PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Genealogical Society is hosting the Washington State Genealogical Society’s Annual Conference today and Saturday.
The conference at the Elks Naval Lodge, 131 E. First St., will begin with registration at 1 p.m. today.
The first session will be at 3:30 p.m. today, and a meet-and-greet social is planned tonight.
Saturday’s events begin with a continental breakfast at 8 a.m., with sessions starting at 8:30 a.m. and running until 4:30 p.m.
Registration is $80 for members of the Clallam County or Washington state societies and $85 for non-members.
This includes all food at the event, a syllabus, all lectures by the keynote speaker and a selection of three of the nine breakout sessions.
This year’s conference theme is “Armchair Genealogy from the Pacific Northwest.”
The keynote speaker will be Canadian forensic genealogist and author Brian W. Hutchinson.
He will lecture on “Armchair Genealogy: Practicing Effective Long-Distance Genealogical Research,” “The Elusive Ancestor: Using Unused Sources to Locate Your Relative” and “Twenty-five Tips in Sixty Minutes.”
Nine breakout sessions will feature Raymond Madsen, Jim Johnson, Mary Kozy, Jon Kirshbaum, Laura Sparr and Rod Fleck, and will cover such subjects as migration, military research, home disasters, DNA and genealogy, and the new Family Search database.
Heritage Quest and other vendors will be present with a large selection of genealogical books available for purchase.
Raffles for multiple theme baskets and a silent auction will be held.
For information and registration materials, phone the Clallam County Genealogical Society at 360-417-5000 or visit www.olypen,com/ccgs or www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wasgs.