Eastside Genealogical Society Irish Research

More than 1,500 Washington Pioneers have been documented in our Pioneer Pursuit Contest. Thank you to all who have submitted genealogies, but we’re looking for more! It is estimated there were nearly 350,000 people living here in 1889, and thousands more who came and went before 1889. As an incentive for submitting (and having approved) a genealogy…

I’m excited to share that in honor of Australia Day, MyHeritage is offering free access to all 95 million of our records from Australia! Over the past few months, MyHeritage has added more than 25 new collections from Australia, bringing our total of Australian collections to 288. These collections come from all over the country…

by Donna Phillips First news of all is the name change: our favorite genealogy library is now the FamilySEARCH Library and new signs on the building proclaim that. Makes sense; FamilySearch is the “umbrella” program we all use.  Second big change is the arrangement of each floor. The first floor is a welcome-and-entry-level-help with an army…

133 years ago on Nov. 18, 1889, hundreds gathered at the portico of the Capitol in Olympia to celebrate Washington’s newly acquired statehood and to view the inauguration of the state’s first governor, Elisha P. Ferry. More than 3,000 Washingtonians celebrated their new statehood that day, marching in parades and celebrating by “shooting off Roman…

Please Join us in Wisconsin! Saturday, February 4 “Genealogy and the Wisconsin Historical Society”  12:30 pm to 3:00 pm Hybrid Meeting (Zoom and In-Person) at Shadle Park Library, Spokane, WA Presented by Lori Bessler Reference Librarian and Instructor of local and family history Lori Bessler has worked at the Wisconsin Historical Society Library Archives since…

In honor of German Reunification Day, all 197.5 million German historical records on MyHeritage will be completely free to access from October 1 until October 5, 2023. MyHeritage is home to 65 valuable historical record collections from Germany. Alongside birth, marriage, and death records going back to the 16th century, MyHeritage offers a number of exclusive record…