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Stillaquamish Valley Genealogical Society Three Mini Presentations

by Charles Hansen

Stillaquamish Valley Genealogical Society

Three Mini Presentations followed by our Monthly Meeting

(These presentations and meeting will not be available via Zoom)

Tuesday, August 8th

1:00 pm

SVGS Library

6111 188 PL NE, Arlington, WA

You are invited to the presentations in person at the society library. Everyone is welcome! 

SVGS members Elizabeth Dalton, Karen Looney and Sue McNeil will be speaking  at our August 8th meeting. Our business meeting will follow the presentation.

Elizabeth’s topic: Newspapers.com

Karen’s topic: Creating Family Stories

Sue’s Topic: The Importance of Contacting Living Cousins

There will be a short break with refreshments. The monthly meeting will follow.

Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society Annual Potluck

by Charles Hansen

Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society

Annual Summer Potluck & New England Research Group

Tuesday, July 11

SVGS Library
6111 188 PL NE
Arlington, WA

Potluck 12:00 pm – 3 pm

We welcome all to join us for our annual July Summer Potluck. Hamburgers, hotdogs and fixings will be supplied, please bring a side, dessert or a beverage to share. This event is open to members and the public. It is a great time of fun and fellowship.

New England Research Group 10 am – Noon

Come early and meet others doing New England research. Topic this month:
Patriot and Loyalist ancestors. (This group normally meets the first Tuesday of the month at 10 am) Then stay for the potluck!

Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society

by Charles Hansen

Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society invites you to a free presentation at the society library.  Everyone is welcome!

Tuesday, June 13th 1 pm

Archaeology, Genealogy and A Privy  

SVGS Library – 6111 188 PL NE, Arlington, WA

Meghan Caves will be presenting in person. Our business meeting will follow the presentation.

Bio:
Meghan Caves has nearly completed her Master’s Degree in anthropology and is pursuing her Doctorate in historical archaeology at the University of Idaho. She has worked as an archaeologist in the Pacific Northwest since 2018 and is currently an archaeological technician at the Umatilla National Forest out of the Pomeroy Ranger District in Southeastern Washington.

Meghan’s topic: Archaeology, Genealogy and A Privy

Meghan’s thesis research weaves together multiple stories of indigenous and Euro-American families who surrounded and interacted with an archaeological deposit originally excavated and analyzed in 2008 from Arlington, Washington. Meghan’s reanalysis of the archaeological assemblage employs a biographical approach, which looks at how the ‘lifetimes’ of artifacts discarded in the “privy” are connected to the lives of the Teager, Hurd, Lovelace, and Weimer families who owned and occupied the site between 1890 and 1940. In order to construct nuanced and compelling biographies of the site, she employed extensive archival and genealogical research with the help of the Stillaquamish Valley Genealogical Society in 2021. Her talk will discuss how genealogical methods were used in her research, how this kind of historical information is more broadly useful to archaeologists, and explore the ethical implications of using publicly available genealogical information for archaeological research.

For more information visit the SVGS website www.stillygen.org

Stillaquamish Valley Genealogical Society DNA Match Overwhelm?

by Charles Hansen

Stillaquamish Valley Genealogical Society

Presentation: DNA Match Overwhelm? Divide and Conquer! followed by SVGS Monthly Meeting

(The presentation and meeting this month will not be available via Zoom but we would love to see you in person at the library.)

Tuesday, April 11th

1:00 pm – SVGS Library 6111 188 PL NE, Arlington, WA

SVGS member Sue McNeil will be speaking in-person at our April 11th meeting. Our business meeting will follow the presentation.

Sue’s topic: DNA Match Overwhelm? Divide and Conquer!

Do you have thousands of DNA matches and do not know where to begin? Do you  have a 3rd great-grandparent or closer you are struggling to identify? Do you have a known DNA match? Come find out how one or more known people on your match list and some colored dots can you help you begin to make sense of those matches.

Visit our website at www.stillygen.org

SVGS Zoom Team Named One of 2022’s Outstanding Teams

by Roxanne Lowe

Since 2003, the Washington State Genealogical Society has recognized over 600 outstanding volunteers and teams, nominated by their local society or genealogical organization for their service and dedication. These volunteers are the backbone of their local society, giving their time and expertise, to the organization and the field of genealogy. In the coming months, you will be introduced to each of the 2022 award recipients and learn why they received the 2022 WSGS Outstanding Volunteer and Team Award.

