This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fay Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/4118 Message Board Post: I would appreciate copies of obituaries or other information for Vernon L. Fay d 2 Sep 1987, Cecil D Fay d 17 Mar 1959 and Hubert C. Fay d 28 Mar 1994 in Carnation Washington. Janet Miller

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: OFFUTT, THOMSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/4117 Message Board Post: Seeking information on two Offutt's buried in Meridian Cemetery, Walter Offutt 1855-1942 and Seddie T (nee Thomson). Offutt 1857-1930. Seddie's headstone has "Mother" on it. Any information appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/4069.3.2 Message Board Post: Hi Tony, I have a computer now. Do you know Myra Graunstadt? She called me and i sent her some info on the Graunstadts. I had her address and lost it. I have some more info to send her and you if you want if. I have moved in with my mother for a short time just to have someone here to help her. She is 89 years old and would be Kennerh's first cousin. Uncle Albert was her mother Louisa's brother. Can you give me Myra's address? Here is my info. Susan LaLonde 1018 N. Pine River Ithaca, Mi 48847 989-875-3339

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/4116 Message Board Post: Hello: I have 2 couples that lived in Redondo WA; they are buried in Sumner Pioneer Cem; I would like to get some additional information about them. Was there a local newspaper that might have information about them. Local family information says there was an amusement park associated with the family--they owned it-ran it? Also Ida was postmistriss in Redondo; so it sounds like they should have been well known. Might there be city directories or something to get a little extra info...actually proof of the stories I just wrote about? Would love to get death notice from the paper; better yet an obit if there is one. Charles Eugene Betts died 12 Jul 1926 sp-Mary Ellen Horning Betts died in 1960 Isaac S Hurd died 4 Apr 1938 sp-Ida May Betts Hurd died 9 Nov 1941 Thank you for any consideration in this project. Dianna

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mansfield Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/4115 Message Board Post: I'm hoping someone could look up an obituary for a Gerald Eugene Mansfield, born Apr. 1, 1933 in Michigan and died Feb. 13, 1996 in Seattle Kings Washington. I been looking for quite some time. Thanks for your help. LaVerne Powell

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: dahlby Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/4114 Message Board Post: Obit look-up: John Martin Dahlby died 19 April 1933 and Inger Marie Hendrikson Dahlby died 28 March 1947. Any information would be really welcome.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/4113 Message Board Post: Baby girl (Judy) born 02/25/1947 at Greenwood Maternity Hospital in King County WA, adopted from hospital by John and Mavis Sanford. Two siblings born about 1940 and1943. Trying to get surname of birth parents to help in finding siblings. Birth father Edward born 1916 listed as Canadian and US citizenship. Birth mother Betty born 1922 US citizen. Would appreciate any info in helping me find birth familly. Thank you Jeanne Sakai KimLei13@aol.com

