1717 Birth of Renewed Smith in North Kingstown, R.I. - Post 436 for Treasure Chest Thursday

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - a chance to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1717 birth record of Renewed Smith in the North Kingstown, Rhode Island  Town Records:

The birth record of Renewed Smith is at the top of the page:

The transcription of the birth record for Renewed Smith is:

"SMITH, Renewed, of Ephraim and Margaret,   May 8, 1717."

The source citation for this record is:

"Rhode Island, Vital Records Extracts, 1636-1899," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 23 June 2014), Volume 5, Washington County Births, Marriages and Deaths, page 99, (image 108 of 523), Renewed Smith birth entry.

This record is a  derivative source record for the birth of Renewed Smith.   The original record is in the North Kingstown town record books, which are on Family History Library US/CAN microfilms, available at the local FamilySearch Center.  

Renewed Smith (1717-1766) was the daughter of Ephraim and Margaret (Pearce) Smith of North Kingstown, R.I.  She married 1733 in North Kingstown to Daniel Carpenter (1712-1784), the son of Solomon and Elizabeth (Tefft) Carpenter of South Kingstown, R.I.  

Daniel and Renewed (Smith) Carpenter are my  6th great-grandparents, through their daughter  Elizabeth Carpenter (1741-????) who married  Stephen Hazard (1730-1804)  in 1760.

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CVGS Saturday Workshop Features FamilySearch Digital Microfilm

The November Saturday Workshop for the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) is this Saturday, 3 November at 1 p.m. at the Bonita-Sunnyside Library in Bonita CA (4375 Bonita Rd, 91902) in the Community Room.  Parking may be tight, but their are available spaces in the nearby country club parking lot.

Randy Seaver will present his "Using FamilySearch Digital Microfilm to Find Genealogical Records" presentation.  The program description is:

"FamilySearch has thousands of FREE record collections (almost 2,400 of them are on the   https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list site), and many of them are not indexed and cannot be searched using search fields.  Many more FREE record collections have been digitized and are accessible only through the Family Search Library Catalog (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/search).  

"These sets were digitized from FHL microfilms.  Think of them as "digital microfilm" - you have to browse the unindexed records.  There are finding aids to help the researcher find records for their ancestors - waypoints, volumes, volume indexes, etc.  This presentation will demonstrate how to find records for your ancestors in probate, land, vital, church, and other unindexed records."  

After the presentation, we want to try to help attendees with their specific research problems for which FamilySearch digital microfilm may provide the solution.

Attendees are requested to decide on a problem statement for one of your ancestors or localities - something specific pertaining to one of your ancestors and/or a specific place.  An example might be "Who are the parents of John Doe born in about 1840 in Sarsaparilla, Alabama?"  Or "What is Jane Doe's death date in Wayne County, Michigan?"  Or "What records are available on FamilySearch for Hilperton, Wiltshire, England?"

The  hope is that we can go through several of these problems on the screen, and perhaps some of our more experienced researchers can help other attendees. We will pass a sheet around to collect the problem statements during the presentation.

Attendees should bring their laptops with their family tree on it - either in genealogy software (e.g., Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Reunion, etc.) or an online tree (Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilySearch Family Tree, etc.).

We hope that this workshop will provide a stimulus for attendee's genealogy research.  I know that it has greatly helped my research in New England, Wisconsin, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Iowa, California, Kansas, Canada, England, Denmark, and Italy.

Chula Vista Genealogical Society programs are free to attend.  

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Young Randy in the Carringer Garden -- Post 538 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

Recently, I discovered an envelope of small photographs saved when my mother died in 2002 - it was hiding in plain sight in the Genea-Cave! 

Included in the photo cache was this oldie-but-goodie - little Randy in the Carringer garden sniffing a flower:

My grandparents, Lyle and Emily Carringer, had a beautiful garden in their fenced front yard at 2115 30th Street in San Diego, along with a bird bath.  It was a wonderful place to set young Randy out to explore and learn about nature.  I loved splashing my fingers in the bird bath.  Sometimes I guess I sniffed flowers.  Perhaps my mother or grandfather encouraged me to do something cute! 

