tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59400164968451470182024-02-20T23:58:40.012-06:00KCGSDesigned for the purpose of educating genealogist in Kansas research.Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-81707585798167924702015-03-11T16:14:00.004-05:002015-03-11T16:14:43.943-05:00Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness is Back<header class="entry-header"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline">
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK)</h1>
</header>Our volunteers
have agreed to do a free genealogy research task at least once per month
in their local area as an act of kindness. While the volunteers of
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) have agreed to donate their
time for free, you MUST PAY the volunteer for his/her expenses in
fulfilling your request (copies, printing fees, postage, film or video
tape, parking fees, etc.) if they ask for it.<br />
RAOGK is a global volunteer organization. Our volunteers take time
to do everything from looking up courthouse records to taking pictures
of tombstones. All they ask in return is reimbursement for their
expenses (never their time) and a thank you.<br />
At one time there were thousands of volunteers in every U.S. state
and many international locations, and helped thousands of researchers. <strong>We
are trying to rebuild the RAOGK site. It will take a little more time
to get it back to its former glory. So Please spread the word and
volunteer to help others!</strong><br />
Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-79134926718448022242015-02-22T23:35:00.001-06:002015-02-22T23:36:16.649-06:002015 KCGS Annual Meeting and Conference<span style="font-family: inherit;">KCGS Annual Conference will be held June 20, 2015 with Wichita Genealogical Society as co-hosts in Wichita, KS. Please visit our <a href="http://www.kcgs.us/conf.htm">website</a> for program and registration information. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Featured speaker will be
Kathleen Strader Brandt Professional Genealogist / Consultant / Speaker. You
can see Kathleen's work on TLC and NBC: Who Do You Think You Are? with Tim
McGraw (appears on episode), Reba McEntire, Ashley Judd, and Chris
O'Donnell; on PBS: Finding Your Roots; CCTV Biz Asia; and, in AARP and Jet
Magazine. Ask about the You Are A Pioneer series as presented at
Stephens College, Columbia, MO, Feb 2014, and is referenced in Genealogy
Online for Dummies, 7th Edition, 2014. Engaged in forensic genealogy, she is
a licensed Private Investigator (MO). She recently compiled and authored
Colored Marriages of Saline County, MO., released April 2014. </span>Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-48109799449223683542015-02-16T15:03:00.000-06:002015-02-16T15:03:43.123-06:00Researching Ancient Native Americans in Kansas<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> On Monday, February 23rd, at
6:30 p.m., Donald Blakeslee, Professor of Anthropology at Wichita State
University, will present “Researching Ancient Kansas Native Americans”
to Sumner County Historical and Genealogical Society members and guests
at the Good Taste Chinese Buffet, 1311 E. 16<sup>th</sup> St.,
Wellington. No cost for the program; guests are welcome. For possible
weather cancellations, contact Jane Moore at 620-447-3266 or the
restaurant at 620-399-8401.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Blakeslee
said that he specializes in the history of the Great Plains with a
special interest on the Walnut River basin during all time periods. His
current research could, in his words “rewrite the Great Bend culture.”
The Great Bend Aspect, as archaeologists call it, refers to ancient
Native American people, particularly the ancestral Wichita tribe, who
lived in several regions of the state, including Cowley County, from
about 1425 AD to the early 18<sup>th</sup> century.</span></div>
Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-14395161422568489352015-01-19T14:48:00.000-06:002015-01-19T14:48:15.388-06:00Native American Research - Sunmer County Historical & Genealogical SocietyOn Monday, January 26th, at 6:30 P.M., Michelle Enke, Wichita
Public Library, will present “Researching Your Native American Ancestor” and will
share tips and hints for finding your elusive Native American Ancestor in the
Wichita Public Library’s extensive Native American Collection to Sumner County
Historical and Genealogical Society members and guests meeting at the Good
Taste Chinese Buffet, 1311 E. 16<sup>th</sup> St., Wellington. Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-58862056011764747852015-01-08T15:32:00.000-06:002015-01-08T15:40:30.577-06:00KCGS VOLUNTEER SERVICE AWARD<!--[if !mso]>
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<span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Encourage
membership and volunteerism in your Society by promoting this unique and
rewarding benefit your members!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a
member of the Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies, your organization can
offer an exciting award package to your members that involves recognition from
your local Society, State recognition from KCGS, and National recognition
through KCGS from the Corporation For National & Community Service and the
Points of Light Foundation.</span></span></div>
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levels of recognition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1) You can
recognize <u>local</u> volunteers no matter how many volunteer hours they give
in a year's time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2) At the <u>State</u>
