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Heritage Quest Research Library Upcoming Meetings

by Charles Hansen

The current HQRL Newsletter is now available on the HQRL website

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Monday, April 11th 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. $15.00
Using Flip-Pal & Photoshop Elements    Instructor: Jim Johnson
Join us as Jim Johnson demonstrates the use of the Flip-Pal, including stitching. He will also demonstrate Adobe’s Photoshop Elements, a great program for editing digital photos. Learn how to enhance and prepare your digital photos for adding to your family tree. The concepts you learn today should be useful in using other photo programs.
Friday, April 22nd, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. $15.00
Newspaper Research     Instructor: Dee Haviland Fournier
Dee Haviland Fournier talks about Newspaper Research and how it can enhance your family history, including digital newspaper websites.This is a class not to be missed. Turn your ancestor’s statistics into a once living character.
Monday, April 25th 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.$15.00
Texas “The Lone Star State”     Instructor: Jim Johnson
Texas “The Lone Star State” is also home to Jim Johnson. Join us as he talks about researching in Texas. He’ll have some websites that will advance the search for your  ancestor. Remember Texas shares borders with Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Mexico.
Monday, May 9th, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. $15.00
Iowa: The American Heartland     Instructor: Dee Haviland Fournier
Iowa is Dee Haviland Fournier’s home state. Join us as she discusses researching genealogy in in Iowa.Learn about sources and where they are available along with some great websites.She also will discuss the situation at State Historical Society of Iowa in Des Moines (and Iowa City), which has been making headlines lately. The Midwest Genealogy Center in Independence, Missouri will also be included.
Tuesday, May 17th 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. FREE
Join us in a free class about Heritage Quest Research Library (HQRL). This class will help you in your search for your ancestor, by learning how to find and use birth, marriage and death records. Along with a discussion on how to use Census records to further your research and some genealogy hints. Everyone is welcome and you may attend as many times as you like.
3 ways to sign-up:
In person at HQRL, 1007 S. Main St., Sumner, WA. Sign-up Notebook is at the Front Desk.
E-mail HQRLinfo@gmail.com – provide full name, telephone number and your HQRL Membership Number, if you are a Member.

Telephone HQRL @ 253-863-1806 between 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Provide full name, telephone number and HQRL Membership Number, if you are a Member.

For the benefit of everyone in the library, please DO NOT wear perfume, colognes or heavily scented products to classes.

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Heritage Quest Research Library’s AutumnQuest A Success!

by Charles Hansen

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Jim Johnson, Director of the Heritage Quest Research Library, and his wonderful crew (including wife, Patty) pulled off another fantastically successful AutumnQuest last Saturday, October 10th. Here is Jim teaching us all about using the Flip-Pal product………

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Three WSGS Board members attended:  Patty Olsen, Roger Newman and Donna Potter Phillips. The rest of you missed a grand day.

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Speakers for the day were (L to R) Janice Lovelace, Janet O’Conor Camarata, Donna, and Jill Morelli. (We’re wearing the pin-in flowers from our speakers’ thank you gifts.) The theme for the day was Finding Women’s Records and each speaker addressed a different aspect of that topic…. much of which was new to the audience.

Years ago, WSGS coined the phrase, “You won’t know if you don’t go.” The nearly 100 folks in attendance last Saturday know for sure a day-full of genealogical information that they didn’t know before. Hope next time the audience includes you.

Autumn Quest at the HQRL on October 10

by Charles Hansen

Autumn Quest

the annual education day given us by the

Heritage Quest Research Library in Sumner, Washington

will be held on Saturday, October 10th, 2015, 8:15-3:30

Topic:  “Finding Women from your Past”

 

Please join our four speakers for an inspiring day of learning; and get fascinating tips and techniques for locating the elusive women in your family tree.

Here is the registration information:

Registration form for Autumn Quest 2015

Seminar only $50 Lunch (includes gratuity) $10 salad, sandwiches, dessert

Total enclosed $______ Name: Address: Phone: E-mail Method of Payment check Credit card (MasterCard/Visa) Credit Card Expire Date Signature Make checks payable to: Heritage Quest Research Library If mailing registration form please send to: Heritage Quest Research Library

Attn: AQ registration 1007 Main Street, Sumner WA 98390-1412 Phone 253-863-1806 October 10, 2015 Finding Women from your Past 8:15am – 3:30pm lunch available at Faith Covenant Church 1915 Washington St. Sumner WA 98390

Continue reading for information on the speakers and their topics:

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Heritage Quest Research Library Newsletter

by Charles Hansen
To HQRL Members and Friends

The HQRL summer newsletter is now online on the HQRL webpage under the newsletter tab, or the direct link is:

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Autumn Quest 2015 is Saturday, October 10th at the Faith Covenant Church in Sumner, WA.  We have 4 great speakers who will speak on topics relating to researching your female ancestors.  More info at www.hqrl.com
This year we have a limit of 120 attendees due to space limitations.  Get your registration form in now!  We are already over half full.  It will fill up fast.  The direct link is:
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Jim Johnson, Director, HQRL

Heritage Quest Research Library Autumn Quest

by Charles Hansen

To  Attendees of HQRL AutumnQuest 2014

AutumnQuest 2015 will be held at the Faith Covenant Church in Sumner on Saturday, October 10th 2015.  The topic will be “Finding Women From Your Past” featuring four great speakers.

