Today’s mystery is a photo…… what/where is this? Have you ever seen it?
Tri-City Genealogical Society December Meeting
Our December 13th meeting will be at the Benton County PUD Auditorium in Kennewick on the corner of Hwy #395 and 10th Street.
Beginning Genealogy Class: Genealogy Education – 6:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.
Program: 7:00 p.m.
Show Off Your Heritage
Members and guests are asked to bring items about your family heritage/history as well as what you interests you have.
1. Photographs
2. Documents
3. Family heirlooms, antiques
4. Hobbies, collections or recreation interests
Your legacy will one day be handed down to your children/grandchildren/great-
You can display your family photographs and documents on a poster or a tri-fold or on the table.
This will be a fun event for everyone to have a glimpse of your family history as well as the antiques/heirlooms, hobbies and collections that you either inherited or have or previously engaged in.
Heather Murphy will bring her “ShotBox” to demonstrate as well as for anyone to use, so please bring your own cell phone or a smart phone which may be even better. Please bring your own photos/small items to be photographed. For more information/description of the ShotBox, please see their website:
Sandra Floberg will bring her “Flip-Pal” to demonstrate which is another “must see” tool. You can visit the website which is:
Refreshments:
Please bring homemade or store bought cookies, candies, fudge, muffins, quick breads (banana, zucchini, apple, pumpkin), cake, etc. Beverages of water and/or 7-up/Sherbet will be provided.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you for your continued interest in TCGS.
Art Kelly
Tri-City Genealogical Society Tip of the Week
Timelines: How to Get More Out of What You Know
Whenever you start researching an individual or family one of the most helpful things to do is make a timeline, or chronology, for them. By creating an outline of what you know you can gain ideas of where to search for the additional information you need and identify conflicts with the information you already have. Timelines are especially useful with families that have not lived in the same place…
Heather Murphy
TCGS Social Media Manager
Quirky Genealogy Newsletter Exceptional Quirks
Interesting article on Quirky Records, a couple of delayed births from a state but not the state the person was born in.
Seattle Genealogical Society Tip of the Week
TIP OF THE WEEK –
NATIONAL ARCHIVES SEARCH IMPROVEMENT
If you haven’t tried a surname search in the National Archives Catalog in awhile, Claire Kluskens, Archivist with the National Archives, urges you to try again as there are so many newly indexed databases.
A search for the surname “Bode” provides good examples of what’s been added thus far. On the first page, there are references to persons named Bode in:
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Labor Camps Bibliography
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Military Service Records
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Records of Lawrence Walsh, related to Iran/Contrai
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Military fatal casualties of Vietnam
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Presidential Appointments by Harry Truman (Post Masters were presidential appointees)
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Records of the US Naval Academy
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Records of the US Fish & Wildlife Service
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Naturalization Index
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Prologue article on Chinese Exclusion Act files
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OSS Art Looting investigation
And, that’s only the first page!!
Just put your surname of interest in the search box at the top right of the home page:
http://archives.gov
Give it a try. What might you find?
This tip was modified from “The Twelve Key”, informational blog about U.S. archival records, by Claire Kluskens, archivist of the National Archives in Washington, DC., 4 November 2017.
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Seattle Genealogical Society News
VIRGINIA PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX
If you are looking for data on an ancestor that resided in Virginia during the decades 1780-1820, here is a resource Christine Schomaker, SGS board member and desk volunteer, would like to share with you.
The Virginia Personal Property Tax, “PPT”, has been collected almost every year since 1782. In Colonial Virginia the noun “tithable” referred to a person who paid, or for whom someone else paid, one of the taxes imposed by the General Assembly. Basically it was a tax on the productive workforce; free white males over 16, all slaves – both male and female, both African American and Native American. White females were not recorded unless they where head-of-household.
In these early decades, the annual “PPT” list reads like a census with counts of “tithables” plus horses, cattle and whatever else was legally defined as taxable property at the time. Complete microfilms of the original PPT lists for nearly all counties are available at the Library of Virginia in Richmond and may be borrowed on interlibrary loan.
Read more about it at:
http://www.lva.virginia.gov/
Thanks to Steve and Bunny Binns, some of these records can be viewed online! Their free website “Virginia Tax List Censuses” offers indexed and linked images of the 1790, 1800, and a few 1810 PPT lists as substitutes for the lost US Federal Censuses of Virginia for those years. Here’s the link to their site:
http://www.binnsgenealogy.com/
You will probably want to see all the intervening tax years as well. You can track families arriving and moving away, sons turning 16 or 21, and property owners passing on, leaving widows in charge. The Binns have you covered here, too. You can purchase CD’s of the PPT list images for each county available. Or, better yet, you can subscribe to the “Tax List Club” and have online access to all of them. Although these images are not indexed, beginning in 1787, most counties recorded surnames alphabetically by first letter and you can navigate pretty quickly to the appropriate image file. Find out more here:
http://www.binnsgenealogy.com/
Stop by the SGS library some Tuesday and Christine will be happy to help you get started exploring the Virginia PPT. Ask for a short tutorial.
