>Forwarded From Another List: >M. Dean Hunt >Louisville, KY > > Good Morning everyone: I played hooky from work yesterday and spent the >day at the NARA Branch in Atlanta and it jogged my memory to pass on >some information to everyone. > > Prior to the US's entry into WW1 (approx. 1917-1918) every male between >the age of 18 and 40 was required to register for the draft. The >information found on the card was provided by the individual himself. >The registration cards vary in information depending on the individual >draft board. But by and large the cards include: The full name of the >person (this means first, full middle name, any additional middle names >and last name); the current address of the man; his age; his birthdate >(some include his place of birth); whether he is a US citizen or a >naturalized citizen (some ask if his father was a naturalized citizen >and his father's race); his race; his occupation; where he is employed >(name of employer); address or location of employment; name and address >of his next of kin; some cards ask if the man is married or single and >how many people he supports. The card is signed by the draftee. On the >back of the card his physical description is > noted: Height is broken down by short, medium, tall although some cards >give the > actual height in feet and inches; Build by slim, medium, stout although >some cards list actual weight along with the build; color of eyes and >hair; any deformities or injuries are listed (such as one arm missing, >blind in one eye, etc); the name and address of the draft board and the >date. > > When these original cards were transferred to the East Pointe NARA >branch the LDS spent about 3 years microfilming these cards. There are >hundreds and hundreds of boxes and the LDS opened one box at a time and >filmed them - in state order. However, within each state the cards were >filed by draft board, not by county or by draftee. This makes the >searching of the microfilm difficult to say the least. > >The good news is that the Friends of the National Archives took each box >after it was filmed (and checked) and sorted all of these thousands and >thousands of cards into - state and then COUNTY order and then in >alphabetical order by surname and put then in new boxes. The Friends >deserveall the kudos we can give them for this monstrous task. > > So ... rather than spending hours and hours searching the LDS microfilm >you can order copies of the original cards from NARA. if you know the >county your ancestor lived in between 1917-1918. > > And BTW - Ancestry.com lists WW1 Draft cards in their searchable data >bases, however I know for a fact that there are 22 cards for the surname >WHITE found in McIntosh Co, OK and Ancestry only gave me 4 of them so >don't depend on that site. I was told yesterday that some reps from >Ancestry had visited the archives a couple of weeks ago to talk about >filming the cards, took one look at the hundreds and hundreds of boxes >and simply left. > >For copies: Send a letter requesting copy(s) to: > NARA > Southeast Region > 1557 St. Joseph Ave > East Point, GA 30344 > >In your letter be sure to say you want copy(s) of the WWI Draft >application Cards. Include the name of your ancestor and his race, the >state and the county. If you want copies of ALL of the cards with a >given surname, ask them the cost of the copies and send a SASE for them >to let you know the copying cost. In your letter be sure and say you want >a copy of the FRONT and BACK of the card. Be sure to send a SASE for the >return of your copies. > > The cost for the copy is 50 cents - 25 cents for the back and 25 cents >for the front. If you only want one copy send a buck and say the >difference is to be given to the Friends of the Archives, because after >all they did all this wonderful hard work for you <VBG> >

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Kelly & the Flock wrote: > > There is a great site about Blocksburg here: > http://www.hits.org/community/blocksburg/history/ > > I especially love the postcards although they aren't of much genealogical > value. > > Kelly > > > >If you were driving north, passing through Laytonville, you left the > > >present highway at the Bell Springs Road, (about 10 miles north of > > >Laytonville) and then could take this road all the way to Bridgeport, on > > >the Van Duzen River.... Kelly: You are right, I enjoyed this site Regards, Don Tunison-Campbell Eureka

Ken Allard wrote: > > Whoops! > Already found an error, found it myself. > > In the paragraph > > >If you were driving north, passing through Laytonville, you left the > >present highway at the Bell Springs Road, (about 10 miles north of > >Laytonville) and then could take this road all the way to Bridgeport, on > >the Van Duzen River. > > NO, NO! You take the road all the way to BRIDGEVILLE on the Van Duzen River! > Sorry about that. > > You can extend this trip, if you like. You start with the Bell Springs Road, > then onto the Alderpoint Road, then at Bridgeville you cross the river (how > the town got its name) and same road becomes Kneeland Road. You can go all > the way to Freshwater, and into Eureka. Only for the adventurous. > > Ken Allard And, for more adventure, you can turn off of Kneeland Road to connect with Maple Creek Road, and venture down to Korbel, Blue lake. and connect to 299 and 101 near the Mad River. Don Tunison-Campbell

There is a great site about Blocksburg here: http://www.hits.org/community/blocksburg/history/ I especially love the postcards although they aren't of much genealogical value. Kelly > >If you were driving north, passing through Laytonville, you left the > >present highway at the Bell Springs Road, (about 10 miles north of > >Laytonville) and then could take this road all the way to Bridgeport, on > >the Van Duzen River....

Whoops! Already found an error, found it myself. In the paragraph >If you were driving north, passing through Laytonville, you left the >present highway at the Bell Springs Road, (about 10 miles north of >Laytonville) and then could take this road all the way to Bridgeport, on >the Van Duzen River. NO, NO! You take the road all the way to BRIDGEVILLE on the Van Duzen River! Sorry about that. You can extend this trip, if you like. You start with the Bell Springs Road, then onto the Alderpoint Road, then at Bridgeville you cross the river (how the town got its name) and same road becomes Kneeland Road. You can go all the way to Freshwater, and into Eureka. Only for the adventurous. Ken Allard

This part of a message posted yesterday has raised some questions. >Now Blocksburg is off the beaten path, but it is maybe twenty miles from >Harris. I suppose in 1884 there might have been a Justice of the Peace >in Blocksburg, but probably not today! For those interested, the towns of Harris and Blocksburg are on the "old road," once THE way to get to Eureka from the south. It was a prospering area in the late 1800s. Blocksburg first had a post office in 1877, named for Benjamin Blocksburger, who came to the area in 1853; spelling of the post office was changed in 1893. The town of Harris, less than twenty miles south, was named, it is said, for William C. Harris, who built a hotel there, and was postmaster in 1883, probably earlier. If you were driving north, passing through Laytonville, you left the present highway at the Bell Springs Road, (about 10 miles north of Laytonville) and then could take this road all the way to Bridgeport, on the Van Duzen River. (Let me add, there were, still are, places where you can leave this Bell Springs Road, (which later becames an extention of the Alderpoint Road) to get to Eel River valley.) The railroad, however, took a slightly different route, so (I'm sure most know) you last see the railroad from US101 at Longview (north of Willits) then see it next at Dyerville. The railroad crosses this "old road" at Alderpoint and at Fort Seward (depends on which fork you take along the way), passes through towns on a route that seems unlikely to us today, Dos Rios, Alderpoint, Fort Seward, Eel Rock and McCann before reaching Dyerville. My sources include Gudde's "California Place Names" and family notes and recollections. Memory may fail me on some of these points/places, so additions or corrections are welcomed. Ken Allard Fair Oaks, Sacramento County CA

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------EE2828B54DA47431A7BDA201 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------EE2828B54DA47431A7BDA201 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by home.humboldt1.com (Pro-8.9.2/Pro-8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA17579; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:19:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA20705; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:18:57 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:18:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:21:16 -0700 From: Don Tunison-Campbell <[email protected]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; I) Old-To: [email protected] Old-Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------648AB6B2DA577ED90F3B076F" Subject: [CAHUMBOL] [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown] Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/62 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Content-Type: text This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------648AB6B2DA577ED90F3B076F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------648AB6B2DA577ED90F3B076F Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from localhost (localhost) by home.humboldt1.com (Pro-8.9.2/Pro-8.9.2) with internal id DAA22933; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:21:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:21:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON> Message-Id: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary="DAA22933.934885303/home.humboldt1.com" This is a MIME-encapsulated message --DAA22933.934885303/home.humboldt1.com The original message was received at Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:21:40 -0700 (PDT) from ppp95-pm4.humboldt1.com [206.13.45.195] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <[email protected]> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to bl-3.rootsweb.com.: >>> RCPT To:<[email protected]> <<< 550 <[email protected]>... User unknown 550 <[email protected]>... User unknown --DAA22933.934885303/home.humboldt1.com Content-Type: message/delivery-status Reporting-MTA: dns; home.humboldt1.com Received-From-MTA: DNS; ppp95-pm4.humboldt1.com Arrival-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:21:40 -0700 (PDT) Final-Recipient: RFC822; [email protected] Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; bl-3.rootsweb.com Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 <[email protected]>... User unknown Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:21:43 -0700 (PDT) --DAA22933.934885303/home.humboldt1.com Content-Type: message/rfc822 Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from humboldt1.com (ppp95-pm4.humboldt1.com [206.13.45.195]) by home.humboldt1.com (Pro-8.9.2/Pro-8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA22928 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:21:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:24:00 -0700 From: Don Tunison-Campbell <[email protected]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [email protected] Subject: John WOOD/Harris Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Pam: Ken Allard's response triggered yet another idea of mine. You might very well enjoy and be enlightened by a recently published book named: "The History of ALDERPOINT" by Ray Mathison. This is an excellent personal history with many clear photographs of the rather remote and isolaed area of Alderpoint, Blocksburg, Harris, Old Harris, Kettlepom, Fort Seward and so forth. A good contact to buy the book, I thought it inexpensive, is Ray's grandaughter. Lois Bozarth. She is at "[email protected]" She works in Eureka at Premier Financial, and her home telephone number is (707) 442-5445. The only drawback to Ray's book is that there is no index! Regards, Don Tunison-Campbell Eureka --DAA22933.934885303/home.humboldt1.com-- --------------648AB6B2DA577ED90F3B076F-- --------------EE2828B54DA47431A7BDA201--

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------648AB6B2DA577ED90F3B076F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------648AB6B2DA577ED90F3B076F Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from localhost (localhost) by home.humboldt1.com (Pro-8.9.2/Pro-8.9.2) with internal id DAA22933; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:21:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:21:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON> Message-Id: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary="DAA22933.934885303/home.humboldt1.com" This is a MIME-encapsulated message --DAA22933.934885303/home.humboldt1.com The original message was received at Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:21:40 -0700 (PDT) from ppp95-pm4.humboldt1.com [206.13.45.195] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <[email protected]> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to bl-3.rootsweb.com.: >>> RCPT To:<[email protected]> <<< 550 <[email protected]>... User unknown 550 <[email protected]>... User unknown --DAA22933.934885303/home.humboldt1.com Content-Type: message/delivery-status Reporting-MTA: dns; home.humboldt1.com Received-From-MTA: DNS; ppp95-pm4.humboldt1.com Arrival-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:21:40 -0700 (PDT) Final-Recipient: RFC822; [email protected] Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; bl-3.rootsweb.com Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 <[email protected]>... User unknown Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:21:43 -0700 (PDT) --DAA22933.934885303/home.humboldt1.com Content-Type: message/rfc822 Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from humboldt1.com (ppp95-pm4.humboldt1.com [206.13.45.195]) by home.humboldt1.com (Pro-8.9.2/Pro-8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA22928 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:21:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:24:00 -0700 From: Don Tunison-Campbell <[email protected]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [email protected] Subject: John WOOD/Harris Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Pam: Ken Allard's response triggered yet another idea of mine. You might very well enjoy and be enlightened by a recently published book named: "The History of ALDERPOINT" by Ray Mathison. This is an excellent personal history with many clear photographs of the rather remote and isolaed area of Alderpoint, Blocksburg, Harris, Old Harris, Kettlepom, Fort Seward and so forth. A good contact to buy the book, I thought it inexpensive, is Ray's grandaughter. Lois Bozarth. She is at "[email protected]" She works in Eureka at Premier Financial, and her home telephone number is (707) 442-5445. The only drawback to Ray's book is that there is no index! Regards, Don Tunison-Campbell Eureka --DAA22933.934885303/home.humboldt1.com-- --------------648AB6B2DA577ED90F3B076F--

I was hunting for information on the _SS Northerner_ which wrecked near Centerville (Humboldt) in 1860 and found this really neat website. It includes a number of ships that sailed the Pacific including passenger lists and ship histories, and transcriptions of newspaper articles. It looks like a good place to hunt for some ancestor information, and general maritime history. The homepage is at: http://maritimeheritage.org/ Search engine to hunt for passengers, captains & ships! http://maritimeheritage.org/search.htm Kelly Humboldt County Coordinator http://www.qworld.net/humboldt/index.html

Pam Haithcock, looking for a John W. Wood posted >I am looking for descendants of John W. Wood b. September 1853 in >McLean Co., IL d. October 05, 1914 in Harris, Humboldt Co., CA. >His wife's name was Mary Jane ?? b. March 1863 in Oregon, death >date and place unknown.. I note you already have had two good responses from Don Tunison-Campbell Here is one additional entry which may or may not relate. In a book, "BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS 1878-1885 as Reported in THE FERNDALE ENTERPRISE" from Redwood Gen Society, there is this entry: "May 31, 1884 MARRIED - At Blocksburg, May 24th, by Frank Hendrickson, J.P., J.W. Wood and Sarah A. Harmon, both of Blocksburg." His name has initials only, and a different name for his wife than what you have, but I note you have a question mark. Could it have been a different marriage? Now Blocksburg is off the beaten path, but it is maybe twenty miles from Harris. I suppose in 1884 there might have been a Justice of the Peace in Blocksburg, but probably not today! Ken Allard ken [email protected]

Pam Haithcock wrote: > > I am new to this list, so I thought I'd post my "missing person". > > I am looking for descendants of John W. Wood b. September 1853 in > McLean Co., IL d. October 05, 1914 in Harris, Humboldt Co., CA. > His wife's name was Mary Jane ?? b. March 1863 in Oregon, death > date and place unknown.. I believe they had a son named William. > I have sent for a copy of John's will, but I haven't gotten it > yet. Any information or clues would be much appreciated. > > Pam Haithcock > Bit's and Pieces of McLean County > http://members.tripod.com/~GenFamily/index.html Pam: I also found two entries for men named "William Wood." WOOD William Died: 2 July 1908, Harris. Buried: On family Ranch, Harris. Born: 14 April 1826, Ohio. Widowed/ Parents: Margaret (Wiley) & Amos Wood. Occup:Rancher. Cause: Old Age. 2-294. Cert 1=196. WOOD William Died: 4 March 1923, County Hsp[, Eureka. Bur: Ocean View Cemetery. Age: 79 years, born Ireland. Single. Cause: Heart Disease. 2-294, Cert 1-196. Both of the above fromthe book cited earlier. Regards, Don Tunison-Campbell

Pam: >From the book: "Humboldt County, California Death Records, Abstracts of Books 1 & 2, 1873-1925, Volume II, L through Z compiled by Marilyn Keach Milota, Published by the Humboldt Genealogical Society, January 1993. Page 822": "WOOD John W. Died: 5 Oct 1914. Age" 61 years. No place of birth or death listed. Cause: Cancer. 2-292." Regards, Don Tunison-Campbell Eureka, Humboldt County Pam Haithcock wrote: > > I am new to this list, so I thought I'd post my "missing person". > > I am looking for descendants of John W. Wood b. September 1853 in > McLean Co., IL d. October 05, 1914 in Harris, Humboldt Co., CA. > His wife's name was Mary Jane ?? b. March 1863 in Oregon, death > date and place unknown.. I believe they had a son named William. > I have sent for a copy of John's will, but I haven't gotten it > yet. Any information or clues would be much appreciated. > > Pam Haithcock > Bit's and Pieces of McLean County > http://members.tripod.com/~GenFamily/index.html

I am new to this list, so I thought I'd post my "missing person". I am looking for descendants of John W. Wood b. September 1853 in McLean Co., IL d. October 05, 1914 in Harris, Humboldt Co., CA. His wife's name was Mary Jane ?? b. March 1863 in Oregon, death date and place unknown.. I believe they had a son named William. I have sent for a copy of John's will, but I haven't gotten it yet. Any information or clues would be much appreciated. Pam Haithcock Bit's and Pieces of McLean County http://members.tripod.com/~GenFamily/index.html

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I recently received a history of the following people: Katherine Jose McDONALD (1842-1898) Thomas McDONALD (1836-1912) Nancy McDONALD HUNTLEY (1862-1931) Walter O'Riley HUNTLEY (1837-1929) This history is in the form of 30 typewritten pages, written by my wife's great-uncle (we believe). Katherine Jose was half Spanish and half Yurok. She and her husband, Thomas, owned pack trains and a large establishment called "Redwood Camp". Their daughter, Nancy met and married Walter HUNTLEY (my wife's direct relation). If anyone on this list has more information or would like any information I have, please let me know. ***************************************************************************** John Gideon Clan Gordon Pipe Band of Tacoma, Wa. http://www.oz.net/~piper [email protected] Member Board of Directors and Charter Member: United States Internet Genealogical Society http://www.usigs.org Researching: Gideon, Ball, McCullah, Keltner, Lawson