The SA P eUBLICATIaON OF THrE SOUTHcERN CALhIFORNIA GENeEALOGICr AL SOCIETY SUMMER 2012. V OLUME 49, N O. 3
Special Memories
NEW YEAR 'S DAY 1919 REUNION WITH MY BIOLOGICAL FATHER SPECIAL MEMORIES FROM MY GENEALOGICAL TRAVELS THE FUNERAL A W ALK IN THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS : T HE MAN ABOVE IN THE SAME ROOM WITH LISA KUDROW HALFWAY ROUND THE WORLD Spotlight on Volunteers About SCGS The Southern California Genealogy Society has no paid staff. Everything is done by volunteers. Our list of volunteers has grown Southern California Genealogical Society so big that we can no longer fit all of them in this column. We are 417 Irving Drive, Burbank, California 91504-2408 asking that those who want their efforts known to supply a picture (818) 843-7247 or (818) THE SCGS and a biography to our webmaster Paula Hinkel phinkel@ FAX: (818) 843-7262 pacbell.net for listing at the following website: www.scgsgeneal - E-mail: [email protected] ogy.com/spotlight-volunteers.htm Website: www.scgsgenealogy.com Library Hours The Library regularly hosts many genealogy interest groups Monday: Closed and other events. Individuals interested in joining or leaning more Tuesday: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. about a particular group or event may contact the persons listed Wednesday-Friday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. below for more information. For specific dates and times each First & Second Sundays group meets, please refer to the three-month calendars published Third & Fourth Saturdays in each issue of The Searcher , check the SCGS website at of Each Month: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. www.scgsgenealogy.com or contact the group facilitators listed Membership Dues below. 1 Year Individual: $35 1 Year Joint*: $50 2 Years Individual: $65 2 Years Joint*: $90 Group Contact Info 1 Year International Membership (w/mailing): $70 U.S. 1890 Project Louise Calaway 1 Year International Membership (w/digital): $35 U.S. [email protected] Student Membership (under 25, w/proof of age) $20 DNA Interest Group Kathryn Johnston *Joint membership = two members in the same household. DNA Administrator’s Roundtable [email protected] Officers Bonny Cook President Alice Fairhurst [email protected] First Vice-President Paula Hinkel French Canadian Heritage Society Lin LaRochelle Second Vice-President Donn Dufford (FCHSC) [email protected] Recording Secretary Joyce Roberson German Interest Group Lois Habel Burlo Corresponding Secretary Fran Bumann [email protected] Treasurer Louise Calaway (805) 418-7220 Financial Secretary Peggy Schulz German Research Group T. Maureen Schoenky [email protected] The Searcher Staff Genealogical Society of Hispanic Donie Nelson EDITOR America–So. California (GSHA-SC) [email protected] Alice Fairhurst Irish Interest Group Marge Rossini LAyOUT EDITOR [email protected] Maryann Stubblefield Jamboree Leo Myers CONTRIBUTING EDITORS [email protected] Louise Calaway • Paula Hinkel Kids’ Family History Camp Charlotte Bocage Jean Chapman Snow • Beverly Truesdale [email protected] PRODUCTION Long-Range Planning Committee Donn Dufford Eric Hans [email protected] Past Presidents, 1964-2011 Legacy Users Group (LUG) Alice Fairhurst [email protected] Clifford Parmenter ’64-’65 Virginia P. Emrey ’91-’92 Lunch & Learn Charlotte Bocage Ruth Enyeart Clark ’66-’67 Patrick Flanagan ’93-’95 [email protected] Foster Gilbody ’68-’69 John M. O’Neill ’96-’97 The Master Genealogist Group (TMG) Evelyn Maynard Margaret C. Fahy ’70-’71 Al Lewis ’98 [email protected] (818) 340-7675 Troy A. Reed ’72-’73 Douglas J. Miller ’99-2001 RootsMagic Users Group Jay Holladay Donald W. Franklin ’74-’75 Pat Parish 2002-’03 [email protected] Berni K. Campbell ’76-’81 Fred Haughton 2004 United Daughters of the Cheryl McMillan Robert C. Emrey ’82-’83 Pam Wiedenbeck 2005-’06 Confederacy (UDC) (818) 843-5288 I. Jean Nepsund ’84-’86 Paula Hinkel 2007 Writers Group Jean Chapman Snow Janet T. Jennings ’87-’88 Pam Wiedenbeck 2008-’10 [email protected] Brian C. Smith ’89-’90 Heidi Ziegler 2011 (818) 386-9747
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The Searcher’s Mission Summer 2012: July – September The Searcher is published quarterly by SCGS President’s Message ...... Back Cover (the Southern California Genealogical Society) to serve its Jamboree Thank You ...... 115 members and the genealogical community at large. The purpose is fourfold: SCGS News G to communicate news of our organization to our Lunch & Learn ...... 84 members; Interest Groups G to provide a literary outlet where our members Writers Group ...... 84 (and others, as space allows) may share accounts of their research and family histories; Legacy, RootsMatgic, TMG ...... 85 DNA Interest Group ...... 86 G to support and promote the research of our members through articles of general genealogical interest; Gen. Soc. of Hispanic America - SC ...... 86 Chinese-American ...... 87 G to serve the research needs of genealogists and historians who have an interest in Southern California’s past. French-Canadian Heritage Soc. of CA ...... 88 African-American, Irish ...... 88 German Interes & German Research ...... 89 How to Contact Us SCGS Library Open House ...... 85 Comments, questions and corrections regarding Searcher Periodical News & Donors ...... 85 content may be e-mailed directly to the editor at: Jamboree Extension Series...... 89 [email protected] Members and non-members are welcome to send unso - Queries, Salt Lake City Research ...... 90 licited content to be considered for publication in The Beginner's Genealogy Class ...... 90 Searcher . Only electronic submissions (e-mailed to the above Featuring Our IT Team Volunteers ...... 90 address) will be accepted for consideration. GENEii Judges and Winners ...... 91 The opinions expressed in The Searcher are those of the Century Club ...... 92 contributors. They do not represent SCGS or the member - New & Renewing Members ...... 93 ship as a whole. Advertising rates per issue are: New Library Catalog ...... 95 Full page: $150 My Heritage Is Here T-shirt ...... 106 Half page: $80 Are You Looking for a Speaker? ...... 107 Quarter page: $60 Articles Business Card Size: $25 New Year's Day 1919 ...... 95 Contents of The Searcher are Copyright (c) 2011 by SCGS. Reunion with My Biological Father...... 96 Special Memories from My Genealogical Travels ...... 97 The Funeral ...... 100 A Walk in the Southern Mountains ...... 101 In the Same Room with Lisa Kudrow...... 102 Halfway Round the World ...... 103 Research Some French Legal Terms...... 88 The 1890 Great Register - Alhambra ...... 107 SCGS Research Teams ...... 112 Acquisitions...... 113 Calendar ...... 117
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Monthly Meetings Free and open to the public; 2nd Saturday of the month Library is not open for research 12 – 1 p.m. Lunch with a brown bag or purchase lunch from nearby eateries. Sit, chat and share your questions and genealogy stories while you eat. 1 p.m. Learn from our speakers; ending times may vary. Saturday, July 14, 2012 – OPEN HOUSE at SCGS, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Saturday, August 11, 2012 – DOUBLE BILL Theme: Technology and Genealogy (Library is closed for researching) Presenting: “Software Tools for the Genealogist - A 2012 Update” by Jay Holladay 1 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Jay Holladay will introduce what's really new and of interest to genealogists. He will show examples illustrating how technology can assist your research and facilitate the exchange of information with other family members. One item he will cover will be ways to make your genealogy data available wherever you are. Presenting: “Land Ho!” by Blythe Stokes 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Bring your netbook, laptop, iPad or tablet already loaded with Google Earth to take full advantage of this talk. Even if you don’t have a mobile device you will still learn how to incorporate Google Earth into your family’s genealogy. After a quick overview of Google Earth, we will step into the past. Learn how to incorporate BLM/Government Land Record data into Google Earth to view your ancestor’s property. You will find that Google Earth is a tremendous tool that you can put into your genealogy tool - box. Best of all, it’s FREE!! Saturday, September 8, 2012 Theme: Census Research (Library is closed for researching) Presenting: “History is Waiting, the 1940 Census” by Bonnie Petrovich 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. 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 Continen - tal United States in 1940. Learn how to find your relatives and ancestors. Contact Charlotte Bocage at [email protected] for more information.
SCGS Writers Group If you want to try writing your family's history or tales about individuals, do join us. Recently we created "word snapshots" of relatives we knew, and wrote about homes, they (and we) lived in. Now we're writing tales about our fathers and mothers in celebration of those special people and their special days. Maybe we'll inspire you to enter the GENEii competition next year. Two of our members, Joyce Roberson and Barbara Randall, have previously won, and two new winners this year are Raymonde Motil and Denise Spurlock. If you want to try us out, please e-mail me [email protected] for further information. The only requirement is membership in SCGS. We meet one Tuesday and one Sunday per month, and have loads of inspiration and fun! Upcoming Meetings (weekdays 12 – 2 p.m., Sundays 1 – 3 p.m.) Sunday, July 8 Tuesday, August 6 Tuesday, September 11 Tuesday, July 24 Sunday, August 12 Sunday, September 23 Thank you! Jean Snow SCGS Library Open House You are invited to join us at the SCGS Open House on Saturday, July 14, 2010, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Open House provides an occasion to meet and greet new and old friends, to tour the library, and to chat with the Board of Directors. Repre - sentatives of the SCGS interest groups will be in attendance to let you know about future activities they are planning. We welcome members and non-members to seize this opportunity to starting planning your next family research project. Light refreshments will be served. For more information contact Marva Grove, [email protected].
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Genealogy Software Periodical News & Donors Users Groups Here are some interesting articles found in the period - icals that we receive here at the library: How are you incorporating the information you are gath - ering from the various censuses? Each year the type of data "War of 1812 in Illinois" - Selected history, lore and and column headings change. Since the 1940 census was re - thoughts in Mclean County, Illinois. cently released, more people are asking questions in this area. Gleanings (Ill) Volume 46 # 1 Spring 2012 Exchange ideas with others using the same software. "Discover your Irish Roots - Six top resources" - Have you looked in all the usual places? It's time to try something different. Legacy Users Group Family Tree Magazine (USA) March/April 2012 2nd Monday, 7 – 9 p.m. "Twelve tips to find marriage records" - Follow these Contact Alice Fairhurst at [email protected] 12 tips and your research will end happily ever after. for more information. Family Tree Magazine (USA) March/April 2012 Meetings: July 9 • August 13 • September 10 We have a new Family History Exchange called Many thanks to Rich Schulthies Thayer Quarterly - A Quest for your heritage. Check it for his long years of service to this group. out. Roots Magic Users Group 3rd Sunday, 2 – 4 p.m. RECENT DONORS Contact Jay Holladay at [email protected] Bonny Cook Shirley Reinecker for more information. Eleanor Eckert Nan R. Stokes Pamela S. Elder B e verly Truesdale Meetings: July 15 • August 19 • September 16 Sally Emerson M i l d red Vanderhoeven Paula Hinkel Pam Wiedenbeck The Master Kay Irwin Connie Wills Genealogist (TMG) Users Group Mr. & Mrs. Robert Moffitt 1st Saturday, 2 – 4 p.m. Contact Evelyn Maynard at [email protected] or (818) 340-7675 for more information. "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead Meetings: July 7 • August 4 • September 1 and rotten; Either write things worthy of reading, or do things worthy of writing." - Benjamin Franklin.”, 1738
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DNA Interest Group Family Tree DNA: Male s Males (father’s line only) (father’s and mother’s line)
10 a.m.-2 p.m. ____ Y-DNA37 $149 ____ Y-DNA37+ mtDNAPlus Southern California Genealogical Society $269 417 Irving Drive, Burbank, CA 91504 ____ Y-DNA67 $238 ____ Y-DNA67+ mtDNAPlus (818) 843-7247 www.scgsgenealogy.com $369 Saturday, September 29, 2012 – An Adoptee’s Quest Female s/ Males (mother’s line) Presenter: Douglas Nyland ____ mtDNA $99 Douglas Griffeth grew up adopted and, like a lot of adoptees, ____ mtDNAPlus $159 always wondered "who am I ... really?" The quest to find his ____ mtFull Sequence $299 roots started on the day his adoptive mother gave him a sin - ALL: ___ Family Finder (traces through all 16 great- gle name, the family name of his birth family. Over 25 years grandparents; gives continental %) $289.00 later, Douglas has gained a tremendous amount of informa - tion on his true heritage, and will detail his approaches. Shipping & Handling: $4.00 (inside the USA), $6.00 (outside the USA) • 10:00 – 10:30 Answering questions about DNA testing. To order, call Family Tree DNA at (713) 868-1438 • 10:30 – 12:00 “An Adoptee’s Quest” and ask to join either the SCGS project or the • 12:00 – 1:00 Lunch French Heritage project. Or if you prefer, order on - line at: www.familytreedna.com/group- • 1:00 – 2:00 Individualized help. join.aspx?Group=SCGS OR $5.00 donation is suggested for attendance. Individualized help www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group= will be available after the formal presentation for those who FrenchHeritage want to order DNA tests or who have received DNA results and need help managing their personal page or interpreting their results. A drawing will be held for a $30 discount certifi - cate for ordering a DNA test. Brown bag or join us for pizza Genealogical Society of Hispanic for an additional $5.00. For additional information contact Kathy Johnston at America – SC (GSHA-SC) [email protected] or phone (310) 213-1207. Saturday, August 4, 2012 10:00 a.m. – 4 p.m. Following the regular meeting from 2:00-4:00 p.m., those who 10:00 a.m. Coffee & Setup are Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) Project Administrators or 10:30 a.m. Announcements Project Co-administrators are invited to remain to discuss how they are managing group projects. The Roundtable format al - 11:30 a.m. Presentations lows people to share expertise and create solutions to issues. 12:30 a.m. No-host lunch. Bring your own or donate Future Meetings: $5 for pizza, beverage & salad included Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012 – What's new in DNA testing for 1:30 p.m. Door Prize Drawing ancestry? 2:00 p.m. Genealogy Garage Otra Vez Workshop: Charts SCGS sponsors two DNA projects through Family Tree Bring your genealogy research, browse our book sales table, and DNA: the SCGS DNA project for ANY SURNAME and the check out a book from the Lending Library. For information French Heritage project for those whose lines show French contact: Paul Gomez (909) 238-6444 or paul.gomez@ veri - surnames. zon.net Join us for Hispanic Tuesdays at the SCGS Library on the 3rd Our family is like the branches of a tree. We may Tuesday of each month from 1 p.m. until 9 p.m. grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one. Each of us will always be a part of the other.
