Whitman County Genealogical Society Library Excess Books

Greetings from Whitman County Genealogical Society,

Over the summer many books from the WCGS library have been sent out but we still have some left. As promised I have compiled a list of what is left that we would like to find homes for. If you see any book/books you would like for your home library or organization’s library please reply to: whitmancgs@gmail.com with your choices to see if still available. Books are free and shipping costs are negotiable depending on how many books you want. Looking forward to hearing from you all!

Janet Damm, Whitman County Genealogical Society Librarian

Catalog #	Title	Author/Editor
16.929 sc	Genealogical & Local History Books in Print V.1	Schreiner-Yantis, Netti
16.929 sc	Genealogical & Local History Books in Print V.2	Schreiner-Yantis, Netti
929 am	Genealogical Research Methods and Sources	Amer. Soc. of Gen.
929 ba	Searching on location: Planning a Research Trip	Balhuizen, Anne Ross
929 bu	Research Guide to Loyalist Ancestors	Bunnell, Paul J.
929 cr	Genealogist’s Companion & Sourcebook (The)	Croom, Emily Anne
929 ea	How to Trace your Pedigree Ladies	Eakle, Arlene H.
929 ei	Red Book (The)	Eichholz, Alice
929 ev	Handy Book for Genealogists 7th Ed.	Everton
929 ev	Handy Book for Genealogists 9th Ed.	Everton
929 ho	Cyndi’s List	Howells, Cyndi
929 ke	International Vital Records Book	Kemp, Thomas Jay
929 ki	Handwriting of American Records for 300 Years	Kirkham, E. Kay
929 la	Cite Your Sources: A Manual for Documenting Fam. Hist.	Lackey, Richard S.
929 na	Guide to Gen. Res. in the Nat. Archives	Natiional Archives
929 ne	Circulation Library Catalog Vol.1	NEHGS
929 ne	Circulation Library Catalog Vol.2	NEHGS
929 st	Genealogical Evidence	Stevenson, Noel C.
929 st	Search & Research: The Researcher’s Handbook	Stevenson, Noel C.
929 we	Tracing Your Norwegian Roots	Wellauer, Maralyn A.
929.107 ng	NGS 1991 Conf.	NGS
929.107 so	South King Co. Surname Book 1983	South King Co. Gen. Soc.
929.11 sm	Immigrants to America Appearing in English Records	Smith, Frank
929.11 ya	Marr. of Some Amer. Residents & Guide to Documents Vol.1	Yates Publishing Company
929.11 ya	Marr. of Some Amer. Residents & Guide to Documents Vol.2	Yates Publishing Company
929.11 ya	Marr. of Some Amer. Residents & Guide to Documents Vol.3	Yates Publishing Company
929.11 ya	Marr. of Some Amer. Residents & Guide to Documents Vol.4	Yates Publishing Company
929.11 ya	Marr. of Some Amer. Residents & Guide to Documents Vol.5	Yates Publishing Company
929.6 pu	Dictionary of Heraldry & Related Subjects (A)	Puttock, A.G.
940.3 ne	Uncle, We Are Ready!	Newman, John J.
940.3 sc	Great War (The)	Schaefer, Christina K.
942 sm	Lives & Times of our English Ancestors (The)	Smith, Frank
943	Happy Days in Germany 1987
973	US Military	Neagles, James
973 me	Printed Sources: A Guide to Publ. Gen. Rec.	Meyerink, Kory L.
973.2 co	Complete Book of Emigrants (The)	Coldham, Peter Wilson
974 sa	Supplemental to Torrey’s, NE Marr. Prior to 1700	Sanborn, Melinde
974.8 la	Index to some Philadelphia Marr. 1745-1806
974.802 my	Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia 1682-1750	Myers, Albert Cook
975.5 wh	Early Quaker Rec. of VA	White, Miles Jr.
977 in	Pathways to the Old Northwest	Indiana Historical Society
977.101	Ohio Valley Genealogies	Hanna, Charles A.
977.2 ar	Documentary Hist. of the IN Decade of the Harmony Soc. V.1	Arndt, Karl J. R.
977.2 ar	Documentary Hist. of the IN Decade of the Harmony Soc. V.2	Arndt, Karl J. R.
977.2 da	Marion Co. IN, Records Miscellanea	Darlington, Jane E.
977.2 ma	Indiana Way (The): A State History	Madison, James H.
977.8 mo	Guide to Co. & Municipal Rec. in Microfilm	MO State Archives
977.8	Death Records of MO Women 1850-53
978.1 an	KS Newspapers: A Directory of Newsp. Holdings in KS	Anderson, Aileen
978.1 ba	Diggin” Up Bones: Obits of Lakin & Harland Cem. V.1	Barnes, Betty
978.1 ba	Diggin” Up Bones: Obits of Lakin & Harland Cem. V.2	Barnes, Betty
978.1 ol	Ft. Scott, KS	Oliva, Leo E.
978.7	Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate 1889 (The)	Hufsmith, George W.
979.4 ba	California Pioneer Register and Index	Bancroft, Hubert Howe
979.4 ba	California Rancho Days	Bauer, Helen
979.4 ba	Riverside Co. CA Local History
979.5 la	Lane Co. (OR) Historian 1982, 1983 Spring & Summer	Quarterly

