William Edward Yandle (age 71)--Delhomme Funeral Home Chapel-Bertrand Drive - Lafayette, LA Visitation from 4 PM until 10:00 PM Friday and on Saturday from 8:00 AM until the time of services. Rosary Friday evening. Funeral Services 10:00 AM Saturday Nov. 6 at Delhomme Chapel Burial is at ...St. Dominic Cemetery in Loranger, LA William Yangle was the son of Sylvester Edward Yandle and Emily Butcher.

The services are this evening for William I got the email last night sorry for any problems this may have caused. Cindy

Mr. William passed away this morning at 3am. The services will be at Delhomme's Funeral Home tomorrow evening. His wife will let us know the times after they are finalized. His burial will be out of town. Please keep him and his family in your prayers.  

Mr. William Yandle died last night He was a member of our Genealogy Society. He had been very ill recently. The family said that there would be private services. No Other information is available right now. We thought we would pass this on to you. Please keep their family remembered in your prayers. Eula received a phone call today from Mrs. Olympe Butcher. (Yandle's aunt).

This was sent to me and is very important to all genealogist/Family Historians. Please read and send to society chairs or others, that you know of who may be concerned about access to records. Cindy Hofmeister The Record Preservation and Access Committee (RPAC) needs your help on House Bill 10. As you may know, HB10 seeks to limit access to vital records in order to protect each of us from identity theft. The way the bill is worded, it could also limit however, our access to this information for genealogical purposes. The RPAC is recommending that the wording in the bill be adjusted to: Insert the following language as a new subsection 890A(b)(2)(E) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (see Title 6, Section 606(a) of S.2774): "shall not require a State to change its law or practice with respect to public access to (i) non-certified copies of birth certificates or to (ii) birth certificates or birth records once a period of 100 years has elapsed from the date of creation of the certificate or record." The combined Senate and House committee is meeting to adjust the language of the bill and the committee members need to hear from the genealogical community. It is particularly helpful if you live in one of the states represented by the committee members. If not, contacting someone you know in that state to make their opinion known would be the next most helpful thing you could do. If you do not live in any of these states and do not know anyone whom you could contact, then you should probably not take an action at this time other than to write to your representatives. You can get the address of the various representatives at: http://www.house.gov/ and the senators at http://www.senate.gov/ These are the members of the Conference Committee: Senate: Collins (ME) Lieberman (CT) Lautenberg (NJ) Levin (MI) Lott (MS) DeWine (OH) Roberts (KS) Rockefeller (WVA) Durbin (IL) Graham (FL) Sununu (NH) Voinovich (OH) Coleman (MN) House: Hoekstra (MI) Dreier (CA) Hyde (IL) Hunter (CA) Sensenbrenner (WI) Harmon (CA) Skelton (MO) Menendez (NJ) Thank you for your support and interest. Respectfully, David E. Rencher Chair, Record Preservation and Access Committee

