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GENEALOGICAL FORUM’s Thursday Evening E-News
THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’sThursday EveningE-News EditionNovember 1, 2018 |
Curious about the status of your GFO Membership?We’d love to have you as a GFO Member! |
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For more information visit www.gfo.org, contact us at info@gfo.org, or call our library at 503-963-1932. Be sure to check the complete GFO CALENDAR. |
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Don’t Forget to Fall Back This Saturday Night! |
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Daylight Saving time ends this weekend, which means an extra hour of sleep, huzzah! Be sure to set your clocks back one hour on Saturday night, November 3rd, before you go to sleep. This means, 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 4th, will magically become 1 a.m. all over again. Isn’t time travel wonderful? We want to make sure you arrive on time at our Sunday Seminar with Internet genealogy guru Cyndi Ingle. |
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The syllabus for both days of the Fall Seminar with Cyndi Ingle was emailed out on Tuesday, October 30th. If you registered for the seminar but did not receive your electronic copy, please check your junk mail folder. If you still can’t find your syllabus copy, please email education@gfo.org. If you paid for a paper copy of the syllabus, it will be waiting for you at the check-in table the morning of the event. If you previously canceled your registration but still received an emailed syllabus, don’t worry. As long as you received a reply from us confirming your cancellation, or if you already have your money refunded, then you know your cancellation has been processed. Check-in both Saturday and Sunday will begin at 8:45 a.m. at the Milwaukie Center. Remember to bring cash for our raffle of great prizes. We also have many books for sale.Our volunteers are scheduled to arrive by 8:30, and they will need a few minutes to get situated before opening up their tables. Please be patient, because this weekend will be our largest event ever at the Milwaukie Center, and we’re so excited! Haven’t registered yet?Please do so by Friday, November 2nd, at noon. That’s tomorrow! Due to the number of people already registered, there will be no walk-ins allowed on either Saturday or Sunday. Please be sure to register online here by tomorrow, Friday, at noon. |
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GFO’s Open HouseMarch 23rd – 31st We’ve got a great line-up of presenting professionals and genealogist specialists this year! For our DNA Days on the closing Saturday and Sunday, March 30th and 31st, we’ll be welcoming Barbara Rae-Venter as our key-note speaker. Rae-Venter is a retired patent lawyer and volunteers with the nonprofit DNAadoption.com. She’s the genetic genealogist who helped crack the Golden State Killer case and was recently featured in this New York Times article helping adoptee Lisa Jensen find her true identity. All our events and access to our research library are complete FREE the entire Open House week. Keep an eye on GFO’s online calendar and E-News over the coming months for updates to make sure you don’t miss a moment! GFO’s Spring SeminarApril 27th & 28th Our Education Committee is already hard at work preparing our Spring 2019 Seminar. The guest speaker this coming April will be none other than international genealogist Tony Burroughs, FUGA (Fellow of the Utah Genealogical Association). Check out his website here for his globetrotting and genealogical work. Burroughs is the author of |
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Registration Opened Today, November 1st!This year’s theme is Strike It Rich! With Connections 2 Discoveries, set for June 15th – 17th, in Sacramento, California. See the full line-up at the International German Genealogy Partnership here. They’ve got a great schedule of speakers and classes. To register, visit their website here. Looks like there may be volunteer opportunities also! |
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Heading up to Seattle after the New Year? |
The Seattle Genealogical Society is sponsoring a Japanese Genealogy Seminar, February 2rd and 3rd.Registration will open December 1st. Registration is free, but the Seminar and the Train the Trainer sessions are limited to 40 individuals. The registration for the One-on-One sessions will open January 1st. Lunch will be provided for a fee on the first day only. For more information, please contact Jill Morelli, President of SGS, at president@seagensoc.org. This program is generously funded under the Heritage Grant program by 4Culture, a King County arts support agency. |
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SATURDAY, November 3rdFall Seminar 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Where: Milwaukie Center, 5440 SE Kellogg Creek Dr, Milwaukie, OR 97222 (map) Presenter: Cyndi Ingle Registration: By Friday, November 2nd, at noon please, here. SUNDAY, November 4thManuscripts Work Party 9:30 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. Half-Day Seminar 9:30 a.m. – noon Where: Milwaukie Center, 5440 SE Kellogg Creek Dr, Milwaukie, OR 97222 (map) Presenter: Cyndi Ingle Library Opens at 1 p.m. due to the Sunday Half-Day Seminar session at the Milwaukie Center. MONDAY, November 5thFree 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 some 49,000 items. Don’t miss out! WEDNESDAY, November 7thLearn & Chat 10 a.m. – noon Legalities of Emigration: Revisit What you Have Why Did They Leave? Where Did They Go and Why? Historical Context and Timelines. 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. 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. Curious? Send Lisa a message at dna_qa@gfo.org, or feel free to just drop by! |
Seattle Genealogical Society Tip of the Week
TIP OF THE WEEK –
Improvements to AncestryDNA Results Page
Ancestry has made some improvements to the AncestryDNA Results page. They are now showing the shared total DNA cM and segments in a prominent position near the matched member’s id. So it is no longer necessary to click on the grayed icon to get that information. Also looking toward the right, under the green and white “View Match”, is a new blue “Connect” with an intersecting circles icon. Click on that blue “Connect”. It displays a side-by-side comparison of your data and your DNA match’s data.
