PUTTING YOUR ANCESTORS IN THEIR PLACE…AND TIME:

TIMELINES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND CALCULATORS

To understand an ancestor’s life, genealogists use timelines, chronologies, and online calculators to summarize a life and identify interconnected historical events. These methods are not to be missed as they can show us how ancestors are interconnected with each other; how their lives are connected to history; identifies discrepancies and inconsistencies; reveals additional areas for further research; and will ease the work of writing a memoir, a family history, or an obituary.

Jefferson County Genealogical Society (JCGS) www.wajcgs.org has invited Professional Genealogist, Janet Camarata, to be their speaker during a full-day Seminar on Saturday, September 17, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 W. Valley Rd, Chimacum. A donation of $10.00 for the full-day Seminar is suggested. Janet’s topic “Putting Your Ancestors in Their Place…and Time: Timelines, Chronologies and Calculators” will demonstrate how these methods worked to help understand a family’s mid-1800s migration from Kentucky to Missouri to Kansas. Members and friends of JCGS are invited to learn about Timelines and Chronologies in the morning, while in the afternoon Janet will present Calculating Our Ancestors’ Lives that compares the life of your ancestor with your own life using online tools for computing inflation, cousins, distance, weather, etc. Bring your own lunch; coffee/tea/water will be available. In addition Heritage Books will be on site offering for sale a large selection of genealogy books and other items for family history researchers.

Janet O’Conor Camarata tells her family’s stories using all the benefits of genealogy, history, the internet and the latest computing tools. She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and is an experienced instructor.

JEFFERSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

PO Box 627,  Port Townsend, WA 98368

Contact for this release: Judy Tough 385-3065 or tough@olympus.net

JEFFERSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Contact for this release: Judy Tough 385-3065 or tough@olympus.net

PUTTING YOUR ANCESTORS IN THEIR PLACE…AND TIME:

TIMELINES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND CALCULATORS

To understand an ancestor’s life, genealogists use timelines, chronologies, and online calculators to summarize a life and identify interconnected historical events. These methods are not to be missed as they can show us how ancestors are interconnected with each other; how their lives are connected to history; identifies discrepancies and inconsistencies; reveals additional areas for further research; and will ease the work of writing a memoir, a family history, or an obituary.

Jefferson County Genealogical Society (JCGS) www.wajcgs.org has invited Professional Genealogist, Janet Camarata, to be their speaker during a full-day Seminar on Saturday, September 17, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 W. Valley Rd, Chimacum. A donation of $10.00 for the full-day Seminar is suggested. Janet’s topic “Putting Your Ancestors in Their Place…and Time: Timelines, Chronologies and Calculators” will demonstrate how these methods worked to help understand a family’s mid-1800s migration from Kentucky to Missouri to Kansas. Members and friends of JCGS are invited to learn about Timelines and Chronologies in the morning, while in the afternoon Janet will present Calculating Our Ancestors’ Lives that compares the life of your ancestor with your own life using online tools for computing inflation, cousins, distance, weather, etc. Bring your own lunch; coffee/tea/water will be available. In addition Heritage Books will be on site offering for sale a large selection of genealogy books and other items for family history researchers.

Janet O’Conor Camarata tells her family’s stories using all the benefits of genealogy, history, the internet and the latest computing tools. She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and is an experienced instructor.

LOOKING BEYOND THE DEEDS

When researching your family history, land records can be a “treasure chest” of information. Deeds and transfer of ownership are only half the story! Understanding survey systems, survey maps, and connected survey maps can answer questions like nothing else. Mapping your findings can be fun and illuminating. The public is welcome to hear about using this additional research avenue at the Jefferson County Genealogical Society (JCGS) monthly meeting on Saturday, June 18 at the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 W. Valley Rd.  Come at 9:30 A.M. for coffee/tea; 10:00 – 11:30 for the program.  Donations to JCGS are gratefully accepted to bring future guest speakers into our area.

Eric Stroschein photo

JCGS is delighted to bring this month’s speaker, Eric Stroschein, a professional Forensic Genealogist from Mt. Vernon, WA to the Quimper Peninsula. He and his wife Karen own “Generations Detective”, a genealogical research firm where he specializes in resolving difficult genealogical questions using land records as an important resource in his work. One case used over 250 individual pieces of evidence including deeds, surveys and connected survey maps of the county to pinpoint the locations of dozens of people, proving their town had been covered by a reservoir. When Eric is not researching, he can be found at his ‘day job’ driving a fire engine for the Seattle Fire Department where he is a 26-year veteran. Eric serves on the Board of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) and is Chairperson of the Advocacy Committee. He also serves as a representative on the Records Preservation and Access Committee for the Federation of Genealogical Societies. He is past President of the Puget Sound Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists and is in his second term as a Board member of the International Society for British Genealogy and Family History.

