The Oakland FamilySearch Center (OFSC) offers this free research workshop in tribute to visionary Mrs. Electra Kimble Price, African American Genealogical Society of Northern California Lifetime Member, and the first African American Library Staffer of the OFSC. This workshop is an interactive exchange of research tools, methods, systems, and discussions designed to assist individuals with family histories and genealogies that have been impacted by the 16th-Century removal of Africans to the Americas as enslaved labor. AAGSNC member Pat Jenkins currently facilitates the workshop.
You may attend in person at the Oakland FamilySearch Center Kimble Price Training Room at 4766 Lincoln Avenue, Oakland, California 94602, or join virtually by using this link: (Click HERE). You can also join from the OFSC’s website at Oakland, California FamilySearch Center Classes & Webinars.
The workshop is held on the 4th Wednesday of from January through June, and on hiatus during July and August, returning in September and October. In November and December, the workshop is scheduled for the 3rd Wednesday in observance of the winter holidays, as shown in the schedule below.
Upcoming dates in 2026 are as follows:
January 28
February 25
March 25
April 22
May 27
June 24
September 23
October 28
November 18
December 16
The Oakland California FamilySearch Center is one of the largest and most accessible centers for genealogical research in Northern California. Besides providing free access to numerous subscription websites included but not limited to ancestry.com, Fold 3, Genealogy Bank, Archion and History.Geo, the library also houses over 7,000 volumes of books, periodicals, family histories, city and county histories, city directories, plus over 4,000 reels of microfilm and 8,795 microfiche containing millions of local vital records and historical census data from all over the world.
