TMG (The Master Genealogist) users in the Seattle area will meet next Saturday, Dec. 13, at Broadview Library (a branch of Seattle Public Library), 130th & Greenwood Ave. N., from 2:00-4:30 p.m. At 2:00, we'll look at some of the new features of recent TMG updates. The main topic (2:30-4:30) will be "Using and Citing Electronic Sources". We will discuss the various ways to capture text and images from electronic sources, as well as how to cite these sources in TMG. If driving to Broadview Library, please find parking on the streets in the surrounding neighborhood, as the Library parking lot is reserved for library patrons. A map of the Broadview Library neighborhood and driving directions can be found at the Broadview Library site: http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=branch_open_directions&branchID=5 Metro Transit serves the Broadview Library via Route 5 (downtown Seattle to Shoreline) and Route 345 (Northgate Transit Center to Aurora Village). Maps and schedules for these routes are given at the Metro Transit site: Route 5: http://transit.metrokc.gov/tops/bus/schedules/s005_1_.html Route 345: http://transit.metrokc.gov/tops/bus/schedules/s345_1_.html

SGS CIG abt "Digital Cameras for Genealogy" on Dec. 6th, 2003 December's Seattle Genealogical Society Computer Interest Group program will be "Using Digital Cameras for Genealogy." Laura Wise, with the assistance of Steve Aberle and Char Ann Kennedy, will lead a "workshop" on using a digital camera. This program will be more advanced than Laura's previous presentations surveying digital cameras and is intended for people who have a basic understanding of digital cameras. If you have a digital camera and are using it to photograph books and other documents as part of your research, then you won’t want to miss the SGS Computer Interest Group meeting this coming Saturday, December 6th, from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM! Do your document photos ever turn out blurry, too dark, too light, mis-centered, or distorted? Have you wished later that you'd just used the photocopier instead of your digital camera? If so, then this session is just what you need to develop techniques for shooting in less than optimal lighting conditions and learn ways to adjust your camera’s settings to avoid poor quality photographs. This will be a "hands-on" event, so if you have a digital camera, be sure to bring it (and its manual) with you! If don't have a digital camera and are about to buy one (or put one on your holiday gift list), then come and see cameras with features that you might want to consider and hear what others have to say (good and bad) about the cameras they own. NOTE: The SGS CIG monthly meeting changes to a NEW DAY (first Saturday), TIME (1:30 PM to 3:30 PM), and LOCATION (National Archives) beginning this month (December). The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is located at 6125 Sand Point Way NE, just across the street from SGS. The SGS CIG meeting is held in the second floor conference room. Parking is available in the NARA lot. On the Metro Transit #74 and #75 bus lines. Stairs and ramp available to NARA's front door. Stairs and elevator access to the second floor conference room. David Ault, Chair, Seattle Genealogical Society Computer Interest Group Computer Interest Group E-mail: SGSComputerIG@Juno.com SGS Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~waseags/ & Phone: 206-522-8658 SGS Office & Library: 6200 Sand Point Way NE, #101, Seattle, WA 98115 * ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

Hi Antoinette, The web site for the library http://www.spl.org only list four items for A. Maxim Coppage, which are all books (see below). I didn't get any hits under Burton Family Chronicles, but I didn't do an advanced search either. You can go quite far in seaching the catalog, without having a library card. If you need to go farther, you can apply for a card online. However, if you actually find something, you would need to either come pick it up or try to get it on inter library loan. If your luck is like mine, I always want the non-circulating copies! Or they refuse to send it on ILL because I'm not far enough away. Diane Hettrick dhettrick@earthlink.net  1.   Virginia settlers in Missouri,by Coppage, A. Maxim, 1915- D. F. Wulfeck, 196-] Call #: R929.3778 C793V Format:  Book  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  2.   Stafford Co., Virginia, 1800-1850 by Coppage, A. Maxim, 1915- A.M. Coppage, J.W. Tackitt, 1982, c1980. Call #: 929.37552 C793S Format:  Book   Add to my list Place Hold  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  3.    Missouri cousins,by Coppage, A. Maxim, 1915- Raines Pub. Co., 1969] Call #: R929.3778 C793M Format:  Book   Add to my list Place Hold  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  4.   The Coppage-Coppedge family, 1542-1955,by Manahan, John Eacott, 1919- Commonwealth Press, 1955. Call #: R929.2 C793M2 Format:  Book    ===================================== Antoinette Waughtel Sorensen wrote: > > Would anyone know whether the Seattle Public Library in their genealogy section would have the quarterlies ~ Burton Family Chronicles ~ edited & published by the late A. Maxim Coppage? I have been contacted by a fellow Burton researcher asking me if they may be in libraries. Although I believe I have the entire set of his works, I don't know whether the Seattle Public Library has them for this gentleman to refer to ~ > Antoinette (Tacoma, Washington)

