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WELCOME

by Donna Potter Phillips, President
 
Welcome to the Eastern Washington Genealogical Society!
We are a happy and proud bunch eager to share education, resources, and support to friends and members living in the Eastern Washington (Spokane) area and to our scattered EWGS members. There is something for you on our website and I invite you to come back often for a visit. Explore our website by clicking in the links to your left. If you would like to contact us, please go to the contact us tab and choose the person you want or use our convenient web contact form.
 
 

NEXT MEETING

 
FEBRUARY  4, 2012  - SATURDAY  
 
Location:   Spokane Public Library   
      Time:   12:30 P.M.    
                
PROGRAM: My Associate Ancestor,
                     George Washington
                  Presented by:  Bob Ashbury
 
For more information call: Donna Potter-Phillips  509.624.4118
 
 
NOTICE!!
RESCHEDULED COMPUTER CLASS - NOW FEBRUARY 11TH! SEE EVENTS
 
 

FOR SALE

EWGS "GARAGE" BOOK SALE!!!
 
 
Your EWGS Board has decided that we need no longer store these books and are offering them to you members at a garage sale price! Get them for yourself or for any other society or researcher that you might wish to gift. Jacque Lane has these and will either deliver them to you at an EWGS meeting or ship them to you (must include postage in this case). We're offering:
  1. Spokane County Rural Cemetery Records, 3 volumes, 1178 pages, $25.00 total
  2. Bible Records Collected from EWGS & NeWGS Members, 17 pages, $3.00
  3. Spokane County Marriage Books A&B, 300 pages, $10.00 total
  4. Spokane County Early Wills, 60 pages, $5.00
  5. Smith Funeral Home Records, 2 volumes, 1890-1906, 250 pages, $20.00 total
  6. Adams & Pend Oreille Co Tombstone Inscriptions, 150 pages, $5.00
  7. Lincoln County Tombstone Inscriptions, 181 pages, $5.00
  8. Stevens County Tombstone Inscriptions, 185 pages, $5.00
  9. Whitman County Tombstone Inscriptions, 3 volumes, 475 pages, $20.00 total
  10. Genealogical Index to the DAR Magazine, 1961-1970, 255 pages, $10.00
  11. Ancestor Records of EWGS Members, 301 pages, $5.00
  12. Washington's First Marriages, 331 pages, $15.00
  13. Buchanan Funeral Home Records, 2 volumes, 500 pages, $20.00
We also have a few miscellaneous extra items which we'll bring to a future meeting to offer to you. If you wish Jacque to mail these to you, plan to include $2.00 per 100 pages.
Contact Donna Potter Phillips,  Donna243@gmail.com, to place your request.
 
 

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Donna Potter Phillips, EWGS President
 
 
JANUARY 2012  PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
 
Welcome EWGS to 2012!  This new year holds out the promise of being the best year ever for us. This year marks 77 years since the founding of EWGS in 1935, and, as I review the history of EWGS and think back over my 36 years of involvement with this wonderful group, I can but marvel at what we've accomplished.
 
The 2012  year promises to be even bigger and better than ever! We're having a Welcome 1940 Census Birthday Party, a very special Irish Seminar, a series of monthly computer classes learning how to accomplish Civil War research online, and much more.  
I do hope you choose to renew your membership (by mail or now online through our website) and mark all the EWGS monthly dates onto your 2012 calendar.  Come join with your like-minded friends to sharpen your genealogy skills. Where else, and with who else, can you talk genealogy that eyes don't glaze over?
 
Here are those dates to mark: January 7 and 21; February 4 and 18; March 10 and 17; April 7 and 21; May 5 and 19; June 2 and 16; July 21; August 18; September 8 and 15; October 6 and 20; November 3 and 17; December 1. And our special date on Sept 22 for Walking with Ancestors! (Yes, the March 10 and September 8 meetings are on the second Saturday, not the first.) See you with smiles in 2012!
 
 
 
 
 
Donna
 
 

NEWS OF THE SOCIETY

EWGS now has logo pins for sale! Price is $5.00.  Contact Rod Ramer (rodramer@msn.com) to purchase these pins.

EWGS Writing Contest  - MY CIVIL WAR ANCESTOR WAS:

EWGS is indebted to our former and long-time Bulletin editor, Doris Woodward, for our many past Writing Contests. Doris would choose a subject or topic and then invite any and all members to contribute their story. And we did! Thank you, Doris, for inspiring us for so many years to write our stories.
We propose the Writing Contest continue and have chosen a topic.  We  invite all EWGS members to submit their story. Please create it as a WORD document form .doc and then submit it as an email attachment to Donna Potter Phillips, Donna243@gmail.com.
 
Each story will be published in future editions of our EWGS Digital Digest; your submission constitutes permission to publish. EWGS reserves editorial rights. You are encouraged to submit a photo with your story; submit your photo as a .jpg attachment to an email. The chosen topic for this first EWGS Digital Digest Writing Contest is: My Civil War Ancestor Was:   Write about your Union or Confederate soldier, or his family, what he did, what happened to him after the war..........anything you want!
 
This is the 150th Anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War (1861-1865).  In honoring this event, we are extending the deadline for you to submit your story.  The deadline for submissions of this contest is 01 October 2012.  And Yes!  There will be prizes! First prize is a  1-year subscription to Ancestry.com U.S. database!
 
 

 

 

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Tower Clock

This is the 1974 Exposition Tower Clock. The clock is an historic monument in Downtown Spokane.