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Seattle Genealogical Society News

by Charles Hansen

Seattle

* WANTED *
 PHOTOS FROM 2015 FALL SEMINAR

Did you attend last year’s Fall Seminar or one of the special Sunday sessions with Dr. Thomas W. Jones? Did you take any photos?

We need one or two good pictures from this event for our 4Culture grant application. These annual $3000 grants are key to our financial success, and our seminars are one of the reasons that 4Culture continues to support SGS.

Please contact secretary@seattlegenealogicalsociety.org if you have a photo to share.

KUDOS TO JOHN

This past week SGS volunteer, John Harley, installed three smoke detectors in the SGS Library. We’d like to thank John for his invaluable and expert help. Our Library had been without any smoke detectors. We all feel safer now.

SGS HALLOWEEN OPEN HOUSE
 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30th, 1:00-4:00pm

Come to the SGS Library for some tricks & treats, plus a tiptoe through some fascinating tombstones. At 2:00pm Jean A Roth, a descendant of Salem Witch Trials families, will present “Dead Men Tell No Tales; Or, Do They?”

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Ferry County Man Stumbles Upon A 100 Year Old Artifact

by Charles Hansen
Taylor Viydo , KREM 9:12 PM. PDT October 14, 2016….THANK YOU, KREM IN SPOKANE FOR SHARING THIS WONDERFUL STORY!

 

ORIENT, Wash. — In Northern Washington, a Ferry County man and his brother were using a metal detector when they stumbled upon something pretty unique.

Last week, the two brothers were using a metal detector behind a school, in the small town of Orient, Wash.

Previously, they found old pieces of scrap metal and a license plate.

This time, they stumbled upon a round metal item. At first, the brothers just thought it was junk. Upon further inspection of the item, they saw the name Willie Fryett engraved on the back of it.

NIck Porter looked at school records to try and find someone who matched that name. He was able to find a Willie Fryett who was part of the inaugural class at the Orient school in 1910.
Porter then went to Google and ancestry.com to find out more about Fryett.

Porter said he was able to figure out Fryett left Orient around 1920 and headed West to Bremerton, Washington.

Luckily, Porter was able to find an email address for someone who had the last name Fryett in Western Washington. He decided to try and email the person to see if they had heard of Willie Fryett.

Porter got an email back from a person saying he was the great-grandson of Willie Fryett.

This weekend, Porter will meet up with Willie Fryett’s descendants to give them the watch piece and a copy of Fryett’s school photo.

What very well could have ended up as trash, now will become a family treasure.

German Interest Group of The Eastside Genealogical Society Meeting

by Charles Hansen

EGS

 

The German Interest Group of The Eastside Genealogical Society will meet on Friday, November 4, 2016 from 1 to 3 pm in the Relief Society Room of the LDS Church at 10675 NE 20thSt, Bellevue, WA 98004 with doors opening at 12:45 pm for networking.  Visitors are always welcome at our meetings.

 

Topic:  “Books for Researching Your German Ancestors”: Members are bringing the books they have found helpful for researching in the US & in Europe and will very briefly tell about each one. It’s a great opportunity to learn more about the best books and get ideas for your Christmas Wish Lists or/and your winter research reading. Also, some of these books may be available through your local library.

 

For more information, kindly visit our website at https://egsgermangroup.wordpress.com/  .

 

Eastside Genealogical Society Meeting

by Charles Hansen

EGS

 

The Eastside Genealogical Society will meet on Thursday, November 10, 2016 in the Bellevue Regional Library (Room 1), 1111 – 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004 at 7 pm, with doors opening at 6:45 pm for networking.

Topic:  “PROFILE OF A QUAKER – Friends in Colonial America” will be presented by Steven W. Morrison, a professional genealogist and speaker.   The profile of a Quaker (Religious Society of Friends) can be as distinctive as a fingerprint. This is due to their ethnic origin, belief system, marriage practices, and separate record structure. This session will teach you profiling techniques, so you can spot a QUAKER in colonial America. Come learn how you might identify a Quaker among your ancestors.

Also see our website for FREE genealogical help and other Special Interest Group meetings. Visitors are always welcome at all meetings. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakcegs/

Genealogical Forum of Oregon Workshop Sold Out

by Charles Hansen

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THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’s

Special News Flash

Sunday’s Workshop SOLD OUT

16 October 2016
Taylor in October

THIS SUNDAY’s WORKSHOP IS SOLD OUT!!

We sincerely apologize for any confusion, but this Sunday’s Workshop with Mr. Taylor is SOLD OUT.

The Library will be closed until 1pm.

