DALLAS flE,.VEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Searching for the Mayors of Dallas by Barbara A. Ware

You know how one project can lead you to another! I didn't consciously decide that I needed to know when and where the men and women who had served the city of Dallas as mayors were born or had died. This project just found me as I worked on the Oakland Cemetery project. It begged to be undertaken. The resulting list will be published in the 2002 Dallas Journal. The search for these people turned up some interesting sources.

Seven men who were at one time mayor of Dallas are buried at Oakland Cemetery. An Internet search for these men turned up two web sites: www.politicalgrave- yard.com and www.findagrave.com. The first lists all the mayors of Dallas with their years of service. It also lists burial locations and information on a few of them. Not all of the Oakland burials were listed, and one individual, who had been buried at Oakland and removed to another cemetery, was incorrectly listed.

Checking the Texas/Dallas History Department of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library for information showed that a complete list was not available. Two more web sites, www.dallashistory.com and www.tsha,utexas.edu/handbook/online, gave biographies of some of the former mayors.

The next step was to check the clipping files and name card file in the Texas/Dallas History Department. Two books 1 on early Dallas history provided some information; The name card files listed articles in early vanity press books? Genealogies3 provided information on earlier generations of one of Dallas' prominent families, the Cabells, which provided three men to be Dallas mayors.

Census records, tax records, city directories, newspaper death accounts, and Dallas County probate records, all available on microfilm, added significant information.

Some mayors can be elusive. It helped to mention this research to the DPL :-":':::·::':::'. Genealogy Section staff. Lloyd Bockstruck provided a critical connection to George ~!i:?,:L · W. Guess, because another researcher had contacted him about this man. G. W. · :::::~::;. : : .. ·. Guess' death is documented in the "City of Memphis Death Records, 1848-1901," ''···· available on the Internet at the time of the research, but currently not accessible. The Dallas Daily Heralcf gave a brief notice 16 days after his death in the form of a letter to the newspaper. He died on a steamboat in the Mississippi River.

The Texas birth and death indexes online5 provided dates for some recent mayors. Not only did it identify the birth date for Robe1t S. Folsom, but listed his middle name: Skillern. Anyone growing up in Dallas in the 1950s will remember the

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\ Dallas Genealogical Society P. 0. Box 12446 Dallas, TX 75225-0446 Voice Mail/Fax: (469) 948-1106 Email: [email protected] Website: www.dallasgenealogy.org

Founded in 1955, the Dallas Genealogical Society (DGS) is the oldest continuously functioning organization of its kind in Texas. It is a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation and a member of the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS).

The object of this society shall be: to create, foster, and maintain interest in genealogy; to assist and support the genealogy section of the Dallas Public l Erik Jonsson Central Libnny in Dallas, Texas, or its legal successor; to collect, preserve, copy, and index information relating to Dallas County and its early histor:·-

Meetings Regular meetings and special interest group meetings are held in the plaza level Auditoriwn and East/West Rooms of the Dallas Public J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, in downtown Dallas. Guarded parking available underneath the library.

DGS Regular Meeting is the fourth Monday, September-May, unless otherwise scheduled due to holidays and scheduling conflicts. Social time is 6:30-7:00 P.M. for refreshments and visiting with fellow genealogists. The business meeting and program begins at 7:00P.M.

DGS Computer Interest Group meets on first Tuesdays in the Library Auditorium beginning at 6:30P.M.

DGS African-American Interest Group meets third Tuesdays in the Library Auditorium beginning at 6:30P.M.

All DGS and Special Interest Group meetings are free and open to the public.

Membership 25.00 per 12 months beginning with receipt of dues. Members receive the DGS Newsletter and the annual Dallas Journal (optional). Members receive discount registrations to most special events.

DGS Special Events Special events include a Summer Institute, Lecture Series, Library Lock-in, and Salt Lake City Research Trip.

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The President's Column To Be or Not to Be ... A Volunteer We've had a busy and By Alvin Harper ~ productive spring with ~'-.. the lecture series, silent We all have known the thrill of ..."'auction, and the finding a lead to an elusive ancestor ....a. reopening of the on a printed source, be it an abstract genealogy section of the DPL on the of a deed book or an every name 8tl' floor. If you haven't visited the index to a county court minute book. remodeled genealogy section, plan How about those compilations of on doing so soon. It is an awesome cemetery records? These things space! don't just show up on the library Your board members, who are shelves. Someone, somewhere, had all volunteers, have been making to do the indexing, or the abstracting, plans for the next few years' or go walk the cemetery "reading activities. Summertime usually stones." Someone, somewhere, who brings a lull in activity, but not this did the grub work, not for gold or year. The summer institute is just glory, but in the expectation that around the corner, then a lock-in at somewhere, someone would be the library, followed by the annual helped. In short: A VOLUNTEER! Salt Lake City Research Trip. I do DGS has two major projects in hope you are able to join us for at process: abstracting WWI draft least one of the summertime registration cards for Dallas County activities. and comparing Oakland Cemetery I'd like to thank the members of interment cards with a tombstone this year's board, many of whom are printout If you own a laptop with staying on to serve again next year. EXCEL, your help is needed. Once We welcome the return of Mel you have been instructed on the Brewer, Monette Grant, and Mary what, why, and how of the project, Johnson to the board for the new you can work at a time and place of board year. DGS's board year is your choosing, and at your own pace. from June 1-May 31 and is Current plans are that the results of comprised of an all volunteer group these projects will be published in of individuals dedicated to making the Dallas Journal with each the Society the best it can be. There volunteer being given credit for their are also many committees that help contribution. in the operations of the society. We all have been helped by the work of those who came before us. Some of them are: the Grant Now we have the opportunity to help Committee, the Nominating those who will came after us. Committee, the Newsletter Committee, and the Hospitality PLEASE VOLUNTEER! Committee. Some of the committees are "seasonal," the rest meet year If you would like to participate round. If you are interested in · in either, or both, of these worthy serving on one of these, or other endeavors, please contact: committees, please let me know. The Alvin E. Harper Society greatly appreciates all its Volunteer Coordinator volunteers, no matter how small the at 214-942-4095 task that is performed. or Barbara Ware at 972

