Name: SB Genealogical Society: Rosalyn Tonai & Grant Din
Start: Jun 17, 2023 @ 9:30 AM UTC
End: Jun 17, 2023 @ 12:00 PM UTC
Location: First Presbyterian Church

The Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society is pleased to welcome genealogists Rosalyn Tonai and Grant Din to their monthly meeting on Saturday, June 17. Rosalyn and Grant will present “Resources Available for Japanese and Chinese American Genealogists and Teaching Pioneers’ Stories to the Next Generation.”

Rosalyn and Grant will talk about materials researchers can find about Japanese and Chinese immigration, settlement in the United States, World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, what they have found in their ancestral homes, and more.

This meeting of the Genealogical Society is free and open to the public, will take place in person at the First Presbyterian Church at 21 E. Constance Avenue in Santa Barbara, and will also be available via Zoom. Genealogical Society Special Interest Groups will meet at 9:30 a.m. (in person only), followed by a short business meeting at 10:30 a.m., with Rosalyn and Grant’s presentation beginning at 11:00 a.m.

About the Speakers

Rosalyn Tonai has been executive director of the National Japanese American Historical Society for over 30 years. In this role, she has organized many local and traveling exhibits about Japanese American history and art and trained teachers around the country. She was a key figure in the development of the Military Intelligence Service Historic Learning Center, located at the Presidio’s Crissy Field in San Francisco, which tells the Japanese American wartime story.

Her husband Grant Din has worked with Bay Area nonprofit organizations including the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation for many years and has conducted extensive research about Angel Island, its immigrants from 80 countries and World War II Japanese immigrant detainees, and Chinese American history since the Gold Rush. He was part of the research team for The Six, a film about the Chinese Seamen who survived the wreck of the Titanic, and enjoys speaking about Asian American genealogy and history.

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