Genealogy Society Of Craighead County, Arkansas

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1 Genealogy Society Of Craighead County, Arkansas This month s meeting will be at the Jonesboro Public Library at 2:00 20 July 2003 VOLUME NUMBER SEVEN, ISSUE NUMBER FIVE JULY 2003 MEETING HAPPENINGS: The June Meeting was held on June 22, 2002 at the Craighead County, Jonesboro Public Library. The program was to be presented by B.A. Adams from the City Parks Department. He topic was the City Maintained Cemeteries. Unfortunately, Mr. Adams was unable to be there. Instead we had a Research Day to work on your own research. EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING: The Executive Board meeting for July was held on July 12, 2003 at the Jonesboro Public Library. 1. The next Beginning Genealogy Class will be August 4 & 5 2. Begin making plans to attend the Arkansas Genealogy Society Seminar in Little Rock on October 17 & The next Executive Board Meeting will be 9 August JULY MEETING: The July Meeting will be on Civil War Research presented by Gregg Scott and Ed Gerdes. The meeting will be held at 2:00 p.m. in the Round Room at the Jonesboro Library on July 20, We look forward to seeing you there. AUGUST MEETING: The August Meeting will be presented by Terry Cooper on Migration Trails. The meeting will be held August 17, 2003 at 2:00 p.m. in the Round Room at the Jonesboro Library. BOOKS AT THE JONESBORO LIBRARY The Campbells of Sharp County, Arkansas by Glenna Lee Campbell Berry GEN Ca15 Montgomery County Heritage (Montgomery County, North Carolina) Volume I NC Mo 76 v.1 Montgomery County Heritage (Montgomery County, North Carolina) Volume II NC Mo 76 v.2 Montgomery County Heritage (Montgomery County, North Carolina) Volume III NC Mo 76 v.3 1

2 DUES Membership Dues are $15 a year from January to January. Please send dues to GSCCA, P.O. Box 844, Jonesboro, AR If you don t receive your March Newsletter, check to see if you paid your dues. ARKANSAS DEATH CERTIFICATES TEMPORARY FEE REDUCTION: The Arkansas Department of Health, Division of Vital Records, has announced that in accordance with Act 957 of 2001 and Act 1723 of 2003, effective July to August 31, 2003, the fee for Death Certificates will decrease to the 2001 rate of $4.00 for the first copy and $1.00 for each additional copy of the same certificate. Beginning September 1, 2003, the rate will increase. Remember this is only a TEMPORARY FEE REDUCTION. Genealogy: It's all relative in the end anyway. NEWSLETTER: Many of our Society members have computers in their home and have access to and the Internet. For those members we would like to offer the following choices: (1) receiving their newsletter as an attachment, (2) viewing directly on the Internet, or (3) continuing to receive a newsletter through the regular mail. Please let me (Nancy Matthews) know your choice nlmatthews@ritternet.com. Unless you let me know different, you will continue to receive your newsletter through the regular mail. As always the newsletter is available by going to the Society s Website at DID YOU KNOW? Alabama began requiring registration of births and deaths in The earliest permanent settlement in today s Alabama began at Mobile in 1702 as a French colony [ ]. Great Britain controlled the area from , and Spain from The area was added to the Mississippi Territory in Many local archives of Mobile and in nearby Florida, contain extensive resources for research in early Alabama history. Alabama went through great population growth with the creation of the Alabama Territory in 1817 and again in 1819 with statehood. Families from Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee moved into the area in hopes of buying federal lands at low rates. MAKE YOUR PLANS Begin making your plans. The Greene County Historical and Genealogical Society is planning a trip to Washington, D.C. in the spring of It will be a research and historical sight seeing trip. The dates and cost have not been finalized. Watch future newsletters for additional information. 2

3 Are You a Genealogist? wide-brimmed hat to ward off sun and rain in cemeteries.../ \ trifocal glasses... 0^0...pious expression for dust mask...( ) begging documents from sticky tongue from...\---/ distant relatives licking stamps bent back from bending.../\ \ \-/ / /\ /8 --..coffee mug that over documents / o \ \ / 8 says "I Brake muscular right arm.../ / o \ \ /0/ for Cemeteries" from cranking / / _ o _ : \ \/ /: microfilm readers / / o : \ / :watch (to make sure you carpal tunnel.../ / / o \ : \/ have time before the syndrome / / o : : library closes to check inky hands... /--/ oooo====== : : one more reference) writer's cramp...//// :UUUU \_ : :vest with pedigree chart on : /\ : : back for others to read coin changer for photocopy: : :shirt with large pockets machines and the lockers : for pens, cards, etc. at the National Archives / \/ \ : :wallet and checkbook (you can knee pads for finding...\ /\ / afford genealogy because you books on low shelves don't spend your salary on food, clothing, or shelter) bottom of jogging outfit... (recycled: who has /--/ \--\ time to jog?) \--\ /--/...hiking shoes or duck boots Large backpack with many pockets: file folders or 3-ring binder with charts, blank forms, Soundex quick reference card acid-free page protectors pens and pencils of various colors business cards, notepad, index cards, envelopes, stamps, stapler flashlight for finding skeletons in closets flowers and chocolates for enticing elderly relatives into revealing family stories and letting you copy their old photos tape recorder for interviewing relatives, plus cassettes of interviews and favorite songs: The Great Historical Bum, I'm My Own Grandpaw, Dem Bones, Grandfather's Clock, Don't Know Much About History 3

