GENEALOGICAL Forum’s Thursday Evening E-News

by Charles Hansen

THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’s

Thursday Evening

E-News, Edition

7 June 2018

For more information visit www.gfo.org, contact us at info@gfo.org, or call our library at 503-963-1932. We love hearing from you!

For a complete GFO CALENDAR click here.

Also, if you missed your free copy of our monthly Insider for May 2018, you’re in luck because we saved you a copy HERE. Simply scroll down at THIS page and click on the Insider 2018 May issue.

Curious about the status of your GFO Membership? We’d love to have you as a GFO Member!
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Did you know your groceries can support GFO!?
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Here’s how:

You can financially support the GFO simply by linking your Fred Meyer Rewards Card to the Genealogical Forum of Oregon. You won’t pay more for groceries, but we will get a small donation every time you shop.

Please click HERE and then click on “Re-enroll or link your Rewards Card now” to add the Genealogical Forum of Oregon as your charity to support.

Thank you for helping us meet our rising rent and other expenses!
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Saturday, June 16th, at GFO is Jam Packed!

Genealogy Problem Solvers (GPS) Takes One 9:30 – 11:30am

The Challenges: (1) Discover who were the parents and paternal grandparents of Riley Hash, the father of William M. Hash (1876–1937). (2) Is there a connection between Riley Hash and the Revolutionary War veteran William Horton Hash Sr.?

The primary geographical focus: Grayson County, Virginia, and Ashe County, North Carolina.

The resolution to Darrell Gulstrom’s questions will take a most unexpected turn. After resolving the parents and paternal grandparents of Riley Hash, one of his lines will be traced back to a surprising ancestor and the earliest days of settlement in North Carolina and Virginia.
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GFO’s GenTalk 2:30 – 3:30pm

Presenter: Harold Hinds, Ph.D

Topic: The Family Photo Collection and Its Uses in Visualizing Your Personal Family History

Most of us hope to illustrate our personal family histories with family photographs. But what should be collected? Which deserve to be preserved and identified for posterity? What types of photos might you find in typical family albums or shoe boxes? What guidelines might you apply in selecting items from your collection for inclusion in a family memoir? This lecture tackles these important questions.

Harold Hinds, Ph.D., was Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Minnesota-Morris, and is the author of several books, including Crafting a Personal Family History: A Guide Plus A Case Study, and A Basic Guide to Genealogical and Family History Resources for Essex County, New York.

Be sure to download the handout for the GenTalk ahead of time right HERE.

Don’t miss GFO’s Annual Meeting at 2pm! We’ll be installing our new board members.

Also don’t miss the Italian Group meeting from Noon – 2pm. A little somethin’ for everyone! Personal research assistance will be provided on your current research problems. Keith Pyeatt facilitates this group.
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Early Bird Special Ends June 17th! Don’t miss out!
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GFO’s Summer Half-Day German Seminar

You can still REGISTER after June 17th, at the regular price of course, but who doesn’t like an Early Bird Special!?

WHEN? July 7th, 9:30am – noon
WHO? Presenter Fritz Juengling, PhD, AG®
WHAT? Learn the wonders of the Meyers Gazetteer, and learn how to read German Church and Civil Records
WHERE? GFO’s Library (map)

Registration starts HERE! (Sign up online or print the paper registration form and mail it in today.)
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Ford Building Freight Elevator
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Next Friday, June 15th, the freight elevator will be inoperable due to scheduled repairs.

If needed, please plan ahead for freight use on Thursday June 14th. The Ford Building anticipates ability to have the freight elevator up and running again on Saturday June 16th.

Please note, this should NOT impact the regular elevator.
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The Irish Are Coming!!
Irish Ancestry Group

This group’s next meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 20th, at 6pm.

FOCUS: Although all of the island of Ireland is included, our primary focus is the genealogical research of the Republic of Ireland, also known as the Irish Free State, Éire, Ireland, and Southern Ireland. Members of the GFO as well as their guests and any interested members of the public are welcomed to attend the Irish Genealogy SIG. One hour of each two-hour meeting will be spent on presentations about Irish history, genealogy, and resources while the second hour will focus on Irish Brick Wall questions.

