Skagit Valley Genealogical Society monthly Educational Genealogy Program

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…
The EWGS Spring Seminar is coming soon!Don’t miss out on these dynamic speakers; they will be bringing us fascinating stories about the area in which we live and how our ancestors came to be here.This will be our first Hybrid Meeting! Please join us in person or on Zoom! To register go to the website:…
Tuesday, April 1, 2025, from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm virtual via Zoom This month’s topic is: 1st part of FREE Legacy Family Tree video What’s New in Legacy Family Tree 8? Yes this is correct LFT version 8. This video covers the Legacy features that first appeared in the Version 8 update and still…
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…
Tuesday, January 10 at 6:30 pm via Zoom Our presenter for January is Judith Nimer Muhn, Ed.M., FSA Scot, she will help us understand how to work with Native American family histories and use the proper terminology. She has been featured on various genealogy programs. Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86718143644?pwd=S0FjYU5acVVKbDEyamdXWWZVekFjdz0
Hi there I’m excited to share that in honor of St. Patrick’s Day this year, we are making all 106 of our Irish record collections available to search for free from now until March 19, 2023! The MyHeritage Irish collections include Irish birth, marriage, death, census, wills, atlases, directories, calendars, historical books, registers, passenger lists, prisoner,…