Attendance this year will be limited to the first 120 paid (last year we had 150) 

Sign up today!

Announcement at www.hqrl.com 

For Info: 

http://www.hqrl.com/autumnquest/autumnquest.html  

For Registration form: http://www.hqrl.com/autumnquest/registration.html 

Autumn Quest
2015
with Donna Potter-Phillips, Jill Morelli, Janice Lovelace, and Janet Camarata

Soldiers, Spies, & Farm Wives – Changing roles of women during the Civil War – Jill  Morelli

How the Civil War was  a game-changer for women in the USA.

Beyond online – Finding women in the Courthouse – Janice Lovelace

Step away from the computer and search records stored in county courthouses.

Finding your Women on the Internet – Donna  Potter-Phillips

How to utilize the Internet to find female ancestors.

Difficult Women: The Ways Our Female Ancestors Confound Our Research– Janet O’Conor Camarata

Using case studies, provides strategies and techniques for correctly identifying difficult-to-find and difficult-to-understand female ancestors.

Book Store

We will have the HQRL bookstore on site  from 8:00 am to 3:15 pm with hundreds of genealogy selections.

Silent Auction

We will have a silent auction set up with bid sheets. Winners will be announced at the end of the seminar.

Donation Table

The donation table is your opportunity to select from a potpourri of items and donate whatever you wish. All proceeds benefit our non-profit library.

Seminar Costs

The seminar is $50 per person and Lunch is $10

Registration form for

Autumn Quest 2015

q   Seminar only                               $50
q   Lunch (includes gratuity)          $10

salad, sandwiches, dessert

Total enclosed:

_________________________________

Name

_________________________________

Address

_________________________________

_________________________________

_________________________________

_________________________________

Phone

_________________________________

E-mail

Method of Payment

q  Check
q  Credit card (Master Card  /  Visa)

_____________________ ___________

Credit Card #                           Expire Date

_________________________________

Signature

Make checks payable to:
Heritage Quest Research Library

If mailing registration form please send to :

Heritage Quest Research Library

ATTN: Autumn Quest Registration

1007 Main St., Sumner, WA 98390-1412

Phone: 253-863-1806

HQRL is located at

1007 Main Street

Sumner, Washington 98390

Phone: 253-863-1806

Our web address is www.hqrl.com (click on “find us” for directions)

Jim Johnson, Director HQRL

Heritage Quest Research Library NEWS FLASH

by Charles Hansen

To HQRL members and friends:

A gentle reminder: Please DO NOT wear perfumes, colognes or after shaves to classes.

NEXT upcoming class:

Monday, March 30 at 1:00 p.m.:

 

Evernote Tips & Tricks for PC Instructor: Janet O’Conor Camarata Evernote can store everything you possibly need for genealogy research and make it available everywhere. Learn to fully utilize its capabilities with checklists and reminders, merging notes and stacking notebooks, adding media, creating a Table of Contents and related products for becoming an Evernote power user. This class will be PC centric. If you use a Mac, you are welcome to attend to learn the concepts, but no instruction will be provided on how to access the concept on the Mac. MondayMar 301:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. $15

 

And then plan ahead for the first two classes in April:

 

Research in France Instructor: Dee Haviland Fournier Are you looking for your ancestors in France?Learn several strategies to help your search. Maybe one of these will help you bust through your brickwall! We will also talk about the history of France and then concentrate on what records are available, where they are located and for what years they are available. MondayApr 61:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. $15
Timelines and Chronologies Instructor: Janet O’Conor Camarata Genealogists use a variety of methods to better understand their ancestor’s lives and experiences. One method is the use of timelines and/or chronologies to summarize a person or family’s life, demonstrate how lives interconnect with each other and with history, identify discrepancies and inconsistencies, identify research problems and additional areas for further research and ease the writing of a memoir, family history or obituary. See how the method worked in understanding a family migration from Kentucky, to Missouri to Kansas in the mid-1800s. FridayApr 106:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. $15

 

3 Ways to Signup

  • In person at HQRL, 1007 Main Street, Sumner, WA: Sign-up Notebook at Front Desk.
  • E-MAIL HQRLinfo@gmail.com – provide full name, telephone number and, if a member, HQRL membership number.
  • Telephone HQRL @ 253-863-1806 during our normal working hours Monday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. – provide full name, telephone number and HQRL membership number if a member.

HQRL is located at:

1007 Main Street
Sumner, WA 98390

Phone 253-863-1806

Our Web address is: www.HQRL.com (click on “find us” for directions.)

Marilyn Schunke
HQRL Education Coordinator