tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19082666149093573752024-03-05T15:01:35.082-08:00Lake Havasu Genealogical Society BlogA non-profit organization dedicated to collecting and preserving genealogical and historical data.lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-49764742436593072832019-10-21T10:36:00.000-07:002019-10-21T10:36:16.526-07:00ANCESTOR'S OCCUPATIONSEver wanted to know the meaning of some of the occupations on the records you care researching. Look at these definitions:<br />
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<b><i>Accomptant</i></b> - Accountant<br />
<b><i>Amanuesis</i></b> - Secretary or stenographer<br />
<b><i>Artificer</i></b> - Soldier mechanic who does repairs<br />
<b><i>Bluestocking</i></b> - Female writer<br />
<b><i>Boniface</i></b> - Innkeeper<br />
<b><i>Braizer</i></b> - one who works with brass<br />
<b><i>Brightsmith</i></b> - Metal worker<br />
<b><i>Caulker</i></b> - one who fills cracks of seams in ships or windows to make them water tight<br />
<b><i>Chandler</i></b> - trader in supplies, provisions. Also a candle maker and seller<br />
<b><i>Chiffonnier</i></b> - wig maker<br />
<b><i>Colporteur</i></b> - Book peddler<br />
<b><i>Cooper</i></b> - Barrel, cask maker<br />
<b><i>Cordwainer </i></b>- Shoemaker. Originally any leather worker who used leather from Cordova/Cordoba, Spain.<br />
<b><i>Crowner</i></b> - Coroner<br />
<b><i>Currier</i></b> - one who dressed a horse's coat with a curry comb. Also one who tanned leather with oil or grease<br />
<b><i>Docker </i></b>- Dock worker<br />
<b><i>Dowser</i></b> - one who finds water using a divining rod or witching stick<br />
<b><i>Drayman</i></b> - driver of a dray (a study low cart without fixed sides for carrying heavy loads)<br />
<b><i>Duffer</i></b> - Peddler<br />
<b><i>Factor </i></b>- Commission merchant, an agent for another in a business transaction; Scottish, a stweard or bailiff of an estate<br />
<b><i>Farrier</i></b> - Blacksmith<br />
<b><i>Fell Monger</i></b> - one who removes hair or wool from hides in preparation for tanning<br />
<b><i>Flecther</i></b> - arrow maker<br />
<b><i>Fuller</i></b> - one who shrunk and thickened (fulled woolen cloth by moistening, heating and pressing the material)<br />
<b><i>Glazier</i></b> - Glass worker<br />
<b><i>Gaoler</i></b> - Jail (gaol) keeper<br />
<b><i>Hatcheler</i></b> - one who combed or carded flax<br />
<b><i>Hind</i></b> - Farm Laborer<br />
<b><i>Hooper</i></b> - one who made hoops for casks and barrels<br />
<b><i>Hostler</i></b> - a groom who took care of horses, often at an inn<br />
<b><i>Husbandman</i></b> - Farmer<br />
<b><i>Journeyman</i></b> - one who had served his apprenticeship, not bound to a mater, but hired by the day<br />
<b><i>Joyner/Joiner</i></b> - skilled carpenter<br />
<b><i>Leech</i></b> - Physician<br />
<b><i>Manciple</i></b> - Steward<br />
<b><i>Mintmaster</i></b> - one who issued local currency<br />
<b><i>Pattern Maker</i></b> - maker of a clog shod with an iron ring. A clog was a wooden pole with a pattern cut into the end<br />
<b><i>Peregrinator - itinerant worker</i></b><br />
<b><i>Peruker/Peruke Maker</i></b> - wig maker<br />
<b><i>Pettifogger </i></b>- shyster lawyer<br />
<b><i>Plumber </i></b>- one who applies sheet lead for roofing and set lead frames for windows<br />
<b><i>Supercargo </i></b>- ships officer in charge of cargo and commercial transactions<br />
<b><i>Tapley </i></b>- one who puts the tap in ale casks<br />
<b><i>Tide Waiter</i></b> - customs inpector<br />
<b><i>Tipstaff</i></b> - Policeman<br />
<b><i>Tuner </i></b>- person who turns wood on a lathe into decorative spindles<br />
<b><i>Vitualler</i></b> - tavern keep, or one who provides an army, navy or ship with food supplies<br />
<b><i>Vulcan </i></b>- blacksmiths<br />
<b><i>Wagoner</i></b> - teamster not for hire<br />
<b><i>Wainwright </i></b>- wagon maker<br />
<b><i>Waterman</i></b> - boatman who hired out himself and his boat<br />
<b><i>Webster</i></b> - loom operator<br />
<b><i>Wharfing</i></b> - Wharf owner<br />
<b><i>Wheelwright </i></b>- maker of wheels for carriages, etc.<br />
<b><i>Whitesmith </i></b>- tinsmith, an iron worker who finished or polished the worklake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-86710079370746837252019-04-08T13:42:00.000-07:002019-04-08T13:42:15.912-07:00The Old Dutch Church (Kingston, New York)<br />
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In my last post, I talked about finding <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Salisbury Newsletter</i> in our library’s surname files.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a great example of family history
newsletters that were printed and distributed before websites took over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the issue I was looking at (Summer 1996)
there were several articles featuring The Old Dutch Church in Kingston, New
York, which was first organized in 1659.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I found the church’s current website (<a href="http://olddutchchurch.org/">http://olddutchchurch.org</a>)
to learn more about its history:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Often
referred to as “The Cathedral of Kingston,” the Old Dutch Church was a part of
the Dutch Colonial village of Wiltwyck which was a trading outpost in the
colony of New Netherland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The original
church structure, built on the present site in 1660, actually was one corner of
the Stockade which Peter Stuyvesant ordered built as fortification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wiltwyck later became the village of Kingston
after the British took over the colony and renamed it New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The original structure was largely destroyed
by fire in the Esopus Indian raid of 1663.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rebuilt and enlarged several times, the church was again burned during
the American Revolution by British forces in October of 1777.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">During
the Revolution, the church, and its congregation, aligned itself with the rebel
or patriot cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a result, in
November of 1782, Gen. George Washington visited the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A hand-written letter by Washington regarding
his reception at the church is proudly on display in the Narthex of the
church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is significant to note that
during the entire eight years of the American Revolution, this was Washington’s
only reference to a religious institution.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
present structure was designed by renowned architect Minard LaFever and was
completed in 1852.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Constructed of
massive cut, native bluestone, the imposing edifice is crowned with what was at
one time the tallest steeple in New York State.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By city ordinance, no structure in Uptown Kingston can be constructed
taller than the steeple of Old Dutch Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This has allowed for the unique historic character of Uptown Kingston to
be preserved and our steeple stands a beacon which forms part of the skyline of
the City of Kingston and can be seen, literally, for miles.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
church is the site of the Daughters of the American Revolution Memorial Day
Ceremonies each year and is a focal point in the Annual George Clinton
Recognition Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also takes part in
special events such as the re-enactment of the Burning of Kingston and Dutch
Colonial Church Services.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In
2008, Old Dutch Church was declared a National Historic Landmark by the Federal
government and in 2009 we celebrated our 350<sup>th</sup> Anniversary!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are an active and open congregation with
Sunday School and services weekly at 10:30 am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We also have Choir, fellowship, arts series and mission & outreach
to the local and global community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
hope to continue to serve for another 350 years!<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The Old Dutch Church also has a website dedicated to
genealogical records (<a href="http://olddutchchurch.org/history/genealogy">http://olddutchchurch.org/history/genealogy</a>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Links lead to baptismal, marriage, and burial
records, along with a Revolutionary Soldiers Burial list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may have ancestors tied to this church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To aid your search, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Salisbury Newsletter</i> I was looking at listed some of the first
members of this church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See if you are
interested in any of these names:</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Anthony Abrams, Nancy
Abrams, Andries Bartel, Hendrick Breeze, William Buswell, Peter Dingman, Peter
Fonda, Abraham Lansting, Dirick Hansen, Samuel Hitchcock, Hendrick Hollenbeck,
John Holliday, Matthew Holliday, Thomas Mesick, Stephen Muller, Francis Ott,
James Patten, Jacobus Salsbury, Jonathan Salsbury, Joseph Salsbury, John
Schermerchon, Robert Scharp, Jeremiah Shane, Johannes Spoor, Christian Spring,
Adam Tod, Benjamin Van deBerge, Cornelius Van Buren, Isaac Van der Poel,
Jonathan T. Witbeck, Peter W. Witbeck, an Tobias Witbeck.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br />lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-17712014976579125172019-04-08T13:38:00.000-07:002019-04-08T13:38:29.299-07:00The Salisbury Newsletter, Part I<br />
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In looking through our library’s surnames files, I found
many examples of family history newsletters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Newsletters were a great way for people who had a common surname to keep
in touch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The newsletters all had
similar features:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stories about
ancestors, birth and death announcements, queries by readers who were trying to
bust brick walls, old photos, and pedigree charts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pulled out one newsletter, in particular,
called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Salisbury Newsletter</i>,
being published in Millville, MA, in 1996.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It caught my attention with its quotation under the family crest, “Old
Genealogists Never Die, They Just Lose Their Census.”</div>
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This issue contained The Last Will and Testament of Augustus
S. Salisbury, with a query by the contributor for more information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to her, there were no other death
of cemetery records for this ancestor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Another article described how the papers of the Pulitzer Prize-winning
Harrison E. Salisbury had been donated to Columbia University.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was an article about how to do
tombstone rubbings (remember those) and an article about the Old Dutch Church
in Kingston, New York, which I’ll talk about in my next post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially interesting was a blurb called,
Old Sarum, which I wondered if was published in every newsletter as it told the
origins of the Salisbury name:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Salisbury’s
history begins at Old Sarum, a desolate and uninhabited hill two miles north of
the city (London) which was, up until the thirteenth century, a thriving
town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was first settled in 300 B.C.
