Eastern Washington Genealogical Society Blog

Genealogical news from Spokane, Washington, USA, and the Inland Northwest.

Friday, March 27, 2026

Postcards Tell Stories

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  My husband's ancestors came west from Troup County, Georgia. Imagine my delight to come upon a book of old historic postcards of that ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Cheers for UPS!

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  Do most of your ordered packages arrive on time? Either from the US Postal Service or the UPS, I'll bet they did.  Bet you had no clue...
Friday, March 20, 2026

What Was At Diamond Point, WA?

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  The Diamond Point Quarantine Station across Discovery Bay from Port Townsend. was a 156-acre federal facility opened in 1893 to control in...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Trivia Time!

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  The phrase "mad as a hatter" referred to the 19th century hat-makers were were poisoned by the mercury they used to treat the fe...
Monday, March 16, 2026

FamilySearch Offers Full-Text Searching

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  Quoting from FamilyTree Magazine , May-June 2025:  "For many years. optical character recognition (OCR) was limited to converting typ...
Friday, March 13, 2026

Social History Websites

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  The FamilyTree blog recently used this very image to head their article titled 31 Free Social History Websites.  Today's post is a Par...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Is Social History Real Research?

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      Google AI says:  Social history  studies the everyday lives, experiences, and cultures of ordinary people, focusing on social structur...
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