Volume 6 | Issue 4 | Apr 2021 CLASSES & EVENTS

IN THIS ISSUE The following RVGS classes and events are all offered via Zoom. • Most classes and events require online advanced registration, see the Classes & Events Programs & Classes menu on our website. Registration closes for most Virtual Opportunities Spring Seminar events the day before the event unless capacity is reached before then. RVGS News • New members to Interest Groups will need to Family History Library Trip register by clicking here to find the interest group GIG Webpage Recognized of your choice. Success with Facebook • For more details, click here to view our website JCGL News New Additions to the Library calendar. Surplus Books for Sale • Click here to find Zoom help on our website. AND MORE! • All times listed are Pacific Time Zone.

OUR MISSION Registration Now Open! The mission of the Rogue Valley Genealogical Society, Saturday, April 10, 10:00 - 11:30 AM, “The Joy of Irish Research” Inc. is to inspire interest in Guest instructor Joe Hunter will discuss the research plan, genealogy, inform and educate records, strategy, and unique opportunity that the the public, and maintain a growing sustainable library inclusion of DNA analysis and social networking plays in with a strong online presence. locating those distant connections. The speaker will also provide suggestions for additional research, and leave you CONTACT US smiling! In Irish Research, in many instances, traditional methods are not enough. Click here for more information Rogue Valley Genealogical Society – Jackson County and to register. Cost: $10 members, $20 non-members. Genealogy Library Monday, April 12, 9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon, Board Meeting 3405 S Pacific Hwy Medford, Oregon 97501 All members are welcome to attend. Free to all. Email [email protected] for a Zoom link. 541-512-2340 [email protected] www.rvgslibrary.org Tuesday, April 13, 11:00 AM - 12:30 Noon, German Interest Group This group is facilitated by Mary Robsman. LIBRARY HOURS Tuesday, April 13, 1:30 - 3:00 PM, Family Tree Maker Interest Group The Jackson County Genealogy Library is temporarily closed This group is facilitated by Barbara MacMillen. Come with questions about due to COVID-19. using Family Tree Maker software.

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Wednesday, April 14, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Genetic what research you have using solid methodology. In Genealogy Interest Group the afternoon, learn about the types of probate This group is facilitated by Jeff Roberts. records created at the death of your ancestor and what tax records reveal. Go to rvgslibrary.org > Tuesday, April 20, 1:30 - 3:00 PM, Program and Programs & Classes menu > About Our Seminars for Member Meeting, “Mistaken Roots: A Genealogical more information. Cautionary Tale” Following a short member Monday, April 26, 1:00 - 3:00 PM, DNA Class Series, meeting, Deb Root Shell, “GEDmatch, I’ve joined, I see my matches, now Historian and President of what?” This class, taught by Lorita Cushman, will Greater Cleveland Genealogical teach you about the different tools on GEDmatch Society of Ohio, will explain how and how to use them. a long-believed unsourced genealogy, and a much larger Tuesday, April 27, 1:30 - 2:30 PM, Heirloom work based on it, took the presenter down the Genealogy, “Ira and Red Clay” wrong research trail for years in work on that family Follow Sue Waldron’s research as she explores her line. She presents a case study of how better great-grandfather’s unique life story. How and why research methods led to the discovery of a “real” did Ira C. Jones, Minnesota Native, become involved direct ancestor. Cost: Free to all. with clay, where did it lead him, and what did he do with it? Minnesota to Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Tuesday, April 20, 6:30 - 8:00 PM, “Let’s Talk Medford, Oregon. Cost: Members $5, Non-members Genealogy Roundtable” $10. All are welcome to join in on our open discussions related Thursday, April 29, 1:30 - 3:00 PM, “Facebook for to genealogy. We will meet Genealogy” every other month with a If you’re not using Facebook as focused topic, but don't let one of the tools in your that limit the discussions. It's a genealogy toolbox, then you are time for sharing new info missing out on a treasure-trove you've run across, great books of resources. Facebook has over or websites you've discovered, your success stories, 14,500 groups and pages a history lesson, classes you've attended, sharing related to genealogy. In this handouts or whatever comes to your mind. Free to class, instructor Rich Miles will teach you about the all. different types of genealogical resources on