Look at that sailor hat on my head!  My father was in the Navy until February 1946.  I think that I am almost two years old in this photo, which would make it perhaps the summer of 1945.

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Hallowe'en Name Whacking Revisited

There are a number of families in the Rootsweb WorldConnect database at  http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/  that have surnames connected to Hallowe'en. For instance:

1) The GHOST surname - there are 636 entries, including the descendants of Philip Ghost of Westmoreland County PA - see 6 generations here. It looks like at least one GHOST from this family is still living.

2) The GOBLIN surname - there are 65 entries. It looks like there are no real GOBLIN family trees - only isolated GOBLIN women who married men with other surnames.

3) The SKELETON surname - there are 535 entries but few trees with many generations. Methinks these are mostly misspelled SKELTON people (77,203).

4) The FRANKENSTEIN surname - There are 1,554 entries, and most of them are of German origin. One family that settled in Rochester NY is here. There is one Frank N. Stein here.

5) The WITCH surname - there are 158 entries, but no long family lines in the database. Some of those listed were accused of witchcraft.

6) The PUMPKIN surname - there are 89 entries, but no long family lines.  There are 495 entries for a given name of PUMPKIN.

7) The HAUNT surname - there are only 6 entries, none with a family line.  There are 5 persons with the first name of HAUNT.

8) The SPOOK surname - there are 35 entries, and only one with a three generation family. There are 52 entries for people with a given name of Spook and 33 for the first name of Spooky (at least one dog!)

9) The GHOUL surname - there are 48 entries.

10) The JACKO surname has 391 entries, and there are 121 entries with a given name of Jacko..

11) The LANTERN surname has 335 entries. But there are no people named Jack O. Lantern, but 4 entries with Jack Lantern.

12) There are 273 CAT surname entries and 13,916 CATT entries. There is one Rin Black Cat name, which died in 2006 in Uncle Brick's barn.

13) There are 26 SCARY surname entries - many of them still living. There are 91 entries for a given name of Scary.

14) There are 82 DRACULA surname entries, many of them are related to The Count. There are 61 entries for a given name of DRACULA.

15) There are 976 CEMETERY entries, some of them the name of actual cemetery databases.

16)  There are 5,224 GRAVE surname entries, and 376,621 GRAVES surname entries.  There are 7 entries for the name Robin Graves.

17)  There are 172,169 entries for the surname COFFIN.

18) There are 2,450 MONSTER entries. No Monster Mash, though (there are 3,339 surname entries for MASH). There are no "Boris Pickett" persons, but there are 15 entries for BOBBY PICKETT.

19) There are 1,140 SKULL surname entries.

20) There are 191 SPIRIT entries. There are 4 entries for a Holy Spirit with a spouse named Mary, with a child.

21) There are 642,081 surname entries for WEBB, but only 9 entries for "Spider WEBB" (all nicknames)

22) There are 262 entries for SCREECH surname. And 54 entries for a given name or nickname of Screech.

23) There are 11 entries for HALLOWEEN surname - even a Mary Halloween.  There are 139 given name entries for HALLOWEEN (including maiden names).

24) There are no VAMPIRE surname entries, and 3 given name entries.

25) There are 23,154 BROOM surname entries.

26) There are 142 BAT surname entries, 19,725 BATT surname entries and 12,467 BATTY surname entries.  There are 891 entries for BATTY as a given name.

27) There are no ZOMBIE surname entries or given name entries. Whew!

28)  There are 62,422 entries for the surname BLOOD.

29)  The surname DEATH has 12,996 entries.

30)  The TRICK surname has 4,214 surname entries and TREAT surname has 69,876 entries!  There are 55 given name entries for Tricky, but no Tricky Treat.

