by Donna Phillips When did your ancestor arrive in the colonies? American Ancestors offered this chart: Year Geographic Area Resource 1620 Plymouth Colony Mayflower Families books (silver books) 1607-1657 13 Original Colonies Founders of Early American Families…
Saturday, November 12 10:00 am-noon Diane Henriks Finding Descendants in your Family Tree The featured speaker for the November Society meeting of the Clallam County Genealogical Society will be Diane Henriks. Her topic is Finding Descendants in your Family Tree. She will describe the process of ‘fanning out’ to find descendants in a family, both living and past,…
by Donna Phillips The above iconic image is from the Civil War. But clear up to today, it’s the same: In war, young men die. (Col. Blake, M*A*S*H, “and rule #2, doctors can’t change rule #1.”) Many, if not most, of us have ancestors that participated in a war. Have you searched out all you’d like…
Legacy Family Tree SIG Meeting Nov 1st, 2022, 7:00 pm This month’s meeting will be a little different as we have exhausted the longer free Legacy Family Tree videos, so I will be picking 2 – 3 topics from the paid videos to discuss. We won’t be watching the paid videos, but I will review…
FWW 3 meeting notice-Nov 5, 2022 The Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, Fort Walla Walla Camp 3 will hold a quarterly meeting Nov 5 2022 at The Moses Lake Airport. Specifically, at the Ops Building on Lot 5 -a grassy tie down area–on Municipal Airport Rd. (at east boundary of the…
by Donna Phillips Was Johnny Appleseed for real? Click to this link and find out: https://waapple.org/johnny-appleseed/ (You may have to copy/paste this link.) Apple facts perhaps you didn’t know: Apples are a $2 BILLION industry in Washington. Washington grows over 30 varieties of apples….can you name five? Apple sizing is designated by count—specifically the number of…
by Donna Phillips At the 2015 Washington State Genealogical Society conference in Ellensburg, David Rencher was the primary speaker. His talk, Framing the Problem, was so excellent that I often think back upon and ponder the truth he presented. David began his talk with this question: “Have you a tough genealogy problem? Worried you won’t solve it…
Registration is already open for FamilySearch’s yearly conference, RootsTech. RootsTech 2023 takes place March 2-4, 2023, in Salt Lake City, Utah, as well as virtually online. You have your choice: do you want to be there in-person or would you rather attend online? Which ever you choose, you’ll have 180+ class sessions at your disposal. For more information, visit: https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/event/rt2023
Special Interest Group Meeting Tuesday, October 25 at 7:00 pm via Zoom Please join us as we discuss the use of DNA in genealogy. We will begin studying Genetic Genealogy in Practice by Blaine Bettinger and Debbie Parker Wayne, starting with the first chapter. This book is available from The National Genealogical Society (the publishers): https://www.ngsgenealogy.org/genetic-genealogy-in-practice/embed/#?secret=zeWs9FwlZN#?secret=LoZwyFWcYa From…
