Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society: August 2016

Scandinavian Reseach Event Planned

September 20, Beginning at 2:00 PM

Lecture: $10 // Lecture Pass for All Lectures: $20
Half-Hour Personal
Genealogical Consultation: $25

2:00-3:15 Kathy Meade – Swedish Records Online with Arkiv Digital

3:15-4:30 Charlotte Börjesson – Swedish DVD and Online Resources

4:30-5:30 Dinner/Food break
5:30-6:45 Anna-Lena Hultman – Swedish
Culture and emigration from Sweden
6:45-8:00 Olof Cronberg – Swedish
Historical Maps and Disbyt

Offsite event taking place just down the
road from Nordia House at West Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
Genealogists from Sweden offer assistance and resources for tracing your roots!
They offer four lectures on various genealogical topics throughout the day. Each
lecture is $10, or you can get a pass for all of the lectures for $20! Purchase
individual lecture tickets or the pass below. In addition, there are still some spots available for a half-hour one-on-one
personal genealogical consultation session ($25 each). To sign up for one of these spots, please call us at 503.977.0275.

"Virtual " Meetings Are Becoming More Popular Than Ever

With attendance falling in genealogy societies meetings and other social dilemmas preventing members from attending meetings, societies and organizations have turned to the web for gathering their members in one place. This phenomenon started five years ago and has become the norm in some state and local genealogy societies. Dick Eastman wrote a article in his paid blog on the subject recently and it has been the basis of "DearMyrtle" for several years mow. Posts to these two presenters on the subject is below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohZde4qoFBw

https://blog.eogn.com/2016/08/26/put-away-your-wallet-and-hold-meetings-online-for-free/

Many organizations off virtual meetings and webinars free of charge and public is invited to attend.

Also YouTube hosts many videos and seminars free of charge.

http://blog.genealogicalstudies.com/

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=genealogy+research

October is National Family History Month!

October is National Family History Month and we are celebrating by having a Genealogy Jamboree!

This is a open forum style event. There will not be any formal speakers or presentations. We will have Jan Bony from Oregon GenWeb and Emma Jean Smith from the Daughters of the American Revolution present to answer any questions and spend the day with us discussing our favorite topic GENEALOGY!

This event is for all levels of genealogy researchers from beginners to advanced.

Those attending will have a chance to win some great door prizes too.

We will be giving away a HP Envy 4520 wireless printer, 2 - one year memberships to CGGS, Drew Smith's new book "Organize Your Genealogy", and a genealogy gift basket packed with genealogy tools, index's, pens, highlighters, clips and a 32GB Lexar Flash Drive.

So please come and join us. The jamboree is in the downstairs conference room at the

Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and bring a friend. this is a public event.

Historic Columbia River Highway "King Of The Roads"

September Meeting and Program

Our new year at CGGS starts with Sandy Bisset presenting a program on "Non-Population Census Records" . These types of records are social statistics for agriculture, manufacturing, industrial and mortality schedules. These records give the researcher a better grasp of the areas and social influences that our ancestors lived in. What jobs, living conditions and geographical employment

situations existed in the state or region.

The meeting and program will be held September 10, 2016 at the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center in the downstairs conference room at 1:00 PM. Public is welcome and bring a friend!

The future of Genealogical Societies

Several members commented on the blog post from Dick Eastman's daily free newsletter entitled
" Facing up the long term of your genealogical society". If you haven't read it, it really brings home some questions that has to be answered to keep societies from dying. You can read Dicks post in this link:

https://blog.eogn.com/2016/08/11/facing-up-to-the-long-term-future-of-your-genealogy-society/

Open Forum Research Day - Lyle , Washington, Sept. 7, 2016

2024 Program Schedule

January 6, 2024 - America's Extension Service - Resources for Genealogy - Georga Foster
February - Original Courthouse History Forums- Members are encouraged to attend.
March - Darrelll Jabin - Oregons Traveling Historian- March 23, 2024
June 10, 2024 - Hood River Museum Meetup - 1:00pm
July/August - Summer Break
September 14, 2024 - Solutions To Geneaogical Research In Todays Economy
October 5, 2024 - Thomas MacEntee LIVE
Nov. 9, 2024 - FamilySearch Workshop -LDS LIbrary
December- No Program- Merry Christmas

Pioneers of The West

Header Photo: Helen Lundeberg created this painting while employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal program that employed artists during the Great Depression. Like other WPA artists, Lundeberg depicted a hopeful view of the United States during a time of turmoil and uncertainty by showing a dreamlike image of western expansion. The group of pioneers, with their backs to the viewer, follows an ox-drawn wagon into a valley. The monumental figures appear strong and assured in their forward progress. Rising mountains melt into the sun. Lundeberg's style of mixing fantastic images with reality is evident in the background: The pink, rolling mountains blend into the orange, pink, and bluish haze of the sky; it is difficult to determine where the mountains end and the sky begins. The careful use of space and dreamlike elements in Pioneers of the West is representative of Lundeberg's postsurrealist style. This movement, derived from surrealism, purposely combined fantasy with reality and was predominantly found on the West Coast. (Helen Lundeberg, Pioneers of the West, 1934, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the General Services Administration, 1985.8.27) GSA: Information and images created or owned by the GSA unless otherwise indicated, are considered in the public domain. They may be distributed or copied as permitted by applicable law.