31)  The surname WARLOCK has 80 entries, but there are 46 given name entries 

32)  There are 4 surname entries for WEREWOLF, both married to the same Lucky guy!

33)  There are 414 surname entries for BOO, and 855 given name entries for BOO, and 68 entries named Booboo.

34)  There are 11 surname entries for GREMLIN (thanks for the suggestion, Linda S.!).

Enough!! What other Hallowe'en oriented surnames can you think of? Are they in WorldConnect?

The Ancestry.com blog published some entries from death records in Who would name their daughter Halloween? Just check the records.

John D. Reid posted some Hallowe'en names and occupations  in Halloween fun from Ancestry.ca in 2009.

Chris Dunham did some Census Whacking on Hallowe'en names in Censuswhacking for Halloween in 2005.

John Newmark had some Hallowe'en names in Friday Five in 2007.

Did I miss a post on Hallowe'en names?  If so, please tell me and I'll add it to my list.

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Genealogy News Bytes - 30 October 2018

Some of the genealogy news items across my desktop the last four days include:

1)  News Articles:

*  AncestryDNA Warns Against DNA Test Kits Sold on Amazon by Unauthorized Resellers

*  Board for Certification of Genealogists Adopts Standards for DNA Evidence

*  Family Nexus Product Updates - October News

2)  New or Updated Record Databases:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 21 to 27 October 2018

*  Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 21 to 27 October 2018

*  IGRS adds 14,000 names to its Early Irish BMD Indexes

3)  Genealogy Education:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 31 October, 11 a.m. PDT:  Privacy Issues with Online Family Trees, by E. Randol Schoenberg

*  Research Like a Pro Podcast:  RLP 16: How to Deal with Skeletons in the Closet

*  Extreme Genes Podcast/Radio Show:  Episode 257 – Getting “Sideways” With Your Family- In A Good Way! / Collecting Stories On Ancestral Ocean Crossings

*  Fisher’s Top Tips Podcast:  #14 – Can’t Find Your Key Record On Line? Try The Old Fashioned Way

*  Genealogy Journeys Podcast:  Podcast 61 - The History of Make-up

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube:  Effectively Handling Hints by Nicky Smith

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube:  Correcting Mistakes Entered for Gender or Relationship by Barbara Starkey

*  Ancestral Findings YouTube:  AF-202: Search Tricks for Locating Your Ancestors in an Online Census

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  What is the Likelihood of a Genetic Connection with a Cousin?

*  Findmypast YouTube:  Findmypast Fridays

*  Genetic Genealogy Ireland:  DNA for Beginners (Debbie Kennett)

*  Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems  YouTube:  Getting Started with DNA - What test you should take and why

*  Valerie and Myrt's Excellent Genealogy Adventures:  Tour THE Genealogy Show Site

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, October 30,  2018

5)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 26 October 2018?

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Treasure Chest Tuesday -- 1885 Colorado State Census Record for D.J. Carringer Household

The treasure today is the 1885 Colorado State Census record for the David J. Carringer household in Boulder, Boulder County, Colorado:

The D.J. Carringer family entry is on the left-hand page:

The extracted information for the D.J. Carringer family is:

*  D. J. Carringer - white, male, age 56, married, a fruit grower, born Pa., father born Pa, mother born Ohio

*  Rebecca Carringer - white, female, age 53, wife, married, housework, born Pa., father born Pa., mother born Pa.

*  Harvey E. Carringer - white, male, age 28, son, single, a clerk, born Pa., father born Pa., mother born Pa.

The source citation for this entry is:

"Colorado State Census, 1885," online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 May 2012), County of Boulder, Enumeration district 1, Page 102 (penned), dwelling #1163, family #1177, D.J. Carringer household entry.

In this 1885 state census, D.J. Carringer was a fruit grower, his wife Rebecca was doing housework, and his son Harvey was a clerk.  All were born in Pennsylvania.  I wonder where the son Henry Austin Carringer was?  He was with them in the 1880 United States census.  My guess is that he is proving up his land in Cheyenne County, Kansas in this time period.

David Jackson (D.J.) and Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer are my 2nd great-grandparents through their son Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946), my great-grandfather, who married Abbie Ardell (Della) Smith (1864-1944) in 1887 in Wano, Kansas.

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Monday Genea-Pourri -- 29 October 2018

Here are some of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week:

1)  Moderated the San Diego Genealogical Society RootsMagic User's Group on Saturday, and we had 9 attendees.  One was returning to RootsMagic after several years, and needed help getting installed again.  Other issues were creating groups of specific persons, printing notes in a report, printing a timeline of persons and events, and bringing families in FamilySearch Family Tree into a RootsMagic file.

2)  Started looking at the AncestryDNA Matches with Unlinked Trees, and started an Ancestry tree for these persons that might help find common ancestors.  Had success with three of five of the ones tried so far.  Researched the lines and added them to the common ancestors to my RootsMagic tree.

3)  Transcribed another deed for Amanuensis Monday - 1814 Deed of Abigail Wallis to Zachariah Hildreth Jr. in Townsend, Mass.  I downloaded several more of these deeds but I need to download more of them.

4)  Found two more significant Seaver family lines (one of them resulting from the Seavers in the News - Earl Seaver of Akron, Ohio Dies in 1980 post).  

5)  Received a phone call from my friend Paul, whose mother is 103 years old.  I have done some of Maggie's family tree, but now there are more Denmark records on FamilySearch.  I was able to find her father's birth record, her father's parents' names and birth dates, naturalization record, and several census records for Maggie and Paul.  I updated her Ancestry tree too.  This was the most fun of the week!

6)  Watched two Family Tree Webinars - Judy Russell's The Discriminating Genealogist: Telling Good Evidence from Bad and Thomas Jones's Using Indirect and Negative Evidence to Prove Unrecorded Events.  Also watched Diahan Southard's webinar  Jack and Jill: Can DNA Reveal The True Story on the Hill? on DNA Central.

7) There were several sessions working in RootsMagic to update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and other database families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 26,763 of my persons with FSFT.  I continue to use Web Hints from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and sources to my RootsMagic profiles.  I now have 51,065 persons in my RootsMagic file, and 96,857 source citations.   I TreeShared twice during the last week, and did not resolve any Ancestry Hints.  I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 83,057 waiting to be resolved, but I work on them occasionally.

8)  Have 309 Shared Ancestors on my AncestryDNA list (I had 309 last week), 1014 4th cousins or closer (I had 1010 last week), and 911 pages (over 45,500 matches with at least 6 cM) (was 909 pages last week) of  matches.  I have 23 DNA Circles (was 23 last week).  I have 16 matches that are third cousins or closer (was 16 last week), and 103 matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more (was 103 last week).  My highest match has 779 cM (11.5%), and is one of my first cousins.  Added more notes to my DNA matches.

9)  Have 4,876 DNA Matches on MyHeritage (up from 4,837 last week) with at least 8 cM (0.12%), with 31 matches with more than 34 cM (0.5%) or more (was 30 last week).  I have three close relatives, including a first cousin once removed, and two first cousins twice removed.  The highest DNA match is 512 cM (7.1%).

10)  Have 1,002 DNA Relatives on 23andMe (I had 1001 last week) who share at least 0.10% (7 cM) with me.  The two closest relatives are third cousins.  Of these, only 3 share 1.0% or more, and 50 share 0.50% or more (was 49 last week), with the highest match being 1.54%. My highest match is an adoptee.  I struggle to find out anything about most of these testers.

11)  Have 2,837 autosomal DNA Matches on FamilyTreeDNA (up from 2,823 last week) who share 0.25% (18 cM) or more, with the highest match being 96 cM (1.42%).  I have 12 who share at least 1.0% (68 cM) with me, and 1,525 who share at least 0.50% (34 cM) or more (was 1,517 last  week) with me.

