COLLIN COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

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1 Collin County Genealogical Society enews Issue 27, January 2019 COLLIN COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY Come join us at our Jan. 9th meeting! e-news, Issue 27 Wednesday, Jan. 9th, 6:30 pm Haggard Library, 1st Floor Mtg. Room 2501 Coit Road, Plano, TX. 2 Hidden Genealogical Treasures in Revolutionary War Pensions PRESENTED by Julie Avedikian David Rumsey s Online Historical Maps & 1940 Digital Map of San Francisco Julie Avedikian is a member of the Mary Shirley McGuire Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution and has served in many chapter leadership positions as well as a member of the Dallas Area Regents Council. With over 22 years of genealogical research experience, she currently serves as the State Chair for the Volunteer Genealogist Committee for the Texas Society DAR and Organizing Regent for the new Blackland Prairie Chapter in Wylie, TX. In addition to her work with DAR, Julie is an active senior leader for the Matthew Bolton Society, Children of the American Revolution. She has served 3 terms as Senior State Officer for Texas C.A.R. and as a Senior National Officer and Chairman for the National Society C.A.R. Her other organization memberships include United States Daughters of 1812, Colonial Dames of the Seventeenth Century (inactive), General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Collin County Genealogical Society, and Lone Star Parliamentarian Unit. Julie earned an Associate of Science from Collin College in She lives in Plano with her husband and has two grown sons. 3 DNA Tips and Tools & Early Texans DNA Project 4 CCGS upcoming programs, society contacts, area genealogy programs 5 Beyond Kin Project 5 Genealogy Center - Classes When you search for ancestors, you find great friends! Editors Corner Our member Fran Faitt found a very interesting project called Beyond the Kin, read more on page 5. If you have Georgia ancestors you will want to check out the new digitized newspaper collection that now has over 53,000 pages all searchable for free. More details can be found on page 5. on the genealogical treasures found in Revolutionary Was pensions presented by a society member. CCGS has a great program scheduled for Wednesday Happy New Year & May you find that Ancestor! Paula If you haven t yet used David Rumsey s online maps in your research what a useful tool in discovering interesting facts about places your ancestor lived.

2 Collin County Genealogical Society enews Issue 27, January WPA San Francisco Model 42x38 Foot Map Now Online For the first time since 1942, the entire immense 42 by 38 foot WPA built San Francisco Model can be seen assembled virtually. Digitally knitting together all 158 separate pieces with over 6,000 blocks gives the viewer a sense of the extraordinary accomplishment the model represents. David Rumsey created the large Composite image of the 158 pieces, as well as the image and metadata database of all the images, which he hosts on his website. Rumsey also geo-referenced the large Composite image and placed it in Google Earth. The model was a 42 by 38 foot wooden replica of the city of San Francisco as it was in 1940 in 158 pieces. The pieces contain about 6,000 removable city blocks and were built by The Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late 1930's, under the New Deal. It was first displayed in sections in the Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay in In it was displayed in San Francisco City Hall. The model has not been on public view, in its entirety, since UC Berkeley is the current owner of the model. The intent of the makers of the model was to have it updated as the city changed over time and they conceived of it as a tool to help understand and plan for changes in the city's built environment. Read a San Francisco Planning Department document from 1940 describing the building and purposes of the model. See all the images on David Rumsey s blog: Be sure and check out all of David Rumsey s maps. He has a huge collection of historical maps online and all viewable for free. You can use them in conjunction with Google Earth to compare older maps with current times. 2

3 DNA Tips & Tools by Paula Perkins Early Texas Ancestry & DNA Project Do you have early Texas ancestry? Have you done a DNA test? The Texas State Genealogical Society has announced the Early Texas DNA Project. The Early Texans DNA database is now live! Those who join the Early Texans DNA project can compare their DNA to other Early Texans descendants and collaboratively work to solve early Texas genealogical mysteries. The project helps participants study the DNA of descendants of early settlers to discover information that can contribute to Texas history including: Determine which admixtures are found in living Texans today. Link those admixture results to early colonies or settlements. Learn which segments of DNA are shared with other descendants of early settlers of Texas. Assist those applying for TxSGS Heritage Certificates. DNA matches support claims of descent from a common ancestor and can provide clues as to where to locate documentary evidence. Find out more at the following link: Dallas Genealogical Society DNA Special Interest Group meets the 3 rd Thursday at 6:00 pm on the 7 th floor. For further information contact Mic Barnette at mic@micbarnette.com The Genealogy Center has a Genealogy DNA Interest Group. They discuss and explore the use of DNA in genealogy research at the Haggard Library, Meets on Tuesday, 7-8pm. Don t have Collin County Ancestry? You are welcome to join our project and order tests at the CCGS DNA project link: FamilyTreeDNA Learning Center will help you successfully understand your personal page and DNA terms. A glossary is available. FamilyTreeDNA is accepting autosomal test results transfers. Testers can transfer their results for free to FamilyTreeDNA. Some family trees have beautiful leaves, and some have just a bunch of nuts. Remember, it is the nuts that make the tree worth shaking. Unknown 3