4 scribbled notes from relatives portable computer, cellular telephone, modem calculator for figuring out dates/ages portable photocopier shredder for mail from Bath, Ohio peanut butter sandwiches, fig bars, bananas, coffee thermos, juice packs aspirin or ibuprofen, allergy tablets, eyedrops magnifying glass (with light) tombstone tools: brush, trowel, chalk, shaving cream, jug of water, camera with blackand-white film, rice paper for making impressions maps - topographic, historical, aerial photos old photograph collections English-ancestral language dictionaries large box of tissues for crying when you learn you have been chasing the wrong family (line) for three years folding chair to use in courthouses that don't believe in chairs satchel for things that don't fit in the backpack economical car that gets about 50 miles to the gallon (license plate says ROOTS) PHOTOGRAPHY AS A TOOL IN GENEALOGY text by Ron and Maureen Willis, Willis Photo Lab 2510 Old Middlefield Rd. Mountain View, CA / (415) retyped by Ted Swift (tswift@well.uucp) VI. THE STEREOGRAPH ( ). "Parlor Travel" both educational and entertaining. A. The stereograph is an almost identical side-by-side set of images of a single scene, viewed simultaneously through an optical device held to the eyes like a pair of binoculars. Each eye looks at a slightly different image, and the fusion of the two images in the mind creates the illusion of depth. B. Price: a few pennies. C. Sizes of stereo cards and slides: The typical mass manufactured stereo card of the period between the Civil War and WW I had a standard dimension: 3 1/2" x 7". This is the size commonly found in boxed sets. The earliest of these cards were made on slightly curved mounts; later cards were made on slightly curved mounts that permitted greater clarity when they were seen in the stereopticon viewer. A number of photographers, working with larger field cameras, created slightly larger cards of 4" x 7", 4 3/8" x 7" and 4 1/2" x 7". Until about 1873 the smaller sizes were sold for twenty five cents per card and the larger "artistic" size for fifty cents. Within a decade sets of twenty or more were made on printing presses, not by a hand photographic process. The on-glass slides, a stereo form more popular in 4

5 Europe than in America, were available in two standard sizes, 45 x 107 mm and 6 x 13 cm. Both were smaller than the standard card stereographs. VII. THE WET-PLATE PRINT (c ). "The photograph that opened the West". (A large contact print). A. To identify the wet-plate negative, look for an uneven coating were the syrupy collodion base of the glass plate did not flow to the very edges of the glass. Many of the plate edges reveal torn or rippled emulsion and even the fingerprints of the darkroom technician who handled it with wet fingers. Only occasionally is it possible to determine whether a print was made from a wet-plate negative, especially if the outer edge of the print has been trimmed away. It is the edge that would immediately reveal the irregularities of the collodion coating prepared in the field. B. Few Americans could afford the cost of a studio enlargement made with a solar enlarger. The technique of making such enlargements were so complicated that few photographers had the proper skill to make an enlargement from a standard studio negative. Much of the demand for larger photographs could be satisfied by making larger negatives and larger cameras to handle them. Wet plate negatives were often 11" x 14" up to 20" x 24" sheets of sensitized glass. C. Wet-plate photographers helped to open the American West by taking their cameras out of the studio and on location assignment with the survey teams of the U.S. Government and the railroads in the Far West, and with the geological expeditions moving into the unmapped wilderness beyond the Rocky Mountains. The giant spaces they discovered demanded giant cameras. The camera that documented the famous meeting at Promontory Point, Utah of the tracks of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads on 10 May 1869 was built to accommodate glass plates 10" x 13". The camera boated down the Colorado River during the Powell Expedition into the Grand Canyon was 11" x 14". The work of these photographers, shown in major exhibitions in Washington D.C., is generally acknowledged to have been instrumental in convincing Congress to enact legislation establishing many of the major national parks, monuments, and preserves. The maps of the surveys showed where everything was; the wet-plate photographers showed precisely what was there. - WWII U.S. Veterans, Supporters Eligible for Online Memorial Americans who served in World War II or supported the war effort at home can now add their names to an online registry. Organized by the American Battle Monuments Commission, the Web-based list is open not only to veterans, but also to any American who served in the armed forces or contributed to the war effort on the home front. You can log on to put a family member on the list by clicking on the National World War II Memorial at: 5

