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BULLETIN EASTSIDE BOARD Vol. XXIX GENEALOGICAL No. 7 SOCIETY JANUARY 2011

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EGS Meeting Information Date: Thursday, January 13, 2011 Time: Welcome New Members 6:30 PM Meeting Begins 7:00 PM JANUARY 2011 Location: Bellevue Regional Library Room 1 VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER VII Topic: National Genealogical Society Video Presentations Speakers: Jay Verkle and David McCullough The Eastside Genealogical Society About The Program: P.O. Box 374 We will be watching two presentations from the NGS Conference in Salt Bellevue WA 98009-0374 Lake City last summer. The first speaker will be Jay Verkler, who gave the www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakcegs/ keynote address. He gave a fascinating overview of the ways in which the LDS Church goes about copying and storing all the information that they collect. February 10, 2011 EGS Meeting: David McCullough, author and historian, is the second speaker. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a re- Family Photos and cipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His first book was The John- How to Get the Most From stown Flood (1968), and he has since written seven more on such topics as Your Scanner Harry S. Truman, John Adams, and the Brooklyn Bridge. Two of Bellevue Regional Library McCullough's books, Truman and John Adams, have been adapted by HBO into a TV film and a mini-series, respectively.

After you watch these two speakers, you will wish that you’d have gone to INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Salt Lake City. This is the next best thing.

President’s Message President’s Message 1 Welcome New Members 2 Hi everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday. EGS Board Meeting 3 Minutes Now it’s on to the new year. What do you hope to accomplish, genealogy- wise, in 2011? Do you hope to break through that very troublesome brickwall? New on the Bookshelf 4 Find the date of your 3rd great grandfather’s birth? Find your Irish family’s port of entry? Choose genealogy software? Get help translating that crucial Report on EGS Classes 5 German document? Organize your piles, excuse me, information? 2010 Census Data 6 Your society is here to help. Visit the help desk in room 6 in the Bellevue Regional Library Tuesday evenings from 7-9 and Wednesdays from 1-3. We A Secret Gift 8 may not have every answer, but we’ll try to at least point you in the right direction. SIG Calendar 10

Join one or more of the special interest groups: come with the Shore to EGS Contacts 11 Shore group on a research outing (finds are always more fun when shared!). Come to Lunch Bunch at 11:30 on the 4th Thursday at the Crossroads Mall food court for chit chat and, well, lunch. Or join one of the other groups. You never know who may have the answer to your burning question.

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Attend the meetings too. Not every topic will seem to be relevant to your particular research but you’ll nearly always pick up some useful nugget and you’ll get to chat with your seat mate about your shared interest.

The special interest groups and contact information can be found in the back of the Bulletin and program information is on the front page. So, let’s get busy!

Happy hunting!

Judy Meredith, President Upcoming EGS Meeting Program Information

For February’s program, I’d like you to share some family photographs that you find particularly interesting or funny. Please make sure that you email me, Carol Pattison ([email protected]) one or two interesting old photos from your family history that you would like to spend a few minutes talking about. They can be funny, unusual or anything that you think we might enjoy seeing.

Along with this part of the program, Ed Schultz will be explaining to us how we can get the most out of our scanners. I know there are some of you out there who are techno-geeks but a lot of us, including me, only know how to use the very basic capabilities of our scanners and, especially the new ones, can do so much more.

If you are unable to scan your photos, then send good copies to me, Carol Pattison, at 12145 SE 91st St, Newcastle, WA 98056 and I will scan them into my computer. I think that this program can be a lot of fun but we need your photos to share. (Submitted by Carol Pattison, EGS Vice-President and Program Chair).

Welcome New Members

Please welcome the following new EGS members:

 Sue GAYLOR is researching FLURY in Switzerland, DARACUNAS in Austria, and FYDA in Middle eastern Europe.

 Larry and Arlene PLUSH are researching McINARY in Ireland, TUTTLE/ STAMP American Indian, and LEVANG and ERICKSON in Norway.

Volunteer Opportunities

EGS needs library help desk volunteers and an assistant for our Library Chairman. These are not terribly time consuming. For information about these positions, contact Judy Meredith (425-702-9321) or the appropriate chair person listed in the back of the Bulletin.

Genealogical New Year’s Resolutions

Do you have a genealogical New Year’s resolution you would be willing to share? Tell us your plans for your genealogical research, any goals for research trips, and any other genealogical-related resolutions. We would like to include them in the next newsletter. Please send your resolutions to Kimberly Nichols at [email protected]

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EGS Board Meeting Minutes Summary of October 7, 2010 Present: Judy Meredith, Ed Schultz, Sarah Fleming , Dorothy Mehrer.

Education: Bob Barnes reported there were about 12 attendees at the September 26 class at the BRL. The next session October 10 will be Internet Research by Dave Abernathy.

Library Acquisition: Committee meeting rescheduled to October 9. A memorial book will be purchased for Carl Ca- son, long-time member of the Book Acquisition Committee.

Membership: Holding at 255 memberships, 265 individuals. Ed Schultz is working on a new membership database. Dorothy reported the death of long-time member Carl Cason.

Outreach: Judy Meredith and Ed Schultz do not feel our participation at Newcastle Day, September 11, was worth the $50 fee. We will have a table at the Family History Expo, November 6, at the Bellevue Stake Center on Main Street.

Program: November 13, a Saturday, is our annual show & share and cookie fest.

Sarah Fleming suggested the January program be a viewing of the keynote address, ―From the Granite Mountain to the Ends of the World,‖ from the National Genealogy Society Conference in Salt Lake. FamilySearch gave every attendee a 2-DVD set containing the NGS keynote address and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert and speech by David McCullough.

Linda Dillman has volunteered to be on the program committee.

Treasurer’s Report: Ed Schultz reported a 10% increase in our insurance (after he questioned a proposed 20% increase).

Old Business: EGS is now a member of www.techsoup.com, a website that supplies software to non-profits at a significant discount, according to Ed Schultz.

New Business: A motion passed to invite the membership to donate to the War of 1812 pension digitization project, and that we match the membership donation with funds from the treasury.

(A complete copy of the minutes can be made available upon request.) Seattle Times Archives Available through Seattle Public Library

More than a century of the newspaper, The Seattle Times, is available through the Seattle Public Library. If you are a library member, you can find the archives online at www.spl.org. The archives are searchable and you can print out, magnify and digitally save pages. For more information, see The Seattle Times article at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013517865_archives25.html (From The Seattle Times, November 24, 2010, submitted by EGS member Dorothy Pretare)

FREE GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH HELP Genealogical research help is available at the Bellevue Regional Library, located at NE 12 th St. and 110 th Ave. NE in Bellevue. Eastside Genealogical Society volunteers are waiting to help you with problems and questions. They are available in room 6 on the second floor of the library, to the left of the reference desk. Hours are Tuesdays from 7:00-9:00 PM and Wednesdays from 1:00-3:00 PM.

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The following books, purchased by the Eastside Genealogical Society, have been added to the genealogy collection at the Bellevue Regional Library. Look for these books in the Genealogy Collection on the second floor.

Family History Research in Greece, 3rd ed. Lica Catsakis. Author, 2010. 169 pp. R929.107204 Comprehensive guide to Greek genealogical research. Includes information on Greek sources, history, migration, locating places in Greece, churches and religious denominations, research by mail, family questionnaires, Greek names, help with the Greek language.

Sto Lat: A Modern Guide to Polish Genealogy. Cecile Wendt Jensen. Michigan Polonia, 2010. 130 pp. R929.108991 JEN Presents practical examples and suggestions on how to use records, databases, and archives to begin or advance Polish research. Dispels the myth that records were destroyed during the World Wars and that language barriers make European research difficult. Both traditional and digital research techniques are presented. Contains lots of illustrations.

The German Research Companion, 3rd ed. Shirley J. Riemer, Roger P. Minert, Jennifer A. Anderson. Lorelei Press, 2010. 706 pp. R929108931 RIE 2010 The 3rd edition is revised, updated, and expanded. Often referred to as "the bible of German family history," it provides an exceptionally wide range of helpful information on hundreds of topics related to German research, all thor- oughly indexed for easy reference. Topics include: archive addresses; book, microfilm, and microfiche numbers; gazetteers; church books and inventories; chronologies; German indexes of family history information; German, Latin, and French genealogy vocabularies; glossaries; numerous German genealogical resources; abbreviation keys; military resource lists; special libraries; German correspondence aids; passenger arrival and departure records; help with the old German script; resource lists; German-focused libraries and collections; special directories, and much, much more. It is intended to accompany the German family historian on trips to libraries, archives, and workshops. If you do German research, you probably want a copy for your own library.

If you have a suggestion for a genealogy-related reference book to add to our collection at the Bellevue Regional Library, or if you have one to donate, please contact Sarah Fleming at [email protected] or 425-957- 1134. Non-Genealogy Books at the Bellevue Regional Library

If you are limiting your research to genealogy books and online resources, you are missing many great resources available in the King County Library System. An example of a potentially useful book at the Bellevue Regional Li- brary (and four other branches) that is not cataloged under 929 is:

The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War, by David Laskin, Harper, 2010. 940.48173 LAS

Did you know that nearly one in five American soldiers in World War I was foreign born? When the United States entered the war in 1917, one-third of the population had been born overseas or had a parent who was an immigrant. Ironically, many of the soldiers had left Europe to escape military service. Many knew little of America outside their ethnic ghettos and did not speak English. The men in one New York division spoke 43 languages.

This book traces the lives of twelve American doughboys—four Italians, three Jews, two Poles, an Irishman, a Norwegian and a Slovak—who were born in Europe, immigrated to America, and returned to Europe to fight for their adopted country. Sources include interviews, family histories, regimental histories, military records, and historical archives. (Submitted by Sarah Fleming, EGS Book Acquisition Committee Chair)

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This Fall’s series of genealogy classes offered by the EGS concluded on December 5th with a presentation on Tax Records given by Sarah Fleming and a rundown on Church, Military, Immigration/Naturalization, Court and Vital Records given by yours truly. Almost twenty students attended this final class. I would like to thank all the EGS members who participated and helped make the classes a success. Dave Abernathy, Sarah Fleming, Lisa Fra- ser, Judy Meredith, Carol Pattison, Ed Schultz, Dorothy Pretare, and Ron Hookland contributed their time and shared their ideas and insights on genealogical topics before, during and after class. Some were presenters and others provided ideas and insights on genealogical topics during class discussions. Ed was there with his computer at the ready to demonstrate the ease with which genealogical materials on the classroom topics could be accessed on the internet. I only blew his cover once, or maybe twice, by introducing him as one of our resident computer geeks…

I know that the attendees really enjoyed and benefited from the spirited discussions between EGS members during the class and at breaks. I know that I did!

A big thanks to the Bellevue Regional Library for hosting the classes, and to Lisa Fraser of the BRL, who in addition to insuring that all the logistics were in order, gave a very useful presentation on the library’s genealogical resources and how best to utilize them and also hosted two additional classes on the library’s genealogical databases and how to access them.

Lisa also combed the library’s genealogical collection for appropriate materials prior to each Sunday’s session. The book laden tables in the back of the room attracted many of the attendees during breaks and before and after class. More than one remarked that she couldn’t believe how much genealogical information was available at the BRL. This is a tribute to both Lisa and her predecessors at the library as well as to the EGS Book Committee, and it’s current chair, Sarah Fleming, and the committee’s dedicated members, who each year select the genealogical materials that the EGS will acquire and donate to the library. The amount and quality of genealogical material that the EGS has donated over the years never ceases to amaze me.

As an instructor I know that I benefited from participating in the classes. I get a couple of research ideas every time that I attend a class as a listener or instructor, and this year was no exception.

Thanks again to all for making this a worthwhile experience. Bob Barnes, Education Chair News From The DAR

Are you descended from a Revolutionary Patriot? You may be eligible to join the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution). We have two chapters serving this area:

 Annie Pulliam Chapter, DAR - - next meeting: Saturday, January 8, 2011 Regular meetings are held on the second Saturday of the month, at the Mt. Si Senior Center in North Bend, from 10 AM to Noon. Because we are a new chapter, our meetings this year are focused on learning more about DAR. We have genealogists available at every meeting, who can answer your lineage questions and assist with your application. More information is available from [email protected]

 Cascade Chapter DAR Meetings are held September through May on the second Tuesday of each month at the Red Lion Bellevue Inn. The meeting is followed by brunch, lunch or dinner and an interesting program. For more information about attending a meeting, please email Membership Chairman, Becky Mercer --- [email protected].

Next meeting will be Tuesday, January 11, 2011—10:30 AM: Program: Cascade’s Revolutionary War Ancestors Speakers: Cindy Hershberger, Pam Hillman, Lanabeth Horgen, Nancy Johnson, Daria Leder

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The digitized 1940 federal population census will be released to the public on April 2, 2012. The good news is that the digital images will be accessible to you for free via the internet. The bad news is that an index will not be available at first. However, you can start preparing now:

1. Make a list of all the people you want to look for in the 1940 census.

2. Collect addresses for these people from city directories if they lived in a city.

3. Identify the enumeration district (ED) in which each address was located.

The National Archives (NARA) has two microfilm publications to help you determine the ED: T1224, Descriptions of Census Enumeration Districts, 1830-1950, which has text descriptions, and A3378, Enumeration District Maps for the Twelfth through Sixteenth Censuses of the United States, 1900-1940, which shows the boundaries for each ED. However, an easier way to find the ED is to use the ED converter utility on www.stevemorse.org. This can be useful if you found your ancestors in the 1930 census and believe they were at the same address for the 1940 census.

The information on the 1940 census schedules is similar to that found on earlier censuses. One unique question was where was the person living on April 1, 1935. The person providing the information for the household is indicated by an X after the name. Supplementary information is provided for 5% of the population, those on lines 14 and 29.

For more information, including a complete list of questions asked and an image of the actual form, visit the NARA web site at www.archives.gov/research/census/1940. (Submitted by Sarah Fleming, EGS Book Acquisition Committee Chair) 2010 Census Data Results

The 2010 Census results are now available. Of course, the names and other personal information collected won’t be available until 2082. Sometimes, genealogists forget that the purpose of the census is not to record people, but to record the NUMBER of people. A lot of other information is collected as well, but the U.S. Constitution is clear that the primary purpose is to collect information for the apportionment of Congress.

The Census Bureau fulfilled its Constitutional mandate by releasing the resident population for the nation and states, as well as congressional apportionment totals for each state.

The resident population of the United States on April 1, 2010, was 308,745,538. 300 million plus! That number is no surprise but it is still impressive. The resident population represented an increase of 9.7 percent over the 2000 U.S. resident population of 281,421,906.

The most populous state was California (37,253,956); the least populous, Wyoming (563,626). The state that gained the most numerically since the 2000 Census was Texas (up 4,293,741 to 25,145,561) and the state that gained the most as a percentage of its 2000 Census count was Nevada (up 35.1% to 2,700,551).

Regionally, the South and the West picked up the bulk of the population increase, 14,318,924 and 8,747,621, respectively. But the Northeast and the Midwest also grew: 1,722,862 and 2,534,225.

Additionally, Puerto Rico’s resident population was 3,725,789, a 2.2 percent decrease over the number counted a decade earlier.

Texas emerged as the big winner in the congressional reapportionment. Texas will gain four seats in the House of Representatives, based on official population totals from the 2010 decennial census. New York and Ohio will lose two seats each.

California, with the largest delegation in the 435-member House of Representatives, will keep (continued next page)

EASTSIDE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY—Bellevue, Washington Page 6 BULLETIN BOARD Vol. XXIX No. 7 JANUARY 2011 its 53 House seats during the next decade with no changes. Ten states will lose congressional delegations when the 113th Congress takes office in January 2013.

These states registered gains in congressional representation: * Texas, 4 seats * Florida, 2 seats * Arizona, 1 seat * Georgia, 1 seat * Nevada, 1 seat * South Carolina, 1 seat * Utah, 1 seat * Washington, 1 seat

These states suffered losses in House seats: * New York, 2 seats * Ohio, 2 seats * Illinois, 1 seat * Iowa, 1 seat * Louisiana, 1 seat * Massachusetts, 1 seat * Michigan, 1 seat * Missouri, 1 seat * New Jersey, 1 seat * Pennsylvania, 1 seat

You can see an interactive Census Map showing the population changes of 1910 through 2010 at http://www.eogn.com/2010-US-Census-Map.html (The previous article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright by Richard W. Eastman. This article was published online with graphics and full formatting at http://eogn.com/wp/?p=13607 on Tuesday, December 21st, 2010. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com. ) New Records Added to Updated FamilySearch Website Including Searchable U.S. Social Security Death Index

The new-look FamilySearch website now has some new records to match. Nearly three million new digital images were posted recently, helping family historians researching their ancestors in Canada, Spain, Venezuela, and the United States. The U.S. Social Security Death Index is also a new addition to the site, with over 7 million indexed records.

You can search all of these records and more at FamilySearch.org. To see a listing of the newly added records, please see http://eogn.com/wp/?p=13604.

FamilySearch International is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, Fami- lySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Patrons may access FamilySearch services and resources for free online at Fami- lySearch.org or through over 4,600 family history centers in 132 countries, including the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

(The previous article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com . )

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On December 22, 1933, something wonderful and unexplained happened to Felice May. It was the night before her birthday – her 4th -- and two days before Christmas, but in the past, neither day had been any different than the other chore-filled days of her Depression-era childhood.

But on that night, Felice's parents did something they had never done before. In their rickety Model T with its tat- tered canvas roof, they drove into town, showed Felice the dazzling Christmas lights, and led her to the five-and-dime store, where they offered her a choice of a doll or a wooden pony on a pull-string. She chose the pony. It was likely her only store-bought toy.

It was a night Felice would never forget. But it was also a night that left her with an abiding mystery that lasted through the years: how could her parents have afforded such a gift when they were so down on their luck?

...Felice's parents had no money, and such an indulgence was beyond anything she had known before. Even today, at 81, she remembers the pleasure that wooden pony gave her and how she pulled it around the hardscrabble farm she grew up on outside Canton, Ohio. That wooden horse brought untold joy into an otherwise bleak and threadbare childhood. Its affect, even three-quarters of a century later, is clear enough. Today, Felice May raises miniature ponies. But how, she's always wondered, could her parents have afforded such a gift when they, like millions of other Americans, were so down on their luck. It was I who provided, or rather stumbled, across the answer.

In June 2008, my 80-year-old mother, Virginia, handed me a battered old black suitcase that had belonged to her mother. Even as an investigative reporter, it took me a little time to figure out what I was looking at. Here's what I could piece together from the contents of the suitcase: on December 18, 1933, a Canton resident who called himself "B. Virdot" took out a tiny ad in the local newspaper offering to help his fellow townspeople in a modest way so that they and their children might know the joy of Christmas. He asked them to write to him and tell them what they were going through, and he pledged that just as no one would ever learn his true name, he would never reveal the names of those who wrote to him.

He was deluged with letters, all of them dated December 18, 1933. A few days later, the mysterious B. Virdot sent out a flurry of 150 checks for five dollars each to families across the town. Back then, five dollars was more like 80 dollars.

I came to realize that the name, "B. Virdot," was a combination of his three daughter's names – Barbara, Virginia (my mother), and Dorothy, or "Dotsy" as she was known.

Among the letters in the suitcase was one from Felice May's mother, Edith.

"If I only had five dollars, I would think I am in heaven. I would buy a pair of shoes for my oldest boy in school. His toes are all out & no way to give him a pair. He was six in October. Then I have a little girl who will be four two days before Xmas + a boy of 18 months. I could give them all something for Xmas + I would be very happy… Please do help me! My husband don't know I am writing & I haven't even a stamp, but I am going to beg the mailman to post this for me."

The postman did just that.

The girl about to turn four was Felice and a portion of the money provided by B. Virdot bought that wooden pony. When I shared the letter with Felice, she was barely able to speak. And who was this mysterious Santa named "B. Vir- dot?" He was my grandfather. His true name: Sam Stone.

For the past two years I have been using Ancestry.com plus a handful of genealogy tricks and tools to track down the descendants of the letter-writers. I wanted to learn what had become of them, wondering if they survived the De- pression, if they had ever come to know some measure of comfort, and what affect – if any – the small gift might have had on them. (continued next page)

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Location Addresses

Bellevue Regional Library Crossroads Mall Shopping Center FHC - Bellevue FHC - Kirkland NE 12th St. and 110th Ave. NE Community Meeting Room 10675 NE 20th St 7910 NE 132nd St. Bellevue, WA NE 8th and 156th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA Bellevue, WA Kirkland, WA 425-450-1760 425-454-2690 425-821-8781

Issaquah Public Library Lake Hills Library National Archives and Records Fiske Genealogical Library 140 East Sunset Way 15528 Lake Hills Blvd. SE Admin. 1644 43rd Ave E/ Issaquah, WA Bellevue, WA 6125 Sand Point Way NE Seattle, WA 98122 425-392-5430 425-747-3350 Seattle, WA 98115-7999 206-328-2716 206-336-5115 FHC - Redmond Newport Way Library North Bend Library Redmond Regional Library 10115 172nd Ave. NE 14520 SE Newport Way 115 East Fourth St 15990 NE 85th St Redmond, WA Bellevue WA North Bend, WA Redmond, WA 425-861-9273 425-747-2390 425-888-0554 425-885-1861 WA State Puget Sound Regional Archives Seattle Public Library Snoqualmie Public Library Fire Station #22 BCC, 3000 Landerholm SE, MS-100 1000 Fourth Ave 38580 SE River Street 6602 108th Ave NE Bellevue, WA 98007 Seattle, WA Snoqualmie, WA Kirkland, WA 206-386-4636 425-888-1223 Continued From Page 8 — How Family History Uncovered a Far-Reaching Secret

At the same time, I dug into my own grandfather's past in search of an answer about why he had made the gift. Both of these family history quests yielded some stunning surprises – so many that I was able to compile them into a book, A Secret Gift.

Felice May's story is but one of scores that pay tribute to the character of those who endured the hard times. It is also a testament to the power of small gestures and the need for all of us to stay connected, particularly in times of hardship. (Editor’s note: I am currently reading this book. It is very interesting and a book that anyone interested in genealogy and history would enjoy. Article from Ancestry.com Monthly Update, December 2010)

Redmond Historical Society Meeting Information

History is happening in the Redmond area! The Redmond Historical Society will meet on Saturday, January 8, 2011, 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon at The Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center, 16600 NE 80 Street, Redmond, WA.

Join us for a discussion of Museum of History and Industry historian Lorraine McConaghy’s newest research project concerning a teenage runaway slave in 1860. The boy was approached on the streets of Olympia, by free blacks from Victoria, and encouraged to escape from his master and stow away on the international mail steamer. As soon as he reached Victoria, Charles Mitchell was a free boy. As we near the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, it is timely to learn how the war’s issues played out here in Washington Territory. Don’t miss this meeting.

To receive the monthly newsletter, contact the Society office at 425-885-2919, or email your request to [email protected]. Books, note cards, free historic walking tour brochures, and the book, Redmond Reflections, are available in our office, which is open on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9:30 AM. to 4:30 PM and by appointment. Visit our website: www.redmondhistoricalsociety.org.

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BULLETIN BOARD Vol. XXIX No. 7 JANUARY 2011 EGS January 2011 Meeting Calendar

EGS Board Meeting The Eastside Genealogical Society Board will meet on Thursday, January 6, 10:00 AM to Noon at (First Thursday, the Bellevue Regional Library, room 6. 10:00 AM) EGS General Meeting The Eastside Genealogical Society will meet on Thursday, January 13, at 7:00 PM in the Bellevue Regional Library. Visitors are welcome.

Computer Interest See where Family Search stores its millions of records and learn about FamilySearch Indexing at the (Fourth Saturday, Computer Interest Group’s meeting on Saturday, January 22, at 9:30 AM in the Community 9:30 AM) Room at Crossroads Bellevue. We will see a video of the keynote speaker, Jay Verkler, CEO of Family Search at the NGS conference last May, then show how to index census and other records for FamilySearch.org (Margery Perdue, [email protected] )

Czech/Slovak Interest Our next meeting will be on Saturday, January 22 from 9:30 AM to Noon at Firehouse #22 in Group Houghton. See website for more information: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wacsig/ (Rosie Bodien, (Check Bulletin for 425-828-0170 or [email protected].) meeting information) EGS Lunch Bunch Meets every fourth Thursday, 11:30 AM, at Crossroads Mall Shopping Center Food Court. (Fourth Thursday, 11:30 AM) German Interest Group The EGS German Interest Group will meet on Friday, January 7 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. Jean Roth (First Friday, (from Seattle Genealogical Society) will talk about “Germans from Russia.” Guests are always wel- 1:00 PM) come. (Ann Passe, [email protected] or 206-232-1104)

Irish and Scots-Irish Please contact Ann Lamb for meeting information. Interest Group (Ann Lamb, 425-557-0440 or [email protected]) (First Wednesday, 10:00 AM) Italian Interest Group The Italian Interest Group will meet on Saturday, January 8 (note date change), from 1:30-3:30 (Third Saturday, PM at the Bellevue Regional Library Conference Room #6, second floor. 1:30 PM, note January (Mary Sangalang, 425-649-2250 or [email protected]) change) Legacy Interest Group The next Legacy Interest Group meeting will be on Wednesday, January 5 from 12:30 – 2:30 PM (First Wednesday, in the Community Room at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue. Legacy has more than one place to 12:30 PM) enter data and we'll be discussing the pros and cons of the various options, including how they'll show up in reports. (Sherry Holthe, [email protected] or 425-880-4407)

Scandinavian Interest The Scandinavian Interest Group will meet on January 11 from 10 AM - Noon, at the Puget Sound Group Archive Building at Bellevue College. Please see the website for more information: (Second Tuesday, eastsidesig.spaces.live.com (Sandy Arildson, 425-747-5621, or [email protected] ) 10:00 AM) Shore to Shore Interest The Shore to Shore Interest Group will meet Monday, January 3 at 1:00 PM in the Crossroads Group Community Room. We will discuss where our February trip will be. We will meet for lunch before (Changes monthly, call the meeting at 11:30 AM in the mall. We will not have a trip in January. (Shirley Dowd, 425-454-0078) Shirley)

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Eastside Genealogical Society Contacts

President* Judy Meredith 425-702-9321 [email protected] Vice President* Carol Pattison 425-228-2510 [email protected] Secretary* Walta McCarley 425-376-0539 [email protected] Treasurer* Ed Schultz 425-271-0424 [email protected] Trustee* Sharron Filer 425-885-7213 [email protected] Past President* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Education Chair* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Archivist/Historian* Walta McCarley 425-746-7557 [email protected] Library Chair* Winifred Sihon 425-793-5424 [email protected] Book Acquisitions* Sarah Fleming 425-957-1134 [email protected] Membership Chair* Dorothy Mehrer 425-822-7316 [email protected] Newsletter Editor* Kim Nichols 360-668-3937 [email protected] Newsletter Contributors Mickey Main 425-747-2038 [email protected] Sharron Filer 425-885-7213 [email protected] Newsletter Mailing Jack and Jean Newman 425-746-2324 [email protected] Nominating Chair* Norb Ziegler 425-557-2108 [email protected] Marty Gale 206-232-6471 [email protected] Program Chair* Carol Pattison 425-228-2510 [email protected] Publicity* Dorothy Pretare 425-277-0831 [email protected] Representatives: DAR Donna Hart 425-831-5978 [email protected] AKCHO Bob Sandbo 425-454-5606 [email protected] Bellevue Reg Library Pat Sandbo 425-454-5606 [email protected] FGS Peter Robertson 206-236-2473 [email protected] SIG Representative* Sunshine Chair* Patti Wehrs 787-599-2746 [email protected] Surname File Walta McCarley 425-376-0539 [email protected] Webmaster* Kim Nichols 360-668-3937 [email protected]

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Special Interest Group (SIG) Contacts Computer Margery Perdue 425-643-3502 [email protected] Czech/Slovak Rosie Bodien 425-828-0170 [email protected] German Ann Passe 206-232-1104 [email protected] Irish Ann Lamb 425-557-0440 [email protected] Italian Mary D. Sangalang 425-649-2250 [email protected] Legacy Sherry Holthe 425-880-4407 [email protected] Lunch Bunch Portuguese(inactive) Barbara Guyll 425-746-5603 [email protected] Scandinavian Sandy Arildson 425-747-5621 [email protected] Shore to Shore Shirley Dowd 425-454-0078 [email protected]

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EGS Meeting Information Date: Thursday, February 10, 2011 Time: Welcome New Members 6:30 PM Meeting Begins 7:00 PM FEBRUARY 2011 Location: Bellevue Regional Library Room 1 VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER VIII Topic: Family Photo Sharing and How to Get the Most from Your Scanner Speakers: Ed Schultz The Eastside Genealogical Society P.O. Box 374 About The Program: Bellevue WA 98009-0374 www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakcegs/ At our meeting, we will be sharing and talking about family photos. Please make sure that you email me, Carol Pattison, at [email protected] one or two interesting old photos from your family history that you would like March 10, 2011 to spend a few minutes talking about. They can be funny, unusual or anything EGS Meeting: that you think we might enjoy seeing. 7:00 PM Along with this part of the program, Ed Schultz will be explaining to us Bellevue Regional Library how we can get the most out of our scanners. I know there are some of you out there who are techno-geeks but a lot of us, including me, only know how to use the very basic capabilities of our scanners and, especially the new ones, can do so much more. (Submitted by Carol Pattison, EGS Program Chair)

President’s Message INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Hi All, President’s Message 1 Maybe one of your tasks this year is to organize your family photos—the Welcome New Members 2 box full you found in the back of Mom’s closet, the hundreds you’ve scanned from far-flung family. Who Do You Think You Are? 3

However we obtain them, photos are interesting and give us a glimpse Upcoming Meetings 4 into our ancestor’s world—the places they were taken, the clothes they wore all tell us something about our people that add to our understanding—where Maximizing Your Chances 5 for Success in 2011 they lived, sometimes what their jobs were. Got the Picture? Using 6 Sometimes they tell us about family resemblance—―Wow! Uncle Charlie Your Digital Camera for looked just like Grandpa at about the same age!‖ You may even discover Genealogy someone several generations back who looks like you or a sibling. Five Tips for Researching 7 Common Surnames Photos also reveal family status: was this photo taken in a studio? Is that SIG Calendar 10 house in the background the family farm house? Who built it? Where is it located? Does it look as if it belonged to a prosperous family? Answers to these EGS Contacts 11 questions can aid in our search.

