In a message dated 6/15/02 3:11:52 AM, [email protected] writes: << Rocky Mountain News - 1 November 1912 MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, DEATHS AND FUNERALS SCHMITT - October 31, a.m., Mrs. Caroline Schmitt, beloved mother of Mrs. William J. Colson, 3632 Tennyson street. Remains to be shipped from Whitehead & Meyer's undertaking parlors to Obney, Ill. Obney, Ill., and Cincinnati, Ohio, papers please copy. HODGES - October 31, Francis Hodges, aged 35 years. Remains at Charles M. Miller's funeral parlors, 800 East Colfax. Funeral notice later. FELDMAN - Mrs. R. Feldman, October 31. Interment at Mt. Nebo, Friday, 12 m, from residence, 2715 Marion. KELLY - William J. Kelly at St. Joseph's hospital Wednesday evening. Funeral notice later. JONES - October 27, 1912, at 1024 Curtis street. John Vincent Jones, age 6 months, 24 days; son of Dr. and Mrs. J. Hamilton Jones. BOTSFORD - E. P. Botsford, October 30. Remains will be sent from Martin's Funebrial Lodge, Fourteenth and Lincoln to Pittsburg, Pa., Saturday, November 2. ZEKIND - A. N. Kekind of 86 Broadway, Thursday morning at Mercy hospital. Remains at Sullivan's Funeral notice later. [Note: the spelling of the name Zekind and Kekind was the way the paper printed it.] LARGE - S. P. Large at his late residence, 1430 Detroit. Funeral notice later. Pittsburg papers please copy. FUNERAL NOTICES KNOPKE - The funeral - Jennette Knopke, beloved wife of Charles J. Knopke and daughter of the late Jules Sitterle, will take place from St. Elizabeth's church Sunday morning at 9 o'clock. Interment at Mr. Olivet's by tramway train. Member of St. Elizabeth's auxiliary No. 31, Knights of St. John and St. Clara's Aid society invited to attend. DAVIS - J. D. Davis of 1031 West Seventh avenue entered into rest October 30 at 9 a.m. Age 68. Father of Mrs. Karl Lehmann. Funeral from Waters chapel, 929 West Eighth avenue, this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment Fairmount. HERMANN - Funeral services of Joseph M. Hermann will be held from the Olinger mortuary today at 11 a.m. Interment Riverside. BURIAL PERMITS Catherine Camaron, 80, St. Joseph's hospital. Clarence C. Wenzell, 18, St. Luke's hospital. Sidney Eldridge, 18, 2632 Marion street. Joseph J. Goodwin, 40, St. Anthony's hospital. Harriett P. Gray, 89, 4162 West Colfax street. Ralph E. Holm, 16, County hospital. Paul Church, 1, 4529 Logan street. Maurice A. Wilson, 25, 309 Twenty-third street. MARRIAGE LICENSES Walter R. Overton and Anna J. Hooper Tony Di Glaconia and Lizzie Porreco Roe L. Brandenburg and Lillie M. Schroeder $500,000 DAMAGE SUIT DISMISSED The $500,000 damage suit of the International Tunnel Machine company against Edward J. Wilcox and Ernest L. Miller, Denver mining men, in connection with which the arrest of the two was ordered recently, ended in the district court yesterday when the directors of the tunnel company asked that the suit and body attachments against the defendants be dismissed. >>