- Your Photo / Their Photo
- Your Ethnicity Estimates / Their Ethnicity Estimates
- Matches You Both Share
Fun stuff, in a more efficient, user friendly format.
Seattle Genealogical Society News
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Elections: Pay It Forward To WSGS
It is that time of year folks! Elections are on the horizon for WSGS. Do you have a few spare hours? Would you like to make a contribution to the genealogical community? Would you like to help WSGS transition into a new era? Please contact Donna Potter Phillips, (Donna243@gmail.com), if you are interested or would like more info. Job descriptions are available on the WSGS website, www.wasgs.org
The following Officers and Regional Reps are open or up for re-election:
Officers:
Vice President (open)
Secretary (open)
Treasurer (open)
Regional Reps:
Region 1 North and 1 South – San Juan, Island, Whatcom, Skagit and Snohomish Cos.
Region 2 – King & Pierce Cos. (open)
Region 3 – Clallam, Jefferson, Kitsap, Mason, Thurston Cos. (open)
Region 5 – Kittitas, Yakima, Klickitat and Skamania Cos. (open)
Region 7 – Ferry, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane and Stevens
Friday Serendipity
Doing some indexing for SCRIBE (through our Washington State Digital Archives) in some Yakima County school census records for 1913:
I know you can barely read it so I’ll transcribe the high points:
- Number of children in the district: 497
- Number of months public school was taught: 9
- Number of teachers employed: 6 male; 11 female
- Average monthly salary paid male teachers: $86.39
- Average monthly salary paid female teachers: $74.10
- Total seating capacity of all schools in the district: 600
- Number of reference and other books in district library: 541
Comfort to our Jewish Community
The Washington State Genealogical Society wishes to express its deepest sympathies to our member organization Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State as we try to make sense of the tragedy at the Squirrel Hill synagogue, Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh on 27 Oct 2018. When one grieves, we all grieve.
Eastern Washington Genealogical Society November Seminar Venue Change
The Seminar with Dave Obee on Canadian Genealogy is scheduled at Saturday morning (registration 8:30-9:00 am). The location has changed due to unforeseen conflicts. The all day seminar will be held at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church located at 8441 N Indian Trail Road in Spokane. There is plenty of parking available at this location when you arrive.
Lunch will be included for everyone who has registered. A mixed group of sandwiches has been ordered for you that registered afterr the October 15 cut off for the free lunch. So we all will receive “free lunch” for this event.
To emphasize. . . the Saturday seminar on Canadian Genealogy is being held at the announced time but the place has changed to Prince of Peace Lutheran Church located at 8441 N Indian Trail Road. I for one am really looking forward to learning from Mr. Obee and we hope everyone finds us at the new location.
Sincerely,
John Wilson
EWGS Web Manager
Wednesday Nostalgia
Today is Halloween……………….. enough said. Can’t resist!
Tuesday Trivia
Do you understand that you might have Cajun or Creole ancestors? Do you know the difference? I didn’t…………
Creole refers to multiple origins…..like Louisiana Creole. This is a designation of a group of people that refers to their origin, their ancestry, their lineage, their heritage, as direct descendants from the early settlers of the Louisiana colony or territory. These settlers came straight from Spain or France.
Contrast that with Cajuns, or more properly Acadians. These were people from Spain or France who first went to Acadia in Canada and were forced out by the British in 1765 and many of whom went to Louisiana.
Remember: it was in 1763 that the Louisiana colony was transferred to the Spanish crown. That’s why those fleeing Acadia headed south to join other like-minded people.
(Thanks to Belmont F. Haydel, Ph.D., his article in the New Orleans Genesis, Jan 2017.)