The SearcherA PUBLICATION OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY SUMMER 2015, VOLUME 52, NO. 3
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Jonathan Emery Patrol Boats Stop on the Mekong River The Little Engine that Could Okazaki Family Graveyards and Gravestones A Proof of Ancestry Local History is Your History Spotlight on Volunteers The Southern California Genealogy Society has no paid About SCGS staff. Everything is done by volunteers. The Library hosts many genealogy interest groups and other events with groups and con- Southern California Genealogical Society tact information listed below. For specific dates and time each group meets, please refer to the three-monthcalendars published 417 Irving Drive, Burbank, California 91504-2408 in each issue of The Searcher or check the online calendar at the (818) 843-7247 or (818) THE SCGS SCGS website at www.scgsgenealogy.com. FAX: (818) 843-7262 E-mail: [email protected] Group Contact Info Website: www.scgsgenealogy.com Library Hours 1890 Project Louise Calaway Monday: Closed [email protected] Tuesday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. • 3rd Tuesday: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. African American Interest Group Charlotte Bocage Wednesday-Thursday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. [email protected] Friday: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Chinese Family History Group Bo-gay Tong Salvadore First & Second Sundays of SoCal [email protected] Third & Fourth Saturdays Anna Gee [email protected] of Each Month: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. DNA Interest Group Bonny Cook, Alice Fairhurst Membership Dues DNA Administrator’s Roundtable Kathryn Johnston 1 Year Individual: $35 1 Year Joint*: $50 [email protected] 2 Years Individual: $65 2 Years Joint*: $90 Family Tree Maker Users Group Dick Humphrey 1 Year International Membership (w/mailing): $70 U.S. (FTM) [email protected] 1 Year International Membership (w/digital): $35 U.S. French-Canadian Heritage Society Suzy Goulet Youth Membership (under 25, w/proof of age) $20 (FCHSC) [email protected] German Interest Group Allene Aubertin *Joint membership = two members at the same address. [email protected] Officers German Research Group T. Maureen Schoenky President Dave Burde [email protected] First Vice-President Jay Holladay Genealogical Society of Hispanic Donie Nelson Second Vice-President Paula Hinkel America–So. California (GSHA-SC) [email protected] Recording Secretary Jean Taeuffer Hispanic Tuesday Leonard Trujillo Corresponding Secretary Fran Bumann (818) 636-8700 [email protected] Treasurer Louise Calaway Irish Interest Group Marge Rossini [email protected] Financial Secretary Peggy Schulz Italian Interest Group Lesa DeGagne The Searcher Staff [email protected] Jamboree Judi Ramsey, Priscilla Pruitt EDITOR Alice Fairhurst Lise Harding [email protected] LAYOUT EDITOR Kids’ Family History Camp Charlotte Bocage Maryann Stubblefield [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Legacy Users Group (LUG) Barbara Randall Louise Calaway • Paula Hinkel [email protected] Judi Ramsey • Beverly Truesdale Long-Range Planning Committee Dave Burde PRODUCTION [email protected] Eric Hans Lunch & Learn Charlotte Bocage [email protected] Past Presidents, 1964-2013 Nikkei Genealogical Soceity Melinda Yamane Crawford Clifford Parmenter ’64-’65 Patrick Flanagan ’93-’95 [email protected] Ruth Enyeart Clark ’66-’67 John M. O’Neill ’96-’97 The Master Genealogist Patt Ricketts Group (TMG) Foster Gilbody ’68-’69 Al Lewis ’98 [email protected] Margaret C. Fahy ’70-’71 Douglas J. Miller ’99-2001 RootsMagic Users Group Jay Holladay [email protected] Troy A. Reed ’72-’73 Pat Parish 2002-’03 Social Media Team Jean Taeuffer, Lise Harding Donald W. Franklin ’74-’75 Fred Haughton 2004 and Paula Hinkel Berni K. Campbell ’76-’81 Pam Wiedenbeck 2005-’06 [email protected] Robert C. Emrey ’82-’83 Paula Hinkel 2007 Capt. Sally Tompkins Chapter Vickie Guagliardo I. Jean Nepsund ’84-’86 Pam Wiedenbeck 2008-’10 United Daughters of the [email protected] Janet T. Jennings ’87-’88 Heidi Ziegler 2011 Confederacy (UDC) Brian C. Smith ’89-’90 Alice Fairhurst 2012-’13 Writers Group Jean Chapman Snow Virginia P. Emrey ’91-’92 (818) 386-9747 [email protected]
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The Searcher’s Mission Summer 2015: July –September The Searcher is published quarterly by SCGS (the Southern California Genealogical Society) to serve its President's Message ...... Back Cover members and the genealogical community at large. Jamboree Extension Series...... 90 The purpose is fourfold: Jamboree Congratulations...... 91 l to communicate news of our organization to our members; SCGS News l to provide a literary outlet where our members Lunch & Learn...... 83 (and others, as space allows) may share accounts Interest Groups of their research and family histories; SCGS Writers Group ...... 83 l to support and promote the research of our members Family Tree Maker, Legacy ...... 84 through articles of general genealogical interest; RootsMagic, TMG, African-American ...... 84 Irish Interest Workshop...... 84 l to serve the research needs of genealogists and historians who have an interest in Southern California’s past. Gen. Soc. of Hispanic America - SC...... 84 German Interest ...... 86 Chinese Family History Group of SoCal ...... 86 How to Contact Us Italian Interest Group...... 86 Comments, questions and corrections regarding Searcher French-Canadian Heritage Soc. of CA...... 87 content may be e-mailed directly to the editor at: Nikkei Genealogical Society ...... 87 [email protected] DNA Interest Group...... 89 Members and non-members are welcome to send unso- Beginning Genealogy...... 83 licited content to be considered for publication in The Webinar CDs from NCGS ...... 83 Searcher. Only electronic submissions (e-mailed to the above GENEii Judges; GENEii Winners ...... 85 address) will be accepted for consideration. Call for Articles...... 85 The opinions expressed in The Searcher are those of the Periodical News & Donors ...... 88 contributors. They do not represent SCGS or the member- ship as a whole. Go Digital! for The Searcher...... 88 Advertising rates per issue are: A Miracle through Photos...... 88 Full page: $150 SCGS Library Open House ...... 90 Half page: $80 Help Us Find the Missing People for the 1890 Project...... 90 Quarter page: $60 Coos County Oregon Pioneers ...... 91 Business Card Size: $25 Salt Lake City Research Group ...... 91 Contents of The Searcher are Copyright (c) 2015 by SCGS. Los Angeles Public Library; National Archives ...... 92 New & Renewing Members...... 93 Century Club ...... 95 Queries ...... 97 Are You Getting E-mails from SCGS ...... 103 Articles Jonathan Emery...... 99 Patrol Boat Stop on the Mekong River...... 101 The Little Engine that Could...... 103 Ancestral Footsteps: The Okazaki Family...... 104 Graveyards and Gravestones...... 107 A Proof of Ancestry...... 108 Local History Is Your History ...... 111 Research SCGS Research Teams ...... 112 Acquisitions ...... 113
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Monthly Meetings
Free and open to the public on the 2nd Saturday of most months; The 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 – 3:30 p.m. Learn from our speakers; ending times may vary. Contact Charlotte Bocage at [email protected] for more information. Saturday, July 11, 2015 – No meeting; come to the SCGS OPEN HOUSE Saturday, August 8, 2015 – “Answer your Questions on PC’s, Mac’s and Genealogical Software” presented by the SCGS Information Technology team. Saturday, September 12, 2015 – “Secrets of the Los Angeles Public Library Map Collection” presented by Glen Creason, LAPL Map Curator For more details, contact Charlotte [email protected] and check the website at www.scgsgenealogy.com/programs/ lunch-learn.html
SCGS Writers Group You don't need to be a professional writer to join - just someone who'd like to write your family stories. The only requirement is membership in SCGS. We meet one Tuesday and one Sunday per month, and have loads of inspiration and fun! Topics of the tales we've recently brought to meetings have been: names and nicknames, heirlooms, childhood goals and "shimmering images," one of those memory pictures that sticks in your mind for years. If you'd like to join us, please contact Jean Snow at Jeaneal- [email protected] in case a date or time has been changed. Upcoming Meetings (weekdays 12 – 2 p.m., Sundays 1 – 3 p.m.) Tuesday, July 7 Tuesday, August 4 Tuesday, September 1 Sunday, July 19 Sunday, August 16 Sunday, September 20
Upcoming Beginner’s Classes Beginner’s Four Week class with One-on One Assistance Tuesdays, September 1, 8, 15 and 22, 2015 Time: 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. at the SCGS Library, 417 Irving Drive, Burbank, CA 91504. Sign up by emailing: [email protected] or call 818-848-7247. Week 1 - The Basics of Getting Started Week 3 - Church Records Week 2 - Census Records and Their Substitutes Week 4 - Military and Land Records Beginner's Class - First Steps - (condensed half day class) Saturday, September 12, 2015 Time: 9 a.m. – Noon at the SCGS Library or Saturday November 14, 2015 Time: 9 a.m. – Noon at the SCGS Library.
Webinar CDs from the North Carolina Genealogical Society For those of you with ancestry from North Carolina and surrounds, be sure to check out the resources available from the North Carolina Genealogical Society store at http://ncgenealogy.org/shop. Their books and webinars might uncover new clues to your ancestry.
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Genealogy Software Irish Interest Workshop Users Groups 5th Sunday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Meeting: August 30, 2015 at the SCGS Library Isn't it great when you have all of your genealogy organized in a software program? Many of us take trips to see where our As we go to press, we are eagerly awaiting the release of the Irish ancestors lived. By using a software program you can easily Roman Catholic Church parish registers held by the National spot what information you are missing and thus maximize your Library of Ireland. They are scheduled to go online July 8th, research time. 2015. I recently heard that they may be released sooner but I have not been able to verify that. This will certainly be the first topic discussed at our August 30th workshop. For more infor- Family Tree Maker Users Group mation on what records are included see: www.nli.ie/en/parish- 2nd Sunday, 4 – 6 p.m. register.aspx. We may also continue our discussion from the Contact Dick Humphrey at [email protected] May workshop on getting across the pond. for more information. Meeting: April 12 Feel free to bring your laptop, tablet or other device to join in Meetings: July 12, August 9, September 13 and do some searching of your own. As always, there will be time allotted for help with your personal research at the end of Legacy Users Group the discussion. Remember, if your ancestors came here before 2nd Monday, 7 – 9 p.m. 1922, we are ALL searching the same Ireland. We hope to see Contact Barbara Randall at [email protected] many of you there. Have a great summer. for more information. For further information contact Marge Rossini – Meetings: July 13, August 10, September 14 Check out the Legacy-sponsored free Webinar tips on [email protected]. genealogical research at www.familytreewebinars.com/
Roots Magic Users Group 3rd Sunday, 2 – 4 p.m. Genealogical Society of Hispanic Contact Jay Holladay at [email protected] for more information. America – SC (GSHA-SC) Meetings: July 19, August 16, September 20 Join us for the quarterly meeting at the Southern California Check out the free webinars at www.rootsmagic.com/Webinars/ Genealogy Library on Saturday, August 1, 2015, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. The Master Genealogist (TMG) Users Group For those coming only to hear speakers, please arrive no later than 10:45 a.m. to find a seat. After the morning program there 1st Saturday, 2 – 4 p.m. is a no-host pizza and salad lunch. Please bring a guest and Contact Evelyn Maynard at carpool! It’s a great way to reconnect and help another member [email protected] or (818) 340-7675 who wouldn’t be able to come otherwise. for more information. The Southern California chapter has a large collection of Meetings: July ( no meeting), August 1, September 5 Hispanic genealogical records, maps, Hispanic family histories, and history books. At the GSHA-SC chapter meetings mem- bers can check out selected books for a nominal fee, allowing you to research at home until the book has to be African American Interest Group returned. Genealogy resources focus on the areas of Arizona, California, Colorado, Mexico, New Mexico, and Texas. 2nd Saturday 3:30 – 6 p.m. at SCGS Library For details e-mail Rita Vega-Acevedo at [email protected] or Contact Charlotte Bocage at [email protected] for more information Cathy Romero at [email protected] and visit our Facebook page at http://tinyurl.com/GSHASoCal Meeting dates are: July 11 • August 8 • September 12 Share one-on-one research time and experience each Hispanic Tuesday at SCGS.. Appointments are welcome. Contact Lenny Trujillo at [email protected] or (818 636-8700.
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Meet the 2014 GENEii Judges The 2014 GENEii Family History Writers Contest just con- ing writers, but most days she putters around her small Pacific cluded with more entries than ever before. Some of the win- NW farm, doing various carpentry and woodworking projects ners and winning entries are featured in this issue of The with varying degrees of success. Searcher. The others will appear throughout the year. What Raymonde Motil is a veteran SCGS member and one of the we often forget is the dedication of the judges who must read first members of the French Canadian Heritage Society of Cal- and evaluate every entry. Our two talented writers and judges ifornia, a special interest group within the SCGS. Raymonde are Sherrie Holmes and Raymonde Motil. is a 2011 winner of the GENEii contest and a member of the Sherrie Holmes is a retired freelance editor who is still very SCGS Writer’s Group. As a member of the Writer’s Group, much involved in the writing world. Raymonde helps others with their writing and contributes She's a long time member of a book club and a critique group, short stories to the monthly meetings. Her insights on family and has over 5,000 hardback books bulging from her book- history writing provide valuable assistance to the members of shelves. Though retired, she still manages the Web site for a the group. group of eight veteran, historical romance authors who consis- Raymonde spends most of her Wednesdays at the SCGS tently hit the bestseller lists. Sherrie occasionally coaches fledg- Library helping patrons with their French-Canadian research.
GENEii Winners By Pam Wiedenbeck Congratulations to the winners of the 2014 GENEii Family Category 2: submissions under 1,000 words History Writers Contest. The Family History Writing Contest First Place – Michelle Robin La of Santa Barbara, California – honors writers who show mastery in the genres of Memoir and Patrol Boat Stop on the Mekong River Literary Non-fiction. Second Place – Kharis Adirahsetio of Sidoarjo, East Java, 223 entries were submitted by 178 authors. This is more than Indonesia – Under the Sun double last year's participation. The response was truly global. Third Place – Cassie Shehadeh of Monrovia, California – 41 of the 50 states were represented, as well as our first sub- My Great-Grandmother, Isabella mission from Puerto Rico, a United States territory. In addi- Runner Up – Jeremy Flood of Summerville, South Carolina – tion, we have entries from Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, A Sprig of Life Malaysia, Serbia, Turkey and various places in the British Isles. Honorable Mention – Erika Hoffman of Chapel Hill, For winners, this seems to be a California year with 5 of 12 North Carolina – The Little Engine that Could winners from the Golden State. Honorable Mention – Fred Land of West Lake Village, Many thanks to all the authors who collectively contributed California – Uncovering Dad’s Secret History these 223 entries making this the largest GENEii contest ever. The winning submissions will be published in The Searcher during 2015 and 2016 at the editor’s discretion. Winning en- tries from past years can be found on the SCGS Website. Call for Articles Category 1: submissions from 1,000 to 2,000 words Issue Theme Deadline First Place – Adrienne Boaz of Oxford, Michigan – Jonathan Emery Fall 2015 Challenges August 3, 2015 Second Place – Kelly Hirt of Snoqualmie, Washington – Winter 2016 Love for Family November 2, 2015 My Grandmother is My Guru Spring 2016 Life’s Meaning February 1, 2016 Third Place – Lauren Reynolds of Bel Air, Maryland – Childhood’s Last Stand In addition to our regular mix of contents, The Searcher is Runner Up – Amy Gordon of Gill, Massachusetts – looking for theme-specific submission of how-to-research At the Crossroads articles, genealogical research articles with endnotes, Honorable Mention – Joyce Roberson of West Hills, California family or local history stories, and book reviews. We prefer – Boca De La Playa articles of 500 to 2,000 words. A maximum of four graph- Honorable Mention – Cathy Wilson of Huntington Beach, ics will be considered. Send inquiries and/or electronic California – Veiled Grace copies to [email protected].
