As you have probably heard,
Whatcom County has moved to Phase 2 of Re-opening. Washington has issued standards for
re-opening library curbside services. The
WCLS staff has been planning for this and will start receiving returns tomorrow,
on Monday, June 8. They are already
working on curbside pickup of books you have reserved. My list of holds shows one book Ready for Pickup
and two In Transit. They will tell us
when and how to start our pickup. For
now all contact will take place outside the library. Woohoo!
There are many steps
between here and opening the meeting rooms for live in-person meetings. In the meantime we will happily continue
meeting by Zoom. Mark your calendar for Genies’ Zoom meetings on Mondays, June 15
and July 20. That’s right. We have to start keeping calendars
again. It’s not too late to jump on the
Zoom bandwagon. Help is available.
For Washington we have the
governor’s 9-page Safe Start booklet found here:
For over 65 folks, it
says: “Stay at home, stay at home, stay
at home” for Phases 1, 2 and 3. No haircuts for now. One friend already got the word from her
beautician.
On to Genealogy News:
1. MyHeritage is a
major research resource but it is one more subscription to use it. In June they are opening a different
collection each day for free access.
Many are for specific countries.
You missed a few, but for the list of the free collections for each day,
click
here.
2. One of our
members, David R, is interested in connecting with anyone who is interested in
talking about 23andme‘s DNA health results.
Just reply to this email.
3. A webinar on
the DNA tool What Are the Odds? caught Sylvia’s eye this week. It is still free until the middle of next
week. No matter what your genealogy interest,
go to the Legacy Family Tree homepage at https://familytreewebinars.com/. You can sign up for an email to alert you to
their free webinars every week. They are
also opening one free webinar every day.
4. Remember
when Linda B had great success grave-finding on Prince Edward Island. Now Linda tells us how her experience made
the Billion Graves blog.
“When I visited the expo hall at
Roots Tech, I chatted with the sales rep at the BillionGraves.com booth.
I told her how I used their app to find Peter's 3x great grandfather's grave on
Prince Edward Island. She asked if I would write that in an email to her
and I did.
“My story was published on their
blog as part of a feature on using the app to locate a gravestone: https://blog.billiongraves.com/find-a-gravestone/
“They
added a map of PEI showing all of the cemeteries--illustrated the dilemma of
locating the right one perfectly.”
The
whole article is inspiring and you can scroll down to Linda’s story at:
Using the BillionGraves App to Find a Gravestone on Prince
Edward Island
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