----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: Karen Mitchell Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 5:53 PM Subject: awesome Hi Karen, What an awesome job you did on the La Veta cemetery. You are awesome. Yippeeeee for a person like Karen to be on our side. Question: I would like to know where The Maitland Coal Camp was located. I have looked on lots of maps old and new and it is never mentioned or on them. My dad was born in Maitland and worked in the Coal Mine at the age of 12. I have the picture of the camp. Thanks, Janice

Tah dahhhhhhh!! Hi all, Just wanted to thank everyone again for the photo information. I finally got my computer going again. Still having a few glitches, but at least I can read and receive some e-mail! Wanted to let everyone know that I have for a VERY short time the Sacramental Records from the Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe / Bautismos Our Lady of Guadalupe Church de Taos / 12 July 1887 to 27 December 1900..........if any one wants me to do a quick look up this weekend, let me know. It lists the people being baptized, if I could get the person's last name in all CAPS, it would be helpful. Thank you Arleen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Mitchell" <[email protected]> To: <> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 12:32 PM Subject: [COHUERFA] 2-25-2002 > Good morning members! > Greetings from a very cross-eyed Coordinator! <grin> > > I have a big announcement to make. > I have been working on getting all of the cemetery photos online and this > last batch has me cross-eyed for sure. I just uploaded the La Veta cemetery. > The listing went from 1,084 listings to 1,789 so you can see there's alot of > new data there. PLUS I added all of the deed information to the listing. WOW > what a huge database this is! > > AND.....tada...all the photos that I have of La Veta are finally posted. > Yep, all 1200+ of them little buggers! Boy, what a job, and I'm glad it's > done. The Map Section numbers won't mean much to you right now because I > don't have the map online yet. Hope to do that real soon. > > But if you go take a look at it you'll see that the expanded information > will be quite helpful to all of you that have ancestors buried there. And > please do let me know what you think of it, so I know I'm on the right track > here. It's at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cohuerfa/lavetacem.htm > Please remember that section 5 has NOT been filmed yet, so there will still > be more to come. And I haven't added in the photos from Louise and Jim and > will do that in the next couple days. > > So as you can see, by concentrating on the photos I have neglected getting > the Naturalizations done, but that's coming along too. When I get blurry > eyed working on one project I switch to another. Anyone want to help type > those up? > > Tammy, bless her little heart, has submitted the St. May's Baptisms 1874 - > 1876. When I started proofing it I knew something was wrong. All of the work > Tammy did was correct (and we THANK YOU Tammy), but the film was wrong. So > all of you BEWARE! Some of the films at the LDS are incomplete. The film > that Tammy used had 32 missing baptisms just for the 1874 entries. If you > are going to order a baptismal film of St. Mary's order the one that has > 1870 to 1901, it appears to be the most complete. If you have already > checked the film at the LDS and didn't find your ancestors, it may be > because the film you used was incomplete. Tammy decided to hold off on > having her database posted until she can get the other film and add in all > the baptisms that are missing. > > Which brings me to my next point...If any of you are reading film PLEASE > take the time to at least type up one year and have it posted for all the > other researchers to use. It doesn't matter if it's baptisms, marriages, > land records...whatever. Try to help us out by contributing a little > something. > > Now, what do you all want to see added to the Huerfano Pages? What do you > need? Give me some ideas. I still have a ton of data here that I want to > post but I want you to give me suggestions on what you would like to see > first. > > Friday we had almost 70 degree weather. I went to Pueblo to get old Bessie > fixed and get her a new battery, and I had to put the air conditioner on. > Today we can't even see the Greenhorns, we're in the grips of a winter > storm. BRRR it's cold here. > > Okay I'm starting to put together my "TO DO" List for this Springs field > work. Anyone have any requests? I hope to finish up the cemetery filming. > But I also thought to get some photos from around the County so if you'd > like a photo of something special, just let me know. > > I haven't heard any new guesses on the Orphan photos so please take a look > at them and see if we can get them identified. They are at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~cohuerfa/orphan.html > > Ilene is still working on the marriages for all of us and for that we owe > her a great big THANK YOU. I just couldn't do it without all of our > wonderful volunteers! > > I haven't heard from Taylor so I don't know how the proofing on the 1880 > census is coming along. I hope all of you are trying to get that project > wrapped up so we can get it open to the public. How about it Taylor? Can you > give us an update? Taylor has worked so long and hard on this project, she > needs a big THANK YOU from all of us. > > Janet has just submitted her 5 uncles for the Veterans Page. THANK YOU > Janet! Anyone else want to submit their Veterans? > > I hope to confer with Ken Taylor again and get the information on the Chama > cemetery burials posted in the next week. As I told you before, he's a > wealth of information on the Crestones/Chama area. If any of you have > questions about the families in that area, Ken is the one to ask. > > As you can see, we have quite a few projects in the works and just as soon > as they are completed I will get them loaded for all of you. And I still > have a couple of cemeteries that need the photos posted. Plus we still need > to get those obits out to be typed up and posted. So many irons in the fire! > > And by the way, if any of you want to nominate the Huerfano Pages for > awards, you just feel free to do so. It's a great recognition of all the > hard work WE have put into them. Yes, I run the pages and post the data, but > without YOUR input we wouldn't have as much done. And I THANK all of you for > your contributions. I recently had someone comment that she had to keep > checking the Huerfano web site every day because it seems like there's > something new being posted all the time. So all of you that have contributed > can take a big bow and pat yourselves on the back for all the hard work! > > Hope you all have a GREAT day, 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] > > >

