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Enterprise High School Class of 1966 Reunion

Plans are under way for the 40th anniversary reunion for Enterprise High School (Redding, California)’s class of 1966. The reunion will be September 15-17, 2006. Once again, a group of dedicated classmates will be working hard to put on the event, which will held at the Holiday Inn in Redding, and Riverview Restaurant in Anderson (site of the highly succcessful 35th reunion.

Classmates Bob Higgins (reunion@ehsclassof66.com), Cindy Pearson Egli (cegli@co.shasta.ca.us), John Perkins (ehs66@bellsouth.net) and Deany Tonic Giacomelli (530) 227-8929 (cell) are principal contacts, though they’ll be helped by a number of others working to update addresses and ensure a great event.

Cost of the reunion is $85 per person, due by July 15, 2006. Mail checks to EHS Class Reunion, 2205 Hilltop Drive. #10, Redding, CA 96002. Make reservations early for staying at the host hotel, the Holiday Inn, 1900 Hilltop Drive, Redding, (530) 221-7500. Riverview Restaurant is located at 4422 Gover Road (Balls Ferry), Anderson, (530) 365-3011.

Check the web site at www.ehsclassof66.com.

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By Doug – March 6, 2006

Wisconsin Historical Society Pre-1907 Birth Index

The Wisconsin Historical Society has developed a Pre-1907 Wisconsin Birth Index, which may be viewed on the web at the following link: www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords. The society developed the index by digitizing a 1970s microfiche index, then expanding it with tens of thousands of delayed births, or births that were filed many years after the event, that were previously indexed separately. The result is free public access to more than 1,000,000 Wisconsin births, dating from the 1840s through 1907.

The index can be searched in a variety of ways – using just a last name or browsing by county and year. Users can try various names and locations to find Wisconsin ancestors. When an ancestor is found, a copy of the birth record can be ordered from the Wisconsin Historical Society online.

According to its announcement, the society plans to add pre-1907 death and marriage indexes in the next few months, creating a comprehensive vital records index that will be entirely free and publicly searchable. Until the death and marriage indexes are available, searches can be requested through the Wisconsin Genealogical Research Service at www.wisconsinhistory.org/genealogy/ogrs.

Because statewide recording of births did not begin until 1907 in Wisconsin, the online index will not necessarily be complete. For example, when information about the site was announced, I searched for information about my grandfather, Jacob Detling, born in 1872, and his father, born in 1848. No records of either birth were found in the online index. I have previously relied on family records knowing there was a low probability I would find any official record of their births. Nevertheless, the society’s efforts will be a welcome addition to help those searching for ancestors in Wisconsin because, if there was a recorded birth for the time period in question, online searching for it will be relatively easy.

Posted in Detling Family History, Genealogy Web Sites, Older Posts.

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By Doug – February 28, 2006

Keep E-mail addresses up to date

Many family history researchers belong to e-mail lists at Rootsweb.com, one of the oldest and most active genealogy sites online.

As a reminder, if you are a Rootsweb e-mail user, and do change e-mail addresses, you should “unsub” your old e-mail address (before you change it) and then subscribe your new address to get you either individual or digest messages. Otherwise mail to your old address will bounce (and eventually it will get removed) but you will miss any messages sent to it until your new address is subscribed.

I am the list coordinator for the family names BRADT, BROTT, BUNKER, DETLING and ROBLEE on Rootsweb. You can use Rootsweb system to subscribe and unsubscribe to the lists, or I can manually address subscription problems (for the above-named lists only, of course) if you send me an individual e-mail (doug.detling@greencity.org).

Posted in Computer Interests, Genealogy Web Sites, Older Posts, Personal.

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By Doug – February 28, 2006

Philbricks, Folsoms, Soules, Bunkers, Williams

One fascinating aspect of genealogy is that, as you go back in time in the United State to the colonial period, the greater the likelihood that you will find extensive marriages among the members of two large families. Those of us who have been tracing Bunker/Williams families have learned of the marriages between members of the Williams, Wilbur and Philbrick families. Recently, some of us learned of our connections to the Folsom family and Soule families.

