The Spring Archives Ledger includes the following and more:

• Bob Loessberg-Zahl Honored with Yolo Philanthropy Award

• Yolo County Archives Updates

  • Heather Attends UC Irvine Conference

  • Gathering at the Archives to Discuss Black History in Yolo County

  • Several Newly Digitized Collections Are Online

  • New Volunteer: Sam Garcia 

  • New Intern: Jessica Nagel

• Letters Home: Correspondence from Granada Center

• Family Migration to Yolo County in the 1850s 

• Big Day of Giving is May 1st!

During 2020, when the Archives shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bob spent over 600 hours at home working on cleaning up catalog records for the Archives’ collection in anticipation of launching our new online database. Bob’s work allowed the Archives to ingest complete and accurate records, ultimately making the catalog more robust and useful for our community and Archives staff. Since 2020, and the implementation of the Archives' catalog, Bob has continued to create catalog records for new collections and add URLs into the catalog for resources that have been digitized and are available online. To date, Bob has edited or created over 9,180 records in the Archives' catalog.

Bob was instrumental in researching and developing the exhibit for the 100th Anniversary Celebration of the Yolo County Courthouse, including creating a timeline and unearthing important and historic court cases. The Archives was also incredibly fortunate to have Bob’s assistance during the renovation of our facility in 2018 and 2019. 

Bob has been an invaluable addition to the Archives team through his diligent, thoughtful, and meticulous work, which has helped increase collections preservation and access, as well as his generosity, positivity, and collaborative spirit. 

Heather Lanctot

Archives & Records Center Coordinator

Yolo County Library

This grant has allowed:

•      Michelle Trujillo to digitize 2900+ photographs from the Yolo Historical Museum Photo Collection and accomplish significant metadata cleanup and enhancement. Images from this collection have been featured in the Archives Ledger, displays for the Archives Crawl and Women's History Month, social media, and more.

•      Mars Goulas to digitize Winters High School yearbooks from 1907-1970 and Woodland High School yearbooks from 1905-1942. Yearbooks are popular with patrons, whether they are searching for family members, interested in tracking demographic changes over time or looking for local business advertisements.

•      Adrienne Fortini to digitize indexes to deeds and grantor/grantee indexes from 1850 up to 1949. These digitized indexes have been extremely useful for helping Archives staff expedite research requests involving property record searches. 

Through diligence and hard work, the extra-help assistants have made our county history more accessible than ever before. With your continued support imagine what they will accomplish in the next 365 days! 

We invite you to visit our Membership Page to renew or begin an FYCA membership. 

Wishing you the best for a happy and healthy 2024 and thank you for your continued support! 

Anastasia Panagakos

FYCA Board President 2023-24

The two collections can be searched simultaneously, or independently. There are already thousands of digitized photographs available to view and new digital content will be added over time.

• Access the Database:  https://yc-ais.axiellhosting.com.

• Watch an Introduction to the Database: https://youtu.be/__8zFYreneo

• Learn How to Perform a Simple Search: https://youtu.be/7OX8V4_g0Gk