THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’sWednesday EveningE-News8 November 2017 |
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Brought to you by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon“At some point, almost every genealogy researcher will hit the proverbial brick wall or dead end with one or many of their ancestors. Records appear to be missing, a maiden name seems impossible to find or you need to find ancestors in another country but don’t know where to look. The resources out there are many and varied. Sometimes all the options available can be downright overwhelming.” JGSO’s meeting will be a helping hands workshop. You’re encouraged to bring a list of 3 or 5 of your most difficult brick-wall family history questions to the meeting on Sunday, Nov 12th at 10:30am at Congregation Ahavath Achim. “Take advantage of this golden opportunity to get some one-on-one help, or make use of this groups’ collective knowledge to smash some of your brick walls to smithereens! Bring your research and family tree on a flash drive or on a laptop or tablet. Internet access will be available.” |
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Do you like oral histories as much as we do?? |
FOUR ORAL HISTORY WEBSITES RELEASED BY OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESFour new oral history websites comprising more than 550 hours of content have been released by the Oral History Program at the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC). Fun Fact: Three of these websites were built using open source resources that are available to other repositories seeking to provide online access to their own oral history collections. That means there’s a broad broad broad scope of material available! OSU 150The Oregon State University Sesquicentennial Oral History Project features 276 interviews conducted with OSU alumni, faculty, staff, current students and supporters. Look out! These are all available to download for free HERE. Multicultural Voices of OregonThis collection features interviews collected by the Oregon Multicultural Archives and the OSU Queer Archives. Voices of Northwest BrewingThis collection is an outgrowth of the [Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives](http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/ohba.html. Learn all about the people behind the hops! Voices of Oregon Agricultural CollegeThis project presents digitized audiocassettes with transcripts that were originally created in the late 1970s. These interviews were conducted with alumni and faculty associated with OAC, as Oregon State University was known prior to 1927. Do you have family who might be in one of these interviews?? Give a search on these sites and find out! |
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Thank you, as always, for all you do for the GFO!We’re very excited about this event every year! No need to sign up! No requirement to stay the whole day. Come when you can, eat some delicious food, learn some new skills, and chat with some truly amazing people! |
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Saturday, November 18th, 2 – 3pmSpeaker: Don Anderson Paper & Spit: DNA + Genealogy, and How to Make That First Contact. Like many adoptees, Don Anderson wanted to know where he came from. His new book, Paper and Spit, chronicles his journey. Using both DNA and genealogy, Don finds not only the identity of his birth parents but also his true ethnic heritage. This GenTalk will focus on using Don’s story to illustrate “What to say when making contact with new matches.” This can be one of the most delicate and challenging aspects of finding close relatives, or wanting to create a positive experience with new cousins. Discovering a new match is much like finding a fish at the end of your pole, and now you need to reel in the fish. There is a method – what you say and how you say it is important. |
Saturday, December 16th, 2 – 3pmPresenter: LauraDenise White, GFO’s resident archival consultant. Get ready for the holidays with Personal Papers & Archiving! Learn how to not only preserve some of those family heirloom papers and photographs you know are just sitting in the attic and basement, but also see how you can put together wonderful family history gifts with these fabulous relics of the past. Learn how to weave the fabric of your family history into inspiring and lasting treasures. Attendees are encouraged to bring in a sample of items of their very own to work on during this interactive session. Photographs and letters and diaries, oh my! Bring them on in! We’ll work on them together while discussing ways to keep them safe AND ways to share them with family and friends both far and near. Interested? Well, you should be! These are all FREE events, completely open to the public. Help us get the word out! CLICK HERE for FLYERS |
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This Week at the GFO… |
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10thMexican Ancestry Group 11:30am – 1:30pm Need help finding your Hispanic ancestors from Mexico, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California? This Special Interest Group (SIG) pertains specifically to Mexican ancestors from Mexico and the American Southwest (New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California). Beginning and intermediate researchers are very welcome. Some subjects will include online parish records, Hispanic genealogy societies, Family History Library/FamilySearch.org. Ancestry.com, solving genealogical problems, methodology of organizing your research, etc. Of course this group will also be about sharing our research experiences, and having fun. If you know of any other people interested in Hispanic genealogy tell them about the up and coming group. They don’t have to be a GFO member to participate. For questions or comments, please email Vince at sw@gfo.org. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11thIllinois Group 9:30 – 11:30am The Illinois Interest Group meets on the second Saturday of each month at 9:30am (except Jul/Aug/Dec) in the GFO Library. All interested researchers are welcome to join us. Just drop in and share the workshop when you can and when you are interested. At all the meeting times you will receive handouts and/or work sheets for each topic we cover. We focus on the state of Illinois, but the research techniques can be used on all states. This is the thirteenth year that this group has been meeting. The group leaders are Kristy Gravlin, call 630-621-5166 or email hannah @teleport.com, and Harlene Patterson. Writers’ Forum 1 – 3pm This is a peer group of genealogists, who meet to learn about writing and to share our writing with each other. Peggy Baldwin facilitates this group and can be reached at peggyrbaldwin@gmail.com or 503-916-9410. We selected two books to work with this Fall: one book about writing and another one about self-editing. BOOK 1: Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird (New York: Anchor Books, 1994). Read and be ready to discuss. BOOK 2: Barry Tarshis, How to Be Your Own Best Editor (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998). Scan and be ready to talk about how this book can help your writing. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12thMaps Work Party 9am – noon We’re continuing our work on this project every second Sunday of the month. Come when you can to lend a hand! Doris Cruickshank, GFO’s map project coordinator, will be our fearless leader! WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15thLearn & Chat 10am – noon At Learn & Chat some of the learning comes from speakers with particular expertise but most of it comes from the sharing of experiences and knowledge of attendees who have developed methods that work for them. And if you have been doing genealogy for any length time you have likely experienced the wonderful moments of exhilaration, the successes that you then share with others and that drive you to continue researching. Unfortunately those times can be few and far between. Join us to talk about your genealogy questions and help provide support to others. Facilitated by Jean Quan. DNA Q&A 1 – 3pm All of these events are FREE and open to the public. |
