Santa Barbara Co. Genealogical Society Meeting

Saturday I went for the first time to the monthly meeting of the Santa Barbara Co. Genealogical Society and was very impressed. They were most welcoming, very organized. The topic was How I Turned a Handful of Family Mementos Into a Genealogy Reaching Back To Germany in 1740, by Dr. Kenneth Wolf, a medievalist professor of history at Pomona College. And I joined SBCGS - it's a bit of a drive but it felt like a good home for talking genealogy with some very pleasant people.

So now I am working up the courage to make some inquiries on my Prussian and German ancestors. I have John Humphrey's book on German ancestors and I made it to his German sessions at Jamboree this year and in 2008. He's a very impressive speaker and makes German research sound very doable.

So I can do this - I think. :D