Category Archives: Society News

Kittitas County Genealogical Society Holiday Dinner

by Charles Hansen

The KCGS will continue the tradition of having an annual holiday dinner. It is now planned for Monday, December 4, at 6 pm, at the First Methodist Church.The meal is prepared and served by members of the church and will cost $14 this year. The event usually includes musical entertainment and sharing of small gifts. Members and guests are welcome to attend. Reservations are due by Nov. 27 and may be made by mail—to 413 N. Main, Ellensburg, 98926 or by calling the library during office hours—Monday to Wednesday from 10am to 4 pm.

Eastern Washington Genealogical Society Christmas Party

by Charles Hansen

Saturday, December 2
Christmas Party – celebrating The Famous and Infamous  (EWGS Meetings)
12:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Spokane Public Library Auditorium, Downtown Spokane
Do you have a famous or infamous ancestor, or know of an interesting local person?
For example: Great Uncle Harry was a Bigamist? Horse Thief? Inventor? Spy? Soldier? Hero? Scholar? Author? Movie Star? Tell us a story ..
Did you know Klondike Kate lived in Spokane for a time?
Did Butch Cassidy really retire and live in Spokane under an alias?
Who was Willy Wiley?
Share a story and a picture or two from a newspaper article or other source. Visual aids are great!
Please bring your plate of Christmas cookies and a story to share at our December Holiday event.
Casual holiday attire is recommended but not required.
December is a time to tell a tale, eat some delicious cookies and have a great time.
Hope to see you there!!
If you have questions or suggestions please contact Mary Holcomb:   mkholcomb@live.com

Lower Columbia Genealogical Society December Meeting

by Charles Hansen

As the holidays approach, the Lower Columbia Genealogical Society is happy to welcome representatives of the

COWLITZ COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

to our December meeting. The presentation will include Cowlitz County history and activities, information about Habitat’s national organization and international disaster relief.

DONATIONS OF NO LONGER NEEDED BUT USABLE ITEMS AROUND YOUR HOME CAN BE GIVEN TO THE HABITAT STORE AT 1321 S. 13TH AVENUE, KELSO, WA, 9 TO 5, WED THRU SATURDAY. 360-636-6765

LOWER COLUMBIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~walcolgs/

SOMERSET RETIREMENT APARTMENTS

2025 TIBBETTS DRIVE, LONGVIEW

DINING ROOM 7:00 PM

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Visitors are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Seattle Genealogical Society News

by Charles Hansen

SUCH A SUCCESS

Hopefully you didn’t miss Dick Eastman, publisher of the popular Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter, at the SGS Fall Seminar a few weeks ago. He spoke to a packed house and it was a fun day. Attendees appreciated that there was plenty of opportunity for Q&A.

The Seminar Committee anticipated a larger than usual crowd so they commissioned two rooms for this seminar. The room usually used for the presentation was set up just to accommodate registration, book sales, refreshments, and plenty of lunch tables. A larger auditorium, set up classroom style with chairs and writing tables, was dedicated to the lecture. Everyone seemed to like the new arrangement.

Did you catch Dick’s recent blog with kind words and thanks to SGS? The sentiment is reciprocated. Thanks so much to you, Dick. It was a great seminar.

A link to that blog is here : https://blog.eogn.com/2017/10/23/thank-you-seattle-genealogical-society/#more-20229

HURRY – FREE THROUGH NOVEMBER 17th

The recording of webinar “Using Non-Population Schedules for Context and Evidence” by Jill Morelli, CG is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

Most are familiar with the decennial censuses, but the non-population schedules can also provide evidence and context for your family history. Using basic analytical skills and correlating tools, investigate five different records sets which shed light on many aspects of your ancestors lives and enrich your stories of them.

SGS CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Unless otherwise indicated all programs will be at the SGS Library, 6200 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle. Check the SGS Web Site for additions, changes, and corrections. Programs may be canceled or postponed because of inclement weather. The SGS Library will be closed from November 23 through November 27 and from December 22 through January 1, 2018, for the holidays. The Scandinavian Interest Group will not meet in December.

NOVEMBER

Saturday, November 18, 10:15am – 12:15pm, Irish SIG, with Jean Roth

Saturday, November 18, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Women in WWI, presented by Lisa Oberg

Sunday, November 19, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, DNA Workshop, Led by Cary Bright with first hour on a specific topic, and the second hour open for sharing DNA issues with focus on GenomeMate Pro.

DECEMBER

Saturday, December 2, 10:15am – 12:15pm, Family Tree Interest Group, Lou Daly, leader of this special interest group exploring all the features of the tool Family Tree on FamilySearch.

Saturday, December 9, 10:15am – 12:15pm, Family Tree Maker (FTM) Users Group, with Reiley Kidd and Betty Ravenholt, leaders

Saturday, December 16, 10:15am – 12:15pm, Irish SIG, with Jean Roth

Saturday, December 16, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, German SIG, with Jean Roth

 

Tri-City Genealogical Society December Meeting

by Charles Hansen

Hello TCGS Members and Guests:

Would you like to highlight and display something about your ancestral history?

Would you like to display a collection that you inherited from one of your ancestors?

Would you like to display an heirloom, antique or vintage item that was handed down from your ancestors?

Would you like to display a personal hobby or a collection you had from the past or currently engaged in?

 

If so, this is what our December 13th meeting will be all about. We want you to share with us via photographs, documents and a display of family anitques/heirlooms and hobbies and collections. Hobbies and collections of the past are very much part of your ancestral legacy, but your personal past/current hobbies and collections will also become a family legacy to your descendants.

Please consider what you would like to bring to this meeting to display. This will be fun to get to know more about you or your ancestors.

Also, we are asking each of you to bring either homemade or store bought Christmas cookies, candies, fudge, muffins, or breads (banana, zucchini, apple, pumpkin, etc.) to share with one another.

If you have any questions about what to bring, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you for supporting TCGS.

Art Kelly

 

 

https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar_details.php?webinar_id=586

    Wednesday, November 15, 2017

 

Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society November Meeting

by Charles Hansen

 

Jill Morelli, CG will be presenting part 2 of an Overview of Scandinavian Resources which will present an introduction to three major record sets of Sweden, Denmark and Norway in a two part series.  The presentation will be Tuesday, November 14th at 1pm.  The presentation will be held at the Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society Library, is free to the public and will be followed by the regular meeting of the SVGS.  Jill lectures and writes about her research and discoveries as a family historian.  She is a member of the Genealogical Speakers Guild, Association of Professional Genealogists and numerous societies and is coming to us from Seattle, WA.