Hi Beth, I appreciate your offer for lookups. I have a few for you to lookup if you would be so kind: GEORGE W. DUNSTON, WFT Vol. 16, tree: 612 WILLIAM WESLEY APPLEBERRY, WFT Vol. 16, tree: 612 ERNEST DUNSTON, WFT Vol. 6, tree: 2034 JOSEPH DUNSTON, WFT Vol. 6, tree: 3373 Thank you very much for your offer and time in looking for me. Dave Dunston Iowa

Speaking of Cyndi's List being the genealogical standard... I'm on a list for research in Antrim, Northern Ireland. It's run by a guy who lives in Holland. A subscriber from Scotland just responded to a question and advised the person to go to "Military records under Cyndi's List and browse away." And to think, we knew her first. Diane in Shoreline (washington state) dhettrick@earthlink.net

Hello all - I have messages to share with you from two of our terrific, hard-working friends in genealogy. ~==~==~==~==~==~==~==~==~==~ Genealogist's Christmas Contest from Marthe Arends, author of the new "Genealogy Software Guide" http://www.eskimo.com/~mnarends/gsg.html and webmaster/publisher of "Online Pioneers" http://www.eskimo.com/~mnarends/ and fellow Washington state resident. Here is Marthe's note: "With the spirit of the season upon me, I have picked out a few items and pestered a couple of software companies for goodies to delight genealogists. If you would like to be entered in a free (no strings!) drawing to win one of many genealogy items, please visit http://www.eskimo.com/~mnarends/xmas.html for information and an entry form. Due to the cost of shipping outside of the country, the contest is limited to U.S. residents only (a big apology to all of my overseas and Canadian buddies). Marthe" ~==~==~==~==~==~==~==~==~==~ I recently wrote to Desmond Walls Allen and told her how much we have all been thinking about her over the last several months. I asked her if she would give us a brief, but official "press release" of sorts and let us know how she is doing. She was kind enough to take a few minutes to write the following: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Hi! Thanks for your long and thoughtful message. I appreciate your good thoughts and those of the rest of the world of genealogists. And I would really appreciate your passing along a "press release." Thanks to the positive thoughts of the genealogical community and the efforts of some great doctors, I'm headed toward recovery from the leukemia (AML) I was diagnosed with in late February. I nearly died a few times, wanted to die a few times, and know more than anyone wants to know about hospitals, chemotherapy, bone marrow biopsys, surgery (who needs a gallbladder anyhow?), medicine, and nurses' pedigrees. I have a haircut that would make me fit right in at a gay bar. I lost a third of myself (never wish to lose weight via an "easy" way). I have only enough energy for a few hours' work a day, but thanks to my sister and George, my romanic-interest of the last 28 years, my book business is fine. Unfortunately, my immediate future doesn't include any trips to conferences or speaking engagements. I did finish First Steps in Genealogy for F&W Publications thanks to help from Leslie Smith Collier in Dallas. I'm getting better every day and know those elusive ancestors are still out there, so I'll be back on the chase soon. I appreciate every tacky greeting card, off-color joke, postcard, and ancestor story that everyone sent. They all helped. See you soon. Hugs, Desmond" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For those of you who aren't familiar with Desmond and her works, be sure to visit her web site: Arkansas Research http://biz.ipa.net/arkresearch/ There is a great picture and personal information about Desmond and her works at: http://biz.ipa.net/arkresearch/desabout.html Desmond is the author of several wonderful books for genealogy, she is a nationally acclaimed speaker and a professional researcher and she appeared on the Ancestors television program which aired on PBS last year. We also had the privilege of having Des as our speaker last year at the TPCGS annual fall seminar. Her latest book is a must for those who are new to genealogy: First Steps in Genealogy - A Beginner's guide to Researching Your Family History by Desmond Walls Allen ISBN 1-55870-489-2 http://www.oz.net/~markhow/library.htm#firststeps ~==~==~==~==~==~==~==~==~==~ Good luck to everyone who wins one of Marthe's Christmas prizes. And be sure to send a lot of positive, healing thoughts toward Desmond in Arkansas. We love you Des! Back to the links, Cyndi ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Cyndi Howells Puyallup, Washington PSRoots List Poohbah cyndihow@oz.net PSRoots-L Mailing List http://www.rootsweb.com/~watpcgs/psroots.htm To subscribe or unsubscribe from the list, send a NEW e-mail message to: PSRoots-L-request@rootsweb.com or PSRoots-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode) with only one word in the body: subscribe or: unsubscribe

