Skagit Valley Genealogical Society Jewish Genealogy Program

FamilyTree University is sponsoring a free interactive webinar called “Don’t Be Square — Discover Your Family in the 1950 Census.” Thursday, April 7 at 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time. The instructor will be Jim Ericson who manages the marketing efforts of FamilySearch in Europe and North America. Click here to sign up! We live in a remarkable time! New…

Legacy Special Interest Group Meeting Aug 2nd, 2022, 7:00 pm This week we will begin reviewing a medium length video done by Geoff that is free and available from the Help tab in Legacy by clicking to the QuickTip Videos icon.  The direct link to the video is listed below its title: Timelines and Chronologies…

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…

Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society Monthly Educational MeetingTuesday, February 11, 2025, starting at 6:00 pm This month’s presentation: Using the FamilySearch Catalog presented by Charlotte Van Valkenburgh. This is a recorded presentation that was given at a Mini-RootsTech event on October 10, 2024. Charlotte is an intern at the FamilySearch Library on the U.S./Canada team….

Surely you know that the 1950 census will be released to us eager genealogists on April 1st. But if I understand correctly, the U.S. Census Bureau will then release just the IMAGES and it’s up to “we the people” to do the indexing so we can use this new resource. FamilySearch.org seems to be spearheading the indexing…