Seattle Genealogical Society GiveBig Day

by Charles Hansen

May 8th is a BIG day!

         The Seattle Genealogical Society is excited to be part of the           

2019 GiveBig campaign!

#GiveBIG2019                             What is GiveBig?
    A coalition of non-profits that come together for one day of giving for the
Seattle community. We need member support more than ever!
    Here’s how to show your support:

Donate
  Show your financial support by donating to the
Seattle Genealogical Society.
https://www.givebig2019.org/seattle-genealogical-society
  Follow us
  Help build the buzz by following us on Facebook
and sharing our posts.

  Spread the word
                Tap into your individual networks to share                 the work that we do at SGS.

            Forward this information to your family and friends and share                 what you think is important about the SGS mission.

We are an all volunteer organization!

Volunteers maintain and update a 15,000 volume library that is open to the public. SGS offers a variety of services and databases for those researching ancestors from all over the world.  We have classes, seminars, publications, and knowledgeable volunteers to help in your genealogical journey.    

https://www.givebig2019.org/seattle-genealogical-society#GiveBIG2019


Make an IMPACT! Support us through GiveBIG, our community’s biggest day of giving of the year. Learn more at givebig.seattlefoundation.org 
 

Wednesday Nostalgia

by Charles Hansen

For many women today, the United States Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is still a viable and relevant organization. Besides monthly meetings these ladies contribute to service projects and honor and preserve the legacy of patriot ancestors.

American Spirit is the magazine published by the Daughters. In the Mar/Apr 2019, I gleaned these interesting tidbits about the organization.

There is a DAR Genealogy Preservation committee where volunteers categorize documents to make the retrieval process easier for documents submitted with applications.

The group offers helpful research publications such as: Massachusetts/Maine Revolutionary War Source Guide and North Carolina Revolutionary War Source Guide. You can order them in paper form or purchase them as a PDF download. Click to www.dar.org/darstore

American Spirit carries queries! Yes, they still do. The cost is $1.00 per word. Click the website (www.dar.org) for submitting information and any other information about this venerable patriotic organization.

Lower Columbia Genealogical Society May Meeting

by Charles Hansen

Join us for our May meeting!!

Our speaker will be professional genealogist

STEVEN W. MORRISON,

presenting

ASSEMBLING YOUR PROOF…

HUNTING FOR HIGH QUALITY RESOURCES

LOWER COLUMBIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~walcolgs/

SOMERSET RETIREMENT APARTMENTS

2025 TIBBETTS DRIVE, LONGVIEW

DINING ROOM 7:00 PM

MAY 9, 2019

Visitors are welcome and encouraged to attend!!

Tuesday Trivia

by Charles Hansen

Who doesn’t like a pretzel? Ever given a thought as to the origins of the humble pretzel? Well, it was in Germany…………..

“The earliest recorded evidence of pretzels is their appearance in the crest of the German bakers’ guild in the year 1111….. pretzels were deeply integrated in both religion and German culture. As a result, German immigrants brought pretzels with them when then came to the U.S. in the 1700s. They were a staple food of the Pennsylvania Dutch.”

Don’t have to be German to enjoy a fresh hot pretzel from a fair or mall vendor these days.

(Thanks to Der Ahnenforscher, newsletter of the German Genealogy Group, www.GGG.org, based on Long Island. This bit was quoting an article in The Week in Germany, March 2019.)

Monday Mystery

by Charles Hansen

The construction of Grand Coulee Dam was a boon for Washington and the entire USA. No argument. But did you realize that many little settlements along the river were drowned and many, many cemeteries and grave sites were buried beneath the water…..forever?

Quoting from a Spokesman Review article from 25 March 1939:

“Undertakers of the state will vie with one another this spring for the biggest mass burial contract in the history of the state. Bids will be called soon for the removal of a thousand graves of Indians and whites within the area to be flooded by Columbia River backwater above Grand Coulee Dam.

“The plan calls for giving the contract to a licensed undertaker. He and a crew of men (preference is to be given to Indian workmen) will dig up the remains along the river shore. Most of the Indian remains will be taken to main Indian cemeteries at Keller and Inchelium. Heirs of white people…..have been notified of the removal plans. The bureau will re-bury their relatives in graves near by, or if it is desired to move the remains to burial grounds far away, will deliver the caskets to relatives.”

Eastern Washington Genealogical Society Meetings

by Charles Hansen
Saturday, May 4 Results of EWGS – Future of the Society  (EWGS Meetings) 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm Spokane Public Library Auditorium – Downtown Spokane – Main Floor Barbara Brazzington will review the ideas that have been brought forward regarding our future as a Society. This will include things from meeting times to new ideas about the topics covered in our meetings.
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SAR & SUVCW Meeting at Richland

by Charles Hansen

You are invited to attend a meeting of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) on Saturday, 20 April 2019, at 11:00 AM at the Round Table Pizza on Leslie Road in Richland.

It will be a Civil War presentation on the GAR (Grand Army of the Republic), Women of the GAR and the Women’s Relief Corps.

Come early due to limited seating. There will be a book sale—Civil War books.
~Linda Stephens

Friday Serendipity

by Charles Hansen

It’s not only geese that migrate in their famous “V” formations.

Our ancestors migrated, too, and from here to there and back again, over and over and over. Consider most of that early traveling meant walking, it’s a good think you and I weren’t born pioneers. (Well, me anyway.)

Pamela Sayre followed up her husband, Rick’s, presentation on Mapping the West by teaching us at the Montana State Genealogical Society’s 2018 conference in Great Falls about the various trails.

Missouri was a “jumping-off” place for travel west in the 1800s….. perhaps the reason why was the folks or immigrants could come upstream on the Mississippi, overland to the Missouri, and then strike out west on foot. This would include the Santa Fe Trail, the Oregon California Trail, the Mormon Trail, the Butterfield Trail, and the Pony Express.

If you think, or know, your ancestor traveled on a westward-heading trail, there are many references and resources available to you online. Go for it!

Olympia Genealogical Society May Meeting

by Charles Hansen

May 9—At the May meeting of Olympia Genealogical Society we will “Meet the Daughters of American Colonists: Who, What, and Where”. Three ladies from the local Tumwater Falls Chapter will explain who they are and how to be one, what part they play locally and nationally, and where and how they are active now and will be in the future.  Join us on Thursday, May 9, 7 pm, at the Thurston County Courthouse, Bldg 1, Room 152.  360-754-6230

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Joyce T. Ogden
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360) 754-8625