PAM VESTAL
Genealogist and lecturer
Was Your Ancestor Really Gone or Just Hidden in the Records
Speaker at the Lower Columbia Genealogical Society’s
October 9th Zoom meeting.
Virtual meeting doors will open at 6:30 pm
The speaker’s program will begin at 7:00 pm
The public is invited to attend.
Please consider joining our society for $20/yr.
For a link to join the meeting or to join the society contact lcgsgen@yahoo.com 24hrs prior to the event
Please join us for Tri-City Genealogical Society’s October General meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 8. The presentation will be at the Richland FamilySearch Center located at 1314A Goethals Dr. Entrance is down the ramp from the parking lot that is to the north of Dairy Queen. The presentation will also be on Zoom so you can join in from the comfort of your own home. See below for the Zoom link.
The October TCGS General meeting is entitled Secrets for Success: How to Harness the Power of FamilySearch’s Full-Text Search and will be presented by Julia A. Anderson. Learn what FamilySearch’s full-text search capability can do for you! This class will provide you with tips and tricks for making the most of this innovation in genealogical research. We will cover various ways to search, how to use wildcards and other tools, ways to filter your results, how to read and save images and transcriptions, and what to do with the information you find in the records. Key takeaways include revolutionary access to un-indexed records, smart search techniques that deliver results and seamless integration with FamilySearch family tree
Julia A. Anderson, MA, AG®, AGL™ has a master’s degree in history and education and is an Accredited Genealogist® and Accredited Genealogist Lecturer™ with expertise in the United States Gulf South Region. She works as a full-time United States and Canada research specialist at the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, Utah and teaches genealogy research and accreditation classes for Salt Lake Community College. Julia owns and manages Anderson Genealogical Research, LLC, serves as a commissioner on the board of ICAPGen, and is the conference chair for the Utah Genealogical Association.
Topic: TCGS General Meeting October 8 at 7 p.m.
Time: Oct 8, 2025 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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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, October 4, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Judy Schuster will be giving a presentation on Legacy Family Tree. She will be talking about the basics of the program, how to enter data, how to download it for FREE, and how to transfer trees from a different program.
Join Skagit Valley Genealogical Society Saturday, October 11, 2025, 1pm at the Burlington Public Library for “The Role of Convents and Monasteries in the 15th-19th Centuries and How They Affected Our Ancestors”with Milan Pohontsch, President, Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies. Learn about the social and economic impacts of monasteries and how the lives of those that lived and worked on monastic estates differed from peasants under noble rule. Can’t make it to the Burlington Library, request a zoom link by emailing info@skagitvalleygenealogy.org. Thank you,
Our monthly PSGS Program this month will be “Alienation of Affection: Divorce in the US” with Christine Cohen. It will be on Wednesday, Sep. 24 at 1pm. Social time starts at 12:30pm. The program will be hybrid with in person at the Sylvan Way Library and on Zoom. The Zoom link will be posted the day before on our website (psgsociety.org) and our Facebook page.
Divorce is not just a 20th Century phenomenon. At first, granted by
the State Legislature and then by the Courts, these are public
records. The case files can include marriage date and place, names
and ages of children, current and former residences, and affidavits
by the spouses about their marriage and reason for divorce. Clues
are in the Census, City Directories, Military Pensions, County
Histories, County Courthouses & especially in Newspapers. This
could be the reason for a “lost spouse”.
The Joy of Genealogy Travel will be the subject of a presentation by Sandra Ristow of the Clallam County Genealogical Society Saturday, September 27th at 10:00 AM.
Sandra has studied her family genealogy for nearly 20 years, and has traveled through out the United States and parts of Germany and Poland to see their origins. Most of her ancestors were German immigrants. Her English ancestors, who arrived in 1660, and their participation in the American Revolution qualified her to become a member of the local Michael Trebert Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is a lecturer and teacher, sharing her expertise in German Genealogy.
Her lecture will relate some exciting discoveries of both German and Polish ancestors that her travels have produced. She has been to Germany five times, and to Pomerania, Poland where she has found living relatives.
The program will be presented, live, at the CCGS Research Center located at 403 E. 8th Street in Port Angeles or via Zoom. To obtain the Zoom codes or get more information, please call the Society at 360-417-5000 or email your request at askus@clallamcogs.com Tuesday through Friday from 10 am – 4pm.
Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society Monthly Educational Meeting
Tuesday, September 9, 2025, starting at 6:00 pm
This month’s presentation: What genealogy research have you done this summer, and what did you find?
This meeting will be hybrid and we encourage everyone who can 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.
Attend virtually via Zoom:
Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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September 6 @ 2:30 p.m. PT (online)
Free!
The Genealogical Forum of Oregon is pleased to host this GenTalk as part of our monthly series of talks.
Presenter: Colette Hokanson, AG® and FamilySearch Research Specialist
In today’s world of digitized records and searchable databases, it’s easy to think that every answer to our family history questions is just a click away. Yet some of the most meaningful discoveries – those that bring our ancestors’ stories to life – still require us to step beyond the computer screen.
This session explores the irreplaceable value of onsite research: walking through cemeteries where generations rest, paging through local archives filled with documents never scanned, and swapping stories with relatives during spontaneous visits. These experiences reveal family history in ways no search bar can.
Colette Hokanson, AG® and FamilySearch Research Specialist, will share her personal experiences finding missing family from the mountains of Norway to the valleys of Wales. She’ll illustrate how combining traditional onsite research with the power of innovative tools—including artificial intelligence—can break through decades-old brick walls and open new paths of discovery.
Registration: gfo.org/gentalk