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Board of Directors Presidents Mary Hughes Vice President Helen Soblosky Secretary Betty Franklin Assistant Secretary Carleen Welch Treasurer Jack Bowers Assistant Treasurer Dick Satava Trustees Linda Brodine Marion Else John Franklin Ted Minier Elsie M. Thomas Immediate Past President Nancy Brock Honorary Board Members Jean Allread Willis I. Else Elsie M. Thomas In this Issue Revolutionary War Research 2 Difference between Ancestry.com and Ancestry Library Edition 3 Presidents Message 4 Allen County Field Trip 4 New Acquisitions to Library 5 HGSG Fall Calendar 6 Kent State Map Library Field Trip 6 New Digitized records of Lancaster County, PA 7

VOLUME 22, ISSUE 3 SEPTEMBER 2011

Quarterly Newsletter of the

Member of the Ohio Genealogical Society

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HALIFAX - A tiny pair of shoes retrieved from the remains of a toddler have helped solve one of the enduring mysteries surrounding the sinking of RMS Titanic almost 100 years ago. The youngster's body was found floating in the icy North Atlantic in the days after the ocean liner struck an iceberg and sank southeast of Newfoundland in the early hours of April 15, 1912. Of the 2,200 people aboard, more than 700 lost their lives. Only 300 bodies were pulled from the water, including one small boy.

He was later buried in Halifax's Fairview Lawn Cemetery, beneath a grey tombstone that identifies him as an "unknown child." His identity remained a sad riddle until 2002, when scientists using the latest DNA technology and dental

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analysis concluded the exhumed remains were that of Eino Viljami Panula of Finland, who was only 13 months old when he died at sea.

However, if the tragedy of

the Titanic has taught us anything, it is that even the best technology can fail.

Two years after the news

conference announcing the child's purported identity, a family from Ontario donated a pair of mottled brown shoes to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, claiming they belonged to the boy.

The family told the

museum's curators that their grandfather, Sgt. Clarence Northover of Halifax police, had been in charge of guarding the bodies recovered from the Titanic disaster.

They said Northover had

told them that the victims' families had said that all clothing belonging to the deceased should be burned. But the police officer couldn't bring himself to destroy the small shoes. He kept them in a drawer in his desk until he retired. On the bottom of the shoes, Northover wrote: "Shoes of the only baby found. SS Titanic 1912." Dan Conlin, the museum's curator of marine history, says the story was confirmed though a check of

Tiny Shoes of Dead Toddler Help Unlock Mystery of Titanic's 'unknown child'

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HUDSON GREEN SEPTEMBER 2011

Revolutionary War Research

For those interested in Revolutionary War research, check out these sites:

DAR Patriot Lookup Service

The DAR is excited to announce that the Genealogical Research System (GRS), a combination of several extensive genealogical databases, is now available online! Please use this free resource to look up your Patriot. (The old address for the Patriot Index Lookup Service is now closed.)

www.dar.org/natsociety/pi_lookup.cfm DAR library online research is available at: http://www.dar.org/library/online_research.cfm

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city records. But there was a problem. The shoes were too big for a 13-month-old. 'That made the DNA team wonder about their first conclusion," Conlin said in an interview.

As well, footwear experts

confirmed the shoes were made in Britain, not Finland, and a police description of the shoes worn by the child, known then as Body No. 4, matched the museum's latest artifact. Another round of genetic testing was conducted on the samples exhumed in 2001. This time, the team used a more advanced form of DNA decoding.

Preliminary results in 2007

were subjected to a rigorous peer review process, which has resulted in a research paper that will be published next month in the journal "Forensic Science International: Genetics." "It wasn't the Finnish boy," says Conlin, "it was an English boy ... he fit the shoes, quite literally." His name was Sidney Leslie Goodwin. He was 19 months old when he perished in the sinking. His shoes are now part of the Halifax museum's permanent display. "A lot of visitors find them very moving," says Conlin. "It's one of our most compelling objects from the Titanic ... The fact there was once a small person in those shoes really tugs at the heartstrings for a lot of people."

