ISSN0736-802X

THE LIVERMORE ROOTS TRACER

VOLUME XI

INDEX Volumne XI No2

Going Home 310 Book She If bull 31 1 Research Aids 314 Great Register 317

Surname search 322 Louise STANTON CONVERSE 323 California Research 324 Beverly SCHELL ALES bull 325 Erma Jane HIGGINS McCUE 326 National Park Service 327 Christmas Family Tree 327

WINTER 1991-1992 NUMBER 2

Livermore-JLmador yeneapoundogica Society PO Box 901 Livennore California 94551

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LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY PO Box 901 Livermore CA 94551

President bull bull bull bull Jolene ABRAHlHS 447-9386 1st VP and lelbership 2nd VP and Prograls bull bull

Virginia HOORE Harriet ANDERSON

447-8316 bull bull bull bull bull bull bull 846-4265

Recording Secretary bull Isabel NOLTE bull bull bull bull bull 447-4062 Corresponding Secretary Norl STOUT bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull 455-6847 Business Hanager bullbullbull Clarence PARKISON bull bull bull 449-8656

The Livellore-Alador GeoealOQicallsociety tmiddotStexelot frol Fedetal IQcQleTax onder Section SOl2el21)) (literal andeducattona ot t~ n ernal Revenue Code and callfornla TaxatIon code 310 O

The Roots Tracer is a quarterly publication vith Publications articles of interest to the genealogist Heibers are encouraged to sublit their Profiles as veIl Surname Index(1988) as articles of general interest Queries are Members bull $250 free to lelbers $1 to non-lelbers Non-Members bull $600

The deadline for each quarterly is the 15th of Livermore Cemeteries(1988) June Septelber Decelber and Harch Send to $1600

post paid Roots Tracer PO Box 901 Liverlore CA 94551-0901 Pleasanton Dublin Cemeteries

(1990) $1400 An~ Book presented to the society viII be post paid revieved in the quarterly along vith the purchase price and address of the publisher Ten-Year Index - Roots Tracer

(1988) bull $600 Our Library is located in the Pleasanton Library post paid building 400 Old Bernal Ave Pleasanton CA

The Bookshelf(1988) Meetinga are on the 2nd Tuesday lonthly at $300 Congregation Beth Elek 1866 College Ave post paid Livellore CA

Send Check or Money order to Heibership in LAGS is open to any individual library or society Our fiscal year is 1 Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society Septelber to 31 August Helbership includes a PO Box 901 Livermore CA 94551 subscription to the quarterly Roots Tracer

APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP Narre addressbullbull citybullbull statezip bullbull

sumarres amp 1oca1es te i ng researched

DUES Individual $10 ~ltrloS5 ntributing $25 Life $100 Family $15 Student $5 SuppJrting $20

L-AGS 310 LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Dear MmJers and Friends of L-AGS

This quarterly contains several pages

of itans which Ie hope will aid you in _

your research These sources have been

gleaned fran the many newletters and quarterlys

Ie receive on an exchange bas i s and can be Welcome New Members

found in our library in Pleasanton One iten

was the anSYer to a problen that has been onshy Erma MCCUE

going for many years middotof our research Felicia ZIOMEK Thanks to Barbara Bunshaw Ie have the

last of the MJrray wnship Precinct nUTter one

and the carplete precinct nUTter 00 voter

registration fran the Great Register of 1896

The Happiestof New Years to you all and

may you add rruch to your Fanily History in the

caning rronthsbull

bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull or bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull

fran the Archival Chrooicle Ilcenber 1991 BotIling Green Cllio

-boing HOlDe Finding the Old Country The task of determining the hometown ofan immigrant contain the name age sex occupation the place ofembarshy

ancestor can be difficult when naturalization documents kation (often the hometown) and the final destination for do not fum1sh the information Fortunately other local each passenger Some passenger lists Include the name and government records exist that sometimes provide the ~lIId address of a relative in the homeland Milttary service exact place of origin Beginning in 1850 Census Records and pension JUes may include the birthplace of a foreigIlshyUst the individuals place of birth and beginning in 1880 born soldier Passport applications sometimes contain the they 11st the parents place ofblrth as well While these may exact place of birth of the applicant often give only the country of origin (MFrancel they somemiddot Lucas County fJoardoJElecttons records contain informashytimes 11st what we might consider the province (Wales or tion on foreign- born voters covering naturalizations as early MBavarla for example) as the 1870s through the early 1930s often giving very

The Intemational GenealogicaLIndex(IGI) is an excellent specific Information about the voters date and place of birth survey source to use when an exact locality is not known and that of his family Some records may state MFathers Pub11shed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day papersM indicating that the voters Citizenship was derived Saints (Monnons) in two formats microfiche and compact from his fathers naturalization filed when the voter was still disk the IGI is an index of over 147 million names of a minor himself The fatherS records should then be located deceased individuals Information for the IGI was extracted Researchers also need to remember that national borshyprimarily from original civil and church vital records ders may have changed since their ancestor left the homeshycovering from the 1500s to the 1870s The IGI can allow land Someone from Prussia for instance may have been the user to narrow a focus of research from the country of rccorded as ooGennan M Prussian Polish or RussianM origin to a speci1k province or region depcnding UpOlI the date the information was recorded ~

Church records particularly those with a strong ethnic Nat all repositories hold all types of records and part ofthe community base often supply a wealth of Information cklllenge lies in locating the right resource In order to be listing not~nly places but dates of Important events in the successful at the genealogical research process one must indIviduals life Civil vitaL records biographicaL sources become familiar with the types of information found in a such as county histOries and newspaper obituaries often variety of records and from a wealth of available sources provide clues to a place of origin Passenger lists usually - Stephen M Charter

L-AGS 311

~ time 5J(fl(flliiimeif Reviewed by George Anderson

Twenty new books have been added to the LAGS Library in the last quaner One noteworthy book is reviewed in detail and the others are described briefly

The Human Blueprint The Race to Unlock the Secrets of Our Genetic Script 1991 By Robert Shapiro Published by St Martins Press 412+xx pages 6x9 inches hard cover illustratshyed indexed $2495

Genealogy as we practice it now can never be a true science bink of those lines on your pedshyIgree chart that connect child to father No matter how many docshyuments we assemble to prove that one of those lines connects a child with its true father it really boils down to the mothers word about it Unless she was under 24-hour guard by a troop of eushynuchs during the crucial period nine months before nobody but the mother (and not even she sometimes) knows who the real father is As Shakespeare says It is a wise father that knows his own child

Since no discipline that depends on a persons word for its central facts can be a science we have to disqualify present-day genealshyogy Most of us dont care - we get pleasure out of our hobby and we strive for the best availashyble proof but we dont agonize over unprovabilities

The key phrase in the last parashygraph is present-day genealoshygy What will be possible in geshynealogy tomorrow and the day after tomorrow is truly revolushytionary That the subject of Proshy

~ fessor Shapiros book

The Human Blueprint is a marshyvelous book for genealogists It covers the field of human genet-

Our DNA as a script Illustrationfrom New York Times review oirk Human Blueprint

ics from the basics that most of us already know but need reshyfreshing in to the dazzling alshymost incredible possibilities that will open up in the next century when the human genome project is finished The human genome project imshyportant parts of which are being done at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is the central focus of Mr Shapiros book The aim of this IS-year program is to read the entire contents of our genetic blueprint - every chroshymosome every gene every one of the 3 billion base pairs in our DNA The cost will be about one dollar for every base pair but it is a job that will have to be done only once From then on we will have the master plan from which with minor customizing features each one of us was built Medical science will obviously reap the most benefit from the genome project All inherited diseases will be detectable at birth or before genetic counselshying of prospective parents will become exact and even cures will be possible by gene therapy

Certainly none of us taxpayers would be willing to foot the bill for the genome project for the sake of genealogy but the fallout in that subject will be substantial In a broad way the genealogy of humankind will be opened for exact study Mans evolution his wanderings over the millenia the intermarriage of peoples - all can be pieced together in great detail Whenmiddot fragments of anshycient human DNA have been preserved as they are in the desshyiccated bodies of prehistoric Inshydians that Harriet and I saw in the Atacama Desert of Chile we may be in a position much like that of an archeologist who unshycovers the ruins of an ancient palace and finds among the rubshyble the architectural engineering and interior decoration drawings for the building Personal genealogy will become amenable to scientific proof As Emerson said We are the chilshydren of many sires and every drop of blood in us betrays its ancestors He was speaking figshyuratively but if we substitute the words stretch of DNA instead of drop of blood the quote is literally true When the genome

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project is finished and sequenc- whereas the popular literature born and the county in Mississhying of DNA becomes cheap and tends to get tedious about them sippi where they were buried easy we will be able to recon- As genealogists we ought to stay Most of these soldiers are from struct the DNA of our ancestors informed about the human ge- Mississippi although many were - the more distant the cousins nome project not only because it born in other southern states we know about (or identify in a promises us new techniques but Dates of death start from the Civ-DNA data bank) the farther back because what is being learned il War and go to the year 1930 we can go in this recon- This book is the fIrst volshystruction ================== ume of two surnames be-Mr Shapiro is himself an ginning with M-Z will folshyamateur genealogist He il- low This registration is lustrates the future possi- testimony to all the brave bilities in family research Confederate soldiers who with a number of exam- gave their lives for what pIes Suppose Alex Haley they believed in and who had started his research af- are buried in the state of ter the extensive world- Mississippi 1991 225 pp wide DNA data bases are I~~~~t~~~~l ~gt~~~ paper $1800 established By finding Mississippi Will Index where there are local con- 1800-1900 Betty Couch centrations of DNA that Frlcentse~atlljistlllIikel)VJlt)q9ffit19iTI~ Wiltshire A master index match some of his he FCl~st()rs~ a1ewrncarltls Wje1cent ~ltcent~t~J~I~g~ to over 10000 testators would be led directly to from 1800 to 1900 Entries Kunta Kintes village in give the name of the testa-Africa and to other sites in tor year the will was pro-Africa and Europe where bated the county where re-his other ancestors had corded and a citation to lived The amount of infor- FlVfilen all etteJtlSlVe tUl~n1~)nltneWlm ad the source Most wills mation in a persons genes lllUrulOttOUlOty were recorded in will is so huge and the proba- books but some were ~ bility of coincidental found in inventory books matches is so small that marriage books and other the process can truly be re- unusual places some were duced to a science for out of state testators The Human Blueprint is a very will give us a deeper apprecia- with Mississippi heirs 1989212 readable book Mr Shapiro pur- tion of the family relationships pp paper $2000 posely avoids scientifIc jargon we are trying to establish The Death Notices from Freewill He uses a plain language text Human Blueprint is excellent Baptist Publications 1811shywritten in English as a metaphor reading for this purpose 1851 David C Young and Rob-for the sequence of base pairs in ert L Taylor About 12000 ab-DNA pointing out for example The following descriptions of stracts of death notices from six that the genome has as many other new books in the LAGS Li- Freewill Baptists weekly or characters as 250 volumes of the brary are quoted from the pub- monthly periodicals The people Encyclopedia Britannica and lishers catalogs lived mainly in the northeastern that it would take several of US and Canada 1985 453 pp these volumes to hold the charac- index cloth $3500 ters that are different in one indi- FROM HERITAGE BOOKS Pioneer History of the Holland vidual compared to another who Mississippi Confederate Grave Purchase of Western New is unrelated Registrations A-L Betty York Orsamus Turner The fIrst Mr Shapiro is an optimist about Couch Wiltshire This major half of this large work provides a the good that will come from the new work provides an alphabeti- detailed history of the region genome project but he gives due cal listing of Confederate grave while the second half concenshyspace to the arguments of the registrations Information availa- trates on the settlement of the critics of whom there are many ble when known the soldiers Holland Purchase itself There His book does not overempha- names their service units the are several early resident and tax size the moral and philosophical years of birth and death the lists and numerous short bioshyissues raised by the project county or state where they were graphical sketches of key fIgures

Large new name index (1849) reprint 2 vols c740 pp new inshydex paper $4000 Guide to the Historical Records of Oklahoma Bradshyford Koplowitz Identifies and describes public records which span the 1880s through 1920 for all county governments all mushynicipal governments for cities over 5000 people and for smallshyer cities of historical signifishycance Covers Oklahomas earlishyest white settlement as well as Native American records from the states eastern counties Covshyers Commissioners minutes land records probate records civil records divorces marriagshyes criminal records adoptions elections tax rolls school records oil and gas leases etc 1989 189 pp paper $2000 Genealogical Periodical Annushyal Index Key to the Genealogishycal Literature Volumes 25 (1986) through 28 (1989) Lesshylie K Towle and Laird C Towle Genealogical Periodicals contain a wealth of information which genealogists oftentimes overlook thinking they are inaccessible However once you know about the existence of an article you can usually purchase a back issue or photocopy from the publisher of the periodical at nominal cost The trick is to know what has been published and that is where GPAI can be an invaluable tool GPAI is the most comprehensive surname locality and subject inshydex to current English-language genealogical periodicals availashyble The material indexed inshycludes genealogies lineages Bible records source records and all other material of permashynent value including articles on heraldry and research methods In addition all book reviews are indexed under the appropriate surname locality or subject heading thereby giving the index very broad coverage of the geneshyalogical literature Genealogies and related articles are indexed under the name of the progenitor

of the line His or her date of birth or other vital statistic is given along with the names of spouses and the localities where the family lived Source records are indexed under the approprishyate subject or locality heading with a brief description of the records Spouses are crossshyindexed The 1989 edition proshyvides about 12000 citations to 277 periodicals published in 1989 1990270 pp $2000

EVERTON PUBLISHERS Cradled in Sweden by CarlshyErik Johansson $1700 8 12 inches 203 pages Reprint velo binding A practical help to geshynealogical research in Swedish

Records this book includes lanshyguage jurisdictions archives handwriting of old records namshying systems geography and hisshytory of Sweden Parish name changes have also been included

GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY

Finding our Fathers A Guideshybook to Jewish Genealogy By

Dan Rottenberg 415 pp 1986 $1295 Popular guidebook on Jewish genealogy Contains an index to 8000 Jewish family names giving the origins of the names and sources of informashytion on the families In Search of your Canadian Roots By Angus Baxter 368 pp indexed 1989 $1495 Stepshyby-step guide to the sources available for genealogical reshysearch in Canada With chapters on the records and repositories of each of the eleven provinces and the Yukon and Northwest territories Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire By Sybil Noyes Charles T Libshyby and Walter G Davis 5 parts in 1 1795 pp 1988 $3500 Ofshyfers extensive biographical and genealogical data on every fami-

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ly established in Maine and New Hampshire before 1699 touchshying upon thousands of individushyals Pennsylvania German Marshyriages By Donna Irish 817 pp indexed 1984 $4500 Marriage records of about 100 churches in eastern Pennsylvania With docushymentation on 50000 Pennsylvashynia Gennans Michigan Genealogy Sources and Resources By Carol McGinnis 110 pp indexed 1989 $1500 Focuses on holdshyings of societies and institutions whose resources and facilities support genealogical research in each of Michigans 83 counties In Search of your British and Irish Roots By Angus Baxter 304 pp indexed 1989 $1295 A county-by-county guide to tracing your ancestors in the British Isles whether your reshysearch is done in person or by mail Irish Family History By Marishylyn Yurdan 207 pp indexed

1990 $1995 Covers all cateshygories of records in Ireland and picks up the trails of Irish emigrants in Great Britain

the United States and around the globe Definitive German-American Names By George F Jones 265 pp 1990 $2500 Explains the meaning of names borne by Americans which derive from the German language or its dialects Authorishytative With a dictionary of 12700 names

HEARTHSTONE BOOKSHOP

Timesaving Aid to VirginiashyWest Virginia Ancestors A Genealogical Index of Surshynames from Published Sources By Patrick G Wardell Four volshyumes in one 1985-1990 $3600

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RESEARCH AIDS as found in our exchange fleNsletters and quarterlies

FIRST CENSUS RECORDS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

This should help in seeking the first census

Austria 1815 Greece 1836 Bavaria 1818 Norway 1815 France 1801 Prussia 1810 Great Britain 1851 Russia 1897

Barbara REVERE s111H is interested in TEeting

other descendents of Paul REVERE Write to Barbara REVERE s111H

1787 Sattler DrivebullConcord CA 94519

Persons interested in researching JlrrErican Indian ancestry can find help in the Ft ~rth

Branch of the National Archives fm

PO Box 6212

Ft ~rth Texas 76115

Train passenger 1 ists were printed daily in the

early an Francisco fleNspapers (1870s-1mls) so

friends could TEet the traIn Themiddottirre between

New York and Oakland was 8 days

The Oakland Fami ly HiStory Center has the Old

Parochial Register Index to the 1650 Presbyshy

terian Church---includes all counties of Scotland

in European countries

Saxony 1815 Spain 1798 Sweden 1749 Switzerland 1860

In early land deeds in this country the

names of two witnesses always appear--the

first is in the interest of the husband the second is for the wife wtlich is soreshy

tirres a clue to her maiden name ~

Until 1786 the Episcopal Church was the

State Church of Virginia and all children

were required to be baptized by the ministers regardless of church affiliation bull

t

The Kansas Legislature has released Vital Records prior to 1 July 1911 Records of

ci ty tMl or county clerks can flail be

searched

~a adoption records prior to 1941 are nOli

avai lable You must kl1OY the exact adoption

date fron the county recorder Write to the

presiding judge of the county court state names

of the adoptee and adoptive parents date

of the adoption and state that the record

is in ttle county recorders office---reshy

quest a court order to open the file

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rrnre helpbullbullbullbullbull

LlTHUANrAN RESEARCH The Ba lzekas useum of Li thuanian Culture Library 6500 S Pulaski Road ChLjo IL )u629 holds the largshyest collection of research materials in this country For furshyther information contact them at the above address

SELECTIVE SERVICE RECORDS

World War I Selective Service Records are a seldom used source of genealogical information Almost every male resident of the United States born between the years of 187 and 1900 was required to register for the draft even though he may never have been called to serve Some 24000000 cards containing informashytion on the registrants birthdate race citizenship occupation employer nearest relative martial status and at times more information have been microshyfilmed For information and a request form contact the Archives Branch Federal Records Center 1557 St Joseph Avenue East Point GA 30044 If the individual lived in a metropolitan area ~street address is necessary A fee is charged (From Lake County Genealogical Society - NovDec 1987)

