PAM VESTAL
Genealogist and lecturer
Was Your Ancestor Really Gone or Just Hidden in the Records
Speaker at the Lower Columbia Genealogical Society’s
October 9th Zoom meeting.
Virtual meeting doors will open at 6:30 pm
The speaker’s program will begin at 7:00 pm
The public is invited to attend.
Please consider joining our society for $20/yr.
For a link to join the meeting or to join the society contact lcgsgen@yahoo.com 24hrs prior to the event
Please join us for Tri-City Genealogical Society’s October General meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 8. The presentation will be at the Richland FamilySearch Center located at 1314A Goethals Dr. Entrance is down the ramp from the parking lot that is to the north of Dairy Queen. The presentation will also be on Zoom so you can join in from the comfort of your own home. See below for the Zoom link.
The October TCGS General meeting is entitled Secrets for Success: How to Harness the Power of FamilySearch’s Full-Text Search and will be presented by Julia A. Anderson. Learn what FamilySearch’s full-text search capability can do for you! This class will provide you with tips and tricks for making the most of this innovation in genealogical research. We will cover various ways to search, how to use wildcards and other tools, ways to filter your results, how to read and save images and transcriptions, and what to do with the information you find in the records. Key takeaways include revolutionary access to un-indexed records, smart search techniques that deliver results and seamless integration with FamilySearch family tree
Julia A. Anderson, MA, AG®, AGL™ has a master’s degree in history and education and is an Accredited Genealogist® and Accredited Genealogist Lecturer™ with expertise in the United States Gulf South Region. She works as a full-time United States and Canada research specialist at the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, Utah and teaches genealogy research and accreditation classes for Salt Lake Community College. Julia owns and manages Anderson Genealogical Research, LLC, serves as a commissioner on the board of ICAPGen, and is the conference chair for the Utah Genealogical Association.
Topic: TCGS General Meeting October 8 at 7 p.m.
Time: Oct 8, 2025 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Join instructions
Yakima Valley Genealogical Society
1901 S. 12th Avenue
Union Gap, WA 98903
Phone: (509) 248-1328
Email: yvgs@yvgs.net
Yakima Valley Genealogical Society
General Meeting will be held in the library
Date: Saturday, October 4, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Judy Schuster will be giving a presentation on Legacy Family Tree. She will be talking about the basics of the program, how to enter data, how to download it for FREE, and how to transfer trees from a different program.
Legacy Family Tree Webinars are one of The Best genealogical learning opportunities available to us these days. Why??
* Legacy Family Tree Webinars offer nearly 2500 presentations in their library.
* These presentations are from over 250 different presenters.
* These presentations span 26 different categories.
* These presentations are offered in 11 different languages.
* These presentations are FREE ON DAY OF and then go into the library.
* Membership is $49 annually which gives you access to the entire library, day or night, on your schedule.
There will be 10 presentations offered in October:
* Oct 1, 5:00am, EST, David Ryan, Irish Public Records Fire & Genealogy
* Oct 1, 2:00pm, EST, Blaine Bettinger, Understanding Ethnicity in DNA
* Oct 3, 2:00pm, EST, J.H. Fonkert, Ten Tantilizing Sources
* Oct 3, time TBA, Janice Nickerson, Ontario Genealogy
* Oct 8, 8:00pm, EST, James Biedler, German Genealogy
* Oct 10, 2:00pm, EST, Orice Jenkins, Betsy Grant: A Fight for Freedom
* Oct 14, 9:00pm, EST, Shauna Hicks, Australian Post Office Directories
* Oct 21, 2:00pm, EST, Gilkison & LaRue, A Coast to coast identity story
* Oct 22, 2:00pm, EST, Melissa Barker, Finding Females in Local Archives
* Oct 24, 2:00pm, EST, Art Taylor, Use AI to organize digital photos
* Oct 28, 2:00pm, EST, A MyHeritage Webinar
* Oct 29, 2:00pm, EST, Kory Meyerink, Colonial NY Research
Why not have a learning listen???
