May God Bless Us All
May we never again go through what our families endured at the end of VietNam.
In my family it affected Fathers & Mothers, brothers, uncles, aunts, cousins many, many cousins and so many of our dearest friends. Grandparents and Great also felt the pain.
Some even who never came home. The families have no closure.
KPBS has an excellent show each year which is on now to help us to endure all this
ache and pain. It started at 8 pm west coast, east coast has already seen it.
So Thank You to all those whom served in our past and for those who are serving now and then into the future.
Brian Wright may you come home whole.
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Friday, May 27, 2016
Historic Coal Mine Information PA.1900- 1976
http://www.easternusresearch.com/easternusresearch/minelink1.htmlMines in blue, online now from this link page.11-09-00 Buck Mountain Mahanoy City, PA 7 Explosion 06-10-01 Port Royal, No. 2 Port Royal, PA 19 Explosion 10-25-01 Buttonwood Plymouth, PA 6 Explosion 03-06-02 Catsburg Monongahela, Pa. 5 Explosion 07-10-02 Rolling Mill Johnstown, PA 112 Explosion 11-29-02 Luke Fidler Shamokin, PA 7 Explosion 11-21-03 Ferguson Connellsville, PA 17 Explosion 01-25-04 Hardwick Cheswick, PA 179 Explosion 05-05-04 Locust Gap Locust Gap, PA 5 Fire 11-02-04 Auchincloss Nanticoke, PA 10 Haulage 02-18-05 Lytle Minerville, PA 5 Haulage 03-09-05 Clear Spring West Pittston, PA 7 Haulage 04-26-05 Conyngham Wilkes-Barre, PA 10 Haulage 04-27-05 Eleanora Dubois, Pa 13 Explosion 07-06-05 Fuller Searight, PA 6 Explosion 10-10-05 Hazelkirk No. 2 Monongahela, PA 2 Explosion 10-13-05 Clyde Fredericktown, PA 6 Fire 10-29-05 Hazel Kirk No. 2 Monongahela, PA 5 Explosion 11-15-05 Braznell Bentleyville, PA 7 Explosion 08-06-06 Susquehanna No. 7 Nanticoke, PA 6 Explosion 10-24-06 Rolling Mill Johnstown, PA 7 Explosion 03-02-07 Holden Taylor, PA 7 Explosion 06-18-07 Johnson No. 1 Priceburg, PA 7 Explosion 08-17-07 Sonman Sonman, PA 5 Haulage 12-01-07 Naomi Fayette City, PA 34 Explosion 12-19-07 Darr Jacobs Creek, PA 239 Explosion 05-12-08 Mount Lookout Wyoming, PA 12 Explosion 05-13-08 Prospect Wilkes-Barre, PA 5 Roof Fall/Bump 07-15-08 Williamstown Williamstown, PA 6 Explosion 08-28-08 Warrior Run Wilkes-Barre, PA 6 Haulage 11-28-08 Rachel and Agnes Marianna, PA 154 Explosion 01-25-09 Orenda No. 2 Boswell, PA 5 Explosion 03-02-09 No. 14 Pittston, PA 8 Explosion 04-09-09 Eureka No. 37 Wimber, PA 7 Explosion 06-23-09 Lackawanna No. 4 Wehrun, PA 21 Explosion 10-31-09 Franklin No. 2 Johnstown, PA 13 Explosion 11-09-09 Auchinloss Nanticoke, PA 9 Fire 01-11-10 Nottingham Plymouth, PA 7 Explosion 01-11-10 Nottingham Plymouth, PA 7 Explosion 02-05-10 Ernest No. 2 Ernest, PA 12 Explosion 03-12-10 So. Wilkes-Barre S. Wilkes-Barre, PA 7 Explosion 03-22-11 Hazel Canonsburg, PA 9 Haulage 04-07-11 Price-Pancoast Troop, PA 73 Fire 05-10-11 Boston Larksville, PA 5 Fire 05-27-11 Cameron Shamokin, PA 5 Explosion 07-15-11 Sykesville Sykesville, PA 21 Explosion 11-09-11 Adrian Punxuatawney, PA 8 Explosion 01-09-12 Parrish Plymouth, PA 6 Explosion 07-24-12 Superba & Lemont Evans Station, PA 18 Inundation 04-23-13 Cincinnati Finleyville, PA 98 Explosion 08-02-13 East Brookside Tower City, PA 20 Explosion 05-29-14 Maryd Maryd, PA 6 Haulage 09-16-14 Lehigh No. 4 Lansford, PA 7 Explosion 12-09-14 Tripp Scranton, PA 13 Haulage 02-17-15 Prospect Wilkes-Barre, PA 13 Explosion 05-24-15 Smokeless Valley #1 Johnstown, PA 9 Explosion 07-30-15 Patterson No. 2 Elizabeth, PA 9 Haulage 08-31-15 Orenda Boswell, PA 19 Explosion 02-08-16 Lance Plymouth, PA 7 Explosion 02-11-16 Ernest No. 2 Ernest, PA 27 Explosion 03-09-16 Hollenback Wilkes-Barre, PA 6 Explosion 03-30-16 Robindale Seward, PA 8 Explosion 08-08-16 Woodward Wilkes-Barre, PA 6 Explosion 11-18-16 Ocean Mine Greensbury, PA 8 Roof Fall 03-13-17 Henderson No. 1 Henderson, PA 14 Explosion 08-07-18 Harmer Harmerville, PA 6 Explosion 06-05-19 Baltimore Tunnel #2 Wilkes-Barre, PA 92 Explosion 07-08-19 Lansford Colliery Lansford, PA 8 Explosion 06-02-20 Ontario Cokesburg, PA 6 Explosion 07-19-20 Renton No. 3 Renton, PA 9 Explosion 03-09-21 Rahn No. 11 Seek, PA 5 Explosion 02-02-22 Gates No. 2 Gates, PA 25 Explosion 03-20-22 Dilltown No. 1 Dilltown, PA 5 Explosion 11-06-22 Reilly No. 1 Spangler, PA 79 Explosion 02-21-23 Alliance Kaska, PA 5 Explosion 06-26-23 Richards Colliery Mount Carmel, PA. 5 Explosion 12-08-23 Mount Jessup No. 1 Jessup, PA 5 Roof Fall/Bump 01-26-24 Lancaster No. 18 Shanktown, PA 36 Explosion 06-06-24 Loomis Colleries Nanticoke, PA 14 Explosion 07-25-24 Gates No. 1 Brownsville, PA 10 Explosion 04-26-25 New Slope Sewickley, PA 5 Explosion 04-26-25 Hutchinson Millgrove, PA 5 Explosion 05-22-25 Woodward Edwardsville, PA 7 Explosion 08-03-25 Dorrance Wilkes-Barre, PA 10 Explosion 02-03-26 Horning No. 4 Horning, PA 20 Explosion 05-06-26 Randolph Colliery Part Carbon, PA 5 Explosion 07-03-26 Pettebone Colliery #6 Kingston, PA 7 Explosion 08-26-26 Clymer No. 1 Clymer, PA 44 Explosion 10-30-26 Colliery No. 7 Nanticoke, PA 9 Explosion 04-02-27 No. 53 Cokeburg, PA 6 Explosion 05-26-27 Woodward No. 3 Edwardsville, PA 7 Explosion 02-20-28 Kinloch Parnassus, PA 12 Explosion 05-19-28 Mather No. 1 Mather, PA 195 Explosion and List 05-25-28 Baltimore No. 5 Parsons, PA 10 Explosion 08-09-28 Hillside Johnstown, PA 5 Explosion 08-15-28 Irvonis No. 3 Coalport, PA 13 Explosion 03-21-29 Kinloch Parnassus, PA 46 Explosion 08-08-30 Gilberton Gilberton, PA 8 Roof Fall/Bump 05-29-31 Richards Colliery Mount Carmel, PA 5 Explosion 09-11-33 Oakmont Barking, PA 7 Explosion 01-21-35 Gilberton Gilberton, PA 13 Explosion 05-07-35 South Wilkes-Barre Wilkes-Barre, PA 7 Haulage 08-24-36 Clear Spring West Pittston, PA 5 Explosion 03-28-37 Kramer Dubois, PA 9 Explosion 01-12-38 Harwick Harwick, PA 10 Explosion 04-27-38 No. 1 Slope Pottsville, PA 8 Explosion 06-02-38 Butler Slope Pittston, PA 10 Explosion 07-15-40 Sonman Portage, PA 63 Explosion 06-30-41 Kent No. 2 McIntyre, PA 7 Explosion 09-24-43 Primrose Colliery Minersville, PA 14 Explosion 06-07-44 Emerald Clarksville, PA 6 Fire 03-12-45 Crucible Crucible, PA 5 Roof/Bump 01-15-47 Nottingham Plymouth, PA 15 Explosion 04-10-47 Schooley Exeter, PA 10 Explosion 12-11-47 Franklin Wilkes-Barre, PA 8 Explosion 03-29-51 Buttonwood Wilkes-Barre, PA 5 Explosion 02-02-52 Carpentertown Carpentertown, PA 6 Explosion 03-27-52 Holmes Slope Forrestville, PA 5 Inundation 09-23-57 Marianna No. 58 Marianna, PA 6 Explosion 01-22-59 River Slope Port Griffith, PA 12 Inundation 12-06-62 Robena No. 3 Carmichaels, PA 37 Explosion
This comes from our web page:http://www.easternusresearch.com/easternusresearch/index.htmlNext will come from other places.
