Have you ever come across a place name in your research you aren’t sure still exists? What about a post office name given in a census that isn’t the main town? A town in a country you know little about? Looking for cemeteries near your ancestral home? The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) can help with each of these.
( https://tcgs1961.blogspot.com/2017/10/finding-place-names-using-gnis-and-gns.html )
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11 October 2017
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Call for a Book Sales Table-Manager Volunteer for the Fall Seminar, Saturday, October 14th
One last task we need help with at the Fall Seminar this weekend!
Love books? Love attending super awesome seminars for free??
Well then, what are you waiting for!?
We need someone to manage the book sales table at the Seminar on Saturday, Oct 14th.
This special volunteer will get to listen and sit in for FREE at the Seminar. This person will need to sit at the book table during the sessions, but they’ll have a wonderful view of the seminar and will be able to listen in on all the information. Think of it! That’s a $50-55 value for so little effort.
Interested? Email seminar@gfo.org now! No, right now!! Why are you still waiting?
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Fall Seminar is this weekend and we’re so excited!
Don’t miss out! We’ve moved the Fall Workshop to the Milwaukie Center!
Oct 14th, 10am to 4:30pm, AND Oct 15th 9:30am – noon at the Milwaukie Center
Those already on the Workshop’s Wait-List will be contacted directly. If you’re not on the wait-list for the Workshop, you better act fast!! Click the Register link below before it’s too late, again!
Did you know genealogy is the second most popular hobby in the United States? Have you also noticed how much hubbub there has been lately about DNA and how DNA can help find missing links, missing parentage, and more?
The GFO’s Fall Seminar has all of these hot topics and more! Registration for Saturday’s Seminar AND for Sunday’s Workshop is open open open. Click HERE to register now.
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I’m just back from a wonderful trip along the coast of Maine and New Brunswick. At the border (Calais, ME and St. Stephens, NB), and on the Maine side, there is Fort Knox. This fort was constructed for a war that never really came….between 1812 and the Civil War. Now here’s the point: “Our” Isaac Stevens was the first engineer on this project in 1846…. long before he came west. I found that most interesting. Also, in October virtually all of Maine decorates for Halloween and there are pumpkins everywhere and on every stoop. Thought you’d like to know this too.
Is your favorite morning juice apple from the Tree Top company?
Back in 1944, a co-op of over 1000 apple growers was formed with headquarters in Selah under the leadership of William H. “Bill” Charbonneau. Realizing that the public was dissatisfied with “fruity drinks that contained only 15% real juice” which he called “belly wash masquerading as the real thing,” he determined to do better with Washington apples. He founded the Tree Top company with the high standards of “all natural, no sugar added,” which still is followed today.
Today, Tree Top’s seven plants produce a long line of apple products with apple juice and cider being the backbone of the retail market. Bill’s genius was to take the “culls,” those fruits deemed undesirable as eating apples, and turn them into a useful product. Up to this time, the culls had been dumped by truck loads into the landfill.
The name, Tree Top, arrived in 1947, with the contest winner to name the company. Today, America’s #1 selling apple juice is Tree Top, made right here in Washington!
(From Tree Top: Creating a Fruit, great book by David H. Stratton, published in 2010 by the WSU Press.)
IS there a book with my family in it? I’ve been asked that question many times and not just in beginning classes. The answer is this: You won’t know if you don’t go looking.
So please don’t dump genealogy for knitting or sky diving until you’ve looked for your Bazeleel Jinglemeyer in every place you can think of.
Diane Huckabee told the story of finding the name LaStone for a child….. and after much pondering, she realized it must stand for “Last One!” (Just had to toss that in here for you; thanks, Diane, for sharing.)
What – exactly – is a social media manager and does your society need one? Learn some tricks of this growing professional area and how to convert that to assist your non-profit genealogy society.
Ever see one of these critters before?? This is a Harp Guitar and it’s being held by Gary Zimmerman in the Pioneer Descendants Hall museum which comprises the floors above the Fiske Library.
“The harp guitar (or “harp–guitar“) is a guitar-based stringed instrument with a history of well over two centuries. … The word “harp” is used in reference to its harp-like unstopped open strings. A harp guitar must have at least one unfretted string lying off the main fretboard, typically played as an open string.” (Wikipedia)
These are still being created; a new one can cost up to $8000. Yikes.
Looks like the December 5 and December 7 webinars should be viewed by every genealogical society in Washington
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