Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society September Meeting

by Charles Hansen

 

Please join the Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society  (SVGS)  for our regular meeting Tuesday, September 12th at 1 pm.  Our guest speaker will be Rob Branigin, Sno-isle Librarian from the Stanwood Branch.  His topic is: Exploring Vital Records Onlinewith Ancestry and Family Search.
The meeting will be held at the SVGS library, 6111– 188th PL. NE, Arlington WA, is free and open to members and the public. We hope to see you there!
Pam Liebelt
Publicity Chair
Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society

Puget Sound Civil War Roundtable Book Presentation

by Charles Hansen

BEHIND THE LINES
September 21, 2017

The Puget Sound Civil War Roundtable will sponsor a distinctly different event Thursday, September 21st at 6:30 p.m. at the Bellevue Library (1111 110th Avenue NE, Bellevue (425) 450-1765). The presenter will be author, Joanne Rajoppi who will be discussing her book, Northern Women in the Aftermath of the Civil War: The Wives and Daughters of the Brunswick Boys. Some of the characters Ms. Rajoppi’s will talk about have very strong ties to Washington and the Pacific Northwest.

This will be the first in a series of lectures called Behind the Lines that is concerned with how 19th century women struggled to survive as their men returned broken, weary and depressed. Its a tribute to their fortitude for continuing to raise their children, work their farms and keep their families together in the face of death and uncertainty.

Click on FLYER to review the material prepared by the King County Library System. If you have any questions, please contact the Bellevue Library or Mike Movius, President of the Puget Sound Civil War Roundtable.

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Jewish Genealogical Society October Meeting

by Charles Hansen

JGSWS is cancelling our September 2017 meeting, extending our summer break through September for several reasons, including the upcoming High Holidays and our September speaker’s unexpected surgery. We’ll see you October 9 when
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State proudly presents an amazing interactive Ellis Island experience
“Manifest Destiny: Names at Ellis Island,” presented by Joel Weintraub
DATE: Monday, October 9, 2017
LDS Factoria Building 4200 124th Ave SE Bellevue, WA 98006
• Doors open at 6:30 p.m., for all to enjoy the extensive JGSWS Library’s genealogical resources!
• Free Wi-Fi available. Come early to network with other attendees!
• Presentation starts promptly at 7:15 p.m.
• Free admission


ABOUT OUR PROGRAM
Joel Weintraub has channeled his interest in Ellis Island into his latest talk: “Manifest Destiny: Names at Ellis Island.” This main immigration station into the U.S. was most active from 1892 through 1924. About 70 percent of immigrants to the U.S. during this time came through Ellis Island. The history of the island, including the Wall of Honor and the changing Ship Manifest forms of the Immigration Service, will be shown. The pressures of the “Great Migration” eventually led to immigration quotas. The persistent myth of name changes at Ellis Island will be debunked. Twenty percent of immigrants ended up listed on detention sheets and we will find out where those can be found. Finally, using case studies, we will find out how to use a number of name search utilities. After this talk, we will have a clear idea of the process the immigrants went through and a greater appreciation of the Manifest as a genealogy research tool and will be prepared to successfully negotiate the “Island of Tears.”
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Joel Weintraub, a New Yorker by birth, is an emeritus Professor at California State University Fullerton and won awards for his science teaching. Joel volunteered for nine years at the National Archives and Records Administration. He created search tools for the U.S. and New York City censuses that are freely available on the Steve Morse “One-Step” website. He and Steve are currently developing locational tools for the 2022 release of the 1950 federal census. Joel has written and talked on NYC and Federal census research, immigration and naturalization, Ellis Island, biographical research, and Jewish genealogy topics.
Please visit our website at http://www.jgsws.org 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.
Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State
P.O. Box 53102 Bellevue WA 98015 www.jgsws.org

Spotlight: Pend Oreille County Historical Society

by Charles Hansen

In July, 2017, I took some nearly-blind friends on a memory road trip to the places where he grew up. So we drove north from Spokane to Newport, Washington, and Spirit Lake, Idaho. John was born in 1927 and his father worked at the Panhandle Lumber Company in Spirit Lake. John remembers the day in 1938 that the mill burned down. It was a Friday and he and school chums were to play a concert at the local city park bandstand. There was a forest fire nearby and the sparks ignited the lumber yard. John said “we just stood and watched.”

Anyway, John had made an appointment with Faith McClenny, the head volunteer researcher in the Pend Oreille County Historical Society in Newport. She had consulted the index to The Newport Miner, the weekly newspaper in publication since 1897, and marked several references for him regarding the history of lumber mills in the area and some about is mill of interest. We also were directed to the Index of the Lumber Industry of Washington’s Pend Oreille Valley, by David H. Chance, published in 1991. What a marvelous 325-page reference to the principle industry in the area which greatly fostered settlement.

Faith has been working with Pend Oreille County records for over twenty years, she proudly told me. She has an Arcadia Publishing book on the county to her credit too.  She showed me around the historical collections and I took notes, wishing I had all day to stay and search.

