July 14, 1789 is the day that marks the symbolic start of the French Revolution. Bastille Day, celebrated on July 14th each year, is France’s largest national holiday. In honor of Bastille Day, FamilySearch has scheduled four back-to-back webinars on French genealogical research. Register through your FamilySearch free account. Here’s the schedule for Family History Library…
by Donna Phillips Continued from last week’s post……………… The Union Pacific Railroad had a must easier time of it due to the flat midwestern terrain. A large 20-car work train crawled along the newly-laid tracks to bring supplies and support the army of workers. This train was a combination of factory, hotel, restaurant, hospital and administrative…
The Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society (BIGS) invites members of other Washington societies to attend our next Skill Building SIG – Saturday morning July 9th 10:00 am PDT. Details below. Contact Betty Wiese at bettywiese@comcast.net to get the zoom link information Disaster Preparation for our Family History Material Saturday, July 9, 2022, 10:00 AM (PDT) via Zoom and in person…
by Donna Phillips Railroads were lifelines across America to our ancestors. Anything we can learn about railroads and railroading will benefit the social history we seek to fill out our ancestors’ lives. Do keep in mind that it was our ancestors who did this railroad building not “hired workers from elsewhere.” David Norris authored a special…
Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society Legacy Special Interest Group Meeting July 5th, 2022, 7:00 pm This week we will be viewing two short videos and starting 1 long video done by Geoff that are free and available from the Help tab in Legacy by clicking to the QuickTip Videos icon. The direct link to each…
I’m excited to tell you that MyHeritage has just completed an additional update to the data for our ultimate genetic genealogy tool, Theory of Family Relativity™! In case you’re still unfamiliar with Theory of Family Relativity™, this feature pulls together billions of data points from across all the family tree profiles and historical records on…
As the world changes and technology develops at a dizzying pace, certain skills that were once necessary for survival are being all but forgotten. It’s amazing to think how many of the things we had to learn to do out of necessity, skills that were seen as basic common knowledge, have become rare novelty skills,…
The Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. TPCGS DNA Special Interest Group Tuesday, June 28 at 7:00 pm PDT via Zoom Please join us as we discuss the use of DNA in genealogy. We will be discussing The Leeds Method of Clustering Matches. More information can be found here: https://www.danaleeds.com/the-leeds-method/…
Beginning your family history PART A: GETTING STARTEDWhat is it?Why do it?Where do I begin?How do I get organized? So, you want to start a little project?How can Heritage Quest Research Library help you? We can start with a FREE Beginning Class taught by our very own research librarians. WHEN: July 7, 2022, 11:00 AM to 12:00…
I’m excited to tell you that during April and May, MyHeritage added 1.3 billion historical records in 37 collections from all around the world. These records are from the U.S., the U.K., Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, and Ukraine, and they include birth, marriage, death, military, census, newspaper records, and…
