Many societies are at a crossroads: new competition from online genealogy sites and webinars, dwindling membership, and challenges in figuring out how to evolve activities. It’s time to stop and make a plan!
So why not borrow from the business world?
Marketing strategist and genealogist Laurie Hermance-Moore will show you techniques that are used by large companies to refine how they “go to market.” Learn how to align your society leadership to your vision for the future, your current mission, how you are positioning yourself against the competition, and identifying and prioritizing your target audiences.
Who remembers milk and other dairy products being delivered to your front door, deposited in a metal box like this?? Boy, I surely do! The year was 1970, in Spokane, and the Darigold dairy still had a home delivery service. With three munchkins in the house, I was grateful for this help!
YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND A PRESENTATION
BY
CYNDI INGLE
NATIONALLY RENOWN GENEALOGIST
SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 9, 2017
1:00 – 2:30 P.M
SEATTLE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY
“The Hidden Web: Digging Deeper”
“When Google and traditional search engines don’t return useful information, don’t stop there. We will explore resources that are invisible to Google and hidden deep within web sites and proprietary databases. The “hidden web” lies buried within the collections for commercial web sites, libraries, archives, and museums. We will also talk about the importance of indexes that deep-link into websites online, thus uncovering hidden gems of information that may not be found easily through a search engine query.”
Please join us for this fascinating presentation
by one of our favorite local genealogists
While I was out of town for those weeks, I had the great opportunity to visit the Hibulb Cultural Center, museum of the Tulalip people, near Arlington. Folks have done a really superb job with that museum and I learned so much about those early Washington peoples.
Two prominently displayed quotes caught my eye:
“The salmon, they are not really fish at all; they are salmon people and they live in a village under the sea and come home to our rivers year after year.”
And this really, really good one appropriate for all society presidents:
“A true leader is a slave to the needs of his people.”
This really hit home to me for at that conference in Arlington, both Ginny Majewski (WSGS president) and I presented Society Management talks. A major point of my talk was that if you accept being on your gene society board, then you accept that for a period of time you will be a “slave” to your members……… you will be constantly thinking and planning for the betterment of your society. Your duty to your society will be #1 on your mind all the time. Or so I do believe.
Bet you really didn’t notice that three weeks ago I knew I was going to be out of town so I did posts dated ahead for the three weeks…. CONGRATS to Gary Parfitt who knew that the Aug 21st mystery place was the Ross Lake Resort. To Arlene Rowden, Phyllis Griffith and Sonji Ruttan for recognizing it was Spokane (Aug 14th) through that smoke-haze. And several of you commented on the Aug 7th post about apples. Thank you all for reading my posts. I encourage all of you to read, to comment and to read the comments
Today’s mystery is a doozey and probably one that nobody can solve.
Hubby and I were boating on the Columbia River/Lake Roosevelt near where the Spokane River empties in. We went a few miles up the east side and then down the west side. It was along there that I spotted this…. to my ken it looks like a World War II landing craft……. see the end flipped down? It was metal and the right size for such a guess. How on earth and why on earth was THIS THERE????
Sept 2017
Dear Members and Guests:
I hope you will be planning on attending our upcoming September 13th program on Researching Probate Records by John Covey as this will be most informative.
Also, don’t forget that the Beginning Genealogy Class will start at 6:15 p.m. and this session will be a presentation on City Directories… You will want to attend both programs.
See the enclosed attachment. TCGS Sep 2017 Flyer
Thank you for supporting TCGS.
Sincerely,
Art Kelly
TCGS Program Chair/V.P.
This is a newsletter that helps people find the person you are looking for in an index when the name was miss-indexed due to poor or hard to read handwriting. Since I have been doing a lot of indexing for Scribe I am familiar with most of the possibilities shown, except they do not say how easy it is to mistake an “n” for a “u”.