The State Library will open on Jan. 2, 2002 at its new location: Point Plaza East, Building One, 6880 Capitol Boulevard South, Tumwater, Washington. ALERT !!! The budget cuts proposed by Gov. Locke on Dec. 18 would close the State Library. This of course has to run its course in the legislature. Be prepared to write your legislatures when they convene in mid January 2002. Gov. Locke's Press Release is at: http://access.wa.gov/news/article.asp?name=n0112089.htm Roger cc: PSRoots; WSGS Board <<<<<<<<<< Genealogist Work Backwards! <<<<<<<<<<

CONTINUED . . . . . A few days later, still unwell, she returned to Pearl Harbor. Conscious that she was a Navy officer, she saluted, said, "Do you mind if I sit down?" then promptly fainted. She woke up later in officers sick bay, a nurse in need of nursing. Then it was back to work. With all the men around, Phyl says she did a lot of cooking. "The food was plentiful, there was no gasoline for driving around, there was no liquor. It was one healthy place!" Before long she was ordered to Annapolis. Phyl loved it. She was still going with her ensign, but he was all over the Pacific. "I saw what Navy families and kids went through," she muses. "I didn't want to be a Navy wife." It was a decision she has never regretted. In fact, she reports of the 29 nurses in her unit, only a third ever married. Her next assignments were Gulf Port, Mississippi and then Panama. She had enjoyed her military career, but knew she had used up her share of "good duty" stations. She asked herself, "Do I want to keep taking orders from the Navy?" She resigned, but remained in Panama as a civilian nurse at a 1,000-bed hospital run by the Army. After three years there she began thinking of places she would like to go. Washington, D.C. appealed to her. She went to work for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) research hespital where she worked for three years in the heart surgery postoperative unit. "In those days, children came in a week ahead of their surgery and the nurses took care of them, dressed them and came to love them," Phyl explains. "But there were so many children that didn't make it through the surgery. It just got too hard for me to take." Phyl decided to try psychiatric nursing. The FDA wanted her to lecture about medications, so she came home in 1960 to attend the University of Washington and, in 1963, a bachelor's degree in communication to add to her credentials, she returned to NIH as a psych nurse. Wanting to be near her aging mother, Phyl returned from the other Washington in 1966. Because she did not want to lose retirement credits with civil service nursing, she went to work at American Lake Veterans Hospital near Tacoma for the next 11 year. The day she turned 60, Phyl served notice that she was retiring. her sprit, of adventure still juch alive, Phyl got in her car and went visiting. She spent two months and traveled 10,000 miles, seeing friends from Washington to Delaware to Florida. Upon her return she got a call from a friend who asked her to housesit for a month. Thus was born a "new career." For the next decade as word spread, Phyl house-sat for wkks to a month or os in homes ranging from modest to palatial from Vancouver, Canada to Southern California. "I had the time, I could read a map, I had a car, so why not?" she reasons. "I had a charming time, met lots of favorite pets, saw old friends. I still hear from some of them." Between housesitting jobs, Phyl traveled overseas with Elderhostel. Twice she ventured to Australia - "the land down under." She went to New Zealand and drank in its spectacular contrasts of fjords and beaches, glaciers and volcanoes, snsowcapped mountains and subtropical bush, clear streams and geysers. She took three trips to the British Isles and another two just to London, thoroughly enjoying places she had read about since early childhood. Eventually, Phjyl narrowed her housesitting to the P{uget Sound area. Wanting to always have a home base, Phyl maintained an apartment in North Everett from 1978 until last year when her sister, Barbara Friend, talked her into moving to Marysville. Phyl's brother-in-law has declared Wednesdays "Phyl Day" and takes her grocery shopping, to get her hair done, to the bank, etc. She also enjoys getting together with her brother, John Newell Dana of Snohomish. Phyl gave up driving three years ago after backing her car into a wall. "I decided someone else could have been there and it scared me," she says. "It's one thing to bang up youself, but you could also bang up someone else. So, I did the responsible thing and stopped driving." Crumbling vertebrae have forced Phyl into leading a more quiet life these days, but it is still very much a life. "It's a beautiful day, the flag is flying and I'll makt it," she says. "It will be slow, but I'll make it. The very fact that I can live alone is a privilege." Phyl is grateful her 84-yhear-old eyes still permit her to read. "I used to spend days at a time at Everett Library," she says, and now I get 12 books a month from the Sno-Isle Bookmobile." She gives them a list and says not once have they failed to bring her the books she requested, whether mystery, history, biography or poetry. Surrounded by books, artwork by friends and former patients and a collection of tiny ceramic animals from all over the world, she can't spend too much time reading because she believes in preserving the nearly lost art of letter writing. No quick e-mail for Phyl. She keeps up a consistent network of friends all over the country. "Navy people retire all over the place," she explains. There are 12 nurses left from Phyl's unit at Pearl Harbor. "All are active women doing exciting things," she says. "At reunions and when we correspond we talk about families, not Pearl Harbor." Phyl has no children, but that does not mean she has no family. She is quite close with her sister and often gets together with nieces and nephews and their families. "We're always having parties," she says. "I have a good life with lots of friends. Life is different, but it's not dull!" And, it is still truly meaningful. END OF THIS EXCELLENT ARTICLE that should be an Inspiration to all who read it. That's why I bothered to pass it on to ALL OF YOU. * * * 30 * * * Today I rec'd a Christmas Card from a former student that I had when I was teaching high school. His son is now 16 and he has just celebrated his Silver Anniversary of marriage. He was in my electronics class in high school. He bacame a broadcaster on more than one well known FM Stations in Puget Sound, and he continues to be gainfully employed, and it active in civic affairs in his community. It is great to hear from him and his Family each year after all these years! He comes to visit me when he is in the area. * * * 30 * * * Carroll in Snohomish, who wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with Good Health; and to those who do not celebrate in this way, I wish you The Very Best among your Beliefs as you Wish Them.

