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British Columbia Genealogical Society, Quesnel Branch Cornish Water Wheel at Quesnel, B.C.
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Dear Auntie Gen, Is there a difference between “genealogy” and “family history?” Most people use the terms interchangeably now, including the Society of Genealogists, Britain’s premier family history society. (See http://www.sog.org.uk/). The year 2013 marked the union of the two terms when Wikipedia merged their “Genealogy” and “Family
articles into “Genealogy.” One possible reason that genealogy won out: apparently, 4 million people used genealogy as a google keyword, while only 2.2 million used family h
History”
istory. (see https://familysearch.org/blog/en/difference‐genealogy‐family‐history/). There is a slight difference in definition between the two, however. According to the Society, genealogy involves establishing a pedigree by extracting evidence of how one generation is connected to another. Family history is a biographical study of genealogically‐related family. Family history incorporates genealogy, or in other words (those of Kimberly Powell – see http://genealogy.about.com/library/tips/blfamilyhistory.htm), genealogy is the search, while family history is the story.
VOL. 32(2) CONTENTS: Dear Auntie Gen: Def’n of genealogy vs family history............................. 2
Deadlines: Deschamps............................................................................... 3
Summer Genealogy Journaling .................................................................. 6
Table Manners: an Evolution..................................................................... 7
Milestone 14,000: au Naturel .................................................................... 9
Web Bytes .................................................................................................. 11
A Lick and a Promise – submitted by Dot Paul .......................................... 12
Twigs – 1939 Register, AncestryDNA, Blog prompts ................................. 14
Dot’s Favourite GTOD – submitted by Dot Paul ........................................ 15
Member Lookups ....................................................................................... 17
Books for Sale ............................................................................................ 15
How to Contact Us ..................................................................................... 18
100 Years Ago ............................................................................................ 20
Club Information........................................................................................ 21
Deadlines: deschamps Raising the Dead from Early Quesnel Cariboo Observers
Researched by Leanne Broughton
The purpose of Deadlines is to examine the lives of Quesnel residents whose names appeared in early editions of the local newspaper. This issue highlights the DESCHAMPS family.
HEADLINE #1:
The Cariboo Observer, Quesnel, British Columbia, Saturday, March 19, 1910:
Drowned in the Fraser River. Belleni Deschamps Victim of Sad Drowning Accident at This Point.
A distressing drowning accident, in which Belleni Deschamps, a young man well known and highly respected in this locality, lost his life, occurred here on Monday last. Fred Sheppard, Denis Pidgeon and Joe Bouchie set out to cross the river in their canoe. They made the crossing, and Pidgeon stood up to throw a line to Belleni Deschamps who was standing on the ice awaiting them. In throwing the line Pidgeon lost his balance and fell back across the canoe, capsizing it. Sheppard made a jump, and luckily landed on sound ice, the other two being thrown into the water. Deschamps made a grab for the canoe line, but the ice gave way under him and he was precipitated into the icy stream. Pidgeon and Bouchie are both fair swimmers and made for the ice again, but found the suction too great to allow them to approach the edge without being drawn under, so turned and swam after the canoe, which they managed to reach and hold on to.
launched her, with but a piece of board and a pole to work with. Stuart Adamson had already tried to reach the upturned canoe with a rope, but failed. Meanwhile Belleni Deschamps, who could not swim, sank for the second and last time. The rescue canoe overtook the survivors, but found the suction too great to allow them to approach shore, so had to drift alongside until they passed the mouth of the Quesnel River, when they swung both canoes into an eddy near the bank.
When taken out of the water, both men were in a state of collapse and almost frozen, having been in the water about fifteen minutes. Stuart Adamson, Pick Davies and Bob Evans arrived on the ice at this moment, having driven round in a rig. Brandy was administered to the half‐drowned men, who were then carried along the ice to Mrs. Johnson’s, where Dr. Beech had already arrived. Pidgeon recovered rapidly after treatment, but Bouchie was in a serious condition for some time but thanks to the prompt and skilful attention they received, both men were able to come to town next day.
Meanwhile the cries of the imperilled men had brought everyone within hearing to the bank, and Frank Carpenter, George Johnson and Neil McMillan pluckily dragged an old canoe down the bank and across a hundred yards of thin ice and
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This is the first life lost on the crossing here this year; how many others will be sacrificed cannot be said. It is a well‐understood fact, however, that every person who makes a crossing in the late fall or early spring does so at grave risk of his life. At the present time one has to traverse over a hundred yards of treacherous ice, cross a narrow, swift channel of water and then walk another hundred yards of this ice – and there are scores of people crossing every week.
It is high time the Government provided either a cage to run along the ferry cable, or better still – and it is bound to come sooner or later – a substantial bridge over the river. At its best the ferry scow we have here is a menace to those who have to cross on it during the summer months, and a danger to the steamboat navigation on the river. (Note: a bridge was built 18 years later.)
No death certificate found.
Headline #2: The Cariboo Observer, Quesnel, British Columbia, Saturday, April 15, 1916: Verdict of Accidental Death.
