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NEWSLETTER INSIDE! (©ettealogttal §s> 78tfj §ear of Genealogical Service '•' i puliettn Summer 2001 Volume 50 No.-4 Seattle &nt&oi&$ B»mitt$ j$ulittin_ OFFICERS President Dan Newton (206) 2854930 [email protected] Vice present Colleen Anderson (206) 935-5943 [email protected] Secretary- Mary Louise Calo (206)547-9376 Iudditelou@hotmail,com Treasurer DIRECTORS Communications Tom Hamilton (206) 542-7271 [email protected] Education Jean Roth (206) 782-2629 [email protected] Library Pat Younie (425) 4814850 GLYPJY@worldnetattnet Operations Christine Schomaker (425)485-8751 S€[email protected] Publications Robert Burns (206) 523-7368 reburn@aolcom Volunteers Jan McNair (206) 5474538 [email protected] Past president Sarah Thorson Little (206) 365-3681 [email protected] SPL liaison (appointed) Darlene Hamilton (206) 386-4627 SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (AH usually meet at SGS offices at the following times. However, changes do occur. Check the Newsletter, SGS web site, or call SGS to confirm) Canadian SIG First Saturday, 10:15 am Chain Computer SIG Second Saturday, 10:30 a.m, • Chair; Dave Ault. (425)778-8050 [email protected] German SIG Fourth Saturday, 10:30 a.m. (quarterly) Chair: Irish SIG Third Saturday, 10:15 am Chair: BULLETIN editor NEWSLETTER editor Mary Ludvigsen (206) 782-4294 mflmfl@aoLcom Webmaster Trish Nicola (206) 284-5232 [email protected] SGS office and library are at: 6200 Sand Point Way Northeast, Seattle (across the street from the Pacific-Alaska Branch, National Archives) Hours: Tuesday 10 a,m.-3 p.m.; 6-9 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 10 am~3 p.m. (closed Sundays, Mondays and holidays) Mailing address: P.O. Box 75388, Seattle, WA 98125-0388 Telephone: (206) 522-8658 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: <http://www*rootswebxom/-waseags/> Seattle Genealogical i&octet? September-November 2001 newsletter Quarterly meeting to hear of Mercer Girls Those daring women who took up Asa Mercer's chal hair slicked down like sea otters/' it was, written. It's a lenge and landed on Seattle's frontier shores, the Mercer wonder the women stayed, so come hear of this interest Girls, will be Peri Muhich's topic at the SGS quarterly ing and unique pari of the history of Seattle, now in its meeting. Peri wrote her University of Washington Ge 150th year. _ nealogy Certificate paper on that intrepid band. The meeting will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, 8 September, Tuesday evening openings, preceded by a brief business meeting. Mark your calen dar now. holiday closures for SGS The women left their East Coast homes in the 1860s for SGS evening opening has been switched to Tuesday the tiny Seattle. Most of them married Seattle bachelors, society's board has decided, and the hours on Tuesday who as a group had put up the funds to send Mercer east will be 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. The library and office to recruit potential brides. The girls were welcomed by will be closed on all Mondays, as well as Sundays and men resembling "grizzlies in store clothes [with] their holidays, beginning Tuesday, 11 September. But the Monday Evening Program series will continue. SPL downtown reopens, Since the society is now across the street from the National Archives branch, which is open several Tues Hamilton to speak at days a month, it was felt a Tuesday evening opening would be more useful and convenient to members as October Monday program well as visitors who may wish to make a day of it They call it temporary, but it will be at least two years The office and library will be closed Friday-Monday, 31 before the Seattle Public Library's main facility can August and 1-3 September, in observance of Labor Day, move into its new permanent location on the site of its and open 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday, 4 September. In now-rvacated structure on Fourth Avenue. Until then, addition, it will be closed closed Thursday-Monday, 22- the resources are at Eighth Avenue and Pike Street 26 November, the Thanksgiving Day weekend, to re open at 10 a.m. the following Tuesday. Darlene Hamilton, the SPL genealogy/history librarian, will be the featured speaker at the Monday Evening Program 15 October, on "Seattle Public Libary's New Newsletter notice Location: What Genealogists Need to Know/' The pro gram begins at 7:30 p.m., at the society's office. The SGS board has determined that from now on most editions of the Newsletter will be included in There isn't a separate SPL genealogy desk now, and the the quarterly Bulletin. This will save close to $175 telephone number is thai of the history department: each time; postage has gone up every six months for (206) 386-4625, Don't use the old genealogy-desk num four years. The cost of including an extra sheet or ber which now belongs to another department. two in theBulletin is small Don't put it aside to look at later, and miss activities and meetings. There will History staff members are being trained to answer basic not be another Wewskfter until nearly Thanksgiving genealogy questions, and the previous daily scheduled when members receive their nextBulletin. hours for skilled genealogical assistance are no longer in force. The former genealogy-desk staff will be there, but The deadline for the nextNemletter is 1 October, for on differing schedules. The library's hours are 9 a.m.