The Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society (BIGS) will meet Friday,
February 15, 2019, at the Bainbridge Island Public Library on Bainbridge
Island, 1270 Madison Ave, from 10:00a.m. – 12 noon. The topic for the
Monthly BIGS Meeting will be “Mapping an Ancestor: Using Geography and Maps in Family Research.” The presenter is Janet O’Conor Camarata, a
noted and popular NW genealogist, educator, and technology specialist.
Parking is available in the 2 library parking facilities, accessed from
High School Ave and Madison Ave North. Free to members, a $5.00 donation
is suggested for nonmembers. For more information go to http://www.bigenealogy.org or call 206-755-9283. BIGS is a 501c(3) non-profit organization.
Thank you! Sue Elfving
Bainbridge Island Genealogical SocietyDirector of Publicity and Public Relations
We are sorry to have to cancel the free
genealogy meeting set for this Monday evening, 2/11/19, due to the
continued snowy and icy conditions and the likely chance of more snow
tomorrow and Saturday.
We have rescheduled Mary Kathryn Kozy’s talk to Monday, April 8, 2019, and invite you to join us then. Attached is the updated flyer for her talk.
Also attached is the flyer for our Monday evening, March 4, 2019 free genealogy meeting.
We are hosting Mark Olsen, of Family Tree Maker. Please note that his
talk is on the first Monday of March and the location for this one
meeting has changed to the Downtown Bellevue Public Library.
Would it be possible for you to post the attached flyers on your bulletin board, calendar and/or website for upcoming events?
Our upcoming events, on 3/419 and 4/8/19, are free to the public.
If it would help for me to mail you color paper copies of the flyers, I’d be happy to – just let me know!
The descriptions of our March and April topics are:
3/4/19 – “Using MacKiev’s Family Tree Maker Software”
Mark OIsen, Family Tree Maker Ambassador, will
join us in-person, to walk us through the newest features, tips, and
upgrades in Family Tree Maker 2017, as well as answering the questions:
Do I need to upgrade? How do I upgrade? What’s
new in version 2017? Mark will also discuss options to synchronize your
FTM trees with your trees at Ancestry.com. Other topics and features to
be addressed include: FamilySync™, Photo Darkroom™, FamilySearch
Integration, Color Coding, DNA Basics in conjunction
with Charting Companion 7 (a partner product), Saved Filtered Lists,
Sync Weather Report, Moving to FTM 2017, Using FTM 2017 for the first
time, Upgrading to FTM 2017 from prior versions, moving trees over to
the new version, and the FTM 2017 Free Update.
This program will be a live, interactive presentation. Come meet Mark
and bring your questions to the meeting!
A raffle for free Family Tree Software will be
held! You’ll be able to purchase Family Tree Maker Software, at a
deeply reduced price, before and after this presentation, from 6:15-6:30
p.m. and 8:30-8:45 p.m.
4/8/19 – “Breaking Down Brick Walls”
Everyone has them: family lines that seem to
have defied every effort to push them back farther in time. (Don’t have a
brick wall yet? Just wait. You probably haven’t been doing family
history long enough!) This presentation will discuss
how you might be adding to that wall yourself, brick by brick, with
some common research mistakes. We will also discuss several simple steps
you can take to reevaluate where you are in the research process. Using
the Genealogical Proof Standard, we will walk
through methodologies that, when applied to your problem, may give you
greater insight. Who knows? Perhaps looking at your genealogical problem
with a fresh perspective will cause that brick wall to come tumbling
down in 2019!
GSSWI has cancelled the Monday, Feb. 11, 2019 presentation about the DAR due to the weather conditions.
The DAR presentation will has been moved to March 11, 2019.
Hope to see you then.
Maureen MacDonald President, GSSWI
Nominations
for the WSGS Awards program opened on Feb. 1, 2019. Information on how
to recommend a volunteer, team, communication or special genealogist
are available on the WSGS website, www.wasgs.org . Applications for awards are open until March 30th.
Does Your Society need Financial Assistance?
Applications for Grants and Educational Assistance are now open! Details are available for both programs on the WSGS website, www.wasgs.org . Applications are open until March 30th!
Do you have a little something like this in the box of “old stuff” from Great Aunt Gertrude?? Any idea what it was used for?