OK, this dummy here needs some help. I printed out a page of a web site last August and, since it was via my AOL account, the URL was not printed. On the back, I wrote down a URL and either I can't read my own writing or the site no longer exists. The site was a passenger list for Jacobite prisoners by the last name of CAMERON captured by the English and then brought to America and Jamaica/Barbados anywhere from 1716 to 1767. I can't believe I was so stupid as to not to further document this site. Anyway, despite literally hours of searching all the immigrant and passenger list web sites imaginable, I still cannot find this site. If anyone could help me here, I would be eternally grateful. ~Maudeen Maudeen@bainbridge.net Book Reviewer -www.Amazon.com Genealogy surnames: WEATHERLY, INMAN, NEELING, CAMERON, SWIFT, CHASE, HAUSER, ARNEY, ROARK, BLAIR, CRAWFORD, PURCELL, HAZLETT, HAISCH, WIPF, MILLIGAN, CRESWELL, STAHL, SCHULZ, HENDERSHOT, OLMSTEAD, SPEAR, COLE, LEE, STUCKEY, FAY, THOMAS, CROSS Locations: Guilford Co, NC, Owen Co., IN, Marshall Co., IA, Medina Co., OH, Kossuth Co., IA, Cecil Co., MD, Chester CO., PA Washington Co., PA, Clayton Co., IA, Warren Co., NJ, Luzerne Co., PA -----Original Message----- From: Cathy M. Wilson <cmwilson@csoftc.com> To: PSRoots-L@rootsweb.com <PSRoots-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 3:09 PM Subject: Heritage Quest Library ??? >Does anyone know if the Heritage Quest Library in Sumner has available the >microfilms that are available for purchase/rental from Heritage Quest. > >I hope this is not to confusing... > >Thanks...Cathy >

Does anyone know if the Heritage Quest Library in Sumner has available the microfilms that are available for purchase/rental from Heritage Quest. I hope this is not to confusing... Thanks...Cathy

I wish to share the excellent response I received from John Driver of Greater London, Eng. because he has had a tie with our NW & Puget Sound, and also because I wish to answere him, but I will do so on a separate transmission relative to his answers. Carroll in Snohomish. * * * 30 * * * On Wed, 02 Dec 1998 17:04:45 GMT "John E.S. Driver" <jdriver@ibm.net> writes: >** Reply to message from Carroll H Clark <clarkw7iml@juno.com> on Tue, >1 Dec >1998 09:52:49 -0800 > >Carroll, > (The following enumerated questions were Carroll's followed by John's reply to him. CC.): >> 1. I need enlightenment on what Greater London means more >specifically. >> London within the ancient Wall? The main part of London, whatever >that >> might be? Pardon my ignorance but I would like to know more. And >is >> Lewisham a section of it - I would appreciate knowing more. > >Greater London is the county set up in the 19th cent., and again >enlarged in >the 1970s, to embrace the whole built-up area generally known as >"London" (and >then some). It comprises the old county of Middlesex (which today only >exists in >certain postal addresses) plus parts of Surrey and Kent, south of the >Thames, >and Essex north of it. I think there is even a little bit of >Hertfordshire >thrown in. In addition it contains the original City of London, >sometimes known >as the Square Mile, today largely the home of financial institutions, >but still >with its Lord Mayor, Tower of London, medieval guilds and so forth. >This is the >historic "London", most of it within the ancient walls. Immediately to >the west, >in what was Middlesex, is the City of Westminster, which contains the >Houses of >Parliament, the royal palaces etc. > >Lewisham is south of the river in what used to be Kent, but now part >of the >county of [Greater] London. 150 years ago it was still pretty much a >village, >but there has been a huge amount of development since then and in the >1970s the >London Borough of Lewisham was expanded geographically to take in >neighbouring >areas like Deptford with its Thames-side docks. > >> 2. Are you anywhere near the old Guildhall? I am particularly >> interested in the Guildhall area and more specifically slightly East >of >> it, as I recall, namely Coleman >> Street - a very short street that has existed for centuries, not >unusual >> for London. > >The Guildhall is the ancient civic centre of London, in the City. I >visit it >sometimes when I go up to town, to do a bit of research at the >Guildhall >Library, which is a part of a new building at the edge of the >Guildhall's land, >and contains many of the old City of London archives. parish registers >etc. >Coleman Street, as you say, is a very short block to the east of the >Guildhall. >The road pattern has probably persisted for centuries, but the aspect >of the >buildings will have changed out of recognition. This process is still >going on >all the time, but the buildings in Coleman Street as far as I remember >are very >solid late Victorian institutional. The name goes back to the 12th >cent., and >may have been the name of the man who first built it, or there could >have been a >church dedicated to St Coleman there at one time. The road is still >quite >narrow, and Moorgate Street (now simply Moorgate) was built parallel >to it on >the east to provide a more convenient route between Moorfields and the >Bank of >England, demolishing a mass of slum property for its construction. > >> 3. Are you interested in genealogy, and if so perhaps you could >mention >> some surnames that you have been able to trace among them. > >I am indeed, but not as a professional genealogist. My family moved to >Lewisham >from Nottingham soon after WW2, but I only recently found here the >graves of >people with the surnames DRIVER and KEYWOOD which are among those >that interest >me, though the chance of establishing a family link is quite slender. >Two of my >grandmother's Keywood brothers emigrated to the USA in the earlier >part of this >century, and ended their lives in Tacoma, which is why I became >interested in >that part of the world. I do not know if they have left any >descendants, but >one of their daughters, Gladys E. Keywood, married a Clyde WILLIAMS. >My other >interests include STAPLETON and my mother-in-law's family name CLARKE > >> 4. My reason for asking, is that I have ties to London ancestry >that I >> discovered in 1983, > >Would that be through your CLARK descent, or one of your other lines? > >I was interested to hear of your visit to Kensington Palace Museum. >Another >museum you should visit if you're ever here again is the Museum of >London on >London Wall, not all that far from the Guildhall. > >Good to hear from you. > > > >John, in >Lewisham, Greater London, England > > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

