Seattle Genealogical Society October Seminar

by Charles Hansen

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The author of the best new book on using DNA for genealogy is giving a seminar in Seattle 9 am Sat Oct 15th

 

For brochure or to sign up, see:

http://www.seattlegenealogicalsociety.org/content/seminars

 

Speaker and author Emily Aulicino is the Regional Coordinator for the International Society of Genetic Genealogists (ISOGG) for Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. She teaches genetic genealogy classes at the Genealogical Forum of Oregon in Portland and manages 13 different DNA projects through Family Tree DNA. Ms. Aulicino is the author of Genetic Genealogy: The Basics and Beyond.[which Tuck has order for KCGS libreary] She also teaches weekly classes on writing childhood memories and family stories.

Our seminar features 5 sessions. The morning sessions will have two track options – beginner and advanced. Choose which track to attend based on your interest and level of knowledge in genetic genealogy. Members of the SGS DNA Special Interest Group will assist with the presentations. We’ll break for lunch, and then come together again for the final three sessions.

 

 

Saturday, 15 October 2016
9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

$40 for member/$50 for non-members
Boxed lunch for $12 – sandwiches and gluten free salad options
Registration deadline is October 8th, $50/$60 after deadline

Further questions can be directed to Sandra Stark
seminar@seattlegenealogicalsociety.org(link sends e-mail)

Fairview Christian School
844 NE 78th Street
Seattle, WA

Doors open at 8:00 a.m.
Welcome at 9:00 a.m.

 

THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’s Wednesday Evening E-News

by Charles Hansen

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THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’s Wednesday Evening E-News 21 September 2016

For more information visit www.gfo.org, contact us at info@gfo.org, or call our library at 503-963-1932. We love hearing from you!

For a complete GFO CALENDAR go to www.gfo.org/calendar.htm.

Also, if you missed your free copy of our monthly Insider for August 2016, you’re in luck because we saved you a copy at http://www.gfo.org/insider/16-Aug.pdf.

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Notice: Fall Seminar is SOLD OUT
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Thank you all for your registrations. We have reached capacity.

See you at the The Milwaukie Center on Saturday, Oct 15th, 10am – 4:30pm.

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OREGON ARCHIVES CRAWL, Saturday, Oct 8th, 11am – 3pm
Portland-Area Archives and Historical Repositories, Unite!!

Come meander between to this year’s 3 downtown hosting repositories (stop by at the GFO’s table to see how we’re doing with our Digital Manuscript Collection), the City of Portland Archives & Records Center, the Oregon Historical Society and the Multnomah County Library. What a lovely day this will be! Lots of historical and archival talks, with lovely short jaunts through Portland’s beautiful and mysterious downtown.

Hope to see you there at GFO’s table at the Oregon Historical Society!! Click HERE for more information.

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GFO’s September 2016 Star – April Ober

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April is a knowledgeable, helpful GFO member who sees and instinctively knows what needs to be done…and makes it happen! April has served on the Seminar Committee for many years, picking up speakers EARLY the morning of the seminar and driving them to the seminar location. April also works at the seminar registration table and attendees are welcomed with a smile and a warm greeting as they arrive to receive name tags and materials.

April volunteers as a Research Assistant on Monday mornings. The person who nominated April noted that it is a challenge for her to come to the Forum due to parking issues, so a few weeks ago, April offered to pick her up so she could enjoy a few hours researching at the Library – and both had a great time!

April is a true team player with excellent ideas.

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Hot Links in Genealogy

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2016 Milwaukie Stake Family History Conference
Come learn about “All Things Relative” on Sat. Oct 22nd, from 9:00am-4:00pm, at 8331 Cason Rd., Gladstone (exit 11 off of 205). The conference and lunch are both free with pre-registration going on now through Oct. 20th. Click HERE for more info.
Family Histories Writing Class
Learn to write down your memories, thoughts, major events, and experience and collect them together into a simple book. You can also combine stores with records, recipes, photos or memorabilia.
WHERE: Pioneer Adult Community Center, 615 5th St., Oregon City.
WHEN: Thursdays, Sep 29th-Dec 8th 10:30-11:30 (11 classes).
WHO: Instructor Kathryn Litjeholm.
HOW: Call for registration at 503-380-1504 (fee $100, 62+ $66).