level, KCGS will recognize (at no cost) all your volunteers who give at least
48 hours in the year to genealogy and family history projects (that averages
just 4 hours a month).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3) Through your certification,
KCGS will offer the <u>National</u> Award (3 Levels - Bronze, Silver, &
Gold) based upon the following PSVA award criteria:</span></span></div>
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Hours By Award BRONZE SILVER GOLD<br />
Kids (5-10) 26-49 50-74 75+<br />
Teens (11-15) 50- 74 75-99 100+<br />
Young Adults (16-25) 100-174 175-249 250+<br />
Adults (26 and older) 100-249 250-499 500+</div>
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adult members can easily earn the National PVSA Bronze award package by
completing 100 hours of Volunteer Service between January 1 and December
31.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This would average out to only about
2 hours each week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is also a
special Lifetime Achievement Award when 4,000 volunteer hours are reached, no
matter how many years it may take.</span></span></div>
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Awards package consists of a personal Thank You letter from the KCGS President,
a personal Congratulations letter signed by the President of the United States,
a personalized Certificate of Achievement, and an official President's
Volunteer Service Award pin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will distribute
these awards to your volunteers and recognize their service to your
organization however you see fit.</span></span></div>
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member of KCGS, simply send your organization name & contact information in
a note to Darren McMannis, the KCGS Volunteer Awards Coordinator (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Email Volunteers@KCGS.us</span></b>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In return you will receive an electronic and paper master volunteer
record-keeping form, a press release you can use in your local newspaper, and
sample ideas for getting the word out to your members.</span></span></div>
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encouraging your members to record their volunteer time.</span></span></div>
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</span>Encourage new members to join in order to take advantage of this Award
program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those in your county who are
active in genealogy or history but who are not current members may be prompted
to join in order to participate.</span></span></div>
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volunteer projects for your members to participate in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>KCGS <u>will keep you supplied with new
ideas, and step-by-step volunteer guides for a variety of projects</u>
(newspaper transcription, cemetery documentation, etc).</span></span></div>
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January of 2016, collect all volunteer record sheets, certify that the work
being reported is "reasonable and consistent" with their involvement
in society projects, and certify that each individual meets the National
requirements if receiving the National award:</span></span></div>
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must be a United States citizen or a lawfully admitted permanent resident
of the United States.</span></span></li>
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are issued for volunteer service only; additional levels of participation
with the organization (i.e., charitable support) are not a factor
considered for the award.</span></span></li>
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community service does not qualify for the award.</span></span></li>
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Service must be with projects directly or indirectly connected to the
overall purpose of your local Society or Museum, or in achievement of the
purposes of the KCGS; primarily, in promoting genealogy and family history
research, collection and preservation of genealogical and historical
records, assisting others in their research, educating others in any
aspect of family history, etc.</span></span></li>
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for each award recipient along with payment for the National Awards
package.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The actual fee is determined by
the Points of Light Foundation and is currently $ 5.50 for the Award letter,
certificate, and pin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cost is $ 8.00
if you prefer the Medallion & Ribbon instead of the Pin for your
members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>KCGS will pay shipping
fees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, KCGS will provide you with
several ideas and sample letters to assist you in raising donations, if needed,
to pay for the cost of these awards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While you cannot charge the recipient for this cost, this can be
provided for in many other ways. </span></span></div>
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will send you the State & National awards when they arrive, along with a
Press Release to honor your volunteers, as well as any corporate sponsors of
your local volunteer efforts during the previous year.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">That's it</span></span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">!</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if you're not entirely sure you will