It’s All Relative in Family Photos

Do you have photos of un-identified family members? Become a history sleuth, learn easy tricks to identify people, events, places and dates of photographs using fashion, photo processes, and online resources in this hands-on, interactive lecture, Saturday morning, April 16. Megan Friedel, Curator of Photography at History Colorado museum, originally the state historical society in Denver, will be presenting“Identifying Family Photographs” at the meeting of the Jefferson County Genealogical Society (JCGS), at Chimacum’s Tri-Area Community Center, 10 W. Valley Rd..  The meeting is open to members of the public for a donation that helps pay for bringing future genealogy speakers to our area. At 9:30 A.M. over coffee or tea meet other ‘wanna-be history sleuths’ who are trying to identify their ancestors; 9:50 are announcements; and 10:00–11:30 is the lecture.

JCGS is delighted and excited to have Megan Friedel as our speaker. Megan has been managing History Colorado museum’s historical photography and moving image collections since 2013. Prior to moving to Colorado, she was the first photo archivist for the Massachusetts Historical Society, worked with the historical photography collections of the Oregon Historical Society and the University of Alaska Anchorage where she was Assistant Professor of Library Science and archivist for UAA’s Archives and Special Collections. Megan has been the curator of numerous exhibits and most recently in 2015, History Colorado’s award winning exhibit El Movimiento: The Chicano Movement into Colorado. She holds a B.A. from Amherst College, M.A. in History and an M.S. in Library and Information Sciences, both from Simmons College. She has a long association with Port Townsend where her parents reside.

A BROOK WITHOUT A SOURCE

 A Chinese proverb says: “To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root”. Family historians often hope to leave stories to their descendants about ancestors they have identified or have known. If you have never written a story about an ancestor, but wish you could, or if you have written stories but would like to make them better, come to a free presentation “Writing Family Stories: A Toolkit” given by Wendy Call, writer, author, editor, translator, and educator. She has been the winner of a national book prize for nonfiction, and served as writer-in-residence at twenty-two institutions including five national parks, a historical society, universities and colleges. In addition, she has completed research in archives in the United States, Latin America, and Europe and currently teaches creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University and Goddard College.

This presentation will be at the March meeting of the Jefferson County Genealogy Society (JCGS) on Saturday, March 19^th, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30, in the Tri-Area Community Center, 10 W. Valley Rd. in Chimacum. Come early at 9:30 for the monthly meet and visit. Following the presentation at noon, there will be a writing workshop led by Wendy for only 15 people. Each person can receive individual attention. Cost of the workshop is $15. Participants are invited to bring a lunch; coffee & tea provided. Go to the JCGS website <www.wajcgs.org> for required workshop pre-registration before March 12 or to receive other information.

JEFFERSON COUNTY GENEALOGY SOCIETY
PO Box 627
Port Townsend, WA 98368
Contact for this press release:  Judy Tough 385-3065 or tough@olympus.net
FOR RELEASE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 14th, 2015.

“LIBRARY SCHOOL” FOR GENEALOGISTS

The ease of using the internet’s genealogy sites may have obscured the fact that there is a large storehouse of genealogical information collected by public libraries. Sara Scribner CG (Certified Genealogist (one of only two in WA), and as a librarian for 44 years learned how to assist family historians in their research quests. She will share helpful tips and three little used, but very effective, research opportunities available free from public libraries: JSTOR, LibGuides, and Ask-A-Librarian. The public is invited to this monthly meeting of the Jefferson County Genealogical Society (JCGS) for this free presentation on Saturday, February 20, 9:30 a.m. for meet & visit; 10:00 for presentation in the Tri-Area Community Center located adjacent to the Chimacum Schools’ campus.  Visit <wajcgs.org>.

Sara Scribner, Genealogist CG, College Teacher, and Librarian, from Bainbridge Island, will speak to Jefferson County Genealogical Society (JCGS) meeting on February 20th, 10:00 a.m. at the Tri-Area Community Center. The public is invited to hear her presentation “Library School for Genealogists” free of charge.

JEFFERSON COUNTY GENEALOGY SOCIETY

PO Box 627 Port Townsend, WA 98368

Contact for this press release:  Judy Tough 385-3065 or tough@olympus.net

FOR RELEASE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 14^th, 2015.

“LIBRARY SCHOOL” FOR GENEALOGISTS

The ease of using the internet’s genealogy sites may have obscured the fact that there is a large storehouse of genealogical information collected by public libraries. Sara Scribner CG (Certified Genealogist, one of only two in WA), as a librarian for 44 years learned how to assist family historians in their research quests. She will share helpful tips and three little used, but very effective, research opportunities available free from public libraries: JSTOR, LibGuides, and Ask-A-Librarian. The public is invited to this monthly meeting of the Jefferson County Genealogical Society (JCGS) for this free presentation on Saturday, February 20, 9:30 a.m. in the Tri-Area Community Center located adjacent to the Chimacum Schools’ campus.  Visit <wajcgs.org>.

Sara Scribner, Genealogist CG, College Teacher, and Librarian, from Bainbridge Island, will speak to Jefferson County Genealogical Society (JCGS) meeting on February 20^th, 9:30 a.m. at the Tri-Area Community Center. The public is invited to hear her presentation “Library School for Genealogists” free of charge.