SECOND QUARTER 2012
APR-MAY-JUN
Vol. XXVI No 2
NOTES FROM THE PRESIDENT’S PEN
Sandra
Morss
Maciejewski
Library. Sign up sheets will be available and
we will have specific areas addressed during
these follow up – hands on sessions.
How quickly this year is flying by! With
prospects of summer fast approaching and the
Florida heat here to prove it is already….
November 19, 2012 – Becky Dewitt will
present a program of photography functions
based on the Windows Live programs available
on all computers. Paint, Photo Editing, Movie
Making will also be addressed at follow up
sessions on upstairs library computers – details
yet to be determined. Kinseekers will have
opportunity to sign up for these sessions. I took
6 week sessions this spring and learned so
much! Need more time to work these projects
into my genealogy projects
I am excited about what programs we have
scheduled for fall. Each of these programs is
opportunity for our Kinseekers to participate in
additional event which will help us progress
with OUR personal projects.
September 17, 2012 - Karen Jorgensen, one of
organizers
presenting
information
on
“FAMILY HISTORY CONFERENCE” being
held November 3, 2012 in Orlando. This is allSaturday “FREE” program of various speakers
on genealogy subjects held at Church of Latter
Day Saints. Speakers will be announced &
Kinseekers have opportunity to get registered
for this wonderful full day event.
October 15, 2012 - Louis Garcia & Dave
Leavitt, President of Refresh Computers
(website
http://www.refreshcomputers.net)
store at 998 Bichara Blvd, LaPlaza Grande, The
Villages, 32159). CHECK THEM OUT for
HELP & Computer Equipment @ great prices.
They will present our
program named:
“Computer Maintenance, Easy Repairs &
Helpful Tips”.
Additionally we plan to arrange a schedule of
some “hands on computer "help" seminars”
using the 12 computers upstairs in Leesburg
December 17, 2012 - Jim & Terry Willard,
who teach at Villages School of Lifelong
Learning will present “GETTING THE MOST
FROM FAMILY TREE MAKER PROGRAM”
– and will address how to handle specific areas
in putting sourcing, adding documents &
pictures, creating book & indexing your book.
Kinseekers CAN attend Villages classes –
slightly higher fees for non-village residents.
June 18, 2012 - Bob Schultz Presenting Family
Tree Maker 12 – With his 4 page handout of
functions & features of What’s New, What’s
Different, and How to do…?With Helpful
Hints.
With the results of the survey Bill Kohler did
this spring, these programs are addressing
several of the program topics you indicated you
wanted. Also the fact that they will have
additional programs available to add to our
knowledge and help us with our projects. No
July/August Kinseekers - So Everyone have
yourselves a Wonderful Summer! – and hoping
you are able to travel and spend time with your
families & friends and keep working hard on
your personal genealogy projects.
Be Safe, Be Happy and ENJOY EACH DAY!
Page two contained an AARP questionnaire.
MEETING TIMES
KINSEEKERS
Regular meetings 3rd Monday at 1:30 p.m.
Leesburg Public Library
July & August - no meetings
Sep 17 - Program - Karen Jorgensen
one of organizers presenting information on
“FAMILY HISTORY CONFERENCE”
at Orlando, November 3, 2012
Programs subject to change
For more information contact:
Bill Kohler 352-7534753bill.kohler2@gmail.com
For program information, see webpage
(http://www.rootsweb.com/~fllckgs)
After the June meeting, we will recess for
the summer, and begin meetings again in
September.
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
2nd Monday at 1:00 p.m.
Leesburg Public Library
GENE ROOKIES
Leaders G. Fahs & Jerry Hardwich
Sep 10 - Family Health Tree
MEMBERSHIP
New Members since March 2012
Linda L. Sharp of Fruitland Park
Researching Davenport, McKown,
Lovelady, Sharp, Potts, Newman,
Ragsdale, Allman
Richard & Syble Eads of The Villages
Researching Eads, Scobey, Hottle,
Hamblin
MATERIAL NEEDED
This is your newsletter.
Think about
sending a biographical sketch about your
family. Or about yourself. Think about
writing your own obituary while you are still
living and let us print it here.
Think about starting a Special Interest Group
about your favorite area of genealogical
research. Our Gene Rookies is meeting
monthly where we discuss various subjects.
Some jokes from one of our members!
Every family tree has its sap.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Please
inform
Glorianne
Fahs
(Gfahs@aol.com or 787-5969) if you change
your address, phone number, or email
address.