NO FAMILY TREE MAKER CLASS

Again, we apologize for any inconvenience, but to make room for the sold out workshop, the Family Tree Maker class has been canceled.

Researchers and general visitors to the Library are welcome to share the GFO’s Library resources after 1pm on Sunday, October 16th.

Thanks so much for your understanding and consideration.

Sincerely,

The GFO

Alice Whitman Chapter DAR Meeting

by Charles Hansen

Saturday – 15 Oct 2016

ALICE WHITMAN CHAPTER

DAR is “Historic Preservation – Education – Patriotism”

Ridge Point Clubhouse, 1400 SE Fancy Free Drive, Pullman WA

Luncheon at 12:00 Noon  —  Meeting begins at 1 p.m.

Hostesses:  Mmes. Lohrey-Birch, Dillman, Petura, Muir, Trail, Hawbaker

Please RSVP by 12 Oct with lunch count to Doris Lohrey-Birch – ph 509-338-0425

Program:  DAR Museum – Period Rooms

Speaker:  Joye Dillman, CDIT

Directions to Ridge Pointe Clubhouse:

From South, continue on WA27 (ignore the bypass) to enter Pullman, turn right onto Bishop Blvd at the first stoplight (about 1.2 miles).  Proceed on Bishop through the next two stop lights (about ¾ mile) then turn left into Ridge Pointe and hang a tight left onto Fancy Free Drive.  The clearly marked Clubhouse will be around the bend and on your right.  It is two miles from the bypass).  Ridge Pointe entry is directly across from the emergency entrance to Pullman Regional Hospital.

Directions from East:  Enter via 270 Pullman/Moscow Highway.  Turn left at the Bishop Blvd intersection and stay on Bishop as it winds past the river and curves up the hill.  Turn right into Ridge Point community.  The turn is directly across the small sign marking the emergency entrance to the hospital.  It’s about 8/10 mile from the turnoff from 270.

Parking:  There are spaces in front of the clubhouse and a few across the street.  Also a group of about six spaces on the left at the dead end of Fancy Free at the next left.

Tacoma Pierce County Gen Society Newsflash

by Charles Hansen

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The next Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, October 11, 2016.

Do you still have a brick wall that needs to be broken through, or do you still need that one bit of information on where you could look to find the ancestor that seems to hiding so well?  We want to help, so October’s meeting is going to start off with “Your Brickwall”.  Join us at 6pm on October 11th and bring your questions (or answers for others) and let see if we can’t break through that wall.

 

Then,  after our short business meeting, we will have a presentation from Liz Osborn, one of our TPCGS members, on her historic family cookbook, and how it all started with a phone call…..do you have Grandma’s recipe for……how many of us have asked that question before!  What a great adventure Liz and her daughter had on creating the cookbook…I can’t wait to hear all about it!

Hope to see everyone there!  And remember, visitors are always welcome, so bring a friend.

TPCGS monthly meetings are held September – May at Bates Technical College, South Campus, Building E, 2201 South 78th St., Tacoma.  Meetings are from 6pm – 9pm.  In between the two talks, there will be a short business meeting along with a social time and light refreshments.  Find more information at www.tpcgs.org

Serendipity Day

by Charles Hansen

Quite short today; just back from cruising the coast of Norway. And it was fabulous (Hurtigruten; we recommend it). I learned that second to Ireland, Norway lost the most folks to emigration and I could certainly imagine why. Too many rocks, too little farm area, too few forests, rocks, cold seawater, monotonous diet (cod), etc. Apparently many left from Trondheim where next to a statue of Leif Ericson (hubby John posing) there was a 30-foot long wall with plaques bearing the names and dates of many of those emigrants. Is all this info in a database somewhere???

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No wonder they left………. what would lure YOU away from such as this? See the drying codfish?

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Serendipity Day

by Charles Hansen

Granger Tombstone Story

By Donna Potter Phillips,  July 2016

Having a nice summer walk in my favorite place, Fairmount Cemetery (west end of Wellesley in Spokane) I happened to park right next to this grave marker.

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Father, Charles W. Granger, 1854-1935  //  Mother, Edith C. Granger, 1868-1962.

Right next to this was a marker for their son:

 

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Louis (named after his paternal grandfather) was born in 1893 in Washington and died on 21 Jun 1919 at the family home in Nine Mile Falls.

According to the history etched upon his tombstone, Louis served as a member of the Allied Expeditionary Forces. The 91st Division was constituted in 1917 at Camp Lewis, Washington and departed for England in the summer of 1918. Louis was with his unit in Sept 1918 when they fought in France at the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. In 1919 the 91st Division was inactivated at the Presidio in San Francisco.

Louis died on 21 Jun 1919 and I wonder if it was from wounds of war??

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