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The Ottawa County Genealogical Society will meet Monday, May 16, 2011, in the Community Room of the First National Bank, 1749 North Main Street, Miami. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. and refreshments will be served. The public is invited to attend this free event.
Presenting the program will be Carrie Ann Cook of the Twin Bridges area. Topic for the evening will be “Valuating & Evaluating Your Sources”. The basic debate is which standard is golden when researching family history. This lecture will explain the value and use of both the newer Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS) and the older Preponderance of Evidence, as integrated into a thriving research plan.
Carrie Ann Cook is a published author, illustrator and free-lance photographer. She holds an AA and BS in Elementary Education. Having certified for teaching in several states, she has taught elementary classes as well as genealogy, writing and computer classes at the Northeast Technology Center, Afton, Oklahoma, as well as briefly serving the Miami Public Library as the Genealogy Department. Miss Cook has served in library and archival capacities for many years and participated in numerous ProQuest and Genealogical Library workshops and seminars. Her company continues to present professional workshops and seminars in library, archival, genealogical and historical areas. She has been lecturing across the country on genealogical and historical topics for nearly two decades. Currently, she serves as president of the Gregath Company, Inc. Carrie has been active in various professional, service and lineal organizations throughout the years, including the Association of Professional Genealogists, National Genealogical Society, Federation of Genealogical Societies and Genealogical Speakers Guild.
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Additions to Tombstone Inscriptions of Jasper County, Missouri
Volume 2
by John Schehrer
Copyright 2009
Go to Revisited 2008 book
Additions to Tombstone Inscriptions of Jasper County, Missouri Volume 2, by John Schehrer has now been published. Continuing his valuable service to the genealogy and family history community, Schehrer goes beyond the original published work that inspired this ongoing project. With publishing his book, Additions to Tombstone Inscriptions of Jasper County, Missouri Revisited, 2008, he began enriching the amount of genealogical information available, in print, for the researching public of Jasper County, Missouri. Schehrer’s inspiration was an earlier book series was compiled by Colleen Webb Belk and Jack Belk throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. His newest book includes additions since the Belk’s groundbreaking work as well as alternate information to the cemeteries of Saginaw and Wild Rose Cemeteries. However, most of the material published in this volume contain burials not previously published in the Belk series.
To make this work more comprehensive, the author has included data from the funeral home records from Hurlbut, Sevier and Knell. Some of this information was also cross checked with death certificates to provide the reader with more information. No original material from the Belk series has been included. Though researchers will find a few similar entries, Schehrer has included only the information he has witnessed and researched. Beginning genealogists may not recognize that recording differences from transcription errors, changes in records, and human interpretation of documents and stones are standard occurrences.
Schehrer traveled to many cemeteries in Jasper County, Missouri, including several graveyards that border the current county lines, surveying them for burials not included in the original Belk volumes. They include: Baptist, Cave Springs, Cedar Hill, Dudenville, Dudman, Friends, Green Lawn, Hackney, Mitchell, Mound, Oronogo, Saginaw, and Wild Rose.
This new publication measurers 8.5×11” and has a soft comb binding. Its’ 116 pages include an introduction by the author, table of contents, an author brief on each property, individual transcriptions by cemetery, and a surname index by cemetery. For more information, contact the Gregath Publishing Company at 918-542-4148, or visit them online.
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Use Funeral Homes When Researching
Genealogists are fascinated with cemeteries. Besides being the final resting place for ones ancestors, cemeteries provide vital information. Tombstone and cemetery records often reveal more than death information. Cemeteries, however, are not the only sources of information regarding the deceased. Do not forget funeral homes.
Funeral homes are another resource for providing family information. Their records often contain biographical information not found on the deth certificate or in the obituary. They may also have a copy of the funeral program, printed eulogies, as well as a copy of the death certificate and obituary.
Funeral home records are private business documents. You do not have a legal right to view them. They are not covered by the Freedom of Information Act. Most funeral directors, however, are individuals who are more than willing to help genealogists.
Many funeral directors have allowed their records to be microfilmed. Often genealogical societies have published the records. For example, the Tulsa Genealogical Society has published 12 volumes of funeral home records. The Lawton Ritter-Gray funeral home records to 1994 are on microfilm and available at the Lawton Public Library.
If you do not know what funeral home was used, the death certificate or obituary should provide this information.
If you are looking for a list of funeral homes and cemeteries currently operating, go to www.imortuary.com. Select by location or browse the state and town. The address, phone number, web address and location on a map are given.