want to participate in the full National Presidential Volunteer Service Award
at this time, you will at least want to encourage your volunteers to record
their time so that you and the KCGS can recognize their annual efforts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In an age when the typical Genealogy &
Historical Society is struggling and being forced to adapt to new technologies,
getting your County resources compiled and online is essential.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies
wants to help your organization remain viable and thriving in today's world,
preserving the past for all future generations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The KCGS Volunteer Awards program is one way we can support you in your
mission and at the same time promote recognition of the tremendous
contributions made by all of the Genealogy and Family History volunteers in
Kansas.</span></span></div>
Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-81798784484999220162015-01-04T08:57:00.000-06:002015-01-04T08:57:01.929-06:00Donald O'TooleDonald O'Toole, husband of long time KCGS secretary, Shirley O'Toole, passed away December 30 in a Topeka Hospice. He had been ill with the virus that is spreading throughout Kansas. Don touched the lives of all of us at KCGS as well as other citizens while he served as a pilot in the Kansas National Guard.<br />
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Services for Don will be held January 10 at 10 a.m. at the Museum of the Kansas National Guard, 6700 S.W. Topeka Blvd.,
(the main entrance of Forbes Field) Topeka, Kansas.<br />
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Please keep Shirley and the family in your thoughts and prayers. Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-27269508816477364462014-10-19T11:46:00.001-05:002014-10-19T11:46:56.084-05:00FamilySearch Copy ServiceThe Family History Library Volunteers, in Salt Lake City, will make copies of their digitized records and e-mail them back to you. This is a wonderful service and it's free! See policies and instructions at<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5940016496845147018"> https://familysearch.org/blog/en/policy-change-patrons-requesting-photocopies-family-history-library-salt-lake-city-utah/</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"></a>Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-64729588355293513572014-06-27T06:57:00.000-05:002014-06-27T06:57:16.340-05:00Wichita Genealogical Society Annual Conference
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11, 2014 - Wichita</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: bold;">
Genealogical Society Annual Conference,</span></strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14.0pt;">
9:00 am – 3:45 pm, (doors open at 8:15); Eugene M Hughes Metropolitan
Complex, 5015 E 29<sup>th</sup> St N</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">,
Wichita, Kansas.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
Our Guest Speakers are John Philip Colletta, one of America’s most
popular genealogical lecturers and Michelle Enke, Local History
Librarian at The Wichita Public Library and manager of the Lawrence &
Lucile Wulfmeyer Genealogy/Special Collections Center located in the WPL
downtown library. <br />
For additional information and to download registration forms, see our
website:
<a href="http://www.wichitagensoc.org/" target="_blank" title="http://www.wichitagensoc.org/">
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Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-23851202026308624322014-04-14T14:09:00.000-05:002014-04-14T14:09:06.123-05:00Wellington, Kansas Tornado - May 27, 1892<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class=""><span style="color: black;">On Monday<b>, April 28th</b>,</span></span><span style="color: black;"> Jim Bales, local historian and President of the Chisholm
Trail Museum Board, will present the program “A Turning Point In Sumner County:
The 1892 Wellington Tornado”, a program
about the 1892 tornado in Wellington, and how it affected Wellington’s business
and the growth of the city, to the Sumner County Historical and Genealogical
Society members and guests at the Wellington Senior Center, 308 South
Washington, Wellington<span class=""> at 6:30 p.m</span>. Contact Jane
Moore at 620-447-3266 in case of inclement weather.</span></div>
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On May 27th, 1892, when a tornado hit the fast growing new
town of Wellington, Kansas, there was no radar, no tornado sirens, no trained
tornado spotters, and the tornado took everyone by surprise. </div>
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“About where the Memorial Auditorium was it took out an area
about 2 blocks wide there,” Bales said, “That was probably the widest spot.”</div>
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There were no radios or televisions,” Bales said, “And
people on the south side of town woke up the next morning and didn’t even know
anything had happened.” </div>
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Bales has photographs of the damage. Lots of photographs.
Using a Powerpoint presentation with maps and photos, Bales will track the path
that the tornado took through Wellington, twisting through the new and bustling
downtown area, cutting a two-block-wide swath in places, coming down at about
West Harvey and the Rock Island tracks, and heading east towards the area of “B” and “C” streets.