The inquest into the death of M. Deschamps, which was held here on Saturday last, resulted in the jury returning a verdict of accidental death from a gunshot wound. The autopsy conducted by Dr. Baker in the morning showed that the bullet had entered on the left side between the two lower ribs, and then passed upward through both lungs, lodging in the right breast. Death was practically instantaneous.
In company with an Indian named Dominick and the latter’s wife, the
deceased was in the woods about a mile from the rancherie at Alexandria, looking for wood from which to cut shakes. He was carrying a saw and an axe slung over his right shoulder, and a .22 rifle, butt down, in his left hand. It is supposed the trigger of the rifle caught on a twig and exploded the cartridge.
The deceased was a son of Mrs. E. Harrison by a former marriage, and was about 26 years of age. The remains were interred in the local cemetery Saturday afternoon.
No death certificate found.
The family:
The parents of these two unfortunate young men were Benjamin DESCHAMPS (b. ca 1855 in Fort George, BC) and Betsy ANNAK (b. 27 Aug 1858 in Noulkre, BC). They were married 28 Aug 1876 in Fraser Lake or St. Patrick’s Church, Natlai, according to family researcher Arlene Klapatiuk’s listing on an Ancestry message board (http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.canada.britishcolumbia.general/1170/mb.ashx) Betsy was the daughter of Lkin and Cecile TESKEN and is said to have been banned from her band. She had a tattoo on her chin, which may have meant that she had been an adulterer.
The DESCHAMPS family consisted of at least the following children:
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1. Mary Madeline b. 2 Jun 1877; d. 9 Oct 1961. M. Charles PAQUETTE 7 May 1893 2. Benjamin b. Oct 1882 mouth of Quesnel. M. Betsey BLACKWATER 24 Nov 1903 3. Adelaide b. 1883; m. Felix HUNGER 4. Bellani bap. 5 Apr 1884 at Natlai; d. 5. Henry b. 1886 at Quesnelle. M. Betsey DONALD 7 Jan 1909 6. Moyse b. 1888 at Quesnelle 7. Maude b. 1890 8. Jessie bap. 6 Jun 1891 9. Caroline Boucher bap. 5 Jul 1893; d. 20 Jul 1958. M. Frederick Sherman SHEPHERD
16 Jan 1908
Alvin Johnston of Quesnel wrote an article for the Cariboo Observer 17 Nov 1960, in which he states that Benjamin DESCHAMPS was the first settler at Mountain View Farm, a mile north of Kersley. Benjamin had left the employ of the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort St. James about 1875 and followed the old brigade trail to Quesnel. His wife and family joined him at the homestead a year or so later, walking the trail with a pack horse to carry their provisions.
On the 15th of June, 1894, Benjamin was killed at
the foot of Red Bluff Hill when he was thrown from a wagon, suffering a broken neck in the fall.
Mrs. Deschamps later married Edward L. Harrison,
a teamster. He and Betsy’s sons built a stopping house at Mountain View Farm, which was sold in 1910 to Robert Barlow.
In 1901, Edward and Betsy were enumerated with
five of her children in the household. In 1911, Edward was enumerated with a wife
named Fannie or Francie (almost illegible), but there was a Deschamp in the household, so maybe the wife was ‘Betsy’ written illegibly or transcribed incorrectly.
In 1914, E. Harrison was ill at his home for a
couple of weeks and was brought to the hospital for treatment of an attack of pneumonia. He was reported to be improving 14 Feb, but succumbed 25 Feb.
The story (Or not)
Mrs. Deschamps was cursed by a powerful medicine man for her supposed transgressions. She was fated to suffer tragic losses: her first husband and two sons all died appallingly young. Then her second husband kicked off after dumping her for another wife. Having paid her debt in the worst way possible, she died in Quesnel 22 Jul 1946 at the age of 88. Or 107, according to her grandson, Archie H. Sheppard, who filled out the death certificate. It probably seemed that long to her ‐ being doomed to live a long life, always looking over her shoulder waiting for the next family member to fall. Or not. . . we’ll never know.
Summer Genealogy Journaling Do you attend your first genealogy meeting empty‐
handed in September, only to be faced with an exuberant newsletter editor breathing down your neck for your “How I Spent My Summer Vacation Doing Genealogy” story?
You can avoid this problem by creating a ready reference! The March‐April issue of Genealogy Today has a great article by Joe Grandinetti
entitled, “Journaling a Genealogical Journey – Creating a ‘Vital Record.’” A journal is merely a record you keep for yourself (and the lucky descendant who ends up
with it). For those of you who ask, “What is the difference between a journal and a diary?” the answer, after at least three minutes of intense research is, “Nothing, really.” Some say it is less personal, some say it is more personal. Whatever. Calling it a “journ‐y” would be fitting.
