The folks of the Clallam County Genealogical Society can boast that their society is the northwestern-most such society in the continental U.S. and they’d be right on. This of about 160 members of record (with 40-50 attending meetings) may be smallish but they DO things!

Take CCGS Summer School. In 2015 they offered Part One:  “Navigating Free Databases” on the Internet. Classes offered included Google, FamilySearch, Find-A-Grave, CyndisList and the Washington Digital Archives. The attendance proved that this was a popular idea.

This year, on Saturday, May 21st, the CCGS Summer School will spotlight Ancestry, various newspaper sites, Mocavo, World Vital Records, and Fold3. (You can register at the CCGS website, clallamcogs.org) or pay $30 at the door; bring your own sack lunch. Place is the Port Angeles Presbyterian Church, 139 West 8th.

CCGS also maintains a super little library that’s open four days a week with volunteer members on staff to help. They offer monthly-program classes too.

If you live in Clallam or Jefferson counties, or care to drive north to the lovely little port town of Port Angeles, do check out the Clallam County Genealogical Society.

And your society just might want to consider having a Genealogy Summer School day.