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Chinese-American Interest Group stopped in Mexico for a generation, or an uncle living in Cuba is listed as a parent, whereas the parent living in California is Meetings Saturday 10 a.m. - 12 Noon not listed in the records? August 18, 2012, September 15, 2012 In addition to assessing traditional genealogical sources of The Chinese American Interest Group meets to help anyone information for relevance, we are looking at sources of infor - on a quest to trace their Chinese American ancestors. While mation particular to our roots, such as backgrounds on family we work on our individual research, we are gathering informa - surnames, maps of common ancestral areas, Exclusion tion and resources particular to those working on their Chinese Act records, specific questions for oral interviews based on family histories, giving special attention to the impact of the specific historical research, and local sources of information as Exclusion Act (1882-1943) and restrictive quotas which did yet untapped. not change until the late 1960’s, Join us! If you are attending for the first time, you may wish This restrictive situation had vast implications for the search to notify the group of any special research issues you may have. for family roots. Where do you being when all you have are Please check for additional meetings and field trips. For further “paper names?” Where do you look next if all your female information please contact Anna, [email protected] or Bo- relatives are listed as “shee?” Would you be surprised to find gay, [email protected] that relatives are listed in church records in Spain because they
“Let’s Go Antique Hunting in the Family Tree” AND Help SCGS The JustaJoy.com Family Heirloom Exchange currently offers original antiques and artifacts associated with nearly 40,000 families and by special arrangement, SCGS members are entitled to a 25% discount on the JustaJoy.com membership fee (re - duced to $15.00 annually) Of that amount, $5.00 is returned to SCGS! Find your families “Orphaned Heirlooms” today by joining the exchange online at www.JustaJoy.com (use coupon code SCGS for the discount) or by filling out the form below. Name ______E-mail ______Address ______Phone ______On a separate piece of paper, please list up to twenty surnames that are of interest to your family. Mail form, list & $15.00 to JustaJoy.com, P.O. Box 2373, Huntersville, NC 28070-2373 RootsMagic Announces Webinars Learn about award-winning RootsMagic software and other topics free from the comfort of your home computer.
I Sign Up for webinars at www.RootsMagic.com/Webinars I Check out past topics listed in the Webinar archive. Download your favorites, get comfortable and learn! I Take your RootsMagic education to the next level! Join the SCGS RootsMagic User’s Group meeting at the SCGS Library. Watch for meeting reminders via the SCGS weekly e-mails. I Not signed up for e-mail yet? Go to SCGSgenealogy.com and add your e-mail address under “Sign Up for Free E-mail Updates from SCGS”.
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The French-Canadian droit: le droit: the law Heritage Society of droits acquis: vested interests a qui de droit: to whom it may concern California (FCHSC) droit écrit: statute law droit coutumier or commun: common law droit pénal or criminel: criminal law Public Welcome! droit des sociétés: corporate law Fall Meeting/Réunion d’Automne droit des obligations: law of contract Sunday, October 28, 2012 responsable en droit: legally responsable renoncer a un droit: to waive a right 10 a.m. – noon Demo: Finding French-Canadian Books Using the Online E Catalog – Terri Carlson and Dorothy des Lauriers effets mobiliers: personal effects, goods and chattels embouchure: mouth ( of river ) Noon – 1 p.m. Social hour with potluck lunch en effet: as a matter of fact, indeed en réalité: really, actually, as matter of fact 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. en résumé: in short, to sum up, in brief Using Catholic Church Records in Your Research – Gina Philbert Ortega en vue de: with a view to engagé: hired hand or volunteer 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. engagement: contract “Hands-on ” research assistance from our team of experts escuyer: esquire About FCHSC état: estate Our primary purpose is to foster an interest in our common état actuel du pays: the condition now prevailing French-Canadian, Acadian and French heritage by researching étendue: size, extent, area our ancestors and helping others to research theirs. FCHSC être à portée de: within reach of sponsors the French Heritage Project as a way to honor our exploiter: cultivate (land) French ancestry at www.frenchdna.org F For more information email [email protected] faire du bois de chauffage: make firewood Some French Legal Terms faire valoir une terre: to develop an estate faisant pour: to take up the cudgels for, stand up for Many thanks to Raymonde Motil for supplying us with this fait et passé: done and concluded list of some common words and phrases found in French fixé: set, fixed, determined, stated legal documents. To be continued. . . . . D d'autre part: on the other hand d'une part: on the one hand African-American Interest Group de part at d'autre: on both sides 2nd Saturday 3:30 – 6 p.m. at SCGS Library déclarer: declare, make known Contact Charlotte Bocage at [email protected] for more information délimitation: delimitation, demarcation descendance: lineage, descent Meeting dates are: July 14, August 11, September 8, 2012. dit (masc) or dite (fem): called domaine: estate, property Irish Interest Workshop domaine de l'état or domaine public: public property 5th Sunday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. donataire: donee Meeting: July 29, 2012 at the SCGS Library doué (add another e for fem): gifted Come find your own pot of gold. Join us to learn more about douer: endow, to gift researching your Irish ancestors. Contact Marge Rossini at [email protected] for more information.
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German Interest Group German Research on Thursdays 3rd Saturday 1 - 4 p.m. at SCGS Library Those wishing help with German research on Thursdays Our German collection has fantastic books, but, many of us need to make an appointment with Maureen Schoenky. are unable to use them because we do not have enough E-mail: [email protected]. knowledge of the language. This year we decided to translate title pages. Each of us is selecting a book or books that Jamboree Extension Series - interests us and we work together to translate. This is not Learning from Home only helping us become more familiar with the vocabulary, The Webinars will offer Jamboree-style seminars for up to but we are leaving behind something to help future German 1000 attendees per session, at no charge. While the original researchers. So far we have translated title pages from the webcasts are available to all genealogists, SCGS members will Brockhaus Encyclopedia , The Telefonbuch and more recently, be able to review archived sessions at any time by accessing the a title page from the book Historical Sources of the Province SCGS members-only section of this website. Archived sessions of Saxony . We have scheduled the following for the balance of will be available approximately three days following the webi - the year. nar. To view the webinar, you will need a computer with audio July 17 – Barbara Randall will make the selection to be speakers or a headset. Those persons with a fast Internet translated connection (either broadband or DSL) will have the most August 21 – Marilyn Heck will make the selection satisfactory experience. September 18 – to be announced Go to www.scgsgenealogy.com/JamboreeExtensionSeries October 20 – George Horne 2012.htm for more details and other times for the following November 17 – Allene Aubertin & Alene Neff programs. Use the links to register online. Contact Lois Burlo at [email protected] for more Saturday, July 7, 2012 - 10 a.m. Pacific information. Ugo Perego, PhD - Native American Ancestry: A DNA Standpoint Working in Germanic Records? Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 6 p.m. Pacific Here’s a New Tool from SCGS Kerry Bartels - Neither Filmed nor Scanned: NARA Treasurers Await Essential German for Genealogy is a handy book - Saturday, August 4, 2012 - 10 a.m. Pacific mark-size reference tool with over 80 of the most George G. Morgan - The Genealogist as CSI common words and symbols encountered in Germanic research. Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 6 p.m. Pacific Available Now $2.00 (plus tax) from the SCGS Gena Philibert-Ortega - Women’s Work Library Bookstore, at Jamboree (at the SCGS Sales Saturday, September 1, 2012 - 10 a.m. Pacific Table), or via mail order. Buy yours today! Denise Spurlock - Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker. Researching Your Ancestors’ Occupations Wednesday, September19, 2012 - 6 p.m. Pacific Janet Hovorka - Playground Rules for Genealogy on the Internet
Ahnentafel Pedigree Buying Books from Amazon.com? Alt Old Why not use the link on our home Alter Age, Old Age page www.scgsgenealogy.com? There is an icon on the right that Amt Office leads you directly to Amazon. Amtsblatt Official SCGS earns a commission on Auswanderung Emigration books purchased through that link. Band Volume Your buying books can help SCGS SHOP AT Beerdigung Burial to buy more books for our library. AMAZON
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Queries Join the Salt Lake City Queries are free and are printed in the order they are re - Research Group ceived, or as space permits. The query should contain the sur - name(s) being sought, the approximate years (if known) and September 11 - September 18 the geographical areas in which you are searching. E-mail Come join a fun group of SCGS members for 8 days & queries to [email protected], with the words “SCGS nights at the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel next door to the Family Query” in the subject line. You may also mail queries to Query History Library. There will be an orientation to familiarize Editor, Southern California Genealogical Society (SCGS), 417 you with the library, a get together to meet the other partici - Irving Drive, Burbank, CA 91504-2408; however, e-mail is pants and handouts with handy searching techniques. Depar - preferred. Always include your phone number and an e-mail ture will be on Tuesday, September 11 and returning on address (if you have one) when writing by postal mail. Tuesday, September18. Everyone will be responsible for their Kelly Leary 2322 SW Kent Cir., own air fare & reservations, but hotel room and transporta - (772)323-0986 Port St. Lucie, FL 34953 tion to and from the Salt Lake Airport will be arranged. Sign [email protected] up deadline is Aug 14. Contact Jan Jennings
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Featuring our Information Technology Team Volunteers
The SCGS Information Technology Team consists of a • Providing technical support for core group of Terri Carlson, Dick Emerson, and Jay Holladay, - the Society’s website and online store. who work with about ten other key volunteers. Many others provide specialized areas of expertise, and our team is assisted - critical databases including the membership and by paid professionals as needed. customer records, the library catalog, the Jamboree information management system, and the Virtual The SCGS IT Team performs the following tasks Surname Wall. • Maintaining the computer infrastructure at the library. This - the Jamboree Extension Series – preparing the includes computers, printers, scanners, file servers, and the recorded webinars and making them available for networks that connect this equipment and provide internet viewing online. access. - Tech Zone at Jamboree along with other IT-related • Training staff and patrons on using the above resources. tasks. • Responding to customer questions about using our online services. Continued on page 91
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Meet the 2011 GENEii Judges
The 2011 GENEii Family History Writers Contest just • Homberg Award for best commercial of San Diego concluded. The winners and first place entries are featured in • Editor’s Choice Award for poetry this issue of The Searcher. The remaining entries will appear in the following three issues of The Searcher. What we often Congratulations to the 2011 GENEii Winners! forget is the dedication of the judges who must read and eval - Some of these winners have honed their craft by partici - uate every entry. Our two talented writers and judges from pating in the SCGS Writers Group ably led by Jean Snow. 2010, Sherrie Holmes and Susan Stroh returned to judge this Some have also attended the Writers Conference that preceeds year’s contest. Jamboree. Sherrie Holmes is the CEO, Proprietor, and just about Category 1: submissions from 1,000 to 2,000 words everything else for the Washington-based Holmes Editorial 1st Place — Douglas Fricke: Halfway Round the World Services. (www.holmesedit.com) ($200) Sherrie says, “Writing has always been my first love, and 2nd Place — Emily Pritchard Cary : Crossing the Borders with it comes a desire to help others with their writing projects, ($100) be they college papers, spreadsheets, novels, poetry, business letters, promo pieces, business cards, brochures, company 3rd Place — Willie Wilburn Walker: The Blue Moon Cafe' newsletters, etc. I have a high degree of integrity and confi - & A Walk in the Southern Mountains ($50) dentiality, and a deep sense of responsibility, tempered by an Finalist — Judy R. Cook: Aunt Pearl, "We Did It" unrepentant and slightly scary sense of humor. Finalist — Diane Altona: What Made Jacob Tick & Who is What more could you ask for in an editor except perhaps Elizabeth Douglas? a pleasing personality and a huge smile--and I have those, too!” Honorable Mention — Lynda Wilson Barlow: Mrs. Butter - Susan Stroh works out of La Crescenta, CA. Susan assists field's Canteloupe Patch writers with almost every facet of their writing career. She ac - tively writes, teaches and coaches. (http://susanstroh.com) Honorable Mention -- Nancy Walters Lauer: Ella's Letter “From the stages of New York City to the pages of Life Category 2: submissions under 1,000 words Magazine, Susan spent her youth flourishing as a dancer/actor. First Place — Raymonde Motil: New Year's Day 1919 & During and after college, she enjoyed a stint as a professional The Funeral ($100) actor, and then moved to Southern California, to pursue her passion of movie-making as a script supervisor, director and Second Place — Pauline Abbott: The Parting of the Ways & writer. During this time, Susan wrote her award-winning Divine Interventions ($50) screenplay, Cloudberries, and went on to garner the following Third Place — Denise Spurlock: The Watchmaker ($25) awards: Finalist — Tara McClellan McAndrew: Civil War Soldiers' • Carl Sautter Memorial Screenwriting Award—one of the Christmases top four prize-winning screenplays Honorable Mention — Mary E. Nelson: The Telephone • Writer's Digest Short Story Award—main stream genre