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Some Links from our Family Website. Much Western PA and MD etc.
Cemetery Link Page Ourfamilyhistories.com/hsdurbin/contents1.html
The Braden Cemetery, In Washington County Pa. The Glade Cemetery In Greene County Pa. The Purviance Cemetery, In Claysville, Washington County Pa. The Jones Cemetery, In Washington County Pa. The Howe Cemetery, In Washington County Pa. The Phillipsburg Cemetery In Washington County Pa. Reynolds and Related Families Cemetery Dar Grave Sites Revolutionary War Patriot Graves Washington County Cemeteries West Alexander Cemetery Cemetery Records Part 1 Washington County Pa., Revolutionary War Burials Greene County Pa., Revolutionary War Burials Early Somerset County Cemetery Records Local Cemeteries for Addison Township, Somerset Co., Pa. Local Cemeteries for Addison Township, part 1 Other Cemeteries not on this site: East Buffalo Church, School and Cemetery by Carol Ann Claffey Mounts Allegheny County Pa Cemetery Archives Armstrong County Pa Cemetery Archives Bedford County Pa Cemetery Archives Berks County Pa Cemetery Archives Bucks County Pa Cemetery Archives Cameron County Pa Cemetery Archives Carbon County Pa Cemetery Archives Centre County Pa Cemetery Archives Chester County Pa Cemetery Archives Columbia County Pa Cemetery Archives Cumberland County Pa Cemetery Archives Daulphin County Pa Cemetery Archives Erie County Pa Cemetery Archives Fayette County Pa Cemetery Archives Forest County Pa Cemetery Archives Franklin County Pa Cemetery Archives Greene County Pa Cemetery Archives Huntingdon County Pa Cemetery Archives Indiana County Pa Cemetery Archives Juniata County Pa Cemetery Archives Lancaster County Pa Cemetery Archives Lebanon County Pa Cemetery Archives Lehigh County Pa Cemetery Archives Lazern County Pa Cemetery Archives Monroe County Pa Cemetery Archives Montgomery County Pa Cemetery Archives Northampton County Pa Cemetery Archives Perry County Pa Cemetery Archives Philadelphia County Pa Cemetery Archives Schuykill County Pa Cemetery Archives Snyder County Pa Cemetery Archives Vanango County Pa Cemetery Archives Washington County Pa Cemetery Archives Westmoreland County Pa Cemetery Archives York County Pa Cemetery Archives Out of State Cemeteries: Search site - 0ver 5000 files) for Pa Plus every other state Search site for Social Security Records
Cemeteries in Wirt County, WestVirginia
Check out this linkLots of information at this link.
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Family History Fair at Bonita Stake
What you missed if you did not attend?
We had a great day of knowledge given to those who wished to participate. Amazed it wasn't packed wall to wall it was like a Seminar that one normally pays for but free, yes FREE. They even had a Continental Breakfast of Fresh Fruit, muffins and cinnamon breads sliced nice and thin for us to enjoy. Water, orange juice or milk was available to drink.
They had a great array of speakers and topics. Marti Lewis, Randy Seaver, John Finch, Kathleen
Winchester in English and for the hispanic speakers they had:Alvaro Cordova & Carlos Yturriade.