Ref. The Third Age - News and Information for Contemporary Seniors Vol. 29, No. 4; pp 6 & 7 Senior Spotlight Column by Teri Baker Name of Article: Nursing career was life of service and travel. Phyllis Dana knew when she graduated from Lake Stevens High School in 1935 that she wanted to do something worthwhile with her life, something that would support her financially and still satisfy her soul. "I didn't want marriage and I didn't want to teach school," says the Marysville woman, known as "Phyl" to a legion of friends. "I had learned to type in high school, but I was no stenographer. That didn't leave many choices for a girl at that time, so I decided to become a nurse." To enter the nursing program at Everett General Hospital, Phyl took Latin and chemistry classes at Everett High. A practical person eager to learn all lshe could, she was undaunted by the rigorous courses at nursing school, but says ofr hospital duty, "students work like dogs!" Upon graduation in 1939, Phyl did as the nursing faculty suggested and joined the Red Cross Nursing Program. "We were told we would be called upon in the event of a national disaster, " Phyl recalls. "I thought, floods, earthquakes - of course I would want to help. So I signed on the dotted line, then went out and got a job. Phyl was working in a tuberculosis sanitarium in North Seattle when a friend told her nurses where so need in Hawaii that the government would pay their fare. the opportunity to practice her profession and to travel again appealed to Phyl, who had not forgotten living as a child in Belgian Congo where her parents were Mathodist-Episcopal missionaries. Born in Chicago on Easter Sunday, 1917, Phyl was only four when she went to Africa. When her father contracted a severe case of malaria five years later, the family came to New York. When someone brought real estate brochurds showing a place with green trees and blue water, her father said, "That's for me!" and as soon as he got out of the hospital, the Dana family move to Lake Stevens. The grown up Phyl loved the Northwest, but Hawaii beckoned. "They gave me $85 to travel on the Lurline, a luxury liner,"she says. "We were in steerage, but how many people did I know that could say they had traveled by ocean liner!" It was December, 1940 and Phyl stepped off the ship onto an island perfumed by a myriad brilliant blossoms. "I lived and worked in Honolulu and enjoyed everything and everybody," she says with a laugh. "It was a wonderful. There was big old dumb me and there were men everywhere." Then one day a stack of papers arrived for her. The top one said, "You will report Aproil 15, 1941 to Pearl Harbor." Perplexed, she asked the Navy ensign she was dating what he thought it was about. He replied, "Looks like orders to me." Orders? Phyl looked more closely at the papers. Because she was a member of the Red Cross Nursing Service, she discovered she was now in the Navy! She went to Pearl, crying all the way, and was immediately put to work in the base hospital. By June she was wearing a uniform with an ensign's insignia. Rate and rank meant a lot, she says, because now she could live in officers quarters instead of the nurses dormitory. Her hours were long, but the Navy treated Ensign Dana well. She and Nellie, her roommate, were getting ready to to on a picnic with a couple of fellows one day when Phyl saw airplanes "coming in kin of low." Nellie told her to ignore them and get dressed. There would be no picnic. It was December 7, 1941. "When the Japanese bombed the Arizona, it released fuel oil into the channel," Phyl says. "That's why we had eight wards of burn victims." There was no time to be afraid because the nurses worked eight hours on and four hours off for more than a month. It wass Three days before P{hyl even got a chance to shower. "Later, when we finally had time to think," she says, "we were positive we would be taken prisoner. We lived with that fear until March or April. "When someone would complain about the food, we would just say, 'It beats fish heads and rice' and there would be no more complaints." Phyl returned briefly to the states in a convoy of ships evacuating military personnel and their families. "There were 150 men, women and children, all sick, with only four Navy nurses to take care of them," she says. "We had no escort so we had to travel at 40 knots and zigzag every seven and a half minutes. It took us five miserable days to get to San Francisco." She was exhuasted and desperately wanted to see her mother in Lake Stevens, but every form of transport was booked. "it took three days to get a ticket," she remembers. "It gave me a chance to unwind so that by the time I got to Mom's house, I was a human, not a robot." TO BE CONTINUED . . . . . . . . .

