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Author Archives: Charles Hansen
GENEALOGICAL FORUM’s Thursday Evening E-News
THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’sThursday EveningE-News EditionNovember 15, 2018 |
Curious about the status of your GFO Membership?We’d love to have you as a GFO Member! |
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For more information visit www.gfo.org, contact us at info@gfo.org, or call our library at 503-963-1932. Be sure to check the complete GFO CALENDAR. |
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On #GivingTuesday, most non-profits are asking for monetary donations — and GFO would never turn those down — but this is our annual appeal for your TIME.This year we’ll be attempting a partial inventory of our books. We want to discover what’s missing AND get the books in the correct order on the shelves. People will work in teams, and there will be some book labeling for those who can’t stand to do shelf reading. Non-members can earn a free pass to the library so they can research on another day. We will bring in food to fortify us, so please give a few hours or make a day of it! |
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The job of the journalist and that of the genealogist are surprisingly similar: we both research the facts and the context of people. And then we tell their stories! Genealogists tend to focus more on the research. So what do journalists bring to the table?? Journalists add the reporting element that can help genealogist share their stories with others. Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Hallman, Jr., of The Oregonian knows a thing or two about journalism, and he is coming to the GFO to share his insights with us this weekend!Join us for this amazing GenTalk at the GFO this Saturday, November 17th at 2 p.m. All our GenTalks are free and open to the public. |
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Would you like to be a part of GFO’s Open House? |
GFO’s 2019 Open House is right around the corner. Mark you calendars for March 23rd through 31st!We are looking for presenters to give 50-minute sessions on any topic that may be of interest to beginning genealogists. Opening weekend: Saturday will be devoted to Irish research and is being planned by the Irish Special Interest Group. Sunday will be a Beginners’ Boot Camp. The closing Saturday and Sunday will be DNA Days planned by Emily Aulicino and team and will feature a very special guest. Stay tuned for more information. The theme on Wednesday will be finding biological family and additional participants are being sought. There will be panel discussions and presentations relating to questions about whether to search for biological family. There will also be resources available on topics such as how to make first contact. If you are an adoptee, a biological parent, or someone seeking a biological relation and would like to share your views or provide a presentation, please contact laurel.smith@gfo.org. There are lots of presentation spots open on Monday and Tuesday, as well as some on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Again, if you can participate by leading a session at GFO’s 2019 Open House, please send a message to laurel.smith@gfo.org. Presenters will be compensated with profuse gratitude! GFO will print and provide any handouts for attendees. We don’t know of any other genealogical organization that provides a 9-day event, packed with content, absolutely FREE to all attendees. But we need your help to make it happen! |
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Link up with these great Rewards Programs to donate to GFO when you shop! |
Through a one-time link, you can trigger an automatic donation to GFO every time you make purchases through the Fred Meyer Community Rewards Program, AmazonSmile, and Family Tree DNA. |
The best part is that linking your Rewards Programs will not diminish any benefits or rewards you already receive. As always, thank you for all you do for GFO! |
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SATURDAY, November 17thGenealogical Problem Solvers 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. GPS is a monthly support group where we help each other find information about a family line. We will learn to do a reasonably exhaustive search and develop research plans. The focus will shift depending on the needs of the group. Several experienced researchers have volunteered to help. Beginners and intermediate researchers are encouraged to submit problems to work on. For more information contact Katie Daly at GPS@gfo.org. GenTalk 2 – 3 p.m. Presenter: Tom Hallman, senior reporter for The Oregonian On March 4, 2018, you may have read “Della’s Lost Letter,” and wondered about the methods Tom used to locate her, and the other principals in the story. Learn how reporters find people for their stories (sound familiar, genealogists?) and get some writing/storytelling tips from a Pulitzer Prize winner. Tom Hallman Jr., a senior reporter for The Oregonian, was born and raised in Portland and graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa in 1977. He’s worked at a car wash, a grocery store, a greyhound race track and was a volunteer at a VA hospital. He won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. SUNDAY, November 18thLibrary Work 9:00 a.m. – Noon There’s another work party at the GFO library today for those of you who can come. There’s lots to do and we’d love to have your help. Doors open at 9 and work usually wraps up around noon. Some people come for just an hour or so; others work the full time. You are welcome to do either. Any time you can share is valuable. Hope to see you there. Family Tree Maker Users’ Group 1 – 3 p.m. Join other users who want to work through the 2017 Companion Guide to Family TreeMaker. Bring your laptop with 2017 version of FTM installed – build 1-480 of FTM installed. Facilitated by Joyce Grant-Worley. Questions? Email FTM@gfo.org. French Canada Group 3:30 – 5 p.m. Sharing stories of our history. Come and join this group to learn more about French Canadian ancestry and Acadia. This group leader is Bob LaMarche. Send him a note at FrCan@gfo.org. WEDNESDAY, November 21stLibrary Closes at 1 p.m. THURSDAY, November 22ndLibrary Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday Please note, our Thursday Evening E-News will be sent out on Friday. |
Wednesday Nostalgia
As you probably know by now, I’m fascinated by names. Especially names from long ago. They cause me pause (why did the parents chose that particular name?) and cause me to laugh. (Sorry, ancestors.)
Here are some I’ve gleaned recently:
Zymetta Phillips b.ca. 1875, m. Joan Abston
Onesephorus Masch, had dau, Hannah, b, 1757, Boston
Aylett Waller, m. Miss Armstead
Lorcufo Phillips
Maphibosheth Marsh, original settler of NJ
Truman Derastus Phillips, b. 1731, PA
Zalmuna Phillips, 1804-1883, m. Eunice Cobb
Lerias Phillips, m. 1816 Elizabeth Smith
Please use the comment box below to share some of the more unusual names from your pedigree.
Tuesday Trivia
Some twisted crazy quotes highlighting a necessity of modern life:
“If at first you don’t succeed, use duct tape.”
” All we have to fear is no duct tape.” (F.D.R.
“Duct tape in time saves dimes.” (B. Franklin)
“The duct tape is mightier than the wood glue.” (Shakespeare)
“Duct tape it now or pay the repair guy later.”
“All we need is duct tape. Duct tape is all we need.” (Lennon/McCartney0
And my most favorite:
“This is the tape that mends men’s soles.” (Thomas Payne)
(From that little Duct Tape book.)
Monday Mystery
Names. Names are all-important in doing genealogy. Where did our ancestors get their names……… or our names? Surnames just came with birth in most cases but many times were changed somewhere along the way to adulthood and for a hundred reasons.
What about first names? Our ancestors didn’t have the “search for baby names” on the Internet or even baby-names books (pre-dating the Internet, right?). They had the Bible. That’s why so many of our ancestors have biblical names.
My lineage includes a distant uncle named Deloss Carr, 1876-1954, born and died in the midwest. Always thought that was an odd name and was fairly certain it was not a Bible name. Then, WOW. Doing some SCRIBE indexing, I came upon a Deloss Clement, born in 1907, enumerated in the Yakima county school census.
So I asked Grandma Google for the meaning or origin of that name and by golly, I stumped her. She had no clue except to state that it was a male name.
Anybody else have a Deloss in their family??? Any clue as to its origin?
Lower Columbia Genealogical Society December Meeting
As the holidays approach, the Lower Columbia Genealogical Society is happy to welcome to our December meeting
CHARLES GOURDE, representing the
CHILDREN’S JUSTICE & ADVOCACY CENTER OF COWLITZ COUNTY
whose mission is to provide abused children with a coordinated community approach to investigation, prosecution, treatment, and advocacy that promotes their safety, healing and well-being.
Anyone wishing to bring donations to the meeting should use the following guidelines:
Small value gasoline gift cards, children’s snacks, art supplies, copy paper, stuffed animals and bottled water.
LOWER COLUMBIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~walcolgs/
SOMERSET RETIREMENT APARTMENTS
2025 TIBBETTS DRIVE, LONGVIEW
DINING ROOM 7:00 PM
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Visitors are welcome and encouraged to attend.
WSGS Needs YOUR Help…… Big Time
In the past, WSGS has asked for YOUR help and you have responded most eagerly and graciously and we thank you. Now we have another big need and ask for your help.
WSGS is going to partner with a Civil War veterans buried in WA website: www.civilwarvetswastate.com. Bruce Smith and Karyn Zielasko Weingarden have invested hours of their time and emptied their wallets to create, support and maintain this wonderful website all by themselves. Now the time has come and they are asking for help.
The website needs a website manager. This is a request from both Bruce and Karyn. They have brought it this far but their website-creator-tech-person is stepping down and they need help….our help.
If you have the skills to manage this one website, which is up and running most awesomely, won’t you please raise your hand and help us??
Please let me know, Donna Potter Phillips, Donna243@gmail.com, and I will be intermediary with Bruce and Karyn. They will be so very grateful and so will we, the WSGS Board.
Friday Serendipity
Read a cute thing in our local paper. It had to do with repairing a huge clock face on one of our downtown buildings which “had always been there.” Point of the story is that this clock wasn’t installed until the late 1980s so it really hasn’t been there always. But in old-timers’ memories of Spokane it has! And that’s where the editorial writer explained the concept of “revisionist nostalgia.” This is why, he wrote, “that our parents or grandparents explain in vivid detail walking to school everyday, uphill both ways, in the snow.” My father always said that Mother was his babysitter and he thought she was taking him to get a fishing license and poof! they were married. That’s revisionist nostalgia big time. Surely you have stories like that??
GENEALOGICAL FORUM’s Thursday Evening E-News
THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’sThursday EveningE-News EditionNovember 8, 2018 |
Curious about the status of your GFO Membership?We’d love to have you as a GFO Member! |
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For more information visit www.gfo.org, contact us at info@gfo.org, or call our library at 503-963-1932. Be sure to check the complete GFO CALENDAR. |
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Cyndi Ingle Rocks, Attracts Record GFO Audience! |
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Wow! That’s the easiest way to say it. We can’t thank you enough for making the GFO Fall Seminar a record-setter. More than 200 people came on Saturday and more than 100 on Sunday to hear Cyndi Ingle, the creator of the comprehensive genealogy website, Cyndi’s List. We also sold a record number of raffle tickets, a great way to help us pay our rising bills. Special thanks to these sponsors for donating valuable prizes: Southern California Genealogical Society, Find my past, Fold3, Family Tree DNA, History Geo, and Newspapers.com. And our biggest thanks go to Cyndi herself. If you made it to the seminar you know how engaging, informative, entertaining, and funny she can be. |
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GFO Becomes FamilySearch Affiliate Library |
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We’ve got great news! The GFO is now an official FamilySearch Affiliate Library. This grants you access to many FamilySearch records not available when you search their site from home. FamilySearch has billions of records online and adds another 300 million free genealogical records and images online every year. Access to FamilySearch computers at the GFO will be free to anyone. GFO membership or payment of day-use fees will be required to use the other resources in our library. |
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The job of the journalist and that of the genealogist are surprisingly similar: we both research the facts and the context of people to tell their stories. Genealogists tend to focus more on the research, but journalists must do both. Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Hallman, Jr., of The Oregonian knows a thing or two about journalism, and he is coming to the GFO to share his insights with us. Join us for our next GenTalk at the GFO Saturday, November 17 at 2 p.m. This talk is free and open to the public. |
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The next meeting of the African American Special Interest Group (SIG) is scheduled for Saturday, November 24, from 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. Our meetings are regularly held on the fourth Saturday of the month. We recently realized that for November this is the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend. Because we figure many people will be spending time with family instead of other family historians, rather than have a speaker and program, we will be holding an open-ended Help Session for this month’s meeting. If you’re stuck in your research, want some advice, or just want to share your family history stories with fellow researchers, come on by! SIG coordinator Janice Sellers will be there for the entire time and will be happy to talk with you. Questions? Comments? Send Janice a note at African_American@gfo.org. |
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Ever wondered what it would be like to have New York’s State Archives at your finger tips?Well, wonder no more! The National Park Service and the Institute of Museum and Library Services granted $125,000 last month to the New York State Archives and the Archives Partnership Trust to allow them to digitize and post historical documents from the Revolutionary War era to the State Archives’ website. The archivists began their work on November 1st, so keep an eye out for updates as they make progress on this amazing accessibility project. Access to our history is always a revolution in and of itself! |
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FRIDAY, November 9thMexican Ancestry Group 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Finding your Hispanic ancestors from Mexico, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California! This Special Interest Group (SIG) pertains specifically to Mexican ancestors from Mexico and the American Southwest (New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California). Beginning and intermediate researchers are welcome. Some subjects will include online parish records, Hispanic genealogy societies, Family History Library/FamilySearch.org. Ancestry.com, solving genealogical problems, methodology of organizing your research, etc. Of course this group will also be about sharing our research experiences, and having fun. If you know of any other people interested in Hispanic genealogy tell them about the up and coming group. They don’t have to be a GFO member to participate. SATURDAY, November 10thGreat Lakes Region 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. Duane Funk will talk about the War of 1812, and in particular its effects on the Great Lakes region and our research there. Also, we will check in with our database. After that we will have time for sharing research and brainstorming some possible solutions to your genealogy questions. Interest in the Great Lakes Region can be broad and diverse, as some ancestors settled and remained there for generations, while others spent a short time there before moving on. The group’s interests include migration, travel, trade, historical events, and research techniques specific to the area. For more information contact Lynn Rossing at GreatLakes@gfo.org. Writers’ Forum 1 – 3 p.m. Purpose: This is a peer group of genealogists, who meet to learn about writing and to share our writing with each other. Peggy Baldwin facilitates this group and can be reached at writers@gfo.org or 503-916-9410. Book we are using: Roy Peter Clark’s Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer published by Little, Brown and Company in 2006. Each month we cover a tool. To see what tool we are covering at a particular meeting, please visit our web page here. SUNDAY, November 11thLibrary Work 9:00 a.m. – noon There’s another work party at the GFO library today for those of you who can come. There’s lots to do and we’d love to have your help. Doors open at 9 and work usually wraps up around noon. Some people come for just an hour or so; others work the full time. You are welcome to do either. Any time you can share is valuable. Hope to see you there. |
Tri-City Genealogical Society December Meeting
Our December 12th meeting will be at the Benton County PUD Auditorium in Kennewick on the corner of Hwy #395 and 10th Street
The program for this year will be the Show & Tell event and we will not have a Beginning Genealogy Class that evening. This activity starts at 7:00 p.m., but for those of you who are setting up displays, please come as early as 6:15 p.m.
Show Off Your Heritage
Members and guests are asked to bring items about your family heritage/history as well as what you interests you have.
1. Photographs
2. Documents
3. Family heirlooms, antiques
4. Hobbies, collections or recreation interests
Your legacy will one day be handed down to your children/grandchildren/great-grandchildren and they will want to know what hobbies and collections you had as a child/teenager or as an adult.
You can display your family photographs and documents on a poster or a tri-fold or on the table.
This will be a fun event for everyone to have a glimpse of your family history as well as the antiques/heirlooms, hobbies and collections that you either inherited or have or previously engaged in.
Refreshments:
Please bring homemade or store bought cookies, candies, fudge, muffins, quick breads (banana, zucchini, apple, pumpkin), cake, etc. Beverages, plates, napkins and utensils will be provided.
Thank you for your continued interest in TCGS
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