Chula Vista Genealogical Society Meeting on Wednesday, 28 September Features Glenda Lloyd

 Wednesday, 28 September 2022, 12 noon

CVGS General Meeting (in a Zoom Video Conference)

Glenda Lloyd on "Documenting Your Heirlooms”

  

There are many things in your family history that are important and worth documenting beyond birth, marriage and death dates. Family traditions and stories about items in the family can enrich the family history and ensure that the information is passed on to future generations accurately and correctly.

Glenda was born and raised on a cattle ranch in northern California in Modoc County. She attended a one-room country school for seven years. Her high school graduating class was 53. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a teaching credential in Early Childhood Education. Most of her teaching career was spent as a reading specialist.

She became interested in Family History listening to my grandmother sharing family stories. In 1978 four gals took a course at American River College. Root Cellar, Sacramento Genealogical Society was organized that summer. Glenda served as its first president and the Board of Directors for 44 years. She teaches genealogy classes through Adult Education and do programs for genealogy societies.

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Register on the CVGS website for this meeting at  https://chulavistagenealogysociety.wildapricot.org/event-4945510, and look for the email with the Zoom meeting reminder link on about Monday, 26 September.

This program will be held online using the Zoom video conferencing platform for Meetings. A Zoom meeting invitation will be sent via email to all CVGS members on 26 September. Please note that the meeting starts at 12 noon Pacific Daylight Time (3 p.m. Eastern time, 2 p.m. Central time, 1 p.m. Mountain time). The Zoom Meeting room will be open by 11:45 a.m. PDT for visiting and helping attendees connect.

Attendance is free but only 100 Zoom seats are available, so please register soon.

This invitation is available to non-members by registering at    https://chulavistagenealogysociety.wildapricot.org/event-4945510.  If you register before Tuesday morning, you will receive an email on Tuesday (27 September) with the link to JOIN the Zoom meeting. Contact randy.seaver@gmail.com if you have problems or register too late for the email. 

NOTE: The Chula Vista Genealogical Society offers an annual membership of $30 and an email membership of $10 per year for distant members (outside of San Diego County, California). Besides the monthly General Meeting with a program on last Wednesdays, there is a monthly Research Group meeting on second Wednesdays and a DNA Interest Group meeting on the third Wednesdays, plus a monthly 10-page email newsletter chock full of program announcements, research tips and program reviews.

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Chula Vista Genealogical Society Meeting on Wednesday, 25 May Features Sara Cochran

                          Wednesday, 25 May 2022, 12 noon

CVGS General Meeting (in a Zoom Video Conference)

Sara Cochran on "From a Box in the Closet to 

a Treasured Family Heirloom”

If you're overwhelmed by the collection of photos your family has accumulated, you're not alone! After a brief history of photography, we look at organizing techniques, digitization basics and options/ideas on what to do with your photos so they can be enjoyed by generations to come, instead of collecting dust in the box.

Sara Cochran, “The Skeleton Whisperer,” has over twenty-five years of genealogical experience. Her research has taken her into nearly every State in the USA and Ireland, Britain, and Italy. She holds a Boston University Genealogical Research Certificate, a Bachelor's Degree in Library Science, and is an alumnus of the ProGen Study Group.

She especially enjoys breaking down brick walls for her clients, discovering the stories of black sheep ancestors, and helping individuals preserve their photographic legacy.

Register on the CVGS website for this meeting (https://chulavistagenealogysociety.wildapricot.org/), and look for the email with the Zoom meeting link on about Monday, 23 May.

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This program will be held online using the Zoom video conferencing platform for Meetings. A Zoom meeting invitation will be sent via email to all CVGS members on 23 May. Please note that the meeting starts at 12 noon Pacific Daylight Time (3 p.m. Eastern time, 2 p.m. Central time, 1 p.m. Mountain time). The Zoom Meeting room will be open by 11:45 a.m. PDT for visiting and helping attendees connect.

Attendance is free but only 100 Zoom seats are available, so please register soon.

This invitation is available to non-members by registering at   https://chulavistagenealogysociety.wildapricot.org/event-4828138 .  If you register before Tuesday morning, you will receive an email on Tuesday (24 May) with the link to JOIN. Attendance is limited to 100 attendees. Contact randy.seaver@gmail.com if you have problems or register too late for the email. 

NOTE: The Chula Vista Genealogical Society offers an email membership of $10 per year for distant members (outside of San Diego County, California). Besides the monthly General Meeting with a program on last Wednesdays, there is a monthly Research Group meeting on second Wednesdays and a DNA Interest Group meeting on the third Wednesdays, plus a monthly 10-page email newsletter chock full of program announcements, research tips and program reviews.

