Dick Eastman ** Tacoma-Pierce County Spring Seminar


 


 







The Tacoma-Peirce County Genealogical Society will hold their annual spring seminar. The guest speaker will be the honorable Dick Eastman, genealogist and international speaker. More information can be found at the website, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~watpcgs/seminar.html .




11th Annual Summer Seminar- Skagit Valley Genealogical Society




May Field Trip - Genealogy Forum of Oregon










                                        May 10, 2014



                                        FIELD TRIP



                              Genealogy Forum of Oregon


2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite B-18, Portland, OR 97202 (503) 963-1932




We have chosen the Genealogy Forum of Oregon for our spring field trip. There is no charge for admission and we will have a complimentary tour plus four hours of free research time. There will be other activities going on that date so we may not see the whole facility but this is a great opportunity to use this library and research center, which contains over 33,000 titles from Oregon and all over the world.








We will plan to be there at 10:00 AM. We need volunteer drivers, from The Dalles, Hood River, and points in Washington. Let me know at wildflowers@gorge.net if you are willing to drive, where you will leave from, what time to meet, and how many passengers you can take. We will start back at 3:30 PM. The Dalles vehicles will leave at 8:30 AM. More details to come. Further information is available at: http://www.gfo.org/


 

April Program- Katherine Arbon









 





April 12, 2014



GUARDING CAMP, FINDING HOME


Civil War Letters: Faith, Family, Freedom . . . and Blackberry Jam


Local author Katherine Arbon shares the adventures of her great, great grandfather, First Lieutenant Charles Watson in a children’s book entitled GUARDING CAMP, FINDING HOME. She will share excerpts from the 60 letters Watson wrote to his wife as well as her journey in creating a book for children based on two of the letters. Blackberry jam plays an important part in this narrative which combines the past and present in a unique and heart-warming manner. Katherine will begin with a power point presentation and then discuss how the story came about and how you can use a similar concept to share your unique family anecdotes. She will gladly answer questions and will have books to sell.

Further information is available at:

http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2013/jul/24/personal-story-civil-war/