Conlin says Sidney was the

youngest of six children in the Goodwin family, traveling from Southampton, England to New York on the Titanic's maiden voyage The boy's father, an engineer or electrician, had planned to start a new life in

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Niagara Falls, N.Y., where he had landed a job at a hydroelectric generating station. No one from the Goodwin family survived the sinking, as was the case for more than 500 other people travelling third class. Conlin says the initially faulty, protracted process of determining the child's identity serves as a reminder of the limits of technology. "Technology can often surprise us and not do the things we expect it to do," he says. "It's worth keeping in mind that this is a story about the fallibility of science and engineering."

This is one of the website's found online by Gwen Mayer with information on the Titanic: http://rms.enchantedtitanic.com/titanic-in-the-news/tiny-shoes-help-unlock-titanic-mystery/

Betty Franklin's father, uncle, and grandparents were to return from England to the United States on the Titanic, but were delayed because of her great grandmother having a heart attack, which turned out to be only angina pains. Lucky for Betty's family!

Heritage Quest Search Revolutionary War

Era Pension & Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files.

To research this Heritage Quest site one must gain access only at a library computer that subscribes to Heritage Quest through ProQuest: www.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/indexm

SAR Patriot Search The names contained in this

database are from the NSSAR Revolutionary War Graves Book and CD, and from the NSSAR Patriot Index CD, which was last updated in 2002.

Neither of these sources is

acceptable as proof of service for an SAR application. You must still find the original reference to the service when submitting an SAR application.

https://memberinfo.sar.org/patriotsearch/search.aspx

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HUDSON GREEN JUNE 2011

Hudson Genealogical Study Group Publications #1 The 1860 Mortality Schedule for Summit County, Ohio. Complete listing of Summit

County, Ohio residents listed in the Federal Mortality Schedule conducted in June, 1860. 4 pp. $5.50.

HUDSON GREEN MARCH 2011


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Key differences between Ancestry.com and Ancestry Library Edition Ancestry.com is designed for the individual, so there are a lot of personalized functionality options available to private subscribers that are not available in the Library Edition. This is a list of major features and functionality in Ancestry.com that is not included in the Ancestry Library Edition:

• Collaborate: Includes all of the members’ interactions from Members Connect, message boards, Ancestry’s World Archive Projects and Public Profile.

• Learning Center: Search the largest collection of family history how-to and genealogy learning materials on the internet. Browse or search the archives of the Ancestry Daily News, and popular Ancestry.com columns. Note: Ancestry Magazine articles have been added to Ancestry Library Edition under the Learning Center tab in the Help section. Also, the Learning Center tab in Ancestry.com is always available for free. Depending on the library’s firewall, however, some of the tutorial videos may not run. The newly announced Wiki beta from Ancestry for The Source and The Redbook is now available in the Ancestry Library Edition under the Wiki Tab in the Help Section.

• Shop: Buy your favorite Ancestry and other genealogical publishers’ books, magazines, and CDs, including The Source, Redbook, Printed Sources, and more. Separate tabs also permit purchasing DNA kits (as well as posting results); hire an expert to help you with your research or photo document; and My Canvas, which allows researchers to self-publish their research as a book.

• OneWorldTree: OneWorldTree gathers family trees and family history records of millions of people, analyzes their birth, marriage and death data, and then displays the most probable matches. Essentially, this is a computer-generated lineage database.

• Family Trees: This section of the website offers many ways to share and manage all the information you find at Ancestry.com. Recently added is the ability to upload photos, documents, and add stories about ancestors in the Personal and Public Member Trees. There is also a Family Tree Search tab especially dedicated to searching the family trees in Ancestry.com. Family Tree Maker software will not link to Ancestry Library Edition.

• Obituary Collection: This collection contains recent obituaries from hundreds of newspapers.

• Members Connect: This feature helps to put users in touch with other researchers looking for the same ancestors.

• Family Facts: Self-populating fields on the site of your search results provide additional facts about your search, such as the most common occupation of people of that surname. It is available for free.

• Historical Newspaper Collection: These are mostly small town newspapers, and most do not have complete series coverage.

• ProQuest’s G&LH Books in the Families and Local Histories Collection: These titles are found in HeritageQuest Online, which is available from ProQuest.

• Periodical Source Index (PerSI): This is found in HeritageQuest Online.

• Freedman’s Bank Records: Found in HeritageQuest Online.

• Biography & Genealogy Master Index (BGMI): This is a Gale Cengage Learning database. Since AncestryPlus was discontinued, Gale licenses its content to Ancestry.com.

• Passenger and Immigration List Index (PILI): This information is updated through 2009, and is provided by Gale Cengage Learning.

This document was found online by Gwen Mayer at http://proquest.com and lists some of the key differences between Ancestry.com and Ancestry Library Edition. Ancestry offers a free trial for first time users. To become a "Requested Guest" click on http://ancestry.custhelp.com or stop in at the Hudson Library Archives and click on to Ancestry.

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INDEX TO THE HUDSON GREEN VOLUME 21: 2010 By Ted M. Minier

President's Message

FIELD TRIP to

ALLEN COUNTY LIBRARY

On October 20-22, please join HGSG members and guests on a field trip to Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana. This library ranks second to the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. The sign-up sheet is in the Hudson Archives. We will be staying at the Best Western with transportation to and from the library provide by the hotel shuttle service. Please peruse the library website at www.ACPL.Lib.in.us for their catalog as this may save you precious time. The hours are Thursday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. There are several restaurants near the Best Western and within walking distance from the library. The price for a double room at the Best Western with 2 double beds is $75, which includes a continental breakfast and an in-room refrigerator. The deadline for signing up is October 9, 2011.

Hello,

I am very humbled to be elected president of the Hudson Genealogical Study Group. I have been a member for less than 10 years and was co-president with Nancy Brock last year.

I hope, along with you, to learn

more about genealogy this year and have some success in my own family tree. In this issue is the program schedule through December. We begin the year with “Where Do I Start?”, an introduction class. With recent television shows and commercials, people have become more interested in tracing their family history. Unlike the television presentations, most of us can’t find multi-generational information so quickly and completely. Genealogy is history and mystery wrapped around you! So please take advantage of our programs, our lock-ins for members and the planned field trips to Allen County Library and Kent State Map Library.

I look forward to this year’s

adventure with you.

Mary Hughes

Off to Pennsylvania!

Our longtime editor, Elsie Thomas and her husband Herman, have moved to a retirement community in Bethlehem, PA. Before they left, members of HGSG had a party. Trudy Painting surprised Elsie and Herman with a lovely landscape painting of their Hudson home as a gift from the HGSG members. We are happy for them because they will be closer to their son and daughter, and many nieces and nephews. Family is great! We will miss Elsie and Herman, and wish them continued success with their genealogy work. Their new address is Kirkland Village Apt. # 1312, Bethlehem, PA 18017. Perhaps Elsie will be able to help some of us with our Pennsylvania research.

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Recent Acquisitions to the Archives

By Gwen Mayer

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Erin’s Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada to 1863, Terrance M. Punch Complete Delaware Roll of 1898, Jeff Bowen The Register of New Netherland 1628 to 1674, E.B. O’Callaghan Eastern Cherokee by Blood 1906-1910, Vol. IX, Applications 30,200-34,185 Eastern Cherokee by Blood 1906-1910, Vol. VIII, Applications 26,100-39,199 Dance at Bougival, William Fissinger White Servitude in Pennsylvania, Cheesman Abiah Herrick Roll of New Hampshire Soldiers at the Battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777, George C. Gilmore Early Western Augusta Pioneers (Virginia), George Washington Cleek Constables and Tobacco Planters in Orange County, Virginia, 1735-1769, Lizbeth Ward Papageorgiou Emigration from the United Kingdom to America, List of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, Vol. 8, June 1873- December 1873 Revolutionary War Pensions, Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck State of Vermont Roster of Soldiers in the War of 1812-14 Scots Episcopalians at Home and Abroad 1689-1800, David Dobson Pioneers of Westlake, Ohio, Jeanne B. Workman Readin’ Writin’ & Route 21, Robert A. Musson 1883 Military Pensioners: Updated Index of Northeast Ohio, Michael Elliott The Last Muster: Images of the Revolutionary War Generation, Maureen Alice Taylor Heart of Hudson, Helen Strong