Also upcoming is the Celtic Connections Conference, which is co-sponsored by The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA) & The Irish Genealogical Society International (IGSI). Sign up and all the details are HERE.
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Research The Great Irish Famine via UCC’s New Website

Last month at University College Cork, The Great Irish Famine Online was made accessible for online researchers.

“This ground-breaking project allows users to access interactive maps containing detailed information on the impact of the Famine on each of 3,000 civil parishes and 1,600 towns across the island. You can analyse statistics that chart changes in the social, political and economic landscape of Ireland pre- and post-Famine. The statistics are taken from the 1841 and 1851 census….” (read the entire article HERE)

Interact and explore UCC’s The Great Irish Famine Online HERE.
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This week at GFO…
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FRIDAY, June 8th

Mexican Ancestry Group 11:30am – 1:30pm

Finding your Hispanic ancestors from Mexico, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California
This Special Interest Group (SIG) pertains specifically to Mexican ancestors from Mexico and the American Southwest (New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California).

Beginning and intermediate researchers are very welcome. Some subjects will include online parish records, Hispanic genealogy societies, Family History Library/FamilySearch.org. Ancestry.com, solving genealogical problems, methodology of organizing your research, etc. Of course this group will also be about sharing our research experiences, and having fun.

If you know of any other people interested in Hispanic genealogy tell them about the up and coming group. They don’t have to be a GFO member to participate.
For questions or comments, please email Vince at sw@gfo.org.

SATURDAY, June 9th

Great Lakes Region Group 9:30 – 11:30am

The Sizzling Summer of 1901, Google Tips, and More

We will look at the deadly heat wave that took over the Eastern half of the US in the summer of 1901 and affected almost every aspect of peoples’ lives for several weeks. Also, we’ll explore some “cool” ideas for getting more out of our Google searches. In the second hour participants are invited to share their own genealogy research, puzzlers, great finds, and more. Even if your ancestors are not from the Great Lakes Region, you may find something useful at this meeting! Contact Lynn Rossing at greatlakes@gfo.org with any questions.

SUNDAY, June 10th

Maps Work Party 9am – Noon

We are planning to continue working on this project on the second Sunday of the month from 9am until noon, or to whatever time you can spare. Come when you can. Doris Cruickshank is our fearless map project coordinator.

WEDNESDAY, June 13th

Portland Meetup: How Do I Get Started On My Family Tree 5 – 7pm

This meeting is part of the Portland Genealogy Meetup Group. It’s organized by GFO’s new secretary, Geoff Smith. Come on down for a guerrilla guide for those who are just starting — How to get started, how to organize your search. Additional information is available HERE.

Wednesday Nostalgia

by Charles Hansen

Know when the first bottle of Olympia Beer was filled? Back on 1 October 1896, and it was in Tumwater, Washington, in that shadow of Mount Rainier, so it was called Rainier Beer. Remember how the company bragged that they used artesian water?

What you and I might remember most about Olympia Beer were the Running of the Rainiers commericals……… I can still see those brown-legged beer bottles running along…….

Check out the YouTube videos and indulge yourself in a big of true Washington nostalgia.

Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society (BIGS) June Meeting

by Charles Hansen

For immediate release:
  The Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society (BIGS) will meet Friday, June 15, 2018, 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 “Making Use Of Land Records” presented by Jerri Thorpe McCoy, a Washington genealogist and current historian for the Washington State Chapter of the Mayflower (Descendants) Society.  Free to members, a $5.00 donation is suggested for nonmembers. For more information go to http://www.bigenealogy.org or call 206-780-8009. BIGS is a 501c(3) non-profit organization.
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Sue Elfving
Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society
Director of Publicity and Public Relations

Wednesday Nostalgia

by Charles Hansen

Last weekend I attended the Clark County Genealogical Society in Vancouver, Washington. The day before, Ginny Majewski and I visited the Clark Co Historical Society (housed in the old Carnegie Library). They had wonderful stuff on display there! Recognize this?

Now perhaps you cannot read the sign, but it’s a corn sheller! Yep, new-fangled, time-saving corn sheller. BUT you still had to harvest the corn, peel the cobs, and by hand insert the cobs one at a time into this gizmo and turn the crank.

