Professional genealogist and presenter Linda Harmes Okazaki will be our guest speaker at our March 15th general meeting at 10 am in the Prairie Sage One meeting room at the Fort Collins Senior Center. This will be a hybrid meeting unless the weather is bad, then Zoon only!
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
From her article in NGS Magazine, “Japanese American Internment Camps and Incarceration Camps in World War II,” Spring 2024, Linda discusses the Japanese internment camps during WWII. She provides exploits of the hardships that the Japanese Americans faced during this period. After Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, thousands of Japanese and Japanese Americans were incarcerated in “Internment Camps.” German, Italians, and Latin Americans were also interned. The various sites of confinement and the records created will be examined, covering the period of time immediately preceding World War II through resettlement and redress.
PRESENTER PROFILE
Professional Genealogist Linda H Okazaki
Linda Harms Okazaki is a fourth-generation Californian who is passionate about teaching people of all ages to research, document, and share their family histories. Her areas of interest include the western U.S., upstate New York, England, Australia, Japanese Americans, and the use of DNA in genealogy. Ms. Okazaki is the past president of the California Genealogical Society and a charter member of the Nikkei Genealogical Society. She serves as a research consultant for both Ancestry’s Progenealogists and Densho.org. Her column, “Finding Your Nikkei Roots,” is published bimonthly in the Nichi Bei Weekly. Ms. Okazaki is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the Genealogical Speaker’s Guild, and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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