Please note we are currently meeting in hybrid format (in person and via Zoom). Contact questingheirs@gmail.com for login information.
Our in-person meetings are held at
St. Thomas of Canterbury Episcopal Church
5306 E. Arbor Rd.
Long Beach CA 90808
SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2024, 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Julie Huffman | Getting the Most Genealogy out of the Los Angeles Public Library |
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2024, 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
~ QUESTING HEIRS’ ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY ~
| Speaker | Diana Transue | My Trip to Poland: Places, Customs and Food |
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2024, 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| QHGS Elections | ||
| Speaker | Barbara Coakley | Getting Around the Fire at the Military Records Center: WWI – Corporal John L. Coakley |
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2024, 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Shannon Combs-Bennett | Creating a Research Plan With DNA Testing |
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2024, 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Christine Cohen | Military Research: Using Fold3 |
SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 2024, 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Barbara Coakley | Digging Up Deeds |
SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2024, 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Jane E. Loe, MA, MLS | Organize Like an Archivist: Taming Genealogy Records & Research |
SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2024, 2:00pm – In-person meeting
| QHGS’ Annual Meeting in the Park | Pan American Park |
SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2024, 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Alistair McGowan | Reasons Why Your Research is Going Nowhere |
SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2024, 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Kitty Cooper | Tools for DNA Cousin Matching |
SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2024, 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Michelle Leonard | Your Scottish Family History Online |
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2024 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Dr. James Ryan | Strange and Unusual Sources for Irish Family History |
SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2024 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | David Flint | Marriage Records in England |
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2023 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Questing Heirs’ Annual Potluck |
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2023 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Carol Rolnick | An Investigative Genetic Genealogy Case Study: the Sarah Hutchings Homicide |
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2023 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Christine Cohen | Indexes are the Key to Unlocking the Records |
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2023 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Laurie Angel | An Introduction to WikiTree |
SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 2023 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Jean Wilcox-Hibben, PhD, MA | The Envelope Please: There’s More to Correspondence than Letters |
SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2023 2:00pm – In-Person meeting
| QHGS’ Annual Ice Cream Social | Pan American Park |
SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 2023 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Cheri Mello | Preserving Those Wild, Wild West Tales |
SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2023 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Cynthia Keefer Patton | 10 Steps for Organizing for the Busy Genealogist |
SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 2023 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Kim Richardson | A New Strategy for Brick Walls |
SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2023 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Sharing Session | Questing Heirs Members | Help with Brick Walls and Other Questions |
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2023 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Dale Fuller | Find a Grave Tips and Tricks |
SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 2023 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Sara Cochran | Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Is this Genealogy or the Cha-Cha? |
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2022, 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Diana Transue | How to Create A Private Facebook Family Page |
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2022, 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Linda Debe | Missing Personnel Records: Building Your Ancestor’s WWI Files From Other Resources |
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2022, 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Peggy C. Lauritzen, AG, FOGS | Memory Keepers |
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2022, 2:00pm – Hybrid meeting
| Speaker | Eleanor Brinsko | Farming, Factories & the Frontier: Midwest Genealogy |
SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2022, 1:00pm – Zoom meeting
| Speaker | Joey L. Caccarozzo | Roman Catholic Records |
SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022, 1:00pm – In Person meeting
| Picnic | Heartwell Park across from the Masonic Lodge |
SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 2022, 1:00pm – Zoom Meeting
| Speaker | Victoria “Vicci” Snyder, BA MPA | Lineage Societies and Genealogy |
SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2022 , 1:00pm – Zoom Meeting
| Speaker | Robin R. Foster of Genealogy Just Ask, LLC | Up Your Game: Intermediate Course On Researching and Analyzing |
SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2022 , 1:00pm – Zoom Meeting
| ~ Easter Sunday – no meeting ~ |
SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 2022 , 1:00pm – Zoom Meeting
| Speaker | Sheila Benedict | The Importance of Collateral Research |
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2022 , 1:00pm – Zoom Meeting
| Speaker | Kristi Sexton |
SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 2022 , 1:00pm – Zoom Meeting
| Speaker | Christine Cohen | Grand Army of the Republic – Researching Your Union Civil War Veterans |
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19 2021, 1:00pm – Zoom Meeting
| Speaker | Dannell “Danni” Altman-Newell | Beyond the Draft Card: Researching Your Great War Ancestor |
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2021, 1:00pm – Zoom Meeting
| Speaker | Sara Cochran | From a Box in the Closet to a Treasured Family Heirloom: Organizing and Digitizing Your Family Photos |
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2021, 1:00pm – Zoom meeting
| Speaker | Christine Cohen | www.DAR.org |
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2021, 1:00pm – Zoom meeting