12) Wrote 18 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which two were press releases.  The most popular post last week was 1712 Birth of Daniel Carpenter in South Kingstown, R.I. - Post 435 for Treasure Chest Thursday with over 244 views.  

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How Many of my AncestryDNA Matches Have Attached Trees?

Leah Larkin did a survey of the number of attached family trees that ten people had on AncestrySDNA, MyHeritageDNA, familyTreeDNA, 23andMe and GEDMatch last week in her blog post The Glass Is More Than Half Full—2018 Version.  It was excellent work.  Please read her post for the details.

I'm still a numbers guy, so I said to myself "Randy, you old finger-and-toe-counter, how many attached trees do your AncestryDNA matches have?"  Note that I don't have enough fingers and toes to do MyHeritageDNA, FTDNA, 23andMe and GEDMatch at this time.  

I chose to count them for the top 500 of my "4th cousins or closer" (I have about 1,000 of them).  I broke down the categories different from Leah's categories.  

Here are my results for my 500 top AncestryDNA matches:

*  No Tree:                                        122 = 24.4%

*  Private Tree:                                   40 = 8.0%

*  Unlinked Tree:                             122 = 24.4%

*  Less than 10 persons:                  38 = 7.6%

*  10 to 100 persons:                        57 = 11.4%

*  100 to 1000 persons:                  65 = 13.0%

*  1000 to 10,000 persons:            43 = 8.6%

*  Greater than 10,000 persons:  13 = 2.6%

Summing up the ones with attached and readable trees, my total for AncestryDNA is only 43.2%.

My 43.2% is a far cry from Leah's number of 75.1% for the 10 persons she sampled.  Looking at Leah's methodology, it appears she counted an "Unlinked tree" in her tree criteria.  Adding the "Unlinked trees" to my "Linked trees" results in 67.6%, closer to her number.  I don't know if she counted "Private trees" or not - my total counting "Unlinked trees" and "Private trees" is 75.6%, which almost exactly Leah's number for those with trees.

I have noted that almost all of my recent "New" AncestryDNA matches have no tree or an unlinked tree, and I suspect that this number of AncestryDNA matches without attached and readable trees will continue to decline.  Back before AncestryDNA was catering only to genealogists, the number was much higher - probably over 95% in the beginning.  

I was surprised that only 11.2% of my AncestryDNA matches have an attached tree with more than 1,000 profiles, and only 2.6% have a tree larger than 10,000 profiles.  

The good news is that some of the AncestryDNA matches with an "Unlinked tree" can be analyzed using Ancestry tools by accessing their "Unlinked tree."  Some are large enough to actually find your common ancestor, and some of the "Unlinked trees" need to be "extended" using Ancestry tools to find the common ancestors.  

Blaine Bettinger recently posted Building Quick & Dirty Trees to Identify Genetic Matches on YouTube to demonstrate how to "extend" an Unlinked tree.  Here it is:


This video was really helpful to me.  I have tried it on 5 of my AncestryDNA matches with an Unlinked Tree, and have had success with three of them in a relatively short period of time.  You do have to mind the caveats that Blaine explains in the video.

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Amanuensis Monday - 1814 Deed of Abigail Wallis to Zachariah Hildreth Jr. in Townsend, Mass.

This week's document for Amanuensis Monday is the 1814 deed of Abigail Wallis of Townsend, Massachusetts to Zachariah Hildreth Junior of Townsend in the Middlesex County, Massachusetts Land Records:

[Volume 209, pages 188-189]

The transcription of this deed is:

[Volume 209, page 188, starts at bottom of left-hand page]

[In left hand margin]

 Abigail Wallis to Zach^h Hildreth jun.

