Hello, I’m recently re-located back to my roots here in Port Orchard and have been doing some research on my great-great grandfather Perry Summerfield, he lived in the Puyallup area I would say around 1890-1930’s ? Any info would be great. I am planing a drive down there soon, oh and he used to work with Ezra Meeker, a farmer, and something to do with the Wash Fair.
Thanks
Charles Summerfield <1973lespaulrr@gmail.com>
907-841-5327
South King County Genealogy Society General Meeting is scheduled for this Saturday, June 17th beginning at 10:00 am at Wesley Home – Lea Hill, 32049 109th Pl SE, Auburn. Arrive by 9:30 am with your morning coffee and share your research with an experienced genealogist.
Be Your Own Digital Archivist: Preserve Your Research – Are you doing everything you can to safeguard your genealogical research? Your documents? Your data? Your scanned images? We will talk about the importance of taking charge of your own materials and making sure they aren’t going to disappear.
Our guest speaker is Cyndi Ingles of Cyndi’s List – Cyndi is the creator, owner and “webmaster” of the award-winning web site Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet, www.CyndisList.com, a categorized index to more than 335,000 online resources. In its first three years, Cyndi’s List was three times voted the best genealogy site on the World Wide Web. Cyndi has been interviewed for many television and radio broadcasts including ABC News, NBC News, the BBC, and National Public Radio. She has also participated in the Ancestors II television series on PBS. Cyndi, a genealogist for more than 35 years is a past-member of the board of directors for the National Genealogical Society. Cyndi is an internationally known guest lecturer for various genealogical society meetings and seminars (http://www.CyndisList.com/speaking-calendar/).
Resident of Equality Colony (Skagit County), Washington, 1900 – 1914. Photographer unknown. State Library Photograph Collection, 1851-1990, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, www.digitalarchives.wa.gov. Accessed 12 June 2017.
Are you looking for a record related to an ancestor who lived in Washington State or Territory? Minutes of a local government meeting? An historic photo for your family history, newsletter, flyer or presentation (or any other use under the sun!)?
The Washington State Digital Archives, a division of the Secretary of State, is a treasure trove of digitized records, photographs and publications, including birth, marriage, death, census, cemetery and naturalization records. It currently has more than 195 million records preserved, almost 66 million of them are searchable.
One of the photo collections, the “State Library Photograph Collection, 1851 – 1990) consists of 5,274 images of various subjects related to Washington’s history, people, geography, and economic development, from 1851-1990. Subjects include agriculture, Boeing, bridges, canals, Capitol Campus buildings, cities, civilian conservation corps, counties, dams, expositions, fairs, ferries, fishing, forts, ghost towns, historic buildings and houses, historical markers, Indians, lakes, libraries, lighthouses, logging, mountains, parks, portraits, railroads, rivers, schools, Statehood, steamboats, totem poles, trees, universities and colleges, waterfalls, and other subjects.
All of the photos used on our WSGS home page come from the Digital Archives — all are free to use with the appropriate citation (which is even composed for each photo!).
We are so lucky to have such a rich online resource right here in Washington State!
Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman has good news to share about her recent cancer fight. According to “Wyman’s Wire”…
I’m happy to report that I’ve finally completed my cancer treatments. Now there’s a period of recovery before I learn the results of the treatments. That will be a challenge, but I’m confident my doctors will help me through it. And of course, I couldn’t do this without the love and support of my family and friends like you. Thank you so much! And don’t forget you can check out all the crazy sock pictures on our Facebook page.
Kim is a good friend to our genealogical community. As Secretary of State, she oversees elections, corporation and charity filings, the Washington State Library, Washington Talking Book & Braille Library, State Archives and Digital Archives. We’ve also supported her by sending our best wishes through paper socks.
To get more updates about Kim and the Secretary of State’s office, subscribe to Wyman’s Wire by clicking here.
