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You received or gave a DNA test kit for Christmas, but what do you do when you get the results.  SIGS member Craig Gowens will help you on your next steps and take your questions on how to best use the results to advance, or start, your family history journey.   The meeting is open to members and the general public.  The presentation will be in person at the Wickers Building at Heritge park but there will be a Zoom live stream too.  Email us for details or for the Zoom link at askus@snoislegenealogy.org.

Janet Bruckshen is the youngest of 5 girls born to Marie Malgesini who immigrated from Mese, Italy in 1938. The family left behind property and loved ones in their hurry to flee the rule of Benito Mussolini. Janet will share the story of the family’s journey to the states and her and her sisters’ quest to return to Italy and find the cabin her mother cherished. Janet Bruckshen is the Executive Director of Washington Vocational Services, a not-for-profit organization which provides employment and community services to individuals with disabilities. She has been in the field for over 40 years, following in the footsteps of her mother who was one of the first Placement Specialists in the State of Washington. The event is available as a live stream on Zoom.  

Join us in-person or online in October to learn about Genealogical Records from a Funeral Home.  Emily Palmer from Beck's Funeral Home in Edmonds will speak about the records that funeral homes have and process.  The meeting is open to member and non-members alike.  Please email askus@snoislegenealogy.org for more information. 

Meghan's thesis research weaves together multiple stories of indigenous and Euro-American families who surrounded and interacted with an archaeological deposit originally excavated and analyzed in 2008 from Arlington, Washington. Her reanalysis of the archaeological assemblage employs a biographical approach, which looks at how the 'lifetimes' of artifacts discarded in the privy are connected to the lives of the Teagar, Hurd, Lovelace, and Weimer families who owned and occupied the site between 1890 and 1940. In order to construct nuanced and compelling biographies of the site, she employed extensive archival and genealogical research with the help of Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society in 2021. Her talk will discuss how genealogical methods were used in her research, how this kind of historical information is more broadly useful to archaeologists, and explore the ethical implications of using publicly available genealogical information for archaeological research. Meghan Caves has worked as an archaeologist in the Pacific Northwest since 2018 and just received her Master’s Degree in anthropology from the University of Idaho. In addition to her ongoing doctoral studies at U of I, she also works an archaeological technician at the Umatilla National Forest out of the Pomeroy Ranger District in Southeastern Washington. Meghan’s love of history, archaeology, and genealogy stem from her childhood experiences with her grandmother, JoAnn Gardner, who was an avid genealogist in the Yakima Valley.

When Corey Smith decided to document his grandfather's first marriage it seemed like a simple journey - get the marriage license and enter into the software.  But the documents weren't definitive on their own and he struggled to weave the evidence into a cohesive narrative.  That sent Corey on a second journey, to find a better way to do genealogy research and document his findings. Join us for Sno-Isle Genealogical Society's (SIGS) May General Meeting when Corey will share his false starts, missteps and surprises on his way to a solid proof and a new set of research techniques. The meeting is open to the public.  It begins at 7:00 pm with a welcome, updates on the SIGS elections and major announcements on grants.  The main presentation will begin at 7:20 pm.  The live stream will also begin at 7:00 pm on the Society's Facebook page.