Facebook and how to navigate them. Come join us Saturday, April 24, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Seminar: even if you are currently not a Facebook user. Cost: “Research Like a Pro!” Members $10, Non-members $20. Do you have your research in

order? Do you have a plan? Monday, May 10, 9:30 AM - Noon, Board Meeting Learn how to research like a All members are welcome to attend. Free to all. pro! Registration is open now! Email [email protected] for a Zoom link. Join us for the RVGS virtual

spring seminar, “Research Like Monday, May 10, 1:30 - 3:00 PM, “Introduction to a Pro.” Author of Research Like Canadian Research and Resources” A Pro, A Genealogist’s Guide, Kathy Griffin will lead this class. If your family story Diana Elder, will present morning classes outlining includes ancestors who emigrated from Canada to steps to develop a research plan and organizing the United States, this workshop may help you find The RVGS eNews March 2021 Page 2

out when and where they arrived in Canada, where can be used to help tell your ancestor’s story. Finally, they were born, where they lived, and what they did we will have a lesson in understanding the Public on the way to the United States. The class will Land Survey System with case studies showing how explore resources available to trace your Canadian to locate your ancestor’s homestead on a ancestors, with a focus on the Library and Archives topographic map. Cost: $10 for members, $20 for of Canada and its wealth of information. We will talk non-members. about how to access the Archives, which includes – Birth, Marriage, and death records – Census records Monday, May 24, 1:00 - 3:00 PM, DNA Class Series: – Immigration records– Military records – Much “Color Clustering Plus” more. We will also look at resources available here Learn what color in the United States. clustering is and how to Cost: $10 for members, $20 for non-members do it. You will see tools Lorita Cushman has Thursday, May 13, 1:00 - 3:00 PM, “Introduction to developed to enhance Genealogy” color clustering. We Anne Billeter will teach this class will take time in class to work on your DNA color for genealogy beginners: how to clustering. Cost: $5 for members, $10 for non- start, forms to use, members. documentation to seek, helpful clues, FamilySearch and Tuesday, May 25, 1:30 - 2:30 PM, Heirloom subscription websites, online Genealogy - “Finding Friends in Talent” library catalogs, and why Jan Wright will present this talk. Who knows you deduction is important. best? Is it your family or your friends? An example of Cost: $5 for all. how genealogical research can sometimes be productive through associations outside of the Saturday, May 15, 10:00 - 11:30 AM, “Brick Wall family will be revealed through a 1937 friendship Roundtable” with Jan Dole. quilt from Talent, Oregon. Cost: $5 for members, This discussion is open to all. Bring your questions, $10 for non-members. your puzzles, your brick walls, and we will put our heads together to see if we can find a way to get you Virtual Opportunities closer to your goal. You don’t even have to have a “wall” to join us. We welcome you anyway and who April 1 - May 31, Virtual NERGC 2021, “Springing knows? You may have a nugget that would help from the Past into someone else. the Future” Cost: Free to all The traditional NERGC (New England Wednesday, May 19, 10:30 AM - 12 Noon, Regional “Mapping Your Ancestors” Genealogical In this class, Jeanne Hoadley Consortium) will review the types of conference is a three-day event. The virtual event maps that may be useful to will have three Gathering Days with scheduled a genealogist, including an presentations and a live chat with the featured overview of the map speakers. In addition to the Gathering Days, there collection at the Jackson are three additional ‘tracks,’ at an additional cost to County Genealogy Library. attendees that will occur on Saturdays. Each is a set The class will take a look at the David Rumsey of four presentations as well as a speaker’s panel Collection of Historical Maps and discuss how these discussion on a specific topic. Another aspect of the