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German Interest Group Chinese Family History Group 3rd Saturday 1 – 4 p.m. at SCGS Library of SoCal The goal of the German Interest Group is to provide a wide 4th Saturday 10 a.m. – 12 Noon (unless otherwise noted) range of resources both inside and outside the SCGS Library We meet at various locations including Southern California to help trace German families. We often have a speaker on Genealogical Society, 417 Irving Dr., Burbank, and the Chi- German research and we offer assistance with your German nese American Citizen's Alliance (C.A.C.A.), 415 Bamboo research problems. New members and guests are always Lane, in Chinatown, Los Angeles. welcome. If you bring your family information (pedigree charts and family group sheets with as much information Upcoming programs as possible), the group members will be better able to assist July, no meeting you in locating information you need to find your German August 22, "Sharing Session: Family History Projects" ancestors. (location TBD). At each meeting basic knowledge of German will be enhanced by two of our members. September 12, Chinese Yankee" with Ruthann Lum McCunn. This is a special program co-sponsored with 3 other groups. • Edward McKelvey on: More German Words Location: Alhambra Public Library. • Walt Sturrock on: Old German Script–Reading and Writing The meetings will cover tools and background helpful for the July 18, 2015 search of Chinese and Chinese American ancestors, with time • Lois Wildman: The Blender Family from Sigmaringen, allocated during most meetings to cover individual questions. Wurttemberg If you are attending for the first time, you may wish to notify the group of any special research issues you may have. • Melanie Gnad: The Geiser Family from the area of Aachen, Obersasbach, Baden For further information please contact us at [email protected] - use subject heading "New Inquiry." • Barbara Burkholder: The Schwartz Family from Sasbachwalden, Baden Ittersdorf Saarland August 15, 2015 • Priscilla Pruitt: The Klumph Family Italian Interest Group • Marian McHale: The Platzbecker Family from Eschweiler, September 19, 2015 Rhineland 3rd Saturday 10 a.m. – 12 Noon (bi-monthly) • Gordon Seyffert: Ballasejus from Gaitzjhnen, East Prussia at SCGS Library and Ballaseyus from Ueckermunde, Pomerania • Alene Neff: The Gentzsch & Strubin Families The Italian Interest Group works to help each other with their September 19, 2015 genealogy research. Family lines may come from a small village • Carol Thomas: The Bailey Family from the Alsace Region or a large city, from the north of Italy or the south of Italy or one of the islands. Resources are available at the SCGS library, • Walt Sturrock: The Yung-Yeager Family online sites and other repositories that are helpful in learning See www.scgsgenealogy.com/interest-groups/german- more about the families and their culture. group.html on the German Interest Group. Contact Allene Coordinator Lesa DeGagene says "Let's combine our efforts to Aubertin at [email protected] for more infor- help each other with our family research projects, learn more mation. about our Italian ancestry, culture and, yes, enjoying some delicious Italian foods should be involved at some point! (Or it would not be much of an Italian interest group, right!) You Do Not have to be Italian to join us." This packrat has learned that what the next No meetings in July or August. The group meets again on generation will value most is not what we owned, September 19. but the evidence of who we were and the tales of Contact Lesa DeGagne at [email protected] for more how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories information. that are worth the storage. Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe
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Nikkei Genealogical Society The French-Canadian 4th Saturday 1 – 3 p.m. at the SCGS Library Heritage Society of The Nikkei Genealogical Society is a group that provides California (FCHSC) opportunities to collaborate, research, and network with others interested in discovering their Japanese roots. Its mission is to Fall Meeting at SCGS Library promote, encourage, and share Nikkei genealogy through education, research, and networking. Meetings are at one of Sunday, October 25, 2015, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. two locations: Japanese American National Museum (JANM), Public Welcome! Araki Community Education Center 100 North Central Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90012 or Southern California Genealogical 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Announcements Society (SCGS), 417 Irving Drive, Burbank, CA 91504-2408. 10:15 a.m. – noon “An Overview of the Seigneurial System If coming to a meeting at JAMN, a guest list must be provided in New France” Presenter: Terri Carlson in advance so reserve your attendance by e-mailing Melinda Noon – 1:00 p.m. Social hour/Potluck Lunch Yamane Crawford at [email protected]. 1 – 2:00 p.m. “Tips for using the Drouin Institute’s Meetings: LaFrance Collection” Presenter: Joan Phillips Saturday, July 25, 2015, 1 – 3 p.m. at SCGS Library 2 – 4:00 p.m. “Hands-on” research assistance provided by Saturday, August 22, 2015, 1 – 3 p.m. at SCGS Library our team as needed. Saturday, September 26, 2015, 1 – 3 p.m. at SCGS Library Save the Date – FCHSC Spring Meeting March 27, 2016 For more information, answers to queries, or to be placed on the NikkeiGen email list, contact: info@nikkeigenealogical- ABOUT FCHSC Our primary purpose is to foster an interest society.org. Check out our Facebook page at www.face- in our common French-Canadian, Acadian and French her- book.com/nikkeigen itage by researching our ancestors and helping others to re- search theirs. FCHSC sponsors the French Heritage DNA Project as a way to honor our French ancestry at www.frenchdna.org The French-Canadian Collection at the SCGS Research Li- brary is the largest of its kind in the Western United States (apart from the holdings at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City). Our collection consists of more than a 1000 vol- Supporting SCGS While Getting umes of French-Canadian, Acadian and French resources as Your Grocery Discounts well as microfiche, CDs, maps, and access to websites. Check Shop at Ralphs? Have a Ralphs Rewards card? us out at www.fchsc.org to learn more about our collection. You can send a donation from Ralphs to SCGS every For more information email us at [email protected] time you shop. It's so easy.
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Periodical News & Donors A Miracle through Photos By Beverly Truesdale Danielle Mareschal is an SCGS volunteer and professional ge- Here are some interesting articles from the periodicals that we nealogist who works on reuniting orphaned photos with de- receive at our library.“WWI - Weapons of War” – A variety of scendants or organizations that will safeguard the photos for weapons were introduced or enhanced during WWI. the future. A group of photos and other material were received Interesting article. in 2011 from an individual whose mother had acquired photos “Finding free African Americans” from yard sales and even trash bins in the San Fernando Valley. National Genealogical Society Quarterly (Gen) Vol. 41 The photos spanned a time frame from about 1890-1940. You #1 20105 can view a selection of the orphaned photos posted by Danielle “The 1953 tornado in Waco, Texas. Who died? Where are at http://tinyurl.com/Flickr-Laporte. Besides posting the pho- they buried?” tos on Flickr.com, Danielle examined all of the materials seek- Heart of Texas Records (TX) Vol. 58 # 1 Spring 2015 ing clues to the identification of the family line. “There's more to historical newspapers than obits” She identified families named Laporte and Germain. Searching Midwest Historical & Genealogical Register (KS) Vol. 49 on Ancestry.com she found Sandy Pakaski who had a potential # 1 Apr-June 2014 match on her family tree. Once the two of them confirmed that they were talking about the same family, Sandy contacted PERIODICAL DONORS her cousin Linda Pakaski. The photos most likely were owned Charlotte Bocage Fay Lumsden at some point by a member of Linda's mother's father's family. Barbara Y. Bodden June Mattias Sandy paid the postage for the photos to be sent to Linda and Carl Boyer Pauline M. Morrish Linda emailed SCGS this message: Lois Burlo's Estate Janice Mills Sapien "Danielle has made my wishes come true! July 27, 1975 dad Tanis Cushenbery Charlotte J. Sheldon Sally Emerson Millie VanderHoeven and Cappie came to tell me that they had received a phone call Suzy Goulet Connie Wills from someone that wanted to let him know that my mom, Ronald W. Higgins Sandra Woolson Jeannette Pakaski/Likens/Miller had passed away and that her body was in a hospital in the San Fernando Valley. The only Thank you to all our donors. info dad wrote down was the hospital name. When I went to claim her body, she only had a few items on her which con- sisted of two address books and a few odds and ends. I asked the hospital for mom's address being that I was told that she Go Digital! had just moved into a new place. The address they had was no good! I spent weeks, then months, then years searching for The Searcher is now available online via the SCGS someone who could tell me where her belongings were. All her website. Same great quality! Same great layout! clothes, religious figurines, furniture, family photos etc. had all Just sign on as a member Member Log-in and click on vanished. She had all of our baby pictures except for a few that READ ONLINE ISSUES. dad had held onto after the divorce, her family pictures from It’s faster than US mail and earth-friendly. when she was a child, pictures of aunts and uncles, her mom Take the next step. “Opt-out” of receiving a printed copy (my grandma) all were gone. My search continued for years of The Searcher by e-mailing [email protected] but to no avail." and put “Digital Searcher” in the subject line and include your name and address. Sandy added: "These pictures have been missing for 40 years. People should never give up hope. " The Pakaski cousins were Make sure you’re signed up for SCGS e-mail and we’ll notify you when the next issue is up and ready. quite impressed with Danielle's dedication and detective skills and thanked both Danielle and SCGS. Sign Up for Free E-mail Updates from SCGS Said Fran Bumann, who coordinates the SCGS Research team: E-mail: Join "Miracles - the dedicated volunteers at SCGS are committed to doing their part in making them happen." Go ahead! Jump into the digital millennium!
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DNA Interest Group Regional Coordinator, CeCe Moore, [email protected] To join ISOGG (no dues) go to the website www.ISOGG.org . Check out the links to mul- 10 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. tiple resources at this site. Southern California Genealogical Society SCGS sponsors two DNA projects through Family Tree DNA: 417 Irving Drive, Burbank, CA 91504 SCGS DNA project for ANY SURNAME, http://goo.gl/WGxC1X (818) 843-7247 www.scgsgenealogy.com and the French Heritage project, http://goo.gl/UUcDXX
Saturday, August 29, 2015 Back to Basics in DNA. Can you name the four different Family Tree DNA: types of DNA that can be tested for genealogical purposes? Are Males Males you aware that there are different patterns of inheritance? It is (father’s line only) (father’s and mother’s line) important to define what genealogical puzzle you are trying to __ Y-DNA12 $59 __ Y-DNA37+ mtDNAPlus $218 solve and then look for the DNA tool that is most suited to solve it. __ Y-DNA37 $149 __ Y-DNA37+ mtFull Sequence $348 Presenter: Cheri Mello was a math teacher and moderator for __ Y-DNA67 $248 __ Y-DNA67+ mtFull Sequence $447 the former America Online Genealogy Forum where she Females/Males (mother’s line) hosted for the forum’s weekly Portuguese Chat. Currently, she ____ mtDNAPlus $69.00 lectures on DNA, genealogy software, as well as Portuguese ____ mtFull Sequence $199 genealogy. Females/Males (traces through all 16 great-grandparents; gives 10:00 – 10:10 Announcements & Introduction continental %) 10:10 – 11:45 “Back to Basics in DNA” ___ Family Finder $99.00 11:45 – 12:45 Lunch Shipping & Handling: $4.00 (inside the USA), 12:45 – 1:30 Individualized help. Please bring your $6.00 (outside the USA) DNA results and password if needed. To order you can call Family Tree DNA at (713) 868-1438 and ask to $5.00 donation is suggested for attendance. Individualized join either the SCGS project or the French Heritage project. help will be available after the formal presentation for those Or if you prefer, order online at: who want to order DNA tests or who have received DNA re- www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=SCGS OR sults and need help managing their personal page or interpret- www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group= FrenchHeritage ing their results. Brown bag or join us for pizza for an additional $5.00. For additional information contact Bonny Cook, Alice FTDNA Webinars Fairhurst, Kathy Johnston at [email protected] Family Tree DNA offers FREE webinars (online seminars) on Following the regular meeting from 2:00-4:00 p.m., those who genetic genealogy and DNA ancestry testing related topics. All are Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) Project Administrators or webinars are open to both FTDNA customers and the general Project Co-administrators are invited to remain to discuss how public with registration. They are recorded, so that they may they are managing group projects. The Roundtable format al- be attended live or viewed later. Check the schedule at: lows people to share expertise and create solutions to issues. www.familytreedna.com/learn/ftdna/webinars/ Future Meetings in 2015 & 2016: To be held quarterly on the 5th Saturday of a month from 10:00 – 2:00 at the S.C.G.S. Library. I am bound to them, though I cannot look into October 31, 2015; January 30, 2016; April 30, 2016; their eyes or hear their voices. I honor their his- July 30, 2016. tory. I cherish their lives. I will tell their story. For information on the International Society of Genetic I will remember them. Author Unknown Genealogy (ISOGG) contact ISOGG Southern California
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2015 Jamboree Extension Series — Learning from Home The Webinars will offer Jamboree-style seminars for up to 1000 attendees per session, at no charge. While the original webcasts are available to all genealogists, SCGS members will be able to review archived sessions at any time by accessing the SCGS mem- bers-only section of this website. Archived sessions will be available approximately three days following the webinar. To view the webinar, you will need a computer with audio speakers or a headset. Those persons with a fast Internet connection (either broad- band or DSL) will have the most satisfactory experience. Go to www.scgsgenealogy.com/webinar/jes-index.html for more details and other times for the following programs. Use the links to register online. Here are the dates for the July-September webinars. Wednesday, July 15 – 6 p.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. Mountain, Wednesday, September 5 – 6 a.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. 8 p.m. Central, 9 p.m. Eastern Mountain, 8 p.m. Central, 9 p.m. Eastern German Research Online by James M. Beidler The Great War: Searching for Your World War I Ancestors Saturday, August 1 – 10 a.m. Pacific, 11 a.m. Mountain, by Michael L. Strauss 12 p.m. Central, 1 p.m. Eastern Wednesday, September 16 – 10 a.m. Pacific, 11 a.m. Remedies for Copy & Paste Genealogy by Cyndi Ingle Mountain, 12 p.m. Central, 1 p.m. Eastern Wednesday, September 19 – 6 p.m. Pacific, Coming to America: The Immigrant Experience 7 p.m. Mountain, 8 p.m. Central, 9 p.m. Eastern by Diane Crisman Smith Finding Your American Ancestor Using Canadian Records Note that members can also view archived webinars from by Kathryn Lake Hogan, UE, PLCGS the convenience of their own home. See the list at www.scgsgenealogy.com/webinar/archive-index.html
SCGS Library Open House You are invited to join us at the SCGS Open House on Saturday, July 11, 2015, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Open House is an occasion to meet and greet new and old friends, to tour the library, and to chat with Board members. Representatives of various SCGS interest groups, educational programs, and Jamboree will be in attendance to tell you about their activities. Light refresh- ments will be available, and door-prize drawings will be at 12:00 and 1:00 p.m. As our guest, you are also welcome to stay afterwards to browse our collection between 2:00 and 4:00 p.m. We encourage both members and non-members to use this opportunity to become more familiar with SCGS programs and member benefits. Closer involvement with our society could help you discover new research approaches and connect with others who share your interests. For more information email [email protected].
Help Us Find the Missing 40,000 People for the 1890 Project
About nine 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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Coos County Oregon Pioneers by Jennifer Shank, [email protected] Many of the early settlers in Coos County, Oregon left in the late 1800's or early 1900's for the warmer climate of Southern California. For those whose ancestors left Oregon for California, there is a new online tool available. If your ancestors lived in or passed through Coos County between 1854 and 1920, check out www.coospioneers.com. There is a free index to determine if your ancestor is on this extensive database. In-depth information is available for a small subscrip- tion fee. Coos County Pioneers 1850 – 1885 This website is the result of over 10 years of research in state and federal archives, county courthouses, cemeteries, census, and many other records. Originally planned to be published in a book format, as the data expanded to a multi-volume publication, I decided to put it online since publication would have been prohib- itively expensive for most folks. Ongoing updates to data include copies of death certificates, passport applications, passenger lists, World War I personal histories, obituaries and much more. Come take a look.
Join the Salt Lake City Research Group August 25 thru September 2, 2015 Come join a fun group of SCGS members for 8 days and nights at the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel next door to the Family History Library. There will be an orientation to familiarize you with the library, a get-together to meet the other participants and handouts with handy searching techniques. Everyone will be responsible for their own air fare and reservations, but hotel room and trans- portation to and from the Salt Lake Airport and some activities will be arranged. Signup deadline is August 14. Contact Jan Jennings [email protected] or (661) 402-2642 for information.
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"The Inner Sanctum of the Trip to National Archives and Los Angeles Public Library?" Records Administration, Riverside
Many people know the by Walt Sturrock Los Angeles Public Library has genealogy resources in the form of books, journals, newsletters, database subscriptions, newspa- pers, microfilm and microfiche, but you might not know about our Pamphlet and Manuscript Collection. What is this, you ask? Let’s say while cleaning out your great aunt’s garage, you stum- ble onto a box of old photographs, a hand-drawn pedigree chart, an unpublished memoir, a marriage certificate, blue ribbons won at the county fair and more. What on earth are you to do with this? A chorus of invisible genealogists sings in unison, “Don’t throw More than 25 people including several members of the South- it out!” ern California Genealogical Society participated in what has And yet, this is a tricky predicament. You don’t have room in become an annual tour to the National Archives in Riverside, your apartment, and there’s no one else in your family who CA. We were treated by Archivist Randy Thompson to a tour wants it. I’m here to say there is a solution: consider donating of their computer room for hands-on research, the “Textural it to the Los Angeles Public Library. Research Room” where original documents can be reviewed, as well as a tour of their Secured Storage and Archival Bays, Our Pamphlet and Manuscript Collection is not just pamphlets where over 100,000 documents are kept. and manuscripts. It’s any loose or hard-to-shelve material per- taining to a specific surname. Not yet digitized and not avail- During the tour an explanation was given on their archival able anywhere else, this treasure is organized in manila folders materials and procedures. Afterwards we used the computer (by surname) in a huge gray filing cabinet in our closed stacks. room for research, and Textural Research Room to review doc- uments. You have access to it—you just have to ask our reference librar- ians in the History/Genealogy Department of Central Library. For example, I was able to identify and hold the original Nat- uralization record of a Scottish ancestor. The staff was ex- Search our Genealogy and Local History Index for your tremely helpful, picking up a rare clue on his record that surname and if you see a “Pamphlet and Manuscript Collec- identified his wife’s Naturalization record too. I was then able tion” index card, then there’s a folder for you. Our index is to have her record pulled too, and learned about her “Repatri- both online and in physical card format in the History and ated” citizenship (since she was forced to give up her US citi- Genealogy Department of LAPL’s Central Library. Check zenship when she married a foreigner from Scotland in 1917). both places because we’re still in the process of putting the content of the physical cards into the online database. The online database can be found here: www.lapl.org/collections- The above is an account from Board of Directors member Walt resources/lapl-indexes/genealogy-local-history-index. Sturrock. SCGS sponsors the trip in the first quarter of the The folder you pull may be for a different family of the same year. Over the years many people have been successful in find- surname, or it could be something directly related to your ing information on their families in Riverside and in other Re- tree…it’s the white-elephant gift of the genealogy world! gional Branches. Perhaps you can join us next year for the “Behind the Scenes Tour” of the National Archives. Until then Julie Huffman, Genealogy Librarian NARA is opened Monday to Friday and the first Saturday of Los Angeles Public Library, the month from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Stop by and see them 630 W. 5th Street, LA, CA 90071 sometime. www.lapl.org
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Kathy Aaron Margie A. Beldin Susan Campbell Nick B. Derose Yu-Lan Freibergs Allan Abrahamse Luciann S. Bell Deborah Campisano Laurie Desmarais Melanie Frick Trudi Abram Pam Bell Cynthia Campman Bill Dicicco Cheri Frieze Janine Adams Barbara J. Bellot Stephanie Cardin Yvonne Dipre Lynn Fugitt Philip C. Adams William G. Bennett Leslie Carney Paula DiSano Pam Fujii Raydonna S. Adams R. B. F. & Alexandra Cynthia Carpenter Lynne W. Dixon Lynn Colby Galloway Diane Adamson Berardi Jean Carpenter Bridget Dole Cynthia Gamache Felicia Addison Kathleen Bergstrom Dorian Carranza Alexsana Donne Emily Garber Diane Alexander Jeane Berry Joan M. Carruthers Judy Doss Mary G. Gardetto Barbara Algaze John McIntyre Bevan Emily Pritchard Cary Dianne Dotson Lois A. Gardner Judy & Anthony Allegra Melissa Bird Jerry A. Case Linda Dougherty Ann S. Garrett Allen County Sydeny L. Bittle Maryanne Casella Patty Dowdey Anna Gee Public Library Edward Black Nancy Casey Kathryn Doyle Susan Geiger Pamela Allen Karen Blackmore Linda Castillo Jeanette Drake Arthur Geoffrion Gloria Diane Altona Celia & Robert Bladow Ceasar & Ana M. Castro Joann Driggers Stephanie George Kelly Alvarado Patricia Blair Robert Cathaway Wayne Drouillard Mona & Don Gerecht Jennifer Alvarez Virginia Blitz Virginia Challk Carol Duff Darlene Gerow Donald & Anne Amerine Jeanne & Jonathan Bloom Jackie Chalmers Susan & Brian Duffy Alice Quayle Gershman Linda Andaloro Barbara Bocek Nicole Amelie Chauche Carol Dugger Janet C. Gesin Dolores Andersen Barbara Y. Bodden Donna Chellew Debbie Dunkle Vanessa Ghelerter Laverne Anderson Donna Boeck Bruce Chin Suzanna Earwicker Carol Reed Glow Wendy J. Anderson Erika Bonaparte Stephanie Chong Nancy Eastes Melanie Gnad Nancy Andren Ann LeBlanc & Jim Bowen Barbara Christensen Patricia Eberhart Jean Goggins Bruce Andrews Elaine Bowling Georgia Chun Lourdes Ebrard Clytee Gold Joseph Angel Lance Logan & Chelsea Clarke J. A. Edwards Tamara A. Gonzales Laurie Angel Ramona Boyton Nancy Cliath Ann & Amanda Ehrlich Dorine Good Ann & Leland Archer Douglas H. Bradley June Constance Coggins Helen Elliker Robert Good Monica M. Archer Diane Branam Christine Cohen Christine Ellin Lydia Goularte Robin Armstrong-Hugg Sherry Petrie Breskin Beth Colord Nancy Ellis Patrick Skelton Grant Robert Ashby Raymond Bries Robert Commagere Robert & Helen Embry George & Benita Gray Nina Ashur Edna Briggs Bonnie Compeau Kay Engel Michelle L. Greco Gregory & Lavonne Askay Colby Brinnon Joyce Cook Laraine T. Engel Christine Green Kimberley Austin David Broadbent Deborah J. Coon Patricia & Russell Erickson Colleen Greene Rosa Avolio Barbara Brodfuehrer Gene & Carolyn Cooper Ronald Ernst Kathryn Greene Benjamin Bailey Chuck & Christine Broman Kimberly Karen Cotton Karen Estrin Richard Greer Joyce Bailey Grace Brouillette Susan Coulombe John Eyraud Linda Greethurst Roylene F. Bailey Carolyn H. Brown Deena Coutant Ce Ferguson Paula Ann Grepo Ron & Barbara Bain Sharon & Lloyd Brown Nikki Ray Cowel-MacKey Frances Ferris Martha G. Griffith Carol P. Baker Don Brownlee Barbara Craig Jackie Fielder Susie Grohs Lisa Baker Kristin Bruno Andi Cranmer Nancy Fike Barbara Groth Beverly Bakos Nancy Bryant Janet Crawford Linda Fish Judy & Bob Grundy Pat Balen Peggy Buchanan Melinda Crawford Janet L. W. Fisher Susan D. Guarrera Brenda F. Ball Lynnea Buchanan-Barnett Rose Crawford Richard N. Fisher Lisa V. Guindon Paul Baltzer Mac Buetow Darrell & Susan Creitz Barbara Flint Janet G. Gum Deborah & John Barber David H. Burde Gary Cretser Lynda L. Flygar Mary Childs & Chuck Ha Pamela Jo Barkas Barbara B. Burkholder Carol Crichton George O. Fodrea Susan Hakala Brenda Barker Patricia Burrow Bob Crouch Pamela Louise Folden Douglas G. Hall Jo Anna W. Barnett Janine Bushman Lorraine Curry Carol Forrey Pamela D. Hall Ronald & Jo An Barnett Leticia Bustos Margaret Dahlke Lisa Foster Thomas Hall Camilla Barror Sue Butler Denise Damm Adrian Foushee Yvonne Hamilton Diane Bartley Linda Butterworth Alvie Davidson Penny Fox Kathy Hammel Doris Bartley Potter Sheila Byington Judy Davin Allan & Donna Frandsen Marianne Handler Elizabeth Beckers Rick E. & Anita L. Byrum Bettie Day Kathy Frasca Kimberley Handy Larry Beckler Lidian Calli Dalya Dektor Linda Fredin Harry & Sheila Hansen
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NEW AND RENEWING MEMBERS…Continued from 93 James & Pennie Hansen Donna Jansak Lorraine H. Lawrence Martha Mercer Elena Padilla Lenore Hansen-Stafford Rachel Janzen Michelle LeDoux Vivian J. Meredith Faye Painter Lisa Harley Kathy Javdani Elena Lee Patrick Meroney Shirley Ann Parker Pat & Kimberly Harmon John Jeffords Pamela Lee Joan Merritt Jan Paulsen Richard Dale Harmon Evelyn Jenkins Gregory Legutki Gayle Merz Patricia Klein Paulson Merle Harpe Anne Jepsen Karl Lehman Stephanie Messenger Robyne Peabody Lois R. Harrington Hillary Jessup Karen Lemelin Lorie Messineo Gerald Pearson Keith Hart Barbara Joberg Allyn Levine Donna Meszaros Lois Pecora Carolyn Hartung Karen A. Johnsen Sue Lewis Mary Mettler Delores V. Pederson Suzanne Hastings Cheryl Johnson Edward Licht Jo Ann Michetti Thomas E. & Karen Pelton Verner & Mae Hawk Helen Johnson Sita & Bob Likuski Jane Millar Nancy Peralta Sharon Hawley Starr Johnson Shannon Lind David Miller Eli O. Perez Jenny Hawran Merle Johnston Robert Bruce Littlefield Dr. Anne J. Miller Lura L. Perkins Cindy Hawse Cathy Jonathan Ellen Lockwood Sheila Miller Patricia A. Barnes Perrault Patricia Haynie Edward Jones Nancy E. Loe Suzanne Miller Susan Petersen Patricia L. Heaton Raymond A. Jones Mary J. Lohr Valerie Millette Donna Peterson Marilyn Heck Susan Jones Diane Lott Bettie Miner Luellen Pettengell Jean Heinz Pamela Journey Esther Louie-Henry Rosemary Minsky Christine Pettit Wanda M. Henderson Keith Otsuka & Fran Jutzi Ann Love Kalani Mondoy Joseph M. Peyton Pamla Hendrickson Sue Kamin Sharon K. Love Carole Moore Vincent S. Piazza Merideth Hendry Deborah Kaplan Lynette Loveland Karen Moore Rochelle Pierre Don G. Henricks Geri Karp Kenneth H. Lynch Paul Moore Germaine Pinkerton W. Moss & Linda D. Katch Linda MacIver Thelma Moore-Steward Jane Pinkerton Michelle Hepburn Lila Kay Jan L. Mackey Florence Moran Roberta Bliss Pittman Cynthia Brown Herbert Mary Lee Keane Marg MacLean-McCann Sandy Moreno Ridley Politiski Patrick Pamela Donald S. Kelly Doug Macomber Margie Morrison Robert Post Milligan Hersey John Kevin Kelly Stacy Magic William Morrison Melissa & Warren Potter Grace Hertz Karin Kelly Janet Magnuson Susan Sing & Eugene Moy Yvonne Prelutsky Joyce Herzog Betty J. Kemmerich Sandra Malek Pat Mundstock Audrey Prest Glenis Hickey Robert S. Kennedy Jr. Steven Malkson Nicolette A. Munoz Barbara Price Laura Anne Higby Fred Kerr Claudia E. Manly Laura Murphy Christina Price Rosemary Hilb Fred W. Kieske Jacqui & John Marcella Linda G. Murphy Cinda Jean Price Victoria Hilb Nancy Kilbourn Patsy Ann Marcy Evelyn Murray Patti J. Prime Elizabeth S. Hine Jacqueline Seavy King Danielle Mareschal Kaye Mushalik Kathleen Propersi Janis R. Hirohama Tami Kitson Karen Martin Dagmar Muthamia Priscilla M. Pruitt Mark Hochstetler Larry Klaasen Sharon L. Martin Gregory Myers George H. Purcell Jr. Meredith Hoffman Janice Klafehn Roger Mathison Maryellen Naldjian Debbie Quarles Bonnie Hogan Christine Klukkert Cheryl Matsumoto Ruth Narancic Diana Quinn James Hollarn Victoria Kolakowski Louise & Gary Matz Carole Nation James D. Quinn Kelly Hood Sharon Koleber Chylene May Gina Natoli Mark Rasco Lynda C. Horan Kathleen R. Kott Jim McAleney Roberta Nethercutt Taffy & Dick Rath Peggy M. Horlick Jimmy Louise Kroger Jim McAuley Dorothy Newman Louise Ratliff Anthony Hoskins Albert Krohn Sharon McCann Kathy Nielsen Beverly H. Ray Lisa Howison George Kuhrts Joan E. McCauley Lynn Gescheider Nielsen Tina Weidmann Ray Jane Hughes John Robert Kuppens Kim McCowen Regina Nordahl Charles E. Raymond Jr. Peter Hultine Mary Kus Dave McCready Penny Nugent Margaret F. Read Mary Humphries Eleanor L. Kusler Andrea McDermott Linda O'Connor Janis Reagan Patrick J. Hunt Virginia Kysh Kenneth McFarlane Thomas O'Neill Dwight Reilly Bill & Mary Hurley Margaret Lambson Jolea McGinnis Janet Ortgiesen Gayle Reizes Toby Hurley Leslie Lapham Marian McHale Tilden Osako Patricia Ann Remick Sue Park Hurst Brad Larkin Marcia A. McKean Dolores Osborne James Renfrow Theresa Hutson Susan M. Larson Edward Lee McKelvey Lynne Osborne Leslie Reyes Joseph G. Inkel Diana & Molly Maggie McManus Diane Oswald Lynn Rhodes Betty Isbell Jean Laubenstein Lisa Medina Kathy Ouimet Catherine Rice Corrine Jacobson Michelle Launi Charles Meiser Barbara Owens Kevin & Kathleen Rice Janice G. Janek James Donald Laur Patrick J. Melia Cathy Pace William J. Richards
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SUMMER 2015 THE SEARCHER 94 — SCGS News — CENTURY CLUB — Paying it Forward Genealogy and family history is an interest that stimulates our minds, draws our families closer together and transcends our physical and economic limitations. One of the most rewarding things SCGS does with your generous Century Club dona- tions is outreach. Your contributions support FridayFree at Jamboree, a whole morning of learning open to everyone. You contribute to keeping the Jamboree Exhibit Hall free all weekend long, allowing newbies and investigators to learn about genealogical products and services in person from the experts. And throughout the year, your donations “keep the lights on” so SCGS can offer free beginning classes, monthly Lunch and Learn programs and send our volunteers and educational materials out into their local communities to teach and inspire. Continue the legacy by becoming a member of the Century Club today. If you’re already a member, please consider an ad- ditional contribution. There are new genealogists out there waiting for you!
There are four easy ways to make a donation to the SCGS: 1. Go to the SCGS website (scgsgenealogy.com) and click on the “Donate” button (your donation will be considered a General Fund donation unless you specify a program in the comment section of the order form) 2. Donate through PayPal by going to the SCGS blog (SCGS.blogspot.com) or the Jamboree blog (GenealogyJamboree.blogspot.com) and click on the "Donate via PayPal" button. (Unless otherwise noted in the "Add special instructions to the seller" comment box, donations are directed to the General Fund.) 3. Send your check or credit card donation to: Century Club, SCGS, 417 Irving Drive, Burbank, CA 91504-2408 4. Stop by the Library and donate in person. Won’t you consider a donation to the SCGS today? After all, it’s all about YOU!
Categories and Donation Amounts: Platinum $1000 or more Silver $250 to $499.99 Contributing $1 to $99.99 Gold $500 to $999.99 Century $100 to $249.99 Thank you to the following Century Club Members who contributed last quarter!
PLATINUM LEVEL Douglas J. Miller Joan De Fato Betty Isbel Luann B. Munns-Berthel Diane Adamson In Memory of Sue Mullins Kathleen Delle Donne Harold A. Jackson Daniel Munoz Bonita Jean Campbell Carma-Lu Thompson Judith A. Dellinger Betty Jones Jane Munson Ann Cowley SILVER LEVEL Alice Densmore Pamela Journey Regina Nordahl Sally Emerson Elaine E. Berry Dorothy Des Lauriers Rita M. Knecht Thomas O'Neill Fidelity Charitable David Burde Patricia Dung Jimmy Louise Kroger Raymond & Gift Fund Bonny R. Cook Lynn E. Edwards Donald Krokus Stefani Operacz Betty Fisher Marva Groove Alice M. Fairhurst Charles D. Larson Dolores Osborne Arthur Geoffrion William E. Handy Philip Flanders Patricia Lewin Bill Owens-Smith Jay A. Holladay Marie Rundquist George & Susan Fodrea Mary H. Lindsey Faye Painter Katharine Irwin Barbara J. Gaitley Ruth Lockwood Jack Pearson James D. Laur CENTURY LEVEL Dorinda Gardner Carol Mahoney Lana Perino Vieve Metcalfe Philip Adams Linda Golovko Patsy Ann Marcy LeRae Phillips Kathryn June Revocable Noelle Allen Leila Gormley Edward & Suzanne Marks Jane Pinkerton Trust Mueller Ann & Leland Archer Thomas & Janet Gunckel June & Don Mattias Prudential Foundation Lynne Parmenter Donna & David Bellamy Bernice Gunderson Lorraine McCarthy Matching Gifts Margaret J. Schulz Joyce L. Biby Carolyn Hartung Joan McCauley Dell Quick William & Susan Tully Barbara Bodden F. Janet Hayes Glen McLaughlin Louise S. Randolph Pamela Wiedenbeck Esther Ann Bowen Michael Heath John & Dorothy Meiling Dwight Reilly Gary Zentmyer Eugene Butler Marilyn Heck Jacqueline Meyer Ray Roth Kathleen Holland William A. Miller Carlyn M. Sager GOLD LEVEL Barbara Cox & Archer-Johnson Foundation Marilee Marceau Archer Hollis Nancy T. Miller Robert E. Scudder Georgine J. Archer, James & Linda Cremer James M. Hoppe Pauline Morrish Jo Shannon Trustee Barbara Darling Jeri Hughes Jean Morrison Oren L. Sheldon Barbara J. Hull Raymonde Motil Betty Shelhamer Continued on page 96
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Joanne Stolpe Frances T. Bumann Susan B. Goulet Cecelia Mylett Dennis & Susan Sherman Gloria Strong Ceasar Castro Daniel Harkins Cindy Nissen Marilyn Talbot Marsha Thomas Jo Anne Chadduck Lisa Harley Kenneth O'Rourke Doris J. Waters Carol Thomas John S. & Carolyn S. Clauss Mary Hurley Patricia Owens Carolyn Williams D. Gary Waterhouse Elizabeth Craven Barbara Joberg Susan Parks Louise Woiteshek William S. Whinn Tom Davis Leonard Kenney Jan Parnell Linda Wong CONTRIBUTING LEVEL Diane Dixon Miriam B. Larson Patricia Paulson Susana Ybarra Kent Alves Beverly Easley Martha Eisenberg Lasser Gary S. Platt Barbara Yonck Gladys Askey Elsie E. English Carolyn Leutzinger Vernon Price Evelyn Zimmerman Barbara Baranski Donald Erlenkotter Edward Licht George Purcell Camilia Barror Peggy Fisher Susan Mattison Marlene G. Putterman Patricia Gail Blair Irene Fleck Evelyn T. Maynard Rebecca J. Ray Marjeanne Blinn Darlene Furda Helen McCabe Peter J. Ricks Donna Bockian Bruce Garner Phyllis Miller Adolphe Roome
Some think it’s best to grow a family tree one leaf at a time—but as with the spring, you may find that many buds can be produced at the same time.
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John & Patt Ricketts Jill Selak Carolyn Steinberg Sharon L. C. Traulsen Marsha D. Whittaker Charles Riend Linda Serna Suzanne Stewart Mr. & Michelle Trostler Patricia Whitton Robert F. Riley Kristi Sexton Pamela Storm Richard L. Trotter Ann Widdowson Charmaine Riley Holley M. Gordon Seyffert Jane Strawn Cathy Tryon Carmen O. Wilbert Adina Roberts Maryann Sezaki Gloria M. Strong Ellen Turner Lois Wildman Mary Ann Roberts Mary Shade Terri Strotman Evelyn Turner Linda Wilhoyte Kenneth & Sharon Robison Jane Shaffer Joy Stubbs Jon Ulbrich Carolyn Williams Leticia Rodella Peggy Shaffer Linda Stucker Marilyn Ulbricht Donna & Susan Williams Joyce Rodgers Gary Thomas Shanahan Linda Stufflebean Nancy L. Ulmer Emma Elizabeth Williams Bernice Rodriguez Sandi Shannon Susan Summers Amy Urman Jerry K. Williams Sr Cynthia Rodriguez Ted Shapas Patricia S. Swanson Vickie Valenziano Jane C. Willis Susan M. Roe Diana Lynn Sharp Deborah Sweeney Nora Probasco & Charles Wilson Jane Rollins Madeleine Shebesta Naomi Talamantes George Valko Donna Wilson Alena Rose Deborah Shelley Marilyn Talbot Kathy Van Ness Jacqueline Wilson Margaret M. Rossini Jeanette Shiel Duncan Tanner Carlo Van Staden Janice Wilson Glen & Cherie Rouse Claudia Shrode Carol Tapp Michelle Van Tol Patricia Maree Wilson Cathleen Rozadilla Eileen Shulman Beverly J. Taylor Nelda Jane Van Tour Marsha Wilson-Saracco Renee Ruggiero Geri Shuster Patricia F. Taylor Linda Vankuran Brian Winn Kathleen Rust Janette Silverman Virginia Taylor Helen Vesperman Roger H. Woelfel Gail Ryan Catherine Sinai Jean Tempke Kay Wadleigh Curry Wolfe Patricia A. Barnes Ryan Cheryl Singleton Janet Tessier Glory Wolf Walker Charlotte Wolter Carlyn Marcia Sager Sheri Sklar Nancy Thaut Suzan Walter Jane Wong Eliseo Samaniego Linda Smedley Kyra Thibodeau Kiturah (Kit) Wang Elise Wormuth Ophelia R. Sanders Helen V. Smith Suzanne Thomas Valerie Warrick Durette June Worsham Dorothylou Sands Marsha Smith Carma-Lu Thompson Mary Watanabe Katherine Peters Yamada Diane Sargent Teryl Smith Richard K. Thompson Doris Waters Art Yates Brian E. Saul Patricia Solomon Judi Tinnell Freddie Watson Mary Allison Yonan Mary Savarese Mary Menard Spalding Sara Tobin Mary Wenzel and & Suzan Younger Jayne Whittaker Scardello Kathleen Spearman Julia Todd Douglas R. Hetrick Bill Zappen Ronald Schow Lisa Staltari Mary C. Tom Diana K. Wheeler Nancy Zehler Pamela Schreckengost Patricia Stanard Ken Johnston & Richard S. Wheeler Evelyn M. Zimmerman Roberta Schultze Cynthia Stanford Jay Tompkins Robert H. & Karla Zimmerman Iris Schutz Jean Stapleton Patricia Topmiller Marlene White Leila Schutz David & Lynne Stedman Richard Torres Ward Clemence White Georgianna Seko Robert & Sarah Steenberge Steve Trangsrud Cherryl Whitmire
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Mark Hochstetler 1 Adobe Ct., Novato, CA 94945-1314 Carol K. Foss 246 Scott Dr., Lancaster, OH 43130 [email protected] Swinehart Searching for descendants of Edward David DEETER (10 Sep 1863-25 (740) 653-7018 [email protected] Oct 1948) and John Stutsman DEETER (5 Aug 1871-15 May 1934), broth- DRUTSCHEL/ Bavaria (1838-1850); Manhattan, NY (1850-1875) ers born in Newton Twp., Miami Co., OH, and raised in Delaware and DRITSCHEL Altdorf bei Nürnberg (1848) Kosciusko Counties, IN. Their parents were W. R. DEETER (1840-1917) FOSS Germany (1839); New York City (1850-1860) and Sarah Ann SIPES (1841-1912). Edward married Emma V. FRANTZ Poughkeepsie (1861-1891); Syracuse (1892-1900) (1872-1969) on 11 June 1904, moved to New Mexico in 1915 and to Bur- Belleville & Nutley, NJ (1900-1918) bank, CA in 1923. They had four children: William (1905-), Sarah (1906-), GAINER French-Canadian (1600's); Sacketts Harbour, NY Emesson (1909-) and Frantz (1913-1915). John married Maude EDGELL (1813) (1874-1955) in 1896. They moved to CO (1910), then Arkansas, Louisiana, Brooklyn, NY (1818-1850); Newark, NJ (1853) Texas (1918) and California (1923). Their children were: William W. (1897- Newark, CT (1902) 1974), Mark O. (1899-1965), Everett (1902- 1968), George (1905-1968), HERRMANN Bavaria (1838); Manhattan, NY (1853-1934) Hoy H. (1910-) and Julia (1913-). John and Maude lived in Burbank, CA. Irvingdon, NJ (1914-1962) Both brothers and their wives are buried in Valhalla Cemetery, Burbank, HOFF Hunterdon Co, NJ (1812); Newark, NJ CA. (1860-1928) JORALEMON German-Danish border (1620); Albany (1640) Gregg Legutki P.O. Box 959, Helendale, CA 92342 NJ (1700-1854) (916) 534-8854 [email protected] LINNENKOHL Germany (1836); Orange Co, NY (1859) GESHKEWICH Chicago, IL; Poland Newark, NJ (1870-1934) KLASSEN MI; Germany MURPHY Co . Down, Ireland (1812-1848); Manhattan, NY KRZYZANOWSKA Chicago, IL; Poland (1848-?) LAGOWSKI Luzerne Co. PA; Wola Domatkowska, Poland REINLEIN Bavaria (1819-1851); Manhattan, NY (1851-1875) LEGUTKI Chicago, IL; Siemiechow, Poland Altdorf bei Nürnberg MANIAK Chicago, IL; Siemiechow, Poland STEWART Co. Down, Ireland (1812-1848); Manhattan, NY MAZUR Wola Domatkowska, Poland (1848-?) SKINNER MI, NY, MA Judy Wiley 2237 S. 48th, Lincoln, NE 68506 Maggie Negrete 4004 Harnett Ave., El Monte, CA 91732 (402) 710-2880 [email protected] (760) 272-0528 DEDRICK PA , IA, KS, CO; 1800-present SERRANO Valladolid, Spain (1714); Zacatecas, Mexico (1800) GIPE PA, KS, OH; 1800-? HARRAN MA, NY, KS; 1800-? Barbara Ernestine P.O. Box 1076, Claremont, CA 91711 MILLER/MULLER Germany, MD; 1765-present Pennell PARISH Lincolshire, Eng, PA, KS, NE; 1800-? (909) 971-7362 [email protected] SEALEY Wiltshire, Eng, NE, CA; 1801-present BAKKEN Norway; 1870's SLAYMAKER Germany, MD; 1700-? BURROUGHS VA, IA, PA; 1700's HARTZ ND, Canada; 1890-present Dorothy Yellin P.O. Box 8147, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067 KNOWLES OH; 1800's (858) 461-1489 [email protected] STEIGER Russia, Germany, ND, Canada; 1700-1890 DONOGHUE PA DRASS PA - NJ Terri L. Politi 30801 Woodbine Way, DURRIN PA (830) 446-1767 Fair Oaks Ranch, TX 78015 O'DONNEL PA [email protected] O'KEEFE PA, MA BEESON PA, England, DE, NC; 1600- WHITTINGHAM PA - NJ GARRISON NC; 1800-present HATCH VA, NC; 1700-present HA(Y)WORTH NC, PA, VA, England; 1600-present MARLEY NC; 1800-1990 If you wrote one sentence every day for SCARBOROUGH England, PA; 1600- five years, you’d capture over 1,825 WELCH MD, NC; 1700- memories.