This segues nicely into a plug for our February program, described elsewhere in this issue. I’m fond of saying no one has a boring family and so, too,

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with family pictures. We all have funny or otherwise really interesting pictures and we want to see yours! Email them

to Carol Pattison, our VP and program chair and be prepared to give us a brief explanation. That way we can say,

―Hmm…you’re right--your Aunt Millie had really strange taste in hats.‖

Judy Meredith, President

Welcome New Members

Please welcome the following new EGS members:

 Helen BARTON

 Janet CAMARATA, who is researching O'CONOR in KS and Ireland; MYERS in KS and IA; CURRY in KS and OH; BEARD in KS, OH, and MO; CAMARATA in Italy and WA; ARONICA in Italy and WA; COWEN in WA, MO, NM; and WHITE in MO and NM.

 Roberto CITTADINI, who is researching CITTADINI, SCARAFONI, FLAMINI, and BUGIOLACCHI in the Mache Region of Italy and VILLA and SELVINO in the Piedmont Region of Italy.

Volunteer Opportunities

The Seattle Public Library’s Genealogy Librarians, Darlene Hamilton and John LaMont, are available at the Cen- tral Library’s Level 9 Reference Desk to provide genealogy assistance the following times:

• Tuesday-Friday: 1:00 --3:00 PM • Saturday-Sunday: 1:00 --2:00 PM and 4:00 --5:00 PM

We are also offering 30 minute one-on-one appointments with a Genealogy Librarian during the following times:

• Tuesday-Friday: 11:00 AM --12:00 PM and 3:00 --5:00 PM • Saturday 11:00 AM --12:00 PM

Appointments can be scheduled in person at the Level 9 Reference Desk, by phone 206-386-4636 (ask to be trans- ferred to the History Desk), or by using the ―Ask a Librarian‖ service on the Library’s home page www.spl.org

Free Genealogy Webinars

Legacy Family Tree has free webinars and they archive them on their website for about 30 days. Yesterday I watched the ―Google for Genealogists‖ one & found it very interesting because it describes the features of Google beyond the Google Search. Also, there is the free Handout that can be viewed and downloaded. This webinar will be online until Febru- ary 8th. Of course, those interested can purchase a DVD of that webinar.

There are many more webinar topics available. The website is: www.legacyfamilytree.com/Webinars.asp (Submitted by Dorothy Pretare, EGS Publicity Chair)

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Second Season Of “Who Do You Think You Are?” Begins Beginning on February 4th at 8:00 PM, NBC will air the second season of the hit show ―Who Do You Think You Are?‖ The series follows some of today's most beloved and iconic celebrities as they embark on personal journeys of self-discovery to trace their family trees. From the trenches of the Civil War to the shores of the Caribbean, and from the valleys of Virginia to the island nations of Australia and Ireland, each episode will reveal surprising, inspiring and sometimes tragic stories that are often linked to events in American and international history.

The celebrities featured in the second season are Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Rosie O’Donnell, Steve Buscemi, Kim Cattrall, Lionel Richie, Vanessa Williams and Ashley Judd.

Each week, a different celebrity is taken on a quest into his or her family history. The search is one of surprising and deeply emotional encounters, resulting in one of the most compelling reality formats of recent years. During each episode, viewers will be taken on a personal and often mysterious quest following some of America's best-known celebrities into their ancestral pasts, as they uncover stories of heroism and tragedy, love and betrayal, secrets and intrigue, that lie at the heart of their family history.

At the same time, "―Who Do You Think You Are?" celebrates the twists and turns of a great nation and the people who made their way here in search of freedom and opportunity. As each celebrity discovers his or her unknown relatives - most of whom overcame hard times - the show will take viewers back through world history to expose how the lives of everyone's collective ancestors have shaped our world today.

Upcoming South King County Genealogical Society Seminar

South King County Genealogical Society would like to announce its spring half-day seminar entitled Detours & Out- laws. The seminar will have as the speaker Steven W. Morrison. Mr. Morrison will speak for two sessions: 1) Outlaw Genealogy -- Finding the Outlaw in YOUR Family and 2) Detours Around -- Irish Roadblocks and Stone Walls.

 When: March 19, 2011 ~ 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon  Where: The First Baptist Church of Kent, 11420 SE 248th St., Kent, WA 98030

Full details can be found on our website http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~waskcgs/

FREE GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH HELP

Genealogical research help is available at the Bellevue Regional Library, located at NE 12 th St. and 110 th Ave. NE in Bellevue. Eastside Genealogical Society volunteers are waiting to help you with problems and questions. They are available in room 6 on the second floor of the library, to the left of the reference desk. Hours are Tuesdays from 7:00 -9:00 PM and Wednesdays from 1:00 -3:00 PM.

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 Redmond Historical Society: History is happening in the Redmond area! The Redmond Historical Society will meet on Saturday, February 12, 2011, 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon at The Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center, 16600 NE 80 Street, Redmond, WA. Can roads tell us about our heritage? King County has proven they can, having designated nine ―Historic and Scenic Corridors,‖ some dating back to Native American footpaths and wagon trails. Julie Koler, King County’s historic preservation officer, will take us on a virtual trip down three corridors in the Snoqualmie Valley. She will also talk about Redmond’s Red Brick Road which is part of the former Yellowstone Trail, a transcontinental roadway stretching from Seattle to Boston. Don’t miss this meeting. To receive the monthly newsletter, contact the Society office at 425-885-2919, or email your request to [email protected]. Books, note cards, free historic walking tour brochures, and the book, ―Redmond Reflections,‖ are available in our office, which is open on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM and by appointment. Visit our website: www.redmondhistoricalsociety.org.

 Daughter's of the American Revolution: Has your family research gotten you back to the Revolutionary War period? Might you be related to a Patriot? The genealogists at our DAR meetings can show you a way to fill in the blanks. We have two chapters serving this area.

ANNIE PULLIAM CHAPTER, DAR will meet on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at the Red Lion Bellevue Inn, 11211 Main Street. Join all of us for lunch (reservations required by Feb. 5) at our State Board of Management meeting, or just for our Annie Pulliam Chapter meeting, immediately following lunch. For more information: Donna Hart, 425-831-5978 or email [email protected]

CASCADE CHAPTER, DAR meets on the second Tuesday of the month, beginning at 10:30 AM, at the Red Lion Bellevue Inn. The meeting is followed by lunch and the program will be on Martha Washington, presented by Mary Ellen Scott.

Cascade Chapter is the host of the Feb. 26 Annie Pulliam Chapter meeting, so you'll meet members from both chapters if you attend that lunch. For reservations and more information, contact Becky Mercer at [email protected]

 The Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington: Presents Locating Jewish Records on the NEW National Ar- chives Websites, by Carol Buswell on Monday, February 14, 2011 at the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 East Mercer Way, Mercer Island WA 98040. Doors open at 7:00 PM. Presentation starts promptly at 7:30 PM. The JGSWS library and WIFI will be available. Free admission for JGSWS members and one guest per year, $5.00 for non-members. Visit our website at: http://www.jgsws.org.

ABOUT OUR PROGRAM: Change is in the air! The National Archives recently completed a major redesign of their website at http://www.archives.gov, and little-known documents and materials are more easily available as a result. In addition, billions of NARA documents are being continuously added to commercial and non- profit websites, including Ancestry.com, Heritage Quest, Footnote.com, and FamilySearch.org. Carol will in- troduce these and other new resources, as well as techniques for using them to discover Jewish family, community, and political records from the Civil War through the 20th century. She’ll show how effortless it is to do research on these websites.

The National Archives in Seattle holds valuable federal government documents for Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, a large microfilm collection for all states, and free computer access to commercial websites that feature National Archives records.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER: Carol Buswell is the Education Specialist for the NARA in Seattle. She previously worked as a teacher, author, public speaker, professional genealogist, and owner of an American Indian antique shop and bookstore. She has published articles and books about American Indian migration, genealogy, and historical issues. She holds a BA in Elementary Education and Fine Art from Western State College of Colora- do and a master’s degree in American Indian Studies from UCLA.

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Mark Twain once said of the New Year, ―Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.‖ That quote always makes me laugh, but I still cling to the hope that the New Year brings with it. It’s an open book full of unwritten pages that hold so much promise. What is written on them depends largely on us, and whether it’s our professional life, our personal life, or our family history, there are steps we can take that will help us fill those pages with success stories. Let’s look at some ways we can fill them with successful family history research.

Print and Read What You Find With one search of Ancestry.com, we can locate multiple records on our ancestors from rich and diverse collections. Then with a click we can attach them to our tree. Times are good for the family historian. But are you taking the time to read and savor every single record you’ve attached to your tree? The clues to your next steps lie within the records you find, so don’t just attach them to your tree and forget about them. Print them off and extract every detail on the record. Think about what each fact means and whether it can lead you to another record. I like to take it a step further and transcribe the record. When I’m reading I tend to skim and skip ahead, but when I’m transcribing, I concentrate on every word.

Be Skeptical Whenever you notice something in your tree that makes you think, ―That’s odd,‖ be skeptical. And when it comes to information from an unsourced tree belonging to someone else, be very skeptical. Look closely at all information you find, regardless of the source, before incorporating it into your family tree. A good tool for putting things in perspective is a chronology. Arrange the life events you know of for an ancestor chronologically. Events that would seem to defy the laws of nature or that put your ancestor in two places at one time deserve closer scruti- ny. You can find step-by-step directions for creating a timeline here.

Use a Variety of Records Just as eating a wide variety of foods can help keep you healthy, a wide variety of records will keep your family tree healthy. Explore new records like probates, land records, tax, military records, and more. If you want to learn more about them, check out the Ancestry.com wiki. The foundation of the wiki is built on The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy, which includes chapters on various record types, and Red Book: American State, County and Town Source, which looks state-by- state at record availability and locations. These two references are a good place to start your exploration in U.S. resources. To see what’s available on Ancestry.com, visit the state and country pages, by clicking on the map in the lower right corner of the Search tab.

Be a Student of History Your ancestors were active participants in history and, both nationally and on a local scale, it impacted their lives and the decisions they made. Local histories can reveal migration patterns, ancestral origins, and deli- cious stories that might not be found elsewhere. As you learn of events that you think may have impacted your ancestors, add them to the timelines you have for your ancestors and you may find that they too hold clues to new ave- nues of research.

Review Recent Generations It’s thrilling as we progress back in time with our research to our second and third great-grandparents and beyond, to ancestral places and historic eras. In our quest back through history, we may find ourselves overlooking more recent ancestors, despite the fact that new resources have become more readily available. Take some time and review the records you’ve collected for your grandparents and great-grandparents, as well as the siblings of your grandparents and great-grandparents. Search all the records at Ancestry.com for them and see if they come up in collections you haven’t yet explored. You may find new records that tell more of their story, and you could uncover clues that will help you as you research the generations that came before them. (Continued next page)

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Schedule in Time for Family History We schedule in time for work obligations, school, chores, family fun, and so many other aspects of our lives, why not do the same for family history? Pick a time that's typically convenient for you and set aside an hour a week, or if possible several times a week. Even a half hour, several times a week can add up. If you can manage to get in three hours a week, you'll have logged more than 150 hours of research time by next year, and that could represent substantial progress.

I wish you all the best in your family history research and in your life in the upcoming year. Happy 2011! (From The Weekly Discovery, January 2, 2011, Copyright 2011 Ancestry.com) Got the Picture? Using Your Digital Camera for Genealogy

The March 2011 Family Tree Magazine (now on newsstands) has a guide to using your digital camera for genealogical purposes—such as capturing images of gravestones, ancestral homes, family heirlooms and your ancestors’ records. It’s not as simple as taking a quick snapshot, though. Before you start a genealogical photography session, create a shot list of the pictures you want. Here’s what we recommend:

Gravestones Shot List *cemetery entrance *whole cemetery *stones of interest, with nearby stones *the whole gravestone, showing the inscription and carving *close-ups of the inscription and carvings *any creative shots you want of the beautiful artwork and scenes in graveyards

Heirlooms Shot List *full view of heirloom *heirloom with a ruler to show size *all sides of heirloom item *close-ups of interesting details, such as carving or painting *close-ups of manufacturer’s marks *close-ups of damage or other features affecting value

Records And Documents Shot List *title page of film roll or book *full record (be sure to get each page) *close-ups of hard-to-read areas

Ancestral Homes Shot List *the entrance to the street (a view your ancestor may have seen every day) *the house with neighboring buildings *the yard *the whole house (we suggest first knocking on the door to let the current resident know why you're taking a picture of his house) *as many sides of the house as you can capture without trespass- ing *interesting architectural details and any features mentioned in family stories (such as the tree Grandpa fell out of as a boy)

(Posted by Diane, Tuesday, January 18, 2011, Genealogy Insider Blog, http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/ insider/2011/01/18/

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Five Tips for Researching Common Surnames By Juliana Smith

You’ve just discovered great-grandma’s maiden name, but following that initial rush, you get this sinking feeling when you realize that researching John Smith isn’t going to be easy. But don’t cast hope aside. Your John Smith was an individual and while challenging, researching ancestors with a common surname is absolutely doable. Here are some tips:

1) Create a Profile: Gather up every snippet of information you have on that person, from either their own records or the records of their children. For example, beginning in 1880, federal censuses asked the nativity of both parents. If you don’t have a birth year, you could estimate based on the birth of the eldest child. Even getting within a 20 year range can help narrow your results greatly. Milk every drop of information from every record you have for the family and form a profile of that person. Every piece of information will be helpful in identifying your relative.

2) Collect Addresses: Addresses are wonderful identifiers and they can be found in censuses beginning in 1880, some vital records, obituaries, city directories, and home sources (think letters, postcards, photographs, even the inside covers of books) among other sources. Assemble them chronologically to zero in on your ancestor’s location at a particular time.

3) Conduct Whole Family Research and Beyond: Learn as much as you can about the family structure. While there might be a kazillion John Smiths, there won’t be as many with wife Margaret, daughters Susie and Jane, and sons Wil- liam and Henry. And if you’ve got ages, you have a very good chance at being able to identify them in the census. In censuses where a relationship is stated, you can use family members to narrow your search on Ancestry.com. You’ll want to go beyond that though, making note of every sponsor, witness, business associ- ate, neighbor—anyone you have record of interacting with the family. Perhaps your John Sullivan traveled to America with Peter Walsh who also appeared as a witness to his child’s baptism. Or maybe it was his sister’s husband who was a witness at his marriage. Getting to know the people who associated with your ancestor will also help you identify them.

4) Collect Autographs: If you have a record that your ancestor signed, use that signature to compare with signatures in other records he or she signed. Seeing your ancestor’s ―John Hancock‖ is a thrill in itself, but it can also be an identifier if it’s distinctive.

5) Use Records in Tandem: The timelines we talked about in the ―Maximizing Success‖ article are a great way to make records work together. Use city directories and other records created around census years to find your ancestor’s address during that year. If they lived in a large city, this can be very helpful in narrowing your search to a particular ward or enumeration district. For census years 1880-1930, you can search for the street name or for other main thoroughfares (which often served as the boundaries for wards or enumeration districts) in Steve Morse’s enumeration district finder. Once you pin down the district where your ancestor lived, you’ll be able to narrow your focus to people with that name in that district.

Census records from 1900-1930 include immigration dates for immigrants. Some death records and some state censuses include ―how many years in the U.S.‖ Use these dates to narrow your search in immigration records. The bottom line is to pick every shred of information from each and every record you find and use it to form a more complete profile of your ancestor. The more you know about him or her, the better your chances of success for finding your Smith (or Kelly, or Sullivan, or Jones, or Johnson, or Miller…). (From The Weekly Discovery, January 2, 2011, Copyright 2011 Ancestry.com)

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Want to see what the world was like for your ancestors? Perhaps you wish to catch a glimpse of where they lived? Need videos for an archival documentary? You might even see a place you remember when you were younger if you look at a film on the Travel Film Archive.

The Travel Film Archive is a collection of travelogues and educational and industrial films – many of them in color – that show the world the way it was between 1900 and 1970. The online archive is owned and operated by Getty Images. You can search for historical video clips by keywords, by region, by subjects, and by year(s).

Everything on the Travel Film Archive is available free of charge if you view the videos on screen. The videos also may be purchased for use in your own projects. Getty Images will copy the original film(s) to DVD disks and mail them to you.

Pricing is dependent upon the intended use and you must contact a representative for a price quote. You might find some films that will interest you if you start at http://www.travelfilmarchive.com (The previous article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright by Richard W. Eastman. This article was published online with graphics and full formatting at http://eogn.com/wp/?p=13777 on Monday, January 3rd, 2011. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http:// www.eogn.com. ) Back Up Your Files!

It is the first day of the month. It’s time to back up your genealogy files. Then test your backups!

Actually, you can make backups at any time. However, it is easier and safer if you have a specific schedule. The first day of the month is easy to remember, so I would suggest you back up your genealogy files at least on the first of every month, if not more often.

Of course, you might want to back up more than your genealogy files. Family photographs, your checkbook register, all sorts of word processing documents, email messages, and much more need to be backed up regularly. Why not do that on the first of each month?

Next, TEST YOUR BACKUPS. More than once I have heard sad stories of, ―I thought I was making regular backups to the external hard drive but, when I went to restore some files, I found the hard drive was dead. I lost everything.‖ The exact details will vary from one out-of-luck person to another, but many have similar stories. Yet it is so easy to test your backups to make sure they are being made in the manner you think.

On the first day of the month, restore one or two small files from your backups. You don’t have to restore everything, just pick a few typical files. Restore them to a temporary directory (mine is called WORK) and see if you can use them.

To avoid the ―dead when you need them‖ problem, always make at least TWO backups to two different types of media in two different locations. Three would be better and four would be even better.

My computer automatically makes backups every hour to an external USB hard drive plugged into the back of the computer plus it also automatically makes backups in the middle of the night to an online backup service on the Internet while I am sleeping. Having redundant backups increases the odds of having at least one good backup at the time of criti- cal need.

How much information and how many pictures will you lose if your hard drive crashes this evening? By the way, all hard drives WILL crash someday. The only question is ―when?‖ Make your backups today. (The previous article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright by Richard W. Eastman. This article was published online with graphics and full formatting at http://eogn.com/wp/?p=13736 on Saturday, January 1st, 2011. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com. )

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Location Addresses

Anybody have Germans from Russia?

If you have ancestors that are Germans from Russia, here's an event that may interest you:

The 41st Annual Convention of Germans from Russia Heritage Society (GRHS) will be held at The Davenport Ho- tel & Tower in Spokane, WA July 20-July 24, 2011. The library and bookstore will be open on Wed. July 20th, and a city tour that day as well as a dinner cruise that evening on nearby Lake Coeur d´Alene is planned. Opening Cere- monies begin Thursday morning followed by a variety of workshops on genealogy, history, cultural cooking and programs relating to today´s technology in using DNA. Visit our website at http://www.grhs.org and click on the Con- vention page for more information or call the GRHS headquarters at (701)223-6167. Special rates are available for convention attendees if you mention "Germans from Russia." Hotel reservation number is (800)899-1482.

Who are the Germans from Russia? We are a unique group! Our ancestors left Germany back in the late 1700- early 1800´s to settle along the Volga River and in South Russia, along the Black Sea where free land was being offered by the government to those looking for land and political freedoms.

They built up prosperous communities and thrived until the political winds changed their course, and it was evident that they were no longer exempt from military drafts, high taxes, and their religion freedom was being jeopardized. Many began leaving during the late 1800´s and came to the Americas. Those that stayed behind soon regretted that decision, as more and more hardships were placed on them, until about 1918 when the Bolsheviks began raiding their villages and killing the colonists. Forced famines by the government and unjustified arrests and imprisonments and killings were common everywhere. Many of the villagers were sent to labor camps in the Ural Mountains and Kazakhstan. Today, many of the descendants of those families live all over the world with a majority here in the USA and Canada.

The annual GRHS convention is an exciting time for all Germans from Russia to come together in one location to learn more about their history, their German customs and heritage. They have the opportunity to do genealogical research in the library, take in interesting topics in the workshops and share good food while enjoying the company of new-found relatives and new and old friends. We hope to see you there! (Submitted by Margery Perdue, Computer SIG Chair) EASTSIDE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY—Bellevue, Washington Page 9 BULLETIN BOARD Vol. XXIX No. 8 FEBRUARY 2011 EGS February 2011 Meeting Calendar

EGS Board Meeting The Eastside Genealogical Society Board will meet on Thursday, February 3, 10:00 AM to Noon (First Thursday, at the Bellevue Regional Library, room 6. 10:00 AM) EGS General Meeting The Eastside Genealogical Society will meet on Thursday, February 10, at 7:00 PM in the Bellevue Regional Library. Visitors are welcome.

Computer Interest Will meet on Saturday, February 26, at 9:30 AM in the Community Room at Crossroads (Fourth Saturday, Bellevue. Please contact Joe Flint ([email protected]) for meeting information. (Margery Perdue, 9:30 AM) [email protected] )

Czech/Slovak Interest Our next meeting will be on Saturday, February 5 from 9:30 AM to Noon at Firehouse #22 in Group Houghton. See website for more information: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wacsig/ (Rosie Bodien, (Check Bulletin for 425-828-0170 or [email protected].) meeting information) EGS Lunch Bunch Meets every fourth Thursday, 11:30 AM, at Crossroads Mall Shopping Center Food Court. (Fourth Thursday, 11:30 AM) German Interest Group The German Interest Group will meet on Friday, February 4 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM at the Cross- (First Friday, roads Mall Community Meeting Room. Ken Passé will tell us about Crossing the Atlantic – Our 1:00 PM) Ancestors’ Voyages. If you have pictures and stories about your ancestor’s journey, bring them to share. Visitors are always welcome! (Ann Passe, [email protected] or 206-232-1104) Irish and Scots-Irish Irish/ Scots-Irish next meeting will be on Wednesday, February 2, 10:00 AM. The topic will be Interest Group "Using Find-a-grave" presented by Dave Abernathy. (First Wednesday, (Ann Lamb, 425-557-0440 or [email protected]) 10:00 AM) Italian Interest Group The Italian Interest Group will meet on Saturday, February 12 (note date change), from 1:30- (Third Saturday, 3:30 PM at the Bellevue Regional Library Conference Room #6, second floor. 1:30 PM, note (Mary Sangalang, 425-649-2250 or [email protected]) February change) Legacy Interest Group The next Legacy Interest Group meeting will be on Wednesday, February 2 from 12:30 – 2:30 PM (First Wednesday, in the Community Room at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue. We'll be talking about searching the 12:30 PM) Family File and using Search and Replace. (Sherry Holthe, [email protected] or 425-880-4407)

Scandinavian Interest The Scandinavian Interest Group will meet on February 8 from 10 AM - Noon, at the Puget Group Sound Archive Building at Bellevue College. Please see the website for more information: (Second Tuesday, eastsidesig.spaces.live.com (Sandy Arildson, 425-747-5621, or [email protected] ) 10:00 AM) Shore to Shore Interest We will meet Monday, February 7 at 11:30 AM in the Crossroads Mall for our birthday lunch Group followed by our planning meeting for March at 1:00 PM at the Crossroads Community Room. (Changes monthly, call On Thursday, February 17, we will travel to the Seattle Genealogical Society Library and/or Shirley) NARA which are across the street from each other. (Shirley Dowd, 425-454-0078)

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EGS Meeting Information Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011 Time: Welcome New Members 6:30 PM Meeting Begins 7:00 PM MARCH 2011 Location: Bellevue Regional Library Room 1 VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER IX Topic: Library of Congress Online Research Speaker: Sarah Fleming The Eastside Genealogical Society About The Program: P.O. Box 374 Bellevue WA 98009-0374 You can explore the holdings of the Library of Congress without ever www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakcegs/ leaving home. Library of Congress digital collections include millions of documents, maps, books, photographs, newspapers, and sound recordings. The online catalog is also valuable for finding resources which might be available Next through interlibrary loan. Sarah will show examples from the digital collec- EGS Meeting: tions and demonstrate search strategies for both the digital and non-digital collections. Please join us. April 14, 2011 7:00 PM President’s Message Bellevue Regional Library

Hi All,

Why have a genealogy society? Why pay dues, attend meetings, serve on the board and committees, and so forth? INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Part of the answer is we’re social. Genealogy can be a solitary hobby— hours spent on the computer at home or by oneself at a library. Therefore we President’s Message 1 like to get together with like-minded people. We do this with other groups as EGS Board Meeting Minutes 2 well. We join churches, fraternal organizations, bridge clubs, and many more. Name an interest and ―there’s a club for that!‖

We also like to share. We share our expertise, our experiences, our latest Very Local Sources 3 brickwall buster and our friendship. Learning Who We Are 4 We come together to learn. We learn from the programs at meetings, seminars we attend, classes given by this society and other local groups, research Book Review 6 trips both local and in distant places and, not least, from each other. Your Family’s Hometown 7 This society has a number of special interest groups as most of you know. Take advantage of these. Volunteer—for example, we’re going to need a new SIG Calendar 10 treasurer at the next election. Share—offer to give a program about one of your areas of specialization. Carol Pattison’s program committee is always on EGS Contacts 11 the look-out for ideas. Contribute an article to the Bulletin. Kim, our editor, will be thrilled.

And, as I’ve said before, start a conversation with the person sitting next to you at the next meeting. You never know (continued next page)

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when you’ll run across a new cousin!

Judy Meredith, President EGS Board Meeting Minutes Summary of January 6, 2011

Present: Judy Meredith, President; Carol Pattison, Vice President; Walta McCarley, Secretary; Ed Schultz, Treasurer; Sharron Filer, Trustee; Bob Barnes, Past President; Dorothy Mehrer, Membership; Sarah Fleming, Book Acquisitions.

Book Acquisitions: Sarah Fleming announced that the next committee meeting will be in February.

Education: Bob Barnes reported a successful series of classes resulting in some new EGS members.

Membership: Dorothy Mehrer reported 252 total memberships, 260 individuals. Legacy meeting also generated a few new members. Ed and Dorothy have been working on a new database which could include the surname files. All current and former members are in the new database.

Nominations: Needed for Vice President, Treasurer and Trustee. Bob Barnes is the chair.

Outreach: Judy Meredith - EGS will participate at Pickering Farm Hobby and Volunteer Fair, May 7.

Program: Carol Pattison. January’s meeting will feature the Nation- al Genealogical Society Video Presentation. Program Committee consists of Carol, Bob, Sarah. Future program suggestions given.