Happy New Year

Dec26 by Charles Hansen

I want to wish everyone here a Happy New Year.

Hope you break through your brick wall, find relatives you never knew existed, volunteer at your local genealogical society or library. Note WSGS is looking for a new Secretary for 2024.

This is a postcard from Ella Frances (Dillingham) DeRemer first cousin to Anna M. (Dillingham) Hansen my grandmother. This postcard is from my uncle Leigh E. Hansen’s postcard collection, and he was born November 30, 1913 one month before this postcard was mailed.

Heritage Quest Research Library Happy Holidays

Dec26 by Charles Hansen

Let’s Talk About: Washington’s Wildlife Refuges

Dec26 by Donna Phillips

We Washingtonians are so lucky…… we have 23 National Wildlife Refuges in our state! These are places dedicated to preserving, conserving and enhancing the flora and fauna of an area by means of managing the land and water for fish, wildlife and plants. And for we human visitors too!

The list below the image is probably too small for you to read, but just ask Google for “National Wildlife Refuges in Washington.” Then any time of year, put on your walking shoes, put a granola bar in your backpack along with your water bottle and camera and go out and explore your world.

Keep in mind that on these refuges you can better imagine what your ancestors first saw when they arrived into XXX place.

What are the benefits of a national wildlife refuge?Beyond their primary mission of conserving and enhancing land and water for fish, wildlife and plants, national wildlife refuges are important in other ways. They offer healthy, world-class outdoor recreation. They improve air and water quality across the nation.

National Genealogical Society 2024 Virtual Family History Conference

Dec23 by Charles Hansen

Registration is Now Open for NGS’s 2024 Virtual Family History Conference and FOCUS NGS Organization Members Can Use Discount Offers

Dear NGS Organization Members, Administrators, and Delegates, Registration is open for the National Genealogical Society (NGS) 2024 Family History Conference, Expanding Possibilities, and the preconference FOCUS event for genealogy organizations. Both are virtual and discount offers are available for NGS member organizations. Make plans to sign up people from your organization and share the information outlined below and on the Organization Member Registration page with your leaders, volunteers, and members. Visit the Organization Member Registration Page Family History Conference: Expanding PossibilitiesStarting on 16 May 2024, check out the Expo Hall and attend the SLAM! Idea Showcase. Join your fellow genealogists for two days of online education and live Q&A on 17-18 May. Choose from among fifty lectures, available to watch in the Whova app through 15 August 2024, with topics that include Records: Resources that Solve Problems and Help Determine Relationships Methodology: Planning Cluster Research, Proving Identity, Resolving Conflict, and more Artificial Intelligence: Newest Technology for Genealogy Writing and Analysis DNA: Beyond the Basics to Advanced Tools Ethnic and LGBTQIA+ Research: New Paths and Sources for Research Conference DiscountsNGS member organizations can register up to three leaders, volunteers, or employees to attend the 2024 Family History Conference at the individual membership per person rate ($225 through 31 January 2024) if those people are not individual members of NGS. Organization members must submit the 2024 Family History Conference form to use this offer. Once this form is received, NGS will invoice your organization for each name, up to three people, on the list.FOCUS on Genealogy OrganizationsThe 16 May 2024 FOCUS event features an inspiring keynote, to be announced soon, and nine breakout sessions highlighting examples of how organizations have incorporated public outreach and engagement into processes and programs or made outreach and engagement the purpose of an event. FOCUS sessions will be available in the Whova app through 15 August 2024 and will help you reach the public, motivate volunteers, and grow the genealogy and family history community.FOCUS DiscountsNGS member organizations with three or more people registering for the 2024 FOCUS event can do so at a discounted rate of $40 (a $10 savings) per person. The organization must submit the 2024 FOCUS form to use this offer. Once this form is received, NGS will invoice your organization for each name on the registration list.Expand the Possibilities for You and Your Organization. Register for the Virtual 2024 Family History Conference and FOCUS. Visit the Organization Member Registration Page