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Editor's Note "to collect, preserve, copy, and index information relating to Dallas County If you notice a and its early history." She has done an theme running excellent job in complying with this through this goal in her role as editor of the Dallas newsletter, you're Journal. very astute. We As great as it is that summer is are on the brink of here, let's not forget the excellent summer: a time of lecture series that DGS has planned vacations and beginning in September. A lot oftime trips. Ten years and effort goes into securing these ago, the speakers, selecting their topics, genealogical locating facilities, rounding-up community believed you took the volunteers, and all the hundreds of summer off, and that genealogists other things that go into putting on a were not interested in seminars or series of seminars. Read all about the programs or conventions during this DGS Lecture Series in this issue. time. My how times have changed. Finally, it's been great being the Summer is a great time to devote to temporary editor for these last two studying and learning more to editions of the DGS Newsletter. I enhance our craft. It's also the time enjoyed my stints years ago as editor we like to hit the road and visit and look forward to working with the courthouses, libraries, and especially newsletter committee and the state archives. Life becomes incoming editor. Thanks for being so invigorating if we can throw in the patient as we endeavored to bring the learning experience of a national newsletters up-to-date. conference or attend an institute. Sammie Lee With this in mind, this issue is focused on archives and archival research. It is focused on upcoming summer activities sponsored by 1930 Federal Census DGS. It is focused on events happening locally, regionally, and The most frequently asked nationally, such as conferences, question in the Genealogy Research institutes, and seminars. All these Center at the J. Erik Jonsson Central things are highlighted in this issue. Library is, "Has the 1930 census We ask for your feedback on arrived yet?" We are delighted to your experiences researching on the report that it is arriving daily, slowly road. Tell us where you've been and but surely! about the positive things you've By the time this newsletter hits found in the repositories you visited. your mailbox, we hope to have it Yes, it is another way of learning complete, but you might want to call and enhancing our craft. It is called the Library (21 4/670-1433) just to SHARING. make sure your state of choice has A special thanks to Barbara arrived. Ware for her excellent article on her Remember, we are still purchasing experiences while searching for the Soundex and your contributions information on the mayors of the city toward this project are greatly of Dallas. A stated object of DGS is appreciated. ::-

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DGS sponsored learning and each hour). This is a DGS members The FHL is easy to use and research opportunities abound this only event, and the fee is a very opens at 7:30a.m. Monday through summer. Can we count on you to nominal $20, which includes snacks Saturday; closes at 5:00 p.m. on help support the Society by and beverages. Genealogy staff Monday and at 10:00 p.m. the rest of attending one or more? members will be available to lend a the week (closed on Sunday). For helping hand. Registration forms are more information about the FHL, go Summer Institute available on the Society's web page. Jo www.familysearch.org and click June 27-30 (Thursday on "Library." Here you can locate evening to Sunday noon) information about the building, the . brings us the collections, the staff, the equipment, outstanding annual four- getting prepared for a visit, and day summer institute, Trip to Salt Lake City dozens of other hints. "A Southern Perspective Pack your suitcase The fee for the Salt Lake City on the American and genealogy bag trip is $3 85 for a double; $700 for a Experience," featuring and join us July single (DGS makes an effort to help genealogical research sources and 27-August 3 you fmd a roommate, but cannot methods for Maryland, Virginia, the (Saturday to guarantee success). The trip fee Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama. Saturday) for the includes 7 nights at the hotel, airport Instructors for the institute are Lloyd Society's annual trek to the LDS shuttle, Monday evening lecture, and DeWitt Bockstruck, Brent Holcomb, Family History Library in Salt Lake a midweek get-together to compare and Robert Scott Davis. City, Utah. Since 1993, DGS has notes. The trip is open to DGS Tuition for the institute is $200, been escorting groups to this Mecca members only. Nonmembers must which includes materials, guided of genealogical research. Here's your add $25 as a membership fee. A research, two lunches, and Sunday opportunity to research in the $200 deposit must be postmarked by brunch. A $1 00 deposit must be world's largest collection of June 27 with the balance due by July postmarked by June 20, with the genealogical records, make new 20. If a week is not enough research balance due by June 27. Enrollment friends who share your interest in time, you can book extra days at $46 is limited to 120 students. family history, and research all day double; $92 single per night. You Send your request to the Dallas uninterrupted by the demands of must schedule and pay for these Genealogical Society, Post Office your family, job, telephone nights by the July 20 deadline. Box 12446, Dallas, Texas 75225- solicitors, and other day-to-day Write DGS for a registration 0446. Registration forms are events. form or go online to the Society web available online at the Society's web Convenience is the name of the page: www.dallasgenealogy.org. If page: www.dallasgenealogy.org. game on this research trip. you have never taken this trip, it is Participants stay at the recently well worth the time and money to do remodeled Best Western Salt Lake so. You will never regret it! Plaza Hotel, which is located next Library Lock-in door to the FHL, across the street Saturday, July 20 is from beautiful historic Temple . the Library Lock-in Square, and convenient to shopping for I 00 lucky DGS malls, restaurants, and entertainment members. How centers. Within a short walk is the many times have you said, "If only I old historic Hotel Utah, now could get locked in at the Dallas remodeled and renamed the Joseph Library and research all night?" Smith Building. Here researchers Here's your chance. Participants find thousands of published family anive at 6:00 p.m. and are locked in histories and records submitted by until 2:00 p.m. (beginning at genealogists from the United States midnight participants may leave at and most foreign countries.

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The Dallas Genealogical Society Seminar# 2 ... Reconstructing Families on the believes in providing members with October 5, 2002-It has been said Colonial Frontier as much infmmation as humanly that one could be entertained and ... Researching possible to tract down those elusive · enlightened by simply listening to Eighteenth- ancestors. In fact, a major goal of Lloyd de Witt Bockstruck read the Century DGS is to offer the genealogical telephone directory. While this may Germans community the uruque opportunity to be true, it should be so much more ... Researching hear some of the best genealogical informative listening to Lloyd's day- Pennsylvania Ancestors educators available. The coming long lecture on research in the state ... Documentation: It's Essential! season of the DGS Lecture Series is of Kentucky. no exception. Members can Lloyd, who needs Seminar# 5 experience a diverse group of no introduction to AprilS, 2003-Barbara Vines Little speakers on an eclectic selection of local genealogists, of Virginia is editor of the Virginia topics. In addition to a day-long will tell us about Genealogical Society's publications, seminar on research in the state of the historical progression of Magazine of Virginia Genealogy and Kentucky, one can find information Kentucky and the sources, research the VGS Newsletter. She is a on ancestors in the states ofNew methodology, and other facts we nationally recognized lecturer and a York, Pennsylvania, and California need to successfully research, both NGS director. Her topics include: gold rush ancestors. Topics include here and on site. ... Untold Treasures: manuscript information on photographs, writing Records and Rare Books on a family history, the colonial Seminar# 3 Film frontier, documentation, manuscript November 2, 2002-Diane ... · Chancery Records: records, taxes, etc. VanSkiver Gagel of Ohio is a college The Secrets They instructor, freelance writer, and Hold, the Families LJ.. ·•· Seminar# 1 professional genealogist. She is a They Reveal September 14, 2002-Harold E. nationally known lecturer and is ... When You Can't Hinds, Jr., Ph.D., is a Distinguished active with the Ohio Genealogical Do it Yourself Research Professor of History at the Society. Her topics are: ... Taxes: Milk Them for All University of Minnesota, Morris. In ... Windows on They're Worth addition to teaching history courses, the Past: his curriculum includes family Dating Registration history. He has lectured at both Identifying, The registration fee for individual national and international levels. His and Caring lectures is topics are: for Historic 0 $25 for DGS members ... Did Your Photographs (2 hours) 0 $30 for Nonmembers Ancestors ... Finding the Inner Light: 0 $35 for walk-ins Migrate Into or Researching Quaker Ancestors The registration fee for all five Through New ... The Argonauts: Researching our lectures (booked together) is York? The California Gold Rush Ancestors 0 $110 Advantages of Research in New York Seminar# 4 Make checks payable to DGS. ... State Census: The Top Three- February 1, 2003- John T. Mail to: New York, Kansas, and Iowa Humphrey is director of the National 2002-2003 Lecture Series ... The Family Photo Collection and Genealogical Society (NGS) Dallas Genealogical Society Its Uses in Visualizing Your Learning center in Arlington, P.O. Box 12446 Personal Family History Virginia. He has written nineteen Dallas, Texas 75225-0446 .. The View from the Other Side: a books, including the 14-volume set Historian's Perspective on on Pennsylvania births and baptisms. For a registration form or more Transforming Your Genealogy He has lectured at many national information, go to our website: into a Family History conferences. His topics are: www .dallasgenealogy .org.