[body of deed]

                                                              Know all men by these presentsthat I Abigail Wallis of Townsend in the county of Middlesex and
commonwealth of Massachusetts, widow woman, in consideration of ten
dollars paid to me by Zachariah Hildreth Jun. of Townsend, aforesaid,

[Volume 209, page 189, top of right-hand page]

yeoman, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give,
grant, sell, and convey unto the said Zachariah Hildreth Jr. his heirs
and assigns forever, a certain piece of meadow land in Townsend a-
foresaid lying in and being a part of the putney meadow, so called,
containing about one acre, be the same more or less which was set
off to me the said Abigail as a part of my right of dower in my for-
mer husband Elijah Wyman deceased estate, the fea of said premises
lying in me, I having purchased the same of said Elijah Wyman's heirs,
reference to the records of the setting off of said thirds being had
for them ore particular bounds thereof.  To have and to hold
the same unto the said Zachariah his heirs and assigns to his and
their use and behoof forever.  And I do covenant with the said Zach-
ariah his heirs and assigns, that I am lawfully seized in fee of the
premises, that they are free of all incumbrances and that I will war-
rant and defend the same to the said Zachariah his heirs and
assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
In witness whereof, I the said Abigail have hereunto set my
hand and seal this ninth day of June in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fourteen.  Abigail Wallis and seal,
signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us, Daniel Adams, Saul
Vertee.  Middlesex ss. June 9th 1814, personally appeared the withing named
Abigail Wallis and acknowledged the within instrument by her sub-
scribed to be her free act and deed, before Dan^l Adams, Just. of the Peace.
    Middlesex ss. Cambridge 30th July 1814. Received and Entered
                                                                             by Samuel Bartlett Regr.

The source citation for this recorded deed is:

"Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 21 October 2018), Middlesex County, "Deeds, 1814-1816, Vols. 209-211," Volume 209, pages 187-188 (images 99-100 of 885), Deed of Abigail Wallis to Zachariah Hildreth Jr., executed 9 June 1814, recorded 30 July 1814.

This is the second deed where Zachariah Hildreth Junior bought land in Townsend, Massachusetts from someone other than his father, Zachariah Hildreth Sr.  With this deed, he bought one acre of meadow land in Townsend for $10 from widow Abigail Wallis.

Zachariah Hildreth Jr. (1783-1857) is my third great-grandfather, who married Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) in 1810.  I am descended through their son, Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) who married Sophia Newton (1834-1923).

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NOTE:  Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent  TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday."  John offers this definition for "amanuensis:" 

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

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CVGS Program on 31 October is Judith Helton on "Hidden in Plain View"

Wednesday, 31 October 2018, 12 noon

Judith Helton presenting “Hidden in Plain View” 

at Chula Vista Civic Center Branch Library (365 F Street) in the Auditorium

Sometimes history is profound and recorded by endless sources but in regards to the Underground Railroad, as it was called during the Civil War, historians and genealogists have had to seek out proof and find descendants of those who are willing to share stories.  Although she will be talking about the book Hidden in Plain View, there will be references to other books.

In her presentation, Judith will include some actual quilts as well as information and examples of some of the early African quilt designs.  Some slaves passed down an understanding of this important historical movement.  However, some historians are skeptical about the possibility of slaves and abolitionists using quilts as a form of communication.

As a longtime resident of the South Bay, Judith has been immersed in genealogy since 1967 when her grandfather gave her a small journal written by her grandmother, Pearl Hoffman McComb.  Inspired by her grandmother, in retirement Judith took up quilting and is part of a dedicated group that creates historical and contemporary quilts, and hopes some of hers will be preserved as family history.

NOTES:

*  The library is undergoing more construction, so the parking lots are severely restricted.  Please carpool, dropoff those mobility impaired, park in the free parking garage in back of Marie Callenders, or in the pay lots behind the Third Avenue businesses.

*  All of the CVGS programs are free to attend.  Membership in the society helps bring more genealogy and family history programs to the membership.

*  The program will start at 12 noon.  After the presentation, there will be a short society business meeting, and then refreshments provided by society members.  Hallowe'en is always a special time!

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