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Eastside Genealogical Society October Meeting

by Charles Hansen

The Eastside Genealogical Society will meet on Thursday, October 12, 2017 in the LDS Bellevue South Stake Center, 15205 SE 28th St,(Across 148th Ave from Bellevue College, behind LDS Temple), Bellevue, WA 98007 at 7 pm, with doors opening at 6:30 pm for networking.

 

Topic: Go West, Young Man: Online Resources for the Western United States.   Cowboys, ranchers, miners, & pioneers with wanderlust led to colorful history and lifestyles. Learn about traditional & unique records found in the Wild West.

 

Speaker: Cyndi Ingle is owner & webmaster of Cyndi’s List, a categorized list of over 336,000 online genealogical resources.   She is also a seminar presenter & an author.

 

Also see our website for FREE genealogical help and other Special Interest Group meetings. Visitors are always welcome at all meetings. https://eastsidegenealogicalsociety.com/

TriCity Genealogical Society October Seminar

by Charles Hansen

 

Understanding your DNA

with Diahan Southard

Diahan Southard

Saturday Oct 14, 2017, 9 am – 3:30 pm

Registration 8-9 am

Shalom United Church of Christ, Richland, WA

Cost: $40, provides seminar, buffet lunch and syllabus. Lunch & syllabus not included after Sep 30.

Maximum Seating: 120

On site consultation with Diahan, Oct 13 or 14

Topics:

  • Let Your DNA Tell Your Story
  • Five Tips to Make Sense of Your DNA Testing
  • Organizing Your Genetic Genealogy
  • Try Your Hand at Genetic Genealogy

Register for the seminar

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Out of Town Attendees

The Shilo Inn in Richland is offering a seminar rate of $84 plus tax.  When you contact them tell them that you are associated with the Tri-City Genealogical Society and would like the special rate.

OLYMPIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY October Meeting

by Charles Hansen

OLYMPIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY October meeting will feature Erin Whitesel-Jones from the Olympia/Tumwater Foundation talking about “Schmidt House Archives”.  October 12 at 7 pm, Thurston County Courthouse, Building 1, Room 152.  Info 360-451-1059

Thank-you    JOYCE OGDEN, PUBLICITY

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Joyce T. Ogden
jtogden@comcast.net

Tuesday Trivia

by Charles Hansen

Many of us, including hubbies, are golfers. At the recent Northwest Genealogy Conference in Arlington, two of our meals were at the nearby golf course and I spotted and photo’d this there. It is the history of golf balls!  “For hundreds of years prior to 1850, golf balls were made of a leather covering stuffed with feathers.” In case you cannot read it, at the “11:00 position” it reads “Wooden Ball, ca. 1600.”  Next (12:00) is the “Feathery, 1600-1848.” Kinda interesting even if you’re not a golfer. Who would have ever guessed that early golf balls were stuffed with feathers??

Monday’s Mystery

by Charles Hansen

Darn, nobody posted an answer to the last Mystery posting…the apparent WW II landing craft beached on the western shore of the Columbia River across from where the Spokane River merges. I even asked Google; nada. Ohwell, the answer is out there………….somewhere.

Here’s today’s mystery: What sort of bush/tree is this? I photo’d it growing in the Madison neighborhood on Lake Washington north of the U of W campus. Brought back memories of another place we lived. Ideas?

Spotlight on Okanogan Genealogy Society

by Charles Hansen

I met with the dedicated and eager bunch of the Okanogan Genealogy Society members in early September. President Noma Wyllson arranged a lasagna dinner for the board (and me) at her home.

The youngsters at either end, Camden and Shaelyn Irwin, are grandchildren of a missing Board member, Peggy Oliver.  Others are, L to R: Peggy Murray, Maggie Mitschelen, Phil Brown, Karyl Hubbard, and president Noma, seated. (Two young people! How lucky that society is!)

The ginormous project the group has embarked upon is to created an online database of all the Okanogan County cemeteries (and Okanogan County is the biggest county in Washington), with the names and GPS locations of the burials. They are gleaning this information from a dozen sources. Ultimately, they would like to include a complete biography on each person and an interactive map on their website where you can click on an arrow for that cemetery. Talk about ambition!