In reviewing material from the Folsom Family Association and pages from a publication on the Philbrick family many connections between the Philbricks and the Folsoms and the Folsoms and the Winslows (Bunker descendants) can be observed.

These might provoke some additional comments or information to share.

Family #1:

Capt. Benjamin Folsom b. 1730 m. Mercy Taylor

Children:

Peter Sanborn Folsom b. 1766 m. Betsey Philbrick (Family #3)

Betsey Folsom, b. May 26, 1769 d. 1813 m. Stephen Philbrick (Family #4)

Family #2:

James Philbrick b. 1714 m. Elizabeth Rand

Children:

Titus Philbrick b. 1744, according to Chapman’s Philbrick family history, which also listed no marriages or children. (Family #5)

Stephen Philbrick b. May 16, 1763 d. 1844 (Family #4)

Family #3:

Betsey Philbrick m (1) Nathaniel Folsom b. 1748, son of Jeremiah Folsom, and (2) Peter Sanborn Folsom.

Peter and Betsey had the following children:

Titus Philbrick Folsom b. 1796

Stephen Philbrick Folsom b. 1805 m. Polly Soule b. 1802 (Family #6)

Family #4:

Betsey Folsom and Stephen Philbrick had 12 children. There no apparent connections among the children to any of the following families (Bunker, Folsom, Soule, Wilbur, Williams, Winslow).

Family #5:

Titus Philbrick had no marriage or children listed in Chapman’s Philbrick genealogy. Janet Hinkley’s research shows Titus Philbrick b. April 4, 1743, and m. October 22, 1767 to Abigail Allen. If this is the same Titus Philbrick, Titus and Abilgail Allen Philbrick had the following children who married sons or daughters of Samuel and Sobriety Bunker Williams:

Ruth Philbrick m. Joshua Williams* on November 27, 1805 (Family #7)

Sally Philbrick m. Joshua Williams* on June 4, 1819

Mary Philbrick b. February 1778 m. October 28, 1800 Samuel A. Williams b. November 26, 1779**

Stephen Philbrick b. June 13, 1792 m. June 12, 1815 Hannah Williams**

* Joshua Williams m. (1) Ruth Philbrick and (2) Sally Philbrick

** Further descendant information is available.

Family #6:

Stephen Philbrick Folsom b. 1805 m. Polly Soule b. 1802

Children:

Mary Darling Folsom m. Samuel Winslow***

Lavina Thompson Folsom m. Samuel Winslow***

Sarah Folsom m. Elias Winslow***

William Folsom b. April 10, 1835 m. Sylvina Winslow b. July 7, 1838, the daughter of Stephen Winslow, b. Sept. 16, 1809, elder brother of Samuel and Elias Winslow.***

*** Samuel, Elias and Stephen Winslow were sons of Nathaniel Winslow (b. in New Hampshire in 1775), who married Elizabeth Williams in August 1803 in Avon, Franklin Co., Maine. Elizabeth was daughter of Samuel and Sobriety Bunker Williams. Additional data is available.

Family #7:

Joseph and Ruth Philbrick Williams m. November 27, 1805, and their daughter, Mary married Moses Bunker. They were married on December 15, 1830, according to Janet Hinkley’s research. According to the Bunker Genealogy, Volume III, Moses Bunker, b. April 8, 1805 in Vienna, Maine, married Polly Williams, b. September 6, 1808 in New Portland, Maine, on December 15, 1830. They had five children, for who some additional information is available. Children named Mary in the Williams family were often called “Polly,” according to research, and therefore the “Polly Williams” married to Moses Bunker as shown in the Bunker genealogy is almost certainly the same Mary Williams, daughter of Joseph and Ruth Philbrick Williams. Joshua Williams descends from Sobriety Bunker (D15-II as numbered by the Bunker Family Association numbering system), and Moses Bunker (D-120) descends from Sobriety’s youngest brother, Elijah (D41), and therefore Mary Williams and Moses Bunker are first cousins, once removed.

