Clallam County Gen Soc Features Cyndi Ingle

If you can drive to Port Angeles on October 18th, then DO plan to go and learn from "our" Cyndi Ingle!!

Spotlight on the Kootenai County (Idaho) Genealogical Society

WSGS welcomes the Kootenai County Genealogical Society into membership! KCGS began back in 1979, a spin-off from the Idaho State Genealogical Society. But since geography dictates that KCGS have closer ties to Eastern Washington than to Southern Idaho, KCGS and the Eastern Washington Genealogical Society (in Spokane) share several members. 

This is their website:  www.kcgs.org and they invite you to come learn all about them and their doings. They meet monthly (except July-August and December-January) and many KCGS members are volunteer staffers at the Hayden Family History Center. KCGS has a wonderful partnership with the Hayden Lake Public Library and use the library's meeting room and keep their book collection there. 

Last August 9th, KCGS go-getter-member Kim Morgan arranged a Family History Day at the Hayden Library. There were classes for children and adults such as "Standards for Sound Genealogical Research," and "Help! The Courthouse Burned..Now What?" Pictured below is Kim Morgan with Susan Miner, Billie Jean Grant, Barbara Cole and Bonnie Cook, the arranging committee for this great day. President of KCGS is Jeannie Ventorino with her Board including Donna Schmacker, Louisa Durkin, Carol LaPan and others. 

 Several members of EWGS traveled the short thirty miles east from Spokane to Coeur d'Alene and just north of there to Hayden Lake Public Library to attend the activities on August 9th. EWGS member Janette Birch talks here with Librarian Carol LaPan about KCGS's wonderful British parish records collection. This collection takes up several library shelves and was donated years ago. It includes such gems as the Liverpool Directory for 1766. 

We welcome Kootenai County Genealogical Society into the Washington State Genealogical Society and look forward to some really fun back-and-forth learning and sharing. And who knows how many will travel to use the KCGS British parish records collection, housed in the Hayden  Lake Public Library? 

Eastside Genealogical Society's News & Notice

11 Sept 2014 – Bellevue, WA

The Eastside Genealogical Society General Meeting will be held (7 to 9 pm) at the Bellevue Regional  Library, Room 1, 1111 – 110^thAve NE, Bellevue.  Doors open at 6:30 pm for networking.  Visitors are always welcome.  

The September topic will be “Washington State Library, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, and Scribe, a volunteer transcribing and indexing project”.  The speakers will be Kathryn Devine from the WA State Library & Tracy Rebstock from the WA State Archives, who will discuss various genealogical resources at their locations & Amber Raney from the WA State Archives, who will tell us about the Scribe

project.

Our Society website is http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakcegs/    .  Check this website for FREE genealogical help and under the “Calendar” tab, find the times and locations of Special Interest Group meetings (Czech/Slovak, German, Irish, Italian, Scandinavian or the Legacy Family Tree software).  Visitors are always welcome at these meetings, too.

Washington 1889..... Help with this project?

Good afternoon!

We have 48 hours left on Legacy Washington’s first Kickstarter Campaign to help raise the private funds needed for the next exhibit,Washington 1889: Blazes, Rails & the Year of Statehood. We are 40% towards our goal of $5,000 and need your help!

Washington 1889: Blazes, Rails & the Year of Statehood marks the sixth exhibit of Legacy Wash­ington, an educational program within the Office of Secretary of State. This public exhibition cele­brates the big stories of Washington’s seminal year, the year of Statehood. It will be on dis­play in the Legislative Building from November, 2014 through August, 2015 and will feature exhibit panels, videos and artifacts including an eleven-foot 42 star flag that was specially made when Washington became a state. The exhibit will officially open onNovember 11th, alongside the Washington 125 celebrations, commemorating Washington’s 125^th Anniversary. We hope you can join us in the festivities!

All funds raised through Kickstarter will specifically go towards the printing of the exhibit panels that are hung in the Secretary of State’s lobby in the Legislative Building (no state dollars are used for any of our exhibits). The Legislative Building and Secretary of State’s office welcome tens of thousands of people annually including student groups from across the state. Legacy Washington exhibits offer a unique and interactive opportunity for students to learn about our state’s history and the people who made it remarkable. All exhibits continue traveling to schools and museums throughout the state for free once they are taken down.

There are two ways you can help:

1)      Visit the link below to learn more and support Washington 1889 (you can donate as little as $1!)

2)      Tweet or share our Kickstarter page with friends via email or through Facebook

Legacy Washington Kickstarter page and information on the exhibit: http://kck.st/1oCcjQg

Kickstarter is a global crowd funding platform that helps “Bring creative projects to life.” Kickstarter projects range from everything from films, games, music, art, design, technology and more. What better way to garner support on the new exhibit than through Kickstarter?! We have 48 hours to make our goal for the new exhibit as Kickstarter is all-or-nothing funding platform - no one will be charged for a pledge unless our project reaches its funding goal!

We hope you will consider checking out the Legacy Washington Kickstarter page and helping to celebrate Washington Statehood by supporting this exhibit.

Thank you!

Grays Harbor Genealogy Society Postscript

This flyer post is a follow-up to the August 13th post of the GHGS's upcoming workshop. 

Clallam County Genealogical Society

After the WSGS conference, I got to spend a week in Port Angeles "teen sitting" a grandson. One highlight of that week was lunch with Ginny Majewski, President of the Clallam County Genealogical Society, and having a tour of their new library and building.

Ginny told me over lunch that CCGS currently has about 175 members, with 50 quite active and 25 very active. They have a great website (www.olypen.com/ccgs) and a Facebook page but no blog. Cyndi Ingle will be their upcoming October workshop speaker.

Here is Ginny welcoming me to their new library building:

Here are photos of the interior of the library; not shown is their computer room and conference room: 

Their collection includes many locality-specific items....... like the census of the Makah Indians, Neah Bay Agency, 1885-1899, and the census of the Quillayute Indians for the same years.  

The library seems not to have trouble getting volunteers to staff the library for all the days they are open as evidenced by the hanging rack of name tags to which Ginny points. 

I was most impressed with the news and doings of the Clallam County Genealogical Society, as told to me by Ginny Majewski, current president, and I was doubly impressed with their new facilities and library.

Congratulations, CCGS. We join our hands in clapping and voices in wishing you continued success in all your endeavors.

Researching In Illinois.......... Free Webinar on IRAD

A wonderful opportunity awaits those of us who have research to do in Illinois! 

Luana Darby will present a FREE webinar on Tuesday, September 9th, at 6:00pm our time, on understanding and using the Regional Archives of Illinois. You must click on the link below to register for this live webinar; I suggest you doing it today for even in the digital world only so many can attend these webinars. A confirmation email will come to you. Then all you have to do it at the appointed time have your computer turned on and plan to sit and "attend" this seminar presented as a webinar and take notes and learn! Easy as raking pine needles. 

September 2014 

Treasures and Hidden Secrets of the Illinois Regional Archives (IRAD)

• Presenter:  Luana Darby, MLIS
• Date: September 9, 2014, 8:00 pm Central
• Description: If you research in Illinois, you don’t want to miss the resources held in the seven regional archive repositories of IRAD. From vital records to city directories, probate to local histories, each site has its own unique set of records. Learn tips and tricks for getting the most out of your visit, whether long-distance or on site. Come see some of the gems already gleaned from the vast resources of this amazing Illinois asset.
• Registration:  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1778023905401548033
• This webinar is sponsored by FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org)