Orange County California FamilySearch Library

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Contents 1 Orange FHC 2 Hours of Operation 3 Holiday Schedule 2010 4 The Orange FHC Facility 5 Orange Center Resources 6 Class Schedule 7 Collections 8 Software 9 Free Database Access Orange FHC
Orange California  Family History CenterBeth McCarty, Director
Hours of Operation		Holiday Schedule 2010
Tue: 9 am – 9 pm ( 2nd Tue: 9 am – 7pm) Wed: 9 am – 9 pm Thu: 9 am – 9 pm  Fri: 9 am -  5 pm  Sat: 9 am - 5 pm		--WHEN WE ARE CLOSED-- April 3.............General Conference August 2 -- 16....Summer Vacation October 2........General Conference November 22-29.......Thanksgiving December 20 -- Jan. 3....Christmas
The Orange FHC Facility
674 South Yorba Street, Orange, California (714) 997-7710 Entrance off the parking lot of the Latter-Day Saint Church. The public is welcome!				Mailing Address: P.O. Box 6471 Orange, California 92863-6471
Orange Center Resources
Hardware and Equipment 15 Patron Computers with internet access 24 Microfilm and 3 Microfiche Readers 2 Digital Scanning from film, Microfiche & Book Copy Machines Copy to paper, CD or USB Media 3 flatbed Scanners Over 18,000 microfilms Large Periodical Holdings over 8,900 Books
Microfilm Collection and Film Ordering (Under Construction)

Class Schedule

Sun Sept 12 7:00pm-8:30pm Google for Genealogy Francie Kennedy Wed Sept 22 7:00pm-8:00pm Beginning your Genealogy Research Elna Katherman Thur Sept 23 Noon-2:00pm Techniques for Searching Newpapers Online Barbara Renick Sat Sept 25 10:00am-11:30am Researching Through Maternal and Sibling Lines Linda Serna Sat Sept 25 1:00pm-4:00pm Czecholslovakia Area Genealogy Club Group Meeting Tue Oct 5 7:00pm-8:30pm Record Keeping Methods Alice Volkert Sun Oct 10 7:00pm-8:30pm Ordering Film Online & Other Changes at FamilySearch Caroline Rober Wed Oct 13 1:00pm-2:00pm Legacy Charting - Tips and How-To's Joe Leavitt Sat Oct 16 1:00pm-3:00pm Reading German Records 101 - Latin Records Doug Ayer Thur Oct 21 Noon-2:00pm Tools for Finding Manuscript Sources Barbara Renick Wed Oct 27 7:00pm-8:00pm Beginning Your Genealogy Research Elna Katherman Thu Oct 28 Noon-2:00pm Techniques for Searching Books Online Barbara Renick Fri Oct 29 11:00am-12:30pm Research For England and Wales After 1837 Beth McCarty Tue Nov 2 7:00pm-8:30pm Pilgrims and Puritans: What's the Difference? Alice Volkert Fri Nov 5 5:00pm-7:00pm Google Workshop (pre-register, limit of 15 people) Francie Kennedy Sat Nov 6 9:00am-Noon Mexican Migration During the Period 1769-1790 John Schmal Wed Nov 10 1:00pm-2:00pm Legacy Family Tree Software Joe Leavitt Sun Nov 14 7:00pm-8:30pm New Search Enhancements at Ancestry.com Barbara Renick Wed Nov 17 7:00pm-8:00pm Beginning Genealogy Elna Katherman Thu Nov 18 Noon-2:00pm How You Get There Does Make a Difference Barbara Renick Fri Nov 19 11:00am-Noon Church of England Records Beth McCarty

Collections

The Orange Family History Center has over 19,000 microfilm reels in our long-term collection.

• Personal Ancestral File (2.31, 3. 4. 5)
• Family Insight
• Get My Ancestors
• RootsMagic
• Ancestral Quest
• Legacy
• Family Tree Maker

• Footnote - Footnote is a subscription-based website that features searchable, original documents that provide users a view of the events, places and people that shaped the American nation and the world. The site will have over 25 million digital images by the end of 2007. Footnote is currently working with FamilySearch to index the American Revolutionary War Pension files. Additional projects with FamilySearch are under development.
  

Individuals with Footnote subscriptions will be able to sign in with the same Footnote username and password they use at home in order to save, annotate, and upload content.

• Godfrey Memorial Library - Godfrey Memorial Library has an extensive collection of essential resources to assist genealogical and historical research. Resources include newspapers, city and business directories, vital records, printed census records, state, county, and local histories, as well as numerous family histories, family bible records, and service and pension records.

• Heritage Quest/ProQuest - Heritage Quest online includes the complete set of U.S. Federal Census images from 1790 to 1930 including names and indexes for many of the sets. Users will be able to find people and places located in over 20,000 published family and local histories and PERSI, an index of over 1.9 million genealogy and local history articles. Other online databases include Revolutionary War Pension, Bounty-Land Warrant Application files, and the Freedman Bank Records.

• World Vital Records - World Vital Records provides access to research helps and has a wide variety of international records, including more than 60 parish registers, Scottish death records, UK marriages, and Irish prisoner records. There are more than 300 newspapers with 100,000 pages added a month, and over 500 online databases, including vital, military, land, pension records, reference materials, family histories, maps, gazetteers, and international coops. With the recent Quintin Publications partnership, World Vital Records will soon have more than 10,000 databases online. At least one new database is added every business day.

Software		Free Database Access
Ancestry (use for free) Heritage Quest Footnote.com NewEnglandAncestors.org Godfrey Memorial Library California Birth Index US 19th C Newspapers US Civil War Research Database US Civil War Letters and Diaries Images of the American Civil War FindMyPast TheGenealogist British Library 19th C Newspapers WorldVitalRecords Genline.com (Swedish Records) Pedigree Resource File Scottish Church Records Korean & Vietnam Casualties
Description of some of the above databases