AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

OK, nobody else (that I've seen) has blogged about it, but it is really big news: Ancestry.com changed its website, including the way ...

The Eastern Washingon Genealogical Society will be starting out its 2006 - 2007 year with our first meeting on Saturday, September 9th. Wh...

I discovered that back on May 31st, Laural D., a Find A Grave photo volunteer, took photos of the unmarked lot where my husband's great-...

Saturday, July 29 Diana Wilkes, a Find A Grave photo volunteer, blessed the socks off of me by not only taking many photos of my Robbins anc...

A couple of months ago, I taught a computer class offered exclusively for members of the Eastern Washington Genealogical Society . This cla...

Sheryl Rose of Find A Grave very kindly took a photo of my granduncle's grave . Uncle Ted came out west from Grand Rapids, Michigan to...

I attended a meeting this afternoon at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC) to obtain information on the Campbell House Employee ...

I received an obituary of Fredericka WILKINSON which I requested via e-mail June 15th from the Everett Public Library . I have posted it on...

Cousin Leslie Coulson sent more photos of the WIERSMA home places, and Cousin Joni Graeff also sent quite a few of the VALK home places in F...

A distant cousin, Leslie Coulson, recently visited the home towns of our WIERMSA ancestors in the municipality of Wonseradeel, Friesland, th...

Today I attended a class on Lineage Societies - one of the computer classes offered for free to members of the Eastern Washington Genealogic...

Yesterday evening, Nancy Robinson, who so kindly took photos of my Frederick WILKINSON's grave, e-mailed me with a link to his WWI Draft...

This morning I had a nice surprise when I opened up my e-mail. Two different Find A Grave photo volunteers had fulfilled photo requests. ...

I went to my local Family History Center this evening. The film I had ordered (FHL microfilm #0984231: Ottawa County, Michigan Marriage Rec...

I got two items of genealogical interest in the mail today. The first was The Grand River Times , the newsletter of the Grand Rapids (Mic...

This morning I mailed off applications for vital records for ancestors of my husband. I was prompted by the posting at GenealogyBlog a few...

I saw this AP article this evening, and thought about the implication to historians, genealogists, and researchers: "Intelligence offi...

Wow, I can't believe it's been a whole month since I last blogged! I can tell you, though, it has not been a whole month since I ...

As a member of the EWGS, I am excited to share some great upcoming events for 2006! If you go to the EWGS website and click on "Cale...

The third annual Genealogy Conference will be held Saturday, March 11, 2006 at the Spokane North Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of La...