Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society

11/02/2025

Last workshop of the year!
Who Was Your Most Challenging Ancestor to Research?
Prepare to give a short talk about your most difficult person you researched, why? Did you find your answers? If this is still a challenge maybe we can all help!
Keep your talk short enough so everyone can participate please.
Hope to see everyone there!
November 20th 2:00-4:00, Sylvan Community Center 7521 Community Drive, Citrus Heights, CA

10/04/2025

Happenings at Root Cellar
• 9 Oct 2025-zoom, Madeline Yanov-topic “A Rose by Any Other Name: Using Nicknames to Find Your Ancestor” 7pm
• 13 Nov 2025-zoom- Emily Boling topic-Resources on DAR website 7pm
• 11 Dec 2025- 2pm -4pm Christmas Raffle, at Sylvan Community Center

Come and join us.

09/09/2025

08/06/2025

Register for the Sept. 27 Fall Webinar at https://rootcellar.org/index.php
For more informaiton. go to the announcement on the Home page or to the Sept. 27 website calendar item.

If you are a member, login to the website to be presented with the discounted price.

ONLINE REGISTRATION:
• Accepts all credit cards and some debit cards. Procssed by PayPal.
• The indicated price is per person.
• Use the quanity selector on the right to select 1 or 2 people. Then press the Add to Cart button.
• To proceed with the purchase, press the Checkout button.
• If you selected two people, then when entering the purchaser information during the payment process be sure
to enter both names in the purchaser name field.
• Note: When in PayPal, you don't have to create a PayPal account. To stop PayPal from doing that, slide the
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REGISTER BY MAIL:
• $25 for members, $30 for non-members. Admission fee is per person.
• Make the check payable to Root Cellar.
• Include a note titled Back to Basic which lists the names, email addresses and phone numbers of registrants.
• Mail to: Root Cellar, P.O. Box 265, Citrus Heights CA 95611-0265
• Mail-in payments must arrive one week prior to Sept. 27.

AT A MEETING:
Provide your check (or cash) and attendee name(s) with contact info at an upcoming meeting (e.g., the Workshop).

A week prior to the event, all registrants will be emailed a Zoom join-meeting link.
Registration questions? Problems? Email treasurer@rootcellar.org.

08/06/2025

Aug. Root Cellar Workshop
Root Cellar Genealogy Workshop - 3rd Thursdays from 2:00PM - 4:00PM

SHARING A FAMILY TREASURE

Do you have your grandmother’s special bowl? Your mother’s special dish? Great grandpas tool box? A postcard from your Great Uncle when he was away at war?
Well bring one to our August Workshop and share the object and the story with all of us! Tell us a little bit about why your treasured item is special to you and how it fits in your family tree. A great piece of information to share would also be your plan for what happens to your treasure after you are no longer the caretaker. If you’re short a special object bring a photo to share.
Our best meetings are when we all tell our stories so please join us!

06/09/2025

June 14th Heritage Trail Museums

The Wheatland History Museum
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
111 Main St. Wheatland, CA

The primary purpose of the Wheatland Historical Society is to discover, collect, preserve, and disseminate knowledge concerning the history of the Wheatland area in the County of Yuba and the State of California.

Lincoln Area Archives Museum
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
640 Fifth St., Lincoln
916-645-3800 laamca.org

A walk through the Lincoln Museum is a walk back in time, from our turn of the century kitchen to our complete blacksmith shop. We pay honor to each of our Military branches, while highlighting Gladding, McBean & Company Clay Factory on its 150 year celebration, as well as the McBean Park Pool 100 year event. Our collection of typewriters, telephones and cameras represent days gone by. It truly is a unique experience walking amongst over 4,500 historic artifacts and exhibits, with a side tour of our gift shop or “Market Place”.

Fruitvale Schoolhouse Museum
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
3425 Fruitvale Rd., Lincoln
530-889-6500 placer.ca.gov/museums

Experience school at a 136-year-old one room schoolhouse in rural Lincoln. Participate in hands-on activities in the classroom, explore the Native Plant Garden, or bring your picnic basket and enjoy lunch under the oak trees!

06/09/2025

ROOT CELLAR GENEALOGY WORKSHOP
“WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE OR MOST INTERESTING ANCESTOR?”
JOIN US THURSDAY JUNE 19
This month we have asked everyone to bring a paragraph or two to share about their favorite or most interesting ancestor!
Maybe you have a grandmother you admire, or perhaps an odd duck uncle or an infamous black sheep in the family.
Be ready to tell us why you chose them and what resource did you find most helpful in researching them. This will be a fun event for all of us and you might learn of a resource you did not know about before or a different way to search it.
We meet 2 to 4 p.m. on the 3rd Thursday of each month (except December) at the Sylvan Community Center in Citrus Heights. Sylvan Community Center 7521 Community Drive, Citrus Heights, California

05/23/2025

05/17/2025

Seminar Raffle Baskets and Donations Pick-up Day
Wednesday May 21, 2025
Trojan Storage (5441 Garfield Ave, Sacramento)
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Seminar Raffle Basket Assembly Day
Thursday May 22, 2025
Sylvan Center (7521 Community Drive, Citrus Heights)

Show your support for ROOT CELLAR and join us for a fun activity!

Seeking more donations for our Raffle Baskets – We need some large baskets/containers and additional basket donations: gift cards, DNA kits, genealogy related items and/or any items that would be appreciated by someone winning one of our “Fabulous Raffle Baskets.”

May 21st – Help needed to load and haul baskets/containers, donated raffle items and books from our storage unit and deliver the same to Sylvan Center at 9am May 22nd. The loading time starts at 1:00pm. Contact Billie Helms 916-802-5055 to volunteer.

Still accepting Raffle Basket donations – Drop them off at the Sylvan Center Thursday, May 22nd 9:00am – 11:30am.

May 22nd – 9:00am Help needed to setup the Sylvan Center and unload the items taken from our storage unit.

May 22nd – 9:30-ish Raffle Basket Assembly Helpers needed.

Schedule:
9 - 9:45am Materials delivery, room setup and table labeling
9 - 9:45am Unloading donations (semi-sorting) and supplies
9:30-ish - instructional gathering
9:30-ish - continued sorting of items to the appropriate table
10:00am - start assembling the baskets and containers
Noon – continue assembling and start wrapping completed baskets/containers
Raffia, cellophane wrapping and bows will be available.

We will need volunteers to take a basket or two home and bring them the morning of the Seminar for setup.

Many hands make light work. To those who have or will contribute in any way to another successful ROOT CELLAR Seminar, we thank you so much for donating your time, energy, expertise and raffle items.

We often have up to 16 Raffle Baskets to assemble depending on the number of containers, books and items donated. Below are some the past basket titles:
Kitchen Basket, Christmas Basket, Gardening Basket, Around the Globe Basket, Spa Basket, Arts & Crafts Basket, Party Basket (holiday & special day items), Scrapbook Basket, Research Trip with suitcase, Ancestry Research Basket, German Heritage Basket, Native American Research Basket, Sewing/Quilting Basket, Needlework Basket with Yarn, Crochet, etc., “Mixed Bag” Basket, Heritage Basket, Beginning Genealogy Basket, DNA Research Basket, Handyman Basket, Afternoon Tea Basket, Needlework Basket. If we find we have books, research items from a specific ethnic group, geographical area or special research area we can create an applicable name for that basket. Suggestions are always welcome.