Thursday, May 15, 2014
5:45 p.m.
502 West Benjamin Holt Drive
Stockton, California
Do you worry your family history research will end up in a cardboard box in an attic gathering dust? How do you engage your family of all ages so they send e-mails asking for more family stories? Our speaker this month, poet and genealogist Kay Speaks, will share some of her methods of storytelling and sharing her family history at our upcoming meeting on May 15.
Kay joined the Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society in 1999
as a newbie genealogist trying to solve a family murder mystery. Since then she
has been involved in L-AGS special interest groups and county fair projects, as
participant, leader or coordinator. She has organized events for L-AGS, CGS,
Chinese American Family History Group, Tri-Valley TMG Users Group, poetry
exhibits and public readings.
Kay has presented a variety of family history topics to
special interest groups, including Family History Day 2013 on Angel Island
at the Immigration Station where her Chinese family members were detainees
during the Chinese Exclusion Era. Her family research has been on display at
the Museum on Main (Pleasanton), Carnegie Museum
(Livermore) and
the Alameda County Fair. Kay’s Chinese adventures include the serendipity of
ancestors found and discovering a 1928 family murder mystery cited in case law
today. She helped edit a genealogy software book that has sold in four
countries and is a member of the California Writers Club, Tri-Valley Branch.
Kay is a local and international award-winning poet. She finds her family
research to be poetic inspiration.
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