MyHeritage – Free access to all German records for Reunification Day

Join us on Election Day! Presentation: Voting Records: Genealogy’s Best Kept Secret and SVGS monthly meeting Tuesday November 8, 2022,,1:00 PM Pacific Zoom Meeting: Society Library or Virtually Online via Zoom, via phone, and in-person at the SVGS Library 6111 188 PL NE, Arlington. The Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society is now providing monthly meetings at…

I’m delighted to share our largest historical record collection update yet: 74 collections with 130 million records! We’ve been growing our content team and working hard to ramp up the pace of historical record collection publications since the beginning of the year. These collections include birth, marriage, death, military, wills, newspapers, immigration, civil, and probate records…

by Donna Phillips Was Johnny Appleseed for real?  Click to this link and find out: https://waapple.org/johnny-appleseed/ (You may have to copy/paste this link.) Apple facts perhaps you didn’t know: Apples are a $2 BILLION industry in Washington.  Washington grows over 30 varieties of apples….can you name five? Apple sizing is designated by count—specifically the number of…

As we just announced in our RootsTech keynote address, I’m pleased to introduce LiveStory: an incredible new feature that allows you to create animated videos of your ancestors telling their life stories. This feature was developed using AI technology pioneered by D-ID, the company that helped us bring you Deep Nostalgia™ last year. Here’s a short and fun…

 The Friends of the St. Helens Public Library in cooperation with the Columbia County Museum Association is pleased to announce registration has opened for its third biennial Columbia County Genealogy Conference: Rivers of Wonder, September 15-17. This free conference will be available both online and limited to eighty in-person attendees per day. You can select your desired type of attendance by…

Thursday, July 6, 2023 Beginning DNA for GenealogistsGetting back to the basics. In this presentation, we will look at all types of DNA that are currently being used for genealogical purposes. The inheritance pattern of each will be reviewed.  Identify basic information that should be provided by all testing companies.  The purpose of the “admixture”…