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What’s Happening this Week at the GFO?

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH
Italian Interest Group 11am – 1pm

Ciao to everyone interested in Italian genealogy research. This is a great opportunity to learn, share, and enjoy others with a common interest. Italian genealogy research in the Portland area now has a home. Come join our group. Facilitated by Keith Pyeatt.

British Interest Group 1pm – 3pm

Come join us to research family history in the British Isles, including England, Wales, Scotland, and Scots-Irish. We try to have speakers who provide interesting experiences or online databases for research in these countries. One hour of the two hour meeting is devoted to brick wall questions.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH
Library Work Party

There’s another work party at the GFO library today for those of you who can come. There’s lots to do and we’d love to have your help. Doors open at 9am and work usually wraps up around noon. Some people come for just an hour or so and you’re welcome to do the same. Any time you can share is valuable. Hope to see you there.

Rich Discovery in Cemetery of Paupers and Penniless

by Roxanne Lowe

Funeral director Bill Habermann from Tacoma doesn’t believe in bury and forget. In particular, he wants those who died anonymously to be remembered in the afterlife — if not by friends and relatives, at least by the written record.

To have lived a life but died as an unknown is close to having never existed at all. Read why the 79-year-old Habermann, an easygoing, gray-haired former grade school teacher, found himself climbing over a fence one day into an old, closed graveyard and taking pictures of the headstones.

For the entire story, click here.

Eastside Genealogical Society October Meeting

by Charles Hansen

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The Eastside Genealogical Society will meet on Thursday, October 13, 2016 in the Bellevue Regional Library (Room 1), 1111 – 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004 at 7 pm, with doors opening at 6:45 pm for networking.

Topic:  “It’s Show and Tell Night” – Members will tell about their most interesting deceased relative and show some items related to their family history. Come enjoy some very interesting stories and learn more about genealogy.

 

Also see our website for FREE genealogical help and other Special Interest Group meetings. Visitors are always welcome at all meetings. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakcegs/

Dorothy Pretare

EGS Publicity Chairperson

dpgen@comcast.net

Online Pre-registration for Ancestry Day Ends Friday

by Roxanne Lowe

Online pre-registration for this weekend’s “Ancestry Day” closes at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 23. The event is Saturday, Sept. 24 from 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. at the Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center in Tacoma. If you can’t pre-register online, you can still attend by purchasing a ticket at the door on Saturday. Events for Friday are sold out.

Both novice and experienced genealogists are welcome at this event which is sponsored by Ancestry, Washington State Archives, Washington State Library, Legacy Washington, the Washington State Historical Society, Washington State Historical Records Advisory Board and National Historic Publications & Records Commission. Crista Cowan, better known as The Barefoot Genealogist, and Anna Swayne will be the presenters on Saturday.

Eastside Genealogical Society German Interest Group

by Charles Hansen

 

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The German Interest Group of The Eastside Genealogical Society will meet on Friday, October 7, 2016 from 1 to 3 pm in the Relief Society Room of the LDS Church at 10675 NE 20thSt, Bellevue, WA 98004 with doors opening at 12:45 pm for networking.  Visitors are always welcome at our meetings.

