Wow that was great, I sat behind Dottie Braithwait and watched her turn red as Bette told all she had done for EWGS over the years. She is very deserving of being a Distinguished Service Member. I have read some of the old mimeographed bulletins she did, and they are very interesting also. I have been very lucky in doing genealogy for years, Ray Fisher suggested that Prodigy was a good place to learn genealogy and was passing out Prodigy floppies at one meeting, and I had just bought a 2400 baud modem and it came with a Prodigy floppy also. I tried it and really liked being able to look over the shoulder of all the wonderful genealogists there. I read a lot and kept researching, till one day I found out I was related to the Vanderpools of North Carolina. So I sat down and wrote an E-Mail to the Genealogy Expert on Prodigy Myra Vanderpool Gormley. She confirmed we were cousins as her Vanderpools had came from New Amsterdam to North Carolina and then her family went to Indiana, mine went to Tennessee. The problem I have had is I still do not know which of the Vanderpool families that came from New Amsterdam my John Jackie Vanderpool is related to, there were about 5 Vanderpool families that John can fit in, but no proof on any of them. John's son Joseph Married in Tennessee to Margaret Low, a granddaughter of Bette Topp's Swope family. In 1999 when Prodigy was closing due to Y2K problems with their old system. Prodigy started a new service, and most of the people from the old service left, including Myra, so on the new Service I was asked to be the new Prodigy Genealogy Expert, so since October of 1999 I have been doing that. About 2 years ago Prodigy was bought out by SBC Communications, and they decided all the Bulletin Boards would close. The bulletin boards closed October 24, 2003, so I have not been online as much since then. Our web guru decided to move all the files we had collected to Rootsweb, and so the monthly newsletter I had written articles for was moved, and I have continued to write articles for that newsletter. Some of those I have also re-written for Doris and the Bulletin. In 1999 when the original Prodigy closed Myra asked me to start a list for the Prodigy people that were leaving, and that was my first mail list, not long after that I took over the Whitman county list from the nice gentleman that had started it and was moving and was hoping someone from Whitman county would take it on. I really wanted the Spokane county one, but missed out twice before I finally was able to adopt it. Then one day they said there were several more county lists up for adoption, and I went and checked, and also adopted Stevens, Lincoln, Adams and Pend Oreille counties, so starting the EWGS mail list was real easy, I have been administering six other lists for almost 4 years. I will say a genealogy society list is a lot different from a county list though. Charles P.S. Here is a couple of URLS, the first is what our Guru calls a splash page, the place where you can get to everything on our Rootsweb site. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genealogylinks/ The next one is the newsletter I have helped for a few years with monthly articles. This one is very long so it may wrap, but you need the whole thing http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genealogylinks/newsltr/archive%20ga te.html

I wish you the very Happiest of New Years!! http://www.angelrays.com/Flash/newyears.html Charles

We have several books that we will be auctioning off (quickly I'm sure) at the January luncheon so be sure and go and bring some book money. We already have a few books for the February meeting, too. If you have books you would like to donate for the auction, let me know the title, condition, etc. and I will let you know what meeting to bring them. This has been such a fun thing and helps everyone. Remember, books donated will be auctioned and all monies will go into the general EWGS treasury to help meet current and future expenses. Thanks - Ruby --

Anyone notice the Taglines?? > > > ==== WA-EWGS Mailing List ==== > June 5, 2004 German Seminar. It will be held in the main auditorium > of the Spokane Public Library and we can brown bag it. > Our speaker will be Sabine Schleichert from Muenchen, Germany

A couple of housekeeping notes: Rootsweb uses a UNIX system for their Mail Lists (and everything else also), but that means viruses that work on windows will not work on their system, so there is no chance of getting a virus from a rootsweb mail list. If you are in the digest mode and are using Outlook Express for your mail, the digests will look like they have attachments. Rootsweb actually sends out the digests in text format, but Outlook Express handles the messages as attachments, with an index at the top, so you can just read the notes you are interested in if you don't read all the notes. Rootsweb does not allow attachments to the mail lists, they are stripped off before they are sent on. There is one small exception to this they allow signature attachements up to 50 bytes. They don't allow attachments to protecte everyone from viruses, and the 50 bytes exception is too small for any virus. The Second note is that the Rootsweb mail lists do not accept html encoded E-Mails. Smartlist the robot that sends the mail to the lists will try to strip the html coding (and it does a pretty good job), so if you can set your E-Mail to send text to the mail lists. Charles

