November a Good Month to Research Your Family Tree

 Tuesday, November 20, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Orcas Library

— from Kathi Ciskowski —

Interested in researching your family tree? Come branch out with us! The Orcas Island Genealogy Club is free and open to anyone who is interested in exploring family genealogy–whether you have years of experience or are just wanting to begin now. The monthly meetings happen on the third Tuesday of the month in the library Community Meeting Room from 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. The next meeting is on November 20. Bring a computer or other device that can connect to the internet.

November is the month when there are celebrations for The Day of Dead, Veterans Day and Thanksgiving. These days honor family and ancestors, so in this session, we will follow this lead and look at resources available to learn more about these ancestors.  We will focus on how to navigate the amazing volunteer-driven site “Find A Grave” as well as how to write away for death certificates and military records.  A pre-meeting suggestion is to watch the movie “Coco”…a Disney genealogy film.

Coordinators, Vicki Leimback, Rebecca Johnson and Kathi Ciskowski are passionate about research and will bring their organizational and genealogical skills and resources to share.

Rebecca Johnson is a professional genealogist with many areas of expertise.  Vicki Leimback has been doing extensive research on her family history and many other topics including the history of houses. Kathi Ciskowski has a Certificate from the University of Washington Genealogy and Family History course and has taught and helped people with genealogy projects for 8 years.

All three live on Orcas.

Call either Vicki (206-714-3348), Rebecca (360-298-6007) or Kathi (360-376-4186) for more information.