One can list these families on a large piece of paper to look at in generational sense. Unless the Titus Philbrick, son of James Philbrick is a different Titus Philbrick than the one who had children marrying descendants of Samuel and Sobriety Bunker Williams (which is unlikely), this presents an interesting lineup of members of the Philbrick, Williams, Folsom and Bunker/Winslow families.

Posted in Bunker Family History, Detling Family History, Genealogy Web Sites, Older Posts.

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By Doug – February 10, 2006

Photo Albums on the Web

Having been bitten by the digital photography bug a couple of years ago, I have been slowly organizing old files and photographs into digital archives. Current photos are available for viewing in albums posted on a companion site: http://greencity.phanfare.com. Phanfare specializes in making photo albums easily accessible over the web, and, while there are similar sites available, for a small annual fee, the service I’ve gotten has been first rate.

Posted in Digital Photography, Older Posts.

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By Doug – February 7, 2006

The new blog is up

Sunday, I got the combined blog up and running yesterday after struggling a bit with PHP and the MySQL data bases on my server. Bunker Family Association related items will be in a separate category with its own RSS feed:

(http://www.greencity.org/blog/wp-rss2.php?cat=5).

Roblee researchers also have a feed

(http://www.greencity.org/blog/wp-rss2.php?cat=6).

Right click on the above links and paste into your RSS reader to add the feeds.

Hopefully everyone will enjoy this as I try to make the various web sites more usable. If you need help getting the RSS feed to work, please feel free to comment or send me an e-mail (doug.detling@greencity.org).

Posted in Detling Family History, Older Posts, Personal.

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By Doug – February 6, 2006

If you have New England ancestors

www.NewEnglandAncestors.org is the website of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Based in Boston, NEHGS was founded in 1845 and is the country’s oldest and largest genealogical society. For any user, the web site offers discussion forums, helpful “how-to” articles, an online store and library catalog, research service information, and resources for planning a visit to the NEHGS library in Boston.

NEHGS members receive increased benefits, including access to databases with over eighty-six million names, hundreds of research articles on many localities and topics, and much more. If you are interested in tracing your New England family history, then it’s well worth a visit to this site.

Posted in Genealogy Web Sites, Older Posts.

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By Doug – February 4, 2006

Searchable Family Data

Presenting family history data on the Internet does not always have to be based on complex HTML formatted pages.

Recently, genealogists have been experimenting with different ways to deliver data on the web, and I’m no exception. Based on a recent article in Richard Eastman’s genealogy news, I decided to try a new program called The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding, written by Darrin Lythgoe 2001-2004 . The program permits the genealogist to export the data (using an old-fashioned GEDCOM file), then import the data and convert it to a data base (in this case a MySQL data base on my web site, which is Linux-based). Information is delivered to the web site visitor by PHP scripts.

If you’d like to see how it works, please visit my site: www.greencity.org/TNG/index.php.

You can also visit Darrin’s site at: lythgoes.net/genealogy/software.php.

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By Doug – December 19, 2004

World War II Enlistment Records Available Online

The following is a press release from the U.S. National Archives and Archives and Records Administration: National Archives Makes World War II Enlistment Records Available Online

College Park, MD… World War II enlistment records for over nine million Army soldiers are now available online, the National Archives and Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announced today. The records are in the World War II Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File available through the Access to Archival Database (AAD) section on NARA’s web site (www.archives.gov/aad ). AAD is the first publicly accessible application developed under the auspices of NARA’s Electronic Records Archives (ERA) Program.

The National Archives scanned War Department microfilmed punch cards on enlistments to support the reconstruction of the military personnel records at its National Personnel Records Center. Because of the age of the microfilm, approximately 1.5 million records could not be scanned. Scanning problems also created some errors in the digital records that present unique searching challenges. To help minimize these problems, NARA staff developed a set of Frequently Asked Questions especially for the Army Serial Number File. Despite these challenges, information about a majority of sixteen million World War II servicemen and women is available via the web site. Each record may have the enlistee’s serial number and name, state and county of residence, place of enlistment, date of enlistment, grade, branch, term of enlistment, place of birth, year of birth, race, education, civilian occupation, marital status, and component. Because the records are for Army enlistments during World War II, the file does not include records for Army officers, members of other services or enlistments for other time periods. However, it does contain information on more than 130,000 women who enlisted in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps.