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Virtual NERGC 2021 is a set of 60 additional presentations that are recorded and available ‘on- demand’ until May 31, 2021. Additional activities throughout the 61 days include – SIG’s, Ancestor Road Show, Society Fair, Library & Archive, and Exhibit Hall, open 24x7 for 61 days, with many vendors opting to include scheduled appointments and/or video chats as optional activities at their May 7 - 8, 2021 Heartland Family History booths. Click here for more information. Conference, “Finding New Connections” The Heartland Family History Conference will be Friday, April 9 - 10, Indiana Genealogical Society hosting a virtual event again this year, with two days 2021 Annual Conference of "live" programming on May 7-8, followed by 90 The Indiana Genealogical Society 2021 Annual days of on-demand access to recorded content, their Conference is a 2-day virtual conference. Librarians virtual exhibit hall, and participant networking from the Allen County Public Library will present opportunities. The featured speaker this year is Billie four sessions on Friday, 9 April 2021. Lisa Louise Stone Fogarty, who will be presenting four sessions. Cooke will present four sessions on Saturday, 10 In addition, they will be offering more than 30 April 2021. This Zoom conference is being sponsored breakout sessions presented by regional, national, by VIVID-PIX and will be free to everyone. See the and international speakers. More details and IGS website for a complete schedule and links to registration information can be found on the register. conference website.

June 4 - 5, Genetic Genealogy 2021 “The Genes in Your Family” DNA testing is an increasingly popular tool for genealogists. Learn the difference between autosomal DNA, mtDNA and Y- DNA and which tool is useful for what type of investigation. There will be presentations from AncestryDNA, Family Tree DNA, Living DNA and MyHeritage Friday, April 16 - 18, Genealogical Forum of Oregon DNA. The keynoter will be presents “Genealogy Zoomboree” blogger Roberta Estes, MBA. Join GFO for a multicultural Genealogy Zoomboree! Other notables presenting include Maurice J. Four nationally known experts show you how to Gleeson, MD of Genetic Genealogy Ireland, Leah La track seemingly invisible records and people. This is Perle Larkin, PhD, creator of WATO, and DNA a three-day, live, and online event. Registration for authors Emily Aulicino, MEd, and Richard Hill, MBA. one, two, three or all four speakers is online only. The Zoom link for the event will be emailed to you June 11 - 12, Jamboree 2021 “The Stars in Your about one week prior to the event, along with the Family” handouts. All handouts are electronic and are The 51st Genealogy Jamboree brings you nationally included with your registration. All sessions will be known speakers keeping you in touch with the latest recorded and videos available to registrants through developments in the field of genealogy. From coast May 2. Click here for more information and to to coast, from North to South, from our neighbors - register. Canada and Mexico - and from the Old World, our

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speakers can help you find your genealogist for the Vineland Historical & Antiquarian ancestors' lives and stories. Society (VHAS). You'll be able to learn from On most days, Joe can be found pursuing some many tried-and-true speakers forgotten ancestor, in an obscure place. As his wife and get surprising insights from likes to say, “Joe, you have more dead friends, than speakers who are new to living ones.” Genealogy is the gift that keeps on Jamboree. Visit https:// giving. No time to waste! genealogyjamboree.com/ for complete details on both virtual Cost: $10 members, $20 non-members. Click here to seminars. register. Registration closes, and the Zoom link will be sent out the day before the class. The Joy of Irish Research with Joe Hunter Register NOW for our Spring Seminar Saturday, April 10, 10:00 - 11:30 Do you have your research in AM via Zoom order? Do you have a plan? The search for Irish ancestors is Learn how to Research Like a much more than finding birth, Pro! Join us for the RVGS marriage, and death records. As virtual spring seminar with the in life, the journey to finding Irish author of Research Like A Pro, ancestors is far more interesting than the A Genealogist’s Guide, Diana destination! This presentation will include Elder. Sessions include: interesting findings, and compelling ideas, for • Research Objectives and Timeline Analysis: incorporating unique strategies to locate distant Learn how to form an objective that will focus ancestors, and finding family in Ireland, even today, the research, then how to review your research using the speaker's personal experiences, and ever by creating a timeline analysis. evolving research plan. Begin, with the end in mind. • Location and Research Planning: Discover the The speaker will discuss the research plan, records, value of constructing a locality guide to direct strategy, and unique opportunity that the inclusion your research, then how to create a research of DNA analysis and social networking plays in plan using the best resources for the objective. locating those distant connections. The speaker will • Citations and Research Logs: Learn a simple also provide suggestions for additional research and method to style source citations and how to set leave you smiling! In Irish Research, in many up a research log to organize and track your instances, traditional methods are not enough. searches. • Research Reports: Discover the importance of Joe has been researching his family history for the writing your research conclusions in a report last 24 years, having traced all (16) of his 2X great- detailing your findings for future research. grandparents back to Ireland. Joe has utilized his • Find Your Family in Probate Records: Learn research to obtain dual citizenship with Ireland and about the types of probate records created upon participated in a research trip with New England an individual’s death, how to locate them, and Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) to the Public how to use them in your research. Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) in 2012. • Tax Records Tell the Story - Cluster and Joe has a certificate in Genealogical Research from Neighborhood Research: Learn how tax records Boston University (OL29), is a current participant in can help locate individuals, identify the ProGen (50) Study Groups and is on the Board of neighborhood groupings, and separate the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of APG. He is the individuals from others of the same name. presentation coordinator for The Main Line Go to rvgslibrary.org > Programs & Classes > About Genealogy Club (MLGC) and is a volunteer Our Seminars for more information. The RVGS eNews March 2021 Page 5

