SAVE THE DATES
SGS 2022 SPRING SEMINAR
“LAND AND MAPS AND DEED, OH MY!”
FRIDAY – SUNDAY, JUNE 3-5, 2022
Something’s a little different this year; our spring seminar will be a 3 day event.
Friday, June 3, at 5:00 pm, Cyndi Ingle, creator and innovator of CyndisList.com, will be the keynote speaker.
Saturday, June 4, Land presentations will begin at 9:00 am with Angela Packer McGhie speaking on land entry papers, including the Oregon and Washington donation files, and tract books. Following that Rebecca Whitman Koford will present “Military Bounty lands: Revolution to Mexican War”.
Sunday, June 5, Maps and Deeds, continues at 1:00 pm with Melinda Kashuba and Kimberly Powell.
Attendees will have 3 registration choices:
- All 3 days
- Friday and Saturday only
- Friday and Sunday only
As usual, SGS members will receive a discount on the registration fee.
In the coming weeks, watch the SGS Calendar of Events, the SGS social media pages, and the eNews! for further details on this seminar. Cyndi Ingle, Angela Packer McGhie, Rebecca Whitman Koford, Melinda Kashuba, and Kimberly Powell – you won’t want to miss any of these talented speakers.
And while your calendar is in front of you, reserve September 17-18, 2022, for the SGS Fall Virtual Seminar with Judy Russell, the Legal Genealogist.
DONE!
The last major task in the restructuring of our library following our move to the Good Shepherd Center has been completed. Over 100 boxes of books, in storage and earmarked for shipment to the Internet Archives, needed to be unpacked, cataloged for our records, and then repacked into heavy duty shipping boxes. This took SGS members Allegra Anderson, Melanie Moser, Woods Fairbanks, and Ellen Peterson (pictured below), as well as Kathi, SGS Library Director, and Jim Secan, SGS President, two days. Later Kathi and Woods helped load the shipper’s truck, thus starting these books on the journey to their new home.
Many thanks from the SGS board to these four SGS members who quite literally volunteered to do the heavy lifting.
Left to right – Allegra, Melanie, Woods, and Ellen
PLEA FROM NGS AND FAMILY SEARCH
Do you think your genealogical society or organization would be interested in helping with the 1950 Census Crowdsourcing Project? This came to us from NGS and we thought we would help spread the word:
“FamilySearch and NGS are inviting individuals and societies to assist in making the 1950 US census easier for everyone to search and discover their family connections. This unique crowdsourcing project, the largest census undertaking to date, will make the 150 million records of the individuals found on the census’s tens of thousands of digital images freely searchable online.
Please join us on February 8th at 8:30 PM ET and learn more about the project and how you and your genealogy society or organization can get involved.”
* SAVE THE DATE *Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State,
2nd Monday meetings
usually 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PST
JGSWS meets on the second Monday of each month, from Sept-June. Doors open at 6:30 PM unless noted otherwise. Watch their website for details on the next meeting.
The next meeting is Monday, Feb 14, 2022 at 7:00 pm. The subject is “Alien, Enemy, Declarant – Grief; Learning From Missteps in the Naturalization Process” with Emily Garber.
http://www.jgsws.org/meetings.php
FamilySearch,
“RootsTech 2022”
March 3-5, 2022
The world’s largest family history conference, RootsTech will be online virtual again this year and it’s free. What’s not to like. Registration is required so do so today:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/rootstech-2022-registration
AppGenInstitute,
Spring Semester Course Offerings,
March thru May dates,
Virtual Online
Two of the founders of the Applied Genealogy Institute are names that should be familiar to you from programs you’ve attended at SGS, Jill Morelli, CG, and Mary Kircher Roddy, CG. Jill prepared the message below to introduce the upcoming classes that will be able next spring.
‘Applied Genealogy Institute is excited to announce the next series of educational offerings to the genealogical community for our Spring semester. Whether you are educational addicts like we are or one who just wants to “do it right,” you will find a course for you in the Spring offerings.