I frequent the Ohio Historical Society and am available to look up Ohio death certificates from 1908-1944. Anyone interested, please email me at [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

Yes, Friend Darilee, and Others - They Want to be Found - it happens so often that it becomes an Interesting Phenomena about Genealogy. So many have experienced it. At first it used to mystify me that these "coincidences" happened, but in time I came to realize that it was happening so often that I began to accept and enjoy it. In school, I knew an Allene or Alene Schellenberger - a pretty gal - I wonder if she is still living - I will make some Inquiries among my many friends and see what I can find. That name caught my eye immediately as I read your intersting account. You msg came to me just as I had been doing some looking with the computer. I purchased a mag. Family Tree Special Issue Yearbook 2002 & on p 8 of it saw an ad for Palatines to America out of Ohio. Using the Website given for it. I was able to find my Michael/Michel Palatine (Germany/Bavaria) data listed among the Palatines to America Immigrant Ancestor Data. Now, I have quite a bit of Info on this Line (of my Great Grandmother Anna Michael/Michel m. my Jason S. Clark) but when I read this data, it contained Info I did NOT have nor any of my Cousins who are somewhat experts on this Michael Line, of 1739 arrival in Amer. The Immigrant name instead of being Paulus, or Paul Michael/Michel was Johann Paul Michael/Michel; arrival date same; Port of Entry the same, but we have never known the Place of Origin of the ship Samuel. This data gave the Place as Lachen-Speyerdorf, Bavaria. Also, the christening date for Paulus was Jan 23, 1701 in Lachen-Speyerdorf - a place I want to find on my maps, if possible. This is the First Time I have been able to see any Place name from which this Michael/Michel came from in what we now call Germany, but Bavaria back then. And here I was tromping around in that area not knowing "they were trying to Find Me !!!" LOL!!! Well, my Dear Great Grandmother is buried down at Kent, WA (White River Valley WA Territory in her Time) and she must be Smiling that I have found data relating to her Fam. Origin in the Old Country, which I am sure that she couldn't have known. So, the Schellenbergers and the Michels/Michaels are being Found through Luck, Coincidence, or Vibes, but whatever it is it is the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread !!! I have an article which I am tempted to write, so I just may submit it before long -it is one which I think most People Oriented People will appreciate. I just need to do it - it has been in the back of my mind for some time, I expect I should break the Procrastination hurdle and do it pdq ! As Krist Kringle used to say, "Have a Happy One, and a Merry One !" HO-HO-HO !! To ALL who Read this : Carroll in Snohomish * * * 30 * * * ----- Original Message ----- From: "bookstorelady" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 1:58 PM Subject: they want to be found > Hey CC This one is for you!!!! > > Sharon is here visiting and she is researching Schellenberger families and was tellin' me about her search for Shellenberger's in Germany. > > She wrote to the Burgermeister of the town of Bockingen near the Black Forest... > and asked him about the Schellenbergers who once lived the area. He passed her letter onto the town's archivist/historian. Imagine the historian with Sharon's letter in hand when a young German youth, Micheal Schellenberger, 16, walks into the archives wanting to research 'HIS' Schellenbergers who had emigrated to America... > > Of course, they are related!!!! Micheal, has met Sharon now in America and Sharon's daughter and husband have made several trips to Germany... > > Darilee and Sharon who is researching Schellenbergers and Davison of Snohomish County > > >

