Note: because no candidate was nominated for the position of President, your board is implementing an interim leadership plan. Two of your Past Presidents, your Treasurer and Member-at-Large will lead Board and educational meetings, rotating as appropriate until a candidate for President volunteers and is brought on board.
As summer approaches, our 2024-5 Speaker Series comes to a close with “The Scots-Irish Migration Into North America” presented by Peggy Lauritzen. This season We had a wealth of informative speakers and topics.
January 2025, Dr Carol Gorman Friedel presented “The Invisible Man – Moving Through a Pre-1840 Burned County Brick Wall“.
In February Michael Strauss, AG spoke about “The Road to Independence: Revolutionary War Records.”
In March, we heard Amber Oldenburg reveal “Women’s Committee of the Council of National Defense Registration Cards: The Largest Census of American Women You’ve Never Heard About.”
April, Debbie Gurtler, AG covered “FamilySearch 2025: New Tools, New Discoveries.”
And last month, Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA discussed “The WPA Era: Free Records Boom from the Government.” All this was possible because of Member dues and donations.
Your Education team is researching possible speakers and topics for 2025-6, and welcomes your suggestions. Please write to Education@SKCGS.org to volunteer or offer an idea.
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PROGRAM UPDATES
- All meetings are online except Genealogy Help at KCLS Auburn, Federal Way, and Renton Highland library branches. KCLS will be closed June 19 in honor of Juneteenth, so there will be no Genealogy Help Desks that day.
- The monthly in-person Research Group is on hiatus until September.
- The monthly online SKCGS Genealogy Chat is on hiatus until September.
- Live transcription (captioning) is available during our Zoom meetings by request
- Online meeting participants need to register for SKCGS Zoom meetings. Upon registration, Zoom will send a confirmation email with instructions on joining the meeting.
JUNE – EARLY JULY 2025 MEETINGS & EVENTS
All meetings are Pacific Time (PT) zone
Register at https://www.skcgs.org for all meetings unless stated otherwise
Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 6:30pm
SKCGS Board of Directors Meeting (online)
All SKCGS members are invited to attend; only Officers and Directors may vote. Write to Board@skcgs.org for the meeting link.
Friday, June 6, 2025, 12:30-2:30pm
The German Interest Group (EGS)
Topic: Using Ortsfamilienbücher to Research German Ancestors. Presenter Robin McDonough discusses Ortsfamilienbücher and the Emerson History & Genealogy Center’s large collection of these books and how to use them. More information: https://egsgermangroup.wordpress.com/meetings/
Saturday, June 7, 2025, 10am–12pm
Family Tree Maker Users Group (online)
Topic: Question & Answer. Each month, we will learn about using the features of FTM.
Subscribe to the free SKCGS FTM email list for announcements and discussion: https://skcgs.groups.io/g/FTMUG
Monday, June 9, 2025, 1-3pm, Genetic Genealogy/DNA Interest Group (online)
Topic: Topic: Top Five Reasons to Use FamilyTreeDNA.
Subscribe to the free SKCGS FTM email list for announcements and discussion:
https://skcgs.groups.io/g/Genetic-Genealogy
Thursday, June 12, 2025 ⋅ 11:00am – 1:00pm PT
Genealogy Help with SKCGS at Renton Highlands Library (in-person)
Genealogy questions? SKCGS offers one-on-one help with a volunteer
2801 NE 10th Street
Renton WA 98056
Registration not required. In-person event.
Monday, June 16, 1–3pm
Tech Users Group (Online)
Topic: How to Create a Locality Guide, and Why You Want To. See How to Make a Locality Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duyh_TvDa8g. How Can AI and Deep Research Help Create a Locality Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLx1b9cLLHc
Subscribe to the free email group for meeting information and discussion: https://skcgs.groups.io/g/TUG.
Saturday, June 21, 10–11:30am
SKCGS Speaker Series (online): June 21: Peggy Clemens Lauritzen, AG, FOGS will present “The Scots-Irish in America.”
Peggy Lauritzen, AG, FOGS, is a favorite speaker at conferences. She is a Family History Director, and was named Fellow in the Ohio Genealogical Society, and received the Laura G. Prescott Award for Exemplary Service in Genealogy. A lifelong Ohioan, her ancestry is mostly south of the Ohio River.
This lecture will focus on the group of people known as the Scots-Irish”. Just who are they and what brought them to America? Why did they settle in New York, Canada, New England, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the Appalachian frontier?
Many Americans can trace their ancestry back to the British Isles. Some have even heard that their background was “Scotch-Irish”. We will focus on who these people were and where they came from in the British Isles.
The program will be recorded for playback by SKCGS Members.
Guests are welcome!
Saturday, July 5, 2025, 10am–12pm
Family Tree Maker Users Group (online)
Topic: Question & Answer. Each month, we will learn about using the features of FTM.
Subscribe to the free SKCGS FTM email list for announcements and discussion: https://skcgs.groups.io/g/FTMUG
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