Supplies needed are few. Those of you who do travel journals will already have all the
tools you need. At the very least: a portable journal and pen – something you can throw in your backpack or purse. I like to carry a little ringed journal that allows me to add or subtract pages. It is also helpful to have a roll of double‐sided tape to attach ephemera like maps, tickets, dinner receipts, and other mementoes. I’m not a good artist, but I also carry a pencil and eraser to make sketches. This is handy to sketch out configurations of buildings on the old homestead, direction to gravestones, etc. Of course, a camera is indispensible, and serious journal‐keepers carry their little portable printers, too. I don’t have one, so what I do is leave room for future photos by drawing a pencil outline and description in my journal.
To keep current, just set aside five or 10 minutes every evening to make sure you’ve
written and taped in what you want for that day. You can always add and refine at a later date – it doesn’t have to be chronological. It’s a wonderful record that will bring back great memories. . . and fodder for newsletter articles!
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Table Manners: An Evolution By Leanne Broughton
“Mabel, Mabel, strong and able, Get your elbows off the table; This is not a horse’s stable,
But a first‐class dining table.”
Was anyone else berated with this rhyme at summer camp? I was – and the penalty was to run a lap around the dinner hall. (Round the building you must go, you must go, you must go, etc.) How embarrassing! They certainly reinforced lessons from home: mind your manners. A significant portion of the childhood lessons we carry with us throughout life do involve social customs, not the least of which are table manners.
In my family, the dinner table was a veritable battle ground; parents on one side tasked with the near‐impossible feat of taming the barbarians, and my sister and me on the other with the self‐appointed job of debating every rule we heard. Our rallying cry was, “Why?” My sister was smarter than I was: she sat further away from our mother’s quick right hand, which often met suddenly with my left when I was being seen and heard. Cutlery may have been involved – table etiquette was a contact sport in our house. And you couldn’t avoid the table; only children on their deathbed were permitted to eat elsewhere or at a different time.
Our childhood “why’s” were usually answered with, “Because I said so,” but table manner queries were different. The response was, “Because it’s polite.” This was just as confounding as the usual answer, though, because I didn’t remember ever aspiring to be polite. What does that mean, anyway? And, why?
Although I did win a few battles (if you call being sent to your room victorious), my parents won the war. I know to sit up straight, chew with my mouth closed, use my knife in my right hand and my fork in my left, excuse myself from the table, and a number of other conventions I subconsciously adhere to. What weighted the battle in my parents’ favour was the ever‐present threat that we would never be taken to a restaurant if we didn’t learn manners. At least we were never called pigs. I have heard stories from others whose parents called them to the “trough” at meal time.
Did our parents go through the same hell at their dinner tables? What about our grandparents? (Well, yes, according to them, and their parents were much stricter. They’d never be able to get away with what we did!) And how about our gggg‐grandparents?
Table manners were very different years ago, according to Mental Floss magazine (vol. 14 issue 3). In ancient Rome, you could eat with your hands, but made sure you kept your pinkie and ring fingers clean. Of course if you needed a restroom, you just used a chamber pot at the table. And since it’s rude to refuse food, you would put a feather down your throat and throw up to make room for more. In medieval Europe, you swore at a piece of meat before carving it, and tossed chewed bones onto the floor. In Viking villages, slightly more couth, an embroidered white tablecloth adorned the table, and you could set bread on it. You ate your
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food with a sharp knife and drank from the drinking horn when it was passed (unless you were old or sick).
By the 1700s, dining had evolved somewhat. An account of an American Quaker dinner table (Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1902) listed the use of tablecloth, wooden and some pewter dishes, a centerpiece salt cellar (dividing guests seated above the salt from those of lesser note, seated below the salt), shallow platter of meats and vegetables, wooden noggins for drinking, and knives. Of course, forks were not used “so that the hands had to be constantly employed for holding the food, and on that account napkins were a necessity.”
Some areas of Europe like Italy (who led the cultural revolution during the Renaissance – double‐dipping was rude even then!) adopted forks early, but they were very late in coming to the dinner table in British homes. They were considered dainty and effeminate, and Carolin Young notes that in an allegory from 1605 about Henry III’s courtiers, the hermaphrodites eat with forks and spill more food than they eat “in their pursuit of the new and unnecessary.” As late as 1897, British sailors refused to use forks because they were unmanly.
The mother of modern table manners is likely Emily Post, who published her first book on etiquette in 1922. It was a best‐seller and was updated regularly for decades. The Emily Post Institute still exists “to promote etiquette and civility in America and around the world.” For example, four‐ to seven‐year‐olds are expected to ask to be excused, participate in conversation, use utensils and napkin, sit up, chew with the mouth closed, and not talk with a mouth full. (Sounds like my parents wrote this section!)
Thank heavens someone is still teaching manners! I never realized how disruptive uncivilized toddlers are until I met my own. I don’t know if I won that war, though, because I notice the odd elbow on the Christmas dinner table when it’s not reaching over someone to grab another hunk of meat! Luckily my mother is still around to be “bad cop” for my grandson. (“Did he wash his hands? Make him sit at the table!”) And I miss my Dad; he always made us eat together and I hated it, but it sure was a nice way for the family to catch up on each other’s news and learn to speak in social situations.