by Iron Age tribesmen who built extensive earth works and developed it into a
hill fort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The town had a good strategic
position with views over the sparsely vegetated plains down to the river Avon,
and this obviously contributed to its development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is situated just eight miles south of
Stonehenge which would also have made it attractive to early man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Old
Sarum became a military town (Sorviodonum) during the Roman occupation but when
this collapsed its development was temporarily halted and the town was abandoned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was reoccupied by the native Britons at
this time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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after the Norman invasion of 1066 the town was renamed Salisberie and William I
ordered the strengthening of the town’s defenses as well as the building of a
wooden castle on the central mound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
1057 a cathedral was begun to the north of the castle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ultimatley, this forced the foundation of the
modern city of Salisbury as there was insufficient acreage for the military and
the clergy to share.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Of course, I was curious to find out what Old Sarum had to
do with one of my favorite dishes, Salisbury steak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to Wikipedia, the term “Salisbury
steak” has been in use in the United States since 1897.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dish is named after an American
physician, James H. Salisbury (1823-1905).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Salisbury served as a physician during the American Civil War, and
became convinced that diarrhea suffered by the troops could be controlled with
a diet of coffee and lean chopped beefsteak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So there you have it.</div>
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Although you won’t find many family history newsletters that
are printed and mailed out anymore, you will find many family websites, blogs,
and forums that center around particular surnames, or regions of the world
where family is from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a great way
to keep in touch and add to your research!</div>
<br />lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-76395534696944741422019-04-03T08:00:00.000-07:002019-04-03T08:00:05.588-07:00Wordless Wednesday - Louisa Willden Pedigree Chart<span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.2px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">For Wordless Wednesday, here is another Pedigree Chart that has been donated to the Lake Havasu Genealogical Society. Again, these charts were found at the old McCulloch Chainsaw Factory. A strange place to find such an item. As a way to help preserve this artifact, it is being posted here.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.2px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.2px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Therefore, what you see is what we got.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.2px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Since posting the previous Wordless Wednesday, I have discovered that Louisa Willden married William Burt. Louisa's Pedigree extended out so far that an additional page was created for those three branches.</span></span><br />
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<br />lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-84142851424187914272019-03-20T08:00:00.000-07:002019-03-20T08:00:01.956-07:00Wordless Wednesday - Pedigree Chart For Wordless Wednesday, we are posting a Pedigree Chart that has been donated to the Lake Havasu Genealogical Society. We were told that these charts were found at the old McCulloch Chainsaw Factory. A strange place to find such an item. As a way to help preserve this artifact, it is being posted here.<br />
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<br />lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-27111183805156393612019-03-05T14:26:00.000-08:002019-03-05T14:26:25.972-08:00Lloyd Prestwich (Part 2)<br />
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My last post was about Lloyd Prestwich, and how his niece
had preserved an oral history of his life and transcribed it for future
generations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple of questions
remained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lloyd mentioned that his
parents had nine boys and two girls, but he only ever described eight boys
including himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had one of the boys
died as a child??<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to look on
Ancestry to see what else I could learn about the family.</div>
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The list here is what you can quickly find on Ancestry
about George Prestwich, Sr.’s children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Each person’s data is backed up by birth, death, marriage, and military
records.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the missing child is shown
on several Ancestry trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is shown
as Randall Prestwich (1889-1891), so indeed the ninth boy died in
childhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What the Ancestry records can
never get at is what these people were like as individuals, and how they were
remembered by their family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Margie
Prestwich’s interview with her uncle (Leslie) Lloyd Prestwich, the
transcription of which was donated to our library, sheds some light on these
siblings’ individual personalities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Read
below for Lloyd’s descriptions in his own words.</div>
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<i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">My older brother, George, was a small man in
size more like Mother. He was a quiet
person but had a great talent for carving and painting. He would take a board about 12-14 inches
wide, carve any kind of animal one desired, wild or tame, and then paint
them. These he usually made into comb
cases and sold. If he had lived where
his work could have been displayed he could have easily have become famous in
himself and made considerable money.</i></div>
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<i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">As I recall, my brother
Wesley had his talents mostly in being a good farmer and having large
well-matched teams of horses. He won
many pulling contests with his teams and he loved to have the harnesses
decorated with celluloid, different colored rings, and silver buttons.</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My brother Mert was foreman
in the sugar mill and this and his family was his interest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He kept a neat yard and garden at his home.<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ernest was a farmer and
spent his time in this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for my
sisters, they both married and beyond knowing they were good housekeepers,
wives, and mothers, I can give no more detailed information.<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clarence was a hard
worker, was wounded in WWI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he
married, lived in Delta, Utah, where he ran a transfer trucking company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He suffered sunstroke while working in the
sun which caused his death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He left a
large family but one which worked and played together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under the guidance of their mother, they all
received a good college education through family cooperation.<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newell, just older than
I, was one of my mother’s favorites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This perhaps because he was the most helpful with the housework.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He could do any of it, knew how to cook, sort
the washing and other things usually pertaining to the housekeeping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a gentle man, thoughtful and
considerate at home and this carried over into his married life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His wife became very crippled with arthritis
so Newell in addition to his daily work at the mill, did most of the
housework.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Newell was active in church
work all his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Osmer was younger than I
was and, as the baby, was pampered more than any of the rest of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had married and had my own home while he
was still a teenager.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his mature
years he became an excellent electrician.<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A year after I was married
I was called to serve in WWI and returned home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I soon went to work for the mill and then after a few months I got a job
in Idaho Falls and moved there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The work
there was in the Preston E. Blair Auto Company as their service manager.<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My brothers’ paths and mine
didn’t cross too often after my marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I remember them as all being honest hard-working people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A family their parents could be proud of.<br />
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Mr. Lloyd Prestwich himself passed away in 1982 in
California.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many thanks to him and his
family for sharing these rich memories of his “ordinary family.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope you’ll consider interviewing your
family members and preserving the memories of your heritage.</div>
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<br />lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-16427646561878211662019-03-05T14:21:00.000-08:002019-03-05T14:21:15.981-08:00Lloyd Prestwich<br />
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In going through our library’s surname files last summer, I
was looking for stories that might be interesting to our members and
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I indexed the list of names that
we had files for, with most containing genealogies and records that could
easily be found online these days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
there were some gems, and I would like to share one of those here.</div>
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I came across the transcribed tape-recording that Lloyd
Prestwich did with his niece, Margie, on 14 Nov 1974.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the nine pages of the recorded interview,
Lloyd describes his childhood in Utah, his later move to Idaho, and the
memories he holds of his parents, his upbringing and his siblings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here he describes his recollection of his
father, George Prestwich, Sr.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My
earliest recollection of my parents was when we lived in Lehi, Utah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember my father as a rather gentle man,
not very prone to correct or abuse anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I remember he was working on the railroad at the time and sometimes was
away overnight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, that occasionally
he would let me go on the train with him, which went down a branch line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe they called it the San Pedro Line
at that time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many people who were on
the train would give me candy and other things to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a treat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can vividly remember the beautiful curly
hair he had which turned snow white in his later life but he never lost
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also had a mustache, which he
took great pains to keep waxed and curled on the ends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a happy man and had a hearty
laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He liked people.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Lloyd goes on to describe his life without indoor plumbing,
working on the sugar beet farms in Idaho, playing baseball with his brothers
and sisters, going to town dances as a teenager.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He describes his life as modest, but always
with good food, shelter, clothes on their backs, and parents who loved
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His story is rich with details
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Margie,
I don’t know if this will be of any benefit to you but our life was the life of
just an ordinary family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless you are
an artist or writer, it is difficult to take family situations like this and
make them into any great importance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Again I stress, we were just an ordinary family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did as most people in those days. We
associated with people of our own age and, as far as the older people were
concerned, there wasn’t much partying especially among those who were on the
wage level of my parents.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Lloyd relates what happens to each of his siblings, and
notes that he is the last one living at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He stresses that he had a life
well-lived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consider recording an
interview with one of your relatives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Their memories can provide a wealth of information that could be lost to
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tape recorders and tapes aren’t
required anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Affordable, small
digital recording devices can be purchased which will hold the entire
interview, so you can preserve both your loved one’s memories and voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s easy!!</div>
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<br />lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-18080645761963519122019-02-14T08:00:00.000-08:002019-02-14T08:00:06.529-08:00Throwback Thursday - Early Christmas for Genealogy SocietyChristmas came early for the Lake Havasu Genealogical society - but the gift did not come in a sleigh from the North Pole. It took a moving van from Arkansas to deliver the early Christmas Present.<br />
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Over 800 pounds of books, periodicals, manuscripts, and papers were unloaded from the moving van.<br />
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The donation of genealogy material came from Willie Lee Jones, 79, a seven-year resident of Lake Havasu City. Mrs. Jones is the widow of Edward Warren Jones who died October 5, this year (1996). Mrs. Jones donated the personal genealogy library of her sister, Jessye Ann (Welch) High, deceased, of Mountain Home, Arkansas.<br />
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Photo contributed by S Maurer, Dec 2004 to Jeanette Perrin Coaly, Coaly Orchard a Book written by Jessye Aggansas "Jessye Ann" Welch High.</div>
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a microfilm reader and several rolls of film were included in the shipment, along with over 200 hard cover reference books, files, manuscripts, loose papers and 21 large family history portfolios representing "work-in-process" materials.<br />
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When asked to place a value on the donation, society president Nelson "Woody" Woodell said it would be several months before everything is inventoried and we know what we have. "It is a gift worth several thousands of dollars," Woodell said.<br />
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Members of the society unpacked the shipment in the garage of Dale and Corinne Wise next to the location of the society's public genealogy library. Members sorting the materials would find an interesting book, sit down an start reading. "It took a long time to get things unpacked," said Corinne Wise. "I would look around and everyone was sitting down and reading - the unpacking and sorting became a very slow process," she said.<br />
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Willie Lee Jones made the donation to the local society in honor of her sister as a memorial, and Mrs. Jones said she wanted her sister's genealogy materials put to a good use.<br />
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Willie Lee Jones and Jessye Ann High are daughters of David Delbert Clinton Welch and Nancy Younger Oldham. The Welch family are descendants of President Thomas Jefferson.<br />
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Jessye Ann High had accumulated the genealogy materials and personal library as a life-lone serious genealogist. Her accumulation includes thousands of letters and vital record documents, stacks of notes, and loose sheets of paper. One of the items found in the shipment was a hand written copy of the 1890 census on lined three-ring notebook paper, over 4 inches thick.<br />
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Included in the microfilm are three rolls of the 1790 census, one roll of the 1810 North Carolina census and a rare Rowan County, North Carolina county court Docket Book for 1773-1800. Goodspeed's History of Pennsylvania is complete on three rolls of film. A roll of film on the 1890 special Census of Oklahoma and Indian Territories, and five rolls on the 1910 Oklahoma census were in the donation.<br />
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While many states are represented by the vital records books, most of the reference books are for Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.<br />
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Family surnames in the "work-in-process" portfolios include Bishop, Danney, Darwin, Heath, Jefferson, Markham, Maxey, McCallum/McCollum, Oldham, Shults/Shultz, Smith, Sullivan, Vickry, Walker, Widler/Wyler and Younger.<br />
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Librarian Gloria Harrington has the task of classifying the books and entering them in the card catalog file. The society operates its library on the Dewey Decimal system and the books will be numbered for location on the shelves. "Preserving and making the loose papers and materials available for researchers will be the biggest challenge," Mrs. Harrington said. "We need to organize this material so people can use it." she said.<br />
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"There was so much material - all packed in boxes - on the moving van, we don't know what we have" librarian Harrington said. Society members helping unload the 800 pound shipment were overwhelmed with the size and extent of this personal genealogy library.<br />
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The society is working with Willie Lee Jones on a suitable memorial for her sister. In addition to marking the donated books with a memorial book plate, the local society will be planning some other type of memorial for Jessye Ann High in its public library.<br />
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At the time of this article, the Genealogy Public Library was located in the Home of Dale and Corinne Wise's home at 2283 Holly. It's current location is 2126 N McCulloch Blvd, Suite 17 located in the Shambles Village of Lake Havasu City, Arizona.<br />
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<br />lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-76809534706259524572019-02-04T08:37:00.000-08:002019-02-04T08:37:56.863-08:00The History of the London BridgeThere has been a bridge across the Thames for over 2,000 years. The first bridge was built by the Romans in 43.A.D. They built a temporary pontoon bridge which was planks laid across a row of anchored boats, or they may have used ferry boats. Soon the first London Bridge was built.<br />
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In 1821, a committee was appointed by Parliament to consider the condition of the bridge. The arches had been badly damaged by the Great Freeze, so it was decided to build a new bridge. Plans were submitted and rejected. This bridge would have to be quite different from the previous London Bridge as the old prints were for horse drawn carriages. In 1824, John Rennie's plans were accepted. The bridge was built 100 feet west of the old Bridge. On June 15, 1825, the first stone was laid by the Lord Mayor of London, John Garratt, in the presence of the Duke of York. six years later William IV and Queen Adelaid opened the New London Bridge and the old one was demolished. The Thames narrows 900 feet at this point.<br />
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This London Bridge was built out of granite which was quarried on Dartmoor. It was a structure of 5 arches, overall dimensions where 928 feet long and 49 feet wide.<br />
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In 1962, it was discovered that the London Bridge was falling down, sinking into the Thames because it was not adequate for the increased in traffic. Robert McCulloch learned that the British Government was putting the bridge up for sale. He submitted the winning bid for $2,460,000. Plans were made to move and reconstruct the bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Each piece was marked with four numbers. The first indicated which span, the second noted which row of stones, and the last tow numbers indicted which position in that row. It was discovered, while dismantling the bridge, that there were code numbers on each stone when it was originally built: Rennie must have used the same system when the sections left the quarries. <br />
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Reconstructing the Bridge in Lake Havasu City was done in the same manner as the Egyptians built pyramids. Sand mounds beneath each arch were carefully formed to the profile of the original Bridge arches, serving the same function as molds. When the work was completed, the sand was removed. A one-mile channel was dredged and water was diverted from the lake, under the bridge, then back into the lake. Thus the peninsula became an island.<br />
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The bridge was shipped by boat 10,000 miles to Long Beach, California. From there it was trucked to Lake Havasu city, where it was stored in a seven-acre fenced storage compound. On September 23, 1968, the Lord Mayor of London, Sir gilbert Inglefield, laid the corner stone. Robert Beresford, a civil engineer from Nottingham, England was in charge of the reconstruction of the London Bridge in Lake Havasu.<br />
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As a guideline, he had a copy of the original plans drawn by John Rennie. During the reconstruction, Mr. Beresford drew sketches of the bridge in different phases of construction. There are a limited number of these prints. When Mr. Beresford returned to England, he gave exclusive right to D & P Antiques in Lake Havasu City to sell these prints.<br />
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The Bridge was completed and dedicated on October 10, 1971.<br />
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In my last post, I shared what I was able to find about
Lawrence Kevin Driscoll who had served in WWII, as we knew from his Navy
discharge certificate having been donated to our library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was interested to look back into his family
tree and looked closer at his father, John Andrew Driscoll (1891 – 1957).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That research revealed a couple of things
that are common when doing genealogy:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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In following John’s records, I was able to find draft cards
for both WWI and WWII, census records going from 1940 back to 1900, along with
birth, marriage, and death index records for Cook County, where he was
from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notably, what was listed in each
census for his “father’s and mother’s birthplace” seemed to change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their birth places were listed as “Ireland”
when he was young, and then changed to “Pennsylvania and England” when he was
seventeen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It rang true that a young man
trying to get a job would disguise his Irish roots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this time in history, anti-Irish sentiment
was still strong, with signs being posted in windows that said, “Irish need not
apply.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In one census, John’s parents
are listed as being from Illinois, but this is a common mistake I’ve seen many
times in genealogy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “father’s
birthplace” is many times listed as the head of household’s birthplace,
regarding himself as “father” and not noting that the census taker means to
collect the birthplace of HIS father.</div>
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Then the most interesting discovery occurred in the 1900
census.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John was found as a 10-year old
boy in St. Joseph’s Providence Orphan Asylum in Cook County, Illinois.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to ChicagoAncestors.org (<a href="https://www.chicagoancestors.org/place/st-joseph-provident-orphanage">https://www.chicagoancestors.org/place/st-joseph-provident-orphanage</a>)
this Roman Catholic orphanage for dependent boys was in operation from 1885 –
1911.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, as you can imagine, many
descendants are trying to get records and information about this
orphanage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over 100 people are listed on
the census page, including Mother Xavier Mahoney, eleven nuns, and scores of
boys, including John Driscoll and his five-year old brother, Walter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One can imagine that this piece of John’s
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John went on to live a productive life, get married, and
have several children including Lawrence Kevin Driscoll, the subject of my
previous post. Although 8<sup>th</sup> grade was the highest he achieved, he
had a career as a machinist and street car motorman. We will likely never know
the circumstances that landed him and his brother in the orphanage in 1900, but
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In looking through our library’s surname files last summer,
I came across a folder that had just two items in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was a USN Certificate of Honorable
Discharge from 1946, and the second was a Funeral Mass booklet from 1962.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both were for Lawrence Kevin Driscoll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to find out what I could about him
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I was able to find Lawrence on Ancestry, and his records
showed that he had been a Navy coxswain in WWII, which I learned meant that he
was one of the pilots of landing craft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He had also earned the WWII Victory Medal, as evidenced by his headstone
application for veterans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A WWII muster
roll listed him as serving on the USS LST-815 in March of 1945.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to NavSource Online (<a href="https://www.navsource.org/archives/10/16/160815.htm">https://www.navsource.org/archives/10/16/160815.htm</a>)
the LST-815 was at the invasion beaches at Okinawa on D-Day. I happened to be
working on this surname file on July 4<sup>th</sup>, so I was very moved to
have discovered Lawrence’s service and be able to honor him here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His parents were John and Agnes
Driscoll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to find out more
about John, and I’ll talk more about that in my next posting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lawrence has siblings listed as John,
Patricia, and Therese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His wife was
Margaret, and his children were Diane and Larry. In following the Ancestry
records, I was able to see that Larry Jr. had lived in Lake Havasu City, and is
buried in Kingman, AZ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is through him
that our library surely attained the discharge certificate and Mass
booklet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lawrence’s other child, Diane,
has also passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Mass booklet
contains pages of signatures from his loved ones, many signing #5220 next to
their names, to signify the VFW post that Lawrence belonged to in
Illinois.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notably, one comrade, Ben
Babbitt, signed “96465 Normandy” next to his signature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you to all those fine men who served
with Lawrence Kevin Driscoll.</div>
lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-32070066592068472332018-10-24T11:23:00.000-07:002018-10-24T11:23:01.112-07:00The Cabin Home (Part 2)<!--[if !mso]>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Cabin Home (Part 2)<br />
</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">by Denyce Cribbs</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></div>
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In my last post, I wrote about a booklet I found in our
library called, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pictorial History of The Cabin Home in Garden of Eden</i></b>, written
by S.P. Dinsmoor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dinsmoor built a stone
cabin in 1907, along with a sculpture garden, on his property of Lucas,
Kansas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was curious to find out what
happened to the property after he passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Samuel Perry Dinsmoor
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First, I was surprised to find that the booklet is still
available on Amazon, in very limited quantities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surely, one of the first examples of
“self-publishing” during its time, it survives as a self-published paperback in
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Also, I found that the property does indeed survive
today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, the sculpture gardens
are on the National Register of Historic Places. Tours are offered for $6 per
person (well over the $1 fee that Dinsmoor called for in his will, and wrote
about in his book).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kansas Sampler Foundation</b> website,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<a href="http://www.kansassampler.org/8wonders/artresults.php">http://www.kansassampler.org/8wonders/artresults.php</a>)
Dinsmoor’s Cabin Home survives as one of the “Top 8 Wonders of Kansas
Art.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The website describes The Cabin
Home currently:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Garden of Eden is a world-renowned
grassroots art site with one of the most fascinating (and bizarre) sculpture
gardens in the world!<br />
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In 1907, at the age of 62, Civil War veteran Samuel Perry Dinsmoor began
construction of this unusual site by building a structure of limestone logs,
(some up to 21 feet long) for the family home. Then, using 113 tons of cement,
Dinsmoor built 40-foot tall trees to hold his larger than life figures for his
sculpture garden. He stopped working on the sculpture in 1929 because he went
blind.<br />
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Tour guides help observers become fully aware that every part of every cryptic
sculpture has meaning about Populist politics, modern civilization, and the
Bible that connect like a dot-to-dot puzzle. The humor and message that he
conveys through the sculptures amazes visitors.<br />
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Dinsmoor also built a mausoleum to house his mummified remains! Always a
jokester, he claimed he would wink at anyone who paid to tour the garden. His
vision was accurate and today the Garden of Eden supports itself through
admissions. While Dinsmoor was building and creating locals tried to run him
out of town. Decades later, the Garden of Eden became the town's main
attraction and today Lucas is known as the Grassroots Art Capital of Kansas.</i></div>
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lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-26898771517695102692018-10-10T13:59:00.000-07:002018-10-10T13:59:09.245-07:00The Cabin Home (Lucas, Kansas)<br />
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</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">by Denyce Cribbs</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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In digging around the surname files in our library, I came
across a little booklet in the Dinsmoor file entitled, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pictorial History of The Cabin
Home in Garden of Eden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></b>Written
by S.P. Dinsmoor, it’s a journal of sorts about the home and surrounding
gardens that the author constructed in Lucas, Kansas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Dinsmoor served three years in the Civil War, claiming to
see the capture of Robert E. Lee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Following the war, he taught school in Illinois for five years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1870 he married his first wife and became
a farmer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He eventually moved to Lucas,
Kansas in 1891, and built his Cabin Home in 1907, and later the surrounding grounds
which he named Garden of Eden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
married his second wife in 1924.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was
81 at the time, and she was 20 years old.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The cabin he built was distinctive in that the logs were all
made of cement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dinsmoor states:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There were eleven rooms besides the
bathroom, three halls, two closets with cave and light plant under back porch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The porches, side walks, fence, strawberry
and flower beds, fish pool, grape-arbor, three U.S. flags, Adam and Eve, the
devil, coffin, jug, visitors’ dining hall, labor crucified, two bird and animal
cages, and was house are all made with cement.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Dinsmoor goes on to describe the
Garden of Eden that he created on his grounds, consisting of Adam and Eve
cement statues, the Devil, Cain and Abel, and other creatures to complete his
rendition of famous Bible stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eccentric
to be sure, he also built his own mausoleum and coffin, complete with
instructions for their use after he passes away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He states in his will that no one besides his
descendants shall enter his mausoleum for less than one dollar, so that profits
from visitors can be used to maintain the place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He builds his own coffin to have a plate
glass lid so he can break out on the final Resurrection Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the foot of the coffin he places a jug so
he will be prepared with water on the final day of reckoning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This little booklet in an
interesting legacy of a man’s creativity, complete with photos on every
page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It gets my curiosity going,
though, about what comes next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does the
Cabin Home still exist?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is Dinsmoor
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This month at the Special Interest Group Meeting for both
Roots Magic and Family Tree Maker the discussion started with Research Logs and
To-Do Lists.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The difference between To-Do Lists and Research Logs is that
a To-Do list is a simple list of things you need to do. Such as find the birth
certificate for your grandfather, write a letter, find an obituary or many
other things. A research log on the other hand is a record or log of the
research you have done. Research logs can be for an individual, a couple, a
location or a repository. These two software packages handle the solution in
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At the RootsMagic group meeting, we first watched a video through
the Roots Magic’s website at <a href="http://rootsmagic.com/webinars/2012-03-29-New-Research-Logs-and-Manager-in-RootsMagic-5.aspx">http://rootsmagic.com/webinars/2012-03-29-New-Research-Logs-and-Manager-in-RootsMagic-5.aspx</a>.
This video was very informative and even though it was shown using an older version
of Roots Magic, you should be able to do everything and probably more with a
more current version.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Select List on the Main Toolbar and you will find both the
To-Do List and Research Log options. The research logs will let you keep track
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Options include
Add, Edit, Delete or Print your research log. You will probably not be deleting
too many research logs, I could see deleting a log you might have for the wrong
person, family or place, or if you accidentally created a duplicate log,
otherwise you want to keep your logs. The purpose of a log is to be able to
review what you have done to determine what you still need to do.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What I like about the Roots Magic research log is that it is
basically “fill in the blanks” and you won’t forget to put some important
information or fact into your log. Since the log is really easy to use, there
should be no excuse not to use this feature. As with anything, you may need to
develop a habit of doing a research log. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Now on to Family Tree Maker, under each person, you will
find Notes, you have person notes which are by default public, you have
research notes which by default are private and then you have tasks which would
be a To-Do list. Now the private and public notes are important to remember
when you share your database to Ancestry.com or as a Gedcom that it will
include public notes but not private notes and facts.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To find out more about how to use research logs within
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Anyway, the Research notes field is an open area where you
just type. So take a page from Roots Magic and think about some of the fields
they give you that you might want to include in your note. Such as today’s
date, your research objective or goal, what source you used, what was found or
not found and conclusions you came to or new goals you may need to make.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even though not as dummy proof as Roots Magic, it is still a
very useful feature to have. I have decided to create a template of sorts under
my record in my database. Most likely I will not have research notes for my
information therefore it will be an easy place to find what I want for my
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Family Tree Maker has been handling To-Do Lists for quite a
while. They call them “tasks”. You can access them through the person view and
then view them all from the Plan view. Even though through the Publish feature
you can print out your tasks, you will find the print option via the Plan view
much more useful. You can filter out your task based on user defined
categories. Categories could be surnames, locations, record types, etc… I love being
able to create any category I want. Plus you can assign more than one category
per task. For example: Perhaps you need to find a death certificate, you can
assign it to the category by surname, by the county it is in and that it is a
vital record or death certificate. Finally, you can flag them completed when
you do the task. I love printing out To-Do Lists by category. If I will be visiting
a cemetery and I want photos, I can assign them to the exact cemetery and then
print out a To-Do List. I just check them off as I walk around taking my
pictures. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I may like Roots Magic Research Log, but I love Family Tree
Maker’s Task list more than Roots Magic To-Do List. One nice feature of
Roots Magic To-Do list is the ability to transfer the completed item to the
research log. If you are on a person and select the To-Do list, you have the
option to create a list for a person, or family (person’s parents). If the
person is married you could also choose your person and spouse (family) for the
list. You are given the ability to select an address or repository for the
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However, Roots Magic doesn't give me the sort option like
Family Tree Maker does. As for addresses, I created general task for my repositories
and if it is a county look-up, I make sure I have a task with the county
courthouse information. I have addresses for not only courthouses, but
cemeteries, and libraries. I always have my Task list of just my repositories
and it is the first thing in my research folder that I take with me on all
trips. I don’t haul my laptop with me to all my repositories, I will write
notes on my Task lists and when I get back to the hotel or my home, then I
update my research logs and task list with my notes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This week I had the pleasure to help another society member create her first tree on Ancestry.com. She was adopted and wanted to do a tree on her biological mother's family, since she doesn't know the name of her father, yet!<br />
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Anyway, I don't use Ancestry as my genealogy software inputting program, I have Family Tree Maker and my tree syncs with Ancestry. However, I do not input new people, facts or anything else via Ancestry. My Tree(s) on Ancestry are cousin bait or what I use to show family members via my laptop or iPad when I am visiting with them.<br />
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I discovered that even though, I have heard that Ancestry.com Trees inputting is very similar to doing it via Family Tree Maker, I sort of agree and disagree. Adding a new person is very similar and very simple but attaching documents and such seem cumbersome.<br />
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Because the society member is not computer savvy and I wanted this process to be as easy as possible so that she maintains and grows her tree, I helped her with the first three people.<br />
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We decided to make the home person her mother and thus we inputted her name, birth date and place and death date and place. Next we added her father and this is where we were allowed to create a tree name and set up privacy settings. Since she wanted to make her tree totally private, I went back into her tree settings, and verified her Privacy Settings were set as Private Tree and then also checked the box next to "Also prevent your tree from being found in searches". At this time, she is not thinking about cousin bait as much as recording her family history.<br />
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I also added her grandmother's name and facts we knew. Next I wanted to know how to add a source and or media file. I clicked on 'add media' and it allowed me to either choose from media that is already in my tree or upload media or even create new media such as write a story, record audio or record video. What I wanted to do was add a record transcription found via FamilySearch.org that was saved as a PDF. However after I attached it, you can't just see the attachment, it wants you to download it and then open it. Not exactly what we wanted, so we decided to change the record transcription from PDF to a jpeg image file. Now you can see the attachment, but we still didn't know if this is what we really want to do, because some of the images she has came from Ancestry.com from the Library Edition, since she doesn't have a paid subscription and I felt that it wasn't proper to attach something saved from a "Paid" Ancestry account to your tree for anyone to see (if her privacy settings get changed to public). Even though I haven't read all the way through all the legal stuff on Ancestry's page, I would think this would not be the proper thing to do.<br />
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Next we looked at Facts and Sources and I tried to add a source citation. I looked at all the fields and wondered if my society member would be up to keying in all this information? Again, it seemed cumbersome and to me it is so much easier to create a source in Family Tree Maker so we scraped this idea too.<br />
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What we really wanted was for her to be on the Overview of the person's page and be able to see the timeline with all the facts and perhaps a title of where she found the information. She has all the sources either printed out or on her flash drive.<br />
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I clicked on her mother's birth fact to see what would come up. The fields are Date, Location and Description. I wondered what they meant by description but thought this would be a great place to put the title of her source. For example, we found her birth date as part of her Find a Grave Memorial therefore, the description became Find A Grave Memorial # 99999999, where the 9's are the actual memorial number. If the fact was found via the US Social Security Index on Ancestry.com she would put in the title of the source as found via their Card Catalog such as US Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 ~ Ancestry.com. This will enable her to find the documentation again if needed.<br />
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Here is an example of what it looked like, I modified one of my entries to show you.<br />
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As you can see, my sources added through FTM are view-able when you click on the down arrow next to Sources. It might not be the best solution, but at least it is a start for her to record sources for each fact. If she has multiple sources, she could just add another line in the description for the next source. Since this tree is totally private, it is basically for her to view the lineage and the sources she has used. </div>
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I know this is not totally the proper way to do your genealogy, but I didn't want to discourage her and with her advance age, I wanted her to discover this family that she has never known about and get excited about doing it. Also, as she gets more familiar with inputting facts and such, she can always decided to do sources in more detail. So I guess my objective with this training lesson was to get a system she could easily follow and do. Not bog her down with so much learning that she would give up and quit.</div>
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<br />lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-60656521928363794942014-09-02T12:43:00.001-07:002014-09-02T12:43:54.160-07:00Genealogy Websites<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh45fiJhiPGNxwFCjs2DuHuN1CtL7zVDII9hoBkLthyw3UwvBK8etImUsT5xeoSYr4LTxj_ISWx-9u6bs5DbZjrTsimmZIiEdYMIJ2hb2BjDDlLAwf3SrWwsHhXuApoYN8uOgceRxFXK-s/s1600/Capture2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh45fiJhiPGNxwFCjs2DuHuN1CtL7zVDII9hoBkLthyw3UwvBK8etImUsT5xeoSYr4LTxj_ISWx-9u6bs5DbZjrTsimmZIiEdYMIJ2hb2BjDDlLAwf3SrWwsHhXuApoYN8uOgceRxFXK-s/s1600/Capture2.JPG" /></a>If you are like me, you find that you tend to use the same
websites for your genealogy research. I received an email from one of our
Society members who too, shares my downfall when researching. She stated that
she welcomes ideas about different sites or resources that she may not have
tired.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She recommends Legacy Family Tree which offers free weekly webinars
online on a wide variety of genealogy related subjects presented by many
different experts in the field, mostly on Wednesdays but occasionally on
Fridays as well. The webcasts last for about an hour to one and a half hours
long. Check out the schedule at <a href="http://familytreewebinars.com/">http://familytreewebinars.com/</a>
for upcoming sessions. I personally have attended these and learn a lot from
them. Since I normally volunteer on Wednesdays at my local genealogical library
I miss the live presentations, but they offer one week of free viewing
afterwards. However, you can purchase a membership and view hundreds of hours
of past webinars and print out handouts too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another site this member suggested was <a href="http://www.familyrootspublishing.com/">Familyrootspublishing.com</a> that has an extensive offering of books and guides
about all phases of genealogy, research and history. They offer a free
Genealogy newsline email newsletter. I too found this website and subscribe to
the newsletter and enjoy reading it weekly.</div>
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She finally asked, aside from some of the standbys like
Ancestry, Find a Grave Fold 3 and other well-used sites, what are some
resources that have helped you? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Before I answer her question, I would like to say that after
volunteering in the Library and teaching some beginning classes, the only
website that most people know about is Ancestry.com. Many don’t know about Find
A Grave, Fold 3, FamilySearch.org and others.
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I personally seem to use Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org and
Find-A-Grave. I have a subscription to Ancestry and FamilySearch.org is mostly
free until it directs you to other sites for the images. One of the sites it
directs you to is Ancestry and thus I am cover but the other is Fold 3 which I
don’t have. However, our Society offers Ancestry, Fold 3 and Newspapers.com on
their three computers from October through May. All I have to do is bring a
flash drive and save whatever I find. <o:p></o:p></div>
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After receiving this email, I decided to look at and revamp
the links on our society webpage at <a href="http://lhgs.weebly.com/web-links.html">http://lhgs.weebly.com/web-links.html</a>
. I made sure all the links still work, I group our local links on top and some
tools way at the bottom. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I find a lot of new links to try from my subscription to
Family Tree Magazine plus on their website at <a href="http://familytreemagazine.com/article/101-best-websites-2014">http://familytreemagazine.com/article/101-best-websites-2014</a>.
Just change the year in the link to 2013 or 2012 and you will find past years
links back to 2010. A lot are duplicates, and older list might have broken links to websites
that don’t exist or if they changed their address, but are still fun to look
at. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So what are some resources that have helped you? <o:p></o:p></div>
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lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-6591863542535380692014-08-28T11:09:00.001-07:002014-08-28T11:09:50.389-07:00Social Media Advice<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I just read a blog as part of LinkedIn that is titled “</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140828040305-207811967-7-worst-advices-we-ever-heard-about-social-media?trk=eml-ced-b-art-Ch-6-9036877036858218830&midToken=AQHnFJZtStBGtQ&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=0dZ8RCF4TioSo1"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">7 Worst Advices We Ever Heard About Social Media</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">” and it struck a chord with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">First of all, I agree that Social media accounts can be a wonderful thing because this is a way your society can stay connected with their members and supporters. However, our genealogical societies cannot afford to have a negative impact with our online presences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The first advice I have heard is “Create accounts on all social media websites”. When I first heard this I thought YEAH. But being the person who must maintain these presences I thought “UM, wait a minute, do I have time for all of this.” This is exactly the point the Blog made too. The more accounts you have, the more time you will need to manage and be active on each one. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Therefore I thought, I would post the same update on each social media site. However, they warned me that the same people may follow you on multiple sites and your followers don’t want to see the same thing everywhere. Plus different sites expect different types of content. Their example: on Twitter users mostly want text based updates, while Facebook users want image posts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So let’s say you decide to have only one online presence, they also warn about posting too much or too many posts each day. We all want to be active but let’s face it; none of us want to appear desperate either. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too many posts can turn our followers off and in turn they may turn you off or unsubscribe and stop following you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The articles fourth point is one not to overlook: Social media can replace email marketing. Luckily I knew this was not true. I personally know many society members who have no social media accounts. I find that email is still the best way to contact our members, we even have a few members with no email and we still connect with them the old fashion way via snail mail. It is important to keep all your members actively involved in your society. I use social media as a way to inform those followers who are not members of our activities. If the followers are members too, a lot of them know to check their email for more detail.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Points five and six I didn’t know really how to do. Point five was about using a robot to post updates automatically and six about using popular hash tags to gain more views. I know how to write blogs and schedule them to post at certain times and days but not how to have automatic updates done by an outside system. Even though I know about hash tags and some social media platforms automatically add them, I don’t know how to change those automatic ones. Of course I have seen those Tweets with tons of hash tags which are a little overkill. I understand their point that using popular tags does not promote your organization, but use popular, general ones sparingly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Finally, the last advice that if your Industry doesn’t use social media, neither should you. Well, on this note, you might find your society doesn’t want to use social media, but I would advise against that option. How are people going to find your society? Many societies have “static” webpages and when I mean static, they don’t change regularly. Some I have noticed don’t even change for years, a big mistake. But that is for another Blog, social media sites such as Facebook allows you to post current events or activities for the world to see. If your society is an active society perhaps people want to come and join. Social Media is a great place to post your meetings, your programs, your speakers, your classes, your trips, your projects, and any other information. Your website might tell this information but social media is like a press release and gets the information out around the time of the event and is like a reminder for your followers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Their final advice: target one or two major social media accounts to use all the time. Post real updates when you have to, with valuable information. I totally agree, so know I need to revisit my societies social media presences and see which ones are really used and should keep.</span></div>
lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-54493548444479199752014-08-07T13:48:00.001-07:002014-08-07T13:48:38.237-07:00Thursday's Treasure - More Treasures from the Archives <div class="WordSection1">
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">On my latest “library” treasure hunt I came ac</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">r</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">oss a great col</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">l</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">ect</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">i</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">on featuring the Keyes
and Hentz families. Unfo</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">r</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">tunately we found no information about who donated the
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people </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">r</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">esponded and were very interested in the material</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">After they discussed it amongst themselves, a
family member in Georgia was willing to share the material with others and the box was
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in beginning in 1861, her journal begins with a family history relating to Nicho</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">l</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">as Arnou</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">l</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">d Hentz in France du</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">r</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">ing the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">F</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">rench Revolution</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">Nicholas
was an appointed member of the National Convention in 1789, this convention
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became a General for the Revolution and was </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">i</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">mprisoned in the Castle of Ham, which was a famous prison which contained many famous prisoners including
Napoleon III</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">.
