CREATE UNIQUE FAMILY GIFTS FROM FREE PRINTABLES Need an inexpensive, but personal gift idea? The Library of Congress has dozens of blank and adaptable antique family record sheets. The images are in the public domain. You can print them off on good paper, paste in photos and create a memorable gift for each family member. Search…

October is Family History Month! SVGS will be celebrating Family History Month all month long in October. Every Saturday we invite you to stop by our library. Meet the librarians, have some refreshments and enter the weekly drawing and the grand prize drawing. (1 year membership to the Ancestry World Addition) Every Saturday will have…

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…

This tip comes from Jill Morelli, past president of SGS, and her source for this tip is the March 16, 2022, blog by Judy Russell, the Legal Genealogist. And by the way, we are so excited to have Judy Russell lined up for our fall seminar!  Do you have New York City connections?  In March 2022, the NYC Municipal Archives launched…

by Donna Phillips At the 2015 Washington State Genealogical Society conference in Ellensburg, David Rencher was the primary speaker. His talk, Framing the Problem, was so excellent that I often think back upon and ponder the truth he presented. David began his talk with this question:  “Have you a tough genealogy problem? Worried you won’t solve it…

Thursday, March 9th, 2023, day immersed in Irish and Scots-Irish genealogy research topics with Ulster Historical Foundation Director Fintan Mullan, and Chief Researcher Gillian Hunt in Post Falls, Idaho. The Ulster Historical Foundation is a long-established, highly reputable research and publishing agencybased in Newtownards, N Ireland. It offers its extensive knowledge to help on the…