Three BIGGEE events coming up..... are they on YOUR calendar?

What's in your genealogical tool chest this spring? Needing some new ideas, thoughts or knowledge to give your genealogy a jump start? If you a…

Tuesday Bunch waits to help YOU.

Left to right:  Ma ry, Dolly, Susan, Juanita and Pat.  These are the helper-volunteers from the Eastern Washington Genealogical Society who ar…

Writing Contest.......... More Stories

Once again I'd like to remind you to scribble down YOUR story of how YOUR family came to the Pacific Northwest and enter it into our EWGS writing…

Christmas Greetings from Donna

Hello and Merry Christmas to each and every one of you EWGS members. It has been a pleasure serving with you and working with you this past year and …

Washington State Archives..... Eastern Branch in Cheney

I took these photos at our Eastern Washington Branch of the Washington State Archives...... this facility is out on the EWU campus in Cheney. Looking…

RootsTech: Where Old Friends Gather To Learn New Stuff

Miriam and I are just back from attending the 4th annual RootsTech and it was wonderful. It was Miriam's first time and first time to Salt Lake C…

February 2nd Meeting Featured Our WA Archives

Lee Pierce and Tracey Rebstock spent Saturday afternoon on February 2nd with EWGS and they taught us about our Washington State Archives.  They expla…

News from Donna

I am in Salt Lake City attending the 27th annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour (where 93 folks from all over the U.S. have come to use this library) and h…

Miscellaneous from Donna

Hello EWGS! Anybody remember our EWGS member Sue Soderstrom? Well, darnit, she's had a stroke and will be moving to Portland to be nearer her dau…

EWGS Writing Contest

Well I guess I should tell my story, I was born in Spokane at Deaconess Hospital, one of the few EWGS members that still lives where he was born. I …

First Meeting of 2016 a Fun Time!

EWGS member Sonji Rutan was the winner of a Kindle Fire at the January 2nd EWGS meeting! She won by having her name drawn from all of those who "…

WSGS Conference Registration Open

While we would all enjoy and benefit from attending the NGS conference in Las Vegas in May, and even the FGS conference in Fort Wayne in August, most…

Memorial Day Story

I could not let this day go by without once again sharing with you a story of mine first published in our EWGS Bulletin  back in December 2007. I was…

July 4th Menu-Newspaper Ad

Last month when I was a guest in Muriel's home in Mount Vernon, Washington, she had a collection of old newspapers there that were her father'…

Washington Became A State Today 124 Years Ago

EWGS Plans Big Celebration To Mark 80th Anniversary on June 6th.

I do hope everybody reading this post has June 6th marked on their calendar as EWGS day! That will be the day EWGS marks their 80th anniversary of ou…

Oldtime EWGS News

Lola McCreary passed to me a box that had been in past-president Marvelene Carney's basement for years. The box contained little black binders f…

Cyrus Turnbull & Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge

Spent a lovely Easter Sunday afternoon out at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge (a scant five miles south of Cheney). We saw lots of critters and cre…

Chief Spokane Garry's Real Name

Quoting from Jim Kershner's story in the Sunday, September 1st, Spokesman:   "Chief Spokane Garry (ca 1811-1892), the famed leader of the Sp…

Your New 2014 EWGS Board

Take your choice of photos.......... think of your new EWGS Board members and sorry I did not get a new photo! (Those are darn cute pix, don't yo…