TIP OF THE WEEK –
EDUCATION AT FISKE

Like many other genealogical organizations, due to COVID 19 worries, the Fiske Library in Seattle started conducting their classes online via Zoom in 2020. Fiske has an online class opportunity each Wednesday. The Wednesday class usually runs from 10:00 AM until noon. They recently published their Winter 2023 Class Schedule. You can find it here: 
https://fiskelibrary.org/2023WinterClasses.pdf

TIP OF THE WEEK –
WANT A TIP OF THE DAY?

If you like the tip-of-the-week, how about a tip-of-the day?

On their website, The Family History Guide blog offers a genealogy related tip of the day. You can find it here: 
https://www.thefhguide.com/tip-of-the-day.html

Now, don’t confuse The Family History Guide with the Family History Library or FamilySearch.  But FamilySearch does have a relationship with The Family History Guide and here’s what they have to say about them:

“Note: The Family History Guide is an additional resource for help with FamilySearch.org. The guide contains free lessons on using the website FamilySearch.org and on topics related to family history and genealogy. The content is provided by a FamilySearch partner. The guide is written in English and made available in other languages through Google Translate.” 

TIP OF THE WEEK –
NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION, AGAIN
Is your New Year’s resolution this year the same as it was last year, organize this genealogy research mess, it’s out of control. Here’s a few simple tips from the Family Curator: 

• KISS – Keep it simple, silly! Use an easy to setup and easy to maintain system.
• Sheet Control – use a standard 8.5 x 11 sheet for all notes and print outs
• Stay Single – One surname, one locality per sheet for easy filing
• Date Yourself – Always write the current date on your research notes
• One File at a Time – Work through those paper piles steadily; the mess didn’t happen in a day.

TIP OF THE WEEK –
A SPECIAL OFFER FOR SGS MEMBERS

Legacy Family Tree Webinars offers Seattle Genealogical Society members a 50% discount off a first-year Legacy webinar membership. 
 
Legacy Family Tree Webinars hosts online genealogy programs presented by nationally-known speakers on a variety of genealogy and technology topics. The live webinars are initially free to view for about a week. Then the recordings are placed in the Webinar Library and viewing access is granted through an annual membership ($49.95/year). 

The SGS member discount makes it $24.98 for the first year, valid for new Legacy webinar memberships only. 

SGS members, please login to your “Members Home” via the SGS website to take advantage of this offer. 

TIP OF THE WEEK –
DUBLIN FESTIVAL OF HISTORY

Now in its 10th year, and the 3rd year it has had online access, the three week 2022 Dublin Festival of History is brought to you by the Dublin City Council, organized by the Dublin City Libraries, in partnership with the Dublin City Council Culture Comany. In person or online, the festival is 130+ free events. 

For more information on this year’s festival visit the website: 
https://dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/events/

Recordings of last year’s festival can be found on Youtube. 

TIP OF THE WEEK –
the NATIONAL NORDIC MUSEUM for FREE!
 

The Nordic Heritage Museum was founded in 1979 and in 1980 it occupied a leased space in the old Daniel Webster Elementary School building in Ballard. By May 2018 the museum had expanded, built and moved into a new 57,000 sqft building on NW Market St, and was  renamed the Nordic Museum. In 2019, by an act of the US Congress, the museum was designated the National Nordic Museum. If you haven’t seen the new museum, Thursday would be your chance to see it for free. It is one of many Seattle area museums that offer free entry on the first Thursday of each month.  

Here’s a list of history, culture, and heritage themed museums that participate in the free entry on the first Thursday of the month program: 

• Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture – UW – 10 am – 8 pm 
• MOHAI – South Lake Union – 5 pm – 8 pm 
• National Nordic Museum – Ballard – 10 am – 5 pm 
• NW African American Museum – SE Seattle – 11 am – 7 pm 

And these two museums are always free:

• Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park – Pioneer Square –  10 am – 5 pm 

• Sea Mar Museum of Chicano/a/Latino/a Culture – South Seattle – 8 am – 5 pm 

TIP OF THE WEEK –
 SAVE YOUR OWN COPY

You are probably a member of a paid or free genealogy site that allows you to create a link to an image of a record of genealogical importance to you and attach it to a member in your family tree. Do not depend on the link to that image being available to you forever. It is recommended that you always download a copy of the image that is important to you; save a copy on your own media so you will always have the image for your personal use. That way, if something happens and you don’t have access to that site any longer, or the site doesn’t have access to that record set any longer, you still have a digital copy of your own.