If you need help with your own family history research, remember you can schedule a FREE 20-minute online consultation with a research specialist from the FamilySearch Family History Library. Click here to sign up for your consultation! Be sure to be prepared so as to make the most of your 20 minutes. There are plenty of resources at…
HEIRLOOMS, TRINKETS AND TREASURES, Celebrating your family history LOLA WEBER, LOWER COLUMBIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY member, And former Volunteer of the year, has chosen this topic for her presentation on Thursday, October 13, 2022. The meeting is a free Zoom meeting starting at 6:30 pm for announcements and greeting guests. The program will start at 7:00 pm. The public…
When: Friday, October 7, 2022 from 12:30 to 2:30 pm PDT (Virtually) Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/ye262t7k Topic: “Discovering German Church Records at Matricula Online” Obtaining German church records can be challenging unless you know where to find them. Discover the abundance of these Catholic records at Matricula Online. This lecture will show you how to effectively use the Matricula Online…
Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society DNA Special Interest Group Meeting Tue. September 27th at 7:00 pm PST 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 chapter on Ethics. This book is available from The…
A Zoom presentation featuring Claire Smith will be hosted by the Clallam County Genealogical Society October 8th at 10:00am. Claire is an outstanding genealogist and a wonderful speaker. Her topic will be “Are You Really My Ancestor? Getting Unstuck, Working Through Research Problems”. She tells us “When you find a name match for an ancestor, it’s tempting to believe…
I’m delighted to share our largest historical record collection update yet: 74 collections with 130 million records! We’ve been growing our content team and working hard to ramp up the pace of historical record collection publications since the beginning of the year. These collections include birth, marriage, death, military, wills, newspapers, immigration, civil, and probate records…
Have you noticed the Blog banner changes every time you visit? The photos are submitted by readers like you — and Donna Potter Phillips of Spokane (& weekly contributor to the Blog). We’re always looking for scenic photos of our beautiful state for the rotating photo gallery on the blog banner. Guidelines for the photos…
We have some fantastic free webinars from Legacy Family Tree Webinars, plus a free genealogy conference coming up in September. Check out the details below and let your audience know about September 2022’s live webinars: Shackles, shekels and shrapnel: the exodus to the Southern seas by Michelle Patient Changing Places, Changing Borders: Overcoming geographic challenges by…
When: Friday, September 9, 2022 from 12:30 to 2:30 pm PDT (Virtually) Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/4sksdsma Topic: “German Immigrant Waves” The 1700s “Pennsylvania Germans” were a different breed than the “German Americans” who immigrated in the 1800s. This presentation shows the differences in geography, economic class, religion, and aspirations of – as well as sources about – the…