Hi, I don't do any Welsh research (at least, not yet), but I'd suggest starting with: http://www.CyndisList.com/wales.htm When in doubt about internet searches, I always begin with www.CyndisList.com Good luck, Jane

** Reply to message from Angel9519@aol.com on Tue, 1 Dec 1998 21:59:56 EST > I received an e-mail forwarded to me that has your e-mail address on it. I > was wondering if you can assist me or refer me to someone who could regarding > information on Wales. I have been tracing my family Genealogy for years now > but when I come to pertinent info needed from Wales I run into alot of > stumbling blocks and was wondering what to do?! > > Please let me know if there's a quick/better way to access Wales info on my > computer! Angel, I think Janis has come up with the information you need. Somebody has even started a JONES website, a mammoth task if ever there was one, but apparently it is making great strides. I could hunt out the details if you are interested. Good luck. John, in Lewisham, Greater London, England

Hi Listers, I have the first 22 Volumes of World Family Tree. For those of you unfamiliar with them, they are linked to the FamilyTree Maker group. go to www.familytreemaker.com there is a lot of stuff there, but most of it is commercial. But here is the goldmine: If you look in the far left column, you will find "Internet Family Finder" and this has a very extensive search. If you find any of your family names listed with a WFT CD Vol. # and a 4 digit tree #, just e-mail me with Name, Vol. # and Tree # and I will look on that CD and send you the results. If it is a hit, I can also find out the name and address of the person that sent in that family tree. Please limit your requests to 2 or 3 until I see how many requests I get. Yours in Research, Beth Fladaker Tacoma, WA Surnames: Snell, Hughes, Giseburt (Geisbert), Campbell (WA and PA)

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Angel, Do you know of the Wales mailing lists? There are more than one now, I believe, but I think the one that is for all of Wales is the POWYS list. (I was on it for some time and I think it is a *very* good list with some really knowledgable people. The only reason I'm not on right now is because I have to get caught up with my mail and get some things "out of my hair" and I'll resubscribe.) There is a historian/genealogist on the list that will research for you for a fee-how much, I don't know. I should imagine there are books that would help you, too. You might find something at Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com (not real sure how their address is written up--) To look for Wales mailing lists (if you are on the Internet), you can go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist (if that doesn't work, try adding an s) To subscribe to POWYS, address:POWYS-L-request@rootsweb.com and then write "subscribe" in the body of the e-mail (without quotes). Don't write anything else-unless your program requires something written in the subject line. In that case, I just wrote "sub" as the subject and it went through. Hope this helps. What surnames are you looking for in Wales? Mine are Owens and Jones. Haven't had much luck so far... better luck to you! If I can help you further or you have trouble, let me know. If I can't help, perhaps I'll know of someone who can! Janis

