Oakland FamilySearch Field Trip
Your Family, Your History with Genealogist Linda Harms Okazaki and the Center
Generously Supported by The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation
Friday, September 5, 2025
10:30am-12:30pm PST
Oakland FamilySearch Center
4766 Lincoln Avenue
Oakland, CA 94602
Join genealogist Linda Harms Okazaki and participants of the Center's Your Family, Your History monthly genealogy workshop series as we visit the Oakland FamilySearch Center for our second field trip! There will be a tour of the facilities, a brief presentation, and time for your own research. If there's room available, there will also a computer lab. The field trip will last for two hours but students are more than welcome to stay longer and conduct their own research. All participants who plan to stay all day should bring their own lunch as there are no restaurants nearby. We hope to see you there!
Link to facility: Oakland FamilySearch
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.