Mason County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 103 Shelton, WA 98584-0103 The Mason Log Volume 14 Issue 8 April 1, 2018 April meeting •   Thursday, April 5th •   7:00 p.m. Start time •   Mason County Historic Society Museum, 5th and Railroad Ave •   Membership dues - single: $15.00 Couple: $20.00 •   Find us on the web at http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wamcgs/ The inside scoop Ø   Our library Ø   Impending merger? Ø   Norwegian research Ø   Abstraction, extraction and transcription Our library Good news about the MCGS library, Pat Tostevin has accepted the mantle as our librarian. Yay!! She has taken our old online Library Thing catalog and organized, into the Mason County Genealogical Society Library which can be found following this link https://www.librarycat.org/lib/Macogensoc . Click on the tiny cat curled up at the bottom of the screen for more information about Tiny Cat. I found it quite interesting. Tiny Cat is billed as a real library catalog for small libraries. For a complete list of our holdings, simply type books in the search bar, click enter, and up pops our holdings. If you want to find a subject, such as Irish Heritage, use the search and you will find the books in the library related to your subject. The status of the actual books in the MCGS library is in a state of flux. Some of the Mason County Genealogical Society’s books have been moved to the Mason County Historic Society Museum, the remainder are at the Family History Center. We are holding our monthly society meetings at the museum and the thinking was to have our holdings at our meeting place. There is a catch…available space. The books housed in the museum are available for use during museum hours http://www.masoncountyhistoricalsociety.org/contact.html . The library is in an evolutionary stage as our organization seeks solutions to become more relevant in what has become a fast-changing landscape in our world here in Mason County. Expect to see changes in response to various stimuli and don’t be afraid to offer suggestions, comments, and critiques as the group seeks solutions for our combined future well-being. I’ll be in contact with Pat to try to keep current with changes to the status of our library and holdings. Stay tuned. Don’t change that dial. Pictures at eleven. Impending merger? The latest online buzz, Mason County Genealogy Society has been approached to merge with the National Chapter of Mediocre Genealogists and assist them climb the ladder to genealogical competency. Follow us on RancidRumors. AF2018 , OCR Text: Mason County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 103 Shelton, WA 98584-0103 The Mason Log Volume 14 Issue 8 April 1, 2018 April meeting •   Thursday, April 5th •   7:00 p.m. Start time •   Mason County Historic Society Museum, 5th and Railroad Ave •   Membership dues - single: $15.00 Couple: $20.00 •   Find us on the web at http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wamcgs/ The inside scoop Ø   Our library Ø   Impending merger? Ø   Norwegian research Ø   Abstraction, extraction and transcription Our library Good news about the MCGS library, Pat Tostevin has accepted the mantle as our librarian. Yay!! She has taken our old online Library Thing catalog and organized, into the Mason County Genealogical Society Library which can be found following this link https://www.librarycat.org/lib/Macogensoc . Click on the tiny cat curled up at the bottom of the screen for more information about Tiny Cat. I found it quite interesting. Tiny Cat is billed as a real library catalog for small libraries. For a complete list of our holdings, simply type books in the search bar, click enter, and up pops our holdings. If you want to find a subject, such as Irish Heritage, use the search and you will find the books in the library related to your subject. The status of the actual books in the MCGS library is in a state of flux. Some of the Mason County Genealogical Society’s books have been moved to the Mason County Historic Society Museum, the remainder are at the Family History Center. We are holding our monthly society meetings at the museum and the thinking was to have our holdings at our meeting place. There is a catch…available space. The books housed in the museum are available for use during museum hours http://www.masoncountyhistoricalsociety.org/contact.html . The library is in an evolutionary stage as our organization seeks solutions to become more relevant in what has become a fast-changing landscape in our world here in Mason County. Expect to see changes in response to various stimuli and don’t be afraid to offer suggestions, comments, and critiques as the group seeks solutions for our combined future well-being. I’ll be in contact with Pat to try to keep current with changes to the status of our library and holdings. Stay tuned. Don’t change that dial. Pictures at eleven. Impending merger? The latest online buzz, Mason County Genealogy Society has been approached to merge with the National Chapter of Mediocre Genealogists and assist them climb the ladder to genealogical competency. Follow us on RancidRumors. AF2018 , Mason County Genealogical Society,Mason Logs,Mason Logs,2018,V15 I8 MCGS Apr 2018 Newsletter a.pdf,V15 I8 MCGS Apr 2018 Newsletter a.pdf Page 1, V15 I8 MCGS Apr 2018 Newsletter a.pdf Page 1