Hello; I am looking for a half ancestor Uncle. Name Wesley Smith. ( and other's), Mother was Sarah Jane Pumphrey who mar. in 1875 to a Peter Smith. They lived on a acreage out of Maybe Chehalis or Centralia or Little Falls. Peter died from a wagon loaded with grain accident from his farm in abt 1885. I found abt. 3 line piece in Chehalis newspaper in 1875. Wesley had a Brother, James who was killed from a fall down the Log Flume out of Toledo, I believe when he was abt. 24 yrs. old. James was adopted by his grandparents after his mother mar .to Paden Cox Baldwin abt 1886/7 in Chehalis Court House. They lived in Little Falls( Vader) Vader) Lewis Co. Wesley went to live with his Pumphrey ,grandfather's brother Francis ( FRANK) Pumphrey & family as he didn't like his grandmother.. After these boys Grandfather, John Hamilton Pumphrey died in 1900 I think, and the adopted grandson, James Smith died from the accident in the flume, abt 1900/01, . the wife ( of John H.) , Martha Morgan Pumphrey filed a court paper forcing her dau. Sarah Jane Pumphrey Smith Baldwin to sell her home she and sons, James and Wesly inherited from her 1st spouse, Peter Smith. Sarah Jane and 2nd spouse, Paden Cox Baldwin and 7 chi. by 2nd spouse, were then forced out of their home so her own , Mother , Martha,( of Sarah Jane), ( could get the share of money from the sale that was James who she adopted) , and her family had no home. Martha, who with Sarah's father , John H. Pumphrey had adopted the James Smith and Martha wanted the money. Martha then with the money made some kind of deal to live with her deceased spouse's brother's family. The Francis Pumphrey. family. It didn't last too long as Martha was not about to stand the noise of children etc. and she left and went to Winlock to live. It was not to her liking to live in the same house with her dau. Sarah & family so they could have a home that they had lived in since 1887. This happened in abt early 1900's of 1901/3. Sarah died of T B in about 1905/6 leaving 7 living ch plus the 1, Smith, Wesley, and 1 deceased baby born just before her death. . Her death date has not been found exactly. She was first bur. in the Pumphrey Family plot at the other brother , of John and Francis(Frank). (3rd. bro. name William Pumphrey).'s property in Olequa. Later, after William died and property was sold, all the graves were moved to various other cemeteries in Lewis and Cowlitz, counties in abt 1924. Some went to Little Falls Cem. out of Vader. Sarah has a concrete stone there with. " Sarah Jane Baldwin, mother of James Smith," only engraved on it. No vitals on it. I have repeatedly tried to find a death date. One dau., Sarah "Sadie" Baldwin Murray said she was but 6 yrs. old. and she b in 1999 . that would give the yr. abt. 1905. My father said he was 7 when she died., he b in 1898. another son was 3 yrs, being b in 1902 as 3 yrs. younger than Sarah was. and he was 3 when mother died. A more sad story about these 7 ch. left motherless came about after her death. Father Paden Cox Baldwin mar . in 1908 to abt 18 yr old Minnie Butler from Yelm , Wa in Thurston co.. Minnie gave in 1909, birth to another son, name unk.. and Minnie died after or during.. Left the baby boy making Paden with 8 ch. He gave the baby boy to Minnie's parents and they took him and moved back to Kansas where they had come from. Later in abt. 1935, I found he had married and come to Toledo looking for his other siblings and none was found in the area. He talked to and found a descend cousin on Baldwin side of RANT MULLINS. I talked with Rant in 1986 but he couldn't remember his first name but Baldwin was his last name. In abt. 1909/1910, Paden placed the 7 ch. in a place for children without a mother I was told boys went to maybe a place in Winlock or Chehalis and 2 girls went to St Marys out of Toledo. These girls were abt 14 and 8. One day the sisters there spanked Sarah ( Sadie) and Hazel the oldest didn't like the spanking and beat up on2 of the sisters and put one of them in a hospital. They after were moved to a Catholic home in Seattle. My father ended up on a wheat ranch in Lind Wa. and Robert ended up in Idaho.... In abt 1986 I found a cousin, living in an apt. in Winlock. dau of Earl Baldwin, and she told me she and her Ex spouse, last name Potter, used to pick up the Wesley Smith and give him rides into Vader and she said he was crippled in one leg. She said he never mar. till past 40 yrs. and mar . to a widow in Vader , her ch. were grown. She had not known that he was her own half Uncle and a half bro. to Earl her, own father. I am locking for anyone who is connected to any of these people. Sarah's sister Mary mar. to John Layton and also d. of Tb as well as her dau. Mary Layton. Another sister Martha b 1851 had moved there from ILL after the other's had,. and also d of TB. someone has that Martha d as a child but she did NOT as I found her mar and living in ILL to a Bland, who d. in a logging accident in Ore. where he had gone to work. They later moved to Lewis Co. Wa. I found and met a living descendant of Martha's She remar. after Bland's death.. If you know of or can find any info on these people I would greatly appreciate it. Maxine Wilton willma@sprynet.com .

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/4109.1.1 Message Board Post: Do you know anything about John's family? Susan

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/4109.1 Message Board Post: worked for Denny family

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/4112.2 Message Board Post: Hi, I just sent you the document and while looking it over noticed that Lea A. Northrup is boarding with his family, so it must be your Charles!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/4112.1 Message Board Post: Have found Charles H (35) and Freeda H (40) in Portland, Oregon. They were both born in Germany and he is a minister. Could this be your Charles? Couldn't find anyone in Seattle or King County. I will send document to your private mailbox so you can see it.