Ancestral Endeavors A MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF LAFAYETTE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY www.nettally.com/lgsla Volume 2004 Issue 9 September2004 The Minutes of the September 16, 2004 Meeting Our regular scheduled meeting was held at the Lafayette Public Library and was called to order at 6:35 p.m. By President Earl Gates. The meeting consisted of a general Welcome, Moment of Silence for our military, followed by the Pledge. New Business: A work in progress! After countless hours of volunteer work from a few select members. The society has its first vital record CD. In a presentation Charles Patterson showed just how the CD works and how much value it has to genealogist. Charles recommended downloading Acrobat Reader to view the CD since it is not added with this CD. The cost of the CD is just $15 and one all members should have. Website Cindy Hofmeister showed what she has been working on for our future website. The site should be launched sometime in November. Our website will be a work in progress. Rayne Family History Fair September 25, 2004. The Raine Family History Fair was a success. They had about 10 different booths that included societies, Family organizations and Hebert publications. Hebert publications stated that the latest book would be coming out soon. We had our new Vital Records CD and sold some of our publications. Attendees came from all over Louisiana, making it a perfect time to chat with old friends, meet new ones. And share our love for genealogy and family history. We would like to personally Thank Earl Gates, Charles Patterson, Brenda Fuselier, Regena English, Cindy Hofmeister, Warren LeBlanc, and Ann Booth. For helping in our booth at the Rayne event. Your help is truly appreciated. Preserving Your Past For The Future Conference: Our conference was a success! We had about 97 attendees including speakers. Earl Gates had ordered lunch to be delivered from Honey Baked Ham. And during lunch we passed out the many door prizes given from vendors in Austin. Door prizes included 15 different genealogical tapes from Repeat Performance (Donated by History of Family Search); Family History CD( Donated by Family History company); Genealogy Quick tips (Donated by Fun Stuff for Genealogist); Legacy program (Donated by History of Family Search); all attendees got a $30 gift certificate for a consultation with My Ancestors found. (Donated by My Ancestors Found) Address CD, etc. from My Ancestors found (Donated by History of Family Search); Several mouse pads and Pedigree Resource File indexes (Donated by Family Search.org); Godfrey Scholar yearly membership (Donated by History of Family Search) two Roots Magic genealogical programs (Donated by Roots Magic); several area vendors gave pins, etc to place in our goodie bags. We would also like to Thank Coca Cola for making up our signs; the Lafayette visitors center for giving us the goodie bags; and Sir Speedy for doing such a nice job on our syllabuses. We had nine different speakers, Antoinette Herrell-Miller; Annette Womack; Sue Badeaux; Cindy Hofmeister; Lyndia Raiford; Jeff Johnson; Regena English; Francis Hazmark; C. Qadriyyah Aleem. Classes were African American Genealogical Connection Inc.: What is available in the Lafayette Family History Center; Scanning and Technology; Beyond The Dioceses Records; Picture Your Heritage; African American… Researching the Salve Owners and Beyond; Where do I begin?; Access The Worlds Largest Family History Library From Home; The Do's and Don'ts of Cemetery Research; Researching in & on Northern Louisiana; Finding an In Slaved Ancestor; Online Ordinance Index; Research & Technology; Diamonds In A Court House; Organizing Your Paper Files; African Americans… Understanding the Past through Oral History and the use of Obituaries in Research; Submitting To the Temple; Breaking Down A Wall… With Land Records; So You Think You Know How To Read A Census; Newspapers: For those members that were not able to attend the conference, we have a few syllabuses left. The price for the syllabus is $5. (While supplies last) Checks should be made out to Lafayette Genealogical Society. Please contact Earl Gates Gatesearlg@aol.com or Cindy Hofmeister hofsearch@aol.com Society Plan for Next Year: The board has been working on ideas to better serve our members. At several of our meetings it has come to the attention that members are looking for different ways to improve their family research. In trying to please everyone we have come up with the proposed schedule for next year. If you have any ideas for a presentation you would like to have? Please let us know. We are doing our best to try and make everyone happy. January- Finding Your Family Through The Move: Using Ani Map members will learn the years different Louisiana parishes were organized, Parish line changes, how to follow their families migration. In addition, to saving maps and many other valuable tools of this program. All of which can possibly help solve brick wall problems. February- Picnic In The cemetery: This class will be society organized cemetery recording session. (cemetery of society choice) the information we gather will be used in our 2005 "Les Memories" Followed by a family style picnic where we will share genealogical stories. (Depending on weather) March- Planning a Genealogical Trip: This class will be on courtesies and formalities necessary to conduct research in records repositories: appropriate dress; calling or writing ahead for directions, how to pack for the trip, what can and can't be used in the facilities, etc. April- A Visit To The Court House: A trip is planned to meet at the local Lafayette Court house. We will learn what is available for genealogist in our local court house. As well as, how these records can be used to solve brick wall problems. May- A Needle In A Hay Stack: By using deeds and land records. We will learn how these under used resources can solve major genealogical problems. Examples will be shown. June- Scanning For Genealogy: This class will teach proper ways to scan and store your genealogical documents and pictures. As well as how to share and send these files with family and friends. (Note: Just because you scanned your documents in your genealogical data base doesn't mean they will automatically go with a shared GEDCOM.) July- Did your Confederate Ancestor cross over to the Union Line? This class is geared to help researchers locate information and documents often over looked when researching their southern soldiers. August- A Southern Melting Pot: How the many faces of Louisiana culture can affect your genealogical research. September- My Favorite Ancestor: Members will each be given 5 minutes to discuss their brick wall ancestor. In which time they can tell what resources they have used or procedures they have taken to solve their genealogical problem. We will then place these genealogical problems on our web site page called "BREAKING DOWN A BRICK WALL" All success stories will then be shared in "Les Memories" our yearly publication. October- Preserving Fragile Documents: This class will be hands on, showing steps and procedures for preservation of your genealogical pictures and documents. A member sign up sheet will be available starting in January (Limited to LGS members only) November- PERSI An Often Over Looked Resource: Come learn about Periodical Source Index, an under utilized resource. That will help you in your genealogical research. Attendees will learn how and where to find information they never new may have existed. Including such things as family histories; Family stories; town histories; extracted indexes, etc. Note: PERSI is an index available on CD and online at Ancestry.com and Heritage Quest. However, for the purpose of this class the CD version will be used. December- Christmas Party! Banquet: Our Christmas Banquet will be on December 2nd, 2004 cost per quest is $15.00. Pet Club 6:30 open 7:00 Dave Petitjean will be our banquet speaker. Dave is a Cajun humorist...and caters his humor to each event. He is now searching his repertoire and that of his professional friends for genealogical humor Elections Elections will be happening in November. The following positions will be available President Elect Vice President Secretary Old Business: Date has been set for the "Ancestor Road Show" January 15, 2005 We need your expertise! Please put your name on our list as to what type of experience you have and in what areas of specialty. Such as South West Louisiana Records; Court Records; Brick Wall problem solving, African American Research, etc. Our next schedualed meeting is October 21, 2004 6:30 PM held at the Lafayette Public Library. Board members please meet at 5:30 to talk about up coming projects and ideas