Thank you Tracy. At least I can pass this on to him. I believe he is in the Seattle area but don't know if he can get around all that well either. Thanks for your quick response to this. Antoinette (Tacoma, Washington) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy" <lacquer@comcast.net> To: <PSRoots-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 12:37 PM Subject: Re: [PSRoots] SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY > Hello, > > I checked the library catalog and found nothing for Coppage or Burton Family > Chronicles. I also checked the U Washington library system without any > luck. > > Tracy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Antoinette Waughtel Sorensen" <waughtel@oz.net> > To: <PSRoots-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 12:12 PM > Subject: [PSRoots] SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY > > > > Would anyone know whether the Seattle Public Library in their genealogy > section would have the quarterlies ~ Burton Family Chronicles ~ edited & > published by the late A. Maxim Coppage? I have been contacted by a fellow > Burton researcher asking me if they may be in libraries. Although I believe > I have the entire set of his works, I don't know whether the Seattle Public > Library has them for this gentleman to refer to ~ > > Antoinette (Tacoma, Washington) > > > >

Hello, I checked the library catalog and found nothing for Coppage or Burton Family Chronicles. I also checked the U Washington library system without any luck. Tracy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Antoinette Waughtel Sorensen" <waughtel@oz.net> To: <PSRoots-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 12:12 PM Subject: [PSRoots] SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY > Would anyone know whether the Seattle Public Library in their genealogy section would have the quarterlies ~ Burton Family Chronicles ~ edited & published by the late A. Maxim Coppage? I have been contacted by a fellow Burton researcher asking me if they may be in libraries. Although I believe I have the entire set of his works, I don't know whether the Seattle Public Library has them for this gentleman to refer to ~ > Antoinette (Tacoma, Washington) >

Would anyone know whether the Seattle Public Library in their genealogy section would have the quarterlies ~ Burton Family Chronicles ~ edited & published by the late A. Maxim Coppage? I have been contacted by a fellow Burton researcher asking me if they may be in libraries. Although I believe I have the entire set of his works, I don't know whether the Seattle Public Library has them for this gentleman to refer to ~ Antoinette (Tacoma, Washington)

I'm trying to locate information and family connection to the Joseph Family Connected to the Nez Perce Indian tribe. I'm trying to help a friend find her Natural family as her mother was adopted as a child. Her mother's name is: Vickie Jeanie Joseph, Aka: Jean Helen Joseph, Aka: Jean Emily Avolio, born 15 June 1943 Her Natural Parents were: Father: Victor Joseph he was age 21 at the time of adoption his occupation was a Logger. Mother: Helen Bertha (Hamilton) Joseph she was 18 at the time of adoption which took place in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon in 1943 Her Adopted parents were: Father: James W. Avolio born 15 Sept. 1904 died 24 March 1990 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon. Mother: Lois B. ( Cooper) Avolio born 02 Dec.1907 in Dallas, Oregon. died 02 Jan 1997 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon. Not much to go on. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Brenda Rainey Grand Blanc, Genesee county, Michigan

Thanks Maxine for sharing about Ardena. That would be about where Ardena Road would be....7 miles from downtown Tacoma. Happy Holiday to you! Janet On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 05:25 PM, MAlexan206@aol.com wrote: > Janet: > According to Gary Reese's book "Origins of Pierce County Place Names" > he has > Ardena listed as a community 7 miles from downtown Tacoma on the old > Tacoma > Sumner Highway two miles east of Willow Junction. It is a farming > community & > was once a stop on the Puyallup street car oine from Tacoma;,,It was > named for > Alfred Tennyson's poem :Enoch Arden". > For your info Janet. > Have a nice Thanksgiving. > Maxine A. >