Even in this day and age not everything can be found online, so while you’re at our library check out the three-volume set, “The 1787 Census Of Virginia”. It was intended as a substitute for the lost 1790 US Federal Census of Virginia. Transcribed and indexed by Netti Schreiner-Yantis & Florene Speakman Love, this set also includes those counties now in Kentucky and West Virginia, which separated from Virginia in 1792 and 1863, respectively.
You can find this set on the Virginia shelf at the SGS Library, call number: VA:0-150 a,b,c.
SGS CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Unless otherwise indicated all programs will be at the SGS Library, 6200 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle. Check the SGS Web Site for additions, changes, and corrections. Programs may be canceled or postponed because of inclement weather. The SGS Library will be closed from December 22 through January 1, 2018, for the holidays. The Scandinavian Interest Group will not meet in December.
Please note the time change for the Family Tree Interest Group on Saturday, December 2; they will be meeting at 1:00 pm.
DECEMBER
Saturday, December 2, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Family Tree Interest Group, Lou Daly, leader of this special interest group exploring all the features of the tool Family Tree on FamilySearch
Saturday, December 9, 10:15am – 12:15pm, Family Tree Maker (FTM) Users Group, with Reiley Kidd and Betty Ravenholt, leaders
Saturday, December 16, 10:15am – 12:15pm, Irish SIG, with Jean Roth
Saturday, December 16, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, German SIG, with Jean Roth
JANUARY
Saturday, January 6, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Family Tree Interest Group, Lou Daly, leader of this special interest group exploring all the features of the tool Family Tree on FamilySearch
Saturday, January 13, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Second Saturday Speaker Series, “Chinese Exclusion Act Files – Original Documents at NARA” will be presented by Trish Nicola
Sunday, January 14, 1:30pm – 3:00pm, Scandinavian SIG, with Karen Knudson
Saturday, January 20, 10:15am – 12:15pm, Irish SIG, with Jean Roth
Saturday, January 20, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, German SIG, with Jean Roth
Saturday, January 27, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, DNA SIG, this group meets at the Wedgwood Presbyterian Church, 8008 35th Ave NE, Seattle. For more information contact SGSDNASIG@gmail.com Co-chaired by Cary Bright and Herb McDaniel.
GENEALOGICAL FORUM’s Wednesday Evening E-News
THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’sWednesday EveningE-News, Early Edition29 November 2017 |
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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. We love hearing from you! For a complete GFO CALENDAR click here. Also, if you missed your free copy of our monthly Insider for November 2017, 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. |
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Yesterday, on #givingTuesday, we had 55 people come help with our ongoing book labeling project! Here are the grand totals of what we all accomplished:
Thank you again for all you do for the GFO! If you’d like to stop by and help again, please please don’t hesitate. There is usually a cart by the Library’s Workroom full of books waiting patiently for their labels as part of this ongoing project. Many hands have sure made the recataloging and relabeling much much lighter! Thank you again everyone! |
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Using Online Newspapers for Genealogical ResearchPresenter Janice M. Sellers will be giving tips on the value of newspapers for your genealogical research. WHEN? December 3rd, 10:30am (doors open at 10am) “The class provides an overview of what is available online and gives techniques to help improve your chances of finding information about your relatives.” More Information HERE!! |
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Saturday, December 16th, 2 – 3pmPresenter: LauraDenise White, GFO’s resident archival consultant. Get ready for the holidays with Personal Papers & Archiving! Learn how to not only preserve some of those family heirloom papers and photographs you know are just sitting in the attic and basement, but also see how you can put together wonderful family history gifts with these fabulous relics of the past. Learn how to weave the fabric of your family history into inspiring and lasting treasures. Attendees are encouraged to bring in a sample of items of their very own to work on during this interactive session. Photographs and letters and diaries, oh my! Bring them on in! We’ll work on them together while discussing ways to keep them safe AND ways to share them with family and friends both far and near. Remember! All our GenTalks are FREE events, completely open to the public. Help us get the word out! CLICK HERE for FLYERS |
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Don’t let 2017 slip away and miss out on your tax write-off.Because GFO is a 501(c)(3) organization, your donations are tax deductible. Give now by visiting our Annual Appeal page HERE. Remember GFO is a 100% volunteer-reliant organization. That’s right! We have no paid staff. So every gift goes directly to keeping the lights on, the doors open, and the to providing the best resources possible for family history researchers!The simple truth is: GFO relies on donations for our continued existence. If you prefer to send a check or money order, you can use our paper form HERE and mail it with your gift to: Genealogical Forum of Oregon, 2505 S.E. 11th Ave., Suite B-18, Portland, OR 97202. Thank you in advance for your support!Psst! GFO belongs to the Oregon Cultural Trust (as “GFO”) and has attained a silver-star rating on GuideStar. |
