Does anyone kmow if there is a work of genealogy on the decendents of Faye Fuller, the first woman to climb Mt Rainier? Thank you. Roberta Longmire, Yelm

I got this from a few of my lists. Normally I would not pass this on to my lists, but these are different times. I think this is a fabulous idea -------- And it certainly does make sense to me. A movement has been started like that from Desert Storm. During Desert Storm we tied yellow ribbons anywhere we could. Well, now the movement is to tie purple ribbons the same way. This is for two reasons. 1. In remembrance of not only the firefighters, police officers, paramedics who have died, but also for all who have died in this terrible tragedy. 2. Just as in the military, when a serviceman get injured, he is given the Purple Heart. Well, our country has been injured to its core. Please pass this on to everyone you know, and let's see purple ribbons everywhere. Along with the flag of the United States of America.

Ref The HERALD, Everett WA Date: Tue Sept 4 2001 Local section Page(s) pp.B1,B2 http://heraldnet.com/search/ Article:by Jim Haley, Herald Writer Auditoris office in your living room Thanks to the Web, the county (Snohomish Co.) brings voting information and documents, such as deeds and marriage licenses, to your computer. COMMENT: This article gives specific directions of how to access & use the Site which includes election info+issues, candidates, etc.; Documents section includes various kinds of documents - marriage license applications, plat registrations, surveys &/or maps, etc. Should be a valuable tool access for the genealogists among us. I used to work in the auditor's and the clerk's offices before microfische which were interesting places to have experienced back in the '50s, when we were young and wrestled with the big books full of handwritten entries. * * * 30 * * * If any of you happen to know the best way to Access the Sons of Norway Archives for Everett, WA, I'd appreciate your Input. I went there last eve. but need to do more pursuit for the real skinny on that. A lady is trying to get info on a Peter Christian Olsen, and his brother Peter Olsen said to have come from Norway to New York circa 1870's. Peter d. 1928 Everett, buried at Evergreen Cem., Everett WA - I will go out to Evergreen asap and see what I can find there. Peter is said to have homsteaded in Machias - I would guess that to be Machias, WA. May have to hit the Courthouse records, also. I'd like to try to help this lady as I believe I might. Carroll in Snohomish [email protected] &

Hello! The South King County Genealogical Society is proud to have Betty Cooper speak on The Lighter Side of Genealogy at our next general meeting. It's time to take a break from your exhausting research! The Lighter Side of Genealogy will feature humorous anecdotes, cartoons, epitaphs and tidbits. Rejuvenate those tired brain cells by attending this program presented by Betty Cooper. Date: Saturday, September 15th Time: 9:30 - 10:15 a.m. - Social Hour (come browse our Sales Table, checkout our other tables) 10:15 - Noon - Meeting & Program Place: First Baptist Church of Kent 11430 SE 248th Street Kent, Washington Topic: The Lighter Side of Genealogy Information: Visit us on the web at http://www.rootsweb.com/~waskcgs If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me. Tracy Arnold South King County Genealogical Society Publicity Chairperson [email protected]

SGS hosts "Mercer Girls" talk, 1-3 p.m., 8 Sept. 2001 You are invited to the Seattle Genealogical Society's Quarterly Meeting to hear Peri Muhich talk about Seattle's Mercer Girls. The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. on Saturday, 8 September 2001. Her talk will be preceded by a brief SGS business meeting. Quoting from the SGS newsletter: "Those daring women who took up Asa Mercer's challenge and landed on Seattle's frontier shores, the Mercer Girls, will be Peri Muhich's topic at the SGS quarterly meeting. Peri wrote her University of Washington Genealogy Certificate paper on that intrepid band." "The women left their East Coast homes in the 1860's for tiny Seattle. Most of them married Seattle bachelors, who as a group had put up the funds to send Mercer east to recruit potential brides. The girls were welcomed by men resembling ‘grizzlies in store clothes [with] their hair slicked down like sea otters,' it was written. It's a wonder the women stayed, so come hear of this interesting and unique part of the history of Seattle, now in its 150th year." MEETING LOCATION at SGS NEW OFFICE and LIBRARY!!! The meeting is Saturday, September 8th, from 1:00 to 3:00 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. David Ault, Ph. D., SGS Education Committee member 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/tagj.