All during the 1800s, women had long hair and when they brushed their hair, and long strands clogged the hairbrush, they’d pull it from the brush and stuff it into boxes like the one above. So what for, you ask?
During the 1800s, women would then take that hair and fashion it into astounding art such as the one above. Hair keeps its color but does become brittle with time. So such masterpieces were kept under glass.
Think of the time such intricate work took! And the ladies did not have those magnifying lights like we use today for crafts.
Greetings SVGS Member(s) and the Genealogy Community:
The SVGS board of directors has decided to cancel the Saturday,
February 9 monthly meeting at the Burlington Public Library. Snow and icy conditions are predicted for Friday night (Feb. 8) and
Saturday morning (Feb. 9) creating potentially hazardous driving
conditions due to very cold overnight temperatures.
So we will now look forward to seeing you next at the Sat. March 9
meeting from 1-3pm at the Burlington Library for “I Remember Mama –
I Just Don’t Remember Her Maiden Name.” Mary Kircher Roddy is the
guest genealogist/speaker. She will discuss how to trace the female line
in your family tree and how to get around the challenges of not knowing
your female ancestor’s maiden name.
Until then, be safe out there on the roads and Happy
Researching!
My sweet little Tika has her own Facebook page (Tika Thinks) which she tends well even without thumbs to type. Her hero is Crusoe the Celebrity Dachsund whose YouTube videos are a hoot.
What has this to do with genealogy today? Absolutely nothing…….. BUT our doggers have enriched our lives since Day One. To that I’m sure you would agree. What sort of dear beastie did your ancestor have???
The companion bill to the Senate Bill 5332 on closing vital records is House Bill # 1550. The house has had the first reading of that bill and it does not have a scheduled date for public hearing. If you hit on comments and fill in your address it will bring up your representative and you can send him a comment on the bill.
Health Care and Wellness Committee members. I did not find their E-Mails, Sorry
Cody, Eileen (D) Chair 303 John L. O’Brien Building (360) 786-7978
Macri, Nicole (D) V Chair311 John L. O’Brien Building (360) 786-7826
Schmick, Joe (R)Minority Member 426B Legislative Building (360) 786-7844
Caldier, Michelle(R)AsstMinority Member122H Legislative Building(360) 786-7802
Chambers, Kelly (R) 426 John L. O’Brien Building (360) 786-7948
Davis, Lauren (D) 369 John L. O’Brien Building (360) 786-7910
DeBolt, Richard (R) 425A Legislative Building (360) 786-7896
Harris, Paul (R) 426A Legislative Building (360) 786-7976
Jinkins, Laurie (D) 320 John L. O’Brien Building (360) 786-7930
Maycumber, Jacquelin (R)425B Legislative Building (360) 786-7908
Riccelli, Marcus (D) 434A Legislative Building (360) 786-7888
Robinson, June (D) 332 John L. O’Brien Building (360) 786-7864
Stonier, Monica Jurado(D)331 John L. O’Brien Building (360) 786-7872
Thai, My-Linh (D) 424 John L. O’Brien Building (360) 786-7926
Tharinger, Steve (D) 314 John L. O’Brien Building (360) 786-7904
Perhaps this will be a “mystery solved” post for you all. Have you, like me, seen small stones places atop of tombstones or other grave markers? Know why that is and how the custom began? Apparently it’s an ancient Jewish tradition to put a small stone on a grave as a token of remembrance. Case in point, the grave of Oskar Schindler in Jerusalem:
When you next visit a cemetery and observe small stones on graves, or think to leave one yourself on the marker for a loved one, remember why this is. And perhaps remember Oskar.
What do Saxe Gotha Neighbors, North Carolina Wills, Lithuanian Jewish Communities, and Mayflower Source Records have in common? They’re all among 21 of our recent acquisitions. Our
library committee regularly evaluates donated books, books available
for trade, and those we might wish to purchase to enhance certain areas
of our collection. Be sure to check out our “New Books” shelves to see the latest additions to the GFO Library.
GFO Stars: Endowment Committee
Marti Dell, Anita Lustenberger, Doug Henne, and Marty Krauter (left to right) Our newest GFO Stars are Marti Dell, Anita Lustenberger, Doug Henne, and Marty Krauter. All of the members of GFO’s Endowment Committee have served multiple terms. As part of their service, the Endowment Committee has done a wonderful job of managing GFO’s assets and growing the investments. For your many years of service and your continued stewardship, we thank you!