Ginny: According to the WA State Union List of Newspapers on microfilm Snohomish published a County Tribune weekly and it began in 1889. What I do when I want to order a newspaper film on inter library loan I ask for one from the area that I need and they let you know what they have, and send it to your library for you to read. Good luck. Maxine

Archived newspapers at the Suzzallo Library (University of Washington) http://www.rootsweb.com/~wasnohom/suzzallo.htm Also at Central Washington University Library: NEWSPAPER Holdings in the CWU Library - By Geographic LOCATION http://www.lib.cwu.edu/documents/papers-location.pdf Gloria Lester >>^. .^<<

>From the Washington Place Names database at the Tacoma Public Library: Ardena (S 8 T 20 N R 4 E) - This community is seven miles from downtown Tacoma on the old Tacoma to Sumner highway two miles east of Willow Junction. It is a farming community and was once a stop on the Puyallup street car line from Tacoma. It was named for Alfred Tennyson's poem, "Enoch Arden." Gloria Lester >>^. .^<<

Janet: According to Gary Reese's book "Origins of Pierce County Place Names" he has Ardena listed as a community 7 miles from downtown Tacoma on the old Tacoma Sumner Highway two miles east of Willow Junction. It is a farming community & was once a stop on the Puyallup street car oine from Tacoma;,,It was named for Alfred Tennyson's poem :Enoch Arden". For your info Janet. Have a nice Thanksgiving. Maxine A.

Victor wrote to me and I replied with a few suggested places that he might find this type of info, but I felt that many of your "out there" might have some suggestions or sources for Victor, so I am posting his query to the two bulletins that I find are most helpful. If you happen to have sources for his kind of information, please write to him and let him know your response. I will watch for that kind information among my limited sources, however. I am not aware of his location, so I don't know how much my responses to him were practical but I hope that I helped a bit. Whenever I see this sort of query, I am always reminded of "The Ferrett" ( I named him!) our informed, late John SLONIKER who always came through with helpeful information, and especially like to field questions concerning our Native Americans of whom he related and promoted their lore and history. God's Blessings go to his sould, and to his family in appreciation of the great good he contributed to us all, and his dedication to helping others. It is persons such as John Sloniker that we celebrate among other things in our lives, the meaning of : Happy Thanksgiving to you all !!! (& I don't even live in South Snohomish ). Carroll in Snohomish * * * 30 * * * ----- Original Message ----- From: VictorCHarris@aol.com To: w7iml@gte.net Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 11:04 AM Subject: Tribal Lands Dear Caroll: I am a lifelong resident of Washington and the recent post about The Snohomish and the Snoqualmie Tribes rekindles a desire for knowledge about the Natives. I try searching myself and get no information and turn to you in hopes you can point me in the right direction. I would like to procure two or three maps covering the last 2-300 years illustrating tribal lands and hunting grounds. Are you aware of any? Sincerely, Victor

Is there any editions of a local newspaper in the year 1899 in Snohomish City? I tried the herald in Everett library no luck. I am wondering about local papers. Thank you ginny baxter baxter22msn.com

Kelly, that is a name of a road just east of Fife, and I believe they are talking about the St. George/Gethsemane Catholic Church and Cemetery. Years ago, St. George was a Catholic school for Indian children. That area may have been called Ardena. Hope this helps. Janet Baccus

A January 20, 1916 obituary for John McLeod, published in the Tacoma Daily News, says that he died at "Ardena". It goes on to say that the funeral will be at the Catholic cemetery on the Puyallup Road, etc. Does anyone know where or what "Ardena" might have been? Kelly McAllister