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GENEii Category I Jonathan Emery First Place (1652 – 1723) of Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts By Adrienne Boaz
Jonathan Emery was the son of John Emery of Romsey, Hamp- two pounds and fourteen shillings, and in the second instance, shire, England, and his wife, Mary Shatswell, the sister of John he was to receive one pound2. He received five pounds and nine “Satchwell” of Ipswich, Massachusetts, whose first husband was shillings for his service according to a rate which was dated John Webster 3,5,8,14,15,16. Jonathan was born on May 13, 1652 August 24, 16764. 8,11,13 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts . On July 10, He married Mary Woodman in Newbury on November 29, 1675, his father granted him half of his land in Newbury in a 16768,9,11. Mary, who was born on September 29, 1654 in 10 deed which was recorded on April 9, 1679 . Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, was the daughter of In early December 1675, he was impressed as a soldier in Major Edward and Mary Woodman9,11,14. With Mary, he was the Appleton’s Company in King Philip’s War4,8,13. On December father of Mary, Jonathan, David, Anthony, Stephen, who died 9, 1675, the six companies of foot soldiers and one company young, Sarah, Stephen, and Edward3,8. Reverend Rufus Emery of horsemen, all under Appleton’s command, mustered on the stated that Mary was also the mother of John, born in 1678, flatland at Dedham, about fifty miles southwest of Newbury- and James, who was baptized on April 10, 16988. The birth port, where they were joined by two Plymouth companies2,4. register for Newbury recorded that Mary was born on Septem- The commander-in-chief of this army of over six hundred men ber 25, 1677, Jonathan on February 2, 1678/9, David on was Governor Josiah Winslow of Plymouth2. They began to September 28, 1682, Anthony on November 13, 1684, march toward Rhode Island on the following day, trekking to Stephen on January 13, 1686/7, Sarah on December 16, 1688, Woodcock’s Garrison, then Seaconck (Seekonk) which they Stephen on June 24, 1692, and Edward’s birth occurred on reached on the night of December 112,4. The next day they November 18, 169411. The birth record for James Emery was crossed the Pawtuxet River and arrived at Wickford on not located, but a marriage record for James Emery stated that December 12, where they used Smith’s Garrison as a base while he married Ruth Watson in Newbury, Massachusetts on they were engaged in a few days of skirmishes and reconnais- December 10, 1719, which was nine days prior to the wedding sance, until December 18 when they began to march toward of Edward Emery and Sarah Sibley11. 2,4 Pettisquamscott (Pettaquamscutt) . They joined the five com- He and several other men from Newbury signed a petition to panies of Connecticut who were led by Major Treat, and abate the fines of three young men on April 23, 1677, and he because Bull’s Garrison had very recently been destroyed by the was twenty-seven when he took the oath of allegiance to the work of an arsonist, they were forced to make their camp out- king in 16784,6,7. He and James Jackman were appointed as 2,4 side during a snowstorm . fence viewers for the “old town neck” portion of Newbury on The following morning they fell into formation, each man March 22, 1685/64. An ordinance of Newbury, dated January laden with his own weapon and supplies, with the men of Mas- 10, 1643/4, stated4: sachusetts in the vanguard, Plymouth in the center, and the all fences… shall be made and always kept so sufficient as 2,4 troops from Connecticut in the rearguard . They trudged to keepe out all manner of swyne and other cattle… and at through the snowdrifts and at approximately 1:00 p.m. on whose fence or part of fence any swyne or other cattle shall December 19 they reached the Native Americans’ fort at the break through, the person owning the fence shall not only large swamp of Narragansett, where they set about the business beare and suffer all the damages, but shall further pay for of war, burning the fort and firing upon the warriors in the each rod so insufficient the somme of two shillings… owners 2,4,8,13 stronghold . Three hours later, the fort was seized by the of all such cattle as the towne shall declare to be unruly… Englishmen, and those Native American men who did not shall pay all the damages their unruly cattle shall doe in perish by the flame or by gunshot chose to evacuate into the breaking through fences. forest 4. In August 1688, Jonathan Emery owned one house, six acres Four men from Major Appleton’s division lost their lives, and of ploughland, six acres of meadow, two oxen, three cows, one eighteen were wounded, including Jonathan Emery, who was of which was two years old, and six sheep4. He became a free- 2,4,8,13 wounded in the shoulder . A list of men who served under man on April 19, 16918. A petition to the town of Newbury Captain Appleton, dated June 24, 1676, recorded the name of
Jonathan Emery twice; in the first instance, he was to be paid Continued on page 100
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JONATHAN EMERY………Continued from 99 in January 1701/2, which requested compensation of one thou- 4 I give to my two daughters Mary & Sarah Emery each sand acres of land for their service in the wars of 1675 through of them one feather bead & ye furniture belonging to 1677, was signed by Jonathan Emery and ten other men4: them – It will be remembered that when, on December 10th, 1675, 5 – I give my stock of cattle & other creturs & ye Re- the forces of Massachusetts Colony were mustered on Ded- mainder of my houshold goods & other things both ham Plain, to march against the Narraganset fort, a procla- real & personal estate whatsoever – unto my sons & mation was made to the soldiers, in the name of the daughters: namly Anthony: Stephen – Edward & Governor, that, “if they played the man, took the fort, and James Emery & Mary & Sarah Emery to each of them drove the enemy out of the Narraganset country, which is an equal part & share of it their great seat, they should have a gratuity of land, besides 6 my will is & I do appoint my loving & well-beloved their wages.” wife Mary Emery to be ye sole Executrix of this my He was assigned a share of the common land along the Merri- will. & I do apoynt her to Receive all my debts & mack River, which had a width of forty-four feet, eight inches, to pay all my debts funerall – charges ect: & i do give on March 9, 1707/812. unto my sd wife all the reall & personal estate above Jonathan created his will on February 6, 1722/3, which was mentioned – (excepting only ye. two beads & furne- witnessed by Enoch Coffin, Brocklebank Samuell Coffin, ture) to use & improve for her cumfort during her Joseph Coffin, and Nathaniel Coffin1. His wife, Mary, died on natural life, & what & so much as shall be remaining September 13, 1723, and Jonathan died sixteen days later, on at her decease: shall be divided unto my sons & daugh- September 29, 17238,11. On October 5, 1723, his eldest son, ters according as is above given unto them respectively Jonathan, declined to be the administrator of his father’s estate, & I do hereby utterly disallow revoke & disanul all and requested of the probate court that his brother, Anthony, former wills by me made & do ratify this & no other become the administrator1. Jonathan’s will was proved on to by my last will & Testament in witness whereof October 7, 17238,11. A transcription of his will and the inven- I have set to my hand & seal ye. day & year above tory of his estate follows1: written In ye. name of God Amen: ye. sixth day of February: Anno- An Inventory Taken of mr Jonathan Emmerys Estat Late Domini: 1722/23 – I Jonathan Emery of ye. Towne of of newbury Deceased this 5th day of octobr 1723: Newbury in ye. County of Essex in his Majesties Province of Eaight Akres of meadow att 8 pounds pr Aker… 3 horse ye. Massachusetts Bay in - Newingland carpenter – being throw kind yt is a hors & meare & colt… 2 oxen… 4 cows… 2 gods goodnes of perfect mind & memory: yet calling to minde calfs… 6 shep & 5 Lambs Trund [probably “Turned”] out e y . mortality of my body: do make & ordain this my last will in the spring… 5 swine… a cart & whels & boxes… a & testament, that is to say first of all I give & Recomend my yock & Irons and cops & pin… 2 torck & Rak & sive… soul to God that gave it ect. My body I Recomend to ye earth 4 stock bands Droeft chain [perhaps “draft chain”] to horse to be buried in a decent manner at ye. discretion of my Execu- tackling… a how [hoe] & shovel & feling [felling] ax & tor – ect & as touching such worldly goods or Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life: I give devise & dis- pinchers… a betel [beetle: a heavy wooden mallet] & slead pose of ye same in ye. following manner & forme. [perhaps “sled”]… 2 sled sids & a braek [perhaps “brake”]… an Ades [adz] & a holeing Ades… Squer [prob- 1 Imprimis I give unto my sons John Emery & to my ably “square”]… 4 ogers [augers]… a brood ax & compases son Jonathan Emery each of them one shilling - having payd them their portions allready – & chesels & gouge [chisels & gauge]… shave & saw & plains… 3 feether Beeds 6 coverleds & 3 blankets… Lenen 2 - I give to my sons Anthony Emery Stephen Emery & 7 shetes 6 pilibers [pillow biers] & tabil Lenen 4 pilious & Edward Emery: to each of them one third part - of my Marsh or meadow land at pine Iland Joyning unto – 4 bolsters… curtains & 3 bedsteds… 2 Iron pots & hooks ye. meadow of Richard Dole Thomas Pike ect - & in worming pan & skilit [warming pan & skillet] & and case my sd son Anthony leave no child: at his decease Irons… Tramel [trammel: a hook in a fireplace used to sd Anthonys part of sd meadow I give unto my son raise or lower a pot] & tongs & fier shovel chafing dish & James Emery: spit… a sord & tabl… a duzen of trenchers… putr 3 I give what shall be remaining due to me from – my [pewter]… Earthen wear & glases… wooden wair & son Anthony Emery: to my sons Stephen Emery chayrs… a Lamp & a boxe Iron & baskets wooden war… Edward & James Emery & to my daughters Mary & stilyards [stilards or steelyard: a balance used to measure Sarah Emery to each of them and equal share or part weight] & Books 3 bages yarne hemp Tobacoo… Bedcord there of Continued on page 102
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GENEii Category II Patrol Boat Stop on First Place the Mekong River By Michelle Robin La (as told to me by my husband, Luong La)
After dinner, Má decides who’s coming to the countryside in The big South Vietnamese flag on a tall pole on the back of the morning. I try to go whenever I can. I’d rather swim and our boat tells the soldiers we’re on their side. The yellow fabric fish all day than stay on our crowded island. Around eight the with three red stripes is bleached from the sun, but everyone next morning, my three older sisters and I carry baskets down else’s flag is faded too. Má idles the motor. One of my older the wood dock to our boat. I ask to carry the basket with food. sisters unfurls the small, newer flag wrapped around a stick on I worry someone will forget to bring the rice. the side of the boat. We sit silently around the edge of our boat The neighborhood is already awake. Usually, we wake up at as it drifts toward the patrol boat. An American soldier in a four in the morning, and the only noise is our bare feet hitting green T-shirt calls out. He looks scary standing above us. So the wood dock when we leave. “The land doesn’t wait. Fruit strange and white. A South Vietnamese soldier next to him doesn’t wait. Nothing waits,” Má says. But today we had to translates, “Where are you going?” wait for the tide before we could go. It’s almost slack tide now, “We’re going to Côn Tàu to work our land,” Má says. when the water stills before it changes directions. We have “What are you working on out there?” The translator asks. an hour to travel down the Mekong with no current. By the “How many days are you going for?” The American points to time we get to our farm, the tide will be coming in. We’ll follow my two oldest sisters. Chi Hai and Chi Ba usually don’t come the rising water as it pushes up the small stream that leads to with us because they’re at boarding school. “What about the our land. girls?” the translator says. It’s hard to talk over the loud rô rô rô of the motor. I stick my “They’re students,” Má says. “They’re on break, so they’re hands in the muddy water running along the side of the boat. helping me.” Má turns the propeller to avoid tangling it in clumps of purple water hyacinth floating by. We stay close to Tân Long Island The soldiers look at my sisters. “You’re students? What school?” to avoid the blue and red fishing ships on their way to the “Hello,” my sisters say. They say something else I don’t under- ocean. Boats tied to posts and docks line a shore crowded with stand. I wish I could speak English. tin and water coconut leaf roofs. Across the river the city of The American says a lot of words back to them. It sounds MyTho is even more crowded. strange. Not like the cowboys talk on Bonanza. My sisters talk In my mind, I chart the course down the Mekong from the is- shyly and laugh. They turn to the translator. “We don’t under- land we live on to the island where we farm, wondering how stand all of the things he said.” much the land has changed since my last trip. When we get The translator tries to explain, but the American keeps talking. down to the end of the island, we’ll cross over to the My Tho Three more American soldiers come out and start talking and side of the river, the safe side. We usually don’t travel along the laughing. Some of them wear pants but no shirt, and some have other side. Má says that’s the Viet Cong’s side. If you get too a T-shirt and Army shorts. They’re all barefoot. When they close, a Viet Cong soldier might force you to transport some- smile and laugh they seem like everyone else. They’re not scary. thing for them. I like them. They’re keeping us safe. I try to look toward the tail end of our island, but it’s hidden My sisters say a few more words, then stop talking. The Viet- behind wooden freighters anchored near shore. As Má pulls namese translator encourages them to say more. The soldiers around a freighter, we see American river patrol boats sitting smile at them. I want to hear them talk more, too. The soldiers off the end of the island. They’re stopping boats going into and all talk at once and laugh. My sisters get quiet. They look down out of the city. “I hope they don’t stop us,” Má says. at the boat and then glance back up at the men. I see river patrols all the time, but I’ve only been in our boat “Come closer,” the translator says. once when it was stopped. We were coming home from the We paddle our boat closer. The Americans lean over and hand farm and the boat was full of fruit. The soldiers went through down apples and canned chicken. My sister stands up to take all of the baskets looking for anything suspicious: antibiotics, it. She says something in English. I think it’s “thank you.” extra supplies, guns, or even a hiding Viêt Công. It took them so long that the tide changed, and we had to go against it the We wave goodbye. They didn’t check anything. My sister hands rest of the way. I was so hungry when we finally got home. me an apple. Má starts the motor again, and we head across the river toward the safe side. After ten more minutes, we get close to the patrol boats. A soldier in one waves us over. “Stay calm, don’t laugh, don’t do anything,” Má says. “You don’t want to get shot.”
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hops woole by clothing & cloth… my mothers clothing… 8 Emery, Reverend Rufus. Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and An- thony Emery, of Newbury, Mass. 1590-1890. Emery Cleaves. Salem, Massachu- 200 of bords… dung about 10 hors horness… about 92 setts. 1890. boshel of graine & 16 lods [loads] of hay… flax & hemp 9 Hoyt, David W. The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, not brok… apels for cyder… With some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton. Part One. Snow & Farnham, Printers. Providence, Rhode Island. 1897. The petition for land which he signed in January 1701/2 was 10 Ipswich Deed Book Four. Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds. Salem, Mas- not acted upon until 1727, when small steps toward compen- sachusetts. Page 246. 11 Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988. Web. www.ancestry.com. 9 sating the soldiers were begun, and finally on February 22, May, 2013. Newbury>Births, Marriages and Death>Image Number: 506. A 1733/4, Governor Belcher approved plans for two townships Record of the Births, Publishments, Marriages, & Deaths In Newbury From 1635 To 1736. Original Page Number 8. Newbury>Births, Marriages and Death>Image between the Saco and Penobscot Rivers in Maine, which were Number: 807. Newbury Births Marriages & Deaths. Original Page Number 267. designated for the claimants4. The men of Newbury who served Newbury>Births, Marriages and Death>Image Numbers: 518, 521, 523, 525, 526, and 529. A Record of the Births, Publishments, Marriages, & Deaths In in King Philip’s War were allegedly granted some of this land Newbury From 1635 To 1736. Original Page Numbers 32-33, 39, 42, 46, 49, at Narragansett Township Number One, which is now Buxton, and 54. Newbury>Births, Marriages and Death>Image Number: 661. A Record of 4 the Births, Publishments, Marriages, & Deaths In Newbury From 1635 To 1736. Maine, seventy miles north of their hometown . Original Page Number 325.Newbury>Births, Marriages and Death>Image Num- 1 American Ancestors. Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1840. New ber: 506. A Record of the Births, Publishments, Marriages, & Deaths In Newbury England Historic Genealogical Society. 2013. Web. From 1635 To 1736. Original Page Number 9. www.americanancestors.org/PageDetail. aspx?recordId=245172620. Probate num- 12 Proprietors’ Records of Newbury, Massachusetts. Web. www.ancestry.com. See the ber 8990. Pages 1-10. database entitled “Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988”. In the 2 Bodge, George Madison, A.B. Soldiers in King Philip’s War, Being a Critical cited database, this record is filed in Newbury>Proprietors’ Records>Image Num- Account of that War with a Concise History of the Indian Wars of New England bers: 225-227. Original Page Numbers 105-108. from 1620-1677. George Madison Bodge. Leominster, Massachusetts. 1896. 13 Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 3 Coffin, Charles Carleton. The History of Boscawen and Webster, From 1733 to Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis 1878. The Republican Press Association. Concord, New Hampshire. 1878. of Farmer’s Register. Vol. II. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. 1860. 4 Currier, John J. History of Newbury, Mass. 1635-1902. Damrell & Upham. 10 Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Boston. 1902. Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis 5 Davis, Walter Goodwin. The Ancestry of Annis Spear 1775-1858 of Litchfield of Farmer’s Register. Vol. IV. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. 1862. Maine. The Southworth-Anthoensen Press. Portland, Maine. 1945. 10 Stearns, Ezra S., William F. Whitcher, and Edward E. Parker. Genealogical and 6 Dow, George Francis, Harriet S. Tapley, and Sidney Perley, Esq. Records and Files Family History of the State of New Hampshire. A Record of the Achievements of of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County Massachusetts Volume VI 1675-1678. Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a The Essex Institute. Salem, Massachusetts. 1917. Nation. Vol. III. The Lewis Publishing Company. New York. 1908. 10 7 Dow, George Francis, Harriet S. Tapley, and Sidney Perley, Esq. Records and Files The Probate Records of Essex County Massachusetts. Volume I. 1635-1664. The of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County Massachusetts Volume VII 1678-1680. Essex Institute. Salem, Massachusetts. 1916. The Essex Institute. Salem, Massachusetts. 1919. RootsMagic Announces Webinars Learn about award-winning RootsMagic software and other topics free from the comfort of your home computer. n Sign Up for webinars at www.RootsMagic.com/Webinars n Check out past topics listed in the Webinar archive. 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GENEii Category II The Little Engine That Could Honorable Mention By Erika Hoffman
About eight years ago, I decided to write with the goal of pub- While hunting my roots, I became an empty nester. Then, my lication. Why did I, a newbie, dare believe I’d succeed in get- elderly dad moved in. Confined, I took up my pen, dusted ting a byline in this needle-in-a-haystack competition? off my computer keys, and emptied the shelves at Sam’s with It happened because a friend took me to a DAR meeting in the accoutrements a writer needs. Stories have surged through Raleigh! my brain and escaped out my mouth for years! Now, without She asked me to join. “Sally, on my dad’s side, I’m only taking off my slippers, I smacked the words on paper, gleaned 3rd generation born American, and Mom’s dad’s folks were some savoir-faire from networking, and assailed the world with from Bavaria.” my voice! “That still leaves your mom’s maternal ancestors.” Finding my eight generations back grandpa in American his- “My grandma’s mom’s dad--- Swiss.” tory caused me to be more alert to the history of this nation, “And her dad’s dad’s folks? and likewise writing has made me understand myself better. “Hmm…” Keying words in and seeing the black marks on the stark white screen helps me sort errant thoughts, analyze reflections, and My adventure in genealogy took a year of research and a huge categorize emotions. Writing is work. Yet, it’s akin to the job dollop of persistence. I journeyed from total ignorance about pro basketball players have; they love the game. Rejection slips my roots to becoming an expert on family scions. I unearthed smart like a missed shot. After one, I focus more, aim better, Quaker kin in Philadelphia at the time of the Revolution; how- and try next time to hit the target. ever, I worried if their religion was a deal breaker since Quakers were peaceniks. Yet, upon further delving I discovered my Hop- Having accomplished something that appeared impossibly kins ancestors supported the cause by paying military taxes and daunting at the onset, like discovering who my colonial ances- by feeding the troops biscuits made at their bakery. I also found tors were and whose side they were on, made me realize I could another ancestor, a hatter, Robert Tuckniss whose signature is do the impossible again! Success breeds success! on Continental currency and upon more digging I learned that After a gal reaches the apex of one destination, she takes out his father-in-law’s farmhouse was the headquarters for George her prognosticating binoculars to scan the landscape of her next Washington after the Battle of Germantown. That Quaker con- dream! Unlocking the secrets of my heritage also unlocked a tributor to the Revolution was Abraham Dawes. So, due to my confidence and a determination in me that has propelled me ancestors’ commitment to a cause, a couple of hundred years onward in my quest for a byline these past eight years. Geneal- later I could join the DAR! ogy opened the door and let loose a genie!
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103 THE SEARCHER SUMMER 2015 — Searcher — Ancestral Footsteps: The Okazaki Family By Linda Harms Okazaki Originally published in The California Nugget, 2013
It seems like genealogy is mostly research, and yet, once the lishments.3 He registered for the draft in 1918, along with his facts have been established, the documents retrieved and the father and two brothers.4 In 1921, he returned to Japan where report written, the adventure really begins. Surely every geneal- he married Hamako Maihara, born 7 September 1903. She was ogist hopes to time travel through ancestral footsteps. After from the neighboring village of Ota, Japan.5 Within a few nearly a year of dedicated research on the Okazaki line, my hus- months, Ichimaru and Hamako moved to Oakland, California band, Ted Okazaki, and I began the journey. and soon had three children, Maruko, called Maru; Masashi, Sasanji Okazaki was born in Tabara Village, Japan, on 20 Sep- known as Sid; and Terumi, who went by Tee. By 1934, the tember 1875 and arrived in San Francisco on 12 March 1906, Okazaki family had relocated to the town of Santa Maria, sit- via Canada.1 At the time, he had left behind his wife, Kiwa, uated along the central coast of California. Hatsue Okazaki and 6 born 3 April 1874 in Japan, and four young children; the only her husband, Jimmy Osuga, had been living there since 1927. daughter, Hatsue, born 13 March 1893; eldest son Ichimaru, They encouraged Ichimaru and his family to relocate because born 5 January 1895; second son Namita, born 20 November job prospects were good in the agricultural industry and Jimmy 1896; and youngest son Hifumi, born 20 June 1898.2 Each of had established a business as a produce distributor. Ichimaru the four children eventually came to the United States. At the and Jimmy spent weeks at a time on the road, travelling to the time, Japanese were ineligible for American citizenship. It ap- fields and selling produce to markets, hotels and restaurants, pears that Kiwa may have maintained the family farm in Japan throughout central and southern California, while the wives 7 so that her husband and children had a home to which they and Ichimaru’s children remained in Santa Maria. could return. This is where our adventure began. In typical genealogical fash- Ichimaru Okazaki immigrated to California in 1912 and ion, we located the former residences of family and friends, saw worked in the San Francisco bay area at various laundry estab- the church where they worshipped and the schools the children attended, and then visited the local historical society to view directories, school yearbooks and ephemera related to the Japanese Americans from the area. The family seemingly lived the “American Dream.” Hamako Okazaki was known for her angel food cakes and other baked goods. Maru sang in the choir. Sid ran track and played tennis. Tee loved baseball and buying coke at the corner store. But anti-Japanese sentiment flourished, especially in agricultural communities. Then, on 7 December 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked. Chaos, pandemonium and fear soon followed. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, issued arrest warrants that same day for Japanese immigrants who were perceived as threats to the United States. Some men were arrested immediately, thousands more in the months to follow. Ichimaru Okazaki and his brother-in-law, Jimmy Osuga, were arrested on 21 February 1942, near El Centro, California. The following day they were transferred to the Tuna Canyon Immigration Detention Station near the San Gabriel Moun- tains, then to the Santa Fe Department of Justice facility in New Mexico on 13 March 1942, then to the U.S. Army internment Camp in Lordsburg, New Mexico on 19 June 1942, and eventually to the Crystal City Department of Justice Camp in Texas.8 While the men were being jailed and removed, the remaining Japanese and Japanese Americans on the west coast were given Okazaki family circa 1928, Oakland. Back row, L-R, Ichimaru Okazaki, Sasanji Okazaki, Ichinojo Osuga. notice to move to the interior of the United States or prepare Front row, Maruko Okazaki, Hamako Okazaki, Terumi Okazaki in mother’s lap. Masashi Okazaki, Hatsue Okazaki Osuga, (she and her husband had no children) Continued on page 105
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From this vantage utensils, yet had no idea where they were going.9 point in the blazing sun, we understood how vulnerable the While we traveled in the comfort of our air-conditioned car, families must have felt. we knew that the family had been transported on crowded We knew that Lordsburg, New Mexico, was one of the loca- Greyhound busses. Several hours from the idyllic coastal town tions where Ichimaru and Jimmy had been held, and we drove of Santa Maria, we arrived in Tulare. It was unbearably hot and there next. Today the land is privately owned, but we found a the fairgrounds smelled of manure. People of Japanese descent, marker near the freeway memorializing the individuals impris- mostly American citizens, were “assembled” at eighteen centers, oned at this U.S. Army Internment Camp. As the wind blew primarily racetracks and fairgrounds in California, Oregon and hot sand in our faces, we were struck by the sense of isolation Washington, before being transported to permanent incarcer- that Ichimaru and Jimmy must have felt when they were ation camps. The family lived in the horse stables at the Tulare incarcerated here, and farther north at Santa Fe. fairgrounds. Sanitation was deplorable, education was nonex- The men petitioned to be reunited with their families. istent, bathrooms were communal, and the facility was sur- Ichimaru had arrived in Crystal City on 23 March 1943. rounded by barbed wire. Today the fairgrounds appear festive Jimmy arrived nearly a year later on 21 January 1944.15 and colorful with no indication that nearly five thousand indi- Hamako, Hatsue and the children arrived 26 May 1943, taking viduals were confined here. None of the buildings from that first a train from Gila, then a bus from Uvalda, Texas. It was a time now remain and fairground administrators told us that joyous reunion for the family and living conditions were some- no individuals were ever housed in animal quarters, despite what improved. Here they lived in small duplexes with 10 first-hand declarations to the contrary by the internees. kitchens. There were schools, a marching band, a Boy Scout In August 1942, the 4800 people waiting at the Tulare Assem- troop, a bakery, a swimming pool made out of a huge irrigation bly Center began boarding crowded trains, surrounded by tank, an orchard, even a beehive. In some ways it was a typical armed guards.11 The two sisters-in-law, Hamako Okazaki and American life, except that they were considered prisoners of Hatsue Osuga, and the three Okazaki children didn’t know war living behind the fences of a detention camp. In addition where they were going and had no idea if they would ever see to the Japanese and Japanese Americans, Germans, Italians and Ichimaru or Jimmy again. There was little food and water, the Japanese Peruvians were detained in the camp. Because the heat was stifling, the seats were uncomfortable and the incar- internees were considered prisoners of war, the authorities were cerated passengers were required to keep the shades drawn on obligated to abide by the Geneva Convention. Crystal City, the long trip to Gila. sometimes called a “family reunification camp”, was perhaps Our own journey to Gila was in total comfort. We flew to more bearable than the WRA camps, which did not need to 16 Phoenix and drove to Gila River, a desolate town in south cen- abide by those guidelines. tral Arizona near the Mexican border. The site of this intern- It was about a fifteen-hour drive from Gila River to Crystal ment camp had once belonged to Native Americans and, after City, now an agricultural community most famous for growing World War II, the land once again became a reservation. At spinach. Some of the residents have ancestry predating the Gila, living conditions were vastly improved over the assembly Mexican Revolution. We were met by the city librarian who centers. Families resided in wooden barracks, food was some- took us on a guided tour of the incarceration site, now owned what more plentiful, medical care was available and education by the school district. Numerous markers dotted the area, was provided. However, confinement was stressful.12 memorializing different aspects of the facility. Only two build- According to her children, Hamako Okazaki spent much of ings from the internment camp still stand, both from the the time weeping; she had little communication with her former German school. An interpretive panel in the courtyard husband and the letters she did receive were heavily censored. described the camp educational system and displayed a large The family unit had been dismantled and she had no idea photo of the Japanese American graduating class of 1945. Smil- where she and her children would be sent next. Hatsue suffered ing back at us from the back row, center, was Federal High from diabetes, which was difficult to control, and spent many School senior class president, Terumi Okazaki. days in the camp hospital.13 They endured scorpions, rat- At the end of the war, another migration began as families tlesnakes, barbed wire, and a lack of privacy. The adults expe- moved to resettle. Vacated cottages at Crystal City were soon rienced profound sadness and despair, though for some of the filled with internees from other camps. Many Japanese Peru- children, who were too young to understand the gravity of the vians found work at a frozen food factory on the east coast.17 situation, it was an adventure. Gila was considered to be “bet- Others were “repatriated” to Japan. Some Issei (first generation ter” than the other WRA (War Relocation Authority) camps; Continued on page 106
