Eastside Genealogical Society – Do You Have a Brick Wall? We Can Help

Please join the SVGS on Saturday, June 14, 2025, at 1pm for the last of our Spring Series, Norwegian Genealogy with Dana Kelly, Executive Director of the Norwegian American Genealogical Center (NAGC). NAGC is a non-profit devoted to collecting, preserving and sharing records of Norwegian and Norwegian-American genealogy and immigration history. Can’t make it to the Burlington Library, request…

by Donna Phillips Lesson for you here:  if in yard sales, garage sales, flea markets or thrift stores, you come upon discarded high school or college yearbooks (the older the better), rescue them and contact the folks at e-yearbook. You can check yourself to see if they have or don’t have the ones you just found. …

To commemorate our 100th year, SGS is putting on a special seminar. It will be four lectures presented over two days.  The dates and times :  The lectures :  This seminar is free to SGS members. Non-members will be charged a small fee. This will be an online seminar via Zoom. Registration is required. Registration…

As you probably remember, we released LiveStory, an incredible new feature that makes your photos speak, at RootsTech. The response has been enthusiastic: in the first two weeks, over a quarter of a million LiveStories were created by MyHeritage users. People are just loving this new feature and can’t get over how incredible it is…

by Roxanne Lowe Reprinted from Eastman’s On-line Genealogy Newsletter, May 13th 2025 Claims are now open for individuals impacted by DNA-tracking company 23andMe’s 2023 data breach, and we’ve got all the details about how to opt in and how much you might be able to get paid. The San Francisco-based company, which allows people to submit genetic…

All meetings are online except the in-person Research Group and Genealogy Help at KCLS Auburn, Federal Way, and Renton Main library branches.  Live transcription (captioning) is available during our Zoom meetings by request. Online meeting participants need to register for SKCGS Zoom meetings. Upon registration, Zoom will send a confirmation email with instructions on joining…