You're off by one hill. <G> Bordered by NE 50th on the north and Meridian Ave. N. on the west - the east and south are bordered by tiny neighborhood streets. The whole thing was surrounded by dense, high privacy hedges - I drove by it for years and never knew it was there. About half-way between the University of Washington and Green Lake. Diane JOHuffER@aol.com wrote: > > Thank you Ralph for your speedy answer. Is the public park you are referring > to, the Woodland Park Zoo? If so, then I have a pretty good guesstimate about > where it is located. Evelyn

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_912580368_boundary Content-ID: <0_912580368@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII This came on one of my other mailing lists. VERYINTERESTING. Possible for Snohomish Cemetery? Nell nelljune@aol.com --part0_912580368_boundary Content-ID: <0_912580368@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-zc05.mx.aol.com (rly-zc05.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.5]) by air-zc02.mail.aol.com (v51.29) with SMTP; Tue, 01 Dec 1998 18:10:28 -0500 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by rly-zc05.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id SAA05568; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 18:10:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA27029; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 15:03:25 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 15:03:25 -0800 (PST) From: JRose10700@aol.com Message-ID: <e816b78e.36647694@aol.com> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 18:07:00 EST Subject: Dowsing for graves! X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 226 Resent-Message-ID: <"rDBTVB.A.GlG.7WHZ2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/2190 X-Loop: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Online I met a wonderful witty man with a really wild hobby -- grave dowsing! With two little metal rods or even a bent coat hanger, he can workout the dimensions of a grave, and tell if it is a man or a woman. And I thought, how wonderful to be able to do this, especially in those little cemeteries way out there in someone's north pasture where all the gravestones are knocked down. I have one of those not far from me, and we have been trying to figure out how many graves are there and whose they may be. In my family plot, in a little country church cemetery, there are a couple of "mystery" graves that have us all bamboozled, and dowsing might shed a little bit more light on them too. So I visited with Mr. Grantham and he told me all about how he does what he does, and why it works (he doesn't know!) and I wrote about it for the current issue of the Signal, the biweekly newsletter of the US Internet Genealogical Society. You can read it at http://www.usigs.org/signal/signal.htm <A HREF="http://www.usigs.org/signal/signal.htm">Click here: USIGS SIGNAL</A> I hope you take a look. And P.S. Talking about cemeteries -- In the same issue, Pam Reitsch tells how a Boy Scout in her area took over the project of cleaning up and improving an old cemetery. It is worth considering as an Eagle Award project in your area. love joan --part0_912580368_boundary--

Hi, Good Shepherd belonged to the Catholics - it was run by nuns. The building was used for different purposes as the needs of the church changed. During the puritanical era it was used as a home for unwed mothers - there might logically have been an orphanage associated with it but I never heard it mentioned. It's a very large building - 3 stories and a basement, 3 wings, they could have had several functions at one time. When girls started keeping their babies, the building was used for other purposes. After standing empty for some time, the Archdiocese sold it to the City of Seattle, possibly for a nominal sum. The building is rented to various schools and teachers - NeoArt, Gentle Yoga - and part of the grounds are a public park and the Seattle Tilth garden center (organic gardening). I'd start with the assumption that whether Florence was pregnant or whether there were facilities to take in orphaned children, the Archdiocese of Seattle has the records. Seattle reports to Olympia. Perhaps someone has done local Catholic research and can give more detail. I have a Puget Sound Catholic family and checking local church records is on my list of things to do, so I'd be very interested in anyone's experience in getting info from the various layers of the church hierarchy. Diane in Shoreline (washington state) dhettrick@earthlink.net JOHuffER@aol.com wrote: > > In trying to track down some of the loose Partee family ends, my aunt told me > that Florence Partee, daughter of John Bernard Partee and Katherine Keefe was > put into the Good Shepherd Home and she thought it was in Seattle. There must > be a tragic story behind this family as John or "Uncle Bern" as he was known > by, disappeared and resurfaced years later destitute and living in the skid > row section of downtown Seattle.