FEATURING OUR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY… …Continued from 90 The team also works at staying current with new developments of their genealogy activities. We need a volunteer to do this, in information technology that can be applied to SCGS IT op - however, since our present IT staff is already fully occupied. If erations. Both our society and our membership are making in - you would like to help us provide better IT support to our creased use of internet-based collaborative tools (Skype and membership, and can contribute a few hours a month, please Dropbox), social media (Facebook, Twitter), and educational contact Jay Holladay ([email protected]) or Dick Emerson tools such as podcasts, blogs, webinars and streaming video. ([email protected]) In the coming year we look forward to supporting a sig - nificant upgrade of the SCGS website and Virtual Surname Wall. We would very much like to organize a computer interest group to support our members in using new technology as part
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PLATINUM LEVEL CENTURy LEVEL Monica M. Salmon Hollis Jean Chapman Snow Louise Calaway Charles & Sally Adams Barbara J. Hull Beverly Truesdale Sally Emerson Ann & Leland Archer Joseph Inkel Evelyn W. Wallace Fidelity Charitable Carla D. Barbula Betty Jones Carol Warnock Gift Fund Earl Beck Elaine Kaiser William S. Whinn Arthur Geoffrion Donna & David Bellamy Frederick Kieske Michael J. Winiarski Jay A. Holladay Elaine E. Berry Luetta Kirker Jay C. Wood Katharine Irwin Joyce L. Biby Rita A. Kyte Susie Ybarra JPL Genealogy Club Raymond Bragg Miriam B. Larson D. Brian Youens Vieve Metcalfe Robert H. Brewer Ruth Lockwood Ellen E. Young Douglas Miller Frances T. Bumann Carol Mahoney Lynne Parmenter Berni & Mary Campbell Patsy Ann Marcy CONTRIBUTING LEVEL Margaret J. Schulz Pat Ann Clark June & Don Mattias Allie L. Almore-Randle William and Susan Tully Marceil Coor-Pender Joan McCauley Michael Alvarado Pamela Wiedenbeck Barbara Cox Tirrill Leslie Mehana Anne Amerine James & Linda Cremer Jacqueline Meyer Per Andersen GOLD LEVEL Ruth Crowe Nancy T. Miller Richard Bates Ann Cowley Barbara Darling Al & Lori Moen Pamela Beauer Betty Fisher Dorothy Des Lauriers Pauline Morrish Joan Beem Archer-Johnson Foundation Diane Dixon Raymonde Motil Maris Bredt Georgine J. Archer, Trustee Eugene Duchene Daniel Munoz Raymond Bries Lynn E. Edwards Joan Phillips Mary Daly SILVER LEVEL Nancy J. Ellyson Jane Pinkerton Virginia T. De Zell Robert Banning Laraine T. Engel Prudential Foundation Judith A. Dellinger Bonny R. Cook Mabel Flugel Matching Gifts Alexsana Donne Linda Golovko George & Susan Fodrea George & Ellen Purcell Beverly Easley Carole & Frank Grant Brooke Schreier Ganz Dell Quick Donald Erlenkotter Marva Grove Robert J. Gilbert Louise S. Randolph Marlene Fiegler Paula J. Hinkel Kathryn Greene Mary Ann Roberts Laurel Fielding Rita M. Knecht Thomas & Janet Gunckel Dean & Eileen Schafer Peggy Fisher Thomas McKegney Fred Haughton Richard A. Sherer Irene Fleck Heidi Ziegler Marilyn Heck Claudia Shrode Dorinda Gardner Continued on page 93
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New and Renewing Members • February, 2012 through April 2012
Dena Adams Mary Foster and Stacy Marie Kalinowski Nancy Parkinson Magdalena T. Marylouise Fraijo Cheverton Tonya Kalule Munson St.Germain Ambriz Marilyn Clark Lila Kay Linda G. Murphy Kelly Stamper Barbara Anderson Bonnie Compeau John Kirk Gina Natoli Linda Stucker Lisa Austin Carol Crichton Patricia Kohn Marie Nelson Leslie Sutton Linda Baffrey Cara Dailey Dee Konczal Richard Oberlin Duncan Tanner Peggy Baldwin Denise Damm Ursula Krause Linda O'Connor Gladys Taylor Kathy Balestrini Karen Daniels Penny Lackey Diane Oswald Elizabeth Ungricht Jane Bartlett Selena Du Lac Jared Lang Kathy Ouimet Cathleen Unruh-Hall Martha Basura Lisa Ellam Jennifer Lange-Pomes Gregory Palazzolo Barbara Vanek Maureen Bausemer Suzanne Enfantino Kelly Leary Jolie Pearl Roxanne Walstrom Shelley Bechtold Laraine Engel Pamela Lee Wennette Pegues Suzan Walter Nancy Berman Carolyn Evans Sita Likuski Susan Petersen Scott S. & Kathi Diana Berry Helen Kay Farrar Virginia Lee Lilly James Pierik Warner Kevin Bertrand Diane Faulk Vincent Lloyd Sharon Popp Lynn Warrender Jacquelyn Beveridge Suzanne Felkel Ann Love Yuonne Prelutsky Devora Weathers Patricia Blair Barbara L. Flynn Maria E. Loya Terri Rehmann Diane Weintraub Jo-Ann Blomquist Teresa Fraser Kenneth H. Lynch Leslie Reyes Kim Wickman Jeanne and Jonathan Gary Fredericksen Marg MacLean- Michele Richey John Willard Bloom Cynthia Gamache McCann Monique Riley Laurie Willbur Letitia Bowles Trish S. Garcia Collette Magallanes ParkerRodd Elizabeth Wirth Ashley Nolan Boyke Patricia Rae Garrett Sandra Malek Mary Jane Rodgers Charlotte Wolter Barbara Susan Geiger Marcia Maloney Claudia Ross Neil Woodburn Brodfuehrer Norah Glover Chelley Maple Glen and Cherie Rouse Carol Wootton Michael Brown Booth Hartley Deborah Mascot Cherie Savoie Evelyn M. Kristin Bruno Richard Hartman Tim McBride Cynthia Schmidt Zimmerman Magreth Buch Mieke Hawner George McCarthy Lisa Sears Kathleen Zollman Lloyd Budwig Claudia Hovden Kenneth McFarlane Peggy Shaffer Connie Burns Tonya Hull Donna Meszaros Carol and Johnny Silva Davis Bynum Monica Ivory Arthur T. Michener Jr. Catherine Sinai Toni Carlton Susan Jochheim James Mollo Nicka Smith Tina Carwile Raymond A. Jones Jean Moss Rita Solomon Gail Chaid Patricia Joshi Johanna Munoz Constance Sparks
How Far Railroaders got into a rate war in the 1880's and the price of a ticket from Kansas City to Los Angeles dropped to $1.00. It's an historical fact that a lot of people wound up in Los Angeles merely because it was Can I Go? a cheap ride.
THE CENTURY CLUB…… …Continued from 92 Carol Reed Glow Kathryn J. Mueller Tina Rene Ray Linda Van Gilder Leila Gormley Marvin & Carole L. Nation Peter J Ricks Lois Ann Wildman Ruth Iseminger Harold Ostrander George & Helen Riggins Suzanne & Michael David Jackson Susan Parks Adina D. Roberts Wilkinson Leonard Kenney Phyllis M. Pearce Patricia Ryan Sandra Williams Rex Ketter Thomas & Karen Pelton Oren L. Sheldon Barbara Yonck Gail Lang Germaine Pinkerton Gayle K. Soles Edward Licht Gary S. Platt Mae E. Tourtillott Gene J. Matranga Warren Potter Janet Valade
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New Library Catalog - It’s Almost Here!!! Back in 2008, we began looking into an OPAC (Online ing, the migration will have been done, new books will now be Public Access Catalog) for SGCS. We wanted a catalog that added directly into OASIS and we will be working on “clean- you could access from your computer at home and immediately up.” We will be verifying to make sure that the data came across see new acquisitions. In June of that year, Dawn Loomis, talked the way that we expected it to, and editing and/or adding data to several vendors offering their services at the annual ALA that we decided would be easier to do after migration. conference in Anaheim. Dawn was, at that time, a cataloging Wait until you see it! It will be available in the library this librarian at Pasadena Public Library and a cataloging instructor summer while we are still working on it and we hope to release in the Library Technician program at Pasadena City College, it on the website by early fall. You will be able to search by: as well as a member of SCGS. Dawn brought her recommen - title, author, keyword, geographic location, subject, and more dations to the SCGS board in July of that year. as we continue to enhance the records. Have you also noticed Early in 2009 the IT Team made this project a top priority. that our books now have bar-codes on them? That is part of We diligently looked at, tested and evaluated various products the process, and it will make next year’s inventory much easier. to find the one that best fit our society. We have been playing However, we would like your help. Ideally, we would like with one test version for the past year, testing it out to see if it to verify that all titles, subtitles, and authors appear in the cat - would meet all of our needs. I think you will be pleased with alog exactly as they appear in the book. We are looking for peo - our final choice – OASIS from Mandarin Library Automation, ple who would be willing to adopt a small section of the Inc. In the fall of last year we began collaborating with Man - collection, e.g., a state or country, a county in a large state, fam - darin to customize OUR catalog to fit OUR needs. The sup - ily histories beginning with A, B, or C, etc., and help us with port at Mandarin has been outstanding during this whole this monumental task. Even volunteering to do just one shelf process! If we want a report they don’t offer, they create it for would help speed the process along. If you would be willing to us. When we need spine labels printed OUR way, they tweak help in the verification process, please contact Marge Rossini the program until we get spine labels printed OUR way! at: [email protected]. We want something that is new to OASIS? They find a way to provide it. Marge Golden Rossini The members of the IT team for the cataloging project are: We want to thank all of our members who helped with Dick Emerson, Jay Holladay and Terri Carlson. The Data Mi - bar-coding our library books in February, March, and April: gration Team consists of Terri Carlson, Dorothy des Lauriers, Ann Cowley Marva Grove Lynne Parmenter Marge Rossini and Terry Ryan. The Configuration and Work - Mary Daly Jay Holladay Joan Phillips flow Team members are: Terri Carlson, Ann Cowley, Sally Barbara Darling Betty Isbell Nancy Poquette Emerson, Terry Ryan, and Beverly Truesdale. The number of Joan DeFato Lin LaRochelle Sharon Pruhs hours that these team members have contributed to this effort Dorothy Elaine Kaiser Shirley Reinecker is considerable. des Lauriers Vieve Metcalfe Marge Rossini We are now in the final stages of converting our current Dick Emerson Doug Miller Peggy Schulz catalog data into MARC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging) lan - Sally Emerson Al Moen Mae Tourtillott guage to be migrated into the new catalog. By the time you Lois Gardner Lori Moen Beverly Truesdale read this: we should be finished with the testing and the tweak - Linda Golovko Raymonde Motil Connie Willis
Virtual Surname Wall www.scgsgenealogy.com/SurnameWall.htm
Many people take advantage of the SCGS Virtual Surname Wall to keep their queries posted on-line. To add your surnames, click on the icon to the right where you will be asked for the following information. • Your family surnames, including any spelling variations. • The geographic area(s) in which they lived, or the migration path. • The associated period of time. To search the database, click on the icon to the left, search under surname, location, or submitter ID.
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GENiI New Year’s Day 1919 1st Place Winner, Category 1 By Ramonde Motil
This story was told to me by my mother Majella Saumur, born He says that he has to go down in the basement for a while in 1909 and raised in Villemarie, Quebec on the shores of Lake but that he will return with a surprise for all of us. Up goes Temiskaming where her family owned a hotel and a stagecoach the trap door in the kitchen floor and down goes Pépére with business. the shoebox. We go back to our games but we can hear sounds Happy Birthday to me and Happy New Year everybody! I of a shovel hitting hard dirt in the basement and the loud wind am 10 years old today! outside the farmhouse. After a long time Pépére comes up car - rying a basket full of shiny red apples. What a treat! Pépére Our family is going to pépére* and mémére’s* farm for grows the best apples in the county and he always has enough New Year Day. Mon Père* says that we are going in our best in his cold cellar to last all winter. stagecoach, the one with a heater, and we are taking our biggest strongest horses because the trip is four long miles and the snow We will be staying overnight because M'ma does not feel is very deep and it is very cold outside. very well and mon père says that the blizzard makes it hard to see the road. I spend the rest of the day playing games with My five little brothers are ready to go all dressed in their the cousins. We take turns reciting poems or singing favorite best Sunday clothes. They are running around the dining room songs. One of my uncles tells us stories. What fun it is to be table chasing one another. M'ma* tells them that they have to with my cousins! sit quietly on the sofa until it is time to leave. They stop run - ning and sit because she is using her big voice. My baby sister At bedtime we go in to see M'ma. My beautiful M'ma is Georgette is only one and half year old. She is sitting in a big sitting up in bed and looks very tired. She leads us in our night chair playing with a rag doll. M'ma is brushing my older sister prayers and kisses us good night. She tell us that tomorrow we Lucia's hair. Her hair is blond and curly, not straight and will go home and start our new year. brown like mine. Today has been a great day for me: it was my birthday, We hear the jingle bells on the horses as Mon Père drives I saw my cousins, I got new socks, an orange, an apple and a them up to the house. We all squeeze in close together in the piece of chocolate and our family now has a new angel. What stagecoach. Thick bearskins cover our legs. As we settle in a birthday! M'ma asks us all to be good boys and girls today because she • Pépére and mémére: words used for Grandfather and does not feel very well. Grandmother by many French-Canadians At the farm, Mémére and Pépére, the aunts, the uncles and • mon père: the word used by my mother's family for “dad” my cousins are waiting for us and very happy to see us arrive. • m’man: the word used by my mother’s family for “mom” We are the biggest family of all with eight children already! • tourtière: traditional French-Canadian meat pie First we all kneel together in front of our Pépére and my eldest cousin asks for the New Year Day blessing for all of us. All day everyone remembers that it is my birthday! I love Call for Articles having a New Year birthday. Mémére and Pépére's home is big and warm and smells of roasting turkey and tourtières.* We Issue Theme Deadline know that after the meal we get our New Year day gift. We can Autumn Knowing Your Roots August 6, 2012 hardly wait. Memere gives each one of us a pair of thick wool Winter Preserving Heirlooms November 5, 2012 socks. She knitted them all herself! In the toes of the socks we Spring Surviving Wartime February 4, 2013 find an orange and a piece of chocolate candy. M'ma has to lie down after the meal. Mémére looks very In addition to our regular mix of contents, The Searcher is worried. Later in the day Pépére gathers us around him and looking for theme-specific submission of how-to-research tells us that a little baby was born in the bedroom today but articles, genealogical research articles with endnotes, God called it back to heaven right away. He says that we now family or local history stories, and book reviews. We prefer have an angel in our family. He is holding a large shoe box in his hands. He leads the whole family in a prayer for the little articles of 500 to 2,500 words. A maximum of four graphics baby who was born and died today. will be considered. Send inquiries and/or electronic copies to [email protected].