Surname List: Discussion about what to do with the surname file led by Walta McCarley. Some members don’t want their names listed on the website.

Treasurer’s Report: Ed Schultz reported membership income of just under $300 for 2 months.

Announcements:  Darlene Hamilton at the Seattle Library Reference Desk has new hours. See Judy for information.  King County Historical Organization annual meeting January 25th.  1812 Campaign Project box will be available at the February general meeting. Donations will help pay expenses of digitizing files, for the 150th Civil War anniversary. This was a project of the National Genealogy Society meeting.  Memorial Fund box for Carl Cason will also be available.  New member interaction/lunch 4th Thursday at Crossroads – the Lunch Bunch. Invite new members to attend and meet people in a smaller setting. Questions, answers and stories are always shared. Follow up with new membership volunteer opportunities. A personal call to new members to see where their interests lie, what we can do and what they have to offer – suggestions. Carol would host a Sunday lunch for new members at Crossroads a couple of times a year.

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Very Local Resources By Bob Barnes, EGS Education Chair The diversity and utility of the Bellevue Regional Library’s genealogical book collection never ceases to amaze and delight me. Before and after EGS board meetings, during research assistance hours on Tuesday evening and any other occasions that I am in the library, I just seem to gravitate to the Genealogy Reference shelves outside Room 6 and to the nearby Northwest Collection on the south wall of the second floor foyer. The Northwest Collection is primarily historical but it also includes much of genealogical interest such as a partial collection of the Lake Washington Reflector, an early eastside weekly news magazine.

Last Fall, while searching for material in preparation for the EGS genealogy classes, I was working on church records and other types of local records. As many of you know these kinds of records can both be difficult to find and access. While browsing the shelves I came across a reference book that was certainly new to me, but helped address these challenges for records here in Washington State. Those of you who have no interest whatsoever in Washington State materials, and who undoubtedly outnumber those that do, need to read no further unless, of course, you might find that the information mentioned here has its analogs in the records of the states in which you do have a research interest.

The Genealogical Resources in Washington State—A Guide to Ge- nealogical Records Held at Repositories, Government Agencies and Ar- chives was prepared by the staffs of the Washington State Archives and the Washington State Historical Records and Archives Project and was published by the Secretary of State of Washington Division of Archives Project in June of 1983. These records include but are not limited to cemetery, church, military, immigration and naturalization, and voter registration records that are held throughout the state at the local level. As many of you are probably aware, these genealogical rich materials are difficult to find as they are often held at smaller local entities that are unlikely to be subscribers to WorldCat, and that don’t generally publish a catalog of their holdings on the Internet. Thus even contemporary electronic searches might experience difficulty finding such materials or identifying where they are being held.

This resource provides a description of the records, where they are located, what they contain as well as contact information for the entity holding the material. Moreover, the creators of the guidebook have only listed those resources that are known to be accessible to the public. One of the more interesting descriptive attributes of the records is that voter registration records not only have the number of volumes given but also include their physical volume given in cubic feet (cf). I am familiar with the use of lineal feet in describing library collections but I confess that this is one of the few times that I have seen such records describe in cubic feet—but it certainly gives one an idea of the amount of material that they may be dealing with!

The book is organized alphabetically by location starting with the city or town where the records are to be found, followed by type of record, a brief description of the record, the time period covered by the records, and the name of the entity holding the record, and a street address and or telephone number. While the contact information is obviously dated (and pre-Internet) enough information is provided that the user can look up the current contact information on the In- ternet and make a phone call or two before taking the time to visit the local repositories. As might be expected the time periods covered by these records vary significantly, some starting as early as 1857, and a few as recent as the early1980s.

The immigration and naturalization records include those of the naturalization board giving a register of naturalized citizens of the United States with details such as filing, date, name, country of origin and names and addresses of wit- nesses. Also included are records of the certificates of naturalization that give the name and age of the applicant, certificate number; names, ages and addresses of spouse and children, date filed, where recorded and the applicant’s signature. The declarations of intentions give the name, filing date, place of foreign residence and oath of allegiance. The records of petitions for naturalization give the name of the petitioner, residence, occupation, place and date of birth, race, marital status, date and place of birth of spouse, country(s) of origin, date of immigration and the petitioner’s signature. The church records typically contain records of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, deaths and church membership. These records may also contain a history of the church as well as newsletters and (continued next page)

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The records on voter information extend back to pre-territorial days. The compilers note that between 1857 and 1889 these records were maintained at the county level in a rather haphazard fashion. There are no central indexes and the names are not always alphabetical thus putting a premium on knowing the county of residence and approximate dates which should narrow the search down to a few pages rather than having to search all 25,000 pages contained in this record. The voter registration records typically include registration date, voter’s name, sex, age, occupation, residence, time in residence, birthplace, naturalization and signature.

So all of you with Washington ancestry have at it!

Bob Barnes, EGS Education Chair Learning Who We Are By Bill Dillon, EGS Member

Did your family own slaves? Probably, yes, if they owned much property in the South before the Civil War. As with other family research, this information is out there somewhere if we can just find it. Jack Hultquist, a cousin of Eastside Genealogical Society member Joyce Felker, sent me an email with a list of slaves sold, and who bought them, after the deaths of his great-grandparents, Samuel & Margaret Hawthorn. The sale was held in 1858 on the Hawthorn property near Abingdon in Washington County, Virginia. Surprisingly, my great-great-grandfather, Furney Jones, then living in Tazewell, Tennessee, was listed as buying a 9-year-old slave named Mark. We had not previously seen evidence that Furney owned any slaves. During the Civil War his property was sometimes raided by Rebels who shot and killed a ―Negro boy named Sam, who was employed but not owned by Furney Jones.‖ In a dep- osition Furney stated that Confederate soldiers captured and held him pris- oner for several weeks ―before making my escape.‖ He claimed to be a Union loyalist, and we assumed he was not a slave owner.

Family history discoveries always raise more questions. Finding answers, or probable answers, helps us visualize our ancestors’ lives. On the questions of why Furney Jones paid $920 for a young slave, and why that slave kept the name Hawthorn instead of Jones, we may have found the answers. At the time of the Hawthorn family slave sale April 30, 1858, Fur- ney's daughter Margaret and her husband H.T. Hawthorn, also living in Tazewell, were about to have their third child, named Furney Jones Haw- thorn. Also, at the time of the sale their daughter Rebecca was just 4 years old, and son Samuel was only 2 years old. So H.T. probably stayed home to care for his wife & young kids instead of traveling over the Cumberland Gap and 100 miles into Virginia to his family’s slave sale, about a week or Furney Jones more round-trip by horse & buggy. Maybe he especially liked a couple of the young slaves he'd known at home in Virginia. So Furney went to the sale and purchased Mark, age 9, for his son-in- law, H.T. Hawthorn. Also, one of H.T.'s brothers, John Hawthorn, purchased a 10-year-old female slave, named Fanny, for $700.

On a Tennessee "Slave Schedule" for 1860 both slaves, Mark & Fanny, were listed as owned by H.T. Hawthorn of Tazewell (his only slaves). Furney probably brought both of them home to Margaret & H.T. following the 1858 sale. Maybe they were gifts for the young couple, or maybe H.T. reimbursed his brother John and father-in-law Furney for their purchases, (perhaps from a share of the proceeds of his parents’ property and slave sales). In any event, slave Mark was owned by H.T. Hawthorn and not Furney Jones, so he kept the name Hawthorn. Why weren't Mark & Fanny included in the regular 1860 Tennessee census? The U.S. Constitution Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 provided that only 3/5 of the total number of Negroes be counted in determining state populations for House of Representatives apportionment purposes. This provision, a compromise proposed by James Madison, was to lessen the impact of the fast- growing population of non-voting Negroes on the Southern states voting power in Congress. So the states kept a separate "Slave Schedule" until after the Civil War and the 14th Amendment, which granted (continued next page)

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SERVING THE UNION OR THE SOUTH

In answering a Southern Claims Commission question, Furney indicated that four of his nephews served in Un- ion forces and one son served in the Rebel Army. Which son? We now have a clue that it probably was my great- grandfather, Richard. Those who served the rebels lost their American citizenship. On the 1870 census, a check was made in the citizenship column for male citizens. Richard's name was not checked. Born in 1843 and single during the war, Richard probably was conscripted by the outnumbered Confederacy, increasingly desperate for young soldiers. Though he may not have served voluntarily, that wouldn't matter in the loss of Richard’s citizenship. As a former slave, Mark Hawthorn was granted citizenship in 1869. His name was checked as a citizen on the 1870 census. Great-great-grandfather Andrew Shipley, also from Tazewell, served the Union side in the Tennessee Volunteers Cavalry. Richard Jones, who we now think probably served with the Rebels, married Andrew’s daughter Henrietta, my great-grandmother, on December 28, 1869. An optimist might hope that this, and other marriages of couples from the opposing sides, might bring the country together after the war. But that challenge was too great to be resolved so easily.

THE ONGOING STRUGGLE

The South was in disarray, devastated by the horrendous loss of life, de- struction and division of properties and change of lifestyle for survivors of the former ruling class. Carpet Baggers flooded in from the north, joined by some southern ―Scalawags‖ to grasp political control. The Republican- dominated Congress refused to seat Southern Representatives and Senators, often over-riding President Johnson’s vetoes of restrictive laws. Confederate soldiers and prominent citizens lost their U.S. citizenship. Former slaves, though mostly illiterate, gained citizenship and voting rights which the carpet baggers and scalawags used to control elections. Negroes and Negro-White coalitions won control of every Southern state. Furney Jones, who served in the Tennessee General Assembly in 1865, may have lost his position when another man, possibly black, was soon selected to run for his seat. We don’t have more information about this event.

Many southerners responded to this chaos by joining the Ku Klux Klan and other organizations formed to intimidate, threaten and lynch Negroes and regain white supremacy. When federal troops withdrew, the South struggled to regain its identity, and the influence of the KKK and similar organizations intensified. Jim Crow laws were enacted to keep people of color from voting and holding office. By 1888 no blacks remained in the Tennessee Assembly. Some young people moved away for more opportunities. In about 1882, Richard & Henrietta Jones moved to Iowa and Nebraska with their family, including my grandfather. In 1901 they moved on to Eastern Washington where my mother was born.

Tennessee, which had been the last state to secede, was the first to comply with the 14th Amendment guarantee- ing full rights to freedmen. The state was then controlled by ―Radicals‖ and was re-admitted to the Union on July 24, 1866. The ten other Southern states rejected the 14th Amendment which did not take effect until 1868. It would be another 100 years before rights for all citizens were firmly established and enforced throughout the country. We have seen this happen in our own lifetime, and it’s still a work in progress.

As we learn more about our ancestors’ lives, we also learn their connections to historic American events. These discoveries help us understand the people we have become, individually and collectively. Genealogy presents us with an ongoing challenge to keep searching. For those of us motivated to pursue ―who we think we are,‖ self- discovery is not a destination, but a life-long journey.

Bill Dillon, EGS member

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One of two books with similar titles, this one does an amazing job of presenting a vivid and comprehensive picture of the experiences of our immigrant ancestors – but only during the period from 1820 – 1870. There is a companion book written by June Granatir Alexander covering the years from 1870 to 1920.

Bergquist obviously spent considerable time in deciding how to organize the book and I have to agree that his choice was not only logical, but highly effective as well, resulting in a book that flows easily from chapter to chapter. He seamlessly addresses varying national, linguistic, religious and cultural origins, the wide variety of economic backgrounds and positions, land and ocean travel both in the countries of origin as well as in America.

For those who appreciate timelines, numbers and statistics, the book opens with a timeline that addresses events that in some way influenced immigration. One of the most interesting components of the timeline is that almost every entry includes the number of immigrants that arrived in that year or during that period - a feature that I had not seen in a published timeline before.

Each chapter addresses a particular period that almost every immigrant experienced in their journey. To just enough significant historical background of an ancestral homeland, the author adds current economic, political or religious pressures that may have contributed to their decisions. Drawing on letters and journals, Bergquist shifts easily from a general description of farming in the Midwest to a narrative describing the experience of an immigrant family arriving at and developing their land. Integrated with a brief history of the development of canals or turnpikes is the story of an Irish canal or turnpike worker. The experience of a German brewer and his family is seamlessly integrated into the growth of a city like Milwaukee. Bergquist’s organization and style allows him to intersperse changes in travel conditions and advances in technology with details of daily life in such a way that the reader gets a well integrated picture of the day to day experience of an immigrant in each vignette described.

Of particular interest is the detailed and candid coverage of the development of immigrant communities in Amer- ica and their dependence upon common ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds. He also presents heartbreaking descriptions of the deprivations often suffered as a result of discrimination at the hands of ―nativists,‖ as well as heart- warming stories of the successes that came out of establishing these close knit, united communities and their determina- tion to assimilate into their adopted country, to become Americans.

Almost every national or ethnic immigrant group is addressed, even the oft ignored Asian immigration that started with the arrival of Chinese laborers responding to the demands of the Gold Rush in the mid 1800s.

This extremely readable book will be a valuable addition to the bookshelf of every genealogist with ancestors who immigrated between 1820 and 1870; however, though no significant facet of the immigrant experience is left out, the reader will quickly realize that this is not a reference work that can be used like an encyclopedia. Serious researchers will find the book’s index to be barely adequate. Liberal use of a highlighter and sticky notes is highly recommended for readers who intend to make future reference to specific information in the book. Ed Schultz

Daughters of the American Revolution

ANNIE PULLIAM CHAPTER, DAR: Our next meeting will be Saturday, March 12, starting at 10:00 am at the Senior Center, 411 Main St South, North Bend. Annie Pulliam Chapter will be a year old in April, and as such, this is the last opportunity for CHARTER MEMBERSHIP. All Charter applications must be in the mail to the National Socie- ty by mid-month. If you are considering DAR membership, and would like to be a Chapter Charter Member, please join us at this meeting or contact the Regent, Emmelyn Hart at [email protected].

CASCADE CHAPTER, DAR: Regular meetings are held at the Red Lion Bellevue Inn. The meeting is followed by lunch and an interesting program. March 8th will be a heritage themed program. David McCourt, an Irish Seanachie (storyteller) and lecturer with the Creative Retirement Institute will present stories, songs and the literary and historic roots of our Irish ancestors.For more about attending a meeting, please email Faye Kraft at [email protected] EASTSIDE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY—Bellevue, Washington Page 6 BULLETIN BOARD Vol. XXIX No. 9 MARCH 2011

EGS’s Bob Barnes Interviewed by KOMO News

EGS’s Bob Barnes was recently interviewed by KOMO News, and an article appeared on their website. Bob talked about discovering if you are related to a U.S. President and how easy it is to find out. You can read the article and see Bob’s picture at http://bellevue.komonews.com/news/community-spirit/presidents-day-inspires-ancestor- sleuthing/621701 (Submitted by Dorothy Pretare, EGS Publicity Chair).

Three Steps To Discovering Your Family's Hometown From Who Do You Think You Are?

Find the place your family called home. Imagine following in the footsteps of your impoverished Irish ancestors as they left behind the Great Famine for a new life in North America. In Episode 3 of Who Do You Think You Are? Rosie O'Donnell used census records, vital records, obituaries and church records to reveal her family's Irish hometown and discover the tragedies and triumphs they faced both there and in America. Her discoveries changed the way she sees the world.

Three steps to discovering your family's hometown: Finding your family's home in the old country begins with the paper trail they created in America.

Step 1: Identify your first American ancestor. U.S. Censuses from 1850 on are a great place to start, as they contain birthplaces for everyone in the household. And U.S. Censuses from the 20th century also include immigration years. In earlier censuses, children's birthplaces and ages can give you an approximate immigration year. Keep going back through census years until you discover an ancestor born outside the U.S.

Step 2: Search for birth details. Check tombstones, obituaries, draft registration cards, naturalization documents and birth, marriage and death records for mention of a hometown or county. Use census discoveries to find immigration details in passenger lists. More recent lists may include a birthplace and the address of a close relative back home. And earlier lists can point you to friends and family from the same area who arrived on the same ship.

Look beyond traditional records. Church records can mention births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, hometowns and more. And an address from a census can lead you to nearby churches in city directories. County land ownership maps can help you pinpoint churches close to rural relatives. No luck? Research someone else. Records of an ancestor's sibling, cousin or parent could lead you to the hometown you're looking for. (From Ancestry.com, Tips from Who Do You Think You Are?) Computer SIG January Meeting Summary

The January 2011 meeting was the final meeting to be chaired by Margie Perdue. Margie has been the SIG chair for about three very successful and enjoyable years. She has now stepped down in favor of a new face at the helm. Thank you Margie, you have done a wonderful job and we are very grateful.

The meeting started with Margie Perdue outlining the responsibilities of the SIG chair person. After much discussion, Joe Flint offered to be the new Chair, with Frank Curtis assuming some of the Chair roles. Judy Smith continues on as SIG Treasurer.

The main part of the meeting was a presentation about the voluntary indexing project for the Family Search database. Sarah Fleming and Margie Perdue attended last year's NGS Conference and brought back a DVD that gave us a fascinating view of the huge undertaking made by the LDS Family Search organization. They have been recording and preserving family history records for over a century. We saw a video showing the construction of the huge storage facility, bur- ied in a granite mountain, near Salt Lake City. The huge cavern naturally maintains an even temperature and humidity to safely preserve the contents. The presenter on the DVD, Jay Verker, then covered the on going problem of maintaining the collected data. Their first task was to photograph the millions of records. This introduced problems of preservation and deterioration of the original documents, and of the film. This was initially solved by use of the storage facility. But this only delays the deterioration of the records and a more permanent solution was required. (continued next page)

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In the 60s, the Family Search organization recognized that computers could help solve their problems. As the technology developed they started to make digital image copies of the original records. What was thought to be a century long process, has now been reduced to a few years. Family Search still has a digital media degradation problem but now they have automated diagnostic and backup systems to keep track of the hardware. Digital copies are exact copies, unlike the photos which lose resolution with each copy.

High resolution cameras were capable of taking a perfect photo of a document, with computer assistance, using every process known, to make the text as clear as possible. Unfortunately, the original documents may be in bad shape and the interpretation of handwriting was not easily solved. Family Search decided to call on thousands of volunteers to read the old documents and create a searchable index. This will allow future researchers to quickly find a record, and from there, to be able to review the best copy of the original document. Access to the index, and to the record image will be free of charge.

Sarah and Margie have been involved, together with other members, for some time. They find it enjoyable and have the satisfaction of providing a service that others can appreciated in the years to come. If you are interested in helping with the indexing, review the following web site. There is an extensive on-line training program available. http://www.familysearch.org/eng/indexing/frameset_indexing.asp (Submitted by Frank Curtis, Computer SIG) Buon Cumpleano Italia -- Happy 15Oth Birthday Italy!!!

Italy is one of the youngest nations of the Western world. As a geographic entity, Italy has been in existence more than 3000 years, but as a unified country, Italy was born in 1861. In 1861, after the wars waged against the Austrians and once the Garibaldi expedition to Sicily was completed, the long period of political and military fights leading Italy to unification was over. On the 17th March of that year national unity was proclaimed in Torino, which became the first capital city of Italy.

During the Risorgimento, the city took in the exiles from all over the country. They had developed a common Unitari- an aspiration and here they designed the political strategy that would result in the unification of the country. Therefore, the new history of Italy, independent and united, initiated from Torino on the 17th March one and a half centuries ago when the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed with Torino as its first capital. The city of Torino would be the capital for four years until 1865, when the central Government of the Kingdom moved to Florence. Rome became the final capital city, from 1871, when the unification of the country was fully completed. In 1911 and 1961, on the occasion of the Fifti- eth anniversary and the Centennial of national unification, Torino became again the core of the country: the grand celebra- tions taking place there for the two anniversaries drew over 6 million visitors each.

On 17th March 1911, Italy commemorated its first 50 years with an international Industrial Exhibition in Turin. This commemoration drew crowds of more than 7 million visitors. To celebrate the Centennial in 1961 Turin hosted a show- case for Italy and its regional traditions.

In 2011, Italy is planning to celebrate its 150th anniversary and the Italian government is planning a great celebration on March 17, a date that will be declared an official national holiday. A nationwide celebration will take place like there was in 1911 and in 1961. It will be an opportunity to look back at the past but also to review the present and take a look at the future of Italy. http://eng.italia150.it/index.php/150th-ANNIVERSARY

For the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification, Turin and Piedmont are organizing a major event, ―Esperienza Italia.‖ There will be nine months of exhibitions and events for learning about the process of unification and how the Italian identity was created, and for telling about the best in this country. Turin is being spruced up for the occasion— museums coming back to life, palaces and parks restored to their original splendor, and new green areas. In the months of the celebra- tions there will be plenty of occasions in Turin and all Piedmont for everyone to experience: concerts, events, shows and sports. An occasion that no one should miss and which no one will be able to forget, because being there is quite another matter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kEVL89jJNs Esperienza Italia video - a 9 mos. celebration from March - November 2011 in Torino and Piemonte. Risorgimento http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_unification (Submitted by Mary Sangalang, Italian Special Interest Group Chair).

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Location Addresses

Issaquah Public Library Lake Hills Library National Archives and Records Fiske Genealogical Library 140 East Sunset Way 15528 Lake Hills Blvd. SE Admin. 1644 43rd Ave E/ Issaquah, WA Bellevue, WA 6125 Sand Point Way NE Seattle, WA 98122 425-392-5430 425-747-3350 Seattle, WA 98115-7999 206-328-2716 206-336-5115 FHC - Redmond Newport Way Library North Bend Library Redmond Regional Library 10115 172nd Ave. NE 14520 SE Newport Way 115 East Fourth St 15990 NE 85th St Redmond, WA Bellevue WA North Bend, WA Redmond, WA 425-861-9273 425-747-2390 425-888-0554 425-885-1861 WA State Puget Sound Regional Archives Seattle Public Library Snoqualmie Public Library Fire Station #22 BCC, 3000 Landerholm SE, MS-100 1000 Fourth Ave 38580 SE River Street 6602 108th Ave NE Bellevue, WA 98007 Seattle, WA Snoqualmie, WA Kirkland, WA 206-386-4636 425-888-1223 Federation of Genealogical Societies/Illinois State Genealogical Society 2011

The FGS/ISGS 2011 Conference offers an exciting opportunity for anyone interested in researching their family history. Over 165 educational sessions and 13 luncheons are designed to balance the needs of genealogists at all levels, exploring a variety of records, strategies, and other tools available to those interested in researching their family history. The conference will be held September 7-10, 2011 in Springfield, Illinois. Information on specific conference sessions and more information can be found at http://www.fgs.org/2011conference/index.php. Early-bird registration for the FGS/ISGS 2011 Conference is now available through 1 July 2011 at http://www.fgs.org/2011conference/registration. Redmond Historical Society Meeting with David Horsey, Cartoonist & Columnist

The Redmond Historical Society will meet on Saturday, March 12, 2011, 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon at The Old Red- mond Schoolhouse Community Center, 16600 NE 80 Street, Redmond, WA. David Horsey, editorial cartoonist and columnist, will be talking about ―kick-starting a cartooning career in Redmond.‖ David Horsey worked at the Sammamish Valley News in 1976. Based at seattlepi.com, his work is distributed to Hearst publications throughout the United States. He has published six collections of his work. You won’t want to miss this meeting. To receive the monthly newsletter, contact the Society office at 425-885-2919, or email your request to [email protected]. Books, note cards, free historic walking tour brochures, and the book, Redmond Reflections, are available in our office, which is open on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM and by appointment. Visit our website: www.redmondhistoricalsociety.org.

Washington State Genealogical Society 2011 Annual Seminar

The Washington State Genealogical Society will present their 2011 Annual Seminar, sponsored by the Tri-City Gene- alogical Society, on September 16 & 17, 2011. Featured speaker will be Patricia Walls Stamm, GC, CGL, from St. Louis, MO. In addition to a bonus session on Friday night, Patricia will present three topics on Saturday, along with many other presenters and many topics. Location: Richland Baptist Church, 1632 George Washington Way, Richland, WA. Time: Friday 5:00 - 9:00 PM, Saturday 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM. Registration at 7:30 AM. More details at: http://www.tricitygenealogicalsociety.org/wiki/doku.php

FREE GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH HELP Genealogical research help is available at the Bellevue Regional Library, located at NE 12 th St. and 110 th Ave. NE in Bellevue. Eastside Genealogical Society volunteers are waiting to help you with problems and questions. They are available in room 6 on the second floor of the library, to the left of the reference desk . Hours are Tuesdays from 7:00 -9:00 PM and Wednesdays from 1:00 - 3:00 PM.

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EGS Board Meeting The Eastside Genealogical Society Board will meet on Thursday, March 3, 10:00 AM to Noon at (First Thursday, the Bellevue Regional Library, room 6. 10:00 AM) EGS General Meeting The Eastside Genealogical Society will meet on Thursday, March 10, at 7:00 PM in the Bellevue Regional Library. Visitors are welcome.

Computer Interest The next meeting of the EGS Computer Special Interest Group will be on Saturday, March 26 at (Fourth Saturday, 9:30 AM. We meet in the Community Meeting Room of the Crossroads Mall in Bellevue. The 9:30 AM) topic is to be decided at the February meeting. If you wish to receive e-mail notification of the SIG meetings please send a request to [email protected] (Joe Flint, [email protected])

Czech/Slovak Interest Our next meeting will be on Saturday, March 5 from 9:30 AM to Noon at Firehouse #22 in Group Houghton. See website for more information: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wacsig/ (Rosie Bodien, (Check Bulletin for 425-828-0170 or [email protected].) meeting information) EGS Lunch Bunch Meets every fourth Thursday, 11:30 AM, at Crossroads Mall Shopping Center Food Court. (Fourth Thursday, 11:30 AM) German Interest Group The German Interest Group will be meeting on Friday, March 4 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM at the (First Friday, Crossroads Mall, Community Meeting Room. Dorothy Pretare and Ann Passé will present the 1:00 PM) topic “Researching in Poland might provide information about your German Ancestors.” We will discuss Poland’s historical border changes, village name and family name changes, finding records, helpful websites and much more. Visitors are always welcome. (Ann Passe, [email protected] or 206-232-1104)

Irish and Scots-Irish Irish/ Scots-Irish next meeting will be on Wednesday, March 2, 10:00 AM. Ann Lamb and Duane Interest Group Esslinger will present their successes and brick walls in researching their Ulster family and pictures (First Wednesday, from their recent trip to Northern Ireland. 10:00 AM) (Ann Lamb, 425-557-0440 or [email protected]) Italian Interest Group The Italian Interest Group will meet on Saturday, March 19, 1:30-3:30 PM, Bellevue Regional (Third Saturday, Library, Conference Room #6. IIG’s 21st Anniversary! We will go to dinner after our meeting to 1:30 PM, note celebrate our 21st anniversary. http://www.angelosofbellevue.com/default.aspx Mary reserved the February change) private room at Angelo's at 5:00 PM. Please RSVP to Mary at [email protected] by 3/16. The restaurant website with menu link is above. (Mary Sangalang, 425-649-2250 or [email protected])

Legacy Interest Group The next Legacy Interest Group meeting will be on Wednesday, March 2 from 12:30 – 2:30 PM in (First Wednesday, the Community Room at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue. We'll be talking about tagging in Legacy – 12:30 PM) what tags are and how they’re used. (Sherry Holthe, [email protected] or 425-880-4407)

Scandinavian Interest The Scandinavian Interest Group will meet on March 8 from 10 AM - Noon, at the Puget Sound Group Archive Building at Bellevue College. We will watch lessons 3 & 4 from the "Viking" DVD series (Second Tuesday, by Professor Kenneth Harl, published by "The Great Courses." Please see the website for more infor- 10:00 AM) mation: eastsidesig.spaces.live.com (Sandy Arildson, 425-747-5621, or [email protected] ) Shore to Shore Interest The Shore to Shore group plans to meet for our birthday lunch on Monday, March 7 at 11:30 AM Group at Crossroads Mall. On Thursday, March 17 we will travel to the Seattle Public Library by (Changes monthly, call bus and meet on the 9th floor genealogy area. The genealogist will be at the desk from 1:00 PM to Shirley) 3:00 PM for help finding information. We usually meet about 10:00 AM and then bring our lunch to eat there. There are also restaurants close by. Please call Shirley Dowd if you have questions about this trip (Shirley Dowd, 425-454-0078)

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Special Interest Group (SIG) Contacts Computer Joe Flint [email protected] Czech/Slovak Rosie Bodien 425-828-0170 [email protected] German Ann Passe 206-232-1104 [email protected] Irish Ann Lamb 425-557-0440 [email protected] Italian Mary D. Sangalang 425-649-2250 [email protected] Legacy Sherry Holthe 425-880-4407 [email protected] Lunch Bunch Portuguese(inactive) Barbara Guyll 425-746-5603 [email protected] Scandinavian Sandy Arildson 425-747-5621 [email protected] Shore to Shore Shirley Dowd 425-454-0078 [email protected]

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EGS Meeting Information Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011 Time: Welcome New Members 6:30 PM Meeting Begins 7:00 PM APRIL 2011 Location: Bellevue Regional Library Room 1 VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER X Topic: The RootsTech Experience Speaker: Joe Flint The Eastside Genealogical Society About The Program: P.O. Box 374 Bellevue WA 98009-0374 By all accounts, the recent RootsTech conference was a rousing success! www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakcegs/ EGS member, Joe Flint, was there. Come hear Joe’s personal observations of RootsTech as well as the observations of bloggers from around the country. Next President’s Message EGS Meeting:

Research: the basis of genealogy. Thanks to the internet, many of us log lots of computer time. We visit cyndislist, Ancestry.com, Familysearch.org May 12, 2011 and Google every name we come across. We also visit the sites of state ar- 7:00 PM chives, college and state libraries, historical and genealogical societies and Bellevue Regional Library much more.