In a message dated 6/15/02 2:41:36 AM, [email protected] writes: << Rocky Mountain News -2 November 1912 Funeral Notices - KRUEGER- Funeral services of Charles M. Krueger, past exalted ruler, at Elks' home, Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Regulation dress. Interment at Riverside, Elks' Rest, Brothers will assemble at lodge room at 1:30 p.m. Friends invited. Thomas M Hunter, E.R. William Wheadon, Secretary SHRIVER- John W. Scriver at his late residence, 2339 Humbolt, Friday afternoon. Funeral services will be held from his home Sunday, November 2, at 2 p.m. KNOPKE - The funeral of Jennette Knopke, beloved wife of Charles J. Knopke and daughter of the late Julen Sitterle, will take place from St. Elizabeth's church Sunday morning at 9 o'clock. Interment Mount Olivet by tramway train. Members of St. Elizbeth's Auxiliary No. 31, Knights of St. John and St. Clara's Aid society invited to attend. Cards of Thanks We desire to return our sincere thanks to the many friends, also to members of the Modern Brotherhood of American and employees of the C. B. & Q., who so generously assisted us at the time of our mother's death. To all kind friends for sympathy expressed and floral offerings during sickness and death of my beloved wife. T. H. Kuhlenbeck In Memoriam In loving memory of our dear daughter and sister, Pauline Koch, who passed away one year ago, November 2, 1911. Frank X. Koch and Family Burial Permits Edward Botsford, 52, St. Lukes Hospital. Henry Ellis, 57, County Hospital Abe Frank, 58, 1626 Franklin street. Caroline Schmitt, 82, 3632 Tennyson street. Josiah M. Robinson, 68, St. Anthony's Hospital Francis Hodges, 39, County Hospital Matilda Adams, 35, 1550 So. Emerson street. Annie Feldman, 43, 2715 Marion St. Marriage Licenses Arthur G. Jagel and Mayme M. Foreman Willie T. Terry and Minnie L. Smith Oran C. Miller and Lucy M. Smith Robert R. Grosse and Caroline Sanjberg Henry W. Hogan and Mary E. Doherty Gilbert and Harold Westerman

Karen, I am working on the kpages for Cuchara. I have lots of pictures do you want them and how do I get them to you. I don;t know how to post the pages either. Or do you want me to just get them to you and you can scan them to where ever you want them?? I really am not very computer literate!!! Shirley ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 3:03 AM Subject: COHUERFA-D Digest V02 #100

Will the Town Coordinators for the following towns please check in with me: Cuchara Camps, Shirley Jamison Rattlesnake Buttes, Shirley Jamison Oakview, Shalane Sheley-Cruz Cucharas, Doug Cordova Please let me know what you are doing with your pages and if you need help, or when you plan on posting. Karen Mitchell 2002 has been declared "The Year of "Unity". Pass it on. [email protected] US GenWeb Project County Coordinator Huerfano County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~cohuerfa/index.htm Huerfano County List Owner [email protected] Taos County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmtaos/index.htm Taos County List Owner [email protected] Pueblo County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~copueblo/index.html

Hi Karen: You wrote: "Most of the work I have been doing at the library has been on more obits. And I am still trying to get all the ones we did before into a database so it can be posted. The problem is that I am having to re-format the ones that were in word processors to fit the correct lines in the database, and I'm having to go through and put "Pueblo Chieftain" on the ones that did not have it. Once I have a full obit in the database I then have to go back and put the name in, surname first, so the database will sort properly. So you see why I haven't built any new pages recently. That and trying to keep up with my yard has kept me busy. And I am now teaching Aquasize two nights a week." I still have the following PC Obits in my files: January 2000 February 2000 March 2000 April 2000 May 2000 June 2000 January 2001 February 2001 March 2001 July 2001 August 2001 September 2001 October 2001 November 2001 December 2001 If you will let me know how to reformat these months of obituaries so they will fit the format you are using, I'll be happy to do that and hopefully speed up the process. Although I will be researching in Missouri and points east this summer, I will be happy to type up other obits if you will send them to me. Let me know your thoughts, Louise

Hi List members! After a four day visit in Denver, I am back home. For all of you that have asked about the fires...from where I live, I travel I-25 from Colorado City to Denver. The only place there was smoke was at Castle Rock, between Denver and Colorado Springs, and just a slight haze. So there's not much that you will notice if you are coming through here. The last I heard we have lost 200,000 acres. For those of you that do plan a trip here around July 4th, please be aware that there is a total ban on fireworks in Colorado this year. Do not bring any into the state as you will be ticketed, fined, and possibly jailed. This Thursday night we have a Community meeting to activate plans for evacuation in the event there is a fire here. Here in Colorado City we have finally gone on water restrictions. I don't hear alot of grumbling about it as we all knew it was coming and understand the need for it. Plans are being laid for the National Guard to deliver drinking water to each home, if the need arises. We are all hoping that won't be the case. On Sunday the 9th, I attended the first lecture that our Community is planning on holding every second Sunday of the month. This month's lecture was on Fremont's 4th expedition and was presented by "Moon" Mullins. It was extremely interesting and Mr. Mullins gave a very well presented lecture. As you all probably know, the expedition was to find the best rail road route from the east coast to the west coast and went through Pueblo and Huerfano Counties. Next month the lecture will be by Wilfred Martinez, who will be speaking on the battle of Querno Verde. Querno Verde means Green Horn, which is how our area got it's name. It was right here that Chief Querno Verde fought his final battle. The actual battle site has recently been found so it will be an interesting lecture. As far as I know, the 1880 Huerfano census should be online any day now, Mary Ann and Maggie are working to get it posted. Again, my THANKS to everyone who worked on the project and especially to Taylor for doing the transcription! I will let you all know as soon as I am notified that it is on line. Most of the work I have been doing at the library has been on more obits. And I am still trying to get all the ones we did before into a database so it can be posted. The problem is that I am having to re-format the ones that were in word processors to fit the correct lines in the database, and I'm having to go through and put "Pueblo Chieftain" on the ones that did not have it. Once I have a full obit in the database I then have to go back and put the name in, surname first, so the database will sort properly. So you see why I haven't built any new pages recently. That and trying to keep up with my yard has kept me busy. And I am now teaching Aquasize two nights a week. Before we got started on the 1880 census I had asked for help with more obits. Due to the extent of the census project the obits just kind of went by the wayside. I am again asking for help with the obits. What I want to do is get the ones we have posted, then start sending out more for volunteers to type up. To volunteer for this phase you MUST have Microsoft Word and Excel!!! PLEASE try to help out here if you can. I would sure appreciate it. If I can just get this first part done, then we can move on to other projects that are sitting here waiting to be done. I would like to accomplish this ASAP. Please remember that almost all of the towns are still up for adoption at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cohuerfa/towns.html If you haven't adopted a town please consider doing so. If you HAVE adopted a town and I don't have your name posted please contact me right away, either I lost it in the shuffle or I didn't get your message. Also, will the Town Coordinators for the following towns please check in with me: Cuchara Camps, Shirley Jamison Rattlesnake Buttes, Shirley Jamison Oakview, Shalane Sheley-Cruz Cucharas, Doug Cordova Please let me know what you are doing with your pages and if you need help, or when you plan on posting. My THANKS to all who sent get well cards and warm wishes my way when I fractured my foot. It's almost healed and hopefully I will be back in full motion soon. THANK YOU! As soon as I am able I plan to start filming and doing field work again, and I invite any of you to join me in Huerfano County if you are going to be here. Guess that's it for today, so you all take care, and let me hear from you! Karen Mitchell 2002 has been declared "The Year of "Unity". Pass it on. [email protected] US GenWeb Project County Coordinator Huerfano County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~cohuerfa/index.htm Huerfano County List Owner [email protected] Taos County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmtaos/index.htm Taos County List Owner [email protected] Pueblo County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~copueblo/index.html

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5541/pY.2ADE/83.1 Message Board Post: Dear Ms Montoya Garcedan Vasquez was my great grandfather / please contact me, [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pY.2ADE/922 Message Board Post: My maiden name is Debra Kim Arnold. I was bor in Waco Texas in 1952 I never had the opportunity to know my father Ralph Weldon Arnold. Would like a family tree for Arnold side of my family for my sons and their Grandchildren One of my sons look exactly like his photo and is bald also. I need it for health reasons also Sincerely Debra

If Don Fesler is on this List, please contact me. Karen Mitchell 2002 has been declared "The Year of "Unity". Pass it on. [email protected] US GenWeb Project County Coordinator Huerfano County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~cohuerfa/index.htm Huerfano County List Owner [email protected] Taos County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmtaos/index.htm Taos County List Owner [email protected] Pueblo County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~copueblo/index.html

----- Original Message ----- From: "Listmaster" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 10:11 AM Subject: [IMPORTANT] RootsWeb Upgrading to New Beginning Monday, 10 June 2002, RootsWeb will begin the complex and time-consuming process of upgrading our servers to new hardware. o What does this mean for you? Well, it means some servers will be unavailable during this time unavailable and we are asking for your patience. For up-to-date information about the different resources, you can visit http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ as the move progresses. o List Administrators: When the time comes to move list servers, we will be halting operation on the machine to complete the move. We expect to have the machines down the least amount of time possible. No mail will be sent from or posted to your mailing lists. We do not expect to lose any messages. o Board Administrators: Nothing, unless your board happens to be gatewayed to a mailing list then the information for list administrators apply. o Web Pages: FTP will be down so that changes can't be made to pages until everything is working correctly on the new servers. There will be a short time that the pages will not be available as the transfer takes place. Thank you for your patience and understanding while we go through a few "growing pains." -- Vicki Lindsay Thauvin RootsWeb Staff [email protected]

HUMOR. Thanks to Lynda Webster for sending this inspiring tale. John's prized chicken John was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred Young layers, called pullets, and eight roosters, whose job was to fertilize the eggs. He kept records and any rooster or pullet that didn't perform well went into the pot and was replaced. This took an awful lot of time, so John got a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Now he could sit and fill out an efficiency report by listening to the sound of the bells. John's favorite rooster was old Brewster. A very fine specimen he was, but his bell had not rung all morning. Curious, John went to investigate. Several roosters were chasing pullets, bells a-ringing, but Brewster had his bell in his beak so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up to a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one. John was so proud, he entered him in the county fair. Brewster was an overnight sensation. The judges not only awarded Brewster the No Bell Prize but also The Pullet Surprise. Karen Mitchell 2002 has been declared "The Year of "Unity". Pass it on. [email protected] US GenWeb Project County Coordinator Huerfano County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~cohuerfa/index.htm Huerfano County List Owner [email protected] Taos County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmtaos/index.htm Taos County List Owner [email protected] Pueblo County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~copueblo/index.html

SHORTCUTS by Ted Pack [email protected] http://www.tedpack.org/ For a brief, unhappy period of my life my morning commute was Two hours long, on a freeway. Inevitably, at some point along the way, traffic would slow to a crawl across all five west- bound lanes. I'd come around a curve or over a hill, notice a sea of brake lights ahead of me, take my foot off the gas and come to a safe, slow, gradual stop. Also inevitably, some other driver, usually in a Datsun B-210 with primer-gray quarter- panels, would see the same situation and decide that he could find the shortcut, the magic lane that hadn't jammed. He'd dart from lane to lane like a hummingbird on methamphetamine, until he either ended up in the median strip with a windshield full of oleander leaves or slammed on his brakes at the last minute, laying down four dollars worth of rubber in skid marks. Just after college, and long before my commuting days, I taught in a secondary school in Borneo as a Peace Corps Volunteer. One of my students wanted to be a lawyer, which he saw as a stepping stone to becoming Prime Minister of Malaysia. I tried to tell him that meant studying hard enough to get into Form 6 (a sort of elite junior college), then three years of University, then three years of law school. He, however, had seen an advertisement for a community college in Canada, which offered a two-year course in Law Enforcement to secondary school graduates. He was convinced he had found a magic shortcut. Nothing I could say or do would convince him that the course he found was for police officers, not lawyers. Some genealogists, in a mad rush to collect as many individuals as fast as they can, think they too have found a magic shortcut. You can download GEDCOM files from half a dozen major sites on the Internet or from WFT CDs. You can get them from fellow genealogists, too. Buy a couple of CDs, surf the Internet for a few weeks, download as fast as you can and Bingo -- you have 50,000 individuals in your tree. That's ten times as many as the little old lady at the county genealogy society who has been working on her collection since 1962, with a pencil, paper and SASE's. (Neener, neener, neener.) There is a problem, however. Not all of the data out there is accurate. Look at Jacob BLANKENBAKER, who appears in the LDS Ancestral File, available online at http://www.familysearch.org/ . Jacob BLANKENBAKER (AFN: FX0M-QR) Birth: 18 Jan 1725 Germanna, Spotsylvania, Virginia Death: 02 Jan 1753 xxxx, Jefferson, Kentucky Jacob had two spouses; Spouse: Mary Barbara THOMAS (AFN: FX0M-RX) Marriage: 1752 Spouse: Hannah WEAVER (AFN: FX0N-19) Marriage: 1 Feb 1791, Culpeper, Virginia Children: Elizabeth, born 3 Jan 1754 Samuel, born 31 Jul 1754 Henry, born 25 Jun 1756 Frank, born Abt 1756 Nicholas Born 6 Oct 1758 Abraham, born 6 Oct 1758 Thomas, born 2 Jan 1762 So, according to the AF, Jacob fathered seven children from the grave, and had the strength to marry a second time 38 years after he died. You'll note also that his first children, Elizabeth and Samuel, were twins, born six months apart. The volunteers at my Family History Center tell me the AF is 75% accurate; this family is one of the other 25%. When you click on "Submitters," the problem becomes obvious. Eleven people contributed data to that little family. It looks like the program that merged all of the data still has some bugs in it. Still, it put Jacob out there on the Internet for the world to download. Atleast five people on RootsWeb's WorldConnect have Jacob in their data exactly as he is on the AF, errors and all. You can't tell where they copied him from, but you can bet they did it quickly. I had Jacob, with no death date and a note saying something was suspicious about his first two children. A long-time BLANKENBAKER researcher, Donna Smith/Bowen, put a post-em on my RootsWeb WorldConnect data, giving accurate birth dates for Elizabeth and Samuel. I wrote to thank her and ask her for her sources. She wrote "My sources are Lela BLANKENBAKER / HARRIS' DAR Records of Samuel BLANKENBAKER, family members and a lot of reading -- court records, wills, marriage books and family histories." Not a shortcut in any one of them, you'll note. The Internet is wonderful. It has a lot of clues, and a lot of accurate data. Be careful, though; it isn't a magic shortcut.

To: Ilene Fortune Karen Mitchell tells me you are related to my family, the Rodriguez' of Pass Creek. Please email me directly as I'm curious how. Thanks, Salomé Rodriguez-Thorson California

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Can we go with you? I'd love to see Scotland! Please have a safe journey! Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 9:40 PM Subject: [COHUERFA] Scotland I'm going to Scotland this summer. My great-grandfather, James Hill (Walsenburg) was born there. I won't be doing any research in the libraries, archieves etc. but will be taking alot of pictures. I'll be in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Denny and Stirling. If anyone on the list would like me take some pictures for them, let me know. I'll be leaving July 24. Betty Anderson [email protected]

Hi Betty, My greatgrandfather, also in Walsenburg came from Scotland in the early 1900's. Duncan Russell- he was born in Lanark Scotland and lived in Fife before leaving for the US. You say you'll be in Stirling while your there, planning on being near Campsie, its close to the town of Lennoxtown? His mother Catherine Ferguson was from there. Do you already know the Scot side of your family history? If you have any missing pieces, you'd love the NRH in Edinburgh. I went in 2000. Judi Ferguson Sawyer > From: <[email protected]> > > I'm going to Scotland this summer. My great-grandfather, James Hill > (Walsenburg) was born there. I won't be doing any research in the > libraries, archieves etc. but will be taking alot of pictures. I'll be in > Edinburgh, Glasgow, Denny and Stirling. If anyone on the list would like > me take some pictures for them, let me know. I'll be leaving July 24. > > Betty Anderson > [email protected] >

My reason for subscribing to your newsletter was to find out more about the earlier settlers and updates on families in Huerfano county. Among the families that I am interested in is Kalmes and Agnes. I do know that both families came the late 1800s or early 1900s. Do you have any information or updates on these families? Betty Bryan ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 4:01 AM Subject: COHUERFA-D Digest V02 #94

I'm going to Scotland this summer. My great-grandfather, James Hill (Walsenburg) was born there. I won't be doing any research in the libraries, archieves etc. but will be taking alot of pictures. I'll be in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Denny and Stirling. If anyone on the list would like me take some pictures for them, let me know. I'll be leaving July 24. Betty Anderson [email protected]

The first book of Santa Fe baptisms is ready. It's a big book, 463 pages, for $48. See www.nmgs.org. The next three in the series will follow before too long. For this book, the very earliest dates of baptisms at the Cathedral in Santa Fe were transcribed. To see which microfilm numbers were used, see www.nmgs.org/chrchs-sfe.htm.

----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 10:45 AM Subject: Cruz Family Hello, My name is John Cruz, and I am attempting to locate as much information as I can about my family. The information in this website has given me a considerable amount of information, however, I am still attempting to find any additional information. Could you possibly direct, or assist me in my endeavor? My great grandfather was Jose Benito Cruz, and his father was Mariano Cruz. Jose Benito's son Elias was my grandfather. Elias married Maria Modesta Pineda, and they had (I believe 13 children), my father Ernest is one of their sons. Ernest was born in 1923 in Walsenburg, and he married Juanita Mckeehan (Cisneros). Juanita's father Vaiden Mckeehan was adopted by the Cisneros family somewhere between 1908 and 1912, and that is why I am unsure of my mothers last name. Could you possibly help in my search? Any assistance you provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you John Cruz