Volume XXXVIII, Number 10 Salem, Oregon October 2016

President: Elizabeth Tice—503-363-0880—email: eliztice@comcast.net

Newsletter Editor: Elizabeth Tice—503-363-0880—email: willvgs@yahoo.com

WVGS Web Site http://www.wvgsor.org

WILLAMETTE VALLEY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

WVGS ACTIVITIES—SALEM

October 6th, Thursday 11:30 am to 1:30 pm WVGS Executive Board Meeting. We will meet at the Broadway Commons in an upstairs room. The Broad-way Commons is at 1300 Broadway Street NE, Salem. Board meetings are open to all members.

Willamette Valley Genealogical Society

October 8th, 2016, 10:30 am to 1 pm Salem Public Library Central Library 585 Liberty St SE Salem, OR 97301

Anderson Room A (Lower Level) 10:30 am – 11:45 am General Membership Meeting. A business meeting will be held to conduct society business.

12:00 noon to 1 pm Program: 12:00 noon to 1 pm Program: Mindy Lampert- “A Library Intern’s Journey into Genealogy”

Mindy Lampert recently received her Masters of Library and Information Science, with a focus on Archives at Emporia State University. She has been interested in genealogy since she was a teenager, and hopes to continue working with genealogy for a long time to come. Part of her practicum with Salem Pub-lic Library was to work with the genealogy volunteers. Mindy will now be a substitute genealogy volunteer for WVGS at Salem Public Library.

Mindy will talk about how her interest in genealogy has related to getting a degree in Library Sci-ence and what she has learned from that. As a part of her practicum with the WVGS, Mindy created tutori-als for one of her classes These videos will help walk someone through some of the websites available for studying genealogy and some steps on how to get started. She will talk about these tutorials and how to access them. She will also talk about doing genealogy research in a library and the business she hopes to start.

Our program is open to the public—please join us.

Upcoming Programs November 12th—Kerry Wymetalek “A Trip to Ireland” December 10th—Annual Potluck and Auction

Do you have any suggestions for programs for 2017? We are looking for interesting programs for next year or suggestions for a topic that we could find a speak-er for. Let an officer know!

2016 Meeting Dates All in Anderson A/B at Salem Public Library January 9 July 9 February 13 August 13 March 12 (Heritage Room) September 10 April 9 (Heritage Room) October 8 May 14 November 12 June 11 December 10

WVGS Information

WVGS Officers for 2016 Elected Officers

President: Elizabeth Tice 1st Vice-President (Program): John Cochran 2nd Vice-President (Membership): Suzan Rempel Recording Secretary: Barbara Foster Corresponding Secretary: Tony Hoff Treasurer: Lauren Teubner

Appointed Positions Newsletter Editor: Elizabeth Tice Beaver Brief Editor: Susan Bell Librarians: Jim Willhite and Deanne Smith Volunteer Coordinator: Craig Smith Publicity: George Cropsey Webmaster: Dennis Hill Periodicals: Dee Iltis

NORPAC Label Redemption Program This money-making program is just to cut out the UPC code on FLAV-R-PAC, Santiam, and WESTPAC products and turn them in to WVGS. Labels can be turned in at any Saturday WVGS meeting or mailed to WVGS.

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MEMBERSHIP REPORT By Suzan Rempel Membership for July 2016 was 19 Life Members, 70 single memberships, 10 family memberships (20 individuals), and 3 Historical/Genealogical Societies for a total of 112 members. Welcome new member Glen Jones of Jef-ferson and Mary Blankenship of Salem!

Newsletter We send newsletters to our members and ex-change societies by email from our Yahoo email account (willvgs@yahoo.com). If any member would prefer a hard copy, please let me know. Or if we don’t have your e-mail and you’re willing to get your newsletter by e-mail, let me know your e-mail address. The same is true for our exchange societies and com-plimentary newsletters. We also are emailing the Beaver Briefs to members. If you want a hard copy, the cost is still an additional $6.50 for postage. Beaver Briefs can be accessed by members on our web-site under Member Page with a password. If you need your password, contact Liz Tice.

WVGS and Salem Public Library The Willamette Valley Genealogical Society collec-tion of books, CDs and microfilm/microfiche is housed at Salem Public Library, 585 Liberty St SE Salem, Oregon. Our collection is online through the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Ser-vice. The catalog for Salem Public Library can be searched at https://catalog.ccrls.org/client/en_US/spl/?dt=list

Parking at Salem Public Library The Library Parkade is metered parking at $.75 an hour. Parking is free after 6 pm. The Pringle Parkade is free on week-ends and after 6 pm. Oth-erwise you will have to find street parking in the res-idential areas. Volunteer Hours at Salem Public Library: Mon. Closed Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Sunday 1 pm to 4 pm Tuesday Evening: 5 pm to 8 pm Last Thursday of each month 5 to 7 pm DNA Help

Fred Meyer Community Rewards Willamette Valley Genealogical Society has signed up with Fred Meyer Community Rewards as a

non-profit. If you shop at Fred Meyer and use your Rewards Card, it also helps us.