Many times if we visit a site and find no relevant information we move on and never bother to check again. INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Big mistake! New things are posted every day. Many sites such as Gen- Webb and Find-a-Grave depend on people like us to add to their data bases. President’s Message 1 State archives, libraries, historical societies and such are constantly digitizing more material and putting it online, too. May Meeting Information 2

A couple of illustrations: at the March meeting, as always, I asked if any- Book Report 3 one had had a research success story. Joe Flint raised his hand and said that he’d re-visited Find-a-Grave and found someone had added one of his ances- Webinars 4 tors since he’d last visited. A while ago I visited the site of a Tennessee repository and found mention of one Daniel Smith. Knowing Bob Barnes has a Mocavo.com 5 Smith line in the vicinity, I told him about it. He looked and found his ancestor, Enoch’s, brother. The information had been posted shortly before I’d found it. In both cases, Yahoo! More Webinars & Blogs 7

So, if you visit a site once and come up empty-handed, keep checking Computer SIG Recap 8 back. Next week you might find a photo of a grave stone, a useful book, or a transcribed will. Upcoming Seminars 9

SIG Calendar 10 And if you enjoy turning actual pages of a real book, you may want to join our Shore to Shore SIG. We make trips to local libraries and other reposito- EGS Contacts 11 ries. Our April outing will be to Fiske Library on April 18th. (continued next page)

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For more information contact Shirley Dowd, whose contact info is in the back of your Bulletin.

Happy hunting!

Judy Meredith, President

May Meeting

For everyone who was disappointed that there wasn’t enough time to talk about their family pictures at the Febru- ary meeting, we are rectifying that at the May meeting. In fact, we are expanding upon the theme. I would like everyone who has an ancestor they would like to talk about for a few minutes to work up a short presentation. It’s not just the celebrities on Who Do You Think You Are? who have all the interesting ancestors. A lot of us do also.

Some of these ancestors were pillars of society and some were outlaws. In any case, we would love to have you tell us about your interesting ancestor. Please email me, Carol, at [email protected]. Send me your pictures so I can put them in PowerPoint and we can put them up on the big screen while you are talking. You can bring other props too such as letters and artifacts.

Most genealogists enjoy hearing stories about other people’s families so don’t be shy and share that special ancestor with the rest of us. (Submitted by Carol Pattison, EGS VP and Program Chair)

War of 1812 Pensions Digitization Project

The Federation of Genealogical Societies (of which EGS is a member), the National Archives, and the genealogical community are trying to raise $3.7 million to digitize the War of 1812 pension files. The hope is to raise the bulk of the funds before 2012 and to complete digitization of 7.2 million images in 180,000 files before 2015, the bicentennial of the war’s end. The digitized pensions will be available free on the National Archives web site! Each $1 you contribute will digitize two images. Please note: EGS will match contributions made through EGS. If you cannot make it to a meeting, you can send a check to the EGS P.O. Box (listed on the back page of this newsletter), with War of 1812 in the memo field. For more information, or if you prefer to donate online, go to www.fgs.org/1812. (Submitted by Sarah Fleming, EGS Book Acquisitions Chair) Volunteer Opportunities

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and a Study of Life Among the Mountaineers — A Book Report By Janet Camarata

Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure In the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life Among the Mountaineers is a book written by Horace Kephart (1862–1931), first published in 1913. Kephart spent years living in the remote Hazel Creek area of the Great Smoky Mountains.

1940 map of the southwestern Smokies, modified to show points mentioned frequently in Our Southern Highlanders.

Kephart was born in Pennsylvania, grew up in Iowa and was working as a librarian at Cornell University in 1890. By the early 1900s, Kephart became disheartened with work and his home life. He started drinking, and began spending more and more time in the Ozark wilderness nearby. After a divorce and a nervous breakdown, he arranged the use of a cabin at an abandoned copper mine in the Hazel Creek valley in the southwest corner of the Great Smokies in 1904.

The book is one of the earliest non-fictionalized descriptions of life in the rural Appalachian Mountains and one of the first serious analyses of Appalachian culture. He covered such topics as the highlander’s adaption to their environ- ment, and the difficulties in farming and grazing in the steep mountains. He described bear hunts and moonshining – from the how-to to the history. He explained the long-term relationship between federal revenue agents and illegal liquor sales. He described the mountaineers' attitudes toward outsiders, their physical traits and work ethic, their home life including dress, their poverty, charity, gender roles, religion, music, customs, and mountain speech. He described many of the place names and how they got their name. He described where the mountaineers may have gained their penchant for self-reliance and individualism, the importance of family bonds, and their attitudes toward government. He described the feuds between clans and their migration patterns that led to living in the mountains. For a genealogist with ancestors from the mountainous area spread across the highlands of several states, the book is a wonderful window on their world. The next to the last chapter covering their Scots-Irish roots and migration patterns was especially interesting.

The book is available for reading online at the Kentucky Digital Library (http://kdl.kyvl.org) or for download in multiple formats from either Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) or Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/ ebooks/31709). It is also available on the shelf at the University of Washington, University of Puget Sound and Everett Community College. (Submitted by Janet Camarata, [email protected] , EGS member)

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Jamboree Extension Series — Webinars to Help You Learn from Home

The Southern California Genealogical Society is proud to announce a new program, the Jamboree Extension Series, that provides family history and genealogy educational webinar (web-based seminar) sessions for genealogists around the world. The program will offer Jamboree-style seminars for up to 1000 attendees per session, at no charge. The Jamboree Extension Series is offered as a service to the genealogical community as part of the Society's mission "to foster interest in family history and genealogy, preserve genealogical materials, and provide instruction in accepted and effective research techniques."

While the original webcasts are available to all genealogists, SCGS members will be able to review archived sessions at any time by accessing the SCGS members-only section of this website. Archive sessions will be available approximately three days following the webinar. To view the webinar, you will need a computer with audio speakers or a headset. Those persons with a fast Internet connection (either broadband or DSL) will have the most satisfactory experience.

Jamboree Extension Series presentations will be scheduled on the first Saturday and third Wednesday of each month. Saturday sessions will be held at 10:00 AM Pacific time / 1:00 PM Eastern time; Wednesday sessions will be scheduled at 6:00 PM Pacific time / 9:00 PM Eastern time. For more information, to view upcoming presentations and to access past webcasts, visit http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/JamboreeExtensionSeries2011.htm (Submitted by Doro- thy Pretare, EGS Publicity)

Inflation Calculator

The inflation calculator at http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ is very useful in understanding the relative value of items encountered in your research. You can input an amount and a year between 1800 and 2009 and find out what that item would cost today.

If I put in $1000 and 1858, I would receive the response: "What cost $1000 in 1858 would cost $24,490.82 in 2009." (Submitted by Ann Lamb, EGS Irish & Scots-Irish SIG Chair)

Annual Polish Spring Bazaar

The annual Spring Bazaar will be held at the Polish Home (1714 18th Avenue, Seattle) on Saturday, April 16th from noon to 7:00 PM. There will be booths offering Polish crystal, amber and silver jewelry, pottery, crafts, books, Easter eggs and much more. You can enjoy a traditional Polish dinner served by servers wearing Polish folk costumes and buy home-made desserts and pastries. Admission is free.

The Polish Home Association website: http://www.polishhome.org/DefaultEng.htm (Submitted by Ann Passé, German SIG Chair)

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Mocavo.com - a Genealogy Search Engine By Dick Eastman I suggest you remember this web site: Moca- vo.com. I bet you are going to hear a lot about it in the next few weeks and months. In fact, I'd suggest you try it right now. I've been using the site for a while during its testing and have been very impressed. This thing actually works! Today, Mocavo.com went public and is now available to everyone.

Mocavo.com is a genealogy search engine that is available to you at no charge. It searches hundreds of thousands of genealogy web sites, looking for the words that you specify. Web sites searched include thousands of genealogy message boards, society web pages, genealogy pages uploaded by individuals, state historical societies, family societies, Find-A-Grave, the Internet Archive (mostly scanned genealogy books from the Allen County Public Library), the Library of Congress, several sites containing scanned images of old photographs, and tens of thousands of distinct sites that contain various transcribed records of genealogical interest.

Unlike other search engines, Mocavo.com limits its searches solely to genealogy sites. That makes a big difference to many of us who are searching for names that also are common words or corporate names. For instance, if I search for my own surname, Eastman, on most any other search engine, I receive hundreds of thousands of "hits" from photography sites and other sites that have nothing to do with genealogy. Performing a search for "Eastman" on Mocavo.com returns thousands of "hits," all of them from genealogy sites and with very few references to photography. Even the few that refer to the Eastman Kodak Company were references found on genealogy sites. A search for my own surname did return a "hit" for one page about the "Eastman Sea Rover airplane," something I had never heard of previously. Even that one "hit" was from a genealogy message board, providing information about the ancestry of the airplane's designer. Regardless of your search terms, Mocavo.com always returns information found on web sites that contain significant genealogy information.

I suspect you will always have better luck searching for your own surnames of interest on Mocavo.com than on any other search engine.

As an example of how Mocavo.com works, I'd suggest you first go to the site and perform a search for Amos Shaw who was married to Sarah Maxey. I found the couple by a search of: "amos shaw" "sarah maxey" (Include the quote marks.)

That search found 41 "hits," but the one that was really productive was the fifth "hit" on the first page. That fifth "hit" may change up or down in the future, but you can always return to the correct page if you go to http:// www.mocavo.com/visit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.findagrave.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Ffg.cgi%3Fpage%3Dgr% 26GRid%3D9525960. It is a FindAGrave result with an amazing photograph of a lady who was born in 1793 and died in 1868. You can find a photograph of her husband (who died in 1859) one click away. Those are old photos! It is rare to find a photograph of someone born in the 1700s. You will find it much more difficult to find old photographs like this using Google searches for genealogy!

Now try a few searches on Mocavo.com with your own names of interest.

Of course, searches on Mocavo.com are not limited to names. As with any other search engine, you can search for towns, states, occupations, relatives, or any other text information you think might be included with an ancestor's name. Whatever you specify, the search will be limited to pages on genealogy web sites. (continued next page )

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For instance, I have long been looking for the origins of Washington Harvey Eastman who lived his adult life in Cor- inth, Maine. I performed the following search on Mocavo.com:

"Washington Harvey Eastman" Corinth This returned only two results, both referring to the specific person I have been looking for (although they only provided information I had already seen previously). Searching for the same person without his town of residence produces many more "hits," most of them for other men with the same or similar names. Adding the town of reference quickly produces focused results.

With the exception of the sites being searched, Mocavo.com operates in much the same manner as Google and most other search engines. Mocavo always displays the full URL of the web site(s) found, along with a line of text from the site that contains the words you searched for. Clicking on the URL displays the original web site. Mocavo.com never "hides" anything; the original web site is always displayed in its entirety.

According to Cliff Shaw, the creator of Mocavo.com:

―Genealogy has always had the problem of information and potential clues being spread across thousands of dispar- ate web sites and sources. Imagine a world where you have all of the Web’s free genealogy content at your fingertips within seconds. That is Mocavo.com.‖

―Mocavo.com has the capacity to index every single piece of free genealogy content found anywhere on the web, and will be growing by leaps and bounds in the coming months. We expect Mocavo.com to shortly offer all of the web’s free genealogy information, searchable and accessible to all – something that has never been done before. It’s set to become the go-to search engine for every family history enthusiast.‖

―At this time, Mocavo.com finds mostly North American genealogy information. I suspect that will expand in the future as the site grows "by leaps and bounds every day."

Cliff Shaw has created a great genealogy search engine, the best I have seen. Try it. I suspect you'll be as pleased with Mocavo.com as I am. Go to http://www.Mocavo.com.

I still plan on using other search engines for a lot for my other web searches. However, all my future genealogy searches will start on Mocavo.com. I've been using the site for a while during its testing and have been very impressed. I suspect you will always have better luck searching for your own surnames of interest on Mocavo.com than on any other search engine. (The previous article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com.) OLD REMOND HISTORIC WALKING TOURS 2011

Our Centennial is just around the corner in 2012, so are you ready to answer, or ask, Redmond trivia questions? Taking our guided walking tour of the historic downtown core is guaranteed to provide lots of facts, figures and especially fun since historian Tom Hitzroth will be the man with the stories, gossip, and names. For example, do you know in whose building an alleged bordello operated? Here’s a hint: He would later become Redmond’s longest serving mayor!

This year’s dates are April 17, May 15, June 19 and September 18, 2011. Tours run from 1:00 to 2:30 PM, and walkers meet on the front steps of the Justice White House, 7730 Leary Way. A tour will not be held if it rains.

Pre-registration is required and a fee of $8 per person will help fund Society research. To register, phone or email the Redmond Historical Society office at 425-885-2919 or [email protected]

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GeneaWebinars We keep hearing about genealogy webinars held here, there and everywhere on the Internet. Thankfully, Genea- Webinars provides a single place to find out about upcoming events. Imagine, one calendar, and links to information on each webinar presentation in a single, centralized spot on the web!

To find out what is available, visit http://blog.geneawebinars.com/p/welcome.html, then click on "Webinar Hosts" to see the list of the various events. This website was set up by Dear MYRTLE, genealogy columnist/blogger. (Submitted by Dorothy Pretare, EGS Publicity) Genealogy Blogs

What is a blog? Merriam-Webster defines a blog as "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer; also: the contents of such a site." Blogs are frequently updated and are intended for public viewing.

Genealogy blogs are becoming more and more important for researching your ancestors and with connecting to others with similar interests. Anyone with internet access can maintain their own blog, sharing their best tips, research stories, information about their ancestors and more. Family Tree Magazine has a listing on their website of their Top 40 favorite genealogy blogs. You can find their list at http://familytreemagazine.com/article/40-best-genealogy-blogs-2011? et_mid=186053&rid=2711020

If you are interested in finding a genealogy blog by topic, surname or location, you can find many at the website Geneabloggers -- "the genealogy community's resource for genealogy blog." There are many blogs indexed here as well as resources for those interested in starting a blog. You can find this site at http://www.geneabloggers.com/ (Submitted by Kimberly Nichols, EGS newsletter) DAR News

Do you have an ancestor who fought in the American Revolution (1775-1783)? Do you want to help preserve Amer- ica's heritage? The Daughters of the American is a volunteer service organization whose members are dedicated to preserving American history. There are two DAR chapters serving this area and their membership committees are always available to answer questions and help with applications.

Cascade Chapter DAR meets on the second Tuesday of each month at the Red Lion Bellevue Inn. The April 12 meeting starts at 10:30 AM, followed by lunch. The program will be on Orphan Trains, with speaker Ann Browning, a Cascade chapter member. For more information and reservations, please email Regent Faye Kraft at [email protected].

Annie Pulliam Chapter DAR will be celebrating her first birthday at Pogacha's in Issaquah on April 9 at Noon. Guest speaker, Tim Purgatorio, is just back from Afghanistan. The chapter will be presenting a Community Service Award and swearing-in the last of the charter chapter members. Reservations are required for this special event, please contact Regent Emmelyn Hart at [email protected]. (Submitted by Donna Hart, DAR Representative) Redmond Historical Society

The Redmond Historical Society will meet on Saturday, April 9, 2011, 10:30 AM to 12:00 noon at The Old Red- mond Schoolhouse Community Center, 16600 NE 80 Street, Redmond, WA. Jesse ―Clark‖ McAbee of the Northwest Railway Museum, Snoqualmie, will be speaking on saving an American treasure and King County landmark, giving the history and restoration of the Messenger of Peace, Chapel Car 5, an all-wood, 80-foot passenger car built in Dayton, Ohio, in 1898, for the express purpose of spreading the gospel across the United States. It was a star feature of the St. Louis Exposition in 1904, and spent many years in Washington State. You won’t want to miss this meeting. To receive the monthly newsletter, contact the Society office at 425-885-2919, or email your request to [email protected] . Books, note cards, free historic walking tour brochures, and the book, ―Redmond Reflections,‖ are available in our office, which is open on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM and by appointment. Visit our website: www.redmondhistoricalsociety.org. EASTSIDE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY—Bellevue, Washington Page 7 BULLETIN BOARD Vol. XXIX No. 10 APRIL 2011 EGS Computer Sig Meeting Recap — February 26, 2011

Joe Flint chaired the meeting, welcomed everyone and opened the floor for discussion. The first topic was in response to a request from a new member, for advice in choosing a genealogy application to store the results of her research. The majority of those present were strongly in favor of Legacy, but there was a great deal of praise for RootsMagic. The Mas- ter Genealogist (TMG) was also mentioned as being a great tool for the serious researcher, but the users present appeared to be a little upset by the lack of new updates. While there were many Family Tree Maker (FTM) users present, I did not hear anyone suggest it as a suitable candidate.

The discussion of software extended to the use of smartphones and tablet mobile devices as stand alone genealogical tools, or in the case of a couple of applications, that linked to a desktop application. One application is called Families. It is published by TelGen Ltd and runs on an Apple iPad and on some of the new Android tablets. The application links to a Legacy database on your desktop or laptop, allowing you to edit and view your Legacy database when you are away from home. When I did a search on the Apple iOS online application (App) store, using the word "genealogy," I got 11 results for the iPad and 57 results for the iPhone/iPod Touch.

The main topic of discussion was the recent Gen- Tech conference in Salt Lake City. At least two members had made the journey and were very enthusiastic about what they had heard and experienced. In addition to the "soft" announcement of the continuation of the development of a genealogical data transfer standard, it was clear that the attendees had learned and shared a great deal. Rather than list the highlights here, I would like to refer everyone to some of the internet blogs that cover most of the event in great detail.

Blogs are an on line feed of comments and articles from a range of authors. There are many methods of reading a blog, the primary method is to access the website, but there are many options to have the blog data streamed to your computer. The most often used reader is called an RSS reader ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS ) and the most widely known is called Google Reader.

Other methods of reading RSS blog feeds include the use of Yahoo and Google home pages. There are options to customize these web pages to suit each user. (e.g. My Yahoo) When you click "Add content" you can search a huge range of feeds which, when added, will be kept updated every time you visit your home page.

The blogs we recommend that you visit to read about the GenTech conference include: DearMyrtle http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/ Eastman http://blog.eogn.com/ Ancestry Insider http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com/

For a more complete list of other genealogy blogs go to: http://www.cyndislist.com/blogs.htm

RootsTech 2.0 will be held February 2-4, 2012, again at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City.

Next month’s program will follow the same format where all members present contribute to the discussion. The subject will be "How does a beginner start researching their family history?" This was inspired by the current TV program Who Do You Think You Are? It was clear from these programs that the celebrities had no idea how to start and needed someone to get them going. Once they had some idea of what data was available they were able to trace and reveal some interesting history. We encourage everyone to offer suggestions and stories of how they did their initial research. Most likely, the methods and techniques will vary, depending on your family origins. This is what we want to hear. (Submitted by Frank Curtis, Computer SIG).

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Location Addresses

 Seattle Genealogical Society Spring Seminar CSI Meets Roots, Saturday, May 21, 2011, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, at Nordic Heritage Museum, with Dr. Colleen Fitzpatrick, Forensic Genealogist. For registration and flyer, see http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~waseags/2011SGSSpringSeminarbrochure.pdf  The FGS/ISGS 2011 Conference, September 7-10, 2011 in Springfield, Illinois. Information on specific conference sessions and more information can be found at http://www.fgs.org/2011conference/index.php. Early-bird registration for the FGS/ISGS 2011 Conference is now available through 1 July 2011 at http:// www.fgs.org/2011conference/registration.  The Washington State Genealogical Society will present their 2011 Annual Seminar, sponsored by the Tri-City Ge- nealogical Society, on September 16 & 17, 2011. Location: Richland Baptist Church, 1632 George Washington Way, Richland, WA. Time: Friday 5:00 - 9:00 PM, Saturday 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM. Registration at 7:30 AM. More details at http://www.tricitygenealogicalsociety.org/wiki/doku.php Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State Meeting

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State presents "Jews, Genetics, and the DNA Shoah Project" by Matthew Kaplan, Monday, April 11, 2011 at Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 East Mercer Way, Mercer Island, WA 98040. Doors open at 7:00 PM, presentation starts promptly at 7:30 PM. The JGSWS library and WIFI will be available.

Matthew Kaplan will present research findings from studies of Jewish genetics and Jewish population history. He’ll start with a short review of some basic principles of human genetics and the biology behind DNA testing. He'll also talk about the DNA Shoah Project, a unique humanitarian effort to reunite survivors of the Holocaust. Following the lecture there will be time for questions. Volunteers will be on hand to assist those interested in contributing their DNA (free) to the DNA Shoah Project.

Matthew Kaplan is a staff scientist at the University of Arizona Genetics Core laboratory (UAGC). The UAGC provides genetic testing services for both academic researchers and the private sector. Matt personally developed the genetic testing pipeline for Family Tree DNA, the leader in the field of Genetic Genealogy. His laboratory currently provides genetic testing services for Family Tree DNA and for the public participants of National Geographic’s and IBM’s Geno- graphic Project. Matt has worked with Dr. Michael Hammer on research projects using the Y chromosome and mitochon- drial DNA to investigate the population genetics and population history of Jewish populations for over ten years. They are currently working together on the DNA Shoah Project.

For more information, visit our website at: http://www.jgsws.org. Free admission for JGSWS members and one guest per year, $5.00 for non-members. EASTSIDE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY—Bellevue, Washington Page 9 BULLETIN BOARD Vol. XXIX No. 10 APRIL 2011

EGS April 2011 Meeting Calendar

EGS Board Meeting The Eastside Genealogical Society Board will meet on Thursday, April 7, 10:00 AM to Noon (First Thursday, at the Bellevue Regional Library, room 6. 10:00 AM) EGS General Meeting The Eastside Genealogical Society will meet on Thursday, April 14, at 7:00 PM in the Bellevue Regional Library. Visitors are welcome.

Computer Interest The next meeting of the EGS Computer Special Interest Group will be on Saturday, April 23 (Fourth Saturday, at 9:30 AM. We meet in the Community Meeting Room of the Crossroads Mall in Belle- 9:30 AM) vue. The topic is to be decided at the March meeting. If you wish to receive e-mail notification of the SIG meetings please send a request to [email protected] (Joe Flint, [email protected]) Czech/Slovak Interest Our next meeting will be on Saturday, April 23 from 9:30 AM to Noon at Firehouse #22 Group in Houghton. See website for more information: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wacsig/ (Check Bulletin for (Rosie Bodien, 425-828-0170 or [email protected].) meeting information) EGS Lunch Bunch Meets every fourth Thursday, 11:30 AM, at Crossroads Mall Shopping Center Food (Fourth Thursday, Court. 11:30 AM) German Interest Group The EGS German Interest Group will meet on Friday, April 1 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM in the (First Friday, Community Meeting Room at Crossroads Mall. The topic will be: “Genealogy Groups in 1:00 PM) Germany/German websites and How to Search Them” by Barbara Holz Sulllivan. Visitors are always welcome. (Ann Passe, [email protected] or 206-232-1104) Irish and Scots-Irish Irish/ Scots-Irish next meeting will be on Wednesday, April 6, 10:00 AM. Please contact Ann Interest Group for meeting information. (Ann Lamb, 425-557-0440 or [email protected]) (First Wednesday, 10:00 AM) Italian Interest Group The Italian Interest Group will meet at Bellevue Regional Library on Saturday, April 16, (Third Saturday, 1:30-3:30 PM in Conference Room #6. Members please bring information on the region they 1:30 PM) are researching. (Mary Sangalang, 425-649-2250 or [email protected])

Legacy Interest Group The next Legacy Interest Group meeting will be on Wednesday, April 6 from 12:30 – 2:30 (First Wednesday, PM in the Community Room at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue. We’re going to be talking 12:30 PM) about importing and exporting gedcoms. (Sherry Holthe, [email protected] or 425-880-4407)

Scandinavian Interest The Scandinavian Interest Group will meet on April 12 from 10 AM - Noon, at the Puget Group Sound Archive Building at Bellevue College. Jean Roth will speak to our group on (Second Tuesday, "Preparing for a Trip to do Genealogical Research." (Sandy Arildson, 425-747-5621, or 10:00 AM) [email protected] ) Shore to Shore Interest The Shore to Shore group will have our birthday lunch and planning meeting on Monday Group April 4. We will carpool to the Fiske Library for research on Monday, April 18. Please (Changes monthly, call call Shirley if you would like to join us-- anyone is welcome. Shirley) (Shirley Dowd, 425-454-0078)

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Eastside Genealogical Society Contacts

President* Judy Meredith 425-702-9321 [email protected] Vice President* Carol Pattison 425-228-2510 [email protected] Secretary* Walta McCarley 425-376-0539 [email protected] Treasurer* Ed Schultz 425-271-0424 [email protected] Trustee* Sharron Filer 425-885-7213 [email protected] Past President* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Education Chair* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Archivist/Historian* Walta McCarley 425-746-7557 [email protected] Library Chair* Winifred Sihon 425-793-5424 [email protected] Book Acquisitions* Sarah Fleming 425-957-1134 [email protected] Membership Chair* Dorothy Mehrer 425-822-7316 [email protected] Newsletter Editor* Kim Nichols 360-668-3937 [email protected] Newsletter Contributors Mickey Main 425-747-2038 [email protected] Sharron Filer 425-885-7213 [email protected] Newsletter Mailing Jack and Jean Newman 425-746-2324 [email protected] Nominating Chair* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Norb Ziegler 425-557-2108 [email protected] Marty Gale 206-232-6471 [email protected] Program Chair* Carol Pattison 425-228-2510 [email protected] Publicity* Dorothy Pretare 425-277-0831 [email protected] Representatives: DAR Donna Hart 425-831-5978 [email protected] AKCHO Bellevue Reg Library FGS SIG Representative* Sunshine Chair* Patti Wehrs 787-599-2746 [email protected] Webmaster* Kim Nichols 360-668-3937 [email protected]

* EGS Board Member

Special Interest Group (SIG) Contacts Computer Joe Flint [email protected] Czech/Slovak Rosie Bodien 425-828-0170 [email protected] German Ann Passe 206-232-1104 [email protected] Irish & Scots-Irish Ann Lamb 425-557-0440 [email protected] Italian Mary D. Sangalang 425-649-2250 [email protected] Legacy Sherry Holthe 425-880-4407 [email protected] Lunch Bunch Portuguese(inactive) Barbara Guyll 425-746-5603 [email protected] Scandinavian Sandy Arildson 425-747-5621 [email protected] Shore to Shore Shirley Dowd 425-454-0078 [email protected]

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EGS Meeting Information Date: Thursday, May12, 2011 Time: Welcome New Members 6:30 PM Meeting Begins 7:00 PM MAY 2011 Location: Bellevue Regional Library Room 1 VOLUME XXIX, NUMBER XI Topic: Our Ancestors and Photographs

About The Program: The Eastside Genealogical Society For everyone who was disappointed that there wasn’t enough time to talk P.O. Box 374 about their family pictures at the February meeting, we are rectifying that at Bellevue WA 98009-0374 www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakcegs/ the May meeting. In fact, we are expanding upon the theme. I would like everyone who has an ancestor they would like to talk about for a few minutes, work up a short presentation. It’s not just the celebrities on Who Do You Next Think You Are? who have all the interesting ancestors, a lot of us do. EGS Meeting:

Some of these ancestors were pillars of society and some were outlaws. In any case, we would love to have you tell us about your interesting ancestor. June 9, 2011 Please email me, Carol, at [email protected]. Send me your pictures so I 7:00 PM can put them in PowerPoint and we can put them up on the big screen while Bellevue Regional Library you are talking. You can bring other props too such as letters and artifacts.