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Photograph(s) of Your Favorite Heirloom(s)

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1)  Last week we shared the heirlooms that we inherited or obtained from our families.

2)  This week, please show a photograph of one or two of them.
3)  Share your cherished heirloom(s) in your own blog post, on Facebook, and leave a link to it in the comments.

Here's mine:

a)  On the Carringer side of my family tree:

This is one of my grandfather's (Lyle Lawrence Carringer) pocket watches.  It has an hour hand, a minute hand, and a small second hand.  As seen in the photo, 12 o'clock is on the left-hand side of the photo.  The watch has stopped at 2:40:22.  

The only inscription on the watch is in a very fine hand under the XII:

M. German

San Diego, Ca.

I don't know when or how my grandfather obtained the watch - my guess is it was a birthday or Christmas gift, perhaps from his parents or his wife, as a young man.  He died in November 1976, and I think my mother gave it to me in the 1980s.  We tried to have it restarted several times but it never worked for more than a day or two, as I recall.  I have no clue how to "get into" it - my guess is that watchmakers have a special tool to open the two sides to get to the machinery inside.  
b)  On the Seaver side of my family tree:

This is a folding Union Case with ambrotype photographs behind the glass.  I am very certain that the person in the photos are Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) and his second wife, Lucretia (Smith) Seaver (1828-1884), my second great-grandparents.  Isaac is the only Civil War soldier in my ancestry, serving from Massachusetts in Washington DC in 1863-1865.  He was a blacksmith.  My understanding is that the soldiers had these made before they left for their deployment so that their family could have a remembrance if they did not return.  

My aunt Geraldine (Seaver) Remley had this pass down to her after her mother died in 1962.  I am sure that it had a favored place on the mantle of Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) and Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942).  I had never seen it, or knew about it, until Gerry passed away in 2007 and the family permitted me to have the photographs and other memorabilia that Gerry had collected.   This was a real prize.  

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- What Family Heirlooms Did You Inherit or Obtain?

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1)  The NEHGS Weekly Genealogy newsletter asked an interesting question this week - let's use it for our SNGF this week.

2)  What "family heirlooms" did you inherit or obtain?  What are your most cherished possessions that were owned or created by an ancestor or relative?  They could be photographs, letters or documents, a diary, an audio or video recording, books, jewelry, clothing, quilts, needlework, drawing or painting, toy or doll, collectibles, musical instrument, furniture, something else?

3)  Share your cherished heirloom(s) in your own blog post, on Facebook, and leave a link to it in the comments.

Here's mine:

There are so many that I received from my mother's family, mainly because she was an only child and her parents were only children, so nearly everything three generations had were handed down to my brothers and myself.  So my portion included:

*  Oriental furniture collected by my grandmother.
*  Victorian furniture obtained or made by my great-grandparents - a rocker, some nested tray tables, etc.
*  My great-grandmother Della's scrapbook with clippings and photographs.
*  A wealth of photographs, including some cased photos from the 1860s.
*  Several large photographs of the 30th Street house and my great-grandparents marriage certificate on the wall of our hallway.
*  Letters from cousins "back east."
*  Books from the late 1800s, some with my Carringer grandfather, great and great-great grandfather's names inscribed.  My daughter Tami has some of the schoolbooks.
*  Two sets of family Bible pages for the Carringer and Smith family.
*  Two of my grandfather's pocket watches.  They don't keep time well now.
*  My grandfather's drafting set and magnifying glass.  I use the magnifier every day.
*  A photo album from my grandmother's cousin, Bessie (Auble) Pentecost.
*  Many examples of my mother's copper enamel artwork, which are on out living room walls.
*  About 70 50-foot 8 mm movies from about 1940 to 1980 taken by my grandfather and father.  
*  A fine German and English ancestry, with no living first or second cousins!

From my father's side, I received:

*  Three reels of audio tape recorded by my Aunt Geraldine in about 1990.
*  A Union Case (ambrotype) with photos of my 2nd great-grandparents Isaac and Lucretia (Smith) Seaver.
*  Many Seaver and Richmond family photographs from the 1880s and on, some of which are on our hallway walls.  
*  Geraldine (Seaver) Remley's photo albums and college diary. 
*  Marion (Seaver) Hemphill's photo album.
*  A drop leaf table that 2nd-great-grandmother Sophia (Newton) Hildreth passed down - it cost $500 to ship it cross-country and the darn thing had no useful stuff in it at all!
*  A fine New England and English ancestry, with about 20 living first and second cousins.

