THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’s Wednesday Evening E-News 22 March 2017

For more information visit www.gfo.org, contact us at info@gfo.org, or call our library at 503-963-1932. We love hearing from you!

For a complete GFO CALENDAR click here.

Also, if you missed your free copy of our monthly Insider for February 2017, you’re in luck because we saved you a copy HERE. NOTE: The Insider issues are now located under the “Learn” –> “Our Publications” menu at our new website (still gfo.org).

Have a GFO Membership?? Please Consider Joining the GFO

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Don’t act so surprised! There’s still seating available for the Colletta Seminar on Saturday, April 29th!!

REGISTER for SATURDAY’s SEMINAR

When APRIL 29TH, 10am – 4:30pm

Where THE MILWAUKIE CENTER

Who JOHN PHILIP COLLETTA

What OUR ANCESTORS FROM OVERSEAS

How It’s so simple! Just click HERE to register right now online.
Again, the Saturday Seminar is NOT sold out yet. Click HERE now to register your seat!
John Philip Colletta is one of America’s most popular genealogical lecturers. Knowledgeable, experienced and entertaining (what a genealogical catch!), he is a faculty member of the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. For twenty years, he worked part-time at the Library of Congress and taught workshops at the National Archives.

Not sure when or if your GFO membership has expired? Afraid you might be missing out?

We’re including a line at the top of each of our weekly e-news blasts for you that reads:

Have a GFO Membership?? Please Consider Joining the GFO

This new line at the top of our weekly news emails is personalized just for you, showing your specific personal membership status with a link to renew if needed.
And what better time to renew (even in advance) than during GFO’s Membership Special all this week at our Open House!
Seriously, here’s the deal you could be taking advantage of right now!
Pay for 12 months – Receive 14 months Pay for 25 months – Receive 29 months
Visit our membership page HERE for details on the various GFO Membership options.

For this killer deal, application needs to be made and/or verified in person at the GFO during the Open House. SO BRING YOUR FRIENDS!! You know you want to!

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There’s still time for you to submit a CANDIDATE (or two) for March 25th’s Membership Meeting at the GFO!

All during our Open House this week, be sure to stop by to check our our Surplus Book Sale!

Everything’s half-off during Open House.

And members get an extra 10% off. Wait! Didn’t you just read something about a GFO Membership Renewal/Sign-Up deal?? Like one article up?!
A list of our surplus books can be found at our website HERE, so you can peruse before coming on down. Better hurry before they all fly off the shelf!

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So what ELSE is so special about the GFO’s Annual Open House? Why is everyone rushing to get a seat!!??

Check out this great line-up of classes from now through Sunday, March 26th:
TWO INTRO TO MEXICAN GENEALOGY CLASSES
Thursday, March 23rd, 10am – 12:30pm
PROBATE AND U.S. MILITARY RECORDS CLASSES
Thursday, March 23rd, 1 – 3:30pm
FOUR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH CRASH COURSE AND ORGANIZATION CLASSES
Friday, March 24th, 10am – 3:30pm

FRENCH PRAIRIE OREGON SETTLEMENT
Saturday, March 25th, 9:30 – 10:30am
FRENCH CANADIAN COLLECTION AT THE GFO
Saturday, March 25th, 11am – noon
BRITISH GROUP
Saturday, March 25th, 1 – 3pm
ALL ONLINE DATABASES ALL SUNDAY
Sunday, March 26th, 10am – 3:30pm

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Call for a Deed Research Volunteer…

We’re currently looking for a very special volunteer with deed microfilm expertise to research the guts of our Deed Records Microfilm records.

What’s this entail?
▪ Looking through our microfilm deed records;
▪ Researching WHAT film indexes are available at the GFO for WHICH films;
▪ Researching HOW the available indexes correlate to the available deeds; and
▪ Developing a system for making the microfilm deeds and their indexes usable for our GFO patrons.

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Interested in playing genealogical detective? Please contact library@gfo.org.