So many people I know, and not just genealogy buffs, love to watch Who Do You Think You Are? because people’s stories are compelling. It’s not just the people in our own family we find fascinating, but most of us love to hear INSIDE THIS ISSUE: about other family’s interesting members and stories. Please don’t be shy about sharing your special ancestor’s story with the rest of us. President’s Message 1 President’s Message Welcome New Members 3

Hi Everyone, The Newsletter Crisis 4

Well, it doesn’t exactly feel like spring as I write this which has given me German Research Websites 6 a good excuse to stay inside and research and read. Upcoming Events 8 Some of what I’ve been reading is background stuff. For example, The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock has been on my night stand. Computer SIG News 9 Now I have, as a child, lived near Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois, but I have no family in the immediate vicinity. However, some of the denizens SIG Calendar 10 of the cave were so notorious they were well known throughout Kentucky, EGS Contacts 11 parts of Tennessee and other parts of Illinois. Knowing about these people, where they came from, how they operated, and, in many cases, who they mur- dered and robbed will definitely add color to my family history because I did have family in Kentucky during the period in question.

The book, written by Otto A. Rothert and first published in 1924, is well researched and he tries to separate fact from fiction. (continued next page) EASTSIDE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY—Bellevue, Washington Page 1 BULLETIN BOARD Vol. XXIX No. 11 MAY 2011

As you can imagine, real history that involves murder, robbery, kidnaping and other high crimes and misdemeanors

has been fodder for legends for many years. And the cave is now a state park, minus the out-laws, of course.

My point is that even though a book on the history of your area of research may not even mention your family, the back story is very valuable. For example, were your people in the Mississippi Valley in 1811? Did they move from the area shortly after that year? Maybe the experience of the New Madrid earthquake in 1811 had much to do with their decision. Did they leave a diary or journal detailing their experience? (You should be so lucky! You might find a local newspaper account of the experience of the locals, though. It was so strong it is said to have rung church bells in Boston and Charleston, SC.)

So, dig around in the history of your area. You never know what will turn up!

Happy hunting! Judy Meredith, President

EGS Surname File

The EGS Surname Card File will no longer be updated, but will be archived in the event of future need. This decision was made at the February EGS Board meeting.

In Memorium

EGS member Ielene Edmonson's husband Jim passed away on April 2 here in Bellevue and a service was held at Sunset Hills Funeral Home on April 4. Our thoughts are with Ielene and her family.

Volunteer Opportunities

FREE GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH HELP

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Shore to Shore Special Interest Group To Disband

At our luncheon on Monday, April 4, Shirley, Walta, Betty and Dave were in attendance. We talked about how little group participation there has been with our research trips. For the March trip to Seattle Public library no one went. Despite Judy's talking about our SIG at the monthly EGS meetings and the Shore to Shore information in the newsletter, we have no new members. Our core group who have been in this SIG a long time are finding more information on the Internet, and as some of us are finding travel not as easy as it was in the past or as productive, we decided to make our scheduled April trip to the Fiske Library on Monday, April 18, our last trip.

I would really like to hear from you. How do you feel about this kind of sudden (though I have been thinking about this for a long time) decision? Does anyone have suggestions about any other approach to our SIG? Or has it seen better days and should gracefully fade into the past? Maybe there is some dynamic person who could revitalize the group. I have enjoyed the research trips and at our monthly luncheons we seem to talk about our research. I have found this helpful and the stories interesting. Maybe we could go to the Lunch Bunch meetings to keep in touch. After our Fiske trip in April, if one or more of us plan to go to Fiske or another site later, it would be helpful to have a list of anyone that would like to go and be notified by e-mail of the trip. If you are interested in this informal trip, please send an email to me and I will send a list of those who would like to be notified when they plan a trip or join someone who has planned a trip. Thanks for your input. Shirley Dowd [email protected]

Welcome New Members

Please welcome the following new EGS members:

 Sharon WILLARD  William and Esther NEAL. They are researching RITSCHEL, ROGERS, HOPKINS, WILLIS, HENDERSON, HALE, GILLUM, and FERGUSON and orphans and orphan trains and the areas of Michigan, Montana, England (possibly Ireland), Iowa, Bohemia, Germany, Cherokee, Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas.

 Laila LIE  Natalie MURRY is researching TUBBS, GOSLEE, DEMARE, NUGENT, NIXON, PARKER, RAWLINGS, and HART.

Lists of Genealogy Sites

Compiled by Kip Sperry, there is a great listing of Family History Internet Sites that is available. The listing can be found online at https://sites.google.com/site/familyhistoryinternetsites/

Categories listed include: Blogs and Newsletters, Brigham Young University, Family Search, Forums and Message Boards, General, Libraries and Archives, Link Collections, Maps, Miscellaneous, Records, Societies and Organizations, Technology and Forms, and Tips. This site offers a lot to explore! (Submitted by Ed Schultz, EGS Treasurer)

Sheldon Family Association

The Sheldon Family Association was formed in 1939 and has held an annual national family reunion each year since then. We have 70,000 records in our files. Portland, OR will be our location this year. Our reunions are small and inti- mate, usually under 100 people. Registration and information at http://sheldonfamily.org or by contacting Linda Wil- liams, 2615 Meade Ct, Ann Arbor MI 48105--0000, Email: [email protected], Phone: 734-764-5554.

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One of the most popular benefits of membership in EGS is our excellent newsletter, the Bulletin Board. The newsletter is also our most significant advertising and recruiting tool. In order to encourage area genealogists to join EGS, we place copies of the Bulletin Board in local libraries and Family History Centers, give away copies at community fairs, classes and to visitors to our help room at the Bellevue Regional Library. Additionally, we exchange copies of our newsletter with 30 other regional and national societies and libraries.

To service this distribution, we currently print 175 copies per month, typically distributed as follows. Mailed to members and two exchange societies 62 EGS Archive 2 Bellevue Regional Library 30 Bellevue Family History Center 20 EGS Help Room (at Bellevue Regional Library) 15 Redmond Library 12 Redmond Family History Center 6 EGS Membership Chair 28 Total 175

A year ago, the cost to print the newsletter was about $0.89/copy. As of the April issue, it has risen to $1.19/copy. This is a 34% increase and calls to several local and out of state printers revealed that we’d be hard pressed to find a better rate. Never-the-less, this small increase and the certainty of continuing increases as inflation and energy prices rise, require us to consider alternatives.

During my presentation of our budget at the June 2010 General Meeting, I showed the following chart that illustrat- ed the actual expenditures for the 2009-2010 budget year. Note that the cost of printing and mailing the newsletter was a little over 56% of our total expenses. Note also that the only other significant discretionary (continued next page)

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Bulletin Board can only be covered by reducing the Book Acquisition budget.

Over the past decade, we were able to defray increases in the cost of printing by taking advantage of technology and the willingness and ability of a majority of our members to receive their copy of the Bulletin Board electronically. Similarly, most of our newsletter exchange partners have opted to receive their copies electronically.

The last chart at the June meeting included this commitment on the part of the Board. Possible future reductions in the number of newsletters printed per month will be a regular consideration at Board meetings.

While reducing the number of copies printed remains on the table, the following options are being considered by the Board.  Reduce the number printed  Reduce frequency of publication  Increase dues  Draw on savings  Add a surcharge for those receiving paper copies.  A combination of the above .

Initial Conditions and Assumptions for the Board Discussions

 The Society has no obligation to publish a newsletter.  If the Society publishes a newsletter, a subscription to an electronic version of the newsletter is included as part of the Annual Membership Fee.  The newsletter is currently published 11 times per year.  Cost of printed newsletters distributed to libraries, Family History Centers and at community fairs, classes and the EGS Help Room is advertising for the Society and is therefore borne by the Society and its members.  Failure to either cover increased printing and postage costs or to reduce current costs will result in a re- duction of our Book Acquisition budget.  Membership and financial data used in the analysis are April 2011 actuals. Print 175 copies $208.04 Postage for 60 copies $ 26.40 Total $234.44 Print cost per copy $1.19 Postage per mailed copy $0.44 Total cost per mailed copy $1.63 Total Memberships 251 Memberships receiving printed copies 60

Each of the options will be considered by the Board at the next meeting and a vote taken. The Board’s decision will be presented at the May General Meeting and published in the June edition of the Bulletin Board.

Five Free Family History Tools

1. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 and 1828 machaut.uchicago.edu 2. WorldCat www.worldcat.org 3. Census Enumerator Instructions (IPUMS) usa.ipums.org/usa/voliii/tEnumInstr.shtml 4. Soundex Converter resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/soundexconverter 5. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic (By Juliana Smith, from The Weekly Discovery, Copyright 2011, Ancestry.com)

EASTSIDE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY—Bellevue, Washington Page 5 BULLETIN BOARD Vol. XXIX No. 11 MAY 2011 Websites Recommended By The German Interest Group

The following is a list of websites recommended by German Interest Group (EGS) , revised 4/7/2011. Thank you to the German SIG and Barbara Holz Sullivan for compiling and sharing this list.

General Research: www.rootsweb.org Great place to start researching www.familysearch.org The Family History Library website http://www.cyndislist.com/ 264,800+ links for family history! www.wikipedia.org (in 14 languages) an informative encyclopedia www.ngw.nl (over 33,000 images) to find heraldry blazons of a city/family http://misbach.org/pdfcharts/ Downloadable genealogy charts in Adobe PDF format. They also sell various charts. Pedigree Chart includes 6 generations plus one generation of descendants. Allows you to fill a chart out online before printing.

Germany: http://www.genealogienetz.de/genealogy.html Genealogy.net, the German genealogy internet portal. The society for computer genealogy maintains several servers on which you can find a lot of information related to German genealogy. http://germanroots.com/ former “wee-monster” website. General information about how to research German genealogy. Lots of links to Ancestry, but there are lots of free resources too, including vital records, searchable death indexes, obituaries from various publications, determining place of origin and a link to the FHL IGI. http://members.cox.net/hessen/towns.htm Town locator, surname frequency. Emphasis on Hessen. Maps showing distribution of surnames within Germany (for purchase). http://www.feefhs.org/links/germany.html Links to many helpful sources of information.

German Handwriting: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/german.htm http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Englisch/Sutterlin.htm http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/rg/frameset_rg.asp? Dest=G1&Aid=&Gid=&Lid=&Sid=&Did=&Juris1=&Event=&Year=&Gloss=&Sub=&Tab=&Entry=&Guide=German _Gothic99-36316.ASP German Guide with handwriting,

German Translations www.babelfish.altavista.com (in 11 languages), translations http://wolfram.schneider.org/dict/ translation & don’t need whole word http://dict.leo.org go to “English” & fill in Leo box www.freetranslation.com both words & web page http://german.about.com/library/bltransltxt.htm lists several different translation websites

German word Lists http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/frameset_rg.asp? Dest=G1&Aid=&Gid=&Lid=&Sid=&Did=&Juris1=&Event=&Year=&Gloss=&Sub=&Tab=&Entry=&Guide=WLGer man.ASP German Genealogical Word List http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/html/latin-german-english.html Latin-German-English word list

Maps & town name lists: http://www.maplandia.com/europe/ comprehensive gazetteer for countries in Europe. http://www.bing.com/maps/ interesting map program (formerly multi-map) http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/databaseUwe.asp http://www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/loc.html town locators http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein/ good http://www.atsnotes.com/other/gerpol.html names of localities in Poland & Russia (German to Polish and Polish to German Indexes) http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/LocTown.asp http://www.feefhs.org/maplibrary.html (continued next page) EASTSIDE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY—Bellevue, Washington Page 6 BULLETIN BOARD Vol. XXIX No. 11 MAY 2011 www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/ A world map that shows the distribution of surnames throughout the world, countries and localities, plus frequencies of the names.

Phone Books: http://www1.dastelefonbuch.de/?la=en&cx=&cy=&sp=0&sp=0&aktion=11 Germany http://www.ksiazka-telefoniczna.com/index.php?language=en Poland (in English) No street address details. Useful to determine whether any people with a particular surname are still living in the ancestral village/area, etc.

Polish Translation: http://www.poltran.com/ http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/slavic.html#polish for more links

Pommern research links: http://users.rootsweb.com/~mnprgm/PRG/Links.html has many links

Poland: Dorothy Pretare has a “Polish Surname 2003” CD that can be used to create maps showing locations of a particular surname in 2003 by using this website: http://www.genpol.com/Mapa+main.html

Web sites for German genealogy societies: www.wiki-de.genealogy.net/ On the left side of the page, under Portals, click on Clubs for a listing and link to nearly fifty genealogy societies in German-speaking countries. http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/DAGV/Genealogische_Vereine_im_Ausland A list and links to genealogical societies in other countries. http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/RHE-PFA/rhein-p.html Link to Rheinland-Pfalz region. Includes a link to genealogy societies. http://www.saar-genealogie.de/ Genealogy society in Saarland.

German Surname Distribution: www.christoph.stoepel.net GeoGen’s site of maps of German surname distribution

Research in Different German Regions: www.akvz.de Arbeitskreis Volkszahl-Register: Devoted to Northern Germany and Baltic Sea area. Must register to search databases. Includes census records for Schleswig-Holstein. www.genealogy-sh.com Genealogy in Schleswig-Holstein administered by Hans Peter Voss. www.rootdigger.de/emi.htm A list of 76,000 + names of emigrants from Schleswig-Holstein, including several who left without having registered. Only works on Windows based systems. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pick/ Tom Pick’s extensive database of the Eifel region. This site helped me extend my family tree by three generations. http://www.websters.net/blackforest/ Genealogy site devoted to the Black Forest region.

German Discussion Boards: www.geneal-forum.com

Emigration: www.dad-recherche.de Joint project with Bremerhaven www.rootdigger.de/emi.htm Schleswig-Holstein Emigration Database www.auswanderer-bw.de Emigration list from Baden- Württenberg

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 History is happening in the Redmond area and we welcome you to our meeting. The Redmond Historical Society will meet on Saturday, May 14, 2011, 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon at The Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center, 16600 NE 80 Street, Redmond, WA. Megan Carlisle, Archivist, Eastside Heritage Center, will speak on what happened when the Lake Washington Ship Canal was completed and the water level dropped by nine feet. Find out how the changing shoreline affected businesses and residents from Renton to Woodinville to Lake Sammamish. You won’t want to miss this meeting. Also, remember the quilt raffle in honor of Redmond’s 100th centennial in 2012. Tickets sell for $2 each. To receive the monthly newsletter, contact the Society office at 425-885-2919, or email your request to [email protected]. Books, note cards, free historic walking tour brochures, and the book, “Redmond Reflections,” are available in our office, which is open on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM and by appointment. Visit our website: www.redmondhistoricalsociety.org.  Annie Pulliam Chapter DAR (Daughters of the Revolution) will meet at 10 AM on Saturday, May 14 at the Mt Si Senior Center in North Bend. The May program will be "Where Do We Go From Here?" by Donna Crosby and it will be genealogy based, focused on finding immigrant ancestors. Donna will share her favorite research sites and ideas and have a major Q & A session. Donna is a member of both Mayflower and Jamestown Societies, and the researcher for her husband's SAR, Charlemagne, and Magna Carta Baron's lines. For more information, email Regent Emmelyn Hart at [email protected]. Guests always welcome and help available for prospective members.  Cascade Chapter DAR (Daughters of the Revolution) will be meeting at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, May 10 at the Red Li- on Bellevue Inn. The May program will be Seeing Reality by Jerry Gay. Dinner will be followed by this educational program. Jerry is a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer who drove 50,000 miles to photograph America for his new book. For more information, please contact Regent Faye Kraft at [email protected]. Guests always welcome and help available for prospective members.  Old Redmond Walking Tour. Our Centennial is just around the corner in 2012, so are you ready to answer, or ask, Redmond trivia questions? Taking our guided walking tour of the historic downtown core is guaranteed to provide lots of facts, figures and especially fun since historian Tom Hitzroth will be the man with the stories, gossip and names. For example, do you know in whose building an alleged bordello operated? Here’s a hint: He would later become Red- mond’s longest serving mayor! The remaining tours for 2011 are May 15, June 19, and September 18. The tour runs from 1:00 to 2:30 PM and walkers meet on the front steps of the Justice White House, 7730 Leary Way NE. Tours will not be held in the rain. Pre-registration is required and a fee of $8 per person will help fund Society research. To register, phone or email the Redmond Historical Society office at 425-885-2919 or [email protected]  The Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State presents 150 Years of Jewish History in Washington State by Rabbi Jim Mirel, PowerPoints by Jeff Adelson and the Washington Jewish Historical Society on Monday, May 9, 2011 at the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 East Mercer Way, Mercer Island, WA 98040. Doors open at 7:00 PM. Presentation starts promptly at 7:30 PM. Rabbi Jim Mirel will talk about the three waves of Jewish immigration into Washington, including Ashkenazi and Sephardic populations. Heʼll give highlights about the Jewish individuals and families that affected our state and our Seattle history. Heʼll also show historic pictures of these Jewish families and their synagogues, businesses, and social life. Visit our website at: http://www.jgsws.org. Free admission for JGSWS members and one guest per year, $5 for nonmembers.  Seattle Genealogical Society Spring Seminar CSI Meets Roots, Saturday, May 21, 2011, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, at Nordic Heritage Museum, with Dr. Colleen Fitzpatrick, Forensic Genealogist. For registration and flyer, see http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~waseags/2011SGSSpringSeminarbrochure.pdf  The FGS/ISGS 2011 Conference, September 7-10, 2011 in Springfield, Illinois. Information on specific conference sessions and more information can be found at http://www.fgs.org/2011conference/index.php. Early-bird registration for the FGS/ISGS 2011 Conference is now available through 1 July 2011 at http://www.fgs.org/2011conference/ registration.  The Washington State Genealogical Society will present their 2011 Annual Seminar, sponsored by the Tri-City Ge- nealogical Society, on September 16 & 17, 2011. Location: Richland Baptist Church, 1632 George Washington Way, Richland, WA. Time: Friday 5:00 - 9:00 PM, Saturday 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM. Registration at 7:30 AM. More details at http://www.tricitygenealogicalsociety.org/wiki/doku.php

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Location Addresses

Issaquah Public Library Lake Hills Library National Archives and Records Fiske Genealogical Library 140 East Sunset Way 15528 Lake Hills Blvd. SE Admin. 1644 43rd Ave E/ Issaquah, WA Bellevue, WA 6125 Sand Point Way NE Seattle, WA 98122 425-392-5430 425-747-3350 Seattle, WA 98115-7999 206-328-2716 206-336-5115 FHC - Redmond Newport Way Library North Bend Library Redmond Regional Library 10115 172nd Ave. NE 14520 SE Newport Way 115 East Fourth St 15990 NE 85th St Redmond, WA Bellevue WA North Bend, WA Redmond, WA 425-861-9273 425-747-2390 425-888-0554 425-885-1861 WA State Puget Sound Regional Archives Seattle Public Library Snoqualmie Public Library Fire Station #22 BCC, 3000 Landerholm SE, MS-100 1000 Fourth Ave 38580 SE River Street 6602 108th Ave NE Bellevue, WA 98007 Seattle, WA Snoqualmie, WA Kirkland, WA 206-386-4636 425-888-1223 EGS Computer Special Interest Group March 2011 Meeting Report

Joe Flint opened the meeting by welcoming new visitors and continued on by asking representatives of other SIGs to announce their future meetings. We then discussed the subject matter for future EGS Computer SIG meetings. The following are the subjects we agreed upon, but of course, are always subject to change: May 28th, 2011 - Publishing your genealogy research, June 25th, 2011 - Utilities and Tools to support genealogy research.

This was followed by a question and answer period. The subject of popular software was raised again and I gathered that most attendees were comfortable in recommending Roots Magic and Legacy. Both have a free download version which will allow new users to get the feel of each. This was not part of the meeting, but I notice that there are a number of Mac users listed on our distribution list. Here is a list of Mac genealogical software: http://www.cyndislist.com/software.htm#Mac.

Another question was about the collecting and storage of genealogical data. Most people present appeared to keep the physical data in organized folders, albums or binders, while copying the data into their chosen genealogy software. The digital data was usually saved in folders as photo or text files. Of course the old subject of online storage problems arose, with most people not having much faith in CDs and DVDs. There was also concern about storing data in what could become obsolete formats. It was suggested, that if a person wanted to create an index of their data in a database, that there were a number of commercial products including those listed at http://www.cyndislist.com/software.htm#Organization.

This month’s meeting had the theme "How does a beginner first start gathering and recording genealogical data?" This appeared to be of great interest, as a large number of those present offered their stories and suggestions. Rather than getting into some detail, I think that Joe Flint summed it up as a three stage process.

1. First record all the memories and documents that you have easy access to now. That means talking to your parents, siblings and relatives to see what they remember. It was pointed out that sometimes this is not always accurate as some people may have changed their history to suit their life situations. 2. The second stage is to research, what Joe referred to as "gathering the low fruit." By this he means researching the Internet for the easily found data such as census data, births, marriages and deaths. This also includes visiting local repositories such as libraries or government offices, especially if you live in the area of interest. At this point the new researcher should have a reasonably good idea of their family history and if they are only mildly curious, may stop at that point. 3. The third stage is the real hard work, involving travel and long, tiring searches through archived materials that do not have a thorough indexing system. In most cases you will have to do a lot of detective work and imaginative thinking to find this data. This is the reason we join with others in this society, to support their research by helping to break down their "brick walls." (Submitted by Frank Curtis, Computer SIG)

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EGS May 2011 Meeting Calendar

EGS Board Meeting The Eastside Genealogical Society Board will meet on Thursday, May 5, 10:00 AM to Noon (First Thursday, at the Bellevue Regional Library, room 6. 10:00 AM) EGS General Meeting The Eastside Genealogical Society will meet on Thursday, May 12, at 7:00 PM in the Bellevue Regional Library. Visitors are welcome.

Computer Interest The Eastside Genealogy Society Computer Interest Group will take place at 9:30 AM on Satur- (Fourth Saturday, day, May 28. We meet in the Community Room at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue. The 9:30 AM) topic of conversation will be "Publishing Your Genealogy Research." There will also be an open discussion period where you can raise any computer/genealogy related question. If you wish to receive e-mail notification of the SIG meetings please send a request to egscomput- [email protected] (Joe Flint, [email protected]) Czech/Slovak Interest Our next meeting will be on Saturday, July 9 from 9:30 AM to Noon at Firehouse #22 in Group Houghton. See website for more information: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wacsig/ (Rosie (Check Bulletin for Bodien, 425-828-0170 or [email protected].) meeting information) EGS Lunch Bunch Meets every fourth Thursday, 11:30 AM, at Crossroads Mall Shopping Center Food (Fourth Thursday, Court. 11:30 AM) German Interest Group The EGS German Interest Group will meet on Friday, May 6 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM in the (First Friday, Community Meeting Room at Crossroads Mall. The topic will be: “Share Your Research 1:00 PM) Stories and Brickwall Questions.” Visitors are always welcome. (Ann Passe, [email protected] or 206-232-1104)

Irish and Scots-Irish Irish/ Scots-Irish next meeting will be on Wednesday, May 4, 10:00 AM in the Community Interest Group Room at Crossroads Mall. Barbara Sullivan will present "Using the One-Step Searches at Ste- (First Wednesday, veMorse.org." Please contact Ann for meeting information. (Ann Lamb, 425-557-0440 or 10:00 AM) [email protected]) Italian Interest Group The Italian Interest Group will meet at Lake Hills Library on Saturday, May 21, 1:30-3:30 (Third Saturday, PM. Members please bring your favorite Italian genealogy websites and we will display them on 1:30 PM) the Internet. (Mary Sangalang, 425-649-2250 or [email protected])

Legacy Interest Group The next Legacy Interest Group meeting will be on Wednesday, May 4 from 12:30 – 2:30 PM (First Wednesday, in the Community Room at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue. We’re going to be talking about 12:30 PM) importing and exporting gedcoms. (Sherry Holthe, [email protected] or 425-880-4407)

Scandinavian Interest The Scandinavian Interest Group will meet on May 10 from 10 AM - Noon, at the Puget Group Sound Archive Building at Bellevue College. Please contact Sandy for meeting information. (Second Tuesday, (Sandy Arildson, 425-747-5621, or [email protected] ) 10:00 AM) Shore to Shore Interest Please see article on page 3 for group information. (Shirley Dowd, 425-454-0078) Group (Changes monthly, call Shirley)

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Eastside Genealogical Society Contacts

President* Judy Meredith 425-702-9321 [email protected] Vice President* Carol Pattison 425-228-2510 [email protected] Secretary* Walta McCarley 425-376-0539 [email protected] Treasurer* Ed Schultz 425-271-0424 [email protected] Trustee* Sharron Filer 425-885-7213 [email protected] Past President* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Education Chair* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Archivist/Historian* Walta McCarley 425-746-7557 [email protected] Library Chair* Winifred Sihon 425-793-5424 [email protected] Library Volunteers Winifred Sihon 425-793-5424 [email protected] Book Acquisitions* Sarah Fleming 425-957-1134 [email protected] Membership Chair* Dorothy Mehrer 425-822-7316 [email protected] Newsletter Editor* Kim Nichols 360-668-3937 [email protected] Newsletter Contributors Mickey Main 425-747-2038 [email protected] Sharron Filer 425-885-7213 [email protected] Newsletter Mailing Jack and Jean Newman 425-746-2324 [email protected] Nominating Chair* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Norb Ziegler 425-557-2108 [email protected] Marty Gale 206-232-6471 [email protected] Program Chair* Carol Pattison 425-228-2510 [email protected] Publicity* Dorothy Pretare 425-277-0831 [email protected] Representatives: DAR Donna Hart 425-831-5978 [email protected] AKCHO Bellevue Reg Library FGS SIG Representative* Sunshine Chair* Patti Wehrs 787-599-2746 [email protected] Webmaster* Kim Nichols 360-668-3937 [email protected]

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Special Interest Group (SIG) Contacts [email protected] Computer Joe Flint [email protected] Czech/Slovak Rosie Bodien 425-828-0170 [email protected] German Ann Passe 206-232-1104 [email protected] Irish & Scots-Irish Ann Lamb 425-557-0440 [email protected] Italian Mary D. Sangalang 425-649-2250 [email protected] Legacy Sherry Holthe 425-880-4407 Lunch Bunch [email protected] Portuguese(inactive) Barbara Guyll 425-746-5603 [email protected] Scandinavian Sandy Arildson 425-747-5621 [email protected] Shore to Shore Shirley Dowd 425-454-0078

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July EGS Meeting Information Date: Thursday, July 14, 2011 Time: Welcome New Members 6:30 PM Meeting Begins 7:00 PM JULY/AUGUST 2011 Location: Bellevue Regional Library Room 1 Bellevue,VOLUME Washington XXIX, NUMBER XI Topic: Genealogy and Medicine Speakers: Jeff Otjen, MD and Reiley Kidd, MD About The Program and Speakers: The Eastside Genealogical Society Jeff Otjen, MD was born in Houston, and lived mostly in the South and P.O. Box 374 Midwest before moving to Seattle 6 years ago to train as a pediatrician, then a Bellevue WA 98009-0374 radiologist. With increasingly online resources, genealogy fits in nicely with www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakcegs/ some of his other interests in computers and technology.

Reiley Kidd, MD is a recently retired radiologist with a lifelong interest in family history. He grew up in Memphis, TN and has lived in Seattle since 1975. He enjoys nothing more than genealogical detective work, whether for himself or for others. INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Health and mortality are a pervasive part of any family, but we often President’s Message 2 brush by them when building our stories. The speakers will take a look at medicine, its history, and where it may intersect your families. They will also Board Meeting Minutes 3 give resources and examples of how medicine can be used to further research and better understand the lives and deaths of your ancestors. Welcome New Members 3

New On The Bookshelf 4 August EGS Meeting Information Finding Cracks in Brick Walls 6 Date: Thursday, August 11, 2011 Time: Welcome New Members 6:30 PM Meeting Begins 7:00 PM Getting “Pure” Search Results 6 Location: Bellevue Regional Library Room 1 Topic: Accessing Cemetery Records, Death Record SIG Calendar 10 Laws and More EGS Contacts 11 Speakers: Paul Elvig

About The Program and Speaker:

Paul Elvig has been in the "cemetery business" for a very long time — over thirty years. He is a former General Manager of Evergreen Washelli and he has been on the boards of both the Washington State and International Cemetery and Funeral Association Board of Directors. Paul is going to talk to us about accessing cemetery records and laws concerning death records and other related topics.. He'll also tell us a few stories along the way. He has some really good ones to relate.

