Yakima Valley Genealogical Society
1901 S. 12th Avenue
Union Gap, WA 98903
Phone: (509) 248-1328
Email: yvgs@yvgs.net
Yakima Valley Genealogical Society
General Meeting will be held in the library
Date: Saturday, August 02, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Kathy Sizer will be giving a presentation on the Washington State Digital Archives.
She will be talking about all the different records available there on-line and how to use the site.
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The Clark County Genealogical Society (CCGS) announces a searchable list of surplus books for sale on our website. You may also download a pdf of available titles. All books are on display in our library.
There are two ways to purchase a book.
In person: purchase from a Librarian at the CCGS Library with cash or a check.
By mail: contact Denise Erkkila at denisee@ccgswa.org to determine book availability and total cost (book, sales tax, USPS postage). Payment is by check only.
We hope you take a look and find something that will support your research!
Please come and visit our library in Vancouver, WA. The library is open from 10 am to 3 pm, Tuesday through Friday, and from 11 am to 3 pm on the second Saturday of each month.
Questions? Call 360-750-5688 or send an email to info@ccgswa.org.
Clark County Genealogical Society
3205 NE 52nd Street
Vancouver, WA 98663
Website: https://www.ccgs-wa.org/
| Please Join Us for our educational classes to learn more about researching your family roots! (offered online via Zoom and in person at HQRL) Thursday, July 24, 2025 11am to 12pm PDT Introducing American Ancestors This program introduces the viewer to American Ancestors – who we are, what we do, and how we can help you. With a focus on what is available to virtual viewers, this program talks about navigating our website, exploring our databases, finding subject guides, research templates and more. Our online accessible collections cover a wide range of genealogical records from the 17th to 21st century and span geographic locaƟons from New England, the rest of the United States, as well as Canada and Europe. Our services include online courses, Ancestry, our tree platform, online chat as well as Research for hire. Join this program to learn how American Ancestors can help you accomplish your genealogy goals.  Claire Vail Claire Vail has twenty years of experience as a digital marketing and content strategist for high-profile institutions in higher education, publishing, and media. Before joining American Ancestors, she was Director of Web Communications at Tufts University, where she oversaw the implementation of large-scale website redesign and content management implementation projects for several Schools, including the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Claire has a master’s degree in journalism from Northeastern University and a second master’s in English literature from the University of Delaware, with a concentration in eighteenth century British and American studies. Her ancestry is Northern Italian (though Ancestry insists she’s actually French and German), British and Irish. Her interest in family history stems from finding her great grandmother’s name on a ship manifest from Palermo, a single line that listed her as “housewife” and “illiterate.” Claire is hoping to continue researching her ancestry back as far as possible, and to visit Udine, the town in the Friuli region of Northern Italy, to meet her cousins and learn more from them about the family. CLICK HERE TO SIGN-UP |
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| 15 July 2025 Dear SGS Members, What are you doing for your genealogy this summer? Here are few ideas. Join our Vice President at the SGS Library tomorrow (6pm, Wed July 16) for research! Sign into seagensoc.org as a member and watch one of the great recorded videos of a presentation you missed? Visit a cemetery or a historical society you’ve never been to before. Renew your SGS membership because your forgot to a few months ago? Talk to your elders or cousins to add family details to what you already know. Join our SGS Facebook Networking group for questions and conversation? Spend a few hours organizing your files? Review our Special Interest Groups and join a new one? I just finished a big genealogy project and am planning a new one. I will research my second great grandfather’s brother, who was one of Seattle’s earliest inhabitants. He had no children who lived to adulthood, so he has no direct descendants to tell his story. We have some surprises for you that we are working on at SGS. For one, our SGS logo at the top of this message may be new to you. This logo lost its gold years ago due to concerns over the costs of yellow ink. The Board is re-introducing it because there is no ink to purchase for delivering this message! Have a great genealogy-filled summer! Kathy Weber President of the Board president@seagensoc.org |
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Have you always wanted to do your genealogy but did not know where to start? The Skagit Valley Genealogical Society has the class for you…SVGS, in conjunction with the Celtic Arts Foundation, presents Genealogy 101, a two-hour course on the basics of family history research, Saturday July 26, 2025. Choose either the morning (9-11am) or afternoon (1-3pm) class. This is SVGS’s 2025 fundraiser, tickets are $15, go to https://www.celticarts.org/event/genealogy-101 for tickets.
The Grays Harbor Genealogical Society is hosting local favorite John Hughes at their next meeting, Saturday July 12, 2025. The program begins at 10:00 a.m. at the Hoquiam Library and is open to the public.
John, now fully retired as the State Historian, will talk about his latest book, New Land, which is the story of how Southeast Asian refugees found a home in Washington state in the fallout of the Fall of Saigon in Vietnam in 1975. New Land, which was John’s final book project as our state historian, revisits several of those former refugees to tell their stories of life in America. Several of those stories happened in Willapa Harbor in Pacific County. Regardless of how you view today’s debate on immigration, you may find some surprises in these stories.
For many of us, John is a local treasure. He’s a home-grown example of how a love of Grays Harbor history and an appreciation for people who’ve stepped up and made a difference in our community and our state can motivate and inspire us to keep going, keep trying to make a difference.
The hybrid meeting begins at 10:00 a.m. and is open to all. The in-person meeting will be at the Hoquiam Library, 420 7th Avenue, Hoquiam. For a Zoom link, email Info@graysharborgenealogy.com.
Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society Monthly Educational Meeting
Tuesday, July 8, 2025, starting at 6:00 pm
This month’s presentation: “Organizing Your Genealogy Information” will be an interactive discussion led by Tim Ward.
This meeting will be hybrid and we encourage everyone who is able to attend in person at our new meeting location:
University Place Library
3609 Market PL W.
University Place, WA 98466
and via Zoom for those unable to attend in person.
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Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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Jennifer Warner has worked in both public and special libraries from 1990-2019, most recently as a reference librarian from 2001-2019. She has also been doing genealogy for over 42 years. She has been the editor of a Civil War Roundtable Newsletter for over 12 years. Jennifer has been active and continues to participate in many genealogical and lineage societies including the Du Page County Historical Museum. She loves helping people learn about their heritage. When: