CVGS Major Scholarship Fundraiser Seminar for Sweetwater Union High School District Seniors

“Over The Pond”

• Our ancestors came ACROSS the pond to come here.

• We are going OVER the pond to research their history.

Featured Speakers

Judith Brooks:

A retired registered nurse and quality management professional. In the fifteen years since, she has done extensive research on her husband's and her families.

She thoroughly researches to prove or disprove other researchers input and likes to focus on locating and reporting the history of the area in which these ancestors lived including society memberships as well as local stories.

Her focus has been the colonial era, revolutionary war and the early settlement of the Ohio River Valley, as well as finding how and when these ancestors crossed the ocean.

TOPICS:

High Road or Low Road - How and Why the Scots Migrated

Using Ancestral Religious Migratory Patterns to Find Church Records to Further Your Research

Toni Perrone: 

Toni Perrone is a founding member of the Immigrant Genealogical Society, the Immigrant Library in Los Angeles, CA, and the Temecula Valley Genealogical Society. 

She is the present day Chair of the German Interest Group in Temecula. Toni serves as President of the Pommern Interest group at the Immigrant Library and on the Board of Directors of the Immigrant Genealogical Society.

She volunteers at the Family History Center in Murrietta and has for many years.
She has been a speaker to various genealogical societies since 1981. 

Toni has a background of 33 years of research in  German and Italian ancestry, has received numerous awards from genealogical groups, has published articles in genealogical publications, two books on family lines and is currently working on a third.

TOPICS:

Italian Research, Traditions and Customs

Marriage and Inheritance Customs in Germany - Archive Records