SUMMER 2012 THE SEARCHER 95 — Searcher — Reunion with My Biological Father By André Desaulniers
After 28 years of research, I finally managed to find and been determined 5 years previously. So I decided to complete contact my biological father. DNA testing had a real decisive my testing by ordering the remaining markers up to 67 and to role in attaining this goal. get deepclade tested as well. I first learned that I had been adopted in 1984 by consult - I contacted this HEBERT through the French Heritage ing the parish register where I had been baptized in Montreal. DNA project. He agreed to have his subclade updated for the The following year one of my mother's sisters also mentioned most recent SNPs, so that we could more precisely compare my adoption but had no clue as to the identity of my birth - our yDNA signatures on both STR and SNPs. The results were parents. I could not discuss this discovery with my adoptive that we perfectly matched on both STR signature and subclade. parents because my adoptive mother died in 1981 and my HÉBERT could thus be the surname of my biological father. adoptive father died in 1983. This allowed me to narrow my research to 6 "Claude Hébert" I remained quite puzzled for the next 10 years as no rele - cases found in the consolidated index of marriages. vant clue showed up that could identify my birthparents. In I carefully reviewed all marriage contracts listed in the 1995, after the suggestion of a friend, I decided to obtain a consolidated index of marriages in the archives of the Biblio - copy of my medical records at birth. Although censored in thèque et Archives Nationales du Québec. I also searched the order to respect the actual confidentiality that govern adoption medical book, which lists all physicians, and the consolidated record, the ink of the pages had transferred from one page to index of death and obituaries for my paternal grandfather’s another and I was able to read critical information using a mir - surname in various newspapers, identifying the physicians ror, as the text was reversed. I learned the name of my biolog - whose surnames were “HÉBERT” and who left in mourning a ical mother and of her own mother and their place of residence son named Claude. at the time, which was Quebec City. In January 2012, I found one "Claude HÉBERT" satisfy - After some research I was able to contact my biological ing these criteria and was able to contact my direct to be cousin mother a few days later and she admitted being my birth - (my birth father’s nephew) who sent a message to my biological mother, which did not appear to be an easy subject for her. father asking him to contact me. A week later, my biological After questioning her about the identity of my biological father father contacted me and kindly admitted his paternity. I have she would only reveal that his name was “Claude H” and that also learned that I have two half-sisters and two half-brothers my father's father was a doctor in medicine in Montreal and and 18 cousins. At the time of this writing, I have made that he died before my birth in 1964. contact with one of my half-sisters and one of my new cousins. I did extensive research in the consolidated index of mar - But most importantly, I am now in a position to situate myself riages for the marriage of a "Claude H." I did the same in the in the history of my country, to complete half of my genealogy, index of deaths for a doctor in medicine with the first letter of discovering that I am related to several eminent recent figures surname "H." This research revealed too many possibilities. of Québec and Canada, and a descendant of the first colonist of New France, Louis HÉBERT, herborist of Samuel de Cham - In 2009, I contacted Dr Jacques Beaugrand of the French plain. Heritage DNA project to see what could be done using DNA. He told me that with some chance we could identify a surname The future looks encouraging, holding out the promise of using yDNA testing and suggested that I order a 25-marker a lot of family surprises. In my quest for my family surname, yDNA test from Family Tree DNA. The results came in with yDNA test results proved the most important clue for me. It several matches on the surname HÉBERT. One of the had the effect of accelerating my research by limiting it to the HÉBERTs had been tested for 67 markers and his subclade had surname “HÉBERT”. Raise Money for SCGS! Raise a penny for our Society every time you search the web! iSearchiGive.com is a new search engine powered by Yahoo! Search and iGive.com, the internet's first online shopping mall where a portion of each purchase is donated to your favorite cause. Using this donation service is totally free, and contains no hidden fees. There are no limits on do - nations, and monthly donation checks will be sent to the organization of your choice. So remember SCGS next time you are online, and start supporting us today!
96 THE SEARCHER SUMMER 2012 — Searcher — Special Memories from My Genealogical Travels By Dr. Don A. Adkins
Every family has true stories and some not so true. Mem - The young driver, my great-grandfather A. V. Adkins, was ories fade and tales get distorted over time. Sometimes our ge - born in a tiny Utah village named Tooele, where his maternal nealogy research uncovers more information than we think grandparents, Jacob and Mary Volenweider, settled as Mormon could ever be known and other times we come to dead ends, pioneers from Switzerland. He was raised by his maternal but the research process can lead to new special memories. grandmother in that town and when of age, he moved to the big city of Salt Lake. His employment as an accountant with a wholesale liquor distributor in downtown Salt Lake signaled the family‘s break with the Latter Day Saints faith sometime earlier. He and his wife, Tutie Amanda Kopp, were married a few blocks from the York apartments shown in the photo. After research with census records, telephone directories, and emails to car enthusiasts, we sketched more details than we thought could be gleaned from this isolated photo. The capper we found was that the York Apartments still stand. We made the trip across town one rainy research day and my father and I were able to stand in the exact same place three previous generations gathered in 1914 for a family photo. Our search for information on the Oakland Model 35 five passenger touring car led to a discovery of the same model in a private collection. Less than 2,000 were produced and most This photo has been in my family a long time. My father experts agree that less than one percent likely still exist. One has always wondered where the photo was taken and what car researcher told me we could probably count the surviving was pictured. Some notes on the back from his father, the baby Model 35 cars on one hand, so imagine our excitement to see in the back seat, were written and gave clues but no real story. one in person. Oakland produced automobiles from1909 to Our research over the last five years has made some things a 1931 as a division of General Motors. Pontiac, the companion little clearer. brand introduced in 1926, quickly became more popular and This photo was taken in 1914 at the York Apartments in Oakland ceased existence five model years later. Note the Salt Lake City, Utah. In the car sit my grandfather (the baby unique square cowl lamps and the nickel “Vee” radiator and mentioned), his sister (the smaller child), and my great-grand - nickel headlamps. Chrome was not commonly used on auto - father (the young dapper driver). The two elder people in the mobiles until after 1928. This photo shows my parents, Alan car are my great-great grandmother, Freda Volenweider Adkins and Harriet Adkins, examining the car. Bates O’Donnell, and her third husband, Patrick Francis O’ - Donnell. Freda and Patrick O’Donnell met in Park City, Utah prior to 1908, Patrick being involved in mining. At the time of this photo they had moved from the mountains to a bunga - low in Salt Lake City. Note the right hand drive steering. This 1913 Oakland was one of the last US made models to adopt left hand drive, still clinging to the horse and buggy concept of seating a driver on the left to keep the team from wandering into the ditch at the side of the road. The Model 35 pictured was the only year and model to have these square cowl lights. The body is blue with a black stripe and the wheels are pearl gray. A 19.5 horse - power 4 cylinder engine propelled the car with an official ca - pacity of 5 passengers. The black top could be raised for inclement weather.
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We searched closely, hoping for any clue that this could be Census records have shown Michael Kopp as a confec - my great-grandfather’s actual auto. There are no surviving tioner in Chicago as early as 1880. He is listed in the Salt Lake motor vehicle records from Utah so though unlikely, we could City phone records as early as 1893 as M. Kopp Confectioners not positively rule out that this was his very car. Retail and Manufacturing. He passed away at 50 years old Salt Lake City, Utah is the site of another family story from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 1903. So, Michaels’s candy nicely wrapped around questionable details about Michael company with manufacturing and retail components predates Kopp, confectioner. Not having much of a sweet tooth, I was and mirrors the current Sweet Candy Company. It appears always more attentive to the parts of this family story that in - that as his illness progressed he probably sold his assets in 1901 volved his son getting dragged down a reservoir and nearly to the larger Salt Lake Candy Company which in turn became drowned, and later still accidentally amputating a portion of Sweet Candy Company. his foot with a shotgun. Many times I heard as a child that In my direct Adkins line there were never any stories about Michael Kopp, a German immigrant and my great-great grand - my great-great-great grandfather, James Adkins. We never father, was the head of the Sweet Candy Company, shown in knew who he was or where he lived. His son Edward Reming - the next photo, about 1910. ton Adkins had broken connection sometime by the 1880’s and moved to Utah where he was the first husband of Freda Vollenweider. She was the daughter of Swiss immigrants Jacob and Mary Vollenweider who migrated from Switzerland with the Church of Latter Day Saints in 1861. They settled in Tooele, Utah where Freda was born in 1862. Jacob was a car - penter and on a visit to The Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum in Tooele we discovered artifacts relating to Jacob and Mary. Mary was skilled at knitting and this pine wood hutch built by Jacob is faux painted to resemble maple. He is pur - ported to have done work on the original Tabernacle pews to make the pine resemble oak. It was touching to see this piece saved and honored in this fine museum. 0 1 9 1
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The Denver and Rio Grande depot in Salt Lake City houses The Utah State Historical Society and a fine collection of telephone directories as well as historic photos of Utah. There is a fabulous Mexican restaurant at the north end of the depot making for a fine day of research. The Sweet Candy Company exists to this day, manufac - turing delicate chocolates, gummy bears, jelly beans and its sig - nature salt water taffy. We were able to take a tour of the Local history records of Clay and Platte Counties, Missouri factory and learn their company history. The posted history place great-great-great grandfather James Adkins in Platte tells of Leon Sweet coming to Salt Lake City from Portland, County, Missouri in 1846. Census records find James Adkins Oregon about 1898, purchasing some smaller confectioners with his wife Calista Remington Adkins in Platte City, and creating Sweet Candy Company in 1900. Michael Kopp Missouri in 1860. The northwest corner of Missouri was new was not mentioned. But the tour and samples were absolutely territory to the state after the 1836 addition. When James’ wonderful. father died in 1849, this Missouri land provided more oppor - tunity than Kentucky where he was born. Continued on page 99
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After participating in a government wagon train expedition ing in front of the Lecompton Constitution Hall, where from Fort Leavenworth to California in 1850, James and his I was royally welcomed as a descendant of a signer of the Con - brother Frank, both apparently having lost the gold fever, were stitution. on a ship back from California. Off the coast of Mexico the James Adkins stayed in Platte County after the war and ship became disabled. Bobbing in the ocean for days the ship went on to become a Missouri state senator. We visited the somehow made way toward shore slowly. Rather than wait for Missouri state capitol in Jefferson City. I wanted to roam the a ship or take the chance of another seafaring incident James halls of the capitol and chambers where he held a distinguished and his brother crossed the continent through Mexico back position trying to pass legislation relating to education and an - home to Missouri. imal rights in the 1880’s. But that capitol building, erected in New land always being a draw to this family, James moves 1840, burned in 1911 after a lightning strike, and the space about 1854 to Kansas across the river. He becomes a political and records have been lost. The current Capitol building, com - supporter of the right of Kansans to choose to become a slave pleted in 1917 and shown in the photo, is very grand and serves state. According to local census records no Adkins was a slave this proud state well. owner. In 1857 the territorial capitol at Lecompton, Kansas is the site of a constitutional convention, and at age 26 James is a delegate. His signature is evident at the bottom of the pro slavery document. Civil War records indicate that James did fight on the side of the confederacy and was taken prisoner of war. Platte City was burned and depredations by federal forces occurred many times throughout the war. The Remington side of the family had to vacate to Illinois for safety. The Reming - ton home, two churches, and many more houses were burned by federals on July 15, 1864. The Lecompton Constitution Hall still stands in Kansas. What a thrill to walk the halls of this majestic frame building where those who felt a need to protect personal freedoms (though misguided and at the ex - pense and freedom of other people) were willing to take up arms. Kansas and Lecompton is truly where the Civil War began. The photo shows my wife, Kay Fairhurst Adkins, stand -
James died in office in 1885 and the legislature has record of suspending proceedings to honor him, sending an escort on the railroad with his remains back to Platte City from Jefferson City. I urge everyone to take trips to the places of their ancestors whether ancient or recent. Places make people and events come alive. No matter who your ancestors are, when their lives are put in context with history it can make anyone feel almost like Forrest Gump, actively living the history.