</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">The p</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">r</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">isoners were allowed
some f</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">r</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">eedom and Nicholas
lived under an assumed name of Arnould</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">After the <br />
Revolution he was ordered to leave the country within 30 days</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">along with al</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">l </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">the surv</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">i</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">vors who signed the warrant for the execution of Louis XVI</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">Nicholas and his family left from Havre, France for New York
where they landed March 25, 1816, with the little fortune which survived the Revolution</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">H</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">i</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">s descendants and their families are listed in
detail in the book. The remainder of the book is filled in longhand</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">details of t</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">h</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">e politics behind the
Revolution, quotes from Nicholas and perhaps many historically significant events</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">Since the writing is
quite small and lengthy, although quite legible I will leave it to historians to sift
through. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">The next generation sees 4 chi</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">l</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">dren who include Nicholas Marcellin Hentz noted
art</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">i</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">st, entomologist, identifying 124 species of spiders</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">medical </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">d</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">octor and Professo</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">r </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">of languages at several
Universities. He married Caroline Lee Whiting, noted novelist, most noted for her opposition to
the abolit</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">i</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">onist mo</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #080708; font-size: 10pt;">v</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">ement. She was a major
literary figure in her day</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #080708; font-size: 10pt;">o</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">ften compare to Harriet Beecher Stowe, her contemporary but opposite in feel</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">i</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">ng on s</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">l</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">ave</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">r</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">y. Her Feelings would come i</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">nt</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">o play in </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">l</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">ater years in the family during and after the civil war</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">Nicholas Marcellin Hentz and Caroline lee Whiting </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">had 5 children, one of
whom d</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #080708; font-size: 10pt;">i</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">ed early. Their daughter Julia Louisa Hentz ma</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">r</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">ried into the Keyes fam</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">i</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">ly and became a well-known poet in her own right</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">Her poems earned pra</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">i</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">se throughout the
Confederacy during the Civi</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">l </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">War</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">There were copies of many of her poems in </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">t</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">he box of material as well as poems by several other family
members. One envelope contained some family letters written by Julia from Brazil after the
War</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">They were marked as original and the only ones </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #4a494a; font-size: 10pt;">"</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2a2c; font-size: 10pt;">Known to exist". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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South and were primarily pro slavery, as depicted in many documents, copies of speeches and family letters. After the Civi</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #5b5b5b; font-size: 10pt;">l </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2b2c; font-size: 10pt;">War
many members of the family chose to leave the United States and move to Brazil,
along with many other Southern families. The Emperor of Brazil offered
incentives for Confederate families to come to his country to help develop plantations
educate and build railroads. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2b2c; font-size: 10pt;">A copy of a 212 page typewritten
manuscript titled "Our Life in Brazil" was included in the box. (It
was printed in the Alabama historical quarterly, vol 28, no. 3-4, pages 127-339
which can be found at this link <a href="http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/quarterly/id/928/rec/80">ttp://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/quarterly/id/928/rec/80</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2b2c; font-size: 10pt;">There was also a published short story
titled "When Americans were Emigrants". This story was published by a
Kansas City Paper, June 16, 1912. It is quite an interesting short story about
the history of this family and others during the time shortly after the Civil
War</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2b2c; font-size: 10pt;">I retained a copy of this story for our
library plus a copy will be published to our blog at a later date. Most
families returned to the United States after several years in Brazil</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt;">. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2b2c; font-size: 10pt;">(If
you have family from the South that disappeared after the civil war you might
look into this possibility.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2b2c; font-size: 10pt;">Two copies of another interesting booklet
titled "A Sailor's Manuscript", published by the University of Pennsylvania,
dated 18 Dec, 1859 were found in the box</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #5b5b5b; font-size: 10pt;">. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2b2c; font-size: 10pt;">It
depicts a history of the Keyes family, coming from England. One copy was
retained for our library. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2c2b2c; font-size: 10pt;">Many items in this box are duplicates of
material found in collections owned by The University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, and The University of Alabama. They are important historical documents. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pleased to reunite it with the rightful family and know it will help with their
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lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-89186884589586120942014-05-10T05:00:00.000-07:002014-05-13T19:07:45.062-07:00Saturday Sharing - History of Dr. Dana Gibson and Rosemary Bower Pierce GibsonBy Laurie Scheeler<br />
2nd Vice President<br />
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In going through the Archives at our genealogy library, we came across a box donated by Dr. E. Dana Gibson, prior to his death in 2000. This box has been just waiting for use to open and discover the treasures inside.<br />
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Dr. Gibson, a Lake Havasu resident from the early 80's to his death in 2000 was renowned expert in early data processing and business automation. he co-authored a number of business education textbooks and classroom resources with his colleague Lynn Straub while they were on staff at San Diego State University. His wife Rosemary was co-authored of some books with her husband. Dr. Gibson was considered to be about 20 years ahead of his time in business automation and was named Professor Emeritus of Information management at San Diego State University after his retirement.<br />
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Dr. Gibson and his wife were world travelers, including Africa and Central America, where they were often involved in research project relative to the evolution of business methods within various countries. Dr. Gibson was very generous with his resources, The Presbyterian Community Park on Avalon Ave had its origins in his Generosity.<br />
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The couple left no children or known relatives according to his January 16, 2000 obituary. Further research found that Dr. Gibson was born in Worthington, Minnesota on April 5, 1906 to James and Genevieve (Jennie) Gibson. He has two sisters, Ermie (1906), Ruth (1908) and a brother Dyerald (1913). He married Rosemary Pierce in Las Vegas on June 16, 1956. His given name was Ernest Dana Gibson.<br />
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1950 Yearbook-DEL SUDOOESTE COLLEGE which is now known as San Diego State College. The book is in fair to poor condition with many pages stuck together. Dr. Gibson is listed as a Professor of Commerce at the school during this time.<br />
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Rosemary Bower Pierce was born February 15, 1914 in Trafford, PA to Howard Leroy Pierce and Mary Elizabeth Bower. She was the only surviving child, a set of twins died as infants prior to Rosemary's birth. Rosemary died February 17, 1978 in Lake Havasu City, Arizona<br />
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Most of the material in the box relates to Rosemary Pierce's family. a full genealogy book is included giving education, church and political affiliations, birth, death, marriage, children and occupations of her family members. The bulk of the research began with her father and there is a full folder containing correspondence between Mr. Pierce and the Gloucester County Historical Society, Woodbury, New Jersey, (<a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgchs/">http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgchs/</a>) during the 1940's.<br />
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The Pierce family seems to be early settlers in New Jersey and are of the Quaker Faith during this time. Their roots lead back to England.<br />
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<li>Typewritten listings of Gandy Family Bible, from 1798 to 1914 plus another listing from Wolf Bible from 1797 to 1882.</li>
<li>Type letter dated 1945 with family stories.</li>
<li>Copy of the last will and testament of James Poarce, dated 1694. This will was found in the Books of Wills, Secretary of State's Office, Trenton, NJ, pg 138. I found this person on Ancestry.com spelled this way, the name was later changed to Pierce.</li>
<li>Pierce family notes</li>
<li>Pages of real estate papers, maps, etc.</li>
<li>Large group of vital stats from Trenton, NJ about the Pierce family</li>
<li>Album with Pierce family data and photos from early 20th century to 1940's</li>
<li>Album with Pierce family data, 1st page is interesting giving history of Puritan (New England and Quaker Pennsylvania relationships)</li>
<li>Album with Harris family data tied to Gandry family</li>
<li>Listing of Settlers of Fairfield, NJ, dated March 2, 1912</li>
<li>Land records search by Hazel Simpson, letter to Howard Pierce, dated Oct 28, 1942.</li>
<li>Correspondence to Howard Pierce regarding deeds, plats, research.</li>
<li>Typewritten letter to "Barbara" from "your Uncle" presumably Howard Pierce. Lots of good family information and history, dated 1945.</li>
<li>Handwritten letter from Howard Pierce to Mrs. Theodore C. Schumacher</li>
<li>Misc. handwritten notes, regarding Pierce family</li>
<li>Typewritten notes Pierce family 4th thru 8th generation - 1768 to 1920 1 page of 2nd gen 1694</li>
<li>Typewritten history of Gandy family of West Jersey, 1635 to 1932 including lists from Gandy Bible and Wolf Bible - 2 copies, original and Xerox copy</li>
<li>List of marriages in Cumberland and Atlantic counties since 1848 to 1876.</li>
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We would like to reunite this information with the family so they may enjoy the multitude of facts, history and stories about this early colonial family.</div>
lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-91160011726135835232014-05-05T10:03:00.002-07:002014-05-05T10:03:51.030-07:00Online Learning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The library will be closing soon for summer, since many of us travel during the hot summer months of Arizona. Thus, our share sessions, general meetings and special interest groups will be halted too. But our learning doesn't have to stop just because the library will be closed. <br />
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<br />lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-32091332437370129242014-04-28T09:20:00.000-07:002014-04-28T09:20:01.262-07:00NEW SET OF MAYFLOWER “SILVER” BOOKS donated to the Lake Havasu Genealogical Society<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
The Lake Havasu Genealogical Society Library accepts a new set of Mayflower
Families Through Five Generations volumes, better known as the “silver books,”
from the Arizona Mayflower Society.
