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• October is Family History Month!

  • Start
    1 Oct 2025
  • End
    31 Oct 2025

  Celebrate Your Family History with NVGS

  Here at Napa Valley Genealogical Society, we're always thrilled when October arrives. Family History Month reminds us to dig deep and explore our ancestors' lives.

  Here are a few suggestions for how you might observe this month:

  Interview: Ask family members for their memories of your ancestors.

  Scan: Digitize inherited photos or documents.

  Share: The holiday season is fast approaching. Tell your family about your ancestors: write a story or two, print a family tree, create a slide show, start a blog, etc.

  Enhance Your Research at the NVGS Library: Discover our Napa County resources, Colonial America and European sections, military records, and much more.

  Plan Your Visit

  We hope these ideas inspire you to find your own unique ways of observing Family History Month. Whatever your research goals are, NVGS is here to support you. We invite you to stop by our library and celebrate with us!

   

  

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• Round Table: Genealogical Gift Ideas

  • When
    3 Nov 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM
  • Location
    On Zoom

  

  Genealogical Gift Ideas

  Host: Susan Ingersoll

  Members: Join us at our monthly round table! Each month, we choose a theme to spark the conversation, then gather on Zoom to have a great time sharing our ancestors' stories.

  Questions to guide our conversation:

  • What genealogy-themed gifts have you created/purchased over the years?
  • How have you made them appealing to a range of personalities?
  • Any tips or tricks to share?

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• Program: Genealogy Do-Over™

  • When
    20 Nov 2025
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    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
  • Location
    Attend via Zoom or in person at the NVGS Library, 1701 Menlo Ave, Napa

  

  Genealogy Do-Over™

  A Year of Learning from Mistakes

  (90-minute presentation)

  Presented by Thomas MacEntee

  It isn’t often that we get a “do-over” when it comes to stuff that matters in life. When you first got started researching your family history, did you do some things that now are just plain “embarrassing” such as name collecting, not citing sources and more? Well now there’s hope since genealogists from beginner to advanced are employing new research methodologies and documentation practices.

  Follow genealogist Thomas MacEntee as he basically starts his genealogy research from scratch but includes sound research practices and methodologies as well as new templates, tools, and the latest technology for better family history research.

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  Thomas MacEntee is a Baby Boomer guy with a love of punk rock music but also art history who somehow “fell” into the technology industry almost 40 years ago, and then left a lucrative IT career to pursue his love of family history and genealogy. Technology and historical research are opposites, but “tech people” like Thomas are needed to guide today’s genealogists through the maze of options so they can deploy the best apps and devices to break down research brick walls. Thomas MacEntee: author, educator, advocate, entrepreneur, and that “genealogy guy” who helps you accomplish your family history goals.

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