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Japanese immigrants) didn’t believe that Japan had lost the war. tape held privately by interviewer/author [ADDRESS PRIVATE], 2013. Others were so broken by their experiences that they wanted 8 “World War II Japanese Internee Cards”, Ichimaru Okazaki and Ichinojo Osuga, to leave the United States. (cards arranged alphabetically by surname), General Files of the Department of Justice, Record Group 60, National Archives, College Park, Maryland. Ichimaru and Hamako Okazaki, along with Jimmy and Hatsue 9 JARDA, Japanese American Digital Archive, a part of Calisphere, a service of the Osuga, were among the approximately 2,000 internees who University of California libraries, powered by the California Digital Library, chose repatriation. The Okazaki children were now young (www.calishere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda : accessed 2011 and 17 February adults. Having spent their teenage years in camps, they felt con- 2015); Maruko Okazaki Hiratzka, Mashashi Sid Okazaki, Terumi Tee Okazaki; flicted. The eldest, Maruko Okazaki, was engaged to be mar- interview 14 October 2012. 10 Maruko Okazaki Hiratzka, Mashashi Sid Okazaki, Terumi Tee Okazaki; interview ried. Her fiancé was in the Army with the Military Intelligence 14 October 2012; Densho Digital Archive, (www.densho.org, accessed : 2011 and Service, stationed in Japan. She chose to remain in the United also 17 February 2015). States. The Okazaki sons, Masashi and Terumi, returned to 11 Maruko Okazaki Hiratzka, Mashashi Sid Okazaki, Terumi Tee Okazaki; interview Japan with their parents, Ichimaru and Hamako. As American 14 October 2012. citizens, they spoke some Japanese but had limited ability to 12 Jeffrey Burton, Mary M. Farrell, Florence B. Lord, Richard W. Lord, Confinement read or write in Japanese. Boarding the SS Matsonia in Seattle, and Ethnicity, An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites, the family arrived in Yokohama harbor on Christmas Eve, (Western Archeological and Conservation Center, National Park Service, Depart- ment of the Interior, 1999), 59-100. 1945, disembarking in Uraga Bay on Christmas Day. Japan 13 “War Relocation Authority Evacuee Case Files”, Hatsue Osuga, (files arranged by had been devastated by the war. Food was in short supply, loot- WRA Camp, then alphabetically by surname), War Relocation Authority, Record ing was rampant, poverty and illness were everywhere. Masashi Group 210, National Archives, Washington D.C. and Terumi suddenly found themselves without citizenship in 14 The Historical Marker Database, (www.hmdb.org/marker, accessed : 2011 and 17 either country.18 February 2015). Like most immigrants, the Okazaki family had arrived in the 15 “World War II Alien Enemy Detention and Internment Case Files”, Ichimaru Okazaki and Ichinojo Osuga, (arranged numerically by file number which is iden- United States looking for a better life. Following in their foot- tified in “World War II Japanese Internee Cards), General Files of the Department steps was a bittersweet experience. After our travels, we knew of Justice, Record Group 60, National Archives, College Park, Maryland. there was much more to the story. Our next adventure would 16 Densho Digital Archive, (http://densho.org); “War Relocation Authority Evacuee be to document both the post-war Okazaki experience and Case Files”, Hatsue Osuga, and Hamako, Maruko, Masashi and Terumi Okazaki, their pre-immigration ancestry in Japan. (files arranged by WRA Camp, then alphabetically by surname), War Relocation Authority, Record Group 210, National Archives, Washington D.C; Maruko Endnotes Okazaki Hiratzka, Mashashi Sid Okazaki, Terumi Tee Okazaki; interview 14 Oc- tober 2012. Richard Watanabe, docent at the Japanese American National Mu- 1 “California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1959,” digital images, Ancestry.com seum, Los Angeles, California, interview by Linda Harms Okazaki, September (www.ancestry.com : accessed 2011 and also 17 February 2015), entry for Sasanji 2012, notes held privately by interviewer [ADDRESS PRIVATE], 2013. Okazaki, arrived 12 March 1906 aboard the Queen; citing NARA microfilm pub- 17 Tetsuden Kashima, Judgement Without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment Dur- lication M1412, Roll 3; Okazaki Koseki Tohon, obtained May 2011, Prefectural ing World War II, Seattle, Washington, University of Washington Press, 2003. Office, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan; translated by Advantage Genealogy, September 2012. A Koseki is a single civil document, which contains 18 Maruko Okazaki Hiratzka, Mashashi Sid Okazaki, Terumi Tee Okazaki; interview vital records for an individual household. 14 October 2012. 2 Okazaki Koseki Tohon, obtained May 2011, Prefectural Office, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan; translated by Advantage Genealogy, September 2012. Author Biography: 3 1930 U.S. Census, Alameda County, California, population schedule, Oakland, Linda Harms Okazaki is a fourth generation San Franciscan with a back- ED 1-6, p. 19A and B (penned), dwelling 565, family 765, Ichimaru Okazaki and ground in education. She is a charter member of the SCGS Special Interest family, digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 2011 and also 17 Group, Nikkei Genealogical Society. She is a member of the Association of February 2015), citing NARA microfilm publication T626; “California Passenger Professional Genealogists, the Genealogical Speakers Guild and the Daugh- and Crew Lists, 1882-1959,” digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : ters of the American Revolution. Linda currently serves as President of the accessed 2011 and also 17 February 2015), entry for Ichimaru Okazaki, arrived 19 California Genealogical Society. She is passionate about teaching Nikkei how August 1912 aboard the Chiyo Maru, citing NARA microfilm publication M1410, to research, document and share their personal family histories. Roll 59; interview by Maru Hiratzka, 1987, transcription held privately by author, [ADDRESS PRIVATE], 2015. 4 “U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918,” digital images, Ancestry.com, (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2011 and 17 February 2015), cards for Ichimaru Okazaki(registration number 32, San Francisco, California), Generations pass like leaves fall from our family Hifumi Okazaki (order number 634, Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California), Namita Okazaki (registration number 174, San Francisco, California), and Sasanji tree. Each season new life blossoms and grows Okazaki (order number 5257, Stockton, San Joaquin County, California), citing benefitting from the strength and experience of NARA microfilm publication M1509. 5 Okazaki Koseki Tohon, obtained May 2011, Prefectural Office, Okayama City, those who went before. Heidi Swapp Okayama Prefecture, Japan; translated by Advantage Genealogy, September 2012. 6 Santa Maria City Directories, 1927-1942, Santa Maria Historical Society, Santa Maria California. 7 Maruko Okazaki Hiratzka, Mashashi Sid Okazaki, Terumi Tee Okazaki (Lafayette, California) collective interview by Linda Harms Okazaki, 14 October 2012, video-
SUMMER 2015 THE SEARCHER 106 — Searcher — Graveyards and Gravestones By Alice Fairhurst
One of my family's hobbies is wandering through graveyards. • Stones facing south are well-lit all day in midsummer but not I do it most often with my daughter Kay and her husband Don during the rest of the year. Adkins. Summertime is a good time to go grave hunting Have a plan to take multiple photographs of these basic shots: because there is no snow on the ground and the sun is bright enough for good photos. • A broad-view photo of the cemetery. • A photo of the gravestone and those closest to it. Gravehunting Preparation • A photo of the whole gravestone so that the inscription and Don and Kay will be hunting for some German ancestors in carving are visible. Pennsylvania. To prepare for the trip, they used: • Make sure to take at least one picture where the inscription • Map showing Pennsylvania counties (many state and county fills the camera frame. maps are available as images on the web). If the gravestone is leaning, tilt the camera to eliminate the • Data from their genealogy software program about which slant. ancestors died in Pennsylvania. • FindaGrave.com to see if any of their ancestor's graves had Documenting Your Find been photographed. How frustrating it is to have traveled far to get a photograph • Current road map of Pennsylvania. then get back home to realize you are missing information. A basic record sheet for your graveyard photographs should • The Handy Book for Genealogists. include the following: Their ancestors had died in the following counties: Bedford, • Cemetery name and location (photo IDs of broad-view Berks, Clinton, Huntingdon, Lehigh, Northumberland, cemetery pictures) Union, York. On the Pennsylvania county map, they high- lighted those county names. Next they needed to locate the • When photographed (date, and time range) cemetery. Findagrave.com was useful because often this source • Ancestor's name and data (photo IDs of that ancestor's had the address of the cemetery and it also indicated if the gravestone) cemetery had multiple names. The Handy Book for Genealogists • Transcription of the epitaph cleared up any conflicts of place by identifying the parent county or territory for each county, along with each county’s If you want to learn more about photographing cemetery date of creation. markers or the history of gravestone carving see The Associa- tion For Gravestone Studies, www.gravestonestudies.org. They created a list by county of each graveyard with its address Check out their store at the website’s SHOP AGS tab for useful and who was buried in that graveyard and the person's date of publications. death. Now they could consult the road map and plan the most efficient route for exploring the graveyards. They will When You Are Back Home pack a digital camera, and tools to make the gravestones ready Add the pictures to your data storage and link appropriate for photographing. photos to your genealogical software. Getting Images of the Gravestone(s) Kay will never have a facial photograph of her ancestor David First, make sure the stone is clean. You do not want to damage Heinly who died on 26 Sep 1887 and is buried in Louisburg the stone as people used to do by taking rubbings of the stone. Cemetery, Union County, Pennsylvania, but she may be able to find his grave and take a picture of his gravestone. • A soft brush or natural sponge and water will help you remove surface soil. Gentle brushing should remove surface Share your discoveries with others by adding your photos and dirt and bird droppings. Never use hard objects or stiff details about your ancestors to findagrave.com. brushes to clean the stone. • Trim tall weeds around the base of the stone to find any hidden writings. “We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Bright sunlight is necessary to highlight the stone's features. Sun that hits the stone at a 30-degree angle is best. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as • Stones facing west - photograph at midday. they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hid- den in every cell of our bodies.” • Stones facing north - photograph in the late afternoon. Shirley Abbott
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Autosomal DNA Results Test Hundreds of Years of Genealogy Records in A Proof of Ancestry By Marie Rundquist
The day that Beville cousin Becki Bishop emailed my mother Common Ancestors about an autosomal DNA match was a turning point for me in the world of genetic genealogy. Prior to receiving Becky’s Beville Descendant Spouse email, I had complete confidence that DNA testing helps fill VI. Henrietta Elizabeth Beville Henry Jacob Strobha in genealogy gaps and may be used to overcome brick walls, b. Oct. 30, 1825 m. Feb 6, 1844 b. Jan. 6, 1823 trace surnames, identify common ancestors, and find new d. Nov. 22, 1900 d. Dec. 16, 1872 cousins. Becki’s email confirmed my belief that autosomal Becki’s Line DNA test results, combined with painstaking research of a fam- [VI.] H. Ann Rebecca Strobhar Habersham King ily genealogy, create the means for a “proof of ancestry,” going b. Sept. 17, 1861 m. Nov. 17, 1878 b. Jan 14, 1852 back hundreds of years. d. Nov. 16, 1933 d. Sept. 1, 1933 In a brief, introductory email originally addressed to my Comment: Child of Henrietta and Henry Strobhar mother (whose kit I manage), with “Hello Cousin” in the sub- [VI. H.] 4. Rhea Habersham King Charles Henry Fonde ject line, Becki writes: b. Dec. 18, 1892 m. Nov. 29, 1921 b. July 28, 1891 “I am a cousin of yours (2nd cousin, 1 time removed) according [d. Jan. 5, 1997] d. Oct. 18, 1974 to my own genealogy records. I have the Beville family books that Comment: Child of Ann and Habersham King your mother published and the ones you and your husband released [VI. H. 4.] a. Frances (Frankie) Habersham Fonde Robert Thomas Brogan more recently. I am very grateful to your mother for all the research b. Dec. 17, 1922 m. Jan. 8, 1944 b. Dec. 29, 1920 she did and made available to other family members, and to you [d. Jan. 18, 2009] [d. May 24, 2008] for expanding that research. I just got my Family Tree DNA Fam- Comment: Child of Rhea and Charles Fonde ily Finder results and have begun looking at my matches and you were at the top of the list! I am the granddaughter of Rhea King [VI. H. 4. a.] (1) Rebecca Ann Brogan [Becki] [Becki’s husband] Fonde, who was your mother’s first cousin. Her mother was Ann Comment: Child of Frances and Robert Brogan Rebecca Strobhar, sister of Cecil Strobhar. Our common ancestors Marie’s Line are Henrietta Elizabeth Beville and Henry Jacob Strobhar. I’m [VI.] K. Cecil Wilder Strobhar (2) Asselia Gaschet de Lisle just getting started with trying to understand how to use the DNA b. Dec. 1, 1867 m. (2) Sept. 26, 1906 b. Nov. 16, 1880 information along with my genealogy information. It’s fascinating d. December 21, 1936 d. December 26, 1913 but complicated (at least for a beginner). Just wanted to say hi! Comment: Child of Henrietta and Henry Strobhar And thank you.” In less than 200 words, Cousin Becki combined aspects of her [VI. K.] 4. Asselia Gaschet de Lisle Strobhar (1) Emery Bruce Poore family’s traditional records research and exploration of genetic b. Sept 17, 1912 m. (1) March 19, 1932 b. June 15, 1892 genealogy into a new approach – a fusion of biographical and d. October 14, 1996 d. Sept. 10, 1941 genetic information - that could be used as means to prove the Comment: Child of Cecil and Asselia Strobhar family lines that my grandmother had documented during her [VI. K. 4.] a. Nancy Beville Poore Frank Hutches Pierce III lifetime. While we walked this new pathway into our family’s b. Jan. 20, 1933 m. Dec. 21, 1952 b. July 29, 1931 history, where traditional genealogy research joined the science [d. Jan. 5, 2015] [d. December 24, 2006] of DNA, we also tested the validity of genealogy records my Comment: Child of Asselia and Emery Poore grandmother had compiled in her book, Pioneering with the [VI. K. 4. a.] (2) Marie Asselia Rundquist [author] [Marie’s husband] Beville Family in America, using the information contained in Comment: Child of Nancy and Frank Pierce our 23 chromosomes. In her email of January 22, 2015, Becki states that she is my In 2015, referencing the same records my grandmother had mother’s 2nd cousin, once removed, according to her personal, compiled in the early 1980’s, I verified Becki’s statements as genealogy records. Then, Becki adds that her grandmother was completely accurate, with my mother’s, Becki’s and my records Rhea King Fonde, who was my mother’s, mother’s first cousin. highlighted in gray. In earlier times, a records check like this Becki then states that she and my mother share common an- one would have been all that was necessary to verify a family cestors, Henrietta Elizabeth Beville and Henry Jacob Strobhar. line, or confirm a cousin relationship. In my grandmother’s Pioneering in America with the Beville Family, “Appendix C, “Descendants of Claiborne Beville and Continued on page 109 Susannah Daly Beville of Georgia” – one of the Beville family books Becki mentioned in her email, I located, and annotated, the following records:
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However, in 2015, genealogists may now reference another set matches the genealogy relationship referenced by Becki in her of records – a living archive of family information that my email and later verified by consulting Appendix C of Pioneering grandmother never dreamed of when she was typing her orig- with the Beville Family. inal genealogy tomes over thirty years ago – one that is stored Considerations: In submitting our DNA samples to Family in our autosomal DNA, as contributed (in equal percentages) Tree DNA, we, as kit owners, provided no genealogy informa- by our mothers and our fathers! tion. Becki, my mother and I tested at separate times, years Unlike the biographical information that my grandmother re- apart, with my data imported from a 3rd party. The relation- searched and compiled, autosomal DNA records, when used ship assignments made by Family Tree DNA, shown in the for genealogy purposes (as with Family Finder autosomal DNA table above, were based purely upon an unbiased analysis that test from FamilyTreeDNA.com), are concerned with shared ge- factored only the strength and length of our shared, genetic netic segments. In her email, Becki asserts that my mother is segments! her top “match” in her Family Tree DNA Family Finder results Analysis: I overlaid reported DNA results with references with list - a statement which inspired me to conduct the following the biographical information contained in our family records, two genealogy “proofs:” and so develop a new picture of ancestry: • Proof 1: Records research compared with evidence from autosomal DNA (22 chromosomes) can reinforce proof of Matches for [VI. K. 4.] a. Nancy Beville Poore relationship Child of Asselia and Emery Poore • Proof 2: Records research compared with evidence from the Genealogy Reference / Relationship Suggested Shared cM Longest X chromosome can reinforce proof of relationship Kit Owner Range Relationship Block For each of the proofs that follow, there is a “genealogy proof” [VI. K. 4. a.] (2) Marie Asselia statement which has the genealogy relationships that I would Rundquist [author] like to test, a question section, where I list the questions that I Child of Nancy and Frank Pierce Parent/Child Parent/Child 3383.02 267.21 hope to answer, the process that I have followed in conducting [VI. H. 4. a.] (1) Rebecca Ann the proof, observations and outcomes, considerations and Brogan [Becki] analysis, with a combined summary and conclusion at the end. Child of Frances and Robert 2nd Cousin - Genealogy Proof 1: Records research compared with evidence Brogan 3rd Cousin 2nd Cousin 141.2 26.41 from autosomal DNA (22 chromosomes) can reinforce proof of relationship. For this specific case, a documented 2nd cousin Information about shared autosomal DNA segments is nothing relationship between two individuals, proven by records without pictures. So, using the Chromosome Browser that is research may also be proven genetically by comparing autoso- part of the Family Finder product, I compared my mother’s mal DNA test results of those same individuals. genetic matches to Becki with mine and find them nearly iden- Question: Becki’s assertion that she and my mother are “sec- tical in strength and number! ond cousins once removed” is clearly supported by our family’s Comparison of Genetic Matches genealogical records. Would a comparison of our autosomal DNA records offer the same proof? VI. K.4.a.(2) (Marie) [VI. K. 4.] a. (Nancy, Marie’s Mother) Process: To answer this question, I consulted my mother’s au- matches with VI.H.4.a.(1) (Becki) matches with VI.H.4.a.(1) (Becki) tosomal DNA matches in the Family Finder program and noted that Becki was the only cousin listed among my mother’s “close and immediate matches,” a list that also included me, shown as “daughter.” Therefore, Becki is also #1, or top of the list, of my mother’s “cousin” matches, as shown in the following table: Mother’s “Close and Immediate” Autosomal DNA Matches
