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Membership brochure 2025 (1)

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Membership brochure 2025 (1)

WHITMAN COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY is hosting a free Spring Mini-Seminar 

Saturday, April 27, 2024, 9 AM – 12 Noon 
Bishop Place Independent Living Social Room, 811 SE Klemgard, Pullman, WA 

To register for this event, send your name to whitmancgs@gmail.com The event is free,
but we need to plan for set-up, refreshments & the number of handouts needed. Walk-in
registration is possible, but pre-registration is preferred. Last minute attendance may not be
able to receive handout material. Questions? Call Sue Kreikemeier at 509-595-3307.

FEATURING KATHY BUCHHOLTZ
Whitman Heritage Digital Collections program manager for Whitman County Library
Alex Otero is the Archivist for Whitman County Historical Society

and 
JILL NOCK, AG®
Presenting Whitman Heritage Digital Collection “Okay, I Have My DNA Results: Now What?” 

Above: Franklin School students, Pullman, 1912 from the Staley Museum Collection 

Seminar Schedule 

9:00 am: – The doors open. Gather, grab a beverage, pick up handouts. 

9:30 am – 10:30 am: Presenting Whitman Heritage Digital Collection, Kathy Buchholtz & Alex Otero 10:30 am – 10:45 am: Break and Refreshments 

10:45 am – 11:45 am: “Okay, I Have My DNA Results: Now What?”, Jill Nock 

Kathy Buchholtz is the Whitman Heritage Digital Collections program manager for Whitman County Library. Alex Otero is the Archivist for Whitman County Historical Society. They will share information about Whitman County Library’s online digital collection; how it came about, how it is funded*, and how to use it. The collection consists of over 5,000 historical images from all over Whitman County. There will be a slide presentation with photographs from Whitman County and a demonstration on how to access and navigate the collection, followed by a time for questions.  

*The collection is supported by a grant with funding provided by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State. 

Jill Nock, a WCGS member since 2016, has attained the Accredited Genealogist (AG) credential in the U.S. Upper South region through the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists. Her business is Mountain State Genealogy (http://mtnstgen.com). Focus of Jill’s presentation: Are you stumped with what to do with your DNA test results?  DNA has become the genealogy “go-to”. Some brick walls crumble in the face of DNA evidence, but just as often, DNA brings new discoveries to secrets that were long hidden. Jill walks through the steps and gives information for the tools to help you on your DNA journey, followed by a time for questions. 

Directions to Seminar: Turn off Bishop Boulevard onto Klemgard St., follow Klemgard St. up the hill and turn left at the top. Do not go into the front entrance, but turn right, continuing up the hill and turn left at the white carports.  After parking, enter the building through the main doors near the carports and go straight ahead to the Social Room.

We are currently reducing our library holdings.  We hope to post a new listing when this is completed.  In the meantime, please forgive us if we no longer have what you request.

“Making AHA! Happen”
A seminar with community historian and author
STEVEN BRANTING
Historical research can lead to many dead ends if one’s thinking is closed to alternatives. This
seminar will explore several proven techniques to increase what is termed “lateral thinking.”
SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2023, 10 A.M.
Bishop Place Independent Living Social Room
811 SE Klemgard St., Pullman, WA
Registration ahead of time is appreciated by responding to Whitmancgs@gmail.com. Event is
FREE but registrations and donations will be accepted at the door.
Gather at 10 AM. The one hour presentation begins at 10:15 AM with a brief time for questions
afterwards. Refreshments will be available. Come greet your genealogy friends after a long absence
of getting together. Masks are not required, but certainly appropriate, if you wish. Watch for further
details in the next newsletter.

Steven Branting’s biography includes the following:
Since 2000, many of this country’s leading history, geography and
preservation organizations — including the American Association for State
and Local History, The History Channel and the Society for American
Archaeology — have honored Steven Branting for the depth, scope and
variety of his research and field work.
In 2009, he was nominated for the American Historical Association’s
prestigious William and Edwyna Gilbert Award, which recognizes
outstanding contributions to the teaching of history through the publication
of journal articles. Branting has written ten (10) books on the history of
Lewiston. Branting’s articles have appeared in, among others, the Western
Historical Quarterly, The History Teacher, Idaho Magazine, Nostalgia and Idaho Yesterdays.
The Idaho State Historical Society conferred upon him the 2011 Esto Perpetua Award, its
highest honor, citing his leadership in “some of the most significant preservation and interpretation
projects undertaken in Idaho.” Governor C. L. “Butch” Otter awarded him that year’s Outstanding
Cultural Tourism Award for showcasing Idaho’s heritage.
In 2013, the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution awarded Branting its
coveted Historical Preservation Medal. In 2015, Lewis-Clark State College selected him for the
Marion Shinn Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2016 he was awarded the President’s Medallion
for his efforts to safeguard the heritage that the college and community have shared since the 1890s.
During 2018, the Lewiston Tribune published 104 of his columns highlighting events and people
who featured greatly in the history of Lewis-Clark State College, which was celebrating its 125th
anniversary and for whom Branting holds the office of “Institutional Historian,” the first since Henry
Leonidas Talkington in the 1940s.
Branting’s tenth Lewiston book — Interiors: Old Lewiston Behind Doors — was released in
September 2022.

Saturday, April 2 EWGS April Seminar

Roots Tech will be March 3 – 5th, 2022.  It is again free and online!  If you would like to sign up, click this link or visit rootstech.org.

https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/next/