SGS Computer IG abt "Databases Available at Libraries" on 9/8/2001 Kathy Turner, genealogy specialist at the Sno-Isle Regional Library, will demonstrate several online databases that Sno-Isle has to offer, including Ancestry.com, magazine and newspaper databases, telephone directories, and a biographical database. She will also share the best web sites gathered by Sno-Isle librarians. Myfamily.com, a part of Ancestry.com, will also be featured. Learn what you can share with your friends and relatives - from privately- created databases to family photographs. So you don't have a Sno-Isle library card? You can receive one free if you are a Washington State citizen living in a district or city that supports library services with taxes. Both Seattle and King County as well as Snohomish County, residents are welcome to apply. Kathy will bring Sno-Isle library card applications to the meeting. Free access to Ancestry.com is also available though the Seattle and King County Library Systems, so anyone in the area can benefit from Kathy's presentation. NOTE: MEETING LOCATION at SGS OFFICE and LIBRARY!!! We will meet Saturday, September 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/tagj.

Hello, Since this was posted we've found there is help for Kristen. In fact, someone I know of in the Eugene-Springfield area wants to get a group together to go fix up the cemetery. Since there are several on this list that live in Oregon, if you can get to Springfield to help please contact me or: Pam <[email protected]> Here is the original and my first response below. -- John in Seattle ---------- Original message ---------- Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 19:58:27 -0700 (PDT) From: John Wm Sloniker <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WA-CEMETERIES] Fwd: Broken gravestones On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Maggie Rail wrote: > Can anyone help her with advise about what she should do? > If you can it would be appreciated. > Kristen J Ingram <[email protected]> > > Maggie <[email protected]> > > >Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 17:17:30 -0700 > >To: [email protected] > >From: Kristen J Ingram <[email protected]> > > > >I just hiked up to a tiny cemetery in the wooded hills above my > >house in east Springfield. The markers are broken; one has a long > >inscription I couldn't read--I took a picture with a point-and-shoot, > >and plan to go up with a better camera (on cooler, damper day). I > >found parts of markers for four graves, but I think there may be a > >couple more. The little white picket fence that was there a few > >years ago is gone, and a wire fence remains. > > > >I want someone to know about this because (a) homeless people camp > >in these woods---a tent was erected right near the fence--who may or > >may not respect the area; and (b) more importantly, developers are > >starting to build in these hills, and a bulldozer might not see the > >little graveyard in time. Once there was a homestead somewhere up > >there; I don't know the family name, but someone does! > > > >I live on South 59th Street and would be happy to direct someone to > >the little graveyard (on a cooler, damper day). > > > >Sincerely, Kristen Ingram > >955 South 59th Street > >Springfield OR 97478 > >541.726.8320 > Chances are it's not the homeless people that are the problem. More likely it's someone else that lives in the Springfield, OR, area. I would ask neighbors about who owns the cemetery so you can let them know about the problem. If the neighbors don't know then check with local funeral homes. The large ones should know. Otherwise, check with the county land office to see who is on the tax rolls. Or, there are the local Historical Societies and the Genealogical Society that probably know. They might also want to fix things. Good luck, John You wanna discuss it? Try: INDIAN-HERITAGE discussion List *===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===* # John Wm Sloniker <[email protected]> Seattle, WA # # (206) 789-6663 7323 - 19th Ave NW 98117-5612 # *===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*

The Seattle TMG Users Group will meet this coming Saturday, Sept. 8, 2:30-4:30 p.m., at Broadview Library, 130th & Greenwood Ave. N. Please park on the side streets around the Library, as the Library's parking lot is reserved for library patrons. The neighborhood is served by Metro Route #5 (southbound from Shoreline, northbound from downtown Seattle). The general topic this month will be exhibits (again): text files, images, audio clips, and OLEs. Like similar features of TMG, the use of exhibits is optional. Adding exhibits, however, often adds interest and can enhance many of the otherwise bare facts we enter in our datasets. Exhibits may be linked (internally or externally) to people (Person View), events (Tag Entry Screen), sources (Source Definition Screen), and repositories (Repository Entry Screen). Following a short review and demonstration of TMG's exhibit-related features (Exhibit Log, creating new exhibits, importing files, linking to external files), the presenter will then cease speaking and invite those interested to share their own experiences with exhibits. Hope everyone's having a great Labor Day weekend. See y'all on Saturday. -Ed

Ken, If Rainier ever 'blew' which towns in the area would be directly impacted? Regards, Steve.

Rainier stands 14,411 feet. Like St. Helens, a volcanic eruption is not only unpredictable but also how, and where. The Calera in Yellowstone Park blew the entire top of the mountain. St. Helens was somewhat north and east. Rainer could just top-off sending mud flows in all directions. It could cause Lahar's in any direction. It could cause havoc in any direction. A major mudflow north could wipe out Orting, Puyallup. South, to Olympia. There are numerous rivers originating from Rainier. It's like an earthquake, which fault, how deep, the protective sediment, the rock layers above, etc. Back to genealogy...its like what genes you have from which ancestor that determines just how bad you're going to be...through no 'fault' of your own. Ron Bestrom ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 7:57 PM Subject: Re: Orting, Washington > Ken, > > If Rainier ever 'blew' which towns in the area would be directly impacted? > > Regards, > > Steve. >

Thanks to everyone for their helpful replies and for letting me know I am on the right list. I have a rather unusual case. My husband's grandmother (in Vancouver,B.C. - Edith Windsor) had very good and kind relations in Orting, Washington in the early 1900's. Edith had difficulties in her life and these relations helped her out. Edith's daughter still talks about them, but unfortunately only knows them as Auntie Polly and Uncle Will. I don't know what their last name is, so I don't know exactly how to place them on the tree. I have a photo of their house in about 1920 and a photo of them. What I am wondering is if I could scan these pictures and send them to the list. Then if anyone recognized the house (if it still stands), maybe they could find out who lived there about 1920. Better still, maybe someone would recognize Auntie Polly (and her wonderful hat) and Uncle Will. Many thanks. Gillian Rodie, N.S. Canada

No activity now. Mount Rainier has about a three-hundred year span between volcanic eruptions. Last one was about - - - 300 years ago. The foundation excavation building frenzy in Orting uncovered a forest engulfed in a mud flow, a couple of years ago. I believe that mudflow (lahar) was named the Electron Mudflow. Pierce County has been erecting "Volcano Escape Route" signs in the Puyallup and Carbon River valleys as part of their emergency management effort. The recent glacial outburst on the Nisqually Glacier triggered their sensors on the mountain, which caused them some excitement. The small town environment of Orting still exists, but they now have a full-blown Safeway and Micky D's. Ken Forbes The South Hill of Puyallup, WA ----- Original Message ----- From: "N Outwest" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 5:02 PM Subject: Re: Orting, Washington > Is it still flowing the mud and water. > I wonder if there is something going on down below the surface where it > is melting Hope it doesnt go off will keep our prayers that it will > not. > we got the ash from Mt St. Helens when it blew >

Is it still flowing the mud and water. I wonder if there is something going on down below the surface where it is melting Hope it doesnt go off will keep our prayers that it will not. we got the ash from Mt St. Helens when it blew

I don't like to look at it that way, or even think it will happen in my day and age, but I will say that from the beginning of my memory "back when I lived there" they have been saying the same thing. And that has been nearly 60 years already. Antoinette (Tacoma, Washington) [email protected] Ken Forbes wrote: > I live on the hill overlooking Orting. Someday it will be at the same level > as I live, that is if Mt. Rainier fills the valley with a mudflow. > > Ken Forbes > South Hill, WA > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John and Gillian Rodie" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 10:21 AM > Subject: Orting, Washington > > > I am interested in locating an ancestor in Orting and I am wondering if > > this is the best Washington list for me to be on or is there another > > list that is more specific to that area. Looking forward to hearing > > from someone. Gillian Rodie, Nova Scotia, Canada > >

I am interested in locating an ancestor in Orting and I am wondering if this is the best Washington list for me to be on or is there another list that is more specific to that area. Looking forward to hearing from someone. Gillian Rodie, Nova Scotia, Canada