Mayflower Society Member, H Allen Nash their new Library Liaison,
delivered the books in person on April 24<sup>th</sup> to the LHGS Librarian
and President, Jane Bowen. Funds came from the estate of Jeanette Schmidt,
widow of former Arizona Mayflower society governor L Bernard Schmidt, Jr.,
state member #2, in honor of his mother, Georgia Perle Wilson Schmidt. She was
the founding governor of the state society and AZ member #1. Allen also
installed bookplates inside each volume to commemorate Mrs. Schmidt and the
Arizona Mayflower Society.</div>
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The Schmidt bequest was sufficient to also fund a previous
donation that was awarded to the Yuma County Library on April 4<sup>th</sup>.
Adding these two libraries has expanded the current list to 7 libraries and
ensures that no Arizonan is more than a two-hour drive from a library that the
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</w:wrap></v:imagedata></v:shape>Have you every wished you could find that article you read in Family
Tree Magazine, but can’t remember what issue it was in? Do you have stacks of
old magazines that are taking up valuable space in your home? The Genealogical
Library now has back issues of Family Tree Magazine in digital form thanks to a
donation. These issues of magazines can be accessed from the first computer in
the Library and they cover 2000-2013. They are searchable and printable. If you
find the article you want, you can print it out for only ten cents a page. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Plus all the State Research Guides for all 50 states plus
Washington DC and Puerto Rico are available in digital form. They were
published as four-page inserts in the Family Tree Magazine, but they can be
access directly via the State Research Guides Shortcut located on the first
computer. If you are going to be doing research in a state that you are
unfamiliar with or even familiar with, you will find many helpful tips and
links to aid your genealogy research in those states. We also have these guides
in printed form too!<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is even City Genealogy Guides for many major cities.
These two were published as four-page inserts in the Family Tree Magazine and
can be access directly via the City Genealogy Guides shortcut located on the
first computer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In addition to all of this, there is another short cut which
will take you directly to Family Tree Magazine’s Web Guides. These are short
four-page how-to-do guides to popular websites such as HeritageQuest or Ancestry.com.
Now some might be a little out of date, but you still might find helpful tips
or tricks that you didn’t know before.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Come into the library now and explore our new donations,
printout an interesting article or helpful guide that might come in handy this
summer as you are traveling for your genealogy research. <o:p></o:p></div>
lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-4015176679293106562014-03-23T19:03:00.000-07:002014-03-23T19:03:19.504-07:00Saturday Sharing - Fraternal Organizations<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-HwTViDgZwUhxlg29_sUIEsffJxvPnigFuHS_ktc4r8lJJf5acRChVxYbWbp3B4XxE7p83mBvQJ3LPfjNIz9PfMZWMVpCMHvpQBtiEpGNMxaATlFkTyC5aZzMQn4LX39pJ6AaG4VfvmE/s1600/Capture.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-HwTViDgZwUhxlg29_sUIEsffJxvPnigFuHS_ktc4r8lJJf5acRChVxYbWbp3B4XxE7p83mBvQJ3LPfjNIz9PfMZWMVpCMHvpQBtiEpGNMxaATlFkTyC5aZzMQn4LX39pJ6AaG4VfvmE/s1600/Capture.JPG" height="193" width="200" /></a>This month, the Society’s program was on Fraternal
Organizations. Since I had volunteered to do the program, I decided to approach
the subject as a researcher. How would I know if my ancestor was a member of a
fraternal organization? <o:p></o:p></div>
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One way would be by their obituary. Many times, people will
list what organizations the deceased was a member of. Another way would be by
finding a newspaper article that might list your ancestor in connection with
the organization. However, what if the organization was a secret organization,
then how would I know?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Many times you will find symbols on their gravestones that
you might not know what they represent. So I decided to do a google search on “Fraternal
Organizations symbols on tombstones” and it leads me to the following link <a href="http://www.graveaddiction.com/symbol.html">http://www.graveaddiction.com/symbol.html</a>.
This website was great place for me to start my search. It showed many
organizations, not just fraternal orders, but other civic groups. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Because the website did not go into great detail on the
history of each organization, I had to do more google searches on each
organization that I decided to include in my PowerPoint presentation. I found
many were listed in Wikipedia but I made sure I explained where I found my
information since Wikipedia is only as accurate as the person submitting the
information. <o:p></o:p></div>
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All-in-all the Presentation was very informative. However,
many members expected me to have all the answer about Fraternal Organizations
and I had to remind them that I was learning as I was doing this presentation.
I did find another website that listed when many organizations were first form
and that website was <a href="http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmuseum/fraternalism/chronology_fraternal_organizations_america.htm">http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmuseum/fraternalism/chronology_fraternal_organizations_america.htm</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Since a few members wanted to know what website(s) I used to
do my presentation, I decided to create this blog as a way to get the word out.<o:p></o:p></div>
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lake havasu gen societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06347967275508288174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1908266614909357375.post-34617116263758539862014-03-16T16:50:00.001-07:002014-03-16T19:19:30.281-07:00Saturday Sharing - Using Facebook for Genealogy<div class="MsoNormal">
This month’s Share Session at the Genealogy Library talked
about how to use Facebook for Genealogy. A lot of members had stated that they
don’t use Facebook and they don’t need to know what someone has for their lunch
or breakfast. Other’s had mention that they can’t believe the stuff that family
members post on Facebook.</div>
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My suggestion is to use Facebook just for Genealogy. I
explained if they already have a Facebook account for family and friends;
create another account just for Genealogy. I explained they will need a
separate email account to create this Facebook account. Since I usually have a
dedicated email for my genealogy stuff, I decided to use that email for my
Genealogy Facebook account.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I then showed everyone the importance of privacy settings. I
explained that I try to pick the most secure sounding option, especially for
those options that I don’t understand. Therefore, if you have the following
options: public, friend of friends, friends or only me. I will choose only me
because that is the most secure. If that is not an option, then I choose
friends. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I explained that for my Genealogy Facebook account, I don’t
have any friends, I don’t plan on choosing any friends, plus I won’t be
accepting any friend request either because I don’t want to have to scroll
through all my friends, “frivolous” post to get to my genealogy post, this is
why I don’t use my everyday Facebook Account for my genealogy stuff. <o:p></o:p></div>
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To check your privacy setting, you click on the “gear” icon
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv2ty0RwWWPY-ViP58ZcIR6SD1YM9-SLHJHJ-kTbPE62JiAMiY1A-c7qq_8q7ImUkjdx5lfxayldxTb4XlO7HMjW53z_MomU3yBeB3YNrmkTUczP7hdnHY2o6cSXMOMnzUJ1ozMZnAPUE/s1600/Ancestry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv2ty0RwWWPY-ViP58ZcIR6SD1YM9-SLHJHJ-kTbPE62JiAMiY1A-c7qq_8q7ImUkjdx5lfxayldxTb4XlO7HMjW53z_MomU3yBeB3YNrmkTUczP7hdnHY2o6cSXMOMnzUJ1ozMZnAPUE/s1600/Ancestry.jpg" /></a>Once your privacy settings are good, then you can use the
Facebook Search bar (not your browser’s URL spot) to find genealogy groups.
Type in search words like: Genealogy, Irish Genealogy, Ancestry.com or
FamilySearch… Then you just have to “Like” their page. Some might be private
groups that you will need to be accepted to. This is why I don’t privatize
everything, I allow my city and state to show, I also share the fact that I am
Married, I list that I volunteer at the local library and I might share my
genealogy society website too.<br />
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However, my profile picture is not of me but a
generic picture that I found on the web that reflects my genealogy interest. I
do not want my friends sending me request to the wrong account. However, if
they do, I can always send them a request with my “real” Facebook account and
explain that the other account I use only for my genealogy interest.</div>
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So you might want to know what the difference between a page
and a group. Pages are usually for businesses or organizations. All you have to
do is “Like” the page and you get post to your news feed as they are posted to
the pages. Groups are a just that, a group of people who might share an
interest. Usually they are controlled by someone, might require approval to
join and if so, you will see a “request” button to join. Some groups want to
make sure you are a real person, again, this is why I make sure I have some
public information. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Basically, my Genealogy Facebook account because a “share”
session where I can learn from others who are in my groups or what is happening
on Facebook Pages such as my society page.</div>
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I am really liking my Genealogy Facebook account because I am not being side tracked by all my friends and family posts. Don't get me wrong, I love my family and friends, but my time that I use for genealogy is rare and precious plus I won't get distracted by seeing that someone has passed me on Candy Crush and won't be tempted to try to pass them!</div>
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