Hello Kosciusko, I'm seeking information on JAMES HENRY HUFFMAN, (b. 1838-d.1917), and his wife, ELIZABETH HUFFMAN,(b.1836-d.1920), from the Van Buren twp of Kosciusko Co., Indiana. If anyone out there has any information at all, (census, cemetery, marriage, names of children, or anything), please do a kind thing and contact me with information to share? It will be appreciated. I know they were there in 1910! With my sincere thanks, Mimi.....in California

Hello Kosciusko Co., Would someone be a 'Saint' and do a Census look-up for me? I need: JAMES H. HUFFMAN, in Kosciusko Co., for 1910. Any informtion shown such as age, date of birth, wife's name, children, and etc.. With my sincere thanks! Mimi

Another newsletter from same source as American State Papers. It's loaded with great information. Karen -----Original Message----- From: Jeannette H. Austin [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 7:39 AM To: Expert Genealogy Subject: Research Online Editor: Jeannette Holland Austin Series: Research Techniques Subject: Online Research Date: May 3, 1999 Last week, a lot of these links were reported not working - here they are again. http://www.gov.ns.ca/bacs/vstat/cdnoffices.htm Addresses, fees, phone number of Vital Statistics Office for births, deaths, marriage certificates - Canadian Vital Statistics Offices - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Alberta http://www.theultimates.com/white/ Addresses, finding - The Ultimate White Pages http://www.birthquest.org/Adoptees A searchable international database for adoptees. How to contribute information, etc. http://www.vitalrec.com/links.html Adoption and Vital Records - Adoption - Lots of Information here http://web.ukonline.co.uk/graham.pitt/bdm/ Births, Deaths, Marriages Exchange - The aim of this site is to provide a free resource to genealogists who wish to share information about details contained on birth, death or marriage certificates registered in the United Kingdom - A downloads page http://genweb.net/~blackwell/books.html Books to read online - Mostly New England local history and genealogy and a few others in England,particularly Derbyshire. The New England books include the histories of Braintree, Weymouth, Hingham, Cohasset, Scituate, North Bridgewater (renamed http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/toc.htm Bureau of Land Management - You can download copies of actual certificates, but you must have a viewer, which you can download from the BLM site to view and print copies of the certificates. Available States include - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin http://www.wdbj.net/~wdbj/gen/birthyear/cenindx.html Calculating birth dates from census information http://www.interment.net Cemeteries - Steve Paul Johnson's Cemetery Interment Lists on the Internet. Internet directory to help other genealogists find the gravesites of their ancestors. Contains links to records in the States, US national cemeteries and veterans burials all other countries, misc cemetery links and a tour of cemeteries on the Net http://www.neep.demon.co.uk/mis/index.htm Cemeteries: Monuments Inscriptions for Genealogists by Rod Neep (UK) - A general site with information on archives and records; how to record monumental inscriptions; deciphering illegible inscriptions; how to present your records; how to let others know http://peacequest.com/Cemeteries A National Cemetery Database - search engine http://www.interment.net/us/index.htm Cemeteries - National Cemeteries and War Veterans http://www.daddezio.com/cemetery/junction/index.html Cemetery Junction for USA. Browse by State. You can complete an online form if your cemetery is not listed http://www.genrecords.com/library/abbreviations.htm Census and Soundex Relationship Abbreviations - >From the Genealogy Record Service Library http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/microcen.html Census Microfilm - How to Use the National Archives Census Microfilm Catalogs http://www.primenet.com/~dlytton/wdc/ Charts - World Descendant Charts(GenWeb) - VA and WV Families posting descendant charts for those who do not have a web site http://ldsonline.com/family.htm Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Mormans - This is the site where you will be able to view the Ancestral File and IGI (International Genealogical Index) online - It is in beta testing now, and you need a password. Passwords are to become available to the general public in April http://www.citydirectories.psmedia.com/ City Directories Online - Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco. A free search available - however, you must be a "subscriber" http://www.digiserve.com/heraldry/ Coats of Arms site. Includes flow chart for identifying coats of arms, Heraldic Symbolism, Elizabethan Heraldry, International Heraldic Glossory, Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry, Family Arms on the Web http://gldss7.cr.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/us_deaths.html Deaths of People due to Earth Quakes in the US http://www.pastconnect.comDiplomas, certificates,letters, etc., stuff found in flea markets, etc. http://www.ellisisland.org/ Ellis Island website http://www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html Handwriting - Deciphering Old Handwriting http://www.funeralnet.com/search.html Funeral Homes Online http://www.thepassword.com/Magazines/kids/activities/genealo gy/index.html Funeral Homes - US and Canadian Funeral Homes - 20,000 US and 1,200 Canadian. Searchable Database http://www.funeralnet.com/cgi-local/notfound.pl?/ Funeral Homes - US Directory of Funeral Homes http://www.Yourfamily.com/bulletin.cgi Genealogy Bulletin Board Searchable. Add your notices to the bulletin board http://www.mit.edu/geo/ Counties - Finds the counties for a known place and state ================== NEW RELEASES =================== See a new concept in doing genealogical research online Just came out - brand new ! Do research online ! INTERNET ANCESTORS-1999 by Jeannette Holland Austin - CD- $45.00 Over 50,000 links to genealogy sites. Tired of surfing? Now you can do your genealogical research on the internet. Simply go online, insert this cd, and click on the links. For more details, how to order, (and a sample of how this works), go to - http://www.genealogy-books.com/interne2.htm ------------------------------------- C1720. PENNSYLVANIA PLACE NAMES by A. Howry Espenshade. 