Saddleback Valley Trails
South Orange County California Genealogical Society

 P.O. Box 4513, Mission Viejo, CA. 92690

Monthly meetings are held on the third Saturday of each month from 10:00 a.m. to Noon at the Mission Viejo Family History Center Institute Building, 27978 Marguerite Parkway, Mission Viejo, between Medical Center Drive and Hillcrest Drive. Membership is open to anyone wishing to join. Yearly membership fees are $20 per calendar year for individuals, $25 for joint membership. SOCCGS is not affiliated with the LDS Family History Center.
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IS YOUR ADDRESS LABEL HIGHLIGHTED? IF SO, THIS WILL BE THE LAST NEWSLETTER UNLESS YOU RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP BY MARCH 20.
Please find the renewal form on the last page of the newsletter.

GENERAL MEETING MARCH 20, 2004

JOAN LOWREY
to speak on
The Hamburg Passenger Lists and Other German Emigration Sources

Ms. Lowrey specializes in German and U.S. research, computer software for genealogy, publishing books and printing genealogical charts. She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists. She says that The Hamburg Passenger Lists are a gold mine, as they contain the place of birth or last residence. Indexes and the lists are available on Family History Library film. In various years, 30-50% of German emigrants left from Hamburg, as well as emigrants from Scandinavia, Poland and other countries. How to use these resources will be covered in detail. Many other types of emigration records from various parts of Germany will be discussed, including online sources.

CALENDAR

We need 3 Friday afternoon docents! At the present time we have only the second Friday covered. How about signing up for one Friday a month from 1 to 4 p.m. We have enough new books and cds to keep you busy researching while you keep the area open for the public.

The above is only one example of the many powerful resources on JewishGen. To find even more, go to http://www.jewishgen.org.

(The foregoing article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2004 by Richard W. Eastman. It is republished here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com.)

IF I THROW IT AWAY, I'LL NEED IT
by Richard A. Pence <[email protected]>

[Richard Pence is retired and up to his eyeballs in his one-name PENCE family study http://www.pipeline.com/~richardpence. He thinks he should have gotten the big bedroom when the kids moved out — not the tiny one he now has to use as a combination office, library, archives, and computer center. His wife, only recently retired, divides her attention between creating a showcase guest room out of the big bedroom and scouting for fresh territory into which she can introduce those huge trash bags.]
( “If I Throw It Away, I'll Need It” appeared in MISSING LINKS: RootsWeb's Genealogy Journal Vol. 6, No. 15, 11 April 2001.)

Philanthropy is the rent we pay for the joy and privilege
we have for our space on this earth.
~ Jerold Panas

LIBRARY ADDITIONS - FEBRUARY 2004

Robert Yount:
Place Names of the World ** A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada
In Search of Your German Ancestors ** German Family Research Made Simple
The Cumbrian Dictionary of Dialect, Tradition & Folklore
Southern Loyalists in the Civil War ** The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War
Annals & Antiquities of the Counties & County Families of Wales, Vol. I
Tennessee:
Campbell County, Volumes I, II, III ** Tennessee County Maps
1880 Census, Campbell County ** 1800 Census, Blount County
Index to 1880 Census of East Tennessee ** 1890 Civil War Veterans Census
Genealogical Records & Abstracts, Vol. I ** Wills & Administrations, 1779-1861
East Tennessee and the Civil War ** Earliest Tennessee Land Records
Marriages of McMinn County, 1821-1864 ** Marriages of Lawrence County 1818-1854
Twenty-four Hundred Tennessee Pensioners, Revolution - War of 1812
Tennessee Soldiers in the Revolution ** Tennessee Genealogical Records
Scott County, Gem of the Cumberland's
Genealogical Records, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky
Pennsylvania:
Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of Pennsylvania
New Jersey:
The Province of New Jersey
North Carolina:
Family History of Western North Carolina ** NC Taxpayers, Vol. I & II
California:
History of Plumas County ** Story of Costa Mesa, California
Cemetery Records in OCCGS Journals, April 2000 & May 2001
Texas:
Guide to Genealogical Resources in the Texas State Archives
Family History: Faust-Foust Family, Family of John Foust & Anna Barbara Albrecht,
Flint Family History,Vol. I & II
Beverly Long:
Ohio: The Rise & Progress of the Deer Creek Settlement
Judy Deeter:
Ohio: Middletown in Black & White; Colorado: The Encyclopedia of Colorado
Family History: Tucker Trails

We thank all of the generous donors who contribute to our library.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp
of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.
~Patrick Henry 1736-1799

Digital Cameras and Genealogy: Writing on the Ancestry Daily News’ Discussion Board, Ken Watson states, "I've had several email queries about the specifics of how I go about copying old photos using a digital camera. To help answer those questions, I've updated my digital camera and genealogy website with a page that details my personal "workflow". Just click on the link from the main page, or from the Making Digital Copies of Old Photographs page."
http://www.rideau-info.com/genealogy/digital/

Time Tales is a project by photographer Astrid van Loo and web designer Dick Dijkman. It is a collection of photographs found at flea markets, thrift shops, some are scooped up from streets and alleyways, fallen from an overstuffed bag or torn pocket. Others turn up in a cabinet’s hidden compartment, found while wandering the rooms of an abandoned house. Now the photos exist by themselves, lost in time. Time tales does not want to reveal their mysteries. Time tales asks to be the new home for lost photos, a resting place, for the nameless and the lost. http://www.timetales.com A picture needs memories to be an image.

This is a project worthy of our notice. A fellow genealogist in Virginia has begun a transcription of the 13 volumes of William Waller Hening's Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the year 1619. Check it out at: http://www.vagenweb.org/hening

Afrigeneas, is probably the best-known Black American genealogy site: http://www.afrigeneas.com

The Freedmen's Bureau Online: http://www.freedmensbureau.com

Acadian Genealogy Database Online: An Acadian genealogy project at the Universite Sainte-Anne College de l'Acadie has expanded to include 85,000 entries of 27 families. The University started this project in January 2001 to record the lineage of the first Acadian families who settled in southwestern Nova Scotia in the 17th century and whose descendants still live there. The information includes parish records, census data, and publications related to Acadian genealogy.

The project is financed by the Western Valley Development Authority (WVDA) via a contribution from the Smart Community program (Connecting Canadians: http://connect.gc.ca) at Industry Canada.

Fifty-two(52) Acadian family genealogies (over 100 000 entries) are presently online. The families chosen in this project are those whose descendants are now residing mainly in the counties of Digby and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. You can access this online database at:
http://www.ustanne.ednet.ns.ca/cacadien/indexenglish.htm

Year by year 1900-2000 - See what happened during each year. Plus there is an atlas, almanac, dictionary and encylclopedia. Enough information to keep you busy and out of trouble! http://www.factmonster.com/yearbyyear.html

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Searching for Pritchards: Member Mary Lou Brascia would like to find someone who is searching for Pritchards. She can be contacted at (949) 699-2637.

GENEALOGICAL EVENT CALENDAR

Herb Abrams has advised that the Surname List, with updated information and email addresses of those who wish them listed, is now ready for your perusal.https://sites.rootsweb.com/~casoccgs/surnames.htm
Thank you Herb.

IDENTIFYING OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
Eastman's Online Newsletter 2/01/04

When looking through old family photographs, you may have trouble identifying the people. Is that grandma or great-grandma? Identifying the approximate year in which the photograph was taken can be a big help.

19th-century clothing enthusiast Shirley Jolliff reports that the fashionable young woman of the 1840s would have her hair in a center part with loops over her ears, a style unflatteringly dubbed "spaniel ears," and a bun in the back. Sleeves were tight, bodices of dresses had vertical shirring, and waistlines came to a downward point.

Identifying children can be much more difficult since young boys and girls alike wore dresses until they were six or seven years old. The trick is to look at their hair; boys' hair was parted on the side, and girls had center parts.

Go to Kimberley Powells’s Genealogy Website for more information on dating and identifying your old photographs. http://genealogy.about.com/cs/photodating

THE AMERICAN COLONIST’S LIBRARY

This Web site contains full-length transcriptions of hundreds, perhaps thousands of documents that were significant to American history. Here is a brief list of just a few:
* The Works of Sir Walter Raleigh, Sponsor of the First Settlements in Virginia.
* The Dutch Declaration of Independence (1581); This Calvinistic document served as a model for the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
* The Settlement at Jamestown, John Smith (1607), including the famous account of Smith being saved by Pocahontas.
* Laws Concerning Religion as passed by the Virginia General Assembly in 1619.
* The Foundation of Quebec, by Samuel de Champlain (1608).
* Of Plymouth Plantation (Written 1630-1654, first published 1854). This is Governor William Bradford's history of Plymouth, the most comprehensive primary source available on early Plymouth.
* Journal of George Fox, Founder of the Quakers.
* Transcripts of the Salem Witch Trials (1692).
* Indian Captivity Narrative, Mary Jemison (1750).
* The Stamp Act, 1765 Precipitated the "Stamp Act Crisis" which fomented rebellion throughout the colonies.
* Daniel Boone's Journal.
* Many works by Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, Ethan Allen, and others.
This is a very brief list but will give you an idea of what can be found in the American Colonist's Library. Keep in mind that these are full text documents; every word of the original is available.
You can see the American Colonist's Library for yourself at:
http://www2.pitnet.net/primarysources
(The foregoing article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2004 by Richard W. Eastman.)

AMERICA’S QUACK MEDICINE

(The foregoing article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2004 by Richard W. Eastman. It is republished here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com.)

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