4 Collin County Genealogical Society (a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation) P.O. Box Plano TX Upcoming Area Events OFFICERS AND STAFF President Janice Quick 1st VP-Programs Beverly Lenoir & Carol Harper 2nd VP-Membership Lee Stirm Recording Secretary Julie Avedikian Corresponding Secretary Paula Rosselet Treasurer LuAnne Jones Parliamentarian Collin Chronicles Co-Editors Nancy & Michael Bassett enewsletter Editor Paula Perkins Historian Janice Smith CD/DVD Lectures Lee Stirm Facebook Editor Aurora Chancy Publicity Paula Rosselet Book Committee Chair The new society year begins July 1 st. We are now accepting dues for the Society year, July 1, June 30, Annual dues are $25.00 for an individual and $27.00 for a family membership. Membership includes a subscription to the Collin Chronicles, the Newsletter, admittance to all regularly scheduled program meetings and DNA discounts. Please join or renew today! The Texas Czech Genealogical Society Exploring Resources for Discovering Our Roots January 26, 2019, Caldwell, Texas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dallas Genealogical Society Spring Seminar Dallas Public Library, April 13, ings-events/seminars/ Texas Institute of Genealogical Research Conference June CCGS Programs Spring 2019 Programs Mark Your Calendars! January 9, 2019 Julie Avedikian Hidden Genealogical Treasures in Revolutionary War Pensions February 13, 2019 Ari Wilkins - Mysterious Ancestors March 13, 2019 David Appleton - Heraldry April 10, TBA May 8, TBA June 12, 2019 Year End Social & Program Guests Always Welcome! If you don t know history, you don t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn t know it is part of a tree. Michael Crichton 4

5 News Continued Genealogy Center News - Haggard Library The Genealogy Center has a full line up of educational fall classes to help you with your research. They have a full line up of Spring 2019 classes to assist you with your genealogy endeavors. Finding Your Roots Series Premiere Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns Tuesday night, January 8 with a new series of Finding Your Roots on PBS, its fifth season. Here it will appear on KERA Public Broadcasting (PBS) at 7 p. m. Central. A host of new celebrities will be featured, in various combinations, including Laura Linney, Christiane Amanpour, Michael Strahan, Seth Meyers, Senator Marco Rubio, Rep. Paul Ryan, and Marisa Tomei. If you have a chance watch or record the series. They are quite interesting. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Christian Index Digitized and Online The Digital Library of Georgia and the Georgia Newspaper Project have just added digitized versions of a large number of Georgia newspapers to their site dlg.usg.edu and then Georgia Historic Newspapers. You can search the site geographically to find newspapers from your area of interest. One of the most important titles now online is the official Baptist publication, The Christian Index, from 1833 to 1866, now fully searchable. Previous access to information in this paper was only via the 2-volume index to obituaries , and marriage abstracts from , now researchers have access to all the other information within. You can search for a person s name, or a church, and from my own experience, you should find something interesting. For Baptist research, don t forget the Georgia Baptist Archives in the Special Collections, Tarver Library at Mercer University in Macon see libraries.mercer.edu Information from Ken Thomas genealogy news. North Collin County Genealogy Society The meeting will be on Thursday, Jan. 10th at 6:45 p.m. for the North Collin County Genealogical Society Meeting. The meeting will be at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library, 101 E. Hunt Street, McKinney, Texas. For more information contact Stephanie Harrison at sharriso@mckinneytexas.org or ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Upcoming events around town: Peters Colony Historical Society The PCHS meeting dates for the 2019 society year are: February 11, 2019; March 11, 2019; April 8, 2019; May 13, Thanks to Jan Jones with the Peters Colony Historical Society for submitting this information. The Beyond Kin Project The question is as descendants of slaveholders do we hold the key? Two ladies, Donna Cox Baker and Frazine K. Taylor begin the project in Their goals are to encourage and facilitate documentation of the enslaved population. They believe the efforts of descendants of slaveholders hold the key. They have examples of how to create a tree of slaveholders and those enslaved using genealogy software including building trees on Ancestry.com. On their website they have research strategies for descendants of slaveholders. One question is when enslaved ancestors took surnames other than the slaveholders. They have a blog and detail the project in depth on their website. Thanks to member Fran Faitt for this information. 5

6 Collin County Genealogical Society Publications For Sale Collin County Texas Marriages #4 for January 26, 1876 to June 22, 1880 #7 for #8 for #9 for #10 for These books are $10.00 each plus $6.00 shipping and handling Hawkins County, Tennessee Deed Abstracts by Joyce Martin Murray Logan County, Kentucky Deed Abstracts Logan County, Kentucky Deed Abstracts by Joyce Martin Murray by Joyce Martin Murray These books are $10.00 each plus $3.00 shipping and handling If ordered by mail the please include check to CCGS and mail to our society post office box address listed below. Collin County Genealogical Society P. O. Box Plano, TX