| Italian Interest Group (IIG)October 2025 Meeting |
| You will get a reminder email with the same Zoom meeting link on October 10th and 17th. |
| Description: This presentation will cover the wealth of genealogical information available in Italian military records, which have existed since Italian unification in the 19th century and in some places as far back as 1792. The records discussed will include conscription lists (Liste di Leva) detailing biographical and physical information for all eligible males, and military service files (Fogli Matricolari) tracking a soldier’s service history, promotions, and assignments. Additionally, four other lesser-known Italian military records will be covered. Since these records are organized by military district and province rather than by town, they are especially useful for tracing ancestors whose specific hometown is unknown. The Presentation will guide researchers on accessing these records, whether by requesting them from a provincial State Archive (Archivio di Stato) in Italy, searching digitized records on sites like FamilySearch or Portale Antenati, or understanding the location of military archives based on the time period.” |
 Speaker Bio: Joel Cole was born and raised in Padova, Italy. He has been involved with Italian Family History for over 30 years. He accompanied his father Trafford for his first genealogical research in Maniago, Italy, when he was 15 and since then he has been fascinated by family history. He has worked as a researcher for over 25 years, visiting almost every State Archive in Italy and almost 1,000 parish archives. He is familiar with paleography having taken several classes in Italy, and with Latin documents, having studied it for over 10 years. Joel has presented in many international genealogical conferences about Italian Family History and has worked for years for private companies performing research in all of Italy, consulting Civil records, Parish and Diocesan Catholic records, Notary records and many more sources. In 2015 he moved to Utah covering several roles for FamilySearch. He is currently the content strategist for Southern Europe, including Italy. Joel’s research specialties are: Italy, Southern Switzerland and Istria-Croatia. Expert at deciphering ancient Italian and Latin documents. |
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| Eastside Genealogical Society – Italian Interest Group P.O. Box 374 Bellevue, WA 98009-0374 |
Join Skagit Valley Genealogical Society Saturday, October 11, 2025, 1pm at the Burlington Public Library for “The Role of Convents and Monasteries in the 15th-19th Centuries and How They Affected Our Ancestors”with Milan Pohontsch, President, Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies. Learn about the social and economic impacts of monasteries and how the lives of those that lived and worked on monastic estates differed from peasants under noble rule. Can’t make it to the Burlington Library, request a zoom link by emailing info@skagitvalleygenealogy.org. Thank you,
I am 100% positive that I-90 runs both east and west. 🙂
Seattle to Spokane – 4 1/2 hours, 270 miles
Yakima to Spokane – 3 hours, 200 miles
Kennewick to Spokane – 2 hours, 140 miles
Coeur d’Alene to Spokane – 38 minutes
And we here in Spokane have lots of motels!! Or ask a friend for a B&B (bunk and bathroom)!!
Our monthly PSGS Program this month will be “Alienation of Affection: Divorce in the US” with Christine Cohen. It will be on Wednesday, Sep. 24 at 1pm. Social time starts at 12:30pm. The program will be hybrid with in person at the Sylvan Way Library and on Zoom. The Zoom link will be posted the day before on our website (psgsociety.org) and our Facebook page.
Divorce is not just a 20th Century phenomenon. At first, granted by
the State Legislature and then by the Courts, these are public
records. The case files can include marriage date and place, names
and ages of children, current and former residences, and affidavits
by the spouses about their marriage and reason for divorce. Clues
are in the Census, City Directories, Military Pensions, County
Histories, County Courthouses & especially in Newspapers. This
could be the reason for a “lost spouse”.
The Joy of Genealogy Travel will be the subject of a presentation by Sandra Ristow of the Clallam County Genealogical Society Saturday, September 27th at 10:00 AM.
Sandra has studied her family genealogy for nearly 20 years, and has traveled through out the United States and parts of Germany and Poland to see their origins. Most of her ancestors were German immigrants. Her English ancestors, who arrived in 1660, and their participation in the American Revolution qualified her to become a member of the local Michael Trebert Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is a lecturer and teacher, sharing her expertise in German Genealogy.
Her lecture will relate some exciting discoveries of both German and Polish ancestors that her travels have produced. She has been to Germany five times, and to Pomerania, Poland where she has found living relatives.
The program will be presented, live, at the CCGS Research Center located at 403 E. 8th Street in Port Angeles or via Zoom. To obtain the Zoom codes or get more information, please call the Society at 360-417-5000 or email your request at askus@clallamcogs.com Tuesday through Friday from 10 am – 4pm.