Emily Post
Etiquette appears to be devolving generally. Jonathan Jones in The Guardian, 9 November 2011, noted that “it seems we have returned to the sloppiness of medieval feasting with our chicken wings, pizza and finger foods of the world merged in a casual banquet in front of the TV.” Even at the table, it is unusual to see a teenager not using a cell phone. Perhaps the comeback ditty of my childhood has rallied the masses:
Emily Post is dead, Emily Post is dead,
So put your elbows on the table, Emily Post is dead.
This is unfortunate, because to paraphrase Mrs. Beeton in her book Household Management: All creatures eat, but only man dines.
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Milestone 14,000: Au Naturel
By Leanne Broughton
A while back, I mentioned the 10,000th person to be inputted into my FTM program. At the time, I was working on a side shoot, but quickly changed to a direct line in order to have the 10,000th person be a direct relative. Yay! But it was sort of like cheating and didn’t feel like a “natural” milestone.
So, when I noticed recently that I was coming up on 14,000, I decided I would let the chips fall where they may. I am therefore pleased to announce the addition of the 14,000th person to my tree: Ferris Lorene HULETT, my third cousin, once removed.
Ferris was born the first of June 1925 in South Dakota, possibly in Pierre. Her parents were Ronald R. HULETT and Lillian Mildred HIXSON. There was one other child in the family: Verne R. HULETT, born 15 February 1923, in Pierre, SD.
Ferris is found in the 1930 and 1940 US Censuses in Haaken and Meade counties, South Dakota, respectively, with her parents and brother.
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On 28 July 1942, Ferris married John Francis KOLOUSEK in Sturgis, Meade, South Dakota. John worked in farming and welding and served as a Sergeant in the US Army in WWII. The couple had three children: Neal S., born 4 November 1947 (d. 19 July 1958); Denise Lynn, born 9 June 1950 (d. 3 July 2011), and Marie, who married a JOLLEY.
Ferris was separated or divorced by 1953, as she is listed alone in the 1953, 1955, and 1956 Portland, Oregon directories. Another reason to suspect a separation is that her husband’s obituary fails to mention her or their marriage, but refers to the children.
She passed away 28 October 1969 in Oregon. She is buried in Vancouver, Clark, Washington.
If you haven’t looked at an online family tree on Ancestry recently, you may not be aware of the LifeStory view, so I’ve added part of Ferris’ from my online tree. I like this feature because it shows a nice timeline of each individual’s life and includes a map. I’m showing two screen snips of the webpage, but of course, you would be able to scroll down to see a whole timeline. Ancestry calls this feature “the life lived in the dash” and the narrative is automatic – you don’t have to add it yourself, but you have the ability to edit if you’d like it changed, and add pictures, etc. There’s also a feature that allows you to add historical insights, but that wasn’t applicable to Ferris’ LifeStory. I think this is a neat idea. I didn’t have a lot of information about Ferris, but when it is presented like this, she really comes alive.
Remember: every day of your life is your history.
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http://sabrits.co.uk/Home.html The South American Brits Database lists
Brits who spent some time in South America. It was transcribed from the Roots South America emigration mailing list and has 26,000+ names.
http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/ This site provides a search engine to locate burial locations of US veterans and their family members. http://www.vintag.es/2012/09/old-photographs-of-canada-from-1858-1935.html William Notman (1826-1891) was a photographer in Montreal. These photographs from the Notman Photographics Archives are a priceless testimony to the history of Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries, from its people to its landscapes. http://socialmediagenealogy.com/genealogy-on-facebook-list/ Download a pdf of genealogy facebook pages here. Or check out the table of contents with links. http://cyndislist.blogspot.ca/ This is Cyndi’s blog. Her June 21 article discusses her 20th anniversary of being online. http://www.mygenealogyhound.com/index.html My Genealogy Hound is your completely free site to view thousands of family biographies from early and rare history and genealogy references. These biographies can often be valuable for discovering details about ancestors in your family tree research. http://seekingmichigan.org/about Seeking Michigan has free images of Michigan death certificates from 1921-1939 now, in addition to their 1897-1920 death records and other resources. http://prov.vic.gov.au/index_search?searchid=54 Index to wills, probates, and administration records in the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia. Searchable with viewable documents. http://prov.vic.gov.au/index_search?searchid=54 The Ancestry Insider lists free research guides from Ancestry.com.
Finding Your Immigrant Ancestors on Ancestry African American family research on Ancestry.com Finding Your Irish Ancestors in the U.S. and Ireland Finding Your Ancestors from the UK and Ireland Finding Your Swedish Ancestors at Ancestry.com Finding Your German Ancestors on Ancestry.com Finding Your Canadian Ancestors on Ancestry.com Researching Your American Indian Ancestors on Ancestry
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A LICK AND A PROMISE by Pamela Perry Blaine
Submitted by Dot Paul 'I'll just give this a lick and a promise,' my mother said as she quickly mopped up a spill on the floor without moving any of the furniture. 'What is that supposed to mean?' I asked as in my young mind I envisioned someone licking the floor with his or her tongue. 'It means that I'm in a hurry and I'm busy canning tomatoes so I am going to just give it a lick with the mop and promise to come back and do the job right later. 'A lick and a promise' was just one of the many old phrases that our mothers, grandmothers, and others used that they probably heard from the generations before them. With the passing of time, many old phrases become obsolete or even disappear. This is unfortunate because some of them are very appropriate and humorous. How many of these do you know? 1. A bone to pick (someone who wants to discuss a disagreement) 2. An axe to grind (someone who has a hidden motive. This phrase is said to have originated
from Benjamin Franklin who told a story about a devious man who asked how a grinding wheel worked. He ended up walking away with his axe sharpened free of charge)
3. One bad apple spoils the whole barrel (one corrupt person can cause all the others to go bad if you don't remove the bad one)
4. At sea (lost or not understanding something) 5. Bad egg (someone who was not a good person) 6. Barking at a knot or barking up a tree (meaning that your efforts were as useless as a dog
barking at a knot.) 7. Barking up the wrong tree (talking about something that was completely the wrong issue
with the wrong person) 8. Bee in your bonnet (to have an idea that won't let loose) 9. Been through the mill (had a rough time of it) 10. Between hay and grass (not a child or an adult) 11. Blinky (between sweet and sour as in milk) 12. Calaboose (a jail) 13. Catawampus (something that sits crooked such as a piece of furniture sitting at an angle) 14. Dicker (To barter or trade) 15. Feather in your cap (to accomplish a goal. This came from years ago in wartime when
warriors might receive a feather they would put in their cap for defeating an enemy) 16. Hold your horses (Be patient!) 17. Hoosegow (a jail)
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18. Hit the nail on the head (get it exactly right) 19. I reckon (I suppose) 20. Jawing/Jawboning (talking or arguing) 21. Kit and caboodle (the whole thing) 22. Madder than a wet hen (really angry) 23. Needs taken down a notch or two (like notches in a belt usually a young person who thinks
too highly of himself and needs a lesson) 24. No spring chicken (not young anymore) 25. Persnickety (overly particular or snobbish) 26. Pert‐near (short for pretty near) 27. Pretty is as pretty does (your actions are more important than your looks) 28. Red up (clean the house) 29. Scalawag (a rascal or unprincipled person) 30. Scarce as hen's teeth (something difficult to obtain) 31. Skedaddle (Get out of here quickly) 32. Sparking (courting) 33. Straight from the horse's mouth (privileged information from the one concerned) 34. Stringing around, gallivanting around, or piddling (not doing anything of value) 35. Sunday go‐to‐meetin' dress or Sunday best (the best dress you had) 36. Tie the knot (to get married) 37. Too many irons in the fire (to be involved in too many things) 38. Tuckered out (tired and all worn out) 39. Under the weather (not feeling well – this term came from going below deck on ships due
to sea sickness thus you go below or under the weather) 40. Wearing your 'best bib and tucker' (being all dressed up) 41. You ain't the only duck in the pond (It's not all about you) Well, if you hold your horses, I reckon I'll get this whole kit and caboodle done and sent off to you. Please don't be too persnickety and get a bee in your bonnet because I've been pretty tuckered out and at sea lately because I'm no spring chicken. I haven't been just piddling around and I know I'm not the only duck in the pond, but I do have too many irons in the fire. I might just be barking up a tree, but I have tried to give this article more than just a lick and a promise.
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Summer Blogging Prompts
Childhood games
Picnics
Weddings
Camping
Visiting relatives
Swimming/Boating
Fishing
1939 Register
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AncestryDNA
AncestryDNA is now available in Canada. It is “a cutting edge DNA testing service that utilizes some of the latest autosomal testing technology to revolutionize the way you discover your family history. This service combines advanced DNA science with the world’s largest online family history resource to predict your genetic ethnicity and help you find new family connections. It maps ethnicity going back multiple generations and provides insight into such possibilities as: what region of Europe are my ancestors from, or am I likely to have East Asian heritage? AncestryDNA can also help identify relationships with unknown relatives through a dynamic list of DNA matches.“ Check out ancstry.me/1JGy7nP to order.
Did you know? Before 1876, grandfather clocks were called longcase clocks. The song by Henry Clay Work, “My Grandfather’s Clock,” was the catalyst for the name change.
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Dot’s Favourite Genealogy Tips of the DaySubmitted by Dot Paul
Michael’s Genealogy Blogs Have Moved
We’ve finally completed the moving process for all my blogs. If you received Rootdig.com, Genealogy Tip of the Day, Genealogy Search Tip, or Genealogy Transcriber before 1 June in your email, you will need to resubscribe using the subscription links on the respective blogs:
Rootdig.com—Michael’s thoughts, research problems, suggestions, and whatever else crosses his desk (including webinars)
Genealogy Tip of the Day—one genealogy research tip every day
Genealogy Search Tip—websites I’ve discovered and the occasional online research tip
Genealogy Transcriber—can you read the handwriting?
Thanks for your support as we transition to this new service.
Reprinted from "Genealogy Tip of the Day" (c) by Michael John Neill, http://genealogytipoftheday.com/. This tip originally ran 3 June 2015.
What is a Maiden Name?
Researching women in the United States is compounded by the fact that researchers need the woman’s “maiden name,” the surname of her biological father.
In some cases what the researcher thinks is the “maiden name” may actually be a step‐father’s last name, the mother’s last name, an adopted father’s last name, or the last name of a previous husband.
All things to consider.
Reprinted from Genealogy Tip of the Day (c) by Michael John Neill, http://genealogytipoftheday.com/. This tip originally ran 3 June 2015.
Did Great‐Grandma Get Married Instead of Going Poof? If your male ancestor died before his wife and you can’t find her in death records, consider the possibility that she married after his death. There may be no family tradition of a subsequent marriage and records would be tied to the last name of the later husband. Maybe the reason she went “poof” after her husband died was because she remarried.
Reprinted from Genealogy Tip of the Day (c) by Michael John Neill, http://genealogytipoftheday.com/. This tip originally ran 4 June 2015.
Associate List
When interviewing a relative, consider asking them for names of people they remember and how they knew those people – neighbors, relatives, coworkers, people from church, etc. Asking a person who they remember from work may help to jog their memory about other things and keeping a list (or a chart) of people your relative knew and "how they knew them" may come in handy later.
When interviewing, don't be too concerned about precisely how two people are related if the interviewee can't remember. You don't want to frustrate them and armed with a name you may be able to determine the relationship later.
Reprinted from Genealogy Tip of the Day (c) by Michael John Neill, http://genealogytipoftheday.com/. This tip originally ran 3 May 2015.
Go Back and Ask the Same Questions
In response to yesterday's tip, a reader reminded me of the importance of going back and asking the same person the same questions that they've been asked before.
There's always the chance that your interviewee will give different answers or remember more than they did the first time. You should mix up the old questions with new ones based on things you have learned in the meantime.
But for a variety of reasons a second or third response to the same question could easily bring about a response different from what you got the first time.
Reprinted from Genealogy Tip of the Day (c) by Michael John Neill, http://genealogytipoftheday.com/. This tip originally ran 16 Jan 2015.
Are You Seeing the Shadows?
That one record you've found, a deed, a death certificate, a will, an estate settlement, probably was created because something else happened. For some documents it may be obvious what caused the document to have been created. But a deed? Why was the property being sold? Was the couple planning to move? Had they fallen on hard times? If a guardianship was filed and the parents were still alive, what was the reason? Was there an inheritance that someone didn't want a parent frittering away? Always ask if what you are seeing or have located is just the shadow of a larger event. Records weren't created in isolation. And even if you know what caused a document to have been created ask yourself what other documents might also have been created. Reprinted from Genealogy Tip of the Day (c) by Michael John Neill, http://genealogytipoftheday.com/. This tip originally ran 9 Jan 2015.
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Member Lookups:
Kersley Pioneers Cottonwood ledgers [email protected] A Tribute to the Past (Quesnel & area 1808 to 1928) The Family Tree of Robert and Euphemia Beath (Lillian Bowdery et al) Pre‐1855 Fife Death Index (Scotland) The Long Line (Benjamin Dye/Sarah Lemley family – by T. Bryan Campbell Hope) The Wattie Family (1650‐1996) Kinross‐shire Pre‐1855 Monumental Inscriptions (Scotland) Chilcotin: Preserving Pioneer Memories by the Witte Sisters [email protected] Quesnel Pioneer History [email protected] Our History Our Heritage (100 Stories Celebrating 100 Years) by Kelowna Branch of Okanagan Historical Society Destination Canada (A guide to 20th century immigration records) compiled by Dave Obee Geographic Names of Saskatchewan by Bill Barry Age Shall Not Weary Them (Saskatchewan Remembers its War Dead) by Bill Barry Story of