Genealogical ^Ottetp Bulletin
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
+ % Seattle (genealogical ^ottetp 19234998 75tt) Hmtfoensarp |?ear bulletin Autumn 1998 Volume 48 No. 1 % jf SteaUk ®ttmlmal fiodetj? J&utMn OFFICERS PRESIDENT Annette Dwyer (206) 938-5719 VICE PRESIDENT SECRETARY Paula Mullikin (206)522-4169 TREASURER Tom Hamilton (206)542-7271 DIRECTORS COMMUNICATIONS Mary R. Pierce (206) 524-6920 EDUCATION Shirley Ashford (206)542-1424 LIBRARY Sonia A. Cook (206) 783-6255 OPERATIONS Sarah Thorson Little (206) 365-3681 PUBLICATIONS Sally K.Ebel , (206)542-2978 VOLUNTEERS Marilynn Van Hise (206) 244-7157 PAST PRESIDENT Jean A. Roth (206) 782-2629 Appointed Adviser S.P.L. LIAISON Darlene Hamilton (206)386-4627 INTEREST GROUPS (All usually meet at SGS offices) CANADIAN First Saturday, 10:15 a.m. Leader: James Pappin (206)463-3578 COMPUTER Second Saturday, 1050 a.m. Leader: Ida McCormick (206) 784-7988 GERMAN Fourth Saturday, quarterly, 10:30 a.m. Leader: William R. Fleck (360) 374-5412 IRISH Third Saturday, 10:15 a.m. Leader: Michael Powers (253)852-5202 BULLETIN EDITOR Sally Gene Mahoney (425)673-0755 NEWSLETTER EDITOR Mary Ludvigsen (206) 782-4294 SGS Office and Library open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. -3 p.m. Monday, 6:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. Closed Sundays and holidays Telephone Number: (206) 522-8658 OFFICES AND LIBRARY: 851115th Avenue Northeast, Seattle Mailing Address: P.O. Box 75388, Seattle, WA 98125-0388 Seattle genealogical feoatfp bulletin TABLE OF CONTENTS Calendar of Events 2 Presidents Letter 3 SPECIAL ARTICLES 'We Are Cherokee' 5 The Elam Young Family 21 Rainier Brewing Company (1878) 37 California Sourdoughs in 1929, part one 46 RESEARCH AIDS New Edition of IGI Addendum 11 Virtually Wandering Through History 17 Incorporated as a Getting Funds to a Foreign Country 20 non-profit organization Accessing Public Records 27 under the laws Which Came First? 28 of the State of Fraudulent Counties? Try Minnesota in 1857 36 Washington REGULAR FEATURES Founded October 1923 SGS Notes 4 At the National Archives 27 Book Reviews: Heritage Books, Inc. 29 BULLETIN Genealogical Publishing Company 29 Clearfield Company 30 Volume 48 No. 1 Other Recent SGS Library Acquisitions 30 Seattle Public Library Acquisitions 33 Autumn 1998 New Members 44 Queries 45 INDEX 52 Published Quarterly Seattle Genealogical Society P.O. Box 75388 American Library Assn. SAN #321-1053 Seattle, WA 98125-0388 The SGS Bulletin is indexed in the Genealogical Periodical Annual Index (206) 522-8658 Copyright ©1998, Seattle Genealogical Society Page! Seattle Genealogical &odetp bulletin Autumn 1998 CALENDAR 4 January SGS Monday Evening Program; see January-February Newsletter for details. 16 January 1 p.m., SGS quarterly meeting, SGS offices; see next Newsletter for details. 22-23 January GENTECH annual conference on genealogy and technology with 40-plus sessions on various topics; Salt Lake City. Program brochure and registration details available on line at: http: / /www.gentech.org. 12-15 May 1999 National Genealogical Society's national genealogical conference, "Welcome to the Old Dominion/' Richmond, Virginia. For program/ registration details when issued, sub mit name, address and phone number to: NGS '99 Conference Registration Brochure, 452717th St. N., Arlington, VA 22207-2399 or e-mail to: [email protected] (NGS members will automatically receive this information.) .. 11 -14 August 1999 Federation of Genealogical Societies' national genealogical conference, "Meet Me in St. Louis—the People of America/' St. Louis, Missouri. Complete details later, but to get on the conference program mailing list phone FGS toll-free at (888) 347-1500 or e-mail to: [email protected]. ABOUT SGS BULLETIN ADVERTISING AND SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES The Seattle Genealogical Society editorial staff welcomes your contributions of original material you compile and write, including details on how and where you found the information. We also will consider material previously published, if the source and date of publication are indicated, plus the publication's address should reprint permission be required. Editing: Submissions will reviewed and edited for style and length as needed. Help is available for inexperienced writers. Areas and eras: The Bulletin's main focus is on earlier Pacific Northwest regional material. However, articles from across the country and around the world also will be considered, as will articles detailing more-current events. Source ideas: family records (Bible, letters, diaries, scrapbooks), family and community records (burials/obituaries, passenger lists, directories, transcriptions of previously unpublished records), public records (vital statistics, census, probate, land, immigration), original compositions telling of your research experiences, genealogical-oriented tour, hints for