No doubt there are many stories to be told re this Subject title, but this one struck me as one worth passing around a bit. If you are a compassionate person, and since you are genealogists, you have to be compassionate persons to pursue as you do. I think you will enjoy reading this one as I did: Ref. The HERALD, Everett, WA. Date: Thursday, November 20, 2003 Section: Main page Site: http://www.heraldnet.com/about Article: For better, for snowier Snohomish couple refuse to let weather stand in way By Jennifer Warnick, Herald Writer PIX captioned: Despite a last-minute scramble, Allison Harris and Joseph Evens enjoy their wedding Wednesday in Snohomish. The great picture of them was taken by Justin Best/ The Herald COMMENT: The couple, both, are in service and with the same outfit. He is to go overseas, she perhaps later. They've been together ever since "about fourth grade." and good Ol' Snohomish High where they grad. Recall when I said that I had awakened Wednesday morn., snow on the ground approaching the 3+ inches, and at 5:30 the electricity shut down as a result of the storm that ultimately brought snow. This couple's family encountered the results that morning also. Read how the family went to shopping for candles, generators etc. in order for the couple to get married as planned. Then I wonder if this is the HARRIS FAMILY descendants that I used to peddle papers (The Everett Daily Herald, now the HERALD). Probably is and they were a popular family in our small town or village of Snohomish. I think you will enjoy reading this account of the wedding that transpired despite the hurdles that they encountered. But, the really big hurdle ahead is the war. God Bless this couple for their future and let's hope that they have great longevity and add to the genealogy of the Harris Family that so many of us have known over the many years in Snohomish. Carroll in Snohomish * * * 30 * * *

Jerry Jones, a Tulalip Tribes' master carver among the various tribes of Indians (Nat. Amer.) at Tulalip near Marysville, WA past at the young age of 62. Ref. The HERALD, Everett, WA. Date: Thursday, Nov. 20, 2003 Section: Local Site: http://www.heraldnet.com/about Article: Tulalip master carver dies at 62 By Cathy Logg, Herald Writer Color PIX captioned: Jerry Jones, holding a piece of his work, was master carver for the Tulalip Tribes. he died Saturday after suffering injuries in an automobile accident on I-5 near Smokey Point a day earlier. (The pix showes Jerry Jones hold an beautifully decorated canoe paddle - looks as though it might be inlaid with sea shell, but the fish or acquatic design is very colorful and symbolic of his expertise. - CC.) COMMENT: This multi-talented man is a great loss to his people -meaning all the people, not just his ancestry, whom he came in contact with over his lifespan. I think you will enjoy this article as I did. Carroll in Snohomish * * * 30 * * *