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JEFFERSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY Meeting

by Charles Hansen

JEFFERSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY (JCGS)

PO Box 627

Port Townsend, WA 98368

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

 

A Decree of (Temporary) Divorce: My Life Without Ancestry.com

Jefferson County Genealogical Society (JCGS) is offering to the community a day-long Seminar on Saturday, September 16, featuring professional genealogist, Mary Roddy, who will give two presentations at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 West Valley Road, in Chimacum, WA. Registration starts at 9:00 a.m. and the program begins 10:00 – 11:40 followed by the afternoon session 12:30 – 2:00. Suggested donation is $10.00 for the Seminar. Bring your own lunch, and snacks to share. Coffee and tea provided. Genealogy books from Heritage Quest will be for sale on

site. <www.wajcgs.org>

Mary Roddy says of her morning presentation A Decree of (Temporary)

Divorce: My Life Without Ancestry.com:  “Learn how I found free substitute records for many of the records I used to pay for at Ancestry.com, and how I discovered some new sites as well.  My temporary ‘divorce’ forced me to examine my genealogy from a different viewpoint with a fresh perspective.  You, too, can recharge your genealogy, and save a few pennies as well.” 

Mary says her afternoon presentation FamilyBrowse: “FamilySearch.org 

has millions of images on its website, many of which are un-indexed and

not searchable. But if you know how to get into the catalog and browse around, you can find images of birth and death certificates, naturalization papers, deeds, will, estate inventories and more. And FamilySearch is

adding more and more images every month. To take advantage of this ever-increasing bounty its important to know how to find these types of records.”

Mary Roddy

Mary Roddy, a Certified Public Accountant, earned a certificate from the Genealogy and Family History program at the University of Washington. She is an active member of the Seattle Genealogical Society and speaks frequently in the Seattle area. Mary is a regular contributor to YourGenealogyToday and Internet Genealogy magazines, and a webinar presenter with Legacy Family Tree Webinars. She is working on a novel which incorporates stories of ancestors she has discovered in her research.

THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’s Wednesday Evening E-News

by Charles Hansen

 

THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’s
Wednesday Evening
E-News
23 August 2017

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 August 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 our new website (still gfo.org).
Curious about the status of your GFO Membership?? We’d love to have you as a GFO Member!

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Friday Serendipity

by Charles Hansen

Most everybody in the world of today’s genealogy knows of Thomas MacEntee, the Tech Guru and All Around Crazy Guy.

Thomas is a nationally-in-demand speaker and (I’m so proud to say) is one of the main presenters for the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour. (www.saltlakechristmastour.org)  He recently announced some big changes in his business model and what he offers to all of us and how he offers it to us. I asked him for a re-cap and now share it with you:

How Is SLCT Instructor Thomas MacEntee Spending His Summer?

Well besides trips to Southern California, too many visits to Reno to visit some one-armed bandits, Thomas has been busy retooling and reprogramming his genealogy business and various websites. Here’s an update directly from Thomas:

  • As of June 1st, Thomas has stopped updating his site GeneaBloggers.com and has transferred much of the community organizing efforts to a new group named GeneaBloggers Tribe(http://geneabloggerstribe.com/). The new group is run by Pat Richley-Erickson (aka Dear Myrtle) and focuses on resources for genealogy bloggers. So why did Thomas decide to leave the blogging community after starting GeneaBloggers in 2009? As he says, “I didn’t leave blogging as much as I realized that over the past eight years the genealogy community has gained knowledge of many social media skills including blogging. I felt that my energies were better directed towards education involving genealogy methodology and working with those new to family history.”
  • Thomas’ new site Genealogy Bargainslaunched in March 2017 and is now his main focus. Genealogy Bargains posts daily deals and coupons on products such as AncestryDNA, 23andMe, genealogy books and webinars. You can save as much as 80%! So before you click that CHECKOUT button, remember to visit Genealogy Bargains at https://genealogybargains.com
  • And what about DNA and genealogy? Well Thomas has hopped on the bandwagon with his new site DNA Bargainswhich debuted a week before National DNA Day which is April 25th. Not only will you find the best deals on DNA test kits, but you’ll find his reviews and opinions about each test. Visit DNA Bargains at https://dnabargains.com to figure out which DNA test is right for you and your genealogy research.
  • And finally, Thomas has gathered up all his other small sites (Hack Genealogy, High-Definition Genealogy and others) into one umbrella site called Abundant Genealogy. The new site provides information on the genealogy industry PLUS Thomas posts many “freebies” such as downloads of his popular e-books in both Amazon Kindle and PDF versions.

We all know Thomas is a busy guy and he says that he’s looking forward to teach classes at the upcoming Salt Lake Christmas Tour in December with several new presentation topics. What’s the best way to follow Thomas and keep track of all his content? Sign up for his free genealogy and technology e-newsletter at https://abundantgenealogy.com/mailinglist