Hi John Thank you and David Heise for a great class. I appreciate your special attention to me showing me how to do pictures, etc. I still look forward to knowing how to break my big file down and gedcom only one family out to give to someone else. Once you figure it out, let me know. If it would be easier to explain over the phone, we could work out a time when we both should have the time and I can be sitting in front of my computer. I think the conference was successful. Thanks again. Barb

Patricia, Thanks to you and your committees for a well planned workshop. About the only thing I could see that could be different is to have the computer class extend over two sessions with the same people. Possibly have one two session beginner class and one two session advanced class (those who use the program and want to know how to do some of the advanced things - and to help presenter maybe the participants could send in what they'd like to know how to do or how to handle some of the features). The classes definitely need to be limited. The food was good (donuts and lunch). I had hoped you would have had more vendor participation, but that is often hard to come by. All of the presenters seemed willing to meet after session for one on one questions. I really liked that. Barbara

Hi Patty, Congradulations on YOUr successful workshop. Sorry I could not be there. NEXT Time. Love YOU Jim Consider each day a gift. Use each for who knows when we shall no longer be able to do so. James R COTTRILL. BuckyK3LIE@aol.com 3119 Pioneer AVE, Pittsburgh, PA 15226-1740 412-563-2379

Thank you everyone for working with me to make the workshop a success. I've had loads of help with everything from planning the workshop to finishing it up today. John Hines, Darrell Waugh, and Ted Wolfe ran the book table. Ruby Casto had family obligations today but was still there to pick up donuts this morning and help out when she could. She also helped get publications ready for our book table. Jerry Hawkinberry has been working hard on the workshop registrations and ran the registration table with the help of Polly Dennison. Jerry also helped out with lunch. Elaine Post and Betty Rinehart served the coffee and donuts. June Conrad and Diane Johnson worked on the planning committee along with the people mentioned above. John Nuzum was to work at Waldomore and cover the hours regularly scheduled on Saturday morning. Darrell, Ted, John and Dave Heise stayed and helped at Waldomore as it was open from 3:00 until 6:00 for those wanting to do research. A special thanks to David Houchin who has worked on such various jobs such as stapling books, helping clean the cemetery, making streetmaps, helping with publicity, taking phone calls from potential workshop participants and last but certainly not least leading four sessions today. If I left out somebody, I apologize. I'm a little tired. I figure we all are. The day begin with some heavy clouds. I was confident that it would clear up later in the afternoon (the Weather Channel said it would!) but unfortunately it did not. My apologies to those who wanted to go on the I.O.O.F Cemetery Walking Tour. Jack Sandy Anderson and Laura Goff Davis were at the cemetery at the scheduled time. Hopefully, we can do the tour another time. In just the few minutes I spent with them, I heard enough that I knew that I wanted to learn a lot more. Most of the feedback I received from participants and speakers has been positive. The Caperton Center was a really nice place to have the workshop. Bev Johnston and Jr. Adams are easy to work with and very helpful. Jr. really helped make things runs smoothly today. I enjoyed meeting all of the speakers in person though I didn't get to attend the classes. A couple of them offered us some help with publicity for future events. We had around forty-three registrations. Although we would have liked more, I think that it was a nice size for classes. From what I heard, the computer sessions were a little crowded. This was exacerbated by the cemetery walk being canceled. I did hear that the speakers for the computer class were very good. This was the most requested class. Maybe sometime in the future we could schedule one for the entire day. We had coffee mugs made up with a picture of the Waldomore and the HCGS seal printed on them. We presented these to our speakers. Also, they were given as door prizes to winners Suzanne Viglianco and Miriam Stevens. An HCGS publication of their choice was the door prize given to winners Polly Dennison and Billy Masterson. The Grand Door Prize, The Harrison County Heritage Book, was awarded at 3:00 to winner Patty Rushing. If I got that last name wrong, I apologize. Ruby told me to write everyone's name down. Did I listen? No, I did not. I'll have to double-check on that with Jerry. I'm looking forward to our next big event. We're planning to have a bus trip to D.C. in October. Maybe this time, I'll actually do some research. Patricia Dennison

