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mtDNA Topples Genealogist’s “Adobe Walls” A Handwritten Textbook Mom’s Life Ground Zero A Mountain Rose Spotlight on Volunteers The Southern California Genealogy Society has no paid About SCGS staff. Everything is done by volunteers. The Library regularly hosts many genealogy interest groups Southern California Genealogical Society and other events. Individuals interested in joining or learning 417 Irving Drive, Burbank, California 91504-2408 more about a particular group or event may contact the persons (818) 843-7247 or (818) THE SCGS listed below for more information. For specific dates and times FAX: (818) 843-7262 each group meets, please refer to the three-month calendars E-mail: [email protected] published in each issue of The Searcher or check the online Website: www.scgsgenealogy.com calendar at the SCGS website at www.scgsgenealogy.com. Library Hours Monday: Closed Tuesday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. • 3rd Tuesday: 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Group Contact Info Wednesday-Thursday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 1890 Project Louise Calaway [email protected] First & Second Sundays Third & Fourth Saturdays African American Interest Group Charlotte Bocage [email protected] of Each Month: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Chinese Family History Group Xavier Wong Membership Dues of SoCal [email protected] 1 Year Individual: $35 1 Year Joint*: $50 Anna Gee 2 Years Individual: $65 2 Years Joint*: $90 [email protected] 1 Year International Membership (w/mailing): $70 U.S. DNA Interest Group Kathryn Johnston 1 Year International Membership (w/digital): $35 U.S. DNA Administrator’s Roundtable [email protected] Youth Membership (under 25, w/proof of age) $20 Bonny Cook *Joint membership = two members at the same address. [email protected] Family Tree Maker Users Group Dick Humphrey Officers (FTM) [email protected] President Dave Burde French-Canadian Heritage Society Suzy Goulet First Vice-President Jay Holladay (FCHSC) [email protected] Second Vice-President Paula Hinkel German Interest Group Lois Habel Burlo Recording Secretary Alice Fairhurst [email protected] Corresponding Secretary Fran Bumann (805) 418-7220 Treasurer Louise Calaway German Research Group T. Maureen Schoenky Financial Secretary Peggy Schulz [email protected] The Searcher Staff Genealogical Society of Hispanic Donie Nelson America–So. California (GSHA-SC) [email protected] EDITOR Alice Fairhurst Irish Interest Group Marge Rossini LAYOUT EDITOR [email protected] Maryann Stubblefield Jamboree Leo Myers CONTRIBUTING EDITORS [email protected] Louise Calaway • Paula Hinkel Kids’ Family History Camp Charlotte Bocage Marie Rundquist • Beverly Truesdale [email protected] PRODUCTION Legacy Users Group (LUG) Barbara Randall Eric Hans [email protected] Past Presidents, 1964-2013 Long-Range Planning Committee Position Open

Clifford Parmenter ’64-’65 Patrick Flanagan ’93-’95 Lunch & Learn Charlotte Bocage Ruth Enyeart Clark ’66-’67 John M. O’Neill ’96-’97 [email protected] Foster Gilbody ’68-’69 Al Lewis ’98 The Master Genealogist Evelyn Maynard Margaret C. Fahy ’70-’71 Douglas J. Miller ’99-2001 Group (TMG) [email protected] Troy A. Reed ’72-’73 Pat Parish 2002-’03 (818) 340-7675 Donald W. Franklin ’74-’75 Fred Haughton 2004 RootsMagic Users Group Jay Holladay Berni K. Campbell ’76-’81 Pam Wiedenbeck 2005-’06 [email protected] Robert C. Emrey ’82-’83 Paula Hinkel 2007 United Daughters of the Cheryl McMillan I. Jean Nepsund ’84-’86 Pam Wiedenbeck 2008-’10 Confederacy (UDC) (818) 843-5288 Janet T. Jennings ’87-’88 Heidi Ziegler 2011 Writers Group Jean Chapman Snow Brian C. Smith ’89-’90 Alice Fairhurst 2012-’13 [email protected] Virginia P. Emrey ’91-’92 (818) 386-9747

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The Searcher’s Mission Summer 2014: 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 ...... 91 The purpose is fourfold: Jamboree Congratulations ...... 101 G to communicate news of our organization to our members; G to provide a literary outlet where our members SCGS News (and others, as space allows) may share accounts Lunch & Learn ...... 84 of their research and family histories; Interest Groups G to support and promote the research of our members Writers Group...... 84 through articles of general genealogical interest; Family Tree Maker, Legacy ...... 85 G to serve the research needs of genealogists and historians RootsMagic, TMG ...... 85 who have an interest in Southern California’s past. Irish Workshop ...... 85 Chinese Family History Group of SoCal ...... 85 DNA Interest Group& DNA Books ...... 86 How to Contact Us African-American Interest Group ...... 86 Comments, questions and corrections regarding Searcher Gen. Soc. of Hispanic America - SC ...... 87 content may be e-mailed directly to the editor at: French-Canadian Heritage Soc. of CA ...... 88 [email protected] German Interest Group ...... 89 Members and non-members are welcome to send unso - licited content to be considered for publication in The Wanted: Volunteers ...... 84 Searcher . Only electronic submissions (e-mailed to the above Beginning Genealogy Classes ...... 87 address) will be accepted for consideration. Periodical News & Donors ...... 88 The opinions expressed in The Searcher are those of the Go Digital! for The Searcher ...... 89 contributors. They do not represent SCGS or the member - Book Review ...... 89 ship as a whole. Century Club ...... 90 Advertising rates per issue are: SCGS Library Open House ...... 91 Full page: $150 New & Renewing Members ...... 92 Half page: $80 Quarter page: $60 Help Us Find People for 1890 Project ...... 93 Business Card Size: $25 2013 GENEii Contest Report ...... 94 Contents of The Searcher are Copyright (c) 2014 by SCGS. Salvation Army Missing Persons Service ...... 94 Queries ...... 95 Life Members, In Memorium June Mueller ...... 96 Salt Lake City Research Trip ...... 101 Articles mtDNA Topples Genealogist's "Adobe Walls" ...... 98 A Handwritten Textbook ...... 102 Mom's Life ...... 104 Ground Zero ...... 106 A Mountain Rose ...... 107 Research Was Your Ancestor a Voyageur? ...... 88 SCGS Research Teams ...... 108 1892 Great Register - Cahuenga, Part II ...... 109 Acquisitions ...... 112 Calendar ...... 117

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Monthly Meetings

Free and open to the public on the 2nd Saturday of the month. 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 p.m. Learn from our speakers. Ending times may vary. Contact Charlotte Bocage at [email protected] for more information. Saturday, July 24, 2014 Come to the Open House, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., followed by Library Research for Guests Lectures are from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, August 9, 2014 Jessie Louise McClennan – Using Portable Documents Files in Genealogy 1-3 p.m. Jessie Louise McClennan – TBA 2 –3 p.m. Saturday, September 13, 2014 Walt Sturrock – Scanning and Restoring Images 1-2 p.m. Walt Sturrock – Cemetery Photography 2-3 p.m.

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! Recent topics for the tales we brought to meetings have been: names and nicknames, heirlooms, childhood goals and shimmering images, one of those memory pic - tures you've had for years. If you want to try us out, please e-mail me [email protected] for further information. Upcoming Meetings (weekdays 12 – 2 p.m., Sundays 1 – 3 p.m.) Tuesday, July 1 Tuesday, August 5 Tuesday, September 2 Sunday, July 13 Sunday, August 10 Sunday, September 14

Wanted: Volunteers

Since SCGS is a 100% volunteer organization, volunteers are Are you an enthusiastic and outgoing person who would like our life blood. Excluding Jamboree-only volunteers, we have to help with Membership Development? If you would like to about 100 volunteers supporting our 2,300-member organiza - plan and carry out ways to attract and retain members for tion throughout the year. You can help by volunteering to SCGS, this could be the position for you. spend as little as a few hours a month using your talents. These are just two of the volunteer opportunities we have at Are you interested in sales or marketing? You could volunteer SCGS. Check our volunteer page www.scgsgenealogy.com/vol - as Sales Manager or Assistant Sales Manager to help with the unteer/volunteer.html to see what else is available. You can get sales operations at the library. This job would include placing in touch with the person listed under Contact for the specific the orders, pricing, taking inventory and displaying the publi - job or Mary Daly at [email protected]. cations and other genealogy-related merchandise.

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Genealogy Software Irish Interest Workshop Users Groups 5th Sunday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Meeting: August 31, 2014 at the SCGS Library Summer is when many people travel to see family and collect facts, stories, and pictures about their roots. Are you effectively The Irish Interest Workshop focuses on research in ALL of using your computer and genealogy software to keep this in - Ireland. Ireland was one nation and is now divided into 2 formation organized? Bring your ideas and questions to your separate parts: the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. genealogy software users groups. Church records consist not only of Catholic and Protestent, ie: Church of Ireland, but Presbyterian, Methodist, Quaker Family Tree Maker Users Group and more. One has to look at Ireland as a whole to be effec - 2nd Sunday, 4 – 6 p.m. tive in finding your roots. You may also need to look in Scot - Contact Dick Humphrey at [email protected] land as many Irish went back and forth for work. for more information. We are not only helping each other with our Irish research at Meetings: July 13, August 10, September 14 our meetings, but we also have a Rootsweb mailing list now. People are posting their problems and listing resources. You Legacy Users Group will find more information on upcoming meetings as we get 2nd Monday, 7 – 9 p.m. closer to the dates. Check it out. You can either subscribe or Contact Barbara Randall at [email protected] check out the archives at: for more information. Meetings: July 14, August 11, September 8 http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Genealogi - cal_Societies/SCGS-IRISHINTERESTGROUP.html Roots Magic Users Group The topic for the August workshop has not yet been set as we 3rd Sunday, 2 – 4 p.m. go to print, so be sure to check the archives before the next Contact Jay Holladay at [email protected] meeting to see what that topic will be. You are also welcome for more information. to contact Marge Rossini at [email protected] for Meetings: July 20, August 17, September 21 more information. The Master Genealogist (TMG) Users Group 1st Saturday, 2 – 4 p.m. Contact Evelyn Maynard at [email protected] or (818) 340-7675 Chinese Family History Group for more information. of SoCal Meetings: August 2, September 6, July 5 no meeting - Celebrate independence 4th Saturday 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. We meet at various locations including Southern California Genealogical Society, 417 Irving Dr., Burbank, and Loyola Law School, 919 Albany St., Los Angeles. Call for Articles There will be no meeting in July. On August 23 we are taking a field trip to Asian Pacific Resource Center at the Los Angeles Issue Theme Deadline County Library. The September 27 meeting is still in the plan - Fall 2014 Life and Death August 4, 2014 ning stages. For further information please contact us at Winter 2015 Family Humor October 27, 2014 [email protected] - use subject heading "New Inquiry." Spring 2015 Special Memories February 2, 2015 The meetings will cover tools and background helpful for the search of Chinese and Chinese American ancestors, with time In addition to our regular mix of contents, The Searcher is allocated during most meetings to cover individual questions. looking for theme-specific submission of how-to-research articles, genealogical research articles with endnotes, fam - If you are attending for the first time, you may wish to notify ily or local history stories, and book reviews. We prefer ar - the group of any special research issues you may have. ticles of 500 to 2,000 words. A maximum of four graphics will be considered. Send inquiries and/or electronic copies to [email protected].

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DNA Interest Group SCGS sponsors two DNA projects through Family Tree DNA: SCGS DNA project for ANY SURNAME: www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=SCGS an d the French Heritage project: 10 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=FrenchHeritage Southern California Genealogical Society 417 Irving Drive, Burbank, CA 91504 (818) 843-7247 www.scgsgenealogy.com Family Tree DNA: DNA Interest Group Meeting – 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Male s Males at the S.C.G.S. Library (father’s line only) (father’s and mother’s line) Saturday, August 30, 2014 – __ Y-DNA12 $59 __ Y-DNA37+ mtDNAPlus $208 Connecting DNA to Your Genealogy Workshop __ Y-DNA37 $149 __ Y-DNA37+ mtFull Sequence $348 The IT Team will set up multiple computers to demonstrate __ Y-DNA67 $248 various genealogy software packages, show how to create GED - Female s/ Males (mother’s line) COMs, and how to upload them to your DNA site. If you ____ mtDNAPlus $59.00 have a laptop, bring it with you. Also bring your DNA test re - ____ mtFull Sequence $199 sults and passwords so the DNA team can help interpret your results. There will be no formal lecture. This is a hands-on, ALL: ___ Family Finder (traces through all 16 great-grandparents; individualized day. gives continental %) $99.00 Presenters: The SCGS DNATeam, the SCGS IT Team, the Shipping & Handling: $4.00 (inside the USA), $6.00 Genealogy Software Leaders (outside the USA)

10:00 – 10:15 Announcements & Introductions To order, call Family Tree DNA at (713) 868-1438 and ask to join 10:15 – 11:45 Connecting DNA to Your Genealogy either the SCGS project or the French Heritage project. Workshop (software demos and DNA Or if you prefer, order online at: interpretation) www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=SCGS 11:45 – 12:45 Lunch OR www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group= FrenchHeritage 12:45 – 2:00 DNA interpretation $5.00 donation is suggested for attendance. Attendees can bring a bag lunch or join us for pizza for an additional $5.00. FTDNA Webinars For additional information email [email protected]. Family Tree DNA offers FREE webinars (online seminars) on Following the regular meeting, those who are Family Tree DNA genetic genealogy and DNA ancestry testing related topics. All (FTDNA) Project Administrators or Project Co-administrators webinars are open to both FTDNA customers and the general are invited to remain from 2:00-4:00 p.m. to discuss how they public with registration. They are recorded, so that they may are managing group projects. The Roundtable format allows be attended live or viewed later. Check the schedule at: people to share expertise and create solutions to issues. www.familytreedna.com/learn/ftdna/webinars/ Save these dates: DNA Interest Meetings held quarterly on the 5th Saturday of a month from 10:00 – 2:00 at the S.C.G.S. African American Interest Group Library: August 30, 2014, November 29, 2014 2nd Saturday 3:30 – 6 p.m. at SCGS Library For information on the International Society of Genetic Contact Charlotte Bocage at Genealogy (ISOGG) contact ISOGG Southern California [email protected] for more information Regional Coordinator , CeCe Moore, cecemoore@ Meeting dates are: July 12, August 9, September 13 hotmail.com To join ISOGG (no dues) go to the website www.ISOGG.org.

