Hello Everyone, The Yuba County USGenWeb site has been redesigned. If you had any pages other than the main page bookmarked, you might want to check your links. There is also a new search engine on the site. Sorry about the problems with the old one. The site now has burial listings for Timbuctoo, Smartville Fraternal and Smartville Catholic online. Hopefully these will aid you with your research. Thanks, Jay Bond & Laura Tyler Yuba County California USGenWeb Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~cayuba/

Thank you. I'll look then. Gail Sterling Heights, MI [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: laura tyler <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, October 09, 1999 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [CAYUBA] Quinkert in Smartsville >Gail, > >Hopefully by next week, we will have on line burial information for the >Smartville area. This may help you if any of your people were buried in one >of the Smartville Cemeteries. > >Laura >[email protected] > >-----Original Message----- >From: Gail Schulte <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >Date: Saturday, October 09, 1999 7:22 AM >Subject: [CAYUBA] Quinkert in Smartsville > > >>I'm looking for information about Clara Campbell QUINKERT and her husband >>John QUINKERT, who were in Smartsville, Yuba, CA in November 1906. She >>wrote a letter to her half-brother Wallace then, and said she had been >there >>for over 15 years. Clara was born in Detroit about 1866, parents Cyrille >>Joseph CAMPBELL, and ? DUBY. Any info appreciated. >> >>Gail Campbell Schulte >>Sterling Heights, MI >>[email protected] >> >> >> >>==== CAYUBA Mailing List ==== >>Yuba County, California CAGenWeb >>http://www.compuology.com/cagenweb/yubacty.htm >> > > >==== CAYUBA Mailing List ==== >Yuba County, California CAGenWeb >http://www.compuology.com/cagenweb/yubacty.htm >

Gail, Hopefully by next week, we will have on line burial information for the Smartville area. This may help you if any of your people were buried in one of the Smartville Cemeteries. Laura [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Gail Schulte <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, October 09, 1999 7:22 AM Subject: [CAYUBA] Quinkert in Smartsville >I'm looking for information about Clara Campbell QUINKERT and her husband >John QUINKERT, who were in Smartsville, Yuba, CA in November 1906. She >wrote a letter to her half-brother Wallace then, and said she had been there >for over 15 years. Clara was born in Detroit about 1866, parents Cyrille >Joseph CAMPBELL, and ? DUBY. Any info appreciated. > >Gail Campbell Schulte >Sterling Heights, MI >[email protected] > > > >==== CAYUBA Mailing List ==== >Yuba County, California CAGenWeb >http://www.compuology.com/cagenweb/yubacty.htm >

I'm looking for information about Clara Campbell QUINKERT and her husband John QUINKERT, who were in Smartsville, Yuba, CA in November 1906. She wrote a letter to her half-brother Wallace then, and said she had been there for over 15 years. Clara was born in Detroit about 1866, parents Cyrille Joseph CAMPBELL, and ? DUBY. Any info appreciated. Gail Campbell Schulte Sterling Heights, MI [email protected]

Father William Austin Born in Indiana 1927 or 1928. I can get no info from Vital Records because I do not have Birth date Parents names or anything else. This was all that was on my Birth Certificate. Here is all the info I have. My name is Rev. Dennis Keith Austin I am 44 years old my fathers name is William Austin he would be around his early 70's he has a daughter name Twila she would be around 51 to 53 and a son around my age. He had Curly Auburn hair he lived in and around Monterey Park, California. He worked at a gas station. This info is 44 years old. My mothers name is Barbara Ballenger. He was not married at the time he and my mother had a relationship and when she got pregnant he left. My mother saw him again a year after I was born and he was married and had a little baby with him. If you could be of some help it would be a Blessing. Please contact me one way or the other. I would love to meet my Family Thank you and have a Blessed weekend. In His Grace, Rev. Dennis Austin 7577 Margate Court #104 Manassas, Virginia 20109 1-800-650-3238 Toll Free [email protected] ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

She was b in Missouri in 1851 and brought to CA about 1853. We think her parents died en route to CA and she may have lived in an orphanage in Marysville. She m. Elisha Haven in 1874 and d. in Nevada City in 1925. Would like to find out who her parents were. He mother may be named Mary. Barbara

If you missed the following from the Rootsweb newsletter I think you might find it interesting. It should be a great tool for everyone if we all post notes giving more identification on the listings that we know are ours - might make some new connections and help others eliminate some names in their searches. Just did a couple of mine and another link is provided once you post a post-em that you can view any posted. POST-EMs. Now you can attach a message to any of the more than 61 million records in the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) at RootsWeb by using a "post-em," developed by RootsWeb's own Randy Winch. Some suggested uses: attach notes to the records of your relatives, providing researchers with a direct link to you; add background information on an individual in the database, such as pointers to other records relating to that individual; or add a correction to an incorrect record. Check the records of individuals of interest to you often. Someone recently might have left a note there for you. To add a note to a record, do a search and click on "Post-em" at the end of a record at: <http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi>. Post-ems are a another example of your contributions at work.

Recently had an email message about a new website. Looks promising so I thought I would share. New site, Ancestory Gravesite Project, consists of gravesite photos that have been submitted from researchers all over the world. This site is for anyone in any country who is interested in contributing to the project. Includes a search engine. http://www.piedmontsoftware.com/graves/ and a link at the bottom - Leave Your Epitaph On The Message Board which leads to a new screen with a text box and the title Messages from the Grave http://www.piedmontsoftware.com/graves/comments.asp

In July, 1997 NARA established an updated fee schedule for services provided to the public. The minimum mail-order fee for photocopies for each WWI Draft card was increased from $6.00 to $10.00, a fee which includes both sides of the card. Patrons need not request that both sides of the card be copied, and patrons need not submit a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) with their request. Walk-in customers can make self-service photocopies of the original records for $0.10 per side. Please contact individual regions for their policies regarding microfilm copies. These fees are copying fees only; there is no charge for searches when a record is not located. **At a minimum, the following information is required from the requestor for NARA staff to conduct a search for draft registration cards: o Full name of registrant o Complete home address at the time of registration (to include county) o Name of nearest relative Additional information, if known, which can improve the thoroughness of a search includes: o Birth date o Birthplace o Occupation of registrant NARA, Southeast Region, has provided a request form for these records for a number of years. The forms can be ordered via e-mail ([email protected]), telephone (404-763-7383), or in writing (NARA, Southeast Region, 1557 St. Joseph Avenue, East Point, GA 30344). JAMES J. MCSWEENEY, Regional Administrator National Archives and Records Administration, Southeast Region

NEWS AND NOTES AT ROOTSWEB ROOTSWEB ADDS JUNE 1999 SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX (SSDI). Now you can access the most recent version of the SSDI at RootsWeb <http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi>. Accessible fields include first and last names, date of birth, month and year of death, last residence, last benefit, Social Security Number, and the state where it was issued. You can narrow a search to a particular state, country, city or zip code, or to a particular date of birth or death, by using the Advanced Search Feature. When you find a record of interest, you can automatically generate a printer ready letter to the Social Security Administration requesting a photocopy of the actual application for a Social Security Number (Form SS-5-Social Security Number Record Third Party Request for Photocopy).

>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> >

Does anyone have access to the 1870 Yuba county census that could check a listing for me. 1870 SMITH ANGELINE Yuba County CA Page 644 North East Township Thanks Colleen Norby -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, August 19, 1999 4:14 AM Subject: CAYUBA-D Digest V99 #37

RootsWeb’s Guide to Tracing Family Trees (http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/) currently has 9 lessons available. They deal with different subjects, including: -- Getting started -- Death records -- Marriage records -- Birth records -- Effective queries -- Spelling (or perhaps misspelling is better) Each of the lessons is just a couple of pages long, however, and in addition to the subject itself, they include: -- Links to useful sites on RootsWeb -- Links to useful sites on the Internet -- A list of useful books on the subject

Did you know that you can search the archives of this mailing list for previous messages you might have missed? http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl When prompted for the list name type in the name - as an example, Kern county mailing list would be : CAKERN-L or a surname list such as WELTON-L At the next prompt, type in the surname or whatever else you might want to find that might have been discussed previously

For those interested in the what's happening at rootsweb.com and other news that's genealogy related, you can subscribe easily to the following newsletters, MISSING LINKS AND ROOTSWEB REVIEW by following the directions at the bottom of this message. I've been sharing what I thought was of interest from these two newsletters. I was asked to consolidate my messages by someone (too many duplicate posts) on more than one of the county lists. But, since I've only shared a small amount of info from these newsletters, and I don't know what is really of interest to everyone, I'd like to suggest that if you found the postings useful and would like to read more, please subscribe yourself to the weekly mailing. Here's how: TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE from MISSING LINKS and ROOTSWEB REVIEW, send e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the message area to: <[email protected]>

ROOTSWEB INTRODUCES GENSEEKER, a new search engine that accesses almost all sites at RootsWeb and many genealogical sites elsewhere on the Web. These searches are more than three times faster than they were before we upgraded the CPU and disk subsystem. Access GenSeeker at <http://seeker.rootsweb.com/>. The amount of material accessed by GenSeeker is huge and will grow quickly as this search engine indexes an ever-increasing number of Web sites. Try GenSeeker often to find new items of interest. GenSeeker is a good example of your contributions at work to make free genealogical data accessible on the Web.

IF YOU ARE TRYING TO CONTACT THE PERSON WHO MANAGES a RootsWeb mailing list, remove the -L or -D from the list address, and replace it with -admin. FOR EXAMPLE, to reach the BAPTIST-ROOTS-L list administrator, write to [email protected]

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Recently joined the list in hope of solving a mystery I have on my hands (don't we all). Discovered that my grandmother's sister, Georgie (aka Georgia, Addie) McFarlan MEADOWS, committed suicide in San Francisco on December 3, 1898 (her 30th birthday). She was separated from her husband, Arthur J. Meadows. An article about her suicide appearing in The San Francisco Call states "Her parents live in Wheatland, Yuba County." This is completely false: Her parents died in Eureka, Humboldt Co., in the 1870s. Correct info concerning her surviving sisters appeared in the Eureka obit. It seems logical that this may be a reference to the parents of Arthur J. Meadows. Is anyone researching MEADOWS in Yuba Co. or does anyone recall running across the name? No mention was made of where burial occurred. Any assistance/suggestions you can give will be most appreciated. Lynn - Shelton, WA

The Library of Congress has digitized hundreds of their maps and made them available for researchers online. The Railroad Maps Collection covers the years 1828 to 1900 and is a part of the American Memory online section of the Library of Congress. You can search and view these digitized maps by visiting their web site at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html Remember that learning what railroads were available as your ancestors were migrating to the west may help you determine how they got there and where they may have stopped. FAMILY TREE FINDERS Rhonda R. McClure Monday - 26 July 1999