Walking with Ancestors
July 4th 2022
Presented by the Twin River Genealogy Society
Starting time: 8:30am first group, (16 per group) and 10:30am is the last group.
Also joining us is Steven Branting, Local Historian.
We will be at the Normal Hill Cemetery Division 2, Lewiston ID. Please bring a lawn chair.
The People we will be visit:
William Harvey
George Evans Stonebraker
Miles and Nellie Smith
Mary and William Stewart
Several Sisters from St Stanislaus
Mary and Frank Stevens
The Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society invites you to attend our Legacy Family Tree Special Interest Group meeting to be held virtually via Zoom on Tuesday, June 7th at 7:00 pm. The links for the 1st and 3rd Tuesday meetings are included below.
This week we will be viewing four short videos done by Geoff that are free and available from the Help tab in Legacy by clicking to the QuickTip Videos icon. The direct link to each video is listed below its title:
Legacy QuickTip: How to make a list of ancestors in Legacy from ___________?
How to Record a Cremation
How to Add a Bookmark in Legacy
Creating a Custom Report, Hashtags, DNA and more
Please take some time this week to review the “FREE” videos available on the Legacy Family Tree Webinars site and bring your list of videos you would like to review back to the group next Tuesday.
I hope to see you this coming Tuesday, June 7th!
Regards,
Tim Ward
Our meetings are held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month from 7:00 pm until 8:30. Links to the reoccurring Zoom Meetings are located at the bottom of this page, one for the 1st Tuesday and one for the 3rd Tuesday of each month.
The first half of each meeting we will work thru training videos, watching, and then pausing to talk about the section we just watched before moving on to the next section. The second half will be used for open discussion of topics related to using Legacy. This could include any questions or problems we are having with the program or tips and features we have discovered. If you think of something you would like to bring up, please write it down so you can share it with the group.
1st Tuesday of Month Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82495661568?pwd=dy85YmluVzF5aEU4SzFTcTUrVDlTUT09
3rd Tuesday of Month Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87839130000?pwd=dGdHY2wrZ0d1bDNRTEQ4Uk15OVk0Zz09
As always if a hyperlink is not active just copy and paste it into your browser.
Congratulations to all the amazing individuals and team who contributed mightily to their local societies! After a three-year hiatus to WSGS’s Outstanding Volunteer Recognition Program and a global pandemic, it’s time to honor those who kept our local societies together and moving forward.
Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society
Clallam County Genealogical Society
Eastern Washington Genealogical Society
Eastside Genealogical Society
Grays Harbor Genealogical Society
Genealogical Society of South Whidbey Island
Jefferson County Genealogical Society
Lower Columbia Genealogical Society
Mason County Genealogical Society
Northeast Washington Genealogical Society
Olympia Genealogical Society
Puget Sound Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists
Seattle Genealogical Society
Skagit Valley Genealogical Society
South King County Genealogical Society
Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society
Wenatchee Area Genealogical Society
Yakima Valley Genealogical Society
Congratulations to all!!
WSGS President Kathleen Sizer is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 and 2022 Outstanding Achievement Award:
Created in 2015, the President’s Award for Outstanding Achievement is designed to single out that rare individual, society or organization who has demonstrated exemplary service above and beyond expectations. The award is not given every year as it is based on merit and accomplishments, as you’ll see from reading about the recipients below.
Helen Lewis’s final years of service to genealogy and family history were not only unfailing but critical to the success of archives and genealogy groups in Washington state and beyond. She not only volunteered in her local societies including South King County Genealogical Society (SKCGS) and DAR, but also indexed public records for the Washington State Archives as a volunteer for over 25 years. Her work lives on through the Washington State Digital Archives.
She authored a number of books for which she gained no income; she assigned the proceeds to the South King County Genealogical Society. In her DAR work, she helped countless others as they worked to solidify their connection to American Patriots. She also served as liaison between the SKCGS and the DAR.
Jill is a self-described member of the “Roots” generation of genealogists. From that spark, Jill has grown into a veritable wildfire of action within the genealogical community at many levels. She is a writer, lecturer and researcher specializing in U.S. Midwestern, Scandinavian and northern German genealogy.
