The Nordic Heritage Museum was founded in 1979 and in 1980 it occupied a leased space in the old Daniel Webster Elementary School building in Ballard. By May 2018 the museum had expanded, built and moved into a new 57,000 sqft building on NW Market St, and was renamed the Nordic Museum. In 2019, by…
Save the Date: October 21, 2022 BIGS Presents a Special Diahan Doubleheader At 10AM, Friday, Oct 21, 2022, on Zoom, Diahan Southard will present two programs: “DNA Ethnicity in 2022” to be followed by “Me and My 1,000+ DNA 4th Cousins” We are celebrating Family History Month with a special two-presentation program by Diahan Southard, a leading voice in…
Legacy Family Tree SIG Meeting Sep 6th, 2022, 7:00 pm This week we will begin reviewing a medium length video presented by Daniel Horowitz that is free and available from the Legacy Family Tree Webinars site. The direct link to the video is listed below its title: Top 10 Secrets to Using MyHeritage Please take…
by Donna Phillips I‘ve posted before about Coats of Arms and do we believe them….. or deserve them….today? Here’s a story that I just HAD to share: “At the town of Stirling began the great wood of Caledon where roamed a number of white bulls, with crisp and curly manes, like fierce lions….and more wild than…
Janet O’Conor Camarata, speaking on Making Sense of Supplemental Census, will be the program Lower Columbia Genealogical Society will present at the Thursday, September 8th Zoom meeting. Meeting will open at 6:30 pm for greeting guests, and announcements. The program will begin at 7:00 pm The public is welcome to join. Contact the following for a Zoom link, lcgsgen@gmail.com Janet…
YVGS received several years ago (2006) genealogical materials that include pictures, correspondence, deeds, etc from a house in Seattle that was going to be demolished. Items received by YVGS include the following names, items, etc. If this is your family please contact me: ericksensue@gmail.com A F Foltz, Seattle; Jack Lindsley; Burchett, Harry J, b.1889; Frank Lary,…
You are probably a member of a paid or free genealogy site that allows you to create a link to an image of a record of genealogical importance to you and attach it to a member in your family tree. Do not depend on the link to that image being available to you forever. It is…
by Donna Phillips Big thanks to the July/August 2022 issue of Family Tree Magazine for this information. Why do we want to learn about social history? What has it to do with genealogy? It has everything to do with our family history! Genealogy is the facts. Social history gives the why-when-how of those facts. When I learned that my…
The National Nordic Museum in Seattle is hosting a book talk by noted Norwegian genealogist Liv Marit Haakenstad on August 24 at 6:00pm at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle. Liv Marit will be speaking about her new book: A Guide to Norwegian Genealogy, Emigration and Transmigration. This is an in-person event, more details and…
We’re delighted to introduce Photo Tagger, a free new feature on the MyHeritage mobile app that lets you easily tag multiple photos of the same individual in one go. Previously, tagging photos meant reviewing and tagging them one by one, which was time consuming. Photo Tagger makes organizing your family photos easier and accelerates your…