Today we’re introducing the SVGS Zoom Team that was nominated by the Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society (SVGS). The team was comprised of Karen Looney, Susanne Brown, Dana Carney, Flynn Kennedy and Pam Shoberg.

Susanne Brown, Pam Shoberg, Karen Looney, Flynn Kennedy, Dana Carney

The Zoom Team began in 2020 after COVID brought a halt to SVGS’s “in person” meetings at their library. Pam Shoberg set up the Zoom account and created and hosted their initial weekly Thursday morning special interest group meetings.

Shortly thereafter, the society began providing presentations and resumed their “new normal” Zoom monthly general and board meetings. To date, these monthly meetings are hybrid meetings provided on Zoom with an option to attend in person and are hosted by education chair Dana Carney.

In 2020, Karen Looney and Flynn Kennedy began co-hosting the Thursday meetings.  Later, Susanne Brown stepped in to co-host with Karen.

For more information on the WSGS Outstanding Volunteer Award program, visit the Recognition page of the WSGS website or contact Info@wasgs.org. Please type “Volunteer Award.”

LeeRoy Kind Named One of 2022’s Outstanding Volunteers

by Roxanne Lowe

Since 2003, the Washington State Genealogical Society has recognized over 600 outstanding volunteers and teams, nominated by their local society or genealogical organization for their service and dedication. These volunteers are the backbone of their local society, giving their time and expertise, to the organization and the field of genealogy. In the coming months, you will be introduced to each of the 2022 award recipients and learn why they received the 2022 WSGS Outstanding Volunteer and Team Award.

Today we’re introducing LeeRoy Kind of Marysville, Washington, who was nominated by the Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society (SVGS).

LeeRoy Kind

As a volunteer, LeeRoy enjoys training patrons: 1) how to do research on their own and, 2) how to use the SVGS library. He became a volunteer in 2009, and served as parking lot attendant coordinator and speaker monitor for the Northwest Genealogy Conference. In his earliest days with SVGS, he digitized obituaries and entered data from area newspapers for SVGS’s online Death Index. More currently, he has been the driving force behind the Weller Funeral Home Card Digitization Project.

In LeeRoy’s opinion, one of the most important things to remember when doing research is that we’re not going to find everything we’re looking for the first time we type a name into a database. It’s “…a continual search.”

LeeRoy was born in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota and moved with his job at Hewlett- Packard from Detroit to California and finally to Marysville, Washington where he has lived since 1982.

For more information on the WSGS Outstanding Volunteer Award program, visit the Recognition page of the WSGS website or contact Info@wasgs.org. Please type “Volunteer Award.”

Flynn Kennedy Named One of 2022’s Outstanding Volunteers

by Roxanne Lowe

Since 2003, the Washington State Genealogical Society has recognized over 600 outstanding volunteers and teams, nominated by their local society or genealogical organization for their service and dedication. These volunteers are the backbone of their local society, giving their time and expertise, to the organization and the field of genealogy. In the coming months, you will be introduced to each of the 2022 award recipients and learn why they received the 2022 WSGS Outstanding Volunteer and Team Award.

Today we’re introducing Flynn Kennedy of Marysville, Washington, who was nominated by the Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society (SVGS).

Flynn Kennedy

In 2011, Flynn became a volunteer librarian with SVGS. She worked with the Northwest Genealogy Conference for three years as a Jackie-of-all-Trades, serving in a variety of roles. Her current projects include creating a four-generation history for a patron who is related to Noah Webster, transcribing a 33-page application for a claim against the U.S. Southern Claims Commission, and attempting to solve a family history mystery in Vermont in the 1830’s.

In Flynn’s opinion, the three most important things to remember when trying to break through a brick wall are “… collaboration, collaboration, collaboration.”

Flynn was born in Toledo, Ohio and moved to Seattle on September 28, 1980. She earned a B.A. from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio (during the Punic Wars) and earned a Post Graduate Certificate in Genealogy Research from Boston University in 2014.  

For more information on the WSGS Outstanding Volunteer Award program, visit the Recognition page of the WSGS website or contact Info@wasgs.org. Please type “Volunteer Award.”