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Genealogical Society of Hispanic side. We will keep you informed about the event and welcome any suggestions of historic places that you know of in the River - America – SC (GSHA-SC) side area (close to the Mission Inn). We will be asking for peo - Saturday, August 2, 2014: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. ple to carpool. It’s our goal to take you to places that are fun and semi-hidden gems in the rich landscape we call California. Join us for our general meeting at the Southern California Ge - nealogical Society, 417 Irving Dr., Burbank. To end the year, please mark Saturday, December 6, 2014 for our Annual Holiday Party. As part of our new tradition to 11 am: Program: Our Ancestors in Zacatecas a presentation include food, music and culture into this program, we invite by Diane Correa de Rempel. you to hear Poet Karen Cordova . Her title, “Cuentos are We will go deep into Mexico with Diane Correa’s presentation, Conejos. ¡Dios Mio! They are everywhere.” Cordova, known “Zacatecas, Major Silver Strike Discoveries (1500s-1700s) for her dramatic, humorous, witty and poignant readings will and the Impact on Spanish Expeditions, Northern Mexico not entertain you, but will offer tips for incorporating poetry settlements and the remaking of Mexico City into a Beau - into genealogy. Karen will also allow time for questions and an - tiful, Thriving International Destination.” Correa will share swers and provide a handout for all to enjoy. Cordova will also her research of this fascinating area which provided incredible discuss her upcoming poetry book Farolito , a project with silver finds to the Spanish Crown, leading to a period of pros - readers and fans already anticipating its release. perity for the Crown, Mexico City but with severe conse - LOCATION and TIMES: This series is part of our General quences for indigenous peoples working in the mines, Membership Meetings held at the Southern California including some slaves and prisoners. Without Zacatecas, some Genealogical Society, 417 Irving Drive, Burbank, Califor - of the early expeditions to New Mexico and Alta California nia. The phone number at the library is (818) 843-7247. The may never have happened. It’s a great story to know and re - meeting is held from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. For those coming member since some of our ancestors came from here and Za - only to hear speakers, please arrive no later than 10:45 a.m. to catecas was la Reina de la Plata (the queen of silver). find a seat. Please bring a guest and carpool! It’s a great way to 12 noon Family-style no-host lunch ($5/pizza & beverage) reconnect and help another member who wouldn’t be able to come otherwise. 2pm: Genealogy Garage Otra Vez workshop on "Creating a Re - search Plan": Whether you have been researching 30 years or The Southern California chapter has a large collection of His - 13 days, you need a research plan. This workshop shows you panic genealogical records, maps, Hispanic family histories, and how to create a flexible action plan so that you set goals and history books. At the GSHA-SC chapter meetings, members reach them. Learn what steps to take to reach those goals. can check out selected books for a nominal fee, allowing you Choose a person or family to search and bring their informa - to research at home until the book has to be returned. Geneal - tion with you to receive individual assistance. Workshop leader ogy resources focus on the areas of Arizona, California, Col - Donie Nelson has been researching since 1980 and is experi - orado, Mexico, New Mexico, and Texas. enced in U.S. and Hispanic research, as well as systems for or - For details contact VP Programs & Education Rita Vega- ganizing your research. Acevedo at [email protected]. While our October Fiesta site is pending, our committee is contemplating a trip to see the Mission Inn located in River -

Beginning Genealogy Classes Congratulations to the following who completed the four week class in March: Kris Heck, Paul Landy, Carolyn Nickson, and Mickey Tracy. You were a great group. Good luck with your research. Beginner's In Depth Four-Week Class with One-on-One Assistance by Beverly Truesdale. There will be a new series of Beginner's Classes starting in September. The dates will be Tuesdays Sept. 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2014 . Week 1 - Sept. 2, 2014 - Getting started. Filling out Pedigree and Family group sheets. Week 2 - Sept. 9, 2014 - Census records and their substitutes Week 3 - Sept 16, 2014 - Church records Week 4 - Sept. 23, 2014 - Military and Land Records All classes will be held at our library - 417 Irving Dr. - Burbank, Calif. You can sign up for the classes by calling the library at 818-843-7247 or e-mailing: [email protected].

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The French-Canadian 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. “Hands-on” research assistance provided by our team of experts as needed. Heritage Society of ABOUT FCHSC California (FCHSC) Our primary purpose is to foster an interest in our common French-Canadian, Acadian and French heritage by researching Public Welcome! our ancestors and helping others to research theirs. FCHSC sponsors the French Heritage Project as a way to honor our Join us for the Fall FCHSC meeting held at the SCGS French ancestry at www.frenchdna.org Family Research Library on Sunday, October 26, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m . The French-Canadian Collection at the SCGS Research Library is the largest of its kind in the western United States Theme: French Canadians who helped settle California (apart from holdings at the Family History Library in Salt Lake and the American West City). Our collection consists of more than 1,000 volumes of As part of this program, please send us stories about your French-Canadian, Acadian, and Canadian resources as well as family if they emigrated to California or the Southwest in the microfiche, CDs, and maps. Check our website www.fchsc.org 1800s or early 1900s. Send to [email protected] to learn more about this collection. 10 a.m. to Noon Program For more information email us at [email protected] Noon – 1 p.m. Social hour/Lunch.

Periodical News & Donors Was your ancestor a Voyageur ? By Beverly Truesdale Do you know or do you suspect that one or more of Here are some interesting articles from the periodicals that we your French-Canadian ancestors was a voyageur (fur receive at our library. We receive many periodicals every trader)? Now researchers can search the archives for in - month, so come in and take a look. You may find something formation regarding these 17th and 18th century way - in the periodical that is not online. farers of the North American continent. “Using Y-DNA for Genealogy” The Voyageur Database houses information abstracted National Genealogical Society Magazine (Gen) Vol. 40 #1 from over 35,000 fur trade contracts that were notarized Jan/Mar 2014 between 1714 and 1830. Records were transcribed from Also article on "Using Mitochondrial DNA for Genealogy" in the Rapport de l’Archiviste de la procince de Québec and previous issue of the National Genealogical Society Magazine from microfilms of the Protonotaire Montreal Greffes de Vol. 39 #4 Oct/Dec 2013 notaires from the Bibilothéque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ). "75 Best Free Websites to Trace U. S. Ancestors" - list of Historical Societies and Archives in the United States The Voyageur Database is keyword searchable. Advanced Family Tree Magazine (Gen) Dec 2013 search features can be combined in a variety of ways to yield lists of matching records. Detailed results include: "12 Easy Steps to Plan a Trip to Your Ancestral Homeland" - Last Name, First Name, Date of Contract, Place of Con - nice article on planning a trip tract, Name of notary, Parish, Parish (Standardized), Family Tree Magazine (Gen) Dec 2013 Destinations, Contract Notes, Archive Source, Micro - film Number and more. A shopping cart is available for PERIODICAL DONORS those who wish to purchase copies of the original con - Doris Dell J une Mattias tracts. Sally Emerson Jean G. Morrison Although the original contracts are written in French, Paula Hinkel M illie Vander Hoeven the Voyageur Database overview page is published in Kay Irwin Connie Wills both English and French, as are the Voyageurs search Thank you to all our donors. pages. For access to this useful research tool, go to http://shsb.mb.ca/en/Voyageurs_database Genealogy is sometimes about proving that bad family traits came from the other side of the tree!

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Go Digital! German Interest Group 3rd Saturday 1 – 4 p.m. at SCGS Library The Searcher is now available online via the SCGS website. Same great quality! Same great layout! I think we all agree - German research is a challenge. But with the help of the German Interest Group to take some of the Just sign on as a member M e m b e r L o g - i n and click on mystery out of the process, it becomes more manageable. First READ ONLINE ISSUES . we have regular meetings the 3rd Saturday of every month, It’s faster than US mail and earth-friendly. where programs are presented by members or others who may Take the next step. “Opt-out” of receiving a printed copy have a solution. of the Searcher by e-mailing [email protected] We have access to an excellent collection of materials that fo - and put “Digital Searcher” in the subject line and include cuses just on German, much of which was donated by F. Walter your name and address. Hilbig. He was a former contributor to Heritage Quest Maga - Make sure you’re signed up for SCGS e-mail and we’ll zine and he served for many years as the German specialist at notify you when the next issue is up and ready. the Family History Library, SLC. We have up-to-the-minute computers to enhance our search capabilities. Sign Up for Free E-mail Updates from SCGS Our German Interest Workshops provide topics of interest to E-mail: Join assist the researcher. Our attendees add their experiences in a variety of areas, from “how to find a lost car in a strange city” Go ahead! Jump into the digital millennium! and where to find the best repositories here and in Europe. Our program theme for 2014 is “Breaking Through Brick Walls”, an attempt to help our members find that elusive clue that will provide the break through. History remembers only the celebrated, There is no fee, SCGS membership is desirable but not manda - tory. The library hours and our program time is always on the genealogy remembers them all. SCGS calendar, available through The Searcher or the SCGS Author unknown website. Join us for our meetings on July 19, August 16, September 20 . For further information, contact Lois Burlo: Book Review [email protected] Reviewed by Carl Boyer, 3rd

Finding Your Irish Ancestors in New York City , by Joseph Buggy and clubs dealing with parishes or villages, allowing profitable (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2014), soft - checks of your ancestor’s neighbors and friends. The Emigrant cover, 165 pages, bibliography, notes, index, $19.95. Industrial Savings Bank’s records of hundreds of thousands of Order from www.genealogical.com. account holders contain biographical information in lieu of Joseph Buggy has compiled an amazingly comprehensive work today’s passwords. on the subject, covering the five boroughs from the beginning Pages 65-115 list more than 500 Catholic parishes and chapels, of the nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. as well as churches of other Catholic organizations. Cemeteries Outstanding is his advice to “treat family stories as clues rather are covered well. In addition there is a surname index of almost than absolute truth.” In addition he states soundly that one 500 articles in sixteen periodicals relevant to Irish families in should learn as much as possible about ancestors in America the New York City area, and a listing of worthwhile web sites, before attempting to go abroad. There are, for example, a great in addition to the comprehensive bibliography. many Patrick Murphys, and there are no sources which will list This is a must buy reference for anyone researching the Irish all of them. in New York City. There are many “niche sources” available to those searching You can find it in the SCGS Library at 974.7 NY New York New York City, and Buggy provides advice on how to search New York/Irish. many of them free of cost. Among them are lesser known city censuses taken about 1820 which include the names of women,

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— SCGS News — CENTURY CLUB — We believe in the future! As we continue celebrating our 50th Anniversary year, SCGS has set a $50,000 fund raising goal to support our 2,400+ members. Goals for 2014 include: increasing the number of webcast offerings; upgrading our facility for safety and security; expanding the online catalog with CD, map and microform collection information; and digitizing and posting more SCGS produced materials behind the members-only-wall. Donations, no matter the size, will help our organization to reach its goal. Help SCGS become even more valuable to you in your search for your roots.

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 Jack Pearson Christine E. Gentry Audrey Munio Louise Calaway Robert E. Scudder Kathryn Greene Daniel Munoz Ann Cowley Thomas & Janet Gunckel Jane Munson CENTURY LEVEL Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Carolyn Hartung Bill Owens-Smith Marie Abajian Betty Fisher Fred Haughton Faye Painter Philip Adams John K. & Diane Wilson Flynn Marilyn Heck Betty Jean Peatross Ann & Leland Archer Gene by Gene LTD Monica M. Salmon Hollis Jane Pinkerton Joyce Bailey Jay A. Holladay Jeri Hughes Dell Quick Robert Banning Katharine Irwin Barbara J. Hull Louise S. Randolph Carla Barula Vieve Metcalfe Bonnie Jones Dwight Reilly Donna & David Bellamy Douglas J. Miller Pamela Journey Mary Ann Roberts Kathleen Bergstrom Lynne Parmenter & Joel Fritsche Frederick Kieske Roger Roth Kevin Bertrand Margaret J. Schulz Rita A. Kyte Ronda Sells Joyce L. Biby Sue & Bill Tully La Senora Research Institute Richard A. Sherer Gail Blair Christine Reynolds and Charles D. Larson Sheryl Sirpless Jo Anne Chadduck Nancy E. Warner Patricia Lewin Gayle K. Soles Pat Ann Clark Pamela Wiedenbeck Mona Limbaugh Bob & Sarah Steenberge James & Linda Cremer Ruth Lockwood Joanne Stolpe GOLD LEVEL Barbara Darling Leroy A. Madera Robert Teeter Archer-Johnson Foundation Joan De Fato Carol Mahoney D. Gary Waterhouse Georgine J. Archer, Trustee Judith A. Dellinger Jolea McGinnis William S. Whinn Sally Emerson Alice Densmore Jacqueline Meyer Dorothy Des Lauriers CONTRIBUTING LEVEL SILVER LEVEL Bill & Jeri Miller Judy Doss Susan Abadie Elaine E. Berry Nancy T. Miller Lynn E. Edwards Allie L. Almore-Randle Bonny R. Cook Al & Lori Moen Herrold Egger Michael Alvarado Linda Dougherty Pauline Morrish Laraine T. Engel Kent Alves Marva Grove Jean Morrison Loren Felton Barbara Baranski Paul Lamori Donna J. Morton Barbara J. Gaitley Joan McCauley Raymonde Motil Continued on bottom of page 91 Dorinda Gardner

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2014 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. Wednesday, July 16 – 6 p.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. Mountain, Saturday, September 6 – 10 a.m. Pacific, 11 a.m. 8 p.m. Central, 9 p.m. Eastern Mountain, 12 p.m. Central, 1 p.m. Eastern How to Interview family: Skills for your Ears, Eyes, Brain "She Came from Nowhere...” A Case Study Approach to a by Susan Kitchens Difficult Genealogical Problem by Dr. Michael D. Lacopo Saturday, August 2 – 10 a.m. Pacific, 11 a.m. Mountain, Wednesday, September 17 – 6 p.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. 12 p.m. Central, 1 p.m. Eastern Mountain, 8 p.m. Central, 9 p.m. Eastern Crossing the Border: How to Backtrack an Ancestor into It’s NOT about Zombies: Doing Cemetery Research Québec from the US by George L. Findlen, PhD, CG by Jean Wilcox Hibben, PhD, CG Wednesday, August 20 – 6 p.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. Mountain, 8 p.m. Central, 9 p.m. Eastern Seven Strategies for ‘Finding the Hard Ones’ by James M. Baker, PhD, CG

SCGS Library Open House You are invited to join us at the SCGS Open House on Saturday, July 12, 2014, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Open House provides an occasion to meet and greet new and old friends, to tour the library, and to chat with the Board. Representatives of SCGS interest groups, software user groups, educational programs, and Jamboree will be in attendance to tell you about their activities. Light refreshments will be available. Door prize drawings are at 12:00 and 1:00 p.m. Guests are invited to stay and browse our collection between 2:00 and 4:00 p.m. We encourage both members and non-members to use this opportunity to connect with others and become more familiar with SCGS programs and member benefits. Your involvement with our society could help you discover helpful new research approaches and strategies. It could also expand your number of friends who share your fascination with family history. For more information email [email protected].

