This page was last updated on 17 January 2026
What's new at WAGS?
It's Not Too Late to Register for Our Annual Seminar!
The theme for our 43rd Annual Seminar on January 31, 2026, will be
"Artificial Intelligence for Genealogy."
Our speakers will be Peggy Jude, John Beaumont, and Kate Penney Howard.
We will be having a drawing at the end of the seminar and will be giving away several valuable door prizes.
Click here for more information about our speakers.
Click here for more information about the seminar and the speakers' topics.
Click here to see our most current list of door prizes.
Join us for our Upcoming Writers Group Meetings
Our Writers Group will meet in person at the Uptown Whittier Senior Center on Wednesday, January 28th at 1:00 p.m.
Click here for more information.
Join us online or in-person for our next monthly meeting on Saturday, February 21st, 2026.
We hope you enjoyed Lisa Medina's presentation on "Your Personal Tour: Creating a Locality Guide" at our January meeting
At our February Meeting, Ariana Franco will be our featured speaker. Her topic will be "Understanding Derivative Citizenship in the 20th Century."
What's new on the WAGS website?
Updates for Everyone
The January President's Pen was uploaded on January 10th.
January Writing Tips and Tricks were updated on December 21st.
We have updated the listing of door prizes for our upcoming seminar on January 31st.
We already have fifteen great gifts for genealogists to give away - and we're not done yet!
Thanks to WAGS member Miriam Benell, we have updated the Past Seminars page with the names of all of our seminar speakers from our first seminar in 1983 to our most recent seminar in 2025, filling in the previous gap between 1991 and 2006. We have also included many of the topics presented at these seminars.
The January Writer's Suggestions have been added..
Click here to see the January prompts.
The Fall 2025 Writer's Block article was updated on October 7th.
Our members have been updating our Surname Database with new information. Check it out to see if you have a match yet! Click here to access the Surname Database.
Updates for Members Only
The January 2026 issue of WAGS Family Tales has been added to the Members Only section of the website. It is now available for members to view or download.
Note for Members about the Surname Database:
To add surnames to the Surname Database, you must be logged in to the WAGS website.
Enter your surnames at the bottom of your Member Profile page.
**Remember to scroll down and click on Save when you are done entering.**
You will not be able to see your own surnames in the Surname Database unless you are logged out of the WAGS website.