ANNOUNCING THE FREE GENEALOGY EVENT OF THE YEAR Tell Your FANs - Friends, Associates and Neighbors. Especially Tell Your FANs Who Are Genealogy Beginners, Novices, or Just Curious. Everybody is invited to the 14th Annual Family History Day at the California State Archives on October 13, 2012 from 8:30 a.m to 4:30p.m. WHAT TO EXPECT "Discover Ancestral Gold" in 24 beginner and basic level genealogy sessions. Each session will be one hour - 15 minutes longer than last year. Topics include beginning genealogy, census, cemetery research, maps, correspondence, forms, German research, Black research, Eastern European research, archives and libraries panel, internet resources panel, and more. Take a class in the State Archives Preservation Lab: State Archives staff will demonstrate how documents are preserved. Take a tour of the State Archives: State Archives staff will guide small groups through the "vault", describing the document storage area not typically open to the public. Visit with exhibitors representing genealogical, historical and lineage societies, and federal, state and local research libraries and archives. Browse in the Root Cellar Genealogical Library: newly reorganized with expanded collections. New! Syllabus with speaker handouts and exhibitor contact information. Five Dollars. Reservation details on blog. New! Pre-registration for classroom space-planning purposes. See blog for details. New! More free parking. New! Two additional classrooms Blog: http://fhdnewsline.blogspot.com. Email: [email protected] Free admission to The California Museum on Family History Day - it's in the same building. Location: California State Archives, 1020 “O” Street, Sacramento, California, 8:30am-4:30pm. Sponsors: California State Archives; Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society; Genealogical and Historical Council of Sacramento Valley, and The California Museum. Please forward this to your FANs - we'll see you on October 13th. -------------- Denise H. Richmond, Chairperson Family History Day 2012 at the California State Archives http://fhdnewsline.blogspot.com [email protected] ///