Kit Owner Relationship Suggested Shared cM Longest Range Relationship Parent/Child Block Daughter Marie Parent/Child Parent/Child 3383.02 267.21 Becki 2nd Cousin - 2nd Cousin 141.2 26.41 3rd Cousin
Observations: The suggested (genetic), 2nd cousin relation- ship assigned to Becki and my mother in the above table, Continued on page 110
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One of my grandmother’s driving forces in her research of mother, unchanged, would not have matched with my Beville genealogy was her love of family history that her father, mother’s. So, absent autosomal DNA, there would have been widower Cecil Strobhar, himself a genealogist, instilled within no way to link my grandmother’s paternal line ancestry with her. It was he who inspired her to research and write her books my mother, or with Becki’s ancestry, genetically. As there are about the descendants and ancestors of her paternal grand- no surviving male descendants of my grandmother’s father, mother, Henrietta Elizabeth Beville. As my grandmother had Cecil Strobhar, there would have been no way to conduct a sur- inherited her reverence for her Beville family history from her name study for his line. father (and perhaps some of his genealogy records too!), it Analysis: I share my findings in the table below, referencing would only be fitting if my grandmother, Asselia Gaschet de the X match information downloaded from Family Tree DNA Lisle Strobhar, were to have carried the same X chromosome and my grandmother’s genealogy records: that Henrietta passed to her son, Cecil Wilder Strobhar, my grandmother’s father, and likewise to her daughter, Ann Shared X-Chromosome Matches with Cousin Becki Rebecca Strobhar, who was Cecil’s sister (referencing my grand- Kit Owner Match Start End Centi- Matching mother’s genealogy table). Location Location morgans SNPs Genealogy Proof 2: Records research compared with evidence [VI. K. 4. a.] (2) VI.H.4.a.(1) 54224837 67881743 3.16 500 from the X chromosome can reinforce proof of relationship. Marie Becki For this specific case, a female may genetically prove descent [VI. K. 4.] a. VI.H.4.a.(1) 54224837 68235478 4 550 from a paternal line grandmother by way of X chromosome Nancy Becki testing. Question: Would either Becki or her cousin Nancy, have Summary: Findings are that (1) the 2nd cousin family carried the same “X” chromosome as Henrietta Elizabeth relationships reflected in the documented genealogies of Beville passed to daughter Ann (Becki’s great grandmother) and individuals were mirrored by the matching and analysis of their son Cecil (Asselia’s father and Nancy’s grandfather)? Could I autosomal DNA test results, and (2) by comparing X chromo- have received this same X chromosome, which would have some DNA matches, individuals may verify, genetically, docu- been passed by my great-grandfather to my grandmother, to mented paternal line ancestries, where Y chromosome DNA is my mother, and then to me? unavailable and mitochondrial DNA matching does not apply. Process: Becki notes in her email, “Our common ancestors are Conclusion: Combining traditional genealogy records research Henrietta Elizabeth Beville and Henry Jacob Strobhar.” It is this and autosomal DNA testing produces a new way for family ancestral relationship which I want to test using the X chro- researchers to prove individual genealogies, verify relationships mosome. I had previously observed that my mother and I and reach back hundreds of years to verify common shared nearly identical, matching segments with Becki, for the ancestry. In each case defined in our “proof of ancestry,” my first 22 chromosomes, but this was no guarantee that we would grandmother’s genealogy records proved valid. also share matching X chromosome segments, as the X chro- Notes and References: mosome is not passed on all lines. Therefore, in Family Finder, The author thanks Beville cousin, Becki Bishop, for kindly I filter on my mother’s “X” chromosome matches, looking for allowing her to reference her family genealogy and compare Becki among them. Then, I check my X chromosome matches autosomal DNA results in the writing of this article and her in Family Finder, also looking for matches with Becki. late grandmother, Asselia S. Lichliter, for having written her Observations: Becki is a match with my mother – on the X beloved Beville books! chromosome - offering further “proof” of a shared, Beville an- Reference: Lichliter, Pierce (2001). Pioneering in America with cestry. To my surprise, I discover Becki is one of my X matches the Beville Family: The Continuing Story: Volume II. Bowie, too! Cousin Becki matches me and my mother on nearly iden- Maryland. Heritage Books. tical segments, having the same start and nearly the same end locations, with my mother’s shared segment slightly overlap- ping mine. Considerations: Prior to the advent of autosomal DNA for genetic genealogy purposes, an ancestry “proof,” such as the To forget ones Ancestors is to be a brook without one conducted in prior paragraphs would have been impossi- a source, a tree without a root. ble. As Becki and my mother do not share a common matri- Author Unknown lineal ancestor, as shown in my grandmother’s genealogy table, her mitochondrial DNA, passed from mother to mother to
SUMMER 2015 THE SEARCHER 110 — Searcher — Local History Is Your History By Barbara Randall
1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. July 4, 1776 the ear mark registrations detail the agricultural base of the Declaration of Independence. December 7, “a day that will community (as most early settlements were) but they also can live in infamy.” 9/11… This is the American history learned identify family relationships as in this example. in school and through the media. Our picture of history con- The Ear marke of the cattle of John Tripp Jun’ is A crop on the Left sists of a collection of dates, events and names that seemingly Ear and A halfpeney on Each Side the Same it fformerly belonging to have no connection to our daily lives. We have quickly forgot- his uncle James Tripp, and the Said John Tripp hath marked his Sheep ten most of the history we learned and, strangely, we believe it of the same marke Ever sence he had Sheep Entred and Recorded the does not apply to us. 28th of the 3d month 1705 & me John Anthony Town Clerke But it does apply to us. And your history can be found in local 2. The Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth, p. 283 history books. Local history books are not the history books Vital records are not always included in local history books but full of dates and facts that you had in school. They are written you might find some limited information in some books. about one specific town, city or county and about the people Court and probate records may even be included, especially if who lived there. They are a treasure unlocking the secrets of the author thought them interesting. The Norwich, Vermont how our ancestors lived. They can fill in the story of your fam- record indicates the local standard for behavior in this record ily beyond who begat who and when they married or died. of a fine. Local history strips away the world as we know it and exposes the world the way our ancestors knew it. Many types of information... Local histories often include geographic descriptions of the area, inhabitant descriptions and detail the land use prior to, 3. A History of Norwich, Vermont, p. 258 during and after settlement. Checking the local history may offer clues to where your ancestors came from before they set- The real treasures… tled in that location. Land ownership is an integral part of ge- The real treasures in local history books are the family infor- nealogy. Maps are often included. Early maps often had names mation that is revealed in the migration patterns, biographical on them so you not only knew where your ancestors lived but sketches and anecdotal stories. Not only will you find where who their neighbors were. Pictures, possibly taken at a later the original settlers came from but, if a group left within a lim- time than your ancestors, can show you what the town may ited time frame, you will find where they migrated to when have looked like in their lifetime. Descriptions of how land they left. The population of a town can be greatly impacted was divided, owners and neighbors are often given. You may by events, like epidemics or religion. Some towns lost a num- even find information on previous owners of the land. ber of their local population when the Mormons moved west. Today no Mormon church may exist in the area and you might At the north part of the town, besides John Slafter, living at the river never know of its impact if not for local history. (near John A. Sargent’s) there was Captain Hezekiah Johnson (where Richard Waterman now lives), Daniel and (probably) Biographical sketches on some of its citizens not only describe Samuel Waterman with families from Mansfield, Conn., Daniel the family but previous generations before they “crossed the Waterman. pond” are often included. They could even mention the town 1. A History of Norwich, Vermont, p. 31 of prior residence in a region. The sketches could trace several Local government descriptions illustrate how the town or generations of one ancestor. county was organized and the offices needed to manage it. This family trace their lineage back to those of that name in Norwich, Often included are lists of those in the community who served. England, by the following links in the chain : Robert and Elizabeth Local community priorities become evident in the discussions (Bairne) Waterman : Thomas and Marian (Tracey) Waterman : of military actions (which may include veteran lists and mili- Thomas and Elizabeth (Allyne) Waterman : Daniel and Mary (Gif- tary muster rolls), churches and church membership, schools, ford) and Elizabeth (Haskell) Waterman. There are, probably, some business and industry development. Epidemics and other missing links in the chain before coming to Daniel Waterman, the progenitor of the family in Norwich, Vt. events also greatly impacted the life of our ancestors. You might not discover this from other sources. You might also 4. A History of Norwich, Vermont, p. 249 learn about typical crops and agricultural trends. Records of Continued on bottom of page 114
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LOCAL HISTORY IS YOUR HISTORY………Continued from 111 The greatest treasure within local history books is the anecdotal www.familysearch.org Search by place in the catalog to find stories. Many accounts are first person accounts. They afford local history books. Many are digitized and available online. you an opportunity to learn the personality of your ancestor www.books.google.com Search Google by place. Click on or the neighbors of your ancestor. My favorite anecdote con- the left menu for more options and choose books. The list- cerns my 3rd great grandfather, Silas Randall, and occurred ing will tell you if an e-book is available and you can down- about 1850. The story is recounted in A History of Spafford, load it to your device of choice or read online. If the book Onondaga County, New York, p. 35. A barn had to be moved is not available online Google will provide a list of sellers and to a new location and it was organized by a store owner prom- a worldcat.org link. ising a good time. Silas became the self-appointed leader of www.archive.org Search by place and choose text for the the task. The selection describes him taking charge of the media type. You can choose your format to read or down- move. The first person account was so well described that I load. could picture the scene. “As I began to mix my first pail of lemonade, Silas Randall sang Local histories can also be found in libraries (town, county, out: “Well, boys, if we are going to move that building let us genealogical, college/university): be about it,” and all hands following his lead and moved off www.worldcat.org is a free registry of libraries. You can for the barn….When I got there I saw that Silas Randall was search for a place and it will give you a list of books, libraries in charge and every man in his place… Before the building, owning a copy and format (if it’s available in a digital for- with his back to the front, stood the tall form of Silas Randall, mat). World Cat can even tell you the distance to a particular with his bare brawny arms gesticulating like a bandmaster. library. ‘Here, take hold of this plank, Avery, and put it down here. Local libraries usually allow you to search their catalogs on- Take hold of that handspike, Nathan. Russel Rounds, come line. You might have to sign in with a library card to access round here and help William,’ sang out his clear voice, and this feature at some libraries. then: ‘All together. He! Hoe! Hee! He! Hoe! Hee and the build- Heritage Quest is a database available through many li- ing moved like a creature of life.” braries. If you have a library card, you may be able to access Local histories tend to be well sourced in town and local this at home by simply signing into the library website. Her- records. Many were often written long ago so early records itage Quest allows you to search books by place. You can may have been more readily available. Early publication means then go through the book page by page, go to the table of first person accounts can be related. It’s the history you did contents to jump to a specific section or, download it (al- not learn in school! It’s the history your ancestors lived! though there may be restrictions on the number of pages al- Where do you find local histories? lowed for download). Many local history books can be downloaded from the internet. Finding ancestor information in local history books is exhila- If you find a book in the library, check for it online, especially rating! The information found can put your ancestor’s lives the older publications which might no longer be copyright pro- into perspective with the time period and give you a deeper un- tected. If you download it, it is yours to read at your leisure derstanding of their lives, challenges and achievements. Local and refer back to as needed. history books should not be overlooked when searching for There are several places to look online. If one site does not source information. have the book, another might. You might also find a difference Bibliography in the quality of the digitizing between different sites. Many Collins, Captain George Knapp. History of Spafford Onondaga County, New sites are free to access. In all cases, search by the place name. York. Dehler Press: Onondaga Historical Association, 1917. Once located, you generally have a choice in download format Goddard, M.E.. A History of Norwich Vermont. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth or you can read it online. The steps are easy to follow. Press, 1905. Free e-books can be found at these sites: The Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth. Providence, RI: E. L. Freeman and Sons, state printers, 1989.
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23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Closed to Researchers Closed to Researchers Open 10am–6pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–2pm Closed to Researchers
10am–4pm 10am–12 Noon French-Canadian DNA Interest Group 30 31 Research Team 2–4pm Closed to Researchers 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.
117 THE SEARCHER SUMMER 2015 — Searcher — September 2015
AFR AMER – African American Interest Group LUG—Legacy Family Tree Users Group CFHGSC – Chinese Family History Group of SoCal RMUG—Roots Magic Users Group FCHSC—French Canadian Heritage Society of California TMG—The Master Genealogist Users Group GSHA-SC—Genealogical Society Hispanic America-So. CA UDC—United Daughters of the Confederacy Chapter JC—Jamboree Committee
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 Open 10am–6pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–2pm Closed to Researchers 10–11:30am 9:30–11:30am 10am–4pm SCGS Webinar Series French-Canadian Beginning Genealogy 2 –4 pm Research Team 12–2pm TMG Users Group Writers Group
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Open 10am–4pm Closed to Researchers Open 10am–6pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–2pm Closed to Researchers 9am -12 Noon Labor Day 9:30–11:30am 10am–4pm Beginning Genealogy Beginning Genealogy French-Canadian 10am–12 Noon* Research Team 12 Noon–3pm Lunch & Learn 3 :30–6 pm African Amer. Int. Group 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Open 10am–4pm Closed to Researchers Open 10am–9pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–2pm Open 10am–4pm 10am–4pm 6–8pm 10am–12Noon 4–6pm 7–9pm 9:30–11:30am French-Canadian Board Meeting Italian Interest Group Family Tree Maker User Legacy User Group Beginning Genealogy Group Research Team 11am–1pm Hispanic Sat- 11am–4pm urday (at L.A. Public Library) Hispanic Tuesday 6–7:30pm SCGS Webinar Series 1–4pm German Interest Group
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Closed to Researchers Closed to Researchers Open 10am–6pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–4pm Open 10am–2pm Open 10am–4pm
1–3pm 9:30–11:30am 10am–4pm 1–3pm Writers Group Beginning Genealogy French-Canadian Nikkei Genealogical Society 2–4pm Research Team RootsMagic User Group
27 28 29 30 1 2 3 Closed to Researchers Closed to Researchers Open 10am–6pm Open 10am–4pm 10am–4pm French-Canadian * September 12: 10am–12 Noon - Chinese Family History Research Team Group of SoCal meeting at Alhambra Public Library
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 2015 THE SEARCHER 118 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 This year marks the 51st anniversary of SCGS and also the 46th Jamboree. We again had a terrific selection of speakers and this year added many very popular workshops. The success of Jamboree was due to the tremendous efforts of a huge team of volunteers. This year was an extra challenge as we had many new members on the Jamboree 2015 team. I send very grateful thanks and congratulations on behalf of the SCGS Board of Directors to the entire team for their hard work. This year, we continue to implement upgrades at our library facility to meet the growing use of digital technology. To supplement our manual film readers, we have acquired a state-of-the-art scanner for capturing high resolution digital images from both microfiche and microfilms. Remember, we are a Family History Center to which you can send LDS microfilms for study. We also continue to grow. We have added two new groups - the Nikkei and Italian Interest Groups. Please look at our website at www.scgsgenealogy.com to see all the opportunities for genealogical help we offer. Our library has a staff of dedicated volunteers eager to help you make use of our collections. We're here to help!
Sincerely, David H. Burde, President [email protected]