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The LDS site for the 1880 US Census is not an index only. Once you click on the name you want from the main index, in the upper right hand corner in blue is "Household" click on that and it will show all in the household. If you want to view the surrounding families from the household view you can click on either "previous household" or "next household" - again in blue in the upper right hand corner. Leslie

Join the Florida State Genealogical Society (FSGS) as we host our Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference. This exciting learning experience will be held on the 15th and 16th of November 2002 at the Hilton in St. Petersburg, FL. Our featured speaker, Linda Woodward Geiger, CGRS, CGL, will present four (4) exciting lectures you will not want to miss. Mrs. Geiger is a well-known genealogical researcher, teacher, speaker and published author. She is the editor and publisher of WOODWARDs WeSearch and editor of OnBoard! She has participated in the Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research for four years and the National Institute on Genealogical Research. In addition to the featured speaker, we will have Pam Cooper, Mary L. Jackson Fears, Amy Larner Giroux, CG, Lawrence R. Kirkwood, Boyd Murphree, Ann Mohr Osisek, Gladys Friedman Paulin, CGRS, and Jim Powell, Jr. All total, we will be providing the opportunity to participate in over 20 lectures about a variety of topics such as: Land records - Census records - Tax Lists - Immigration Internet - Church Records - Society Management Slave Research - Jewish Research - Florida Research and the National Archives in East Point, Georgia. We are also pleased to announce that Elizabeth Neily, historian and storyteller, will be the banquet speaker. The banquet will honor individuals who have documented their Florida pioneers through the Florida Pioneer Descendant Program. You can register for the full conference or for one-day only. The best news is that you can ignore all deadline dates. We are accepting everyone's registration at the pre-registration rate and the hotel is also allowing us to register right up to the conference (as long as there is room available). However, do not call their 888 number; you must call them direct at 727-894-5000. If you would like further information, contact A. Staley, P. O. Box 441364, Jacksonville, FL 32222 Email: [email protected] or you will find the schedule and registration form online at the FSGS Web site <http://www.rootsweb.com/~flsgs> Please be sure to submit your conference reservation and reserve your hotel room for a very exciting 2002 conference!

>From an email I received today, I tried the URL and it worked for me E-mail message From: [email protected] (Cyndi Howells) Date: Wed, Oct 23, 2002, 11:11am (CDT-2) 1880 & 1881 Censuses Online from FamilySearch! Hello all - Our friends at the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have placed three valuable databases online today, all free to search: 1880 United States Census 1881 Canadian Census 1881 British Census http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp http://www.familysearch.org/ The official press release from the Church is below. What a wonderful gift for all of us during Family History Month! Have fun, Cyndi ---------------------------------------------- NEWS RELEASE Free Internet Access to Invaluable Indexes of American and Canadian Heritage 23 October 2002 Two Nations Celebrate in Dozens of Concurrent News Conferences SALT LAKE CITY -- In honor of Family History Month, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is making invaluable indexes of American and Canadian heritage available free to the public at the touch of a button. The 1880 United States Census and the 1881 Canadian Census, searchable databases of more than 55 million people, are now on the Internet, signifying another great leap forward in online family history research. The online availability of the two censuses was announced by President Gordon B. Hinckley in the historic Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing "O Canada" and "The Star-Spangled Banner." Dozens of other press conferences were held across Canada and the United States, from Edmonton to Toronto and from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., making this the largest family history announcement in the history of the Church. The chances of today's Canadians and Americans finding ancestors in the online databases are extraordinary. If a person's family lived in one of these two nations during the 1880s and was counted in the census, becoming connected to the past is quick and easy. Elder D. Todd Christofferson, executive director of the Family and Church History Department, said: "People used to search through rolls and rolls of microfilm with varying degrees of success. Now with just a few keystrokes, they can search through millions of records from anywhere at anytime." Genealogist David Rencher, who has spent years researching his family tree, knows what a valuable tool the indexes can be in finding ancestors who were once lost. "You can learn about their lives, who they were and what they did. It's like taking a trip in a time machine," Rencher said. "I used to think that I was looking for other people, someone from the past. Now I realize that through all of the searching for others, what I found was myself." The censuses paint a portrait of two nations, capturing Canada as a burgeoning nation in its infancy and America embarking on its second 100 years at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Robert Bothwell, professor of history at the University of Toronto said, "The 1880s are a period in which Canada consolidates itself as a transcontinental political entity and in which a group of scattered and disparate settlements are unified into a single, quite successful political constitutional system." The census makes legendary figures come alive for today's Canadians including the nation's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald; Ojibwa Chief Jacob Berens; painter Robert Harris; Anne of Green Gables author Lucy Maud Montgomery; poet and entertainer Pauline Johnson; composer Antoine Gerin-Lajoie; soldier and educator Arthur William Currie; Victoria Cross recipient William Hall; suffragist Emily Howard Stow; and the creator of basketball, James Naismith.   From Wild West legends and influential artists to ambitious industrialists and ingenious inventors, many of the personalities listed in the 1880 United States census are representative of the expansion, innovation and development of the nation. Author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), entertainer William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, inventor Thomas Edison, Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe, African-American leader Booker T. Washington, inventor Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright brothers, composer John Philip Sousa, Little Women author Louisa May Alcott, human rights advocate Frederick Douglass, and businessmen John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford and George Westinghouse are just a few of the notable names found in the census. Columbia University historian Richard Bushman said, "All those people piled together, working their way upward and outward, trying to find a toehold that's what history is and the history of one ancestor is a microcosm of the whole country." Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and others volunteered to do the indexing for the1880 U.S. Census, which took 17 years, and the 1881 Canadian Census, which took four years. The Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota and the Institute of Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa were partners with the Church to help "clean" the data a process of standardizing names and localities, and organizing the data for easy retrieval. The data also is available on CD. For those with British roots, a searchable index of the 1881 British Census is also online, bringing the total number of census names available for family history enthusiasts to 85 million. ---------------------------------------------- Reprinted with permission: http://www.lds.org/media2/newsrelease/0,5637,203-1-13102,00.html

Lots of things are happening a the the Family History Centers. My wife is the director for the one in wauchula so I keep up thru her. The IGI has gone on-line also. there will be no more updating of the floppy disk. All FHC are authorized to install E-mail and internet access and it comes with Ancestry.com and another .Com that I can't remember at this time. It will be a tremendous help but may cause a swamping as Leslie mentioned.

Just received an announcement that LDS has the 1880 U.S. Census, the 1881 British Census and the 1881 Canadian Census online and fully searchable. Just go to their homepage www.familysearch.org and in the left column is the clickable entry - the second box. What a valuable resource and much easier to use than the CDs that you have to switch back and forth!! Leslie PS Be prepared to have the site swamped after word gets out!!!

I am trying to contact Nancy Inmon who posted about some funeral memorials to this list May 2, 2001. My e-mail was returned. If you are still here please contact me directly. Leslie [email protected]

Shirley - I am connected a couple of Hall lines in GA-AL-FL. Once through the Pike line and again via the Wallace family. Also my Thomas line arrived in Alachua County, FL, from GA in about 1850. My information is at: www.jhthomas.net. Follow the links to the surnames. Also, note the Isham B. Thomas link which gives details about the Alachua County Thomas line. I'm looking for help there! Jeff Thomas On 20 Oct 2002 at 10:34, [email protected] wrote: Date sent: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 10:34:04 EDT From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [FLORIDA] FLORIDA-D Digest V02 #178 Hello: Looking for any one connected to the HALL & HODGE lines in FL , GA & AL. Thanks Shirley HALL Ray ______________________________

Now online http://www.rootsweb.com/~flbaker/ Carl Mobley Orlando, FL Mobley Family HomePage http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mobley/ Baker Co, FL USGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~flbaker/ 'show me how people remember their dead and I'll show you how they take care of their living.'

Hi There was a Jessie Thomas living near the Bradford/Alachua County lines in 1950s. We lived in the area too. So I don't know much more about this family. I believe a sister may still live in Alachua County. Being alive I am not at liberty to give her name but I am sure you can locate if you are resourceful enough. Perhaps this may help. CSJ

Hello Shirley, My step father was George W. Hodge b. 1917 in Worthington Spgs, Florida Died High Spgs, Florida 1989. Married to Corine Hodge formerly Gillyard. Hope this helps. If so I have a little more information on this direct family. SJCook

I am searching for Jesse Thomas, wife Eliza living in Bradford County Florida early 1800's thanks Sandy Ambrose

Hello: Looking for any one connected to the HALL & HODGE lines in FL , GA & AL. Thanks Shirley HALL Ray

My mothers parents and some other relatives are buried at Fort Myers Memorial Gardens, and I have some advice for anyone who might visit that cemetery looking for a grave, the exact location of which is not known. This is a large cemetery with all horizontal markers lower than the grass, plus a lot of crypts, and the physical layout is very convoluted. I very much suggest that you visit during regular business hours, go directly to the office, tell them who you are looking for... and the staff will give you a map marked with the location of the grave site. To try to find it any other way would be worse than looking for a needle in a haystack. Also, the subject line of this thread could potentially be very misleading. There is a Fort Myers Cemetery in East Myers that dates back to 1888, so I believe it is commonly called the Old Fort Myers Cemetery. It is a long way from and quite a different place than Fort Myers Memorial Gardens. A good many of my relatives are buried there, too. Richard White Tallahassee, FL [email protected] wrote: >Leslie, > >Memorial Gardens (also known as Fort Myers Memorial Gardens) is a distinct >cemetery located at 1589 Colonial Boulevard. It's on the north side of >Colonial, just east of the intersection with Sommerset Drive. The Yahoo! >Yellow Pages gives its (and its associated funeral home) phone number as >(239) 936-0555. > >Drew Smith >

Hello, Looking for anyone in Florida with any info. on the RENNEY name. Regards, Pam [ RENNEY] McKinley.

In a message dated 10/19/02 3:07:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > I have just received a death certificate for a family member and it says he > was buried in Memorial Gardens, Ft. Myers. I don't see this cemetery > listed on the Lee Co. page. I do see where Ft Myers Cemetery has an area > called Garden of Memories. This cemetery was surveyed in 1994 and he died > in 1961 but does not appear on the index. He had a young son who died in > 1931 who is buried in Ft. Myers Cemetery and does appear in the index. > From all this I am assuming he is buried in the Garden of Memories, Ft. > Myers Cemetery and doesn't have a headstone. > > Any one from Ft. Myers know anything about a different cemetery called > Memorial? Leslie, Memorial Gardens (also known as Fort Myers Memorial Gardens) is a distinct cemetery located at 1589 Colonial Boulevard. It's on the north side of Colonial, just east of the intersection with Sommerset Drive. The Yahoo! Yellow Pages gives its (and its associated funeral home) phone number as (239) 936-0555. Drew Smith

I have just received a death certificate for a family member and it says he was buried in Memorial Gardens, Ft. Myers. I don't see this cemetery listed on the Lee Co. page. I do see where Ft Myers Cemetery has an area called Garden of Memories. This cemetery was surveyed in 1994 and he died in 1961 but does not appear on the index. He had a young son who died in 1931 who is buried in Ft. Myers Cemetery and does appear in the index. From all this I am assuming he is buried in the Garden of Memories, Ft. Myers Cemetery and doesn't have a headstone. Any one from Ft. Myers know anything about a different cemetery called Memorial? Thanks Leslie

I need to find a current email address for Sheila. After about a year of waiting I have something for her and her address seems to have changed. Thanks Ron

Since today was a government holiday for the Post Office, we decided to extend our reservation date. We also received an extension from the hotel! So... for those who did not make it to the post office and for those of you who are still thinking about it - the deadline has been extended to Monday, 21 October 2002. The Florida State Genealogical Society, Inc. Presents Their Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference. Join the Florida State Genealogical Society (FSGS) as we host our Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference. This exciting learning experience will be held on the 15th and 16th of November 2002 at the Hilton in St. Petersburg, FL. Our featured speaker, Linda Woodward Geiger, CGRS, CGL, will present four (4) exciting lectures you will not want to miss: "Research Procedures - Be Prepared!" "Using Tax Lists to Help Solve Genealogical Problems" "Treasures Among the Deeds: More than Land Descriptions" "An Overview of the Records at the National Archives-Southeast" In addition to the featured speaker, we will have Pam Cooper, Mary L. Jackson Fears, Amy Larner Giroux, CG, Lawrence R. Kirkwood, Boyd Murphree, Ann Mohr Osisek, Gladys Friedman Paulin, CGRS, and Jim Powell, Jr. providing over 15 lectures in seven (7) tracts: All-Levels Research, Beginning Genealogy, Computer Technology, Ethnic Research, Florida Research, Intermediate Genealogy and Society Helps. Registration will be on Thursday evening and Friday and Saturday mornings with the conference starting on Friday morning and continuing through Saturday afternoon. We are also pleased to announce that Elizabeth Neily, historian and storyteller, will be the banquet speaker. The banquet will honor individuals who have documented their Florida pioneers through the Florida Pioneer Descendant Program. If you would like further information, contact A. Staley, P. O. Box 441364, Jacksonville, FL 32222 Email: [email protected] or you will find the schedule and registration form online at the FSGS Web site <http://www.rootsweb.com/~flsgs>

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