Sign up for the Community Rewards program by linking your Fred Meyer Rewards Card to

Willamette Valley Genealogical Society. You can do this on our website under Help.

Then, every time you shop and use your Rewards Card, you are helping WVGS earn a donation!

You still earn your Rewards Points, Fuel Points, and Rebates, just as you do today. Thank you!

WVGS’s Fred Meyer Community Rewards number is 82436.

Questions about Autosomal DNA? Denise Sproed, member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, will be available to an-swer your questions about Autosomal DNA testing on at the Genealogy Desk at Salem Public Library on October 27th from 5 pm to 7 pm.

WVGS News

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Society News

Our newest volunteer at Salem Public Library is Mindy Lampert. She is a substitute volunteer and will al-so be our October speaker.

We do need more volunteers at Salem Public Library! We need to have two volunteers on each 3 hours shift. We need volunteers on afternoon shifts, 2 pm to 5 pm, on Thursday (two people), Friday (one per-son) and Saturday (one person). If you’d like to have a very rewarding experience, please contact Craig, Deanne or Liz.

The WVGS Executive Board and members at the September meeting agreed that no increase in dues is need for next year. So dues will remain at $25 for an individual or $30 for a family membership. We did make changes to the membership form (see page 7). You can now fill in information on your geograph-ical areas of research and favorite surnames that you are researching. We will be adding that information to the Members List on the Members Page. You could contact others with similar interests.

The editors of Beaver Briefs will be Dennis Hill-Production Editor, Ann Hill-Copy Editor, Craig Smith-Content Editor, and Liz Tice-Mailing/Secretarial Editor

Did you enjoy Jim Willhite’s article last month about Wilhoit Springs? If you have any short 1-page arti-cles of genealogical or historical interest that you’d like to have in the newsletter, I’m always looking for member stories. Send to me (Liz Tice) at our society email willvgs@yahoo.com

Reminders— Signing up for Fred Meyer Rewards costs you nothing and benefits WVGS. Instructions are on our website

under Help. The next genealogy class at the Senior Center 50+ will begin in January 2017. $30 for five 2-hour classes.

Beaver Briefs We have new editors in 2017 for our quarterly Beaver Briefs who have decided it’s a good time to make some changes. Sue Bell, with Sherrill Hochspeier as production assistant, researched, wrote and edited the quarterly for over 25 years. Sue has left us several years’ of material. However it is either written long-hand or clippings of arti-cles. We need typists! If you are familiar with Microsoft Word and would like to help out with typing, then we need you! We have lots of good material to transcribe. We would like to have more member involvement, a broader appeal and updated resources. So we are asking members to submit articles for Beaver Briefs. We’re interested in How did I research my ancestor. My most interesting ancestor. Using research sources, such as online newspapers. Genealogy topics such as Civil War research. Good sources. Marion county and Oregon settlers and history. If you’d like to submit an article, we’ll even help with editing and sources. Contact Craig Smith.

New on our website www.wvgsor.org Thanks to the hard work of Webmaster Dennis Hill we now have a BB Surname Index , for Beaver Briefs Volumes 40-48 (2010 to Vol 3 of 2016). This is for members only on the Members Page. You can search for a surname (listed in alphabetical order), find the volume(s) and page that the surname is on. This is wonderful for finding a name in our publication which are on the website for members to look at. We hope to scan more years and add to the surname index. Thank you Dennis!! Example: Surname: Volume: Issue: Page(s) Aamoth 42 3 28

Family Tree Maker

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Family Tree Maker

This message was received from Software MacKiev: Family Tree Maker is alive and well. I f you hadn't yet heard the news yet up there in the Pacific Northwest, Family Tree Maker has been acquired by our company, Software MacKiev. Free Update for current editions. We are hard at work finalizing a free update for FTM 2014 and Mac 3 users. We have focused on stability and performance improvements. Still works with Ancestry.com. Our updated versions for Mac and Windows pick up right where Ancestry left off so you will still be able to get Ancestry's "shaky leaf" hints, and use TreeSync® to keep your Ancestry online tree in synch with the Family Tree Maker tree on your computer. In addition, WVGS member Linda Wiley, said “Thanks to the person that posted this infor-mation in the new newsletter! I was just get-ting ready to reload FTM on my computer--it was removed when I got a new computer some time ago. I immediately went to the link and read up on the transition. I loaded the FTM from a disc with no problem, then worked through a problem getting the Ancestry load-ed. Using Help setting, the MacKeiv instruc-tions were very clear and the download went well. I had previously been unable to properly sync the Ancestry tree with FTM so was very pleased it went through on the first try. I wasn't happy about the whole situation when it was announced they wouldn't support FTM any longer. McKiev seems to have the an-swer for keeping things pretty much as they were--FTM linked to Ancestry trees, although they say the sync isn't quite ready to go--they are working on it. If you click on the Help link while in FTM it goes to the McKeiv site--at least mine does now, but all the info looks like An-cestry's stuff. There aren't many solutions to the problem except going this route or switch-ing to an entirely new tree system (My Herit-age, etc.)”