Seminar: Genetic Genealogy in Practice
Our
friends at the Olympia Genealogical Society invite you to their 2019
Spring Seminar featuring genetic genealogist Blaine Bettinger. The seminar will be held on Saturday, March 30 in Olympia, Washington.Topics include: * Using Autosomal DNA for 18th and 19th Century Mysteries * Using Third Party Tools to Analyze Your Autosomal DNA * The Danger of Distant Matches * Mapping Your Chromosomes Using DNA Painter For more information go to the Olympia Genealogical Society website at https://olygensoc.org.
Only Surviving Arabic Slave Narrative in U.S. Digitized by Library of Congress
We
know that a handful of slaves in the 1800s wrote autobiographies of
their experience. Only one was written in Arabic in the U.S. and is
known to survive to this day. According to Smithsonian Magazine, that Arabic memoir of a slave sold in Charleston, South Carolina, is now fully digitized and available at the Library of Congress. “Omar
Ibn Said was leading a prosperous life in West Africa at the turn of
the 19th century, devoting himself to scholarly pursuits and the study
of Islam, when he was captured, carted across the globe, and sold as a
slave in Charleston, South Carolina.” After being in America for 50 years, Said died in 1864, one year before slavery was legally abolished. “To
have [the manuscript] preserved at the Library of Congress and made
available to everyday people and researchers across the world will make
this collection an irreplaceable tool for research on Africa in the 18th
and 19th centuries,” says Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, one that
she predicts will further “shed light on the history of American
slavery.”
Do any women in your old family photos wear hats? The Minnesota Historical Society has archived 717 hat styles that could help you figure out when the picture was taken. Hat tip to genealogy blogger Gail Dever for writing about this. You can read her full story here. Dever notes, “The hats range from straw hats worn in the 1860s to pink pussy hats women wore during women’s marches in 2017.” The society doesn’t have a page set up to find just hats, but they did provide this link with filters that will take you to a display of this hat collection.
SATURDAY, February 2nd Virginia Group 10 a.m. – noon From Institutes to Webinars: Genealogy Education Join
us for a discussion of educational opportunities to enhance your
genealogical experience. We all know that genealogy is much more than
adding names and dates to a list, but organizing, interpreting, and
analyzing the information we find can be a challenge. There are
educational opportunities to enhance any level of experience, and in all
price ranges, including no cost. We’ll explore many of those
opportunities, and have people available who have taken advantage of
many of them to answer any question you might have. For more information see our blog: “Virginia Roots and Vines” Questions? Email the facilitators, Judi Scott and Carol Surrency, at Virginia@gfo.org. German Group 1 – 3 p.m. Speaker: Emily Aulicino Topic: How she was able to trace her ancestors back to the 1500s. Index: A. German 16 states: #2 Bavaria B. Valentine’s Day German recipes C. Online heritage books / Ortsfamilienbücher D. Update on the 2020 census E. Conferences, etc. SUNDAY, February 3rd Manuscripts Work Party 9 a.m. – noon Explore
our manuscript, personal papers, and Bible collection while we
organize, scan, and create finding aids. Drop by at the time that works
for you. Questions? Send a note to manuscripts@gfo.org. MONDAY, February 4th Free First Monday! 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Come
visit our research library each first Monday of every month and splurge
on all GFO’s wonderful resources for FREE. Explore our online databases
like Fold3, Ancestry World Library Edition, Newspapers.com, and many
more. Our analog and microfilm collections total over 50,000 items.
Don’t miss out! WEDNESDAY, February 6th Learn & Chat 10 a.m. – noon At
Learn & Chat some of the learning comes from speakers with
particular expertise, but most of it comes from the sharing of
experiences and knowledge of attendees who have developed methods that
work for them. And if you have been doing genealogy for any length time,
you have likely experienced the wonderful moments of exhilaration, the
successes that you then share with others and that drive you to continue
researching. Unfortunately, those times can be few and far between.
Join us to talk about your genealogy questions and help provide support
to others. Facilitated by Jeanne Quan and Sandy Alto. DNA Q&A 1 – 3 p.m. Lisa
McCullough will be available to help answer your DNA questions, whether
you are new and just getting started or have more involved questions.
Questions? Send a note to the group’s leader at dna_qa@gfo.org.
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