CENTURY CLUB…… …Continued from 90 Camilia Barror Carol Reed Glow Robert Littlefield Adina D. Roberts Joan Beem Susan B. Goulet Richard L. Mannes Adolphe Roome Marjeanne Blinn Michael Heath Cynthia McNamara Virginia Rotramel V. J. Blue Barbara Helsley Thomas Meyers Carlyn M. Sager Charlotte Bocage Kathleen Holland William A. Miller Gloria Strong Raymond Bries Lura Johanson Phyllis Miller Gail Taggart Frances T. Bumann Pamala Kehlenbach Regina Nordahl William A. Wallace Sharon Clay Jeanne Kohlmeyer Joann Clark Oliver Meyer Weiner Kay Ronald Devonshire Jimmy Louise Kroger Thomas O'Neill Emy Lu Weller Beverly Easley Miriam B. Larson Kenneth O'Rourke Suzanne & Michael Wilkinson Marlene Fiegler Martha Eisenberg Lasser Susan Parks Barbara Yonck Irene Fleck Edward Licht George Purcell

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New and Renewing Members • February to March 2014

Charles R. & Sally M. Adams Carol Cronk Cole Lois Gaines Deborah Kaplan Philip C. Adams Robert Commagere Lynn Colby Galloway Lila Kay Raydonna S. Adams Bonnie Compeau Lois A. Gardner John Kevin Kelly Raj & Tracy Ali Carol Conroy Ann S. Garrett Marian Kile Judy Allegra Alan & Bonny R. Cook Arthur Geoffrion Janice Klafehn Gloria Diane Altona Mary Cooper Marilyn Gesch Sharon Koleber Kelly Alvarado Bonnie Cosgrove Janet C. Gesin Mark D. Koss Dolores Andersen Rebecca Countryman Gloria Gibbel Kathleen R. Kott Nancy Andren Deena Coutant Jean Goggins Albert Krohn Bruce Andrews Melinda Crawford Deborah Goodman Eleanor L. Kusler Wesley Andrews Caron & Phillip Crow George & Benita Gray Lynda Labar Laurie Angel Lorraine Curry Christine Green Laura Landis Todd Armstrong Denise Damm Kathryn Greene Kristen Heck & Paul Landy Robert Ashby Mary Dance Richard Greer Eleanor Lange Rosa Avolio Vicki Davey Linda Greethurst Brad Larkin Roylene F. Bailey Alvie Davidson Audrey L. Grose Susan Larson Polly M. Ballance Lezli Davis Barbara Groth Michelle Launi Carla Barbula Bettie Day Janet G. Gum Lorraine A. H. Lawrence Pamela Jo Barkas Mary Ellen Decremer Bernice B. Gunderson Gregg Legutki Elizabeth Beckers Bill Dicicco Jane Haldeman Karl Lehman Carolyn Bellissimo Lynne W. Dixon Douglas G. Hall Gloria Leon William G. Bennett Susan B. Dransfield Yvonne Hamilton Mary E. Lighthart John McIntyre Bevan Sher Drew James & Pennie Hansen Sita & Bob Likuski Melissa Bird Joann Driggers Pat & Kimberly Harmon Shannon Lind Edward Black Wayne Drouillard Richard Dale Harmon Ellen Lockwood Kathleen Blair Carol Dugger Lois R. Harrington Mary J. Lohr Virginia Blitz Suzanna Earwicker Keith Hart Sharon K. Love Jeanne & Jonathan Bloom Lourdes Ebrard Booth Hartley Jan L. Mackey Barbara Y. Bodden Christine Ellin Carolyn Hartung Marg MacLean-McCann Robert Boris Laraine T. Engel Suzanne Hastings Cheryl & Don Magnuson Edna Briggs Dorothy F. Estes Arleene Haywood Janet Magnuson Chuck & Christine Broman John Eyraud Marilyn Heck Claudia E. Manly Don Brownlee Michele Fendler Rosemary Hellene Jacqui & John Marcella Mac Buetow Ce Ferguson Don Henricks Elizabeth Marcheschi David H. Burde Frances Ferris Grace Hertz Danielle Mareschal Marty Burnett Jackie Fielder Victoria Hilb Janis Martin Patricia Burrow Pamela Storm & Ron Filion Janis R. Hirohama Sharon L. Martin Deborah Campisano Richard N. Fisher Mark Hochstetler Roger Mathison Stephanie Cardin Irene Fleck James Hollarn Joan E. McCauley Leslie Carney Lynda L. Flygar Lynda C. Horan Dave McCready Cynthia Carpenter George O. Fodrea Jane Hughes Jolea McGinnis Jean Carpenter Adrian Foushee Patrick J. Hunt Marian McHale Charmien Carrier Penny Fox Toby Hurley Joseph McKannon Joan M. Carruthers Allan & Donna Frandsen Joseph G. Inkel Marcia A. McKean Maryanne Casella John Frank Monica Ivory Edward Lee McKelvey Nancy Casey Kathy Frasca Kathy Javdani Jean McKenney Ceasar & Ana M. Castro Linda Fredin Tim Jensen Lisa Medina Virginia Challk Yu-Lan Freibergs Merle Johnston Charles Meiser Jackie Chalmers Melanie Frick Edward Jones Joan Merritt Georgia Chun Lynn Fugitt Raymond A. Jones Donna Meszaros Laura Cleary Pam Fujii Sue Kamin Continued on page 93

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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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Mary Mettler Melissa & Warren Potter Edna Anne Scoville Kerry Ventress Jane Millar David Powell Mary Shade Roxanne Walstrom David Miller Lori Preece Jane Shaffer Suzan Walter Sheila Miller Cinda Jean Price Peggy Shaffer Kiturah (Kit) Wang Suzanne Miller Vernon Gabriel Price Gary Thomas Shanahan Mary Watanabe Bettie Miner Patti J. Prime Douglas Sheffield Laurel Weeks John G. & Mary E. Mohler Kathleen Propersi Deborah Shelley Mary & Douglas R. Hetrick Kalani Mondoy George H. Purcell Jr. Geri Shuster Wenzel-Hetrick Donald Moore Diana Quinn Teryl Smith Richard S. Wheeler Kathleen Morgan Charline Rambaud Patricia Solomon Robert H. & Marlene White Susan Sing & Eugene Moy Taffy & Dick Rath Giles Sorrells Ward Clemence White Pat Mundstock Beverly H. Ray Cynthia Stanford Jasmine Whiteside Nicolette A. Munoz Janis Reagan Terri Strotman Patricia Whitton Linda G. Murphy Gayle Reizes Linda Stucker Linda Wilhoyte Evelyn Murray Kevin & Kathleen Rice Rebecca Suggs Marie L. Williams Dagmar Muthamia Michele Richey Patricia S. Swanson Janice Wilson Ruth Narancic Robert F. Riley Marilyn Talbot Marsha Wilson-Saracco Gina Natoli Diana Ritchie Carol Tapp Brian Winn Lynn Gescheider Nielsen Bernice Rodriguez Don Taylor Roger H. Woelfel Thomas O'Neill Alena Rose Virginia Taylor Jane Wong Tilden Osako Margaret M. Rossini Jean Tempke Carol Wootton Lynne Osborne Karen Rucker Nancy Thaut Kristine Wulf Kathy Ouimet Gail Ryan Carma-lu Thompson Mary Allison Yonan Faye Painter Patricia A. Ryan Julia Todd Constance Young Jan Paulsen Colleen Salzetti Mary C. Tom Suzan Younger Patricia Klein Paulson Martha S. B. Sandell Ken Johnston & Jay Tompkins Renee Zamora Jolie Pearl Ophelia R. Sanders Jenny Tonks Evelyn M. Zimmerman Susan Petersen Dorothylou Sands Sharon L. C. Traulsen Karla Zimmerman Jean Peterson Diane Sargent Mr. & Michelle Trostler Linda C. Petrie Mary Savarese Marilyn Ulbricht Luellen Pettengell Dean O. & M. Eileen Schafer Cathleen Unruh-Hall Joseph M. Peyton Nancy Howard Schulenberg Amy Urman Jane Pinkerton Jill E. Scott Kathy Van Ness

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GENEii Winners by Pam Wiedenbeck Congratulations to the winners of the 2013 GENEii Family History Writers Contest. Many thanks to the 59 authors who collectively contributed 79 entries making this the largest GENEii contest ever. All of the winning submissions will be published in The Searcher during 2014 and 2015 at the editor’s discretion; the preliminary dates of publication are indicated below. Category 1: submissions from 1,000 to 2,000 words Category II: submissions under 1,000 words First Place – Mom's Life – John R. Catsis, First Place – Ground Zero – Jerry Eckert, Vail, Arizona; Silver City, New Mexico; Searcher Summer 2014 Searcher Summer 2014 Second Place – First the Chicken – Joyce Finn, Bluffton, Second Place – November 22 – Evan Guilford-Blake, South Carolina; Searcher Winter 2015 Stone Mountain, Georgia; Searcher Fall 2014 Third Place – Locked Out – DeVonna R. Allison, Third Place – Christmas Kerfluffle – Marla F. Jones, Yukon, Burr Oak, Michigan; Searcher Spring 2015 Oklahoma; Searcher Winter 2015 Runner Up – Varrone – Nick Sweet, Shepherd, Texas; Runner Up – My Grandfather's Grave – Thomas L. Stepp, Searcher Winter 2015 Columbia, South Carolina; Searcher Fall 2014 Honorable Mention – Uncle John Burleson, Honorable Mention – A Visit to New Orleans – Jim McLaughlin, Kerrville, Texas; Searcher Fall 2014 Joyce Roberson, West Hills, California; Searcher Spring 2015 Honorable Mention – Paw Prints on Combat Soldiers Honorable Mention – A Mountain Rose – Felicia Johnson, Hearts, Robert R. Robeson, Lincoln, Nebraska; Ocklawaha, Florida; Searcher Summer 2014 Searcher Spring 2015

Meet the GENEii Judges ing writers, but most days she putters around her small Pacific NW farm, doing various carpentry and woodworking projects The 2013 GENEii Family History Writers Contest just con - with varying degrees of success. cluded with more entries than ever before. Some of the win - Raymonde Motil is a veteran SCGS member and one of the ners and winning entries are featured in this issue of The first members of the French Canadian Heritage Society of Cal - Searcher . The others will appear throughout the year. What we ifornia, a special interest group within the SCGS. Raymonde often forget is the dedication of the judges who must read and is a 2011 winner of the GENEii contest and a member of the evaluate every entry. Our two talented writers and judges are SCGS Writer’s Group. As a member of the Writer’s Group, Sherrie Holmes and Raymonde Motil. Raymonde helps others with their writing and contributes Sherrie Holmes is a retired freelance editor who is still very short stories to the monthly meetings. Her insights on family much involved in the writing world. history writing provide valuable assistance to the members of She's a long time member of a book club and a critique group, the group. and has over 5,000 hardback books bulging from her book - Raymonde spends most of her Wednesdays at the SCGS Li - shelves. Though retired, she still manages the Web site for a brary helping patrons with their French-Canadian research. group of eight veteran, historical romance authors who consis - tently hit the bestseller lists. Sherrie occasionally coaches fledg -

The Salvation Army Missing Persons Service Sometimes family members lose touch with each other. Sometimes the loss of contact is accidental and sometimes not. The Salvation Army uses its search capabilities to find missing people and then sends a letter to the missing person which includes the statement: "Our first priority is to maintain the privacy of persons, like you, who might not wish to have any information regarding their location disclosed." Intermediary services: The unique letter forwarding service is a way for both parties to communicate without re - leasing the missing person's whereabouts and allows families to begin a relationship and to determine if a reunion is possible. If you are missing someone, call 1-800-697-7728 or go to www.salvationarmy.usawest.org (under Services).

94 THE SEARCHER Summer 2014 — SCGS News — Queries Queries are free and are printed in the order they are received, or as space permits. The query should contain the surname(s) being sought, the approximate years (if known) and the geographical areas in which you are searching. E-mail queries to alice - [email protected], with the words “SCGS Query” in the subject line. You may also mail queries to Query Editor, Southern California Genealogical Society (SCGS), 417 Irving Drive, Burbank, CA 91504-2408; however, e-mail is preferred. Always include your phone number and an e-mail address (if you have one) when writing by postal mail.