Now this link is just interesting, given that so many of our forbears wandered back and forth among the coal camps;my grandmother told me stories of this time, and it disturbed her whole life; as a child, she saw a man shot by the militia for trying to leave one of the camps-imagine. The massacre aside (don't mean that in a frivolous manner), the pictures on this site are spellbinding--just to imagine how these people survived these camps--the guts and determinaton--and the funeral procession for Louis Tikas is awe inspiring--men in a line as far as one can see. Interesting, and very sad.... http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/cfphoto.html

----- Original Message ----- From: Doug and Terry Holcomb To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 7:44 PM Karen, Congratulations on your Huerfano county site. I have been doing a lot of research on the internet and your site is loaded with neat stuff. Thanks, Doug Holcomb, Arizona

Sheriff Edward Farr Huerfano County On the morning of July 16, 1899, Huerfano County Sheriff Edward Farr joined a posse in the New Mexico Territory town of Cimarron. The posse was searching for the famous Sam Ketchum Gang that had been robbing banks, trains and postal units in New Mexico and Arizona for many years. Their latest escapade had been the robbery of a Colorado & Southern train on July 11th, just south of Folsom, in the New Mexico Territory. That evening, the posse caught up with a remnant of the gang, consisting of Sam Ketchum, G. W. Franks (alias Will Carver) and Elza Lay (alias William McGinnis). During the attack on the camp, Sheriff Farr was shot three times and died within minutes. Ketchum was later arrested and hung on April 26, 1901 in New Mexico for train robbery. Lay escaped but was arrested on August 16th, tried, convicted of Farr's death and sentenced to life imprisonment. Franks was never caught. Ironically, Lay was pardoned by New Mexico Governor Otero on January 10, 1906. Sheriff Farr was one of southern Colorado's largest ranchers and was eulogized as "a man of generous impulses and unyeilding courage". Also killed in the gun battle was New Mexico Deputy Sheriff M. Love. http://csp.state.co.us/academy/acmembk.htm

If anyone is researching Joseph Tomas Tolmich (1821-1898), married to Maria Guadalupe Benavidez--the link below takes you to a site with his obit.; there is a photo of him and one of his daughters as well. http://suvcw.org/past/jttolmich.htm

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/worldwar/colorado/huerfano.htm This link is a list of Huerfano County casualites in WWII-- Might help someone. Janet

GO TEAM!!! <grin> Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Taylor Hayes" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 10:55 AM Subject: [COHUERFA] census update hi karen & all, i'm back from vacation & ready to go. my thanks to: tammy, lori, dave, judi & toni who have all signed up & are working on proofreading the census! you guys are terrific. right now, 47 of the 95 pages are being proofed so we're halfway there, if anyone else wants to take on some pages just send me an email & i'll get you going! thanks again to all the census troopers & email me if you'd like some pages! taylor

hi karen & all, i'm back from vacation & ready to go. my thanks to: tammy, lori, dave, judi & toni who have all signed up & are working on proofreading the census! you guys are terrific. right now, 47 of the 95 pages are being proofed so we're halfway there, if anyone else wants to take on some pages just send me an email & i'll get you going! thanks again to all the census troopers & email me if you'd like some pages! taylor

Hello List members! This message is going out to both the Huerfano and Taos lists because it pertains to both. When I first started as Coordinator for these Counties back in 1997, the first thing I did was build a "Links" page for each County. As time passed, and we continued to add data to the County sites, these pages went by the wayside. It didn't appear that they were needed that much because at the time there wasn't near what there is today on the web. Now I think it would be a good idea to put the Links pages back on our County sites because the web has expanded so very much, especially in the past year. I would like some volunteers to start gathering Links that pertain to our Counties so I can once again post a page in each County. It is a matter of searching the internet to see what is out there and simply asking if we can "link to" that page. In constantly updating our pages and adding more data, I don't have the time to go surfing so I am asking for help to get this done. Won't you PLEASE help out here by volunteering to do this small task? Once you get all the links together I will build a page for them and get it added to our County sites. Please let me hear from some of you that would be willing to do this. Hope you all are having a GREAT day! 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]

Hi Karen, I will be back home tonight and ready to do any typing, proofing, or whatever you need. Thank you for letting me help. Linda

I just had to share with everyone what Shalane wrote. THANK YOU so very much Shalane for your compliments! It's appreciation like yours that keeps me going! Hugs, Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shalane" <[email protected]> To: "Karen Mitchell" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:49 AM Subject: Kudos!! Karen: You are the number 1, numero uno, county co-ordinator in all the world. I defy anyone to come up with a site that has more info than yours. We are truly blessed to have you working so hard. Thanks ever so much. Shalane

----- Original Message ----- From: "Shalane" <[email protected]> To: "Karen Mitchell" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:49 AM Subject: Kudos!! Karen: You are the number 1, numero uno, county co-ordinator in all the world. I defy anyone to come up with a site that has more info than yours. We are truly blessed to have you working so hard. Thanks ever so much. Shalane

You know Janet, I think you and I share a very deep feeling here. Yes, it is a tribute to the ones that have passed on before us. Last night I received a private message from a lady that had tried to contact me by phone. She had buried her baby in the La Veta cemetery, had moved out of state and had never been able to afford to come back and visit the grave. She said now she can visit her baby's grave anytime she wants. You can only imagine how emotional that message was. So you see, it's not just about recording history, because someday these stones will all be gone, it's about paying tribute and honor to our ancestors that built this country too. I'm sorry I made you cry but it's so heartwarming to know that some of my researchers are so very touched by the work that I do. THANK YOU for your message. Hugs, Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "John & Janet Wasson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 7:26 AM Subject: [COHUERFA] Re: COHUERFA-D Digest V02 #39 There you go again Karen-making me cry! Thanks for the LaVeta Cemetery photo's--there's my sister,my grandparents,uncle & aunt.....it's rather like a tribute I think.. Let them not be forgotten.... Janet

There you go again Karen-making me cry! Thanks for the LaVeta Cemetery photo's--there's my sister,my grandparents,uncle & aunt.....it's rather like a tribute I think.. Let them not be forgotten.... Janet

Good evening List members! I have been busy updating our Taos pages and we have a whole bunch of new additions. Albert's Answers have been updated to reflect data on the following pages: Trujillo Rael Cintas Medina Delavelle Muniz Herrera Harmes Albert has also contributed two new pages: Sheriffs of Taos County - if you had an ancestor that was in Taos County law enforcement you will want to see this page. The Spanish Flu Epidemic - If your family was in Taos County in 1918, check this list of deaths to see if they are listed. THANK YOU ALBERT!! Sue Barela has contributed a family group sheet on Demetrio Gallegos. THANK YOU Sue! Patricia Chambers has contributed a listing for Campo Santo De Penas Negras Cemetery. THANK YOU Patricia! The Taos County Directory has been updated with two new listings. This is not all of our new pages. I will be updating more tomorrow. ENJOY! 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]

I am in need of some help. I am going to be cancelling my home msn dsl account due to nothing but trouble with them. Basically they have no way of preventing spam and other disgusting email. Consequently I am looking at peak.net. Has anyone used this before and how do they do as far as security. I will need a static ip address due to needing to access a VPN for my job. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be very interested. Again security and price for static ip and dsl is what I am looking for. Thanks to all of you, csw

In a message dated 02/25/2002 3:19:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Isn't this the same name that Bobbi is researching? > Not that I know of. If so, I'd like to talk w/ her about it - I have alot of info to share w/ her :) This is my paternal great grandfather, and have done tons of research before and behind his name!! K

Thanks Albert!!! Maybe that's where I saw it. The Taos pages are due to be updated again too so I hope to get to that in the next day or so. Karen

Hello All! I am researching my Salsbury line who lived in the Walsenburg area from about 1890 to about 1905 or so. Family stories tell that John T. Salsbury ran a dairy in the Walsenburg area. Would anyone know of a "Salsbury Dairy"? Has anyone run across any of this family? Names: John Thomas Salsbury b. 1849 in Indiana d. 1906 in Colorado- father Miranda Irene Gould Salsbury b. 1855 in Illinois d. 1927 in New Mexico- mother Children: Charles M. b. 1873 in Indiana d. 1944 in New Mex Vivian b. 1883 in Iowa Heubert b. 1886 in Kansas Jennie b. 1894 in Co Thomas b. 1896 in Co Sharley b. 1899 in Co I have located burial info for Charles M. and Ada (Carter) Salsbury in the Masonic Cemetery in Walsenburg. Thanks Kathleen