Yuba Sutter Genealogy Club

05/14/2026

It’s James for me! 🤦🏼‍♀️

05/14/2026

https://familytreemagazine.com/best-state-genealogy-websites/ #

Take the time to explore every one of these websites that covers a state (or territory) where your ancestors lived.

05/06/2026

Our ancestors were strong and brave. Would we survive something like this now?

July 6, 1936, Route 66, New Mexico. This is Martha Evans, 32. She had been walking for three days. Her husband died of tuberculosis in Oklahoma in May. The farm was foreclosed. She took the six kids and a Radio Flyer wagon and started west for California. The twins in the wagon were 11 months old. The boys walking were 6, 5, 4, and 3. Her dress was torn on barbed wire. Her leg was cut and infected. She wrapped it with a feed sack. She had $1.60 in her pocket. A photographer from the Resettlement Administration saw them and pulled over. He offered her a ride. She said no. She said if she took a ride now, the kids would expect one every time they were tired. She gave him her name and kept walking. The photo ran in newspapers across the country. Donations came to a PO box in Barstow. She got $200 and a bus ticket. She made it to Bakersfield and picked grapes. All six kids lived. Three went to college. Martha died in 1978. The wagon is in the Smithsonian.

05/06/2026

I found this passenger list that has my 2nd great grandfather and his entire family on it.

It is for passage from Hamburg Germany to England. With the information on it and some other things I had with the help of AI, I was able to put together this story that depicts what their journey may have been like.

If your ancestors are immigrants, this is their story too. It’s overwhelming to imagine what courage it took to risk everything for a better life.

04/30/2026

What were your fabulous finds this week?

04/26/2026

Some good advice on starting, and organizing your family history research from AARP.

04/24/2026

What did you find this week?

04/16/2026

What’s something you’ve found recently? Where did you find it, and how does it fit into your research?

04/16/2026

Here is a link for an online class on AI Research on Family Search.

Join us to explore how AI is revolutionizing family history research! https://www.familysearch.org/en/match/ade/aiassistant/?cid=OV-00052161

04/16/2026

Last month at our meeting we talked about not only sharing the stories of your ancestors, but the importance of leaving our own stories for those who come after us.

There are many ways to do this, several companies offer book making services which give you prompts to help tell your stories.

You can purchase diaries and journals, or just simply start a file on your computer and write down things when they come to mind.

It doesn’t really matter how you do it, but that you do it. Think about how exciting it is to find personal notes, letters and stories from people in your past.

Be a ‘good ancestor’ and leave something for the future historians in your family!

Here are a few prompts to get you started:

What is your favorite holiday and why?

What is your earliest memory?

Where did you grow up?

How did your family celebrate birthdays? Do you have a favorite birthday memory?

Did your family take any special trips?

Who did you play with? What were the games called?

04/16/2026

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