Lower Columbia Genealogical Society May Meeting

Join us for our May meeting!!

Our speaker will be professional genealogist

STEVEN W. MORRISON,

presenting

ASSEMBLING YOUR PROOF…

HUNTING FOR HIGH QUALITY RESOURCES

LOWER COLUMBIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

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SOMERSET RETIREMENT APARTMENTS

2025 TIBBETTS DRIVE, LONGVIEW

DINING ROOM 7:00 PM

MAY 9, 2019

Visitors are welcome and encouraged to attend!!

Lower Columbia Genealogical Society March Meeting

WE ALL NEED HELP WITH OUR RESEARCH, AND THEREFORE LOOK FORWARD TO OUR MARCH MEETING

WITH ADVICE BEING PROVIDED BY TRACY REBSTOCK FROM THE WASHINGTON STATE ARCHIVES. COME AND SEE HOW MAPS AND LAND RESEARCH CAN HELP WITH YOUR GENEALOGY AND FAMILY HISTORY. SHE WILL BE SHARING DIFFERENT RESOURCES AND WHERE THEY CAN BE LOCATED.

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DINING ROOM 7:00 PM

MARCH 14, 2019

Visitors are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Lower Columbia Genealogy Society February Meeting

Moving into February, our society is pleased to present

Round Table Discussion:

Family Search & General Genealogy

led by member, JOAN ENDERS, to help us learn the most effective ways to use FamilySearch. We look forward to a good discussion session with help from her colleagues, and varied round table topics.

LOWER COLUMBIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

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DINING ROOM 7:00 PM

February 14, 2019

Visitors are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Lower Columbia Genealogical Society Plat Maps

As we begin the new year, Please join us for a shared presentation by Paul Galli, plat map expert with Cowlitz county, together with Joseph Govednik, director of the Cowlitz county museum.

They will help us learn the creation and function of plat maps over the years, which can help us

locate our ancestors in ways many of us were unaware.

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SOMERSET RETIREMENT APARTMENTS

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DINING ROOM 7:00 PM

JANUARY 10, 2019

Visitors are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Lower Columbia Genealogical Society December Meeting

As the holidays approach, the Lower Columbia Genealogical Society is happy to welcome to our December meeting

CHARLES GOURDE, representing the

CHILDREN’S JUSTICE & ADVOCACY CENTER OF COWLITZ COUNTY

whose mission is to provide abused children with a coordinated community approach to investigation, prosecution, treatment, and advocacy that promotes their safety, healing and well-being.

Anyone wishing to bring donations to the meeting should use the following guidelines:

Small value gasoline gift cards, children’s snacks, art supplies, copy paper, stuffed animals and bottled water.

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SOMERSET RETIREMENT APARTMENTS

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DINING ROOM 7:00 PM

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Visitors are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Lower Columbia Genealogical Society November Meeting

Join us for our November meeting!!

Our speaker will be STEVEN MORRISON

presenting

QUAKERS ON THE MOVE” “Visualizing US Quaker Migrations”

How do you find Quaker families? Follow the meetings. Learn how to use Quaker meeting data and maps to locate YOUR ancestors!

LOWER COLUMBIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

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SOMERSET RETIREMENT APARTMENTS

2025 TIBBETTS DRIVE, LONGVIEW

DINING ROOM 7:00 PM

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Visitors are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Lower Columbia Genealogical Society October Meeting

To help us learn how homesteading affects our research, we look forward to the program upcoming at our October meeting. Long-time member LOLA WEBER will share her knowledge and experiences with this topic to help us celebrate FAMILY HISTORY MONTH. DON’T MISS IT!!!

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DINING ROOM 7:00 PM

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Visitors are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Lower Columbia Genealogical Society September Meeting

 

THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS WERE A SERIES OF HEARINGS AND PROSECUTIONS OF PEOPLE ACCUSED OF WITCHCRAFT

IN COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS BETWEEN FEBRUARY 1692 AND MAY 1693. MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE WERE ACCUSED, NINETEEN OF WHICH WERE FOUND GUILTY AND EXECUTED BY HANGING (FOURTEEN WOMEN AND FIVE MEN), AND AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE DIED IN JAIL. IT WAS THE DEADLIEST WITCH HUNT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THESE EVENTS, YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS SPEAKER JERRI MC COY AT THE SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 MEETING.

Lower Columbia Genealogical Society

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DINING ROOM 7:00 PM