Hey CC This one is for you!!!! Sharon is here visiting and she is researching Schellenberger families and was tellin' me about her search for Shellenberger's in Germany. She wrote to the Burgermeister of the town of Bockingen near the Black Forest... and asked him about the Schellenbergers who once lived the area. He passed her letter onto the town's archivist/historian. Imagine the historian with Sharon's letter in hand when a young German youth, Micheal Schellenberger, 16, walks into the archives wanting to research 'HIS' Schellenbergers who had emigrated to America... Of course, they are related!!!! Micheal, has met Sharon now in America and Sharon's daughter and husband have made several trips to Germany... Darilee and Sharon who is researching Schellenbergers and Davison of Snohomish County

You might try Cyndi's List for Family Line Research at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~watpcgs/famline.htm for assistance.

I've just placed two more yearbooks online... Marysville High School 1910 http://www.3rdstbooks.com/ybookonline.html and Sedro-Woolley High School 1935.... http://www.rootsweb.com/~waskagit/ That's a total of 21 yearbooks online... The index will be updated by tomorrow... Happy Holidays everyone Darilee

Were they residing in Tacoma ... or perhaps somewhere else in Pierce County ... when they married? City directories may not include the other villages or more rural areas. On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:03:01 -0800 "Ron Bestrom" <[email protected]> writes: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > > I'm new ...I need is a look up.....Is > > there SKS available to do a look up on a grandparents marriage? > > > > They are: Marvon Robert Shay & Genevieve (Burns) married on 8-July > 1911 at > > Tacoma, WA. If we could get a copy of this application & or the > certificate > > it may lead us farther back to our gr. greatparents. > > > > I checked for "Shay" and "Burns" in the 1908, 1911, 12, 15 Polk > Directories, > but did not find them listed. Were they just in Tacoma for > marriage, did > they live there for awhile, You might want to put out more info on > them that > you know. > >

----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> > I'm new ...I need is a look up.....Is > there SKS available to do a look up on a grandparents marriage? > > They are: Marvon Robert Shay & Genevieve (Burns) married on 8-July 1911 at > Tacoma, WA. If we could get a copy of this application & or the certificate > it may lead us farther back to our gr. greatparents. > I checked for "Shay" and "Burns" in the 1908, 1911, 12, 15 Polk Directories, but did not find them listed. Were they just in Tacoma for marriage, did they live there for awhile, You might want to put out more info on them that you know.

I own the "Marriage Records of King County, Washington 1853 to 1884" published by the Seattle Genealogical Society in 1963. I just tried to look up a new name and realized that there are no surnames in the index which start with I-J-K - it goes straight from H to L. Could someone please check their copy and see if these were just unpopular surnames or if I'm missing a page of the index? Diane Hettrick [email protected]

Hi, My name is Dianne, and I am trying to tie up some loose ends on my family genealogy. Those of us who have been working on it have hit a brick wall with this family. We think that our GGGUncles grandaughter Anne/Amy LORYEA, married Moses OPPENHEIMER. We lost track of her and her brothers, after their parents were divorced and the children moved from Oregon to California to live with their father. According to what we have been able to put together, Anne moved to WA after she married. We are hoping that if we find her on the 1900 census, it will give us enough information to see if this is our Anne/Amy or not. So, if any of you would be willing to look up the following family on the 1900 WA Census, I would really appreciate it. OPPENHEIMER, Moses 35 Anne 32 I do not know if there are any children. Thank you, Dianne Oregon (for now)

