Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society Antiques Roadshow

by Donna Phillips Jarred by an old newspaper article, I had to dig into the sad story of Herbert Franklin Niccolls, Jr. Most of this information comes from Find-A-Grave.  Born in 1919 in Boise, Idaho, to Bert and Hazel Niccolls, he was one of the younger children. The family lived in extreme poverty. When Herbert was…

A special Zoom presentation will feature Judy Russell, the “Legal Genealogist”. Dowered or Bound Out: Records of Widows and OrphansWidows and orphans have always had a special place in the law. But it’s not always the place that 21st century researchers might expect. An orphan in the early days wasn’t a child whose parents had died, but rather a…

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…

Claire V. Brisson-Banks, BS, MLIS, AG®. CEO of Timeless Genealogies, an ancestral research company.  Ancestral and forensics genealogist, family historian, educator, librarian, international and US lecturer.  She specializes in England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, U.S., and Canada. The Quest for Your English Ancestors English civil and church records as well as census records make doing…

Greetings, EWGS & WSGS,Karen Lehfeldt here to let you know about one of the announcements shared at the National Genealogical Society Conference and Delegate Council May 31st through June 3rd, 2023. What an exciting time I had in Richmond, Virginia as the Delegate from Eastern Washington Genealogical Society.The news:The National Genealogical Society (NGS) and Genealogy ConferenceKeeper.org, Inc. (ConferenceKeeper), announced at the…

by Charles Hansen TIP OF THE WEEK –“SEATTLE AT GETTYSBURG” TOUR The Gettysburg campaign was a military invasion of Pennsylvania by the main Confederate army under General Robert E Lee in the summer of 1863. The Union army may have won a decisive victory, July 1–3, 1863, but there were heavy casualties on both sides.  Did…