Mark Allen Cross P.O. Box 931252, Los Angeles, CA 90093 PORTER Shelby, Warren & Montgomery Co.; (323) 466-5311 [email protected] 1810-bef. 1925 BEHRMAN Germany; IN; KS; 1857 to USA STOCKER/ Switzerland; Cuyahoga Co., OH; BRUDERICK Poland; MA; 1906 to USA STOKER Jackson Co., WI; 1823-1923 CROSS KS, PA; 1700-present VAN ALSTINE Montgomery Co., Genessee Co., NY; REED PA; OH; OK; NE; 1800's to present Hillsdale Co., MI; Wilson Co., Crawford Co., ROSEMARYNOSKI Poland, MA; 1906 to USA KS; Davis Co., SD; Kankakee Co., IL; VESSELS Holland; MD; KY; KS; CA; 1600's to USA 1791-1906

Susan Y. Dever 25016 Feijoa, Lomita, CA 90717 Betty I. Otto P. O. Box 1985, Carlsbad, CA 92018 (310) 413-7646 [email protected] [email protected] (760) 941-6429 CANN Clark Mercer Cann, b. 16 Aug 1828, SW PA; BENHAM IN; MO; AK; 1800-present d. 1860, Franklin, Jackson, KS Terr. GIESCKE TX; 1800-present LINCOLN Dayton Monroe Lincoln, lv. 1920, Joseph, OR JOHNSON NH/ENG; 1630-present SAVAGE Michael H. Savage, b. c. 1816 Co. Limerick, IRE; ODIORNE NH; TX; 1630-present d. c. 1876 Boston, MA O'REAR GA; SC; TN; LA; 1700-present SAUVAGE James Sauvage, b. c. 1670, FR; d. c. 1724 RICHTER TX/GER; 1858-present YOUNG Jacob Young, c. 1630-1696, Cecil Co., MD; SCHROETER TX/GER; 1800-present immigrated through New Amsterdam STRICKLAND LA; AK; 1800-present

Frances Holt 15928 Lonecrest Dr., Hacienda Heights, CA 91745 Janis Kay Reagan 1794 New York Drive, Altadena, CA 91001 [email protected] [email protected] MORRILL David Bradbury Morrill, b. c. 1824, NY; BATTERSON Muscatine, IA; 1880 immigrated to TX in 1845. Looking for CHAPMAN MA?; 1820's parents and siblings. GOULD Meaford, Ont., Canada; 1830's HANSEN Wisconsin Rapids, MI; 1850+ Toby Lee Hurley 14925 NW Ridgetop Ct., Beaverton, HELLER Muscatine, IA; 1850 OR 97006-5403 NICHOLSON East Liberty, PA; 1820's [email protected] (503) 439-0298 WESCOTT MA; DuPage Twp., IL; 1820-1874 BROADWELL Essex Co., NJ; Hanover, Morris Co., NJ; Delaware Co., NY; 1682-1860 Jill Ellsworth Scott 1465 Mercado Glen, Escondido, CA 92026-1650 GAINES VA; Mercer Co., KY; Wilson Co., TN [email protected] (760) 743-3660 HUTCHINSON Andover, Windsor Co., VT; 1770-1835 FROMAN Paul Froman, NJ->KY; 1708-1783 Maria Christina Froman, VA; 1736-1780

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Individual Life Members

The Southern California Genealogical Society was established in January of 1964. The Society is greatly appreciative of all the Life members who have been key contributors to its growth. Thank you for all you have done to keep the Society going through 50 years and beyond.

Phyllis Levaun Absalom Richard D. Duccini Paula Hinkel Daniel T. Munoz Mildred A. Alexander Nancy Keen Edwards Carol Ann Hopping Clyda J. Murray Don Young & Elizabeth Joe Elliott Linda Houchin Liz Stookesberry Myers Arleen Anderson Wendy L. Elliott Pat Erwin Hugar I. Jean Nepsund Georgine J. Archer Richard Emerson Jeri M. Hughes Esther C. Norbut Edward C. Azarian Sally M. Emerson Katharine Irwin Frank Norris Gwen Babcock Virginia P. Emrey Lloyd E. & Janet T. Jennings Frances E. Parker Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett Katrina S. Enyeart Barbara J. Johnson Susan C. Parks Pamela R. Beauer Michael A. Enyeart Capt. T. Rogness Betty Jean Peatross Norma Beebower Donald Erlenkotter Johnson Jr. USN Ret Troy A. & J. E. Reed Lorraine Elizabeth Board Betty L. Fisher Kathryn J. Johnston James Richards Christie Miles Bourdet Charles B. Fisher Betty C. Jones Janet Ruddy Alice I. Brown Gloria Shane & Luetta Kirker Columbus Nelson Sanders Elizabeth J. Brown Stephen Fletcher Rita M Knecht Margaret J. Schulz Stephen F. Brown Mildred G. Flick Laurie Kolakowski Arlene Schwartz Virgil G. & Frances T. Kevin M. Gallagher Lin M. Larochelle Robert E. Scudder Bumann Heather Goebel Dorothy J. Lewis Muriel J. Sperling Shirley Burton Marva M. Grove William B. Lindley Molly Ann Squire Bonita J. Campbell Gary Clark & Charlotte T. Litchfield Daraline M. Squyres M. Corine Carter Victoria Guagliardo Rudecinda Lo Buglio Cameron R. Stewart Ralph Clark Margaret Guinney Daniel S. McDaniel Laura H. Stotler Donald Leslie Collins Andrew Hallum Thomas J. McKegney William P. Tully Ross Cote Bruce A. Hamilton Jacqueline I. Meyer Charles L. Weyand Mrs. M. McGarry & Patricia R. Harasty Douglas J. Miller Pamela Wiedenbeck Ms. H. Esketh Crahan Maryemma Holley Hargrave Pauline M. Morrish Tracy C. Winkler Barbara M. Darling Fred L. Haughton James A. Moschenross Rosemary T. Dills Patricia Henny Max Muller

In Memorium June Mueller Long time member and volunteer, Kathryn June Mueller passed away on Feb. 28, 2014 in Bur - bank. June joined SCGS in 1980 after her husband, Alvin Mueller passed away. For many years she worked at the library with Virginia Emrey. She continued to volunteer at the library until her health declined. She was also a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Capt. Sally Tomkins Chapter, Bubank/Glendale, CA. June loved researching her family tree and made several trips to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. She will be missed by her family and friends.

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mtDNA Topples Genealogist’s “Adobe Walls,” Ties Ancestry to a 16th-century Grandmother and New Mexico’s First Families By Patricia Sánchez Rau with Marie Rundquist The traditional story of “Early America” unfolds as Europeans In 1821, the Santa Fe Trail was opened after Mexico declared arrive by ship at Plymouth Rock and Jamestown at the start of its independence from Spain. The war with Mexico (1846- the seventeenth century. The story continues with the emer - 1848) was marked in New Mexico by the occupation of U.S. gence of the thirteen English colonies followed by the Ameri - troops. In 1848 after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was can Revolution, and draws to a close as Lewis and Clark set off signed, General Kearny issued a proclamation that made New to explore lands west of the Mississippi in 1804. The more re - Mexico part of the United States by right of conquest. cent, “American Story” is one of “Coming to America,” with Fast-forward to the twentieth century, Patricia was the fourth crossings – of borders and oceans, and the first Federal Immi - child born to Juan Francisco Sánchez and Angelina Quintana gration Inspection Station: Ellis Island. in southern Colorado. Patricia Sánchez Rau's Ameri - Patricia's mother, Angelina can story departs wildly from Quintana was the sixth traditional themes. Patricia's an - child of Apolonio Quintana cestors came from Spain, and María Paula García, Portugal, Greece, North Africa, both from New Mexico, and other parts of Europe to who moved to Conejos Mexico. In 1598, they were County, Colorado in 1899. among the New World's first Angelina was proud of her pioneers who assembled on the heritage but curious about banks of the San Pedro River her little-known ancestry. Patricia Sanchez Rau under the dogged leadership of Angelina lamented to her don Juan de Oñate, to embark upon their epic journey to New children, “My grandparents Mexico. were all related, but I don’t Born in Zacatecas, don Juan de Oñate, of Basque lineage, had know how!” Angelina ob - Maria Paula Garcia, won the royal commission of Spain to colonize New Mexico Apolonio Quintana (1896) tained copies of the original in 1595 – and, to his dismay, was forced to fight his friends baptism and marriage certifi - and enemies to defend his prize as well as pay for the entire cates for her parents and grandparents and purchased a book expedition! A complex historical figure; his name is mentioned entitled Origins of New Mexico Families by Fray Angélico in the first pages of Fray Angélico Chávez' Origins of New Mex - Chávez. ico Families ; in 2005, his role in the Sánchez family history re - Sadly, Angelina died a few years later, but fortunately, she had mained unknown. left her daughter with an envelope containing all of the records The Native Americans and she had acquired during her research, along with a little note - Europeans who followed book, where she had recorded, by hand, the information she Juan de Oñate to New Mex - learned during interviews. Patricia attempted to follow in her ico numbered among New mother's genealogy footsteps, but experienced little success Mexico's “first families” -- until she retired and moved to Colorado. Only in Colorado, the first pioneers to settle where from certain vantage points, she could see the same San - lands west of the Missis - gre de Cristo mountain range that passes through Northern sippi. The proximity of the New Mexico, did she find her real connection to her family's Pueblo Indians to Juan de genealogy and fulfill her mother’s dream. Oñate's fledgling settlement Genealogists refer to "brick walls," where a family line will ter - was not conducive to peace; minate; there are no further records to be found; and research consequently, family ge - of a family line cannot continue. As her family ancestry was nealogies of this period are rooted in New Mexico, Patricia determined her genealogy marked by hasty retreats "brick walls" were made from adobe -- a natural building Angelina Quintana, and the loss of family material formed from mud, sand and straw used historically in Juan Francisco Sanchez (1929) records. Continued on page 99

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MT DNA T OPPLES GENEALOGIST ’S “A DOBE WALLS ”…… …Continued from 98 the American Southwest. researched her same family lines. Logic ruled the day when an - Patricia's first genealogy adobe wall was virtually impenetrable. other family researcher reported that Patricia's Juana Baca was In 2005, a friend urged Patricia to have a mitochondrial in fact the daughter of Juana Baca, a single mother who was (mtDNA) test. Patricia wondered if an mtDNA test result, a called, “la vieja” (the elder). La vieja had at least seven children; genetic sequence, passed unchanged, from mother to mother, some used the Luna surname, others Baca. Researchers Mar - from generation to generation, might yield new answers, break garet Buxton and José Antonio Esquibel identified this Juana through her genealogy adobe wall? After giving it some con - Baca as the daughter of Cristóbal Baca and doña Ana Moreno sideration, she ordered a low-resolution, hypervariable region de Lara, the second genealogy adobe wall gave way, and Patri - 1 (HVR1), mtDNA test. cia's path to the next generation opened once again After receiving her mtDNA test results, determined to be Patricia discovered that historical records had to provide some “Haplogroup A,” a Native American haplogroup sequence, and of the ancestry information she sought. In 1680 there was a releasing them to the DNA database, Patricia discovered she revolt by the Pueblo Indians and it was during this time that had twenty-five mtDNA matches! Patricia wrote to each, ask - the Spanish settlers were driven from New Mexico to ing for their help. Patricia provided the name of her fourth Guadalupe El Paso (now Juarez, Mexico) where they lived in great grandmother, María Rosa Sandoval, her marriage infor - exile for twelve years. At this time, the sacramental records were mation to husband Jose Antonio Alari on November 5, 1782 left behind or destroyed. The King of Spain via the Governor in Santa Fe, and offered what little information she had gleaned General in Mexico City denied the settlers' petitions to return from her research. to Mexico and plans were made for the re-conquest of New Mexico which took place in 1693. The muster rolls and jour - To her surprise, three men replied to her query, and amazingly, nals of don Diego de Vargas provided identification of the set - all three had researched and documented their maternal-line tlers who were returning as well as the new settlers, and the paper trails! Each of her matches' maternal line ancestries led, subsequent tool distribution lists also helped identify family from mother-to-mother, to the same, identical Sandoval family groups. from Santa Fe! These Sandovals were, in fact, the parents of none other than her fourth great grandmother, María Rosa Patricia consulted the Origins of New Mexico Families ; Fray Sandoval, the youngest daughter of Antonio de Sandoval Angélico identifies (Captain) Cristóbal Baca, the husband of Martínez and Josefa Durán y Chávez! By comparing her Ana Moreno de Lara, as the son-in-law of Diego Trujillo. mtDNA test results with others, and finding matches who Diego Trujillo came with the soldier escort from Mexico City shared her family lines, Patricia was able to connect the dots in 1641. He listed his wife as Catalina Vásquez, the daughter for four generations of grandmothers, breaking through the ge - of Diego Márquez and Bernardina Vásquez. nealogy adobe wall that had blocked her research for years! As Patricia's research neared the early sixteen hundreds, Juan In 2012, Patricia received exciting news that extended her ma - de Oñate role in her family history materialized: Diego ternal line ancestry by several generations: new marriage inves - Márquez, who had come with don Juan Oñate in 1600, as a tigations were donated to the New Mexico Genealogical single soldier from San Lucar de Barrameda, Spain, had mar - Society. One of these investigations, for Antonio de Sandoval ried Bernardina Vásquez about 1621 and was beheaded, along Martínez and Josefa Durán y Chávez proved significant; these with several others, after being tried and found guilty of being were the parents of her fourth great grandmother, María Rosa a major accomplice in the death of Governor Rosas, in 1643. Sandoval – adding two generations to Patricia's maternal line His widow Bernardina Vásquez was identified as being the ancestry! daughter of Francisco Vásquez, another single soldier from Cartaya, Spain and an unknown woman; their children were Next, the mother of Josefa Durán y Chávez (Rosa's mother) also identified. who was Juana Baca, wife of Fernando Durán y Cháves was re - vealed in Patricia's research; but Juana Baca introduced another Patricia never took her eyes off of her mtDNA matches. Among adobe wall, the second to threaten Patricia's quest: Juana Baca's the fifty people whose mtDNA results matched Bernadina's, marriage investigation stated that she was daughter of unknown there was bound to be someone who also descended through parents! Patricia's same, maternal line! However, this was not the case, and although several of those Patricia helped did in fact have Patricia proceeded with her quest, for, as a researcher of New complete paper trails, to her chagrin, they were not direct de - Mexico family lines, she had a natural advantage: at one time scendants of Bernardina Vásquez. A third adobe wall formed New Mexico had less than 1000 families, so, as a result, most while this unsolved puzzle loomed over Patricia's head, casting descendants will probably find at least one or more common a shadow on her late mother's dream of a completed ancestry ancestors. Patricia reasoned that there had to be others who – a dream that had become her own.

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MT DNA T OPPLES GENEALOGIST ’S “A DOBE WALLS ”……… …Continued from 99 Patricia finds that “DNA testing may not help everyone with Today, New Mexico's unique cultural identity is best expressed genealogy dead ends, but adding DNA findings to your re - in its traditional foods. Patricia recalls, “We did not grow up search can reveal unknown family connections and ancestry, as eating tacos, enchiladas, tamales or other foods from Mexico. well as provide substantial support for your genealogy paper Our pinto beans and chili were cooked and flavored in a dif - trail.” Patricia consulted with Henrietta Martínez Christmas, ferent manner. We primarily ate flour tortillas as the Spanish a well-known, New Mexico family researcher. Christmas ex - grew wheat for that purpose. Corn tortillas came in much amined all of the findings; through her analysis of the mtDNA later.” and genealogy records, she reached the conclusion that all of In September 2013, at the urging of her husband, Patricia com - Patricia's matches were connected to the Pérez de Bustillo pleted the full mitochondrial sequence (FMS) test, extending family. her initial “Haplogroup A” results. To date Patricia has 180 In 1598, family patriarch Juan Pérez de Bustillo, the son of Hypervariable Region 1 (HVR1), low-resolutions matches, 70 Simon Pérez, and a Mexico City native, and his wife María de high-resolution matches for HVR1 and Hypervariable Region la Cruz (of unknown parentage) came to New Mexico with a 2 (HVR2) and 25 Matches with HVR1, HVR2 and coding re - family of two sons and seven daughters to accompany don Juan gion (resulting from the Full Mitochondrial Sequence (FMS) de Oñate on his expedition to Nuevo Mexico. Some of the test). daughters were known by name and whom they married, so Patricia continues to receive correspondence from others whose the ties to this particular family became evident. In fact, Juan ancestries are found in Mexico. From the available records, it Pérez de Bustillo married all seven daughters to single soldiers appears that one of the seven daughters of Juan Pérez de who were all from the same region of Spain. With this final Bustillo and María de la Cruz may have returned to Mexico breakthrough, the last adobe wall crumbled, and Patricia with her soldier husband, so these matches could still be from reached the end of her maternal line ancestry as it stands today. this family; however, more research is needed to confirm this Patricia notes in her research, “There were very few European speculation. women who came with the expedition, so as a result, many of Complete references: the Spanish soldiers married Native Americans who were as - http://familyheritageresearchcommunity.org/de-la-cruz-dna.html similated into the Spanish culture. We spoke Spanish, had our Copyright 2014 Patricia Sánchez Rau and Marie Rundquist own customs, our own foods, and from 1600 to 1820, we were part of the Spanish Empire and governed by the King of Spain.” Patricia Sánchez Rau’s Maternal Ancestral Line First Generation: Patricia Sánchez, daughter of Juan Francisco Eighth Generation: Josefa Durán y Chávez, daughter of Francisco Sánchez & Angelina Quintana, married Rudolph Rau, October 7, Xavier Durán y Cháves and Juana Baca, married Antonio de San - 1961, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. doval Martínez on June 29, 1728, in Bernalillo, New Mexico.[v] Second Generation: Angelina Quintana, daughter of Apolonio Ninth Generation: Juana Baca, daughter of Juana Baca and father Quintana and María Paula García, married Juan Francisco Sánchez, unknown, married Francisco Xavier Durán y Chávez on May 15, April 1, 1929, in Antonito, Colorado.[xi] 1713, in Bernalillo, New Mexico.[vi] Third Generation: María Paula García, daughter of Antonio Tenth Generation: Juana Baca (the elder), daughter of Cristóbal Cosme García and María Guadalupe Sena, married Apolonio Baca and Ana Moreno de Lara, did not marry.[vii] Quintana on February 21, 1896, in Santa Cruz, New Mexico.[xii] Twelfth Generation: Catalina Vásquez, daughter of Diego Fourth Generation: María Guadalupe Sena, daughter of Jose Márquez and Bernardina Vásquez, married Diego Trujillo about Ramon Sena and María Manuela Ortiz, married Antonio Cosme 1634 in New Mexico.[viii] García on November 28, 1867, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[xiii] Thirteenth Generation: Bernardina Vásquez, daughter of Fran - Fifth Generation: María Manuela Ortiz, daughter of Juan Luís de cisco Vásquez and an unnamed Pérez de Bustillo, married Diego Jesús Ortiz and María de la Cruz Alari, married Jose Ramon Sena, Márquez about 1621 in New Mexico.[viii] February 2, 1842, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[xi] Fourteenth Generation: Unnamed Pérez de Bustillo, daughter of Sixth Generation: María de la Cruz Alari, daughter of Jose Anto - Juan Pérez de Bustillo and María de la Cruz, married Francisco nio Alari and María Rosa Sandoval, married Juan Luis de Jesús Vásquez about 1607 in New Mexico. Ortiz about 1810 in New Mexico.[xiv] Fifteenth Generation: María de La Cruz, daughter of parents yet Seventh Generation: María Rosa Sandoval, daughter of Antonio to be determined married, Juan Pérez de Bustillo about 1580 in de Sandoval Martínez and Josefa Durán y Chávez, married Jose Mexico City, Mexico.[xv] Antonio Alari on November 5, 1782, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[xi]

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SUMMER 2014 THE SEARCHER 101 — Searcher — A Handwritten Textbook by Rosina Farrington Stone The First School in Grass Valley, California By Barbara Ann Warren

In January, 1852 my great-great grandmother, Rosina Farring - ton 1—a young woman from Maine—opened the first school in the Gold Rush town of Grass Valley. Families with children had begun arriving in town. A year before the town had been just a miner’s camp with a few cabins and a few canvas tents. Then during the year, news spread about a rich vein of gold found there. Miners removed $20,000 worth of gold, a huge amount. The news excited many other miners. By the end of the year, there were more than 6,000 men working in the area, which then started to look like a “real town” with 150 wooden Rosina's Handwritten Textbook structures, including a post office, several stores, and hotels. Chapter 1st Merchants and families started to arrive. A letter is a symbol of a certain conformation of the organs of Rosina started her little private school in a small miner’s cabin speech some of which can be attended by a complete articulate near the main street of town. Most of the town’s children at - sound and some cannot. The symbols used in the English lan - tended. Later in life, she described the cabin as a small wooden guage are 32. These symbols are divided into vowels and con - structure with a window with four small panes of glass that fur - sonants. The vowels are A, E, I, O, U. A vowel is a symbol of nished light, and a fireplace that furnished “very little heat.” a certain conformation of the organs of speech which can be However, the room had plenty of ventilation through the attended by a complete articulate sound. porous roof and drafty walls 2. Because children of all ages were in the same room, school rules A notice in the Sacramento Union newspaper article 3 in Febru - at the time were very strict. There were harsh punishments for ary 1852 announced “an accomplished young lady from Maine answering questions incorrectly or for falling asleep in class. A opened the first school.” We imagine word spreading to fami - student would have to write the same sentence over and over, lies in town about the chance for all the children to attend or sit in a corner wearing a dunce cap. school. Rosina opened the one-room school with ten or eleven During the early months of 1852, Rosina was extremely busy excited children. teaching all the town’s children who were eager to learn the At that time, older children would help the younger ones with ABCs. She awakened early, looking forward to preparing the their studies. The older ones became “teachers” themselves and, classroom for the day—to start the fire, sweep the floor, and as a result, grew to understand their own lessons better. Every - clean the outhouse. Preparing the daily lessons was just one of one learned reading, writing, and “sums”—what we now call the necessary chores in the one-room schoolhouse. Rosina was arithmetic or math. If the school had paper, the students wrote indeed a smart and adventurous young woman. with a feather by dipping the end in a bottle of ink. Otherwise, Why did Rosina decide to leave Maine to travel to California? they wrote with chalk on a small blackboard made of slate. In early 1851, she was a twenty-one-year-old single woman Books were scarce, and often there would be only one book to teaching in rural, small-town Maine. For two years she and her share. A student would read a few lines and then pass the book large family heard stories and read letters from the gold fields to another child to read the next passage. Because these were in California. In 1849 Charles Blake 5, her oldest sister the days before textbooks, Rosina wrote a book by hand for the Amanda’s husband, had left his family behind to travel to the children to describe the English alphabet. Here is an example West to establish a church and, most likely, to pan for gold. of a page of a textbook 4 she wrote for older, advanced children: His letters must have told the family tales of the wonderful land and opportunities for all. Two years later, he was anxious to

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A H ANDWRITTEN TEXTBOOK BY ROSINA FARRINGTON STONE …… …Continued from 102 have his wife and three children join him in California. Rosina Mrs. Stone was a friend and helpmate beloved by all and her was a restless young woman who, as the family story told us, memory will be fondly cherished.” I am proud to be one of her did not want to marry a Congregational minister like her older many descendants. two sisters. What were the opportunities for her in Maine? NOTE: Because of my interest in family history and because I Most of her single young men friends had probably hopped own Rosina’s gold thimble, I decided to write a story about her aboard ships to travel to the gold fields. Why could she not go? life so my oldest granddaughter will know about her ancestor When Charles returned to Maine in the summer of 1851 to whose thimble she will inherit. The adventure was exciting for collect his family, Rosina would have discussed with him and me—the chance to discover Rosina’s life in the context of the his wife the idea of her accompanying the family to help care Gold Rush and the later years in which she lived. During a trip for the children on the long trip and to possibly teach school to Grass Valley, I discovered a “genealogy angel,” a man who in California. Rosina, who was very close to her parents, prob - had kept some of my family’s treasures for fifty years looking ably told them she would return within or after the year. for a family member. He found me. He was the one who shared Charles had heard about the opportunities in Grass Valley and her textbook with me. He gave me an original letter written by decided to settle there with his family. The six family members Rosina’s mother about the fact that she was marrying a miner, headed by steamship to Chagres, Panama on route to Panama a “stranger” in the wild country of California. He told me the City where they boarded the ship The Constitution 6 that would family house is now a Bed & Breakfast in town, something I take them to San Francisco. did not know. It is called Lamb’s Victorian Inn. Rosina's life is now in books entitled The Gold Thimble and upcoming The Gold Thimble: Finding the Story available at the FastPencil.com marketplace.

Grass Valley, 1852 Victorian Lady Now Rosina was settled into a rough town with very few single women available for marriage and thousands of eligible men Endnotes: who desired a woman’s company. Rosina and her family’s social 1 Rosina Farrington was the daughter of Charlotte Rogers and Daniel life probably revolved around the Presbyterian Church that Farrington of Holden, Maine. Daniel was a descendant of Deacon John Charles Blake established. There Rosina could meet men who Farrington who settled in Dedham, MA in 1646. See Farrington Memorial , had the same sense of community and culture as she did. It was 1898. Available in Google books. there she met Jeremy Phillips Stone 7, originally from Massa - Charlotte was a descendant of Thomas Rogers of the Mayflower through chusetts. He, like Rosina, was a descendent of a prominent, Elkanah Rogers in generation five. See p. 175 Mayflower Families , early-colonial New England family. Vol. Two. 2 Sacramento Union , 1852 as quoted in The Heritage That Prospered – When summer arrived, Rosina closed her school at the end of A Fascinating Walk Through Grass Valley's History From the Perspective of the school year. The romance between Jeremy and Rosina blos - It's Schools by Susan Doolittle, Suji Press Garden Valley, CA, 1993. somed, and soon they began planning to be married. Their 3 Ibid. wedding in August 1852 was “the first wedding to take place 4 Property of Desmond Gallagher, Grass Valley, CA. in the camp.” 8 The wedding meant that she could no longer 5 teach school, since there was a law declaring that married Charles Morris Blake, b. 24 Dec. 1819 in Brewer, Maine, son of Charles and Mary (Winchester) Blake. See NEHGS Register , Vol. 48, 1894 p. 88. women could not teach. She made her choice to get married 6 Ancestry.com for ships list, SF Ship Passenger List Vol. II and have a family. 7 Jeremy P. Stone, b. 12 Mar. 1827 in Worthington, MA son of Col. Oren Rosina spent her remaining life raising a wonderful family and Stone and Jane Bryant. See Gregory Stone Genealogy , 1918. Available 1n helping others. Her obituary in 1895 said: “...to those pioneers Google books. and early residents who settled here in the days of gold, 8 Obituary in Grass Valley Weekly Union , March 20, 1895.

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GENEii Category I Mom's Life First Place By John R. Catsis

Mom was on her hands and knees, crawling slowly across the Mom fidgeted with the sock as she took a seat at the small van - floor. She was dusting, wearing only an old slip and a tattered ity that served Georgette’s dressing table. I knew that dusting blouse which hung loosely from her body. She always dressed was now over for the day, and today’s Greek history lesson--- sparsely when working around the house, saving her few good nay, Halkiopoulos History---was about to resume. clothes for shopping and visiting. “My father was very rich,” she began. “We lived in a big house Mom did not own a dust mop like the other families on our in Constantinople. A five story house. We had servants. And block. I often wondered why. I guess she had not fully become cooks. My father was the official shoe maker to the Sultan of Americanized. Her dust “mop” was an old sock that showed Turkey.” Ma spoke the last sentence slowly, as if to make sure signs of having been darned several times before it finally could I understood. I understood. Her facial expression turned in - no longer stay put on a person’s foot. To clean the floor she ward, as if she were back in Constantinople again. She never would place her hand inside the old sock and wipe, gathering called it by its modern name; Istambul. It was to be Constan - dust as she scooted around on her knees, barefoot. From time tinople. Today, the maids and the cooks have been replaced by to time she would gather the collected dust with her left hand a husband, two children, and a dust sock. and hold it tightly, while continuing to wipe with her right. “My father would often take me to his factory,” she continued. When dusting ended, she would relegate the sock to the laun - “Outside the building was the Turkish Coat of Arms and the dry pile, where it would be washed and placed back into serv - Turkish flag. There was also a guard. He allowed only mem - ice. She kept her “dusting socks” in a special pile. None of bers of the Sultan’s family to go inside. There, my father had them matched. That wasn’t important. What was important many workers who made slippers, shoes and boots, all from the was that Ma saw to it that nothing was ever wasted in our finest leather. Hand made, and embroidered with fine silk. home. “My father also made shoes and slippers for our family, too. I It was during one of those dusting sessions that I observed loved my slippers. One was a purple, a royal purple, with real mom at work from the comfort of my twin bed. My sister, gold thread. Not fake, Yannaki. Real gold. I would sometimes Georgette, and I shared the same bedroom in the 1940’s and wear them outside, but if my mother saw me, she would tell well into my teens. It wasn’t because there was no third bed - me to go inside and change into my play shoes.” room in the house. There was. But it was used as a multi-pur - pose room, with a desk, sewing machine, 10-inch black and “Did you ever meet the Sultan?” I asked. Her story had now white console TV, and a small couch filling the space. attracted my attention, more so than the numerous previous times she had related “the story.” From my bed I looked down at mom as she worked. Like many seven-year-olds, I was curious. “Yes. Many times. The first was when I was about seven. My father took me to the palace where the Sultan lived, to measure “Mom, what are you doing?” the feet of the Sultan and his ladies.” “Dusting, Yannaki moo. So you won’t get sick.” Yannaki was Ma never mentioned the Sultan’s name. I was to learn much Greek for Little John. Mom was always concerned about the later that it was Abdul Hamit the Second, who ruled Turkey as slightest cough or sneeze that would afflict Georgette or me. an autocratic police state for 33 years. Even so, she found him She felt our home should be as sanitary as possible. That’s why to be a quiet man. we wore slippers or went barefoot around the house. Shoes were always left at the back door. “He seemed nice,” she continued. “He spoke in Turkish, so I didn’t understand what he said. My father would act as, how I continued to watch. “Cousin John says your dad was a cob - they say it?” bler,” I offered. “Translator,” I offered. Mom suddenly stopped her dusting, straightened her back and looked directly at me. There it was….that look. The dark look Actually, mother did learn Turkish words as she was growing of controlled anger. up. Except she didn’t know they were Turkish. Her parents apparently mixed Greek and Turkish in everyday conversation. “He was not a cobbler,” she said. “He was the official shoe I realized this many years later when I spoke to persons who maker to the Sultan of Turkey and his court. He was not a understood Greek. Once in a while, they would look perplexed cobbler.” Continued on page 105

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MOM ’S LIFE …Continued from 104 at a word or two I might have uttered. That’s when I realized Mom shifted her weight on the vanity bench and closed her I had unknowingly injected a Turkish word. I still don’t know eyes. For what seemed like a minute or more, she remained the difference. silent. Eyes closed. She had me. Now I wanted to hear more. Mom continued to tell me the story of her visit. As she did so, “A few months later, my father and I went to the Palace, but she would look at the bedroom ceiling while recalling what this time, not to measure shoes. I saw the Sultan give my father must have been a youngster’s impressionable experiences many a letter to deliver to someone. As we left, I could hear the years ago. Another world. Another life. One without dusting sound of gunfire in the distance. I think my father was now a socks. secret courier. I never learned what was in the letter or who he On each of the several visits she made to the Dolmabahce gave it to.” Palace with her father, she said she would kiss the Sultan’s hand, Talk about your palace intrigue. It didn’t last long. Abdul “because my father told me it was a sign of respect. I was al - Hamit fell as the result of military action led by Mustafa Kemal, ways very nervous, and excited. One time I wet my panties. also known as Ataturk, which means “Father of the Turks.” In - The Sultan said that was OK, that I was only a child. That’s terestingly, this father of the Turks was born in Greece. when he gave me a small bag filled with gold coins.” Ataturk became the country’s first president and soon ordered “Do you still have those coins?” I asked. Now she was talking one-and-a-half million Greeks to leave Turkey. This included about something I could really relate to. my mother and her family. They lost their five-story home, “No. I gave them to my father. I had no use for money. He now part of the grounds of the British Embassy in Istanbul. gave me everything I needed.” Mom paused to wipe a tear They also lost their Mediterranean island vacation home. But from her eye, forgetting the sock was still in her hand. Re - worst of all they lost the family shoe business, started by my membering. She looked away, so I wouldn’t see the tears. “On great grandfather. Fortunately, grandpa had managed to get one visit,” she continued, “the Sultan took me to the ladies’ some money out of the country, with which he was able to buy quarters. It was a lovely room with big pillows on the floor, a new home in Athens. where I sat. The wives of the Sultan were relaxing, dressed in But it was not a five story house with servants and maids. It lovely gowns. They seemed very happy. He ordered them to was a three story home, filled only with children, and later, take me to another room to dress me accordingly. I was very grandchildren. It was also filled with love. I know it was. I ex - happy to be wearing the lovely dress.” perienced it during a visit fifteen years later. As an adult I can’t help but wonder if the Sultan was priming “Yanniki,” my mother called to me. “Help me move this bed my mother to become yet another member of his harem in so I can dust under it.” what was known as the Blue Room. After all, she was beautiful as a young woman.

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GENEii Category II Ground Zero First Place By Jerry Eckert

Once a mammoth roamed here, and in this place it died. Dig - Houses become today’s mammoths, gray lumbering pachy - ging deep for a sewer line, a backhoe operator unearthed its derms lined out, trunk to tail, trudging toward a sterile future. crumbling tusk. Developers then paved a street across its grave On a recent February morning I sat on my front porch, warm - and called it Mammoth Court, part of a new suburb in ing slowly in a wan sun. Along the grid, the trees had not yet Wellington, Colorado. They named this subdivision Buffalo budded, lawns lay sere and winter brown. I watched as yellow Creek, though wild bison have not lived here for a century and busses evacuated the children. Then the cars and their people a half. Cheyenne chief Yellow Wolf reported the bison com - left for the day. After that, nothing moved. An eerie silence de - pletely gone from northeastern Colorado by 1851. So, why the scended. My thoughts turned to the neutron bomb on which, name? Yearnings for an imagined landscape? Shrewd marketing during the Cold War, your tax dollars and mine were spent. ploy? More likely both, raising land values by marketing That horrific creation, to be exploded high over a target, re - nostalgia. putedly had a radiation pulse so intense that it would kill all As the region dried, the wetland that entombed the mammoth living beings, yet a shock wave so small it left the infrastructure became a stream called Box Elder Creek. But there are no box intact. The Russians called it the “ultimate capitalist bomb.” elders now. No wetlands either. Developers channelized the That February morning, viewed from my front porch, Buffalo creek, rushing away the rain lest it hang around and nourish Creek could have been ground zero beneath that bomb. the land. Besides, well-drained housing lots sell for $25,000 As I watched, a pair of robins, early migrants up from Mexico per acre while wetlands breed mosquitos and sell for next to perhaps, lit on the bare twigs of my still leafless crab apple tree. nothing. For two or three minutes, their heads swivelled left and right, In Buffalo Creek, street names sell nostalgia too; Wigwam Way, checking out this wasted land. Then with a tail jerk and a single Grizzly Way, White Buffalo Drive. We lived for a year on Wild chirp they both flew off. After a full year in Buffalo Creek, these West Lane, an ironic, even comical name in this staid cookie- were the only wild creatures I had seen. Four months later my cutter suburb. Tract homes line these streets, each set back ex - wife and I followed their lead, leaving behind those lifeless rows actly forty feet from the sidewalk. The builder offered eight of gray, in search of someplace living. homogenized floor plans, painted in neutral subdivision grays and tans. Express your individuality. Choose one. You Know You’re a Genealogist if… Six-foot privacy fences surround each back yard, encapsulating your detritus. Your neighbors can’t see your dog’s shit nor your You know you’re a genealogist if the top item on your kids’ cheap plastic jungle gyms. Your children can’t see much Christmas list is a genealogy subscription! either, their thirty by sixty foot outdoor universe bounded by You know you’re a genealogist if your email contact list splintery softwood slats. No Rocky Mountains towering to the contains more distant cousins than immediate family. west. No short grass prairie with hawks and voles to the east. You know you’re a genealogist if you’ve ever tried to Somehow, no matter how richly graced with clouds or color, a inspire the next generation by whispering in a newborn’s sky without its horizon does not stretch the spirit. In a feint ear, “Genealogy is fun.” toward a green ethos, each house received one tree, with uni - form two-inch boles, planted half way between sidewalk and You know you’re a genealogist if you evaluate the sur - front door. Another straight line within the grid of home names of acquaintances (along with complete strangers) fronts, sidewalks, curbs and pavement. At five houses to the to see how they might be related. acre, it could be worse. Zoning codes would have permitted up You know you’re a genealogist if you know all the to ten. maiden names of all your female friends—and if you This bedroom community serves the job market in Fort don’t, you surreptitiously try to discover them. Collins. Most couples here just bought their first home and, You know you’re a genealogist if you secretly celebrate a true to the culture of the New West, over-extended their mort - forebear’s birthday. gages and filled their garages with expensive toys. Now both You know you’re a genealogist if the highlight of your must work to make ends meet. By 7:30 on weekday mornings, last trip was a cemetery visit. the streets have emptied of cars, the houses of people. The grid remains, however, frozen in place on a once vibrant prairie.

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GENEii A Mountain Rose Category II Honorable Mention By Felicia Johnson

Rosa rarely laughed. I guess there wasn’t much to laugh about house hungry. in her life. After all, how humorous is hard work and poverty? “Nuthin’ was wasted.” she would often say in that slow, heavy, She was a daughter of “The Dark and Bloody Ground” and hard “r’ language I grew up with. Fat trimmings from a hog Robert and Nanny Moore, born somewhere in the middle of were made into lard for cooking. Worn-out clothes were made eight other children and all were born to be laborers on the into quilts. The buttons were removed to be used on some fu - family farm. Rosa learned from an early age how to make do ture sewing project. What wasn’t eaten at a meal was canned with very little and how not to waste anything. for another day. When Rosa married and started her own family, the nation fell I lost a little of her every day in the months before she died. into “The Great Depression”. I remember her often describing Each day, she faded from me like a long ago memory that I it in her Appalachian brogue, while never cracking a smile, could no longer hold on to. “Tweren’t nuthin’ so great about it!” At her funeral, I remember gazing at her, lying in her wooden When the country’s banks collapsed, she and her husband lost coffin. The blond streak that had fascinated me as a child, so what little money they had managed to scrimp and save. The different from the steel gray of the rest of her hair, was now only reason they never lost the farm was because it had been woven in the braid that coiled around her head like a crown. bought and paid for over a hundred years before by other fam - Rosa had only been in two other states in her entire life, and ily members with blood as well as money. The rolling hills of much like her journeys, the wrinkles on her face were few and southeastern Kentucky offered little in the way of employment, far between. She looked to be in her sixties and not the ninety so her husband went north to Ohio to find a job, leaving Rosa one years she truly was. and their two daughters to tend to the farm. People came to me and would tell me personal stories of how Rosa stayed on the farm the entire time of the Depression and she had touched their lives in some small way or another. A raised their two daughters by herself. She did whatever she meal for a hungry soul, a roof over a homeless head or perhaps could to make money and survive. She sold her home remedies a few dollars secretly placed into a proud coat pocket of some - that she had learned from her maternal Grandmother who one out of a job. She was always there as a friend to those that had been an herb woman herself as well as a full blood Creek needed one. Indian. Rosa was my mentor, my inspiration and the shoulder I cried I remember Rosa telling about how she would sometimes go many a tear. She was my strength and my best friend. But most “a swappin’ aggs” for sugar or selling honey that she harvested of all, she was my Granny! from her own hives for whatever “store bought” items the fam - ily needed that the farm didn’t provide. I heard others tell about Rosa breaking horses to saddle to earn extra money. She barely stood five feet tall and weighed about Shop Amazon.com ninety pounds soaking wet, but she could take a fifteen hand high horse and bend it to her iron will. This, of course, was Help raise funds for SCGS and awareness about done while riding a side saddle which some couldn’t believe, genealogy by shopping through our Affiliate but swore was true, as they had seen it for themselves! One of Programs. Great discounts & more! her mantra’s was, “A lady never straddles nuthin’!” And that in - cluded horses! Why not use the link on our home page www.scgsge - nealogy.com? There is an icon on the bottom of the The farm was for the most part self-sufficient. What it didn’t home page that leads you directly to Amazon. SCGS provide in way of meat, Rosa would hunt with her 410 shot - earns a commission on items purchased through that gun. link. If someone hungry showed up un-expectedly at her door, she would feed them. Granted, it might not have been nothing more than a homemade biscuit with a piece of fried side meat and a slice of onion, but it was food and nobody left Rosa’s

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The 1892 Great Register of Voters Living in the City of Cahuenga

The 1892 Great Register of Voters for Los Angeles County, California contains more than 27,500 records. Of these, approximately 12,000 are for voters who resided in the City of Los Angeles and the remaining 15,500 represent voters living in “The Country.” At that time, “The Country” was defined as any place in the county other than in the City of Los Angeles. (By contrast, note that in 1884 there were approximately 7,000 persons living in “The Country.”) The registers were the result of California’s Registry Act of 1866 in which all voters were required to register. Not until the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920 were females allowed to vote, explaining why only males are listed. In addition to name, age, place of birth, occupation and place of residence, the registers provide naturalization information in sufficient detail to show the date of naturalization and the court conferring the naturalization. The 1892 Great Register contains a wealth of personal information regarding each person, namely, height (in feet and inches), complexion shade, eye and hair color, and distinguishing marks. The Southern California Genealogical Society’s library presently has microfilms of the bi-annually printed Great Registers for Los Angeles County for the period 1873–1896. If you’re performing research in Los Angeles County for that time period, perhaps a visit to our library to peruse the registers would help! Please note that it is anticipated that the entire extraction of the 1892 Great Register will be included in the Members-Only section of our website. Lookups can be performed by the SCGS Research team and can be ordered via the SCGS webiste. The Great Register for the City of Cahuenga: Part I (A-Sackett) Spring, Part II (Sampson-W) Summer 2014

Abbreviations Used in the 1892 Great Register Listing

TheseabbreviationsareusedtoconservespaceintheGreatRegisterlistings onthefollowingpages.Theypertaintohaircolor,eyecolor,andcomplexion.

Au = auburn G=gray Bk = black Hz = hazel Bl = blue Lt = light Br = brown Med = medium Dk = dark Ru = ruddy Fl = florid Sd = sandy Fr = fair Wh = white

SEE THE REGISTER ON FOLLOWING PAGES

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Line No Name Age Feet Inches Complexion Eyes Hair 20985 Samson, Max 29 5 5-3/4 Light Blue Brown 21204 Sepulveda, Fernando 47 5 10-1/2 Dark Black Black 21697 Speh, Herman 26 5 5-1/2 Dark Brown Dk -brown 21804 Steele, William Francis 33 5 5-1/2 Light Gray Dk -brown 21832 Stephenson, George Anderson 61 6 Light Gray Gray 21906 Stoll, Hall 64 5 11-1/2 Light Brown Gray 22000 Sullivan, Dennis 58 56 Light Gray Black 22010 Sullivan, Timothy 22 5 10-1/2 Dark Brown Black 22080 Swink, George Bawers 28 5 9-3/4 Light Blue Brown 22096 Taggart, William McNair 71 5 11 Fair Blue White 22168 Taysum, Andrew James 24 5 10 Fair Blue Dark 22187 Templeton, Samuel H 65 5 10 Fair Hazel Gray 22216 Thomas, Henry Clay 53 62 Dark Gray Dk -gray 22453 Tullis, Charles A 33 5 11 Dark Brown Black 22512 Urquides, Angel 32 56 Dark Brown Black 22680 Voiers, William Lewis 64 5 8-1/2 Light Gray Dark-gray 22704 Wagenbach, Wilhelm Bornard 31 5 7-3/4 Light Blue Brown 22713 Wait, Frank Clifford 37 57 Light Gray Brown 22753 Wallace, Samuel D 34 5 10 Light Blue Brown 22828 Warren, Hugh Meade 22 56 Light Blue Light 22867 Watts, John 32 5 11 Light Gray Brown 22998 Whetsell, George H 45 55 Fair Blue Brown 23070 Whitmore, Loren 32 5 9-3/4 Dark Blue Brown 23074 Whitney, George Walter 37 57 Dark Gray Dark 23130 Wilkerson, Thomas, Jr 25 6 Light Brown Dark-brown 23131 Wilkerson, Thomas Reed 60 5 11-1/2 Fair Brown Gray 25814 Baker, Edward Louis 41 5 9-1/4 Light Blue Brown 25827 Ballerino, Austin C 33 56 Dark Brown Black 25873 Beesemeyer, William 37 5 7-1/2 Light Gray Lt -brown 25935 Boyle, John 56 54 Light Gray 26085 Claussen, George 41 55 Light Blue Auburn 26160 Cruz, Jesus Loreto 63 59 Dark Brown Gray 26200 Dodd, Miles, Jr 30 5 5-3/4 Light Lt -gray Light 26232 Duke, Willett Morton 25 55 Dark Brown Black 26303 Feliz, Miguel 35 59 Dark Brown Black 26463 Hahmann, Ernst Leberecht 42 5 9-3/4 Light Blue Auburn 26469 Hale, Albert 21 5 10-1/2 Light Brown Brown 26488 Hanretty, John 48 5 6-1/2 Light Gray Black 26513 Hatfield, Stephen Girard 22 5 11-1/2 Fair Lt -gray Light 26552 Heyne, Albert 55 58 Light Blue Gray 26627 Huber, Phiulip Henry 24 54 Light Brown Brown 26747 Lamori, Dominguez 26 5 7-1/2 Dark Brown Black 26779 Levering, Noah Lee 23 5 7-1/2 Light Gray Light 26784 Linares, Miguel 63 56 Dark Blue Black 26800 Lopez, Francisco 41 5 2-1/4 Dark Brown Black 26804 Lord, Orrin William 25 54 Light Blue Light 26966 Moreno, Jose Maria 46 56 Dark Dark Black 27030 Olivares, Blas 41 56 Dark Brown Brown 27188 Rider, William Harris 76 5 8-1/2 Light Blue-gray Gray 27274 Schmidt, Charles M M 37 5 6-1/4 Light Blue Lt -brown 27291 Selby, Nathaniel Collins 63 5 7-3/4 Light Gray Brown 27294 Sesma, Jose 42 5 3-1/4 Dark Brown Brown 27305 Shaw, Robert Wade 63 5 8-1/4 Dark Blue Gray 27412 Sutton, Dick 36 5 5-1/2 Florid Gray Sandy 27518 Walbridge, Robert Edward 21 5 10 Dark Lt -gray Light

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Marks Occupation Nativity Naturalization Reg/Mo Farmer Germany May 27, 1890, Los Angeles, Cal, Sup Aug Farmer California Aug Cut on inside of right thumb Butcher Germany Jun 29, 1888, Los Angeles, Cal, Sup Aug Oilman Massachusetts Aug Surgical Appliances Pennsylvania Sept Felon on left thumb Farmer New Jersey Aug Rancher Ireland Jul 1, 1872, Los Angeles, Cal, Co Aug Rancher Rhode Island Aug End of third finger on right hand cut off Farming Iowa Aug Gunshot wound on left hand Orchardist New York Aug Scar under left ear Farmer New Jersey Aug Carpenter Pennsylvania Aug Farmer Missouri Aug Farmer Ohio Aug Small scar on right side of nose Farmer California Aug Chicken Raiser Virginia Aug Farmer Germany Mar 26, 1892, Los Angeles, Cal, Sup Aug Farmer New Hampshire Aug Painter Virginia Aug Scar on left hand Stairbuilder Illinois Oct Merchant England Nov 30, 1891, Los Angeles, Cal, Sup Aug Cut on point of middle finger of left hand Farmer Ohio Aug Woodworker Illinois Aug Two stiff fingers on right hand Merchant Michigan Aug Orchardist Kansas Sept Scar on right wrist Rancher Indiana Sept Farmer Illinois Oct Painter California Oct Farmer Missouri Oct Rancher New Jersey Aug Farmer Germany By naturalization of father Oct Farmer Mexico By naturalization of father Oct India ink mark on left hand Contractor Minnesota Oct Farmer Tennessee Oct Cut over left eye Laborer Mexico Jan 28, 1885, Los Angeles, Cal, Sup Oct Laborer Germany Apr 15, 1889, New York, N Y, Sup Oct Student England By naturalization of father Oct Powder mark on rt cheek Laborer Ireland By naturalization of father Oct Small scar on left forefinger Rancher Iowa Oct Retired Germany Sep 5, 1870, San Fran, Cal, Dis Oct Scar on left wrist Blacksmith Ohio Oct Laborer California Oct School Teacher Missouri Oct Laborer California Oct Laborer California Oct Expressman Massachusetts Oct Laborer California Oct Laborer California Oct Left second finger off at first joint Retired New York Oct Scar on right forehead Farmer Denmark Jun 27, 1884, Los Angeles, Cal, Sup Oct Miner Kentucky Oct Scar on inside first joint second left finger Farmer Spain Sep 8, 1891, Los Angeles, Cal, Sup Oct Scar on left cheek, first finger right hand off at first joint Farmer Louisiana Oct Laborer Ohio Oct Scar on left second finger, first joint Rancher Illinois Oct

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Acquisitions

Disclaimer: Consistency in capitalization of titles is impossible due to changing international library standards. BK/ MSS CALLNUMBER TITLE

BK 929.1 HTB /DNA GENEALOG FORENSIC Forensic genealogy MSS 929.2 FH /BENNING Bennington Family MSS 929.2 FH /CANNON Cannon Family MSS 929.2 FH /CARTER Carter Family BK 929.2 FH /COGGESH Ancestors and kin MSS 929.2 FH /COX Cox Family MSS 929.2 FH /DIERSCH Diersch Family MSS 929.2 FH /DORSEY Misc. Dorsey Ancestors MSS 929.2 FH /FERGUSO Ferguson Family MSS 929.2 FH /GREGG Gregg Family MSS 929.2 FH /HARGROV Hargroves Family MSS 929.2 FH /JAMES JESSE FRANK James Family MSS 929.2 FH /KIP Kip Family MSS 929.2 FH /LANIER Lanier Family MSS 929.2 FH /LEE Lee Family MSS 929.2 FH /LEE SQUIRE Lee , Squire Family BK 929.2 FH /LENT History of the Lent (van Lent) family in the United States, genealogical and biographical : from the time they left their native soil in Holland, 1638-1902 MSS 929.2 FH /MOUCHET Mouchet Family MSS 929.2 FH /NASON ANDERSON Nason, Anderson Family MSS 929.2 FH /OLSEN SMITH Olsen, Smith Family MSS 929.2 FH /PARKER Parker Family MSS 929.2 FH /PELL Pell Family MSS 929.2 FH /ROBERTS Roberts Family BK 929.2 FH /SMITH The early years of Gene Carlton Smith and Toshiko Niijima and their married life and children : the story of a little girl from Kumagaya, Japan and a little country boy from rural Red Lion, Pennsylvania. MSS 929.2 FH /STOTTS Stotts Family MSS 929.2 FH /STOWE William Thomas Stowe of England MSS 929.2 FH /SUTHERL Sutherland Family MSS 929.2 FH /TINDALL Tindall, misc. MSS 929.2 FH /TINDALL Tindall Family Early Records MSS 929.2 FH /TINDALL JEFFERSO Jefferson K. Tindall MSS 929.2 FH /TINDALL JOSEPH Joseph Tindall 1705-1769 MSS 929.2 FH /TINDALL JOSEPH Joseph Tindall Family 1705 MSS 929.2 FH /TINDALL PHOEBE Phoebe Ann Tindall MSS 929.2 FH /TINDALL THOMAS Thomas Tindall MSS 929.2 FH /TYRRELL Tyrrell Family MSS 929.2 FH /WALLACE Frank S. Wallace family BK 929.2 FH /WALMSLEY The Walmsley story : our English and Irish ancestors MSS 929.2 FH /WILLHIT Willhite Family MSS 929.2 FH /WITHALL Withall Family MSS 929.2 FH /WOODLIE Woodlief Family MSS 929.2 FH /WOODWOR Woodworth Family MSS 929.2 FH /WYMOND Wymond Family BK 929.2 FH /ZIMMERM A branch of the Zimmerman offspring of Glause Zimmerman in Europe, and his children who came from Europe : records of 12 generations… MSS 929.2 FH SCHILDME Schildmeyer Family BK 942.0 ENG KENT /HISTORY A history of Kent : with maps and pictures BK 942.3 ENG CORNWALL /EMIGRAN Cornish Strays - Military, vol. 12 BK 971.4 QUE /DICTION Dictionnaire généalogique des familles du Québec BK 974.0 NEa /RESEARCH GUIDE Guide to the manuscript collections of the New England Historic Genealogical Society BK 974.6 CT /HISTORY Connecticut town origins : their names, boundaries, early histories and first families BK 974.7 NY /ATLAS 1960 New York City atlas about 1960 : New York City rapid transit system. BK 974.7 NY MADISON /MILITARY 1812 Madison County, New York soldiers in the war of 1812 BK 974.7 NY MADISON /NEWSPAP VITALS Deaths & marriages 1850-1860 from the files of the Syracuse Chronicle, the Daily Standard & the Madison Observer Continued on page 113

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BK 974.7 NY ONEIDA /HISTORY The Sauquoit Valley BK 974.7 NY OTSEGO /VITALS MARRIAGE Marriages taken from the Otsego herald and Western advertiser and Freeman's journal, Otsego County, N.Y. newspapers, v1. 1795-1840, v2. 1841-1852, v3. Aug 19, 1853 - Dec 30, 1875 BK 974.8 PA /GERMANS HISTORY The day book/account book of Alexander Mack, Jr. (1712-1803) : weaver, Brethren elder, apologist, and chronicler in early America BK 974.8 PA /HISTORY BIOGRAPH The damnation of Simon Girty : an interpretative critique of the Old Northwest's most condemned villain, Simon Girty, 1714-1818 … BK 974.8 PA DAUPHIN /CEMETER Dauphin County, Pa Tombstone Inscriptions : volume I BK 974.8 PA YORK /LAND York County original land records, vols. 10-16: Dover and Conewago Townships, York County, Pennsylvania (v. 13) Monaghan, Franklin and Carroll Townships : York County, Pennsylvania ( v. 16) Newberry and Fairview Townships, York County, Pennsylvania ( v. 15) Paradise and Jackson Townships, York County, Pennsylvania ( v. 11 ) Peach Bottom and Fawn townships : York County, Pennsylvania ( v. 10 ) The Manchester Townships : Manchester, West Manchester and East Manchester Townships…, York County, Pennsylvania ( v. 12) BK 974.8 PA YORK /LAND Warrington and Washington Township, York County, Pennsylvania (v.14) BK 975.2 MD CECIL /LAND Abstracts of Cecil County, Maryland, land records, 1673-1751 BK 975.2 MD MONTGOME /RECORDS GUIDE Guide to the records of Montgomery County, Maryland : genealogical and historical BK 975.2 MD SOMERSET /CEMETER Cemetery records of Somerset County, Maryland BK 975.5 VA /BIOGRAP Jamestown people to 1800 : landowners, public officials, minorities, and native leaders BK 975.5 VA ISLEOFWI /GENEALO Bridger of Godalming, Surrey ; Slimbridge, Gloucestershire ; and Virginia, vol. 10 BK 975.6 NC BEAUFORT /COURT PROBATE Beaufort County, North Carolina will book, vol. 1 BK 975.6 NC BERTIE /COURT PROBATE Bertie County, N.C. Wills, vols. 1-4 BK 975.6 NC BUNCOMBE /COURT PROBATE Abstracts of wills, Buncombe County, NC 1792 to1904 BK 975.6 NC CATAWBA /COURT PROBATE Catawba County, North Carolina will book, vol. 1 BK 975.6 NC MADISON /VITALS MARRIAGE Madison County, North Carolina marriage records, 1852-1868 BK 975.6 NC NASH /VITALS MARRIAGE Nash County, North Carolina marriage records, 1783-1868 BK 975.6 NC PASQUOTA /VITALS MARRIAGE Pasquotank County, North Carolina marriage records, 1767-1868 BK 975.6 NC ROBESON /VITALS MARRIAGE Robeson County, North Carolina marriage records, 1799-1868 BK 975.6 NC ROCKINGH /VITALS MARRIAGE Rockingham County, North Carolina marriage records, 1785-1868 BK 975.6 NC TYRRELL /VITALS MARRIAGE Tyrrell County, North Carolina marriage records, 1761-1862 BK 975.6 NC WARREN /VITALS MARRIAGE Warren County, North Carolina marriage records, 1780-1867 BK 975.6 NC YADKIN /VITALS MARRIAGE Yadkin County North Carolina marriage records, 1851-1868 BK 975.7 SC /GENEALO QUAKERS Quakers in South Carolina : Wateree and Bush River, Cane Creek, Piney Grove, and Charleston Meetings BK 975.7 SC EDGEFIEL /LAND DEEDS Edgefield County, South Carolina : deed books 27, 28, and 29 BK 975.7 SC EDGEFIEL /LAND DEEDS Edgefield County, South Carolina : deed books 30 and 31 BK 975.7 SC EDGEFIEL /LAND DEEDS Edgefield County, South Carolina : deed books 36, 37, and 38 BK 975.7 SC EDGEFIEL /LAND DEEDS Edgefield County, South Carolina : deed books 44 and 45 BK 975.7 SC RICHLAND /CEMETER The cemeteries of northern Richland County, South Carolina BK 975.8 GA /CEMETER Georgia cemeteries, v. 1. Fulton County BK 975.8 GA RABUN /GENEALO Genealogy extracted from Forest Service court cases in Rabun County, Georgia BK 975.9 FL SUWANEE /GENEALO Discovering genealogical roots in Suwanee County, Florida (late 1700's to early 1900's) BK 976.0 SCe /NEWSPAP VITALS 1903-1904 Texas and Oklahoma births, deaths, and marriages from the Fort Worth record, November 1903 to November 1904 BK 976.1 AL /BIBLE Alabama Bible records BK 976.1 AL /NEWSPAP ABSTRACT Miscellaneous Alabama newspaper abstracts, vol. 1 BK 976.1 AL CULLMAN /CHURCH BAPTIST Excerpts from minutes of Cullman Baptist Association of Cullman County, Alabama, and surrounding counties, 1883-1946… BK 976.1 AL JEFFERSON /NEWSPAP VITALS Death and marriage notices from Jefferson County, Alabama newspapers, v. 2. 1882-1906 BK 976.1 AL MONTGOME /NEWSPAP VITALS Death, marriage, and probate notices from Montgomery, Alabama newspapers, v. 2. 1866-1875 BK 976.2 MS PONTOTOC /VITALS MARRIAGE Pontotoc County, Mississippi marriage book, 1849-1891 BK 976.2 MS WARREN /COURT PROBATE Warren County, Mississippi probate index BK 976.3 LA CADDO SHREVEPO /NEWSPAPE Marriages & deaths from "The Caucasian", Shreveport, Louisiana, 1903-1913 BK 976.3 LA NATCHITO /VITALS MARRIAGE Natchitoches church marriages, 1818-1850 : translated abstracts from the registers of St. François des Natchitoches, Louisiana. BK 976.4 TX /GENEALO FREEMASO Texas Masonic deaths : with selected biographical sketches BK 976.4 TX /NEWSPAP VITALS DEATHS Miscellaneous Texas newspaper abstracts - deaths, vol. 1 BK 976.4 TX COLLIN /GENEALO Collin County : pioneering in North Texas BK 976.6 OK COMANCHE /CEMETER Flower Mound Cemetery, Comanche County, Oklahoma : annotated with biographical sketches and historical articles