-9 all interest groups and other activities. Send mate p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-6 p .m, Friday, 9 a.m- rial to Mary Ludvigsen, at <mflmfl@aolcom> 6 p.m. Saturday, and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Seattfe,Genealogical Society Newsletter November program on city's pioneers, December party ahead The Monday Evening Program for November, on the birth, just 150 years ago. Note the date now, as this is the 5th at 7:30 p.m., will focus on Seattle's earliest residents, last notice, and memories are short! ~ ^ • those who arrived on Seattle's forested shores in 1851 or shortly thereafter. Hold Monday, 3 December, inyour datebookfor the SGS holiday party, for friendship, experience-sharing, prob Jean A. Roth will be the speaker on "Founding of Seattle lem dissection, refreshments, and maybe holiday shop and its Earliest Pioneers/' Jean will present a brief his ping for genealogist friends or yourself. It all begins at tory of the events and the people involved in the city's 7:30 p.m. Thank you, volunteers! Printer corps needed SGS volunteers had several opportunities to give of time Want to be the first to read SGS publications? Thafs a and talents this summer, in the society move, and at the benefit of being an SGS printer (and of earning hours Redmond Heritage Fair and the Highland Games. The toward that volunteer award). slogan "We couldn't doit without you" is so true* The director of publications is planning a 'training ses In May, SGS moved its Seattle library and off ices to 6200 sion of a few hours this fall for volunteers interested in . Sand Point Way N.E., where the doors reopened 1 June. learning how to operate the society's printing press (it's Many hours and hands planned and made this success a very uncomplicated one), on whichBulletin, the News ful move. Take the opportunity to visit the new quar letter, all of the society's forms and letterheads, seminar ters, and make a full day of it also at the National . materials and some other publications are printed. Do Archives branch. There is a kitchen for your brown-bag ing the society printing with volunteer assistance saves snack. the society thousands of dollars each year. The Heritage Fair in Redmond 7-8 July also involved 60- If you are interested, please contact Annette Dwyer, plus volunteers, where the Computer Interest Group- . who is standing in for the director while he is on vaca led ''Genealogy Search" booth helped 300-plus attend tion, at (206) 938-5719. ees search the internet or CDs for ancestral information. Most found something. The organizing committee in About SGS meetings cluded Steve Aberle, Colleen Anderson, Dave Auii, Barbara Raemer, Jean Roth, Sherry Steele and Lisa For meetings of committees, special-interest groups and Stewart, Byron G. McMillan of South Everett won the smaller gatherings, privacy panels can be used in the door prize, received it at the CIG's July meeting-and family-book area; extra chairs are in the pressroom. joined SGS! Other groups will be seated ^auditorium style/' At the Highland Games 28-29 July at the King County The Canadian Interest Group will not meet in Septem Fairgrounds, SGS again sponsored a booth as it has for ber; its scheduled first Saturday date falls on the holiday many years. Society volunteers again came through to weekend. The Computer Interest Group meets on the help visitors with their Scots ancestry, answering ques second Saturday, the Irish Interest Group on the third tions, displaying books and generally making friends . Saturday, and the German group meets quarterly on a who could become members. Saturday. The meetings begin at 10:30 a.m. See the Bulletin calendar a few pages ahead for schedules. Class interest sought Am you a Mac-addict? SGS members interested in either the free Beginners Workshop or the three-session "Stepping Stones to Ge Macintosh computer users are interested in forming a nealogical Success" class are asked to leave name, tele SGS Macintosh Interest Group, open to users of any Mac phone number, and class of interest at the main desk, in genealogy software for mutual assistance on programs person or by telephone.