I live on the hill overlooking Orting. Someday it will be at the same level as I live, that is if Mt. Rainier fills the valley with a mudflow. Ken Forbes South Hill, WA ----- Original Message ----- From: "John and Gillian Rodie" <[email protected]> To: <P[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 10:21 AM Subject: Orting, Washington > I am interested in locating an ancestor in Orting and I am wondering if > this is the best Washington list for me to be on or is there another > list that is more specific to that area. Looking forward to hearing > from someone. Gillian Rodie, Nova Scotia, Canada >

Gillian, I would be happy to help you if I can ~ I lived in Orting during the late 40s/early 50s ~ of course, that seems eons ago <grin> Antoinette (Tacoma, Washington) [email protected] John and Gillian Rodie wrote: > I am interested in locating an ancestor in Orting and I am wondering if > this is the best Washington list for me to be on or is there another > list that is more specific to that area. Looking forward to hearing > from someone. Gillian Rodie, Nova Scotia, Canada

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I've had your email address. I need to send hardcopies, send your postal, snailmail address...privately. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cardinal, Pat" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:38 AM Subject: RE: Hi Everyone > Hi Ron > > Thanks for the information. I do not have the picture you are talking > about. I would appreciate it very much if you could send it to me. My > email address is [email protected] Thankyou again. > > Pat > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Bestrom [SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 8:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Hi Everyone > > A book, Pierce County (History of) by W.P. Bonney, Volume I. Mentioned him > several times. He was in the militia. He donated some land to the area. > The Old Rigney farm was within the present boundary lines of Tacoma. It > mentions that Mr. and Mrs John Rigney were married in New York, September > 30, 1848. He helped to establish Fort Steilacoom, August 1849. He was > born > in Ireland, June 12, 1815 and died at Steilacoom, May 15, 1892. > > There was also a picture of the two of them. He sitting, she standing > to his right, (photographers left). If you don't have the photo, I machine > copied it and will send. > > Ron Bestrom > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cardinal, Pat" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 8:37 PM > Subject: Hi Everyone > > > > Hi Everyone > > > > My name is Patrick Cardinal and I am originally from the Puget Sound > area. > > I grew up in Shelton WA. My entire family is still currently living in > > the area, but they are not interested genealogy. I am now living in the > > state of Nevada and trying to do my research from here. It is very hard > > when you live so far away. I am decended from John Rigney who was one of > > the founding settlers of Puget Sound. He arrived at Ft. Steilacoom in > 1849 > > as a soldier. He had a son and daughter who were twins who were born on > > January 2, 1850. They were supposed to be the first two white children > > born in the area. I am looking for information on a daughter of John > > Lowrey Rigney named Mary Rigney. She married Arcade Cardinal. I am > > looking for the date of the marriage and also the names of Arcade > > Cardinal's parents. any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Pat. > > > >

Hi Ron Thanks for the information. I do not have the picture you are talking about. I would appreciate it very much if you could send it to me. My email address is [email protected] Thankyou again. Pat -----Original Message----- From: Ron Bestrom [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 8:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hi Everyone A book, Pierce County (History of) by W.P. Bonney, Volume I. Mentioned him several times. He was in the militia. He donated some land to the area. The Old Rigney farm was within the present boundary lines of Tacoma. It mentions that Mr. and Mrs John Rigney were married in New York, September 30, 1848. He helped to establish Fort Steilacoom, August 1849. He was born in Ireland, June 12, 1815 and died at Steilacoom, May 15, 1892. There was also a picture of the two of them. He sitting, she standing to his right, (photographers left). If you don't have the photo, I machine copied it and will send. Ron Bestrom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cardinal, Pat" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 8:37 PM Subject: Hi Everyone > Hi Everyone > > My name is Patrick Cardinal and I am originally from the Puget Sound area. > I grew up in Shelton WA. My entire family is still currently living in > the area, but they are not interested genealogy. I am now living in the > state of Nevada and trying to do my research from here. It is very hard > when you live so far away. I am decended from John Rigney who was one of > the founding settlers of Puget Sound. He arrived at Ft. Steilacoom in 1849 > as a soldier. He had a son and daughter who were twins who were born on > January 2, 1850. They were supposed to be the first two white children > born in the area. I am looking for information on a daughter of John > Lowrey Rigney named Mary Rigney. She married Arcade Cardinal. I am > looking for the date of the marriage and also the names of Arcade > Cardinal's parents. any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Pat. >