We are very excited about our upcoming 2022 Virtual Spring Seminar featuring the Genealogy Guys, Drew Smith & George G. Morgan! Our emcee for the day is Cyndi Ingle of CyndisList.com. Be sure to register through our web site or use the downloadable brochure to mail in your registration. It will be a great day of genealogical education and fun! See all the details here: https://tpcgs.org/cpage.php?pt=3
We’re thrilled to announce that Donna Potter Phillips, blogger extraordinaire, is returning to the WSGS Blog.
Donna is an enthusiastic lover of genealogy, history, humor and trivia and she wants to share it with you. In her upcoming column “Let’s Talk About…” (debuting on Monday), she’ll share what’s on her mind, lighten our days and educate us on a wide variety of topics. She previously authored weekly musings on the Blog from 2015 – 2019 — covering everything from upcoming genealogical events to the origins of the pretzel. And don’t forget her posts on the pedigree of Donald Duck and her suggestions to find when your ancestors arrived in the U.S. To read any of Donna’s previous postings, type “Monday,” “Tuesday,” “Wednesday,” or “Serendipity” into the Blog’s search bar. To read more about Donna, click here.
Welcome back, Donna! We’re looking forward to reading “Let’s Talk About…”
Clark County Genealogical Society
invites
STUDENTS and ADULTS to
JOIN OUR SPRING SCAVENGER HUNT from March 7 – 13, 2022
CASH for Daily ($25) and Grand ($100) 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.
Seven (7) daily questions – all answers available from online sources. The game not only builds your search skills but also delivers great daily prizes!. Student and Adult daily winners. You may review also last year’s questions and answers on our website www.ccgs-wa.org.
I’m delighted to tell you that MyHeritage has just published 5.8 million records from 28 collections from JewishGen. The release of these records — made possible thanks to MyHeritage’s collaboration with the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and its affiliate, JewishGen, a leading website for Jewish genealogy — constitutes the first installment of a licensing agreement that will ultimately make almost all the JewishGen records accessible on MyHeritage.
As you can imagine, this announcement is particularly exciting for me, for obvious reasons 🙂 JewishGen is home to important collections of historical records pertaining to Jewish communities across the globe.
The records in these collections will now benefit from MyHeritage’s powerful matching technologies, which automatically match historical records with the 83 million family trees on MyHeritage. Also, JewishGen records were available to search and view in English only, however, now international users will benefit from MyHeritage’s Global Name Translation Technology™, which allows individuals researching in other languages, such as Hebrew, Russian, or Greek, to search and view these records, with the names translated into their native languages.
I believe this partnership will greatly benefit anyone researching Jewish roots, and I can’t wait to dive in myself to see what I can find. I invite you to spread the news! Feel free to use the above graphic. You can read more about the collections in our blog post here, which includes links to all the collections.
Enjoy!
Daniel Horowitz Genealogy Expert
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Saturday, March 5
EWGS March Meeting (EWGS Meetings) 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Meeting via Zoom (Zoom link will be posted to the website the morning of this presentation)
Pam Vestal will present: “Why They Left, Where They Went and the Tales Their Journeys Can Reveal” Why did our ancestors leave their homes? Why did they settle where they did? Using unexpected records, social history, the law, and more, we’ll discover the secrets our ancestors’ migrations can reveal as we track them from place to place, across the ocean, across the country, even across town!
TIP OF THE WEEK –
BRITISH COLUMBIA HISTORICAL
NEWSPAPERS AND A WEBINAR
Jill Morelli passed along this tip; it originally came from Valerie Beaudrault. The University of British Columbia has made the BC Historical Newspapers database, a digital collection of 168 newspaper titles published between 1859 and 1995, available on their website. Toward the bottom left hand side of the web page is an alphabetical selection list of the newspaper titles. And to the right of that list is a map that pinpoints the home of each publication. To explore a specific title, click on it in the alphabetical selection list toward the bottom of the page. But if you want to search the entire collection, that search box is located toward the top of the web page. Newspaper page images can be downloaded and saved. Here’s the link to the website: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers
If BC is an area of interest for you, check out the webinar “Genealogical Gold in British Columbia” with Dave Obee, Canadian genealogist, journalist, and author. It is scheduled for Friday, February 18, 2022 at 11:00 AM PST. This is one of many free webinars hosted by Legacy Family Tree. Register at:
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/genealogical-gold-in-british-columbia/