CONCOR-A HISTORICAtTNSTITUTE 801 DeMun~f1Ue St Louis MO 63105 is collecing genealogies of descendants of uneran irnmigrants They invite descencants to deposit a copy of their fa~~ly tree records so that researchers can look at the departure of these Old Lutherans from Europe and also to learn ~lore about the nature of their lives3fter they arrived in the United States They ask that you send a copy of your genealogy and supporting recocls along (iith a cover letter mentioning peraission for the Institute to share your irformation with others -

THE NATLONAL PARK SERVICE has been puttin (lirectory of the Civil liars 35 millior soldiers records on computer~hJ ~roject -ill oe tested this fall at Shiloh Tenn National Military Park ancirtietam National Battlefield in Sharpsshyburg ) All 28 of the park services -1 ~ar 3it0S -Till be processed Names states regiments information where h ~gtnents fOLL5ht soldiers rank and inforrrc -ion if they fought on north or outh is included Historians estimate thal hf of all Americans have relativCs -ltl0 fought in the Civil liar Private genealcy societies will program the names 3aving the -Sovernment $45 million

MEXJCAlgtd WaR VETERANS bullbull For those interested in research i ng these veteram~ there is an organization rHE DESCENDANTS OF NEXICAN WAR VETEUNS 1114 Pacific Richardson Texas 75081 that may be of som ~s_stance Write to thei president Steven RButler at the address listed for further information (Nuggets from Paradise 107)

- IlwtoJ J IV

and rmre helpbullbullbullbullbullbull

CONFEDERATE RESEARCH The Confederate Research Center answers iilqUlrles by mail Itho~ds the largest collection of its kind in the southwest 3500 books on the Ci~ll ~ar ln~ludlng official records from the Army and Navy It has a comprehens~v7 collectlon on Hoods Texas Brigade including service records of all the unlt s6000 members For further informat~on write to Harold B Simpson Confederate Research Center Hill Junior College Hillsboro T~ 76645

FI-NNI6H-AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY This society was founded in 1962 and is dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of Americas Finnish settlers The society is active in research and publishing and collects and studies oral histories manushyscripts photographs and maps They also have a reference libshyrary For further information write Fi~nish-American Historshyical Society of the West PO Box 5522 Portland OR 97208

JEWISH GERMANS

Jewish Germans can locate old Jewish German communities somewhere in Germany by contacting Leo Baeck Institute 129 E 73d St New York NY 10021

CAtlIFCgtllliiA~HfSTORYINI~)EX I f you~ ancestor 1V1S written middotlbout in a tallfornlt1 county hlscory you mlght want to check J Carlyle PARKERs tl Jol~ An Index to t11e Biographies in the 19th Century Californi county Histories I I f not in YO- library 1 t may be requeste~ ~n inter-library loan

uBBlRroiCOlIGlmSs An article entitled Library of Congress to open collections to local lib~middotj~ if~S in elect~onic ~cces~ plans ~ appeared in the Septrnht 199 J s~ue of Amer~can ~lbrarles The article was written hy ~ames il Bllllngton L1brar~an of Congress since 1987 The art~cle is ~~teresting because 1~ explores ~he methods the Library ~E Congr o 3s is using to make lts collectlon more accessible to Df ~middot +hrr --l--lt the country

TELEPHONE LISTS DATA BASE

Would you like a list of everyone in U S phone books with your surname or a surname you are searching Computer Genealogies Inc will sell you such a mailing list for $1695 Each directory includes a persons full name address city and state All states where that surname appears are included inthe directory Telephone numbers are omitted under agreement with the telephone exchange If you want the phone numbers without making a hundred calls to information your local telephone company will supply them for a per-name fee upon your written request Check that price first

To get the name andaddress list send the surname and your check to Computer Genealogies Inc 129 South Broad St Ste 100 Lansdale PA 19446 An added fee will be charged for a common surname but if your name is rare you may submit two varients for the same fee

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LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY PO Box 901 Livermore CA 94551

President bull bull bull bull Jolene ABRAHlHS 447-9386 1st VP and lelbership 2nd VP and Prograls bull bull

Virginia HOORE Harriet ANDERSON

447-8316 bull bull bull bull bull bull bull 846-4265

Recording Secretary bull Isabel NOLTE bull bull bull bull bull 447-4062 Corresponding Secretary Norl STOUT bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull 455-6847 Business Hanager bullbullbull Clarence PARKISON bull bull bull 449-8656

The Livellore-Alador GeoealOQicallsociety tmiddotStexelot frol Fedetal IQcQleTax onder Section SOl2el21)) (literal andeducattona ot t~ n ernal Revenue Code and callfornla TaxatIon code 310 O

The Roots Tracer is a quarterly publication vith Publications articles of interest to the genealogist Heibers are encouraged to sublit their Profiles as veIl Surname Index(1988) as articles of general interest Queries are Members bull $250 free to lelbers $1 to non-lelbers Non-Members bull $600

The deadline for each quarterly is the 15th of Livermore Cemeteries(1988) June Septelber Decelber and Harch Send to $1600

post paid Roots Tracer PO Box 901 Liverlore CA 94551-0901 Pleasanton Dublin Cemeteries

(1990) $1400 An~ Book presented to the society viII be post paid revieved in the quarterly along vith the purchase price and address of the publisher Ten-Year Index - Roots Tracer

(1988) bull $600 Our Library is located in the Pleasanton Library post paid building 400 Old Bernal Ave Pleasanton CA

The Bookshelf(1988) Meetinga are on the 2nd Tuesday lonthly at $300 Congregation Beth Elek 1866 College Ave post paid Livellore CA

Send Check or Money order to Heibership in LAGS is open to any individual library or society Our fiscal year is 1 Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society Septelber to 31 August Helbership includes a PO Box 901 Livermore CA 94551 subscription to the quarterly Roots Tracer

APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP Narre addressbullbull citybullbull statezip bullbull

sumarres amp 1oca1es te i ng researched

DUES Individual $10 ~ltrloS5 ntributing $25 Life $100 Family $15 Student $5 SuppJrting $20

L-AGS 310 LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Dear MmJers and Friends of L-AGS

This quarterly contains several pages

of itans which Ie hope will aid you in _

your research These sources have been

gleaned fran the many newletters and quarterlys

Ie receive on an exchange bas i s and can be Welcome New Members

found in our library in Pleasanton One iten

was the anSYer to a problen that has been onshy Erma MCCUE

going for many years middotof our research Felicia ZIOMEK Thanks to Barbara Bunshaw Ie have the

last of the MJrray wnship Precinct nUTter one

and the carplete precinct nUTter 00 voter

registration fran the Great Register of 1896

The Happiestof New Years to you all and

may you add rruch to your Fanily History in the

caning rronthsbull

bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull bull or bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull

fran the Archival Chrooicle Ilcenber 1991 BotIling Green Cllio

-boing HOlDe Finding the Old Country The task of determining the hometown ofan immigrant contain the name age sex occupation the place ofembarshy

ancestor can be difficult when naturalization documents kation (often the hometown) and the final destination for do not fum1sh the information Fortunately other local each passenger Some passenger lists Include the name and government records exist that sometimes provide the ~lIId address of a relative in the homeland Milttary service exact place of origin Beginning in 1850 Census Records and pension JUes may include the birthplace of a foreigIlshyUst the individuals place of birth and beginning in 1880 born soldier Passport applications sometimes contain the they 11st the parents place ofblrth as well While these may exact place of birth of the applicant often give only the country of origin (MFrancel they somemiddot Lucas County fJoardoJElecttons records contain informashytimes 11st what we might consider the province (Wales or tion on foreign- born voters covering naturalizations as early MBavarla for example) as the 1870s through the early 1930s often giving very

The Intemational GenealogicaLIndex(IGI) is an excellent specific Information about the voters date and place of birth survey source to use when an exact locality is not known and that of his family Some records may state MFathers Pub11shed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day papersM indicating that the voters Citizenship was derived Saints (Monnons) in two formats microfiche and compact from his fathers naturalization filed when the voter was still disk the IGI is an index of over 147 million names of a minor himself The fatherS records should then be located deceased individuals Information for the IGI was extracted Researchers also need to remember that national borshyprimarily from original civil and church vital records ders may have changed since their ancestor left the homeshycovering from the 1500s to the 1870s The IGI can allow land Someone from Prussia for instance may have been the user to narrow a focus of research from the country of rccorded as ooGennan M Prussian Polish or RussianM origin to a speci1k province or region depcnding UpOlI the date the information was recorded ~

Church records particularly those with a strong ethnic Nat all repositories hold all types of records and part ofthe community base often supply a wealth of Information cklllenge lies in locating the right resource In order to be listing not~nly places but dates of Important events in the successful at the genealogical research process one must indIviduals life Civil vitaL records biographicaL sources become familiar with the types of information found in a such as county histOries and newspaper obituaries often variety of records and from a wealth of available sources provide clues to a place of origin Passenger lists usually - Stephen M Charter

L-AGS 311

~ time 5J(fl(flliiimeif Reviewed by George Anderson

Twenty new books have been added to the LAGS Library in the last quaner One noteworthy book is reviewed in detail and the others are described briefly

The Human Blueprint The Race to Unlock the Secrets of Our Genetic Script 1991 By Robert Shapiro Published by St Martins Press 412+xx pages 6x9 inches hard cover illustratshyed indexed $2495

Genealogy as we practice it now can never be a true science bink of those lines on your pedshyIgree chart that connect child to father No matter how many docshyuments we assemble to prove that one of those lines connects a child with its true father it really boils down to the mothers word about it Unless she was under 24-hour guard by a troop of eushynuchs during the crucial period nine months before nobody but the mother (and not even she sometimes) knows who the real father is As Shakespeare says It is a wise father that knows his own child

Since no discipline that depends on a persons word for its central facts can be a science we have to disqualify present-day genealshyogy Most of us dont care - we get pleasure out of our hobby and we strive for the best availashyble proof but we dont agonize over unprovabilities

The key phrase in the last parashygraph is present-day genealoshygy What will be possible in geshynealogy tomorrow and the day after tomorrow is truly revolushytionary That the subject of Proshy

~ fessor Shapiros book

The Human Blueprint is a marshyvelous book for genealogists It covers the field of human genet-

Our DNA as a script Illustrationfrom New York Times review oirk Human Blueprint

ics from the basics that most of us already know but need reshyfreshing in to the dazzling alshymost incredible possibilities that will open up in the next century when the human genome project is finished The human genome project imshyportant parts of which are being done at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is the central focus of Mr Shapiros book The aim of this IS-year program is to read the entire contents of our genetic blueprint - every chroshymosome every gene every one of the 3 billion base pairs in our DNA The cost will be about one dollar for every base pair but it is a job that will have to be done only once From then on we will have the master plan from which with minor customizing features each one of us was built Medical science will obviously reap the most benefit from the genome project All inherited diseases will be detectable at birth or before genetic counselshying of prospective parents will become exact and even cures will be possible by gene therapy

Certainly none of us taxpayers would be willing to foot the bill for the genome project for the sake of genealogy but the fallout in that subject will be substantial In a broad way the genealogy of humankind will be opened for exact study Mans evolution his wanderings over the millenia the intermarriage of peoples - all can be pieced together in great detail Whenmiddot fragments of anshycient human DNA have been preserved as they are in the desshyiccated bodies of prehistoric Inshydians that Harriet and I saw in the Atacama Desert of Chile we may be in a position much like that of an archeologist who unshycovers the ruins of an ancient palace and finds among the rubshyble the architectural engineering and interior decoration drawings for the building Personal genealogy will become amenable to scientific proof As Emerson said We are the chilshydren of many sires and every drop of blood in us betrays its ancestors He was speaking figshyuratively but if we substitute the words stretch of DNA instead of drop of blood the quote is literally true When the genome

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project is finished and sequenc- whereas the popular literature born and the county in Mississhying of DNA becomes cheap and tends to get tedious about them sippi where they were buried easy we will be able to recon- As genealogists we ought to stay Most of these soldiers are from struct the DNA of our ancestors informed about the human ge- Mississippi although many were - the more distant the cousins nome project not only because it born in other southern states we know about (or identify in a promises us new techniques but Dates of death start from the Civ-DNA data bank) the farther back because what is being learned il War and go to the year 1930 we can go in this recon- This book is the fIrst volshystruction ================== ume of two surnames be-Mr Shapiro is himself an ginning with M-Z will folshyamateur genealogist He il- low This registration is lustrates the future possi- testimony to all the brave bilities in family research Confederate soldiers who with a number of exam- gave their lives for what pIes Suppose Alex Haley they believed in and who had started his research af- are buried in the state of ter the extensive world- Mississippi 1991 225 pp wide DNA data bases are I~~~~t~~~~l ~gt~~~ paper $1800 established By finding Mississippi Will Index where there are local con- 1800-1900 Betty Couch centrations of DNA that Frlcentse~atlljistlllIikel)VJlt)q9ffit19iTI~ Wiltshire A master index match some of his he FCl~st()rs~ a1ewrncarltls Wje1cent ~ltcent~t~J~I~g~ to over 10000 testators would be led directly to from 1800 to 1900 Entries Kunta Kintes village in give the name of the testa-Africa and to other sites in tor year the will was pro-Africa and Europe where bated the county where re-his other ancestors had corded and a citation to lived The amount of infor- FlVfilen all etteJtlSlVe tUl~n1~)nltneWlm ad the source Most wills mation in a persons genes lllUrulOttOUlOty were recorded in will is so huge and the proba- books but some were ~ bility of coincidental found in inventory books matches is so small that marriage books and other the process can truly be re- unusual places some were duced to a science for out of state testators The Human Blueprint is a very will give us a deeper apprecia- with Mississippi heirs 1989212 readable book Mr Shapiro pur- tion of the family relationships pp paper $2000 posely avoids scientifIc jargon we are trying to establish The Death Notices from Freewill He uses a plain language text Human Blueprint is excellent Baptist Publications 1811shywritten in English as a metaphor reading for this purpose 1851 David C Young and Rob-for the sequence of base pairs in ert L Taylor About 12000 ab-DNA pointing out for example The following descriptions of stracts of death notices from six that the genome has as many other new books in the LAGS Li- Freewill Baptists weekly or characters as 250 volumes of the brary are quoted from the pub- monthly periodicals The people Encyclopedia Britannica and lishers catalogs lived mainly in the northeastern that it would take several of US and Canada 1985 453 pp these volumes to hold the charac- index cloth $3500 ters that are different in one indi- FROM HERITAGE BOOKS Pioneer History of the Holland vidual compared to another who Mississippi Confederate Grave Purchase of Western New is unrelated Registrations A-L Betty York Orsamus Turner The fIrst Mr Shapiro is an optimist about Couch Wiltshire This major half of this large work provides a the good that will come from the new work provides an alphabeti- detailed history of the region genome project but he gives due cal listing of Confederate grave while the second half concenshyspace to the arguments of the registrations Information availa- trates on the settlement of the critics of whom there are many ble when known the soldiers Holland Purchase itself There His book does not overempha- names their service units the are several early resident and tax size the moral and philosophical years of birth and death the lists and numerous short bioshyissues raised by the project county or state where they were graphical sketches of key fIgures

Large new name index (1849) reprint 2 vols c740 pp new inshydex paper $4000 Guide to the Historical Records of Oklahoma Bradshyford Koplowitz Identifies and describes public records which span the 1880s through 1920 for all county governments all mushynicipal governments for cities over 5000 people and for smallshyer cities of historical signifishycance Covers Oklahomas earlishyest white settlement as well as Native American records from the states eastern counties Covshyers Commissioners minutes land records probate records civil records divorces marriagshyes criminal records adoptions elections tax rolls school records oil and gas leases etc 1989 189 pp paper $2000 Genealogical Periodical Annushyal Index Key to the Genealogishycal Literature Volumes 25 (1986) through 28 (1989) Lesshylie K Towle and Laird C Towle Genealogical Periodicals contain a wealth of information which genealogists oftentimes overlook thinking they are inaccessible However once you know about the existence of an article you can usually purchase a back issue or photocopy from the publisher of the periodical at nominal cost The trick is to know what has been published and that is where GPAI can be an invaluable tool GPAI is the most comprehensive surname locality and subject inshydex to current English-language genealogical periodicals availashyble The material indexed inshycludes genealogies lineages Bible records source records and all other material of permashynent value including articles on heraldry and research methods In addition all book reviews are indexed under the appropriate surname locality or subject heading thereby giving the index very broad coverage of the geneshyalogical literature Genealogies and related articles are indexed under the name of the progenitor

of the line His or her date of birth or other vital statistic is given along with the names of spouses and the localities where the family lived Source records are indexed under the approprishyate subject or locality heading with a brief description of the records Spouses are crossshyindexed The 1989 edition proshyvides about 12000 citations to 277 periodicals published in 1989 1990270 pp $2000

EVERTON PUBLISHERS Cradled in Sweden by CarlshyErik Johansson $1700 8 12 inches 203 pages Reprint velo binding A practical help to geshynealogical research in Swedish

Records this book includes lanshyguage jurisdictions archives handwriting of old records namshying systems geography and hisshytory of Sweden Parish name changes have also been included

GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY

Finding our Fathers A Guideshybook to Jewish Genealogy By

Dan Rottenberg 415 pp 1986 $1295 Popular guidebook on Jewish genealogy Contains an index to 8000 Jewish family names giving the origins of the names and sources of informashytion on the families In Search of your Canadian Roots By Angus Baxter 368 pp indexed 1989 $1495 Stepshyby-step guide to the sources available for genealogical reshysearch in Canada With chapters on the records and repositories of each of the eleven provinces and the Yukon and Northwest territories Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire By Sybil Noyes Charles T Libshyby and Walter G Davis 5 parts in 1 1795 pp 1988 $3500 Ofshyfers extensive biographical and genealogical data on every fami-

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ly established in Maine and New Hampshire before 1699 touchshying upon thousands of individushyals Pennsylvania German Marshyriages By Donna Irish 817 pp indexed 1984 $4500 Marriage records of about 100 churches in eastern Pennsylvania With docushymentation on 50000 Pennsylvashynia Gennans Michigan Genealogy Sources and Resources By Carol McGinnis 110 pp indexed 1989 $1500 Focuses on holdshyings of societies and institutions whose resources and facilities support genealogical research in each of Michigans 83 counties In Search of your British and Irish Roots By Angus Baxter 304 pp indexed 1989 $1295 A county-by-county guide to tracing your ancestors in the British Isles whether your reshysearch is done in person or by mail Irish Family History By Marishylyn Yurdan 207 pp indexed

1990 $1995 Covers all cateshygories of records in Ireland and picks up the trails of Irish emigrants in Great Britain

the United States and around the globe Definitive German-American Names By George F Jones 265 pp 1990 $2500 Explains the meaning of names borne by Americans which derive from the German language or its dialects Authorishytative With a dictionary of 12700 names

