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Stillaquamish Valley Genealogical Society Tools and Strategies for Property Research
Stillaquamish Valley Genealogical Society
Monthly Business Meeting & Presentation
Tools and Strategies for Property Research
Tuesday, April 14th
1:00 pm
SVGS Library
6111 188 PL NE, Arlington, WA
Our speaker at the library this month will be Nate Cushman. This event will be in person only at SVGS Library. Everyone is welcome to attend this free presentation.
Nate’s topic: Tools and Strategies for Property Research
Nate’s Bio:
Nate Cushman has worked as a Librarian with Sno-Isle Libraries for 30 years. His love for libraries began at an early age due to being a military brat and moving every 2 years. Being a shy kid, (at least until basketball season rolled around), libraries became his refuge whenever he arrived in a new town. Over his career, genealogical research has evolved from a professional requirement to a personal passion.
There will be a short break with refreshments after the presentation followed by our monthly business meeting.
For more information visit stillygen.org
Yakima Valley Genealogical Society Spring Yard Sale
Yakima Valley Genealogical Society
1901 S. 12th Avenue
Union Gap, WA 98903
Phone: (509) 248-1328
Email: yvgs@yvgs.net
Yakima Valley Genealogical Society
Huge Spring Yard Sale
Date: Thurs, Fri, Sat. April 16, 17, 18
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
You will not want to miss this: HUGE YARD SALE
Affordable items: Lots of Furniture, Collectibles, Home Goods, Clothes, Framed Pictures, Books and more.
Carla Adams
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Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society Monthly Education Meeting by Judy Russell
Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society Monthly Educational Meeting
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, starting at 6:00 pm
This month’s presentation:
Judy G. Russell AKA The Legal Genealogist® will present “Polls, Personalty and Property – Making Sense of Tax Lists”.
Somebody had to pay government’s bills, and they did it through the law by imposing taxes on polls, personal property and real property. The records of those taxes offer some of the best clues available to our ancestors, their families and their neighborhoods.
Judy is a wonderful speaker that you won’t want to miss.
This month’s meeting will be Zoom Only until we can find a new physical location to meet in person.
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Fiske Genealogical Library Women of Letters: Voices from the Frontier
Our presentation on March 18 had to be rescheduled to April 15, 2026. Please add this entry to your calendar and blog:
Wednesday, April 15
10:00 am to 11:15 am Pacific Time – Fiske Genealogical Library, Seattle (Virtual Class)
Women of Letters: Voices from the Frontier
Presented by Sylvia Doolos
For links to join the meeting and get class notes, select https://fiskelibrary.org
Women wrote in diaries, newspapers, magazines, and letters to family and friends. Learn about the joy, heartbreak, and determination it took to be a frontier woman.
Sylvia Tracy Doolos, owner of New Leaf Genealogy, is the President of the Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England Family History Society (WISE-FHS), and Past-President of the Colorado Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists, and the International Society for British Genealogy and Family History (ISBGFH).
Wenatchee Area Genealogical Society Civil War Genealogy: Confederate Records
Mason County Genealogical Society Quaker Research
Short notice – sorry! Thursday night at 6:00 we are having Stephen Morrison begin a series on Quaker research:
April 2nd -Profile of a Quaker and FRIENDLY RELATIONS – Finding American Quakers and their Online Records.
The email for everyone to request the zoom link is:
masoncountygenealogy@gmail.com
Lower Columbia Genealogical Society Researching Newspapers Outside the Newspaper com
Genealogist and Lecturer
Her topic is
Researching Newspaper Outside of Newspapers.com
The speaker at the Lower Columbia Genealogical Society’s April 9th, 2026 zoom meeting will be Amber Oldenburg. Her topic is Researching Newspapers Outside the Newspaper.com.
Virtual meeting doors will open at 9:30 am
Speaker’s program will begin at 10:00 am
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
Tri City Genealogical Society New Tools in FamilySearch
Please join us for Tri-City Genealogical Society’s General meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 8th. The presentation will be at the Richland FamilySearch Center located at 1314A Goethals Dr. Entrance is down the ramp from the parking lot north of Dairy Queen. The presentation will also be on Zoom so you can join in from your home. See below for the Zoom link for the March presentation.
On April 8th, another longtime TCGS member, Margie Beldin, will be speaking on “New Tools in FamilySearch.”
And, on May 13th, longtime TCGS member and TCGS Librarian, Sandra Meacham Floberg, will discuss “Repatriation of MIA/KIA using DNA.”
Thank you to everyone who has already joined TCGS for 2026. 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 .
Time: Apr 8, 2026 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Eastside Genealogical Society Do You Have a Brick Wall? We Can Help
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