Oakland FamilySearch Field Trip
Your Family, Your History with Genealogist Linda Harms Okazaki and the Center: Monthly Workshop Series on Researching, Preserving and Sharing Your Japanese American Roots
Generously Supported by The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation
Friday, January 27, 2023
10:30am - 4:00pm PST
Oakland FamilySearch Center
4766 Lincoln Avenue
Oakland, CA 94602
$10 General Admission
Join genealogist Linda Harms Okazaki and participants of the Center's Your Family, Your History monthly genealogy workshop series for a special offsite research field trip to the Oakland FamilySearch Center Library! Attendees will be provided with an orientation and tour of the FamilySearch Center by its directors, and are welcome to stay to conduct family history research until the Center closes at 4pm. Linda will also be on hand to provide workshop attendees with additional guidance and advice as needed on what information to seek at the FamilySearch Center. This is a wonderful opportunity for do some hands-on research for anyone working on piecing together your family history!
Enrollment in the Your Family, Your History workshop series is not required to attend but highly encouraged!
For more information on the Oakland FamilySearch Center, visit their website at: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Oakland_California_FamilySearch_Center
About Linda Harms Okazaki:
Linda Harms Okazaki is a fourth-generation Californian, active in the genealogy and Japanese American communities in California and beyond. She is passionate about teaching Nikkei to research, document, and share their personal family histories. Her other areas of research include upstate New York, England, Australia, and the use of DNA in genealogy. Linda has been researching her husband’s ancestry since 2012, documenting his family in the internment camps and in Japan. A charter member of the Nikkei Genealogical Society, and a consultant for Ancestry.com’s Progenealogists, she is also a featured columnist for the Nichi Bei Weekly. Her column, Finding Your Nikkei Roots, is published bimonthly. Her guide to Finding Your Japanese Roots was updated in 2020 and is available in hard copy. Ms. Okazaki is the author of numerous articles, including the recent National Genealogical Society magazine article “Paper Sons and Picture Brides,” which was co-authored by Grant Din. She is a member of as the Association of Professional Genealogists, the Genealogical Speaker’s Guild, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Linda currently serves as the past president of the California Genealogical Society, as a board member of the Nichi Bei Foundation, and a family history consultant for Densho.
Ms. Okazaki holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Development and a Master of Arts degree in Education. She can be reached at LindasOrchard@gmail.com.