Five courses will be offered: “Foundations I: Using the Records,” “Advanced Swedish Genealogy,” “Advanced Genetic Genealogy,” “Catholic Records” and “Getting Lost in Ledgers.” Registration will open after the first of the year.
If you want to know more, check our website and sign up for the mailing list: https://appliedgen.institute ‘
Olympia Genealogical Society,
“DNA: Today’s Matchmaker”
with Diahan Southard,
Saturday, April 9, 2022
8:30 am – 3:30 pm PDT
Diahan will speak on issues like :
- Making sense of your DNA results
- What to do if your matches don’t have family trees
- Organizing your matches
- Using female DNA to answer questions
For full details, visit:
http://olygensoc.org
SGS CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Take note of the SGS Library’s new location, new hours, and new rules:
Good Shepherd Center, Suite 302
4649 Sunnyside Ave N
Seattle, WA 98103
206 522-8658
Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Masks are required at all times inside the Good Shepherd Center. Due to COVID the events listed below continue to be virtual, online via Zoom. Always check the SGS Website Calendar of Events for the meeting links, registration, or for last minute updates or changes to the schedule. Be advised you may need to register in advance to join a meeting.
NOTICE: SGS has imposed more security on our Zoom meetings. Some meetings will begin with a waiting room. The host must take action to let people into each meeting. The host will try to open the waiting room about 10 minutes ahead of time. Please be patient.
* All times listed are Pacific Time unless otherwise noted
Wednesday, Feb 2, 2022, 10:00 am-11:30 am, 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.
Saturday, Feb 5, 2022, 10:15 am-12:15 pm, FamilySearch Interest Group with Lou Daly (Virtual), Discover the many ways to use FamilySearch. At each meeting a different aspect of the website will be featured. There will be time for Q & A. Want to be included on the mail listing? Email Lou: loudaly@nwlink.com
Sunday, Feb 6, 2022, 1:00 pm-3:00 pm, DNA WORKSHOP (Virtual), with Cary Bright and Craig Gowens. To participate you must be on the DNA SIG email list. Contact Cary at sgsdnasig@gmail.com to join.
Tuesday, Feb 8, 2022, 10:00 am-11:00 am, Tech Tuesday (Virtual), back by popular demand, the informal consultation time on DNA, genealogy software, or genealogy-related technical issues. All are welcome. No appointment necessary.
Wednesday, Feb 9, 2022, 10:00 am-11:30 am, 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.
Saturday, Feb 12, 2022, 1:00 pm-2:30 pm, Second Saturday Speaker Series: Who Owned Solomon? A Case Study of 19th Century African American Research with Janice Lovelace, PhD
Wednesday, Feb 16, 2022, 10:00 am-11:30 am, 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.
Friday, Feb 18, 2022, 10:30 am-12:30 pm, Family Tree Maker by MacKiev meets online via Zoom on the 3rd Friday of the month. Share and learn tips and tricks for this software. This SIG is jointly sponsored by the Eastside Genealogical Society and Seattle Genealogical Society. To join in you must be on the email list. Send you request to egsgenealogyhelpfer@yahoo.com
Saturday, Feb 19, 2022, 10:00 am- 12:00 pm, Irish SIG is back! With Susan McKee and Jim Ryan. See the SGS website Calendar of Events for further information.
Saturday, Feb 19, 2022, 1:00 pm-3:00 pm, German SIG is back! With Carolyn Schott. See the SGS website Calendar of Events for further information.
Sunday, Feb 20, 2022, 1:00 pm-2:30 pm, Virtual Sundays: Something Old, Something New, Jill Morelli is the host. Visit the SGS website Calendar for details and updates. Please register in advance.
Tuesday, Feb 22, 2022, 10:00 am-11:00 am, Tech Tuesday (Virtual), back by popular demand, the informal consultation time on DNA, genealogy software, or genealogy-related technical issues. All are welcome. No appointment necessary.
Wednesday, Feb 23, 2022, 10:00 am-11:30 am, 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.
Sunday, Feb 27, 2022, 1:00 pm, New! Japanese American SIG, with Caitlin Oiye Coon. This is the second meeting of our new SIG. Please sign up if you would like to attend; send an email to family.history@densho.org