Printing The Membership Booklet

Printing the Membership Booklet

A while back Eastern Washington Genealogical Society decided due to cost of postage and printing to stop printing and mailing the membership list to our members. The membership list is on the society website and our webmaster set it up so you could download a PDF file of the membership list if you wanted a copy on your own computer, so I downloaded a copy for me. It was 22 pages long and included a nice cover page and the society by-laws just like the old copies we used to receive by mail.

Since it was a PDF file I went to Adobe Reader to look at the file, and since I wanted a hard copy for a project I was doing I wanted to print a copy. When I went to the print box up came a list of ways to print the file, and one said print a booklet, so I hit that one and the printer started printing. What surprised me was it printed half size, so two pages on each sheet, and then it turned over the paper and printed on the back of the same sheet of paper. Out came 6 pages all in order and when folded in half I had the whole 22 pages printed.

Now I had bought a new printer a Brother all in in one, and it had duplex printing. I did not have a clue what that meant until I found out it will print on both sides of a sheet of paper which is a big paper saver. I also have an older Kodak printer and I did not know it had duplex printing also, but it does and will print booklets also. So do you have a duplex printer? Have you printed a booklet?

View of Spokane: What Year Was This Taken?

What year was this taken would you guess? After the Monroe Street bridge but before Lady of Lourdes Cathedral? Before the Review Tower? After the Paulsen Building and the Steam Plant towers? There is nothing on the card, front nor back, that gives a clue to the date.

What is YOUR guess?

EWGS 80th Anniversary Celebration ...... A Fun Event

Kudos especially to Barbara, Mary, Patricia and Dolly for doing such a great job on the project Paul Turner: Who Do You Think You Are?  They four took turns presenting information on one of Paul's grandparent's lines and all but Mary had wonderful tales to tell. Her part was the Turner line and even with all four of them working on this, Paul's Turner ancestry remains a mystery. Paul's interest was really piqued with Dolly's sharing that his ancestors were involved with Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys. Barb noted that his ancestors had rubbed elbows with Abraham Lincoln.

To finish the presentation, and because Paul is the Grand Poobah of the Marmot Lodge here in Spokane, Donna gave the Marmot Genealogy and presented Paul with a stuffed marmot of his very own. 

We all agreed: we want to be around in 2035 for the 100th anniversary of EWGS!

EWGS 80th Anniversary Photos

EWGS 80th Anniversary Pictures

The Cakes, one chocolate and one white.

                                                                                  

Displays of 1935

More Displays

Scanning Table

Door Prizes

Crowd in hall outside of meeting room

Paul Turner and his family

Cindy Hval

EWGS Does Another Fun & Successful KSPS Pledge Evening

Thanks to our EWGS coordinator for the KSPS pledge drive dates, Cheryl Beck, we had a wonderful social evening and raised nearly $10,000 for KSPS public television on Monday evening, June 1st.

I found it interesting that most of the phone calls (making pledges) come from Canada and it is easy and delightful to chat with a person of Canadian accent. They do love KSPS and their pledges reflect that feeling.

Mabel recruited her daughter, Lisa, to join us. Mike always brings his friend, Kari, and his sister, Sarah. Charlotte was a first-timer and caught on in a snap. Cheryl, our coordinator, sits proudly in front (white blouse). Oweta, our EWGS treasurer, signed up Kari as a new member! Jennilyn, Charles, Pat, Doug and I were happy to be a part of the evening. 

We bring finger food and Mike's Chocolate Brownie Cakes (one plain fudge frosting and one with peanut butter fudge frosting) were yummy beyond description. 

Perhaps you will be part of our next KSPS pledge drive evening? Whenever they notify Cheryl that we are needed, we'll call you???

David Douglas Visited (What Is Now) Stevens County

David Douglas was born in 1799 in Scotland and died in 1834 in Hawaii. In between he traveled all over Canada and the Pacific Northwest; our majestic Douglas Fir tree, with its unique feathery cones, was named for him.

In author Jack Nisbet's book about David Douglas, The Collector, he described a "Stevens County" travel:

"Early the third morning, as the men crested the divide between the Colville and Spokane drainages, the woods opened up to offer 'one of the most sublime views that could possibly be, of rugged mountains, deep valleys, and mountain rills' The switch from mixed coniferous forest to the drier, more open habitats of bunchgrass and Ponderosa Pine appealed to Douglas. The trail wound down to the Spokane River (near present-day Tum Tum) then followed grassy benches upstream to its confluence with the Little Spokane. There, in the summer of 1810, Jaco Finlay, working as an emissary of David Thompson, had constructed the fur post known as Spokane House. ..... On the pleasant spring day that Douglas rode into Spokane House, the 58-year-old Finlay received his guest with a meal of camas, bitterrott, and cakes of black tree lichen....." 

There is your spotlight on Eastern Washington history for today. Hope you enjoyed it!

Come Join the Fun at the EWGS 80th Anniversary Celebration on June 6th!

EWGS turns 80 years old this year!  To mark this occasion, EWGS is offering to members and prospective members (anybody and everybody) an invitation to come attend our celebration party! We're calling it Your Story Starts Here! 

It's on Saturday, June 6th, our regular EWGS meeting date, but this is not a regular meeting. The day will run from 10:00 to 4:00. As you enter the library you will be given an EWGS Passport which you will take to Six Stations in the library to learn more about EWGS, about our genealogy collection, about how to fill out genealogy charts, how to tell your story. At each station, you'll get a stamp on your passport and a fully stamped passport puts you in the drawing for our prizes. 

There will be two feature presentations. The first one will be a Who Do You Think You Are? presentation to our Spokesman columnist, Paul Turner. He has no idea what our Tuesday Gals' sleuthing have uncovered about his ancestry. The second presentation will be by Garrin Hertel, of Nostalgia magazine who will give us a presentation on Spokane in the 1930s. (EWGS was founded in 1935.) 

There will be cake and punch, there will be free EWGS pencils, there will be all sorts of handouts and there will be Dorothy Dean recipes from 1935 as they appeared in the Spokesman-Review. 

Hope you plan to come, spend the day, and please bring a new-member friend. See you there!