Lodi California Family History Center

The Lodi California Family History Center is located in San Joaquin County, California, north of Stockton.

Center Contacts and Hours
Location and Map:


 * 731 North Ham Lane, Lodi, CA 95240-2313 United States
 * Enter from the church parking lot on Daisy Avenue. Please ring the doorbell if the door is locked.
 * (Google Maps)

Phone: 1 (209) 369-4148

E-mail: [mailto:CA_Lodi@ldsmail.net CA_Lodi@ldsmail.net]

Open Hours:


 * Monday: 10am - 5pm
 * Tuesday: 10am - 5pm; and 7-9pm
 * Wednesday: 10am - 1:30pm; and 7-9 pm
 * Thursday: 10am - 5pm; and 7-9pm
 * Saturday: 9am-12noon

Holiday Closures:


 * Closed for federal holidays
 * General Conference weekends
 * Thanksgiving weekend
 * Christmas break
 * Open by appointment during holidays. Contact your Ward Family History Consultant or the FHC Director Kathryn Marshall (L3) to make an appointment.

Scheduled Classes
"Using Cemetery Records" on Saturday, March 8 at 9 am. 9th Annual African American Seminar, Sacramento Regional FamilySearch Center, 2745 Eastern Avenue, Sacramento.

"Understanding Jurisdiction Boundary Changes and Where to Look Instead" on Saturday, March 8 at 10:10 am. 9th Annual African American Seminar, Sacramento Regional FamilySearch Center, 2745 Eastern Avenue, Sacramento.

"Engaging Youth in Family History Centers: The Time is Now" by Susan Curley. Live webinar broadcast from the Sacramento Regional FamilySearch Center on Sunday, March 9 at 7 pm in the Ham Lane Building Chapel.

“Western Migration Trails” on Thursday, March 13 at 7 pm in Carmichael for the Root Cellar, Sacramento Genealogical Society. Call the FHC for details.

"Land Records" on Thursday, March 20 at 6 pm for the San Joaquin County Genealogical Society in the Troke Library on Benjamin Holt Drive, Stockton.

"Tour of the Lodi California Family History Center" on Saturday, March 22 at 9:30 am. Includes as introduction to the FHC Portal -- over a dozen of the top subscription web sites that are free for patron use at the FHC.

"Comings and Goings in the Golden West: Resources for Tracing California's Settlers and Sojourners" at 12 noon on Saturday, April 19 for the Merced County Genealogical Society. Call for details.

"Family History Fair" on Saturday, May 10 from10 am - 2 pm in the Ham Lane Building. Demonstrations, one-on-one assistance, RootsTech 2014 sessions, displays, and more.

Collections

 * 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 for use at the Lodi FHC

 * FHC Portal provides free public access to premium family history software and websites. Utilize valuable subscription web sites such as Ancestry.com, Fold3, HeritageQuest, FindMyPast, Historic Map Works, and others to research your family lines.
 * The Lodi FHC also subscribes to Genealogy Bank, offering digital images of newspapers, and the New England Historic Genealogical Society's American Ancestors 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 can enhance readability of old documents and restore family photos.
 * PAF, Legacy, RootsMagic, and Family Insight are available for recording your family tree. Free versions are available online for your use at home. Staff will gladly help you transfer your pedigree files from one program to another.

Free Special Services

 * Archival technology to migrate your data from old storage devices to current modes of data storage: We have archival technology to read, save, and transfer your old files to current storage devices. Is your data still on a floppy drive or zip drive? We can transfer your files from 5-1/4 inch floppies, 3-1/2 inch floppies, zip 100 and zip 250 drives to a flash drive or DVD for you. Call 209-369-4148 to make an appointment for transfer assistance.
 * Optical character recognition (Nuance OCR): Do you have a typed manuscript, newspaper article on yellowing paper, or family stories your grandparents told in a one-of-a-kind book? Scan the document. Convert the image from a picture of the page to a written transcript in Word or other software of your choice. OCR software can "read" the image and type it out for you. Call 209-369-4148 to make an appointment for assistance.
 * Voice recognition software (Dragon): Transform audio files into typed transcripts. Play the tape or digital recording, and voice recognition software types it out for you. Call 209-369-4148 to make an appointment for assistance.

Hardware and Equipment

 * Patrons are invited to use our computers, scanner, printers, and copier at no charge for their genealogical research. Twelve work stations are available.
 * Three microfilm readers, two microfiche readers, and a film/fiche reader printer are available.