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MSGS WEB SITE
http:://www.rootsweb.com/~mtmsgs
2003 – 2004 Officers
President – Betty Marshall
Box # 476 – Chester, MT 59522
Ph: 759-5627 Email: bubbles@ttc-cmc.net
Re-elected Sept. 2002 2nd term ends Sept. 2004
1st Vice President: Verba Valentine
3462 Barley Circle – Billings, MT 59102
Ph: 652-6132 work or 656-9840
Email: blgsmarket@aol.com
Elected Sep. 2002 1st term ends 2004
2nd Vice President: Carol Woodley
421 So. 13th St.- Livingston, MT 59047
Ph: 222-3468Email:cvwoodley@tgrsolution.net
Elected Sept. 2003 1st term ends 2005
Secretary: Shirley Rogers
Box # 24 – Boulder, MT 59632
Ph: 225- 3597 Email: JCRSAR@aol.com
Elected Sept. 2003 1st term ends 2005
Treasurer: Nancy Alley
Box # 989 – Boulder, MT 59632
Ph: 225-9570 Email: nalley@aol.com
Registrar: Del Harris
Box # 436 – East Helena, MT 59635
Ph: 227-6244 Email: Dlhar5@juno.com
Re-elected Sept. Sept. 2003 2nd term ends 2005
Past President: Al Huntsman
Box # 913 – Bozeman, MT 59771
Ph: 586-2269 Email: alhuntsman@mcn.net
WEB PAGE AND MONTANA L MANAGER
Cleve Kimmel – 5915 So. Ridge Rd. – Billings, MT
59010 Ph: 256-5662 Email:
montana_cal@aurorastar.com
March 2004
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
It’s time to get to work with my writing this newsletter. The Holidays are over and its time to let you
know what is going on with the MSGS. We have
been making lots of certificates for second volume
of the First Families and Early Settlers. I hope
every one has gotten theirs in because the deadline
was April 1st. 2004.
We want to welcome two new societies to the
MSGS they are: Fort Assiniboine Genealogical
Society of Havre, and Kootenai Country
Genealogical Society of Libby. Both of these
Societies are interested in doing the 1930 census.
That reminds me no one reported back if they have
any of their counties done or not. So would you
please let us know so we know where we are with
this project. I also received a call from a lady in
Colorado that has volunteered to do Cascade
County and I would like to thank her very much.
Her family lived in Montana in the early days.
Pat Ludwig and I attended a National Gentech
Conference in St. Louis, MO the end of January, a
report on that trip will appear on page 2.
The Conference for 2004 is in the planning with the
date being September 23 Board Meeting,
Conference 24 and 25 in Helena at the Red Loin
Colonial Inn. The main speaker will be Hank
Jones.
Membership dues were due in January hope
everyone taken care of this.
The next newsletter will be in July and I would like
each society to submit some news.
The minutes of the board meeting will be included
in this newsletter. President Betty Marshall
PLEASE SUBMIT NEWS BY JUNE 15TH FOR
THE NEXT NEWSLETTER. WOULD LIKE
NEWS FROM EVERY SOCIETY. SEND IT TO
ME BY EMAIL:bubbles@ttc-cmc.net
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A REPORT ON
THE MONTANA STATE
DEATH INDEXING PROJECT
Last September during the Havre conference the
Montana State Genealogical Society decided to give
each local society a CD copy of the 100 years
index. The State Vital Statistics Bureau had
produced the 1954-2002 indexes and they gave that
data to the MSGS as a reward for digitizing the
1900-1953 index. The State’s part of the index was
in Access and worked very nicely to find a death
record. Our goal has been to move each of the
years of data we had produced in Excel into Access
so that it could be searched in the same method as
the later years. Paul Dunham worked through all
the finished years of data and put them into Access.
Basically this is an excellent data base; outstanding
in its 100+ years scope.
When had attempted to do this, much of the data
needed repair and cleanup. Much more than I had
accomplished in my fine tuning attempts. I.e. each
cell in the data had to have a correct item in it. The
age couldn’t be 71? The question mark wasn’t
acceptable to access. Then all of the data had to be
in exactly the same format. So, if some data was
left out of one year and included in another year,
that had to be repaired. This was accomplished
early in 2004 and Paul sent me a completed CD of
all the years that we’d received.
Then we
questioned, “How many duplicate index numbers
are in the data that had been prepared?” Paul ran a
test of the data and found MANY. Part of them are
explained away with aliases, but many of them are
data errors (My eyes didn’t find them when fine
tuning the data.)
Plus there were 7 years outstanding…2 have since
been received. Presently the 5 years outstanding are
1929, 1930, 1936, 1941 and 1944. When these 7
years were completed we were going to send out an
“addendum” with them. So, with these loose ends
flapping in my head, I called Betty Marshall, State
President and she polled the Board about whether to
publish the CD as is, or to finish it with good
accuracy. The Board voted unanimously to wait
until the data was complete and accurate.
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Jim Edgar and Paul Durham have given me a
formula to run on the Excel data to find duplicates.
Paul has fine-tuned that to exclude the aliases.
When doing these corrections, we need the original
white sheets which we used this entire project.
Regarding the white sheets, I have a few years here
in Mesa. The finished ones are in the Lewis &
Clark Genealogical Society Library for safekeeping.
So, I plan to run the formula on the years of data for
which I have the sheets, find and correct those
duplicates.
Meanwhile, in Montana, the library is being
remodeled and our stuff is in locked storage. As
soon as we can get the sheets we’ll find editors to
run the formula and correct the data. There are
people in our membership who are skillful with
EXCEL… we need you to help find the duplicate
index number. Please let me know if you can help.
We need to have the 5 remaining years finished.
If there is anyone who has time to type and help
do these remaining years, Please HELP. There
are 2 years in Billings and 2 years in Boulder. If
you know someone there: call, help him or her.
Please let me know if you can help.
Del Harris, Registrar - Email: Dlar5@juno.com
MARSHALL, LUDWIG ATTEND
GENEALOGY, TECH CONFERENCE
Betty Marshall and Pat Ludwig attended the
National Gentech Conference in St. Louis, MO the
end of January. This conference was a combination
of genealogy and technology. The conference was
sponsored by the National Genealogical Society and
was hosted this year by the St. Louis Genealogical
Society. The Keynote speaker for this conference
was Dick Eastman who is an author, editor, and the
publisher of Eastman’s Online Genealogy
Newsletter. He emphasized collaboration of family
genealogy into a final great family tree. Individuals
would have the option of combining efforts and
merging together or just extracting information into
a personal file. The material would all be stored on
a huge database and all genealogy would be as close
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as your computer to work on, or view.
While at the conference both ladies attended
numerous workshops featuring the latest techniques
in using modern technology to enhance both
research and preservation of their genealogical
records. The newest programs and versions of
already widely used programs were demonstrated.
Methodology using the Internet and even DNA
research were elaborated upon.
Several newer products were available to facilitate
reporting and sharing of information.
Emphasis was placed on the speed of growth of the
information that is out there. With newer programs
on the computer, one can build libraries of finished
books, albums, and web sites.
Contributed by Pat Ludwig.
WHO IS HANK JONES?
Henry Z. “Hank” Jones, Jr. has been chosen as the
primary speaker at the MSGS Conference to be held
at Helena on September 23-25, 2004. Some of us
have heard about him. Most of us would like to
know more.
Hank has been actively climbing family trees since
the age of eight, and since his graduation from
Stanford, has specialized in tracing 18th century
German emigrants. He’s written several books,
mostly on the Palatine Families of New York—
1710 and was winner of the Donald Lines Jacobus
Award as “Best Genealogical Work of the Year.”
He’s written many articles over the years that have
appeared in prestigious publications such as The
American Genealogist, National Genealogical
Society Quarterly, The New York Genealogical &
Biographical Record and others. He has been
elected a Fellow of the American Society of
Genealogists, of whom there are only fifty in the
world. His best seller, Psychic Roots: Serendipity
& Intuition in Genealogy, a study of how intuitive
nudges and serendipitous events sometimes
influence our genealogical searches, is now in its 7th
printing. It was dramatized on NBCs Unsolved
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Mysteries” program to good response from inside
and outside the genealogical community. Another
book on Psychic Roots has recently been published.
As to Henry’s “other life” apart from genealogical
research, Hank Jones was a film actor for twentyfive years. He appeared in many movies, among
them eight films for Walt Disney studios (such as
“Blackbeard’s Ghost” in which he co-starred with
Peter Ustinov). He has been featured on over 300
network TV shows such as “My Three Sons, Family
Affair, Petticoat Junction, Mod Squad, Mork &
Mindy, The Love Boat, and The Jeffersons” and
etc. which still come back to haunt him on cable TV
today. Hank also was active as a singer co-starring
on ABC-TV’s Tennessee Ernie Ford Show and
recording albums on RCA and Capitol Records.
Talk about a man with many talents!
Most recently TIME Magazine had a cover story
devoted to genealogy in the new millennium and
chose to close the article and tie things together
with a quote from Hank Jones. I wonder what it
was?
SOCIETY NEWS
GEN-BUG
NEWS,
Yellowstone
Genealogy Forum, % Parmley Billings
Library, 510 N. Broadway, Billings, MT
59101. January 2004
Yellowstone Genealogy Forum in Billings reports
that Family history researchers should be pleased to
know that the Belvedere and Wicks Family History
Centers have been combined at the LDS Church at
6th St. West and Ave D. The Library is wheelchair
accessible. They hope you will visit it often.
There have been lots of changes at the Gen-Room.
They say it has a fresh look and more “user
friendly” and additional shelf space and a lot more.
TREASURE STATE LINE, Great
Falls Genealogy Society, High Plains
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Heritage Center, 422 2nd St South, Great
Falls, MT 59405-1816: February 2004.
This issue includes a list of links for research in
Wales, the Great Falls High School Class of 1907
Reunion Brief Biographies, the story of Ambrose
Valencourt and Elizabeth (McGiffin) Cheney, and a
reminiscence of life along the Kootenai River by
Mrs. Myrtle Eskew Alex, who was born on a
homestead near Havre and later moved to northwest
Idaho/Montana.
WESTERN
MONTANA
GENEALOCIAL SOCIETY, P.O. Box
2714, Missoula, MT 59806-2714 March
2004.
The WMGS met on March 9th at the Missoula
Public Library.
Their guest speaker was
Christopher Daly, a Butte native who has practiced
law in Missoula since 1984.
He discussed
“Genealogy at the Missoula Courthouse.”
He has had a life-long interest in family history and
genealogy and has worked on tracing all four of the
grandparental roots,
Traditional vs. Computer Based
Genealogical Research-Not “Either/Or”
but “BOTH”
By Betty Marshall
This is the first lecture that I went to at the National
Genealogical Society 2004 in St. Louis, MO.
The speaker was John W, Konvalinka from
Princeton, NJ. For an updated, on line version of
this lecture go to Email: john@konvalinka.com or
website: www.konvalinka.com
Two key words sum up the way to think about
Internet/Computer research are Indexes and Images.
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Computers can serve as aids for reading documents
and transcriptions and also can provide actual
searchable images of documents and newspapers.
CD-ROMs –covering a wide range of subjects:
 Census Data
 Indexes of Vital Records
 Books and Periodicals
The INTERNET:
 To search- for what others have put out
there
 Put it out there yourself (including setting
up your own website)
A few of the Best (known) Internet Genealogy
Sites
 RootsWeb-http://rootsweb.com voted the
best
 Cyndi’s List- www.cyndislist.com link to
200,000 Genealogy Sites
 Ancestry.com- www.ancestry.com huge
databases, many accessible free
 The
LDS
(Mormon)
www.familysearch.com to access many
LDS resources
 The Social Security “Death Index” – over 70
million deaths reported from~1960s-2002 is
accessible
free
through
www.rootsweb.com,
www.familySearch.org
or
www.Ancestry.com
Some Newest and Interesting Interest Sites:
 U.S. Census Records
Several current
projects including those by Family Search
(www.familysearch.org for the 1880
census, now linked to images on
ancestry.com)
 Other Public Records- (and problems with
access to them)
1. Birth, Marriage and Death Records
Many
are
available
through
Rootsweb and Ancestry.com
2. Divorce
Record:
(Do
a
www.google.com
search
for
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“Divorce Records online”) (also for
Institution and Criminal Records.)
3. Military Records: a good starting
point
home.att.net/~weemonster/military.html
4. Property Records-Land record
and /Will: The U.S. Department of
the Interior Bureau of Land
Management www.blm.gov is a
major source for land grants and
other property record information.
Other “People Finding “Aids”
1. Telephone directories can be found
at www.teldir.com/eng.
2. City Directories available at:
www.uscitydirectories.com
3. Ancestry.com’s section on city
directories:
www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/
directories/main.htm
On Line Newspaper Images and
Abstracts Ancestry.com subscribers with
access to the Historical Newspapers
Collection can search the database at
www.ancestry.com (click on “Historical
Newspapers”)
Record of Person who Became U.S.
Citizen: Some Naturalization Indexes are
becoming available and searchable on line.
http://home.att.net/~weemonster/naturalization.html
Cemetery and Obituary Records: A
worthwhile site to learn which of these
records
are
online
is:
http://home.att.net/~weemonster/deathrecords.html
If there is any problems with these links you can
email john@konvalinka.com
Remember the Conference September 24-25,
2004 in Helena, MT.
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The 1890 U. S. Census: Not everything
was destroyed.
Beginning U. S. genealogists soon learn that the
1890 census records were destroyed in a fire in the
basement of the Commerce Building on January 10,
1921. Many people who would like to see these
records just shrug their shoulders and move on.
A short search on the Web, however, soon reveals
that not all of the records were destroyed. In fact,
the morning after the fire, Census Director Sam
Rogers reported the extensive damage to the 1890
schedules, estimating that only 25 percent of the
records were destroyed, with 50 percent of the
remainder damaged by water, smoke, and fire.
Salvage of the water-soaked and charred documents
might be possible, reported the bureau, but saving
even a small part would take a month, and it would
take two to three years to copy and save all the
records damaged in the fire. The Preliminary
assessment of Census Bureau Clerk T. J. Fitzgerald
was far more sobering. Fitzgerald told reporters
that the priceless 1890 records were “certain to be
absolutely ruined. There is no method of restoring
the legibility of a water-soaked volume”
Had the fire occurred in the year 2004, many of the
volumes could have been saved. Today, watersoaked documents can be freeze dried, removing the
water without creating additional damage to the
pages. Unfortunately, such technology was not
available in 1921.
Speculation and rumors about the cause of the blaze
varied widely. Many suspected that a carelessly
discarded cigarette or a lighted match was the
cause. Employees were questioned about their
smoking habits. Others believed the fire started
among shavings in the carpenter shop or resulted
from spontaneous combustion.
At least one
woman from Ohio felt certain the fire was part of a
conspiracy to defraud her family of their rightful
estate by destroying every vestige of evidence
proving heirship! However, the true cause of the
fire was never proven.
At the end of January 1921, the records damaged in
the fire were moved for temporary storage. Over
the next few months, rumors spread that salvage
attempts would not be made and that Census
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Director Sam Rogers had recommended that
Congress authorize destruction of the 1890 census.
Prominent historians, attorneys, and genealogical
organization wrote in protest to Secretary of
Commerce Herbert Hoover, the Librarian of
Congress, and other government officials. The
National Genealogical and the Daughters of the
American Revolution formally petitioned Hoover
and Congress, and the editor of the NGS Quarterly
warned that a nationwide movement would begin
among state societies and the press if Congress
seriously considered destruction. The National
Archives quickly denied that the records would be
destroyed.
By May of 1921, the records were still piled in a
large warehouse without proper storage. The
records were quickly deteriorating as summer heat
approached in the non-air conditioned warehouse.
Census Director William Steuart ordered that the
damaged records be transferred back to the census
building, to be bound where possible, but at least
put in some order for reference.
The water-soaked records remained at the census
building for nearly eleven years, apparently not well
cared for. In December 1932, in accordance with
federal records procedures at the time, the Chief
Clerk of the Bureau of Census sent the Librarian of
Congress a list of papers no longer necessary for
current business and scheduled for destruction. He
asked the librarian to report back to him any
documents that should be retained for their
historical interest. Item 22 on the list for Bureau of
the Census read “Schedules, Population …1890,
Original.”
The Librarian identified no records as permanent;
the list was sent forward, and Congress authorized
destruction of the remaining 1890 census records on
February 21, 1933. Despite assurance by census
officials in 1921 that the damaged records would
not be destroyed, government bureaucrats did
exactly that in the 1930’s. Even worse, damaged
and undamaged pages alike were destroyed. The
entire process was not well publicized, with only
minor notes buried inside governmental reports.
The date of the actual destruction of the 1890
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census records was never recorded although it
probably was in 1935.
It seems sad that Washington bureaucrats quietly
destroyed these valuable records without public
review and scrutiny. However, the story does not
end there.
The bureaucrats overlooked some
records! In 1953, National Archives found an
additional set of 1890 census record fragments.
These sets of extant fragments are from Alabama,
Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New
York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas,
and the District of Columbia. These surviving
fragments were preserved and microfilmed. They
are still available today, despite the “common
knowledge” that the 1890 U.S. Census was
destroyed in a fire.
Before you disregard this census, you should always
verify that the schedules you seek did not survive.
If you are looking for ancestors in 1890 in Alabama,
Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New
York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas,
or the District of Columbia, you might have a
pleasant surprise. Be ware that the surviving
records are only a tiny fraction of the total records,
even for those states. Nonetheless, you won’t know
until you check.
You can view National Archives Microfilm
Publication M407 (3 rolls) and a corresponding
index, National Archives Microfilm Publication
M496 (2 rolls). Both microfilm series can be
viewed at the National Archives, at the regional
archives, at the thousands of LDS Family History
Centers around the world, and at several other
repositories.
The following article is from Eastman’s Online
Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2004 by
Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with
the permission of the author. Information about the
newsletter
is
available
at
http://www.eogn.com
MSGS CONFERENCE
September 24-25, 2004 in Helena, MT at the Red
Lion Colonial Inn. Hank Jones will be the main
speaker. Plan to attend.
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Proposed Legislation Would Wreak
Havoc for Genealogists
A new bill before the U.S. Congress
proposes to overturn one of the most
fundamental concepts of the present
copyright laws. If passed, facts would
become copyrighted for the first time in U.
S. history.
The Database and Collections of
Information Misappropriation Act (HR3261)
would make it a crime for anyone to copy
and redistribute a substantial portion of data
collected
by
commercial
database
companies and list publishers. At first, that
sounds like a good idea. However, a bit
more thought shows that nobody would be
able to republish stock quotes, historical
health data, sports scores, or voter lists. In
fact, a lot of genealogy information could
not be republished.
If passed, Google and all the other search
engines would be crippled, probably driven
out of business. These are online databases
that collect information, or facts, from other
online sites so that the user can quickly find
the information they seek. If Google and the
others are not allowed to collect facts that
are now copyrighted, how will they be able
to index the Web for you?
Art Brodsky, spokesman for public
advocacy group Public Knowledge, says the
bill would let anyone drop a fact into a
database or a collection of materials and
claim monopoly rights to it. This would
contradict the core principle of the
Copyright Act, which states that mere
information and ideas cannot be protected
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Let’s say that a commercial genealogy
service
such
as
Ancestry.com
or
OneGreatFamily.com publishes the fact that
your great-great-grandparents had a child
named John. Once that “fact” has been
published by any commercial service, that
original publisher would hold the copyright
on the fact, and no one else would be
allowed to publish it again. The Family
History Library, the New England Historic
Genealogical
Society,
Genealogical
Publishing Company, and others would be
prohibited from publishing that information
again in any of their online or printed works.
In fact, private individuals would similarly
be barred form publishing the information in
their own derivative works. If a commercial
site publishes a fact about your ancestors,
you would not be able to place that fact on
your own Web site or in any book or report
that you give to others.
The language in this proposed legislation
contradicts the core principle of the present
copyright acts, which state that mere
information and ideas cannot be protected
works.
You can read more about this proposed
legislation
in
Wired
News
at
http://www.wired.com/new/print/0,1294,6
2500,00.html
The following article is from Eastman’s Online
Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2004 by
Richard W. Eastman. It is republished here with the
permission of the author. Information about the
newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com
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The following Local Societies belong to
the Montana State Genealogical Society.
BeaverHead Hunters GS – Dillon
Bitterroot GS – Hamilton
Broken Mountains GS – Chester
Dawson County GS - Glendive
Fort Assiniboine – Havre
Great Falls GS – Great Falls
Jefferson County GS – Boulder
Kootenai Country GS – Libby
Lewis & Clark County – Helena
Milk River GS – Chinook
Park County GS – Livingston
Powder River GS – Broadus
Sheridan County GS – Plentywood
Tangled Roots GS – Cut Bank
Western Montana GS – Missoula
Yellowstone Gen. Forum – Billings
The membership year is January 1 to
December 31. Society dues are to be paid
by January 31. The society dues are based
on the following schedule:
# Of Members
Society Dues
1 - 10
$15.00
11 - 25
$25.00
26 - 40
$35.00
41 - 55
$45.00
56 - 70
$55.00
71 - 85
$60.00
86 –100
$70.00
101 – 125
$80.00
126 – 150
$90.00
All checks should be made payable to
Montana State Genealogical Society and
sent to the Treasurer of the State Society.
Nancy Alley – Box # 989 – Boulder, MT
59632
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Park County GS – Livingston
[Carol Woodley]
COMPUTER GENERATED DEATH
CERTIFICATES
I recently purchased a computer generated,
Death Certificate at the Clerk and Recorders office
of my county. Upon arrival home with my prize, I
discovered to my horror, glaring before me was a
watered down version of a death certificate.
Fortunately for all concerned I knew that it was not
the local Clerk and Recorders fault that the record
was devoid of some of the most important
information wanted. That it would be necessary to
contact the state and get this mess corrected.
The phone call at 406-444-4226 to
Administrative Support, Vital Statistics Bureau,
Helena, advises that there will never be any more
information added to the computer data already
entered. That data is for county information only
and should not be given to you when you apply for
a death certificate dated before July 2003. It will be
void of the following data.
1. Place of Birth
5. Other significant conditions
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Name
and
Addres
s of
Certifi
er
It will have NOT RECORDED in all of the
spots listed above.
Should you discover that the death record
needs some kind of correction you can get the
required affidavit form, from the Clerk and
Recorder of your county. Send the completed
affidavit to the Montana Department of Public
Health & Human Services, Office of Vital
Statistics, PO Box 4210, Helena, MT 59604-4210.
There is a $15.00 fee required to amend a record
that is more than one year. This fee does include a
certified copy of the amended record. Be aware that
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they will not accept a letter. You must fill out the
affidavit and sign it before a notary. Also, you will
assume the responsibility of furnishing proof of the
corrected item to any questioning agency.
You will be expected to pay more for any
death certificate that is less than 30 years olds as it
has to be Certified.
You have a right to refuse a computer
generated death certificate and request that they
make you a copy from their files on record at the
office where you are applying.
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use. It is primarily for compiling family histories based
on stories and pictures contributed by family members.
The company offers a series of "how to" books that offer
ideas for getting a group of people to write their
memories of family events, traditions, etc. Pictures and
texts can be uploaded to the website for publishing into a
bound volume at an affordable price and in various
quantities. Eleanor passed out information on this
service and gave an actual website demonstration. She
stated that she is available as a consultant for anyone
who would like to use this service.
By Mardi Whitmore, Secretary
By Carol Woodley
Livingston, Montana
Park County Genealogy Society (April 2)
In January the members had an opportunity to visit the
Park County Clerk and Recorder’s office and the Clerk of
Court’s office. Denise Nelson and June Little, Clerks of
the respective offices, did an excellent job of explaining
the records they have on file.
The February meeting featured Jerry Brekke of the
Livingston Enterprise as the program presenter. Brekke
gave a very interesting and informative talk on
newspaper research in the local area. Brekke described
the content of early newspapers which date from
December 1881 in Livingston. In the century that
followed numerous newspapers began and ended.
Brekke stated that the Park County News which began
in 1917 and lasted until 1977, had a good layout and is
easier to research than some of the other old
newspapers. The Park County Library is the key source
for all of the old newspapers that were printed in Park
County. The library has copies on microfilm. The Park
County Museum has bound hard copies of many of the
old newspapers. The museum has an ongoing project of
indexing local names from the old newspapers and
volunteer help is always needed to help with this work.
In addition the library at Montana State University in
Bozeman has extensive microfilm records of local
newspapers available for research.
The program for the meeting in March was presented by
Eleanor Wend, a member of our society. She gave us
information on "Cherish Bound," an on-line publishing
service available on the Internet. The service began last
September, is based out of Utah, and is very easy to
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