I chatted with acquaintances and attended Kathleen Winchester's talk on Lineage Societies. I was rather curious about how, if any of the societies had changed rules since the 1995 NGS event here in San Diego. (Having experienced a weird response then).
What I learned is that there are literally probably several hundred Societies of different natures, regarding our ancestral patronage.
Kathleen strongly felt that if you join a group you should be willing to make the group better by your involvement. (Another words not a collector of societies for your resume but an active real member.)
That got my attention. Someone who thinks along the lines I do. So I went to the other side and entered room and stayed for the rest of the presentation. Glad I did, so glad it was so refreshing to hear the things she said. I have DAR qualified ancestors with their DAR number. I have found several War of 1812 ancestors, multi Civil War ancestors. I have the medal of one of my CW Ancestors, it was presented to me for all the work I had done on our family by another family distant member.
Moving forward I have several family members that I personally knew that were in the more current wars. WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and the wars in Iraq and the mid east since 1980.
For the more current events there have been so many I can not recall them all. Our son served, our nephews served, cousins served. A grandnephew is serving now that I am aware of.
There are groups for probably all of these events.
Then I moved over and listened to Marti Lewis present on: Exploring Your DNA Results. Always a delight to learn information from Marti. She has some very neat charts that really explain some of the DNA confusion much simpler. Yes, she said she would gladly share those charts with us for our research endeavor. Thank You so much Marti for that. I heard several around me saying they would really like to have some of them.
She showed how she worked with a DNA linking cousin to establish relationship to each other.
She used some really cool methods of weeding out and adding to her research in doing this.
She showed us how she missed clues by not thinking wide enough in researching. One county over was her missing family. There were lots of great questions and responses to this research matching to pair with her DNA Match. I actually could follow along because she did not mention all those numbers and codes and that are so technical and leave me mostly in the dust.
I shared that she is right, most links are 4 and 5 generations back with DNA. I had a link yesterday with a 5 back generation member. Last week I did have a 3 generation back link but it was the matching of two brothers grandchildren. I had lost touch with the one and that link brought me great joy to find my 2nd cousin's family. (It was a family I had grown up with knowledge of and shared times with on our trips home to WYO/CO) They were my Grandmother's brothers. One lived in Oregon and one in Colorado, Grandma in Wyoming and they had other siblings in IA and NE.
It was such a refreshing method of presentation, am hoping she will do this talk again and share some of those super charts she used, (she is always good for her word) : >)
Was excited I would finally get to hear John Finch's talk on the Civil War. Alas, not meant to be again. I was answering questions from other attendees regarding DNA and tests and activities learned. (IN regards to the test sites and discoveries.)
Then went and helped hold down the fort at our booth with Virginia.
The events went quick the sharing of topics and information with members through out the event was great. I need to send a notice to Randy he was not aware of.
Anyone going to listen to CeCe Moore next week?
Yes I learned, always trying to learn more and share my knowledge with others.
Some commented on the RootTech presentation's, I am glad to see that they had these to offer to the attendees. I thought their choice of topics was excellent in this field.
Shirley Becket said the one on Family Search talked about Indexes that are not normally mentioned and she found it very informative. It was titled " Finding Elusive Records on FamilySearch.org.
It had been presented at the RootsTech last February.
I am no longer fluent in the Spanish language as I was 20 years ago. I am sure their Hispanic presentations were as interesting and intriguing.
We had a great day of knowledge given to those who wished to participate. Amazed it wasn't packed wall to wall it was like a Seminar that one normally pays for but free, yes FREE. They even had a Continental Breakfast of Fresh Fruit, muffins and cinnamon breads sliced nice and thin for us to enjoy. Water, orange juice or milk was available to drink.
They had a great array of speakers and topics. Marti Lewis, Randy Seaver, John Finch, Kathleen
Winchester in English and for the hispanic speakers they had:Alvaro Cordova & Carlos Yturriade.
I chatted with acquaintances and attended Kathleen Winchester's talk on Lineage Societies. I was rather curious about how, if any of the societies had changed rules since the 1995 NGS event here in San Diego. (Having experienced a weird response then).
What I learned is that there are literally probably several hundred Societies of different natures, regarding our ancestral patronage.
Kathleen strongly felt that if you join a group you should be willing to make the group better by your involvement. (Another words not a collector of societies for your resume but an active real member.)