THANKS TO ALL WHO WERE THERE TO MAKE THIS A GREAT DAY FOR THE WORKSHOP! A SPECIAL THANKS TO PATRICIA FOR WHAT SHE HAD TO GO THROUGH AND HOW GREAT IT TURNED OUT FOR ME! ALSO A SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL THAT PARTICIPATED IN ALL THE CLASSES AND HELPING WITH OUR PART OF THE WORKSHOP! DAVID HEISE HAD A GREAT PRESENTATION ALSO! I DIDN'T GO TO ANY OF THE OTHER CLASSES BUT HEARD THEY WERE GREAT ALSO! SO I THINK THAT IT WAS AS GOOD AS IT COULD BE AND THANKS TO ALL THE OFFICERS AND THE STAFF AT THE COLLEGE FOR ALL THEIR HELP IN GETTING THINGS TOGETHER FOR US TOO! THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE TO THANK SO HERE IS A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL OF THEM! MAYBE NEXT TIME WE WILL BE MORE INFORMATIVE! JOHN AND DAVE COMPUTERS ----- Original Message ----- From: "RECasto" <recasto@iolinc.net> To: <HCGS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 4:17 PM Subject: [HCGS] THANKS > I want to say thanks for Patricia Dennison for the outstanding job she > did in getting our workshop altogether this date. It was great and all of > the classes were good. > > I only sat in on one as I had other things to do and it was on Helvetia, > WV the Swiss settlement by a native of Helvetia, Lawrence Metzner. He > really did a good job of presenting it in the time he had for the class. > > I think Patricia will be giving the full details of the workshop later > on. > > Ruby > > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

I want to say thanks for Patricia Dennison for the outstanding job she did in getting our workshop altogether this date. It was great and all of the classes were good. I only sat in on one as I had other things to do and it was on Helvetia, WV the Swiss settlement by a native of Helvetia, Lawrence Metzner. He really did a good job of presenting it in the time he had for the class. I think Patricia will be giving the full details of the workshop later on. Ruby [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

We now have two districts of the 1930 census for sale. Elk District $4.00 Tenmile District $10.00 The above prices does include postage. Please give us 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. They can either be picked up at the Waldomore or send your money for them to: Harrison County Genealogical Society P. O. Box 387 Clarksburg, WV 26301 Ruby Casto [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

<A HREF="http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/credit.htm">Click here: Urban Legends Reference Pages: Inboxer Rebellion (Full Faith and Credit Card)</A> <A HREF="http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/credit.htm">http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/credit.htm</A> This has been verified at Snopes. Jim/Bucky GOOD ADVICE Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine, do both sides of each license, credit card, etc. You will know what you had in your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers to call and cancel. Keep the photocopy in a safe place. A corporate attorney sent this out to the employees in his company. I pass it along, for your information. We've all heard horror stories about fraud that's committed using your name, address, SSN, credit, etc. Unfortunately I (the author of this piece who happens to be an attorney) have firsthand knowledge, because my wallet was stolen last month and within a week the thieve(s) ordered an expensive monthly cell phone package, applied for a VISA credit card, had a credit line approved to buy a Gateway computer, received a PIN number from DMV to change my driving record information online, and more. But here's some critical information to limit the damage in case this happens to you or someone you know. As everyone always advises, cancel your credit cards immediately, but the key is having the toll free numbers and your card numbers handy so you know whom to call. Keep those where you can find them easily. File a police report immediately in the jurisdiction where it was stolen, this proves to credit providers you were diligent, and is a first step toward an investigation (if there ever is one). But here's what is perhaps most important: (I never ever thought to do this). Call the three national credit-reporting organizations immediately, place a fraud alert on your name and SSN. I had never heard of doing that until advised by a bank that called to tell me an application for credit was made over the Internet in my name. The alert means any company that checks your credit knows your information was stolen and they have to contact you by phone to authorize new credit. By the time I was advised to do this, almost 2 weeks after the theft, all the damage had been done. There are records of all the credit checks initiated by the thieves' purchases, none of which I knew about before placing the alert. Since then, no additional damage has been done, and the thieves threw my wallet away this weekend (someone turned it in). It seems to have stopped them in their tracks. The numbers are: Equifax: 1-800-525-6285 Experian (formerly TRW): 1-888-397-3742 Trans Union: 1-800-680-7289 Social Security Administration (fraud line): 1-800-269-0271 We pass along jokes -- we pass along just about everything. Do think about passing this information along. It could really help someone. Consider each day a gift. Use each for who knows when we shall no longer be able to do so. James R COTTRILL. BuckyK3LIE@aol.com  3119 Pioneer AVE, Pittsburgh, PA 15226-1740 412-563-2379 Consider each day a gift. Use each for who knows when we shall no longer be able to do so. James R COTTRILL. BuckyK3LIE@aol.com 3119 Pioneer AVE, Pittsburgh, PA 15226-1740 412-563-2379

I do not have the 1930 Tenmile District Census printed up yet so will have to wait until then before we can set a price. I may get a chance to go to the Waldomore tomorrow and pick it up, since John Nuzum, our past president, made the front cover and brought it to me last Friday. We do have the 1930 Elk District Census, printed just today and I need to get it stapled and take it to the Waldomore when I go and the price of it will be $4.00 and that does include postage. We want to have them available at our workshop which will be held this Saturday the 17th of May and if you still want to attend and haven't registered, we will accept walk-ins and the cost will be $15.00. That covers any of the classes you would like to take. No other added fees, only your lunch. I did see Darrell, our president, on the noon news today and he had plenty of time to explain the workshop and the girl that interviewed him was very good. Ruby Casto [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

Ruby, Has a price yet been set on the copies of the 1930 census for Upper Ten Mile? I may be interesed on one. Bill Mc Afee ----- Original Message ----- From: "RECasto" <recasto@iolinc.net> To: <HCGS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 2:34 PM Subject: [HCGS] MEETING Blanche Day had brought a copy of the 1930 census of Tenmile District > of Harrison County which her daughter Martha Dennison donated to the Society > and we can make copies of it to sell. We want to say thanks to Martha for > this district of the 1930 census. >

Mother hopes she's found her daughter Address: <A HREF="http://www.bakersfield.com/local/story/3101426p-3124328c.html">http://www.bakersfield.com/local/story/3101426p-3124328c.html</A> By AMY HILVERS, Californian staff writer e-mail: <A HREF="mailto:ahilvers@bakersfield.com">ahilvers@bakersfield.com</A> Saturday May 10, 2003, 11:15:23 PM For 56 years, Louise Rosenkranz has wondered what became of her fair-haired daughter, Stella Faye. Thanks, in part, to two Bakersfield genealogists, she may have her answer in time for a belated Mother's Day celebration. Rosenkranz lost contact with her then 2-year-old daughter in 1947 after leaving the child in a woman's care here in Bakersfield. Rosenkranz, then Louise Rogers, had lived in Bakersfield only a short while, taking jobs as a farmworker and waitress. She had to return to Oklahoma for her father's funeral. Because she only had money for partial bus fare and planned to hitchhike the rest of the way, she decided to leave Stella Faye with a woman, Daisy Fredrick, who ran a board-and-care house on Niles Street. But Rosenkranz became stranded in Texas and while she was trying to find a way back, Fredrick disappeared, along with Stella Faye. Rosenkranz, now living in Texas, has searched for the child ever since. But even using detectives and AdoptionFamilyNetwork.com, an organization dedicated to helping people find lost relatives, the 77-year-old Rosenkranz ran into dead ends and false hopes. She has been ill and wanted desperately to find Stella Faye before she died and so contacted The Californian. A story about her plight was published on April 28. Within a few days, she received a call from Susan Williams at AdoptionFamilyNetwork.com that two Bakersfield women may have helped find her daughter. Rosenkranz has been this close before and discovered through DNA that a woman she thought might be Stella Faye wasn't. DNA tests on Faye Delano are still pending. "I've been disappointed so many times. ... I do believe that we are mother and daughter," Rosenkranz said. Even without the DNA, records and eyewitness accounts point strongly to Delano, now 58, who said she was told by her adoptive parents that her mother was bludgeoned to death while hitchhiking to Bakersfield from Oklahoma. "After 56 years of thinking your mother is dead, I had emotions I had never felt before," Delano, now living in Hayward, said. "I think shock set in first then jubilance then numbness. Now my head is in the clouds and my feet haven't touched the ground." As the two women wait eagerly for proof of their physical connection, they are both grateful to the people who helped discover the possible link. Sharon Dulcich and Karla Everett, both genealogists, read Rosenkranz's story in The Californian and within a few hours sifted through public records and came up with Edna Welch. Welch, of Bakersfield, was the sister of Delano's adoptive father. She was able to give enough information to find Delano. It turns out that Fredrick, the woman who ran the Niles Street board and care, was already in the process of selling her home when she took in Stella Faye. The child stayed with the Fredrick family, which moved for a short time to Oklahoma, ironically, one county away from where Rosenkranz's father was buried and the rest of her family lived. At the age of 8, Stella Faye was adopted by Fredrick's daughter and son-in-law and her name was changed to Faye Groseclose. It is unclear whether Rosenkranz was declared dead, or if they claimed she abandoned the child. Life was not easy for Delano, who said she had an abusive childhood. She became pregnant as a teen and gave the baby up for adoption. Then she married at 16 and had three other children. Later, she became a private investigator and was able to find the baby she gave up for adoption. But she could never find a death certificate for her mother. Delano believed her mother was dead because, "no one would make up such a story to a little girl," she said of her adoptive family's claim that Rosenkranz had been beaten to death. "That's not even something you tell someone you don't like." Now, she feels God is rewarding her with finding Rosenkranz. Delano knows Rosenkranz is her mother by looks, and personality, she said. "She's a fighter. I had to have good genes to live through the life I had, thanks to her," Delano said. Rosenkranz has spoken at least once a day to Delano since the younger woman was contacted on May 3. "It was all here," Sharon Dulcich said of the records that led to Delano. "(Rosenkranz) didn't have to go through all these years of wondering and hurt." Dulcich reluctantly accepts praise. She said there's a code in her genealogy network that you pass on help as you receive it. Someone once helped her find information on a lost relative. "I don't feel like a hero. I feel very happy that I was able to be a little help for someone who was not able to come to Kern County," Dulcich said. Delano, however gushes with praise. "I would have to say it is the most happiest moment of my life and I can only look forward to the second-most happiest moment of my life. For 56 years, I've missed being held by my mother," Delano said. Copyright © 2003, The Bakersfield Californian | Consider each day a gift. Use each for who knows when we shall no longer be able to do so. James R COTTRILL. BuckyK3LIE@aol.com 3119 Pioneer AVE, Pittsburgh, PA 15226-1740 412-563-2379

thank you for this, it is very sad. I won't watch that show

This was great. Thanks Consider each day a gift. Use each for who knows when we shall no longer be able to do so. James R COTTRILL. BuckyK3LIE@aol.com 3119 Pioneer AVE, Pittsburgh, PA 15226-1740 412-563-2379

Thanks Patty, Found that interesting reading. Jim Consider each day a gift. Use each for who knows when we shall no longer be able to do so. James R COTTRILL. BuckyK3LIE@aol.com 3119 Pioneer AVE, Pittsburgh, PA 15226-1740 412-563-2379

I may have sent this to the list at another time. It's an interesting article about the Jews of Clarksburg. Patricia http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh54-4.html <A HREF="http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh54-4.html">The Jews of Clarksburg</A> There are many other interesting historical articles at this site: <A HREF="http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/subjects.html">West Virginia History Back Issues</A> http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/subjects.html

NY TIMES May 10, 2003 Tall Tales of Appalachiaa By JOHN O'BRIEN GREEN BANK, W.Va. CBS is developing a reality TV series modeled after "The Beverly Hillbillies," the 60's sitcom. A poor family from a remote corner of southern Appalachia will be transported to a California mansion, the ensuing comic antics shown to America. Well, as a West Virginia farmer might say, that's a load of fertilizer. Having spent virtually my entire life in West Virginia, I can say with some authority that the strange, woebegone place called Appalachia and the hillbillies who inhabit it are a myth - one devised a century ago to justify outsiders' condescension and exploitation. In the 1870's, there was no "Appalachia." At that time, this mountainous stretch of the country from West Virginia to northern Georgia was one of the most prosperous agricultural areas in America. The people here drew upon their English, German and Scotch-Irish roots to create a variety of vibrant, peaceful cultures. But in the 1880's that started to change. Outsiders came, ones who didn't care about the thriving farms. They wanted raw materials for their factories, and the mountains had them. Our mountains were covered with the largest and oldest hardwood forest that people had ever seen. The coal deposits were the richest in the world. Industrialization came here like a cyclone roaring through the mountains. People like my ancestors were bullied, threatened and cheated out of their land. By 1920, timber companies had cut the entire forest. Most of the profits left the state along with the timber and coal. As the mountains were denuded, the industrialists portrayed the families they were robbing as "backward people" and themselves as the prophets of progress. The missionaries who often accepted large donations from the industrialists exaggerated the "otherness" of these strange people. "Local color" writers made brief visits to the mountains, then wrote fanciful books about the queer, violent mountain folk. As realistic as Harlequin romances, local-color books like Mary Murfree's "In the `Stranger People's' Country" were read and reviewed as journalistic accounts. College professors began to use them as textbooks in sociology classes. The news media took its part with the infamous Hatfield-McCoy feud in the 1880's and 1890's - a conflict that as Altina L. Waller wrote in her book "Feud," was not really a family feud, but a war between coal mining interests and local interests. Corrupt politicians took isolated incidents and described them as a hillbilly feud. Reporters from the big cities wrote about "white savages" and "West Virginia barbarians." (The New York Times, for example, said of people in eastern Kentucky: "They are remarkably good shots and effective assassins," adding that they "are so accustomed to murder that they do not look upon it with the horror with which it is regarded in civilized communities.") Then, in 1897, the president of Berea College in Kentucky, William Goodell Frost, desperately trying to raise money for his failing institution, created a fund-raising campaign based on the idea of saving the people in the Appalachians from themselves. In an Atlantic Monthly article, Frost described the southern Appalachians as our "contemporary ancestors" waking up from a Rip van Winkle-type sleep and in need of help in joining modern America. Frost's article made mythic Appalachia and its backward hillbillies a permanent fixture in America's imaginary landscape. Many in the southern Appalachians are certainly poor, but the poverty grew out of the vagaries of the coal market and outsiders' control of resources. Industrialists and others, however, blamed the people for their own poverty, and this myth continues because it is entertaining to the Americans beyond the mountains. Some of the region's middle-class writers continue to churn out Gothic hillbilly tales, the descendants of local-color stories. This mythology has even been accepted by the people living here. Not long ago, one of the student counselors at West Virginia University told me that the most persistent problem she encounters is a lack of self-esteem. Bright, capable, young men and women do not think they belong in college because they are hillbillies. I have taught at a small private college in West Virginia. Ninety percent of the students were from out of state. The few West Virginians on campus huddled together in their own corner of the student union. They had become marginal people in their own state. My own father spent his life backing up, apologizing for the space he took up in the world. He took the hillbilly stereotype to heart and all of his life believed that he was backward and inferior - a despair I, too, have been trying to escape all of my life. The reality show that CBS is considering not only exploits my part of the world, it also separates struggling Appalachians from the rest of the American poor. If a television network proposed a "real life" show treating poor African-Americans, Latinos, American Indians, Asians or Jews as curiosities, they, and all Americans of good will, would be justifiably outraged. This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm Consider each day a gift. Use each for who knows when we shall no longer be able to do so. James R COTTRILL. BuckyK3LIE@aol.com 3119 Pioneer AVE, Pittsburgh, PA 15226-1740 412-563-2379

I think all you listers will enjoy this. Fleshing Out the Bones: Why I Do Genealogy. We are the chosen. My feelings are that in each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow those who went before know and approve. . To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the storytellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called as it were by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told my ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us."? How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why do I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us, that we might be born who we are, that we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are them and they are us. I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take their place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones. -- Anonymous

<A HREF="http://www.slcl.lib.mo.us/slcl/sc/scc/scc-main.htm">Click here: Researching Southern Claims Commission Records</A> <A HREF="http://www.slcl.lib.mo.us/slcl/sc/scc/scc-main.htm">http://www.slcl.lib.mo.us/slcl/sc/scc/scc-main.htm</A> Consider each day a gift. Use each for who knows when we shall no longer be able to do so. James R COTTRILL. BuckyK3LIE@aol.com 3119 Pioneer AVE, Pittsburgh, PA 15226-1740 412-563-2379

I would like to hook up with other Bailey researchers from the Stephen Bailey line. Elias and Jemima were my gg grandparents. I have been told that someone in Harrison County has a photo of the 10 Bailey brothers including my g grandfather, Rev. Adolphus Bailey (1878 near Clarksburg- 1847 Cumberland, MD). Siblings included: Floyd, Waitman, George, William, Joseph, Asa, Alexander, Harvey, and Almanzer. Adolphus married Maud Hudkins, whose parents were Ira Hudkins m. Emily Adeline Kemper. Emily was d/o Reuben Kemper m. Rosamond Hitt. I have no clue who parents of Jemima Carder Bailey were, do you? I would love to hear from researchers working on these lines too. Beverly Railey Walter Oakmont PA

ONE MAN FROM WEST VIRGINIA A brigade of Iraqi soldiers are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a sand dune. "One man from West Virginia is better than ten Iraqis." The Iraqi commander quickly orders 10 of his best men over the dune whereupon a gun battle breaks out and continues for a few minutes and then silence. The voice once again calls out. "One man from West Virginia is better than one hundred Iraqi." Furious, the Iraqi commander sends his next best 100 troops over the dune and instantly a huge gun fight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again, silence. The Rebel voice calls out again, "One man from West Virginia is better than one thousand Iraqi." The enraged Iraqi commander musters 1000 fighters and sends them to the other side of the dune. Rifle fire, machine guns, grenades, rockets and cannon fire ring out as a terrible battle is fought.... Then silence. Eventually one badly wounded Iraqi fighter crawls back over the dune and with his dying words tells his commander, "Don't send any more men...... it's a trap. There are two of them."