Jill was president (2012 – 2015), then publications director (2017 – 2020) of the Seattle Genealogical Society (SGS). She continues to provide her insights and energy to SGS as past president and co-chair of the SGS 100th anniversary committee.
Jill is also program director for the local chapter of the Association for Professional Genealogists. On the wider stage of national and international genealogy, Jill lectures nationally and has been successfully published in many journals, including the National Genealogical Society Quarterly and the Swedish American Genealogist.
In 2017, Jill founded the highly successful online Certification Discussion Group (CDG) which draws students from all over the globe. She is also a founding partner of the Applied Genealogy Institute, providing online practicum-based education for advanced genealogists.
If you want to know more about the qualities needed for this prestigious award, click here. Previous recipients are listed here.
If you but really look, the census records reveal some astounding factoids. Take this example:
The year was 1860 and the place the Western Rural District of North Carolina. I was helping a friend with her CHEEK family research and went WOW when I found her family………. but not for just the discovering of the Cheek family. Yes, F.J. Cheek and his wife Frances L., and children Margarett B., Willis P., Emmett and Sarah J. were her family but look what it says for 15-year-old Margarett: Wayne F. Colledge.
I first took that for a husband? employer? But then bells began ringing! I’d bet pennies that young Miss Margarett was attending the Fort Wayne Women’s College, a division of the Conference of the Methodist Church. (Now Taylor University, located in Upland, Indiana, it’s still a thriving institution.) The college was established in 1855………. the census year was 1860, making Margarett one of the first students. Wow.
Questions kept coming: how did Margarett travel from rural western North Carolina to Fort Wayne, Indiana? Wagon? Railroad? All by her 15-year-old self? How did her farmer/seamstress parents afford her tuition and why was that important to them? How did Margarett’s college education enrich her life??
Sidebar Question: Do you think Frances L., wife of F.J. Cheek, the mother of ALL four of those children? Did you see the gap between Willis, age 14, and Emmett, age 6? Doesn’t this ring a bell to you? Likely Father Cheek had two wives is what it speaks to me.
Most genealogists know who Tom Jones is, genealogist extraordinaire with decades of credibility and standing. The Eastern Washington Genealogical Society was privileged to have him teach us for our May society meeting.
His presentation title was Building A Credible Lineage Despite Multiple Research Barriers and he took us through a case study step-by-step. Here are my summary notes from that class:
Tom Jones was teaching some 60 members of the EWGS that while it’s good to strive to have every single puzzle piece, and every single genealogical fact, know that you will not be able to find every single fact you seek due to a large variety of reasons.
We all agreed; with the inspiration from Master Teacher Tom Jones, we just might complete our family history puzzle before we cross that bridge. Maybe.
Please join us on Saturday June 4th for David Obee. You can attend either in-person at the Shadle library or by Zoom. Zoom link and syllabus will be posted on the website the morning of the presentation. Please remember to print your syllabus before you arrive. There will be door prizes!And a free table! You may bring any genealogy items that are no longer useful to you to add to the free table, but you must take home any items that are still there at the end of the day.
Saturday, June 4 EWGS General Meeting 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm A Hybrid Meeting at Shadle Public Library David Obee will present:“Finding Family in Western Canada”Odds are, you have cousins, if not ancestors, from Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan or Manitoba, the four western provinces of Canada. This presentation will cover the important sources that apply to all four provinces, some that are regional in nature, as well as ones unique to each province. It will include some geographic clues, and will note some major differences between research in this region and in the United States.
The Richland Family History Center is going to be downsized. We will be closing the FHC on May 20st to allow the remodeling of the building.
On Saturday, May 21st starting at 9 AM, there will be a free Parking Lot giveaway of the excess equipment, furniture, shelving, and miscellaneous materials that we will no longer be able use or store in the Family History Center. There will be several boxes of duplicate books. Come see if you can find something to help in your family history research.
If you have any microfilm that you previously ordered and want to keep it available, please contact Wayne Ross (509-531-2728) before the 20th.
Most microfilm is now available online and most of our inventory will be returned to FamilySearch in Salt Lake by May 20th.
We don’t know when we will be able to reopen at this point.