Curious how Linda Yip uses Evernote to manage over 20,000 notes and 40,000 images?  Are you wondering what tools and ideas you can adopt to organize your family history?   Work alongside Linda while she demonstrates the application of Evernote to preserving your family history.  Linda will be demonstrating desktop and laptop applications.  You can work…

Are you afraid to close your browser for fear of losing something important? Ever filed something away carefully on your computer in a folder, never to see it again? Is your desktop a mass of random documents you put there so you could find them again? Want to learn a better way of handling the…

Imagine if you could hear the voice of an ancestor who you have been researching.  Interested in documenting an oral history?  Andrew Huber will delve deeper in the process of recording an effective product for submission to the Library of Congress Veterans History Project.  This process will help anyone who is interested in conducting an…

Preserving Family Recipes and Chinatown Activism On October 23, 2021, Grace Young was named the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals because she has spent her career “in service to enrich the culinary world”.  Grace will share and demonstrate with us how her desire to document her parent’s…

A jiapu is a family book which can be as simple as a handwritten document from your great grandfather which lists your family lineage.  Join Chinese Family History Group member, Gary Kim Leach as he speaks with Lina Lee about the jiapu, known to be sought after as the holy grail. This engaging conversation is…

Over 22,000 Chinese Americans served in World War II, one out of five of the total population, during an era in which the Chinese Exclusion Act was still in effect.   Join Chinese Family History Group member, Gary Kim Leach as he speaks with Ed Gor, past National President of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, about…

The Veteran History Project is an archive of interviews, photographs, memoirs, illustrations, and other historic documents that gives voice to the personal experiences of US war veterans. Housed in the Library of Congress, this vast collection provides firsthand accounts of the realities of war, making them accessible to the public and preserving them for future…

In this “Digging Deeper series” chat, Patrick will take some of his previous talk material from “Why Can’t I Understand Auntie?” and take a more applied look at the confusing collection of “dialect” diversity by facilitating a guided conversation around identity, names, and what one will encounter in documentation as one continues down the road…

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Based on primary source materials from the Hong Family Papers at The Huntington, “Y.C. Hong: Advocate for Chinese American Inclusion” introduces You Chung “Y.C.” Hong (1898 – 1977), one of the first Chinese American immigration attorneys in California. The collection contains over 7,600 immigration case files created during and after the Chinese Exclusion era. The…