375 pp., paper (1925), repr. 1998. $37.50 This is the standard reference work on Pennsylvania place names, an unusual feature of which is that it give brief biographical and genealogical information about many of the persons whose names are inseparably connected with the counties, boroughs, cities, etc. Includes an extensive list of county histories, a table of Pa counties' formation, and general index of persons, places and subjects. Reprint of the original edition of 1925 which was published as "Pennsylvania State College Studies in History and Political Science, No. 1, College Series, No. 1". C2955. PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN MARRIAGES. Marriages and Marriage Evidence in Pennnsylvania German Churches by Donna R. Irish, 817 pp., Indexed, paper (1982), repr. 1998. $60.00 Primarily a compilation of Reformed Church marriage records (including some records from Lutheran and Union churches), this work provides documentation on some 50,000 persons of German origin or descent, as found in the records of approximately 100 churches in eastern Pennsylvania. The records of actual marriages, which form the basis of the work, generally give the names of the bride and groom, the date of marriage, names of parents, place of residence, and sometimes place of origin, date of birth, and previous martial status, while records of marriage deriving from baptismal entries, burial records, etc. variously give names of parents (usually the maiden name of the mother), names of grandparents and sponsors, place and date of birth and/or baptism, names of children, and date of death. C4569. PENNSYLVANIA VITAL RECORDS. >From the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. 3 vols. 2,491 pp., illus., indexed, paper (1983), repr. 1999. $155.00 Pa vital records comprises reprint of virtually every article on births, baptisms, marriages and deaths that ever appeared in the two most important Pa periodicals. As with similar compilations, this work was produced with the object of brining all such material within reach of the genealogist, for complete sets of these periodicals are almost impossible to find these days, and, in the case of the Pa Genealogical magazine - which lacks a comprehensive index - difficult to use. Our 3 volumes are complete indexed - a necessity in a work that contains references to over 100,000 persons! The vital records which appear here in a total of some 150 articles derive from a mixture of church registers, court records, records of local officials and justices, ministers' records, newspapers, and gravestone inscriptions. They cut evenly across civil and ecclesiastical lines and represent a cross-section of the population of early Pa, providing one of the largest bodies of published source materials ever seen. For the period prior to 1820, in fact, they offer the researcher perhaps his or her best chance of making ancestral connections in Pa. ORDER FROM - Jeannette H. 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-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Anderson [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 12:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: FW: American State Papers This is the first copy I have seen of her newsletter, but thought I would share in case anyone is interested. It is a free mailing list. Karen From: "Jeannette" <[email protected]> To: "Expert Genealogy"<[email protected]> EXPERT GENEALOGY Editor: Jeannette Holland Austin Series: Land Sources Subject: American State Papers - Laws Date: April 1, 1999 In 1775 Continental Congress promised land to Revolutionary War veterans. Thus began the Public Domain Laws. In 1785 they established a Rectangular Survey System (Northwest Territory) which allowed the sale of land. All of the Public Domain had to be surveyed before titles could be issued. In 1786, surveys were made of all townships north of the Ohio River, with the first land sale occurring the following year. This system became the standard for identifying and conveying title. Even before the survey, settlers moved into the Public Domain, and waited to file claims. So what happened to the land in the Public Domain which has previously been granted to people by the French, Spanish and British Governments? Such private land claims had to be validated by the US Government, and so commissions were established to evaluate such claims. Many actions ended up in the federal courts. Also, Indian claims had to be adjudicated before title could be granted. When settlers filed entries under the Public Land Laws, conflicts occurred with those having the old land grants. Appeals were presented to Congress, and records of these private relief actions are contained in the American State Papers. The land Private Land Claims which were determined to be valid by the claims commissioner and federal courts are "first-title deeds" and were surveyed outside the rectangular survey system. This means that the rectangular survey stops at the boundaries of such private claims and legal titles. Here is an example of what you would expect to find - John Brown filed a claim in Florida to 95 acres that was first granted to Josiah Gray on February 16, 1816, by Governor Coppinger. Gray then sold it to George Flemming in 1819, who in turn sold the tract to Brown. This claim was supported by copies of deeds and surveyed as claimed. The claims board confirmed the claim to Brown and his heirs on April 17, 1824. Many claims were not approved. Such as the 1835 petition of Matthew Arbuckle for eight tracts totaling 2132 acres in Arkansas. Arbuckle claimed that he purchased those tracts from five individuals in 1829 in the Lawrence Land District, Arkansas Territory, presenting copies of instruments claiming to transfer title to him. 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Ah so you liked what I sent. Glad you checked the stuff out. I think she is great. June

Has anyone downloaded... or bought outright the program that FAMILY TREE MAKER is offering from PROGENY SOFTWARE INC... called GENELINES .... It's $19.99 .... but in version 1.2 If you go to www.familytreemaker.com/memsale and look down that page until you find GENELINES you can look at the features and by clicking on some of the charts see actual time lines for (of all people) John Quincy Adams... Please e-mail me privately if you have had any experience with this program... THANKS ....... Marjorie Priser [email protected]

I am looking for information on the marriage of Nancy Melissa Kigar and Rev. Barney Elliot Warren. Melissa was born March 10, 1858 in Henry County Ohio and at time of marriage was living in Anderson Ind. They were both evangelists for the Church of God and were involved in the reformation of the Winebrenner Church. They were reported to have been married in Kosciusko County, but have found no further details of that marriage. Any help would be most appreciated. Walter John Kiger

THIS article was in Eastman's on-line newsletter... I thought it might be of interest to readers of the Kos. Co. page. Marjorie Priser [email protected] - The Death of the Free Obituary The April 1999 edition of the American Journalism Review carries a sobering article that describes the loss of a source of information for future genealogists. Columnist Judith Sheppard writes about Nathaniel Blumberg, publisher of the Treasure State Review in Montana. Blumberg mourns the fact that big-chain publishing firms have taken over most daily newspapers and that they now charge for publishing obituaries. Blumberg calls these companies ghouls - "evil spirits that feed on the dead". Author Sheppard then goes on to quote a number of other journalists with similar opinions. Apparently the costs of publishing have encouraged papers to seek new sources of revenue. Obituaries were often a newspaper's doff of the hat to a departed subscriber. Now, says Sheppard, they are more like a classified ad. While they genealogical impact is not mentioned in the article, the idea of charging for an obituary will probably discourage many lower-income people from publishing this information of value to future genealogists. The full article is available at: http://ajr.newslink.org/ajrobitapr99.html. My thanks to Jerry Reed for telling me about this article.

I would like some information on prohibition in Kosciusko County. My great-grandfather, William T. Baker (1836-1921) was born in Fulton Co.. He fought in the Civil War. He lived most of his life in or near Mentone, Kosciusko County, raising a large family. One of the most intriguing things about him, though, was his nickname, "Prohi Baker." I would dearly love to know what he did that made this nickname stick! Does anyone know a good source for information on the temperance movement in the area, or perhaps recall some enlightening anecdotal information? Pam Green [email protected]

Hello Kosciusko County, I need your assistance! Does anyone out there have a School Yearbook from Sidney High School from anytime from 1931 to 1937? I'm looking for pictures of an Ancestor, JAMES THOMAS HUFFMAN, (b.Aug. 24, 1919) but everyone called him, "TOMMY HUFFMAN"! If you have a copy of any yearbook, during any of those years, please do a kind favor and look in the 'index' for his name to see if there are pictures of him. Tommy Huffman attended school in Sidney all of his life, from kindergarden in 1924 to his senior year in 1937. Thanks, Mimi Alexander

I got this letter back because I messed up on the address. Here it is again. I came across a site on the web that I want you to take a look at. It has to do with obituary coding. I won't begin to try to explain it, just go to the site and check it out. If this were to get done, it would make this kind of searching a lot easier. I have written letters to Mr. Dole regarding all of the local newspapers and some that are not so local. It helps to have lots of people from the same area to contact the news- papers to urge them to adopt this system. All of the genealogy people need to get on this so as to help make the future gen- ealogist's work a little easier. I neglected to put the site in the first letter also so here it is also. <http://www.obituarycoding.com> Kay Hughes in Cromwell, Indiana (Enchanted Hills)

It would help if I gave you the site address wouldn't it????? <http://www.obituarycoding.com> Goof!!!! Sorry!!! Kay Hughes

Friends, I've enjoyed our discussions, but after too many hours reading and answering email (due to no self-control), my house is a mess. I've made a pact with myself to keep away from my favorite pastime and am unsubscribing from my email lists so the temptation will be removed. :-( Thanks for all the information so many of you have shared. You have my email address; if there is something you need to ask of me, write. I'll answer! Cindy Kimes

I've seen the KELLY surname mentioned in relation to several northern Indiana counties. Here are the KELLYs appearing in my family trees: Mary KELLY, b: 08 February 1854 Woodland, St. Joseph Co, IN, who married Peter STEIN on 10 January 1878. Peter, b: 14 December 1848 Marshall Co, IN and died 28 April 1926. Norman Kelly who married Caroline Marker. Caroline, b: 05 November 1868 in St. Joseph Co, IN. Alice KELLY, b: 02 July 1854 Plain Twp, Kosciusko Co, IN, who married John KIMES on 04 July 1875. John, b: 23 January 1851 Plain Twp, Kosciusko Co, IN; d: 20 March 1919 in Clay Twp, Kosciusko Co, IN. Alice died 04 July 1921 in Claypool, IN William O. KELLY, b: 1826 Ohio, who married Celina PARKER, b: 1836 PA. They married in Kosciusko Co. Maybe this will help some KELLY researchers. Cindy Kimes

I research CRIBBS, KREBS, CREPS, KRIBBS. Thanks, Bill Cribbs Be sure and check out the Obituary Links Page at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/7748/obit/obituary.htm The Family Surname Obituary Links at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/7748/obit/famobit.htm And the incredible Obituary Search Engine Links Page at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/7748/obit/links.htm

Mr. Ronald Kidd, Can you email me at [email protected] and give me your address. I have Waggoner information also. Gerald Fecht

I am looking for any information on Frederic W. Kibler. Born in Koskiusko Co. in 1852/53. His parents were Philip Kibler and Margaret A. Derr from Penn. Any help would be appreciated. Jerry Christ Gainesville, Florida

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Many thanks to G. Fecht for the wedding anniversary clipping. This fills in some interesting details in my own family research. I would guess that the French's did indeed remain in Kosc. Co. after this announcement, as they are buried next to her O'Brien parents in the cemetery just down the road from the O'Brien farm. The O'Brien parents had died within a year of each other in the 1890's (don't have the file here at hand). I found considerable information on the O'Brien branch a year ago in the Warsaw archives, because of William O'Brien's stature in the community. Eliza Waggoner was the oldest (or second) child of Samuel Waggoner and older sister to my ggf; Sarah and my grandfather were first cousins, but separated by nearly 20 years. Sarah Elizabeth would have been named for her grandmother Elizabeth Wicks Waggoner, still alive at her birth. If anybody is interested in Sarah or Eliza I can provide a little more info on this part of the background. Unfortunately I have not traced it back before Samuel who was born in VA. Is there any indication of which Kosc Co paper this appeared? Would like to check out the picture next time I'm in Warsaw, in case the issue survives. Thanks again. RK RON

To G. Fecht many thanks for sharing the article on the French anniversary. This report fills in several small details in my own family research. I believe that the French couple remained in Kosc. Co after the anniversary, as they are buried beside her parents in the cemetery near the O'Brien farm. My research has dealt with the Waggoner family and Eliza was the oldest (or second) child of this large family. Eliza was older sister to my ggf James; my grandfather would have been first cousin (but twenty years younger) to Sarah O'Brien French. If anyone is interested in Sarah's background and connections on her mother's side, I can be of help, although I have not yet traced the background before Samuel Waggoner, Eliza's father. Sarah would have been named for her grandmother Elizabeth Wicks Waggoner. Is there any indication with the original article which Kosc. Co. paper this notice appeared? (Would like to look at the photo next time I'm in Warsaw, if a copy of this date is preserved there.) Thanks again. RK RON