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Skillern's Drug Store chain. It took Glenwood Cemeteries, both in I Posting a query on the rootsweb I the clipping files to find the maiden Houston, provided information on database regarding the relationship names of Adeline Harrison and Curtis P. Smith, Robert E. Burt, and of Thomas E. Sherwood to Jeremiah Annette Strauss: Nathanson and J. Waddy Tate respectively. John Sherwood of Kaufman County Greenfield, respectively. Waddy Tate died in Dallas. His yielded two positive responses from Most 20th-century newspapers6 remains were transported to Houston Sherwood collateral line researchers. provided adequate death notices, for burial by the Holland Masonic The CSA pension application filed obituaries or features when a mayor Lodge, but no cemetery was given in by his widow in 1911 states that he died. The Dallas newspapers of the the obituary. A list of cemeteries was born May 31, 1835, in mid-19th century, however, carried from the 1938 Houston City Washington County, Indiana and only brief notices ofthe deaths of Directory provided guidance as to died April 15, 1898, in Grayson individuals who lived in the city. possible locations. The first call to a County, Texas. Extant cemetery, city The shooting of J. L. Smith in 1867 Houston cemetery, Glenwood directories, and tax records for did receive a fair amount of Cemetery, yielded his burial location. Grayson County from 1895-1898 coverage. His shooting was E-mail to the historian of Elmwood yielded only one record, a tax record mentioned in John Henry Brown's Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee, for I horse and 1 cattle in 1896 in book. The actual date was not given. also yielded additional information Precinct 23 (northeast of Reading the weekly newspaper for about George W. Guess. Whitesboro). Dallas papers 1867 yielded a notice of respect by A visit to the office at Sparkman- surrounding the date of death the Tannehill Masonic Lodge and Hillcrest Cemetery and Funeral provided no mention of his death. finally the article titled "Cold Home in Dallas provided information Di~ he died in Grayson County Blooded Murder."7 Two additional about mayors whose funerals they or Hopkins County? Where was he sources were a newspaper8 name handled. A trip to a Sulphur Springs buried? The unproductive Sunday index of early Texas newspapers and city cemetery, one Sunday afternoon, trip to Sulphur Springs and the a book listing early Tannehill yielded nothing. Later the same day, subsequent e-mail help mentioned Masonic Lodge members.9 an online genealogy help-list earlier give his death year as 1897 In addition to J. L. Smith, two provided a contact in Hopkins County not 1898. Checking The Dallas other mayors of Dallas were shot. who had copies of the city cemetery Morning News around 15 April 1897 Benjamin Long was shot in a saloon books and confirmed the burial produced the following: as he assisted the owner with a sought. SHERWOOD-Dodds, Tex., April nonpaying customer in 1877. Look for the birth, death, burial 1 1.-Rev. T E. Sherwood, and marriage records of all 52 mayors pastor of the ME. church, south, MURDER RAMPANT. in the 2002 Dallas Journal. at this place, died here A Desperado Kills Ben Long, Wounds yesterday evening. The remains Another, runs a Muck, is shot and Case Study: were taken to Sulphur Springs, 11 Finally Brought to Bay, Thomas Emory Sherwood Tex.,for burial to-day. Fighting to the Last Thomas E. Sherwood was mayor of Dallas from 1861 to 1862. On the Case Study: A Tragedy Which Startled our City from Its Quiet and Threw it late a Fever 1860 Kaufman County census, his Isaac C. Naylor Of Excitement-Full and Detailed name is Thomas Shearwood. On the Isaac C. Naylor was mayor only Particulars-The Desperado 1870 Dallas County census, he is for a brief time, between John M. At Death's Door listed as a 36-year- old merchant from Crockett and Dr. A.D. Rice in 1858. Indiana with a wife and three The July 31, 1858 issue ofthe Dallas In 1882, James M. Thurmond children. He was the first postmaster Herald identified Isaac Naylor as one 10 was shot in court by Robert E. ofFarmersville, Texas in 1857. He of the defense attorneys (with John Cowart following an argument of a is listed on the web site of the First M. Crockett, B. Warren Stone, and personal nature. Methodist Church of Mesquite as a E. P. Nicholson) for A.M. Moore Phone calls to Paris Cemetery in minister there in 1868. On the 1880 Paris, Kentucky and Forest Park and census he is in Denton County. [Mayors, continued on next page)