October 22, 2016

Milwaukie Stake Family History Conference

From Valerie Schomburg: Once again we are approaching the time for the annual Milwaukie Stake Family History Conference, "All Things Relative." The conference is free and lunch is provided with registration. The web site for information and registration is: milwaukiefamilyhistoryconference.blogspot.com Preregistration will be available from 19 September until midnight on 20 October. For logistical rea-sons, we ask that you pre-register if possible. In order to fit into more people's schedules, the two morning sessions each have five classes. Nine of these classes will be repeated during the two after-noon sessions. Linda Gillette's class "Family Search Indexing", will only be offered in the morning ses-sion. Cindy Webb's class "Citing Your Sources", will only be offered in the afternoon session.

Family History Center

Montana

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Oregon Spectator The Oregon Spectator, was a newspaper pub-lished from 1846 to 1855 in Oregon City of what was first the Oregon Country and later the Oregon Territory of the United States. The Spectator was the first American newspaper west of the Rocky Mountains and was the main paper of the region used by politicians for public debate of the leading topics of the day. The paper's motto was West-ward the Star of Empire takes its way. A W.P.A. project was to index the Oregon Spec-tator: Oregon Spectator Index 1846-1854 (Two Volumes), W. P. A. Newspaper Index Project, Pub-lished by Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR, 1941. Since reading the small print of old newspapers is difficult, having an index is very useful. If you are researching early Oregon people or history, you can see the index online through Oregon State University Library, Gerald W. Williams Col-lection, at https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/handle/1957/9399. It is a pdf document that you can download and search. (thanks to Avis Reddaway for this information)

Oregon Historical Newspapers Online

This site lists where you can find historical Ore-gon newspapers online, not only at Historic Ore-gon Newspapers but the Library of Congress. Google also has newsletter archives and there is also a site called Small Town Papers, for free. His-toric as well as recent newspapers online are in-cluded in the database, the years covered and whether the site is free or for a fee.

https://sites.google.com/site/onlinenewspapersite/Home/usa/or

To find a list of current Oregon newspapers, go to All Oregon, Oregon newspapers at http://www.all-oregon.com/state/info/newspapers.htm

And just a reminder that Tony Hoff, our Cor-responding Secretary, and his wife Sharon Hoff are doing a great job looking up obi-tuaries for the Society. He also subscribes to GenealogyBank.com so has access to old and new obituaries. Our fee is only $5 now as we are proposing an increase next year for non-members.

Some Places to find records for Montana FamilySearch Historical Records for Montana Montana, County Births and Deaths, 1840-2004 — index and images Montana Marriages, 1889-1947 Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950

Montana Historical Society Montana's first territorial legislature established the Montana Historical Society (MHS) in Virginia City in 1865. The society moved to its present home in the city of Helena in 1874, and it became a state agency in 1891. Located in west central Montana, Helena is the state capital and county seat of Lewis and Clark County. MHS has provided online resources including: Digitized Newspapers More than 375,000 pages from 47 newspapers have been digitized to create this resource. The database is full-text searchable and covers 1885 to 2014. Discover Montana This section contains links to resources about Montana's place names and history. Digital Collections of the Montana Memory Project This collection includes photographs, documents, books, maps, and audio resources. You will also find community cookbooks, diaries, high school yearbooks, and radio interviews of locals. Other resources include Montana Military Enlistment da-tabases for 1890-1918, World War I, and World War II; and Montana State Prison Records from 1869 to 1974. This latter database includes pris-oner description sheets with mug shots and de-scriptions of criminal histories and arrest records.

Ancestry.com Unique to Montana Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950 1,936,364 Montana, Death Index, 1868-2011 682,209 Montana, County Births and Deaths, 1840-2004 260,134 Montana, Select Marriages, 1889-1947 Montana Databases listed on Rootsweb.com http://userdb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/regional.html#Montana

The Montana State Genealogical Society The Montana State Genealogical Society main-tains the Montana State Death Registry Index, Pre-1954 1954-2002 online at Death Records. Scroll to the bottom of the page to link to the time period you want to search. This database covers over 650 thousand records reported to the State from the 1800s through 2002.