HEARTHSTONE BOOKSHOP

Timesaving Aid to VirginiashyWest Virginia Ancestors A Genealogical Index of Surshynames from Published Sources By Patrick G Wardell Four volshyumes in one 1985-1990 $3600

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RESEARCH AIDS as found in our exchange fleNsletters and quarterlies

FIRST CENSUS RECORDS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

This should help in seeking the first census

Austria 1815 Greece 1836 Bavaria 1818 Norway 1815 France 1801 Prussia 1810 Great Britain 1851 Russia 1897

Barbara REVERE s111H is interested in TEeting

other descendents of Paul REVERE Write to Barbara REVERE s111H

1787 Sattler DrivebullConcord CA 94519

Persons interested in researching JlrrErican Indian ancestry can find help in the Ft ~rth

Branch of the National Archives fm

PO Box 6212

Ft ~rth Texas 76115

Train passenger 1 ists were printed daily in the

early an Francisco fleNspapers (1870s-1mls) so

friends could TEet the traIn Themiddottirre between

New York and Oakland was 8 days

The Oakland Fami ly HiStory Center has the Old

Parochial Register Index to the 1650 Presbyshy

terian Church---includes all counties of Scotland

in European countries

Saxony 1815 Spain 1798 Sweden 1749 Switzerland 1860

In early land deeds in this country the

names of two witnesses always appear--the

first is in the interest of the husband the second is for the wife wtlich is soreshy

tirres a clue to her maiden name ~

Until 1786 the Episcopal Church was the

State Church of Virginia and all children

were required to be baptized by the ministers regardless of church affiliation bull

t

The Kansas Legislature has released Vital Records prior to 1 July 1911 Records of

ci ty tMl or county clerks can flail be

searched

~a adoption records prior to 1941 are nOli

avai lable You must kl1OY the exact adoption

date fron the county recorder Write to the

presiding judge of the county court state names

of the adoptee and adoptive parents date

of the adoption and state that the record

is in ttle county recorders office---reshy

quest a court order to open the file

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rrnre helpbullbullbullbullbull

LlTHUANrAN RESEARCH The Ba lzekas useum of Li thuanian Culture Library 6500 S Pulaski Road ChLjo IL )u629 holds the largshyest collection of research materials in this country For furshyther information contact them at the above address

SELECTIVE SERVICE RECORDS

World War I Selective Service Records are a seldom used source of genealogical information Almost every male resident of the United States born between the years of 187 and 1900 was required to register for the draft even though he may never have been called to serve Some 24000000 cards containing informashytion on the registrants birthdate race citizenship occupation employer nearest relative martial status and at times more information have been microshyfilmed For information and a request form contact the Archives Branch Federal Records Center 1557 St Joseph Avenue East Point GA 30044 If the individual lived in a metropolitan area ~street address is necessary A fee is charged (From Lake County Genealogical Society - NovDec 1987)

CONCOR-A HISTORICAtTNSTITUTE 801 DeMun~f1Ue St Louis MO 63105 is collecing genealogies of descendants of uneran irnmigrants They invite descencants to deposit a copy of their fa~~ly tree records so that researchers can look at the departure of these Old Lutherans from Europe and also to learn ~lore about the nature of their lives3fter they arrived in the United States They ask that you send a copy of your genealogy and supporting recocls along (iith a cover letter mentioning peraission for the Institute to share your irformation with others -

THE NATLONAL PARK SERVICE has been puttin (lirectory of the Civil liars 35 millior soldiers records on computer~hJ ~roject -ill oe tested this fall at Shiloh Tenn National Military Park ancirtietam National Battlefield in Sharpsshyburg ) All 28 of the park services -1 ~ar 3it0S -Till be processed Names states regiments information where h ~gtnents fOLL5ht soldiers rank and inforrrc -ion if they fought on north or outh is included Historians estimate thal hf of all Americans have relativCs -ltl0 fought in the Civil liar Private genealcy societies will program the names 3aving the -Sovernment $45 million

MEXJCAlgtd WaR VETERANS bullbull For those interested in research i ng these veteram~ there is an organization rHE DESCENDANTS OF NEXICAN WAR VETEUNS 1114 Pacific Richardson Texas 75081 that may be of som ~s_stance Write to thei president Steven RButler at the address listed for further information (Nuggets from Paradise 107)

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and rmre helpbullbullbullbullbullbull

CONFEDERATE RESEARCH The Confederate Research Center answers iilqUlrles by mail Itho~ds the largest collection of its kind in the southwest 3500 books on the Ci~ll ~ar ln~ludlng official records from the Army and Navy It has a comprehens~v7 collectlon on Hoods Texas Brigade including service records of all the unlt s6000 members For further informat~on write to Harold B Simpson Confederate Research Center Hill Junior College Hillsboro T~ 76645

FI-NNI6H-AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY This society was founded in 1962 and is dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of Americas Finnish settlers The society is active in research and publishing and collects and studies oral histories manushyscripts photographs and maps They also have a reference libshyrary For further information write Fi~nish-American Historshyical Society of the West PO Box 5522 Portland OR 97208

JEWISH GERMANS

Jewish Germans can locate old Jewish German communities somewhere in Germany by contacting Leo Baeck Institute 129 E 73d St New York NY 10021

CAtlIFCgtllliiA~HfSTORYINI~)EX I f you~ ancestor 1V1S written middotlbout in a tallfornlt1 county hlscory you mlght want to check J Carlyle PARKERs tl Jol~ An Index to t11e Biographies in the 19th Century Californi county Histories I I f not in YO- library 1 t may be requeste~ ~n inter-library loan

uBBlRroiCOlIGlmSs An article entitled Library of Congress to open collections to local lib~middotj~ if~S in elect~onic ~cces~ plans ~ appeared in the Septrnht 199 J s~ue of Amer~can ~lbrarles The article was written hy ~ames il Bllllngton L1brar~an of Congress since 1987 The art~cle is ~~teresting because 1~ explores ~he methods the Library ~E Congr o 3s is using to make lts collectlon more accessible to Df ~middot +hrr --l--lt the country

TELEPHONE LISTS DATA BASE

Would you like a list of everyone in U S phone books with your surname or a surname you are searching Computer Genealogies Inc will sell you such a mailing list for $1695 Each directory includes a persons full name address city and state All states where that surname appears are included inthe directory Telephone numbers are omitted under agreement with the telephone exchange If you want the phone numbers without making a hundred calls to information your local telephone company will supply them for a per-name fee upon your written request Check that price first

To get the name andaddress list send the surname and your check to Computer Genealogies Inc 129 South Broad St Ste 100 Lansdale PA 19446 An added fee will be charged for a common surname but if your name is rare you may submit two varients for the same fee

L-AGS 310 LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Dear MmJers and Friends of L-AGS

This quarterly contains several pages

of itans which Ie hope will aid you in _

your research These sources have been

gleaned fran the many newletters and quarterlys

Ie receive on an exchange bas i s and can be Welcome New Members

found in our library in Pleasanton One iten

was the anSYer to a problen that has been onshy Erma MCCUE

going for many years middotof our research Felicia ZIOMEK Thanks to Barbara Bunshaw Ie have the

last of the MJrray wnship Precinct nUTter one

and the carplete precinct nUTter 00 voter

registration fran the Great Register of 1896

The Happiestof New Years to you all and

may you add rruch to your Fanily History in the

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fran the Archival Chrooicle Ilcenber 1991 BotIling Green Cllio

-boing HOlDe Finding the Old Country The task of determining the hometown ofan immigrant contain the name age sex occupation the place ofembarshy

ancestor can be difficult when naturalization documents kation (often the hometown) and the final destination for do not fum1sh the information Fortunately other local each passenger Some passenger lists Include the name and government records exist that sometimes provide the ~lIId address of a relative in the homeland Milttary service exact place of origin Beginning in 1850 Census Records and pension JUes may include the birthplace of a foreigIlshyUst the individuals place of birth and beginning in 1880 born soldier Passport applications sometimes contain the they 11st the parents place ofblrth as well While these may exact place of birth of the applicant often give only the country of origin (MFrancel they somemiddot Lucas County fJoardoJElecttons records contain informashytimes 11st what we might consider the province (Wales or tion on foreign- born voters covering naturalizations as early MBavarla for example) as the 1870s through the early 1930s often giving very

The Intemational GenealogicaLIndex(IGI) is an excellent specific Information about the voters date and place of birth survey source to use when an exact locality is not known and that of his family Some records may state MFathers Pub11shed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day papersM indicating that the voters Citizenship was derived Saints (Monnons) in two formats microfiche and compact from his fathers naturalization filed when the voter was still disk the IGI is an index of over 147 million names of a minor himself The fatherS records should then be located deceased individuals Information for the IGI was extracted Researchers also need to remember that national borshyprimarily from original civil and church vital records ders may have changed since their ancestor left the homeshycovering from the 1500s to the 1870s The IGI can allow land Someone from Prussia for instance may have been the user to narrow a focus of research from the country of rccorded as ooGennan M Prussian Polish or RussianM origin to a speci1k province or region depcnding UpOlI the date the information was recorded ~

Church records particularly those with a strong ethnic Nat all repositories hold all types of records and part ofthe community base often supply a wealth of Information cklllenge lies in locating the right resource In order to be listing not~nly places but dates of Important events in the successful at the genealogical research process one must indIviduals life Civil vitaL records biographicaL sources become familiar with the types of information found in a such as county histOries and newspaper obituaries often variety of records and from a wealth of available sources provide clues to a place of origin Passenger lists usually - Stephen M Charter

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~ time 5J(fl(flliiimeif Reviewed by George Anderson

Twenty new books have been added to the LAGS Library in the last quaner One noteworthy book is reviewed in detail and the others are described briefly

The Human Blueprint The Race to Unlock the Secrets of Our Genetic Script 1991 By Robert Shapiro Published by St Martins Press 412+xx pages 6x9 inches hard cover illustratshyed indexed $2495

Genealogy as we practice it now can never be a true science bink of those lines on your pedshyIgree chart that connect child to father No matter how many docshyuments we assemble to prove that one of those lines connects a child with its true father it really boils down to the mothers word about it Unless she was under 24-hour guard by a troop of eushynuchs during the crucial period nine months before nobody but the mother (and not even she sometimes) knows who the real father is As Shakespeare says It is a wise father that knows his own child

Since no discipline that depends on a persons word for its central facts can be a science we have to disqualify present-day genealshyogy Most of us dont care - we get pleasure out of our hobby and we strive for the best availashyble proof but we dont agonize over unprovabilities

The key phrase in the last parashygraph is present-day genealoshygy What will be possible in geshynealogy tomorrow and the day after tomorrow is truly revolushytionary That the subject of Proshy

~ fessor Shapiros book

The Human Blueprint is a marshyvelous book for genealogists It covers the field of human genet-

Our DNA as a script Illustrationfrom New York Times review oirk Human Blueprint

ics from the basics that most of us already know but need reshyfreshing in to the dazzling alshymost incredible possibilities that will open up in the next century when the human genome project is finished The human genome project imshyportant parts of which are being done at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is the central focus of Mr Shapiros book The aim of this IS-year program is to read the entire contents of our genetic blueprint - every chroshymosome every gene every one of the 3 billion base pairs in our DNA The cost will be about one dollar for every base pair but it is a job that will have to be done only once From then on we will have the master plan from which with minor customizing features each one of us was built Medical science will obviously reap the most benefit from the genome project All inherited diseases will be detectable at birth or before genetic counselshying of prospective parents will become exact and even cures will be possible by gene therapy

Certainly none of us taxpayers would be willing to foot the bill for the genome project for the sake of genealogy but the fallout in that subject will be substantial In a broad way the genealogy of humankind will be opened for exact study Mans evolution his wanderings over the millenia the intermarriage of peoples - all can be pieced together in great detail Whenmiddot fragments of anshycient human DNA have been preserved as they are in the desshyiccated bodies of prehistoric Inshydians that Harriet and I saw in the Atacama Desert of Chile we may be in a position much like that of an archeologist who unshycovers the ruins of an ancient palace and finds among the rubshyble the architectural engineering and interior decoration drawings for the building Personal genealogy will become amenable to scientific proof As Emerson said We are the chilshydren of many sires and every drop of blood in us betrays its ancestors He was speaking figshyuratively but if we substitute the words stretch of DNA instead of drop of blood the quote is literally true When the genome

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project is finished and sequenc- whereas the popular literature born and the county in Mississhying of DNA becomes cheap and tends to get tedious about them sippi where they were buried easy we will be able to recon- As genealogists we ought to stay Most of these soldiers are from struct the DNA of our ancestors informed about the human ge- Mississippi although many were - the more distant the cousins nome project not only because it born in other southern states we know about (or identify in a promises us new techniques but Dates of death start from the Civ-DNA data bank) the farther back because what is being learned il War and go to the year 1930 we can go in this recon- This book is the fIrst volshystruction ================== ume of two surnames be-Mr Shapiro is himself an ginning with M-Z will folshyamateur genealogist He il- low This registration is lustrates the future possi- testimony to all the brave bilities in family research Confederate soldiers who with a number of exam- gave their lives for what pIes Suppose Alex Haley they believed in and who had started his research af- are buried in the state of ter the extensive world- Mississippi 1991 225 pp wide DNA data bases are I~~~~t~~~~l ~gt~~~ paper $1800 established By finding Mississippi Will Index where there are local con- 1800-1900 Betty Couch centrations of DNA that Frlcentse~atlljistlllIikel)VJlt)q9ffit19iTI~ Wiltshire A master index match some of his he FCl~st()rs~ a1ewrncarltls Wje1cent ~ltcent~t~J~I~g~ to over 10000 testators would be led directly to from 1800 to 1900 Entries Kunta Kintes village in give the name of the testa-Africa and to other sites in tor year the will was pro-Africa and Europe where bated the county where re-his other ancestors had corded and a citation to lived The amount of infor- FlVfilen all etteJtlSlVe tUl~n1~)nltneWlm ad the source Most wills mation in a persons genes lllUrulOttOUlOty were recorded in will is so huge and the proba- books but some were ~ bility of coincidental found in inventory books matches is so small that marriage books and other the process can truly be re- unusual places some were duced to a science for out of state testators The Human Blueprint is a very will give us a deeper apprecia- with Mississippi heirs 1989212 readable book Mr Shapiro pur- tion of the family relationships pp paper $2000 posely avoids scientifIc jargon we are trying to establish The Death Notices from Freewill He uses a plain language text Human Blueprint is excellent Baptist Publications 1811shywritten in English as a metaphor reading for this purpose 1851 David C Young and Rob-for the sequence of base pairs in ert L Taylor About 12000 ab-DNA pointing out for example The following descriptions of stracts of death notices from six that the genome has as many other new books in the LAGS Li- Freewill Baptists weekly or characters as 250 volumes of the brary are quoted from the pub- monthly periodicals The people Encyclopedia Britannica and lishers catalogs lived mainly in the northeastern that it would take several of US and Canada 1985 453 pp these volumes to hold the charac- index cloth $3500 ters that are different in one indi- FROM HERITAGE BOOKS Pioneer History of the Holland vidual compared to another who Mississippi Confederate Grave Purchase of Western New is unrelated Registrations A-L Betty York Orsamus Turner The fIrst Mr Shapiro is an optimist about Couch Wiltshire This major half of this large work provides a the good that will come from the new work provides an alphabeti- detailed history of the region genome project but he gives due cal listing of Confederate grave while the second half concenshyspace to the arguments of the registrations Information availa- trates on the settlement of the critics of whom there are many ble when known the soldiers Holland Purchase itself There His book does not overempha- names their service units the are several early resident and tax size the moral and philosophical years of birth and death the lists and numerous short bioshyissues raised by the project county or state where they were graphical sketches of key fIgures

Large new name index (1849) reprint 2 vols c740 pp new inshydex paper $4000 Guide to the Historical Records of Oklahoma Bradshyford Koplowitz Identifies and describes public records which span the 1880s through 1920 for all county governments all mushynicipal governments for cities over 5000 people and for smallshyer cities of historical signifishycance Covers Oklahomas earlishyest white settlement as well as Native American records from the states eastern counties Covshyers Commissioners minutes land records probate records civil records divorces marriagshyes criminal records adoptions elections tax rolls school records oil and gas leases etc 1989 189 pp paper $2000 Genealogical Periodical Annushyal Index Key to the Genealogishycal Literature Volumes 25 (1986) through 28 (1989) Lesshylie K Towle and Laird C Towle Genealogical Periodicals contain a wealth of information which genealogists oftentimes overlook thinking they are inaccessible However once you know about the existence of an article you can usually purchase a back issue or photocopy from the publisher of the periodical at nominal cost The trick is to know what has been published and that is where GPAI can be an invaluable tool GPAI is the most comprehensive surname locality and subject inshydex to current English-language genealogical periodicals availashyble The material indexed inshycludes genealogies lineages Bible records source records and all other material of permashynent value including articles on heraldry and research methods In addition all book reviews are indexed under the appropriate surname locality or subject heading thereby giving the index very broad coverage of the geneshyalogical literature Genealogies and related articles are indexed under the name of the progenitor

of the line His or her date of birth or other vital statistic is given along with the names of spouses and the localities where the family lived Source records are indexed under the approprishyate subject or locality heading with a brief description of the records Spouses are crossshyindexed The 1989 edition proshyvides about 12000 citations to 277 periodicals published in 1989 1990270 pp $2000

EVERTON PUBLISHERS Cradled in Sweden by CarlshyErik Johansson $1700 8 12 inches 203 pages Reprint velo binding A practical help to geshynealogical research in Swedish

Records this book includes lanshyguage jurisdictions archives handwriting of old records namshying systems geography and hisshytory of Sweden Parish name changes have also been included

GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY

Finding our Fathers A Guideshybook to Jewish Genealogy By

Dan Rottenberg 415 pp 1986 $1295 Popular guidebook on Jewish genealogy Contains an index to 8000 Jewish family names giving the origins of the names and sources of informashytion on the families In Search of your Canadian Roots By Angus Baxter 368 pp indexed 1989 $1495 Stepshyby-step guide to the sources available for genealogical reshysearch in Canada With chapters on the records and repositories of each of the eleven provinces and the Yukon and Northwest territories Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire By Sybil Noyes Charles T Libshyby and Walter G Davis 5 parts in 1 1795 pp 1988 $3500 Ofshyfers extensive biographical and genealogical data on every fami-

