Jean and Ginger- my family has been in the Portland Ore area for 4 generations. Some family names: Henry, Delury, Jenkins, Carter, Mendenhall, Ayers, Bechtol, Thomas, (Gearhart- Tygh Vally) Bradetich, Bozich, Wilson, (columbia co and Portland area). Any connections? My early family was active in the Portland Farmers market down town. Have pictures. Blanch Delury Hannah was one of the first female school principals in the Portland school district. Her father, Jeremiah Delury was on the school board early 1900s. Early Oregon pioneer family "Perry" are her ancestors. Let me know. Thanks. Joan Whitney [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean R." <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [IRELAND] General Question to the Group - Ephemera > Hi Ginger -- What you describe is a valuable and untapped resource for > genealogist!! What a shame to have it ultimately discarded! Is there a > way to list the name or surnames in the family albums, groupings? Most of > my families I am researching lived in Portland, OR. It would be my dream > to > find something more. I purchased some still-legible American Civil War > letters written to a wounded SMITH soldier in the Union Army from IA by > several members of his family years ago at a vintage postcard shop. They > were full of history, names and places, and so I ultimately transcribed > the > contents to Rootsweb. Before long two researchers recognized the soldier > and/or his relatives as their kin and contacted me. They were thrilled, > and > so was I! I loved the letters, didn't want to part with them, but I > gladly > photocopied them for free. One letter had a charming drawing of the local > "school marm." Another was written on stationery that had a ACW poem > about > deserters imprinted across the top of the page. The person who sold them > to > me said that someone had come by their store and just wanted to purchase > the > elaborate envelopes for the stamps and postmarks, wasn't interested in the > marvelous letters, had left them behind. I also have transcribed contents > of a couple Spokane, WA 1920's high school books I have found at Antique > shows to Rootsweb. I have also made "matches" from queries from old > genealogical magazines. In fact, one successful match was made between a > Donegal gentleman who was looking for his East Coast USA family. I would > do > more of it as a hobby had I more money to spend buying the ephemera but am > on a fixed SS income. Oddly enough, my friend who owned the vintage > postcard shop had also shown me a little handmade diary with an account of > the authoresses' grandfather's Revolutionary War service as told to her. > I > wondered if it was a true account or whether it was a fanciful story. I > checked the Internet to see if the names and dates and places and battles > matched, later, much to my delight, found a website with the name of the > authoress and her grandfather and grandmother in the FH there. Everything > matched - names, places, dates, birthdates! I was thrilled! When I > contacted the person who had put his FH on the web he said that he was not > interested in the material as he already "had a ton on the family" and was > deeply disappointed that his own children were not interested in all his > life-long genealogical work, would probably just dump it all, and to just > give the booklet to a library. That really stunned me! Maybe I am > dreaming, but I would think that antique show owners of this type of > material wouldn't have much luck selling same to strangers and could do > their part in preserving history by letting it go for little or nothing to > related families or transcribers or to genealogical libraries. Not > everything should be for sale! That's why I support free genealogy > websites. Jean > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 11:18 AM > Subject: [IRELAND] General Question to the Group > > >> Hi everyone... ! >> >> I was at Portland's Antique fare this weekend and stopped by a booth that >> was >> chock full of old pictures (instant family) and actual binders full of >> family letters (some archived from 1905-present) for a senator from >> California ( >> for example) and inquired to them about presenting it to >> Rootsweb/Ancestry to >> whomever families might be interested. I often wonder when I see family >> bibles >> up for sale at auction or at a fare that the families don't want them, >> but >> bet that somewhere some family historian that might be a distant cousin >> would >> give their eye teeth for it if only someone had asked! Theses of course >> are now >> for sale... instead of being handed down to the appropriate person (s). >> >> My question is that if they were offered, would anyone be interested in >> buying them? I was trying to encourage this gal, but she said that after >> contacting some of the family members, no one wanted them. She had given >> up on the idea >> of someone wanting to pay for the information. I feel she is wrong. Not >> all >> of her info was expensive, but some of the archived ones were going in >> the >> $100's. But, for that it was a binder at least 4 inches thick of >> correspondence >> between certain family members. >> >> Anyone wanting to comment can post off list.. or if we would like to have >> the >> bigger discussion on proper preservation of family documents, even our >> responsibility to leave these things, in our wills if need be, to the >> family >> historian, no matter how distant a cousin.... might be beneficial to all. >> But, then >> again, I'm probably preaching to the choir! >> >> If there is already a service like this, please let me know that as well. >> >> All the best, >> Ginger >> >> Ginger Aarons, CTC, Director >> Time Travel >> P.O. 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Hi Joan - Thanks for asking. Some of my Portland, Eugene, Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Newberg, OR-area families were FORD (dad's) from Ireland/Liverpool; GEORGE from Liverpool; JONES from England; SWEANY (mom's) from IN; ROBBINS (WI/ND/SD; LINDEMAN; KLEINSCHMIDT; VAUGHAN from TN & WA; ; KELLY; ADAMS; PRICE: HOPLAND from Norway; TINKER; SIMMONS from KS; LEWIS; CALIFF; GILMORE from MO. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Whitney" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:16 PM Subject: Re: [IRELAND] General Question to the Group - Ephemera > Jean and Ginger- my family has been in the Portland Ore area for 4 > generations. Some family names: Henry, Delury, Jenkins, Carter, > Mendenhall, Ayers, Bechtol, Thomas, (Gearhart- Tygh Vally) Bradetich, > Bozich, Wilson, (columbia co and Portland area). Any connections? My > early > family was active in the Portland Farmers market down town. Have > pictures. > Blanch Delury Hannah was one of the first female school principals in the > Portland school district. Her father, Jeremiah Delury was on the school > board early 1900s. Early Oregon pioneer family "Perry" are her > ancestors. > Let me know. Thanks. Joan Whitney [email protected] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jean R." <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 11:43 AM > Subject: Re: [IRELAND] General Question to the Group - Ephemera >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Cc: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 11:18 AM >> Subject: [IRELAND] General Question to the Group >> >> >>> Hi everyone... ! >>> >>> I was at Portland's Antique fare this weekend and stopped by a booth >>> that >>> was >>> chock full of old pictures (instant family) and actual binders full of >>> family letters (some archived from 1905-present) for a senator from >>> California ( >>> for example) and inquired to them about presenting it to >>> Rootsweb/Ancestry to >>> whomever families might be interested. I often wonder when I see family >>> bibles >>> up for sale at auction or at a fare that the families don't want them, >>> but >>> bet that somewhere some family historian that might be a distant cousin >>> would >>> give their eye teeth for it if only someone had asked! Theses of course >>> are now >>> for sale... instead of being handed down to the appropriate person (s). >>> >>> My question is that if they were offered, would anyone be interested in >>> buying them? I was trying to encourage this gal, but she said that >>> after >>> contacting some of the family members, no one wanted them. She had given >>> up on the idea >>> of someone wanting to pay for the information. I feel she is wrong. Not >>> all >>> of her info was expensive, but some of the archived ones were going in >>> the >>> $100's. But, for that it was a binder at least 4 inches thick of >>> correspondence >>> between certain family members. >>> >>> Anyone wanting to comment can post off list.. or if we would like to >>> have >>> the >>> bigger discussion on proper preservation of family documents, even our >>> responsibility to leave these things, in our wills if need be, to the >>> family >>> historian, no matter how distant a cousin.... might be beneficial to >>> all. >>> But, then >>> again, I'm probably preaching to the choir! >>> >>> If there is already a service like this, please let me know that as >>> well. >>> >>> All the best, >>> Ginger