Join us for our February meeting once again at our new time and place. We will meet 9:30 AM at Mimi’s Cafe located at 3401 Dale Rd. Modesto, CA 95356. This month we will be enjoying a presentation on Family Coat of Arms!

Our speaker-- John Richardson is Professor Emeritus at UCLA where he has taught more than 1,000 graduate students training to become archivists, librarians, and curators.  In recent years, he has specialized in teaching a graduate course entitled “Genealogical Information Resources” and serves as a volunteer administrator for the Richardson Surname project at FamilyTreeDNA.  His 15th and latest book, which won the 2021 Harrison Prize from the Ohio Genealogical Society, is entitled Die Weber Familie (ITA Press, 2020) uses the STEPE model to explain the emigration pattern of the Weber family who left Neukirchen am Potzberg in Germany in the early 19th century with one branch moving to Brazil and the other starting their new life in the United States. His academic work has been recognized by the American Library Association’s Justin Winsor Prize for best historical writing and has been supported by the US Department of State (as a Fulbright Scholar twice in 2001 to Russia and in 2012 to Turkmenistan).