More great news this week: we’ve just added a new view for your search results on the MyHeritage search engine for historical records. This new view, called Table view, makes it easier than ever to review your results and quickly spot the records of particular value to your research.
Table view is more condensed than the classic Card view: its tabular format displays more results per page and helps you identify relevant results more easily.
You can read more details about this view and how it works here on our blog. Feel free to use the attached graphic and spread the news — I’m confident that genealogy enthusiasts everywhere will appreciate this new, improved research experience on MyHeritage.
Enjoy!
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The Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society will be hosting Daniel Earl via ZOOM on Feb. 8- Tuesday at 1PM the
Tuesday, February 8 Going Wayback: Using the Internet Archives in Your Research (Virtual Meetings) 1:00 pm Virtual Zoom Meeting The Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society is now providing monthly meetings via Zoom. Daniel Earlwill be speaking at our February 8th meeting. Our business meeting and board meeting will follow the presentation. A Zoom link to join the meeting using your computer can be found below. The option to join the meeting by phone is also available. Daniel’s topic: Going Wayback: Using the Internet Archives in Your Research
Clark County Genealogical Society invites STUDENTS and ADULTS to
JOIN OUR SPRING SCAVENGER HUNT from March 7 – 13, 2022 CASH for Daily and Grand Prize Winners
5 Daily and 1 Grand Prize STUDENT winners
5 Daily and 1 Grand Prize ADULT winner
Registration and donations are open at www.ccgs-wa.org. This year’s Hunt theme is Governors from the eras of our Founding Fathers through the Baby Boomers. Players may research their answers using online resources from home. You may review last year’s questions and answers posted on our website www.ccgs-wa.org.
TIP OF THE WEEK – FREE LATIN HANDWRITING WEBINAR The objective of this 5 day series is to teach beginners the basics of Latin handwriting and documents as it pertains to genealogy research. At the end of these 5 classes one should be able to:
Use online resources to help you read Latin documents
Understand basic Latin grammar in order to determine relationships
Translate simple Latin documents
Fritz Juengling, PhD, AG, is the instructor. Remember Fritz from our Spring 2020 Seminar turned webinar? He is the German, Dutch, Scandinavian research specialist at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. He reads documents in German, Dutch, French, Latin, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.
SAVE THE DATES SGS 2022 SPRING SEMINAR “LAND AND MAPS AND DEED, OH MY!” FRIDAY – SUNDAY, JUNE 3-5, 2022
Something’s a little different this year; our spring seminar will be a 3 day event.
Friday, June 3, at 5:00 pm, Cyndi Ingle, creator and innovator of CyndisList.com, will be the keynote speaker.
Saturday, June 4, Land presentations will begin at 9:00 am with Angela Packer McGhie speaking on land entry papers, including the Oregon and Washington donation files, and tract books. Following that Rebecca Whitman Koford will present “Military Bounty lands: Revolution to Mexican War”.
Sunday, June 5, Maps and Deeds, continues at 1:00 pm with Melinda Kashuba and Kimberly Powell.
Attendees will have 3 registration choices:
All 3 days
Friday and Saturday only
Friday and Sunday only
As usual, SGS members will receive a discount on the registration fee.
In the coming weeks, watch the SGS Calendar of Events, the SGS social media pages, and the eNews! for further details on this seminar. Cyndi Ingle, Angela Packer McGhie, Rebecca Whitman Koford, Melinda Kashuba, and Kimberly Powell – you won’t want to miss any of these talented speakers.
And while your calendar is in front of you, reserve September 17-18, 2022, for the SGS Fall Virtual Seminar with Judy Russell, the Legal Genealogist.
DONE! The last major task in the restructuring of our library following our move to the Good Shepherd Center has been completed. Over 100 boxes of books, in storage and earmarked for shipment to the Internet Archives, needed to be unpacked, cataloged for our records, and then repacked into heavy duty shipping boxes. This took SGS members Allegra Anderson, Melanie Moser, Woods Fairbanks, and Ellen Peterson (pictured below), as well as Kathi, SGS Library Director, and Jim Secan, SGS President, two days. Later Kathi and Woods helped load the shipper’s truck, thus starting these books on the journey to their new home.
Many thanks from the SGS board to these four SGS members who quite literally volunteered to do the heavy lifting.