| Speaker | Ronald V. Gilmore | Irish Griffiths’ Valuation |
SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 2021, 1:00pm – Zoom meeting
| Speaker | Hal Horrocks | Drilling Down for Better Searches |
SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2021, 1:00pm – In person meeting
| Picnic | Heartwell Park across from the Masonic Lodge |
SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2021, 1:00pm – Zoom meeting
| Speaker | Linda Ivers | Genealogy Research and Writing Incorporating Letters |
SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2021, 1:00pm – Zoom meeting
| Speaker | Kristin Wenger | Finding Our Female Ancestor |
SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 2021, 1:00pm – Zoom meeting
| Speaker | Diane Boumenot | Produce Your Family History Book for $20 |
SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 2021, 1:00pm – Zoom meeting
| Speaker | Sara Cochran | Irish Eyes Are Smiling: Finding Vital Records in the Land of Saints and Scholars |
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2021, 1:00pm – Zoom meeting
| Speaker | Mary Anne Vincent | I Don’t Remember Her Alive But I Remember Her Dead |
SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 2021, 1:00pm – Zoom meeting
| Speaker | Gena Philibert-Ortega | Woman’s Lives During the Civil War |
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2020, 1:00pm – Zoom meeting
| Speaker | Jane Neff Rollins | The Family Patchwork – Stitching Families Separated by History Back Together |
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020, 1:00pm – Zoom meeting
| Speaker | Jean Wilcox Hibben | Dead Language/Dead People: Translating Latin Records from the Catholic Church |
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2020, 1:00pm – Zoom meeting
| Speaker | Christine Johns Cohen | Cousin Baiting and Cousin Stalking |
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2020, 1:00pm – Zoom meeting
| Speaker | Sara Cochran | Who Needed it Anyway? Getting Around the Missing 1890 Census |
SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 2020, 1:00pm – Zoom meeting
| Speaker | Christine Johns Cohen | Immigration Ports of Entry |
SUNDAY, JULY 19, 2020, 1:00pm
| ~ Meeting Cancelled ~ |
SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2020, 1:00pm
| ~ Meeting Cancelled ~ |
SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2020, 1:00pm
| ~ Meeting Cancelled ~ |
SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2020, 1:00pm
| ~ Meeting Cancelled ~ |
SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 2020, 1:00pm
| ~ Meeting Cancelled ~ |
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2020, 1:00pm
| Speaker | Hal Horrocks | Organizing Your Genealogy |
| Speaker | Hal Horrocks | Early Migration Patterns to Kentucky & Beyond |
SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2020, 1:00pm
| Speaker | Janice Miller | Discovering Your Family – The Importance of a Timeline |
| Speaker | Janice Miller | Finding Records for Your Female Ancestors – What Undiscovered Records Might Reveal |
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2019, 1:00pm
Questing Heirs Annual Holiday Party
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2019, 1:00pm
| Speaker | Linda Serna | Hints for Maximizing Results Using Family Search |
| Speaker | Linda Serna | Polonia: Polish Research |
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2019, 1:00pm
| Panel Discussion | Guests from the SSCAPG (Southern California Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists) |
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
| Speaker | Sarah Cochran | Disaster Proofing your Genealogical Research |
SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 2019
| Speaker | Connie Moretti | The In’s and Out’s of Indexes |
| Speaker | Connie Moretti | Destiny’s Documents |
SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2019
Questing Heirs 50th Anniversary Celebration
SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2019
Members Solving Brick Walls
Our Annual Ice Cream Social
SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019
| Speaker | Christine Elia | Genealogy Software: Useful Features to Make Your (Genealogy) Life Easier |
| Speaker | Christine Elia | What Are GEDCOM Files and Why Do I Need to Know About Them? |
SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2019
No meeting – Easter Sunday
SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2019
| Speaker | David Flint | Overview of Genealogy Research in England |
| Speaker | David Flint | Location Finding Aids: Maps, Gazetteers and Websites to Find Your Places in England |
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2019
| Speaker | Tina McKillip and Becky Moore | A Little Help from My Friends |
| Speaker | John McCoy | Bad Handwriting Day: Why Every Genealogist Needs to Be a Paleographer |
SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 2019
| Speaker | Hal Horrocks | |
| Speaker | Hal Horrocks |
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2018
Questing Heirs’ Annual Holiday Party
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2018
| Business | Annual Meeting | Election of Officers |
| Sharing | QGHS Members | Celebrating our Ancestors Who Served in the Military |
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018
| Speaker | Linda Serna | Native American Research |
| Speaker | Linda Serna | What Do You Do When Your DNA Doesn’t Match Your Paper Trail: A Case Study |
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2018
| Speaker | Donna Railsback-Braly | Findagrave.com and Billiongraves.com |
| Speaker | Donna Railsback-Braly | Vital Records and How to Cite Them |
SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2018
| Speaker | Terry Hamilton | An Adoption Story |
| Speaker | Terry Hamilton & Tina McKillip | A Refresher on Genealogy Forms |
| Speaker | Janice Miller | How to Use Pinterest with Genealogy |
SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2018
| Speaker | Jean Wilcox Hibben, PhD, MA | City Directories: More than Address Books |
| Speaker | Jean Wilcox Hibben, PhD, MA | Who is Joe Ovalle? A Case Study |
SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2018
Questing Heirs Ice Cream Social
| Questing Heirs Members | Ice Cream Sharing: My Special Male Ancestor |
SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2018
| Speaker | Lisa Schumacher | Speaking Well of the Dead |
| Sharing | QHGS Members | Breaking Through |
SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2018
| Speaker | Joel Weintraub | What Happened at Ellis Island? The Name Change Myth |
| Speaker | Joel Weintraub | Crowdsourcing the Path to the 1950 Census |
SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 2018
| Speaker | Jane Neff Rollins | Dating Your Early 20th Century Family Photographs |
| Speaker | Jane Neff Rollins | Let No (Wo)man Put Asunder—Researching Ancestors Who Divorce |
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2018
| Speaker | Hal Horrocks | Colonial Records and How to Find Them |
| Speaker | Hal Horrocks | English Parish Registers |
SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2018
| Speaker | Chris Jepsen | Backstage at the Orange County Archives |
| Speaker | Letty Rodella | Researching Your Hispanic Ancestors |