*** News Flash: Washington is the cloudiest part of the U.S.!
*** Images of America books
*** Washington’s Ethnic Diversity
*** Cats and Commas
According to a blurb in the Tacoma newspaper back on April 2, 1937, and coming from Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Harvard meteorologist proclaimed that St.Petersburg, Florida, was America’s sunniest spot. And the State of Washington the cloudiest section of the country. And the Olympic Mountains deemed the rainiest place. At least we didn’t get the Snowiest section or Driest Section or Thunderstorm Section. (Another blurb on another page I copied for March 6, 1939, said that “one of every 1000 citizens in Washington is a prison inmate, a penitentiary census statistic indicated today.” Hummmmm……
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Ever wished you had a picture book of your hometown showing what it looked like back in the olden days? Images of America just might have what you crave. Take Washington state, for instance. There are 175 titles listed for our state with nearly forty for the Seattle area alone! There is a picture book for Ruston, Shelton, Oysterville, Camas, Forks, Soap Lake and even Pullman, so they do have smaller towns too. Click to www.imagesofamerica.com and check it out. (I just checked; they have a book for Kalamazoo, Michigan, where I was born!)
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According to “Washington State Facts,” the Evergreen State in 2004 was 10% foreign-born. And the six largest reported ancestries are German (19%), English (12%), Irish (11%), Norwegian (6 %), Mexican (6%) and Filipino (3%). By 2015, this had changed (according to Google). Our state was 75% white, 8.7% Asian/Pacific Islander, 20% non-white which included Native Americans. I enjoy the ethnic diversity of our state. Hope you do too.
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THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’s
Wednesday Evening
E-News
7 June 2017
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Also, if you missed your free copy of our monthly Insider for May 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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Super Volunteers to the Rescue!! Help on Sundays??
Volunteer spots are open for Sundays, 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
JEFFERSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
PO Box 627
Port Townsend, WA 98368
Contact for this release: Judy Tough 385-3065 or tough@olympus.net
FOR RELEASE: June 8 -16, 2017
AMERICA’S TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION:
MIGRATION and PROSPERITY
In the1800s America underwent a Transportation Revolution that greatly affected workers, farmers, and communities all across the nation. Dr. Austin Kerr, Ohio State University History Professor and member of Jefferson County Genealogical Society (JCGS), will share the story of his family to illustrate the changes and impacts of the Revolution on the movements of people and their economic opportunities. The public is invited to hear this free presentation at the monthly meeting of JCGS on Saturday morning, June 17, 9:30 – 11:30, at the Chimacum Grange, located across Hwy 19 from the Tri-Area Community Center in Chimacum. (Please note this temporary change of venue.) <www.wajcgs.org>
Dr. Austin Kerr, retired History Professor from Ohio State University
Are you looking for ways to energize your local society? Here’s the perfect opportunity!
WSGS is sponsoring two free society management classes at the upcoming Northwest Genealogy Conference in Arlington, WA. The classes will include “How to Attract and Keep Members . . . Awake,” taught by WSGS Vice President Donna Potter-Phillips; and “The Nuts and Bolts of Society Management,” taught by WSGS President Virginia Forney Majewski.
Both classes will be held on Wednesday, August 16, 2017, during the “Beginning Genealogy Day.” The free day of classes precedes the main conference, featuring internationally acclaimed professional genealogists Diahan Southard (Thursday, August 17), Daniel Earl (Friday, August 18) and Kenyatta Berry (Saturday, August 19). In addition, there will be dozens of other classes, vendors and networking opportunities throughout the conference.
Don’t miss the chance to improve your local society — and your own knowledge! Register at www.nwgc.org.
*** Washington’s State Song….. can you sing it?
This poem by Helen Davis, and musically arranged by Stuart Churchill, was adopted as the Official Song of Washington State on March 19, 1959. I’ll bet you’ve never heard it…….or even of it, right? Here tiz:
This is my country; God gave it to me.
I shall protect it; Ever keep it free.
Small towns and cities; rest here in the sun.
Filled with our laughter; Thy will be done.
Washington, My Home; wherever I may roam
This is my land, my native land, Washington my home.
Our verdant forests green, caressed by silvery stream
From mountain peak to fields of what
Washington, My Home.
There’s peace you feel and understand
In this our own beloved land
We greet the day with head held high
And forward ever is our cry
We’ll happy ever be; as people always free
For you and me—-a destiny; Washington My Home.
Sorry, but sounds kinda corny to me. What do you think???