Thank you everyone for the help on the Good Shepherd Home query I posted. I thought I would look up the Archdiocese and got sidetracked by a link to Gethsemani Cemetery in King County. The web address is: www.acc- seattle.com/gethsem.html. It tells of the land being bought in 1888 for an Indian School and managed by the church, and when the enrollment decreased it was put to another use. For anyone doing Native American research for a child in that school....the Archdiocese might be a good place to look for records. Evelyn

My 3rd great aunt died in Tacoma about 1926. Her name was Alice Coolidge Culbertson. She is buried in the Tacoma Cemetary. She was born in Iowa about 1867. Her husband moved to California after her death where they both died. I would like the date of death, place of burial, and if at all possible a copy of the obit that may be in the Tacoma newspaper. Some one sent me the death date, but somebody cleared off my desk before I could get it entered in to my data. She must be listed in a cemetery book. Thanks. Ken Coolidge

I drive past the Good Shepherd home every day. My son took art classes there one summer and I've been to various community meetings there. I don't think there would be any records remaining at the site, although the Tilth garden and the grounds are fun to visit. My understanding was that it had been a home "for wayward girls" to go have their baby. Although I had remembered the facility as Catholic I also have it in mind that Good Shepherd facilities are Lutheran. I would suggest contacting the Seattle Lutheran organization or Catholic diocese to check on where records might have gone. Terri Terri Smith-Weller Seattle, Washington smithwel@u.washington.edu On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Ralph Seefeld wrote: > I can't help with finding records, but here's a little information about > the Good Shepherd's Home. It was located at about the 4700 block of > Sunnyside Ave. in the Wallingford district of North Seattle. During the > 1940's I lived near the delivery entrance to their grounds, on Bagley > Ave. It was a Catholic home for girls, not necessarily orphans, I > think. They had a laundry facility where the girls worked doing laundry > for ships' crews. I had occasion to visit the facility a few years > ago. The main building is used now to house various public service > organizations, the Senior Center for one. The extensive grounds are now > a public park, accessed from the corner of Meridian Ave. and 50th St. > > Ralph Seefeld > Archivist > GenSoc of South Whidbey Island > > JOHuffER@aol.com wrote: > > > > In trying to track down some of the loose Partee family ends, my aunt told me > > that Florence Partee, daughter of John Bernard Partee and Katherine Keefe was > > put into the Good Shepherd Home and she thought it was in Seattle. There must > > be a tragic story behind this family as John or "Uncle Bern" as he was known > > by, disappeared and resurfaced years later destitute and living in the skid > > row section of downtown Seattle. > > > > John was born to Lewis and Hannah Louisa (Cassil) Partee March 24, 1877 in > > Defiance, OH. He married Katherine Keefe on September 17, 1900, only child > > Florence (that the family bible record shows). John had a photography > > business in Snohomish, WA. According to family tradition he is buried in > > Monroe I.O.O.F. cemetery near his parents. > > > > I would like to locate records on Florence. Her mother, according to my aunt, > > was the daughter of Dr. Keefe, a prominent physician in Snohomish at the turn > > of the century. > > > > Anyone have any suggestions? Thank you. Evelyn > > > > Researching: PARTEE, WILSON, LEYDE, CASSIL, CHASE, DAY in Snohomish and King > > Counties. Also, FORD, TOWERS, WOOD, BRITTAIN, JACKSON, WILSON. > >

Terry It might stand for Pacific Lutheran Academy, later Pacfic Lutheran College and now Pacific Lutheran University, Parkland WA. Ellen Terri Gordon wrote: > Does anyone know what P.L.A. stands for? My gr.uncle is photographed > wearing a baseball uniform (pictured with 2 other fellows). the photo was > probably taken around the 1920's. His family lived in Redmond so I am > assuming it was a college around here somewhere. Thanks. Terri, Redmond, > WA

Hello, I received an e-mail forwarded to me that has your e-mail address on it. I was wondering if you can assist me or refer me to someone who could regarding information on Wales. I have been tracing my family Genealogy for years now but when I come to pertinent info needed from Wales I run into alot of stumbling blocks and was wondering what to do?! Please let me know if there's a quick/better way to access Wales info on my computer! Any little bit of help would be great! Thank you...Angel9519@aol.com

And thank you Terri for your reply. I did find a website for the Good Shepherd Agency and sent them an e-mail request late this afternoon. I'll let you all know what I find out! Evelyn