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Thirteen people died. More were injured. Buildings, banks,
and homes were destroyed, and one man was picked up along with the timber that
had him pinned down, and then dropped him off, mostly uninjured, about where
Roosevelt school is now.</div>
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Bales will tell the stories that go along with the tornado,
and will also talk about the lasting effect the tornado had on the city. According
to Bales, Wellington had just gone through a big growth spurt following the end
of the cattle drives and the beginning of large wheat harvests, and the tornado
had a long-lasting and very negative impact on the growth of the city. </div>
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Wellington was growing faster than Wichita, and we had a population of 12,000
people” said Jim Bales, “We lost several businesses and banks in the tornado
and Wellington never did recover.” </div>
Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-91906142743449132772014-03-17T21:49:00.000-05:002014-03-17T21:49:10.340-05:00Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On Monday, March
24th, at 6:30 p.m., Vickie Stangl, Andover, will present the program “Etta
Semple – Kansas Free Thinker” to Sumner County Historical and Genealogical Society
members and guests at the Wellington Senior Center, 308 S. Washington,
Wellington. In case of inclement
weather, contact Jane Moore: 620-447-3266.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stangl was required
to do a “piece on a Kansas person” for her Master’s degree at Wichita State
University, and after reading about Etta Semple, she became fascinated, and asked
her instructor if she could “write about this heretic in Ottawa.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stangl said
that Etta Semple, born near Quincy, Illiniois in 1855, had views that were
considered radical for the time.</span></span></div>
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that Semple was a humanitarian, and had a state of the art sanitarium, but she
was also an activist.</span></span></div>
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labor movement,” Stangl said.</span></span></div>
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reading her newspapers and I was fascinated,” Stangl said, adding that she
worked on her thesis for three years.</span></span></div>
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that Semple died in Ottawa of influenza in 1914.</span></span></div>
Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-38648996314319022092014-02-17T16:55:00.000-06:002014-02-17T16:55:23.780-06:00Sumner County Genealogical Society<div id="AOLMsgPart_1_3a0995f2-a3e3-4973-83cd-82a7a2e84d86">
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What DNA indicates about Ancient and Recent Human Migration<span class=""></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span class=""><span style="color: black;">On Monday<b>, February 24th</b>,</span></span><span style="color: black;"> Pam Robinett, Wellington, will present the program, “Where
DID I Come From? What DNA indicates about Ancient and Recent Human
Migration” to the Sumner County
Historical and Genealogical Society at the Wellington Senior Center, 308 South
Washington, Wellington<span class=""> at 6:30 p.m</span>. Contact Jane
Moore at 620-447-3266 in case of inclement weather.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">“The title of the book “Seven Daughters of Eve” by Brian
Sykes, caught my eye, made me curious, and piqued my curiosity in using DNA for
genealogy,” Robinett said. Robinett, former Wellington High School math instructor
now works with the high school diploma completion program for the Sumner County
Detention Center. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> “I have done genealogy
since I was in high school,” Robinett said, “I am the kind of genealogist who
is interested not only in the names and dates of the individuals, but also the
context, or the setting that the person lived in.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">“It’s one thing to know that a person was born, married, died
and was buried in certain years,” Robinett said, “But it’s quite another, to
me, to think of her as the woman who held down the farm, literally, while her
husband went down the Cherokee Strip as a paid hunter at certain times of the
year; and to discover that they nearly lost the farm over taxes one year when
he was late returning.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Robinett said she believes DNA is a tool that can put “flesh
on the bones on a bigger scale,” and give us the “ability to track migration
patterns over a period longer than recorded history can offer,” as well as the provide
the opportunity to find cousins that could not easily be found with traditional
sources.</span></div>
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people take advantage of this tool, more and more data will become available,”
Robinett said, adding that this will make the picture/story of our species and
each of us clearer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Robinett said that with DNA research you may learn that
there was an infidelity at some time in your family tree’s history, adoption(s)
that were not recorded, and you may be able to add cousins that you didn’t even
know that you had, allowing you to “fill in the blanks in your family tree” as
well as “learn the migration path that your family tree took over the last
60,000 years or so.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Robinett said that while she is curious about what DNA
research can provide for genealogists she “hasn’t acted on it yet.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> “If you and I have
the same mitochondrial sequence, then you and I had a common female ancestor
sometime in the last 10,000 years,” Robinett said.</span></div>
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Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-68728205990626136672014-02-08T14:07:00.002-06:002014-02-08T14:09:56.140-06:00Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies Moves Web Site<span class="userContent">Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies has moved their web site to <a href="http://www.kcgs.us/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.kcgs.us/</a>
. Information on the 2014 Annual Conference is posted there. To be held
in McPherson, KS, the speaker this year will be Valerie Eichler Lair.</span>Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-62001124058711571802014-01-20T04:30:00.000-06:002014-01-20T04:31:13.244-06:00Sumner County - "Emily Sell: Letters of a Kansas Homesteader's Wife"<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">On Monday, January
27<sup>th</sup>, Elaine Clark,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> Sumner County Historical Society Prairie
Letters’ Project Director,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> will present the program, “Emily Sell: Letters of a Kansas
Homesteader’s Wife” to SCHGS members and guests at the Wellington Senior Citizen
Center, 308 South Washington, Wellington, Kansas, at 6:30 p.m. For bad weather
cancellation information, contact Jane Moore at 620-447-3266 </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 2012 the Sumner County Historical and Genealogical Society received a
notebook containing letters written primarily in the 1870’s by Emily Sell, one
of Sumner County’s earliest settlers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">SCHGS President, Jane Moore, shared the letters with Elaine Clark, and
they soon realized that they were holding a treasure trove of first-hand
accounts of the everyday life of the wife of a Kansas homesteader. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Moore said that the Sells homesteaded in the Rome, Kansas area in the
1870’s, and even though Kansas was opened to settlement in 1854 and became a
state in 1861, there were only 22 white people living in Sumner County by 1870.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“There have been histories written about other areas of Sumner County
during this time period,” said Elaine Clark, adding “but very few collections
of letters have been discovered which give a first-person perspective.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “That makes this collection of
letters a priceless, irreplaceable piece of Kansas history,” Clark said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Because of the historic value of the letters, the Kansas Humanities
Council (KHC), </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">a nonprofit organization that supports
community-</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">based cultural programs, <a href="http://www.kansashumanities.org/" target="_blank">www.kansashumanities.org</a>, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">awarded
the Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society of Wellington a $3,500
grant for the “Prairie Letters: Written in Rural Kansas in the Late Nineteenth
Century” project. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Since receiving the grant, Clark said
that she has spent 194 hours transcribing the letters, and preparing them for
publication. Clark will share details about the entire process: the acquisition
of the letters, the transcription, the research, and the preparation for turning
them into the book with SCHGS members and guests.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Clark said that when she first held the
letters in her hand “I just stood there and wondered what her life was like.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We tend to take food, warmth, air conditioning, doctors and medical
care for granted, but these letters share the facts of everyday life for
Kansas’ early settlers,” Clark said, adding that for some, it was a life that
included hunger, deprivation, and early death.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">“</span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">It
was hard to put the letters down,” Clark said, “I kept wanting to transcribe the
next one to see what was new in the life of Emily.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">“I
kept wanting things to get better for her,” Clark said, adding that for her,
the saddest event in Emily’s letter was the death of her toddler child.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">“I've transcribed letters that
probably would have languished in someone’s closet, or worse yet, been
destroyed,” Clark said, “It gives future generations a glimpse into the life of
a homesteader in the early days of Sumner County.”</span></span></div>
Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-27482767176173868572014-01-15T04:52:00.000-06:002014-01-15T04:52:46.463-06:00Midwest Historical & Genealogical Society Needs Your HelpMidwest Historical & Genealogical Society signed up with AmazonSmile. AmazonSmile is a website
operated by Amazon that lets customers enjoy the same wide selection
of products, low prices, and convenient shopping features as on
Amazon.com. The difference is that when customers shop on
AmazonSmile (<a href="http://smile.amazon.com/ref=org_sls_rlp_sas_sml" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #0055aa; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1389782345_1">smile.amazon.com</span></a>), the
AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible
purchases to the charitable organizations selected by customers. <br />
<br />
To help MHGS, first go to <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/ch/48-6128821" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1389782347985_2142" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1389782345_2">http://smile.amazon.com/ch/48-6128821</span></a> to direct your support to MHGS. Then, remember to use the
smile.amazon.com site each time you shop at Amazon.com.
Participating in this program does not change the prices you pay,
but it will help MHGS raise some much needed funds. Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-32681972354314840032013-09-09T15:47:00.000-05:002013-09-09T15:47:48.923-05:00Midwest Historical & Genealogical Society Hosts Watch PartiesMidwest Historical & Genealogical Society will host watch parties each Monday evening at 7:30 p.m. 1201 North Main, Wichita, KS.<br />
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<br />Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-65561485162151577342013-08-22T20:35:00.000-05:002013-08-22T20:35:46.326-05:00Genealogy Roadshow<h5 class="uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper" data-ft="{"type":1,"tn":"K"}">
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PBS announced in May that thy will have the new series, Genealogy
Roadshow, in their fall lineup. MHGS is happy to be a sponsor of this
program which will start on Monday September23 at 8:00-9:00 our time on
KPTS. This show will run for four Mondays through October 14. This
series will be part detective story, part emotional journey, and will
combine history and science to uncover fascinating stories of diverse
Americans. Each individual's past will line to a larger community
history, revealing the rich cultural tapestry of America. </span></span></h5>
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">Genealogy Roadshow's premiere season will feature participation from Four American cities - Nashville, Austin, Detroit and San Francisco - who want to explore unverified genealogical claims, passed down through family history, that may or may not connect them to an event or historical figure. Genealogy experts will work with the participants chosen and will use DNA, family heirlooms, letters, pictures, historical documents and other clues to hunt down more information. </span></span></h5>
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">MHGS will hold a "Watch Party" at the Society Library at 1203 North Main each Monday evening of the Genealogy Roadshow. We will open the library at 7:30 p.m. and attendance is free. We do need to know how many are interested in the "Watch Party" so we can plan seating and get everything ready. Make your reservations by calling 316 264-3611 or e-mail mhgs1121@aol.com. </span></span></h5>
Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-86544144833029011952013-08-19T10:48:00.001-05:002014-02-17T16:55:44.462-06:00Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society<div class="">
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">On Monday, August 26th, at 6:30 p.m., Lori DeWinkler, Lead
Investigator and Historian for Moonlit Ghost Hunts, will present the program “Wellington
After Dark” to Sumner County Historical and Genealogical Society members and