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage - to know who we are and where we came from. With - out this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness. Alex Haley
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GENiI 1st Place Winner, The Funeral Category 1 By Raymonde Motil
At age sixty-five my grandfather is deceased. He goes from pew to pew extending a shallow the patriarch of a large extended fam - wooden bowl where people deposit their offering. This uncle ily. Most of his twelve children are of ours looks like grief personified. His sad blue eyes are swim - married and live nearby. There are ming with tears and the hand holding the collection bowl is dozens of grandchildren. He loves his shaking a bit. It is a sad day indeed. Little Rose...that's what he calls his In the pew directly in front of my two cousins and myself, wife, our grandmother. Coming from sits aunt Laurette and her family. Aunt Laurette is wearing a a Victorian background he is definitely small felt hat in the shape of an inverted flowerpot with a quiv - the Lord of the Manor. His children ering feather on the side of it. She is a very well mannered, do not call him Dad or Pa but they ad - proper sort of person. A few seconds before uncle approaches dress him as “my father.” He loves his her pew with the collection bowl she bends down to pick up cigars and never refuses a swig or two something that has fallen to the floor. She comes back up just or three of whiskey. At family gather - in time for her head to collide with the wooden bowl. The ings he dances the jig to the tune of Atlantic Polka, in the mid - money scatters all over the floor in between the pews. Uncle dle of the living room, with half a dozen toddlers hopping freezes in place while everyone in the vicinity helps to pick up around him. the money. Aunt Laurette tries to regain her composure, flow - One fine December morning he goes out to shovel the erpot hat with bent feather askew on her head. snow in the driveway. There has been a heavy snowfall the All this takes place in front of us, the three cousins, who night before. Many inches of wet, heavy snow. He comes into witness the scene in stunned silence. I look at Gerald and no - the house exhausted. A while later he is sitting near the back tice a shadow of a smile on his face. Helene is already quivering door in his rocking chair sharpening a saw. Grandmother hears with smothered laughter. That's all it takes. I feel such an urge the sharp clanging sound of the file falling to the floor. When to laugh that I have to cover my face with my hands and fake she comes to see what is happening he is already gone. Instant, deep prayer. For the rest of the funeral mass the three of us sudden death without warning. He sits there with a saw in his make superhuman efforts not to laugh out loud. Helene is the hands. weakest. She whimpers now and then and sets us off into gut Needless to say, the whole extended family goes into a spin. wrenching giggle fits. A few pews behind us we hear someone The head of the family is gone. There will be no golden wed - say in a loud whisper: "Look at those poor children crying." It ding anniversary in a few months time, no more dancing with is almost more than we can bear. We are crying and our shoul - the grandchildren, no more annual blessing from our patriarch ders are shaking during the whole service not with grief but on New Years' day, no more swigs of whiskey, no more cigars. with out and out laughter. "He left us just like that," says uncle Henri snapping his fin - So it went while our dear grand - gers. Grandmother stays in her room for a long time praying father lay dead in his coffin. We left her rosary. the church perspiring, red in the face, There is a large gathering at the funeral: his children and exhausted and a bit embarrassed. I do grandchildren, relatives from both sides of the family, and not remember much after that. As I neighbors and friends who knew him or his children. At the recall the incident over the years there church the coffin is solemnly rolled down the main aisle fol - is no guilt associated with the mem - lowed by the large assembly of mourners. My parents, along ory. I think that our grandfather with the aunts and uncles, are filing into the front pews behind looked down on us with a smile and, my grandmother. A few cousins, namely Gerald, age 18, to the tune of Atlantic Polka went on Helene, age 16, and myself, age 17, decide to sit together. We jigging into the great yonder. are surrounded by family. The priests begin the celebration of the mass for the dead and the organ resounds with the traditional hymns and sung responses. As is the custom in our parish, one of my uncles takes up a collection to pay for special mass offerings for the
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GENiI A Walk in the Southern Mountains: 3rd Place Winner, Category 1 The Man Above By Willie Wilburn Walker
“Daddy, I wish you would not go walking in them woods ride with me. I made a padded box and strapped it on so she again.” I can hear my daughter’s words ringing in my ears as I could be secured behind the windshield. It was her favorite step onto the well-worn path that runs along the ridge top. It’s place to be, except in bed with me. We rode together for springtime as I walk along the old familiar trail in these beau - many thousands of miles around California and the western tiful southern mountains. It is a sultry day with the prospect states of America. of rain on the horizon. The trees are adorned with brilliant, When I looked down at her, she was always looking up at blue-green foliage. The mountain dogwood trees wear their me, towering over her, awaiting my lead to each new adventure. blossoms of pink or white finery, on boughs that seemed to She grew excited when I would lie down on her level so she beckon like fairies, inviting me to enter this lovely Eden. Red - could lick my face. But mostly I was always the man above, to bud scrubs stand out against the shadows like fire in shade. whom she gave and gained unconditional love in return. She Bright yellow sunbeams stream through the tall pines, flicker - would prance, her bright eyes full of happiness. She panted ing off and on as the mid-day breeze whispers softly through excitedly, her white tail held flat over her sable-colored back, their needles, making the shiny hardwood leaves sparkle like and due to its curl, jerking ridiculously back and forth, not side diamonds in the glades. Along the path, blue pea flowers drape to side. the vines that snake along the ground and over the stumps of long dead trees, giving Peavine ridge its name. Shasta knew my ways and I knew hers. She understood and responded to even slight glances, emotional feelings, and I sit down on a rough old dead log, in a clearing in the for - my Southern-accented English. Her feelings were equally ob - est and listen to the sound of a bright yellow warbler singing vious. When that pretty little pink tongue licked over her lips his heart out to any female of his kind that might find him from side to side, I knew she wanted to eat. A loud snort while worthy. The sweet smell of honeysuckle wafts around and into slinging her head quickly to the left meant, “Hey, hurry up and my nose. I have been here before. Last time I was accompa - let’s go.” She followed the snort by quickly running away a nied by a little girl dog, a Pomeranian I called Shasta. She was short distance and then returning again, punctuating her action born in Mt. Shasta, California and was the first dog I ever had. with a little fake panting, to make sure I got it. I didn’t really want a dog, but my wife did, and so she came home with us. For some strange reason, she chose me to be I was her friend, her companion, her lord, her god. She her slave. She wanted to be near me all the time. When she had no guile, no deception, no dishonesty, nothing to spoil her was a puppy, she lay on my shoulder and watched television pure devotion to me and mine to her. Our souls understood until I went to bed, then followed me to the bed and stood and were comfortable with each other. When I sat down, she there looking up at me with questioning eyes until I picked her curled up in my lap. She never complained nor yearned for up and allowed her to cuddle up to my back, before we both more than a little food and lots of love, though chasing the fell asleep. She kissed me awake with a few licks of her warm little bunnies she could never catch was a great joy she seldom tongue on my earlobe. got too much of. She was so tiny, only a few pounds, but she had the heart I had her for eighteen years before she got sick. The vet of a lion. Even large dogs were challenged if they came into said she had congestive heart failure. I took her to several spe - my yard. She allowed no one to get near me without emitting cialists, but they could do nothing, they said. She was just too a low warning growl and baring her sharp little fangs. Even old. It would be kinder to “put her down.” It broke my heart my wife was not shielded from her protective attitude. Once, to watch as she became weaker and weaker. I ached as she be - when I had a small cut on my hand, she lay next to me on the came paralyzed and could not get up to eat. Each day I couch and made an attack on my wife when she came too close watched and listened to her painful little yips, knowing I had to me. Scorned, my wife bought herself two more Pomeranians to let her go, but being too horrified at the thought of life with - and kept them away from me. out her to act. Whenever I moved, Shasta moved with me. If I got on My daughter said, “Daddy, I’ll go with you and take her my motorcycle, she stood on her hind legs and pawed at my to the vet to do what must be done. It has to be!” Reluctantly, leg until I relented and picked her up to sit on the tank and I finally agreed. Continued on page 102
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I held Shasta close in the car and stroked and scratched her much as dogs love us? What is it that dogs see in us that we ears all the way to the clinic. It was such a short ride there. can’t see in each other? “Put her on the table so I can give her the shot,” the vet To the west I see the ridges and valleys stretched out across said without compassion. I placed her down on the cold steel to the hundred-mile-long Lookout Mountain laying like a big table and sat near her in a chair so I could hold her and see into smoky-blue whale with its head toward the north. Above, the her eyes. She didn’t blink as the doctor gave her the shot. My sky has clouded up and lightning flashes across the dark gray nose was only two or three inches from hers. Her large brown clouds. I remember how panicked Shasta became when it eyes stared at me without blinking. I breathed in her shallow thundered. How she ran under the same log I am now sitting breath as she breathed in mine. The vet held his stethoscope on the last time we were here, and it took me ten minutes to to her heart. In a couple of minutes he said, “She’s gone.” drag her shivering little body out. I waited, breathless, for a few seconds, then closed her eye - I’ve never thought much about an afterlife, but I wonder lids with my fingers. She opened them again and stared in - if dogs get to go to heaven. I really want to know because, if tently at me. She seemed to be struggling to stay with me, but they don’t, I don’t think I wish to live an eternity without my the brown fire began to fade from her eyes. I took a deep little friend, Shasta. breath and waited a few more seconds before trying again. Fi - The wind has turned cool. A thunderclap fairly shakes the nally, she gave up her life and left me as her eyes stayed closed. ground. Large drops begin to fall and I hurry back toward my I choked up. Now, when I think of her, the tears come. I still car as the heavens and the mountain seems to be crying, too. mourn. I sit on my log here on the ridge and wonder, why do dogs have to live such short lives? Why can’t people love dogs as In the Same Room with Lisa Kudrow: Who Did We Think We Were? By Donie Nelson
One of the advantages of living in volunteer for the show OR the staff proposes a celebrity and Southern California—in addition to the Lisa is asked to “get them.” #3 Just like our own research, the wonderful weather—is that you can fill staff starts with what the subject knows, contacts family mem - your calendar several times over with all bers to learn what they know and then the show’s researchers the events that are available. Show-biz and researchers at Ancestry.com work together to trace both events have been central to my life for paternal and maternal lines. What are they looking for? The over 40 years and genealogy has been my goal is to find an event that is historically significant, can be passion for over 30. On March 22, verified (documentation), plus it has to be an event that the those two worlds collided when former celebrity doesn’t already know. Thousands of hours are spent SCGS Secretary Cathy Romero asked doing the research (sounds familiar), and even though the show me to be her guest at a panel discussion at the Autry National may only focus on one family line, the celebrity receives all the Center adjacent to Griffith Park. The panel’s topic focused on completed research. And, yes, sometimes research is done and NBC’s hit genealogy program: Who Do You Think You Are? nothing fits the show’s criteria, so nothing is filmed. #4 The Panelists included two members of the show’s research staff, celebrity is never coached or told before cameras roll, what will the director, a representative from Ancestry.com and the exec - be revealed. Therefore, when they look surprised, they are sur - utive producer Lisa Kudrow (Friends, Romy and Michele’s prised. And when they cry, the tears are real. High School Reunion, etc.). So, who were we? Just Cathy and Donie in the front row, We learned several things about the show. #1 Lisa saw the plus some familiar faces from the SCGS Library, and a whole original TV show in Britain and thought it would be a great lot of other genealogists in the same room with Lisa Kudrow, way to teach and create interest in history. #2 Celebrities either who is not a ditzy blonde, but actually a real smart cookie.
