Sacramento California FamilySearch Center/Punjabi

Sihk Festival Information


 * Banner 50 Generations: Fifty generations of Gill family history researched and recorded on FamilySearch are depicted here, along with memories of some of the family members. The research is ongoing over thirty-plus years and has mainly been accomplished by Dr. Gurcharan Singh Gill and his children using Land Tax Records and other sources.


 * Banner Bains Family: This banner includes some of the family history work researched and recorded on FamilySearch for the Didar Singh Bains Family. Mr. Bains passed away on September 13, 2022.


 * Banner Dhudike Village: This banner describes the creation of Dhudike village by the sons of Surat Gill. The map shows the divisions of the village. This is typical of villages in Punjab. Lala Lajpat Rai was a son of Dhudike village and there is a memorial to him there.


 * Banner Tumber: This banner includes some of the family history work researched and recorded on FamilySearch by the Mehar Singh Tumber family. Mr. Tumber passed away 20 years ago, on December 16, 2002.


 * Bibliography_DeeperRootsBook: The bibliography from Dr. Gurcharan Singh Gill’s research into his family tree.


 * Punjabi English Family Group: This document is in English and Punjabi and provides spaces to enter names, dates, and places for parents and children in a family.


 * Punjabi English Pedigree 4 Generation: This document is in English and Punjabi and provides spaces to enter names, dates, and places for you and for the next three generations of your direct ancestors. (Parents, Grandparents, Great Grandparents)


 * Punjabi Pedigree 4 Generation: This document is in Punjabi only and provides spaces to enter names, dates, and places for you and the next three generations of your direct ancestors.


 * Reading Land Tax Records: This is a picture of actual land records, overlaid with the description of how to read them. The records are written on scrolls, which are rolled and stored on top of each other and are now very brittle. We want to preserve them as soon as possible.


 * Records Request Letter Punjab: This letter authorizes Suresh Kumar Ramakrishna of the FamilySearch Organization to act on your behalf to acquire family records from your village(s). Mr. Ramakrishna lives and works in Delhi, but is able to travel to Punjab and meet with officials there. When preparing the letter, please contact Lynne Takahashi for assistance in sending the letter to Mr. Ramakrishna.


 * Villages Punjab: This picture shows 10,072 villages of Punjab that are found in FamilySearch. This work was accomplished in 2021-2022 by volunteers working in Yuba City and by FamilySearch employees in Utah. It has been a labor of love and service for our Punjabi friends and neighbors.


 * Yuba City Family History Center Flyer: Contact information and hours for Yuba City FamilySearch Center.


 * Yuba City Family History Center Details: This document provides details on how to enter an account on familysearch.org or in the FamilySearch Family Tree app. It provides contact information, location, and hours for our local FamilySearch Center.


 * Yuba City Library Days Flyer: Join us Second Saturdays for Genealogy Days at the Sutter County Main Library, 750 Forbes Ave, Yuba City!


 * Yuba City Family History Center web page