The Olympia Genealogical Society meeting on Thursday, March 9, will feature Judy Artley on “Finding Records in USA using GenealogyInc.com. Join us at the Thurston County Courthouse, Building 1, Room 152 at 7 pm.
Thank-you JOYCE OGDEN, Publicity
======================================================================= Joyce T. Ogden jtogden@comcast.net
Local Societies:
WSGS wants to help your society! Get your Innovative Grant applications in by Wednesday, March 1, 2017!
The grants, up to $100, are designed to support the inventive and creative efforts of WSGS-member societies and organizations. Up to five grants will be awarded in 2017. These are grants — not loans!
The simple application is only ONE page and is available here. Additional guidance on the program is here.
Here are previously approved Innovative Grants, but look for more ideas in the Guidance Document:
2015
Chelan Valley Genealogical Society – purchase of new magazine containers/binders for the local library’s historical magazines
Northeast Washington Genealogical Society – tree removal in a pioneer cemetery
Skagit Valley Genealogical Society – assistance with computer purchase
Tri-City Genealogical Society – advertising & prizes for writing contest
Wenatchee Area Genealogical Society – specialized software to manage society’s extensive genealogical holdings
2016
Jefferson County Genealogical Society – software upgrade for society’s library and research database
Wenatchee Area Genealogical Society – publicity for dedication and adoption of society mascot Coyote
Whitman County Genealogical Society – assistance with purchase of computer, monitor & back-up software
For more information, contact Roxanne Lowe, WSGS Recognition Chair at roxanne@thekeeffes.com.
U.S. Funeral Customs & Researching Funeral Records Speaker — Amy Mueller Coffman
Tri-City Genealogical Society (TCGS)
Wednesday, 8 Mar 2017 at the Benton County PUD 7:00 PM — 2721 W 10th Ave — Kennewick WA [Beginning Genealogy Class – Analyzing Birth Records – 6:15 to 6:45 PM]
Amy Mueller Coffman is a 4th-generation owner of Mueller’s Funeral Home in Kennewick and Pasco, Washington. Her B.A. degree from Brigham Young University is in Communications with an emphasis in Public Relations. She has completed her funeral director internship and is preparing to take the State funeral director’s exam to be a licensed funeral director. She will bring a display of local 100-year-old funeral home records and cemetery applications and provide information on many different past funeral customs as well as share what specific information you can find on a funeral home record to help in your own family history research.
Since 2003, the Washington State Genealogical Society has recognized almost 500 outstanding volunteers and teams, nominated by their local society or genealogical organization for their service and dedication. These volunteers are the backbone of their local society, giving their time and expertise, to the organization and the field of genealogy. In the next few weeks, you will be introduced to each of last year’s award recipients and learn why they received the 2016 WSGS Outstanding Volunteer and Team Award.
Marge Samuelson
Today we’re introducing Marge Samuelson of Port Townsend, Washington, who was nominated by the Jefferson County Genealogical Society (JCGS). She was recognized for her never-ending commitment to preserving the history of Jefferson County and the field of genealogy.
Ms. Samuelson has been an invaluable volunteer with the JCGS for many years. She has served as treasurer, membership chair, historian and vice president. She was also newsletter editor for more than four years, wrote many articles for the county history section of the newsletter and maintained a blog, researching and writing articles about local historical topics.
Ms. Samuelson has also worked tirelessly averaging over 75 hours a month transcribing records from the local newspaper. To date, she has extracted over 100,000 names.
Ms. Samuelson’s passion and commitment to researching and sharing the local history prove she richly deserves being a recipient of a 2016 WSGS Outstanding Volunteer Award.
For more information on the WSGS Outstanding Volunteer Award program, visit the Recognition page of the WSGS website or contact Roxanne Lowe, Recognition Chair, at Roxanne@thekeeffes.com.
Did you know that way, way back in 1909 some 79 people (including famed photographer Asahel Curtis and several women in LONG SKIRTS) made the 3-week trek to the top of Mt. Rainier?? Members of the fledgling group, the Mountaineers, they spent an hour on the summit on that June day and posted a flag for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition which was being held in Seattle at the time.
Can you imagine climbing Mt.Rainier in a LONG SKIRT? Or going camping in what today we might call “Sunday dress?” And our ancestors did!
Guess we stumped you all last week but good….. or at least Charles Hansen’s “mystery” stumped you. Nobody got the correct answer. But no never mind, here is today’s mystery:
How many dams are there on the Columbia River??
Do remember that the Columbia originates up in Canada. 🙂
First correct answer gets a Digital Cupcake and their name in print!
Special Parking E-News
a recap from GFO’s Parking Forum GenTalk yesterday
THE PARKING SCOOP
As many of you have already heard, the three Ford Building parking lots (see map below for locations of the East, West, and South Lots) became PAY-TO-PARK on Monday, February 13th.
Since our GFO members, patrons, and volunteers have enjoyed a significantly long history (since 2011) of free parking, this change has been met with much interest and a little anxiety. To give everyone an opportunity to present their concerns and ideas in a safe and cooperative environment, the GFO’s monthly GenTalk was set aside as an open Parking Forum for our members and other interested parties.
We’d like to let you know what was presented and discussed at yesterday’s meeting.
A few great ideas presented at yesterday’s GenTalk…
Since so many of you already skip the many woes of parking by utilizing public transportation to get to the GFO, we thought it might be time to do a good ole fashioned knowledge-share!
ONE. If you use Trimet to get to the GFO and have tips for the rest of us, we’d like to post them to the GFO website if you can send your “Route Tips” to info@gfo.org.
We all think about today when we should be thinking about the time our ancestors were living. I was listening to one of the RootsTech online talks and the speaker was telling about putting off research on one of her ancestors because it was a very common surname, I know I have done that also, but when she looked for the person in the time she was looking there were hardly any in the location she lived. So in last weeks Monday Mystery
I had posted about the Seattle City Directory page I had digitized and asked how many people were in the Seattle City Directory for the surname Jones. Well the answer is 2, and both were ladies which were fairly uncommon in city directories in the 1800s.
We did not receive a single answer so I guess it was too hard.
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| TIME | Monday, 13 March | Tuesday, 14 March | Wednesday, 15 March | Thursday, 16 March | Friday, 17 March |
| 9:00-9:50 AM MDT | NO CLASSES THIS HOUR | Tracing Irish Roman Catholic Ancestry | |||
| 10:00-10:50 AM MDT | NO CLASSES THIS HOUR | Finding Ancestry in Ireland Civil Registration Records | |||
| 11:00 – 11:50 AM MDT | NO CLASSES THIS HOUR | Ireland Census & Census Substitutes | |||
| 1:00-1:50 PM MDT | Blessings and Curses of Tracing Welsh Ancestry | How to Trace England Ancestry Online | Scotland’s ‘Lost’ Other Half: Tracing Difficult Ancestral Lines in Scotland’s Non-Parochial (Church) Registers | Turning the Tables on Tracing Elusive Ancestry in England/Wales Civil Registration Records: How to Trace Ancestry Using Online BMD Indexes | The Scots-Irish: Plantation and Settlement of Ulster in the 17th Century |
| 2:00-2:50 PM MDT | Welsh Naming Patterns and Customs | Tracing Non-Church of England Ancestry | Using Church of Scotland Parochial Registers to Trace Scots Ancestry | England Resources for Family History at findmypast | Key Websites for Tracing Ancestry in Ireland |