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This Week at the GFO… |
SATURDAY, December 2ndVirginia Group 10am – noon The Quakers: history, beliefs, and their lives in records – Peggy Baldwin The early Society of Friends, more informally known as Quakers, had a belief in the equality of all people who called on the Divine within. Their beliefs lead to a unique organizational structure of monthly, quarterly, and yearly meetings that resulted in incredible records. We’ll discuss types of records, record repositories and websites, and how to effectively access the Quaker record holdings on Ancestry.com. Contact Judi Scott judiscot@gmail.com or Carol Surrency lcsurr@gmail.com for more information. German Group 1 – 3pm Speaker: Barbara Forster The German Interest Group was formed in the spring of 2011. It is intended to be a source of information and inspiration for anyone with German speaking ancestors. One goal is to provide information on a variety of topics related to Germanic history and migration. We also will provide time for members to share their research journeys and connect with others who may be researching the same region or time period. SUNDAY, December 3rdManuscripts Work Party 9am – 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, December 4thFirst Free Monday! 9:30am – 5pm Every first Monday of every month, the GFO library is open to the public for free! Bring your friends and family to explore all the wonderful database subscriptions and analog resources available at our library. WEDNESDAY, December 6thDNA Q&A 1 – 3pm Lisa McCullough will be available to help answer your DNA questions, whether you are new and just getting started or have more involved questions. |
Wednesday Nostalgia
Imagine stretching out full length in this bathtub. Glorious thought, eh?
Pretty classy, don’t you think? Does your bathtub sit in a mahogany shell?? And did you notice the crank to add hot/cold water and then to empty the tub under “waste?”
Spotted this is a salvage yard in Salem, New Hampshire.
Friday Serendipity
**** If you are reading this on posting day, December 1st, then you have twelve days left. I understand that starting on Monday, December 13th, you will have to create an account and sign in to use FamilySearch. Fear not, it still will be free. I guess this is just a necessary evolution. Also please fear not that those handsome Mormon missionaries will come looking for you.
*** Did you know there is a Swedish-Finn Historical Society here in Washington? It is an organization dedicated to finding and remembering the history of the Swedes and Finns who migrated to the Evergreen State…. about 80,000 of them. If you have this ethnicity, click to www.swedishfinnhistoricalsociety.org
**** We’ve always been taught that the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War were on Bunker Hill in Boston, right? Apparently wrong. In June, 1775, a local group of colonists in Machias, Maine, learned that a British warship would arrive to requisition lumber for British barracks. Capt. Jeremiah O’Brien and 40 ill-armed cohorts/colonists planned a colonial response and the resulting battle was on June 12, 1775, five days before Bunker Hill. So much for the history books.
Meet the Board: Patrick Bundy
Do you know who’s running the show at the Washington State Genealogical Society? Did you know we have an Executive Committee, six standing committee chairs and three appointed non-elected officers? Who are all these people? In the coming months, we’ll introduce them to you, so you can say “hi” the next time you see them.
Patrick Bundy
In today’s “Meet the Board” series, we’re introducing you to Patrick Bundy. Pat lives in Yakima and is WSGS’s Historian, a position he’s held for more than a few years. He is also a 30-plus-year member of the Yakima Valley Genealogical Society where he has been president for the last two years. Over the years, he’s also been YVGS’s vice president, program chair, publicity chair, recording secretary and on the library board. He has been a member of the WSGS since 1988 and was named a WSGS Outstanding Volunteer in 2014 for his leadership, knowledge, and volunteer efforts at YVGS.
In the beginning…Earl and Elsie (Deans) Bundy’s firstborn son, Patrick James, made his appearance in 1944 in Minnesota. His next big accomplishment was marrying his sweetheart Lynn Helmick in 1973 in Yakima. Sadly, Lynn passed away in 2014, leaving Pat, five children and many cherished grandchildren that Pat continues to dote on.
After getting his education at Yakima Valley Community College, Pat was employed in the TV and radio biz in Yakima. Although he’s always been interested in genealogy, after his retirement, Pat really ramped it up, searching for his Mid-West and New York ancestors. One of his most interesting finds: his 3x great-grandfather, a Lutheran minister, built the first Lutheran Church in Ontario, Canada.
Pat knows his way around the kitchen and enjoys cooking when he’s not searching for his ancestors – or engaging in social media. It’s not uncommon to wake up to his cheery Facebook message:
Good morning, friends! Hoping your day is fabulous!
A few more interesting tidbits about Pat:
• Favorite genealogy websites: Ancestry
• Favorite dessert: Pie
• When asked one word that described him, Pat replied, “Easy-going, even though that’s two words!”
Now you know a little more about another of the WSGS Board members. The next time you see Pat say hello and thank him for his service to WSGS.