Wednesday, Nov 19, 2003 7 p.m.-ish Carroll Clark, Snohomish gave a talk to Snohomish County Antique Study Club at the Waltz Building, the Subject: Lost Art of Telegraphy. Fifteen brave souls converged on the historic old Band Room of Snohomish High School back in the '30s now known as the Waltz Building - moved from SHS to its later site on Ave. B near First St. Snohomish. I say 15 brave souls because that morn. it had snowed at least 3 or so inches, a good part of Snohomish had lost power from about 5:28 a.m. 'til 11:45 a.m. that morn. Despite that hurdles, we did meet. I brought a telegraph key collection, showing the simplest of keys and likening the keys to a bell button to help understand the workings of a telegraph key. I took the group from the simple to the more complex in the keys, the codes used, how you learn code, including both railroad telegraphy, and radiotelegraphy. I related most all of my talk to telegraphy that was used in the Snohomish area for our railroads of old NP, GN, Milwaukee stations here; then brought in stories about telegraphers both male and female, as few realized that many of the telegraphers for railroads, telegraph lines, and radiotelegraphy were ladies who proved to be expert operators the world over. Our group had many questions along the way as I talked and I fielded those questions as completely as I could. I explained how I had tried to memorize dots and dashes of code when I was age 10 - it didn't work, but when a professional telegrapher, then retired from her long stints in London, Eng. and Chicago Ill utilizing both the "land line" type clicks or Morse Code to the Radiotelegraph Code used by wireless facilities using the International Morse Code. The two codes are different in sound: clicks, or tones and at least 13 of the letters are different. I explained how I come to teach telegraphy from age 15 when I had learned International Morse until the 1970s, '80s to help students from age 9 to say 70 yrs of age prepare for their ham radio or amateur radio exams which required them to receive 13 wpm to 20 wpm for their more advanced licenses as required by FCC (Federal Communications Commission) where they must pass code, radio/electrical theory, rules and regulations which are Federally required to operate radio transmitting equipment. All in all we had a goo 1.5 hr session of a bit of history, a bit of construction knowledge of keys, what code sounds like, even a brief teaching session of the letters E, I, S, H as examples for those present to learn to "hear" and recognize code signals sent by me using an "audio oscillator" - a means of making the sounds like those heard over a shortwave radio for radiotelegraphy. The evening turned out to be a very pleasant experience for those who went out of their way to attend, despite the inclement weather outside - we didn't lose electricity - and a good time was had by all. Many fed back to me that they enjoyed the information I imparted to them, for as dealers as some are, and others who have an interest from the historical standpoint, they profited from the talk. One lady phoned me to let me know that she had gone to a place that was selling "stuff" and discovered an album that was for telegraphic instruction, on 78 rpm. records as a result of my talk. Such items are becoming quite rare and collectible, or sought since the art of telegraphy is being lost. Lost, however, but not by many ham radio operators who cling on to communicate almost exclusively by telegraphy - and what is ironic is that most use the International Morse Code, but there are some "die hard" ex-railroad telegraphers who hook up their ham radio equipment so as to be able to hear the "clicks" using a converter and they send and receive the railroad Morse code to keep in practice talking to each other using the old "land line" Morse. I tried to listen in on those operators, but they go too fast and I confuse the Morse code with the International Morse too easily. I can send Morse, but I stumble around in receiving it at faster speeds, and these operators send it f a s t . Genealogically speaking, many of the code operators, Morse, or Internatioal Morse, taught some of their family members the type of code they used, and those family members became employed as operators. Oftentime, this was the case of the female operators. They had been taught the code by one of their family members, passing down the art of keying down through the generations. The Lady who taught me, Miss Manice, retired and aged in her 60s volunteered to teach International Morse at Snohomish High in the late '30s and that is how I was able to become successful with it. I in turn taught other students who were well prepared to in turn teach radiotelegraphy in the service during WWII. Miss Manice taught the subject out at the Paine Air Force Base, Everett during those war years. What a Legacy - it has been replaced like many other things in our lives are, and will be, but it was an long era of our history that has been well documented and respected. Your computer browser on Yahoo or Google will elixit "tons" of information about telegraphy, about lady telegraphers and all sorts of information about the subject. I know "you all" will be frantic to avail yourselves of that information, so I will sign off . . . _ . _ 73, from one who has been there, done that, and discovered that telegraphy is like music at the higher speeds where rhythm, timing, spacing, and the human cadence of it is like music to the telegrapher's ears. Code transmitting with the hand keys, whether the basic "Straight" keys or the "Bugs" (semi-automatic keys) were like fingerprints - each operator had a different "touch" which was quite distinguishable, and could become identifiable depending on the frequency (how often) the operators communicated with each other. Carroll in Snohomish * * * 30 * * * P.S. the "30" refers to the telegraphic times in which oftentime the news would be sent telegraphically and in between each article or story the opr would place a "30" to show a break from one story to another one. Also, I would signify "that's all" such as in the expression, "That's 30 for tonight". Walter Winchell broke his stories up using a "bug" telegraph key - he kept 2 of them beside his microphone and when he "keyed" them they did not spell anything - they only made sounds which were "supposed to be" telegraphic sounding. Do you remember the radio tower and the sound of telegraphy in the old RKO Motion Picture days? That was readl code which could be read by any of us who knew the code well - only a few letters were actually sent, but it did spell letters and brief words.

From: "John W Konvalinka" <jkonvalinka@msn.com> Genealogists, particularly those interested in the use of technology, will meet in St. Louis from 22-24 January 2004 for NGS GENTECH 2004. December 1 is the deadline for the advance registration discount. Since 1993, GENTECH has been the national conference for people interested in GENealogy and TECHnology. In 2002 GENTECH strengthened its infrastructure and expanded its role by becoming a division of the National Genealogical Society. Each year the conference has featured a panel of nationally known speakers who have addressed themselves to every aspect of the use of computer and Internet technology to support genealogical research - to meet the needs of advanced users as well as those just beginning to use technology in their research. This year there will be a special Librarian's Pre-Conference at NGS GENTECH Thursday, January 22, 2004. Details of this special Pre-Conference are at: www.slcl.lib.mo.us/slcl/sc/gentech04/precon-schedule.htm. Information on the entire NGS GENTECH conference can be found at: http://www.eshow2000.com/ngsgentech/register_now.cfm or at the St. Louis Genealogical Society website: www.stlgs.org/gentech2004 John Konvalinka, CGRS(sm), CGL(sm) www.konvalinka.com CGRS (Certified Genealogical Records Specialist) and CGL (Certified Genealogical Lecturer) are service marks of the Board for the Certification of Genealogists <http://www.BCGcertification.org> used under license by certified persons after periodic competency evaluations.