The Seattle Genealogical Society's Tech Tuesday is an informal consultation time on DNA, genealogy, sofware or genealogy-related technical issues. All are welcome. No appointment necessary. For more information, visit the SGS website.

The Seattle Genealogical Society is hosting a Family Tree Maker (FTM) special event. Family Tree Maker Ambassador, Mark Olsen, will be at the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle to demonstrate the new features of FTM 2024. 

The Seattle Genealogical Society is hosting a Family Tree Maker (FTM) special event. Family Tree Maker Ambassador, Mark Olsen, will be at the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle to demonstrate the new features of FTM 2024. 

The Tacoma-Pierce County Genealogical Society is hosting their Spring Seminar on 27 April 2024. The speakers will be Cyndi Ingle and Cari Taplin.  

Cyndi's Topics:

• Smarter Searching: Refining Search Parameters for Genealogists
• Off the Shelf: The Unexplored Potential for eBooks in Genealogy

Cari's Topics:

• Using Timelines to Analyze Your Research 
• The Heart of it All: A New Hampshire to Ohio Migration Case Study

 Special Early-Bird Registration through February 28th! Members & Non-Members: $25.00

 After February 28th: Members: $30.00; Non-Members: $35.00

 Mail-in registration must be postmarked by April 20, 2024. Online Registration closes on April 25, 2024.

 Register Online or download the brochure: 2024 TPCGS Seminar  More information available on our seminar page: https://www.tpcgs.org/cpage.php?pt=3

The Whitman County Genealogical Society is hosting a FREE Spring mini-seminar on Saturday, April 27. The topics are "Whitman Heritage Digital Collection" with Kathy Buchholtz and Alex Otero and "Okay, I Have My DNA Results: Now What?" with Jill Nock. Please register by April 10. Send your name to whitmancgs@gmail.com. For more information, visit the WCGS website.

The Seattle Genealogical Society is hosting its Brags & Bricks Social Interest Group (Virtual). Join us for an informal social gathering. Share your recent genealogical successes and challenges, or just come to hang out with other genealogists.   Contact education@seagensoc.org for more information.

The Seattle Genealogical Society is sponsoring a Pacific Northwest Interest Group. Topics this month: 1. Short history of Oregon Territory, 2. Oregon and Washington State Archives, 3. Oregon and Washington State Libraries. 

Register on the SGS website.

The program at the Eastside Genealogical Society's German Interest Group will be "National Socialism - Euthanasia and Family Research" with Inga Guttzeit. During the Nazi era, people were transferred from hospitals and homes for the disabled to various institutions in the German Reich and in the annexed territories and murdered there. This took place in 2 phases. Based on the speaker's own relative, it is possible to follow his path in today's Poland and the Pomeranian institutions until he was murdered in Meseritz (today Międzyrzecz) in Brandenburg. There will be an overview of the history surrounding the forced sterilization of mentally ill and disabled people and their murder ("euthanasia"). For more information, visit: https://egsgermangroup.wordpress.com/.

The Seattle Genealogical Society will hold its DNA Workshop with Cary Bright and Craig Gowens. To participate, you must be on the DNA SIG email list. Contact Cary Bright at sgsdnasig@gmail.com to join.

The Seattle Genealogical Society is hosting its Brags & Bricks Social Interest Group (Virtual). Join us for an informal social gathering. Share your recent genealogical successes and challenges, or just come to hang out with other genealogists.   Contact education@seagensoc.org for more information.

The program at the Eastside Genealogical Society meeting will be "What's in a Name: Clues to Ethnicity and Spelling Variations" with Judy Nimer Muhn. Judy utilizes her own genealogy research to explain various degrees of surname variations, how to include these in your family history work, and how to detect the signals that there may be a name change in your ancestors' past. 

 

Everyone is welcome, and we hope you will join us! For more information about EGS, visit our website at eastsidegenealogicalsociety.org

The program at the Clallam County Genealogical Society meeting is "The Musical Chicago, and all that Genealogical Jazz" with Mike Karsen. The Broadway musical and Hollywood movie CHICAGO was based on the stories of two real-life women by the name of Belva and Beulah. Just as in the show and movie, these women killed their lovers. By collecting standard genealogical documents Mike Karsen pieces together their lives, and puts their tales into context relating to Chicago history.

All are invited to hear his presentation via Zoom or by coming to the CCGS Research Center located at 403 E. 8th Street in Port Angeles, WA. To join us with Zoom, contact the Society to obtain the Zoom Meeting number and passcode. Our phone number is 360-417-5000. Our web address is askus@clallamcogs.org. The Research Center is open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 4pm and on Saturdays noon to 4pm.

There is no cost to attending his wonderful presentation.

The program at the Skagit Valley Genealogical Society's meeting will be "DNA: Demystified" with Dick Tolman, SVGS member. The public is invited to this in person (Burlington Library) event or via Zoom. For more information, email genealogy0715@gmail.com.

The National Genealogical Society (NGS) is hosting our FOCUS pre-conference event for genealogy organizations virtually in 2024, and we welcome your organization’s leaders, volunteers, staff, and members to attend on 16 May.

FOCUS offers learning opportunities that foster collaboration and share successes among societies, libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions. Its goal is to strengthen our genealogy and family history community as we work to support everyone in search of their ancestors’ stories.

This year’s theme is outreach and engagement. FOCUS sessions will offer practical tips and ideas to help your organization reach new people, activate volunteers, and highlight family history as a part of the America250 celebration in 2026. Watch presentations and participate in live Q&A on 16 May, then see sessions you missed at your convenience over a few months. Registrants will have access to FOCUS recordings until 15 August.

The Surrey (British Columbia) Libraries Family History Department is sponsoring "Online Research for Ancestors in Poland, Prussia and Pommern" with Sigrid Pohl Perry, PhD. The ability to search for birth, marriage and death records in regions now in Poland, Prussia, and Pommern has enabled research most of us never thought possible. However, to many, these resources are a perplexing maze of random searches.  This presentation will provide a brief overview of the large, free Szukajwarchiwach database.  This powerful database offers data from the Program for the Registration of Records from Parish and Civil Registration Offices (PRADZIAD), which collects information on genealogical materials kept in the state archives. Scans of archive materials from other cultural institutions are also included. These records encompass many Polish, German and Jewish residents.  A handout with links, basic word list, and suggestions of additional resources will be provided as a pdf.  Free.  Registration required – familyhistory@surrey.ca or call 604-598-7328 to register.

 

Our presenter, Sigrid Pohl Perry, Ph.D., worked with archives and special collections at Northwestern University Library for 40 years until retiring in 2020. A member of the Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe (SGGEE) since 2003, Sigrid has served on the Board of Directors; been actively involved in Lublin Project indexing; and given various presentations at SGGEE Conventions, the International German Genealogy Partnership, and a local Illinois Family History Center. 

 

We will be using Microsoft Teams (much like Zoom) for this online program.  Registered participants will receive a confirmation upon registration, and then the online link a day or two before the program.

 

The Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR) is an annual week-long educational institute for genealogists of all backgrounds and skill levels, from beginning to advanced. Hosted by the Georgia Genealogical Society (GGS), attendees and faculty join us from across the country and around the globe. IGHR enrolls between 300 and 400 attendees each summer and reaches over five thousand social media followers throughout the year. For more information, visit https://ighr.gagensociety.org/.