Breaking Down Brick Walls

Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society 
January 13, 2018

General meeting begins at 10:30 in the lower classroom in the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center. This is the first meeting and program of the year. All members are encouraged to attend, it is the first business meeting. Election of officers and other business matters will be discussed. The program for the month will be “Breaking Down Brick Walls”. This will be a round table discussion for all members to discuss and collaborate ways of finding answers to dead end research. Your encouraged to bring your brick wall or share your experience of success. 

Breaking Down Brick Walls
  What method, resource or event helped you break a brick wall in your research? 
Do you use social media for researching?
 Do you belong to special groups on the internet for collaborating?
 Have you found a winning method of researching?
 What would you like to accomplish in your research?

Visit our CGGS website for the latest newsletter and publication list!



The Columbia Gorge Genealogical society maintains a list of publications and books that is owned by the society. They is available on the main CGGS website. Also, a copies of our  present and past newsletters are posted for download. The list of publications are in PDF form under the STORE tab and may be downloaded and ordered from the address on that page.

Main CGGS website:
http://community.gorge.net/genealogy/about.html

Publications page here:
http://community.gorge.net/genealogy/store.html

Newsletters here:
http://community.gorge.net/genealogy/newsletter.html

Thousands of FREE ebooks for your reading and research !!





Researching? or just reading?
There are thousands of e-books available on the internet to view download or use on your reader, laptop, tablets or you can read online.

 Dick Eastman subject today on his free blog/newsletter is about the huge library out on the internet which provides FREE eBooks. Please visit his website to learn where you can find them and how to use them. 
And sign up for his email newsletter while your there .A great resource for current genealogy news!




Jamboree door prize winners!








We want to thank all the members and guests that attended our Genealogy Jamboree in October.
The attendaence was from a nimber of places in the gorge. Congratulations to the following winners of the wonderful door prizes that were given away.

Mark Adams - 2 T Portable Drive
Sandy Bisset - Book
Kay Wilson -  Membership
Jayne Burros - Membership
Ron Sisseck- Book
Nancy Barron - HP  Printer

Thank You !! See you again next year!

Upcoming 2018 Meeting and Program Schedule - Blog Update




The 2018 meeting and program schedule has been posted on our blog. Weather is a large factor in the winter months, any changes will be sent to you via email and posted here on the blog. 

We are looking for members and anyone that has a genealogy related story to give a program for our society.
We have had many volunteers give programs on history and historical events a s well. 
Please contact one of our members and let them know. We will gladly schedule you to give a one hour program on your subject. 

Also,  this is a reminder that annual dues is due.