Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society Antiques Roadshow

Saturday, January 14th, the Clallam County Genealogical Society will meet at 10 am. Claudia Breeland will be the guest lecturer. The title of her presentation is “Finding and Using Historic Newspapers.”Claudia is a professional genealogist, author, and a wonderful lecturer. She shares her experience to illustrate how she has found missing ancestors and answers to…

Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society Monthly Educational MeetingTuesday, March 11, 2025, starting at 6:00 pm This month’s presentation will be a video presentation provided by MyHeritage: Researching Family History at Your Library with MyHeritage Library Edition presented by Daniel Horowitz. MyHeritage Library Edition is one of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases of its…

This tip comes from Jill Morelli, past president of SGS, and her source for this tip is the March 16, 2022, blog by Judy Russell, the Legal Genealogist. And by the way, we are so excited to have Judy Russell lined up for our fall seminar!  Do you have New York City connections?  In March 2022, the NYC Municipal Archives launched…

Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society DNA Special Interest Group Meeting Tuesday, November 22 at 7:00 pm via Zoom Please join us as we begin our discussion of the book Genetic Genealogy in Practice by Blaine Bettinger and Debbie Parker Wayne. This month we will cover the first two chapters.  The book is available from the publishers, The…

Oops, this is a correction. Yes, you saw this item in the last eNews! but the url inadvertently got messed up so it didn’t work. Sorry. So let’s try this again. As of April 1, 2023,  a new subscription service, https://historygeo.com , is available at the SGS Library. This website is an online version of the Family Maps and Texas Land Survey…

by Donna Phillips First news of all is the name change: our favorite genealogy library is now the FamilySEARCH Library and new signs on the building proclaim that. Makes sense; FamilySearch is the “umbrella” program we all use.  Second big change is the arrangement of each floor. The first floor is a welcome-and-entry-level-help with an army…