Jamestowne Society
First California Company
Cordially invites you and your guests to the Annual Meeting
Saturday,June 18, 2011
San Diego Yacht Club
12:00 pm – 3:30 pm

 Martha Pace Gresham and Jim McCall,
“Seeking Early Opportunity in Jamestown”

Luncheon: $ 30 payable to First California Company by February 19, 2011
Annual dues: $30 Members, $20 Friends, if you are not current

Please send luncheon check and/or dues renewal to:
Harry Holgate, Treasurer
115 West Fourth Street, #208, Long Beach, CA 90802
Questions: Call Ginny Gotlieb 818-635-5764 or email fccjamestownegov@gmail.com
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The Program:“Seeking Early Opportunity in Jamestown"
What is more relaxing and quintessentially Californian than looking over a yacht harbor on a beautiful June day? The San Diego Yacht Club held the oldest active trophy in international sports, the America’s Cup, from 1988-95. Happily, it is the site of the next First California Company, Jamestowne Society meeting. The event will be held Saturday, June 18, 2011 from noon to 2:30 pm. We will enjoy the setting while holding our annual business meeting. Governor Ginny Gotlieb will report on the national Jamestowne Society meeting and Governors Roundtable.

The June program, entitled “Seeking Early Opportunity in Jamestown”, highlights the attraction of Jamestown. One of the earliest families to settle was that of Richard and Isabella Pace and their young son, George. Both were investors in the Virginia Company of London and were among the recipients of the first headrights or land grants. Two of their descendents, Martha Pace Gresham and Jim McCall, will give us insights into their lives and contributions to Jamestown’s survival and development. We will learn about what drove emigration from England to Virginia, how the settlers lived in those early days and what they did to help create the foundation for our American nation.

Reservations: The Yacht Club will present a buffet lunch featuring seared chicken breast in a port wine sauce and beef tenderloin tips with a wild mushroom Bordelaise sauce. Cost is $30 per person, inclusive.

Directions: http://sdyc.org/contact/index.htm#directions

Please send your reservation by June 10 to

Treasurer, Harry Holgate

115 West Fourth St.

#208, Long Beach, California 90802-2312. Please include the name of all those attending, your address, phone, and email. We look forward to seeing you and having time for everyone to visit.

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Future Meetings
October 29, 2011-“The French & Indian War: Prelude to Revolution”
First California Company member and author Di Johnson will speak to our group on the French and Indian War. Her topic addresses a pivotal moment in the transformation of Virginians as they became aware of how their social culture and economic interests had grown to differ from the mother country. Watch the website and online newsletter for a posting of the venue and reservation details. She writes, “Although fighting as British citizens, the Virginia Colonial Militia, under the command of Lt. Col. George Washington, was forced by centuries of class-consciousness on the part of the British Regulars, to fight as Americans, not equal British citizens, in protection of their homes and country. Based on the last section of my Colonial Virginia family saga, Cradle of a Nation, A Story of Colonial Virginia, I’ll share some examples, which led to setting the emotional climate for the American Revolution.”

Saturday, January 7, 2012
An Introduction to The National Archives in Southern California
We are honored to have the Director of the National Archives in Southern California as our winter speaker. Mr. Kerry Bartels will give us a tour of the new National Archives facility in Perris, near Riverside, CA, describing the holdings here with a review of the various repositories around the country. His talk will cover four of the five major categories of records in the National Archives that are most commonly used by genealogists: military records, passenger lists, naturalization records, and Federal land records. He will provide examples of records that are rich in genealogical value but are little known and little used by genealogists and will discusses the two digitization partners of the National Archives, Ancestry.com and Footnote.com, and their current activities and offers to answer whatever questions we have. We will have a boxed lunch after Mr. Bartels talk. First California Company members may stay to pursue their own research topics until the Archives close at 4:30 pm. The National Archives at Riverside is located at 23123 Cajalco Road, Perris, CA 92570-7298. Watch the First California Company website and online newsletter/blog for reservation information closer to the meeting date.