Seattle Genealogical Society News

by Charles Hansen

INVITATION TO SUBMIT
 RESEARCH FOR SGS PUBLICATION

The SGS Editorial Board invites contributions to be considered for publication in our 2017-2018 bi-annual journal. We are always happy to receive articles, which should include documentation and citation of sources. The editors will consider works that pertain to any type of subject within the larger range of genealogical research. Examples of compositions that have been included in the Bulletin in the past can be seen in the Publications section of the SGS Website, along with advice and suggestions for preparing your manuscript for submission. Please email your contributions to publications@seattlegenealogicalsociety.org to be considered for 2017-2018.

JUNE 3RD MEMBERSHIP MEETING

Jill Morelli, president, will review the past year for SGS and announce and introduce the SGS officers for the coming year. Stay for the presentation “The Great War and Its Stories: Jacob Schomber “, a step-by-step look at how to research your WWI soldier.  Bring any artifacts you have of the Great War to End all Wars, only later called WW I, as we celebrate the 100th year of the US entry into the conflagration. 1:00-2:30 pm at the SGS Library.

COMPLIMENTS ON THE SPRING SEMINAR

Hope you had a chance to attend the Spring Seminar.  It’s always helpful to get feedback on a program and we appreciate that attendee, K Tsujii, took the time to give us her assessment.

She wrote,  “The Spring 2017 Seminar was the best ever! Lisa Alzo’s passion about telling our stories and her wise insights inspired me to do 6 hours of online research the next day. I found multiple sources of information about my grandparents and where they lived and worked, using Lisa’s vast online resource tools. I am especially excited to start writing the stories of my female ancestors. I appreciate the hard work of the Seattle Genealogical Society seminar organizers. The seminar was a highly rewarding way to spend a sunny Saturday.”

Congratulations and many thanks to Sandra Stark, seminar chair, and the entire SGS crew who helped to make this seminar a success.

CERTIFICATION CLASS – ONLINE

Want to know more about certification as a genealogist?  Contact Jill Morelli at jkmorelli@gmail.com  to be placed on the list for the next series of online classes that will start in July. SGS members have priority for this discussion group. Watch for more online classes in the future.

SAVE THE DATES

The New England Historic Genealogical Society presents
 A Day with NEHGS: Researching Early New England Ancestors,
 Bellevue Club,
 11200 SE 6th St,
 Bellevue, WA 98004
 Saturday, June 10, 2017   9am – 6:30pm

Registration includes five lectures, lunch, and an evening reception. Learn from these experts in early American genealogy. Understanding migration patterns, as well as using land & probate records are a few subjects that will be covered.

More info and registration at:

https://shop.americanancestors.org/products/a-day-with-nehgs-researching-early-new-england-ancestors

Washington Museum Association,
 Annual Conference,
 Moses Lake, WA
 June 21 – June 23, 2017

Details on the offerings of this three day conference can be found at :
http://washingtonmuseumassociation.org/

Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS),
 2017 Conference –  “Building Bridges to the Past”,
Pittsburgh, PA
 August 30 – September 2, 2017

Ready for a road trip? This conference is open to anyone with an interest in family history.  FGS is teaming up with the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society to put on this four day events.  There will be various tracks to suit the individual researcher; beginner to experienced.

For more info visit :  fgs.org

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 library will be closed June 18 for Father’s Day and July 4 for Independence day. The Irish, German, and Canadian Interest Groups do not meet in June, July, or August; they will return to their regular schedule in the fall.

JUNE

Saturday, June 3, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Annual SGS Membership Meeting, WWI presentation as well as “Show and Tell”; bring your WWI artifacts.  Meet the new SGS officers.

Sunday, June 4, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, DNA Workshop, Led by Cary Bright with first hour on a specific topic, and the second hour open for sharing DNA issues with focus on GenomeMate Pro.

Tuesday, June 6, 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm, Technology Tuesday, Bring your laptop or mobile device, and enjoy discussions centered around technology and genealogy – software, genetic genealogy, internet research and more.  Hosted by Lisa Chan.

Saturday, June 10, 10:15 am – 12:15 pm, Family Tree Interest Group, Lou Daly, leader of this new special interest group exploring all the features of the tool Family Tree on FamilySearch.

Saturday, June 10, 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm,  Family Tree Maker (FTM) Users Group, members helping one another with Family Tree Maker (FTM) the tool long associated with Ancestry.com; Reiley Kidd and Betty Ravenholt are the leaders. This week topics will include an update on the delayed release of FTM 2017, and the new features it contains, including new Tree Hints from Familysearch.org, and links to them.