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Let’s Talk About: Fun Facts & Trivia

Dec22 by Donna Phillips

Bet you didn’t know that Washington State has its own tartan. The symbolic colors are: GREEN for our Evergreen State; BLUE for our rivers, lakes and the ocean; WHITE for snow capped mountains; RED for all the fruit; YELOW for all the grains; and BLACK for Mt.St.Helens. This tartan was adopted by the Washington State legislature in 1991. Now you know.

Here’s one for you geography buffs: How many state capitols are located west of Los Angeles?? (tiny answer at the bottom)

Ever watch the TV or YouTube show with Mike Rowe where he visits interesting places? In one video, Mike visited the Hair Museum in Independence, Missouri (near Kansas City). Museum owner and director, Leila, made Mark incredulously laugh many times. “Hair can be black, brown, red, blonde or white….there is no gray!” she quipped. The museum features hair pictures…. tableaus made from hair, often of a deceased loved one. “This custom dates back to the 12th century,” Leila said. One question on Mark’s mind was this: “Does human hair keep growing after death?” The answer? “No way!”

Tampa Bay Times, October 2022: “Florida lawyer who fought helmet laws died in motorcycle crash not wearing one.” Humm. Serves him right?

How do you feel about this? An original copy of the U.S. Constitution, one of only two known to be in private hands, will be auctioned off in December with bidding estimated to go as high as $30 million, Sotheby’s announced (in November 2022). 500 first printings were made of this historic document and were provided to participants at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Nearly all have been lost to history; of the 13 known to have survived, 11 are owned by governments and institutions.

((Answer to above question: SIX!! Carson City, Nevada; Honolulu, Hawaii; Juneau, Alaska; Olympia, Washington; Sacramento, California; and Salem, Oregon. HOW MANY DID YOU GUESS?)

Let’s Talk About: Envelopes!

Dec19 by Donna Phillips

Rummaging through the wheeled racks of books at the Goodwill Outlet Store, I happened upon a slim little volume titled The History of Envelopes, by Robert H. Ramage, published by the Envelope Manufacturers Association of America in 1952.

Only a genealogist would think to grab up a book on the history of envelopes!

Author Ramage begins his book with this bit: “The little paper enclosure which we term “envelope” sustains such an important relation to our social, commercial, political, and moral world as to render it eminently worthy of notice a our hands. It has now become the vade mecum of thought transportation—-crossing seas, threading rivers, chasing up railways, exploring the solitary paths of the forest and plains, pursing expresses and telegraphic messengers; it is almost everywhere doing, for rich and poor alike, its good offices and trusty services.” Quote in Cosmopolitan Art Journal, 1860.

Remember that in 1860 there was no telephone and certainly no interest/email. Writing on paper and sent in envelopes was The Only way to communicate over distance.

Ramage continues: “No one will ever know who it was that first conceived the idea of cutting paper for envelopes …… but it was no doubt a stationer who sold paper and realized there was a need to be filled. ”

In 1635, King Charles I issued a proclamation establishing the first State Postal Service. One of the earliest envelopes on record is attached to a letter written on 16 May 1696 in England.

The early mail service (in England) was inadequate and expensive. Mail was sent collect with postage paid by the receiver which system was easy to defraud. This ultimately let to the better system of pre-paid postage, or postage stamps.

