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A Trip Back in Time: A History of Cashmere Businesses

Technology meets history! The Cashmere Museum has installed a unique kiosk that traces the development of Cashmere businesses from the town’s beginning. It will show the year the building was built, its location, ownership and occupants through the years, using pictures and newspaper clippings. WAGS will be a special guest of the museum, and one…

What Research Treasures are at the Central Regional Branch Archives?

Brigid Clift, Regional Branch Archivist at the State Archives in Ellensburg, will share her screen and show us what’s new at the archives and digital archives. They are also collaborating with Ancestry.com–we’ll find out more. She can answer your questions about their research hours and their volunteer-from-home program. This meeting will be hybrid! Those who…

July membership meeting–July 12, 2:00 p.m. via Zoom

“From Curious to Published: One Genealogist’s Journey” WAGS member Kay Daling became curious about genealogy when she learned that some of her ancestors had come to America in 1633. She honed her research skills, and eventually focused on the Dalings and Slacks–pioneering Waterville families. She published “The Daling Family Story” in 2014; and “The Slack…

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JUNE 14th MEETING

An Ounce of Prevention: Making a Genealogy Disaster Plan Genealogy documents, photographs, mementos, and databases are a family’s most prized possessions. they can be lost in an instant in the event of a disaster. This lecture focuses on how to plan before the crisis occurs, so that loss is minimized and your genealogy legacy is…

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Website Goes Officially Live

This website will officially go live on 5/5/21 even though it has been live since it was created. during its construction, some pages were protected from public viewing but as of 5/5/21 those pages will be viewable by the public. Other pages that are for members only will continue to be protected and only members…