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President’s Message

Hi all,

Summer is here —- or at least that’s what the calendar says. Lots of things to distract us from our research—yard work (some call this “gardening”), out-of-town guests, vacations, grandchildren, garage sales and more.

Maybe a break isn’t such a bad idea. Let ideas incubate, visit relatives, get the grandchildren interested in their family history, read that book you bought last winter to get background information and context, spend a lazy afternoon going through that box of photos marked “unknown.” An idea may unexpectedly pop into your head as to why great-great grandpa can’t be found in the 1860 census.

Speaking of new ideas, (and detouring down a rabbit trail), in May several of us attended the SGS Spring Seminar featuring Colleen Fitzpatrick, researcher and author. She has an amazing outside-the-box approach to research and says she gets many of her best ideas just before she falls asleep. This could result in another two hours of computer time, however, so bear that in mind.

Anyhow, have a great summer, keep attending the meetings when you’re in town and I bet that by fall you’ll have at least gotten new insight into your brick wall problems.

Judy Meredith, President

Library and Publicity Volunteers Needed

The EGS Library Help Desk needs a volunteer for the 1st Wednesday afternoon of each month from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. Help Desk volunteers are needed for other times as well. An assistant for our Library Chairman is also needed. And there is a need for a Pub- licity assistant.

These are not terribly time consuming. For information about these positions, contact Judy Meredith (425-702-9321) or the appropriate chair person listed in the back of the Bulletin.

The Next Newsletter

The next EGS newsletter will be the September issue. This is a change from publication 11 times a year to 6 times a year. The deadline for the September newsletter will be August 15th.

Remember that in-between publication of the newsletter, the EGS website will be updated with meeting information. You can check to see what is new at the EGS website www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakcegs/

FREE GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH HELP

Genealogical research help is available at the Bellevue Regional Library, located at NE 12th St. and 110th Ave. NE in Bellevue. Eastside Genealogical Society volunteers are waiting to help you with problems and questions. They are available in room 6 on the second floor of the library, to the left of the reference desk. Hours are Tuesdays from 7:00-9:00 PM and Wednes- days from 1:00-3:00 PM.

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EGS Board Meeting Minutes — Summary for April and May

Future Programs: May – Brag on your ancestors, June - Orphan Trains, July – diseases of the past.

The Treasurer’s report shows expenses continue to exceed income, while membership remains at 251 memberships, 259 members.

Publicity assistant needed for Dorothy Pretare.

Outreach will include Pickering Barn Hobby and Volunteer Ex- po in May.

The Book Acquisition Committee continues to order new books for the BRL, and the library help sessions continue to attract new people.

The Board members, led by Treasurer Ed Schultz, discussed the rising costs of publishing a printed newsletter. A number of motions were considered prior to Board approval of the following: A surcharge of $6.00 per year will be added for those wishing to receive a paper copy of the Bulletin, and publication will be reduced to every other month – January, March, May, July, Septem- ber, November. There are currently 60 members who receive a paper copy.

The EGS Annual Meeting will be held Thursday, May 12. Elections will be held for Vice-President, Treasurer and Trustee.

Welcome New Members

Please welcome the following new EGS members:

Gail BAERY who is researching McCARDLE, HERMANN, ROGASI, and ISRAEL.

William N (Bill) FRISINGER who is researching FRISINGER, FREYSINGER, FREISINGER, FRYSINGER, and FRIESINGER.

Dick GATES who is researching GATES, TITUS, MILLIAN, NIEWEG, and HOLT and is interested in DNA (Y donors).

Paul and Pat KAALD

Edna (Nicky) LUNGER who is researching CAMPBELL, KENDALL, SMITHBERG, COLLINS, BROWN, and RICE (RHYS); immigrants from Germany, the Plymouth Colonies and all colonies in New England in the 1600's and 1700's.

Gary W. KELLY who is researching SCHNEIDER in Germany, KELLY in Ireland, GANNON in Ireland, FLINN in Ireland, and SCHNEIDER or SNYDER in Canada.

Susan MELVILLE

Don and Margaret STAPLETON

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The following books, purchased by the Eastside Genealogical Society or donated by members, have been added to the genealogy collection at the Bellevue Regional Library. Look for these books in the Genealogy Collection on the second floor.

Erin’s Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada to 1863, vol. IV. Terrence M. Punch. GPC, 2010. 178 pp. R929.3715 PUN V.4

Citing an additional 7,000 Irish-born residents of Atlantic Canada, Volume IV brings the coverage of this work for- ward to 1863, the mid-point of the American Civil War. By that year, Irish immigration into Atlantic Canada had di- minished almost to a trickle, as ever bigger and faster steam ships allowed immigrants to set out for the more distant factory towns of New England and various points in the American West. Contains extracts from a wide range of sources.

Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775, 2nd ed. David Dobson. GPC, 2010. 254 pp. R929.3 DOB 2010

This second edition replaces the 1983 edition and adds 30% more names. Between 1650 and 1775 many thousands of Scots were banished to the American colonies for political, religious, or criminal offenses. For each person cited in this directory, some or all of the following information is provided: name, occupation, place of residence in Scotland, place of capture and captivity, parents’ names, date and cause of banishment, name of ship carrying him or her to the colonies, and the date and place of arrival in the colonies.

A Handbook of Scandinavian Names. Nancy L. Cole- man & Olav Veka. University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. 304 pp. R929.970948 COL

A dictionary of more than fifteen hundred given names from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, plus some from Iceland and Finland. Each entry provides a guide to pro- nunciation and the origin and meaning of the name. Dis- cusses immigration to North America from Scandinavia and the ways given names and surnames were adapted in the New World.

Finding Your Mexican Ancestors: A Beginner’s Guide. George and Peggy Ryskamp. Ancestry, 2007. 209 pp. R929.107208 RYS

If you don't have Mexican ancestors, this book will make you wish you had. Contains direct, easy-to-follow instructions that will lead you through Mexico's carefully preserved records.

Sephardic Genealogy, 2nd ed. Jeffrey S. Malka. Avotaynu, 2009. 472 pp. R929.108992 MAL 2009

This is the essential book on Sephardic Jewish research.

New York Probate Records, A Genealogist’s Guide to Testate and Intestate Records, 2nd ed. Gordon L. Reming- ton. NEHGS, 2011. 216 pp. R974.7 REM 2011

This second edition provides the latest tools for locating probate records in New York State from the past 300 years. Contains practical information on how to access those records through the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, in addition to each of New York’s sixty-two County Surrogate Courts (the courts in charge of probating estates in New York today), other repositories, and references to published abstracts in both books and periodicals. Includes maps identifying the location of each county. (Continued next page)

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The first two federal censuses of Kentucky no longer exist. This "first census" of 1790 was developed from tax lists. Contains names of 9,000 taxpayers, the county of residence and the date of the return.

“Second Census” of Kentucky, 1800. G. Glenn Clift. GPC, (1954), 2005. 333 pp. R976.9 CLI

This “second census” of Kentucky lists 32,000 taxpayers, the county of residence and the date of the tax list. Additional information can be found on the microfilmed tax lists.

A Calendar of the Warrants for Land in Kentucky, Granted for Service in the French and Indian War. Philip Fall Taylor, abstractor. Clearfield, 2001 reprint. 136 pp. [donated by Carol Pattison] R929.309769 KEN 2001

Contains a complete list of the land surveys made in Kentucky (at the time still a part of the Virginia Colony) on behalf of men who fought in the French and Indian War. Each entry gives the name of the soldier, his rank, acreage, date of the survey, and various notes by the surveyor indicating where the land was situated and, when available, to whom it was subsequently assigned.

Kentucky in the War of 1812. Anderson Chenault Quisenberry. GPC, 2008 (1915). 242 pp. R973.52469 QUI

Includes accounts of Kentucky heroes at the major battles in the War of 1812, biographical notices, and records of service of many Kentuckians. New index.

Exciting news! Digitization of the War of 1812 pensions has begun. The first few thousand images are now available free at www.footnote.com/1812pensions. So far EGS has donated $144 ($72 from members, matched by the board).

The Federation of Genealogical Societies (of which EGS is a member), the National Archives, and the genealogical community are trying to raise $3.7 million to digitize 7.2 million images in 180,000 files before 2015, the bicentennial of the war’s end. Each $1 you contribute will digitize two images. Please note: EGS will match up to $75 for the fiscal year if made through EGS. If you cannot make it to a meeting, you can send a check to the EGS P.O. Box, with War of 1812 in the memo field. For more information, or if you prefer to donate online, go to www.fgs.org/1812. (Submitted by Sarah Fleming, EGS Book Acquisitions Chair)

Mapping the 2010 US Census

The New York Times has a map available online of the 2010 census. You can browse population growth and decline, changes in racial and ethnic concentrations, and patterns of housing development. Just glide you cursor over the map and it will display the information for every county. Clicking more will zoom in the view and you can see information down to the census tract level.

You can find the map at http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map? nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1 (Submitted by Marty Gale, EGS member)

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Finding Cracks In Brick Walls By Bill Dillon Anybody researching family lines runs into “brick walls.” There aren’t enough available records to trace every person from whom we descended. When do you say “enough” and settle for what you know? Instead of giving up, I like to pause and change direction to a different line and look for cracks which may eventually lead to a break-through.

Moving temporarily from my stalled Irish research, I decided to focus on the Furney Jones and Rebecca Cowan lines in Virginia. Surprisingly, information about some of their descendants has led to cracks in the brick walls about their parents.

There was a naming tradition practiced by some Irish and Scots-Irish. A couple’s first-born son was named after the father’s father, the second-born son after the mother’s father. The first-born daughter was named after the mother’s mother, the second-born daughter after the father’s mother. If you know the names and birth sequence for a couple of generations you can check whether this tradition was followed. If so, it leads to the most likely names of the prior generation. Combining information from relatives with census and other records indicates that a daughter and son-in-law of Furney & Rebecca followed this tradition precisely in naming their first two sons and daughters. Also, Rebecca’s brother and his wife named their children in a sequence that ties in to how Rebecca & Furney named theirs, all in line with the tradition. Applying that naming sequence back a generation, Furney’s parents would be John and Amanda Jones. Rebecca’s parents would be James and Margaret Cowan. Good leads to follow!

Virginia marriage records show Furney Jones and Rebecca Cowan were married in Wythe County, Virginia in 1831. Census records for 1810-1830 show a James Cow- an living in Wythe. Census reports before 1850 show the name of only the head of a household. But they also show the number of males and females of designated age categories. The 1810 & 1830 Cow- an household age categories include persons of the right ages to be Rebecca, her brother A.J. and their parents James and wife. No other Cowans were shown in the Wythe census reports. Is this just a coincidence, or have I found Rebecca’s family? The brick wall has a crack I can see through, but not break!

Looking back to my Irish roots in the early 1800’s I wondered if the same naming tradition might have been practiced in my James Dillon-Ellen Going lines. A baptism record from Ballyneale Parish, County Tipperary, proves they named their first daughter Bridgett in 1839. On the chance Ellen’s mother lived until civil records were kept in Ireland beginning in 1864, I sent an inquiry and found a record of a Bridgett Going who died in 1869. Her death certificate shows she was a widow, the right age to be Ellen’s mother, and lived in the same area where first daughter Bridgett was baptized. Is this just another coincidence? Or a crack in another brick wall? It’s like getting a new pair of glasses. I still can’t see through brick walls, but my focus sure has improved! It inspires me to keep looking for that elusive breakthrough. (Submitted by Bill Dillon, EGS member)

Getting "Pure" Search Results Search engines are designed with the average user in mind. For most people most of the time, that is great. When we are conducting in-depth research, however, that behind-the-scenes customization winds up giving us relevance rankings that don't work. Even if you are not specifically logged in to a search engine, information on your search patterns, the links you click through, your location and other factors will alter what your search results look like. Even information such as what plug-ins you are using (which might indicate your level of techno-savvy) and your system fonts (which might suggest what language you write in) can result in search results being tweeked to your presumed interests. If you are looking for results that are as neutral as possible, this customization is a bug, not a feature.

Of course, there are times when this backend customization is helpful. If I needed in-depth information on a company, person or issue, I may get better results by using local versions of search engines. When I was looking for background on a Canadian company, for example, I started with the Canadian versions of Google (http://www.google.ca/) and Bing (http://www.bing.com/?setmkt=en-CA). (Continued next page)

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But what about those times when you really want to cast as broad a net as possible, and you don't want a search engine to try to anticipate what you are looking for? One approach is to use a search engine's private search mode, in which no browser or search history is kept, nor are cookies saved. Chrome, for example, offers Incognito mode, which you open by clicking the wrench icon in the upper right corner. Internet Explorer lets you select "InPrivate Browsing" by clicking Tools, then InPrivate Browsing. Firefox has Private Browsing, which you start by clicking Tools, then Start Private Browsing. And, of course, any browser will allow you to clear your searching and browsing history, cookies, cache and related information.

While these are useful in keeping information from being saved after your search, the bigger problem is that search engines use the information that our browsers "leak" to customize search results. Even private-mode searching will reveal your IP address, time zone, plug-ins and installed fonts, all of which can alter search results. (Want to see what your browser is telling web sites? Use Panopticlick, http://panopticlick.eff.org/, to find out.) Fortunately, we have some choices for further anonymizing our searching.

Scroogle.org offers completely anonymized Google searching (at the main page, click Scroogle Scraper to get started). Type in your query and Scroogle strips all identifiable information from the query, randomly grabs an IP address, and sends the query to Google. Google sends back a results page, along with a unique identifier cookie that is stripped away by Scroogle before delivering the page to you. This means that every search query Google gets from you is "fresh" - - that is, Google has no knowledge of your settings or prior searches, so you get virtually no unwanted personalization of the results.

Another search engine anonymizer is DuckDuckGo, http://duckduckgo.com/, which promotes the fact that it does not track your search history, send browser cookies, or transmit your search terms when you click a link on the search results page. DuckDuckGo relies on its own web crawler as well as results from Bing, Blekko, Yahoo! BOSS, and a number of other specialized sources.

And finally, there is Ixquick, http://www.ixquick.com/, a metasearch engine with some interesting features for in-depth searches. For example, if a URL ap- pears in the search results of multiple search tools, Ixquicks adds from one to five stars to that link in the search results page, giving you more clues as to how useful each site may be. In addition, Ixquick does not store or pass on IP addresses or cookies, ensuring that you have a relatively private search. A sister site to Ixquick.com is StartPage, which is being mar- keted to British and American searchers. Curiously, unlike Ixquick, StartPage does not include the relevance stars in the search results. Also curiously, StartPage includes Google search results, something Ixquick does not.

There are, of course, many other anonymizer tools that let you browse the web anonymously. The resources described above are great for getting relatively un-personalized search results; for more security, look into a proxy server. Interesting- ly, Ixquick and StartPage include an option in each search results page to connect to any link on the page through the Ixquick proxy server, enabling you to view that web site without disclosing any of your information -- a nice touch when you want a bit more anonymity. (Submitted by Dorothy Pretare, EGS Publicity Chair . From Bates Information Services, www.BatesInfo.com/tips, May 27, 2011)

Upcoming Events

 The FGS/ISGS 2011 Conference, September 7-10, 2011 in Springfield, Illinois. Information on specific conference sessions and more information can be found at http://www.fgs.org/2011conference/index.php. Early-bird registration for the FGS/ISGS 2011 Conference is now available through 1 July 2011 at http://www.fgs.org/2011conference/ registration.  The Washington State Genealogical Society will present their 2011 Annual Seminar, sponsored by the Tri-City Ge- nealogical Society, on September 16 & 17, 2011. Location: Richland Baptist Church, 1632 George Washington Way, Richland, WA. Time: Friday 5:00 - 9:00 PM, Saturday 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM. Registration at 7:30 AM. More details at http://www.tricitygenealogicalsociety.org/wiki/doku.php

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New Version of the Lower Canada Land Petitions (1626-1865) Database Now Available Online Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the online database Lower Canada Land Petitions (1626-1865). This version includes digitized images of the actual petitions for all individuals listed in the database. Corrections to entries, including suggestions received from users, have also been integrated into this updated version. Many staff members contributed to the success of this project, and their efforts are much appreciated.

The database is available at: www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/lower-canada/index-e.html.

For more information, please contact [email protected].

About Library and Archives Canada The mandate of Library and Archives Canada is to preserve the documentary heritage of Canada for present and future generations and to be a source of enduring knowledge accessible to all, contributing to the cultural, social and economic advancement of Canada. Library and Archives Canada also facilitates co-operation among communities involved in the acquisition, preservation and diffusion of knowledge and it serves as the continuing memory of the Government of Canada and its institutions. Genealogy Services (www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/index-e.html) include all physical and online genealogical services of Library and Archives Canada. They offer genealogical content, services, advice, research tools and opportunities to work on joint projects, all in both official languages. (The previous article is from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2011 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com.)

Take a Trip to Ohio's Pioneer Times Without Leaving your Computer Jayne Broestl has published an interesting article in the Westlake and Bay Village (Ohio) Observer that says, in part:

If you are wondering what first brought the New England settlers to the Western Reserve some 200 years ago, you might start by visiting the website of Cuyahoga West Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society at http://goo.gl/NfjsT. Just click on the “Pioneer Women” menu tab.

Cuyahoga West’s webmaster, John Noble, has posted an article that was written by local history instructor Bob Rich and appeared in a July 1996 issue of The Plain Deal- er.

For the most part, New England farmers had a difficult life working the thin and rocky soils of Connecticut and Vermont. Ohio’s Western Reserve promised an easier way of life, with cheap, fertile land and abundant game to provide them with a hearty diet. But what the settlers found here was nothing like the idyllic lifestyle that was depicted in the painting that was circulated by the Con- necticut Land Company, to entice settlers to purchase land in the Western Reserve of Northeast Ohio. You can read the full article at http://goo.gl/kBcAK (The previous article is from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2011 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com.)

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Looking for a female ancestor and need some ideas of where to look next? Recently the Genealogy Insider blog, sponsored by Family Tree Magazine, had a posting of many free articles on FamilyTreeMagazine.com to give you some tips and resources to aid your search.

You can find the complete list online at http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/2011/05/05/ResourcesForFindingYourFemaleAncestors.aspx? et_mid=437530&rid=2711020 (From Genealogy Insider, May 5, 2011)

World Memory Project

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has gathered millions of historical documents containing details about survivors and victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution during World War II.

Ancestry.com has spent more than a decade creating advanced technological tools that have allowed billions of historical documents to become searchable online.

Together, the two organizations have created the World Memory Project to allow the public to help make the records from the Museum searchable by name online for free—so more families of survivors and victims can discover what happened to their loved ones during one of the darkest chapters in human history.

Anyone, anywhere can contribute to this effort; even just one record and a few minutes at a time can make a world of difference to someone.

Getting started is as simple as downloading a free software program and then typing details from a record image into a database that will then become searchable online.

By being part of the World Memory Project you’ll be helping to create the largest online resource of information about individual victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution. You’ll also be re- storing the identities of people the Nazis tried to erase from history and making sure future generations never forget.

Learn more about the project and how you can get involved at www.worldmemoryproject.org.

Location Addresses

FHC - Redmond Newport Way Library North Bend Library Redmond Regional Library 10115 172nd Ave. NE 14520 SE Newport Way 115 East Fourth St 15990 NE 85th St Redmond, WA Bellevue WA North Bend, WA Redmond, WA 425-861-9273 425-747-2390 425-888-0554 425-885-1861

WA State Puget Sound Regional Archives Seattle Public Library Snoqualmie Public Library Fire Station #22 BCC, 3000 Landerholm SE, MS-100 1000 Fourth Ave 38580 SE River Street 6602 108th Ave NE Bellevue, WA 98007 Seattle, WA Snoqualmie, WA Kirkland, WA 206-386-4636 425-888-1223

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EGS May 2011 Meeting Calendar

EGS Board Meeting The Eastside Genealogical Society Board will meet on Thursday, July 7, 10:00 AM to Noon at (First Thursday, the Bellevue Regional Library, room 6. 10:00 AM)

EGS General Meeting The Eastside Genealogical Society will meet on Thursday, July 14, at 7:00 PM in the Bellevue Regional Library. Visitors are welcome.

Computer Interest The Eastside Genealogy Society Computer Interest Group will take place at 9:30 AM on Satur- (Fourth Saturday, day, July 23. We meet in the Community Room at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue. If you 9:30 AM) wish to receive e-mail notification of the SIG meetings please send a request to egscomputer- [email protected] (Joe Flint, [email protected])

Czech/Slovak Interest Our next meeting will be on Saturday, July 9 from 9:30 AM to Noon at Firehouse #22 in Group Houghton. See website for more information: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wacsig/ (Rosie (Check Bulletin for Bodien, 425-828-0170 or [email protected].) meeting information)

EGS Lunch Bunch Meets every fourth Thursday, 11:30 AM, at Crossroads Mall Shopping Center Food (Fourth Thursday, Court. 11:30 AM)

German Interest Group The German Interest Group will NOT meet in July and August. Our next meeting will be on (First Friday, Friday, September 2nd from 1:00 - 3:00 PM at the Crossroads Mall Community 1:00 PM) Room. Visitors are always welcome. (Ann Passe, [email protected] or 206-232-1104)

Irish and Scots-Irish Please contact Ann for meeting information. (Ann Lamb, 425-557-0440 or [email protected]) Interest Group (First Wednesday, 10:00 AM)

Italian Interest Group Please contact Mary Sangalang, 425-649-2250 or [email protected] for meeting (Third Saturday, information. 1:30 PM)

Legacy Interest Group The next Legacy Interest Group meeting will be on Wednesday, July 6 from 12:30 – 2:30 PM (First Wednesday, in the Community Room at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue. We’re going to be talking about 12:30 PM) merging records to combine duplicates in the Family File. (Sherry Holthe, [email protected] or 425-880-4407)

Scandinavian Interest The Scandinavian Interest Group will meet on July 12. Thee meeting will be a field trip to the Group Bellevue Public Library with guided tour of the genealogy resources and computer opportunities. (Second Tuesday, Please check our new website at http://scandinaviansig.wordpress.com Contact Sandy for meet- 10:00 AM) ing information.(Sandy Arildson, 425-747-5621, or [email protected] )

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Eastside Genealogical Society Contacts

President* Judy Meredith 425-702-9321 [email protected] Vice President* Carol Pattison 425-228-2510 [email protected] Secretary* Walta McCarley 425-376-0539 [email protected] Treasurer* Kay Wilson 425-746-4366 [email protected] Trustee* Sharron Filer 425-885-7213 [email protected] Past President* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Education Chair* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Archivist/Historian* Walta McCarley 425-746-7557 [email protected] Library Chair* Winifred Sihon 425-793-5424 [email protected] Library Volunteers Winifred Sihon 425-793-5424 [email protected] Book Acquisitions* Sarah Fleming 425-957-1134 [email protected] Membership Chair* Dorothy Mehrer 425-822-7316 [email protected] Newsletter Editor* Kim Nichols 360-668-3937 [email protected] Newsletter Contributors Mickey Main 425-747-2038 [email protected] Sharron Filer 425-885-7213 [email protected] Newsletter Mailing Jack and Jean Newman 425-746-2324 [email protected] Nominating Chair* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Norb Ziegler 425-557-2108 [email protected] Marty Gale 206-232-6471 [email protected] Program Chair* Carol Pattison 425-228-2510 [email protected] Publicity* Dorothy Pretare 425-277-0831 [email protected] Representatives: DAR Donna Hart 425-831-5978 [email protected] Bellevue Reg Library FGS SIG Representative* Sunshine Chair* Patti Wehrs 787-599-2746 [email protected] Webmaster* Kim Nichols 360-668-3937 [email protected]

* EGS Board Member

Special Interest Group (SIG) Contacts Computer Joe Flint [email protected] Czech/Slovak Rosie Bodien 425-828-0170 [email protected] German Ann Passe 206-232-1104 [email protected] Irish & Scots-Irish Ann Lamb 425-557-0440 [email protected] Italian Mary D. Sangalang 425-649-2250 [email protected] Legacy Sherry Holthe 425-880-4407 [email protected] Lunch Bunch Portuguese(inactive) Barbara Guyll 425-746-5603 [email protected] Scandinavian Sandy Arildson 425-747-5621 [email protected] Shore to Shore Shirley Dowd 425-454-0078 [email protected]

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Please Note: Beginning in September, EGS will be meeting at the Redmond Library while a construction project takes place at the Bellevue Regional Library. See article below for more information.

September EGS Meeting Information SEPTEMBER/OCTOBERBellevue, Washington 2011 Date: Thursday, September 8, 2011 VOLUME XXX, NUMBER 2 Time: Welcome New Members 6:30 PM

Meeting Begins 7:00 PM

The Eastside Genealogical Location: Redmond Library —Note Location Change Society Topic: Working on Letters To Jackie: Condolences From A P.O. Box 374 Grieving Nation Bellevue WA 98009-0374 Speaker: Sarah Little www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakcegs/ About The Program:

Last year a new book, Letters to Jackie: Condolences From a Grieving Nation, was published. It is a collection of some of the thousands of letters that Americans wrote to Jacqueline Kennedy after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. These people who wrote the letters needed to be tracked INSIDE THIS ISSUE: down and contacted for the book. Sarah Little, who we know as the teacher of the Family History and Genealogy Program at the University of Washington, was contacted by the author to help with this task. Sarah will be here to tell us President’s Message 2 about how she went about this and her thoughts about the book. Board Meeting Minutes 3 October EGS Meeting Information Date: Thursday, October 13, 2011 New On The Bookshelf 4 Time: Welcome New Members 6:30 PM New Genealogy Resource 5 Meeting Begins 7:00 PM Location: Redmond Library — Note Location Change Upcoming Events 6 Topic: Organizing Research Papers Speaker: Carol Pattison Old Letters 7

About The Program: Genealogy Predictions 9

We all have busy lives and a lot of us wish we could get our genealogy SIG Calendar 10 research in order but…you know. Carol Pattison is going to give us a demon- stration on how she keeps her research papers from getting out of hand with a EGS Contacts 11 minimum of effort. This is a system you can do in small increments and isn’t a costly endeavor. It’s organization for the real world. Changes coming to Bellevue Library: Construction Set to Start in September Upcoming construction at Bellevue Library is one of those good news/bad news situations. The good news is that Bellevue Library’s parking capacity will be dramatically increased when the new parking garage is open, ending those frustrating circles around the lot, looking for an open space. The bad news is that, starting in September 2011 and continuing for about a year, parking at the library will be about a quarter of its (continued next page)

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current capacity. The library will remain open normal hours throughout construction, but patrons are encouraged to use other libraries whenever possible. Meeting rooms at Bellevue Library will be unavailable during the construction period, and most library programs and events will take place offsite. This will affect some EGS activities, as listed below:

• EGS general meeting, second Thursday of each month, will be held at Redmond Library. • EGS board meeting, first Thursday of each month, will be held at Redmond Library. • EGS genealogy help, Tuesday evenings and Wednesday afternoons, will remain at Bellevue Library. • For information on any other EGS-related groups or committees, please contact the chairperson.

Reference materials in the genealogy collection can usually be sent to other KCLS branches for in-library use. To make a request, or if you have any other questions, call the Bellevue Library reference department at 425-450-1765. Thanks for your patience! (Submitted by Lisa Fraser, BRL Librarian)

President’s Message

I hope everyone has had a great summer! The weather, from my perspective, has been lovely—much nicer than in Dallas where two of my cousins have been frying.

I also hope you’ve all had at least some success with your research.

I have found a few facts that have led to more questions. Isn’t that the way it goes? You make what you think is a breakthrough only to find even more questions.

At a meeting last spring, I talked about my 2nd great grandfather’s son, Charles W. Dimmock, Jr. In my endless piles of paper I ran across him again and decided to dig some more. I discussed this with Bob Barnes who, as always, had good insights, so off I went. (It often helps to discuss your “problem children” with others—they usually have ideas you hadn’t thought of.)

The first inkling I had that Junior had “lost his moral compass” as they say, was an article in an April 1889 issue of an Alton, Illinois paper, stating that he was up on charges of check forgery. I knew that he was married, so I started wondering if his wife had died or perhaps left him.

