Beginning January 2015 SVGS will hold SVGS general meetings on the 2nd Saturday of the month from 1-3:00 PM at the Burlington Community and Senior Center. As previously noted there will not be scheduled meetings during the months of July, August and December. Also, Board meetings will be moved to the 2nd Saturday, same location from 10 am to 12 noon. All meetings are open to members and the general public.
This is the blog for and by members of the Washington State Genealogy Society; find us at www.wasgs.org .
Friday, October 17, 2014
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Eastside Genealogical Society's November Meetings
November 13, 2014: The Eastside Genealogical Society General Meeting will be held (7 to 9 pm) at the Bellevue Regional Library, Room 1, 1111 – 110th Ave NE, Bellevue. Doors open at 6:30 pm for networking. Visitors are always welcome at any of our meetings.
The topic will be using FamilySearch.org . Celia McNay will go through the major parts of this website with tips on searches, using information, and tutorial helps. She will introduce the Family Tree, share the Memories sections and more, as time permits.
Check our website http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.
Speaker: Celia McNay did her first family history project when she was 16 years old for a special church event. She has been doing genealogy, preserving family stories, and searching out relatives ever since. Now with a bachelor’s degree in Family History from Brigham Young University and over 25 years of research, she has formed her own research company, Go West Family Research. Celia is a member of Eastside Genealogical Society, the Association of Professional Genealogists, and is working on her national certification. Although her first love is picking through old documents, Celia also enjoys teaching others about genealogy. She has served as a Family History Consultant for the LDS Church for the past 9 years, teaching classes and helping others become excited about their family tree. She has taught for the Bellevue Regional Library in their ‘Genealogy Boot Camp’ workshops in 2013 and 2014.
About the Program: Celia will go through the major parts of the FamilySearch.org website with tips on searches, using information, and tutorial helps. She will introduce the Family Tree, which is a linked pedigree tree with family group pages. She will also share the Memories sections and if time permits demonstrate uploading pictures and documents.
Website and Special Interest Groups: Our Society website is http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.
Monday, October 13, 2014
The Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe
Melonie Liening is the Region 2 Rep for WSGS. At the WSGS conference last August in Arlington, she mentioned that she was going to attend The Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe convention up in Calgary, Canada. I asked her to send me a spot of information on this convention and this group. Here is her report:
I am sending along a photo of part of the library on display at the SGGEE convention I attended in August. The Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe (which focuses on German genealogy in Poland and Volhynia) has a yearly convention usually held in August. The society is based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and rotates its convention site between Canada and the US....two years in Canada followed by a convention in the US.
This year's site was Calgary with about 100 people in attendance. There are plans in the works for next year's convention to be held in eastern Canada. The SGGEE library opens on Thursday evening followed by the official welcome on Friday morning. After two and a half days of speakers and a German themed banquet dinner Saturday night, the convention closes around noon on Sunday.
More information about this society, researching Germans in Poland and Volhynia, along with information on next years convention can be found on their website, www.sggee.org
Here is a screen shot of that opening/home page. The teeny print of one line reads: SGGEE focuses on the genealogy of Germans from Russian Poland and Volhynia with some help for related regions.
I am sending along a photo of part of the library on display at the SGGEE convention I attended in August. The Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe (which focuses on German genealogy in Poland and Volhynia) has a yearly convention usually held in August. The society is based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and rotates its convention site between Canada and the US....two years in Canada followed by a convention in the US.
This year's site was Calgary with about 100 people in attendance. There are plans in the works for next year's convention to be held in eastern Canada. The SGGEE library opens on Thursday evening followed by the official welcome on Friday morning. After two and a half days of speakers and a German themed banquet dinner Saturday night, the convention closes around noon on Sunday.
More information about this society, researching Germans in Poland and Volhynia, along with information on next years convention can be found on their website, www.sggee.org
Here is a screen shot of that opening/home page. The teeny print of one line reads: SGGEE focuses on the genealogy of Germans from Russian Poland and Volhynia with some help for related regions.
Melonie and I figure that this information might surely be of helpful interest to other Washington researchers besides herself, so here it is for you.
Gates Foundation Visitor Center..... Did You Know About This?
At a recent seminar I attended, and in the tourist-brochure rack in the lobby of the hotel, I picked up a brochure for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center. "Arrive Curious. Leave Inspired." This was the caption on the brochure and it surely grabbed my attention.
"Discover worldwide efforts to help people live healthy, productive lives. See challenges and solutions brought o life through interactive exhibits designed to inform and inspire you."
There are interactive things to do at this Center. For instance, "Lift a 16-pound bucket to really understand the challenge of walking for safe drinking water."
Admission is free, hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10:00 to 5:00. The location is 440-5th Avenue North, just east of the Seattle Center.... near the Space Needle. The website is www.gatesvc.org
Why post this on our WSGS blog? I think most of us Washingtonians are proud of "our" Bill and Melinda Gates and the worldwide work that they're doing. I did not know about this Visitors Center and I was betting that you did not either. Now we do!