guests at the Wellington Senior Center, 308 S. Washington.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Lori DeWinkler, a paranormal investigator since 2008, loves being
a paranormal investigator for Moonlit Ghost Hunts, <a href="http://www.moonlitghosthunts.com/" target="_blank">www.moonlitghosthunts.com</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">But Dewinkler doesn’t just go to a location for the
first time on the night of the investigation. She checks out the location ahead
of time. Thoroughly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">She researches the building’s history, who owned it, who
lived there, and maybe even who died there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">She reads newspaper articles, talks to folks who know the
history of the location, and the area, searches for clues, and compiles and
analyzes her findings before the group ever goes in to investigate. And she
gets excited when the pieces of the historic puzzle start falling into place
and she can pull together a structure’s fascinating history before an
investigation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">DeWinkler will share several fascinating stories about
Wellington and Sumner County and bring along some of the tools they use to
investigate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m.. There is no charge for the
program and everyone is welcome. In case of bad weather cancellation, contact Jane
Moore at 620-447-3266. For more information, go to <a href="http://www.ks-schgs.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">www.ks-schgs.blogspot.com</a>.</span></div>
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Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-80691568925194268342013-07-16T15:46:00.001-05:002013-07-16T15:46:49.375-05:00HeritageQuest Drops PERSIRead all about it at<br />
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20130714/LOCAL/307149942/1002/LOCAL<br />
What does this mean for the societies? But great idea for researchers.Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-49694001381238663282013-07-02T20:15:00.004-05:002013-07-02T20:17:25.401-05:00Kansas Genealogy Society Quarterly Meeting<span style="font-weight: 400;">Kansas Genealogy Society quarterly meeting, July 11, 2013, 2 :00
p.m., USD 443 Learning Center, 308 West Frontview, Dodge City, KS (across
highway north of Village Square Mall). Gary and Margaret Kraisinger of Halstead,
KS will speak on Texas Cattle Trails. Program is free of charge and open to the
public.</span>Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-77072950164962453992013-05-06T15:10:00.001-05:002013-05-06T15:10:40.622-05:00Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society Receives Grant from the Kansas Humanities Council<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">TOPEKA – The Kansas Humanities Council (KHC)
recently awarded Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society of
Wellington a $3,500 grant for the “Prairie Letters: Written in Rural Kansas in
the Late Nineteenth Century” project. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jane Moore,
SCHGS president said that in 2012 the Sumner County Historical and Genealogical
Society received a notebook containing the “Prairie Letters,” letters that had
been written primarily in the 1870’s by Emily Sell, one of Kansas’ earliest
setters. Sell homesteaded in the Rome, Kansas area with her husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moore said that even though Kansas was opened
to settlement in 1854 and became a state in 1861, there were only 22 white
people living in Sumner County by 1870 (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Sumner County Story, Paul and Gwendoline Sanders, 1966, p. 9).</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sumner County was not fully organized until
Nov. 7, 1871.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“When I saw that the first letters were dated
1870, and learned that there were only about 22 white people living in Sumner
County in 1870, I couldn’t imagine what life must have been like for those
early settlers,” said Elaine Clark, Prairie Letters Project Director and grant
author.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There have
been histories written about other areas of Sumner County during this time
period, but very few collections of letters have been discovered which give a
first-person perspective,” Clark said,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“that makes this collection of letters a priceless, irreplaceable piece
of Kansas history.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Transcription
and preservation of these letters will give future historians, researchers,
genealogists, and those interested in early settlement of the Midwest a
first-person account of the hardships and difficulties of early homesteaders,”
said Moore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Historical
details about settlement in the Rome, Kansas, area are sketchy, but the town was
officially organized in 1884,” Moore said, adding that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SCHGS members involved in transcribing
Emily’s letters to friends and family are eager to learn about early-day
settlement of Sumner County through the eyes and viewpoint of the homesteader
and his wife.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Clark said she and her husband, Larry Clark,
traveled to Jordan Cemetery recently to view and photograph Emily’s grave
stone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“I stood there and wondered what her life was
like,” Clark said, adding that “these letters reveal much about the early days
of Sumner County and the hardships and sorrows that families endured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We tend to take food, warmth, air
conditioning, doctors and medical care for granted, but these letters share the
facts of everyday life for Kansas’ early settlers, babies that died because no
doctors were available, weeks that go by before getting letters from family and
friends, and children who can’t get an education because they live too far from
school or they are needed to work on the farm.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“These situations would seem foreign to
today’s young people,” Clark said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Clark said
that some of the letters are almost unreadable because of fading, so it is
imperative for the SCHGS to transcribe these letters as soon as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“This
Heritage Grant from the Kansas Humanities Council will assist in preserving
this treasure,” Clark said,</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> “I can hardly wait to do the
transcribing.”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Clark added that as the</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> project progresses and they learn
more about the contents of the letters, they will share information on the
website at www.ksschgs.com, blog at www.ks-schgs.blogspot.com, SCHGS Facebook page
and in area publications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“KHC Heritage grants encourage the
preservation of local cultural resources,” said Julie Mulvihill, executive
director of the Kansas Humanities Council. “This transcription project will
preserve these one-of-a-kind primary source documents for generations to come.