Lafayette Genealogy Society Meeting October 21, 2004 New Topics: Need to select new officers fro next year, Belva will probably be moving before this year is up. Need nominations for President-Elect and Vice President. We will take nominations from the floor. Library: Will be having Genealogy Classes, Saturday, November 13, 2004, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon. The Why and How People do Genealogy, Building your Family History from the Roots Up, Family History Fest, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2004 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Genealogy Road Show in January. Genealogy Conference: Was an excellect presentation of speakers on all kinds of subjects on Genealogy. Banquet: December 2, 2004 at the Petroleum Club 6:30 open, 7:00 dine. Banquet Speaker will be Dave Petitjean. Earl Gates

I wanted to let everyone know that Regena English's husband (Pat English) was in a real bad accident. He is in the hospital in New Orleans and they are not sure when he will get to come home. The hospital did a bunch of cat scans and everything that way seems to be ok. However, his right ankle has been shattered, and another bone is broken just below his knee. Pat under went surgery around 1:00 or 2:00 am. and the Dr. are concerned about his shattered ankle. Could you please say a prayer for Pat and Regena? They are going to need all the prayers they can get. Thanks, Cindy

Our regular scheduled meeting is this coming Thursday, October 23rd. at 6:30 PM. We will be nominating for board members at this meeting so pleas be present. If there are people that you think would be good helping, please let them know that you would like to nominate them. WE NEED ALL THE HELP WE CAN GET FROM OUR MEMBERS to make our society a success. Please participate. Cindy Hofmeister hofsearch.com

Lafayette Genealogy Society Conference This was done for all members, please come and support the Society. Tomorrow Saturday 9:00 a.m. Come at 8:00 to register for speaker classes. African American Research - Genealogical Connection Inc., Slave Owners and Beyond, Finding an In Slaved Ancestor and Understanding the Past through Oral History. Family History Center - Where do I begin?, What's Available In the Lafayette Family History Center, Online Ordinance Index. Internet/Technology - Scanning and Technoloby, Acess The Worlds Largest Family History Library from Home, Researching on the Internet, Breaking Down a Wall With Land Records. Basics and Beyond - Beyond The Dioceses Records, The Do's and Don'ts of Cemetery Research, Diamonds In A Court House, So You Think You Know How To Read A Census. Misc Classes - Picture Your Heritage, Researching in & on Northern Louisiana, Organizing Your Paper. Files, Researching Newspapers. Earl Gates - President

Just wanted to reminder everyone in the Society about the conference tomorrow Saturday, October 16th, 2004 We got the syllabuses today and they are awesome!!!! If anyone would like me to send a class time schedule? please email me and I will send it over. PS are numbers are looking really good for our program. Hope to see you there. Remember this is our society event. be apart of our success! Cindy

This message comes from Belva. If some of you are interested in seeing some original state atlases..there are some at www.genealogyatlas.com .     So far they have them for 1814, 1845 and about 60% of 1795. I guess they will be putting other years up eventually. Use the PDF format because you can zoom in and out and print them easily from your computer, they could be slow to load if you have a dial up. But they are worth the wait.

I just wanted to remind everyone that our October 16th conference "Preserving The Past For The Future" is getting closer. Help celebrate National Family History month. "Preserving Your Past For the Future" October 16th 9:00-3:30 The Lafayette Genealogical Society and the Lafayette Family History Center are cosponsoring "Preserving Your Past For The Future" an all day genealogical conference. This event is open to anyone interested in family history or just preserving their past. Registration begins at 8:00am at 116 Bluebird Dr. Lafayette, La. Cost is $10.00 and covers a brown bag lunch and conference syllabus. There will be 20 different classes offered for the beginner to the professional. Several being taught by Louisiana's own genealogical professionals. And the African American Genealogical Connection. The AAGC is located in New Orleans and will be teaching classes on researching and preserving African American History. In addition, there will be classes taught on Internet and Technology, Organizing Your Paper Files, Louisiana Research, So You Think You Know How To Read A Census, Getting the most out of Newspapers, Breaking Down a Brick Wall with Land Records, Beyond The Dioceses Records, Heritage Albums and Diamonds in a Court House. Just to name a few. There will be a variety genealogical door prizes given away during lunch time. For those that are interested in learning more the Louisiana Association of Professioanl Genealogist will be meeting right after the conference at 3:45. Come learn what APG is all about. (Open to All) Reservations are not required but preferred. For reservations or further information please contact Cindy Hofmeister (337) 288-7278 or email hofsearch@aol.com Checks should be made payable to the "Lafayette Genealogical Society" PS Please pass this email on to any of the societies you belong to, friends who may be interested in genealogy or preserving their family history. Cindy Hofmeister hofsearch@aol.com

Hello Members: Yesterday, Regina English informed me that one of our members is very ill. "William Yandle" We have not seen William for a while due to his heart surgery and the fact the he is not recovering the way he would have liked. As of this last weekend William was back in the hospital having complications. William is in room 502 of Lafayette General. We would appreciate any members who can go visit with him. As we are not sure how well he is doing. Not to mention it is always nice to see a familiar face. If you cannot go visit please keep him in your prayers. Thank You! LGS Board Members

In a message dated 9/17/04 10:08:09 AM Central Daylight Time, dburl@cox-internet.com writes: > but I will not sacrifice attending a class. In fact, I probably should > arrange for classes to be taped because I can tell I will need to be two places > at the same time. Sorry classes cannot be taped by request of speakers. pick your favorite and tell us what you wanted and we'll see about having it next year<G> This way we can always have a program going. There is a 15 min break between classes but I bet if you wanted to help with some of the clean up Earl would be grateful. Thanks for offering to help. I will send the newsletter to you <G> PS the newsletter will come from me this time. But in the future look for LALGS-L@rootsweb.com (Save this address in your address book) this is how to contact everyone in the society. I will also send an email to everyone reminding them of the October Conference soon. Cindy Hofmeister hofsearch@aol.com Owner History Of Family Search www.hofsearch.com LA-APG Chapter President FGS & NGS LA State Liaison Representative Lafayette Genealogical Society Secretary

Ancestral Endeavors A MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF LAFAYETTE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY www.nettally.com/lgsla Volume 2004 Issue 8 August 2004 The Minutes of the August 19, 2004 Meeting Board meeting called to order 5:30p.m. The events committee asked for help from our members for the Lafayette Genealogical conference being held in October. Regina English has a list of duties she has prepared for members to do. And has asked for volunteers to sign up. Please meet with her to put your name on the list. Earl Gates offered to see about posters and banners for the conference. And will work on getting the brown bag lunches taken care of. He is also in need of help. Cindy Hofmeister has several different speakers coming to speak at the conference. And it has been designed to have five tracks of four classes each. These tracks are African American; LDS; Internet and Technology; Basics and Beyond; Misc. Cindy Hofmeister has been working on our new web site. And has been having a difficult time trying to put "buttons" on the pages. She has asked that if anyone knows how this can be done? To please email her hofsearch@aol.com. Our regular scheduled meeting was held at the Lafayette Public Library and was called to order at 6:30 p.m. By President Earl Gates. The meeting consisted of a general Welcome, Moment of Silence for our military and Eula. Followed by the Pledge. For those of you who missed our meeting, Eula has been very ill and due to her illness, Earl Gates has taken over the presidency of our society. We ask that our members please keep Eula and her family in your prayers. Our guest speaker for the August meeting was "Lauren Smith" from the Lafayette Public Library. And as many of you know, Lauren used to be over the genealogical area of the library. However, she is now in charge of computers and education. During our class Lauren taught us several different items that are available to us as genealogist. Such as Ancestry Plus, paid sites the library has that are available to library patrons, Lafayette Libraries Library catalog, as well as many other of Lauren's favorite sites. In addition, We met the new genealogical librarian "Cassandra Fedrick " who is now over the genealogical area. She is from Baton Rouge, where she worked at the Blue Bonnet library in the genealogical division. Cassandra talked to us about the genealogical goals of the library. Explaining some of their plans. Which include redoing the genealogy section of the library, Moving tables to give researchers more room, a plan for moving ALL genealogically related books back to the genealogy section. And if they have room, they will move the other sets of Father Hebert's books back. In addition, Cassandra stated the library is working on having programs that would teach computer classes for seniors as well as children, which would help promote genealogy. She also said there has been discussions about putting a computer in the genealogical area, dedicated to genealogy. Cassandra asked that everyone please sign in whenever using the genealogical area. This will help her keep track of the number of people using the genealogical area. As well as help her be able to do more for us as genealogist. Possibly making the collection and area a whole lot better. So remember to please sign in when using the Library. Please note Cassandra has changed her schedule to be available during the day. In order to work one on one with anyone who needs help with his or her genealogy. Old Business - Rayne's Genealogy Conference seminar September 25, 2004 with volunteers Brenda, Cindy, Regina and Earl. We would like to be able to sell our vital record CDs at this conference. And Earl Gates has burned some of the records already on CDs for this purpose. We would like to personally thank all the members who give willingly of their time each week for the Vital record CD project. If it was not for these members and their desire to serve, we would not have such a wonderful society. Thank you! New Business "Preserving Your Past For The Future" genealogical conference will be held Saturday October 16th 2004. Registration begins at 8:00 am at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 116 Bluebird Dr. Lafayette, LA. 70508. The price for this conference is $10. The fee will cover a brown bag lunch and the syllabus. Please mark your calendars, as we would like to have all our members of our society attend. This will be an event you won't want to miss. For those of you who missed the post online. Our Society now has it's own email account Lafgensoc@aol.com . This account will make it so individuals who would like to make contact with the society or would like further information about our society can have easy contact. Please place this email address in your address book and share it with your genealogical friends, neighbors and family. We are trying to help our society grow. As well as offer more to our members. Such as more genealogical classes and work shops. We need your ideas for what you would like to learn more about. Some of the ideas that have been mentioned, are Using different genealogical programs for Computers; Scanning Genealogical documents; Brick wall problem solving; What to look for in a court house; are just some of the classes we are thinking of having in the year 2005. We are in need of genealogical items of interest for our early publication. If you have been involved with any individual projects that you may be willing to share. We would truly appreciate you allowing us to use your work. We also would like to have ALL members submit a Biography of their favorite ancestor that they have researched. (Note: This does not have to be a huge biography. However, it would be nice if you show documented sources.) Meaning what sources did you use to gather your information. Many of you already have this information in your genealogical database. <G> For those of you who don't have information about a favorite ancestor. Please provide two generations of a deceased family you are working on and the information you have found so far. We will be starting a section on our website, called "Braking Down Brick Walls" and including this information in "Les Memories." If you have a Query that you would like to have published in "Les Memories" please send it to Cindy Hofmeister hofsearch@aol.com or send to Lafgensoc@aol.com so a member of our society board can make sure it will be published. In addition, in 2005 we will be offering one free Query a year to members to be placed in "Les Memories" and Queries to non-members for a small fee. Members will be able to place 6 queries a year on our website and non-members will have to pay for this service. If you have any questions or concerns please contact Earl Gates or Cindy Hofmeister Please let Earl Gates or Cindy Hofmeister know if you have any suggestions or ideas you would like to see done in the future with our society. As always we are in need of Saturday volunteers for the library. If you have not volunteered, Please put your name on the list!! (This is one of the ways we pay the library back for having a facility to host our meetings.)

Dear LGS members: We are in need of genealogical items of interest for our early publication. If you have been involved with any individual projects that you may be willing to share. We would truly appreciate you allowing us to use your work. We also would like to have ALL members submit a Biography of their favorite ancestor that they have researched. (Note: This does not have to be a huge biography. However, it would be nice if you show documented sources.) Meaning what sources did you use to gather your information. Many of you already have this information in your genealogical data base. <G> For those of you who don't have information about a favorite ancestor. Please provide two generations of a deceased family you are working on and the information you have found so far. Also we will be starting a section on our website called "Braking Down Brick Walls" and including this information in "Les Memories" so if you have a Query that you would like to have published in "Les Memories" please send it to Cindy Hofmeister hofsearch@aol.com In addition, this new year we will be offering one free Query a year to members to be placed in "Les Memories" and Queries to non members for a small fee. Members will be able to place 6 queries a year on our website and non members will have to pay for this service. If you have any questions or concerns please contact Earl Gates or Cindy Hofmeister Thank you for all your help with our society needs. Cindy

Hello: I wanted to let the Lafayette Genealogical Society members know October 16th there will be a genealogical conference in Lafayette, Louisiana. Please forward this to anyone you may know that may possibly be interested in this conference. "Preserving Your Past For The Future" An all day genealogical conference The Lafayette Genealogical Society and the Lafayette Family History Center are cosponsoring "Preserving Your Past For The Future" October 16, 2004 from 9:00-3:30. On site registration for the conference will begin at 8:00 AM. Located at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 116 East Bluebird Drive. Lafayette, LA. 70508 We will be having speakers from all over Louisiana teaching classes on African American Research; Using the Internet for Research; Researching In A Court House; Finding the missing link… With Land Records; Organizing Your Family History; Scanning Documents and Photos; Getting The Most Out Of Family Search.org; How Good Is Your Source; The Do's and Don'ts of Researching In a Cemetery; So, You THOUGHT You Knew How to Read a Census, just to name a few. The fee for this conference is $10.00 and covers a brown bag lunch and syllabus. Individuals who cannot attend may order a copy of the syllabus for $5.00, while supplies last. For further information about this event or a class list please call or email Cindy Hofmeister director (337) 288-7278 or hofsearch@aol.com

Hello Members: I wanted to let you know that our society was in need of an email account. This making it easier for individuals to make contact with our society. I have made an account for the society. Please add this email information to your address book. Lafayette Genealogical Societies email address is = Lafgensoc@aol.com I hope this is easy for our members to remember. Cindy Hofmeister hofsearch@aol.com

Good morning Everyone: I wanted to write and ask our members if they would be kind enough to answer some questions for me? I'm trying to design our website and need your help. I would like to include an area of the website that shows the names of our members. This area would include the surnames you are researching. as well as the locations you are searching. Please include any other information that you feel will benefit possible contacts. In addition, don't forget to provide your email so interested individuals may contact you. If you do not have an email could you please give your snail mail contact information? Note: This is just one more item being added to our website to benefit our members <G> Thanks for your help with this matter. Cindy Hofmeister hofsearch@aol.com