RVGS NEWS why was he listed in a 1920 Census Record of Ohio living with his wife and children? Welcome New Members! Educating the class attendees with this case study, Welcome to Paula Daniels, Jamie Shell continued explaining her research strategies Fields, Scott Henselman, Linda L. using records of the Court of Common Pleas, pardon McKeen, I. Joela Oetterer, Connie papers, and affidavits written to the Governor asking Silver, Sharon Stewart, Sarah Tugman, for a release so “he could continue to care for his Waverly Williams, and Dixie Wonser, family.” Coulter received a Governor’s pardon in the newest members of the Rogue Valley 1914 for “honorary behavior” both in prison and in Genealogical Society! his work release program at a sanitorium. Shell

highlighted Bertillon Cards on FamilySearch, a new RVGS eNews Subscriptions research tool for many of us. New RVGS members are automatically subscribed to the eNews mailing list. If you are not a member, you While there was no trial transcript, she learned from can subscribe by clicking here. If you choose to newspaper research that the all-male jury had their unsubscribe through Constant Contact, be advised pictures and names on the front page of the [Ohio] that RVGS will not be able to send you ANY emails, Weekly Register. She learned of the family members including those for classes and events. Instead, email who were witnesses to the murder of his neighbor [email protected] to have your name with whom he had arguments over land and timber. removed from the eNews list but remain in our database for other mailings. Deb Shell a retired librarian, author and current President of the Greater Cleveland Genealogical Researching a Family Secret Society demonstrated how to get the story behind a family secret which led to much more information By Andrea Patterson than dates and places for her family. Rogue Valley Genealogical Society Shell will be guest presenter at the RVGS Program & presented guest speaker Member Meeting April 20th at 1:30 presenting Deb Shell for a class “Mistaken Roots: A Genealogical Cautionary Tale.” entitled “Murder in the Family: Researching a RVGS Family History Library Research 111-Year-Old Mystery.” Trip Scheduled Her curiosity reading a tombstone inscription that said, “Homer Hart...Killed Jan. 31, 1910” took her on October 3 to October 10, 2021 a two-year research journey to find out how and Who would have thought that it would be 2021 why. before we could get our annual research trip back on track? As we start looking into a very realistic future, She began with newspaper research in Washington we have rescheduled our Salt Lake City research trip Co., Ohio, where the murder took place. Deb said for this coming October 3 through October 10. The she soon wanted more details and began many trips fresh air of autumn in the Rockies will be fabulous! to libraries and archives. She subsequently viewed We now have a chance to experience that climate original indictments, manuscripts, and trial and the ultimate genealogy research trip with fellow documents in addition to newspaper reports. RVGS members and friends. Come join us to explore the five floors of research treasures only found in The suspect, Clement Coulter, was found guilty of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. 2nd degree murder and sentenced to life in 1912. So Researching in the library, with its resources and on-