Sunday, June 11, 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm, Scandinavian Interest Group, What’s new? Kathi McGinnis will review 1875 Norwegian census and other tips to searching Digitalarkivit. Karen Knudson will review new Swedish records available on Ancestry.com and Arkivdigital.

Tuesday, June 20, 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm, Technology Tuesday, Bring your laptop or mobile device, and enjoy discussions centered around technology and genealogy – software, genetic genealogy, internet research and more.  Hosted by Lisa Chan.

JULY

Saturday, JULY 8, 1:00 pm- 3:00 pm,  Family Tree Maker (FTM) Users Group, members helping one another with Family Tree Maker (FTM) the tool long associated with Ancestry.com; Reiley Kidd and Betty Ravenholt are the leaders.

Sunday, JULY 9, 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm, Scandinavian Interest Group,   Karen Knudson, leader.

Tuesday, July 18, 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm, Technology Tuesday, Bring your laptop or mobile device, and enjoy discussions centered around technology and genealogy – software, genetic genealogy, internet research and more.  Hosted by Lisa Chan.

Saturday, July 29, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm, DNA SIG, this group meets at the Wedgwood Presbyterian Church. For more information contact SGSDNASIG@gmail.com. Co-chaired by Cary Bright and Herb McDaniel.

Federation Of Genealogical Societies 2017 Conference

by Charles Hansen

BUILDING BRIDGES TO THE PAST
A Conference for the Nation’s Genealogists
FGS 2017 Conference registration is now open!

Join fellow genealogists and family historians for the FGS 2017 National Conference at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania August 30–September 2. Everyone is welcome!

Hosted by the Federation of Genealogical Societies along with local host Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, FGS 2017 brings you sessions with a wide variety of topics from many of the nation’s top family history experts. Sessions are aimed at strengthening your research skills no matter what your level or area of expertise might be.

 

For registration and information

Tuesday Trivia

by Charles Hansen

Ever been to the Eastern Washington Agricultural Museum in Pomeroy, Garfield County, Washington? Might be worth the effort!

My newspaper here in Spokane, The Spokesman Review, recently had a nice spotlight on this museum. Now to learn more about the museum and it’s focus and collections, click to www.co.garfield.wa.us/museum/home

What I wanted to share with you today were some thoughts from Jay Franks, a board member of the museum. He was saying that he “hopes the museum will help preserve the mostly oral history of what life was life on the region’s early wheat farms before that generation farms out.”

Franks continued, and this is my point: “Interest in the displays is greater among older people who remember using butter churns and sewing clothes by hand at home. As the generations thins out, the people go through faster.” 

Now isn’t this sadly the truth? The older ones remember using “that.” The middle-younger ones remember Grandma using “that.” The youngest ones ask “what is that?”

Learning history takes time whether it be reading or visiting a museum.

TriCity Genealogical Society Hanford History

by Charles Hansen

Please mark this on your calendar as you will want to attend our next program on June 14th which will feature a presentation on “The History of Hanford” and a display of samples from the collection at the History of Hanford Project located at the Washington State University Tri-Cities Campus in Richland.

If you like history, don’t miss this TCGS meeting on 14 Jun 2017
Come to the Tri-City Genealogical Society at the Benton County PUD 7:00 PM — 2721 W 10th Ave — Kennewick WA
Robert Franklin presents an overview of the history of Hanford

 

TCGS Jun 2017 Flyer

Monday’s Mystery

by Charles Hansen

This maybe will seem to you like a weird mystery but thinking about the answer will most certainly tug your heart.  This is a view of the new Veterans’ Cemetery south of Spokane. I took this photo last week.

The shining white tombstones against the green lawn and blue sky….with the American flag in the far distance….. was lovely and quite moving. But what moved me to tears was the thought that all that green lawn will eventually be covered with more and more and more shiny white marker stones. The mystery? How many??? How many more??  Most sobering thought.

And a WSGS cupcake to Pat Manning for correctly identifying the Olympic Peninsula as the subject of last Monday’s myster and that 1954 description. It’s from The Untamed Olympics: The Story of a Peninsula, by Ruby El Hult.  Anne Grimm, Sonji Rutan and Patty Olsen also knew the answer. Good for you all!

Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society (BIGS) June Meeting

by Charles Hansen
  The Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society (BIGS) will meet Friday, June 16, 2017, at the LDS church on Bainbridge Island, 8677 Madison Ave, from 10:00a.m. – 12 noon. Guest speaker, Deanna Egeland Dowell will be speaking on “Finding Social Security, Naturalization, and Homestead Applications.” Free to members, a $5.00 donation is suggested for nonmembers. For more information go to http://www.bigenealogy.org or call 206-780-8009. BIGS is a 501c(3) non-profit organization.
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Thank you!
Sue Elfving
Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society
Director of Publicity and Public Relations

Blog Banner Photo Challenge

by Roxanne Lowe

Summer’s finally here and that means many of us will be on the road, in the air, or on a boat visiting people, places, and things. It also means you’re taking lots of photos. So…we’re sponsoring a Blog Banner Photo Challenge, looking for a few good photographs to highlight in our Blog banner.

The rotating banner will feature a series of photos taken by you, our readers. The latest entries in the Photo Challenge are:

  • Photo by Donna Potter Phillips

    Daffodils at Roozengaarde at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival in April. Photo taken by WSGS Vice President (& Past President of Eastern Washington Genealogical Society) Donna Potter Phillips of Spokane.

  • Fort Vancouver — another photo from Donna.
  • Washaway Beach (Pacific County) — by Roxanne Lowe of McCleary, WSGS Recognition Chair and Web Manager
  • Memorial Day at the Colfax Cemetery (Whitman County) — another photo by Roxanne Lowe

Rules are few:
•Landscapes, landmarks, and scenery photos are preferred. If, however, you have a perfect photo that includes people, please obtain their permission to post the photo.
•Photo must have been taken in Washington State (this is the Washington State Genealogical Society blog, after all!).
•Photo will be cropped to 1100 x 250 pixels, so keep that in mind.
•You may enter as many photos as you want.
•Final decisions on suitable photos will be made by the awesome WSGS Blog Team.
•There’s no prize if your photo is chosen – just the satisfaction that your photo is being showcased on a blog viewed by hundreds of enthusiastic genealogists.
•There’s no firm deadline to submit photos, just keep ‘em coming. We want to rotate lots of photos to keep the blog fresh.

To submit your photo, please email the image (jpg only, please); what, where, when, and by whom the photo was taken to WSGSBlog@wasgs.org.

Got questions? Email the blog team at WSGSBlog@wasgs.org.

TriCity Genealogical Society October DNA Seminar

by Charles Hansen


Registration for the 2017 TCGS seminar with Diahan Southard begins Thursday, June 1, see the attached PDF file for more information about the seminar.

Seating will be limited so get your registration in to reserve a seat.

There are still plenty of openings for one-on-one sessions with Diahan, go to www.yourDNAguide.com/tcgs to sign up for the sessions.

She is also offering her regular personal consultation package at a reduced rate, $84 vice $99.

You can schedule a time to meet with her in the weeks following the conference and she will give you:
•45 minutes of online guidance using Go To Meeting.
•We meet together online and I take you through your test results, answering all of your questions and providing in depth guidance.
•I will record our session and provide that to you as a video file, as well as a PDF one page summary of our time together.

If you have any questions, you can contact me at this email address.

John F Covey

2017 TCGS Seminar Chairperson

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Eastside Genealogical Society June Meeting

by Charles Hansen

The Eastside Genealogical Society will meet on Thursday, June 8, 2017 in the Bellevue Regional Library (Room 1), 1111 – 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004 at 7 pm, with doors opening at 6:30 pm for networking.

 

Topic: “The Struggles of the Suffragettes” – Tames Alan is an actress, historian, and instructor, who has combined her skills to create an educational program for people of all ages. In this lecture, she appears in the authentic clothing of a suffragette and talks about the struggle of American women to gain the right to vote.

 

Also see our website for FREE genealogical help and other Special Interest Group meetings. Visitors are always welcome at all meetings. www.eastsidegenealogicalsociety.com or https://eastsidegenealogicalsociety.com/

 

Puget Sound Genealogical Society June Meeting

by Charles Hansen

Puget Sound Genealogical Society
Tuesday June 6 2017 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
at Kitsap Regional Library, 1301 Sylvan Way, Bremerton
I’ve Had My DNA Tested – Now What?
with Mary Kathryn Kozy
DNA testing has really come to the fore as a way of helping
break through brick walls in genealogical Research. Mary will
briefly review what DNA testing is and what it can (and can’t)
tell you. More specifically , she will be discussing autosomal
DNA and the tools available online from the testing companies,
as well as third-party entities, to help you interpret your results.
Registration is required: call Genealogical Center (360)475-9172
Thanks Jackie Horton, Publicity Chairperson