January Presentation for Members and Guests

MONDAY, JUNE 10 at 2:00 p.m. — a hybrid meeting “How the Homestead Act Shaped My Family . . . and Maybe Yours” with Cyndi Ingle The Homestead Act of 1862 populated the American West. Learn about how it worked, and where to find the records, and what your homesteader ancestor’s life might have been…

Join us via Zoom on Monday, November 8, at 2:00 p.m. for our November get-together. Our presenter is Jill Morelli, past president of the Seattle Genealogical Society. She is a writer, lecturer and co-founder of the Applied Genealogy Institute. Jill lectures nationally and has written articles for National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Swedish American Genealogist, and…

Monday, June 13 at 2:00 p.m. This will be a hybrid meeting: Both via Zoom and in-person at the Douglas PUD Auditorium, 1151 Valley Mall Parkway, East Wenatchee. Don’t say, “My ancestor was just a farmer!” Unlike today, farmers were a majority of the population only a couple centuries ago. What special records did they…

Monday, May 9 at 2:00 p.m. This is a hybrid meeting–both on Zoom and at the Douglas PUD Auditorium, 1151 Valley Mall Parkway, East Wenatchee Look at Your Family in a Whole New Way: With a Mind Map by Diana Elder. People have been searching for ways to diagram their thought processes since the third…

Monday, July 11 at 2:00 p.m. Everybody does DNA, right? But how many know how that wonderful research tool fits into their research plan? (Umm, you do have a research plan, don’t you?) Janice Lovelace will come to our aid and show us where and how it should fit. Janice has been a board member…

Monday, September 11 at 2:00 p.m. — a hybrid meeting — in person at the LDS FamilySearch Center, 667 20th St. NE, East Wenatchee, and via Zoom. Recreating Your Ancestor’s World by Mary Kircher Roddy. Realtors always talk about location, but genealogists all know that CONTEXT is where it’s at! Being able to visualize your…