Newspapers

Miscellaneous News

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1812 Pension Files Campaign is Complete - #FGS2016 Credit: Ed Donakey

In a stunning announcement at the opening session of the 2016 conference of the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS), Curt Witcher announced that the fund raising goal of the Preserve the Pensions campaign has been met! The FGS project to raise $3.7 million dollars has been going on since 2010. The War of 1812 pension files are among the most frequently requested materials at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and have never been microfilmed or digitized. Since handling the files damages them, they needed to be digitized to prevent further damage. An anonymous donor made a contribution of $500,000, which Ancestry.com matched. FGS also acknowledged the individual conference attendees who included a donation along with their confer-ence payment. All told, over 4,000 individuals and 115 genealogical and lineage societies contributed money to the effort. Ancestry matched each donation. With ongoing cooperation from the project’s partners and major supporters, NARA, Ancestry, Fold3, and FamilySearch, these important documents will be made available free, forever to the general public.

The Family Tree Historical Maps Book: A State-by-State Atlas of U.S. History 1790-1900 By Leland Meitzler

Since Family Roots Publishing recently began marketing The Family Tree Historical Maps Book: A State-by-State Atlas of U.S. History 1790-1900, I figured it was about time to write a more detailed review of the book than I’ve been able to locate elsewhere. It’s easy to say that there are maps from all 50 states, in alphabetical order, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. First off, the book is printed in full color, with a color hard cover (no dust jacket). It’s 8.5 x 11 x 3/4 inches in size, and is 223 pages in length. It was printed in 2014. I’ve had a copy since the book came out and often refer to it. The maps are historic in nature, coming from the famed David Rumsey collec-tion. Since the book is only 8.5 x 11 in size, with many pages having two or more maps on a page, quite a number of the colorful maps had to be shrunk tremendously to fit them on the page. In some cases this caused the town names to be so tiny that they are nearly illegible. If this is the case, I recommend that the user let the map drive them to the David Rumsey collection online to view the map there. In many cases the type in the book is legible however, even though you might have to use your magnify-ing glass to read the print! The volume includes: Full-color historical maps of the United States from each decade of the nineteenth century. Detailed, full-color historical maps of all 50 states Charming nineteenth-century panoramic maps of key cities Special-interest maps, which provide intriguing peeks into American society from average family sizes to taxation per capita to regional industries Timelines for each of the states An expanded table of contents can be found on Leland’s site http://www.genealogyblog.com/?p=38744

Mailing Address: Willamette Valley Genealogical Society

P. O. Box 2083 Salem, OR 97308-2083

Email: willvgs@yahoo.com For more information:

WVGS Web Site Address: http://www.wvgsor.org

WVGS MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Please if this is a NEW or RENEWAL membership Name _____________________________________________________________________ Address____________________________________________________________________ City ____________________________ State _________________ Zip _______________ Phone ______________________ email: ___________________________________

The Willamette Valley Genealogical Society was orga-nized in December 1968, to create and foster the study of family history, to aid in the publication of local history, and to aid in the establishment of materials in local genealogi-cal library collections. It is an Oregon Non-Profit corpora-tion, and was determined by IRS to be a 501 (c) (3) organi-zation. Your donations may be federal tax-deductible.

See our website for information on Life Membership or pick up a

Life Membership form from an officer. · Pro-rated Amounts for new members who join after March 31st: SINGLE FAMILY Apr-Jun: $18.75 Apr-Jun: $22.50 Jul-Sept: $12.50 Jul-Sept: $15.00 Oct-Dec: $6.25 Oct-Dec: $7.50

Amount enclosed - $ ____________ for Annual Dues ($25 individual or $30 family membership), includes Beaver Briefs on-line $ ____________ for postage to receive copies of Beaver Briefs in the mail ($6.50) $ ____________ for one-time payment for Life Membership Under age 70 ($250) Age 70 or Over ($200) $ _____________ other (please identify) ________________________________________ $ ___________________TOTAL ENCLOSED Please make checks payable to WVGS.

Additional Donations Patron $100 Sustainer $250 Benefactor $500 Corporate/Trust $1,000

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Oregon State Archives 800 Summer St NE CLOSED 8 am—12 am and 1 pm—4:45 pm CLOSED Salem, OR 97310 / 503-373-0701 (CLOSED State Holidays) Salem Public Library

585 Liberty St SE 1 pm– 5 pm CLOSED 10 am—9 pm 10 am—6 pm Salem, OR 97301 / 503-588-6052 (CLOSED City Holidays) Willamette Heritage Center

Research Library CLOSED

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