What a treat to find out what stories these letters will tell.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">The Kansas
Humanities Council is a nonprofit organization that supports community-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">based
cultural programs, serves as a financial resource through an active</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">grant-making
program, and encourages Kansans to engage in the civic and cultural</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">life of their communities. For more
information, visit www.kansashumanities.org.</span></div>
Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-7846794806547149352013-04-18T22:45:00.001-05:002013-04-18T22:47:23.533-05:002013 KCGS Conference and Annual MeetingKCGS 2013 Conference and annual meeting, June 18 . "Research on the Range", Dyck Arboretum, Hesston, KS., 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. <a href="http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/kcgs/conf.htm">Registration</a> is required to guarantee lunch and a syllabus.<br />
Speakers will includ<span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";">e:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #632423; font-size: 12.0pt;">Art Binford</span></div>
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<span style="color: #632423; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lindsborg Old Mill
Museum</span></div>
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<span style="color: #632423; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swedish & Lutheran
Records</span></div>
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<span style="color: #632423; font-size: 12.0pt;">Michelle Enke</span></div>
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<span style="color: #632423; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wichita Public Library</span></div>
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<span style="color: #632423; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wulfmeyer Genealogy
Collection at WPL</span></div>
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<span style="color: #632423; font-size: 12.0pt;">Patty Nicholas</span></div>
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<span style="color: #632423; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ft. Hays State
University</span></div>
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<span style="color: #632423; font-size: 12.0pt;">Volga German Records
at Forsyth Library</span></div>
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<span style="color: #632423; font-size: 12.0pt;">Randy Roberts</span></div>
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<span style="color: #632423; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pittsburg State
University</span></div>
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<span style="color: #632423; font-size: 12.0pt;">PSU Archives at Axe
Library</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1366342539174_1749" style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span>Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-28582530708112051602013-03-20T15:06:00.005-05:002013-03-20T15:07:43.393-05:00Midwest Historical & Genealogical Society<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1363809312_0">Memorial Day</span> is a
particular favorite of genealogists...a three-day holiday when our
"normal" relatives join us in hanging out in cemeteries. Because of
this connection between genealogy and Memorial Day, this year the
library at Midwest Historical & Genealogical Society will be open for our regular hours on Saturday, May 25, 2013. Bring
those genealogy-minded relatives down to do cemetery look-ups, check out
our obituary collection, or just take advantage of our nice big tables,
copier and scanner to share your research and photos.Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-87490952154766406482013-03-18T14:08:00.000-05:002013-03-18T14:08:37.139-05:00Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society<div class="MsoNormal">
<span><span style="font-size: medium;">
March 25<sup>th</sup> Meeting<br />
Contact: Sherry Kline – 620-326-3401</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-size: medium;">On
Monday, March 25th, at 6:30 p.m., Dolores Carr,
Wellington, will present the Women’s History month program “Who Was Mary
Elizabeth Lease: Kansas Homesteader, Mission Teacher, or Political
Activist?” to Sumner County Historical and Genealogical Society
members and guests at the Best of Orient meeting room, 114 E. Lincoln,
Wellington.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-size: medium;">The meal begins at 5:30 p.m. and the meeting at 6:30 p.m.. There
is no charge for the program and everyone is welcome. For possible bad weather
cancellation, contact Best of the Orient at 620-399-8575 or President Jane
Moore at 620-447-3266.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-size: medium;">Dolores Carr said that Mary Elizabeth Lease, author, speaker,
and editor, was born in Pennsylvania to upper-class Irish immigrants Joseph P.