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Emigration from the United Kingdom to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, Vol. 9 & Vol. 10, Ira A. Glazier Twenty Families of Color in Massachusetts: 1742-1998, Franklin A. Dorman Dream Maker in the Desert, Marie Krushing Crash Course in Family History: A Step-by-step Illustrated Guidebook and Comprehensive Resource Directory, Paul Larsen My Father Was a Soldier: The Real Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of the American Revolution Education and Ontario Family History: A Guide to Resources for Genealogists and Historians, Marian Press The Farm Journal Rural Directory of Lorain County, Ohio (with a complete road map of the county) The Ancestry of Catherine Middleton, William Addams Reitwiesner How to Meditate: Secrets to the Easiest and Most Effective Meditation Technique, Larry Terkel Hudson, Ohio, Keith Curley In Those Days: A Story of Strong Women, Valerie Strong Westlake, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Early Inscriptions of Evergreen Cemetery and Death Records of Old Dover Township History of Davis and Canaan Valley, Pearle G. Mott Abstracts of Naturalizations in Brown County, Ohio, 1818-1906, Brown County Genealogical Society Brown County, Ohio death records Vol. 1, 1867-1873 Vol. 2, 1873-1877 Vol. 3, 1877-1881 Canadians at War, 1914-1919: A Research Guide to World War I Service Records, Glenn T. Wright Morse Controls 2000 Memories Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol. 23, Westmoreland County, 1653-1657, Beverley Fleet

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#2 Doncaster Funeral Home, Hudson, Ohio: December 31, 1903-April 7, 1910. Includes all

information from Book 1 of the Doncaster Funeral Home Records. 23 pp. $9.00.

#3 Hudson, Ohio Deaths: 1868-1908. Alphabetical listing of deaths in Hudson, Summit County, Ohio from 1868 through 1908 extracted from the microfilm of the Index to

Probate Records of Wills, Deaths, and Births on file at the Hudson Library and Historical Society. It includes those listed as having died in Hudson, been born in

Hudson and died in Ohio, and those with no indication of place of death as well as deaths at the Summit County Infirmary. 25 pp. $9.50.

#4 St. Mary's Cemetery, Hudson (Summit County) Ohio--1858 through 14 May 1988.

Information from Sexton's Records and a lot-by-lot survey, with surname index. 26 pp. $9.50.

#5. Illustrated Summit County, Ohio Atlas, 1891. Centennial anniversary reprint with an every name index of this classic illustrated atlas. Oversized, over 200 pp. $90.00 plus

$4.50 postage and handling. Fewer than 10 copies remain of this limited edition. Copies of individual pages also available at $5.00 per page. State page(s) desired.

#6 Index to Historical Reminiscences of Summit County by Gen. Lucius V. Bierce, 1854. An

every-name index to Summit County's first county history compiled by Connie S. Ferguson. 5 pp. $5.50.

#7. Reprint of William B. Doyle's Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative

Citizens, 1908, with a complete, new index compiled by James and Briana Caccamo. 1,186 pp. $68.50 plus $5.00 postage and handling.

#8 Transcription and Index of 1920 Federal Population Census, Summit County, Ohio

for Hudson Village and Hudson Township compiled by members of HGSG. 88 pp. $17.50.

#9 Inscriptions and Index to Markillie Cemetery, Hudson, Ohio (Summit County)

compiled by members of HGSG. 84 pp. plus maps. $17.50.


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$Researchers now have access on FamilySearch to

a great many of the digital images of the Cuyahoga County Probate Files, beginning in 1827-1918. The records are mostly probate case files, with some delayed birth registrations, corrections, and affidavits. Arranged by year, docket number, and case number, the 927,835 images are not yet indexed on FamilySearch, but an index prepared by the Cleveland District Round Table can be used to search them at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcdrt has Sarah McGuire's index of Cuyahoga Wills & Estates Dockets Pre-A-70 (1826-1904), including guardianships, subpoenas, trusteeships, committals, court cases, land issues, road issues, consents to marry, minister licenses, and much more. The index contains the docket and case numbers, company/individuals, type, year, and ID numbers. Some entries have the folder label, other names, and notes.

The Cleveland District Round Table's website also has an index for birth affidavits (1860-1897) and corrections (1873-1908), including some death dates, twin designations and name changes. The index includes record title, name, parents' names, birth date, corrected birth date, notes, and ID numbers.

