Genealogy Jump Start

Thank you to everyone who participated in our 2024 Jump Start - we enjoyed meeting with you and answering your questions. Please check back in September 2025 for our next event in Bellingham!

The Whatcom Genealogical Society will be celebrating Family History Month on October 12, 2024 by hosting a free

"Genealogy Jump Start" event at the central downtown Bellingham Public Library, 210 Central Street,

Bellingham, Washington.

Please contact us via email at whatcomgenesoc@gmail.com to sign up for a time slot.

Let researchers from WGS provide one-on-one help with starting your family tree, transitioning from a paper family tree to one on your computer, or help you with a "brick wall" in your research.

We are offering 12 sessions scheduled throughout the day:

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

We can help 4 people per session.

In order to help you most effectively, please bring any information that you may have on family names, maiden names, birth dates, places where your ancestors lived, etc. If you have that information on a computer or would like to transition to a tree on your computer, please bring your laptop. Not sure where to start?? We can help with that, too!

Central downtown Bellingham Public Library