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BK 976.6 OK COMANCHE /GENEALO The Comanche County Tramp : interviews with farmers and rural residents of Comanche County, Oklahoma, abstracted from...the Lawton Constitution, vols. 1&2 BK 976.6 OK COTTON /NEWSPAP 1902-1916 Cotton County personals : Temple, Devol and Randlett, OK, vols. 3&4 BK 976.6 OK JEFFERSON /NEWSPAP ABSTRACT Jefferson County, OK, personals : abstracts from various county, newspapers 1893-1944 BK 976.6 OK OKMULGEE /CEMETER Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, cemetery records, vols. 1&2 BK 976.6 OK OKMULGEE /VITALS MARRIAGE Okmulgee County, Oklahoma ministers license records 1882-1971 BK 976.6 OK OKMULGEE /VITALS MARRIAGE Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, marriage records BK 976.6 OK TILLMAN /NEWSPAP ABSTRACTS Tillman County personals : abstracts from Frederick, OK newspapers May 1902-June 1911 BK 976.6 TN /HISTORY REVOLUTI Tennessee soldiers in the Revolution : a roster of soldiers living during the Revolutionary War in the counties of Washington and Sullivan… BK 976.8 TN /HISTORY REVOLUTI Tennessee during the Revolutionary War BK 976.8 TN /ORPHANS REGISTER East Tennessee's forgotten children : apprentices from 1778 to 1911 BK 976.8 TN GILES /COURT 1810-1816 Abstracts of Giles County, Tennessee : county court minutes, 1813-1816, and circuit court minutes, 1810-1816 BK 976.8 TN HUMPHREY /RECORDS Humphreys County, Tennessee : tax lists, 1837-1843, marriages, 1888-1900 BK 976.9 KY GREENUP /COURT PROBATE Greenup County, Kentucky will abstracts, 1822-1860 BK 976.9 KY GREENUP /VITALS MARRIAGE Greenup County, Kentucky marriages : the first 100 years, 1803-1903, vols. 1&2 BK 976.9 KY LESLIE /VITALS MARRIAGE Leslie County, Kentucky marriages, 1884-1894 BK 976.9 KY OWSLEY /VITALS MARRIAGE Reconstructed marriage records of Owsley County, Kentucky : 1843-1910 BK 977.1 OH BELMONT /CEMETER Bethesda Ebenezer Cemetery & Bethesda Methodist Cemetery BK 977.1 OH BELMONT /CEMETER Cemeteries in Wheeling Township BK 977.1 OH BELMONT /RECORDS Genealogical records in Belmont County, Ohio, vols. 1, 3, & 4-9 BK 977.1 OH CRAWFORD /CEMETER Cemeteries of Crawford County, Ohio, Vol. 3: supplement to v. 1-2 BK 977.1 OH CUYAHOGA /GENEALO Our ancestors of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, vol. 1 BK 977.1 OH GALLIA /COURT PROBATE Abstracts of the journal of wills, inventory and sale bills : Gallia County, Ohio, 1803-1824, [v1] vol. 1-A & 2-B & [v2] vol. 3-C & 4-D BK 977.1 OH GALLIA /NEWSPAP VITALS Death notices, obituaries, and marriages notices taken from the Gallia County, Ohio newspapers from 1825 to 1875 BK 977.1 OH GALLIA /VITALS BIRTHS Gallia County, Ohio birth records, vols. 1&2 BK 977.1 OH GALLIA /VITALS DEATHS Gallia County, Ohio death records, vols. 1&2 BK 977.1 OH GALLIA /VITALS MARRIAGE Marriage records 1851-1900, Gallia County, Ohio BK 977.1 OH HENRY /CEMETER Cemeteries, Henry County, Ohio : Bartlow Township and Richfield Township. BK 977.1 OH HENRY /CEMETER Cemeteries, Henry County, Ohio : Damascus Township and Washington Township. BK 977.1 OH HENRY /CEMETER Cemeteries, Henry County, Ohio : Flatrock Township. BK 977.1 OH HENRY /CEMETER Cemeteries, Henry County, Ohio : Forest Hill Cemetery in Harrison Township. BK 977.1 OH HENRY /CEMETER Cemeteries, Henry County, Ohio : Freedom Township and Ridgeville Township. BK 977.1 OH HENRY /CEMETER Cemeteries, Henry County, Ohio : Harrison Township. BK 977.1 OH HENRY /CEMETER Cemeteries, Henry County, Ohio : Liberty Township. BK 977.1 OH HENRY /CEMETER Cemeteries, Henry County, Ohio : Marion Township and Monroe Township. BK 977.1 OH HENRY /CEMETER Cemeteries, Henry County, Ohio : Napoleon Township. BK 977.1 OH HENRY /CEMETER Cemeteries, Henry County, Ohio : Pleasant Township. BK 977.1 OH HOLMES /CEMETER Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio BK 977.1 OH HOLMES /VITALS MARRIAGE Holmes County, Ohio marriages : 1825-1859, volume 1, from Books 1, 2 & 3. BK 977.1 OH HOLMES WINESBUR /VITALS Winesburg Ohio, birth records 1833-1897 BK 977.1 OH LAWRENCE /CEMETER The Catholic cemeteries of Lawrence County, Ohio. BK 977.1 OH LAWRENCE /CEMETER Windsor Township cemetery inscriptions : Lawrence County, Ohio BK 977.1 OH LAWRENCE /VITALS MARRIAGE Earliest marriage records of Lawrence County, Ohio : volumes I-II-III, April 11, 1817 to July 23, 1843 BK 977.1 OH LOGAN /COURT PROBATE Logan County, Ohio, Will book. BK 977.1 OH LOGAN /VITALS BIRTHS Logan County, Ohio, Bellefontaine birth index, 1909-1949 BK 977.1 OH LOGAN /VITALS BIRTHS Logan County, Ohio, birth index, 1909-1950 BK 977.1 OH LOGAN /VITALS BIRTHS Logan County, Ohio, birth index, 1950-1959. BK 977.1 OH LOGAN /VITALS BIRTHS Logan County, Ohio, birth index, 1960-1969. BK 977.1 OH LOGAN /VITALS BIRTHS Logan County, Ohio, birth index, 1970-1979. BK 977.1 OH LOGAN /VITALS BIRTHS Logan County, Ohio, birth index, 1980-1989. BK 977.1 OH LOGAN /VITALS BIRTHS Logan County, Ohio, birth index, 1990-1999. BK 977.1 OH LOGAN /VITALS DEATHS Postle Funeral Home records 1920-1950, pt. 1. A-K & pt. 2. L-Z BK 977.1 OH LOGAN /VITALS MARRIAGE Logan County, Ohio, marriage books, Books A, B, C, D, & E BK 977.1 OH LOGAN BELLECEN /NEWSPAPE Belle Center Herald voice newspaper abstracts 1918-1931 BK 977.1 OH LORAIN /VITALS BIRTHS Lorain County, Ohio probate court births : 1867-June 1872, Vol 1-Pts 1&2 BK 977.1 OH PAULDING /NEWSPAP INDEX Paulding County, Ohio obituary index, vol. 2 BK 977.1 OH PAULDING /VITALS BIRTHS Early births, Paulding County, Ohio : 1867-1879 BK 977.1 OH PAULDING /VITALS BIRTHS Early births, Paulding County, Ohio, vols. 1&2

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BK 977.1 OH PAULDING /VITALS MARRIAGE Marriage index of Paulding County Ohio,1903-1930 BK 977.1 OH PICKAWAY /COURT PROBATE Probate order books : abstracted from Probate Court order book I, 1852-1858 BK 977.1 OH PICKAWAY /VITALS MARRIAGE Pickaway County, Ohio probate court marriage records, volumes 6-11, 1862-1898 BK 977.1 OH PICKAWAY /VITALS MARRIAGE Pickaway County, Ohio marriage records, 1810-1862 BK 977.1 OH TRUMBULL /VITALS BIRTHS Trumbull County, Ohio birth records 1867-1908 : and other miscellaneous birth records BK 977.1 OH TRUMBULL /VITALS DEATHS Trumbull County, Ohio death records, 1867-1908, and other miscellaneous death records BK 977.1 OH TRUMBULL /VITALS MARRIAGE Trumbull County, Ohio marriage record index : one hundred years, 1800-1900, v. 1. A-M & v. 2. N-Z, Index BK 977.2 IN VERMILLI NEWPORT /NEWSPAPE Newspaper extracts from "The Hoosier State" Newport, Vermillion County, Indiana : January 3, 1894 to December 25, 1895 BK 977.3 IL SHELBY /SCHOOLS People and rural schools of Shelby County, IL BK 977.5 WI /NEWSPAP VITALS 1873-1910 Births, deaths, marriages and other genealogical gleanings from newspapers for Crawford, Vernon and Richland counties, Wisconsin, 1873-1910 BK 977.8 MO PIKE /NEWSPAP 1878-1882 Genealogical abstracts from Pike Co, MO newspapers, vols. 1-5 BK 977.8 MO PIKE /NEWSPAP OBITUARY Pike County, Missouri & surrounding, Obituaries 1875-1939 Index BK 977.8 MO PIKE /VITALS MARRIAGE Pike County, Missouri marriages, volume III : 1851-1865 BK 978.1 KS KEARNY /CEMETER Diggin' up bones : obituaries of Lakin and Hartland cemeteries, Kearny County, Kansas, vols. 1&2 BK 978.2 NE WAYNE /NEWSPAP ` Wayne County, Nebraska newspaper abstracts, 1876-1899 BK 979.4 CA LOSANGEL LOSANGEL /USC1952 The El Rodeo : 1952 yearbook University of Southern California BK 979.4 CA MARIN SANRAFAE /NEWSPAPE Newspaper extracts from the Marin journal : San Rafael, Marin County, California, vols. 5-7 BK 979.4 CA YUBA SMARTSVI /GENEALOG Cemetery and related records, Smartsville cemeteries : Yuba County, California, 1852-2001 BK 979.5 OR CLACKAMA /CEMETER Clackamas County cemetery records, vol. 4 BK 979.5 OR CLACKAMA /VITALS MARRIAGE Clackamas County, Oregon marriage records BK 979.5 OR MORROW /VITALS MARRIAGE Marriages Morrow County, Oregon, 1885-1917 BK 979.5 OR YAMHILL /VITALS MARRIAGE Marriage records of Yamhill County, Oregon, [Pt. 5]1901-1906, [Pt. 6]1907-1912, [Pt. 7]1913-1918 BK 979.7 WA FERRY /CEMETER Cemeteries of the north half Ferry County, Washington BK 979.7 WA SKAGIT /CEMETER Skagit County, Washington cemetery records, v11. Fern Hill Cemetery, v12. Fir-Conway Lutheran Cemetery, v13. Hamilton Cemetery, v14. Lyman Cemetery BK 979.7 WA SKAGIT /GENEALO A-K Skagit County Washington its people, v. 1. A-K & v. 2. L-Z BK 979.7 WA SKAGIT /VITALS INDEX Skagit County, Washington funeral home index, 1994-2003 : a record of burials, volume 2 BK 979.7 WA STEVENS /VITALS 1809-1907 Births & deaths, Stevens County, Washington 1890-1907

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ciety gical So Genealo S rn California 2014 outhe - 1964- 50th Anniversary President’s Message This year marks the 50th anniversary of SCGS and also the 45th Jamboree. The recent phenomenal growth and suc - cess of Jamboree has been due to the leadership and foresight of Paula Hinkel and her key team members Leo Myers and Vicki Hilb. This year will be the last for this team, as they are retiring from their Jamboree jobs. We all send our sincerest congratulations Paula, Leo and Vicki for all their tireless efforts and we wish them all the best in their future endeavors! Next year, the Jamboree team will be transitioning to a new team with Barbara Randall as leader, and with key team members Judi Ramsey and Priscilla Pruitt. We look forward to more great Jamborees by this new team. This year, we are implementing upgrades at our library to meet the growing use of digital technology, including addi - tional electrical outlets for visitors’ laptops and tablets and a new scanner for capturing high resolution digital images from microfiche and microfilms. Our library has a staff of dedicated volunteers eager to help you make use of our collections. Our new computers along with our subscription databases make on-line research fast and efficient. We're here to help! Sincerely, David H. Burde, President [email protected]