6 "Stars and Stripes" for World War I Now Digitized The U.S. Army newspaper, Stars and Stripes, has been digitized for the years 1918 and 1919 and put on line by the Library of Congress. If you have a relative who served in France in World War I, you might find some interesting information. Be aware that that paper was run by the Army and as such was heavily censored, and "bad news" was unlikely to appear in it. But there is a lot of valuable background information available on what it was like for US soldiers during the last year of WWI. A computer scanned the pages and converted the characters into type. There may be mistakes, so if you find something interesting, be sure to go back to the original image, print it out and check it for yourself. BOOKS -- BOOKS BOOKS 1910 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas Volume pages indexed 1910 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas Volume pages indexed 1910 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas 2 Volume Set 368 pages indexed price $50.00 includes postage (members $45.00) 1900 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas -- about 437 pages indexed price $35.00 includes postage (members $30.00) 1900 & 1910 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Two book set on CD Rom price $40.00 includes postage (members $35.00) 1880 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas pages indexed price $18.00 includes postage (members $15.00) 1870 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas pages indexed price $15.00 includes postage (members $12.00) 1860 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas pages indexed price $12.00 includes postage (members $10.00) 1860, 1870 & 1880 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Three book set. price $40.00 includes postage (members $32.00) 1860, 1870 & 1880 Census of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Three book set on CD Rom price $20.00 includes postage (members $15.00) The Jonesboro Sun Obituary Index pages price $10.00 includes postage (members $8.00) The Jonesboro Sun Obituary Index pages price $20.00 includes postage (members $18.00) The Jonesboro Sun Obituary Index pages price $20.00 includes postage (members $18.00) The Jonesboro Sun Obituary Index pages price $20.00 includes postage (members $18.00) The Jonesboro Sun Obituary Index Book Set price $60.00 includes postage (members $55.00) 6

7 Cemeteries of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Volume I indexed Cemeteries of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Volume II indexed Cemeteries of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Volume III indexed Cemeteries of Craighead County, Arkansas -- Three Volume Set price $75.00 includes postage (members $70.00) Cemeteries of Craighead County, Arkansas Three Volume Set on CD Rom price $40.00 includes postage (members $35.00) Walking Through Your Past: A Guide to Finding Your Roots price $15.00 includes postage (members $12.00) Early Clay County Divorces: Western District, Corning Price $10.00 including postage by Gina Horton for GSCCA Early Craighead County, Arkansas Divorces: Western District, Jonesboro Courthouse Price $15.00 including postage by Gina Horton for GSCCA The Fighting Fifth: The Fifth Arkansas Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. by Floyd R. Barnhill, Sr. with Major Calvin L. Collier Member Books for Sale 1890 Tax Receipts (Real Estate Tax, Personal Property Tax & Poll Tax) Craighead County, Arkansas Price $35.00 including postage from: Nancy Matthews nlmatthews@ritternet.com 1890 Tax Craighead County, Arkansas on CD Rom Price $20.00 including postage from: Nancy Matthews nlmatthews@ritternet.com Corning, Arkansas Clay County Western District Marriages Price $25.00 including postage from: Dorothy McCarns -- dmccarns@bscn.com Corning, Arkansas Clay County Western District Marriages Price $25.00 including postage from: Dorothy McCarns -- dmccarns@bscn.com Corning, Arkansas Clay County Western District Marriages on CD Rom Price $25.00 including postage from: Dorothy McCarns -- dmccarns@bscn.com Marriage Records of Sharp County, Arkansas: Southern District & Northern District Price $36.75 including postage from: Joyce Whitten jwhitten@bscn.com 1870 Census of Sharp County, Arkansas Price $11.75 including postage from: Joyce Whitten jwhitten@bscn.com 1880 Census of Sharp County, Arkansas Price $20.80 including postage from: Joyce Whitten jwhitten@bscn.com 1860 Census of Lawrence County, Arkansas Price including postage from: Joyce Whitten jwhitten@bscn.com Price for 3 Sharp County Books including postage $63.00 Price for 3 Sharp County Books & 1 Lawrence County Book including postage $

8 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION NEW RENEWAL NAME ADDRESS PHONE NUMBER ADDRESS SIGNATURE RECEIVED BY DATE DUES ARE $15.00 PER YEAR DUE ON THE 1ST DAY OF JANUARY. Officers: President Betty Woodall Vice President Gail Lies Treasurer Dorothy McCarns Publicity Lisa Upton Recording Secretary Donna Ishmael Corresponding Secretary Nelda Simpkins Historian Gregg Scott Publications Nancy Matthews The Genealogy Society of Craighead County, Arkansas P.O. Box 844 Jonesboro, AR