Field Trip to Kent State Map Library

On January 13th from 1 to 5 p.m., mark your

calendar to join HGSG members on a field trip to the Kent State University Map Library. This Library is the University’s chief cartographic geospatial resource center for maps, atlases, GIS data, place name literature, and cartographic reference materials on paper and electronic form. A sign-up sheet will be located in the Archives at the Hudson Library. Also, with the sign-up will be maps of interest for you, so requested materials will be available to you upon your arrival.

http://www.library.kent.edu/page/10473

Date Time

Event

Speaker Aug. 27 10:00 a.m. Board Meeting

Sept. 10 10:00 a.m. “Where Do I Start?"

Barbara Griffith

Sept. 16 6:00 - 10:00 Lock-in for Members and Guests Friday

Mini-Sessions: Roger Marble - Software Packages

Nancy Brock - Immigration

Oct. 8 10:00 a.m. “Genealogy Research: What's Next?” Roger Marble

Computer Lab

Board Meeting

Oct. 20-22 9:00 a.m.

Field Trip to Allen County Public Library Curt B. Witcher

Fort Wayne, IN

Contact Nancy Brock - 330-653-6117

Sign-up sheet in the Archives of HLHS

Nov. 5 10:00 a.m. “Searching Your Ethnicity on a Computer” Joe Monsman

Computer Lab

Nov. 12 10:00 a.m. “Writing and Publishing Your Family History” Mindy Christman

Dec. 3 11:00 a.m. Holiday Party

Semi-Annual Membership Meeting

HGSG 2011 Calendar of Events

The New and Correct Map of the United States of North America

by the Peace Treaty of 1783

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HUDSON GENEALOGICAL STUDY GROUP Membership Information for 2011 – 2012

(Please Print)

Name ______________________________________________ Maiden Name ___________ ________________

Address ____________________________________________________________________________________

City ____________________________ State __________ Zip (+ 4 if known) __________________-__________

Current e-mail address _________________________________________________________________________

Genealogy software used _______________________________________________________________________

Surnames you are researching ___________________________________________________________________

Geographic area of interest _____________________________________________________________________

New member _________ Couple membership ____________ Renewing member _______ OGS member _____

Programs you would like to hear in the future _____________________________________________________ The membership year runs from September 1 to August 31 the following year. Please complete and include this form with you check to ensure accurate information for our membership booklet. HGSG dues are $15 per year (or any portion of the year) for couples and individuals.

Send this form and your check made payable to HGSG to: Hudson Library – Dept. G.

96 Library Street Hudson, Ohio 44236-5122

You may include an optional contribution for the new OGS Library if desired________.

Lancaster County, PA City and County Directories are

now Digitized

Lancaster County, PA historic city and county directories are now digitized. Phase One digitized 1843-1900 and Phase Two digitized 1901-1914. The third and final phase covering 1915-1923 will be completed in 2012.

The digitized resources include some

newspapers such as The Columbia Spy (1830-1889), The Examiner and Herald (1834-1872), New Holland Clarion (1873-1950), and The Lancaster Farmer (1869-1884). You may access these resources and 1800’s newspapers at:

http://www.LancasterHistory.org/collections This information was provided by Marjorie R.

Bardeen, Interim Director of Library Services, Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, PA.

The Hudson Green Editorial Board

Editor…….........……….….Stefanie Hughes Layout..........………................John Franklin Mailing…………………..……..Cole Waite Publicity…….…………….…..Jack Bowers

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Hudson Genealogical Study Group Hudson Library & Historical Society Dept. G 96 Library Street Hudson, OH 44236-5122

August 27, 10:00 a.m. Quarterly Board Meeting

September 10, 10:00 a.m. “Where Do I Start?” Speaker: Barbara Griffith

September 16, Friday, 6:00 p.m. Lock-in for members and guests Mini-sessions with Roger Marble – Software Nancy Brock - Immigration

Our speaker, Barbara Griffith has been a member of DAR for since 1991. She has traveled to Ft. Wayne and Washington, DC as the Chapter and State Registrar while working on documentation for over 130 prospective members. Barbara also did outstanding research on the Ohio Real Daughters in the book My Father Was A Soldier: The Real Daughters of the American Revolution. HLHS has just purchased a copy of this book. Barbara’s motto is “I AM HERE TO HELP” and she does!

Please pay your $15.00 dues promptly to HGSG and mail your payment by Sept. 15 to:

Hudson Library – Dept. G 96 Library St. Hudson, OH 44236-5122

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