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GENiI Halfway Round the World 1st Place Winner, Category 2 By Douglas Fricke
Even before the age of twenty, Joseph Hemann was plan - so they could safely begin their journeys. On the first of May, ning to emigrate to America. While he was a student in with Joseph onboard, the Favorite left Bremerhaven for the long Osnabrück in the Kingdom of Hanover, his decision to leave and tedious voyage across the North Atlantic. was probably influenced by the many stories floating around During the first leg of the journey, while departing the about peace and prosperity in the land of unlimited opportu - 1 North Sea by way of the English Channel, the food rations nities. He always had a special interest in current events and were still relatively fresh and plentiful. But once they entered in the founding of the new American Republic. the open ocean it was another four thousand miles to the His parents, Johann and Maria Hemann, lived with their Chesapeake Bay. Spending at least six weeks at sea in cramped children in the small village of Ösede, five miles south of and unhealthful conditions was certainly not a pleasure cruise, Osnabrück. Joseph, who was born in 1816, was sent as but the passengers entertained themselves during the best days a teenager to Osnabrück, where he received an excellent edu - with music and singing to lift their spirits. cation at the Gymnasium Carolinum, one of the oldest and 2 When they arrived on the East Coast of North America, most celebrated schools in northern Europe. He acquired a where the major seaports are tucked away in protected harbors, thorough knowledge of Latin, Greek, French, and English as their first glimpse of America’s shores was the low-lying coast - well as mathematics and the history of the church. line. They sailed along the coast and when they came upon the Joseph had talked about his plans for years and decided to entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, the Favorite still needed to interrupt his education and make the move. His parents had reach the harbor at Baltimore, over one hundred and fifty miles hoped he would find a vocation in the church and although to the north. The final leg of the trip must have seemed endless they disapproved of his plans, they eventually acquiesced and and the crew and weary passengers were no doubt eager for the purchased his ticket to America. 3 journey to end. Springtime departure As the Favorite sailed slowly up the wide and shallow bay, with a constant danger of running aground, the ancient Calvert In the early 1800s merchants from the city of Bremen had Cliffs which dominate the western shoreline for thirty miles established a trading link with Baltimore, Maryland through came into view. At the top of the bay they could see the stone the port of Bremerhaven. Just north of Bremen on the coast of walls of Fort McHenry, which became famous in 1814 during the North Sea, Bremerhaven became Europe’s number one port the Battle of Baltimore when the Americans forced the invad - 4 of embarkation in the nineteenth century. Ships would ing British fleet to retreat. Joseph had studied American history arrive from Baltimore loaded with fresh Maryland tobacco and was well aware of the events that had taken place there. and return to the New World overloaded with European im - He recalled the poem about “the rockets’ red glare” and 5 migrants. Joseph made preparations for his departure from was once again warmed with a love of freedom and republican this port. institutions. Safe arrival The Favorite finally arrived in Baltimore on Monday, July 3, 1837. Although Joseph and his fellow passengers fully expected to be on solid ground by nightfall or first thing in the morning, they soon received disappointing news. Local health regulations required them to stay onboard until the quarantine officer made his inspection but, since it was the Fourth of July weekend, the officer would not come aboard until Wednesday at the earliest. Baltimore was a busy harbor with more than one over - The port of Bremerhaven on the North Sea in the early nine - loaded ship of unwelcome immigrants waiting for inspection. teenth century But during their extended stay onboard the Favorite the passengers were rewarded with an excellent view of the In the spring of 1837, the sailing vessel Favorite was one of many ships at Bremerhaven waiting for the ice to break up Continued on page 104
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HALFWAY ROUND THE WORLD… …Continued from 103 celebrations in the illuminated city. They witnessed a spectac - Canal were completed from Washington to Hancock, a small ular display of fireworks, an event that Joseph would remember town about twenty miles west of Hagerstown, Maryland. More for the rest of his life. than three thousand laborers, mostly European immigrants, were paid from $1.12 to $1.31 per day. After the inspection, the Favorite docked at the piers in Fell’s Point where the immigrants disembarked. Some contin - The canal, begun in 1828, was primarily for the trans - ued their travels further into the heartland while others re - portation of coal and bulk agricultural products from the new mained in the city. Joseph had a different plan. He fully inland regions west of the Alleghenies, products vital to the intended to continue his education in the New World but he continuing prosperity of cities such as Baltimore and Washing - was uncertain as to where that would be. The first school he ton. A series of short canals and locks were planned to circum - wanted to visit was located about sixty-five miles northwest of vent the stretches of the Potomac River that were difficult to Baltimore in nearby Emmitsburg. navigate and to bypass the Great Falls of the Potomac and other While he was a student back home, his counselors may smaller rapids. have suggested Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, the Reflecting on his discussion with Beleké, Joseph began second Catholic college in America, as one of the options for planning his adventure to cross the mountains and travel down continuing his education. He may also have heard about the Ohio River to Cincinnati. He found himself in need of Mount St. Mary's during a visit to the Cathedral of the temporary employment to save enough money for transporta - Assumption 6 in downtown Baltimore. In any case, visiting tion. Since the C&O Canal Company was hiring construction Emmitsburg was likely the end of his definite plans. workers, Joseph accepted a manual labor position working on After a short stay in Baltimore, Joseph traveled through the the canal in the Hagerstown area. town of Frederick and then north to Mount St. Mary’s to meet with Mr. Caspar Beleké to present his credentials and discuss his situation. Beleké was an author 7 and professor of the Ger - man language and literature at the college. He was impressed with Joseph’s school records and advised him to go to Cincin - nati, Ohio, where he might continue his studies at the Athenæum, the first Catholic institution of higher learning in the Northwest Territory.
Beleké knew two alumni from Mount St. Mary’s who had Graphical image courtesy of Western Maryland Regional Library transferred to Cincinnati. From 1830 to 1833, Mount St. Mary’s was presided over by the Rev. John B. Purcell, who was He worked for a month and if he was earning not much now the bishop of Cincinnati. 8 Since he also knew Dr. Joshua more than a dollar a day, his monthly earnings would have been 9 about thirty dollars. For comparison, four dollars would buy M. Young, the current prefect of studies at the Athenæum, 10 Beleké prepared a scholarly letter of recommendation for a ticket for a stagecoach ride across the mountains Joseph, wished him the best of luck, and sent him on his way. from Cumberland, Maryland to Wheeling, in present day West Virginia. Part-time employment Meanwhile the C&O canal was not even completed as far In July 1837, an article in the Baltimore Sun reported that as Cumberland and never reached the Ohio River. By the early one hundred and thirty miles of the Chesapeake and Ohio 1850s though, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad began carrying passengers across the Alleghenies, but of course that was years too late for Joseph. Crossing the mountains With Cincinnati as his destination, the best option for Joseph in 1837 was to travel on the Cumberland Road, later called the National Road, which had been completed in 1818 as far as Wheeling. Strategically located on the Ohio River, Wheeling then served as the nation’s primary route to the heart - land with travelers arriving not only by way of the Cumberland Road but also from Pittsburgh upriver.
Baltimore Sun, July, 1837 Continued on page 105
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HALFWAY ROUND THE WORLD… …Continued from 104 With his savings from the canal job, Joseph purchased a According to the The Emigrants' Hand-Book from 1850, one-way ticket to Wheeling and joined a large emigrant train which provided a chart of the steamboat routes on the Ohio of mountain wagons. Since he was the only one in the group and Mississippi Rivers, the distance from Wheeling to Cincin - who could speak English, Joseph acted as the interpreter for nati on the river was 392 miles. 12 The scenery along the wind - the others, bought the provisions, and was held in high esteem ing river was magnificent with dense forests and cliffs from one by his companions. He enjoyed the mountainous scenery as to two hundred feet in height. The ride on the riverboat lasted their horse-drawn wagons ascended the long steady grades on only a few days and our travelers landed safely at the port of the eastern slopes of the Alleghenies, especially near the summit Cincinnati on October 7, 1837. 11 of Big Savage Mountain. After a long, eventful five months, Joseph Hemann had Ohio riverboat trip traveled halfway round the world. From Ösede to Bremer - haven, to Baltimore and Wheeling, from Cincinnati’s riverfront Once they crossed the mountains to Wheeling, Joseph and to the Athenæum, he arrived at his journey’s end. Within some of the others boarded a riverboat to continue their travels two years he met and married a girl from Belgium and together down the Ohio River to Cincinnati, known as the Queen City . they raised eleven children in Cincinnati. Mr. Hemann Transportation on the inland rivers had just recently been im - went on to become a prominent newspaper publisher and proved with the invention of the steamboat, and trips from banker — a notable representative of Ohio’s successful Wheeling to the Queen City were scheduled daily. German-American citizens.
1 Wittke, Carl Frederick. W e Who Built America; The Saga of the Immigrant . Cleveland: 8 Kelly, Michael J. and James M. Kirwin. History of Mt. St. Mary's Seminary of the West, Press of Western Reserve University, 1964. Cincinnati, Ohio . Cincinnati: Keating & Company, 1894. 2 Meckel, Bettina. Osnabrück und Umland . Osnabrück: H. Th. Wenner GmbH & Co., 9 Miller, Francis Joseph. A History of the Athenaeum of Ohio, 1829-1960: A History of the 2005. Seminaries of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati . Cincinnati: F.J. Miller, 2006. 3 Robson, Charles. Biographical Encyclopædia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century. Cincinnati : 10 Smith, John Calvin. The Emigrants' Hand-Book, And New Guide for Travelers Through the Galaxy Publishing Company, 1876 United States of America . London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1850. Fares on the 4 Dierks, August, Eugenie von Garvens, Hans Saebens, Hubert Kapusta, and Walter great traveling routes were provided. Raschdorff. Bremerhaven: Busy-Breezy-Booming-Town: Development and History of a Port 11 Bruce, Robert. The National Road: Most Historic Thoroughfare in the United States, and Town . Bremerhaven: Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 1954. Fourth revised edition Eastern Division of the National Old Trails Ocean-to-Ocean Highway, Baltimore and Wash - translated into English from the original German edition titled Bremerhaven- tätige Stadt ington to Frederick, Hagerstown, Cumberland and Frostburg, Maryland, Uniontown, im Noordseewind. Brownsville and Washington, Pennsylvania, and Wheeling, West Virginia . Washington, D.C.: 5 Wittke, Carl Frederick. We Who Built America; The Saga of the Immigrant . Cleveland: Press National Highways Association, 1916. of Western Reserve University, 1964. 12 Smith, John Calvin. The Emigrants' Hand-Book, And New Guide for Travelers Through the 6 Spalding, Thomas W. The Premier See, A History of the Archdiocese of Baltimore , 1789- United States of America . London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1850. Steamboat 1994. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. routes and the distances from place to place were listed. 7 Beleké, Caspar J. A Grammar of the German Language: Systematically Arranged on a New © 2011 Douglas Carl Fricke, All Rights Reserved Plan . Philadelphia: G.W. Mentz & Son, 1840.
Help Us Find the Missing 40,000 People for the 1890 Project
About eight years ago, SCGS committed to looking for records that would help replace the missing 1890 census for Los Angeles County. So far we have about 60,000 unique names for a county with a population of 100,000. Bill Tully has thought of a way to help us find those missing 40,000 people, most of whom are women and children. If you are a member of a church that was operating between 1880 and 1900, please ask your minister to allow us to photograph the church’s documents. These documents contain names of parishioners—both male and female. Baptism records connect children with parents. The documents are photographed on site. No special lighting is used, so that further degradation of the documents is minimized. Contact Bill Tully at [email protected] and use "1890" as the subject line. Let him know who to contact at the church and he will do the rest of the work.
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The 1892 Great Register of Voters Living in the City of Alhambra
The 1892 Great Register of Voters for Los Angeles County, California contains more than 27,500 records. Of these, approximately 12,000 are for voters who resided in the City of Los Angeles and the remaining 15,500 represent voters living in “The Country.” At that time, “The Country” was defined as any place in the county other than in the City of Los Angeles. (By contrast, note that in 1884 there were approximately 7,000 persons living in “The Country.”) The registers were the result of California’s Registry Act of 1866 in which all voters were required to register. Not until the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920 were females allowed to vote, explaining why only males are listed. In addition to name, age, place of birth, occupation and place of residence, the registers provide naturalization information in sufficient detail to show the date of naturalization and the court conferring the naturalization. The 1892 Great Register contains a wealth of personal information regarding each person, namely, height (in feet and inches), complexion shade, eye and hair color, and distinguishing marks. The Southern California Genealogical Society’s library presently has microfilms of the bi-annually printed Great Registers for Los Angeles County for the period 1873–1896. If you’re performing research in Los Angeles County for that time period, perhaps a visit to our library to peruse the registers would help! Please note that it is anticipated that the entire extraction of the 1892 Great Register will be included in the upcoming Members-Only section of our website, presently under construction. Lookups can be performed by the SCGS Research team and can be ordered via the SCGS webiste. The Great Register for the City of Alhambra: Part I (A-McMillan) Summer 2012. Watch the next Searchers for the continuation for Alhambra.
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Are You Looking Did you Know… Many of our members Uncle Sam was real too. His name was for a Speaker? are able to give presenta - Sam Wilson (who was one of Johnny Apple - tions of varying length to seed's boyhood friends.) He did not wear outside groups. People striped pants and did not have a long white have spoken on how to do basic genealogy, what resources our library beard, but he did wear a top hat. Wilson's nick contains, learning about DNA testing and many other topics. The group name was Uncle Sam. During the War of 1812 size can be as small as 7 to over 50. The presentations can be as short as when Wilson began supplying meat to troops 15 minutes or as long as one and one-half hours. If your group needs a stationed around Troy, New York the meat was speaker, please contact our Education Chair, Charlotte Bocage at ruby - stamped "U.S." for United States. An imagi - [email protected]. Tell her your preferred topic, the length of the native worker in Wilson's store told a govern - speech, the approximate size of the group and the location. We'll do our ment inspector that the initials stood for best to fill your needs. "Uncle Sam". Soon all federal supplies were said to belong to "Uncle Sam".