People who depend on their family tree for
status should shake it first.
There once was a man who paid a
genealogist $500 to look up his family
history ... then paid another $1,000 to keep
quiet about it!
Kinseekers' Quarterly XXVI-2
Carol's Corner
Thank you!
I would like to extend my most
sincere gratitude and appreciation to all who
helped and supported me in earning the
Florida State Genealogical Society for the
$500 Charlotte Freels Duval/ FSGS
Librarian Scholarship awarded at the FSGS
Conference last November. I spent a week
at the amazing NGS 2012 Family History
Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The
experience afforded me the opportunity to
attend numerous sessions presented by
experts in the field of genealogy, to explore
the more than 100 exhibits and vendors in
the huge Exhibit Hall, and to renew
acquaintances, make new friends, and
network with many of the over 2,000
genealogists,
librarians,
and
family
historians in attendance.
How wonderful it is to encounter a
familiar face that far from home! You may
know some of the folks I enjoyed seeing:
Kim Garvey, Alvie Davidson, Paul
Enchelmayer, Ann Staley, Nancy Marty, and
Rita Gordon.
My first day was Librarians' Day,
sponsored by ProQuest, during which about
100 librarians who serve genealogists were
treated to five excellent presentations,
including "The Best of Times - For
Genealogists and Their Librarians" with
Curt B. Witcher, and a tour of the Public
Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County,
focusing on their Genealogy and Local
History Department. My second day was
actually the first day of the full conference,
beginning with the Opening Session
presentation by Patricia Moseley Van Skaik
of "Genealogy Buried in a Photograph:
Amazing Discoveries in the Cincinnati
Panorama of 1848." The remainder of that
day and those that followed presented
multiple choices for each block of time, with
opportunities to learn from some of the most
prominent names in the profession about
methodology, military records, ethnic
research, photos, migration, writing, and
technology.
I often had a hard time
choosing which session to attend!
In addition to the valuable sessions,
there was that huge Exhibit Hall at the Duke
Energy Convention Center! I was drawn
back again and again to talk with the
vendors, attend demos and mini-classes
about their products, collect information,
and - of course - buy books! The 1940 U.S.
Census Community Project was busy the
entire time with folks sitting at the dozen
computers there indexing batches of the
census.
I came home with bags full of
literature and a head full of ideas to share. I
highly recommend spending a full week
immersed in genealogy this way! I cannot
thank you enough for making this
opportunity possible for me.
New Resources at the Library
Fashionable Folks: Bonnets and hats 18401900
By Maureen Taylor
973
Tay
Freedom's Struggle: A response to slavery
from the Ohio borderlands
By Gary L. Knepp
973.7115 Kne
Genealogist's Handbook for New England
Kinseekers' Quarterly XXVI-2
Research, 5th ed.
By Michael J. Leclerc, ed.
929.374
Gen
Images of America: Ellis Island's Famous
Immigrants
By Barry Moreno
304.873 Mor
THIS INFORMATION WAS TAKEN FROM
"HISTORY OF PRESTON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA"
By Oren Frederic Morton & J R Coe
Huguenots migrated to South Carolina
Pilgrims went to Massachusetts
Baptists were in Rhode Island
Quakers were in Pennsylvania
Catholics were in Maryland
Puritans were middle class of England and were largely tradesmen and artisans and were
accustomed to town and village life. Puritans occupied New England. Many of them settled in
New Jersey.
Scotch were much like the Puritans except they were ruder in habits and more democratic in
feelings. The same was said for the Welch.
Cavaliers settled in the lowlands of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Maryland. Cavaliers
were county squires and aristocratic.
Huguenots settled in South Carolina. The Huguenots were numerous in New England and were
rapidly fused with the Puritans.
English Catholics settled in Maryland
Quakers and a few Swedes settled in Pennsylvania and Delaware. The Quakers and certain
German sects were opposed to war. Quakers were inclined to country life.
The Hollanders were first to colonize New York. The Hollanders on the Hudson were
venturesome and fond of trade, but were not numerous and had a good thing where they were.
The Scotch, Welsh and native Irish formed a sprinkling in all the colonies
The Germans occupied the interior districts of Pennsylvania, eastward of the main Allegany ridge
and overflowed southward into the interior counties of Maryland and into the valley of the
Kinseekers' Quarterly XXVI-2
Shenandoah and the South Broad of the Potomac.
The western Scotch being more numerous and more venturesome, they spread throughout the
Appalachian region southward from the northern line of Pennsylvania. They occupied the
interior counties of the Carolinas & Georgia.
Nearly all newcomers landed at Philadelphia because of the reputation for liberality of William
Penn's colony.
The New England man was homogeneous. He was shrewd, practical, ingenious and industrious.
His manners were plan and his home tidy. He could read and he was narrow in his religious
practice and quiet set in his opinions.
The Lowland South man was aristocratic in feeling and practice. He was dicatorial, yet he was
generous, courteous and honorable. He was content with country life.
The middle colonies were industrious and thrifty. They were the best fed and the best farms and
gave attention to trade and manufacturing.
In 1766, the settled area of the 13 colonies was somewhat like a new moon. The concave side
following the Atlantic shore and the convex side penetrating the Appalachian highland.
The early settler found only small and weak tribes of Indians along the seaboard. The northern
extremity of the Appalachians, toward the shores of lake Erie, lay the powerful league of the Six
Nations, while among the southern Appalachians were the formidable tribes of the Cherokees
and the Catawbas. In the boundless plains beyond the mountains were other fierce and war like
tribes.
France was the first to explore the land beyond the mountains. She colonized Canada and
Louisiana. The French did not clear land, but lived among the red men. Many of the trappers
married Indian women.
March of settlements past the Blue Ridge Mountains:
The planter of the lowland South was an agriculturist. If he went beyond the mountains he could
find rich farm lands and navigatable rivers in Kentucky and Tennessee.
The New England people were remote from the Appalachian center and had vacant lands of their
own to settle.
The Ulster-Scotch (Scotch-Irish) were the more numerous and took lead in the westward
advance. They were tall, sinewy, hardy, enduring, clear-eyed and level headed. They were
outwardly affectionate and were not given to display of emotion.
Given Names & Surnames:
Kinseekers' Quarterly XXVI-2
Centuries ago our forefathers in Western Europe carried only a given name. In the primitive age
when our ancestors used a single name, the designation was not at first arbitrary, but had a
perfectly plain meaning. A word or phrase in common use was applied to a person to distinguish
him from his fellows.
Kinseekers' Quarterly XXVI-2
Enhance your 1940 Census Research
By Tom Q Wilcox
Since its April release, you have no doubt already have found some of your ancestors in the 1940
census. The census is a wealth of information. Some of the things listed are the grade level of
education, where a person lived in 1935 and 1940 and their annual earnings in 1939. There are
some tools to enhance your experience and make it more meaningful to you and your family. Try
some of these web sites to get a better picture of your ancestor's lives 72 years ago.
One of the things you should try is some of the many 1940s era web sites of the major and minor
events that occurred that year. Two that are fun to look at are:
http://www.hhsclassof58.com/year1940.htm This was created for High School grads of 1958.
Another one is: http://thecostofliving.com/index.php?id=130
The cost of living .com has some good graphics.
Get into the swing with 1940s entertainment. The best free site to do this with is the Internet
Archive. Two very good pages in the archive are: http://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio
This page allows you to listen to and download hundreds of 1940s era radio programs most of
them with the original commercials. The shows can even be attached to e-mail to share with
family or friends.
Another page on the same archive is dedicated to 78 rpm recordings of popular vocalists and
bands of the era. These can also be downloaded and attached to e-mails. This is the link to the
Artie Shaw band. http://archive.org/details/1940s-ArtieShaw-21-30
Lastly, this fun web site allows you to take the annual 1939 salary and convert it to 2012 dollars.
Put in the year and the amount and see how much this is in today's dollars as in the table. Just go
to http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
The US Inflation Calculator measures the buying power of the dollar over time. To begin, just
enter any two dates between 1913 and 2012, an amount, and then click 'Calculate'.
Have fun with these simple ways to picture the 1940 census experience.
Kinseekers' Quarterly XXVI-2
.........
QUICK REFERENCE TO MEETINGS:
Sep 10
Sep 17
Gene Rookies - Family Health Tree
Regular meeting - Karen Jorgensen, one of organizers presenting information on
“FAMILY HISTORY CONFERENCE” at Orlando, November 3, 2012
The Kinseekers Quarterly is indexed in the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) published by Allen
County Public Library Foundation and available online through the library database HeritageQuest
Online.
Kinseekers' Quarterly XXVI-2