Do you feel like you have digital files everywhere? Is your Facebook page useful for genealogy? Can you find what you are looking for? Karen Lehfeldy will share how she tackles these and other genealogy organizations tasks. Karen started her genealogy journey in 2017. Without knowing how to do genealogy, she began researching what was working for others. Karen is the president of the Twin Rivers Genealogical Society and a member of the Eastern Washington Genealogical Society where she serves at the Delegate to the National Genealogical Society. In addition, she is a member of the St.Clair County genealogical Society of Illinois and Agderlag(group of Americans with ancestors from Agder,Norway). Karen enjoys volunteering at the Lewiston City Library in the Local History Room weekly where she helps others to research their families.

Maggie Cogswell, from the Washington State Archives will be discussing preservation of our oversized records for Family History. She will discuss problems inherent to oversize records, how to store them to help mitigate these issues, some basic preservation and mild conservation measures that we can take, and ways to store oversized records in our home. Maggie is a digital projects and preservation archivist at the Washington State Archives. The Digital Projects department was established in 2007 to digitize and catalog some of Washington States greatest treasures for online access through the washington State Digital Archives.

An entertaining and informative story of a seemly simple question that unexpectedly unravels into multiple coast-to-coast research journeys. Lori Lee asked,"Who were my grandmother's people?" and found herself developing a primer for researching Early American Quaker families. Learn how to undertake your own Quaker research through her story of beautiful souls, living and dead, that helped her through her journe. Lori Lee Sauber, is a memeber of the Eastern Washington Genealogical Society and one of their past presidents.

Barry McCombs will be giving us updates and help navigating the Family Search Website. Barry will be giving ideas to help with our research of our Family History.

Have you hit a road block trying to find your ancestors headstone or a grave site? Lora Rose, a board member of the Northeast Washington Genealogical Society , will be giving hints and advice on how to find them. She is one of the main caretakers for the Evergreen Cemetery in Colville. In August of 2023,Lora finished researching the genealogies of all the burials in Evergreen Cemetery. There are over 20,000 entries in her database.

Have you ever wondered about the life of a country doctor? Doc McConnell, was a doctor in Republic, Washington. Susan S. McConnell, the daughter of the doctor will be talking about the life experiences of her father. She will tell of the hard times, diffucult realities of a country doctor and the family.

A fun afternoon of learning more about Stevens County History. Come see new exhibits and what the museum has to offer. The museum was started in 1975 and has kept growing ever since.

Lee Pierce, from the Eashington Washington State Archives will be giving a presentation. Lee always brings new ideas and discoveries from the archives. He will also tell about what may be found at the archives. He will explain the days and times that you can visit the archives in Cheney. If you have questions for Lee, please bring them.

Donna Phillips, from Eastern Washington Genealogical Society will be discussing ,what you can discover in the

old Family Bible. What important information you can gleem from the pages and how important it is for you,as a researcher. Maybe you found a small dried bouquet of flowers in the bible-what this might mean for your research.

Have you ever gone on a Family history trip and discovered a mystery or two? Maybe you meet a long lost cousin and need to know the connection. Steve Riggan, went on such a trip and found out some very interesting stories. He will give us some pointers on how to solve a question or two. Steve belongs to the Mayflower Society and the Jamestown Society. He was recently reunited with a family bible from the mid 1800's.