Broadview and Area (Oakshela‐Broadview‐Percival) Centennial Tribute 1882‐1982 Gravestone inscriptions of Greenwood Cemetery, Orangeville, Ontario to August 1989 The Golden Bridge (Young Immigrants to Canada 1833‐1939) by Marjorie Kohli The Little Immigrants (The Orphans Who Came to Canada) by Kenneth Bagnell A History of Simcoe County by Andrew F. Hunter Irish Migrants in the Canadas by Bruce S. Elliott [email protected] Past Endeavours, a collection of biographical histories of people from these areas: Bear, Beaver Bank, Cheremosz, Endeavour, Lilian, Midland and Peerless. This area is 75 miles north of Yorkton, Sask. Mamornitz Revisited: 100 years of a Ukrainian Pioneer Settlement in Sask. There are several histories of pioneers who settled in this area east of Canora. Cemeteries of Walsh county, North Dakota (vol. 26)
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Books for Sale
Quesnel & Area Place Names
By the Quesnel Branch of the BCGS. This brochure has been put together to provide genealogical researchers an introduction to Quesnel and area place names, and general sources of further information. $3.00 plus $2.00 S&H. #1‐453 Wilson Street, Quesnel, BC V2J 2W1
Lillian Alling: The
Journey Home
By Susan Smith‐Josephy. This book is an amazing collection of personal documents, first‐hand recollections, family tales and archival research that provide tantalizing clues and some truth to Lillian’s story as she walked from New York to Dawson City, Yukon, then sailed to the Bering Sea in 1926‐29. Contact Susan for purchase options at www.susmithjosephy.com
How to Contact Us
1. Kathie Edwards 3140 Zschiedrich Road, Quesnel, BC V2J 6H8 Ph/fax (250)747‐2503; Ph (250) 992‐7211; [email protected] or [email protected] Surnames: APPS, BRENCHLEY, DIAMOND, BECK, EATON, EDWARDS, BOLLINGTON, KENDRICK, HOOLEY, POTTS, TRUEMAN, WRIGHT, PAINE, ARNOLD
2. Tammy Guldbransen 129 Lowe Street, Quesnel, BC V2J 5T4 [email protected] Surnames: DRUMMOND, ERICKSSON, GULDBRANSEN, HILL, JOHNSON, JORGENSON, LINDSAY, OSTLUND, PETTERSON, REID, RUSSELL, WAUGHOP, WAYNERT
3. Penny Haering c/o [email protected] Surnames: HAINSWORTH; BURROWS; RUSSUM; TAYLOR; GILES; INGHAM; WHIT(T)AKER; TETLEY; STANHOPE; FLEEMAN; STEEL; LYONS; FAWCETT; HUDDLESTONE – all in the area around Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Specific towns – AdelcumEccup; Churwell; Leeds. PEATFIELD/PATEFIELD; RAWLINSON; Bury/Manchester area of Lancashire; PEDLEY – Staffordshire/Lancashire; LONGBOTTOM 4. Leanne Broughton 536 Kinchant Street, Quesnel, BC V2J 2R8 [email protected]
Surnames: BROUGHTON, PINCHBECK, DYE, READ, FÜRST, BEATH, WATTIE, BELCOURT, L’HIRONDELLE, CROCKETT 5. Gertie Garreau [email protected]
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Surnames: ROTHE, RUOF, CHRISTIAN, DUNKEL, GLASER, JEROMIN, HEUBAUM, KINDER, McKINNON, GARROW, WILKIE 6. Virginia Monnich c/o [email protected]
Surnames: ALLISON, BONING, BROWN, DIERKS, ELLISON, GOUZA, GOOZEE, LACK, LINCOLN, MARLOW, MARSHALL, MENZE, MEYER, MITTEN, NABOR, OLTMER, OSTERLOH, PEPER, PHILLIPS, RELEF, ROOKARD, SALES, WRAGGE 7. Bill Atkinson [email protected]
Surnames: ABRAHAMSON, ATKINSON, BASSINGTHWAIGHTE, CRAGG, DAVIDSON, MURRELL, PYE, VALLELY 8. Ron Silver c/o [email protected]
Surnames: BELDING, BENNETT, BRANDT, BRAUN, BRODRECHT, CROWE, ELLIOTT, GLEISER, GRAUPMAN, HILL, HINDS, KARN, KEHN, KRAFT, MCAVOY, MARACLE, NIEGARTH, ORR, OSTERHOUT, SCHLATTER, SHIRK, SILVER, TREUSCH, WILSON, WOODLEY, WOOLNER 9. Dorothy Paul 172 Vachon Road, Quesnel, BC V2J 5B6
Phone: (250) 747‐3975 [email protected] Surnames: PAUL, STENSON, BERGLUND, BEITH, DOIG, GOWING, CAMELON, KENNEDY, WOOLWAY, SCAMMELL, HANSEN, JACOBSEN, KRÜGER. SPÖRKE 10. Roger Kreutzer 1395 Wells Road, Quesnel, BC V2J 7H1 [email protected]
1840 Poster for Lost Dog
Surnames: GABEL, WOLF, SCHMIDT, EPPLER (EPLER), BOYCHUK, BEYCO, PORTH (PFORT), ERMEL, KAYSER (KEISER) 11. Bob Badger #21‐313 Westland Road, Quesnel, BC V2J 4V4
Phone (250)747‐2236 [email protected] Surnames: BADGER, CLAY, CROKER, CROCKER, JOHNSON, KENDALL, MASTIN 12. Lonnie Canuel 1300 Lunn Street, Quesnel, BC V2J 3E9 [email protected]
Surnames: PATCHETT, FELKER, MATHESON, BLISS, MAIN, GREEN, ROLLISON, RANS, STORY, RICHARDSON 13. Loretta Grady [email protected]
Alexander, Rome, Barnes, Barlow, Yorston, Foulis, Robertson, Brethour, Cooke, Cochrane, Ogden. 14. Beverley Preston c/o [email protected] BROUGH, MACHEN, LEWENDON, McWHINNIE 15. Kathie Davis 779 Walkem Street, Quesnel BC V2J 2J8 Phone: (250) 992‐9109 [email protected] Surnames: LAKE, FENTIMAN, BEVAN.