Left to right – Allegra, Melanie, Woods, and Ellen
PLEA FROM NGS AND FAMILY SEARCH Do you think your genealogical society or organization would be interested in helping with the 1950 Census Crowdsourcing Project? This came to us from NGS and we thought we would help spread the word:
“FamilySearch and NGS are inviting individuals and societies to assist in making the 1950 US census easier for everyone to search and discover their family connections. This unique crowdsourcing project, the largest census undertaking to date, will make the 150 million records of the individuals found on the census’s tens of thousands of digital images freely searchable online.
Please join us on February 8th at 8:30 PM ET and learn more about the project and how you and your genealogy society or organization can get involved.”
* SAVE THE DATE *Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State, 2nd Monday meetings usually 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PST
JGSWS meets on the second Monday of each month, from Sept-June. Doors open at 6:30 PM unless noted otherwise. Watch their website for details on the next meeting.
The next meeting is Monday, Feb 14, 2022 at 7:00 pm. The subject is “Alien, Enemy, Declarant – Grief; Learning From Missteps in the Naturalization Process” with Emily Garber.
AppGenInstitute, Spring Semester Course Offerings, March thru May dates, Virtual Online
Two of the founders of the Applied Genealogy Institute are names that should be familiar to you from programs you’ve attended at SGS, Jill Morelli, CG, and Mary Kircher Roddy, CG. Jill prepared the message below to introduce the upcoming classes that will be able next spring.
‘Applied Genealogy Institute is excited to announce the next series of educational offerings to the genealogical community for our Spring semester. Whether you are educational addicts like we are or one who just wants to “do it right,” you will find a course for you in the Spring offerings.
Five courses will be offered: “Foundations I: Using the Records,” “Advanced Swedish Genealogy,” “Advanced Genetic Genealogy,” “Catholic Records” and “Getting Lost in Ledgers.” Registration will open after the first of the year.
Take note of the SGS Library’s new location, new hours, and new rules: Good Shepherd Center, Suite 302 4649 Sunnyside Ave N Seattle, WA 98103 206 522-8658
Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Masks are required at all times inside the Good Shepherd Center. Due to COVID the events listed below continue to be virtual, online via Zoom. Always check the SGS Website Calendar of Events for the meeting links, registration, or for last minute updates or changes to the schedule. Be advised you may need to register in advance to join a meeting.
NOTICE: SGS has imposed more security on our Zoom meetings. Some meetings will begin with a waiting room. The host must take action to let people into each meeting. The host will try to open the waiting room about 10 minutes ahead of time. Please be patient.
* All times listed are Pacific Time unless otherwise noted Wednesday, Feb 2, 2022, 10:00 am-11:30 am, Brags & Bricks Social Interest Group (Virtual), Join us for an informal social gathering. Share your recent genealogical successes and challenges, or just come to hang out with other genealogists.
Saturday, Feb 5, 2022, 10:15 am-12:15 pm, FamilySearch Interest Group with Lou Daly (Virtual), Discover the many ways to use FamilySearch. At each meeting a different aspect of the website will be featured. There will be time for Q & A. Want to be included on the mail listing? Email Lou: loudaly@nwlink.com
Sunday, Feb 6, 2022, 1:00 pm-3:00 pm, DNA WORKSHOP (Virtual), with Cary Bright and Craig Gowens. To participate you must be on the DNA SIG email list. Contact Cary at sgsdnasig@gmail.com to join.
Tuesday, Feb 8, 2022, 10:00 am-11:00 am, Tech Tuesday (Virtual), back by popular demand, the informal consultation time on DNA, genealogy software, or genealogy-related technical issues. All are welcome. No appointment necessary.
Wednesday, Feb 9, 2022, 10:00 am-11:30 am, Brags & Bricks Social Interest Group (Virtual), Join us for an informal social gathering. Share your recent genealogical successes and challenges, or just come to hang out with other genealogists.
Saturday, Feb 12, 2022, 1:00 pm-2:30 pm, Second Saturday Speaker Series: Who Owned Solomon? A Case Study of 19th Century African American Research with Janice Lovelace, PhD
Wednesday, Feb 16, 2022, 10:00 am-11:30 am, Brags & Bricks Social Interest Group (Virtual), Join us for an informal social gathering. Share your recent genealogical successes and challenges, or just come to hang out with other genealogists.
Friday, Feb 18, 2022, 10:30 am-12:30 pm, Family Tree Maker by MacKiev meets online via Zoom on the 3rd Friday of the month. Share and learn tips and tricks for this software. This SIG is jointly sponsored by the Eastside Genealogical Society and Seattle Genealogical Society. To join in you must be on the email list. Send you request to egsgenealogyhelpfer@yahoo.com
Saturday, Feb 19, 2022, 10:00 am- 12:00 pm, Irish SIG is back! With Susan McKee and Jim Ryan. See the SGS website Calendar of Events for further information. Saturday, Feb 19, 2022, 1:00 pm-3:00 pm, German SIG is back! With Carolyn Schott. See the SGS website Calendar of Events for further information.
