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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Two in a Day


More posts because I had a day when I was required to spend time in the down stairs.  We had the upstairs floors carpets cleaned.  I found a few things that I was not expecting.  So I added these histories to Family Tree.





Another History for George

Another History of Salmon Gee


Esther Smith Fuller the mother of Sophina Aclesta Fuller Gee

John Gee, Erastus Rowe Gee’s younger brother.

More Gees and Stories




Today I added two photos of Louisa Gee and a Story  (her obituary) on Family Tree.

Also the Death announcement mailed to her half-sister Caroline Gee McGavin.  Robert McGavin married two of Lysander’s daughters by two different wives.  Caroline was living at the time in Glenn, Idaho. This may have been Glenn’s Ferry or perhaps another, now forgotten, city in Idaho. Caroline’s last child was born in 1903 in Freedom, Wyoming and she died in Idaho Falls, Idaho.  Since she lived in Bingham county Idaho in 1910 according to the census, I assume that Glenn, Idaho was in this neighborhood.

I placed three sources on her record and then as a source I placed a history of Caroline by her daughter Jesse Loveland.  I had a link in discussions, which I placed in 2010, but now that one can add links to Internet sites in sources, I moved the link so that it doesn’t have to be copied into the browser search bar.

I also added history on Robert McGavin, which I had in my archives.

I had a little story about Caroline in PDF format, which I converted to a Word document and added to stories.

I posted a time line for Erasmus Gee.  He was Erastus Rowe Gee’s oldest brother. There are already stories that I have placed on his record.

I also added a history of Erastus Rowe Gee by my father.  Unfortunately the document was unfinished.







Monday, August 12, 2013

A Voice from the Dust

That title sounds familiar.  I get an occasional Bulletin from World Vital Records. This one had an interesting Post.

I have done this in a not so sophisticated manner that worked well for me.  I had a cassette tape of my son John interviewing my father-in-law H. Marco Clark.  I bought a cable for about $10 from Radio Shack.  My laptop computer sits very close to my audio player in our kitchen,  It plays 33 1/3 LP vinyl records, 45 RPM vinyl records, CD and cassette tapes.  I put the tape into the tape player and plugged one end of the cable into the earphone jack.  The other end of the cable went into the microphone input on my laptop computer. This automatically brought up a screen and I had previously downloaded a Wave Pad Sound Editor from this Site.  It is from NCH software.  They have a professional version, but I use the free version, because I do not intend to go commercial.

I started the tape and then started the Sound Editor, adjusted the volume and recorded the tape on both sides. Once I had the complete recording, I used the sound editor to stitch the two sides together,  then saved the files in MP3 format. and burned them to a CD.  After this it was easy to make a copy of the CD for each of my children and my brother-in-law and his children.

Since then, I found a neat little portable tape player at Kohl's on sale for $25.00.  It has a USB connection and comes with installation software .  It is manufactured by *ION and is labeled Tape Express.   It has the advantage that you can listen to the audio at the same time you are recording. I have used this to transfer cassette recordings of music ( I have in excess of 100 tapes) to the computer and then move them to iTunes and then have them available to transfer to my iPhone or my  wife's iPad or an iPod or other MP3 player.

About a year ago my daughter called me and asked me if I still had my old hand held Dictaphone that I used in my office in Wyoming.  It used mini cassettes.  I never throw anything away, so I dug it out.  There was a lady in her ward that had some of her grandfather's history on a few of these mini cassettes and since they were outdated she could find no one who could even find one so that she could transcribe them.  I was able to hook up the cable to my laptop as I had done before and made a CD with multiple copies for family members.


Sunday, August 11, 2013

More Additions to Family Tree and another Adventure

I did get some more postings to Family Tree and updated my own database with the postings. Click on the links below.

Alexander Scoby Standley 

Salmon Gee Research Notes 

Photo of Orlando Lysander Gee family

Now I just have to identify all the members of the family in the photograph. I did this once before, but can't readily locate the e-mail that I sent. 

I also wrote up a little Adventure in Family Tree that I posted to the family history class website.  This is a little exercise in how to deal with duplications of ordinances.  

There is more to come.  I just need the time. There are more histories that I have, but they need to be scanned and converted to a machine readable format.



 

Thursday, August 8, 2013

More Additions to Stories on Family Tree

Here we go again with more stories from the archives.  Click on the name and it will link you to the posted stories.

Marriner W. Merrill

William Erastus Gee

W. E. Gee

W. E. Gee Editorial


Mary Ellen Kerr Gee

Life Sketch of Mary Ellen Kerr Gee given at her funeral.

This is probably enough to digest fro one sitting. Today is our fifty-fifth wedding anniversary.  So I will not be doing much digging in the records.



Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Adding histories from the archives

I snatch a few minutes here and a few there and am able to add a history or two when I can't go back to sleep.  Here are the additions.  Just click on the name for the link.

Vernon Ray Gee

Philinda Upson

Nancy Jane Rawlins

Marion Joseph Kerr

Ella Rebecca Merrill 

There are more.  It just take time to add them.
 
 
 

 

Sunday, August 4, 2013

More Additions from hidden sources

Today I was looking around on my computer for some files to put on Family Tree.  There were a number that I ran into. I had them on my Compaq laptop which was the computer that I had before the last one, a Dell laptop. It crashed and now I have a new one running Windows 8. I had transferred all the files from the Compaq laptop to the Dell and put them in a folder and forgotten about them. I ran onto them today. So I decided to add some stories that I had in that folder. 

Two historical documents on Salmon Gee. Click hereAnd Here

Also a History on Cyrene Standley Merrill written by two of her granddaughters, one of which was my grandmother Mary Ellen Kerr Gee.

There are more to come, but I ran out of time.

The link is Here.  

Thursday, August 1, 2013

New postings on Family Tree


Orlando Gee: My cousin Janet Pollei wrote to inform me that there was a photo which was place on Orlando’s record that was upside down.  As long as I was on his record, I added a Story and I have a long history that I will have to dig out of the archives.

I also wrote an e-mail to the individual who submitted the photo asking him to put it in correctly.

Geneva Marie Gee:  I have been looking at the records for the descendants of Erastus Rowe Gee.  I found that I had information that had not been added to her record. I added a photo and Obituary

Winfield Cray a descendant of Solomon Gee Jr.
Added Photo

I added a Source to Johann Altgelt LH67-R71 (1523-1581). There is also another record of a Johann Altgelt, but I cannot combine them, because they do not show up as duplicates.  I will leave this alone.  The ordinance work has been accomplished for this Johann, but not for the other.  There is also some contact information from a patron that added information (Benn-Wilde) renbewilde@yahoo.com  I will see if this is a valid address. 

Here is another surname (Altgelt) to add to the index.