German Interest Group of the Eastside Genealogical Society Using Ortsfamilienbucher

EDUCATION AT FISKE Like many other genealogical organizations, due to COVID 19 worries, the Fiske Library in Seattle started conducting their classes online via Zoom in 2020. Fiske has an online class opportunity each Wednesday. The Wednesday class usually runs from 10:00 AM until noon. They recently published their Winter 2023 Class Schedule. You can…

by Donna Phillips Everybody stops there; the gravity and allure of the place (not to mention clean restrooms) pulls you in right off of I-90 if you’re on your way east from Washington state.  You’ve been there, right? Probably more than once! Here’s the history of the famous bar:  The story begins in 1951 when Gerry…

Tacoma Pierce County Genealogical Society Monthly Educational MeetingTuesday, December 9, 2025, starting at 6:00 pm. This month’s presentation: Translating, Transcribing and Summarizing Documents Using AI By Thomas MacEntee (one of his last live presentations before he retires at the end of this year).Learn how to harness the power of artificial intelligence to assist in translating,…

TIP OF THE WEEK –BRITISH COLUMBIA HISTORICAL  NEWSPAPERS AND A WEBINAR  Jill Morelli passed along this tip; it originally came from Valerie Beaudrault. The University of British Columbia has made the BC Historical Newspapers database, a digital collection of 168 newspaper titles published between 1859 and 1995, available on their website. Toward the bottom left hand side of the…

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION, AGAINIs your New Year’s resolution this year the same as it was last year, organize this genealogy research mess, it’s out of control. Here’s a few simple tips from the Family Curator: