Volume 6 | Issue 5 | May 2021 CLASSES & EVENTS

IN THIS ISSUE The following RVGS classes and events are all offered via Zoom. Classes & Events • Most classes and events require online Local Happenings Virtual Opportunities advanced registration, see the Programs & RVGS News Classes menu on our website. Registration Family History Library Trip closes for most events the day before the Translation Services event unless capacity is reached before then. Newspapers.com Extended • New members to Interest Groups will need to Scholarship News JCGL News register by clicking here to find the interest New Additions to the Library group of your choice. AND MORE! • For more details, click here to view our website calendar. • Click here to find Zoom help on our website. OUR MISSION • All times listed are Pacific Time Zone. The mission of the Rogue Valley Genealogical Society, Registration Now Open! Inc. is to inspire interest in genealogy, inform and educate Monday, May 10, 9:30 AM - Noon, Board Meeting the public, and maintain a growing sustainable library All members are welcome to attend. Free to all. Email with a strong online presence. [email protected] for a Zoom link.

CONTACT US Monday, May 10, 1:30 - 3:00 PM, “Introduction to Canadian Research and Resources” Rogue Valley Genealogical Society – Jackson County Kathy Griffin will lead this class. If your family Genealogy Library story includes ancestors who emigrated from Canada to the , this class may help 3405 S Pacific Hwy Medford, Oregon 97501 you find out when and where they arrived in Canada, where they were born, where they 541-512-2340 [email protected] lived, and what they did on the way to the www.rvgslibrary.org United States. The class will explore resources available to trace your Canadian ancestors, with a focus on the Library and Archives of Canada and LIBRARY HOURS its wealth of information. We will talk about how to access the Archives, which includes – Birth, Marriage, and death records – Census records – The Jackson County Genealogy Library is temporarily closed Immigration records– Military records – Much more. We will also look at due to COVID-19. resources available here in the United States.

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Cost: $10 for members, $20 for non-members sources with emphasis on 1850's Rogue Valley and early Medford history. From a modest beginning, Tuesday, May 11, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, German Ben's website has greatly expanded in quantity and Interest Group regional reach. Check it out at http:// This group is facilitated by Mary Robsman. truwe.sohs.org/files/index.html. Cost: Free for all.

Tuesday, May 11, 1:30 - 3:00 PM, Family Tree Wednesday, May 19, 10:30 AM - 12 Noon, Maker Interest Group “Mapping Your Ancestors” This group is facilitated by Barbara MacMillen. Come In this class, Jeanne Hoadley with any questions about using “Family Tree Maker” will review the types of software. maps that may be useful to a genealogist, including an Wednesday, May 12, 10:30 - 12:00 PM, Genetic overview of the map Genealogy Interest Group collection at the Jackson This group is facilitated by Jeff Roberts. County Genealogy Library. The class will take a look at Thursday, May 13, 1:00 - 3:00 PM, the David Rumsey Collection of Historical Maps and “Introduction to Genealogy” discuss how these can be used to help tell your Anne Billeter will teach this class ancestor’s story. Finally, we will have a lesson in for genealogy beginners: how to understanding the Public Land Survey System with start, forms to use, case studies showing how to locate your ancestor’s documentation to seek, helpful homestead on a topographic map. Cost: $10 for clues, FamilySearch and subscription websites, members, $20 for non-members. online library catalogs, and why deduction is important. Cost: $5 for all. Monday, May 24, 1:00 - 3:00 PM, DNA Class Series: “Color Clustering Plus” Saturday, May 15, 10:00 - 11:30 AM, “Brick Wall Learn what color Roundtable” with Jan Dole. clustering is and how to This discussion is open to all. Bring your questions, do it. You will see tools your puzzles, your brick walls, and we will put our Lorita Cushman has heads together to see if we can find a way to get you developed to enhance closer to your goal. You don’t even have to have a color clustering. We will “wall” to join us. We welcome you anyway and who take time in class to work knows? You may have a nugget that would help on your DNA color someone else. Cost: Free to all clustering. Cost: $5 for members, $10 for non- members. Tuesday, May 18, 1:30 - 3:00 PM, Program & Member Meeting: “Ben Truwe’s Southern Oregon Tuesday, May 25, 1:30 - 2:30 PM, Heirloom History Website” Genealogy - “Finding Friends in Talent” After a brief member meeting, Jan Wright will present this talk. Who knows you Southern Oregon historian Ben best? Is it your family or your friends? An example of Truwe will share his website, how genealogical research can sometimes be Southern Oregon History, productive through associations outside of the Revised. The site contains nine family will be revealed through a 1937 friendship hundred pages of Southern quilt from Talent, Oregon. Cost: $5 for members, Oregon history, almost $10 for non-members. exclusively transcriptions of primary and secondary

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Thursday, June 3, 1:30 - 3:00 PM, Tuesday, June 15, 1:30-3:00 PM, Program and Program: “PowerPoint Basics” Member Meeting: “History of Your House and with Cheryl Azevedo Johnson Neighborhood” In this FREE program, you will Betsy J. Green has been a learn the steps to create a basic writer for more than 25 years. PowerPoint slide deck. Learn how As a freelancer, she contributes to add new slides, photos, change formatting, and articles to newspapers and run the slide show. Sharing your slides via Zoom magazines in the U.S. and screen share will also be covered. Cost: Free for all. abroad. She specializes in writing about local history, Friday, June 4, 10:00 - 11:30 AM, Class: “Using architecture, and the MyHeritage Library Edition for Research” environment. She researched and wrote about the Are you looking for a new history of more than 85 homes and was responsible research option other than for nominating five properties to the National Ancestry and FamilySearch? Join Register of Historic Places. In 2020, she began us as Kim Thurman will writing "The Best House Detective" column for The demonstrate how to effectively Santa Barbara Independent weekly paper. Green is a utilize the numerous records former associate editor of Reader's Digest and staff found on MyHeritage Library editor of World Book Encyclopedia. Cost: Free to all. Edition. Both catalog browsing and search strategies will be demonstrated, as well as a review of records Tuesday, June 22, 1:30 - 2:30 PM, Heirloom you may not find anywhere else. MyHeritage is Genealogy Case Study: “Maryum’s Yellow Rose” particularly useful for Scandinavian and European “Maryum’s Yellow Rose” is a research, so prepare to expand your research quilt, a book, a rose, and John horizons with us! Cost: $10 for members, $20 for and Maryum McKee’s local non-members. pioneer life story. Anne Billeter will explore how much of the Saturday, June 12, 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM: “Finding story can be documented. Cost: Your Native American Ancestors” with Kate $5 for members, $10 for non- Eakman members. One of the most cherished beliefs in US Genealogical Save the Date research is the presence of a Native American in our past. In Saturday, September 25, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, this class we will walk through Seminar: North American Migration: In, Out, and the key first steps used to Across with Tricia Oberndorf. determine if there is a Native American in your ancestry. Local Happenings These steps include examining your family stories, tracing your lineage to that specific person; noting Wednesday, May 5, Noon – 1:00 PM, Windows in race/color in birth, marriage, death, and census Time: "Scandals from the Oregon Railways, 1884- records; the geography of a particular tribe; the 1923" by Sue DeMarinis history of that tribe; and comparing the facts of your The 1880s arrival of the railroad to Southern Oregon family’s story. There will be two sessions with a 30- brought many lifestyle changes and advantages to minute lunch break between them. Registrants may our small, then isolated communities. However, Sue submit questions on the registration form up to June DeMarinis, a local Ashland author, has dug deeper to 5. Cost: $25 for members, $35 for non-members. expose the scandals that also linked the rails to little

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known history. Collaborating information from panel discussion on a specific topic. Another aspect County documents, historic newspapers, and of the Virtual NERGC 2021 is a set of 60 additional ancestry records, Sue uncovered mostly forgotten presentations that are recorded and available ‘on- historical events and characters that shaped the demand’ until May 31, 2021. Additional activities foundation of our Southern Oregon Valley. throughout the 61 days include – SIG’s, Ancestor Presented via zoom by Southern Oregon Historical Road Show, Society Fair, Library & Archive, and Society and Jackson County Library Services. Click Exhibit Hall, open 24x7 for 61 days, with many here for more information and to register for this vendors opting to include scheduled appointments FREE event. and/or video chats as optional activities at their booths. Click here for more information. Wednesday, June 2, Noon – 1:00 PM, Windows in Time: "Ten Quirky Things to Know About Historic May 2021, Family History Library Class Calendar Ashland" by Peter Finkle Whether you’re a FamilySearch beginner or you’re Ashland began in the 1850s as a looking for more advanced topics, the Family History mill town and an agricultural Library offers free classes every month for anyone town. The town boomed when who wants to learn more. Click here for the full the railroad came to Ashland in schedule. the 1880s, connecting the region with Portland, , and markets far beyond. From "You won't believe what kids sold at the railroad depot" to "a fifth-generation local family business," Peter Finkle will recount little-known tales, most from the late 1800s and early 1900s, with six of the ten quirky stories reflecting the railroad's influence on Ashland. May 7 - 8, 2021 Heartland Family History Presented via zoom by Southern Oregon Historical Conference, “Finding New Connections” Society and Jackson County Library Services. Click The Heartland Family History Conference will be here for more information and to register for this hosting a virtual event again this year, with two days FREE event. of "live" programming on May 7-8, followed by 90 days of on-demand access to recorded content, their Virtual Opportunities virtual exhibit hall, and participant networking opportunities. The featured speaker this year is Billie April 1 - May 31, Virtual NERGC 2021, “Springing Stone Fogarty, who will be presenting four sessions. from the Past into the Future” In addition, they will be offering more than 30 The traditional breakout sessions presented by regional, national, NERGC (New England and international speakers. More details and Regional Genealogical registration information can be found on the Consortium) conference website. conference is a three- day event. The virtual May 15, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM, Pacific Time, Seattle event will have three Genealogical Society Spring Seminar: “A Day of Gathering Days with English Research” with Paul Milner scheduled presentations and a live chat with the Are you knocking on the right door? Do you know featured speakers. In addition to the Gathering Days, where to search next? If you're seeking ancestors in there are three additional ‘tracks,’ at an additional England and throughout the United Kingdom, this cost to attendees that will occur on Saturdays. Each event is aimed at bolstering your knowledge of how is a set of four presentations as well as a speaker’s and where to research across the pond. Click here to

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register online. Click here for more information. For a brief history of the Polish questions or assistance email Elizabeth at Heraldry along with a [email protected]. detailed review of the elements and guidelines June 4 - 5, Genetic Genealogy 2021 “The Genes in that make up a family crest. Your Family” Even though family crests DNA testing is an increasingly are no longer officially popular tool for genealogists. registered in Poland, Learn the difference between anyone can create their own Polish Family Crest by autosomal DNA, mtDNA and Y- utilizing this knowledge of the elements and DNA and which tool is useful guidelines behind each crest. Tadeusz Pilat is a for what type of investigation. genealogist, historian, and artist. His master’s degree There will be presentations work included the study of family crests. He hand from AncestryDNA, Family Tree paints family crests, both original registered and DNA, Living DNA and newly created, by special order. To register for the MyHeritage DNA. The keynoter lecture, email [email protected]. For more will be blogger Roberta Estes, information: www.paf-welcomehome.org. MBA. Other notables presenting include Maurice J. Gleeson, MD of RVGS NEWS Genetic Genealogy Ireland, Leah La Perle Larkin, PhD, creator of WATO, and DNA authors Emily Welcome New Members! Aulicino, MEd, and Richard Hill, MBA. Welcome to George Phillips, the newest member of June 11 - 12, Jamboree 2021 “The Stars in Your the Rogue Valley Genealogical Society! Family” The 51st Genealogy Jamboree RVGS eNews Subscriptions brings you nationally known New RVGS members are automatically subscribed to speakers keeping you in touch the eNews mailing list. If you are not a member, you with the latest developments can subscribe by clicking here. If you choose to in the field of genealogy. From unsubscribe through Constant Contact, be advised coast to coast, from North to that RVGS will not be able to send you ANY emails, South, from our neighbors - including those for classes and events. Instead, email Canada and Mexico - and from [email protected] to have your name the Old World, our speakers removed from the eNews list but remain in our can help you find your database for other mailings. ancestors' lives and stories.

You'll be able to learn from RVGS Family History many tried-and-true speakers and get surprising insights from speakers who are new to Jamboree. Library Research Trip Visit https://genealogyjamboree.com/ for complete Scheduled details on both virtual seminars. As we look towards a more Saturday, June 19, Noon Eastern Time, Free Polish normal future, many RVGS Genealogy Lecture presented by the Polish members and friends are American Foundation: “The Story Behind the Family making plans to research the comprehensive Crest” with Tadeusz Pilat. genealogical collection at the Salt Lake City Family Each family crest tells a story. This lecture will cover History Library this coming October 3 through 10.

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There are still a few SLC Plaza Hotel rooms available through AmericanAncestors.org for our attending members. Now is the time to has been extended to June 30, reserve your room. Just call the Plaza Hotel at 1-800- 2021. To access 366-3684 before September 1st. Be sure to ask for Newspapers.com, follow these your discounted Rogue Valley Genealogical Society steps: rate. For more information contact Ann Baracker at 1. Log in to www.rvgslibrary.org. [email protected]. Ann will keep those who are 2. Log in to American Ancestors planning to go up to date with FHL opening using the link on the rvgslibrary.org homepage announcements as they become available. No and following the instructions on the next page. concrete opening date has been published at this 3. Once in American Ancestors, click on the SEARCH time. Keep your fingers crossed. Hope to see you at tab right under the logo. the Family History Library in October. 4. On the pop-up menu, click on Special Interest Databases. Terrific Offer for RVGS Members 5. On the Library Databases From Home page, click on ProQuest Databases. Our various RVGS interest 6. Click in the box for “I’m not a robot”, then click groups continue to meet Continue. virtually to learn and share 7. Click on Newspaper.com - World Collection. information. At our recent German Interest Group Program by Deb Root Shell at the RVGS (GIG) Zoom meeting, German translator Theresa General Meeting April 20, 2021 Berns shared her webinar, By Andrea Patterson “11 Tips to Help You Decipher German Church Records.” Several GIG Deb Shell, researcher and current President of the members have successfully used her tips and Greater Cleveland, Ohio, Genealogical Society, translation services. presented “Mistaken Roots: A Cautionary Tale” on th April 20 . Deb described how she questioned the Theresa has made a special offer for all RVGS conclusions of others, even cousins, leading her on a members needing German translation. Theresa is path to new results with sources. She researched all offering a 25% discount on first-time transcription four brothers and children. She demonstrated that and translation services for all RVGS members. This by using original records, census analysis, and DNA th offer is only good until July 1, 2021. Contact results, the evidence gave her Oliver Root, her 4 information can be found on the webinar handout great-grandfather. Now, with a proven ancestor, she and on Theresa's website https://www.tb- could go forward. Lesson learned, don’t spend years translations.com. You can also find her information on your incorrect, unsourced ancestor! Thank you, on the GIG Resource webpage at rvgslibrary.org > Deb. Programs & Classes > About Our Interest Groups > Visit the GIG resource page. Mary Robsman, GIG Another Successful RVGS Virtual Seminar facilitator, will work with Theresa Berns to validate By Andrea Patterson that individuals using the discount are current RVGS members. Author Diana Elder, AG of Family Locket Genealogists Access to Newspapers.com Through was guest lecturer for Rogue American Ancestors Extended Valley Genealogical Society’s April 24th seminar, “Research FREE access to Newspapers.com World Collection Like a Pro.” In the morning

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sessions, Diana clearly laid out the steps for a In high school, Grace was an Eagle Point High School successful genealogy project: stating objectives, Link Leader, a member of the National Honor analyzing information, and proceeding throughout Society, in the Concert and Marching Bands, an FFA the project with specific planning. The afternoon chapter member, competed in volleyball and varsity sessions covered probate and tax records. Probates wrestling, all while maintaining a high GPA. can be quite complicated and knowing the legal descriptions and location of these records is the While doing her course work in high school, Grace key to success. Who knew to give a 20-year span in has also been working full time. While working with searching for probates of an ancestor? Diana elders at Table Rock Memory Center, guiding the challenged the audience to offer responses to her residents, assisting with eating and hygiene, listening questions, engaging and keeping everyone to concerns, and serving as a companion, she has thinking. The virtual classes went by quickly and gained compassion and finds nurturing others to be now it’s time to get to the lessons learned! fulfilling. Grace also volunteers one day a week, driving 35 miles to a neighboring town, to help a The three door prize drawings included two senior citizen who needs constant care. wonderful books and a certificate for free admission to Southern California Genealogical We hope that when the Jackson County Genealogy Society’s Genealogy Jamboree June 11-12. Click Library reopens our members will be able to meet here for more information. Grace in person at one of our monthly member meetings, congratulate her on her achievements, A big thank you to our Education Committee and and hear about her future plans. webmaster. The day went smoothly. The group This is the sixth year that RVGS has awarded a consensus was to have Diana return for future scholarship to a student who attends high school presentations. and is a resident of Jackson County, Oregon. This

year’s scholarship is in the amount of $1,500. RVGS Watch our eNews, website, and Facebook page for began the scholarship program as a community information about the September 25th seminar outreach as part of our 50th anniversary as a with Tricia Oberndorf, who will present classes on genealogical society here in the Rogue Valley. If you Colonial Migration to North America, Expansion of are interested in supporting this program by a New Nation, Fulfilling Manifest Destiny and donating toward its continuance, please indicate Migration Research and Resources. High School Scholarship on your donation when

giving to the Rogue Valley Genealogical Society. Scholarship News The RVGS Scholarship Committee, Marilyn Ayres, By Marilyn Ayres Lynn Leissler, Alan Marion, Jack Patterson, and Chloe We are happy to Sternola. announce that Grace Feagan, a Senior at Board of Directors Openings Eagle Point High School, has been Are you looking for an opportunity to be more selected as this year’s recipient of the Rogue Valley involved with the society and meet new people who Genealogical Society Scholarship. Grace has share your interest in selected Southern Oregon University with a genealogy? We have openings planned field of study in Health Care. She is for both Treasurer and Volunteer interested in mental health, wellness in general, Director that may be just right and jobs in care giving. for you! These positions are appointed by the President with

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the approval of the Board, is a voting member of record.” (973 H388 Ulv) the Board, and the term is one year. Our current The books are in Treasurer will provide training for the successful Norwegian. Thanks to a candidate prior to appointment, while the very kind volunteer, the Volunteer Director is open for immediate short section of the book placement. If you are interested, contact Kim about Norwegians in Thurman at [email protected]. Oregon has been translated, typed, and Love to Research? tipped into the book. If you are interested in helping a fellow member The real surprise is that the with growing their family tree during this time, of author, Martin Ulvestad, library closure, we would be happy to connect you lived in Jackson County, Oregon, for a brief period with those in need. If you can help, just click here while he was compiling these books, and even to fill out the Volunteer Application on our website. established a post office here. When he applied for Be sure to put “family research” in the “Other the post office on 17 June 1904, he omitted the “e” skills?” box. from his surname, requesting that the name of the post office be “Ulvstad.” Thanks to Ben Truwe and JCGL NEWS the SOHS (Southern Oregon Historical Society), the 3 page application is digitally available at http:// Library Services available to RVGS sohs.org/content/ulvstad-post-office, including the members: map showing the location of Ulvstad 13 ½ miles northeast of Trail just above where SugarPine Creek • Check out circulating books (Circ) and flows into Elk Creek (southeast quarter of Section 14, magazines (up to 4 at a time for 2 weeks) Township 32 South, Range 1 East). On the • Lookups: in a book or other item in the Jackson application Ulvestad notes the population is “about County Genealogy Library catalog 30 now, but people are settling down quite fast.” • Lookups: familysearch.org images only Ulvestad served as the postmaster from 16 Jul 1904 available at a FamilySearch affiliate library to 4 Oct 1905. During that time, he contributed a • Lookups: If you DON’T have a computer or newsy article about “Ulvstad” which appeared in the internet access, a JCGL volunteer will look up a Medford Mail newspaper on 5 May 1905, p. 8. specific item for you on our seven subscription (Thanks to Ben Truwe for locating and transcribing websites: American Ancestors, Ancestry, the article.) An excerpt states, “The growth of the FindMyPast, Fold3, HistoryGeo, MyHeritage, population has done good in many respects and the and Newspapers.com Oregon Collection. influence of law-abiding, industrious class of citizens Email [email protected] with your specific is plainly evident. If we only had a church, religious request. services and longer terms of schools, we would be more satisfied. It is too early, though, to expect Martin Ulvestad those things; they will come with the progress of the settlement. Such things take time.” [accessed on By Anne Billeter Newspapers.com, 29 Jan 2021] An unusual two-volume set Who was Martin Ulvestad? He was the son of Peder was added to the Jackson Olsen Ulvestad (1825-1918) and Alexandrine County Genealogy Library in Knudsdatter (1824-1894) and was born in 2020: “Nordmaendene I municipality in More og Romsdal, on 24 Dec Amerika, deres historie og 1865. He immigrated to the United States in 1886, Rekord” which translates from the Norwegian as and in 1893 married Gertrude Myklebust. They had “Norwegians in America, their history and

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one son. After her death in 1901 he married her list of the most recent updates and additions. cousin, Hannah Oss. They had six children. Martin Ulvestad died in 1942 in Seattle. He was a pioneer in 128 New Books and 8 CD-ROMs Added to documenting the early history of Norwegian settlers JCGL in April in America. 136 new items were added to the New Records Added to Our Accessible JCGL collection in April, including 21 Subscription Websites (Partial List*) Virginia (975.5), 20 New York (974.7), 16 Massachusetts (974.4), 15 Ancestry California (979.4), 13 Pennsylvania • Confederate Officers Card Index, (979.8), and a quite a few about states not listed as 1861-1865 often: New Jersey (974.9), Maryland (975.2), • Arkansas Ex-Confederate Delaware (975.1), West Virginia (975.4), and Arizona Pension Records, 1891-1939 (979.1). Click here to see the complete 13-page list. • Illinois, Macon County, Decatur Remember, books with “Circ” at the beginning of Public Library Obituaries, 1879- the call number may be checked out by emailing 2007 [email protected] to arrange a time to pick • Montana, Beaverhead County Records, 1862- them up at the Genealogy Library. 2009 • Nebraska, Index to Deaths, 1904-1955 Worthy of special mention is the book by Ernst • Nebraska, Index to Marriages, 1909-1955 Hoger entitled Heimatbuch Borodino und Friedrichsfeld. In German, it relates the history of the FindMyPast former German villages of Borodino and • England: Burials, Norfolk 1937 Friedrichsfeld, Bessarabia, Russia, now Odessa Baptisms, Norfolk Banns & Province, Ukraine. It contains plans of the colony, Marriages from 1921 plan of the vicinity, and a map of German • England & Wales Deaths 2007- settlements in Bessarabia. 2020 • UK Electoral Registers & Companies House Two books about Quakers Directors recommended at the recent • US: Ohio: Cincinnati Roman Catholic Parish Quaker seminar have also Registers been added to the collection, both circulating FamilySearch.org books. Thee & Me: A • England, Middlesex Parish Beginner’s Guide to Early Registers, 1539-1988 Quaker Records by Lisa Parry • US: Illinois, Cook County, Birth Arnold (Circ 289.6 Arn) is an Certificates, 1871-1949, Index to excellent guide for the 50% of Americans who are images. Images can be accessed likely to have a Quaker ancestor! She first provides a at a FamilySearch Affiliate Library. RVGS quick guide to the genealogy research project, useful members may request an image by emailing for ANY genealogy beginners, whether they have [email protected] with film number, Quaker ancestors or not. She then provides an image number and name of person. invaluable historical guide to the Quaker religious *To see the list of updated and new record sets, on movement, including an explanation and guide to FamilySearch go to “Records” > “Browse all the major schisms, with how the schisms affect the Published Collections,” click twice on the right-hand search for records. The fact that Quakers were column heading “Last Updated” and you will see the authorized by the various governments to record

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their own vital records and NOT report them to the Oregon Historical Quarterly, Oregon civil authorities (i.e., government), makes the search Historical Society for Quaker vital records an essential part of the Circ 979.5 P273 OHQ Spring 2021 search for Quaker ancestors. The author was a major The rise and fall of “No Special part of the development of the Quaker Collections Rights” [for gays]; Chinese religion in on Ancestry.com and provides a step-by-case study John Day; White supremacy in to using them effectively. Oregon history; and Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church 1904 confirmation Quakers in America by Thomas D. Hamm (Circ 289.6 class. Ham) is a very different book, providing a more in- depth history of the Quakers, then providing a New to the Surplus Book Sale detailed presentation of Quakers in America in the Each month we will add books to the Surplus Book twentieth century: the broad variety of their Sale, offering them locally (for less) before our religious beliefs and practices, their impact on the internet book sale volunteers list them on Amazon. world, and the role of women, marriage, and family. We want members to have first chance! While the This is a more academic, well-footnoted approach, Genealogy Library is closed for the coronavirus which is well-written, informative, and engaging. pandemic, you may email [email protected] and we will hold the books you specify for you to New Periodicals pick up by arrangement. The New England Historical and Surplus Sale books for May 2021 eNews: • History of the old township of Dunstable including Genealogical Register Nashua, Nashville, Hollis, Hudson, Litchfield and 974 G242 NEHGS Winter 2021 Merrimac, N.H.; Dunstable and Tyngsborough, Mass. By Thomasine (Clench) Frost of Charles J. Fox. Orig 1846; facsimile reprint, 6 pages per the Great Migration; Sarah page. (Gerrish) King (1714-1798), Salem, • Schoonmaker Family: Descendants of Hendrick MA; Aquila and Thomas Chase Jochemsz Schoonmaker, 1624-1683 by Ruth P. Heidgerd (MA); Robert Gamlin of Roxbury (Part 1) and Heidgerd and William M. Shoemaker II and Concord MA; Early Cram, (Parts 2-4) $75.00 Dearborn, Haborne, and Wheelwright records from • Standard Dictionary of Facts by Henry W. Ruoff, 1917 Lincolnshire; Robert Harris of Roxbury and Muddy $9.00 River MA; David Coy family of Oneida county, NY; • First Puritan Settlers of Connecticut by Royal R. Hinman, Theophilus Lockwood (CT, NY); Thomas and William NEHGS, $21.00 • New England Town, the First Hundred Years by Kenneth Hatch (MA); John Thorndike of Essex county MA. A. Lockridge $6.00 • Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783 by Colorado Genealogist, Colorado David Dobson $21.00 Genealogical Society • Boston Taxpayers in 1821 edited and indexed by Lewis Circ 978.8 P273 Col Feb 2021 Bunker Rohrbach $12.00 The issue is devoted to an • Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867 by Leonard H. Smith Jr. index to the family Bible records and Norma H. Smith $40.00 that the Colorado Genealogist has • One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families by John Osborne published over the past years. Austin, orig 1893, repr 1977 hardcover $78.00 Happily, our library holds a nearly complete set of • Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890 this publication since 1983 so you will only have to by LeRoy R. Hafen and Francis Marion Young $4.50 • Researcher’s Guide to American Genealogy by Val D. email [email protected] to request a scan of Greenwood, 1973 $4.00 specific pages if you find something you need. • Maps Maps Maps and More Maps $5.00 • Psychic Roots by Henry Z. Jones, Jr. $9.00

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