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accused of the murder of Alexander A later trip to Galveston 10 Walter Prescott Webb, editor- Crockell. Prosecutors were District provided a research opportunity in in-chiet: "Fannersville, TX." The Attorney John C. McCoy, R. W. the Naylor papers and cemetery maps Handbook of Texas (Austin, Tex.: Lunday, and G. W. Guess. at the Rosenburg Library, but did not Texas State Historical Association, Naylor joined the Tannehill yield a tombstone for Isaac at the 1952-). Masonic Lodge in 1858. He appears cemetery. 11 71ze Dallas Morning News, 13 on the 1860 Texas census in April1897, page 6. Galveston. He is listed on the 1867 12Index to Galveston Death and Texas Voter's Registration for Notes: Burial Records, 1 800s-1910 1 Lavaca County and Galveston ( 1)John H. Cullom, Mayors of (microfilm, Clayton Library). County. The Lavaca County record Dallas (n.p. 1917). (2)John Henry Galveston Co. Genealogical Society, (dated July 23 , 1867) states he has Brown, History ofDallas County, Early Texas Death and Legal been a resident of the state for 15 T-exas,.from 1837 to 1887 by John Records from Joseph Franklin's years, the county and precinct one Henry Brown ( orig. published in Diary and John Griffin 's Sexton year. The entry is struck and a note Dallas in1887 by Milligan, Cornett & Records {Texas City, Tex.: The is given that he has moved to Farnham Printers) and John H. Society, cl990). Galveston. The Galveston list states Cochran, Dallas County, A Record of that he has lived in the state, county, Its Pioneers and Progress .. . ( orig. and precinct 12 months. In 1870, he published in 1928); these two major is listed with the E. S. Woods family chronicles of early Dallas County are as a 45-year-old PO clerk in now republished together with a Galveston. Also listed is his son foreword by Sam Acheson (Dallas: Edward, age 10, born in Texas. It Aldredge Book Store, 1966). was later determined that the 2Ellis A. Davis and Edwin H. Henrietta Wood listed in the same Grobe (comp. and ed.), The family is actually Henrietta Wood Encyclopedia of Texas (Dallas: Texas DGS wishes you a happy, fun, & Naylor. In 1880, Isaac Nailer age 56, Development Bureau, 1922?). safe Memorial Day weekend! born in P A, is listed in Galveston 3 Alexander Brown, Cabells and with his wife Henrietta, sons Their Kin (Richmond, Vir.: Garrett Edward (20), Isaac {9), and Charles

LOCAL: Genealogy. Topics are NATIONAL: " The ABCs and Double S of Scottish Family History Census Research FGS Conference Symposium " What Are They Saying About The Federation of Genealogical The 2002 Scottish Family History Your Family in the Paper Societies and the California Symposium sponsored by the Texas " To Be, To Wed, To Pass Genealogical Alliance have paired Scottish Festival and Highland " Researching Your Ancestor's up this summer to present the Games is being held Friday, June 7, Plot of Dirt Federation's 2002 conference, A 2002, at the LaQuinta Conference Registration forms are available at Goldmine ofDiversity . Scheduled Center in Arlington, Texas. This the Dallas Public Library or from for Wednesday-Saturday, August 7- year the theme is "Scottish and Workshop Chairman, Taylor 10, 2002, the four-day event meets in Scots-Irish Family History Pendley, (972) 285-1146. Ontario, California, at the Ontario Research," presented by Dean Convention center. The conference Hunter, AG, CGRS, development is slated to celebrate the ethnic specialist for the British Collection REGIONAL: diversity of this country since its at the LOS Family History Library in foundation. Wednesday of an FGS Salt Lake City. The registration fee Hats Off to Genealogy conference is devoted to society is $40 and includes buffet lunch and Conference management. Thursday-Friday is snacks. A flyer is available at the The Texas Czech Genealogical filled with lectures and activities to Dallas Public Library or online at Society presents this conference held add to the genealogist's storehouse www.TexasScottishFestival.com. July 25-27, 2002 at the Brazos of knowledge. Tracts include a Center in Bryan, Texas. The variety of lectures for the beginning, Texas Scottish Festival & conference brochure may be viewed intermediate, and advanced Highland Games on their web site at www.txczgrs.org. researchers. Brochures are available The 16th annual festival is scheduled For information contact Charlene at the Dallas Public Library or on the for June 7-9, 2002, at Maverick Hurta (979)849-0348 or FGS web page. For further Stadium at the University of Texas at [email protected]. information on fees, hotels, lectures, Arlington. Renowned for its etc., contact the society at outstanding entertainment, the Angelina College www.fgs.org or call the FGS office Festival again features some of the Genealogy Conference toll-free at (888) FGS-1500 top Scottish performers in the world, The sixth annual Angelina College highland games, sports, crafts, Genealogy Conference is being held workshops, dog shows and much July 26-27, 2002, on the campus of more. For ticket information, Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas. INSTITUTES: schedules, and other information Speakers for the conference are visit the web site at Trevia Wooster Beverly, Emily Samford Institute of www.TexasScottishFestival.com. Croom, Carolyn Ericson, Pat Genealogy and Historical Gordon, Kenneth N. Hopkins, Research (IGHR) Mesquite Historical and Melvin C. Johnson, Darrel L. Samford Institute, established in Genealogical Society McDonald, Donald R. Raney, and 1964, is one of the oldest and most For the second year, John A. Sellers, John A. Sellers. Brochures are respected genealogical study the very popular and knowledgeable available at the Dallas Public Library courses. IGHR is being held the Hopkins County (Texas) speaker, is or contact the Angelina College week of June 9-14, 2002, at Samford conducting the annual workshop of Genealogy Coordinator at University in Birmingham, Alabama. the MHGS. The workshop is vcates@ballo The courses are: scheduled for Saturday, June 8 from " Techniques and Technology, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30p.m. at the Coordinator: Sandra Hargreaves Mesquite Main Library. This year Luebking Mr. Sellers's subject is Intern1ediate " Intermediate Genealogy and

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Historical Studies, Coordinator: National Institute on Call for Papers Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck Genealogical Research "' Old South and Some Border (NIGR) DGS is looking for a few States, Coordinator: James R. The National Institute on good speakers! Johnson Genealogical was founded in 1950. "' Advanced Methodology and The Institute's program takes an in- DGS extends an invitation to all Evidence Analysis, Coordinator: depth look at federal records of speakers interested in submitting Elizabeth Shown Mills genealogical value located primarily lecture proposals for introductory "' Writing and Publishing for in the Washington, D.C. area. The subjects to be taught in beginning Genealogists, Coordinator: program is geared to experienced genealogy classes, which will be Helen F. M. Leary researchers (genealogists, historians, presented at the J. Erik Jonsson "' Understanding Land Records, librarians, archivists). It is not an Central Library on a regular basis. Coordinator: Christine Rose introductory course in genealogy, We need lectures of one-to-two "' Using Genealogical Software The institute is usually held during hours in length on all aspects of and Electronic Archives, the second week of July. It fills genealogy. We are especially Coordinator: Ken Macomber quickly. To be placed on the mailing interested in beginning topics, "' Irish Genealogy Research: At. list now, write to National Institute including "how-to" subjects, sources, Home and Abroad, Coordinator: on Genealogical Research, P.O. Box documentation, methodology, David Rencher 14174, Washington, DC 20044-4274 repositories, computers and the For a brochure contact Jean or e-mail [email protected]. Internet, etc. Thomason at (205) 726-2198 or . If you are interested in speaking online at www.samford.edu/schools/ Genealogical Institute of in these beginning classes, please ighr/courses.htm. Mid America submit the following information: The Illinois State Genealogical "' name, address, city/state/zip Virginia Institute of Society's 8th Annual Genealogical telephone number Genealogical Research Institute of Mid-America is being "' subject(s) and title(s) of lecture The Virginia Genealogical Society held July 8-11, 2002 at the "' number of hours (VGS) is sponsoring its fifth University of Illinois-Springfield "' number of times you are willing Virginia Institute in Richmond, June Campus. The four courses are: to repeat your lecture 9-13, 2002. This study course "' Genealogical Research Methods "' an abstract, outline, or synopsis focuses exclusively on Virginia and Sources, Part 1, Coordinator: of your topic(s) topics and methods in two levels of Michael John Neill "' a brief genealogical resume of instruction. The introductory course "' Genealogical Research Methods your experience covers Virginia history, geography, and Sources, Part 2, Coordinator: and surveys of various record Sandra H. Luebking Mail to: Tresa Tatyrek groups. The advanced course Dallas Genealogical Society concentrates on the application of "' Germanic Colonists and P.O. Box 12446 interpretive and analytical methods Immigrants in North America, to solve research problems. Coordinator: Lloyd D. Dallas, Texas 75225-0446 Instructors include Marti Hiatt, Bockstruck or Barbara Vines Little, Robert Young "' Genealogy in England, e-mail: [email protected] Clay, Eric Grundset, and others. Coordinator: Paul Milner VIGR is held on the campus of Brochures are available at the Dallas Roslyn, the Virginia Episcopal Public Library or contact Sue Diocesan Center in Richmond. Kaufman at (260) 478-2174 or at Registration is limited. Contact VGS [email protected]. at www.vgs.org or write to VGS 5 001 West Broad Street, # 1 15, Richmond, Virginia 23230-3023. ~ Ma 2002 1 Vol 26 1 No 3 Dallas Genea o 1ca oc1e Be inners Corner: Research Strate ies in Archives

State Archives: Have You Checked Them Out? submitted by Tresa Tatyrek

Traveling to research on location You have to complete a form and helpful, and they had a brief is a must for those truly bitten by the their people make all copies. Topeka orientation and a floor plan for their genealogy bug. If not to do research allowed you to make copies of facility, so it was fairly easy to locate (if you've been lucky and someone microfilm, but not of any thing else. the items I was looking for. They else has documented it well), then to They made the copies from books have many of their county records on just see where your people lived and and paper files. This information is microfilm and in books. They also worked for a period of time. I've not always on their information have a microfilm collection of early traveled to many county seats and sheets or web. It is better to be newspapers. The website is state archives. I use the Internet to prepared; you may have to wait for www.sos.state.ga. us/archives/. learn what is available at each your copies, or they may even have The Oklahoma Archives in location. Also, a telephone call is to mail them to you (extra cost) if Oklahoma City are a part of the sometimes necessary. Nothing is time runs out on you. Oklahoma Historical Society. They more disappointing than getting Baton Rouge holds microfilm do not have any county records on somewhere, only to find the records indexes to the Louisiana death microfilm there, but they do own a have been moved somewhere else. certificates, as well as the actual collection of photographs, State archives vary a great deal death certificates for deaths that biographies, and Indian in their holdings. Some archives hold were more than 50 years ago. These documentation. They also have a microfilm of county records, others were my main interest as my collection of many early Oklahoma do not. Most have rules and husband' s family has many people in newspapers on microfilm, which at regulations in place for what you are Louisiana. They also have a the time I visited was not in the allowed to bring into their research collection of other materials. Their Archives research room, but in rooms. Check those rules out before website is www.sec.state.la.us/ another location in the same you go! Some do not allow you to archives/archives/archives- building. The number of readers was take anything in with you that could index.htm. If you are looking for limited, and you had to sign up for potentially hold books, manuscripts, parish records on microfilm, try the them and a two-hour slot very early or microfilm. That means no coats, Shreveport Library system. They in the day. The same building holds purses, bags, or notebooks. They do have their holdings online at the State Library where they have allow you to take in laptop www.shreve.net/-japrime/ some county books and records. The computers, but not in a case. This lagenweb/shreve.htm. Archives and Library are housed in a means you have to have everything The Mississippi Archives is building that is also a museum. Their you need to look for either in your located in Jackson. It is in a building URL is www.ok-history.mus. head (ha), written on a few pieces of next door to the old Capital Complex ok.us/archlarchl.html. paper, or use a small personal Building, which houses a museum on The Kansas State Historical computer that is not hard to carry. I Mississippi history and a bookstore. Society and its facility holds the bought a travel vest with lots of The archives has books available for archives in Topeka. The facility pockets to hold my phone, money, browsing; microfilm has to be holds several museums as well as the keys, glasses, and palm. It does get requested a few at a time. They have research center. They allow access weighty, but it solved my problem of plenty of viewers and you make your to microfilm and have a great many not having everything I need while in own copies. They have a lot of great readers. Access to their books and a research room. information on their website at other materials is through request I've visited the archives at Baton www.mdah.state.ms.us/ forms. Learn how to use a card Rouge (Louisiana), Montgomery arlib/arlib index.html. catalog before you go! Their website (Alabama), Atlanta (Georgia), The Alahama archives is in is www.kshs.org/researchl Oklahoma City, Topeka (Kansas), Montgomery. It contains microfilm index.htm. I Little Rock (Arkansas), and that has to be requested a few at a I was extremely disappointed Jefferson City (Missouri). All of time for viewing. The collection when visiting the Arkansas archives these locations except for Baton includes county records as well as in Little Rock. Their research room Rouge required photo identification some newspapers. They have plenty does not allow you to touch the and issued a research card. They of viewers and fairly good copiers. microfilm. Their staff load and also had the above limitations as to Their books are available for unload it on the reader for you. If what you can take into the research browsing. Their website is you are going there to look for things room. Most of the research centers www.archives.state.al.us/. on microfilm, be prepared to wait allow you to make your own copies It has been a few years since I of images from the microfilm. visited and worked at the Georgia [State Archives, Jefferson City was the exception. archives in Atlanta. The staff is very continued on page 42]

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Think Outside the Box-Go Beyond the Public Library submitted by Sammie Lee