I knew her name was Emma, maiden name Webb and that she was from Baltimore, as was my 2nd great grandmother, mom of Junior. Turns out she was the daughter of great great grandma’s sister, so Emma and Junior were cousins. I searched for old newspapers and on Genealo- gybank, I hit pay dirt. There, in the Baltimore Sun, was a short list of people with Baltimore connections who had recently died. And there she was—Emma D. Dimmock, died after a short illness in New Jersey about the middle of Au- gust, 1889. Hmm…wonder what she was doing in New Jersey? Was she with a relative? When did she leave Alton— before or after Junior’s indictment that April? Were their two children with her?

All this is, of course, fodder for more research. Maybe I can find out more about Junior’s life of crime and who Emma was with in New Jersey before she died. I know one of their daughters survived to adulthood. How about the other one?

Anyhow, more fun ahead! Eternal optimist that I am, I’m sure at least some of the answers are out there somewhere!

Happy hunting! Judy Meredith, President

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EGS Board Meeting Minutes – Summary, June & July 2011

Treasurer Kay Wilson presented a proposed budget for 2011-1012 in June, which was approved by the Board in July. Through May 31, members donated $72.00 to the War of 1812 pension digitization project, matched by the board - $144 will be sent to FGS. It was agreed to match up to $75.00 for fiscal year 2011-2012.

Membership remained steady at 252 memberships and 261 total members. Thirty are exchanges. Fifteen paper newsletters have been converted to email. Renewal postcards will be revised to show the new dues options for those receiving the Bulletin online or printed and mailed. Membership flyers must also be changed and revised to show change of meeting place from BRL to the Redmond Library beginning September 8, 2011.

The Bellevue Library will begin construction of a parking garage. Effective September 1, use of all BRL meeting rooms will be suspended with a few exceptions. Lisa Fraser reported Room 6 will remain available for EGS volunteers and the Book Acquisition Committee can continue to meet. EGS general meetings will move to the Redmond Library effective September 8, and EGS board meetings will move to a new location. Education classes will also be affected.

Publicity backup is still needed for Dorothy Pretare.

Outreach is planned for the Bothell Riverfest, August 18 from 10 AM to 3 PM.

The Book Acquisition Committee will next meet in September. Several new books have been purchased for the BRL.

Future programs will feature Paul Edvig on cemetery records in August, and in September Sarah Little will tell how she tracked down the living people who wrote to Jackie Kennedy Onassis after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, for an author who compiled the information for a book.

Two new generic email addresses should be added to the website for Publicity and Information.

The Board voted to drop membership in the Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO) and continue membership in the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) and Washington State Genealogical Society.

Library and Other Volunteers Needed Volunteers are needed for the first and third Wednesday afternoons from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. Jack Newman is finally resigning after many years of providing help at these times. Anyone interested should contact Winnie Sihon at [email protected] or 425-793-5424. Help Desk volunteers are needed for other times as well.

An assistant for our Library Chairman is also needed. And there is a need for a Publicity assistant. These are not terribly time consuming. For information about these positions, contact Judy Meredith (425-702-9321) or the appropriate chair person listed in the back of the Bulletin.

FREE GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH HELP Genealogical research help is available at the Bellevue Regional Library, located at NE 12th St. and 110th Ave. NE in Bellevue. Eastside Genealogical Society volunteers are waiting to help your with problems and questions. They are available in room 6 on the second floor of the library, to the left of the reference desk. Hours are Tuesdays from 7:00-9:00 PM and Wednesdays from 1:00-3:00 PM.

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 Genealogical Research in Nebraska. Ruby Coleman. Family Roots, 2011. 107 pp. R929.3782 COL

A brand new how-to book on research in Nebraska. Replaces one published in 1984.

 Military Bounty Land, 1776-1855. Christine Rose. CR Publications, 2011. 156 pp. R929.107207 ROS

Bounty land was often awarded to those who served in American wars, starting with the American Revolution in 1776, with the last act passed in 1855. A plethora of records were generated, many of them providing important family information which you can use to fill out the family story. This new guidebook details the available records and how to locate and use them. It also includes an appendix of the laws and subsequent acts which generated the awards of public land.

 New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. Clarence Almon Torrey. NEHGS, 2011. R929.374 TOR

This three-volume work is a transcription of the complete text of Torrey’s twelve-volume handwritten manuscript, held by the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Although “Torrey,” as it is familiarly known, has been published in book form previously, it has never before been printed in a format that includes all sources and a comprehensive every-name index (in volume 3). Known errors in the original manuscript have been addressed in footnotes or bracketed interpolations.

 Catholic Vital Records of Central Pennsylvania, 5 vols. Rev. Albert H. Ledoux. Author, 1993-1996. R929.3748 LED

Transcription of the parish records (1783-1869) of what is now the diocese Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylva- nia, which comprises these counties in central Pennsylvania: Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clinton, Fulton, Huntingdon, and Somerset.

Shore to Shore Special Interest Group Resurrection Some members of this friendly group have expressed a feeling of loss after the recent disbanding of the Shore to Shore Special Interest Group. So it has been suggested that the group, along with some of the newer EGS members, will once again continue to meet monthly to discuss problems and solutions for brick-walls and successful searches.

We would not be doing trips together but if someone is planning a research trip, carpooling would be in order.

Come join us with your news and ideas. New members are especially welcome.

We'll meet for lunch at Crossroads food court, on Wednesday, September 14, at 11.30 AM. No reservations necessary.... meet near the Games area.

See You There.... Bobbi Guyll, Shirley Dowd and Betty and Dave Bennett

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KCLS Launches New Genealogy Resource In order to help patrons find resources on a particular topic, librarians have often created subject guides that list the best examples of the books, journals, recordings, and video on that topic. These days, libraries have an ever wider array of resources, some of which are not in the physical library. KCLS librarians have met this challenge by creating online subject guides for a variety of topics, including a brand new guide for genealogy. Like earlier subject guides, the online versions contains resources that have been carefully selected based on their usability and authority. The goal is to develop a collection of databases, catalog searches, websites, and other materials that provide valuable information for both beginning researchers and experienced genealogists.

The genealogy guide is organized around some of the most common questions that are asked by library patrons. For example, many people have the name of an ancestor and want resources that allow searching for individuals by name. The Looking for An- cestors page has links to searchable websites and online databases, and also includes general tips, such as a link to a sample research plan. Other researchers want to know what is available online for free, so the Web Resources page has some of the best examples of those sites. Of course, there is also a page that highlights the resources available through KCLS, including information about the genealogy collection and EGS research help available at Bellevue Library. Other pages in the guide provide information on Getting Started, Community Resources, DNA & Genealogy, and Obituaries.

The fastest way to find the guide is to go directly to http://guides.kcls.org/genealogy. Another option is to search for ‘kcls genealogy guide’ (without the quotes) in Google. A link from the KCLS website is still under construction. More subject guides, including one for Local History, are in the works.

The genealogy guide was created by librarians Andy McClung from Redmond and Lisa Fraser from Bellevue. All of the KCLS subject guides are monitored and updated regularly to reflect changes in resources and information. If you would like to suggest a resource for the guide, or if you notice a dead link, please contact Lisa Fraser at [email protected]. (Submitted by Lisa Fraser, BRL Librarian)

1940 U.S. Census to be Free on Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, announced that both the images and indexes to the 1940 U.S. Federal Census will be made free to search, browse, and explore in the United States when this important collection commences streaming onto the website in mid-April 2012.

When complete, more than 3.8 million original document images containing 130 million plus records will be available to search by more than 45 fields, including name, gender, race, street address, county and state, and parents’ places of birth. It will be Ancestry.com’s most comprehensively indexed set of historical records to date.

Ancestry.com is committing to make the 1940 Census free from release through to the end of 2013, and by doing so hopes to help more people get started exploring their family history. As this census will be the most recent to be made publicly available, it represents the best chance for those new to family history to make that all-important first discovery.

“The release of the 1940 U.S. Census will be an exciting event for any American interested in learning more about their family history,” said Ancestry.com CEO Tim Sullivan. “By making this hugely important collection free to the public for an extended period, we hope to inspire a whole new generation of Americans to start researching their family history.”

(The previous article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com.)

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Upcoming Events

 Old Redmond Walking Tour. The City of Redmond Centennial is just around the corner in 2012, so are you ready to answer, or ask, Redmond trivia questions? Taking our guided walking tour of the historic downtown core is guaranteed to provide lots of facts, figures and especially fun since historian Tom Hitzroth will be the man with the stories, gossip and names. For example, do you know in whose building an alleged bordello operated? Here’s a hint: He would later become Redmond’s longest serving mayor! The remaining tour for 2011 is September 11. The tour runs from 1:00 to 2:30 PM and walkers meet on the front steps of the Justice White House, 7730 Leary Way NE. Tours will not be held in the rain. Pre-registration is required and a fee of $8 per person will help fund Society research. To register, phone or email the Redmond Historical Society office at 425-885-2919 or [email protected]  History is happening in the Redmond area and we welcome you to our meeting. The Redmond Historical Society will meet on Saturday, September 10, 2011, 10:30 AM to Noon at The Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center, 16600 NE 80 Street, Redmond, WA. Jeni Craswell, Executive Director of Realize Redmond, will give us background on the "Realize Redmond" project and what it means to our community. She will also present an overview of the "One Redmond Initiative," which relates to the development of the new Downtown Park project. We will recognize a valuable volunteer, Jennifer Hawkins, who has been preserving and cataloging RHS’ 20-year collection of negatives from Larry Stair. Remember the quilt raffle in honor of Redmond’s Centennial celebration in 2012. Tickets sell for $2 each. To receive the monthly newsletter, contact the Society office at 425-885-2919, or email your request to [email protected]. Books, note cards, free historic walking tour brochures, and the book, “Redmond Reflections,” are available in our office, which is open on Monday, Wednesday and Thurs- day from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM and by appointment. Visit our website: www.redmondhistoricalsociety.org.  Family History Expo 2011 will be held on Saturday, November 5, 2011 at the Bellevue South Stake Center (building located just behind the Seattle Temple, note this is a change in location), 15205 SE 28th Street, Bellevue, WA 98007 This building is off the I-90 Eastbound at the 148th Street exit, or the I-90 Westbound at exit 11. Regis- tration should begin at 8 AM. On-line registration will probably be available by the last week of September or the first week of October. The Keynote address will be from 9:00 AM to 9:45 AM, with classes beginning at 10:00 AM and going until 4:30 PM. There will be a 45 minute lunch break and 15 minute breaks between classes. Watch the website for details and registration as it becomes available at http://www.wafamilyhistory.net. The Family History Expo 2010 is still on the site and can be browsed if de- sired.  Seattle Genealogical Society Fall Seminar Finding Military Records. The Seattle Genealogical Society’s Fall Seminar will be held Saturday, 22 October, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Ballard (3014 Northwest 67th Street). The Seminar will feature programs by local speakers with an emphasis on military records. Eric Stroschein will present the general session, "Finding Freedom Isn’t Free." He will cover the many records available to genealogy researchers. Fol- lowed by three additional sessions attendees can select from nine military presentations. Each presentation will focus on sources for locating military records. This prom- ises to be an informative day for beginning and experienced family researchers. Learn more about the Fall 2011 Seminar on the SGS website: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~waseags For a registration brochure, contact SGS at (206) 522- 8658 or email [email protected]. Registration deadline is October 14.  Sno-Isle Genealogical Society Fall Seminar. On Saturday, October 15th, SIGS will celebrate its 25th Birthday with a Fall Seminar, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, featuring Mary Kathryn Kozy, held at the Lynnwood Elks Lodge, 6620 196th St SW, Lynnwood, WA. Registration Deadline: Postmarked by 30 September 2011. Her presentations will be: Genealogy Software Programs; Internet and Family History; Genealogy Gadgets for the 21st Cen- tury and FamilySearch.org and the Future. Find a PDF copy of the seminar registration form and other information about our speaker, seminar location, etc., on our website at: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wasigs/seminar1.htm

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Neighborhood News in Old Letters By Mary Penner

John Kingsbury was a prolific letter-writer. The Santa Fe businessman wrote dozens of letters during the 1850s to his business partner back East. As you would expect from a businessman, many of his letters summarize his business dealings. But, John was also an astute observer of the comings and goings of his friends and neighbors in Santa Fe. His letters frequently included random pieces of local news. In other words, John was a fantastic gossip.

In a single letter written in 1859, John noted that Hugh Smith died, Tom Smith was tried for murder and acquitted, William Drew drowned, Henry O’Neal and Henry Mercure each lost $1,000 at the gambling tables, Howe Watts married, Mrs. Whiting delivered a fine son a few days earlier, and Mrs. Houghton was expecting a child soon. John’s letters are like a genealogical party line.

For some lucky genealogists, their ancestors wrote newsy letters to other relatives who happened to save everything. Families who possess bundles of old letters are truly fortunate. My ancestors, on the other hand, were either not letter-writers or they were unsentimental letter-tossers. If your ancestors were like mine, don’t give up hope. Even if your ancestors didn’t fire up their quill pens every evening at the kitchen table, someone they knew might have written a letter that mentioned Great-grandpa George.

Hunting for old letters that may spill the beans about your ancestors requires some real genealogical detective skills. When you search for old letters, you need to focus on where and when more than who. Look for letters written by people who lived where your ancestors lived when they lived there.

In repositories, letters are typically classified as “manuscripts.” Manuscript papers refer to personal or family papers, usually cataloged together as a collection. Manuscript collections can include letters, diaries, photographs, and other personal documents. Where can you find letters? In many of the same repositories that hold other genealogical records. You’ll find letters in libraries of all kinds: state libraries, historical society libraries, museum libraries, and college and university libraries. State archives also often hold manuscript collections.

Most repositories list at least part of their collections in online catalogs. Scour online catalogs for manuscript collections related to people who lived where your ancestors lived. For example, if your ancestor lived in Cooper County, Mis- souri during the nineteenth century, check all the nearby repositories for Cooper County-related manuscripts. Use this handy online list with links to repositories around the world: http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html? o_iid=23557&o_lid=23557&o_sch=Web+Property

What do you do when your Missouri ancestor’s neighbor sent all his gossipy letters to his cousin in Kentucky? Try WorldCat (http://www.worldcat.org/). This online network of library catalogs searches and links to the catalogs of more than 10,000 libraries. Entering “Cooper County” in the search box yields 395 hits. I can narrow that search down to 59 hits by clicking on the “Archival Material” format on the results screen. Now, I can look at manuscript collections related to Cooper County that are scattered around the country.

What do you do when you find a promising stash of letters stored in an Alabama library while you’re in Cincinnati? Unfortunately, most libraries don’t loan out their manuscript materials via interlibrary loan, but it’s worth a check. Occa- sionally, the collections have been microfilmed and they may loan the microfilms. Otherwise, you need to review the library’s research assistance policies. They may copy a limited number of documents for you, or they may refer you to library assistants or volunteers who can review the documents and make copies or take digital photographs. Expect to pay for research time and copies.

Of course, these strategies for finding old letters rely on the premise that those prized letters aren’t sitting in a shoebox in the back of someone’s closet. What should you do if you are the owner of historical letters that name names and relate all the neighborhood gossip? Realize there are plenty of people who would love to read about their (continued next page)

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ancestors in your letters.

You have several options. You can upload digital images of those letters to your Ancestry.com family tree. You can also donate the letters as a family collection to a suitable repository. Or, if you want to keep the letters, you can have them photographed or transcribed and place those with a repository. Each repository has its own acquisition pro- cedures. But, most of them would be glad to work with you to help preserve not only your letters, but the historical content of your letters. You can even publish your collection of letters as a book, especially if they have significant historical interest in addition to genealogical interest. That’s how I found John Kingsbury’s letters. His letters are tucked away in libraries in Texas and Missouri, but two ambitious historians saw their value and published them.

Do you have old letters filled with fascinating content? Have you found your ancestors mentioned in letters written by others? Leave a comment and share some of your success stories with old letters. (From The Weekly Discovery, 10 August 2011, Copyright 2011, Ancestry.com)

Tracing your Roots —- BBC Podcasts

While searching for new podcasts, I found the following BBC podcasts. What is unique is that they are more instructive than some other podcasts. They include stories of breakthroughs. While they have a British theme, some of the stories may apply to people everywhere. http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/tyr The top right corner of that page will offer links to a selection of players, or, you can play the podcasts directly with the player on the right. I use iTunes to download the podcast. I can then play them on my iPod or computer. (Audio Podcasts are MP3.)

The BBC Podcast website only lists six recent broadcasts. I found more at the following website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006zbxm/episodes/player This website plays the podcast using a BBC player and it is not as good because it includes some prior broadcast material and introductions. (From Frank Curtis, Computer SIG)

The Illinois Prairie Pioneer Certificates

Anyone who has an ancestor who had been living in Illinois prior to 1881 is eligible to apply to the Illinois State Genea- logical Society for an Illinois Prairie Pioneer Certificate at- testing to that distinction. The Prairie Pioneer Project has been one of that society’s popular projects, and there have been more than 3,500 persons who have been certified as prairie pioneers since 1982, when the first pioneer was recognized. Three categories of certificates are issued to descendants of pioneers who resided in Illinois: (1) prior to statehood; (2) 1819-1850; and (3) 1851-1880.

ISGS has published two volumes of data pertaining to the first 2,830 applications, but the complete files usually contain much more information than the published abstracts. Because documentation must be provided, along with each application, the file on each individual varies. Some files are quite lengthy and may contain photographs, certificates, and other papers about the pioneers and their descendants.

You can get more information about the certificates and files, and view the current index of Prairie Pioneers at http://ilgensoc.org/cpage.php?pt=20.

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D. Joshua Taylor is a nationally recognized genealogical author, lecturer, researcher, and is also the former director of education and programs at the New England Historic Genealogical Society. He recently spoke at the Confer- ence on Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University and talked about the future of genealogy, saying, “it will no longer be viewed as an ‘old’ activity for the retired. It will be undefined by age, gender and nationality. We’re in prime time now.” Taylor made several predictions for the near future. He predicted:

1. More information will be simple to download and interactive. We won’t have to type in genealogical data from census and other records won't have to be typed in, it can be just a drag and drop process, and the computer will fill in all the details. “It’s happening now with medical records,” he said, “why not with genealogy?” 2. There will be more online websites for digital scrapbooks and family histories. There will be blogs with live recordings, videos and links to other pertinent information. 3. Everything will be digital. No more carting boxes of family documents from one relative to the next. Everything will be digital. It’s all about “the cloud,” and storing data in Apple’s new iCloud or dropbox.com, where a computer's data can be accessed from any computer without the worry of external drives, backup CDs and thumb drives. 4. Genealogy will be more about people than facts. He encouraged genealogists to think beyond the pedigree chart and get into the stories about people. 5. Communities will share data. Genealogists, historians, librarians, archivists and medical professionals will share information. “We all need the same stuff,” he said, “so we might as well share it with each other.” 6. There will be more instant communications, not just with family members working together on genealogy, but with librarians, county clerks, associations, etc. 7. Genealogy will not have to be a full-time pursuit. The younger generations will be able to devote just 15 minutes at a time and make progress because of new technology and collaborative methods. 8. There will be a new generation of genealogists that will take new tactics. Taylor described a Boston University group of students assembled to work on their family histories and said there were 20 countries represented within just three generations of a family. Fifty percent of their parents or grandparents were born outside the United States. The average birth year of this new group of genealogists was 1989. About 85 percent of their family members immigrated after the year 1900, with the most recent immigrants coming to America in 2000. With this new generation, new approaches need to be taken such as oral interviews and tracing people who are still alive to find out why they came to America and what political movements affected them. You can read more about D. Joshua Taylor’s recent talk in an article by Laurie Snow Turner in the Deseret News at http://goo.gl/5JkwO. (The previous article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com.)

Location Addresses

Issaquah Public Library Lake Hills Library National Archives and Records Fiske Genealogical Library 140 East Sunset Way 15590 Lake Hills Blvd. SE Admin. 1644 43rd Ave E/ Issaquah, WA Bellevue, WA 6125 Sand Point Way NE Seattle, WA 98122 425-392-5430 425-747-3350 Seattle, WA 98115-7999 206-328-2716 206-336-5115

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EGS September and October 2011 Meeting Calendar

EGS Board Meeting The Eastside Genealogical Society Board will meet on Thursday, September 1 and on (First Thursday, Thursday, October 6, 10:00 AM to Noon at the Redmond Library. 10:00 AM) NOTE Change of Location. EGS General Meeting The Eastside Genealogical Society will meet on Thursday, September 8, and on Thursday, October 13, at 7:00 PM in the Redmond Library. Visitors are welcome. NOTE Change of Location. Computer Interest The Eastside Genealogy Society Computer Interest Group will take place at 9:30 AM on Satur- (Fourth Saturday, day, September 24 with the tentative topic being Joe Flint and Advanced Google Earth. 9:30 AM) We will also meet on Saturday, October 22 at 9:30 AM, with the topic being Ross Roberts on Social Media, Facebook, Twitter, etc. We meet in the Community Room at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue. If you wish to receive e-mail notification of the SIG meetings please send a request to [email protected] (Joe Flint, [email protected]) Czech/Slovak Interest Our next meeting will be on Saturday, September 3 from 9:30 AM to Noon at Firehouse Group #22 in Houghton. See website for more information: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wacsig/ (Check Bulletin for (Rosie Bodien, 425-828-0170 or [email protected].) meeting information) EGS Lunch Bunch Meets every fourth Thursday, 11:30 AM, at Crossroads Mall Shopping Center Food (Fourth Thursday, Court. 11:30 AM)

German Interest Group The EGS German Interest Group will next meet on Friday, September 2 from 1:00 to 3:00 (First Friday, PM at the Crossroads Mall Community Meeting Room. We'll be talking about our re- 1:00 PM) search over the summer and plan topics for future meetings. Guests are always welcome.

We will also meet from 1:00 – 3:00 PM on Friday, October 7 at the Community Room at Crossroads Mall. A trio of presenters (Jack Julich, Stan Hungerford and Rob Carthum) will explain how an individual can perform their genealogical research and display and preserve their family lineage by using a computer while working in the comfort of their home. You’ll see amazing ideas for gathering, organizing and sharing your genealogical information. You won’t want to miss this one! (Ann Passe, [email protected] or 206-232-1104) Irish and Scots-Irish Please contact Ann for meeting information. (Ann Lamb, 425-557-0440 or [email protected]) Interest Group (First Wednesday, 10:00 AM) Italian Interest Group The Italian Interest Group will meet on Saturday, September 17, 1:30-3:30 PM at the Lake (Third Saturday, Hills Library. The topic will be Regional reports, plan for Festa booth and topics for future 1:30 PM) meetings. (Mary Sangalang, 425-649-2250 or [email protected]) Legacy Interest Group The next Legacy Interest Group meeting will be on Wednesday, September 7 from 12:30 – (First Wednesday, 2:30 PM in the Community Room at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue. We’re going to be 12:30 PM) talking about Reports in Legacy. We will also meet on Wednesday, October 5 from 12:30 – 2:30 PM in the Community Room and will be talking about Publishing Center. (Sherry Holthe, [email protected] or 425-880-4407) Scandinavian Interest The Scandinavian Interest Group will meet on September 13 from 10:00 AM to Noon at the Group Archive Building on the Bellevue College Campus. Ida Skarson McCormick will be the (Second Tuesday, speaker and her topic will be DNA testing. Please check our new website at 10:00 AM) http://scandinaviansig.wordpress.com Contact Sandy for meeting information.(Sandy Arildson, 425- 747-5621, or [email protected] ) Shore to Shore Interest We'll meet for lunch at Crossroads food court, on Wednesday, September 14, at 11.30 Group AM. No reservations necessary and everyone is welcome. Meet near the Games area. Come join

us with your news and ideas,

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Eastside Genealogical Society Contacts

President* Judy Meredith 425-702-9321 [email protected] Vice President* Carol Pattison 425-228-2510 [email protected] Secretary* Walta McCarley 425-376-0539 [email protected] Treasurer* Kay Wilson 425-746-4366 [email protected] Trustee* Sharron Filer 425-885-7213 [email protected] Past President* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Education Chair* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Archivist/Historian* Walta McCarley 425-746-7557 [email protected] Library Chair* Winifred Sihon 425-793-5424 [email protected] Library Volunteers Winifred Sihon 425-793-5424 [email protected] Book Acquisitions* Sarah Fleming 425-957-1134 [email protected] Membership Chair* Dorothy Mehrer 425-822-7316 [email protected] Newsletter Editor* Kim Nichols 360-668-3937 [email protected] Newsletter Contributors Mickey Main 425-747-2038 [email protected] Sharron Filer 425-885-7213 [email protected] Newsletter Mailing Jack and Jean Newman 425-746-2324 [email protected] Nominating Chair* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Norb Ziegler 425-557-2108 [email protected] Marty Gale 206-232-6471 [email protected] Program Chair* Carol Pattison 425-228-2510 [email protected] Publicity* Dorothy Pretare 425-277-0831 [email protected] Representatives: DAR Donna Hart 425-831-5978 [email protected] Bellevue Reg Library FGS SIG Representative* Sunshine Chair* Patti Wehrs 787-599-2746 [email protected] Webmaster* Kim Nichols 360-668-3937 [email protected]

* EGS Board Member

Special Interest Group (SIG) Contacts Computer Joe Flint [email protected] Czech/Slovak Rosie Bodien 425-828-0170 [email protected] German Ann Passe 206-232-1104 [email protected] Irish & Scots-Irish Ann Lamb 425-557-0440 [email protected] Italian Mary D. Sangalang 425-649-2250 [email protected] Legacy Sherry Holthe 425-880-4407 [email protected] Lunch Bunch Portuguese(inactive) Barbara Guyll 425-746-5603 [email protected] Scandinavian Sandy Arildson 425-747-5621 [email protected] Shore to Shore Shirley Dowd 425-454-0078 [email protected]

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Please Note: Beginning in September, EGS will be meeting at the Redmond Library while a construction project takes place at the Bellevue Regional Library.

November EGS Meeting Information NOVEMBER/DECEMBERBellevue, Washington 2011 Date: Thursday, November 10, 2011 VOLUME XXX, NUMBER 3 Time: Welcome New Members 6:30 PM

Meeting Begins 7:00 PM

The Eastside Genealogical Location: Redmond Library —Note Location Change Society Topic: Accessing Digital Books Online P.O. Box 374 Speaker: Dr. Gary Zimmerman, President of the Bellevue WA 98009-0374 Fiske Genealogical Library www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakcegs/ About The Program:

Many public domain books of interest to genealogists are being digitized at a rapid rate. Included are books from the Library of Congress, Allen Coun- ty Public Library, Family History Library, and many other repositories. Dr. Zimmerman will show you where to find these books. INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

December — No Meeting Help Needed for Indexing 2 EGS does not meet in December. Instead, spend the time enjoying the holidays and we will see you at our January meeting on Thursday, January 12, Board Meeting Minutes 3 2012.

Welcome New Members 4

President’s Message Upcoming Local Events 5

We had a better turnout at our October meeting at our new venue at the What Happened to Grandpa’s Things? 6 Redmond Library. We even got to see a couple of people we don’t generally see in Bellevue, so you all come! Our Story Is Important 8

As is customary, I asked about recent research success stories. One thing SIG Calendar 10 in particular caught my attention—the value of networking. EGS Contacts 11 One of our members contacted a person from out of state regarding a line he was researching and in the course of the conversation, the gentleman said, “Did you say you live in Bellevue, WA? I’m having a problem finding a grave there.” Long story short, these two have been sending stuff back and forth to the benefit of both.

So network! Post queries, come to meetings and chat, join special interest groups, attend the upcoming Family History Expo on November 5th (watch the website for more info: www. wafamilyhistory.net). Also tell your friends about your families—they might be researching the same region and stumble across a tidbit. (Ask Bob Barnes about this.)

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And as always there are numerous ways you can volunteer to help your society out. Call or email the contacts listed in the back of the Bulletin.

Happy hunting!