 

Topic:  Marburg, Germany, historic capital of Hessia

The town of Marburg, Germany, with its Marburger Schloss castle, museums, cathedrals and 16th century half-timbered houses, was once the seat of the Hessian government, thus the homeland of many of the early German immigrants to the U.S. In addition to Hessia’s cache of genealogical records, Marburg is home to many intriguing stories, having been at the crossroads of significant events throughout history. In the 1200s, Elizabeth of Thuringia cared for the sick there; the stories of her sainthood and miracles live on through the majestic medieval St. Elizabeth Cathedral. In addition to its Catholic roots, Marburg is the location of the first Protestant university. In 1529, at a key moment of the Reformation, whether or not the various factions of Luther’s Reformation could agree hung in the balance at the Marburg Colloquy. At one time the town was home to the Brothers Grimm. In her powerpoint presentation, Claire Gebben will share sights and history about Marburg she learned while visiting there this past spring.

 

Speaker:  Claire Gebben is the author of The Last of the Blacksmiths, a novel set in the mid-19th century based on the true story of her German immigrant great-great grandfather. Ms. Gebben’s articles have appeared in Family Chronicle Magazine, Fiske Genealogical Foundation Newsletter, and her piece on German Separatist Zoar Village in Ohio appeared in the June/July 2016 issue of German Life magazine. She is the historian of the 163-year-old First United Methodist Church of Seattle, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing through the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. http://clairegebben.com

 

For more information, kindly visit our website at https://egsgermangroup.wordpress.com/  .

 

Dorothy Pretare

GIG Leader

GermanInterestGroupEGS@outlook.com

Finding Your Roots at Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

by Charles Hansen
Finding Your Roots Seminar, Free. Saturday, October 15th all day, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.

Speakers this year include Mary Kathryn Kozy from Washington State, and Lesley Anderson of Ancestry.ca, and Dave Obee.

See the schedule (38 classes) and more information on-line.

Registration now open. Free. Box lunches may be reserved. Plentiful free parking.

Finding Your Roots website: http://findingyourroots.ca/
Location: 6270 -126th St. Surrey, BC, Canada
Telephone: 604 597 9695
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Northeast Washington Genealogical Society Meeting October 12

by Charles Hansen

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The next Northeast Washington Genealogical Society meetings are on Wednesday, October 12, 2016. The morning Computer Interest Group (CIG) will meet in the basement meeting room of the LDS Church on Juniper Street in Colville at 10:30 AM. Entry is located at the back of the building. The building is located one block east of the South Main Restaurant on Hwy 395.

Vice-President, Karen Struve will take a new approach for beginning on-line genealogy research. This month the focus will be on starting from scratch.  She will share her methodology for creating a tribute to a young man whose life was tragically cut short.

We will take a lunch break at noon and then meet again in the LDS Lower Meeting Room at 1:30 p.m.

It’s time to re-think those brick walls that keep all of us from making progress on our genealogy research. Perhaps the answer is right there in your old research that you set aside so long ago.

Susan Dechant, President of NeWGS will lead the discussion about those walls as well as offer up some tips and tricks to help us break them down or, maybe, just move on and around the walls.

All visitors are welcome. You do not need to be a member to attend the Northeast Washington Genealogical Society’s meetings.

Cascade Centennial Chapter of the SAR Veterans Day Ceremony

by Charles Hansen

Cascade Centennial Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution

 

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On behalf of the Cascade Centennial Chapter of the Sons of the American
Revolution, it is my pleasure to invite you, and the Washington State
Genealogical Society to attend the Veterans Day Ceremony on Friday, November
11, 2016, at 10:00 a.m.  The ceremony will be conducted in the main chapel
at Sunset Hills Memorial Park Cemetery in Bellevue, Washington.

As a partner in the Department of Defense 50th Anniversary Commemoration of
the Vietnam War, we will be honoring all veterans, but granting particular
honors to those who served during the Vietnam War.  They will receive the
DoD Vietnam War lapel pin, and a letter from President Obama.

It would be an honor to have you join us.

