Friday, March 6, 2020

What Are Those EWGS Special Interest Groups?

If you missed the meeting on March 7th, were EWGS members explained our Special Interest Groups and on-going projects, here's a recap for you:

** The Valley Clan Diggers:  "The purpose and goals for the group are sharing current projects, helping each other and carpooling to meetings." Contact Alice Hostetter for info:  509-928-4198.

** RootsMagic Group:  "We study how we can best preserve and organize our genealogy data with the RootsMagic software in a way each of us finds useful."  Contact John Wilson for info: wilsonjb@gmail.com

** Ancestry Users Group;  "TAG members participate in learning how to better utilize Ancestry.com...."  Contact Marge Mero for info:  margemero@yahoo.com

** Genealogy Re-Focus Group:  "GRF members revisit their genealogy files, learn latest technologies and share ideas on Internet tools..."  Contact Lynda Keenan for info: llkeenan62@gmail.com

** Find-A-Grave:  Annually, Patricia Flint coordinates a trip to a local cemetery to fill photo requests for burials in our cemeteries from folks living elsewhere. This is upcoming on June 15th. Contact Patricia at 509-991-7079.

** Obituary Committee:  "Our goal is to create an online inclusive database of obituaries published in local newspapers of the past 100 years..."  Contact Donna Potter Phillips for info:  Donna243@gmail.com

** Facebook:  This is not really a group but EWGS does have an interactive group on Facebook where you can ask and answer genealogy questions of others. Contact Charles Hansen to become a member:  charles_hansen@prodigy.net

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