Whidbey Island Genealogical Searchers presents Jean Wilcox Hibben

Tuesday, September 10, 2024, starting at 6:00 pm This month our educational meetings resume on Tuesday September 10, at 6:00 pm in person at the Parkland/Spanaway Library and on Zoom at 6:15. This will be interactive with attendees sharing what they did genealogy-wise over the summer and there will be short 5-to-10-minute presentations. Our meetings…

RootsTech 2024 will be held February 29 – March 2, 2024, both in-person in Salt Lake City Utah and virtually.  Registration opens September 18 at rootstech.org. The first 1,000 registrants will receive a special limited-edition pin!  RootsTech is the premier event to celebrate your heritage and other meaningful connections through a deeper understanding of family…

More than 1,500 Washington Pioneers have been documented in our Pioneer Pursuit Contest. Thank you to all who have submitted genealogies, but we’re looking for more! It is estimated there were nearly 350,000 people living here in 1889, and thousands more who came and went before 1889. As an incentive for submitting (and having approved) a genealogy…

We do tend to head straight to the “big” libraries in the big cities and so easily overlook what the smaller town libraries might have for us. Case in point, the Appleton, Wisconsin, Public Library in Appleton, Wisconsin, located northeast of Madison, the state capitol.  This town of about 75,000 citizens, has just opened a…

In case you haven’t heard (not sure how you missed the news!), the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is releasing the 1950 U.S. Census at midnight on 01 Apr 2022. NARA will provide free online access to the population schedules for U.S. states and territories, enumeration district maps, and enumeration district descriptions.   According to NARA’s website,…