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ly established in Maine and New Hampshire before 1699 touchshying upon thousands of individushyals Pennsylvania German Marshyriages By Donna Irish 817 pp indexed 1984 $4500 Marriage records of about 100 churches in eastern Pennsylvania With docushymentation on 50000 Pennsylvashynia Gennans Michigan Genealogy Sources and Resources By Carol McGinnis 110 pp indexed 1989 $1500 Focuses on holdshyings of societies and institutions whose resources and facilities support genealogical research in each of Michigans 83 counties In Search of your British and Irish Roots By Angus Baxter 304 pp indexed 1989 $1295 A county-by-county guide to tracing your ancestors in the British Isles whether your reshysearch is done in person or by mail Irish Family History By Marishylyn Yurdan 207 pp indexed

1990 $1995 Covers all cateshygories of records in Ireland and picks up the trails of Irish emigrants in Great Britain

the United States and around the globe Definitive German-American Names By George F Jones 265 pp 1990 $2500 Explains the meaning of names borne by Americans which derive from the German language or its dialects Authorishytative With a dictionary of 12700 names

HEARTHSTONE BOOKSHOP

Timesaving Aid to VirginiashyWest Virginia Ancestors A Genealogical Index of Surshynames from Published Sources By Patrick G Wardell Four volshyumes in one 1985-1990 $3600

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RESEARCH AIDS as found in our exchange fleNsletters and quarterlies

FIRST CENSUS RECORDS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

This should help in seeking the first census

Austria 1815 Greece 1836 Bavaria 1818 Norway 1815 France 1801 Prussia 1810 Great Britain 1851 Russia 1897

Barbara REVERE s111H is interested in TEeting

other descendents of Paul REVERE Write to Barbara REVERE s111H

1787 Sattler DrivebullConcord CA 94519

Persons interested in researching JlrrErican Indian ancestry can find help in the Ft ~rth

Branch of the National Archives fm

PO Box 6212

Ft ~rth Texas 76115

Train passenger 1 ists were printed daily in the

early an Francisco fleNspapers (1870s-1mls) so

friends could TEet the traIn Themiddottirre between

New York and Oakland was 8 days

The Oakland Fami ly HiStory Center has the Old

Parochial Register Index to the 1650 Presbyshy

terian Church---includes all counties of Scotland

in European countries

Saxony 1815 Spain 1798 Sweden 1749 Switzerland 1860

In early land deeds in this country the

names of two witnesses always appear--the

first is in the interest of the husband the second is for the wife wtlich is soreshy

tirres a clue to her maiden name ~

Until 1786 the Episcopal Church was the

State Church of Virginia and all children

were required to be baptized by the ministers regardless of church affiliation bull

t

The Kansas Legislature has released Vital Records prior to 1 July 1911 Records of

ci ty tMl or county clerks can flail be

searched

~a adoption records prior to 1941 are nOli

avai lable You must kl1OY the exact adoption

date fron the county recorder Write to the

presiding judge of the county court state names

of the adoptee and adoptive parents date

of the adoption and state that the record

is in ttle county recorders office---reshy

quest a court order to open the file

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rrnre helpbullbullbullbullbull

LlTHUANrAN RESEARCH The Ba lzekas useum of Li thuanian Culture Library 6500 S Pulaski Road ChLjo IL )u629 holds the largshyest collection of research materials in this country For furshyther information contact them at the above address

SELECTIVE SERVICE RECORDS

World War I Selective Service Records are a seldom used source of genealogical information Almost every male resident of the United States born between the years of 187 and 1900 was required to register for the draft even though he may never have been called to serve Some 24000000 cards containing informashytion on the registrants birthdate race citizenship occupation employer nearest relative martial status and at times more information have been microshyfilmed For information and a request form contact the Archives Branch Federal Records Center 1557 St Joseph Avenue East Point GA 30044 If the individual lived in a metropolitan area ~street address is necessary A fee is charged (From Lake County Genealogical Society - NovDec 1987)

CONCOR-A HISTORICAtTNSTITUTE 801 DeMun~f1Ue St Louis MO 63105 is collecing genealogies of descendants of uneran irnmigrants They invite descencants to deposit a copy of their fa~~ly tree records so that researchers can look at the departure of these Old Lutherans from Europe and also to learn ~lore about the nature of their lives3fter they arrived in the United States They ask that you send a copy of your genealogy and supporting recocls along (iith a cover letter mentioning peraission for the Institute to share your irformation with others -

THE NATLONAL PARK SERVICE has been puttin (lirectory of the Civil liars 35 millior soldiers records on computer~hJ ~roject -ill oe tested this fall at Shiloh Tenn National Military Park ancirtietam National Battlefield in Sharpsshyburg ) All 28 of the park services -1 ~ar 3it0S -Till be processed Names states regiments information where h ~gtnents fOLL5ht soldiers rank and inforrrc -ion if they fought on north or outh is included Historians estimate thal hf of all Americans have relativCs -ltl0 fought in the Civil liar Private genealcy societies will program the names 3aving the -Sovernment $45 million

MEXJCAlgtd WaR VETERANS bullbull For those interested in research i ng these veteram~ there is an organization rHE DESCENDANTS OF NEXICAN WAR VETEUNS 1114 Pacific Richardson Texas 75081 that may be of som ~s_stance Write to thei president Steven RButler at the address listed for further information (Nuggets from Paradise 107)

- IlwtoJ J IV

and rmre helpbullbullbullbullbullbull

CONFEDERATE RESEARCH The Confederate Research Center answers iilqUlrles by mail Itho~ds the largest collection of its kind in the southwest 3500 books on the Ci~ll ~ar ln~ludlng official records from the Army and Navy It has a comprehens~v7 collectlon on Hoods Texas Brigade including service records of all the unlt s6000 members For further informat~on write to Harold B Simpson Confederate Research Center Hill Junior College Hillsboro T~ 76645

FI-NNI6H-AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY This society was founded in 1962 and is dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of Americas Finnish settlers The society is active in research and publishing and collects and studies oral histories manushyscripts photographs and maps They also have a reference libshyrary For further information write Fi~nish-American Historshyical Society of the West PO Box 5522 Portland OR 97208

JEWISH GERMANS

Jewish Germans can locate old Jewish German communities somewhere in Germany by contacting Leo Baeck Institute 129 E 73d St New York NY 10021

CAtlIFCgtllliiA~HfSTORYINI~)EX I f you~ ancestor 1V1S written middotlbout in a tallfornlt1 county hlscory you mlght want to check J Carlyle PARKERs tl Jol~ An Index to t11e Biographies in the 19th Century Californi county Histories I I f not in YO- library 1 t may be requeste~ ~n inter-library loan

uBBlRroiCOlIGlmSs An article entitled Library of Congress to open collections to local lib~middotj~ if~S in elect~onic ~cces~ plans ~ appeared in the Septrnht 199 J s~ue of Amer~can ~lbrarles The article was written hy ~ames il Bllllngton L1brar~an of Congress since 1987 The art~cle is ~~teresting because 1~ explores ~he methods the Library ~E Congr o 3s is using to make lts collectlon more accessible to Df ~middot +hrr --l--lt the country

TELEPHONE LISTS DATA BASE

Would you like a list of everyone in U S phone books with your surname or a surname you are searching Computer Genealogies Inc will sell you such a mailing list for $1695 Each directory includes a persons full name address city and state All states where that surname appears are included inthe directory Telephone numbers are omitted under agreement with the telephone exchange If you want the phone numbers without making a hundred calls to information your local telephone company will supply them for a per-name fee upon your written request Check that price first

To get the name andaddress list send the surname and your check to Computer Genealogies Inc 129 South Broad St Ste 100 Lansdale PA 19446 An added fee will be charged for a common surname but if your name is rare you may submit two varients for the same fee

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~ time 5J(fl(flliiimeif Reviewed by George Anderson

Twenty new books have been added to the LAGS Library in the last quaner One noteworthy book is reviewed in detail and the others are described briefly

The Human Blueprint The Race to Unlock the Secrets of Our Genetic Script 1991 By Robert Shapiro Published by St Martins Press 412+xx pages 6x9 inches hard cover illustratshyed indexed $2495

Genealogy as we practice it now can never be a true science bink of those lines on your pedshyIgree chart that connect child to father No matter how many docshyuments we assemble to prove that one of those lines connects a child with its true father it really boils down to the mothers word about it Unless she was under 24-hour guard by a troop of eushynuchs during the crucial period nine months before nobody but the mother (and not even she sometimes) knows who the real father is As Shakespeare says It is a wise father that knows his own child

Since no discipline that depends on a persons word for its central facts can be a science we have to disqualify present-day genealshyogy Most of us dont care - we get pleasure out of our hobby and we strive for the best availashyble proof but we dont agonize over unprovabilities

The key phrase in the last parashygraph is present-day genealoshygy What will be possible in geshynealogy tomorrow and the day after tomorrow is truly revolushytionary That the subject of Proshy

~ fessor Shapiros book

The Human Blueprint is a marshyvelous book for genealogists It covers the field of human genet-

Our DNA as a script Illustrationfrom New York Times review oirk Human Blueprint

ics from the basics that most of us already know but need reshyfreshing in to the dazzling alshymost incredible possibilities that will open up in the next century when the human genome project is finished The human genome project imshyportant parts of which are being done at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is the central focus of Mr Shapiros book The aim of this IS-year program is to read the entire contents of our genetic blueprint - every chroshymosome every gene every one of the 3 billion base pairs in our DNA The cost will be about one dollar for every base pair but it is a job that will have to be done only once From then on we will have the master plan from which with minor customizing features each one of us was built Medical science will obviously reap the most benefit from the genome project All inherited diseases will be detectable at birth or before genetic counselshying of prospective parents will become exact and even cures will be possible by gene therapy

Certainly none of us taxpayers would be willing to foot the bill for the genome project for the sake of genealogy but the fallout in that subject will be substantial In a broad way the genealogy of humankind will be opened for exact study Mans evolution his wanderings over the millenia the intermarriage of peoples - all can be pieced together in great detail Whenmiddot fragments of anshycient human DNA have been preserved as they are in the desshyiccated bodies of prehistoric Inshydians that Harriet and I saw in the Atacama Desert of Chile we may be in a position much like that of an archeologist who unshycovers the ruins of an ancient palace and finds among the rubshyble the architectural engineering and interior decoration drawings for the building Personal genealogy will become amenable to scientific proof As Emerson said We are the chilshydren of many sires and every drop of blood in us betrays its ancestors He was speaking figshyuratively but if we substitute the words stretch of DNA instead of drop of blood the quote is literally true When the genome

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project is finished and sequenc- whereas the popular literature born and the county in Mississhying of DNA becomes cheap and tends to get tedious about them sippi where they were buried easy we will be able to recon- As genealogists we ought to stay Most of these soldiers are from struct the DNA of our ancestors informed about the human ge- Mississippi although many were - the more distant the cousins nome project not only because it born in other southern states we know about (or identify in a promises us new techniques but Dates of death start from the Civ-DNA data bank) the farther back because what is being learned il War and go to the year 1930 we can go in this recon- This book is the fIrst volshystruction ================== ume of two surnames be-Mr Shapiro is himself an ginning with M-Z will folshyamateur genealogist He il- low This registration is lustrates the future possi- testimony to all the brave bilities in family research Confederate soldiers who with a number of exam- gave their lives for what pIes Suppose Alex Haley they believed in and who had started his research af- are buried in the state of ter the extensive world- Mississippi 1991 225 pp wide DNA data bases are I~~~~t~~~~l ~gt~~~ paper $1800 established By finding Mississippi Will Index where there are local con- 1800-1900 Betty Couch centrations of DNA that Frlcentse~atlljistlllIikel)VJlt)q9ffit19iTI~ Wiltshire A master index match some of his he FCl~st()rs~ a1ewrncarltls Wje1cent ~ltcent~t~J~I~g~ to over 10000 testators would be led directly to from 1800 to 1900 Entries Kunta Kintes village in give the name of the testa-Africa and to other sites in tor year the will was pro-Africa and Europe where bated the county where re-his other ancestors had corded and a citation to lived The amount of infor- FlVfilen all etteJtlSlVe tUl~n1~)nltneWlm ad the source Most wills mation in a persons genes lllUrulOttOUlOty were recorded in will is so huge and the proba- books but some were ~ bility of coincidental found in inventory books matches is so small that marriage books and other the process can truly be re- unusual places some were duced to a science for out of state testators The Human Blueprint is a very will give us a deeper apprecia- with Mississippi heirs 1989212 readable book Mr Shapiro pur- tion of the family relationships pp paper $2000 posely avoids scientifIc jargon we are trying to establish The Death Notices from Freewill He uses a plain language text Human Blueprint is excellent Baptist Publications 1811shywritten in English as a metaphor reading for this purpose 1851 David C Young and Rob-for the sequence of base pairs in ert L Taylor About 12000 ab-DNA pointing out for example The following descriptions of stracts of death notices from six that the genome has as many other new books in the LAGS Li- Freewill Baptists weekly or characters as 250 volumes of the brary are quoted from the pub- monthly periodicals The people Encyclopedia Britannica and lishers catalogs lived mainly in the northeastern that it would take several of US and Canada 1985 453 pp these volumes to hold the charac- index cloth $3500 ters that are different in one indi- FROM HERITAGE BOOKS Pioneer History of the Holland vidual compared to another who Mississippi Confederate Grave Purchase of Western New is unrelated Registrations A-L Betty York Orsamus Turner The fIrst Mr Shapiro is an optimist about Couch Wiltshire This major half of this large work provides a the good that will come from the new work provides an alphabeti- detailed history of the region genome project but he gives due cal listing of Confederate grave while the second half concenshyspace to the arguments of the registrations Information availa- trates on the settlement of the critics of whom there are many ble when known the soldiers Holland Purchase itself There His book does not overempha- names their service units the are several early resident and tax size the moral and philosophical years of birth and death the lists and numerous short bioshyissues raised by the project county or state where they were graphical sketches of key fIgures

Large new name index (1849) reprint 2 vols c740 pp new inshydex paper $4000 Guide to the Historical Records of Oklahoma Bradshyford Koplowitz Identifies and describes public records which span the 1880s through 1920 for all county governments all mushynicipal governments for cities over 5000 people and for smallshyer cities of historical signifishycance Covers Oklahomas earlishyest white settlement as well as Native American records from the states eastern counties Covshyers Commissioners minutes land records probate records civil records divorces marriagshyes criminal records adoptions elections tax rolls school records oil and gas leases etc 1989 189 pp paper $2000 Genealogical Periodical Annushyal Index Key to the Genealogishycal Literature Volumes 25 (1986) through 28 (1989) Lesshylie K Towle and Laird C Towle Genealogical Periodicals contain a wealth of information which genealogists oftentimes overlook thinking they are inaccessible However once you know about the existence of an article you can usually purchase a back issue or photocopy from the publisher of the periodical at nominal cost The trick is to know what has been published and that is where GPAI can be an invaluable tool GPAI is the most comprehensive surname locality and subject inshydex to current English-language genealogical periodicals availashyble The material indexed inshycludes genealogies lineages Bible records source records and all other material of permashynent value including articles on heraldry and research methods In addition all book reviews are indexed under the appropriate surname locality or subject heading thereby giving the index very broad coverage of the geneshyalogical literature Genealogies and related articles are indexed under the name of the progenitor

of the line His or her date of birth or other vital statistic is given along with the names of spouses and the localities where the family lived Source records are indexed under the approprishyate subject or locality heading with a brief description of the records Spouses are crossshyindexed The 1989 edition proshyvides about 12000 citations to 277 periodicals published in 1989 1990270 pp $2000

EVERTON PUBLISHERS Cradled in Sweden by CarlshyErik Johansson $1700 8 12 inches 203 pages Reprint velo binding A practical help to geshynealogical research in Swedish

Records this book includes lanshyguage jurisdictions archives handwriting of old records namshying systems geography and hisshytory of Sweden Parish name changes have also been included

GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY

Finding our Fathers A Guideshybook to Jewish Genealogy By

Dan Rottenberg 415 pp 1986 $1295 Popular guidebook on Jewish genealogy Contains an index to 8000 Jewish family names giving the origins of the names and sources of informashytion on the families In Search of your Canadian Roots By Angus Baxter 368 pp indexed 1989 $1495 Stepshyby-step guide to the sources available for genealogical reshysearch in Canada With chapters on the records and repositories of each of the eleven provinces and the Yukon and Northwest territories Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire By Sybil Noyes Charles T Libshyby and Walter G Davis 5 parts in 1 1795 pp 1988 $3500 Ofshyfers extensive biographical and genealogical data on every fami-

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ly established in Maine and New Hampshire before 1699 touchshying upon thousands of individushyals Pennsylvania German Marshyriages By Donna Irish 817 pp indexed 1984 $4500 Marriage records of about 100 churches in eastern Pennsylvania With docushymentation on 50000 Pennsylvashynia Gennans Michigan Genealogy Sources and Resources By Carol McGinnis 110 pp indexed 1989 $1500 Focuses on holdshyings of societies and institutions whose resources and facilities support genealogical research in each of Michigans 83 counties In Search of your British and Irish Roots By Angus Baxter 304 pp indexed 1989 $1295 A county-by-county guide to tracing your ancestors in the British Isles whether your reshysearch is done in person or by mail Irish Family History By Marishylyn Yurdan 207 pp indexed

1990 $1995 Covers all cateshygories of records in Ireland and picks up the trails of Irish emigrants in Great Britain

the United States and around the globe Definitive German-American Names By George F Jones 265 pp 1990 $2500 Explains the meaning of names borne by Americans which derive from the German language or its dialects Authorishytative With a dictionary of 12700 names

HEARTHSTONE BOOKSHOP

Timesaving Aid to VirginiashyWest Virginia Ancestors A Genealogical Index of Surshynames from Published Sources By Patrick G Wardell Four volshyumes in one 1985-1990 $3600

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RESEARCH AIDS as found in our exchange fleNsletters and quarterlies

FIRST CENSUS RECORDS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

This should help in seeking the first census

Austria 1815 Greece 1836 Bavaria 1818 Norway 1815 France 1801 Prussia 1810 Great Britain 1851 Russia 1897

Barbara REVERE s111H is interested in TEeting

other descendents of Paul REVERE Write to Barbara REVERE s111H

1787 Sattler DrivebullConcord CA 94519

Persons interested in researching JlrrErican Indian ancestry can find help in the Ft ~rth

Branch of the National Archives fm

PO Box 6212

Ft ~rth Texas 76115

Train passenger 1 ists were printed daily in the

early an Francisco fleNspapers (1870s-1mls) so

friends could TEet the traIn Themiddottirre between

New York and Oakland was 8 days

The Oakland Fami ly HiStory Center has the Old

Parochial Register Index to the 1650 Presbyshy

terian Church---includes all counties of Scotland

in European countries

Saxony 1815 Spain 1798 Sweden 1749 Switzerland 1860

In early land deeds in this country the

names of two witnesses always appear--the

first is in the interest of the husband the second is for the wife wtlich is soreshy

tirres a clue to her maiden name ~

Until 1786 the Episcopal Church was the

State Church of Virginia and all children

were required to be baptized by the ministers regardless of church affiliation bull

t

The Kansas Legislature has released Vital Records prior to 1 July 1911 Records of

ci ty tMl or county clerks can flail be

searched

~a adoption records prior to 1941 are nOli

avai lable You must kl1OY the exact adoption

date fron the county recorder Write to the

presiding judge of the county court state names

of the adoptee and adoptive parents date

of the adoption and state that the record

is in ttle county recorders office---reshy

quest a court order to open the file

L-AGS 315

rrnre helpbullbullbullbullbull

LlTHUANrAN RESEARCH The Ba lzekas useum of Li thuanian Culture Library 6500 S Pulaski Road ChLjo IL )u629 holds the largshyest collection of research materials in this country For furshyther information contact them at the above address

SELECTIVE SERVICE RECORDS

World War I Selective Service Records are a seldom used source of genealogical information Almost every male resident of the United States born between the years of 187 and 1900 was required to register for the draft even though he may never have been called to serve Some 24000000 cards containing informashytion on the registrants birthdate race citizenship occupation employer nearest relative martial status and at times more information have been microshyfilmed For information and a request form contact the Archives Branch Federal Records Center 1557 St Joseph Avenue East Point GA 30044 If the individual lived in a metropolitan area ~street address is necessary A fee is charged (From Lake County Genealogical Society - NovDec 1987)

CONCOR-A HISTORICAtTNSTITUTE 801 DeMun~f1Ue St Louis MO 63105 is collecing genealogies of descendants of uneran irnmigrants They invite descencants to deposit a copy of their fa~~ly tree records so that researchers can look at the departure of these Old Lutherans from Europe and also to learn ~lore about the nature of their lives3fter they arrived in the United States They ask that you send a copy of your genealogy and supporting recocls along (iith a cover letter mentioning peraission for the Institute to share your irformation with others -

THE NATLONAL PARK SERVICE has been puttin (lirectory of the Civil liars 35 millior soldiers records on computer~hJ ~roject -ill oe tested this fall at Shiloh Tenn National Military Park ancirtietam National Battlefield in Sharpsshyburg ) All 28 of the park services -1 ~ar 3it0S -Till be processed Names states regiments information where h ~gtnents fOLL5ht soldiers rank and inforrrc -ion if they fought on north or outh is included Historians estimate thal hf of all Americans have relativCs -ltl0 fought in the Civil liar Private genealcy societies will program the names 3aving the -Sovernment $45 million

MEXJCAlgtd WaR VETERANS bullbull For those interested in research i ng these veteram~ there is an organization rHE DESCENDANTS OF NEXICAN WAR VETEUNS 1114 Pacific Richardson Texas 75081 that may be of som ~s_stance Write to thei president Steven RButler at the address listed for further information (Nuggets from Paradise 107)

- IlwtoJ J IV

and rmre helpbullbullbullbullbullbull

CONFEDERATE RESEARCH The Confederate Research Center answers iilqUlrles by mail Itho~ds the largest collection of its kind in the southwest 3500 books on the Ci~ll ~ar ln~ludlng official records from the Army and Navy It has a comprehens~v7 collectlon on Hoods Texas Brigade including service records of all the unlt s6000 members For further informat~on write to Harold B Simpson Confederate Research Center Hill Junior College Hillsboro T~ 76645

FI-NNI6H-AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY This society was founded in 1962 and is dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of Americas Finnish settlers The society is active in research and publishing and collects and studies oral histories manushyscripts photographs and maps They also have a reference libshyrary For further information write Fi~nish-American Historshyical Society of the West PO Box 5522 Portland OR 97208

JEWISH GERMANS

Jewish Germans can locate old Jewish German communities somewhere in Germany by contacting Leo Baeck Institute 129 E 73d St New York NY 10021

CAtlIFCgtllliiA~HfSTORYINI~)EX I f you~ ancestor 1V1S written middotlbout in a tallfornlt1 county hlscory you mlght want to check J Carlyle PARKERs tl Jol~ An Index to t11e Biographies in the 19th Century Californi county Histories I I f not in YO- library 1 t may be requeste~ ~n inter-library loan

uBBlRroiCOlIGlmSs An article entitled Library of Congress to open collections to local lib~middotj~ if~S in elect~onic ~cces~ plans ~ appeared in the Septrnht 199 J s~ue of Amer~can ~lbrarles The article was written hy ~ames il Bllllngton L1brar~an of Congress since 1987 The art~cle is ~~teresting because 1~ explores ~he methods the Library ~E Congr o 3s is using to make lts collectlon more accessible to Df ~middot +hrr --l--lt the country

TELEPHONE LISTS DATA BASE

Would you like a list of everyone in U S phone books with your surname or a surname you are searching Computer Genealogies Inc will sell you such a mailing list for $1695 Each directory includes a persons full name address city and state All states where that surname appears are included inthe directory Telephone numbers are omitted under agreement with the telephone exchange If you want the phone numbers without making a hundred calls to information your local telephone company will supply them for a per-name fee upon your written request Check that price first

To get the name andaddress list send the surname and your check to Computer Genealogies Inc 129 South Broad St Ste 100 Lansdale PA 19446 An added fee will be charged for a common surname but if your name is rare you may submit two varients for the same fee

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project is finished and sequenc- whereas the popular literature born and the county in Mississhying of DNA becomes cheap and tends to get tedious about them sippi where they were buried easy we will be able to recon- As genealogists we ought to stay Most of these soldiers are from struct the DNA of our ancestors informed about the human ge- Mississippi although many were - the more distant the cousins nome project not only because it born in other southern states we know about (or identify in a promises us new techniques but Dates of death start from the Civ-DNA data bank) the farther back because what is being learned il War and go to the year 1930 we can go in this recon- This book is the fIrst volshystruction ================== ume of two surnames be-Mr Shapiro is himself an ginning with M-Z will folshyamateur genealogist He il- low This registration is lustrates the future possi- testimony to all the brave bilities in family research Confederate soldiers who with a number of exam- gave their lives for what pIes Suppose Alex Haley they believed in and who had started his research af- are buried in the state of ter the extensive world- Mississippi 1991 225 pp wide DNA data bases are I~~~~t~~~~l ~gt~~~ paper $1800 established By finding Mississippi Will Index where there are local con- 1800-1900 Betty Couch centrations of DNA that Frlcentse~atlljistlllIikel)VJlt)q9ffit19iTI~ Wiltshire A master index match some of his he FCl~st()rs~ a1ewrncarltls Wje1cent ~ltcent~t~J~I~g~ to over 10000 testators would be led directly to from 1800 to 1900 Entries Kunta Kintes village in give the name of the testa-Africa and to other sites in tor year the will was pro-Africa and Europe where bated the county where re-his other ancestors had corded and a citation to lived The amount of infor- FlVfilen all etteJtlSlVe tUl~n1~)nltneWlm ad the source Most wills mation in a persons genes lllUrulOttOUlOty were recorded in will is so huge and the proba- books but some were ~ bility of coincidental found in inventory books matches is so small that marriage books and other the process can truly be re- unusual places some were duced to a science for out of state testators The Human Blueprint is a very will give us a deeper apprecia- with Mississippi heirs 1989212 readable book Mr Shapiro pur- tion of the family relationships pp paper $2000 posely avoids scientifIc jargon we are trying to establish The Death Notices from Freewill He uses a plain language text Human Blueprint is excellent Baptist Publications 1811shywritten in English as a metaphor reading for this purpose 1851 David C Young and Rob-for the sequence of base pairs in ert L Taylor About 12000 ab-DNA pointing out for example The following descriptions of stracts of death notices from six that the genome has as many other new books in the LAGS Li- Freewill Baptists weekly or characters as 250 volumes of the brary are quoted from the pub- monthly periodicals The people Encyclopedia Britannica and lishers catalogs lived mainly in the northeastern that it would take several of US and Canada 1985 453 pp these volumes to hold the charac- index cloth $3500 ters that are different in one indi- FROM HERITAGE BOOKS Pioneer History of the Holland vidual compared to another who Mississippi Confederate Grave Purchase of Western New is unrelated Registrations A-L Betty York Orsamus Turner The fIrst Mr Shapiro is an optimist about Couch Wiltshire This major half of this large work provides a the good that will come from the new work provides an alphabeti- detailed history of the region genome project but he gives due cal listing of Confederate grave while the second half concenshyspace to the arguments of the registrations Information availa- trates on the settlement of the critics of whom there are many ble when known the soldiers Holland Purchase itself There His book does not overempha- names their service units the are several early resident and tax size the moral and philosophical years of birth and death the lists and numerous short bioshyissues raised by the project county or state where they were graphical sketches of key fIgures

Large new name index (1849) reprint 2 vols c740 pp new inshydex paper $4000 Guide to the Historical Records of Oklahoma Bradshyford Koplowitz Identifies and describes public records which span the 1880s through 1920 for all county governments all mushynicipal governments for cities over 5000 people and for smallshyer cities of historical signifishycance Covers Oklahomas earlishyest white settlement as well as Native American records from the states eastern counties Covshyers Commissioners minutes land records probate records civil records divorces marriagshyes criminal records adoptions elections tax rolls school records oil and gas leases etc 1989 189 pp paper $2000 Genealogical Periodical Annushyal Index Key to the Genealogishycal Literature Volumes 25 (1986) through 28 (1989) Lesshylie K Towle and Laird C Towle Genealogical Periodicals contain a wealth of information which genealogists oftentimes overlook thinking they are inaccessible However once you know about the existence of an article you can usually purchase a back issue or photocopy from the publisher of the periodical at nominal cost The trick is to know what has been published and that is where GPAI can be an invaluable tool GPAI is the most comprehensive surname locality and subject inshydex to current English-language genealogical periodicals availashyble The material indexed inshycludes genealogies lineages Bible records source records and all other material of permashynent value including articles on heraldry and research methods In addition all book reviews are indexed under the appropriate surname locality or subject heading thereby giving the index very broad coverage of the geneshyalogical literature Genealogies and related articles are indexed under the name of the progenitor

of the line His or her date of birth or other vital statistic is given along with the names of spouses and the localities where the family lived Source records are indexed under the approprishyate subject or locality heading with a brief description of the records Spouses are crossshyindexed The 1989 edition proshyvides about 12000 citations to 277 periodicals published in 1989 1990270 pp $2000

EVERTON PUBLISHERS Cradled in Sweden by CarlshyErik Johansson $1700 8 12 inches 203 pages Reprint velo binding A practical help to geshynealogical research in Swedish

Records this book includes lanshyguage jurisdictions archives handwriting of old records namshying systems geography and hisshytory of Sweden Parish name changes have also been included

GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY

Finding our Fathers A Guideshybook to Jewish Genealogy By

Dan Rottenberg 415 pp 1986 $1295 Popular guidebook on Jewish genealogy Contains an index to 8000 Jewish family names giving the origins of the names and sources of informashytion on the families In Search of your Canadian Roots By Angus Baxter 368 pp indexed 1989 $1495 Stepshyby-step guide to the sources available for genealogical reshysearch in Canada With chapters on the records and repositories of each of the eleven provinces and the Yukon and Northwest territories Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire By Sybil Noyes Charles T Libshyby and Walter G Davis 5 parts in 1 1795 pp 1988 $3500 Ofshyfers extensive biographical and genealogical data on every fami-

L-AGS 313

ly established in Maine and New Hampshire before 1699 touchshying upon thousands of individushyals Pennsylvania German Marshyriages By Donna Irish 817 pp indexed 1984 $4500 Marriage records of about 100 churches in eastern Pennsylvania With docushymentation on 50000 Pennsylvashynia Gennans Michigan Genealogy Sources and Resources By Carol McGinnis 110 pp indexed 1989 $1500 Focuses on holdshyings of societies and institutions whose resources and facilities support genealogical research in each of Michigans 83 counties In Search of your British and Irish Roots By Angus Baxter 304 pp indexed 1989 $1295 A county-by-county guide to tracing your ancestors in the British Isles whether your reshysearch is done in person or by mail Irish Family History By Marishylyn Yurdan 207 pp indexed

1990 $1995 Covers all cateshygories of records in Ireland and picks up the trails of Irish emigrants in Great Britain

the United States and around the globe Definitive German-American Names By George F Jones 265 pp 1990 $2500 Explains the meaning of names borne by Americans which derive from the German language or its dialects Authorishytative With a dictionary of 12700 names

HEARTHSTONE BOOKSHOP

Timesaving Aid to VirginiashyWest Virginia Ancestors A Genealogical Index of Surshynames from Published Sources By Patrick G Wardell Four volshyumes in one 1985-1990 $3600

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liN3s 314

RESEARCH AIDS as found in our exchange fleNsletters and quarterlies

FIRST CENSUS RECORDS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

This should help in seeking the first census

Austria 1815 Greece 1836 Bavaria 1818 Norway 1815 France 1801 Prussia 1810 Great Britain 1851 Russia 1897

Barbara REVERE s111H is interested in TEeting

other descendents of Paul REVERE Write to Barbara REVERE s111H

1787 Sattler DrivebullConcord CA 94519

Persons interested in researching JlrrErican Indian ancestry can find help in the Ft ~rth

Branch of the National Archives fm

PO Box 6212

Ft ~rth Texas 76115

Train passenger 1 ists were printed daily in the

early an Francisco fleNspapers (1870s-1mls) so

friends could TEet the traIn Themiddottirre between

New York and Oakland was 8 days

The Oakland Fami ly HiStory Center has the Old

Parochial Register Index to the 1650 Presbyshy

terian Church---includes all counties of Scotland

in European countries

Saxony 1815 Spain 1798 Sweden 1749 Switzerland 1860

In early land deeds in this country the

names of two witnesses always appear--the

first is in the interest of the husband the second is for the wife wtlich is soreshy

tirres a clue to her maiden name ~

Until 1786 the Episcopal Church was the

State Church of Virginia and all children

were required to be baptized by the ministers regardless of church affiliation bull

t

The Kansas Legislature has released Vital Records prior to 1 July 1911 Records of

ci ty tMl or county clerks can flail be

searched

~a adoption records prior to 1941 are nOli

avai lable You must kl1OY the exact adoption

date fron the county recorder Write to the

presiding judge of the county court state names

of the adoptee and adoptive parents date

of the adoption and state that the record

is in ttle county recorders office---reshy

quest a court order to open the file

L-AGS 315

rrnre helpbullbullbullbullbull

LlTHUANrAN RESEARCH The Ba lzekas useum of Li thuanian Culture Library 6500 S Pulaski Road ChLjo IL )u629 holds the largshyest collection of research materials in this country For furshyther information contact them at the above address

SELECTIVE SERVICE RECORDS

World War I Selective Service Records are a seldom used source of genealogical information Almost every male resident of the United States born between the years of 187 and 1900 was required to register for the draft even though he may never have been called to serve Some 24000000 cards containing informashytion on the registrants birthdate race citizenship occupation employer nearest relative martial status and at times more information have been microshyfilmed For information and a request form contact the Archives Branch Federal Records Center 1557 St Joseph Avenue East Point GA 30044 If the individual lived in a metropolitan area ~street address is necessary A fee is charged (From Lake County Genealogical Society - NovDec 1987)

CONCOR-A HISTORICAtTNSTITUTE 801 DeMun~f1Ue St Louis MO 63105 is collecing genealogies of descendants of uneran irnmigrants They invite descencants to deposit a copy of their fa~~ly tree records so that researchers can look at the departure of these Old Lutherans from Europe and also to learn ~lore about the nature of their lives3fter they arrived in the United States They ask that you send a copy of your genealogy and supporting recocls along (iith a cover letter mentioning peraission for the Institute to share your irformation with others -

THE NATLONAL PARK SERVICE has been puttin (lirectory of the Civil liars 35 millior soldiers records on computer~hJ ~roject -ill oe tested this fall at Shiloh Tenn National Military Park ancirtietam National Battlefield in Sharpsshyburg ) All 28 of the park services -1 ~ar 3it0S -Till be processed Names states regiments information where h ~gtnents fOLL5ht soldiers rank and inforrrc -ion if they fought on north or outh is included Historians estimate thal hf of all Americans have relativCs -ltl0 fought in the Civil liar Private genealcy societies will program the names 3aving the -Sovernment $45 million

MEXJCAlgtd WaR VETERANS bullbull For those interested in research i ng these veteram~ there is an organization rHE DESCENDANTS OF NEXICAN WAR VETEUNS 1114 Pacific Richardson Texas 75081 that may be of som ~s_stance Write to thei president Steven RButler at the address listed for further information (Nuggets from Paradise 107)

- IlwtoJ J IV

and rmre helpbullbullbullbullbullbull

CONFEDERATE RESEARCH The Confederate Research Center answers iilqUlrles by mail Itho~ds the largest collection of its kind in the southwest 3500 books on the Ci~ll ~ar ln~ludlng official records from the Army and Navy It has a comprehens~v7 collectlon on Hoods Texas Brigade including service records of all the unlt s6000 members For further informat~on write to Harold B Simpson Confederate Research Center Hill Junior College Hillsboro T~ 76645

FI-NNI6H-AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY This society was founded in 1962 and is dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of Americas Finnish settlers The society is active in research and publishing and collects and studies oral histories manushyscripts photographs and maps They also have a reference libshyrary For further information write Fi~nish-American Historshyical Society of the West PO Box 5522 Portland OR 97208

JEWISH GERMANS

Jewish Germans can locate old Jewish German communities somewhere in Germany by contacting Leo Baeck Institute 129 E 73d St New York NY 10021

CAtlIFCgtllliiA~HfSTORYINI~)EX I f you~ ancestor 1V1S written middotlbout in a tallfornlt1 county hlscory you mlght want to check J Carlyle PARKERs tl Jol~ An Index to t11e Biographies in the 19th Century Californi county Histories I I f not in YO- library 1 t may be requeste~ ~n inter-library loan

uBBlRroiCOlIGlmSs An article entitled Library of Congress to open collections to local lib~middotj~ if~S in elect~onic ~cces~ plans ~ appeared in the Septrnht 199 J s~ue of Amer~can ~lbrarles The article was written hy ~ames il Bllllngton L1brar~an of Congress since 1987 The art~cle is ~~teresting because 1~ explores ~he methods the Library ~E Congr o 3s is using to make lts collectlon more accessible to Df ~middot +hrr --l--lt the country

TELEPHONE LISTS DATA BASE

Would you like a list of everyone in U S phone books with your surname or a surname you are searching Computer Genealogies Inc will sell you such a mailing list for $1695 Each directory includes a persons full name address city and state All states where that surname appears are included inthe directory Telephone numbers are omitted under agreement with the telephone exchange If you want the phone numbers without making a hundred calls to information your local telephone company will supply them for a per-name fee upon your written request Check that price first

To get the name andaddress list send the surname and your check to Computer Genealogies Inc 129 South Broad St Ste 100 Lansdale PA 19446 An added fee will be charged for a common surname but if your name is rare you may submit two varients for the same fee

Large new name index (1849) reprint 2 vols c740 pp new inshydex paper $4000 Guide to the Historical Records of Oklahoma Bradshyford Koplowitz Identifies and describes public records which span the 1880s through 1920 for all county governments all mushynicipal governments for cities over 5000 people and for smallshyer cities of historical signifishycance Covers Oklahomas earlishyest white settlement as well as Native American records from the states eastern counties Covshyers Commissioners minutes land records probate records civil records divorces marriagshyes criminal records adoptions elections tax rolls school records oil and gas leases etc 1989 189 pp paper $2000 Genealogical Periodical Annushyal Index Key to the Genealogishycal Literature Volumes 25 (1986) through 28 (1989) Lesshylie K Towle and Laird C Towle Genealogical Periodicals contain a wealth of information which genealogists oftentimes overlook thinking they are inaccessible However once you know about the existence of an article you can usually purchase a back issue or photocopy from the publisher of the periodical at nominal cost The trick is to know what has been published and that is where GPAI can be an invaluable tool GPAI is the most comprehensive surname locality and subject inshydex to current English-language genealogical periodicals availashyble The material indexed inshycludes genealogies lineages Bible records source records and all other material of permashynent value including articles on heraldry and research methods In addition all book reviews are indexed under the appropriate surname locality or subject heading thereby giving the index very broad coverage of the geneshyalogical literature Genealogies and related articles are indexed under the name of the progenitor

of the line His or her date of birth or other vital statistic is given along with the names of spouses and the localities where the family lived Source records are indexed under the approprishyate subject or locality heading with a brief description of the records Spouses are crossshyindexed The 1989 edition proshyvides about 12000 citations to 277 periodicals published in 1989 1990270 pp $2000

EVERTON PUBLISHERS Cradled in Sweden by CarlshyErik Johansson $1700 8 12 inches 203 pages Reprint velo binding A practical help to geshynealogical research in Swedish

Records this book includes lanshyguage jurisdictions archives handwriting of old records namshying systems geography and hisshytory of Sweden Parish name changes have also been included

GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY

Finding our Fathers A Guideshybook to Jewish Genealogy By

Dan Rottenberg 415 pp 1986 $1295 Popular guidebook on Jewish genealogy Contains an index to 8000 Jewish family names giving the origins of the names and sources of informashytion on the families In Search of your Canadian Roots By Angus Baxter 368 pp indexed 1989 $1495 Stepshyby-step guide to the sources available for genealogical reshysearch in Canada With chapters on the records and repositories of each of the eleven provinces and the Yukon and Northwest territories Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire By Sybil Noyes Charles T Libshyby and Walter G Davis 5 parts in 1 1795 pp 1988 $3500 Ofshyfers extensive biographical and genealogical data on every fami-

L-AGS 313

ly established in Maine and New Hampshire before 1699 touchshying upon thousands of individushyals Pennsylvania German Marshyriages By Donna Irish 817 pp indexed 1984 $4500 Marriage records of about 100 churches in eastern Pennsylvania With docushymentation on 50000 Pennsylvashynia Gennans Michigan Genealogy Sources and Resources By Carol McGinnis 110 pp indexed 1989 $1500 Focuses on holdshyings of societies and institutions whose resources and facilities support genealogical research in each of Michigans 83 counties In Search of your British and Irish Roots By Angus Baxter 304 pp indexed 1989 $1295 A county-by-county guide to tracing your ancestors in the British Isles whether your reshysearch is done in person or by mail Irish Family History By Marishylyn Yurdan 207 pp indexed

1990 $1995 Covers all cateshygories of records in Ireland and picks up the trails of Irish emigrants in Great Britain

the United States and around the globe Definitive German-American Names By George F Jones 265 pp 1990 $2500 Explains the meaning of names borne by Americans which derive from the German language or its dialects Authorishytative With a dictionary of 12700 names

HEARTHSTONE BOOKSHOP

Timesaving Aid to VirginiashyWest Virginia Ancestors A Genealogical Index of Surshynames from Published Sources By Patrick G Wardell Four volshyumes in one 1985-1990 $3600

-----------------------------------------

liN3s 314

RESEARCH AIDS as found in our exchange fleNsletters and quarterlies

FIRST CENSUS RECORDS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

This should help in seeking the first census

Austria 1815 Greece 1836 Bavaria 1818 Norway 1815 France 1801 Prussia 1810 Great Britain 1851 Russia 1897

Barbara REVERE s111H is interested in TEeting

other descendents of Paul REVERE Write to Barbara REVERE s111H

1787 Sattler DrivebullConcord CA 94519

Persons interested in researching JlrrErican Indian ancestry can find help in the Ft ~rth

Branch of the National Archives fm

PO Box 6212

Ft ~rth Texas 76115

Train passenger 1 ists were printed daily in the

early an Francisco fleNspapers (1870s-1mls) so

friends could TEet the traIn Themiddottirre between

New York and Oakland was 8 days

The Oakland Fami ly HiStory Center has the Old

Parochial Register Index to the 1650 Presbyshy

terian Church---includes all counties of Scotland

in European countries

Saxony 1815 Spain 1798 Sweden 1749 Switzerland 1860

In early land deeds in this country the

names of two witnesses always appear--the

first is in the interest of the husband the second is for the wife wtlich is soreshy

tirres a clue to her maiden name ~

Until 1786 the Episcopal Church was the

State Church of Virginia and all children

were required to be baptized by the ministers regardless of church affiliation bull

t

The Kansas Legislature has released Vital Records prior to 1 July 1911 Records of

ci ty tMl or county clerks can flail be

searched

~a adoption records prior to 1941 are nOli

avai lable You must kl1OY the exact adoption

date fron the county recorder Write to the

presiding judge of the county court state names

of the adoptee and adoptive parents date

of the adoption and state that the record

is in ttle county recorders office---reshy

quest a court order to open the file

L-AGS 315

rrnre helpbullbullbullbullbull

LlTHUANrAN RESEARCH The Ba lzekas useum of Li thuanian Culture Library 6500 S Pulaski Road ChLjo IL )u629 holds the largshyest collection of research materials in this country For furshyther information contact them at the above address

SELECTIVE SERVICE RECORDS

World War I Selective Service Records are a seldom used source of genealogical information Almost every male resident of the United States born between the years of 187 and 1900 was required to register for the draft even though he may never have been called to serve Some 24000000 cards containing informashytion on the registrants birthdate race citizenship occupation employer nearest relative martial status and at times more information have been microshyfilmed For information and a request form contact the Archives Branch Federal Records Center 1557 St Joseph Avenue East Point GA 30044 If the individual lived in a metropolitan area ~street address is necessary A fee is charged (From Lake County Genealogical Society - NovDec 1987)

CONCOR-A HISTORICAtTNSTITUTE 801 DeMun~f1Ue St Louis MO 63105 is collecing genealogies of descendants of uneran irnmigrants They invite descencants to deposit a copy of their fa~~ly tree records so that researchers can look at the departure of these Old Lutherans from Europe and also to learn ~lore about the nature of their lives3fter they arrived in the United States They ask that you send a copy of your genealogy and supporting recocls along (iith a cover letter mentioning peraission for the Institute to share your irformation with others -

THE NATLONAL PARK SERVICE has been puttin (lirectory of the Civil liars 35 millior soldiers records on computer~hJ ~roject -ill oe tested this fall at Shiloh Tenn National Military Park ancirtietam National Battlefield in Sharpsshyburg ) All 28 of the park services -1 ~ar 3it0S -Till be processed Names states regiments information where h ~gtnents fOLL5ht soldiers rank and inforrrc -ion if they fought on north or outh is included Historians estimate thal hf of all Americans have relativCs -ltl0 fought in the Civil liar Private genealcy societies will program the names 3aving the -Sovernment $45 million

MEXJCAlgtd WaR VETERANS bullbull For those interested in research i ng these veteram~ there is an organization rHE DESCENDANTS OF NEXICAN WAR VETEUNS 1114 Pacific Richardson Texas 75081 that may be of som ~s_stance Write to thei president Steven RButler at the address listed for further information (Nuggets from Paradise 107)

- IlwtoJ J IV

and rmre helpbullbullbullbullbullbull

CONFEDERATE RESEARCH The Confederate Research Center answers iilqUlrles by mail Itho~ds the largest collection of its kind in the southwest 3500 books on the Ci~ll ~ar ln~ludlng official records from the Army and Navy It has a comprehens~v7 collectlon on Hoods Texas Brigade including service records of all the unlt s6000 members For further informat~on write to Harold B Simpson Confederate Research Center Hill Junior College Hillsboro T~ 76645

FI-NNI6H-AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY This society was founded in 1962 and is dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of Americas Finnish settlers The society is active in research and publishing and collects and studies oral histories manushyscripts photographs and maps They also have a reference libshyrary For further information write Fi~nish-American Historshyical Society of the West PO Box 5522 Portland OR 97208

JEWISH GERMANS

Jewish Germans can locate old Jewish German communities somewhere in Germany by contacting Leo Baeck Institute 129 E 73d St New York NY 10021

CAtlIFCgtllliiA~HfSTORYINI~)EX I f you~ ancestor 1V1S written middotlbout in a tallfornlt1 county hlscory you mlght want to check J Carlyle PARKERs tl Jol~ An Index to t11e Biographies in the 19th Century Californi county Histories I I f not in YO- library 1 t may be requeste~ ~n inter-library loan

uBBlRroiCOlIGlmSs An article entitled Library of Congress to open collections to local lib~middotj~ if~S in elect~onic ~cces~ plans ~ appeared in the Septrnht 199 J s~ue of Amer~can ~lbrarles The article was written hy ~ames il Bllllngton L1brar~an of Congress since 1987 The art~cle is ~~teresting because 1~ explores ~he methods the Library ~E Congr o 3s is using to make lts collectlon more accessible to Df ~middot +hrr --l--lt the country

TELEPHONE LISTS DATA BASE

Would you like a list of everyone in U S phone books with your surname or a surname you are searching Computer Genealogies Inc will sell you such a mailing list for $1695 Each directory includes a persons full name address city and state All states where that surname appears are included inthe directory Telephone numbers are omitted under agreement with the telephone exchange If you want the phone numbers without making a hundred calls to information your local telephone company will supply them for a per-name fee upon your written request Check that price first

To get the name andaddress list send the surname and your check to Computer Genealogies Inc 129 South Broad St Ste 100 Lansdale PA 19446 An added fee will be charged for a common surname but if your name is rare you may submit two varients for the same fee

-----------------------------------------

liN3s 314

RESEARCH AIDS as found in our exchange fleNsletters and quarterlies

FIRST CENSUS RECORDS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

This should help in seeking the first census

Austria 1815 Greece 1836 Bavaria 1818 Norway 1815 France 1801 Prussia 1810 Great Britain 1851 Russia 1897

Barbara REVERE s111H is interested in TEeting

other descendents of Paul REVERE Write to Barbara REVERE s111H

1787 Sattler DrivebullConcord CA 94519

Persons interested in researching JlrrErican Indian ancestry can find help in the Ft ~rth

Branch of the National Archives fm

PO Box 6212

Ft ~rth Texas 76115

Train passenger 1 ists were printed daily in the

early an Francisco fleNspapers (1870s-1mls) so

friends could TEet the traIn Themiddottirre between

New York and Oakland was 8 days

The Oakland Fami ly HiStory Center has the Old

Parochial Register Index to the 1650 Presbyshy

terian Church---includes all counties of Scotland

in European countries

Saxony 1815 Spain 1798 Sweden 1749 Switzerland 1860

In early land deeds in this country the

names of two witnesses always appear--the

first is in the interest of the husband the second is for the wife wtlich is soreshy

tirres a clue to her maiden name ~

Until 1786 the Episcopal Church was the

State Church of Virginia and all children

were required to be baptized by the ministers regardless of church affiliation bull

t

The Kansas Legislature has released Vital Records prior to 1 July 1911 Records of

ci ty tMl or county clerks can flail be

searched

~a adoption records prior to 1941 are nOli

avai lable You must kl1OY the exact adoption

date fron the county recorder Write to the

presiding judge of the county court state names

of the adoptee and adoptive parents date

of the adoption and state that the record

is in ttle county recorders office---reshy

quest a court order to open the file

L-AGS 315

rrnre helpbullbullbullbullbull

LlTHUANrAN RESEARCH The Ba lzekas useum of Li thuanian Culture Library 6500 S Pulaski Road ChLjo IL )u629 holds the largshyest collection of research materials in this country For furshyther information contact them at the above address

SELECTIVE SERVICE RECORDS

World War I Selective Service Records are a seldom used source of genealogical information Almost every male resident of the United States born between the years of 187 and 1900 was required to register for the draft even though he may never have been called to serve Some 24000000 cards containing informashytion on the registrants birthdate race citizenship occupation employer nearest relative martial status and at times more information have been microshyfilmed For information and a request form contact the Archives Branch Federal Records Center 1557 St Joseph Avenue East Point GA 30044 If the individual lived in a metropolitan area ~street address is necessary A fee is charged (From Lake County Genealogical Society - NovDec 1987)

CONCOR-A HISTORICAtTNSTITUTE 801 DeMun~f1Ue St Louis MO 63105 is collecing genealogies of descendants of uneran irnmigrants They invite descencants to deposit a copy of their fa~~ly tree records so that researchers can look at the departure of these Old Lutherans from Europe and also to learn ~lore about the nature of their lives3fter they arrived in the United States They ask that you send a copy of your genealogy and supporting recocls along (iith a cover letter mentioning peraission for the Institute to share your irformation with others -

THE NATLONAL PARK SERVICE has been puttin (lirectory of the Civil liars 35 millior soldiers records on computer~hJ ~roject -ill oe tested this fall at Shiloh Tenn National Military Park ancirtietam National Battlefield in Sharpsshyburg ) All 28 of the park services -1 ~ar 3it0S -Till be processed Names states regiments information where h ~gtnents fOLL5ht soldiers rank and inforrrc -ion if they fought on north or outh is included Historians estimate thal hf of all Americans have relativCs -ltl0 fought in the Civil liar Private genealcy societies will program the names 3aving the -Sovernment $45 million

MEXJCAlgtd WaR VETERANS bullbull For those interested in research i ng these veteram~ there is an organization rHE DESCENDANTS OF NEXICAN WAR VETEUNS 1114 Pacific Richardson Texas 75081 that may be of som ~s_stance Write to thei president Steven RButler at the address listed for further information (Nuggets from Paradise 107)

- IlwtoJ J IV

and rmre helpbullbullbullbullbullbull

CONFEDERATE RESEARCH The Confederate Research Center answers iilqUlrles by mail Itho~ds the largest collection of its kind in the southwest 3500 books on the Ci~ll ~ar ln~ludlng official records from the Army and Navy It has a comprehens~v7 collectlon on Hoods Texas Brigade including service records of all the unlt s6000 members For further informat~on write to Harold B Simpson Confederate Research Center Hill Junior College Hillsboro T~ 76645

FI-NNI6H-AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY This society was founded in 1962 and is dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of Americas Finnish settlers The society is active in research and publishing and collects and studies oral histories manushyscripts photographs and maps They also have a reference libshyrary For further information write Fi~nish-American Historshyical Society of the West PO Box 5522 Portland OR 97208

JEWISH GERMANS

Jewish Germans can locate old Jewish German communities somewhere in Germany by contacting Leo Baeck Institute 129 E 73d St New York NY 10021

CAtlIFCgtllliiA~HfSTORYINI~)EX I f you~ ancestor 1V1S written middotlbout in a tallfornlt1 county hlscory you mlght want to check J Carlyle PARKERs tl Jol~ An Index to t11e Biographies in the 19th Century Californi county Histories I I f not in YO- library 1 t may be requeste~ ~n inter-library loan

uBBlRroiCOlIGlmSs An article entitled Library of Congress to open collections to local lib~middotj~ if~S in elect~onic ~cces~ plans ~ appeared in the Septrnht 199 J s~ue of Amer~can ~lbrarles The article was written hy ~ames il Bllllngton L1brar~an of Congress since 1987 The art~cle is ~~teresting because 1~ explores ~he methods the Library ~E Congr o 3s is using to make lts collectlon more accessible to Df ~middot +hrr --l--lt the country

TELEPHONE LISTS DATA BASE

Would you like a list of everyone in U S phone books with your surname or a surname you are searching Computer Genealogies Inc will sell you such a mailing list for $1695 Each directory includes a persons full name address city and state All states where that surname appears are included inthe directory Telephone numbers are omitted under agreement with the telephone exchange If you want the phone numbers without making a hundred calls to information your local telephone company will supply them for a per-name fee upon your written request Check that price first

To get the name andaddress list send the surname and your check to Computer Genealogies Inc 129 South Broad St Ste 100 Lansdale PA 19446 An added fee will be charged for a common surname but if your name is rare you may submit two varients for the same fee

L-AGS 315

rrnre helpbullbullbullbullbull

LlTHUANrAN RESEARCH The Ba lzekas useum of Li thuanian Culture Library 6500 S Pulaski Road ChLjo IL )u629 holds the largshyest collection of research materials in this country For furshyther information contact them at the above address

SELECTIVE SERVICE RECORDS

World War I Selective Service Records are a seldom used source of genealogical information Almost every male resident of the United States born between the years of 187 and 1900 was required to register for the draft even though he may never have been called to serve Some 24000000 cards containing informashytion on the registrants birthdate race citizenship occupation employer nearest relative martial status and at times more information have been microshyfilmed For information and a request form contact the Archives Branch Federal Records Center 1557 St Joseph Avenue East Point GA 30044 If the individual lived in a metropolitan area ~street address is necessary A fee is charged (From Lake County Genealogical Society - NovDec 1987)

CONCOR-A HISTORICAtTNSTITUTE 801 DeMun~f1Ue St Louis MO 63105 is collecing genealogies of descendants of uneran irnmigrants They invite descencants to deposit a copy of their fa~~ly tree records so that researchers can look at the departure of these Old Lutherans from Europe and also to learn ~lore about the nature of their lives3fter they arrived in the United States They ask that you send a copy of your genealogy and supporting recocls along (iith a cover letter mentioning peraission for the Institute to share your irformation with others -

THE NATLONAL PARK SERVICE has been puttin (lirectory of the Civil liars 35 millior soldiers records on computer~hJ ~roject -ill oe tested this fall at Shiloh Tenn National Military Park ancirtietam National Battlefield in Sharpsshyburg ) All 28 of the park services -1 ~ar 3it0S -Till be processed Names states regiments information where h ~gtnents fOLL5ht soldiers rank and inforrrc -ion if they fought on north or outh is included Historians estimate thal hf of all Americans have relativCs -ltl0 fought in the Civil liar Private genealcy societies will program the names 3aving the -Sovernment $45 million

MEXJCAlgtd WaR VETERANS bullbull For those interested in research i ng these veteram~ there is an organization rHE DESCENDANTS OF NEXICAN WAR VETEUNS 1114 Pacific Richardson Texas 75081 that may be of som ~s_stance Write to thei president Steven RButler at the address listed for further information (Nuggets from Paradise 107)

- IlwtoJ J IV

and rmre helpbullbullbullbullbullbull

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CONFEDERATE RESEARCH The Confederate Research Center answers iilqUlrles by mail Itho~ds the largest collection of its kind in the southwest 3500 books on the Ci~ll ~ar ln~ludlng official records from the Army and Navy It has a comprehens~v7 collectlon on Hoods Texas Brigade including service records of all the unlt s6000 members For further informat~on write to Harold B Simpson Confederate Research Center Hill Junior College Hillsboro T~ 76645

FI-NNI6H-AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY This society was founded in 1962 and is dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of Americas Finnish settlers The society is active in research and publishing and collects and studies oral histories manushyscripts photographs and maps They also have a reference libshyrary For further information write Fi~nish-American Historshyical Society of the West PO Box 5522 Portland OR 97208

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CAtlIFCgtllliiA~HfSTORYINI~)EX I f you~ ancestor 1V1S written middotlbout in a tallfornlt1 county hlscory you mlght want to check J Carlyle PARKERs tl Jol~ An Index to t11e Biographies in the 19th Century Californi county Histories I I f not in YO- library 1 t may be requeste~ ~n inter-library loan

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The term Black Dutch~ was used in reference to the Sephardic Jews who intermarried with

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often overlook~d Hel Orlean- pClssenger aLLival indexei may provide immigration records for your hard to find ancestors The indee~ are fot 1853 to 1899 and contain not only French but also Irish German and Scandinavian imrniltnants by the thousands Iher~ (Ire ~~~ls (Family History Cent~r No~

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L-AGS 323

Members are current~y ~ooking poundor these surnames

Susan SCHOCK 121 Twin Oaks Lane Livermore CA 94550

WAGER (Dutch-Hudson River Valley) CONNER (possibly CONNER - Ulster Co NY) TERPENNING( Dutch-Hudson River Valley)

James O SCHUYLER 878 Cordilleras Ave San Carlos CA 94070

OWEN TAYLOR LUDWIG DUTCHER Murray Twp and Livermore Alameda Co 1865-1950

Mildred (Millie) FREITAS 607 Diablo Road Danville CA 94526

FREITAS KING Pleasanton and Southern Alameda County

Wm and Faith STEINKRAUS 8422 Rhoda Ave Dublin CA 94568

WEBSTER (CT amp NY)TRUESDELLL (NY) PARROTT (MICan) STEINKRAUS SONNENBERG (HI amp Germany)

Ralph CROUSE 8000 Cottonwood Ln Sacramento CA 95828

SILVAS amp VALENZUELA (CA) CROUSE amp SCHALK (PA) MYERS (IN) MOLFINO (CA)

Dorothy HELMS 2216 Broadmoor st Livermore CA 94500-1108

PARNELL MC HANUS ROBBINS TAYLOR Van Zandt Co TX Newton Co MO Marshall Co Tenn Rowan Co NC

Stephen Robert Renouf 871 Hanover st Livermore CA 94550

RENOUF STEVENS BLUE LITTLEFIELD HARRIS POWLEDGE PAULITSCH USINA OLIVEROS

England Scotland Wales English Channel Islands Henorca(Spain) FL GA AL Hass NC

David C and Linda Markham Curry 1759 Walnut st Liv CA 94550

MARKHAM (CA WA) MCGILL (II IN) THOMPSON (CA MO) ENGLAND (IL IN)

L-AGS 324

MEET THE MEMBERS LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

MY NAME Louise STANTON CONVERSE

BORN 29 Mar 1923 Hove LeFlore Co OK

SPOUSE Loren Blair CONVERSE

BORN 14 Dec 1916 San Francisco CA Died 10 Jun 1974

MARRIED 31 May 1939

I GREW UP Surgoinsville Havkins Co TN

SPOUSE GREW UP Cincinnati Hamilton Co OH

WE HAVE LIVED Ohio Texas TN CA

OUR CHILDREN Name Born

Francis Jerome Loren Douglas Leonard Dennis David Stanton Beverly Gaye

24 Nov 31 Mar 31 Mar 7 Sep 1 Aug

1940 1946 1946 1950 1951

died 15 Jan 1973

SURNAMES

Fathers line STANTON BLAKEMAN COLE WHEATON FARMER CHAMBERLAIN LAPHAM FREEMAN PERRY BOWEN RUSSELL KNIGHT MASON LORD

Mothers line JOHNSON HAWKS COMBS EDWARDS LEWIS PAYNE WILLS JONES WEBB PRUITT

Spouses Fathers line CONVERSE SHOEMAKER NEWTON SMITH

Spouses Mothers line JOHNSON OTSTOTT SHENABERGER SHAFFER

LOCALES OF INTEREST Virginia North Carolina Indiana Ohio PA Mass CT NY

BECAME INTERESTED IN GENEALOGY When I vas a young adult I become interested in locating my Fathers family I had never knovn any of them since my Father died vhen I vas about tvo years old After I located an uncle and several cousins I just kept going

Submitted by

Louise S Converse 3925 Perdue Way Livermore CA 94550

Date 12 Oct 1991

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CALIFORNIA ~EARCa

Early California research is far different from early research in New England the Southern states O~ even the Midshywest and it is understandable when one stops to con~ider California was not even made a state until 1850

California does not have a F2~Fi~1 CenSU6 from 1790 to 1840 but they do have a 1798 census corn2iiing tiiG population of what is now San Francisco santa Clara San Jose and Santa Cruz with a copy in the California state Libr~r Th6 m~ssion population was taken at four missions during ClE late J7Os and these are in tJle California state Archives IIi ell copLes cf some available from the Family History Libra~y 011 microfilm rhe Federal census began in 1850 and the only state cens~s was taken in 1852

Early Spanish-Mexican land gra~t records can be found at the state Archives in 16 volumes of transripts and translations of the land grant document files sUbmitted 10 the United states Land Commission Once land was transferred by Spanish-Mexican land grants Federal land grants or state-owned land grants to private parties it could be handled the same as any other land transaction and recorded by the county recorders

The California state Library has a large collection of California newspapers and some are available on inter-library loan Sacramento state University Library also has a newspaper collection available for research The Genealogical Association of Sacramentos Bee Index Project which extracted all vital statistics from the Sacramento Bee Newspaper from 1857 to 1905 is available at the California state Library as well as several other locations and is a handy tool in finding the exact issue and page number The Sacramento Bee covered not only Sacrashymento but included entries from San Francisco and the Mother Lode

California books including California County Histories early pioneer diaries and other pape~s are in the California Room of the State Library and are availabe for research and there is an extensive card catalogue available to the library patron Many of the books are not available on open shelves but may be requested and will be brought out L Jr yeur pe~~sal

From 1866 each voter was requi=8d to register with the county clerk and if searching [01- d lIale ancestor you may be in luck Star-ting in 1892 a new LHv = dldctcl_ chat required a physical deser ipt ion sparse but t ~ it 1( ered height color of hair and complexion and 111( physiCtl impairments

Much of the above has been m~8 [i 111e bull the Family History Library and is available at their L drary alld through their Family His~ory Centers

Some of this information has been extr0ctlxl from The Genealogical Library Patron Aid series B no 702 copyright 1987 by the Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

GAS LITES

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MEET THE MEMBERS first published in the Roots Tracer Sl1TT1Er 1982

My narre is Beverly louise (SCHEll) ALES I was born in a private house in Sandusky Ohio 7 April

1929 I was the first born with my brother Rayrrond 0 follONing the next year 7 August 1930

My parents were Otto Henrik SCHEll (1894-1952) and Olga Caroline OSTERGAARD )1904-) My father

adopted the narre SCHE II upon finding his father I s irrrnigration papers read the narre SCHEll instead

of SCHAlKE which he had been using as a chi ld His father ludwig SCHALKE (1865 middotmiddot1939) had

care fran Prussia and lived in Cleveland Ohio as a machinist His rrother Louise FLATING SCHAlKE

(1866-1938) also arrived fran Prussia and later the family rroved to (poundneva Ohio to fann I am

trying to locate the birth place of both my fathers parents in lthat is fIOI Poland

My rrothers family OSTERGAARD and PEHRS(J-J ten children is large extensive and vorld wide

reflecting a Scandinavian background of Danes and Swedes My rrother and her siblings were born

in Aalborg Dermark and lived as a family for many years until the lure of jobs brought sare of than

to the United States There are sti 11 nieces and cousins living in Dermark and I have been correshy

sponding with than and have received ITUch infonnation An interesting itan we discovered

that the fami ly narre PEERSCJII spelled this way in Seden (because my great-grandfather was

Swedish) was changed to PEI1RSaJ (the Danish spelling) when the children Here baptized

I have been married and have lived in Pleasanton for 27 years (1982) to my husband Joseph

John (1927-) and three children Nancy Ann 1957- Peter Michael (1958-) and Ann Elizabeth (1960-)

Family nillEs ALES MALVINI GAt-CI M)SC(jE (M)SCCNI) GIORDANO CMCILLA

I first leamed about genealogy fran Mr PYLES adult education class through the Livenmre

School District I had been attracted to it because of my husbands equally large Italian family

After several reunions I decided I needed sore help to research the families

Discovering papers of my fathers and his fathers military records citizenship papers and

yellOleurod news clippings Here a delight as I had no thought that these papers ahd been saved by

others and Here nON to becare a part of my heritage Having few relatives near rre as a child though

there Here many I feel a kinship with the narres on paper I have had over the years a chance to

visit these many relatives in Europe and the family tree links us all together

My husband and I are travel ing to Europe this can~ng year where He wi 11 be investigating

records in Sicily Poland and Dermark

A A

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Members are current~y ~ooking poundor these surnames

Susan SCHOCK 121 Twin Oaks Lane Livermore CA 94550

WAGER (Dutch-Hudson River Valley) CONNER (possibly CONNER - Ulster Co NY) TERPENNING( Dutch-Hudson River Valley)

James O SCHUYLER 878 Cordilleras Ave San Carlos CA 94070

OWEN TAYLOR LUDWIG DUTCHER Murray Twp and Livermore Alameda Co 1865-1950

Mildred (Millie) FREITAS 607 Diablo Road Danville CA 94526

FREITAS KING Pleasanton and Southern Alameda County

Wm and Faith STEINKRAUS 8422 Rhoda Ave Dublin CA 94568

WEBSTER (CT amp NY)TRUESDELLL (NY) PARROTT (MICan) STEINKRAUS SONNENBERG (HI amp Germany)

Ralph CROUSE 8000 Cottonwood Ln Sacramento CA 95828

SILVAS amp VALENZUELA (CA) CROUSE amp SCHALK (PA) MYERS (IN) MOLFINO (CA)

Dorothy HELMS 2216 Broadmoor st Livermore CA 94500-1108

PARNELL MC HANUS ROBBINS TAYLOR Van Zandt Co TX Newton Co MO Marshall Co Tenn Rowan Co NC

Stephen Robert Renouf 871 Hanover st Livermore CA 94550

RENOUF STEVENS BLUE LITTLEFIELD HARRIS POWLEDGE PAULITSCH USINA OLIVEROS

England Scotland Wales English Channel Islands Henorca(Spain) FL GA AL Hass NC

David C and Linda Markham Curry 1759 Walnut st Liv CA 94550

MARKHAM (CA WA) MCGILL (II IN) THOMPSON (CA MO) ENGLAND (IL IN)

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MEET THE MEMBERS LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

MY NAME Louise STANTON CONVERSE

BORN 29 Mar 1923 Hove LeFlore Co OK

SPOUSE Loren Blair CONVERSE

BORN 14 Dec 1916 San Francisco CA Died 10 Jun 1974

MARRIED 31 May 1939

I GREW UP Surgoinsville Havkins Co TN

SPOUSE GREW UP Cincinnati Hamilton Co OH

WE HAVE LIVED Ohio Texas TN CA

OUR CHILDREN Name Born

Francis Jerome Loren Douglas Leonard Dennis David Stanton Beverly Gaye

24 Nov 31 Mar 31 Mar 7 Sep 1 Aug

1940 1946 1946 1950 1951

died 15 Jan 1973

SURNAMES

Fathers line STANTON BLAKEMAN COLE WHEATON FARMER CHAMBERLAIN LAPHAM FREEMAN PERRY BOWEN RUSSELL KNIGHT MASON LORD

Mothers line JOHNSON HAWKS COMBS EDWARDS LEWIS PAYNE WILLS JONES WEBB PRUITT

Spouses Fathers line CONVERSE SHOEMAKER NEWTON SMITH

Spouses Mothers line JOHNSON OTSTOTT SHENABERGER SHAFFER

LOCALES OF INTEREST Virginia North Carolina Indiana Ohio PA Mass CT NY

BECAME INTERESTED IN GENEALOGY When I vas a young adult I become interested in locating my Fathers family I had never knovn any of them since my Father died vhen I vas about tvo years old After I located an uncle and several cousins I just kept going

Submitted by

Louise S Converse 3925 Perdue Way Livermore CA 94550

Date 12 Oct 1991

L-AGS 325

CALIFORNIA ~EARCa

Early California research is far different from early research in New England the Southern states O~ even the Midshywest and it is understandable when one stops to con~ider California was not even made a state until 1850

California does not have a F2~Fi~1 CenSU6 from 1790 to 1840 but they do have a 1798 census corn2iiing tiiG population of what is now San Francisco santa Clara San Jose and Santa Cruz with a copy in the California state Libr~r Th6 m~ssion population was taken at four missions during ClE late J7Os and these are in tJle California state Archives IIi ell copLes cf some available from the Family History Libra~y 011 microfilm rhe Federal census began in 1850 and the only state cens~s was taken in 1852

Early Spanish-Mexican land gra~t records can be found at the state Archives in 16 volumes of transripts and translations of the land grant document files sUbmitted 10 the United states Land Commission Once land was transferred by Spanish-Mexican land grants Federal land grants or state-owned land grants to private parties it could be handled the same as any other land transaction and recorded by the county recorders

The California state Library has a large collection of California newspapers and some are available on inter-library loan Sacramento state University Library also has a newspaper collection available for research The Genealogical Association of Sacramentos Bee Index Project which extracted all vital statistics from the Sacramento Bee Newspaper from 1857 to 1905 is available at the California state Library as well as several other locations and is a handy tool in finding the exact issue and page number The Sacramento Bee covered not only Sacrashymento but included entries from San Francisco and the Mother Lode

California books including California County Histories early pioneer diaries and other pape~s are in the California Room of the State Library and are availabe for research and there is an extensive card catalogue available to the library patron Many of the books are not available on open shelves but may be requested and will be brought out L Jr yeur pe~~sal

From 1866 each voter was requi=8d to register with the county clerk and if searching [01- d lIale ancestor you may be in luck Star-ting in 1892 a new LHv = dldctcl_ chat required a physical deser ipt ion sparse but t ~ it 1( ered height color of hair and complexion and 111( physiCtl impairments

Much of the above has been m~8 [i 111e bull the Family History Library and is available at their L drary alld through their Family His~ory Centers

Some of this information has been extr0ctlxl from The Genealogical Library Patron Aid series B no 702 copyright 1987 by the Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

GAS LITES

l-AGS 326

MEET THE MEMBERS first published in the Roots Tracer Sl1TT1Er 1982

My narre is Beverly louise (SCHEll) ALES I was born in a private house in Sandusky Ohio 7 April

1929 I was the first born with my brother Rayrrond 0 follONing the next year 7 August 1930

My parents were Otto Henrik SCHEll (1894-1952) and Olga Caroline OSTERGAARD )1904-) My father

adopted the narre SCHE II upon finding his father I s irrrnigration papers read the narre SCHEll instead

of SCHAlKE which he had been using as a chi ld His father ludwig SCHALKE (1865 middotmiddot1939) had

care fran Prussia and lived in Cleveland Ohio as a machinist His rrother Louise FLATING SCHAlKE

(1866-1938) also arrived fran Prussia and later the family rroved to (poundneva Ohio to fann I am

trying to locate the birth place of both my fathers parents in lthat is fIOI Poland

My rrothers family OSTERGAARD and PEHRS(J-J ten children is large extensive and vorld wide

reflecting a Scandinavian background of Danes and Swedes My rrother and her siblings were born

in Aalborg Dermark and lived as a family for many years until the lure of jobs brought sare of than

to the United States There are sti 11 nieces and cousins living in Dermark and I have been correshy

sponding with than and have received ITUch infonnation An interesting itan we discovered

that the fami ly narre PEERSCJII spelled this way in Seden (because my great-grandfather was

Swedish) was changed to PEI1RSaJ (the Danish spelling) when the children Here baptized

I have been married and have lived in Pleasanton for 27 years (1982) to my husband Joseph

John (1927-) and three children Nancy Ann 1957- Peter Michael (1958-) and Ann Elizabeth (1960-)

Family nillEs ALES MALVINI GAt-CI M)SC(jE (M)SCCNI) GIORDANO CMCILLA

I first leamed about genealogy fran Mr PYLES adult education class through the Livenmre

School District I had been attracted to it because of my husbands equally large Italian family

After several reunions I decided I needed sore help to research the families

Discovering papers of my fathers and his fathers military records citizenship papers and

yellOleurod news clippings Here a delight as I had no thought that these papers ahd been saved by

others and Here nON to becare a part of my heritage Having few relatives near rre as a child though

there Here many I feel a kinship with the narres on paper I have had over the years a chance to

visit these many relatives in Europe and the family tree links us all together

My husband and I are travel ing to Europe this can~ng year where He wi 11 be investigating

records in Sicily Poland and Dermark

A A

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MEET THE MEMBERS LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

MY NAME Louise STANTON CONVERSE

BORN 29 Mar 1923 Hove LeFlore Co OK

SPOUSE Loren Blair CONVERSE

BORN 14 Dec 1916 San Francisco CA Died 10 Jun 1974

MARRIED 31 May 1939

I GREW UP Surgoinsville Havkins Co TN

SPOUSE GREW UP Cincinnati Hamilton Co OH

WE HAVE LIVED Ohio Texas TN CA

OUR CHILDREN Name Born

Francis Jerome Loren Douglas Leonard Dennis David Stanton Beverly Gaye

24 Nov 31 Mar 31 Mar 7 Sep 1 Aug

1940 1946 1946 1950 1951

died 15 Jan 1973

SURNAMES

Fathers line STANTON BLAKEMAN COLE WHEATON FARMER CHAMBERLAIN LAPHAM FREEMAN PERRY BOWEN RUSSELL KNIGHT MASON LORD

Mothers line JOHNSON HAWKS COMBS EDWARDS LEWIS PAYNE WILLS JONES WEBB PRUITT

Spouses Fathers line CONVERSE SHOEMAKER NEWTON SMITH

Spouses Mothers line JOHNSON OTSTOTT SHENABERGER SHAFFER

LOCALES OF INTEREST Virginia North Carolina Indiana Ohio PA Mass CT NY

BECAME INTERESTED IN GENEALOGY When I vas a young adult I become interested in locating my Fathers family I had never knovn any of them since my Father died vhen I vas about tvo years old After I located an uncle and several cousins I just kept going

Submitted by

Louise S Converse 3925 Perdue Way Livermore CA 94550

Date 12 Oct 1991

L-AGS 325

CALIFORNIA ~EARCa

Early California research is far different from early research in New England the Southern states O~ even the Midshywest and it is understandable when one stops to con~ider California was not even made a state until 1850

California does not have a F2~Fi~1 CenSU6 from 1790 to 1840 but they do have a 1798 census corn2iiing tiiG population of what is now San Francisco santa Clara San Jose and Santa Cruz with a copy in the California state Libr~r Th6 m~ssion population was taken at four missions during ClE late J7Os and these are in tJle California state Archives IIi ell copLes cf some available from the Family History Libra~y 011 microfilm rhe Federal census began in 1850 and the only state cens~s was taken in 1852

Early Spanish-Mexican land gra~t records can be found at the state Archives in 16 volumes of transripts and translations of the land grant document files sUbmitted 10 the United states Land Commission Once land was transferred by Spanish-Mexican land grants Federal land grants or state-owned land grants to private parties it could be handled the same as any other land transaction and recorded by the county recorders

The California state Library has a large collection of California newspapers and some are available on inter-library loan Sacramento state University Library also has a newspaper collection available for research The Genealogical Association of Sacramentos Bee Index Project which extracted all vital statistics from the Sacramento Bee Newspaper from 1857 to 1905 is available at the California state Library as well as several other locations and is a handy tool in finding the exact issue and page number The Sacramento Bee covered not only Sacrashymento but included entries from San Francisco and the Mother Lode

California books including California County Histories early pioneer diaries and other pape~s are in the California Room of the State Library and are availabe for research and there is an extensive card catalogue available to the library patron Many of the books are not available on open shelves but may be requested and will be brought out L Jr yeur pe~~sal

From 1866 each voter was requi=8d to register with the county clerk and if searching [01- d lIale ancestor you may be in luck Star-ting in 1892 a new LHv = dldctcl_ chat required a physical deser ipt ion sparse but t ~ it 1( ered height color of hair and complexion and 111( physiCtl impairments

Much of the above has been m~8 [i 111e bull the Family History Library and is available at their L drary alld through their Family His~ory Centers

Some of this information has been extr0ctlxl from The Genealogical Library Patron Aid series B no 702 copyright 1987 by the Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

GAS LITES

l-AGS 326

MEET THE MEMBERS first published in the Roots Tracer Sl1TT1Er 1982

My narre is Beverly louise (SCHEll) ALES I was born in a private house in Sandusky Ohio 7 April

1929 I was the first born with my brother Rayrrond 0 follONing the next year 7 August 1930

My parents were Otto Henrik SCHEll (1894-1952) and Olga Caroline OSTERGAARD )1904-) My father

adopted the narre SCHE II upon finding his father I s irrrnigration papers read the narre SCHEll instead

of SCHAlKE which he had been using as a chi ld His father ludwig SCHALKE (1865 middotmiddot1939) had

care fran Prussia and lived in Cleveland Ohio as a machinist His rrother Louise FLATING SCHAlKE

(1866-1938) also arrived fran Prussia and later the family rroved to (poundneva Ohio to fann I am

trying to locate the birth place of both my fathers parents in lthat is fIOI Poland

My rrothers family OSTERGAARD and PEHRS(J-J ten children is large extensive and vorld wide

reflecting a Scandinavian background of Danes and Swedes My rrother and her siblings were born

in Aalborg Dermark and lived as a family for many years until the lure of jobs brought sare of than

to the United States There are sti 11 nieces and cousins living in Dermark and I have been correshy

sponding with than and have received ITUch infonnation An interesting itan we discovered

that the fami ly narre PEERSCJII spelled this way in Seden (because my great-grandfather was

Swedish) was changed to PEI1RSaJ (the Danish spelling) when the children Here baptized

I have been married and have lived in Pleasanton for 27 years (1982) to my husband Joseph

John (1927-) and three children Nancy Ann 1957- Peter Michael (1958-) and Ann Elizabeth (1960-)

Family nillEs ALES MALVINI GAt-CI M)SC(jE (M)SCCNI) GIORDANO CMCILLA

I first leamed about genealogy fran Mr PYLES adult education class through the Livenmre

School District I had been attracted to it because of my husbands equally large Italian family

After several reunions I decided I needed sore help to research the families

Discovering papers of my fathers and his fathers military records citizenship papers and

yellOleurod news clippings Here a delight as I had no thought that these papers ahd been saved by

others and Here nON to becare a part of my heritage Having few relatives near rre as a child though

there Here many I feel a kinship with the narres on paper I have had over the years a chance to

visit these many relatives in Europe and the family tree links us all together

My husband and I are travel ing to Europe this can~ng year where He wi 11 be investigating

records in Sicily Poland and Dermark

A A

L-AGS 325

CALIFORNIA ~EARCa

Early California research is far different from early research in New England the Southern states O~ even the Midshywest and it is understandable when one stops to con~ider California was not even made a state until 1850

California does not have a F2~Fi~1 CenSU6 from 1790 to 1840 but they do have a 1798 census corn2iiing tiiG population of what is now San Francisco santa Clara San Jose and Santa Cruz with a copy in the California state Libr~r Th6 m~ssion population was taken at four missions during ClE late J7Os and these are in tJle California state Archives IIi ell copLes cf some available from the Family History Libra~y 011 microfilm rhe Federal census began in 1850 and the only state cens~s was taken in 1852

Early Spanish-Mexican land gra~t records can be found at the state Archives in 16 volumes of transripts and translations of the land grant document files sUbmitted 10 the United states Land Commission Once land was transferred by Spanish-Mexican land grants Federal land grants or state-owned land grants to private parties it could be handled the same as any other land transaction and recorded by the county recorders

The California state Library has a large collection of California newspapers and some are available on inter-library loan Sacramento state University Library also has a newspaper collection available for research The Genealogical Association of Sacramentos Bee Index Project which extracted all vital statistics from the Sacramento Bee Newspaper from 1857 to 1905 is available at the California state Library as well as several other locations and is a handy tool in finding the exact issue and page number The Sacramento Bee covered not only Sacrashymento but included entries from San Francisco and the Mother Lode

California books including California County Histories early pioneer diaries and other pape~s are in the California Room of the State Library and are availabe for research and there is an extensive card catalogue available to the library patron Many of the books are not available on open shelves but may be requested and will be brought out L Jr yeur pe~~sal

From 1866 each voter was requi=8d to register with the county clerk and if searching [01- d lIale ancestor you may be in luck Star-ting in 1892 a new LHv = dldctcl_ chat required a physical deser ipt ion sparse but t ~ it 1( ered height color of hair and complexion and 111( physiCtl impairments

Much of the above has been m~8 [i 111e bull the Family History Library and is available at their L drary alld through their Family His~ory Centers

Some of this information has been extr0ctlxl from The Genealogical Library Patron Aid series B no 702 copyright 1987 by the Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

GAS LITES

l-AGS 326

MEET THE MEMBERS first published in the Roots Tracer Sl1TT1Er 1982

My narre is Beverly louise (SCHEll) ALES I was born in a private house in Sandusky Ohio 7 April

1929 I was the first born with my brother Rayrrond 0 follONing the next year 7 August 1930

My parents were Otto Henrik SCHEll (1894-1952) and Olga Caroline OSTERGAARD )1904-) My father

adopted the narre SCHE II upon finding his father I s irrrnigration papers read the narre SCHEll instead

of SCHAlKE which he had been using as a chi ld His father ludwig SCHALKE (1865 middotmiddot1939) had

care fran Prussia and lived in Cleveland Ohio as a machinist His rrother Louise FLATING SCHAlKE

(1866-1938) also arrived fran Prussia and later the family rroved to (poundneva Ohio to fann I am

trying to locate the birth place of both my fathers parents in lthat is fIOI Poland

My rrothers family OSTERGAARD and PEHRS(J-J ten children is large extensive and vorld wide

reflecting a Scandinavian background of Danes and Swedes My rrother and her siblings were born

in Aalborg Dermark and lived as a family for many years until the lure of jobs brought sare of than

to the United States There are sti 11 nieces and cousins living in Dermark and I have been correshy

sponding with than and have received ITUch infonnation An interesting itan we discovered

that the fami ly narre PEERSCJII spelled this way in Seden (because my great-grandfather was

Swedish) was changed to PEI1RSaJ (the Danish spelling) when the children Here baptized

I have been married and have lived in Pleasanton for 27 years (1982) to my husband Joseph

John (1927-) and three children Nancy Ann 1957- Peter Michael (1958-) and Ann Elizabeth (1960-)

Family nillEs ALES MALVINI GAt-CI M)SC(jE (M)SCCNI) GIORDANO CMCILLA

I first leamed about genealogy fran Mr PYLES adult education class through the Livenmre

School District I had been attracted to it because of my husbands equally large Italian family

After several reunions I decided I needed sore help to research the families

Discovering papers of my fathers and his fathers military records citizenship papers and

yellOleurod news clippings Here a delight as I had no thought that these papers ahd been saved by

others and Here nON to becare a part of my heritage Having few relatives near rre as a child though

there Here many I feel a kinship with the narres on paper I have had over the years a chance to

visit these many relatives in Europe and the family tree links us all together

My husband and I are travel ing to Europe this can~ng year where He wi 11 be investigating

records in Sicily Poland and Dermark

A A

l-AGS 326

MEET THE MEMBERS first published in the Roots Tracer Sl1TT1Er 1982

My narre is Beverly louise (SCHEll) ALES I was born in a private house in Sandusky Ohio 7 April

1929 I was the first born with my brother Rayrrond 0 follONing the next year 7 August 1930

My parents were Otto Henrik SCHEll (1894-1952) and Olga Caroline OSTERGAARD )1904-) My father

adopted the narre SCHE II upon finding his father I s irrrnigration papers read the narre SCHEll instead

of SCHAlKE which he had been using as a chi ld His father ludwig SCHALKE (1865 middotmiddot1939) had

care fran Prussia and lived in Cleveland Ohio as a machinist His rrother Louise FLATING SCHAlKE

(1866-1938) also arrived fran Prussia and later the family rroved to (poundneva Ohio to fann I am

trying to locate the birth place of both my fathers parents in lthat is fIOI Poland

My rrothers family OSTERGAARD and PEHRS(J-J ten children is large extensive and vorld wide

reflecting a Scandinavian background of Danes and Swedes My rrother and her siblings were born

in Aalborg Dermark and lived as a family for many years until the lure of jobs brought sare of than

to the United States There are sti 11 nieces and cousins living in Dermark and I have been correshy

sponding with than and have received ITUch infonnation An interesting itan we discovered

that the fami ly narre PEERSCJII spelled this way in Seden (because my great-grandfather was

Swedish) was changed to PEI1RSaJ (the Danish spelling) when the children Here baptized

I have been married and have lived in Pleasanton for 27 years (1982) to my husband Joseph

John (1927-) and three children Nancy Ann 1957- Peter Michael (1958-) and Ann Elizabeth (1960-)

Family nillEs ALES MALVINI GAt-CI M)SC(jE (M)SCCNI) GIORDANO CMCILLA

I first leamed about genealogy fran Mr PYLES adult education class through the Livenmre

School District I had been attracted to it because of my husbands equally large Italian family

After several reunions I decided I needed sore help to research the families

Discovering papers of my fathers and his fathers military records citizenship papers and

yellOleurod news clippings Here a delight as I had no thought that these papers ahd been saved by

others and Here nON to becare a part of my heritage Having few relatives near rre as a child though

there Here many I feel a kinship with the narres on paper I have had over the years a chance to

visit these many relatives in Europe and the family tree links us all together

My husband and I are travel ing to Europe this can~ng year where He wi 11 be investigating

records in Sicily Poland and Dermark

A A

I

L-AGS 327

MEET THE MEMBERS LIVERMORE-AMADOR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

MY NAME Erma Jane (HIGGINS) MCCUE

BORN 25 Oct 1942 Trenton NJ

SPOUSE Howard Kirby MCCUE

BORN 1 Oct 1940 Bordentown NJ

MARRIED 7 Sep 1963

GREW UP New Jersey

SPOUSE GREW UP New Jersey

WE HAVE LIVED California New Hampshire

OUR CHILDREN Name Date of Birth

Kevin Scott MCCUE 19 Sep 1967

Sean Bevin MCCUE 8 Feb 1970

SURNAMES

Fathers line HIGGINS TICE HAMPTON

Mothers line HANEY HUGHES

Spouses Fathers line MCCUE KEARS or KEIRS CHALLENDER

Spouses Mothers line PETERSON KROSCHWITZ

BECAME INTERESTED IN GENEALOGY

Before my mother died in 1983 we began to work on the family tree together I have been slowly reseaching since then

Submitted by Erma MCCUE 2796 Tahoe Dr Livermore CA 94550 Date Nov 14 1991

L-AGS 328

iViJilday July 151991 the FRESNO BEE

Park to help in tracing Civil War kin bull A National Park S~rvice computer will soldiers Historians ~stimate that at least halfof all

Americans have relatives who fought provide the names home state ranks

Its going to change the way we look at the war and regiments of soldiers to their relatives Its going to personalize the battles the struggles

that went on said Hich Rambur superintendentvisiting battlefields at Antietam National Battlefield one of two places where the computerized directory will be testedBy Deb Riechmann (ome fallAssociated Press

Weve spent decades in the preservation of CivilSHARPSBURG Md - Viitors to elIi War War land and artifacts Now were preserving thebattlefields soon will be able to ask a compli~er J nalnes their ancestors were Yankees or Rebels

The computers are expected to provide names The National Park Service has begun to nll computeriLed directory of ail )ij million r J homestates reghnents soldiers

ranks and whether they foughtbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull for the North or South said

bull John F Peterson of the park sershyvices computer division in Washington ~

It wont prove that bull your great-grandfather fought at Getshytysburg for example but it will tell you what regiment he waS in and it will tell you that that regishyment fought at Gettysburg Peterson said l

Knowing tlie~ persons~gishyment middle Jriitial or ~ome state would help narrow the search for common-names~ili as Smith and Lee Petersorrisaid

The computers will provide brief information onmiddot the 7000 Civil War regiments and units and information on many of the 10500 battles skirmishes and engagements he said

Were also going to be able to track where Civil War soldiers are buried at our 11 Civil War cemeteries within the park sysshy(rn Peterson said ttLtil (Jlllputers are to be installed It d 2t- Civil War sites that the Xational Park Service operates 1 r~l ~ in 21 states and the District of Columbia

LApound1 Off ~dC About 11 million people visit the sites each year PetersoIlSilid t aIlL ) the most frequently asked quesshytion is Did my great-greatshy

C k~sl~~s LR-laquo~ grandfather fight here To answer the question park

historians now must research pension and service records

as described by M2redith BROKAW state rosters census and war reshycords and county histories

m the TODAY NBC shew Visitors will be given informashytion on other sources and theyll be encouraged to continue their reearch at the National Arshychives in Washington

L-AGS 328

iViJilday July 151991 the FRESNO BEE

Park to help in tracing Civil War kin bull A National Park S~rvice computer will soldiers Historians ~stimate that at least halfof all

Americans have relatives who fought provide the names home state ranks

Its going to change the way we look at the war and regiments of soldiers to their relatives Its going to personalize the battles the struggles

that went on said Hich Rambur superintendentvisiting battlefields at Antietam National Battlefield one of two places where the computerized directory will be testedBy Deb Riechmann (ome fallAssociated Press

Weve spent decades in the preservation of CivilSHARPSBURG Md - Viitors to elIi War War land and artifacts Now were preserving thebattlefields soon will be able to ask a compli~er J nalnes their ancestors were Yankees or Rebels

The computers are expected to provide names The National Park Service has begun to nll computeriLed directory of ail )ij million r J homestates reghnents soldiers

ranks and whether they foughtbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull for the North or South said

bull John F Peterson of the park sershyvices computer division in Washington ~

It wont prove that bull your great-grandfather fought at Getshytysburg for example but it will tell you what regiment he waS in and it will tell you that that regishyment fought at Gettysburg Peterson said l

Knowing tlie~ persons~gishyment middle Jriitial or ~ome state would help narrow the search for common-names~ili as Smith and Lee Petersorrisaid

The computers will provide brief information onmiddot the 7000 Civil War regiments and units and information on many of the 10500 battles skirmishes and engagements he said

Were also going to be able to track where Civil War soldiers are buried at our 11 Civil War cemeteries within the park sysshy(rn Peterson said ttLtil (Jlllputers are to be installed It d 2t- Civil War sites that the Xational Park Service operates 1 r~l ~ in 21 states and the District of Columbia

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historians now must research pension and service records

as described by M2redith BROKAW state rosters census and war reshycords and county histories

m the TODAY NBC shew Visitors will be given informashytion on other sources and theyll be encouraged to continue their reearch at the National Arshychives in Washington