There are things I wish I did inherit --

*  My grandfather's postage stamp collection - my father sold it piecemeal
*  My grandparents postcard collection - there was a garage sale and I fear the hundreds of postcards, some of them family photos, went to local thrift stores or collectors.
*  The aircraft propeller given to my great-grandfather Henry Austin Carringer when he retired from Rockwell Field in 1932 at age 79.  I don't know what happened to it, and I wish they had kept it!

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Ellen's Questions - Part I

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1)  Ellen Thompson-Jennings posted 20 questions on her blog this week - see Even More Questions About Your Ancestors and Maybe A Few About You (posted 27 June). 

2)  We will do these five at a time - Questions 1 to 5 tonight.

3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post.

Here's mine:

1.  Which ancestor had the most children? It can be a couple or a single person.

The one I know best about is 4th great-grandfather Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1829) who had 17 children by two wives.  Nine were by Elizabeth Keyes (1759-1793), and eight by Abigail Hart (1769-1846).

2.  How many years have you been working on your genealogy/family history?

I started in early 1988, so I'm in my 32nd year of genealogy and family history research.  I quickly found the microfilms at the San Diego Family History Library and went every Saturday, often ordering 4-5 films each week and reading them (and copying pages on the microfilm reader printers) to stay up to speed.  I learned very quickly and got my tree started and it has never stopped growing. 

3.  Do you collaborate with other genealogists on your family history?

Early on there was a lot of collaboration on the Prodigy genealogy surname and locality message boards.  It was helpful because the locals knew the records and often would go to a repository or a cemetery to find records for me.  I tried to return the favors by supporting them based on my research knowledge and records.  I was also active on the RootsWeb message boards in the 1997-2005 time frame.  

These days, there is not much collaboration on message boards or social media.  I do get at least one (and sometimes more) emails about Seaver persons who see my online family trees and blog posts, and try to provide an ancestors report in response.  

4.  Have you hired a professional genealogist to work on your family history? Even if it was just a small branch of the family.

No, I have not actually hired someone to work on my family history.  I have paid for record lookups, and have had help from other researchers who had access to more or different records than I had.

5.  If you have family heirlooms what’s your plan for their future? 

I have some family heirlooms, and have two daughters, neither of whom are that interested in them.   I hope to interest them, or their children, in the heirlooms and records.  I have digitized most of the records, but the heirlooms (a wedding dress, photo albums, artwork, etc.) I don't know about.  I'm sure my mother's artwork will find homes with my daughters and their children.  

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - A Family Heirloom

Hey genea-folks, 

it's Saturday Night again, 

 time for more Genealogy Fun!

Your mission this week, should you decide to accept it, is to:

1)  The Family History Hound listed 20 Questions about your Ancestor, and I'm going to use some of them in the next few months.  

2)  Please answer the question - "What heirloom do you have that has been handed down through the generations?" 

3)  Write your own blog post, make a comment on this post, or post  your answer on Facebook or Google+.  Please leave a link to your answer in comments on this post.

My response:

While my mother had been giving me family photographs over the years from 1988 (when I started my genealogy research) until she died in early 2002, she pretty much kept the "family treasures" hidden. It was only when we were doing the inventory of the house and personal property, and distributing treasures to the sons and granddaughters, that we found many "goodies." My brothers kindly allowed me to have the "family history" treasures.

One "family history" treasure that I found in the back of a closet was a spoon holder. It had eight spoons in it, each with a monogram on it, but two different sets of initials - six with "C.K." and two with "M.A.V.":



On the back of the spoon holder was a sheet of paper taped to the back:

The page says:

"These silver spoons are made out of the silver buckles worn on the velvet knickerbockers during the revolutionary period by descendants of Sir Isaac Newton - Date of spoons not known but over 100 years old.

"The spoons were given by Catherine Newton Knapp to Mary Auble - and later to her daughter - Bessie Auble Pentecost - grandniece of Catherine Newton Knapp - Now being passed on to another grandniece - Emily Auble Carringer.

"August 19th, 1945.

"The two spoons marked M.A.V. belonged to Lyle's great-grandmother, Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux. They were made by Cogswell in Boston, Mass. in 1760 - They are coin silver. M.A.V. is Grandma Smith's mother."

The six spoons that have the initials "C.K." are the Catherine Knapp (about 1810- after 1894) spoons. Catherine Knapp was the daughter of William Knapp (1775-1856) and Sarah Cutter (1785-1878), and never married. I have part of an obituary for Catherine Knapp, but don't know her death date or place. I can't find any information about her life in my database either...not even census records. Ah, a research challenge!