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Washington State Archives Volunteer Appreciation Event 2014
Got up at O-Dark Thirty (5 a.m.) to get ready to drive to Ellensburg, Washington for the Volunteer Recognition Dinner at the Western Village VIP Room at the Rodeo Grounds of the Kittitas County Fair Grounds.
Beautiful day for a drive and Mount Rainier was very clear and easy to see from the RyeGrass pass before we got to Ellensburg.
Checking in we all got our pictures taken with Secretary of State Kim Wyman. Before heading for lunch.
This was the WSGS members that were there checking out the program and waiting for lunch. The Rodeo City BBQ catered the lunch, and while just a little spicy it was very good.
The entertainment was David Lundy singing old tunes similar to Burl Ives. Then Kevin Barnhart came up and told some old cowboy poems, very funny ones.
They had a number of door prizes and I did get pretty close, and two of the WSGS members did win door prizes. We all got a glass boot mug with a blue or red kerchief, some candy and a couple of pencils from the state archives.
Last was a surprise for one of the people there a special gift for Rose Banks for being the first person to digitize 100,000 records. This is her getting her picture taken with Kim Wyman and the trophy she got.
This is Rose Banks, thank you for all the records you have transcribed. If you want to go to the next Volunteer Appreciation Event, you need to sign up at Scribe .
The entertainment was David Lundy singing old tunes similar to Burl Ives. Then Kevin Barnhart came up and told some old cowboy poems, very funny ones.
They had a number of door prizes and I did get pretty close, and two of the WSGS members did win door prizes. We all got a glass boot mug with a blue or red kerchief, some candy and a couple of pencils from the state archives.
Monday, October 6, 2014
TCGS & NeWGS Meetings........ If you live nearby, you should go!
NeWGS (Northeast Washington Genealogical Society)
Our next meetings will be on Wednesday, October 8th, 2014. The morning Computer Interest Group will meet in the basement meeting room of the LDS church on Juniper Street in Colville at 10:30am. This is a new location for our CIG meetings. John WIlson is coming from Spokane to give us a demonstration on the popular genealogy program, RootsMagic.
We will take a break for lunch and then meet again at 1:30 p.m. for our general meeting in the same location. Due to difficulty in scheduling we will not be listening to a "live" webinar. Instead we will listen and view a pre-recorded webinar presented by Geoff Rasmussen from Legacy Family Tree. His subject will be the value of timelines in genealogy research. While he will be demonstrating the Legacy program's version of a timeline all that he teaches can be accomplished in any of the popular genealogy programs as well as the old-fashioned style of pen and paper or computer. I have personally listened to his webinar and learned quite a few valuable tips. We hope you will join us. You will be pleased with the ample parking at the church and friendly atmosphere. Karen Struve, President
TCGS (Tri-City Genealogical Society)
TRI-CITY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
MONTHLY MEETING
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
CLOVER ISLAND INN, 435 Clover Island Drive, Kennewick
All members and guests are invited to have dinner together at 5:30 PM
in the Captain’s Quarters, 4th Floor of the Inn. The meeting follows at 7:00 PM
PROGRAM SPEAKER: STAN WILLS, SONS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The program will include talks by Stan Wills, and possibly others from the local chapter of the Sons of American Revolution, about the Revolutionary War. They also will be wearing authentic replicas of Revolutionary War uniforms. And if you are a male and your ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War, they will have information on how you can join the Sons of American Revolution (SAR). It should be a great program for both history buffs and genealogists.
An additional item of interest at the meeting will be a raffle of genealogical-related items.
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Lake Okanagan's Legendary Monster Ogopogo...... We Saw Him!
We recently spent a week up near Kelowna, British Columbia, which sits right on Lake Okanagan.
This huge, deep lake (721 feet at the deepest point) is home of the legendary lake monster, Ogopogo.
Just like with the Loch Ness monster, no official sightings have been documented of Ogopogo but I wish to share with those of you who live nearby that it's official! We did see him!!
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This huge, deep lake (721 feet at the deepest point) is home of the legendary lake monster, Ogopogo.
Just like with the Loch Ness monster, no official sightings have been documented of Ogopogo but I wish to share with those of you who live nearby that it's official! We did see him!!
We saw him in topiary form in front of a plant nursery!
We saw him as a metal sculpture on a highway interchange!
And we saw him at a tourist park!
But the best evidence of the existence of Ogopogo was this partial skeleton
which I found near a partially submerged boat dock on Lake Okanagan.....
Our Lake Chelan, among others, might just be underground-connected with Lake Okanagan so we here in Washington cannot rest easy that Ogopogo would never surface in our lakes. Who knows??
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