Plan To Attend Ewgs Workshop

Eastern Washington Genealogical Society’s annual fall workshop will be an all-day affair on Saturday, Oct. 5, from 8 a.m. to 4 .pm.

It’s time now to mark your calendars and send in your registration checks. You won’t want to miss this exciting event!

Dani Lee McGowan and John Zeimantz have worked together to provide area genealogists with a wonderful, informative day of genealogical learning. The workshop theme is “Breaking Through the Roadblocks,” meaning those places in our research when we run out of ideas. There will be four hourly sessions and a panel presentation to finish the day.

Hourly sessions will include classes on railroad immigrants to the Northwest, English research, Native American research, copying old photographs, organizing and reorganizing, going to Salt Lake to do research, and bulletins and newsletters. Our Montana guest, Paulette Parpart of the Missoula (Mont.) Public Library will make two presentations. She will discuss newspaper research and specific library reference aids.

The panel will give highlights for when you are “At Your Destination - Cookbooks, Quilts, Family Reunions and Scrapbooks.”

Three new EWGS publications will be available at the workshop: Bible Records is 145 pages of 82 unpublished Bible records collected by members and friends of EWGS and the Northeast Washington Genealogical Society in Colville. The $20 book contains illustrations and a surname index.

Spokane County, Washington, Early Birth Records, 1890-1906, is 425 pages listing more than 11,000 entries extracted from the Spokane County Health Department by EWGS members. It costs $30.

The third book is the updated EWGS Holdings Book, a listing of all Genealogy Section materials at the Spokane Public Library. The original edition was published in 1991, a supplement in 1994. The genealogy collection has grown tremendously since then. I do not know the book’s price.

The workshop will be in the Spokane Falls Community College Student Union Building. If received by Sept. 27, the fee is $22 for EWGS members and $25 for nonmembers. The fee at the door will be $27 for everybody. Make your check out to EWGS Fall Workshop and mail it to EWGS, P.O. Box 1826, Spokane WA, 99210-1826.

The fee includes lunch and the syllabus, plus chances on the raffle, door prizes and white elephant tables. All area genealogists are invited to attend. For more information, call Dani Lee McGowan at 534-5225.

Would books on Washington’s Pend Oreille County aid your genealogy? The Pend Oreille County Historical Society offers these books: “Pend Oreille County Historical Sketches,” “Historic Site Guide to Pend Oreille County,” “History of Metaline Falls,” “The Elk and Camden We Once Knew” and several other titles. The group also has notecards and shirts with the society’s logo.

For more information, write to them at P.O. Box 1409, Newport, WA 99156.

Today’s Tips: Jeanetta Jarvis, a volunteer at the Pines Family History Center (926-0551) is a specialist in Germans From Russia materials.

And, did you know that our country’s first female jurors comprised the Juries of Matrons used in witchcraft proceedings to inspect the bodies of alleged witches for suspicious signs or marks?

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