Very truly yours,

Gregory D. Lucas, President

Cascade Centennial Chapter, SAR

Serendipity Day

by Charles Hansen

** Banks Lake & the Rainbow

** Digital Public Library of America

** Going to Salt Lake City and the Family History Library?

** Norwegian Ten Commandments

** Check Out HistoryGeo.com (thanks Jeanine Barndt)

 

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Last August, hubby and I spent a few sunshiny happy days on Banks Lake. One morning a thunderstorm came up and created a double rainbow! We live in such a beautiful state!

Do you know the history of this man-made lake? According to Wikipedia:

Banks Lake is a 27-mile long reservoir in central Washington in the United States. Created at the time of the Grand Coulee Dam, the reservoir was planned to irrigate the entire central basin of Washington. This eventually did happen, and is on-going, but electricity produced by the dam is also of vital importance.

Due to the nature of the lake, lying as it does within the walls of a basaltic coulee, there are few access points. To me this makes it a boater’s paradise where you can nearly have the entire lake to yourself. And the water gets delightfully warm enough for swimming!  If you’d like to visit, check out Steamboat Rock State Park.

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Ever used the DPLA? The Digital Public Library of America? The DPLA is one of the most useful online libraries available today. It is new, having been formed less than two years ago. It is not a genealogy library. Rather, it is a general purpose library that just happens to have a lot of genealogy material in addition to other topics. The DPLA’s mission is to make cultural and scientific works more accessible to the public.

Dick Eastman, in his weekly online newsletter, wrote about the DPLA back in February 2015. At the time of his newsletter, he wrote that the DPLA listed over 8,000,000 items in its catalog from libraries, archives and museums. (Just checked; now it’s over 13,000,000.) Doing a search on the word genealogy returned a list of 65,707 items available via the library’s online portal.

The DPLA serves as a portal to provide new ways to search and scan through the united collection of millions of items that may be stored on any of thousands of other library websites. This alone gives me reason to want to know more. Of course there is a YouTube video about the DPLA for your viewing educational pleasure.

Check it out:  www.dp.la  (Yes, a pretty simple web address.)

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How to prepare to visit the Family History Library in Salt Lake City….. are you planning a visit anytime soon? Especially if it’s your first time, please do take advantage of the tips listed below in the FamilySearch Wiki article:  Go toFamilySearch Wiki

  1. Click on Family History Library
  2. Click Visit to the Library.

Another Suggested method found on the updated FamilySearch site

  1. Click onwiki.familysearch.org/en/Main_Page
  2. Click onFamilySearch Centers.
  3. Click onTheFamily History Library Salt Lake City, Utah.

4 Click for Additional Library Information

 

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Barbara Zanzig, a friend with whom I rendezvous every year at the Salt Lake Christmas Tour, shared with me the Ten Commandments with a distinctive Norwegian flavor and twist. I share them with you. You’ll love ‘em!

Da Ten Commandments
1. Der’s only one God, ya know.
2. Don’t be idolizing dat fish on yer mantle.
3. Cussin’ ain’t Minnesota nice.
4. Go to church even when yer up nort.
5. Honor yer folks.
6. Don’t kill; Catch an’ release.
7. Der’s only one Lena fer ever Ole.  No cheatin’.
8. If it ain’t yer lutefisk, don’t take it.
9. Don’t be braggin’ ’bout how much snow ya shoveled.
10. Keep yer mind off yer neighbor’s hotdish.

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Did your ancestors settle in western states and were first landowners? If so, you can find the information about their land at www.historygeo.com. Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming land records were recently added to the database. I don’t have ancestors in those states but I did find great-great-grandfather in Kansas. Doing a search on some surnames of those I know settled in these areas produced a lot of results. Check this database for your ancestors. Read the article about these 3.3 million original landowners added to historygeo.com.

Blog.historygeo.com/2015/06/08/western-states-added-to-first-landowners-project/  

(Jeanine Barndt is the Head Librarian for the Heritage Quest Research Library in beautiful downtown Sumner, Washington; this bit is from the HQRL Newsletter for Fall 2015.)