That web site is a quick and easy way to locate funeral homes and cemeteries throughout the country. Memorial parks, such as Sunset Memorial (Lawton) are listed under funeral homes and not cemeteries.
The site does not list all known cemeteries for an area. Not included are rural, inactive, family and small cemeteries. For example, Highland Cemetery (Lawton) is listed, but not the cemeteries in Cache, Indiahoma or Elgin. Local funeral homes can often provide you with a list of local cemeteries. They are experts on this subject.
The National Yellow Book of Funeral Directors and The National Directory of Morticians, both published annually, are excellent print guides to funeral homes. Arrangement is by state and town. Genealogy libraries, including the Lawton Public Library, often own a copy.
What if the funeral home is no longer in business? Again, ask the funeral home still in business as it may have the records of the old funeral homes or know where they may be located.
(This information was taken from Paul Follett’s column Tree Tracers published in the Lawton Constitution on December 10, 2007.)
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FAMILY HEALTH HISTORY: Know your past; protect your future!
This summer as you plan for family reunions, don’t forget to take time to talk about your family health history. Family reunions are the perfect time to learn about and share, not only your genealogy but your family health history as well. And for some families, knowing this information could be life-saving. This is because many health problems like heart disease, asthma, cancer, and diabetes tend to run in families. When close family members have the same health problem or develop a problem at a younger age than expected, this can increase other family members’ risk of developing the problem. But the good news is, by learning about your family health history, you can make healthy choices to lower your risk.
To help families talk about and share their family health history, the Utah Department of Health developed a free Family Health History Toolkit. The toolkit contains a pedigree chart, fun ideas, and talking points you can use with family members to collect about your family health history.
From Federation of Genealogical Societies “FGS Delegate Digest” Volume 13, No. 9, July 2006
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A lot of LDS research resources are available through local LDS Churches. “Stake Libraries” in your local LDS family history center can order any microfilm available in Salt Lake City +++ All this, without having to sit in front of your computer all day.
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2:39 pm
Still looking for that lost ancestor? When you run across the right surname in a general area at the correct time, never discard this information. This data may be the same family (yea!) or different (boo!), but one can rarely tell when finding the data originally. Likewise, a group that appears not to be related when the information is found, may be related and you uncover the link ten years later. Don’t rely on research data sheets to go back and find information you uncovered 20 years ago: records get misplaced, misfiled, moved, go through natural deterioration, in some cases are discarded or destroyed, not to mention acts of God or vandalism.
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10:17 pm
Don’t forget when searching the census that several “schedules” exist for different time periods. If available, use them together. For instance, if you find someone on a mortality schedule, you will probably be able to find them on the main census. Mortality listings also point to other non-census places that may have information such as death records, obituaries and funeral home records.
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10:09 pm
Have you checked out alternate Census options? Don’t discount all census that were taken – in addition to state and federal options there are/were agricultural, etc. at different time periods.
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11:08 pm
While becoming that student of history we have already suggested, is your lost ancestor in America during the time the US was giving out free land to it’s citizens? If so, your next stop should be the homestead records! This little utilized collection of documents and information is housed at the national archives and has not been reproduced or indexed in any wide reaching way. The Homestead National Monument has begun exploring the best way to augment NARA general paper preservation process by replicating them in Nebraska.
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Basic research rule that is most commonly overlooked – no matter how much material you check, keep a record of what you have checked.
Basic research rule that is almost as most commonly overlooked – cite your sources. Make sure when you locate a document, reference, or listing that you take detailed information about not only what reference you were using, but where and when it was found.
Keep these rules in mind and your search may be a much more orderly and enjoyable experience 
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Carrie Ann Cook is a published author, illustrator and free-lance photographer. She holds an AA and BS in Elementary Education. Having certified for teaching in several states, she has taught elementary classes as well as genealogy, writing and computer classes at the Northeast Technology Center, Afton, Oklahoma, as well as briefly serving the Miami Public Library as the Genealogy Department. Miss Cook has served in library and archival capacities for many years and participated in numerous ProQuest and Genealogical Library workshops and seminars. Her company continues to present professional workshops and seminars in library, archival, genealogical and historical areas. She has been lecturing across the country on genealogical and historical topics for nearly two decades. Currently, she serves as president of the Gregath Company, Inc. Carrie has been active in various professional, service and lineal organizations throughout the years, including the Association of Professional Genealogists, National Genealogical Society, Federation of Genealogical Societies and Genealogical Speakers Guild.