Genealogists have always been the prey of con artists... and there is always someone willing to do the work to track them down... From another list with permission.... Darilee (goin' to be some cross posting... my apologies in advance) *************************************** Album seller settles case Marketing of family books to change By Rachel Brand, Rocky Mountain News (with Permission) February 10, 2006 An Arapahoe County (Colorado) company accused of deceptively promoting genealogy albums will pay a $30,000 fine, cover $25,000 in legal fees and revamp how it markets its Family Yearbooks. Maxwell MacMaster and his Parker-based company MorphCorp. advertised the $45 "family history" books as unique to an individual's surname. The company promised its yearbooks would summarize 2,000 years of a particular family's history. But the tomes were not published annually and contained no pictures of the buyer's family members. "The 'Family Yearbook' was nothing more than a photocopy of the same material deceptively sold to thousands of consumers," Attorney General John Suthers, who negotiated the settlement, said in a statement. Jeffery Scism, a San Bernardino, Calif., genealogist who has tracked MacMaster for years, said the fine is puny when compared with the hundreds of thousands of dollars he believes - MorphCorp raked in. "The only fair solution would be to seize the business, liquidate the assets and put them in a holding company," said Scism, who lists the company on his "Genealogy Hall of Shame" Web site, http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com/. Nobody answered the phone Thursday at MorphCorp, 1181 S. Parker Road, and a message left with the company's outside counsel, Burton Wherry of Denver's Wherry & Carlstead LLC, was not returned. Here's how the books worked: If you were a customer named John Smith, MacMaster would send you a letter identifying himself as your distant relative. He would promise to sell you a yearbook authored by someone in the Smith clan and containing jokes and recipes from the Smith family. "Essentially what they'd do is stick a few telephone listings in there and names changed from the Census Bureau," Scism said. MacMaster is now barred from pretending to be related to potential customers and advertising that a "contributing family member" wrote the text. In addition, MorphCorp. must provide refunds to those who request them. If the company refuses, customers may complain to the Colorado consumer line, 1-800-222-4444. brandr@RockyMountainNews.com or 303-892-5269 bookstorelady@prodigy.net http://www.rootsweb.com/~waskagit - Skagit USGW http://www.thirdstbooks.com - 3rd St. Book Exchange http://www.facesfromthewall.com - Faces From the Wall - Vietnam/Washington

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ROSE, NORTHRUP Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/4112 Message Board Post: Looking for information about Minister, Charles H. Rose, in Seattle area in 1906-1910. Most likely an evangelical minister/preacher. He and his wife lived in Ballard, WA. Possibly another minister is with them--Leigh NORTHRUP.

Ron: The Chapel is in the Yellow Pages: Parker's Burien Funeral Chapel 900 S.W. 146th Burien (206) 244-2320 Gloria Lester >>^. .^<<

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Spanfelner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/4111 Message Board Post: Obituary. Beatrice F. Spanfelner. Loving wife of Perry, and mother of Sandi, Bee peacefully passed away January 19, 2006. She is survived by her daughter; sister, Joan Hoff, of Seattle, Washington; and nieces, Kimberle and Wendy. Born in Seattle on June 12, 1918, Bee attended Ballard High School, fell in love with and married Perry in 1944. They lived in Mount Vernon, Washington, at Lake Serene, and Edmonds, Washington. They were married 58 years when he passed away in 2002. Truly a loving and giving soul; family precious friends and neighbors were all important to Bee. We are all grateful for the memories she has left in our hearts. Bee loved beauty and nature. She gave us her gift of unique style and artistic talent. She willed her body to the University of Washington Willed Body Program and requested no services. She will be deeply missed.

The South King County Genealogical Society presents Gene-A-Rama '06 on March 18 at the Kent Baptist Church, 11420 SE 248th St., Kent, WA (located between 104th Ave SE and 116th Ave SE on 248th St.). We're circling the globe this year with great help for those who are searching internationally as well as in the United States. This year's speaking roster includes: * Gary Zimmerman sharing his expertise on German Research * Sarah Thorson Little covering Scandinavian Research and offering great tips and techniques for success in locating elusive ancestors. * Patricia Wood tackling the tricky tactics for exploring the origins of Irish ancestors. Fee Charged. Registration form can be found on our Web Site http://www.rootsweb.com/~waskcgs/ under Genealogical Events or call 425-226-8956 or 425-417-1191 for information.

I am searching for the burial location of Elva Black Adams who died December 18, 1977 in King County and was buried on December 21, 1977. Her obituary says the service was to be at "Parker's Burien Memorial Chapel." I am unable to find a funeral home by that name in today's internet phone listings. Does anyone know what that 1977 funeral home name might be today? Thank you. Ron Klein

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pBC.2ACE/4109 Message Board Post: Looking for information on John MitcheltreeThomas who married Nancy E RUSSELL Marriage 5 Feb 1854, Alki Point, King Co. Wash.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RERICK,STIPE,ERL DENTON BASSETT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/4110 Message Board Post: These folks are family, but either pictures have been lost,etc. No one seems to know. Is it possible someone out there has a copy that could share. They were still around in the early 1900's I think. Thank you Karen in Id.