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Curious about nineteenth century California and it's rich ethnic history?
Here's a series of local events of interest--
Chinese Whispers: Bay Chronicles is a project that traces the forgotten history of Chinese shrimp fishing in San Francisco Bay. It explores an overlooked yet important segment of the SF Bay area's maritime history tied to the Chinese-owned shrimp industry and the Chinese Exclusion Act.
In 1897, SF Bay had 26 Chinese shrimping camps, and the numbers dropped over time with restrictions on exports and nets. Today, the vestige of just one site remains at China Camp, which once was home to over 500 people, most of them from Canton, China.
It's part of a fascinating interdisciplinary media project, Chinese Whispers by Director Rene Yung and a team of artists, a marine archaeologist and curator John Muir in a collaboration with the SF Maritime National Historic Park. The project seeks to engage the public with three unique public programs at each of the places the Grace Quan will dock, the first happening this Saturday, September 5.
At the recent 2014 Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) conference in San Antonio, Texas, the Association of Professional Genealogists announced that CGS member Eva Goodwin was awarded the Young Professional Scholarship. The APG Young Professional Scholarship is given to individuals between the ages of 18-29 who aspire to a professional career in genealogy.
Goodwin is a 2008 graduate of Mount Holyoke College and is a graduate of the ProGen 18 Study Group. She is also the owner of Family Archaeologies, which does research, consulting and meta-genealogy.
For the APG press release: http://www.apgen.org
Congratulations Eva!
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