Another research challenge is the "family story" that the spoons were made out of silver buckles worn by descendants of Sir Isaac Newton. Did Sir Isaac have children and descendants? I don't know, but will try to find out. There was a man named Sir Isaac Newton (not the one of discovering Gravity fame) residing in the early 1800s in Vermont, if I recall correctly!

This is the first clue I have about the Newton middle name for Catherine Knapp. They lived in Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey. There is no Newton family in her mother's ancestry, but there could be in her father's Knapp ancestry (which I have not been able to determine to date).

The two spoons with the initials "M.A.V." were given by Mary Ann (Underhill) Vaux (ca 1815-after 1880), daughter of Amos Underhill (1772-1865) and Mary Metcalf (1780 - ????), and wife of Samuel Vaux (1816-after 1880). 

I do not know when or where the wooden spoon holder was obtained by Emily (Auble) Carringer. She probably bought it at a store after she was given the spoons by her cousin, Bessie (Auble) Pentecost on her birthday in 1945.

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November 30th CVGS Program is "Heirloom Show and Tell"

Wednesday, 30 November 2016, 12 noon To 2 p.m.

Program Meeting

“Heirloom Show and Tell”

Chula Vista Civic Center Branch Library (365 F Street, Chula Vista, CA 91910)

Due to illness, Georgie Stillman will not be presenting her usual “Heirloom Discovery Day” program. 

 However, Jane Strawn is organizing and will host an “Heirloom Show and Tell” program, with members displaying their heirlooms and telling the stories about their heirlooms.  

Please bring in your family treasures to share with the group. If you can carry it, you can bring it! If possible, send Jane a photo of your item so it can be projected on the screen.

Email or phone and let Jane know if you will be bringing in a Family Treasure. Don’t forget the story. Contact Jane Strawn (email jstrawn2@cox.net, phone 619 434-4051).

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I am going to present my 1860s Union Case with ambrotypes of Isaac and Lucretia (Smith) Seaver, and Linda will present the large family photograph of her McKnew ancestors outside their home after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.

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CVGS November Program is "Heirloom Discovery Day" with Georgie Stillman

WEDNESDAY, November 25th PROGRAM MEETING

from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

At Bonita Sunnyside Library (4375 Bonita Road)

in the Community Room

Georgie Stillman, ASA – “Heirloom Discovery Day”

      Our November 25th program for the Chula Vista Genealogical Society will feature Georgie Stillman, ASA, presenting an “Heirloom Discovery Day.” Georgie will evaluate, provide some historical background and estimate a value of family heirlooms brought in by CVGS members. Her expertise is in evaluating and appraising silver, china, glass ware, furniture, artworks, quilts and samplers.

     Georgie Stillman (http://georgiestillman.com/bio.htm) has worked as a professional appraiser in London, England, Phoenix, and San Diego since 1971. She has served as president of the American Society of Appraisers (ASA), vice president of the San Diego chapter, and was founding director of the International Society of Appraisers. Georgie has received numerous awards for her outstanding service, including Appraiser of the Year. Besides being a professional instructor at various colleges, she has made many radio/TV guest appearances and written articles for many publications, teaching audiences about antiques and art.

     If you would like your heirloom to be evaluated by Georgie, please contact Jane Strawn to get on the evaluation list -- there are a limited number of spaces on the list. Jane has a form for you to complete and return by November 18th.

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CVGS Program on 26 November is "Heirloom Discovery Day" with Georgie Stillman

WEDNESDAY, November 26th PROGRAM MEETING

from 12 noon to 2 p.m.

At Chula Vista Civic Center Branch Library Auditorium (365 F Street)

Georgie Stillman, ASA – “Heirloom Discovery Day”

      Our November 26th program will feature Georgie Stillman, ASA,presenting an “Heirloom Discovery Day.” Georgie will evaluate, provide some historical background and estimate a value of family heirlooms brought in by CVGS members. Her expertise is in evaluating and appraising silver, china, glass ware, furniture, artworks, quilts and samplers.

     Georgie Stillman (http://georgiestillman.com/bio.htm) has worked as a professional appraiser in London, England, Phoenix, and San Diego since 1971. She has served as president of the American Society of Appraisers (ASA), vice president of the San Diego chapter, and was founding director of the International Society of Appraisers. Georgie has received numerous awards for her outstanding service, including Appraiser of the Year. Besides being a professional instructor at various colleges, she has made many radio/TV guest appearances and written articles for many publications, teaching audiences about antiques and art.

