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Fairfield County Genealogy Society 1 Quarter NEWSLETTER Volume 29 Number 1, 34th Year NEWSLETTER 1st Quarter 2018 Fairfield County Genealogy Society 1st Quarter NEWSLETTER TABLE OF CONTENTS Mission Statement ................................................................ .....................................................................2 Thank You Notes & Cards ................................................................ ...........................................................2 President’s Message ..................................................................................................................................3 History of Fairfield County's African Americans Program .............................................................................3 Volunteers Always Needed ........................................................................................................................4 Robert “Bob” Edward Killian, Sr. Obituary ..................................................................................................5 DNA Committee Report .............................................................................................................................5 Genealogy Resource Library 2017 Statistics ................................................................................................6 Cemetery Report .......................................................................................................................................7 Lowry Cemetery Visit ................................................................................................................................................. 7 Tombstone Cleaning Test .......................................................................................................................................... 8 Coleman-Lumpkin Cemetery and William Mobley Cemetery ..................................................................................... 9 FCGS Scholarship Project ............................................................................................................................10 FCGS Scholarship Application Instructions ..................................................................................................11 FCGS Scholarship Application .....................................................................................................................12 Membership Newsletter Submissons for the FCGS Newsletter ....................................................................13 Crosscurrrents of Love (The shared Ancestors of James Edgar Douglas III & Florence Rembert Scott)....................... 13 Ancestry of Zeller/Sellers Family of Moettgers, Hessen, Germany ............................................................................. 21 Extinct Branches of the Knighthood (15th and 16th Centuries) .................................................................................... 23 Membership Queries / Answers .................................................................................................................24 Membership Outstanding Queries ..............................................................................................................31 Membership Contributions to Family Files ..................................................................................................32 Yearbooks of Fairfield County .....................................................................................................................33 FCGS Contact Information ..........................................................................................................................33 Conferences, Workshops, Seminars, Informational Web Site Links ..............................................................34 Announcements, Past-Announcements and Reunions Web Site Links ...................................................................... 34 ProQuest and FamilySearch “Access and Preservation Day” ...................................................................................... 34 Ancestral Findings.com Newsletter ........................................................................................................................... 34 State Library of North Carolina “Lineage Societies: What You Need To Know” .......................................................... 34 JSTOR: Great Online Genealogy Resource that few Genealogists Know About and more.. ........................................ 35 Explore Relic: Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center ........................................................................................................ 35 South Carolina Genealogy Network – Orangeburgh German Swiss Genealogy Society DNA Project ......................... 36 Online Death Indexes and Records Website (USA) .................................................................................................... 36 The Non Profit Times: Cybersecurity for Non Profits Webinar – How secure is your organization? ........................... 36 Archivist-Librarian I Job Opening ............................................................................................................................... 37 South Carolina State Library ...................................................................................................................................... 37 SCIWAY Newsletter ................................................................................................................................................... 38 South Carolina Grant Watch .......................................................................................................................38 Slave Narratives – J.A.Y. Books Exclusively on Amazon.com ........................................................................41 Members and Their Surnames ....................................................................................................................42 Fairfield County Genealogy Society Executive Board of Directors.................................................................49 Membership Renewal ........................................................................................................................................... 49 Membership Application / Renewal Form ...................................................................................................51 Index .........................................................................................................................................................52 1 Volume 29 Number 1, 34th Year NEWSLETTER 1st Quarter 2018 MISSION STATEMENT The mission of the Fairfield County Genealogy Society is to: Promote genealogy through education of its members and the general public; Improve access to genealogical information in Fairfield County by maintaining an educational research center; Foster collaboration among members; Assist those researching their Fairfield County ancestors; Conduct periodic educational programs and conferences to explore cultural, genealogical, and historical topics; Disseminate cultural, genealogical, historical and biographical information to members and to the general public. Disclaimer: All newsletters that are being made available for your viewing and use are not copyrighted. However, the information is intended for your personal use and not to be copied or reprinted for monetary purposes. Our use of any original work submittals contained within these newsletters such as articles, compiling, photographs or graphics, are given by permission, have become the property of the (FCGS) Fairfield County Genealogy Society to be disseminated freely to the public and conform to Fair Use Doctrine & Copyright guidelines. Thank You Notes and Cards Thanks to you and Ms. Baird for this message. Dan Ruff (of Ruff Hardware) and John Ruff (of Ruff Furniture) in Ridgeway are my wife's cousins, and we know them well. And thanks for the information in the 4th Quarter newsletter. I have not been getting the newsletter, and would not have known that my inquiry was answered, so your email prompted me to read the newsletter on the society website. I appreciate very much the time and work that were put into the answer. I guess this question remains - One more thing - attached is the write up (see Member Newsletter Submission later in this newsletter) I did for our family on the topic I was researching - the shared ancestors of James Edgar Douglas III and Florence Rembert Scott. While the purpose of the dossier is simply to leave a personalized family record for members of this family - someone else might find items of interest in it. If you tag files with identifiers, these are some of the families that are touched on: Ruff Douglas(s) Traylor Rembert Scott Gibson Elkin McDowell Kennedy Shedd Robertson Perry Roper Blair Frazier McMeekin Chappell Lauhon Stevenson. Thank you again for the fine work that is done by you and the others in the society. Skip (F.A. “Skip” Clarkson) Hello Eddie, the copy of “My Kennedy Family” received. You can just imagine what I shall be doing this afternoon and you would be right - correlating Kennedy information. I am so glad I yielded to impulse to call you. At first, I thought, "Oh, he wouldn't want to be bothered by another researcher", but you proved me wrong. Thank you so much for your kindness. I hope that I can make a trip to Fairfield in April or May. I no longer drive long distances alone, so my trip depends on a niece's schedule. You can be certain I'll let you know. My birthday was yesterday, so a copy
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