South King County Genealogical Society April Activities

by Charles Hansen

South King County Genealogical Society

April Activities as of March 28, 2018

Family Tree Maker User Group

“Entering People”

Saturday, April 7, 2018, 10:15 to 11:45 am

KCLS Des Moines Library, 21620 11th Ave SE, Des Moines, WA 98198

Learn the basics of using the Family Tree Maker 2017 program. This month, the topic is entering the people’s names, locations, dates and relationships into the program. For more Information about our society, check our website at SKCGS.org.

Genealogy Research Workshop

“Personal Research Assistance”

Friday, April 20, 2018, 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Family History Center, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 12817 SE 256th St. Kent, WA 98030

Search the following websites for free: MyHeritage, Find My Past, Ancestry, Ancestral Quest and FamilySearch. Use the computers available at the Family History Center or bring your own laptop for access. Assistance will be provided by two experienced genealogists, Winona Laird and Lowell Tuttle. For more Information about our society, check our website at SKCGS.org.

General Meeting

“A Glimpse of the Archives” with Midori Okazaki

April 21, 2018, 10:00 am to 11:45 am

Wesley Lea Hill, 32049 – 109th Place SE, Auburn, WA 98092

The presentation will introduce the Washington State Archives and its branches around the state.  Special focus will be given to the Puget Sound Branch in Bellevue.  There will be an overview of the collections held at the Puget Sound Branch and you will get tips on how to find material both in our physical locations and online at the Washington State Digital Archives. For more Information about our society, check our website at SKCGS.org.

Beginner Education Class

“Military and Land Records”

Saturday, April 21, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Wesley Lea Hill Theater, 2nd Floor, 32049 – 109th Place SE, Auburn, WA 98092

Learn about compiled military service records, official military service records, bounty land warrants and military pension files. For more Information about our society, check our website at SKCGS.org.

Technology User Group

“Introduction to Evernote”

April 23, 2018, 1:00 p to 3:00 pm

KCLS – Covington Library, 27100 – 164th Ave. SE, Covington, WA 98042

If not currently using Evernote for taking notes, learn ways to use in your personal life or for genealogical research, planning and reading. It is a cloud based service allowing access across multiple platforms – phones, tablets, e-readers, laptops and computers. For more Information about our society, check our website at SKCGS.org.

Writing Special Interest Group

April 27, 2018, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

KCLS – Covington Library, 27100 – 164th Ave. SE, Covington, WA 98042

The Writing SIG is a round table type discussion group to encourage and help each of us to write family oriented stories, anecdotes, narrative genealogies, biographies, etc. Formal writing experience is not required. This is not a class on how to write a book. This will be a group discussing tips on how to get started writing about ourselves and family.

Submitted by Janet Camarata, Publicity Chairman, SKCGS, camarata2@gmail.com, 206-335-9577

Susan Jensen Pointer Awarded 2017 Outstanding Volunteer Honor

by Roxanne Lowe

Since 2003, the Washington State Genealogical Society has recognized over 500 outstanding volunteers and teams, nominated by their local society or genealogical organization for their service and dedication. These volunteers are the backbone of their local society, giving their time and expertise, to the organization and the field of genealogy. In the coming months, you will be introduced to each of the 2017 award recipients and learn why they received the 2017 WSGS Outstanding Volunteer and Team Award.

Susan Jensen Pointer

Today we’re introducing Susan Jensen Pointer of Longview, Washington, who was nominated by the Lower Columbia Genealogical Society (LCGS). She was recognized for her diligence and dedication to the society’s well-being.

Susan has served as the society’s treasurer for the past four years. In addition, she previously served as the LCGS secretary. As treasurer, she has diligently kept the financial records of the society. She generates the treasurer’s report each month reflecting the intake of dues, monies received from the annual rest stop fundraiser, payments to buy books and donations received for memorial books. She is also currently serving on the nominating committee, devotes her time to the rest stop fundraiser, and has written for the society’s newsletter.

Susan has always shown a willingness to participate in a wide variety of activities of the society, and richly deserved being a recipient of a 2017 WSGS Outstanding Volunteer Award.

For more information on the WSGS Outstanding Volunteer Award program, visit the Recognition page of the WSGS website or contact Roxanne Lowe, Interim Recognition Chair, at Roxanne@thekeeffes.com.

Wednesday Nostalgia

by Charles Hansen

Did you or your mother or your grandmother or (like me) your Aunt Dorothy ever use one of these?

For our family it was not a tea strainer but a thingy to put Italian spices in and then hang onto a pot of simmering tomato sauce in the “true old fashioned Italian way,” Aunt Dorothy used to say. She ought to know; she was married to an Italian, Angelo Cicero.

Aunt Dorothy would mix cans of all of these spices in a mixing bowl: rosemary, cumin, sweet basil, oregano, anise or coriander seed, marjoram, tarragon, parsley, fennel seed. Then she’d fill the little metal ball with these spices and add “1 bay leaf and 1 chili pepper per tea ball.”

Her Spaghetti Sauce was the absolutely bestest over! Try it yourself….. if you can find a metal tea ball.