     If you would like your heirloom to be evaluated by Georgie, please contact Ralph Munoz (619-421-7251, or email Munoz1951@ cox.net) to get on the evaluation list -- there are a limited number of spaces on the list. Ralph has a form for you to complete and return by November 19th.

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CGSSD Meeting on Saturday, 16 March Features Denise Levenick

The Computer Genealogy Society of San Diego (CGSSD) meets on the 3rd Saturday of each month (except December) from 9:00 a.m. to noon on the campus of UCSD, University of California, San Diego. See our web page www.cgssd.org  for directions.

The next meeting will be held on Saturday, 16 March 2013 from 9:00 am to noon. Here are the details:

9:00 a.m.: User group: Macintosh, with Dona Ritchie. 

9:00 a.m.: SIG: DNA Genealogy, with Corlee Morris

10:00 - Break

10:20 - Announcements followed by program:

Preserving the Past: Archiving and Digitizing Your Family Keepsakes
by Denise May Levenick

Two-part overview of preservation and digitization techniques for family historians. Includes best practices for archival storage and fundamentals of digitization and scanning family history papers.

Denise May Levenick is a writer, researcher, and speaker with a passion for preserving and sharing family treasures of all kinds. She is the author of How to Archive Family Keepsakes (Family Tree Books, 2012) and creator of the award-winning genealogy blog, The Family Curator http://www.thefamilycurator.com/ 

We meet at the Robinson Auditorium complex on the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus in La Jolla. From North Torrey Pines Road, turn at Pangea Drive into UCSD. Free parking is available in the parking garage on the left; use any space other than those specifically reserved for UCSD vehicles. Signs will mark directions to our meeting room. Please refer to our website www.cgssd.org; or the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies website (click here) for driving directions and a map.

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Denise Levenick's Blog Book Tour Rocks!

I received this press release yesterday from my geneablogging colleague, Denise Levenick:

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NEWS RELEASE

Contact: Denise May Levenick

dmlevenick@gmail.com
www.theFamilyCurator.com

For Immediate Release

Blog Book Tour Comes to A Computer Near You:
A New Way to Learn More About Genealogy Books and Authors

Family Curator Blog Book Tour for How to Archive Family Keepsakes by Denise Levenick – On Tour from January 10-26^th, 2013

The Virtual Book Tour brings new books and authors directly to the reader, and with the Blog Book Tour for Denise Levenick’s new book How to Archive Family Keepsakes genealogists and family historians are browsing the pages of this new book via the internet during the16-day tour of popular blogs and websites January 10 – 26, 2013.

Blog book tours are popular trends in the general e-publishing world but had limited exposure in the family history community until Gena Philibert-Ortega introduced her book From the Family Kitchen to genealogists in a virtual book tour in August, 2012. Enthusiastic response to Levenick’s blog book tour shows that the virtual tour continues to be a welcome new event.

After a successful launch January 10 at the author’s family history blog The Family Curator, the tour stopped at eight more websites. Each day, content and reviews gave readers a chance to sample Levenick’s new book and learn more about organizing and preserving family keepsakes and genealogy papers.

Free handouts, book excerpts, exclusive articles, reviews, and author interviews are among the different kinds of content posted in the opening week. Participating blogs included: Geneabloggers; Genealogy Gems Podcast Blog; Moultrie Creek Gazette;, 4 Your Family Story; Olive Tree Genealogy;, The Armchair Genealogist; Shades of the Departed; and Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories.

January 20-25 the Blog Book Tour continues with visits to six more genealogy blogs for new articles, interviews, and reviews -- Practical Archivist; The In-Depth Genealogist; Food. Family. Ephemera.; DearMYRTLE; AnceStories; and The Houstory Hearth.

How to Archive Family Keepsakes offers practical guidance for family historians:

• Helping a parent or loved one downsize to a smaller home
• Needing a simple, effective filing system for genealogy research
• Interested in scanning and making digital copies of genealogy records
• Looking for a way to preserve your family history and heirlooms for future generations

Proceeds from the sale of How to Archive Family Keepsakes during the Book Tour will help fund the 2013 Student Genealogy Grant founded in 2010 to assist young genealogists further their genealogical education.

For more information, visit the Blog Book Tour Page at The Family Curator website http://www.thefamilycurator.com/book-tour/.

How to Archive Family Keepsakes: Learn to Preserve Family Photos, Memorabilia & Genealogy Records

Author: Denise May Levenick

Publisher: Family Tree Books, 2012