Did you know the pedigree of Donald Duck is available online to you?? Click to www.cyndislist.com , then HUMOR, and there it be. Along with other fun stuff.
Just learned that there are 1250 “Donna Phillips” in the U.S. but only 253 “Donna Potter” listings. And only one Donna Potter Phillips. Website is www.howmanyofme.com.
Have an 18th century ancestor with the unlikely name of Bezaleel. According to www.meaning-of-names.com, his name means “in the shadow of God.” (According to the Old Testament, Bezaleel built the wooden ark, as in Ark of the Covenant; he had siblings John, Mary and Elizabeth. Go figure.)
Did you know that there is a live feed from the ISS (International Space Station) on YouTube to which you can subscribe? Fascinating.
I lived at 311 Great Jones Street in Fairfield, California, in 1950. Using www.zillow.com, I found a current photo of “my” house. Way cool.
Saved the best for last. You can go to www.YouTube.com and ask to see videos on anything you can think of (BE CAREFUL; UGLY THINGS THERE TOO). Ask for “10 minute history of America.”
Then spend the rest of your evening looking at other YouTube wonderful things. Enjoy.
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State is pleased to present our
April
meeting program
“Breaking Down Brick Walls”
presented by Mary Kathryn Kozy, Genealogical Lecturer
DATE:Monday,April 8, 2019
LOCATION:
LDSFactoria Church
Building
4200 124th
Ave SE
Bellevue,WA
98006
(just off I-90 and I-405)
•
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., for all to enjoy the extensive JGSWS Library’s genealogical resources,
including FREE access to the FHC computers and genealogical websites!
• Free Wi-Fi available. Come early to network with other attendees!
•
Presentation starts promptly at 7:15 p.m.
• Free admission and refreshments
ABOUT OUR PROGRAM:
“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!
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Mary Kathryn Kozy has
been working on her own family history for almost 40 years, since she
first became interested as a young teenager. Over the years she has
researched families in the United States from the Midwest
to the Deep South, and from both Western and Eastern Europe. She
started her own family history website in November 1996 and has
continued developing it. She has served in multiple positions in several
local societies and on the state level. She currently
supports the USGenWeb project, serves as a part-time LDS Family History
missionary, and speaks to many groups in the area. Mary is married, the
mother of three wonderful children, and is now a grandma of three. She
holds bachelor’s degrees from UW in both
Zoology and Information Technology & Systems and has completed two
certificate programs with the National Institute for Genealogical
Studies. She has also completed the ProGen program with an eye toward
certification as a professional genealogist.
Please visit our website at
http://www.jgsws.org/membership.php
to join or to donate to JGSWS to help support
the incredible speakers and workshops we bring to you, to view library
listings, download handouts, or for more information. JGSWS is a
501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization. Membership
dues and donations are tax deductible.
Chocolate. Milk or dark, or when all else fails, white, chocolate is almost everybody’s go-to candy. Who can resist?
Continuing with my Chocolate Education, this is Part 4 in my series.
That sweet lady is holding a bowl of dried, roasted cacao beans. After they are pulled from their pods (Part 3), they are spread out on trays to dry and they hot-dry roasted in a big swirling copper pot. The result is crunchy dry beans. She’s offering them to us to taste. Ever had a crunchy coffee bean? Tasted something like that but again with only a faint chocolate flavor.
Ever attended RootsTech in Salt Lake City? Or ever thought about it? In a nutshell:
RootsTech is a global family history event where people of all ages learn to discover, share and celebrate their family connections across generations through technology. At RootsTech, there is something for everyone, no matter your experience in family history or your skill level in technology.
Family history enthusiasts attended more than 200 breakout sessions throughout the four-day conference. Other RootsTech activities included more than 200 displays in the expansive exhibition hall.
The genealogy learning at RootsTech cannot be matched by any other conference anywhere and anytime. The vendors’ hall brings anybody with anything to offer genealogists together in one place so one can ask questions and evaluate if you want that particular product. Or not.
F.Y.I. RootsTech 2020 will be 26-29 Feb; 2021 will be 3-6 Feb; 2022 will be 9-12 Mar; and 2023 will be 1-4 March.
Wouldn’t you like to come?? Click to www.rootstech.org for all the needed information.
The German Interest Group of
The Eastside GenealogicalSociety (EGS)
will meet on Friday, April 5, 2019, from 1 to 3 pm
in the Primary Room of the Latter-day Saints Church at 10675 NE 20th
St, Bellevue, WA 98004 with doors opening at 12:45
pm for networking. Enter through the double wooden doors on the right
side of the Chapel. Visitors are always welcome at our meetings.
Topic: “Google Tools for German Research” – Google is known for general web searching. It has several additional features specifically helpful for German Research, e.g. searching images, maps, online books, YouTube videos and translation tools unfamiliar to many of us. If you have a certificate from a foreign country, Google can help translate it. If you want to read a newspaper from the last century, check Google for availability. Can’t find where you ancestor lived? Google maps will help locate the place and can show what it looks like today. Want to read county histories or a biography of an ancestor? Check Google books. Google tools beyond basic search can make the life of genealogists easier and more interesting.
Presenter: Janet Camarata
is a
genealogical seminar presenter, educator and trainer in genealogy
societies, libraries, retirement centers and senior centers across
Washington and supported genealogy by volunteering in a variety of
ways – presenter, educator, newsletter editor, program coordinator,
publicity and past-president of South King County Genealogical Society
(SKCGS). She is also an instructor of a year-long, 6-week series of
classes, “Genealogy: Discovering Your Ancestors”
at Pierce College and Puget Sound Genealogical Society that addresses
both topics – genealogy and technology support research in today’s
world. Janet is a member of the Association of Professional
Genealogists, a graduate of the University of Washington Genealogy
and Family History program, and a master’s degree from Antioch
University.
After
having to cancel last month’s TCGS meeting due to the weather, the
forecast for this Wednesday’s March meeting calls for sunshine all day!
Please come for a special open house tour of the Richland Family History
Center.
Upcoming educational program we are offering on Saturday, April 13, 2019 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in partnership with Skagit Valley Genealogical Society. The topic of the program is “Evernote for Genealogists” and will be presented by Janet O’Connor-Camarata. This event is free and open to the public. I’ve attached a flyer with more information. Please feel free to forward or post on any wall you wish! We appreciate your help in getting the word out, because we would like as many people as possible to benefit from our programs.
Please contact me with any questions or feedback.
Thank you for helping us spread the word about these free and valuable
community resources.
Big question today: Were our ancestors smarter than we are?
Not talking about intelligence, but just plain ole smarts.
Reason I ask: Just got back from a trip involving air travel. Day after I got back I read this in my Sunday paper that the TSA folks just shared that 4,239 firearms were found in carry-on bags coming through airport checkpoints in the U.S. last year, an increase of about 7% over the number found in 2017. And nearly 9 out of every 10 of those firearms were loaded and more than a third had a round chambered!!!
Factoids like that do make me wonder. Yah, our ancestors went over Niagara Falls in barrels but that never hurt anybody but them.
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