Antoinette, the story was beautiful and covered a lot. Maybe later you can tell us about how the FHS material is stored and how one finds what they want. Bill@Dr-Fox.Com WebSite {http://www.dr-fox.com} ----- Original Message ----- From: Antoinette Waughtel Sorensen <waughtel@oz.net> To: Dr. Bill <Bill@dr-fox.com> Cc: <NEWGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [NEWGEN] Traffic / YOU ASKED FOR IT <GRIN> : "Dr. Bill" wrote: : : > Can you tell us about your week at the FHS? : > It would be like a travelogue to many, myself included. : : Since I don't fly (won't is more like it) and if you want me on the east : coast give me 5 or 6 days notice <LOL> and AmTrack cannot take one : "exactly" where one wants to go, I have for the past 15 years relied on : Good Old Greyhound. I left Tacoma on Saturday afternoon the 16th at 5:45 : p.m with an hour layover in Portland, Oregon then off we started for Salt : Lake City. Naturally the driver's are very considerate of the "smoker's : group" and makes these short stops at various intervals for their : "necessity". Since I don't smoke I sit back and relax. It is, I am sure, : for many people a very tiring ride as I arrived in Salt Lake City at 5:25 : pm Sunday afternoon. The workers at Greyhound took pity on this "older" : woman and carried my suitcases next door to Best Western which would be my : night "home" for a week. My day "home" was on the other side of Best : Western at the famous LDS Library. : : By arriving on Sunday afternoon/evening it gives one time to relax, hang : up your clothing for the week, assort whatever paperwork you took to guide : you through the many hours of research you will be doing. For many years : I have worked mainly on my mother's side of the family, since my mother : was married four times, widowed three, but with children from three : marriages, doing her side seemed to include all my siblings. THIS time I : decided I was going to work on my father's side only. This being a : standstill, as my father died at the age of 25 when I was 19 months old, : his parents/my grandparents have been gone since I was 17 & 19, I had : really no names or much to go on. : : Anyone being at Salt Lake City to do research knows the humungous number : of books, film, fische, computer records, etc that they have there. And : they are getting more and more all the time. Many of the more family : related books have been moved over to the Joseph Smith Building. While I : have gone to Salt Lake City for 15 years I have never taken the time to go : over there and see what they have. I get so involved in the LDS Library : that half the time I don't know lunch time has been and gone. I hear "In : 15 minutes the library will be closing" and then realize it is 9:30 p.m. : AND I have been there since 7:30 a.m. : : This time I decided to view Military records for my earliest WAUGHTEL : which at that name was more WACHTEL but also was shown as WAGTAIL, : WAUGHTILE, WACHTLE and other ways to be sure, and I thought of the heavy : brogues they must have had and the understanding of what the person : hearing that name was trying to figure out just what it really might be : but then spelled it the way "he" thought it sounded. I was trying to find : if any had been given "bounty land" and/or even a pension. Did find some : records, indicating Company name and now must look for those Regiments : which were mainly Pennsylvania. : : With the census records, although I knew some were in certain census : readings, I wanted to find the actual record, print it off, and have it in : my notebook binder. This way by having each record it gave me the "road" : in which they traveled, resided, or if they indeed had stayed in one : place, and that the boundary only had changed. : : I started with the books and found who was shown in each census, then I : would get the film, find the item, name, twp., etc and then stand in line : to use their copy machines. This went on for 6 days. When I found out : that the library was open until 10 on Saturday I decided to stay until 8, : grab a bite to eat and then head around the corner to Greyhound as my bus : left for home at 10:45 p.m. I would arrive in Tacoma at 7:50 pm Sunday : evening. Utah is Mountain Time and Tacoma is Pacific Time. : : I must say that I found alot of information on my WACHTEL/WAUGHTEL line, : the LONGNECKER, VANTREESE aka VERTRIES/VERDRIES, and DRYBREAD which in the : beginning was a German name of DROCHENBRODT especially marriage records : that I can send for as I didn't have time to check if they had them OnLine : there yet. : : I was really surprised that in Jackson County, Indiana that I was able to : print off the actual copy of the marriage record. This confirmed my : suspicions that my 2nd great Aunt Jane WAUGHTEL who had married (1) Enoch : STARK in 1838 and (2) John SUMMA in 1840 and had 8 children all carrying : the SUMMA name that the two oldest were actually STARK. I found the girl : marrying as Sophia E. STARK rather than her census name of Sophia E. : SUMMA. So instead of $1, or whatever the county rate is for a marriage : record, I was able to print it off for 20 cents. I don't know if all the : counties have these OnLine yet or not, but at least Jackson County, : Indiana does. : : It is an unbelievable place to go to for research as there is so much to : search for. Sometimes you tend to get sidetracked. While I knew my 3rd : great grandfather Frederick WAUGHTEL had been in Washington County, : Indiana from 1820 through 1836 (after that I can find hide nor hair of : him) I decided to check some books in that section. Well, also some of my : mother's SINEX & WALKER ancestry was there and I came across the obituary : of my 3rd great grandfather and Lo and Behold his middle name was Sanders : and not Samuel as we had thought for years and years. This was very : logical as his mother's brother Prettyman BURTON had a son John Sanders : BURTON. See, what I mean, I was not going to work on my mother's side of : the family but was it Serendipity or what that drew me to that Obit book : in Washington County, Indiana. Although I must still search for poor old : Frederick at least I now know William S Walker's true middle name - the : one that the S has stood for so many years. : : Well, Dr Bill, I can go on and on, but I think I got off track on a : "travelogue". Sorry about that. It is a beautiful city, the capital : building is within walking distance, the two downtown malls less that two : blocks away, the Salt Palace, the Temple and its grounds across the street : from the Library, all make for a lovely stroll outside. And not to be : forgotten the Delta (can't think of the full name) but where the Utah JAZZ : play their basketball games. : : And the Best Western has a "genealogy rate" but one must mention that fact : <grin>. And with coffee in the room I finished off the pot and was on my : way for the day <grin> and had breakfast/lunch/dinner at 10 p.m. daily. : Too bad I can't get away with cooking one meal a day at home <LOL> : Antoinette : waughtel@oz.net