State Archives ... State land grants and records ... Bounty land warrants and State archives are established by ... Tax records records state legislatures for the purpose of ... School records ... Federal land records collecting and preserving official ... Manuscript collections ... Passenger and customs lists records of the state government and, ... Loose-paper manuscripts ... Naturalization records in some cases, statewide city and ... State law books ... Passport applications county records. In addition, they ... Voter registration lists ... Indian records often house state and county ... Election returns ... Federal court records historical records and other records ... State medical lists ... U.S. Government employees' contributed for retention and ... Prison records personnel records preservation. ... Maps ... District of Columbia records State archives are charged with ... Gazetteers the responsibility to access, retain, ... Photograph collections Addresses: store, catalog, and make the records ... Newspaper collections ,.. National Archives and Records available to the public, including ... Genealogy collections Administration (NARA) officials or agencies that created ... Early original county record 700 Pennsylvania A venue, NW them and academic, historical, and books Washington, D.C. 20403 genealogical researchers. Archive 1-866-3 25-7208 records tend to be original, one- of- Federal Archives www.nara.gov a- kind records. The earliest records The National Archives and ,.. , Washington National Records date from the beginning of the state. Records Administration (NARA) of Center Records in state archives do not the United States documents and 4205 Suitland Road circulate and usually do not lend to maintains historically valuable Suitland, MD 20746 other repositories. American records from the time of 301-457-7000 Size and content of the the First Continental Congress to the [email protected] collection, as well as staffing, are present. Few records predate the dependent on the amount of public Revolutionary War. NARA keeps Regional Archives: funding dedicated by the legislature. only federal records, which ,.. North East Region (Boston); Sources are arranged differently than document the pennanent history of 380 Trapelo Road in libraries, usually kept by record the Executive, Legislative, and Waltham, MA 02452 group and description. Record Judicial branches of the Federal 781-647-8088; [email protected] groups are usually cataloged and Government. (Connecticut, Maine, maintained according to the official Records are housed in the Massachusetts, New Hampshire, or historical activity that led to their National Archives building in Rhode Island, Vermont) creation and maintained in their Washington, D.C., in the ,.. Northeast Region (Pittsfield); original order. Washington National Records I 0 Conte Drive Center in Suitland, Maryland, and in Any or all of the following Pittsfield, MA 01201 the regional Archives and Federal records may be located in State 413-445-6885 Records Centers across the United Archives or State Libraries: [email protected] ,.. Executive papers States. They are arranged to reflect (Holdings from selected Federal ,.. Legislative papers their original purpose, usually just as agencies nationwide) ,.. Judicial papers they were kept by the agency that ,.. Northeast Region (New York ,.. Appeals court records created them. Federal Records City) ,.. State census records include: 201 Varick Street ,.. State military records ,.. Federal census records New York, NY 10014 ,.. Pensions issued by the state ,.. U.S. military service records 212-337-1300 ,.. Militia rolls ,.. U.S. military pension records [email protected]

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(New Jersey, New York, Puerto ~ Rocky Mountain Region; Manuscript Collections Rico, the Virgin Islands) Building 48-Denver Federal Manuscript collections are ~ Mid-Atlantic Region (Center Center Denver, CO 80225 located in special holdings libraries, City Philadelphia) 802-236-0804 such as universities and colleges, 900 Market Street [email protected] churches, businesses, historical and Philadelphia, P A 19107 (Colorado, Montana, New genealogical societies, etc. These are 215-597-3000 Mexico, North Dakota, South private collections owned by these [email protected] Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) organizations and are usually funded (Archival holdings for Delaware, ~ Pacific Southwest Region Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 24000 Avila Road by the organizations through fund- West Virginia) Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 raising, donations, and grants. ~ Mid-Atlantic Region (Northeast 949-360-2641 Access is determined by the Philadelphia) mailto:[email protected] organization, the nature of the 14700 Townsend Road (Arizona; California counties of records, and the purpose for which Philadelphia, P A 19154 Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, the collection was established. Parts 215-671-9027 Orange, Riverside, San or all of the collection may be [email protected] Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis arranged according to the principle (Records center holdings for Obispo, Santa Barbara, and of provenance and filed in their Delaware & Pennsylvania; Federal Ventura; and Clark County, original order or in the record group courts in Delaware, Maryland, Nevada) order that was intended when they Pennsylvania, Virginia, West were created. Virginia) Special rules and regulations ~ Southeast Region may be in place to use and handle 1557 St. Joseph Avenue materials, which are housed in closed East Point, GA 30344 stacks. Many of the private 404-763-7474 organizations charge a fee to use the [email protected] collection, except to members or (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, employees. Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, To locate state and federal Tennessee) ~ Pacific Sierra Region repositories and manuscript and ~ - Great Lakes Region 1000 Commodore Drive private collections, use: 7358 South Pulaski Road San Bruno, CA 94066 ~ Bentley, Elizabeth Petty. Chicago, IL 60629 650-876-9009 Genealogists Address Book. 4th 773-581-7816 [email protected] ed. Baltimore: Genealogical [email protected] (American Samoa; California, Publishing Co., Inc., 1998. (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, except counties served by Los Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin) Angeles; Hawaii; and Nevada, ~ Central Plains Region except Clark County) 2312 East Bannister Road ~ Pacific Northwest Region Kansas City, MO 64131 6125 Sand Point WayNE 816-926-6272 Seattle, WA 98115 r. t [email protected] 206-526-6501 (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, [email protected] Nebraska) (Idaho, Oregon, and Washington) ~ Southwest Region ~ Alaska Region 501 West Felix Street 654 West Third Avenue Ft. Worth, TX 76115 Anchorage, AK 99501 817-334-5525 907-271-2443 [email protected] [email protected] (Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, (Alaska) Texas)