Sunday, Feb 20, 2022, 1:00 pm-2:30 pm, Virtual Sundays: Something Old, Something New, Jill Morelli is the host. Visit the SGS website Calendar for details and updates. Please register in advance.
Tuesday, Feb 22, 2022, 10:00 am-11:00 am, Tech Tuesday (Virtual), back by popular demand, the informal consultation time on DNA, genealogy software, or genealogy-related technical issues. All are welcome. No appointment necessary.
Wednesday, Feb 23, 2022, 10:00 am-11:30 am, Brags & Bricks Social Interest Group (Virtual), Join us for an informal social gathering. Share your recent genealogical successes and challenges, or just come to hang out with other genealogists.
Sunday, Feb 27, 2022, 1:00 pm, New! Japanese American SIG, with Caitlin Oiye Coon. This is the second meeting of our new SIG. Please sign up if you would like to attend; send an email to family.history@densho.org
Local genealogical societies that have bylaws and/or a board of directors (most of us!) should consider attending this webinar explaining the new “Washington Nonprofit Corporation Act.” The act was passed by the Legislature in 2021, modernizing the nonprofit statutes for the first time in 50 years. Sign up for this FREE webinar (08 Feb 2022, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.) to find out what has changed and what you need to know. This webinar is hosted by Washington Nonprofits, in partnership with the Secretary of State. To register:Click here:
I am already registered for that training session.
You will receive an email with all the information to watch this webinar on February 8, 2022
Later in February is another training that looks interesting. But right now it says it is NOT free.
As I’m sure you know, we at MyHeritage are constantly upgrading the tools we offer for improving family photos. Most recently, we released a new, improved model for color restoration — the feature within MyHeritage In Color™ that restores the hues in faded color photos.
We’re celebrating with a special offer: free and unlimited use of MyHeritage In Color™, Photo Enhancer, and Photo Repair from January 24 to February 5, 2022!
This is a fantastic opportunity to discover the magic of some of the MyHeritage photo tools. Be sure to spread the word so your friends, family, and followers won’t miss this chance to restore colors, colorize, enhance, or repair old family photos to their heart’s content!
Winona I. Laird is a Professional Genealogist. She is a member of APG, NGS, FGS and a past President of South King County Gen Society as well as a member of several other Gen Societies. Winona is a member of the Mary Fell Stevenson Chapter, NSDAR and is the Registrar for the Chapter. She is also the owner of the Genealogy Education Center in Kent, WA. Winona began her genealogy research when she was a small child. What began as a class project became a lifelong journey to find and write the stories of her ancestors.
Organizing Your Genealogy When: Thursday, February 3, 2022, 10 am to 11 am Where: Via Zoom Cost: $20 members $25 non-members Deadline for sign-up & payment: January 28, 2022 Sign-up online at: hqrl.com and follow the links OR Come in to HQRL in Sumner 1007 Main Street, Sumner, WA 98390 253-863-1806
Judy has been doing genealogy off and on for over 30 years. She has completed several formal education programs and holds genealogy certificates from National Institute for Genealogical Studies and Boston University. Judy also holds a business degree from Washington State University. Judy has memberships in several genealogy societies and is the current Bookstore Manager for Heritage Quest Research library. She is also a Board member for TPCGS.
DNA TOOLS (Emphasis on Ancestry’s Tools) Discussion and examples of several tools that are currently available to assist you in using your DNA results to advance your genealogy research. DNA Painter, GEDmatch, Ancestry’s matches and groups, along with ThruLines are the tools that will be discussed. If you have matches on Ancestry that do not have a tree or are private, Judy will walk you through how to use the data with others to help identify possible relationships/DNA connections. When: February 24, 2022, 11:00am—12:00pm Where: ZOOM Deadline for sign up and payment is February 17, 2022 Cost: $20 members / $25 Non-Members Sign up online at: hqrl.com and follow the links OR Come in to HQRL in Sumner 1007 Main Street, Sumner, WA 98390 253-863-1806
Saturday, February 12 Introduction to African American Genealogy 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm -Eastern- Via Zoom
Introduction to African American Genealogy
Dr. Delores Walters will show you how to trace your African-American ancestors using genealogical databases, local and archival resources and DNA. (60 min.) Preregister for this virtual event at http://events.pbclibrary.org/node/22560
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