MERRY CHRISTMAS Everyone We now have 35 members here 24 on mail mode and 11 on the Digest Mode. Charles

Way to go Doris, You are always right there to help, I know the Society ( and me to) really appreciates everything you do. Lola ----- Original Message ----- From: Doris Woodward To: WA-EWGS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 11:24 AM Subject: Re: [EWGS] Washington State Research Outline How nice that you heard from David Putnam, Charles. I'm so glad you did that for them. And thanks also for the kind words. I guess you know how much it means to get a word of thanks every now and then!!! Doris ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Good Job you guys, way to go. Thanks for all your hard work we really do appreciate it. ----- Original Message ----- From: charles_hansen To: WA-EWGS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:40 AM Subject: [EWGS] Washington State Research Outline Doris I got a letter from David Putnam Jr. at the Family History Library thanking me for helping update the Washington State Research Outline which the Family History Library sells to help researchers. For those that do not remember this, about a year ago I received a request from the Family History Library to help update the Washington State Research Outline. The reason I got the request was because they thought our Bulletin was one of the best they had seen. (Thanks Doris). I asked Doris and Juanita for some help and they came up with several great sources. When I finished the copy Doris proofread it and I sent it in, so I think Doris deserves part of the thanks also. Thanks Doris Charles ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Mikee - That is wonderful that you got the appreciation due you for helping update the WA State Research Outline. And Doris gets accolades also - we all think that our Bulletin is the best = I always think each one is the best and then the next one comes out and it is even better. Also she is always available to help out in anything that benefits EWGS just as you always do. Congratulations to you both. Bette charles_hansen wrote: > Doris I got a letter from David Putnam Jr. at the Family History > Library thanking me for helping update the Washington State Research > Outline which the Family History Library sells to help researchers. > > For those that do not remember this, about a year ago I received a > request from the Family History Library to help update the Washington > State Research Outline. The reason I got the request was because they > thought our Bulletin was one of the best they had seen. (Thanks > Doris). I asked Doris and Juanita for some help and they came up with > several great sources. When I finished the copy Doris proofread it and > I sent it in, so I think Doris deserves part of the thanks also. > Thanks Doris > > Charles > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 -- The new email address is now: toppline@comcast.net************ *****Hope you will visit my homepage: http://home.comcast.net/~toppline/homepage.htm You can find my ahnentafel chart at http://home.comcast.net/~toppline/antafl.htm

Good to have the Butterfield's on board. I want to wish you all the very best wishes for your Christmas and the Happiest of New Years. We will see you on the 3rd of Jan - standing tall and ready for an exciting year. God Bless - Bette -- The new email address is now: toppline@comcast.net************ *****Hope you will visit my homepage: http://home.comcast.net/~toppline/homepage.htm You can find my ahnentafel chart at http://home.comcast.net/~toppline/antafl.htm

We wish you a Merry Christmas with all of the trimmings. PB & MB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bette Butcher Topp" <toppline@comcast.net> To: <WA-EWGS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 10:11 AM Subject: Re: [EWGS] Last Minute Christmas Gift > Charles - I didn't like the way that front page looked. It was disjointed or maybe > it was the way it came in on my computer. But writing overlaps, etc. > Don't know what is going on, but it needs better looks. > Bette > charles_hansen wrote: > > > Here is a great last minute Christmas Gift as the price goes up on > > Christmas. > > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~waewgs/Calendar.html > > > > Andrea Watts Sent this to the people helping the State Library index > > the Territorial Census and I think it is nice so I am passing it on. > > > > http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=0212320003 > > > > Charles > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > -- > > The new email address is now: toppline@comcast.net************ > > *****Hope you will visit my homepage: http://home.comcast.net/~toppline/homepage.htm > > You can find my ahnentafel chart at http://home.comcast.net/~toppline/antafl.htm > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Doris I got a letter from David Putnam Jr. at the Family History Library thanking me for helping update the Washington State Research Outline which the Family History Library sells to help researchers. For those that do not remember this, about a year ago I received a request from the Family History Library to help update the Washington State Research Outline. The reason I got the request was because they thought our Bulletin was one of the best they had seen. (Thanks Doris). I asked Doris and Juanita for some help and they came up with several great sources. When I finished the copy Doris proofread it and I sent it in, so I think Doris deserves part of the thanks also. Thanks Doris Charles

Thought you'd all like to know.....according to a letter from KSPS, our stint at the station taking pledges on Sunday, November 30th, raised $15.866.00 through 144 pledges. Isn't that great? Renews our dedication to help out again. All who came that night are to be congratulated...thanks from me, too. Donna

Any suggestions for making the website better?? I think it needs to be so that the Netscape people can see the text correctly aliek the Internet Explorer people can. Charles

SOMETHING EXCITING IS COMING UP for EWGS! On June 5th, 2004 - the regular meeting day for EWGS, we will be having an all-day German Seminar. It will be held in the main auditorium of the Spokane Public Library and we can brown bag it. Our speaker will be Sabine Schleichert from Muenchen, Germany but she will actually be coming to us from Salt Lake City. She is a professional researcher, lecturer and has had 15 years experience researching in the German Archives, covering the 14th through the 20th centuries. A member of the German Association of Professional Genealogists, she speaks German, English, Latin and a little French. Her specialties are searching for emigrants, church and secular records, as well as heir searches. Sabine has been coming to America for several years to speak to various genealogical societies We are very fortunate to have her join us - more information will follow. The main thing you need to consider - you do NOT have to have German ancestry. Keep on researching and you will probably find some! Bette Butcher Topp - The new email address is now: toppline@comcast.net************ *****Hope you will visit my homepage: http://home.comcast.net/~toppline/homepage.htm You can find my ahnentafel chart at http://home.comcast.net/~toppline/antafl.htm

Tiz about time to be deciding thumbs up or thumbs down on joining the EWGS bunch on our annual trip to Salt Lake next February...I cannot post costs, etc. on this forum, so if you're interested, give me a call or an email. The dates are Feb 8-15. Donna Donna Potter Phillips donnapp@earthlink.net

Be sure to check your Senior's Program flyer (in with the Community College class info) to see the roster of the genealogy classes I'm offering to teach this Winter Quarter (Jan-Mar 2004). Two of them are website classes....learning to really understand and use five of the major genealogy websites. Call the Seniors' Program at 279-6025 for more information. Donna Donna Potter Phillips

The latest Family Tree Magazine (Feb 2004) has a blurb offering a free CD (for $6 postage) of World Place Finder....a database "containing more than 3.3 million place names from around the world." You might want this to help identify and clarify places in your genealogy programs. Progeny Software wants to sell us a $39.95 CD called World Place Advisor which is a much-expanded version of Finder. For $6, I'm going to try it! Go to www.progenysoftware.com/placefinder.html to order. Donna Donna Phillips donnapp@earthlink.net Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.

Looks fine to me ..... I use Internet Explorer! Vonda DeMerritt Liberty Lake, WA "Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly" Visit my Home Page: http://www.cet.com/~vondadem/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: "charles_hansen" <charles_hansen@prodigy.net> To: <WA-EWGS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 2:47 PM Subject: Re: [EWGS] Last Minute Christmas Gift > Lets get some feedback from others here on the list, anyone else > having problems like Bette?? > Just hit reply after you check out the URL. > > Charles > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bette Butcher Topp" <toppline@comcast.net> > To: <WA-EWGS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 10:11 AM > Subject: Re: [EWGS] Last Minute Christmas Gift > > > > Charles - I didn't like the way that front page looked. It was > disjointed or maybe > > it was the way it came in on my computer. But writing overlaps, etc. > > Don't know what is going on, but it needs better looks. > > Bette > > charles_hansen wrote: > > > > > Here is a great last minute Christmas Gift as the price goes up on > > > Christmas. > > > > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~waewgs/Calendar.html > > > > > > Andrea Watts Sent this to the people helping the State Library > index > > > the Territorial Census and I think it is nice so I am passing it > on. > > > > > > http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=0212320003 > > > > > > Charles > > > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Lets get some feedback from others here on the list, anyone else having problems like Bette?? Just hit reply after you check out the URL. Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bette Butcher Topp" <toppline@comcast.net> To: <WA-EWGS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 10:11 AM Subject: Re: [EWGS] Last Minute Christmas Gift > Charles - I didn't like the way that front page looked. It was disjointed or maybe > it was the way it came in on my computer. But writing overlaps, etc. > Don't know what is going on, but it needs better looks. > Bette > charles_hansen wrote: > > > Here is a great last minute Christmas Gift as the price goes up on > > Christmas. > > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~waewgs/Calendar.html > > > > Andrea Watts Sent this to the people helping the State Library index > > the Territorial Census and I think it is nice so I am passing it on. > > > > http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=0212320003 > > > > Charles > >