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hand experts, has no comparison. At this time the access information for Family History Library remains closed, but they a while. However, in hope to be open and available in time by October. an article that caught my attention in the RVGS has reserved 15 rooms at the Salt Lake City December issue of the NGS Magazine, it appears Plaza Hotel for the week beginning October 3 that the United States Archivist, David S. Ferriero, through October 10, 2021. Please call the hotel announced a pilot project called “History Hub” in directly at 800-366-3684 to reserve your room, which researchers could connect with others asking for the Rogue Valley Genealogical Society interested in their topic and expertise. It would be a discounted rate. Our rooms are only being held kind of a “support community for researchers, until September 1. No penalty room cancellation is citizen historians, historians, archival professionals, allowed up to 72 hours prior to arrival date. and open government advocates to provide the answers, interpretations, and perspectives.” The Delta Airlines pilot was such a success that it became a permanent still offers and active website. The site remains open for direct flights remote inquiries and requests. Students and their to Salt Lake history professors, other history buffs with expertise City, but in the appropriate areas and the NARA staff familiar connecting with the records, check in and offer their assistance flights are to the inquiries. The home page, also available historyhub.history.gov, offers useful blog posts and through Alaska Air and United. If you are popular content, connections to special interest adventurous or would feel safer, driving is another groups and more. Just click on “Get Started!” and option. All of these airlines allow flexible find out how to register for free and how to ask a rescheduling without penalty. question. There is also a video about “Exploring History Hub for Genealogists and Researchers.” When you make your decision to join our October trip, reserve your room, schedule your flight, and German Interest Group Resource notify Ann Baracker that you plan to attend. Your Webpage Recognized name will be added to the list of attendees. The SLC binder will be back in the library as soon as we By Mary Tsui reopen. Please also email Ann Baracker if you have Members of the any questions or concerns at RVGS German [email protected]. Interest Group (GIG) were To get you in the mood to research at the Family astonished and History Library this fall, see the link below to delighted to find classes available at their online site. There is a out that Family wealth of information ranging from Beginning Tree Tours / Kathy Wurth listed their recently Research Techniques to German and Danish Census introduced webpage in the seven sites singled out Records Classes. Click here to check it out! for mention in their “Little Known Ways to Research Your German Ancestors” webinar. The page on the National Archives “History Hub” RVGS website was developed by the German Interest Group members through a subcommittee By Pat Jenkins led by GIG Facilitator Mary Robsman, assisted by With the National Archives closed due to the Covid- Ann Baracker and Mary Tsui. Everything was, of 19 pandemic, it looked like we would not be able to course, channeled through Webmaster Rich Miles

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who demonstrated heroic patience and skill with Palmers, all born around the same time while the many iterations the site passed through on its censuses were all about tallying rather than naming way to presentation. The page was developed as a family members, all in Tennessee, and all married to means of preserving and organizing the many a Martha. I dove into Ancestry, FamilySearch, TN resources identified by GIG members; that it can be GenWeb, Rootsweb, county histories, and more, but used by other researchers across the world is a got nowhere. So, I went onto Facebook and pleasant surprise. Click here to explore the GIG searched for a genealogy group for that state and Resource Page. To find it on our website go to: county. I specifically outlined my issue and within rvgslibrary.org > Programs & Classes > About Our two hours, the administrator of the page sent me Interest Groups > Visit the GIG resource page. nine messages with information and tips I hadn’t come up with on my own, and then she nailed it Darrell and Margaret (Darneille) Stafford home with DNA. This not only enabled me to find the right Jesse, but it also got me back two more We just learned of the generations! death of RVGS member Darrell This isn’t the first time I’ve turned Stafford, who died 12 to genealogy groups on Facebook; Feb 2020 in Grants in fact, I belong to quite a few. My Pass. His wife family came from Counties Margaret (Darneille) Roscommon and Wexford in Stafford preceded Ireland, and I “chat” regularly him 23 Sep 2015. Darrell and Margaret met on the with people in those counties, including the author th school bus while in the 8 grade, just prior to of the book Landed Estates of County Roscommon. I attending Grants Pass High School. Margaret was a grew up in Tillamook, Oregon, and belong to Old fifth generation Oregonian. They married 2 Sep Tillamook Times where we all work out old photos, 1951 at Newman United Methodist Church in families, stories and details about the early years Grants Pass. Darrell received a bachelor’s degree in when Tillamook was being settled. My mother is agricultural engineering from Oregon State College Finnish, and I can’t tell you how much fun it is to (now OSU) in 1953. The Staffords moved to Peoria, follow Finnish Genealogy on Facebook. Many times, Illinois, where Darrell worked for Caterpillar Inc. for someone will put in a message that they are totally over 40 years, after a two-year hiatus as a member stuck and can’t decipher the Finnish or find out of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. They anything about their ancestor. Usually within 24 summered in the Redwood area of Grants Pass hours the Finns will have everything worked out and during their years in Illinois, joined the Josephine that person will know who their ancestors were, County Historical Society (JCHS) in 1962, and joined where they lived, what church they went to, when RVGS in January 1998, just prior to retiring to they migrated and on what ship, and they will have Grants Pass. Darrell was an active volunteer with links to the documents. It’s incredibly inspiring to JCHS, serving as Board Parliamentarian and as a watch them at work. Living History Player. (Reprinted with additions, from The New Oldtimer, Josephine County There won’t be an answer for every inquiry. Historical Society, April 2020.) However, through these groups you can learn about the area where your ancestor lived, learn about the Hit a Brick Wall? Have you tried cemeteries in the area, migration waves, historical Facebook? gossip, and so much more to help make your story more complete. I’ve literally met my own cousins By Kathie Ordal and cousins of people whose history I’m researching Lately, I’ve been trying to sort out four Jesse in these groups and it’s a real hoot. I have stories

The RVGS eNews March 2021 Page 8 about my family and others that you’ll never find JCGL NEWS online that have given the stories I write so much more character than I ever imagined. My favorite? A Library Services available to RVGS dad, not liking his daughter’s fiancé, offered her one members: of his farms if she didn’t marry him. She did it anyway and he gave her the farm anyway. The • Check out circulating books husband lost the farm in a gambling scheme and as (Circ) and magazines (up to it was being auctioned off, a horseman came flying 4 at a time for 2 weeks) out to her farm to tell her that her farm was on the • Lookups: in a book or other auction block. She jumped on her own horse, rode item in the Jackson County into town, bid on her farm and got it back. Genealogy Library catalog Happy hunting! • Lookups: familysearch.org images only available Kathie Ordal at a FamilySearch affiliate library • Lookups: If you DON’T have a computer or Editor’s note: To learn more internet access, a JCGL volunteer will look up a about using Facebook for specific item for you on our seven subscription genealogical research, join websites: American Ancestors, Ancestry, instructor Rich Miles for FindMyPast, Fold3, HistoryGeo, MyHeritage, and “Facebook for Genealogy” Newspapers.com Oregon Collection. April 29, 1:30 PM. Click here Email [email protected] with your specific for more information. request.

Volunteers Needed Oregon State Archives Recognized Volunteer Director Opening FamilyTree magazine recently Are you looking for an opportunity to be more announced their list of the “75 involved with the society and meet new people who Best State Genealogy Websites share your interest in genealogy? We have an of 2020.” Oregon State opening for Volunteer Director that may be just right Archives: Archival Records was for you! This position is appointed by the President listed! Click here to visit the site. with the approval of the Board, is a voting member Collections with genealogy of the Board, and the term is one year. If you are records are indicated in green. For example, the interested, contact Kim Oregon Historical County Records Guide includes Thurman at county maps, histories and record inventories. The [email protected]. Oregon Historical Records Index covers names from county records, including vital, naturalization and Love to Research? probate records. With our library temporarily closed due to COVID, we have New Digitized Newspaper Site Launched fellow members who are For those of you unable to access a computer to conduct their family researching in research. If you are interested in helping a fellow Colorado and member with growing their family tree during this Wyoming, we're time, we would be happy to connect you with those happy to pass along that the Plains to Peaks Historic in need. If you can help, just click here to fill out the Newspapers database launched in December 2020 Volunteer Application on our website. Be sure to put and is FREE for use! A collaboration between the “family research” in the “Other skills?” box. Colorado and Wyoming State Libraries and the

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University of Wyoming, the collection can be either are not limited to the modern boundaries of searched or browsed by date, location, and title. Be Lithuania; they also cover areas located in present- sure to bookmark the site for your newspaper day Poland, Belarus, or other neighboring countries. research, www.ppc-historicnewspapers.org! The records in this compilation include vital records, census records, tax and voter lists, conscription lists, New Records Added to Our Accessible household registers, directories, emigration lists, and Subscription Websites (Partial List*) more.