Stillaquamish Valley Genealogical Society Finding Difficult Women

by Charles Hansen

Stillaquamish Valley Genealogical Society

Presentation: Difficult Women-The Ways Our Female Ancestors Confound Our Research and SVGS monthly meeting- In-person and virtually

Tuesday, February 14 – Happy Valentine’s Day!

1:00 pm – SVGS Library 6111 188 PL NE, Arlington, WA

You are invited to an educational presentation at our society library. If you prefer to watch virtually, a Zoom link and a syllabus to download can be found on our website www.stillygen.org

Janet Camarata will be speaking in-person and our monthly business meeting will follow the presentation.

Janet’s topic: Difficult Women: The Ways Our Female Ancestors Confound Our Research

The names of our female ancestor’s changed in expected and in some cases, unexpected ways. Onomatology is the study of names. Of all the problems encountered in genealogical research, names are some of the toughest.

Janet’s Bio:

Janet O’Conor Camarata is a genealogist with over 30 years experience. She is a seminar presenter, educator, and trainer in genealogy societies, libraries, retirement centers and senior centers across Washington. She has supported genealogy by volunteering in a variety of ways – newsletter editor, program coordinator, publicity, Education Director and past-president of South King County Genealogical Society (SKCGS).   She is the winner of the Washington State Genealogical Society Volunteer of the Year award for 2019.  Janet is a graduate of the University of Washington Genealogy and Family History program.  She has a B.A. (Education) degree from Central Washington University and a Master’s degree from Antioch University.  She also taught at w Pierce College – Puyallup and within The Boeing Company and the University of Phoenix.

Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society Waterfront Mills of Everett Washington

by Charles Hansen

The Waterfront Mills of Everett, Washington

Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society

Tuesday January 10, 2023,,1:00 PM Pacific

Join us at the SVGS Library for a free in person presentation followed by our monthly meeting!

Presentation: The Waterfront Mills of Everett, Washington

Location: SVGS Library 6111 188th PL NE, Arlington, WA

Guest Speaker: Neil Anderson of Historic Everett

Take a tour of the old Everett waterfront when the town was known as “The City of Smokestacks”. Images will be shown of the many prominent lumber, shingle and forest product mills that lined the Everett shoreline from the northern tip of the peninsula and heading south to the base of Rucker Hill. Sit back and enjoy the journey down memory lane.

Although the presentation will only be available in person at the library, our business meeting and board meeting following the presentation (2 pm) will be available via Zoom. A link to join the meeting using your computer can be found on our website www.stillygen.org

An option to join the meeting by phone is also available.

Digitization of Historic Newspaper Team Named One of 2022’s Outstanding Teams

by Roxanne Lowe

Since 2003, the Washington State Genealogical Society has recognized over 600 outstanding volunteers and teams, nominated by their local society or genealogical organization for their service and dedication. These volunteers are the backbone of their local society, giving their time and expertise, to the organization and the field of genealogy. In the coming months, you will be introduced to each of the 2022 award recipients and learn why they received the 2022 WSGS Outstanding Volunteer and Team Award.

Today we’re introducing the Digitization of Historic Newspapers Team that was nominated by the Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society (SVGS). The team was comprised of Sue Walde, Michele Heiderer, Suzanne Brown, Ruth Caesar, Karen Looney and Sue McNeil.

Left to right: Karen Looney, Sue McNeil, Ruth Caesar, Sue Walde and Michele Heiderer. Pictured separately, Suzanne Brown

Despite COVID-19, SVGS’s Outstanding Volunteers worked with SmallTownPapers, Inc. to digitize 7,770 pages of The Arlington Times historic newspapers (1895 – 1924) from microfilm. The team reviewed every page to ensure each was posted as accurately as possible on the SVGS website. Roughly 500 corrections were discovered, researched and reposted. The newspapers are an essential source of local history of Arlington and the surrounding Stillaguamish Valley benefiting genealogists, historians and local families for posterity. Now the earliest of the historic Arlington Times newspapers (1895-1924) are freely available to the world at www.stillygen.org.

For more information on the WSGS Outstanding Volunteer Award program, visit the Recognition page of the WSGS website or contact Info@wasgs.org. Please type “Volunteer Award.”