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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AND CREDITS
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THANK
YOU VOLUNTEERS!
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Vikki
Gray: This is my second time around as County Coordinator
for Berkshire County. I live in Colorado and have been trying
to track down my Gray family. I have been stuck for 20 years at
Elijah Gray, who enrolled in the Revolutionary War in Lanesborough,
Berkshire County, Massachusetts. He was married to Anna Cartwright
and they married in Hoosick, New York and then moved on to Genesee
County, New York. I handle other US GenWeb sites in Colorado,
Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, New York and New Mexico. I am also
the State GenWeb Coordinator for Alaska.
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Dawn
Marie Newton Quinn: I grew up in Springfield, Hampden County,
MA, but both of my parents were born in Pittsfield. My father
grew up in Lanesboro, and my mother grew up in Hinsdale. Some
of my happiest memories as a child were visiting their families
in the Berkshires. Today I love going up to the Berkshires, not
just to do research, but to visit my family that is still there.
After trying unsuccessfully to find my 4th g-grandfather's death
certificate in Cheshire, I found his gravestone. It had been buried
for over seven decades before a cousin of mine uncovered it. Many
of the older smaller cemeteries have been forgotten about, and
in some cases, those are the only records available to know when
an ancestor lived or died. This has prompted me to try and start
the Berkshire Cemetery Association, which would record all the
cemeteries in the Berkshires, take digital pictures of them, donate
the work to the libraries, and to make sure that all veterans
graves are marked properly. If you are interested in helping with
this, please e-mail me. I started volunteering on the USGenWeb
site after Ray Brown took over and began to post oodles of information
and was asking volunteers to help with the project. I also maintain
the USGenWeb sites of Windsor, Hartford County, CT and Hampden
County, MA. One of the most rewarding things for me is to open
my e-mail up and see a "thank-you" from someone who
was able to find information on their family.I
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Patricia
McMackin: Having many ancestors born and/or buried in Berkshire
County, I am committed to do whatever I can to help preserve the
history and heritage of this county. Even though I have never
been to the Berkshires, I feel deep roots there. Over the past
twenty years many people have helped me with my genealogy and
I feel it's my turn to give back. I donate the web space and manage
the Berkshire County Surname Page so we can all make connections
with others working on the same names or families. I also donate
the web space and manage a site called Berkshire Cares, for the
Berkshire Cemetery Association, which hopefully will develop into
a clearing house of all of the graves in the county with lists
and pictures. I also help with the 1860 census transcription project
for Ashtabula County, Ohio as many Berkshire families went to
this area of Ohio.
(I
thank Patricia for helping me by giving me some of the graphics
used on this website, and for giving me quick lessons about using
websites when I get stuck on something. I also thank her for trying
to start the Berkshire Cemetery Association with me, even though
a great distance separates us. Hopefully we can start this by
Spring 2004.) Dawn Marie Newton Quinn
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Margaret
Bence Davis: I was born in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
and my family has lived in that area for many generations. My
search has taken me to Hancock, Pittsfield, Richmond and North
Adams. I could not have accomplished all the data that I have
gathered without the assistance of many generous people. I like
to submit various documents to the Berkshire County site (and
a few others in New England), as a means of repaying those that
have helped me. It gives me a sense of purpose and satisfaction
and I hope that someone else may find information that will be
helpful in their own family searches.
(I
thank Margaret for not only helping on the Berkshire County USGenWeb
site, but her interest in Berkshire Cemeteries. Margaret also
donates transcriptions to the Berkshire Family History Association.)
Dawn Marie Newton Quinn
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Bedard
Photos: Our interest in Berkshire County is two fold. We live
here & Donna's family has been in southern Berkshire County
for the last two hundred years. We volunteer our photographs to
the website so we can give something back to the community. We
are a husband (John) and wife (Donna) photography team located
in the beautiful Berkshires of western Massachusetts. Ive
been doing photography for about 15 years now, the last 3 professionally.
Although most of the work is presently mine, my wife has become
more involved over time and recently has started adding her own
work to our collection. We currently have about 150 New England
images and are always adding new material. Our work has been recognized
in the Berkshire Eagle, Berkshire Record, and the Boston Sunday
Globe newspapers. Prints and note cards can be found in gift shops
across Massachusetts from Berkshire County to Cape Cod. We also
have an ever growing list of private clients here in the Berkshires,
as we also do commissioned work of local scenics, buildings, homes,
etc. Some of our more public clients here in the Berkshires include
Tanglewood (summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra), The
Cranwell Resort & Golf Club, The Candlelight Inn and The Garden
Gables Inn. We have also had our work on the cover of the tourism
brochure for the town of Roxton Falls in Quebec.
(I
thank John & Donna for generously donating their professional
photographs for our website. Now people who cannot visit Berkshire
County can appreciate its beauty & magic.) Dawn Marie Newton
Quinn
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Bettye
Seaton Liberty: I was born in Lauderdale County in West Tennessee.
As a young teen-ager our family moved to Memphis, Tennessee where
I lived until I moved to North Adams in 1979 to get married. My
family research is in Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Since I began searching for my ancestors in 2000, I have received
valuable information and gained tips on researching from so many
volunteers. I wanted to be able to give back by helping others.
Since I had no roots in Berkshire County, I had no documents to
share with others. When I learned there was a need for transcribers,
I knew this was something I could do to help put information on
the web site for other researchers.
(I
thank Bettye for transcribing records for the website. She is
always willing to help, even though she works long hours and has
no family ancestry to Berkshire County!) Dawn Marie Newton Quinn
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Beverly
Nichols Rainey
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Cindy
Walcott
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Greg
McCabe
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Kenneth
Dale Mattson: I was born in Hinsdale (Illinois, that is),
but have traced 25% of my ancestry as having passed through Berkshire
County, MA, in one way or another. I have often been the beneficiary
of the hard work others have put into online resources, and now
that my research seems to be on a temporary (I hope) plateau,
I have discovered that I really do enjoy doing transcriptions.
I have visited Berkshire County only once, but enjoyed the time
very much and expect to return as time and resources permit.
(I
thank Ken for his invaluable effort in building up the resources
under the town of Sandisfield. He has donated a lot of time to
accurately transcribing records for Sandisfield.) Dawn Marie Newton
Quinn
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Michael
W. Phelps: While I was not born in Berkshire Co, my genealogy
research has taken my Phelps family line back to Pittsfield in
the late 1700s, most likely to Stephen Phelps, son of Nathaniel
Phelps and Sarah Bush. Starting around 1790, my family migrated
to Freehold, Bethlehem and Pittstown, all in New York; Bennington,
Vermont; Washington Co, Pennsylvania; Zanesville, Ohio; Napoleonville,
Louisiana; and then finally Los Angeles, California. Basically,
these were people who couldn't stay in one place for long! While
living on the east coast a few years ago, I was able to spend
several days doing research at the Pittsfield Athenaeum, so I
got to know the town a little. It seems like a wonderful place
to hail from. I also walked the lines of headstones at the main
cemetery (those that were repositioned from the earliest cemeteries
in town), and found Nathaniel and Sarah's markers. I'm still working
to confirm my connection to Stephen Phelps, and would like to
get back to Pittsfield someday for more research. Other Pittsfield
names I am researching are ROOT and GOODRICH.
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Michele
Valenzo
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T.
Miscia
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Valerie
Lyon
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Ray
Brown, Past Webmaster
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Laurel
O'Donnell, Past Webmaster
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Claire
Smith, Past Webmaster
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Everlasting
Thanks to all the Volunteers Who Work to Make This Website Great;
& Rootsweb/Ancestry.com for Providing Us With Our Webspace!
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