Judy Meredith, EGS President

Help Needed to Index the 1940 U.S. Federal Census

On April 2, 2012, NARA will provide access to the images of the 1940 United States Federal Census for the first time. Unlike previous census years, images of the 1940 U.S. Federal Census will be made available as free digital images. The 1940 U.S. Federal Census is the largest, most comprehensive, and most recent record set available that records the names of those who were living in the United States at the time the census was taken. 132 million people were living in the 48 Continental United States in 1940. The 1940 census included several standard questions, such as: name, age, gender, race, education, and place of birth. But the census also introduced some new questions. One example is that the enumerator was instructed to mark (with a circled x) who in the household responded to the census questions. Other questions included whether the person worked for the CCC, WPA, or NYA the week of March 24-30, 1940, and the income for the 12 months ending December 31, 1939. Other new, interesting questions were asked: Where people lived 5 years before; Highest educational grade achieved; and Detailed income and occupation. Family Search is now signing up volunteers to help index the 1940 U.S. Federal Census. FamilySearch.org and its partners will start publishing the 1940 U.S. Federal Census for free on April 2, 2012, the day the census is released by NARA. FamilySearch.org will also provide digital images to tens of thousands of volunteers to start transcribing the records so they become searchable. Complete publication of the index will depend on how many volunteers like you can help. For more information, and to sign up to help index, please go to https://familysearch.org/1940census. (Submitted by Sarah Fleming, EGS Book Acquisitions)

FamilySearch Online Film Ordering System Now Available The new FamilySearch Film Ordering System is now available to the U.S. Northwest/West Area. This area is in addition to other areas that currently have access to the FamilySearch Film Ordering System. FamilySearch continues to make great strides in making family history research easier by making it possible for you to order microfilms from the comfort and convenience of your own home. No longer will you have to wait for your next trip to a family history center to order a film. Nor will you have to travel to a family history center, hoping they have the film you want, only to discover it’s not there. Ordering microfilms is as easy as ever. 1. Go to familysearch.org/films and sign into FamilySearch using the Sign In link located in the top right corner of the screen. If you do not have an account, clicking the Sign In link will help you register.

2. Locate the microfilm number(s) you want to order from the Family History Library Catalog located on FamilySearch.org. Note: Before ordering any film, check to see if the Family History Library Catalog has a digital copy available online.

3. Select your loan type, enter the microfilm number, and click Search. Repeat this step for each additional item.

For more information, see https://www.familysearch.org/node/1264 (Submitted by Sarah Fleming, EGS Book Acquisitions)

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EGS Board Meeting Minutes – Summary, August & September 2011

August 2011

Membership: Updating needed in the membership packets, applications and other printed matter to include dues added for printed newsletters, and change of meeting place due to construction of the new BRL parking garage. Bob Barnes will follow up. Programs: Sarah Little will speak in September about tracing living people, Carol Pattison will provide an October program, Gary Zimmerman of the Fisk Library will speak on digitized books. Additional ideas were to have someone from the National Archives talk on the 1940 census, a talk on the changes on FamilySearch, Darlene Hamilton on the most efficient way to search other library sites, and a question and answer session. Education: Bob Barnes is planning to hold fall classes again – will have to decide possibly between Lake Hills or Redmond libraries. Carol Pattison suggested having a monthly 2-hour session for beginners, perhaps rotating libraries. Outreach: We will have a table at the Bothell RiverFest, 28 August, from 10 AM to 3 PM. More volunteers are de- sired. Bulletin: Articles to consider are finding owners of found objects, finding living relatives, and how the Red Cross reunites families. New Business: Bob Barnes offered to host an appreciation dinner in honor of Ed Schultz and Kim Nichols. A list of new genealogy books at the Seattle Public Library was received. After discussing how to make it available, it was decided to simply add a link to the Seattle Public Library to our website. G-mail sites for publicity and information are to be added to the website, rather than personal email addresses, so anyone filling in can access the mail. Darlene Hamilton has retired from the Seattle Public Library. Sarah Fleming has continued to investigate various insurance plans, gathering information from other nearby societies and FGS. South King County Genealogical Society went from about $500 to $240 for basic liability from a Kent agency. FGS’s policy would cover each officer, field trips and other subjects. The September 1 EGS Board Meeting will be held at 10 AM at the Redmond Library.

September 2011

Treasurer: Kay emailed the treasurer’s report to board members prior to the meeting. Membership: We have 260 members. Bob will update flyers and membership packets. Programs: September, Sarah Little; October, Carol Pattison, organization; November, Gary Zimmerman, online books. Other program ideas: 1940 census, DAR web site, FamilySearch changes, mountain men (interesting display at Riverfest). Publicity: Dorothy still needs backup. G-mail accounts for publicity and information have not been added. Doro- thy will notify SIG leaders when available. Education: Bob is planning Introduction to Genealogy classes at several different libraries. Kirkland is scheduled for 29 October, 1-3. Issaquah, Mercer Island, and Newport Way have expressed an interest. No requests yet from Red- mond or Bothell. Sarah gave Bob information on obtaining free “Ask Granny” materials, a course developed for senior citizens. Outreach: We participated in Bothell Riverfest and will have a table at Family History Expo, 5 November. Sarah suggested we tag our flyers so we know if we get any members from these events. Dorothy will make greeter badges for the general meetings. Book Acquisition: Committee will meet 24 September. Library: Winnie needs a replacement for Jack Newman for 1st & 3rd Wednesdays. Old business: Sarah will contact the So. King Co. insurance agent to see if we can save money. The “thank you” dinner to honor Ed and Kim will be rescheduled. New business: We discussed having a summer recess for July and August. Bob will draft a bylaws change for the next board meeting. We need to be proactive re cleaning out EGS materials in Jack Newman’s garage. Dorothy suggested we scan the first page and officer page of each Bulletin Board

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Please welcome the following new members:

Nancy BAIN Lily KOHN, who is researching BOGACHICK, NAPADENSKY, MENDELSON, SPIVACK, and KOHN in US and Eastern Europe, Jewish, the Holocaust, Poland, Romania, and Russia. She also needs someone who can read Polish. Carl WADE is researching SPRAY and WADE from early Seattle and Juanita.

Chicago and Cook County Pioneer Certificates

On page 8 of the September/October EGS newsletter there was an article about Illinois Prairie Pioneer Certificates from the Illinois State Genealogical Society. The Chicago Genealogical Society also offers two certificates for Chicago and Cook County.

Their "Pioneer" certificate covers those living in the area from 1833 until 8 October 1871 (date of the Great Chicago Fire.) The other certificate, "Rebuilder," runs from 9 October 1871 until 30 April 1893 (the ending date marks the Co- lumbian Exposition.) Information for these certificates is available on their website: http://www.ChicagoGenealogy.org/ Click on "Ancestor Certificates." (Submitted by Suzy Page, EGS member)

Skewing - A Technique for Signature Identification

How do you read a signature that is heavily slanted with the letters seemingly run together? Genealogists have that problem when trying to identify signatures but numismatists (coin and money collectors) also have the same problem when trying to identify signatures on banknotes and checks.

Open a digital image of the signature in a photo editing program and then skew it (slant it) until the signature ap- pears to be more vertical. A great example can be found in The E-Sylum, an electronic publication of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society, at http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v14n43a06.html. (The previous article is from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2011 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com.) Library and Other Volunteers Needed

Volunteers are needed for the first and third Wednesday afternoons from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. Jack Newman is resigning after many years of providing help at these times. Anyone interested should contact Winnie Sihon at [email protected] or 425-793-5424. Help Desk volunteers are needed for other times as well.

An assistant for our Library Chairman is also needed. And there is a need for a Publicity assistant. These are not terribly time consuming. For information about these positions, contact Judy Meredith (425-702-9321) or the appropriate chair person listed in the back of the Bulletin.

FREE GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH HELP Genealogical research help is available at the Bellevue Regional Library, located at NE 12th St. and 110th Ave. NE in Bellevue. Eastside Genealogical Society volunteers are waiting to help your with problems and questions. They are available in room 6 on the second floor of the library, to the left of the reference desk. Hours are Tuesdays from 7:00-9:00 PM and Wednesdays from 1:00-3:00 PM.

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Upcoming Local Events Learn how to research your family history! Family History Ex- po 2011, Saturday, November 5, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (On-site registration opens at 8:00 AM) at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Bellevue South Stake Center (behind the Temple) at 15202 SE 28th St., Bellevue, WA 98007.

Many classes for all interests and levels from beginner to advanced, and a keynote address on "Discovery of Self" by Nor- man J. Landerman-Moore. Free; register online to guarantee printed materials. For more information, registration, and directions, see http://www.wafamilyhistory.net/

History is happening in the Redmond area and we welcome you to our meeting. The Redmond Historical Society will meet on Saturday, November 12, 2011, 10:30 a.m. to noon at The Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center, 16600 NE 80 Street, Redmond, WA. Tom Hansen and Gordon Dudley will be presenting “What Life was Like on We- ber Point.” Come and hear their stories of growing up on Weber Point and what it was like for their parents when they first arrived.

Also, remember the quilt raffle in honor of Redmond’s Centennial celebration in 2012. Tickets sell for $2 each. To receive the monthly newsletter, contact the Society office at 425-885-2919, or email your request to in- [email protected]. Books, note cards, free historic walking tour brochures, and the book, “Redmond Reflections,” are available in our office, which is open Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and by appointment. Visit our website: redmondhistoricalsociety.org. There is no December meeting.

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State presents Publishing Your Family History by Nancy Ad- elson, JGSWS President and Program Chair on Monday, November 14, 2011. Doors open at 7:00 PM. Presenta- tion starts promptly at 7:30 PM, at Stroum Jewish Community Center Auditorium, 3801 East Mercer Way, Mer- cer Island WA 98040. Free admission for JGSWS members and one guest per year, $5.00 for non-members. FREE Wi-Fi access (bring your laptops) and extensive library materials available for your research. Visit our website: http://www.jgsws.org.

ABOUT OUR PROGRAM: Nancy Adelson will present a step-by-step overview, starting with quick and easy methods of sharing your genealogical research to publishing a book online to the process of working with an agent and publisher. Learn about reports and sharing options available through family tree software and online sites. Discover the simple way to start writing and organizing your book, how to apply for your copyright and Library of Congress Pre- assigned Control Number, and get tips on self-publishing, online publishing, and selling options. Realizing that few people have enough time to devote to genealogical research, much less write a book, this lecture demonstrates how easy it can be to complete both tasks. Using her self-published book, A New York City Boy, as an example, she will demonstrate how to share your work NOW.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER: Nancy Adelson is a founding member, President, and Program Chair for JGSWS, Director of GerSIG, Program Co-Chair of the 2013 IAJGS Conference, and Committee Chair for the IAJGS International Jew- ish Genealogy Month. She has researched 3700+ members for her husband’s (Sephardic) and her (Eastern and Western European) families, going back to the early 1700s. She has presented at numerous IAJGS conferences, at local events, and on cruise lines. Nancy has received the IAJGS Salutes award, the Washington State Genealogical Society Award for Outstanding Efforts in Preservation, and the JGSWS Outstanding Community Service Award.

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What Happened to Grandpa’s Things? by Harry Rinker In a previous “Rinker on Collectibles” column, I wrote: “Grandfathers get short shrift. Over 90 percent of all objects I see belong to the grandmother or some female relative. Is this because sentimentality is primarily a female vir- tue? I am not convinced. In going through the family heirlooms I own, most are female related. I have added this to my “think about it” list. If I successfully sort it through, I will share my thoughts.”

Several readers responded with their thoughts in respect to the above. Ellie wrote in a July 27, 2011 e-mail: “The men in my family do not hold on to sentimental items. When my father died, the only items we had were letters (thank goodness he kept those), his broken wristwatches and his gun. I also think ‘household’ items are considered to belong [to] the lady of the house…Then again, when I worked in a coffee shop 15 years ago, I was shocked at the amount of money people spent for Mother’s Day. A new deluxe coffee-maker, a grinder, 5 pounds of beans, and a new set of mugs for Mom. Come Father’s Day, customers would buy 1/2 pound of coffee for dear old Dad and be done with it. I thought it reflected the amount of time fathers spent with their children in the past—something that I believe is changing with today’s parents.”

Bill Castle offered this observation in his July 22 e-mail: “As to the point of why it’s always Grandma’s things, it’s probably related to bicycles. Boys’ bikes are worth more than girls bikes. The boys destroyed their bikes, so there are fewer of them around. Same with a lot of guy things. They’re either broken, given to a buddy or sold. There aren’t many things guys hand down (guns being the major exception here in the South).”

Nick Ryan, an Australian whose grandfather was 100 when he died, noted in his July 22 e-mail: “Grandfathers…, unless they were handy at something themselves like carving, rarely left anything as hand me downs— work was hard, hours were long. Relaxation time for the man of the house was probably recuperation time before work began. Maybe some fishing rods, some books, their own personal items like razor, etc., show up as treasured items but that’s about it.”

Before proceeding, three points need to be established. First, there is no question that there are exceptions to every generalization that follows. This article offers concepts to stimulate thinking, not absolutes. Second, the article deals with personal items not collections. Collecting is sexist with many of the top, that is to say the most expensive, collecting categories heavily male dominant. Third, a collector and saver are two different entities. While a few savers transition into collectors, most do not.

On average, women outlive men. It is not fair. Why should women have this privilege? I cheer silently (I know better than to cheer out loud) each time I read an article indicating that the gap is getting smaller. In this era of women’s rights and equality, I am all for women dying at the same average age of men.

What does all this have to do with the survival of grandpa’s things? The answer is as obvious as the nose on your face. The person who survives controls what happens to the other person’s stuff. Traditionally, the widow inherits the entire estate. The kids are expected to wait their turn. Societal convention demands this. It takes a strong man to leave a will that directs otherwise.

Well meaning family members, friends, and acquaintances advise the widow within days of a spouse’s or partner’s death to “get rid of his things and move on.” The pressure to discard is enormous. The grieving widow is over- whelmed. The kids do not live nearby. Besides, they never expressed interest in their father’s things.

There are far more “his” and “her” things in a relationship than there are “our” things. Once the man dies, the widow’s interest in his things vanishes. His clothing goes to Goodwill or the Salvation Army. The rest is sent to the auction or the dump. A widow might select two to five things to keep as remembrances; but, these have more sentimental than dollar value.

His family heirlooms get treated no better. Death often ends the wife’s relationship with the spouse’s family. Daughter-in-law is not the same as daughter. Few women call their husband’s parents Mom and Dad. Most marital re- lationships with the spouse’s family are not deep but rather tenuous at best.. (continued next page)

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[Author’s Aside #1: This becomes compounded if a second or third marriage is involved and there are children from previous marriages. For the sake of argument, the assumption in this column is that the marriage is traditional and the couple remained together for a lifetime.]

My grandfather and father were savers, based primarily on the “it’s too good to throw out” and “I will never know when I might need it” principles. Neither viewed what they saved as a collection. Dad had a coin collection, but it was a frivolous rather than a serious hobby.

My father saved two groups of material. The first contained personal items, but not always family related. In addition to my Dad’s match rifle shooting jacket and medals won at shooting competitions, he saved a few headline newspapers and odd and end souvenirs from vacation trips. My mother was responsible for all the family albums and pictures including those of my father’s siblings and their family.

The second group of objects was utilitarian in nature, consisting primarily of tools he acquired from relatives. My Dad was not a builder, but he was capable of repairing things. If Dad bought a new object to replace an old one and the old one still worked, he saved it. “You never know” was among his favorite expressions.

[Author’s Aside #2: My mother and father lived through the Depression. As a result, they were minimalists not materialists. My generation took the opposite approach. Today grandpa’s and grandma’s pile is overwhelming to the heirs. In 2011, I am not certain grandma is doing better than grandpa in respect to her things passing down through the family.]

If grandpa’s things are lucky enough to survive during the lifetime of his widow, they face a fate worse than death when it comes time to dispose of grandma’s estate. Women, often daughters or granddaughters, are faced with the task of disposing of an estate’s personal property. Even when a male serves as executor, he is quick to pass the disposal task to a female. The male does not have the time. Chances are the female does not either, but she is stuck.

I was around when my Prosser aunts cleaned out Grandpop Prosser’s home on Depot Street in Hellertown. His things and money were protected from outside female predators by the family encouraging (a polite word for the truth) him to marry my grandmother’s maiden sister Annie. Aunt Annie was never Grandma Annie to any of his grandchildren. Grandpop’s relationship with his eight daughters, especially his younger ones, was not the best. When my aunts entered the house after Annie’s death, “get rid of the stuff” was their rallying cry. The trash cans were filled to the brim with Grandpop’s things. I saved the goose-feather artificial Christmas tree and a few other small items.

Ellie’s contention that household goods are assumed to belong to the woman of the house was true historically. Women managed the house while the husband worked. While the reality of this ended along with the 20th century, the per- ception prevails and is likely to do so for another generation or two. Grandpa never owned the family china, flatware, stemware, pots and pans, furniture – the list continues ad infinitum. Grandpa owned what resided in the bureau in the bed- room and the areas assigned to him in the basement and the garage. Grandma controlled the rest.

I did not discuss the concept that the female is gifted with a level of sentimentality and romanticism far in excess of the male. This is a given. Females have a much stronger link with the past than do males. It is a grandmother-mother- daughter thing.

I welcome your thoughts about why grandma’s rather than grandpa’s things survive in greater numbers. My e-mail is [email protected].

(Submitted by Marty Gale. Copyright 2011 by Harry L. Rinker. Rinker hosts WHATCHA GOT?, a national syndicated antiques and collectibles call-in radio show, and is the author of Rinker on Collectibles, a nationally syndicated column now in its 24th year. For more information see: www.harryrinker.com. You can listen and participate in WHATCHA GOT?, Harry’s antiques and collectibles radio call-in show, on Sunday mornings between 8:00 AM and 10:00 AM Eastern Time. If you cannot find it on a station in your area, WHATCHA GOT? streams live and is archived on the Internet at www.gcnlive.com)

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Our Story Is Important: Preserve It By Juliana Smith 07 September 2011

This morning I took my breakfast out to the back porch to enjoy a crystal blue sky and a beautiful early September morning. With the September 11th anniversary upon us, I couldn’t help but remember that on the morning of 9/11 the air had a very similar feel to it. Crisp, clear, and with no hint of what was to come. My daughter was in Kindergarten and I remember running to school to pick her up, wondering how to explain to her what had happened. The other day I asked her about it, because I wondered what the memories would be like from her perspective. It was interesting to hear the things she remembered and what stood out to her.

As family historians, we go back in time and learn about the things that happened to our ancestors and if you’re like me you wonder what it was like for them. The immigrant ancestor crossing an ocean to a new world, the Civil War soldier preparing for battle, the housewife finding a way to support her family when her husband is unable to work—what was it like from their perspective?

Sometimes we get lucky. We may have correspondence, a diary, or perhaps some pieces of the story passed down through the family. Or maybe we find insights into a time or event as it was recorded by our ancestors’ contemporar- ies—a neighbor’s diary, or a letter written home from a soldier who fought in the same battle as a relative. Too often though, we have to satisfy ourselves with small clues found in records and by reading a generic and impersonal history. Don’t you wish your ancestors were like you and had left some sort of legacy in their own words?

Some of you, like me, may have felt a little guilt twinge there. It’s time. I am determined to leave my stories for my daughter and her children—and their children. I don’t want future generations wondering, “What was that like?”

I have several journals lying around where I’ve recorded a handful of memories, news from our family, and reac- tions to events in the world around us. Too many of them begin with, “Today I will get organized and start recording my personal history.”

Today is that day, and I’ve got some ideas to make it work this time.

Use What You Have In this day and age, we may not realize it but we’re journaling all the time—probably more so than in years past. Our Facebook status updates, Tweets, emails to friends and family, blog posts, calendar entries, holiday letters—all of them chronicle our lives. Even if they’re not detailed, they can form a framework we can work with. Make a habit of copying and saving relevant electronic updates into a document on your computer.

To organize these mini-entries of sorts, start a folder and just add to it as you go. Begin the name of each document, photo, or other memory with the date like this: 20110911Trip. That way if you sort by file name, when you look into that file your memories will be in chronological order.

Break It Down When you look back at your entire life, the prospect of putting it on paper can be daunting. Break down the task into segments—perhaps a decade at a time. Use photographs and timelines to prompt you. Pretend you’re one of those ancestors you’d love to know more about. What would you like to ask them? Then ask yourself that question. (See today’s second feature for a list of even more questions to get you started. )

Don’t feel like you have to do it in order. Let your memories take you where they will and enjoy the ride. When you’re reminded of something or a memory comes flooding back, just take a few minutes to capture it. It doesn’t have to be edited and ready for public consumption at that moment. When you get more time, go back to it and fill in the blanks, making it into a story. As you continue to collect the stories in this way, soon you’ll realize you’re on your way.

Find It a Home One of the biggest challenges I have is finding the right medium. I’m one of those people caught between the paper and electronic world, wanting the best of both. The small journal I can curl up with in the (continued next page)

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yard and the computer where I can quickly copy and paste all those emails and Facebook posts both have a place in my journaling world. What I need is a place where paper and electronics can live happily together. I have a lot of stories in those unfinished journals, and I have electronic notes that I’ll need to bring together when I begin compiling a more cohesive story. In the case of my journals, I may have to go in and weave those words into stories I have in electronic form. In some cases, I may take the easy way out and scan a few pages. After all, how cool is it to find great- grandma’s words in her own handwriting, right?

For the compiled version of all the stories and thoughts I’ve collected, I’ve just created a word-processing document. It’s easy to edit, add photos and images when I’m inclined, and I can rearrange portions easily without worrying about format problems. I can also export sections. For example, a story about me and my grandma can be copied into the Stories section of my online tree and attached to both of us.

Interview Questions for Yourself and Others Where did you grow up? How long did your family live in the area(s)? How many siblings did you have? What were their names and how old were they? What were they like? Were there other family members in the area? Who? Did you live on a farm? What kind of crops did you grow? What kind of livestock or other animals did you keep? Did you have any pets? What was the house or apartment like? How many rooms? What kind of amenities did it have? (Indoor plumbing, electricity or gas, phone, television, etc.) Were there any special items in the house that stand out in your mind (favorite possessions of yours, your parents, or siblings)? What kind of area/neighborhood was it? Did the town have a railroad? Post office? What kind of stores or shops? What was your family's religious affiliation? Where did you go to church? What religious ceremonies did you take part in? Did you have godparents or sponsors? Where did you go to school? What level education do you have? What was your favorite subject to study? Did you have any special interests when you were growing up (sports, hobbies, crafts, etc.)? What kind of games did you play? What was your favorite toy? What did you do for fun (go to beach, park, movies, zoo, etc.)? Did your family ever take trips or go on vacation? Do you speak any foreign languages? Did you have family reunions? Who were your friends when you were growing up? Who were the close friends of the family? Describe the person- alities of your family members. Are there any physical characteristics that run in your family? Were there any serious illnesses in your family? Do any illnesses run in the family? Were there any memorable traditions that your family practiced? Can you remember any stories that were told to you as a child (fictional, folklore, or real life)? What events stand out in the memory of your childhood (historical, personal, familial, storms or disasters, fire, etc.)? What inventions or developments changed your life, and how? (From The Weekly Discovery, Copyright 2011, Ancestry.com)

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EGS November & December 2011 Meeting Calendar

EGS Board Meeting The Eastside Genealogical Society Board will meet on Thursday, November 3, 10:00 AM to (First Thursday, Noon at the Redmond Library. NOTE Change of Location. 10:00 AM) EGS General Meeting The Eastside Genealogical Society will meet on Thursday, November 10, at 7:00 PM in the Redmond Library. Visitors are welcome. No December meeting. NOTE Change of Location. Computer Interest The Eastside Genealogy Society Computer Interest Group will take place at 9:30 AM on Satur- (Fourth Saturday, day, November 26. We meet in the Community Room at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue. 9:30 AM) If you wish to receive e-mail notification of the SIG meetings please send a request to egscomput- [email protected] (Joe Flint, [email protected]) Czech/Slovak Interest Our next meeting will be a Special Thanksgiving meeting on November 19, 12:30 to 4:00 PM Group at Fire Station #22 in Houghton. See website for more information: (Check Bulletin for www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wacsig/ (Rosie Bodien, 425-828-0170 or [email protected].) meeting information) EGS Lunch Bunch Meets every fourth Thursday, 11:30 AM, at Crossroads Mall Shopping Center Food (Fourth Thursday, Court. 11:30 AM) German Interest Group The EGS German Interest Group will next meet at 12:30 PM on Friday, November 4 at NA- (First Friday, RA (Seattle area National Archives) at 6125 Sandpoint Way NE, Seattle. We will have a work- 1:00 PM) shop on finding and using NARA records and “Immigration and Naturalization Records.” Please contact Ann ([email protected]) if you’d like to attend. Non-members are welcome. WE WILL NOT HAVE A MEETING AT THE CROSSROADS MALL THIS MONTH or in De- cember! Our next regular monthly meeting will be in January location to be determined.

In December we will have our Christmas Party at Ann & Ken’s home – date to be announced. (Ann Passe, [email protected] or 206-232-1104)

Irish and Scots-Irish Please contact Ann for meeting information. (Ann Lamb, 425-557-0440 or [email protected]) Interest Group (First Wednesday, 10:00 AM) Italian Interest Group The IIG will meet on Saturday, November 19, 1:30 - 3:30 PM at the Redmond Library. (Third Saturday, Dorothy will present the topic "Bring your Laptop with Wireless Access to Bookmark and Ex- 1:30 PM) plore Great Websites." Please bring a laptop with wireless access as there is no projector available at the library. Dorothy will be sharing the best websites for research in the 50 states, a website with a list of best websites for researching around the world, and will be exploring the Fami- lySearch website. (Mary Sangalang, 425-649-2250 or [email protected]) Legacy Interest Group The next Legacy Interest Group meeting will be on Wednesday, 2 November from 12:30 – (First Wednesday, 2:30 PM in the Community Room at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue. We’re going to have 12:30 PM) general Q&A on Legacy. . We will also meet on Wednesday, 7 December from 12:30 – 2:30 PM in the Community Room and the topic is TBD. (Sherry Holthe, [email protected] or 425-880-4407) Scandinavian Interest The Scandinavian Interest Group will meet on November 8 from 10:00 AM to Noon at the Group Archive Building on the Bellevue College Campus. The Speaker will be Kristine Leander, (Second Tuesday, Executive Director of the Swedish Cultural Center. We will meet December 13 for our annual 10:00 AM) Potluck Christmas Party. . Please check our new website at http://scandinaviansig.wordpress.com Contact Sandy for meeting information.(Sandy Arildson, 425- 747-5621, or [email protected] ) Shore to Shore Interest Please contact Dave & Betty Bennett at [email protected] for information. Group

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Eastside Genealogical Society Contacts

President* Judy Meredith 425-702-9321 [email protected] Vice President* Carol Pattison 425-228-2510 [email protected] Secretary* Walta McCarley 425-376-0539 [email protected] Treasurer* Kay Wilson 425-746-4366 [email protected] Trustee* Sharron Filer 425-885-7213 [email protected] Past President* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Education Chair* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Archivist/Historian* Walta McCarley 425-746-7557 [email protected] Library Chair* Winifred Sihon 425-793-5424 [email protected] Library Volunteers Winifred Sihon 425-793-5424 [email protected] Book Acquisitions* Sarah Fleming 425-957-1134 [email protected] Membership Chair* Dorothy Mehrer 425-822-7316 [email protected] Newsletter Editor* Kim Nichols 360-668-3937 [email protected] Newsletter Contributors Mickey Main 425-747-2038 [email protected] Sharron Filer 425-885-7213 [email protected] Newsletter Mailing Jack and Jean Newman 425-746-2324 [email protected] Nominating Chair* Bob Barnes 425-747-4863 [email protected] Norb Ziegler 425-557-2108 [email protected] Marty Gale 206-232-6471 [email protected] Program Chair* Carol Pattison 425-228-2510 [email protected] Publicity* Dorothy Pretare 425-277-0831 [email protected] Representatives: DAR Donna Hart 425-831-5978 [email protected] Bellevue Reg Library FGS NGS SIG Representative* Sunshine Chair* Patti Wehrs 787-599-2746 [email protected] Webmaster* Kim Nichols 360-668-3937 [email protected]

* EGS Board Member

Special Interest Group (SIG) Contacts Computer Joe Flint [email protected] Czech/Slovak Rosie Bodien 425-828-0170 [email protected] German Ann Passe 206-232-1104 [email protected] Irish & Scots-Irish Ann Lamb 425-557-0440 [email protected] Italian Mary D. Sangalang 425-649-2250 [email protected] Legacy Sherry Holthe 425-880-4407 [email protected] Lunch Bunch Portuguese(inactive) Barbara Guyll 425-746-5603 [email protected] Scandinavian Sandy Arildson 425-747-5621 [email protected] Shore to Shore Shirley Dowd 425-454-0078

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