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Sno-Isle Genealogical Society is offering researchers an opportunity to get help with their "brick wall" problems on Saturday, April 26, 2025. To make a reservation call 425-775-6267 to leave a message.  Your call will be returned later to confirm your appointment. The free 40 minute session is an "in person" appointment. If all 4 sessions are filled you will be placed on a waiting list for the next "brick wall" day. Thank you to Margaret Summitt for leading these sessions. Margaret is an experienced genealogy research who is eager to share her insights, tips, and knowledge to help you break through your brick walls.

Are you curious about your family’s history but unsure where to begin? This presentation offers a quick and effective way to start your family history journey. You will learn how to create a pedigree chart using the first three generations of your family. You will discover the best practices for gathering and recording accurate information, including full names, dates, and places of key life events. Finally, you will learn how to use free research tools at the Library and from other sources to document the life events of your family’s members. By the end of this presentation, you will have the knowledge and tools to confidently embark on your genealogical adventure, tracing your family's path with accuracy and enthusiasm. Presented by Corey Smith of the Sno-Isle Genealogical Society. This presentation is hosted by our partners at the Sno-Isle Library system as part of their 2025 Reads Together program. To get more details, please visit the Sno-Isle Library page at https://sno-isle.bibliocommons.com/events/67c206b50f8b6e36002ef3bc

Are you curious about your family’s history but unsure where to begin? This presentation offers a quick and effective way to start your family history journey. You will learn how to create a pedigree chart using the first three generations of your family. You will discover the best practices for gathering and recording accurate information, including full names, dates, and places of key life events. Finally, you will learn how to use free research tools at the Library and from other sources to document the life events of your family’s members. By the end of this presentation, you will have the knowledge and tools to confidently embark on your genealogical adventure, tracing your family's path with accuracy and enthusiasm. Presented by Corey Smith of the Sno-Isle Genealogical Society. This presentation is hosted by our partners at the Sno-Isle Library system as part of their 2025 Reads Together program. To get more details, please visit the Sno-Isle Library page at https://sno-isle.bibliocommons.com/events/67c0dd622278ca6900eb69c4

Join Corey Smith of the Sno-Isle Genealogical Society and learn how best to communicate your family history to the future! In this one hour presentation Corey will discuss how to record your experiences and how to organize family history materials for future generations of genealogists. This presentation is hosted by our partners at the Sno-Isle Library system as part of their 2025 Reads Together program.  To register and get more details, please visit the Sno-Isle Library page at https://sno-isle.bibliocommons.com/events/67b4e19c5ca5ec68c1c70a99.

FamilySearch.org is one of the premier resources for family historians, offering free access to an ever-growing collection of physical and digital records from around the world. But with millions of new records added each day, traditional cataloging can't keep up. To bridge the gap, FamilySearch has introduced Full Text Search, a powerful new tool that leverages artificial intelligence to make records more accessible. In this presentation, Janice and Keith Allred will demonstrate how to use Full Text Search effectively, share expert tips and tricks, and explore what this technology means for the future of genealogy research. About the Presenters Janice and Keith Allred are experienced genealogists who have lectured extensively throughout the region. Keith, a native of Othello, Washington, studied history and economics at Brigham Young University, where he worked on cataloging clan family history records from Korea and China for FamilySearch's predecessor. Keith is a retired lawyer trained at the University of Chicago who practiced law in a major Seattle law firm for 37 years. He has authored two books on his own family history. Janice discovered her passion for genealogy as a teenager in Southern California and has since deepened her expertise through research, coursework, and leadership. She holds a Certificate in Genealogy Research from Boston University and served as director of the Kirkland FamilySearch Center from 2013 to 2017. The in-person social gathering begins at 6:30 pm and the presentation begins at 7:00 pm.  The presentation will be lived streamed on Zoom. 

Sno-Isle Genealogical Society is offering researchers an opportunity to get help with their "brick wall" problems on Saturday, March 29, 2025. To make a reservation call 425-775-6267 to leave a message.  Your call will be returned later to confirm your appointment. The free 40 minute session is an "in person" appointment. If all 4 sessions are filled you will be placed on a waiting list for the next "brick wall" day. Thank you to Margaret Summitt for leading these sessions. Margaret is an experienced genealogy research who is eager to share her insights, tips, and knowledge to help you break through your brick walls.  

When using DNA to validate your family tree or to push your tree back further, your shared DNA matches on a particular line play a critical role in confirming the familial connection. But what if it is a line you know little or nothing about, much less who your DNA matches are beyond your most distant known ancestor on that line? How can you find validating matches when you don't know who or what you are looking for? In this presentation, we'll look at a strategy of filtering your DNA matches not by who they match, but rather by who they don't match, to arrive at a pool of matches more likely to be relevant on your unknown line. This can be a particularly useful strategy when only have one known DNA tested descendant with not known or close cousins on the line who have also tested. This meeting is free and open to the public. The in-person meeting will take place from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm in the Wickers Building, 19921 Poplar Way, Lynnwood in Heritage Park. For those who prefer, the presentation will be live-streamed on Zoom beginning at 7:00 pm

Sno-Isle Genealogical Society is offering researchers an opportunity to get help with their "brick wall" problems on Saturday, February 22, 2025. To make a reservation call 425-775-6267 to leave a message.  Your call will be returned later to confirm your appointment. The free 40 minute session is an "in person" appointment. If all 4 sessions are filled you will be placed on a waiting list for the next "brick wall" day. Thank you to Margaret Summitt for leading these sessions. Margaret is an experienced genealogy research who is eager to share her insights, tips, and knowledge to help you break through your brick walls.

Due to scheduling issues, there will be NO General Meeting in February.  There are still plenty of opportunities to talk family history including the Humble House Library hours, Coffee Klatches, and the Tool Shed meeting.  Please check the calendar for more details. 

Sno-Isle Genealogical Society is offering researchers an opportunity to get help with their "brick wall" problems on Saturday, January 25, 2025. To make a reservation call 425-775-6267 to leave a message.  Your call will be returned later to confirm your appointment. The free 40 minute session is an "in person" appointment. If all 4 sessions are filled you will be placed on a waiting list for the next "brick wall" day. Thank you to Margaret Summitt for leading these sessions. Margaret is an experienced genealogy research who is eager to share her insights, tips, and knowledge to help you break through your brick walls.

We are happy to announce that the Humble House Library will now be open the 2nd Tuesday of each month.  Drop by to talk to our volunteers about your family history journey and peruse our collections of books, maps and other resources. We recommend you also wander the park and stop by our partners at the Lynnwood-Alderwood Manor Heritage Association and the Northwest Veterans Museum.  Visit the City of Lynnwood Parks website to learn more details about Heritage Park.

Struggling to digitize books and large documents? While flatbed scanners are common household tools, they often fall short when it comes to bound books, oversized documents, or collections of articles. Join us at the Sno-Isle Genealogical Society’s general meeting on January 8th to explore the practical tools and techniques we use for our digitization projects. This presentation by Lisa Battern will highlight the CZUR book scanner, an innovative device that produces flat, clear images of bound materials. Discover how we capture, manage, and organize digital images, and learn about the features that make our process more efficient. The in-person gathering begins at 6:30 pm   The in-person/online presentation begins at 7:00 pm.  
6:30 pm - Social gathering (in-person only)
7:00 pm - Welcome/Digitizing Family History with a Book Scanner (in-person and Zoom)
8:30 pm - Open Q&A (in-person and Zoom)
8:45 pm - Closing comments (in-person only)