Ah, yes, the good old days, right?

Tri-City Genealogical Society Free Webinars

by Charles Hansen

Please note that Legacy Family Tree is offering these 3 free webinars this week. I just received a notice in my email inbox about these webinars tonight, so I wanted to pass them onto you.  Note that these webinars generally are available for at least 7 days past the dated webinar, so you can still access the webinar if you miss it.   Art
TUES, JUNE 5, 2018
Digital Gravestones by Elisabeth Zetland   register (free)…
WED, JUNE 6, 2018
What Your Ancestor’s Neighbors Can Tell You by Melissa Barker   register (free)…
FRI, JUNE 8, 2018
The Family DNA Project by Nicka Smith     register (free)…

Tuesday Trivia

by Charles Hansen

Our paper’s 100 Years Ago Today had this: “Several autos made it over Snoqualmie Pass ‘under their own power,’ marking the opening of the rocky, treacherous highway for the summer. One auto driver said that he made the drive from Seattle to Yakima in seven hours.”

What intrepid travelers they were in 1918! This image is from HistoryLink.org, the website for Washington State History.

Monday Mystery

by Charles Hansen

Congrats to Patty Olsen and Bette Hull for correctly knowing that last week’s photo was taken at the Gingko Park in Vantage. And thanks to Roberta, Opal, Barbara and Jim for guessing!

Today’s mystery isn’t much of a mystery as I post this pix. Ever heard of Frenchtown here in Washington? Settled by descendants of the French-Canadien voyagers and their Metis wives, this was a real place near Walla Walla. I enjoy reading/learning American history above all else, and a friend told me about this story and this place. Fascinating!  The story of how this place, and other similar places, came to be, is told wonderfully in the book Songs Upon the Rivers by Robert Foxcurran, Michel Bouchard and Sebastien Malette, published in 2016.

The cover of this book states: “The buried history of the French-speaking Canadiens and Metis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific.”

I think we need to more about this “buried history”!!

Jefferson County Genealogical Society June Meeting

by Charles Hansen

JEFFERSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY (JCGS)

PO Box 627 

Port Townsend, WA 98368

Contact for this media release:  Judy Tough 360-385-3065 or tough@olympus.net

Soldiers, Spies & Farm Wives: the Changing Roles for Women during the Civil War

War is horrific and Civil War was particularly so. Nevertheless, war also offers opportunities for those with the disposition to stretch the boundaries of society’s norms and often these were women. Explore the roles of women before the war, the roles they accepted during the war, and the legacy of the Civil War with professional genealogist, Jill Morelli, at the Saturday, June 16th meeting of Jefferson County Genealogical Society (JCGS). JCGS meets monthly at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 W. Valley Rd, Chimacum, from 9:30 – 11:00 am. The public in invited to this free program. Donations are welcome. Visit www.wajcgs.org.

Jill Morelli lectures and writes on genealogical topics that often transcend the more narrowly defined family history. She provides general genealogy services and house histories in the Puget Sound area and national venues. She is an engaging and entertaining speaker. She has been published in regional and national publications.

Friday Serendipity

by Charles Hansen

Maybe I’m silly-crazy but I collect interesting rest room signs. Like these:

Spotted the above one in New Zealand at a volcanic-geyser place. Can you read it:  GALSERS and GUYSERS.

 

Don’t recall where I saw the one below. Have you any interesting rest room signs to share? Love to see them!

Seattle Genealogical Society Tip of the Week

by Charles Hansen

TIP OF THE WEEK – 
NASE RODINA QUARTERLY

A resource for Czech, Slovak, Moravian, Bohemian, Rusyn, and German-Bohemian genealogy, Nase Rodina “Our Family” is a Quarterly published by the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society. You can find it in the SGS Library. We have copies dating from 1989 to Dec 2017. If you have Bohemian (Czech), German-Bohemian (Bohmisch), Hungarian, Moravian, Ruthenian (Rusyn), Silesian, Slovakian, or Jewish ancestry this is a resource for you. Stop in and check it out.