Ancestry FamilySearch.org (NOT a • Oregon, State Divorces, subscription); free, just open an 1925-1968 account • Ireland, Poor Law and Board • California, Great Registers, of Guardian Records, 1839- 1850-1920 1920 • Illinois, Cook County, Birth • Ireland, Valuation Records, Certificates, 1871-1949 1824-1856 • Missouri, Pre-World War II Adjutant General Enlistment Contracts, 1900-1941 FindMyPast • U.S. Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, • London Fire Brigade 1800-c1955 (28 of the 30 federal land states: Reports, 1915-1918 Alaska and Missouri are not included) (damage from World War I *To see the list of updated and new record sets, on bombing, with names and FamilySearch go to “Records,” click on “Browse all addresses) Published Collections,” click twice on the right-hand • National Burial Index for column heading “Last Updated” and you will see the England and Wales list of the most recent updates and additions. • Cambridgeshire, Licensed Victuallers (pub landlords) 138 New Books and 11 CD-ROMs Added • Durham, Diocese, Marriage Licenses to JCGL in March • Lincolnshire and Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions 149 new “items” were added to the JCGL collection • Essex Baptisms in March, including: • Kent Baptisms and Marriages • 45 pamphlets about English research (942 P144) • U.S. Black Loyalists evacuated in 1783 by British • 25 books about Indiana (977.2) from New York after defeat in American War for • 10 books about Massachusetts (974.4) Independence • 5 books about Indians of North America (970.004.) MyHeritage Click here to see the The Lithuanian-Jewish Records complete 13-page list. from LitvakSIG, 1795–1940 Remember: Books with collection consists of several “Circ” at the beginning of million historical records and the call number may be covers the era from the Russian checked out by emailing Empire (1795 to World War I) to [email protected] the period of independent Lithuania (1919–1940). to arrange a time to pick The majority of records are from places in present- them up at the Genealogy day Lithuania. However, due to various geopolitical Library. changes during the time period covered, the records

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New Periodicals Chiefly transcriptions of news articles from California newspapers about happenings in American Spirit, Daughters of Northern California. Happily, there is an index to the American Revolution, Circ people mentioned. 929.05 AmS March/April 2021 Colonial cakes (with Douglas County Pioneer, Genealogical Society of recipes); the Davenport House Douglas County (Oregon), Circ 979.529 P273 Dou Museum, Savannah; Women v.35(1) in the Revolution (and a Thumbnails about the Santa Fe Trail, Bridges discussion of Coverture named for Douglas county women (Mary Beckley, records); Susan Rowson, Martha Rice, Mary Moore, Caroline Raymond); List America’s first bestselling of Douglas County Turkey Growers, 1935; Early novelist; “The power of conversation,” the salon photographers of Douglas County; and system; and the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in transcriptions of records -- Marriage Book 6; Philadelphia. Guardianship vol. 2; 1907 School census for Oak Knoll, Millwood (Hubbard Creek), Green Valley, Internet Genealogy Ruckles (Dole); Petition for naturalization Ledger 6-- Circ 929.1 Int March 2021 Oberholzer, McDonald, Sjogren, Madden, Lubcke, Understanding and Hedberg. historical medical Many back-issues have also been added. The terminology, Mail-order Society has been active transcribing records of catalogs, State fair lists, interest to their members. If you have Douglas Railroad records, Taxes on County ancestors, this newsletter might have clocks and watches [who information of value to you. knew?], MacFamilyTree 9, WPA records, and Organizing Oregon Genealogical Society Journal, (Eugene), Circ your computer files. Internet Genealogy is available 979.531 P273 Ore v.59(1) on-line on the RVGS website. Oregon pioneers James Amis and Betsy McCollum; Sidney Cecelia Park (1830-1911); American Ancestors, New Searching for Kibbey/Kibbe ancestors; Lee Sawyer; England Historic Genealogical Searching PERSI (hints); Records from the "Lost Society, Circ 974 P273 AA Wagon Train of the Elliott Cutoff" (families Beale, Winter 2021 Millican, and McLean); News clippings, 1895; Exploring the digital Oregon pioneers Lewis Hulick and Margaret Gobel. records of the Society on-line (available to you during the The Bulletin, Quarterly Magazine of the pandemic through your Genealogical Forum of Oregon, Circ 979.549 P273 membership in RVGS); Bul v.70(3) Ancestry of Pres. Joe Biden; Mary Ellen Cheatham of Claiborne Parish, Boston archaeology; Hector’s passenger list; The Louisiana (and a look at African American records); story of two families from Lebanon (Shamon and A celebration of 75 years of the GFO and its Assaf) who settled in Boston; and “Were Abraham founders; Rejected or canceled Donation Land Lincoln and Robert E. Lee related?” Claims in Oregon; and Family Bibles of Joseph Linebaugh and Elizabeth C Lee, Robert Benham Heir Lines, Genealogical Society of Siskiyou County Burch and Anne Nichols; and Joseph P Caldwell and [CA], Circ 979.421 P273 Hei Jan 2021 Mary E. Morrell.

