by Roxanne Lowe Participants in the recent WSGS Pioneer Pursuit Roundtable heard details about the program from how the applications should be completed to how the data are reviewed. Using the Pioneer Pursuit web pages as a starting point, listeners were walked through each step of the process to document every man, woman and child that lived in…
Tina Beaird is the owner of Tamarack Genealogy and is a Genealogy & Local History librarian at the Plainfield Public Library in Plainfield, IL. She holds a Masters of Library and Information Science degree with a specialization in Archives/Preservation from Dominican University. Tina has won multiple research and digitization grants to preserve and digitize historic…
To commemorate our 100th year, SGS is putting on a special seminar. It will be four lectures presented over two days. The dates and times : The lectures : This seminar is free to SGS members. Non-members will be charged a small fee. This will be an online seminar via Zoom. Registration is required. Registration…
DO YOU REMEMBER THIS ELEPHIND TIP? Elephind, is a the Search Engine for Historical Newspapers. Many genealogist love the Library of Congress – Chronicling America – historical, digitized newspapers website, but have you heard of Elephind.com? Their goal is to search all the world’s digitized, historical newspapers from one place at one time; it’s similar to the…
On May 19, 2023 BIGS Presents At 10AM, Friday, May 19, 2023, A Zoom Virtual Event, Sunny Morton will present: Intro to U.S. Church Records: Why We Care Where Grandma Went to Church. U.S. church records of many denominations can reveal ancestors’ vital events, family relationships, overseas birthplaces and other residences and religious lives. From the…
Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society Monthly Educational Meeting Tuesday, May 9th from 6:15 pm to 8:00 pm Zoom and In-Person, Parkland-Spanaway P.C. Library 138th and Pacific Ave S Please join us for our monthly meeting. If you have ever been stumped by a word or phrase while doing research, you’ll want to hear our Speaker Dawn Carlile‘s presentation on Deciphering…
We’re celebrating the upcoming Coronation of King Charles III in true MyHeritage fashion: starting tomorrow, we’re offering free access to all 1.1 billion U.K. historical records, from May 4–8, 2023! Search all U.K. records for free There’s no time like the present to discover your British roots and explore your family’s unique place in history. MyHeritage’s…
Clallam County Genealogical Society Speaker Series Presents: JUDY RUSSELL, jd, cg, cgs “The Legal Genealogist” Saturday, May 13, 10:00 Quarantined! Genealogy, the Law, and Public Health From the Plague to Tuberculosis, the law worked to protect the public from epidemics. Learn how public health records can add to any family’s history. Judy Russell is…
Oops, this is a correction. Yes, you saw this item in the last eNews! but the url inadvertently got messed up so it didn’t work. Sorry. So let’s try this again. As of April 1, 2023, a new subscription service, https://historygeo.com , is available at the SGS Library. This website is an online version of the Family Maps and Texas Land Survey…
THIS NEW BOOK IS GREAT! By Lisa White, SGS Director of Publiations Recently I had the pleasure of reading Generation by Generation: A Modern Approach to the Basics of Genealogy by Genealogy Guys Podcast co-host Drew Smith. Coincidently it came to me at a very appropriate time. Lately I have been involved in many discussions about how…
