Family Search is back working, I wrote it was a scheduled maintenance that would take Family Search offline for up to 24 hours, but I guess it went better than planned. James Turner wrote a great article on the change.
Great that it is back sooner than expected and that the changes will help all of us with our family trees.
To all HQRL Members and friends
THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’s Wednesday Evening E-News 22 June 2016
For more information visit www.gfo.org, contact us at info@gfo.org, or call our library at 503-963-1932. We love hearing from you!
For a complete GFO CALENDAR go to www.gfo.org/calendar.htm.
Also, if you missed your free copy of our monthly Insider, you’re in luck because we saved you a copy at http://www.gfo.org/insider/16-May.pdf.
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Be sure to join us on July 31st at the GFO Library!
The GFO proudly presents…
Digital Photos: Scanning, Preparing, Organizing, and Sharing & Legacy Family Tree Software
Come join us for this amazing workshop opportunity with Geoffrey Rasmussen on Sunday, July 31, 2016, from 9:30am to 2:00pm.
Learn from the best to organize and share your digital photos by using Google’s new Google Photos! Geoffrey Rasmussen will teach you the best practices for digitizing, preserving and enhancing your photograph collections. He will also give tips on how you can readily access your collections on your computer, smartphone, or tablet.
Click HERE to register before obsolescence takes over the world as we know it.
FamilySearch Will Be Down This Monday
The FamilySearch website will be undergoing a technical upgrade Monday, June 27th starting at 12 midnight MDT (6am UTC), and may be down for up to 24 hours as they test the system.
The entire FamilySearch system will be down, including the API that RootsMagic uses to interface with it, so during that time you will be unable to:
This is a major upgrade to the FamilySearch back end, but once complete you should not experience any adverse effects in RootsMagic from the change. We will, however, be closely monitoring the interaction between RootsMagic and FamilySearch once they have completed the upgrade to make sure there are no issues that creep in.
If you do encounter problems with FamilySearch after they have completed the upgrade, give it a couple of days to “shake out”. If the issues continue after that please let us know the specific details at support@rootsmagic.com.
Thorp Grist Mill, Ellensburg
Shadow Box Memorial
Old B&W Unknown Photo Wants a Home
Mary Ellen’s Story
Thomas MacEntee’s Fairy Grants
We zoom east to west and back again on I-90 and sometimes we stop at “Thorpe.” That be the antique/fruit stand just west of Ellensburg. It is, admittedly, a super rest stop. But have you ever taken time to drive the 1.8 miles down the road to see the Thorpe Mill??
Built between 1880 and 1883, the Thorp Grist Mill “is the only remaining mill in Washington state that made the transition from stone buhr to modern rollers. The mill has been lovingly restored and maintained so that visitors can catch a glimpse of history back to the early days of settlement in the state.” (Quote from their website.) It’s free to go inside and take the guided tour (Wednesday through Friday, 12:00-4:00 and Saturday/Sunday, 11:00-4:00.) Tiz a fascinating historical stop. The website is www.thorp.org.
Kittitas Co Genealogical Soc events:
June 25 Meeting is a field trip 8:50 AM (we depart at 9AM) Sat June 25 from parking lot on Water St in Ellensburg WA, behind our KCGS library. We’re visiting Wanapum Heritage Center, whose prime-mover, for years, has been our KCGS-member Angela Neller. Their phone is 509-766-3461, if you want to meet us there at Priest Rapids Dam & website
http://www.grantpud.org/community/the-wanapum/wanapum-heritage-center
for directions and explanations. Bring a brown bag lunch to eat there
The society will furnish beverages for lunch—bottled water, lemonade, ice tea. Hope to see you on Saturday.
The drive to Tacoma was going good till we got to Cle Elum and three lanes of traffic merged to one lane at about 5 miles an hour, but that was just a preview of the I-5 rush hour traffic. Glad we only had to go 12 miles on I-5 before we turned off. Went sight seeing at Ocean Shores Friday morning, and got caught in another slow down by Fort Lewis on way back to the WSGS board meeting. Greeted with Happy Birthday at the board meeting when I arrived 15 minutes late. Friday night was a get acquainted meeting with Cyndi Ingals and Paula Stuart-Warren which was great and probably more fun than any get acquainted meeting I have been to.
Saturday was the actual conference and it was pretty full, many happy genealogists eager to learn. The raffle tickets sold well (but I did not win anything).
Had to get a good photo of the raffle ticket seller.
The first two topics were Your Anytime Library: Success In the Virtual Stocks; and Railroad Records and Railroad History: Methods for Tracking. Then Lunch:
My Chicken Caesar and my sisters Cobb salads.
After lunch I had an awful time keeping awake, but Paula ‘s subjects were Untrod Ground: Sources you May not Have Encountered and Controlling Chaos: Organizing Your Genealogical Materials. Then the raffle prizes and they had a lot of wonderful prizes.
Don’t you just love it when they are lining up everyone for the photos?
Well all the WSGS officers that were at the conference except two, one left early and one getting us ready for this photo (my fellow blogger Roxanne).
Those of us that were staying till Sunday were invited to a no host dinner with the Tacoma Genealogical Society volunteers and Paula Stuart-Warren where we discussed genealogy while having a nice quiet dinner.
The Daughters of the American Revolution, the Sons of the American Revolution, and the TriCity Genealogical Society are joining together for a day of fun in the sun at the park. This will happen at the River of Fire Festival in the Columbia Park in Kennewick on the 4th of July. This combined group is very excited about the activities that they have planned to share with the public. Please read the attached description and share it with your public. We would also like to extend this as a personal invitation for you to join us. There will be something for everyone during this wonderful reason to celebrate.
If you want more information about the Patriotic Heritage Booth please don’t hesitate to contact me personally at 509-554-1050 or reply to this email.
~Susan Davis Faulkner
On the EWGS Facebook page today was a link from an article by Megan Smolenyak telling about an article in the Washington Post by Terrance McCoy on the Georgetown University sale of 272 slaves to pay off debts owed by Georgetown University:Link here ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/06/17/georgetowns-priests-sold-her-ancestors-into-slavery-heres-how-she-cracked-the-mystery/ )
This is a copy of the Blog post I did for the EWGS blog a few days ago where Pat Bayonne-Johnson met the President of Georgetown University:
EWGS President Patricia Bayonne-Johnson descendant of slaves that were sold by Georgetown University in 1838, meets with Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia at the Spokane Public Library. Read the article by Rachel L. Swarns of the New York Times. (https://goodblacknews.org/author/goodblacknews/ ) or the article in the Spokesman Review
Here is some pictures of the meeting:
Pat and John DeGioia
Greeting the team of researchers.
Sitting down to talk about the research.