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INTERNET ARCHIVE FOR THE FAMILY HISTORIANWow! Just when you thought you had linked all the genealogical research you could find…Internet Archive came along. Maybe not a new site, but have you used it?  Here is a free site to make books available for free.  This site includes “government documents, church records, county and state histories, atlases…

During the month of May 2023, we added 46 million records from 30 collections around the world, with records from Belgium, Canada, Finland, New Zealand, Scotland, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S. The collections include birth, marriage, divorce, death, military, naturalization, and student records. You can find a full list of the newly added collections…

You’re invited to the WSGS’s annual meeting! Thursday, August 31, 2023, 6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Here’s the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85164040192?pwd=ejZhaG9yaGE4MzZ3bDNnaTA1ZmVZUT09 Meeting ID: 851 6404 0192Passcode: 816294 Via phone: (253)205-0468,,85164040192#,,,,*816294# US The agenda will include the announcement of the 2023 Outstanding Volunteer and Team recipients, as well as the recipient of the President’s Award for Outstanding Achievement. We’ll also…

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…

Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society June Meeting Tuesday, June 14 @ 6:00 pm via Zoom Roxanne Lowe, President of the Grays Harbor Genealogical Society, will present “Writing Your Obituary”. “Your obituary is probably the most important thing that will ever be written about you. So why not write it yourself? No one knows better than…