and Mary Elizabeth Clyens, was raised in New York, and was well educated before
coming to Kansas to teach in an Osage Mission after her father and older
brothers died fighting for the union in the civil war. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-size: medium;">According to Carr, Mary Elizabeth Lease “read for the law”
while earning money washing clothes for the neighbors, and after marrying, she and
her husband homesteaded in Kingman County, Kansas but were not able to make a
go of it, and she and her family moved to Wichita where she founded a club for
woman who wanted to improve their education.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-size: medium;"> “She became a speaker
for the Populist Party,” Carr said, “and was often called “The Lady Orator of
the West” and “the Kansas Cyclone” by some because of her speaking abilities.” </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-size: medium;"> “She could just
mesmerize the audience,” Carr said.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-size: medium;">Carr stated that Lease believed that if she had been a man
she would have been appointed to the U. S. Senate, but Carr added that because Lease
promoted women’s suffrage as well as temperance and was politically active in
the Populist Party some comments about her were not complimentary. </span></span></div>
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</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-size: medium;">“She was probably a woman ahead of her time,” Carr said. </span></span></div>
Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-88265344139204463992013-02-20T10:13:00.000-06:002013-02-20T10:13:13.795-06:00Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="background-color: white; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;">On Monday, February 25th, at 6:30 p.m., Neta Jane Doris,
Winfield, will present the program “Exodusters in Kansas” to Sumner County
Historical and Genealogical Society members and guests at the Best of Orient
meeting room, 114 E. Lincoln, Wellington.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;">The meal begins at 5:30 p.m. and the meeting at 6:30 p.m.. There
is no charge for the program and everyone is welcome. For possible bad weather cancellation,
contact Best of the Orient at 620-399-8575.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;">When two of
Neta Jane Doris’s former high school classmates asked her to do their family
history, Doris was only too happy to help them out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;">Doris has
been involved in several family history projects, found ancestors and
descendants for several, reconnected family members, begun family reunions, and
published a family history on her mother’s side of the family. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;">She was glad
to help her friends out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;">“I’ve been
researching for about 40 years,” Doris said, “I just love the research.
Actually, when I’m researching, they almost feel like my family.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;">Doris, who
did the bulk of this research prior to the age of computers, learned that her
two friends were not only the descendants of “Exodusters”, or African-American slaves
freed by emancipation, they were also related to each other.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;">“The more I
researched, the more interested I became,” Doris said, adding that it took
several months to find much of the information and expand their family trees.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;">“There were
about three years when there was a mass exodus,” Doris said, adding that most
Exodusters came to Kansas between 1879 and 1881 and many were from Tennessee,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas where circulars were passed out by
both black and white people to entice the new settlers to Kansas. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;">Doris said
that the mass exodus “happened so fast and so suddenly that it caused a
Congressional investigation.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;"> “Over 40,000 poor black people emigrated
during that time,” Doris said, “they were kind of led to believe that they
would get money and land, and that didn’t happen.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;">Doris said
that she will “speak about the general history of the Exodusters and talk a little”
about the people who settled in Kansas: one family who was involved in the Underground
Railroad, one family whose owner (and father) freed them and gave them money to
move, and Lutie Lytle, who became the first woman black lawyer in Tennessee in 1897
and was the first black woman to be admitted to the Kansas bar. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;">“Sometimes
families were torn apart and you never get them back together again,” Doris
said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;">For those
genealogists and family historians searching for their own Exoduster history, Doris
said that she will bring along a copy of the circular used to advertise
settling in Kansas as well as books and articles, census and land records, and share
information on some of the resources that she used, and also how and where she
found the information.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;">According to
Doris, many of the citizens in Larned today are descended from the Exodusters.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #333399; font-family: georgia, serif;">“They were
some of the earliest settlers in that part of Kansas,” Doris said, “they showed
a lot of strength and determination.” </span></span></div>
Kansas Council of Genealogical Societieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08981275776656542424noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5940016496845147018.post-61440545656725331512013-02-15T11:14:00.001-06:002013-02-15T11:14:12.133-06:00Swedish Genealogy WorkshopOld Mill Museum, Lindsborg, KS will sponsor at Swedish Genealogy Workshop September 28 &29, 2013. Registration is required. Go to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5940016496845147018">http://www.mcphersoncountyks.us/DocumentCenter/View/1552</a>
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