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Happy Monday everyone! Time for some Wisaard fun facts! Q: Sometimes when I use the Filter Search in Wisaard I get duplicate results? What is that? What should I do? A: A duplicate result is when the same exact Resource, with the same exact identification number, appears in search results more than once. This could potentially occur when searching in any of the data categories using the Filter Search function. For example, say I wanted to find all of... more

The Olympia Historical Society and Bigelow House Museum will hold its Annual Meeting, Saturday, January 28, 2017 at the Olympia Community Center, 222 Columbia Street NW.   The program "Odd Olympia," starts at 1:30 pm with business meeting to follow.  Local historians will present the history of some of Olympia’s odd characters and events including the “Pagan Frolic,” details about Bill Greenwood and his ark and the life and work of spiritualist and suffragist Rev. Genevra Lake.   The program is... more

Hi All! I'm back after a little time away (and the blog was broken for a while so nothing got posted). Hope you are all having a wonderful new year! Q: I see a Determined Not Eligible red triangle on the map for a Property, but when I look at the Project History associated with that Property, I don't see the same info. What is the deal? A: Before we started with online survey all of the determinations were made on paper forms. These forms were all uploaded as PDFs... more

OUTREACH NOTICE The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area is filling a permanent GS-0193-12 Archeologist in Hood River, OR. We hope to advertise the position in early winter 2017. Our goal is to have a successful candidate selected in time to transition with the current incumbent. The Columbia River Gorge is world renowned for its complex and diverse cultural history. Tribal occupation in the region is marked by ancient villages, images, legendary sites, monuments and traditional... more

The vacancy announcements for the Regional Chief Architect (RCA) position located in Auburn is open through Wednesday, December 21st. This position works with historic properties owned or managed by the U.S. General Services Administration  in the Northwest Region. One announcement (1710357LMMP) is open for current career / career conditional employees, and the other announcement (... more

This position is being advertised at the Pacific Northwest Regional Office, Resource Services, Land Resources, Boise, Idaho. Archaeologist, GS-0193-11

• Permanent
• Salary: $59,246 to $77,019 per year
• Moving expenses are authorized.

Announcements Open: 12/19/2016 to 1/3/2017 BR-PN-VA-RS-17-100 is opened to current Federal employees serving under competitive service career or career-conditional... more

CALL FOR PAPERS – “COMMEMORATIONS” “Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” - Elie Wiesel SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS  MARION DEAN ROSS/PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER  ANNUAL CONFERENCE VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA JUNE 16 - 18, 2017 Abstracts or... more

Hi All, I tried my hand a a little video production as I'm hoping to make a series of tutorials for Wisaard users. Here is the first one! WISAARD PRINT TUTORIAL VIDEO You can also find the link to the video on our website.     more

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I will not be posting next week so I hope you all have a nice holiday. Q: What is the best practice for using punctuation or non-alpha characters in Wisaard? A: The best practice is to avoid all non-alpha characters in all free text short data entry fields such as name (Project name, Resource name) and address. Remember that whatever you put in these fields will be searched on later. The name and address fields are the most commonly searched... more