Further chapters in this 90-page book are: Envelopes in America; First Envelope Machines; Evolution in Envelope Manufacture; Early Type of Envelopes; Papeteries; Business Envelopes Become Specialized; Government Stamped Envelopes and the Industry Behind Envelopes. WHEW! Who knew there could be 90 pages of envelope history!

An envelope history would not be complete without mention of V-Mail, short for Victory Mail “which was a particular postal system put into place during the war (WWII) to drastically reduce the space needed to transport mail thus freeing up room for other valuable supplies. The V-Mail system was only used between June 1942 and November 1945 with over one billion items processed through these means.

If anybody would like to borrow and peruse this interesting history book, be happy to loan it to you. Just ask me.

Clallam County Genealogical Society DNA- Centi What; Morgan Who; Working with DNA Results

Dec17 by Charles Hansen

The Clallam County Genealogical Society is beginning it’s Speaker’ Series Saturday, January 13 beginning at 10:10. Beth Swarz will present a lecture on DNA – Centi What; Morgan Who…Working with DNA Results.

Beth has specialized in helping solve unknown parent/family connections through DNA and creating, building & researching family trees.

She presently is President of Moreno Valley Genealogical Society; a member of the International Society of Genetic Genealogy; National Genealogical Society; and Family Search Center Staff and is involved in several other Societies.

All are invited to watch this interesting presentation, by either by coming to the CCGS Research Center or via Zoom. There is no cost to attend.

To obtain the Zoom meeting number and codes, email the Society at askus@clallamcogs.org or phone us at 360-417-5000. We are at the Research Center Tuesday-Friday, 10am to 4pm and on Saturdays noon to 4pm. The research center is located at 403 8th Street in Port Angeles, on the corner of 8th Street and Peabody.

Everyone is invited to visit and do research at our Research Center during open hours at no cost. We share our data bases, computers, and library materials with the public. If you visit Clallam County, do stop and see us.

Let’s Talk About…… We’re Stronger Together!

Dec16 by Donna Phillips

Remember getting rope-burned-hands playing tug-o-war with a rope? And too often neither side “won,” and sometimes one side got pulled into the mud! Remember?

If there is a job to be done, isn’t it better to work together? Nobody’s hands get rope-burned that way! And the job gets done!!

I LIVE IN SPOKANE AND AM AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF EWGS……. AS YOU READ THIS POST, SUBSTITUTE YOUR SOCIETY’S NAME!!!!

I’m aiming today to sorta follow-up on our EWGS January meeting….. dedicated to service…… service to EWGS. Are some of you still on the fence about stepping up to do something for EWGS?

WHY? WHY come/mix/join/support EWGS? Here’s why:

EWGS people are “your kind” of people and are your friends.
EWGS people will welcome…and listen to…. your discovery-stories!
EWGS people have years of combined research knowledge and are always willing to help you. (But you gotta ask.)
EWGS meetings are FUN….. prizes, contests, raffles and cookies!
EWGS meetings are INFORMATIVE….. the EWGS board strives most diligently to offer programs of worth and interest to us.
EWGS offers multiple learning opportunities…. TAG, Refocus, RootsMagic
EWGS offers you a way to give back to the genealogy community through service…… through volunteering to help however you can. The definition of service is, simply put, HELPING.
In EWGS, sometimes you’re the helper and other times you’re the helpee. (Don’t look in the dictionary for that word; I made it up. 😌)

Please click to www.EWGSI.org, especially if you’ve not in a while, and check out all that’s offered to YOU.
And know that EWGS needs you help, big or small. 😁

Let’s Talk About….. Letting Go In January

Dec16 by Donna Phillips

To let go does not mean to stop caring.

To let go is not to cut myself off; it’s realizing I can’t control another.

To let go is not to enable but to allow learning from natural consequences.

To let go is not to try to change or blame another; it’s to make the most of myself.

To let go is not to care FOR but to care ABOUT.

To let go is not to FIX but to be SUPPORTIVE.

To let go is not to judge others but to love them anyway.

To let go is not to DENY but to ACCEPT.

To let go is not to point out others’ faults but consider my own.

To let go is not to criticize others but just be the best I can be.

To let go is not to regret the past but to thankfully live for the future.

(Why this particular post today? It is the start of a new year and we all know there will be obstacles to over come so we must “let go” and be thankfully positive.)