This is just a late Friday night reminder to TMG users in the Puget Sound area. Please join the Seattle TMG Users Group at their monthly meeting tomorrow, Saturday, Dec. 8, at the Broadview Library, 130th & Greenwood Ave. N., from 2:00-4:30 p.m. The first half hour will be open for Q&A about basic features of TMG. Discussion of the main topic begins at 2:30 p.m. This month the main topic will focus on using TMG tools to prepare for the release of the 1930 census in April 2002. All are welcome! **Please remember to park on the side streets (if driving), as the Library reserves its parking lot for library patrons.**

SGS Computer IG abt "Your Genes and Genealogy" on 12/8/2001 The December 8, 2001 meeting of the Seattle Genealogical Society Computer Interest Group features Anna H. Chavelle, M.D., speaking on the "Impact of the Human Genome Project on Genealogy." She has extensive professional experience in microbiology and her presentation promises to be extremely interesting and informative. Dr. Chavelle will open with a history of genetics, the discovery of DNA, the Human Genome Project, and mitochondrial DNA. She will explain gene testing and therapy, before moving on to the genealogical applications of mitochondrial genetic testing (identifying your maternal ancestry) and Y chromosome genetic testing (verifying your paternal heritage). Finally she will discuss some ethical considerations of this technology. Quoting from Byran Sykes fascinating book: "The Seven Daughters of Eve", W. W. Norton & Co., 2001, p. 288, "Until I started this work I always thought of my ancestors, if I thought of them at all, as some sort of vague and amorphous collection of dead people with no solid connection to me or the modern world, and certainly no real relevance to either. It was interesting enough to read about what ‘the Cro-Magnons' got up to all those years ago - but nothing much to do with me. But once I had realized, through the genetics, that one of my ancestors was actually there, taking part, it was no longer merely interesting - it was overwhelming." Please join us. MEETING LOCATION at SGS NEW OFFICE and LIBRARY We will meet Saturday, December 8th, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the new office and library of the Seattle Genealogical Society. They are located at 6200 Sand Point Way NE, #101, in Seattle, WA, across the street from the National Archives Pacific Branch. Parking is available on the nearby streets. On the Metro Transit #74 & #75 bus lines. Accessible to the Handicapped. The SGS Computer Interest Group is the first established computer genealogy group in the US (January 1981) and second in the world (one in Sweden was first). David Ault, Chair, Seattle Genealogical Society Computer Interest Group Computer Interest Group E-mail: mailto:[email protected] SGS Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~waseags/ SGS Phone: 206-522-8658 SGS Office & Library: 6200 Sand Point Way NE, #101, Seattle, WA 98115 ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

I wish to thank all the kind persons who answered my query re Don Meyers at Concrete. Arnold Stewart was able to find two possibilities in his Skagit Phone Book. He said he would be able to call them directly on the phone from his location so I hope that that pans out OK and I can make contact with Don or find out about him. John Sloniker came up with the same addr as Arnold's. So many great people on here offer their help in making such connections. Thanks again to ALL of you who have offered your help and suggestions. I greatly appreciate the effort. Hopefully I will find out about my chum Don Meyers in the near future. Carroll in Snohomish &

Carroll, The Skagit Co Phone book lists a Don & Kay Meyer, 61551 Cascade River Rd., Mrblmt. and D. R. Meyer 8259 Ceder Grove Av. Concrete. If you want me to sort them out, I can call them free on the phone. Arnold At 05:43 PM 11/30/01 -0800, you wrote: >On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Carroll Clark wrote: > > > I wrote a letter to a school cum (Apr 3, 2001) whose last known > > address in 1993 was: > > Don Meyers > > 811 Cedar Grove Ave. > > Concrete, WA 98237 > > but it was returned to sender (me) stamped Rural address has been > > changed by local authority one year time limit expired. > > > > Would anyone on this bulletin have access to Concrete, WA 98237 > > information to see if I can locate my friend? > > I'm interested to know his address and telephone number, if > possible, > > or anyone who might know of him. > > Thank you for any help that you may offer on this query. > > > >That postmark just means that they won't bother a new sub with an >old addr. > >I'll check with my bro, but till then this is all I have. -- John > >MEYERS, RUTH & STUART 1249 GWEN DR BURLINGTON, WA 98233 360-757-0661 >MEYERS, DOROTHY 706 GOULD COUPEVILLE, WA 98239 360-678-4949 >MEYERS, NORMAN 8190 KICKERVILLE RD BLAINE, WA 98230 360-332-8656