This is the latest of the “born digital” data records related to World War II that the National Archives preserves in a contemporary digital format and makes available through its Access to Archival Databases online resource. The Japanese-American Internee File, 1942 – 1946, has records with personal descriptive data about nearly 110,000 Japanese-Americans whom the War Relocation Authority placed in relocation centers. Another file is the World War II Prisoners of War File, ca. 1942 – ca. 1947, that identifies 143,000 U.S. military officers and soldiers and American and Allied civilians who were prisoners of war and internees. Finally, the Records of Duty Locations for Naval Intelligence Personnel, 1942 – 1945, contain limited data about the military intelligence personnel attached to Naval Group China during World War II.

*****The preceding article is from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2004 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at www.eogn.com.

After reading Dick’s newsletter, I decided to look up the military enlistment records for my father, Howard N. Detling, who enlisted in Los Angeles, California, on August 8, 1942, about two months after his marriage to my mother, Wilma Wells. I knew the date and place of enlistment because my mother had saved my dad’s military records. But I wanted to try the site to see how easy it was to find. It only took a minute, and the basics of the enlistment record appears in my web browser. If you have a relative who enlisted to serve in World War II, you can check out the enlistment using the link above.

  

Posted in Detling Family History, Genealogy Web Sites, Older Posts.

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By Doug – November 15, 2004

Friend, Nebraska: A Railroad Station on the Winslows’ Way to California

Friend, Saline Co., Nebraska, is located on Highway 6 and its Chamber of Commerce advertises it is “the midway point of the nation on Highway 6.” This heartland community had its beginnings in 1870, when Charles Friend arrived in Nebraska to work on a new railroad grading hearing west from Lincoln, Nebraska. He decided to homestead along the route, spending the spring and summer of 1870 “sleeping on his claim.” That winter, Friend returned to Lincoln, clerking in a store. The following spring, he returned to Saline Co., where, with a few boards and a new door, he built a general store on the front of his house. In June a post office was established in the store, and he was appointed postmaster. The settlement of Friendville was approved on August 1, 1871.

The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad reached Friendville, where a second store, blacksmith shop and flour mill were established. The railroad station was completed in 1873, and the stop was named Friend, which later became the official name of the town. That fall, 56 acres of Friend’s homestead was surveyed for a town, and settlement began with the opening of several commercial establishments to serve a growing population.

Ernest Winslow was born December 18, 1876 to Elizabeth Winslow, known as Betsy. According to family stories, Ernest’s father is believed to have been Dell Parker, a cowboy who was killed before the couple could be married. The town’s first newspaper was not established until 1882, the same year as Friend’s official incorporation as a town, and birth records for Nebraska were not consistently kept prior to 1904 at either the state or county level.

By 1890, there were 1,347 residents of Friend, which today has a population of 1,100. By then, many of the Winslows, however, had departed for California. Among them were Betsy and her two illegitmate sons (Ernest and Stephen). Based on a 1925 newspaper obituary in Fresno County, California, the migrating Winslows arrived in the southern San Joaquin Valley (Kingsburg) in 1885. At the time of her death, Betsy Winslow had lived in Kingsburg for 40 years.

It is not known which railroad route to California was used by the Winslow family: the Southern Pacific’s New Orleans-San Francisco Route (completed in January 1883) or the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe (which reached Los Angeles in August 1883). Since the Winslows lived in Friend, Nebraska, it is likely that the Southern Pacific Route would have been chosen; traveling on the ATSF route would have required a southeastern trip along the Missouri River to Atchison, Kansas.

On the other hand, if the trip was made in the early spring, the more southerly route might have been used. Travel to the San Joaquin Valley of California along either route was possible, because, by 1885 Kingsburg was reachable via the Southern Pacific’s branch traveling south from Sacramento, or from Los Angeles north on the same route.

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By Doug – November 15, 2004