 

Whatcom Genealogical Society April Meeting

by Charles Hansen

Whatcom Genealogical Society, Bellingham, WA will hold its Monday, April 9th meeting at the Bellingham Elks Lodge, 710 Samish Way at 2 pm.  Mary Kathryn Kozy will speak on “Planning & Preparing for a Research Trip.”  Visitors welcome!  Contact:  360-733-8300
Our Society is planning a group research trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.  The arrival date is 15 July and the departure is 22 July.  You are not obligated to stay for the entire week.   Anyone interested should contact Cindy Harris at caharris1162@yahoo.com

Tri-City Genealogical Society April Meeting

by Charles Hansen

Join us for the next TCGS meeting on 11 April 2018 Come to the Tri- City Genealogical Society at the Benton County PUD 7:00 PM— 2721 W 10th Ave — Kennewick WA Tri -Cities Aviation History — Pasco Naval Air Station/Bombing Range
[ Beginning Genealogy Class‘ Using FamilySearch Learning Center ’ – 6:15 to 6:45 PM]
Did you know the Tri-Cities Airport was originally Naval Air Station (NAS) Pasco ? Discover how our community was transformed when it became the third busiest Naval aviation training base in the U.S. during World War II. How many young men earned their pilot wings at NAS Pasco? What type of aircraft did they fly? Were women allowed to work on the base? How did Bombing Range Road come to be? What was the eventual fate of the Naval Air Station, and what historic landmark has been saved in our community? Bring your questions, stories and your leather flight jacket (optional) and experience our amazing local aviation history.

Tuesday Trivia

by Charles Hansen

We here in Washington all recognize a Douglas Fir. But do we know who named that tree?? Reading a book on Perth, Scotland (hoping for ancestor information), p. 16-17 of “Perth & Kinross: The Big Country” by Jeremy Duncan, 1997, caught my eye. “The Douglas Fir was named after David Douglas who was born in Scone in 1799 and was the first to bring back to this country (Scotland) the seeds of that great tree.Well over 200 other plants wee introduced to European soil by Douglas including the Sitka spruce, the flowering currant…… and a host of others. He is commemorated by a tall memorial erected in 1841 in the grounds of Scone Old Church. A panel on the reverse lists some of the hundreds of plants he discovered.”

Surprise your friends with your newly-learned trivia info about our Washington state Douglas Fir!

Monday Mystery

by Charles Hansen

Which Washington County has:

*** More horses per capita than any other county in the U.S.??

** Ten ostrich farms??

** The tallest American chestnut tree (106′ by 20′ around)??

** Washes 5500 pounds of laundry aboard an aircraft carrier there?

** A forgotten volcano, Glacier Peak??

Here’s a clue:

 

((This according to Washington Curiosities, 2008.))

Puget Sound Genealogical Society April Meeting

by Charles Hansen

Puget Sound Genealogical Society
Tuesday, April 3, 10:30 a.m. –  12:30 p.m.
Class will be held at Kitsap Regional Library 1301 Sylvan Way, Bremerton
NATIVE AMERICAN RESEARCH
with Jim Johnson: Learn what steps to take first and then how to locate
records to prove your family story of Native American ancestry.
Registration required: call (360)475-9172
Jackie Horton, Publicity Chairperson

Friday Serendipity

by Charles Hansen

Throughout all our years of school, whenever we looked at a map of the world, be it huge on the wall or small in a book, it was always oriented the same. North Pole was up. Always. But are all maps that way??

This is kinda fuzzy but you will get the idea. On our recent trip to New Zealand, I spotted this big map on the wall at a resort. And it stopped me in my tracks! I’d never seen a map like this with the North Pole at the bottom. Have you ever seen a map like this? And if you’re a “map-o-phile” you will love it.

Google “upside down map” and you’ll find a clearer, better image and you can even order one for your own collection. (Russia is how many times the size of America????)

GENEALOGICAL FORUM’s Thursday Evening E-News

by Charles Hansen

THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’s

Thursday Evening

E-News, Edition

22 March 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 February 2018, you’re in luck because we saved you a copy HERE. NOTE: The Insider issues are now located under the “Learn” > “Our Publications” menu at www.gfo.org.

Curious about the status of your GFO Membership? We’d love to have you as a GFO Member!

GFO Star – Nanci Remington
 

Nanci deserves recognition for again doing a splendid job of organizing GFO’s Open House.

She arranged the speakers, kept the calendar, managed the handouts, taught classes, and this year, she filled in for speakers who had to cancel – one at the last minute.

She is a Research Assistant, co-chairs the Manuscript Committee, writes many articles for the Bulletin, and she is the one to answer most of the messages sent to info@gfo.org.

Thank you, Nanci, for all you do for the GFO!

Don’t Miss GFO’s Spring Seminar!
 

How can you prove your ancestors fought in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War or World War I?

Come hear one of the most engaging national experts in military records at the GFO’s Spring Seminar April 14 & 15.

We’re bringing Michael Strauss in for two great days of lessons.
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