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Donations and memorials 1776-1783 : Index of all Soldiers who '" Genealogy Extracted from Forest have been received from the Remained in North America. Service Court Cases in Rabun County, following • Yearbook. General Society of Colonial Georgia. ~ $25 in memory of Sara Lees Glover Wars. 2000. '" Haralson County, Georgia Marriage Wade from the Michael Stoner '" Yearbook. National Society, Records, 1856-1940. Chapter DAR Daughters of the American Colonists. '" Elbert County Estate Records 1791- ~ $20,000 from the General Levi Casey 70th Yearbook. 1821. Marriage Records 1791-1809, Chapter DAR for the Edith Allen '" Uncle, We Are Ready! : Registering 1820-1824. Miscellaneous Probate Palmer Microform Center America's Men, 1917-1918. Records 1791-1808. Microfilm, 5 ~ $20 from Florence Reed .. Loyalist Lists; Over 2,000 Loyalist rolls. ~ $25 in honor of Adele Needham from Names and Families from the '" Family Histories of Monroe County, the Thomas Poe Chapter NSDAC Haldimand Papers. Georgia. ~ $250 in honor of Lloyd Bockstruck from Adele Needham Kansas ~ $250 in honor of Joe Spiritas on his '" Cloud County, Kansas, Cemeteries. 85th birthday from Steve, Alexis, .. Tombstone Readings, Mt. Hope, Jason, and Ryan Spiritas Kans., Sedgwick County, Greeley ~ $100 in memory ofMonica Benedict Twp. Huls from Bert W. Huls ~ $100 in honor of Lloyd Bockstruck Kentucky from the Women's Day Alliance of the '" Bullitt County Cemeteries. Vols. II & First Unitarian Church Dallas .III . ~ $50 in honor of Lloyd Bockstruck .. ,Tombstone Readings of Sedgwick from the Arlington Genealogical County, Kansas. Vols. I & II. Society '" Hickman County, Ky. Deeds. Vol. ~ $1,000 from James B. Evans VII, Aug. 1839-June 1840. ~ $50 in honor of Lloyd Bockstruck Alabama .. Trigg County, Ky. Court Order Books. from the Lancaster Genealogical '" The Heritage of Choctaw County, Vol. X. Society. Alabama. '" Trigg County, Ky.: Misc. Historical '" $50 in honor of Lloyd Bockstruck .. Genealogical Abstracts from the Clippings. Vol. II, Jan. 1892-Nov. from the Highland Park Chapter DAR Banner, 1893 in Clanton, Chilton 1896. County, Alabama. '" Our Heritage. 1992 July. United States .. Genealogical Abstracts from the '" United States National Archives and Autauga Citizen, 1853 in Prattville, Louisiana Records Guide to Federal Records in Autauga, Alabama. '" Cemetery Inscriptions of Lincoln the National Archives of the United Parish, Louisiana. Vols. III & V. States. Vols. I-III. Arkansas '" Cemetery Inscriptions of Webster '" Daughters of the American Colonists. .. Pulaski County, Arkansas Marriage Parish, Louisiana. Vols. I & II. Lineage Book. Vol. XXXI. Record Index, 1820-190 1. • Cemetery Inscriptions of Richland '" Genealogical Atlas of the United State .. Arkansas Donation Lands. 1871-1875. Parish, Louisiana. of America. .. *Arkansas Miracode 1910 S-343, '" Civil Birth and Death Registers for the .. Colonial Taverners Established by Jane-S-634, H. Mays. 1 Roll. City ofBaton Rouge, Louisiana, 1874- Members of the Flagon and Trencher: 1918. Descendants of Colonial Tavern California .. St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery: Baton Keepers: Copied from the Files of the .. Cemeteries of Stanislaus County, Rouge, Louisiana. Society, Ending 31 December 2000. California. Vol. X, Pts. A & B. .. Southwest Louisiana Veterans '" Mexican War Journal. Vol. IX. Remember ... : A 50th Anniversary '" Publications of the American Jewish Georgia Remembrance of World War II. Historical Society, No. XVIII. .. Bethesda, An Historical Sketch of .. Attakapas Gazette. V. XXXI, 1996 Microfilm. Whitefield's House of Mercy in Yearbook. ~ Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in Georgia, and of the Union Society, His the United States of America. 1988, Associate and Successor in Maine 1990, and 1994. Philanthropy, Savannah, Ga. '" *Maine 1900 Census Index. 2 • Brunswick Troops in North America volumes.

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Texas Virginia Farm Cemetery and Marble Mount • *Texas Death Certificates [ 1903- .. Faquier County, Virginia Legal Cemetery. 1955]. Microfilm, 600 rolls have Documents 1800-1865. arrived to date ~ .. Scott County, Virginia Consents & West Virginia .. *Laredo Archives. Microfilm, 16 rolls. Bonds of Marriage 1815-1853. .. Kanawha County, West Virginia • Nacogdoches County Deeds, v. A-X, .. Scott County Virginia Birth Records Marriages, 1854-1868. Indexes, 1833-1881. Microftlm, 15 1874-1895. .. Kith and Kin of Boone County, West rolls. .. *Virginia General Assembly Religious Virginia. Vol. XXVI. • Nacogdoches County Marriage Petitions, 1774-1785. Microfilm, 3 .. Kanawha County, West Virginia r Records, VA-N, 1837-1918. rolls. Marriage Records. Vol. II, 1885-1898. Microfilm, 6 rolls. .. Virginia, Overwharton Parish .. Kanawha County, West Virginia Early .. Nacogdoches County Marriage Con- Register, 1720-1760: Old Stafford Marriage Record, 1788-1853 . tracts, 1824-183 8. Microfilm, I roll. County. .. Genealogies of West Virginia .. Nacogdoches County Land Given to .. Tombstone Inscriptions of Alexandria, Families. Soldiers, 1836-37. Microfilm, I roll. Virginia. Vols. 2 & 3. .. Reference Book of Wyoming County .. Nacogdoches County Probate Index .. Obituary Index, Tazewell, Virginia: History . 1837-1910; Probate Docket 1866- As Reported by Local Publications. .. Brooke County (WV) Index. 12 1879; Record ofWills, 1845-1903; 2001. Vol. XVIII. volumes plus cumulative index. Final Record Probate Minutes, v. A-0 .. Amelia County Tithables 1736-1 771, .. Cabell County Heritage . 1844-1917; Probate Docket; Petitions 1743-1811. Microfilm, 2 rolls. .. Ohio County, WV, Index: Index to Orders, Etc. 1842-1875; Records of .. Chesterfield County Tithables 1747- County Court Order Books Part I, Partitions 1843-1893; Administrators 1821; Refunds 1747-1821. Microfilm, 1777-1881. Records 1838-1895; Probate Minutes, 1 roll. .. History ofthe Great Kanawha Valley, 1858-1862. Microfilm, 16 rolls. .. *Virginia Death Certificates, 1853- with ~amily History and Biographical .. Nacogdoches County Index of 1896. Microfilm, 38 rolls. Sketches. A Statement of its Natural Spanish and English Records. .. Apprentices, Poor Children and Resources, industrial Growth and Microfilm, 1 roll. Bastards: Loudoun County, Virginia Commercial Advantages. .. Nacogdoches County Deeds of Sales, 1757-1850. Packets A-Wy; Miscellaneous Deeds .. 80% Heaven Bound: Deaths and Genealogies & Biographies of Sale, Packets I, J, M, N, & MN; Burials in Charles City County, .. Bailey Trails . Power of Attorney Packets A-WM; Virginia. .. Historical Sketch of Col. Benjamin Contracts Packets A-S. Microfilm, 7 .. Robert B. C. Howell, The Early Bellows, Founder of Walpole . rolls. Baptists ofVirginia. Microfilm. Microfilm. .. Sale and Liberation of Slaves and .. Botetourt County, Virginia Early .. Descendants of James "Jones" Bishop . Miscellaneous Papers, 1820-1830. Settlers: Settlers from 1740 through .. "My Last Shift Betwixt Us & Death: Microfilm, 1 roll. 1795, in the Land Area encompassed The Ephraim Blaine Letterbook 1777- .. Deeds from Board of Land by Botetourt County in 1782: that area 1778 . Commissioners 1837-38; Applications covered portions of the present-day .. Brawley Family of Iredell County, for Confederate Land Certificates, Virginia Counties of Montgomery, North Carolina. 1881 -82; Land Transfer Packets ABC- Bath, Giles, Floyd, Alleghany, .. Ancestry of Charles E. Clague, Jr.: TW. Microfilm, lroll. Roanoke, Craig, and Monroe. Predominantly his Paternal Line. .. Texas History Stories. .. Life by the Roaring Roanoke: a .. The Complete Registry of the .. Minutes Quarterly Conferences: History of Mecklenburg County, Farringtons in America . Melrose Circuit, San Augustine Virginia. .. The Christopher Guice Family in ,. District, East Texas Conference, .. The Quit Rents of Virginia, 1704. America: Other Families Harmon, I I Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Kinnison, Martin, Siddon. 12 October 1861-16 November 1889. Washington .. Robert Hen(d)ry ofNew Hanover, NC .. Fort Worth Social Directory. 1987- .. Kent Area Obituaries Extracted from and Pickens Cotmty, AL, 1785-1859. 1989. Early Kent, Washington Newspapers. .. *Herndon Family Account Book- .. Houston County (Texas) Cemeteries. 4 volumes . 1800-1867. Microfilm. I Roll. .. Memorial Records of South King .. Where is Henry?: from Whence Our Vermont County, Washington. Vols. I-III, VI. Jordans Flow. .. *Vermont 1900 Census Index. .. County Farm Cemetery, Clark County, .. The Journal ofThomas Juxon, 1644- .. Families of Georgia . Washington: also known as the Poor 1647.

