THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’sThursday EveningE-News, Edition12 July 2018 |
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VOLUNTEER BLITZ! Can you help?This is an all-hands-on-deck day to get GFO Library’s renumbering project on track. It’ll make the library much easier to use once we are done. The library will be closed all day Wednesday, August 1st, so we can make some stupendously HUGE progress. We will provide beverages and snacks and laughter and genealogical tidbits throughout the day, completely free! Won’t you join us and bring a friend? Join us and help whip our library into the best shape it’s ever seen! |
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You’ve probably heard of Cyndi Ingle and her invaluable website, Cyndi’s List. Now come hear from the guru behind one of the most comprehensive reference lists there is online! The GFO is proud to bring Cyndi Ingle in for our Fall Seminar November 3 and 4. |
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Our hearts go out to our colleagues at the Grays Harbor Genealogical Society in Washington. They lost their library in a devastating fire. We wanted to help them, so we offered them their pick from our surplus books. They advised they really needed items directly related to their county and only one of our surplus books fit that bill. However, we also noticed they had a $1,000 fundraising goal online. We are pleased to report that the GFO Board voted to donate $100 to their fundraising effort, and our contribution put them over the top of their goal. Best wishes to them as they recover! |
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If you’re an Amazon Prime member, there’s a big day of Prime Sales on Monday and Tuesday, July 16th and 17th.This would be a great time to make sure you shop through smile.amazon.com. Your shopping makes a big difference! Amazon donates to Genealogical Forum Of Oregon Inc when you shop Prime Day deals…IF you make sure to name GFO as the organization you want to support. And don’t forget, this works all year long. Make a habit of going to smile.amazon.com for any of your shopping and GFO will benefit too. Best of it is, this doesn’t increase the prices you pay! Thank you, as always, for all your continued support! |
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During the German Special Interest Group (SIG) session last week at GFO, guest speaker Fritz Juengling shared with the attendees that the Community Groups section at FamilySearch.org is now out of beta testing and is live for all to participate. (Free login required.) These Community Groups can be accessed by going to the HELP menu in the upper right corner of FamilySearch.org’s home page and clicking on COMMUNITY. After signing in you can choose which group(s) you wish to join by going to MORE and clicking on GROUPS. This brings up a list of a little over a hundred groups. We know that’s a small number compared to Rootsweb lists, but the FamilySearch Community Groups currently offer three advantages.
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FRIDAY, July 13thMexican Ancestry Group 11:30am – 1:30pm This Friday we will continue to explore DNA testing, including our experiences with the tests and the results. In our last meeting, everyone seemed to be very interested in this subject. If you have tested please bring your results, or if you want to share resources (books, websites) on DNA testing, please do. The group’s leader has bookmarked the major websites such as AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA, and a new site he’s just started to explore called GEDmatch. We’ll go through the process of downloading the raw data from AncestryDNA (if you have tested with them) and then uploading to FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritageDNA, or GEDmatch. Each will give a different result. The group leader will also share two resources, books, for intermediate to advanced Hispanic research: Northern New Spain, A Research Guide, and Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas. The latter is available at the GFO library. SUNDAY, July 15thNo Work Party this Sunday Morning! See you the Sunday after. |