fellow researchers, or an unusual research problem and how you solved it. Copy preparation alternatives: (Please don't send your prized historic item—send a photocopy.) Typewritten, double-spaced, on 81/2 x 11" white paper, *Legibly handwritten or printed on lined notebook-style paper, either original or clear photocopy. *Macintosh or IBM 31 /2" floppy disc, preferably in Microsoft Word or ASCII, with clear printout. Advertising: Bulletin advertising rates can be obtained from the Society office, or maybe found elsewhere in this issue. The Seattle Genealogical Society has accepted advertisements in this publication in good faith, however it can not be responsible for this advertising and suggests such caution as should be given any other private business transaction. Autumn 1998 Seattle Genealogical feocietp bulletin Page 3 PRESIDENT'S LETTER Dear SGS Members: pictures from around the state. The slides of Seattle of yesteryear were wonderful and I was surprised to The awards are handed out, the books are put away see Elliott Bay right up to today's First Avenue. I and the seminar talks delivered. The Jubilee on 9 and didn't realize there was such a cliff at the water's 10 October is over. I hope everyone enjoyed it as edge and how really steep Seattle once was. We can much as I did. be thankful that the Denny Regrade was done; I don't know if anyone would have been able to make We heard nothing but praise for the two-day semi it up and down those hills for very long. , .» nar; they came through again for us to present a program that had something for everyone from the We also had some very special guests Saturday- beginner to the experienced researcher. Our fea Marge Cassady, Selma Erickson, Gertrude Herrmann tured speakers, Kory Meyerink and Bill Dollarhide, and Polly Stevens. They are the society's senior kept us interested and amused as they moved from members and have seen many changes over the one topic to the next. years as they have helped the society grow. Marge, in addition, is the granddaughter of one of the There were 57 volunteer awards and six presidential society's charter members of 75 years ago. It was a awards for "above and beyond" effort, and now we pleasure to see all four of them again; it's been a also have three new honorary life members: Sarah while. Thorson Little, Ida McCormick and Jean A. Roth. We celebrated two birthdays at our 75th anniversary On Saturday evening, Sarah also received a special events, SGS' and Mary Daniel's. Sorry Mary, rdidh^ Diamond Jubilee award, a heart-shaped necklace mean to tell everyone your age, but you were the showing how much the society appreciates every lucky one who had a birthday that matched the thing that she has done for it over many years. She society's. We had members there, too, frrim as far not only has served on the board but also donated away as New York and Texas. thousands of hours to upgrading the SGS library, finding our current home, helping members with Now, we will get back to the work that was put on their research-—the list seems endless. the back burner. Our new director of education is Shirley Ashford, filling a vacancy in that position. Sally Gene Mahoney received a special Diamond She already is lining up our programs for 1999. Don't Jubilee award because of the hours that she has put forget to read your Newsletter. We have not sched in on the Bulletin and Newsletter, the many hours uled Monday evening programs this fall because of donated to the library, and helping people like my the Jubilee's two-day seminar. Watch for details on self write letters. I'm sure Sally will put the "Index to January's Monday Evening program in the Newslet Griffith's Valuation" CD ROM to much use with her ter you receive next month, and for January's quar Irish research. terly meeting, also with a special program. On Friday night at the Oktoberfest Volunteer Ap Be sure to call SGS first before coming over if the preciation dinner, we had fun with Jean Roth and her weather looks bad. We won't risk our office volun chicken, doing the chicken dance just before she teers if it is icy or snowy, so the office won't be open. showed part of her collection of slides on tombstones Call Marilynn Van Hise if you would like to volun of thefamous and infamous. We learned thatSmokey teer. Bear had no "the" in his name; it was written in stone. See you at SGS! Saturday, it was a great honor and pleasure to meet Paul Dorpat, the Seattle historian of the "Seattle: Now and Then" books and newspaper column. He t? moved all around the room, visiting easily with Annette pwyer everyone and answering questions about his work President in Seattle/He shared information about his latest publication, which will have historic "then and now" Page 4 Seattle Genealogical ftocietp ^Bulletin Autumn 1998 SGS AND OTHER NOTES BEEN AROUND SEATTLE FOR A WHILE? damage. Some early birth and death records possi- ? bly were among the lost.