As we chatted (and as a representative of the Washington State Genealogical Society), I also asked about the problems the society was having. Noma quickly quipped: “We were adrift and going nowhere and so I became president and took charge!” We agreed that a big project, like their cemetery project, would do wonders for the morale and growth of the society. Other “problems” were the usual ones: what’s the best day/time for the meetings and how to attract and keep members.

Sharon Liebert, of Wenatchee, is the WSGS Rep for Region 8, which includes this society and will be working to help them in any way she can.

Genealogical Forum of Oregon Fall Seminar

by Charles Hansen

 

Help Spread The Word! GFO’s Fall Seminar Is Coming!!
 

More CeCe Moore Please!

Oct 14th, 10am to 4:30pm, at the Milwaukie Center

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 is still open open open. Online registration is HERE.

Please help us spread the word by downloading the seminar flyer to share with your patrons and any other interested parties!
 

Seattle Genealogical Society Tip of the Week

by Charles Hansen

TIP OF THE WEEK –
MISSOURI DEATH CERTIFICATES, 1910-1966

Scanned images of Missouri death certificates from 1910 through 1966 are now available online for free! An index of the Missouri death certificates can be found here:

https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/DeathCertificates#searchDB

Their search engine is very comprehensive. The database can be searched by first, middle, and/or last name, county, year and month, or many combinations of these parameters. Digitized images of the original death certificates are linked to the search results, and may be viewed or downloaded at no charge.

This site will be very valuable to people with ancestors who died in Missouri within this time period.

Seattle Genealogical Society News

by Charles Hansen

ELIZABETH HOWIE,
VOLUNTEER OF SUMMER QUARTER

Elizabeth Howie, who was selected to be SGS Volunteer of the Summer Quarter, has been an active member of SGS for many years. Currently she is the Front Desk Volunteer Coordinator, a role she has filled twice in the past.

 

Responsible for recruiting and training new front desk volunteers, and for coordinating the schedule of volunteers for the desk, Elizabeth makes sure there is always an able and experienced volunteer on site to greet patrons and help them with their research.

Elizabeth has many genealogical interests that keep her busy when she isn’t wrangling front desk volunteers. Past research trips include journeys to Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. These trips didn’t lead to much in the way of genealogical discoveries, as the countries were so beautiful she didn’t want to be indoors with books and papers! She had fun visiting the library in Salt Lake City and hopes to return there for more fun.

Art Loh, who was Elizabeth’s beloved companion, was an electrician who worked and set up the printers for the patrons and volunteers. Sadly, he passed away in 2011.

Thank you, Elizabeth, for your years of service. SGS couldn’t survive without the help of wonderful volunteers like you.

NEW SGS VICE PRESIDENT, GARY EPPERLEY

Congratulations to Gary Epperley! The Board approved the appointment of Gary to the position of Vice President of the Seattle Genealogical Society, which has been operating without a VP for quite a while.

In addition to his regular vice presidential duties, Gary has agreed to assume some responsibilities for the maintenance of our technology and the transference to the new website.

SGS is very happy to have Gary on board!

 

KICKOFF FOR THE NEW
“SECOND SATURDAY SPEAKER SERIES”

Hope you were able to catch the debut of our new program, “Second Saturday Speaker Series”, last weekend at the SGS Library. We were lucky enough to have the founder of the renowned website Cyndi’s List as our first speaker. Not only is Cyndi Ingle a talented webmaster and speaker, she is pretty funny to boot.

 

As the name implies “Second Saturday Speaker Series” takes place on the second Saturday of the month from 1:00 pm-2:30 pm at the SGS Library. Each month will be a new speaker and a new topic. Here’s a preview of what’s in the pipeline.

Oct 14, 2017 “Trails West: Crossing the Continent 1840-1869” Mary Kircher Roddy

Nov 11, 2017 “Using social Media for Family History: Why Bother?” Mary Kathryn Kozy

Jan 13, 2018 “Chinese Exclusion Act Files – Original Documents at NARA” Trish Nicola

Feb 10, 2018 “Using Academic Libraries for Genealogy Research” Lisa Oberg

Mar 10, 2018 “Finding and Using Historic Newspapers” Claudia Breland

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