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Marks Occupation Nativity Naturalization Line No Fruit grower New York Sept 1 Farmer Ohio Aug 4 Loco Engineer Kentucky Aug 4 Butcher Kansas Aug 2 Laborer New York Aug 4 Scar on left side of neck Laborer California Aug 6 Rancher Ohio Aug 22 Farmer New York Aug 2 Nurseryman New York Aug 3 Speculator Maine July 30 Two scars on left hand Teamster Kentucky Aug 1 Farmer Indiana Aug 6 Right hand injured from shot in forearm Farmer Pennsylvania Sept 3 Winemaker Virginia Aug 6 Two fingers off at first joint Laborer Mexico By treaty of 1848 Aug 4 Merchant Nova Scotia Jul 13, 1885, Rensselaer Co, N Y, Co Aug 3 Winemaker Germany Aug 10, 1886, Los Angeles, Cal, Sup Aug 6 Farmer Massachusetts Sept 7 Carpenter Missouri Aug 3 Plumber Iowa Aug 3 Carpenter Pennsylvania Aug 3 Farmer Missouri Aug 5 Teamster Germany Oct 30, 1876, Stockton, Cal, Co July 30 Farmer Rhode Island July 30 Scar over right eyebrow Farmer Virginia Sept 15 Farmer Pennsylvania Aug 8 Brickmaker Indiana Aug 4 Rancher England Affidavit of loss of papers Sept 2 Farmer Louisiana Aug 2 Farmer Iowa Sept 12 Farmer Iowa Aug 13 Rancher California Aug 6 Lum Merchant New York Aug 3 Printer Ohio Aug 2 Laborer Illinois Aug 1 Scar on left cheek Farmer Arkansas Oct 3 Farmer Ohio Aug 6 Rancher Wisconsin Aug 4 Rancher Illinois Aug 2 Tailor Kentucky Aug 4 Laborer Kentucky Aug 3 Laborer Pennsylvania Aug 6 Carpenter Pennsylvania Sept 2 Grocer Indiana Aug 1 Nurseryman Maine Aug 4 Trainer Kentucky Aug 4 Sawyer Canada Oct 28, 1870 Niagara, N Y, Record July 30 Laborer California Aug 3 Bank Cashier South Carolina July 30 Physician New York Aug 1 Carpenter Iowa Aug 4 Teacher Kentucky Aug 2 Carpenter New York July 30 Fruit raiser Maine Aug 2 Rancher Maine Aug 2 Mechanic Germany Oct 4, 1875, Madison, Mont, J D Aug 2 Minister New York Aug 8 Laborer Wisconsin July 30 Laborer Pennsylvania Aug 2 Liveryman Iowa Aug 3 Bookkeeper Texas Sept 3 Blind in left eye Plumber Indiana Aug 3 Continued on page 110
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15844 Gate, Alexander Banning 37 6 Fair Hazel Black 15867 Gerber, John 45 57 Light Blue Dark 15911 Gilbert, Sherman Elias 50 5 6-3/4 Dark Blue Gray 16046 Gorthy, John 60 55 Light Blue Gray 16061 Gourlay, Arthur 29 5 11-1/2 Fair Blue Black 16108 Graves, Jackson Alpheus 39 6 Light Blue Light 16120 Gray, Francis Edward 48 54 Light Hazel Auburn 16143 Green, John A 50 5 10 Light Blue Brown 16332 Hall, Frank William 33 58 Dark Gray Black 16352 Hall, William M 33 5 10 Fair Blue Brown 16358 Halsted, Abel Stevens 21 5 10 Dark Blue Brown 16373 Hamilton, William Lawrence 26 59 Light Gray Brown 16412 Hanscome, Henry Irvine 35 55 Light Gray Auburn 16469 Harper, Samuel Stewart 40 62 Dark Gray Dark 16559 Hathaway, Abraham Manchester 58 5 10 Light Brown Brown 16687 Henderson, Charles W 47 59 Dark Hazel Dark 16713 Henning, Wilbur F 47 54 Light Blue Dark 16725 Henson, John Franklin 39 6 Light Gray Brown 16730 Hereford, Edward S 47 56 Light Blue Gray 16744 Herrington, James P 45 5 11-1/2 Dark Hazel Dark 16818 Hildebrand, Charles 52 51 Dark Gray Brown 16821 Hill, Albert Harry 26 58 Dark Brown Dark 16845 Hilton, Birney W 47 59 Dark Brown Gray 16896 Hofman, Peter 40 54 Dark Gray Dark 16989 Horne, Murray 26 57 Light Gray Dark 17072 Hubbard, Philip Wadsworth 36 59 Dark Blue Brown 17329 Johnson, Alfred E 34 59 Fair Blue Fair 17350 Johnson, Gail B 33 5 5-1/2 Dark Brown Dark 17354 Johnson, Henry 48 58 Dark Dark Dark 17387 Johnson, Waldo P 29 59 Florid Brown Brown 17405 Jones, Charles Edward 25 58 Light Blue Brown 17521 Kellogg, T de Mont 40 62 Dark Brown Dark 17540 Kemp, Carleton 34 5 9-1/4 Light Blue Sandy 17595 Keys, Clinton Weeks 22 51 Fair Dark Brown 17620 Kimball, Lewis Henry 51 5 8-1/2 Light Gray Gray 17656 Kingsley, Samuel Bowen 38 5 10 Light Blue Gray 17738 Kramer, Daniel Richard 29 55 Light Gray Light 17741 Kreamer, Robert 67 5 10 Dark Gray White 17745 Krick, Christian 42 54 Florid Blue Dark 17809 Lamme, Edwin H 46 59 Ruddy Gray Gray 17842 Lane, Ezekiel F 69 59 Light Blue Brown 17889 Lattin, Byron C 47 6 Fair Blue Dark 18001 Lepley, Frank John 28 6 Light Brown Dark 18039 Lewman, George Washington 47 6 Dark Blue Iron-gray 18091 List, Michael 49 53 Florid Gray Brown 18117 Locke, Thomas James 54 59 Dark Gray Gray 18414 March, Daniel Webster 42 5 7-1/2 Light Blue Light 18466 Marshall, William 57 5 10 Sandy Gray Gray 18562 Mathewson, Harley Phillips 63 58 Dark Brown Gray 18563 Mathewson, Harley Phillips, Jr 26 5 8-1/2 Dark Brown Dk -brown 18604 Mayberry, Edward Leodore 56 6 Light Blue Dark 18605 Mayberry, Edward Leodore, Jr 21 5 11-1/2 Fair Dark Brown
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Marks Occupation Nativity Naturalization Line No Horticulturist California Aug 16 Harnessmaker Switzerland By naturalization of father Aug 1 Teamster Illinois Sept 10 Rancher New York Aug 3 Contractor Scotland Oct 3, 1885, Kings Co, N Y, Co Sept 2 Attorney at Law Iowa Aug 3 Co Assessor Massachusetts Aug 6 Banker New York Aug 8 Farmer Maine Aug 2 Rancher Missouri Aug 1 Orchardist New York July 30 Teamster Indiana Sept 3 R R Agent Maine Aug 3 Bald headed Rancher Ohio Aug 4 Brickmaker Massachusetts Aug 4 Rancher Ohio Aug 24 Attorney at Law Missouri July 30 Laborer North Carolina Aug 2 Capitalist Missouri July 30 Farmer Ohio Aug 6 Farmer Switzerland May 26, 1882, Los Angeles, Cal, Sup Sept 17 Teamster Texas July 30 Carpenter Vermont July 30 Rancher Germany Jun 9, 1873, Hamilton, O, Sup Sept 12 Drug Clerk England Aug 4, 1890, Los Angeles, Cal, Sup Aug 1 Nurseryman Maine Aug 5 Scar on left side of chin Farmer Indiana July 30 Orchardist Texas July 30 Farmer Ohio Aug 2 Rancher Texas July 30 Teacher New York Aug 4 Physician Canada By naturalization of father July 30 Newspaperman Texas Sept 1 Horticulturist California Aug 8 Small scar left cheek Laster New Hampshire Aug 3 Orchardist Massachusetts Aug 8 Laborer Indiana Aug 2 Lumberman New Jersey Aug 3 Gardener Germany Affidavit of loss of papers Aug 5 Attorney at Law Ohio Aug 3 Carpenter New Hampshire Aug 6 Farmer Ohio Aug 5 Scar on second finger of right hand Carpenter Ohio Aug 4 Rancher Iowa Aug 4 Saloonist Prussia Jul 23, 1872, Los Angeles, Cal, Co Aug 6 Nurseryman Michigan Aug 6 Builder Ohio Aug 3 Horticulturist Ireland Oct 20, 1867, San Fran, Cal, Dis Aug 5 Phy and Surgeon Vermont Aug 16 Clerk Canada Born of American parents July 30 Capitalist Maine July 30 Scar across three fingers of left hand Student California Aug 4 and one on left arm Third finger on left hand gone Farmer Pennsylvania July 30 Dairyman Pennsylvania Aug 8 Laborer Missouri Aug 2 Grocer Missouri Aug 30 Banker Canada Oct 2, 1879, Kossuth Co, Ia, Dis't Aug 1 Carpenter Canada Aug 16, 1888, Los Angeles, Cal, Sup Aug 2 Right thumb off at second joint Nurseryman Louisiana Aug 1
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CALL NUMBER TITLE 289.7 REL /AMISH CUSTOMS SOCIAL Amish Society 920.0 BIO /BIOGRAP AMERICAN 1914 American Bluebook of Biography 1914 928.1 IMM /SHIPS GERMAN 1816-1990 Passenger Liners From Germany 1816-1990 929.2 FH /BAUTIST Documentary Analysis of the Surname of Juan Bautista de Anaz, A 929.2 FH /BOWEN Richard Boiwen (1594?-1675), of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and his descendants 929.2 FH /GODOI Family of Lucero de Godoi, The: Early Records 929.2 FH /GUNDY Community of Memory, A: My Days with George and Clara (Gundy) 929.2 FH /HIGDON Joseph R. Higdon, A Descendant of Pedro Duran y Chaves and Isabel Bohorquez (Baca) 929.2 FH /HUMBOLD Wilhelm von Humboldt und Caroline von Dachroeden, Eine Genealogische Studie 929.2 FH /LUPKE Die von Lupke (The von Lupke Family of Germany) 929.2 FH /SLAYDEN Descendants of Arthur Slayden, The 929.2 FH /TRUJILL Lorenzo Trujillo Founder of Agua Mansa 1795-1855 943.0 GER /FAMILY BURGERLI Genealogisches Handbuches Burgerlicher Familien (German Family Lineage Book Series for Different Regions of the Former German Empire), Vol 6 943.0 GER /GENEALO COLLECTE Genealogisches Handbuch Burgerlicher Familien (German Families Lineage Book Series) , Vols 7, 10, 14, & 15 943.0 GER BIBLIOGR GAZETTEE REGISTERS Bibliography of the Gazetteers and Church Registers of Germany 943.0 GER HESSEN /CHURCH Pfarrerbuch der Evang. Unierten Kirchengemeinschaft (Parish Book of the Evangelical Church Parish Hanover Union in the State Church in Hessen-Kassel) 943.0 GER HESSEN /EMIGRAT 1840-1850 Hessische Auswanderer (Hesaus) Index nach Familiennamen (Index of Emigrants from Hessen- Cassel, Germany in the Years 1840-1850), Vol 12, Bks 1 & 2 943.0 GER HESSEN /MILITAR REGISTERS Hessian Troops in the American Revolution Extract from the Hetrina Vols 1 - 3 943.0 GER HESSEN /MILITAR REGISTERS Hessische Truppen Im Amerikanischen Unabhangigkeitskrieg (Hetrina) Index nach Familiennamen, (Hessian Troops in the American War of Independence, Indexed by Family Name), Vol 10, Bks 1 - 4 943.0 GER HESSEN /MILITAR REGISTERS Hessische Truppen Im Amerikanischen Unabhangigkeitskrieg (Hetrina) Index nach Familiennamen, (Hessian Troops in the American War of Independence, Indexed by Family Name), Vol 10, Bk 6 (in 2 volumes) 943.0 GER HESSEN /MILITAR REGISTERS Waldecker Truppen Im Amerikanischen Unabhangigkeitskrieg (Hetrina) Index nach Familiennamen, (Hessian Troops in the American War of Independence, Indexed by Family Name), Vol 10, Bk 5 943.0 GER HESSEN OBERHORL /FAMILY Ortsfamilienbuch Oberhorlen und Roth im Breidenbacher Grund 1629-1875 (Town Family Records Oberhoerlen and Roth, 1629-1875) 943.0 GER LOWSAXON OLDENBUR /HISTORY LOHNE (Oldenburg) 980-1980 Berichte aus der Zeit seiner Entwicklung (Report of the Time of its Development) 943.0 GER LOWSAXON VECHELAD /GENEALOG Dorf-Sippenbuch Vechelade (Village Ancestry Book Vechelade) 943.0 GER MECKLENB /HISTORY Mecklenburg 943.0 GER PRUSSIA /PHARMAC 1397-1945 Apotheker und Apotheken in Ost- und Westpreussen 1397-1945 (Pharmacist and Pharmacies in East and West Prussia 1397-1945) 943.0 GER SCHLES-H /RESEARC HANDBOOK Handbuch für Schleswig-Holstein, 1958 (Handbook for family research in Schleswig-Holstein) 943.0 GER WESTPHAL GELSENKI /HISTORY Beitrage zur Stadtigeschichte II (Historical Record of Gelsenkirchen, Westfalen, Germany) 943.6 AUS /GENEALO GUIDE Handy Guide to Austrian Genealogical Records 973.0 USA /EMIGRAT RUSSIA GERMAN Russian-German Settlements in the United States 973.0 USA /EMIGRAT RUSSIA GERMANS Volga Germans in Russia and the Americans from 1763 to the Present, The 973.0 USA /REGISTE SOCIAL 1926 Social Register Locater 1926 974.1 ME CUMBERLA /VITALS 1701-1892 Vitals Records of Cumberland, Maine 1701-1892 974.2 NH BELKNAP GILFORD /HISTORY Gunstock Parish, The: A History of Gilford, New Hampshire 974.7 NY ULSTER SAUGERTI /VITALS Obituaries, Death Notices and Genealogical Gleanings From The Saugerties Telegraph, 1853-1860, Vol 2 974.8 PA /HANDBOO POLITICS Pennsylvania Manual, 1970-1971, The, Vol 100 974.8 PA WAYNE PIKE /INDEX Index to the Map of Wayne and Pike Counties, Pennsylvania 975.4 WV /BIOGRAP Progressive West Virginians, 1923 975.4 WV BROOKE /HISTORY Brooke County Being a Record of Prominent Events Occurring in Brooke County, West Virginia, from the Settlement of the County, Until January 1, 1882, Also a List of the Marriages and Deaths from January 1, 1870 to 1882 975.4 WV MARION /HISTORY History and Progress of the County of Marion, West Virginia 975.4 WV MERCER /VITALS MARRIAGE Mercer County, West Virginia, Marriage Book 1, 1854-1901 975.5 VA BEDFORD /GENEALO Bedford County Families and History Compiled from Henry Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopaedia First Published 1883 975.6 NC ALLEGHAN /HISTORY 1859-1976 History of Alleghany County 1859 through 1976 Sparta, North Carolina Continued on page 114