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" Southern Kirk and Carrell Families. ,. The Descendants of George Jewish " Joseph Litrell of Howard County, MO. Washington Weatherby, 1777-1865. " Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given and His Descendants. .. Robert Webb of Abbeville County, SC Names: Their Origins, Structure, ~> Lumber River Scots and Their and Lowndes County, MS, 1785-1846. Pronunciation, and Migrations. Descendants: McLeans, Purcells, .. Whisnants Through the Ages. Mclntyres, Torreys, and Gilchrists. .. Wightman Ancestry. Mexico " My Family History: McCleary, Snider, " Williams: 300 Years ofLeadership in " 1869 Census of the Municipality of Fox, Brown. America. San Buenaventura, Coahuila, Mexico. " An Indexed McPhaul Family Rew1ion: " I 828 Census for the Municipality of a Convocation of North American Canada Abasolo and the Haciendas of Scot Families, 1755-1920. " St. Raphaels, the First 50 Years, 1804- · Sardinas, Santa Gertrudis, and " Traditions of the Swamp Fox: William 1854. Menchaca in the State of Coahuila, W. Boddie's Francis Marion. .. St. John's Presbyterian Church, Mexico. ~> Thomas Minor Society. Membership Cornwall. Roster, 01 January 1996. " Marriages 1857-1896, St. John's Scotland .. Mmmtjoy Omnibus: every Presbyterian, Cornwall. .. The People of Belhelvie & Mountjoy/Montjoy/Munjoy (or whose " Deaths, Burials, and Probate of Nova Newmachar, 1696. Mother or Grandmother had the name) Scotians, 1800-1850: from Primary " The People ofDrumblade & Forgue, born before 1900, and who Resided in Sources. 1696. the Area now in the United States. " Petitions, Land Grants & Land " Memorial Inscriptions at Clunie " Murdock and Sarah Hogue Ross Petitions for the Counties of Glengarry Church. Mw-chison and their Children. Stormont: A Finding Aid. " Monumental Inscriptions, Six Kyle " First Virginia Nuckolls and Kindred. " The Story of Dundas: Being the Graveyards. Book II. History of the County of Dundas from " Monumental Inscriptions, Geddes .. Genealogy of the Page Family in 1784 to 1904. Churchyard, Nairn-Shire. Virginia ... " This Unfriendly Soil: The Loyalist " Kirkyard of Hatton ofFintray. "' Albert Petty Family: a Genealogical Experience in Nova Scotia 1783-1791. " Kirkyard of Belhelvie. and Historical Story of a Sturdy " Assisting Emigration to Upper Pioneer Family of the West Based on Canada: The Petworth Project I 832- Records of the Past and Knowledge of 1837. [State Archives, the Present. " English Immigrant Voices: Labourer's continued from page 35] l .. Ancestors and Descendants, 1480- Letters from Upper Canada in the 1985, of George W. Prather, I858- 1830's. and have something to occupy your l935, Randolph County, Alabama. " Onomastica Canadiana. V. LXXXIII. time while you wait for an assistant to >- Tillman Dixon Pruitt & Diannah " A History of Dundalk. get free. If you have limited time, Hillsman Farrar: their Ancestors and realize that you may not get to Descendants. England everything you want to see while ~> The Family of Ronald W. Reagan. " Army Service Records of the First there. I didn't have a lot of time to .. Genealogy of the Searcy Family, World War. spend, so I did not find out the extent 1782-1997: Ancestors and " Medieval English Ancestors of Certain of their collection, which I believe is Descendants of William Harvey Americans. large and probably good. Their Searcy and Emma (Moore) Searcy. "' British Envoys to Germany, 1816- website is www.ark-ives.com/. .. The Simmons Family: Thirteen 1866. Generations, 16 I 5-2001 . " The Time and Appeasement: the I've visited many county seats in .. The Life of My Years. Journals of A. L. Kennedy, 1932- Missouri, but decided a few years ago " Reflections. 1939. to check out the archives in Jefferson .. The Tenill Family: Descendants of City. They have county records on John and Clarissa TerrilL Germany microfilm as well as their state .. The Turnley: A Brief Record. " Deciphering Handwriting in German census. Their book collection is Microfihn. Documents. limited, but good. Their website is .. English Origins of Some Vail Families www.sos.state.mo. us/ in the United States: an Alternative Italy Hypothesis. archives/default.asp. " Italjans to America. Vols. XIII-XVI ,. Waird Family. Microfihn. May 1899-April1901.

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