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Rogue Valley New to the Surplus Book Sale Genealogical Society Each month we add books to the Surplus Book Sale, offering them locally (for Board of Directors less) before our internet book sale volunteers list them on Amazon. We want President: Kim Thurman our members to have first chance! While our library is closed for the Vice President: Katie Haugse pandemic, you may email [email protected] and we will hold the Secretary: Loretta Barker Treasurer: books you specify for you to pick up by arrangement. Here are the books Barbara Shrewsberry added in March: Trustee: Barbara Northrop • Santa Cruz, the Early Years by Leon Rowland, 1980 $6.00 Past President: Karen Asche • Ghost Towns of the Santa Cruz Mountains by John V. Young, 1979 $5.50 Library Director: Anne Billeter • Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1769-1850 by Marie E. Membership Director: Margaret Clark-Mayfield Northrop, vol. 1 & 2, 1976, 1984 $170.00 Education Co-Directors: • Ulster County, New York Probate Records, two volumes in one by Gustave Barbara Halvorsen, Pat Jenkins Anjou, reprint 1996 (has loose pages) $4.00 Volunteer Director: • History of the Town of Marlborough, Ulster County, New York, from the Vacant First Settlement in 1712 by Captain Wm. Bond to 1887 by Charles H. Technology and Data Management Director: Cochrane, facsimile reprint 2006 $7.50 Rich Miles • History of New Paltz, New York and its Old Families from 1678 to 1820 by Finance Director: Steve Kazar Ralph Lefevre, Facsimile reprint 2003 $21.00 • New York in the Revolution as Colony and State by James A. Roberts, 2nd RVGS Membership ed 1898, bound with New York In the Revolution as Colony and State Membership is available to all compiled by Frederic G. Mather, volume II, 1901, reprinted 1996 $33.00 interested persons. • Records of the Town of Plymouth, v. 1-3, 1636-1783, reprint 1995 $37.00 Membership privileges include: • Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families by William T. Davis, reprint • Free use of library 1985 $9.00 • Volunteer opportunities • Monterey County Place Names by Donald Thomas Clark $21.00 • Reduced fees for genealogy classes and • New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 143, #1, January seminars 2012 Contents: Otho Oliver of New York City and Washington County, • Check out of materials Maryland: his parents and descendants. Bankhead, Joseph and Daniel • Free access to subscription Chaplin of the town of Virgil, Cortland County, New York. Major Jelles websites Fonda's store ledger, 1756-1794, Caughnawaga, New York (continued). • Society publications • Interest groups Gertrude Barber, Minnie Cowen, and Ray Sawyer: the sisters who indexed • Free mentoring New York (continued). Persons in Suffolk County, Long Island, who took • Access to members-only the oath of allegiance and peaceable behavior, 1778 (concluded). $15.00 web content • Guide to Naturalization Records of the United States by Christina K. Schaefer, 1997 $11.00 Visit our website at • Old Naval Days: Sketches from the Life of Rear Admiral William Radford, rvgslibrary.org to join today. U.S.N. by Sophie Radford de Meissner, 1920 $21.00 • Cervantes-Walls Spanish and English Dictionary, 1997 $3.00 The RVGS eNews • Law and Community on the Mexican California Frontier by David J. Editor: Rich Miles Langum Sr., 2nd ed., 2006 $3.00 [email protected] • My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir, hardcover, 1988 $4.00 • Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., 1964, 2 vols., The Rogue Valley Genealogical hardcover $12.00 Society, Inc. is 501 (c)(3) charitable organization, tax identification number: 93-0684590.

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