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100 Years Ago in the Quesnel Cariboo Observer
Saturday, 5 June 1915:
The President’s Special, in two reels, and All For Love, are Manager Windt’s selections for tonight’s program at the Rex theatre.
Thursday was the King’s Birthday, but there was no special observance of the day here. All the stores and business houses were open, but the government offices and banks observed the holiday. A number of our citizens spent the day fishing.
4 0 R e c r u i t s E n l i s t e d He r e
Patriotism has been rampant in Quesnel and district during the past week, since definite word was received that a recruiting officer was on his way to town, and when Lieut. Archer, recruiting officer for the 54th Kootenay Battalion, arrived here on Friday night last, he found a goodly number of young men awaiting him, eager to enlist.
The following are the names of the successful recruits, with the country of their nativity, and their ages, and it will be seen that eighteen are Canadians, the same number natives of the British Isles, two are American born, and one each from Denmark and Servia: ‐
A. Hudson, 31, England E.G. Brown, 25, Canada J.E. Swan, 29, Scotland T. Trueman, 19, England R.G. Gritten, 24, England S.E. Whiting, 25, Canada R. Park, 28, Canada R.C. Mitchel, 27, England Geo. Baker, 25, Cariboo, Canada P. Demarre, 28, Canada C.J. Price, 29, Canada W.D. Darling, 27, Scotland E.A. Palmer, 26, Ireland S.G. Ryall, 23, England J.T. Findlater, 26, Canada A. Novue, 27, Canada F.N. Warlow, 30, Wales N.A. Pope, 28, Canada A. Mayant, 34, Canada A.W. Safken, U.S.A.
P.O. Neilson, 25, Candaa J. McLean, 30, Scotland R.L Boothe, 21, Canada W.W. Lowery, 25, Canada J. LeBlanc, 45, Canada W. McCallum, 37, Scotland J. Murray, 24, Scotland W.H. Merritt, 37, England J. Durston, 30, England L. Michael, 30, U.S.A. W. Lee, 22, Scotland R.M. Wylie, 32, Canada G.M. Box, 35, England E.C. Jacobsen, 24, Denmark B. Pope, 28, Canada A. Spiers, 27, Canada D. Murdoch, 26, Scotland A. Aglish, 24, Servia J.L. Tebbutt, 26, England J.J. Thompson, 45, Scotland
Those who were unable to pass the medical examiner (Dr. G.R. Baker) were: G.M. Henry, S. Vickers, A. McDonald, T. Adamson, J.A. Steward, H. Shaw, W. White and J. Shannon.
#1‐453 Wilson Street, Quesnel, B.C. V2J 2M2 e‐mail: [email protected]
EXECUTIVE 2011‐12:
President............. Kathleen Edwards
Treasurer ............ Dorothy Paul
Secretary............. Sue Johnson
Librarian ............. Kathleen Edwards Positions are held for one year with elections at the September meeting.
PROJECTS:
Webmaster.............Bill Atkinson
Newsletter .............. Leanne Broughton
Cemetery ................Mary Lust
New Cemetery ........Ron Silver
Births ......................
Marriages ...............
Deaths .................... Leanne Broughton
Volunteer hours......Gertie Garreau
OBJECTIVE: to provide a local forum for genealogical research and discussions. MEETINGS: held the second Tuesday of each month from September to June at 7:00 p.m. at the Church of
the Latter Day Saints [Mormon] at 1490 Beryl Road, Quesnel. MEMBERSHIP: $20.00 (individual) or $25.00 (family) yearly, due September meeting or $10.00 basic plus
$1.00 per month until September. NOTE: Although a branch of the B.C.G.S., a specific membership is required to receive their newsletter, or for the use of their facilities.
FACILITIES: The Society presently has a small genealogical library, a microfiche/film reader and some research
aids. Our objective is to increase our library holdings on general genealogical topics, and to develop specific holdings according to membership interest. These books, research aids and fiche may be borrowed by society members for local use for up to four weeks.
The library has a good collection of genealogical info related to the Cariboo Gold Rush,
particularly for Wells and Barkerville. RESEARCH: Inquiries for research will be passed to local members and charged at a rate of $10.00 per hour +
postage and photocopy fees, payable in advance. Black and white photos of headstones in the Quesnel Pioneer Cemetery and headstones in small cemeteries and memorial parks surrounding Quesnel are available from negatives for $5.00 including postage.
FUNDING: This is a non‐profit society. Yearly membership fees and other fundraising activities are used to pay for operational expenses. NEWSLETTER: The society publishes three newsletters a year, in February (#1 Spring), May (#2 Summer/Fall)
and November (#3 Winter). Subscription is included in yearly membership fees, available on a trade basis, or $3.00 per year for non‐members.
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