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| April 2025 Classes Bluegrass Roots – Tracing Your Kentucky Ancestor 1785 – 1940 April 3, 2025 This lecture provides an overview of record sets and resources for documenting your Kentucky ancestors using a combination of both searchable and brows-able online records, as well as archival material.  Debra M. Dudek holds a post graduate certificate in Genealogical, Paleographic & Heraldic Studies from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Ms. Dudek is the Book Review editor for the Illinois State Genealogical Society, and a board member of the Illinois State Historical Society. |
| When: Thursday, April 3, 2025 Time: 11 AM to 12 PM Where: ZOOM and limited in-person (8) Cost: $20 members / $25 non-members Sign-up & Payment: ZOOM Go to hwrl.com and click on HQRL Store (sign in as a member to receive the discount) In-Person (8 only) Call HQRL at 253-863-1806 or come into the library located at 2102 E Main, Ste 105, Puyallup, WA 98372 Coming Soon! “Indirectly Evident: Finding William’s Parents” with Debbie Wilson Smyth Thursday, April 17, 2025 Copyright © 2025 Heritage Quest Research Library, All rights reserved. You have told us that you want to receive our news and updates from our library. Our mailing address is: Heritage Quest Research Library 2102 East Main Suite 105 Puyallup, WA 98372-3205 |
Category Archives: Society News
Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society Public Domain
Members and Friends,
April program coming up! Registration is open! This is a virtual presentation. Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Gv4IJihtRYCxZjhRiaeuEQ
Ever need an image for a presentation and just can’t find the right one to set the scene?
How about music to create a “mood” for your program or a quotation from a book or publication to add interest?
This program will cover those questions and we will share where to find images, music, and publications and review the public domain structure. The facilitator is Georga Foster.
Skagit Valley Genealogical Society Diseases Our Ancestors Faced
Please join the Skagit Valley Genealogical Society on Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 1pm for the first of our Spring Series, Diseases Our Ancestors Faced and How Those Illnesses Changed Our World with Gregory C. Gardner, MD, MACP. Have you ever come across a death record listing “Brain Fever,” “Consumption,” “Grippe,” and wondered what those illnesses are? In this presentation, Dr. Gardner brings together his medical background with his passion for genealogy. Topics include death records, life expectancy and the major illnesses that changed the course of history. Can’t make it to the Burlington Library, request a zoom link by emailing genealogy0715@gmail.com.
Heritage Quest Research Library French Canadian Ancestry
| Do you have French Canadian Ancestry? If you have French-Canadian ancestry, you are likely to have one or more King’s Daughters (Filles du roi) or Carignan soldiers among your ancestors. Do you want to find the link to this Heritage Association founded in 1994? Do you want to find out more about your potential ancestors and their role in the development of New France? This class is for you!   Lisa Elvin-Staltari is a professional genealogist with over 20 years of experience digging deep inside the roots of family trees. She is a product of a French-Canadian Mom and an English Canadian Father and is fluently bi-lingual. Lisa grew up in Drummondville, Quebec and lived in Quebec until 2000. She now resides in Tucson, Arizona.Her professional background includes teaching, public speaking, training and sales. She has spoken at many local, regional and national venues. She specializes in French-Canadian genealogy with an emphasis on Colonial France, English Canada. When: Thursday, March 20, 2025 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Where: ZOOM & limited In Person (8) Cost: $20 members/ $25 non-members Sign-up and Payment: ZOOM Go to hqrl.com and click on HQRL Store In-Person (8 only) Call HQRL at 253-863-1806 or come into the library. We are located at: 2102 E Main Avenue, Suite 105 Puyallup, WA 98372 |
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Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society Genealogy, Geography and Germany
Lower Columbia Genealogical Society Exploring the 1821 Irish Census
Steven W. Morrison
Genealogist and lecturer
Your Ancestor’s Occupation:
Exploring the 1821 Irish Census
Speaker at the Lower Columbia Genealogical Society’s
March 13th Zoom meeting
Virtual meeting doors will open at 6:30 pm
The speakers program will begin at 7:00 pm
The Public is invited to attend
For a link to join the meeting contact lcgsgen@yahoo.com
Please make a request for link 24 hours prior to event
Wenatchee Area Genealogical Society A Voyage Through Time March 2025
Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society March 2025 Education Meeting
Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society Monthly Educational Meeting
Tuesday, March 11, 2025, starting at 6:00 pm
This month’s presentation will be a video presentation provided by MyHeritage: Researching Family History at Your Library with MyHeritage Library Edition presented by Daniel Horowitz. MyHeritage Library Edition is one of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases of its kind. Containing more than 19.5 billion historical records from all over the world, MyHeritage Library Edition leverages cutting-edge technology to make research fast and easy even across different languages, making it the most convenient genealogy product for libraries and institutions.
Discover the advanced technology behind the scenes and learn how to take full advantage of the search engine’s robust features to explore the lives of your ancestors from your local library or the convenience of your home with your library card. Don’t take our word for it: come to the session and see for yourself!
For this meeting MyHeritage has given a few door prizes that we will give away to in person and online attendees. We ask that online attendees login to the meeting with their first and last name so they can be entered into the random name picker tool.
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.
Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.
Monthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZIqduGpqjgsHtBNs9zc8CGna6R-KHlcz5so/ics?icsToken=98tyKuGuqToiG9CWth2DRpwAB4j4WevwiHZdgrd_sgy8GSMLQST4N7Rwf5lXHNvK
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Tri-City Genealogical Society March 25 General Meeting
Please join us for Tri-City Genealogical Society’s March General meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 12. 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.
RootsTech will be held from March 6 – March 8. There is an option to view many of the presentations online at no cost. To register for the online sessions please visit https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/ . This month’s TCGS General meeting will be held on March 12 and will include a recap of the presentations that members found to be most valuable. Everyone is encouraged to participate.
Thank you to everyone who has already joined TCGS for 2025. For those who would like to join, the online application can be found at https://tricitygenealogicalsociety.org/q/join/join_renew/ and a printable application can be found at https://tricitygenealogicalsociety.org/q/wp-content/uploads/2023TCGSBrochure.pdf .
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Skagit Valley Genealogical Society AI and Genealogy
What’s the next best thing to March Madness? AI and Genealogy with Dave Obee, March 8, 2025 at 1pm at the Burlington Public Library presented by the Skagit Valley Genealogical Society! Dave will bring us up to date on how artificial intelligence programs are changing genealogical research (have you tried ChatGPT or FamilySearch “full text” search?), and how we can best use them. If you can’t make it to the Burlington Public Library, request a zoom link by emailing genealogy0715@gmail.com.
