree Books, 2005), as well as the owner and principal researcher of Kashuba Research Services, a historical and genealogical research company.

“Migration Patterns of the United States”
The truth about migration in America is that there were more ways than we can count concerning how our ancestors moved around and where they might have gone. To help parse this mystery, an essential element to understanding ancestral migration routes is geographical information. Specifically, this lecture will cover maps, emigrant guides, emigrant lists, diaries, as well as newspapers as sources of information that can help us understand the opportunities and challenges our ancestors faced when they moved. This presentation will include information about trails, canals, and railroads but it won’t focus exclusively upon those transportation corridors. Included in this presentation will be sources that provide social context that can jump start your migration research. Broad migration events such as the general east-west migration in the 19th century, the Great Migration following the Civil War, the California Gold Rush, and the 20th Century Dust Bowl migration will be described.

EDHGS invites the public to attend this online presentation via ZOOM®. Interested in attending? Email us at edhgs@yahoo.com by Friday, Oct. 8 and a ZOOM® link for this event will be emailed to you on Monday, Oct. 12​.


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