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Carroll Clark wrote: > I wrote a letter to a school cum (Apr 3, 2001) whose last known > address in 1993 was: > Don Meyers > 811 Cedar Grove Ave. > Concrete, WA 98237 > but it was returned to sender (me) stamped Rural address has been > changed by local authority one year time limit expired. > > Would anyone on this bulletin have access to Concrete, WA 98237 > information to see if I can locate my friend? > I'm interested to know his address and telephone number, if possible, > or anyone who might know of him. > Thank you for any help that you may offer on this query. > That postmark just means that they won't bother a new sub with an old addr. I'll check with my bro, but till then this is all I have. -- John MEYERS, RUTH & STUART 1249 GWEN DR BURLINGTON, WA 98233 360-757-0661 MEYERS, DOROTHY 706 GOULD COUPEVILLE, WA 98239 360-678-4949 MEYERS, NORMAN 8190 KICKERVILLE RD BLAINE, WA 98230 360-332-8656

I wrote a letter to a school cum (Apr 3, 2001) whose last known address in 1993 was: Don Meyers 811 Cedar Grove Ave. Concrete, WA 98237 but it was returned to sender (me) stamped Rural address has been changed by local authority one year time limit expired. Would anyone on this bulletin have access to Concrete, WA 98237 information to see if I can locate my friend? I'm interested to know his address and telephone number, if possible, or anyone who might know of him. Thank you for any help that you may offer on this query. This year Don would be age 76, or 77 and he grad with the Class of '43, Snohomish High School. As a musician he played drums professionally. Carroll Clark in Snohomish [email protected] &

The Seattle TMG Users Group will meet Saturday, Dec. 8, 2:00-4:30 p.m. (see Note below), at Broadview Library, 130th & Greenwood Ave. N. If driving, please park on the surrounding streets, as Seattle Public Library neighborhood branches reserve their parking lots for Library patrons. Metro Route #5 travels north and south along Greenwood Ave. From Northgate Transit Center, Route #302 travels west along 130th, then north on Greenwood. From Aurora Village Transit Center, Route #302 travels south on Greenwood, then east on 130th. All bus stops at that intersection are less than a block from the Library entrance. The main topic this month will be using various TMG tools to help us prepare for the release of the 1930 Census in April 2002. We'll first design a report (using the CRW) to help identify people already in a dataset who would likely be enumerated in the 1930 census. For people newly added to a dataset, TMG tools for designating those likely to appear in the 1930 Census will be demonstrated. A major finding aid for people enumerated in the 1930 Census will be city and county directories, since Soundex microfilm will not be available for a majority of states. During the last hour, we'll discuss setting up city and county directories as sources, then demonstrate various ways of entering directory information into TMG. And lastly, we'll discuss the design of reports (again using the CRW) you might want to run before you head to the Archives. Note: The first 30 minutes [2:00-2:30] will be spent (briefly) setting up the meeting room (chairs and tables). It will also be a time for those relatively new to TMG to ask questions and get answers on TMG basics. At 2:30, when everyone has arrived, we'll go around the room for introductions and another TMG Q&A opportunity, before launching into the main topic. To help us prepare enough handouts, please RSVP to [email protected] if you plan on joining us Dec. 8. Thanks!

My wife and I will be in Marysville Saturday December 1 . We wonder if you will be open and what is the address and phone # of your store. We have a couple of annuals from Rochester High School for 1922 and 1923 that were in her mother's effects and are wondering if they would be of any intertest to you. Also we would like to see your establishment. We saw a little bit of it on TV a while back. Robert & Magie Bunge.