That got my attention. Someone who thinks along the lines I do. So I went to the other side and entered room and stayed for the rest of the presentation. Glad I did, so glad it was so refreshing to hear the things she said. I have DAR qualified ancestors with their DAR number. I have found several War of 1812 ancestors, multi Civil War ancestors. I have the medal of one of my CW Ancestors, it was presented to me for all the work I had done on our family by another family distant member.
Moving forward I have several family members that I personally knew that were in the more current wars. WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and the wars in Iraq and the mid east since 1980.
For the more current events there have been so many I can not recall them all. Our son served, our nephews served, cousins served. A grandnephew is serving now that I am aware of.
There are groups for probably all of these events.
Then I moved over and listened to Marti Lewis present on: Exploring Your DNA Results. Always a delight to learn information from Marti. She has some very neat charts that really explain some of the DNA confusion much simpler. Yes, she said she would gladly share those charts with us for our research endeavor. Thank You so much Marti for that. I heard several around me saying they would really like to have some of them.
She showed how she worked with a DNA linking cousin to establish relationship to each other.
She used some really cool methods of weeding out and adding to her research in doing this.
She showed us how she missed clues by not thinking wide enough in researching. One county over was her missing family. There were lots of great questions and responses to this research matching to pair with her DNA Match. I actually could follow along because she did not mention all those numbers and codes and that are so technical and leave me mostly in the dust.
I shared that she is right, most links are 4 and 5 generations back with DNA. I had a link yesterday with a 5 back generation member. Last week I did have a 3 generation back link but it was the matching of two brothers grandchildren. I had lost touch with the one and that link brought me great joy to find my 2nd cousin's family. (It was a family I had grown up with knowledge of and shared times with on our trips home to WYO/CO) They were my Grandmother's brothers. One lived in Oregon and one in Colorado, Grandma in Wyoming and they had other siblings in IA and NE.
It was such a refreshing method of presentation, am hoping she will do this talk again and share some of those super charts she used, (she is always good for her word) : >)
Was excited I would finally get to hear John Finch's talk on the Civil War. Alas, not meant to be again. I was answering questions from other attendees regarding DNA and tests and activities learned. (IN regards to the test sites and discoveries.)
Then went and helped hold down the fort at our booth with Virginia.
The events went quick the sharing of topics and information with members through out the event was great. I need to send a notice to Randy he was not aware of.
Anyone going to listen to CeCe Moore next week?
Yes I learned, always trying to learn more and share my knowledge with others.
Some commented on the RootTech presentation's, I am glad to see that they had these to offer to the attendees. I thought their choice of topics was excellent in this field.
Shirley Becket said the one on Family Search talked about Indexes that are not normally mentioned and she found it very informative. It was titled " Finding Elusive Records on FamilySearch.org.
It had been presented at the RootsTech last February.
I am no longer fluent in the Spanish language as I was 20 years ago. I am sure their Hispanic presentations were as interesting and intriguing.
Friday, May 20, 2016
Review on Libraries in our Region
Libraries in our
Region: An Informative Presentation at the Lemon Grove Genealogy Group
Meeting by Susi Pentico 18 May 2016
Gee. There are a lot of libraries around the San Diego area
that I did not know about before tonight!
The PowerPoint presentation (with live links to library
websites), along with interesting comments and discussion, will certainly
assist in my never-ending search for lost ancestors.
Highlights for me included the San Diego Law Library site.
There are three main law libraries nearby: The San Diego County Law Library
& San Diego County Public Law Library (sandiegolibrary.org), and the
California Western School of Law Library. Researching at a law library could
turn up a black sheep in the family, maybe?
The Chula Vista Library at 4th and F St, Chula
Vista, houses the Chula Vista Genealogy Society resource collection. These
books are for in-library use only, so a road trip is in my near future.
Of course, the nearly-new, very modern San Diego Central
Library is a go-to destination for local genealogists with an entire floor
dedicated to genealogy.
Online site to search the catalog is: https://www.sandiego.gov/public-library.
When on this site, click on ‘Library’, then ‘Classic Catalog’ go to ‘All
Fields’, choose ‘Subject Keyword’, type in ‘genealogy’. Here I located at least
20 scrolling pages of results. Better get busy, fellow ancestor seekers.
And this is just a sample of the libraries covered in Susi’s
presentation.
Happy hunting, y’all!
Cindy Teysko
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