MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2025 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.

Breaking Down Brick Walls with DNA

by Kate Penney Howard, genetic genealogist

Perhaps DNA can help you with those pesky blanks in your family tree–strange names or no names; immigrants with odd or non-existent information; people who just show up! When traditional genealogical techniques fail to give us an answer, we can turn to DNA to find more opportunities to discover clues.

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Topic: WAGS General Meeting Zoom LInk
Time: Jan 13, 2025 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88156085836?pwd=IGcFc8082x8vkAslyxz9OxzjvCa0JF.1

Meeting ID: 881 5608 5836
Passcode: January

Or arrive in person at the FamilySearch Center at 667 10th Street NE, East Wenatchee

Start your Christmas shopping today! WAGS is offering you some of our extra books. Shop with WAGS and pretend you’re in a game show called “Name Your Price!” Claim as many of these books (they were part of our Checkout collection) by naming your price and coming into the WAGS Library on December 14, 17 or 21 from 1 to 4 p.m. to collect your books. This is a first come/first served opportunity. Don’t delay!

Let’s all take an end-of-the-year break and recharge with family and friends.

On Monday, January 13, 2025 we’ll gather again to hear genetic genealogist Kate Penney Howard present “Breaking Down Brick Walls with DNA.”

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2024 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.

The Great War and Its Stories:
Researching Your WWI Soldier

by Jill Morelli

Seattle-based genealogy educator Jill Morelli will tell us what records survive from World War I, and where to find them. Let’s look at our WWI soldiers through the lens of the available online and in-state repositories.

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This will be a hybrid meeting. For an in-person experience, come to the FamilySearch Center at 667 10th Street NE in East Wenatchee. You may also attend via Zoom.

Join Zoom Meeting link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83006828680?pwd=gBs32mls0GPJDXm8ajZldLAp310Zn0.1

Meeting ID: 830 0682 8680 

Passcode: November

MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2024 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.

“Future Capital Projects at the Museum”

A conversation with WVMCC Executive Director Marriah Thornock

This presentation is prepared specifically for WAGS members–to give us the latest news on how the museum’s remodeling plans are taking shape, and to allow us to ask all of our logistical questions on how the WAGS Library will be affected.

This will be a hybrid meeting. Marriah will be in person at the FamilySearch Center, 667 10th Street NE, East Wenatchee.

Zoom will also be available:

Topic: WAGS October General Meeting – Members Only
Time: Oct 14, 2024 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85236160487?pwd=4nfa8gpWGi00iw3jaVTMVEEaoolrwI.1

Meeting ID: 852 3616 0487
Passcode: October

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.

“Finally Get Organized: Conquer the Clutter Using Your Natural Learning Style”

by Elizabeth Swanay O’Neal

This will be a hybrid meeting. Meet in person at the FamilySearch Center, 667 10th Street NE in East Wenatchee, or via Zoom:

Topic: WAGS September General Mtg Zoom Info
Time: Sep 9, 2024 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82124904792?pwd=aQr13KObNwXwgHY2aWXPOI32KSgnyZ.1

Meeting ID: 821 2490 4792
Passcode: September

Come and learn about different organizing strategies AND a little about yourself! Knowing how you learn will point you to the most effective way to sort out your genealogy research.

MONDAY, JULY 15, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.

In-Person at the FamilySearch Center, 667 10th Street NE, East Wenatchee

and via Zoom (Zoom address will be published closer to the meeting).

With our library’s future location change, and with the changes wrought by Covid, we need to take a good look at who we want (and need) to become–what will we do to keep engaging our members and the community at large? Come and join in the discussion!

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 like.

In person at the FamilySearch Center, 667 10th Street NE, East Wenatchee

and via Zoom.

Topic: WAGS General June Meeting Zoom Link
Time: Jun 10, 2024 02:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84870282001?pwd=TTlOMkN0L2FoMWRod0E3bHlYNW5ydz09

Meeting ID: 848 7028 2001
Passcode: WAGSJune

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