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CALL NUMBER TITLE 975.6 NC GUILFORD MCLEANSV /HISTORY Life, Lore & Legend of McLeansville 975.8 GA /RECORDS MISC Selected Genealogical Records for Appling County, Georgia, includes 1820 Census for Telfair and Tattnall Counties 976.2 MS CHOCTAW /LAND MAPS Family Maps of Choctaw County, Mississippi, Deluxe edition with homesteads, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries, railroads, and more 976.2 MS SMITH /LAND MAPS Family Maps of Smith County, Mississippi, Deluxe edition with homesteads, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries, railroads, and more 976.4 TX /MILITAR 1839-60 Texas Frontiersman 1839-1860: Minute Men, Militia, Home Guard, Indian Fighter 976.4 TX ANGELINA /LAND MAPS Texas Land Survey Maps for Angelina County with roads, railways, waterways, towns, cemeteries and cross-referenced data from the Texas General Land Office & Railroad Commission 976.4 TX FANNIN /LAND 1831-1898 Fannin County, Texas Land Titles 1831-1898 976.4 TX HARRISON /LAND MAPS Texas Land Survey Maps for Harrison County with roads, railways, waterways, towns, cemeteries and cross-referenced data from the Texas General Land Office & Railroad Commission 976.4 TX TARRANT /LAND MAPS Texas Land Survey Maps for Tarrant County with roads, railways, waterways, towns, cemeteries and cross-referenced data from the Texas General Land Office & Railroad Commission 976.7 AR FAULKNER /HISTORY History of Faulkner Co. Arkansas 976.8 TN /LAND Wataugah Land Purchases, The (Tennessee) 976.9 KY /BIOGRAP GENEALOG Biographical Sketches from Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, 977.1 OH /COURT PROBATE INDEX Index to Wills, Estates & Guardianships 1851-1900, Wood County, Ohio, An 977.1 OH CHAMPAIG /LAND DEEDS Champaign County, Ohio, Patent Deeds Located in the Land Deed Indices 977.1 OH CHAMPAIG /NEWSPAP 1878-1900 Champaign County, Ohio, St. Paris Newspaper Abstracts, September 6, 1878 to 1900, Book 2 977.1 OH CHAMPAIN URBANA /HISTORY Urbana and Champaign County Illustrated 977.1 OH CRAWFORD /VITALS MARRIAGE Marriages of Crawford County, Ohio 1831-1989 977.1 OH DELAWARE /CEMETER Delaware County, Ohio, Cemeteries, Berkshire, Berlin & Brown Townships (Three books bound together.) 977.1 OH DELAWARE /CEMETER Delaware County, Ohio, Cemeteries, Concord, Delaware, Troy, Genoa & Harlem Townships (Three books bound together.) 977.1 OH DELAWARE /CEMETER Delaware County, Ohio, Cemeteries, Kingston, Porter, Trenton, Liberty, Orange, Marlboro & Oxford Townships (Three books bound together.) 977.1 OH DELAWARE /CEMETER Delaware County, Ohio, Cemeteries, Radnor, Thompson & Scioto Townships (Two books bound together.) 977.1 OH ERIE BERLINVI /CEMETERY Berlinville Cemetery, Erie County, OH 977.1 OH HARDIN /CEMETER Preston Early Cemetery Burial Permits, Marion Township, Hardin County, Ohio, Vol 1 977.1 OH HARDIN /VITALS MARRIAGE Hardin County, Ohio Marriage Records Books 8-15, 1885-1910, Vol 3 977.1 OH JEFFERSO /VITALS DEATHS Deaths Recorded in Jefferson County, Ohio, 1867-1887 977.1 OH PERRY /CEMETER Perry County, Ohio, Coal and Salt Lick Township Cemeteries, 1989, Vol 3 977.1 OH PERRY /CEMETER Perry County, Ohio, Monday Creek Township Cemeteries, 1995, Vol 8 977.1 OH PERRY /VITALS DEATHS Perry County, Ohio, Death Records Early Years, 1867 - 19__, A-Z, Vols 1 & 2 (Two books bound together.) 977.1 OH PERRY /VITALS DEATHS Perry County, Ohio, Health Department Death Index 1908/1909-1930 977.1 OH RICHLAND /VITALS MARRIAGE Richland County, Ohio, Marriages 1872-1900 Combined Brides and Grooms Index Volumes 11- 17 (part) 977.1 OH RICHLAND MANSFIEL /CEMETERY Mansfield Cemetery and Mansfield Catholic Cemetery Burials 2001 - 2010 (Ohio) 977.1 OH RICHLAND MANSFIEL /CEMETERY Mansfield Cemetery and Mansfield Catholic Cemetery, Mansfield, Ohio, Vols 1 & 2 977.2 IN LAGRANGE /LAND MAPS Family Maps of LaGrange County, Indiana, Deluxe edition with homesteads, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries, railroads, and more 977.3 IL LASALLE /CEMETER #441 Calvary Cemetery, St. Francis of Assisi Church, Ottawa, Illinois 977.3 IL LASALLE /CEMETER #523 Vermilionville Cemetery and #521 Unknown Cemetery, Deer Park Township, Illinois 977.3 IL LASALLE /CEMETER #642 Hillcrest Cemetery, Bruce Township (Illinois) 977.3 IL WOODFORD /HISTORY 1841-1991 Souvenir History of Woodford County, Illinois, 1841-1991, A 977.4 MI /ALTAS 1873 1873 Atlas of the State of Michigan 977.6 MN /HISTORY History of Minnesota, The, Vols 1 & 2 977.6 MN /HISTORY BIOGRAPH History of Minnesota, The, Vols 3 & 4 977.7 IA WAPELLO DEATHS 1903-1949 Wapello Co., Iowa, Deaths St. Mary's Catholic Church, Ottumwa, IA 1903-1949 977.8 MO /MIGRATI Tennesseans to Missouri, 1810-1875 977.8 MO DUNKLIN /CEMETER Dunklin County, Missouri, Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol 2 977.8 MO LACLEDE /CEMETER Laclede County, Missouri Rural Cemeteries Vol 2: Townships of Auglaize, Hooker, Eldridge, Spring Hollow, East Lebanon & West Lebanon 977.8 MO MILLER /GENEALO Pioneer Families of Miller County, Missouri
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CALL NUMBER TITLE 977.8 MO OREGON /VITALS MARRIAGE "New" Marriage Book A of Oregon County, Missouri, 1845-1879 Alphabetical by Bride & Groom 978.0 WUn /CENSUS TERRITOR 1860-1870 1860 & 1870 Federal Censuses Territory of New Mexico and Territory of Arizona 978.1 KS /PIONEER GENEALOG Forgotten Settlers of Kansas, The, Vol 17 978.8 CO ALAMOSA /VITALS CEMETERY Alamos City Cemetery Records, 1910-1923 978.8 CO ALAMOSA /VITALS CEMETERY Alamosa City Cemetery Records 1897-1900 & 1910-1923 978.8 CO ELBERT /GENEALO Western Pioneer Days: Biographies and Genealogies of Early Settlers with History of Elbert County, (Colorado) 978.9 NM /CENSUS 1850 New Mexico 1850 Territorial Census, Vol 3 978.9 NM /HISTORY TO 1848 Rebellion in Rio Arriba 1837 978.9 NM /LAND Tierra Amarilla Grant: A History of Chicanery, The 978.9 NM /VITALS MARRIAGE Marriage Records Mora County - 1866-1890 and Torrance County - 1910-1915, New Mexico 978.9 NM /VITALS MARRIAGE New Mexico Marriages 1864-1884 Chavez, Colfax, De Baca, Grant, Lea and Socorro Counties 979.0 GBa /BIBLIOG HISTORY Catalogue of Materials in the Archivo General de Indias for the History of the Pacific Coast and the American Southwest, Vol 8 979.0 GBa /HISTORY SOUTHWES TO 1848 Spanish & Mexican Records of the American Southwest 979.4 CA /LAW HISTORY Law and Community on the Mexican California Frontier 979.4 CA LOSANGEL LOSANGEL /SCHOOL Genius, The, Luther Burbank Jr. High School, Los Angeles, CA, 1930 979.4 CA LOSANGEL LOSANGEL /SCHOOL Le Conte Life, Le Conte Junior High School 979.4 CA SANBERNA /HISTORY Story of Agua Mansa: Its Settlement, Churches and People First Community in San Bernardino Valley, 1842-1893, The 979.4 CA SANDIEGO /CENSUS 1850 1850 Census San Diego County, California
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12pm-2pm 10am-4pm 10am-4pm Writers Group French-Canadian German Research Team Research Team (please e-mail for appt.)
29 30 31 1 2 3 4 Closed to Researchers Closed to Researchers Open 10am–9pm 10am-4pm Irish Interest Workshop
NOTE: Where the Library is listed as Closed to Researchers , it is closed for research but remains open for attendance of events or meetings as noted.
NOTE: Off-site SCGS Events are listed in italics.
SUMMER 2012 THE SEARCHER 117 — Searcher — August 2012
AFR-AMER – African-American Interest Group LUG—Legacy Family Tree Users Group FCHSC—French Canadian Heritage Society of California RMUG—Roots Magic Users Group GSHA-SC—Genealogical Society Hispanic America-So. CA TMG—The Master Genealogist Users Group JC—Jamboree Committee UDC—United Daughters of the Confederacy Chapter
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
29 30 31 1 2 3 4 Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Closed to Researchers 10am-4pm 10am-4pm 10am –11:30am French-Canadian German Research Team Webinar: The Genealogist Research Team (please e-mail for appt.) as CSI 10am –4pm GSHA-SC General Mtg. 2pm –4pm TMG Users Grp 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Open 10am-4pm Closed to Researchers Open 10am–9pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Closed to Researchers 4-6pm 12-2pm 10am-4pm 10am-4pm 12 –3pm United Daughters of the Writers Group French-Canadian German Research Team Lunch & L:earn Confederacy Meeting Research Team (please e-mail for appt.) 3:30 –6pm Africian American Mtg.
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Open 10am-4pm Closed to Researchers Open 10am–9pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm
1-3pm 7-9pm 10am-4pm 10am-4pm 11am –12pm Writers Group Legacy Users Group French-Canadian German Research Team Chinese American Research Team (please e-mail for appt.) Interest Group 6pm-7:30pm 6-8pm 1–4pm Webinar: Women’s Board Meeting German Interest Group Work
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Closed to Researchers Closed to Researchers Open 10am–9pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm 2-4pm 1-9pm 10am-4pm 10am-4pm RootsMagic Hispanic Tuesday French-Canadian German Research Team User Group Research Team (please e-mail for appt.)
26 27 28 29 30 31 1 Closed to Researchers Closed to Researchers Open 10am–9pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm 10am-4pm 10am-4pm French-Canadian German Research Team Research Team (please e-mail for appt.)
NOTE: Where the Library is listed as Closed to Researchers , it is closed for research but remains open for attendance of events or meetings as noted.
NOTE: Off-site SCGS Events are listed in italics.
118 THE SEARCHER SUMMER 2012 — Searcher — September 2012
AFR-AMER – African-American Interest Group LUG—Legacy Family Tree Users Group FCHSC—French Canadian Heritage Society of California RMUG—Roots Magic Users Group GSHA-SC—Genealogical Society Hispanic America-So. CA TMG—The Master Genealogist Users Group JC—Jamboree Committee UDC—United Daughters of the Confederacy Chapter
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
26 27 28 29 30 31 1 Closed to Researchers 10am –1pm Webinar” Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker; Re - searching Occupations of Ancestors 2–4pm TMG Users Group 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Open 10am-4pm Closed to Researchers Open 10am–9pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Closed to Researchers 4-6pm Labor Day 9:30-11:30am 10am-4pm 10am-4pm 12 –3pm United Daughters of the Beginners Genealogy French-Canadian German Research Team Lunch & Learn (please e-mail for appt.) Confederacy Meeting Class Research Team 3:30 –6pm 10:30-11:30am Afr-Amer. Interest Library Ops Committee Group Meeting
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Open 10am–4pm Closed to Researchers Open 10am–9pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm 10am-12pm 7-9pm 10am-4pm 10am-4pm 9:30-11:30am Chinese-American Interest Legacy Users Group Beginners Genealogy French-Canadian German Research Team Group Class Research Team (please e-mail for appt.) 11am-12pm 12-2pm The Genealogy Garage @ Writers Group LA Public Library 1-4pm German Interest Group
16 Father’s Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 Closed to Researchers Closed to Researchers Open 10am–9pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm 2-4pm 9:30-11:30am 10am-4pm 10am-4pm RootsMagic Beginners Genealogy French-Canadian German Research Team User Group Class Research Team (please e-mail for appt.) 1-9pm 6-7:30pm 6-8pm Webinar: Playground Rules Hispanic Tuesday Board Meeting for Genealogy on the Internet
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Closed to Researchers Closed to Researchers Open 10am–9pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Closed to Researchers 1-3pm 9:30-11:30am 10am-4pm 10am-4pm 10am –2pm Writer’s Group Beginners Genealogy French-Canadian German Research Team DNA Interest Meeting 30 Class Research Team (please e-mail for appt.) 2pm –4pm Closed to Researchers DNA Administrators 10am-4pm Roundtable Irish Interest Workshop
NOTE: Where the Library is listed as Closed to Researchers , it is closed for research but remains open for attendance of events or meetings as noted.
NOTE: Off-site SCGS Events are listed in italics.
SUMMER 2012 THE SEARCHER 119 Southern California Genealogical Society, Inc. non-profit org. 417 Irving Drive, U.S. POSTAGE Burbank, CA 91504-2408 PAID Glendale, CA PERMIT No. 1197
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Our Motto: There is no truth without proof.
President’s Message
Again our Jamboree committee has created an outstanding conference. An amazing number of volunteer hours organized this fantastic event. We attract speakers, vendors, and participants from all over the United States and many other countries. I hope that everyone learned something new to help in their genealogical detective work. We plan to welcome new and old members at the July 14 Open House. There will be tours of the library for newcomers and plenty of time to make new friends. Be sure to introduce yourself to someone you don’t know! The library functions as an extended family that is always growing and changing so you’ll find lots of friendly faces and people who are inter - ested in hearing about your research. SCGS depends upon its volunteers. If there is some way you’d like to help—either at the library or from home—let me know. I’d be glad to talk to you about possibilities. Respectfully, Alice M. Fairhurst, President email: [email protected]