The May meeting of the Honolulu County Genealogical Society was back at the regular meeting place at the Manoa Gardens community room at 2790 Kahaloa Dr. in Manoa Valley, Honolulu, at 9am on Saturday May 11, 2013.
Discussed a bit at this meeting were the uses of Advanced Google Search and Google Maps from a Legacy Family Tree webinar by Thomas MacEntee.
In addition, lots of genealogy news and tips were discussed (see web links below).
The refreshments were provided by Harriet Hoffman (drinks), and Faith Burgwinkel (who made delicious, and never-to-be-forgotten macademia nut bread pudding).
•Feb
14, 1910: "Winter Baseball" "The
National Lumber company team has the distinction of having the only woman
scorer in Southern California in Miss
P. Blanding. Miss Blanding is an expert in
following the game and could give the male members who make an attempt at
score-keeping cards and spades."
Pearl Blanding grew from birth in Madison Lake, Minnesota in 1892 to spend a year or two in Sibley, Georgia and Palm Beach Florida as a child, to eventually landing by train with her family in Los Angeles, California in 1903. Post cards, land records, marriage and divorce records, news paper articles, and mysterious notes and photographs helped mold an interesting story of the life of Pearl, the fearless female in Donna's life.
Discussed a bit at this meeting were the uses of Advanced Google Search and Google Maps from a Legacy Family Tree webinar by Thomas MacEntee.
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| Donna Wendt |
Donna
Wendt gave a power point presentation:
“Create
a Timeline and Story for Someone in Your Family Tree -- Finding Clues and Piecing
Events Together to' Let Your Ancestors’
Stories Be Told'.”
She explored lots of research clues plus some family stories to determine if they were based on evidence or tall tales. For this presentation Donna expanded the research she did to write a blog post for Women's History Month - Fearless Females at www.anotherdaywithdonna.blogspot.com . The presentation was on the life and legend of her Great Aunt Pearl Blanding, daughter of Frank W. Blanding and Edith E. Akins. One interesting news article found was in the Los Angeles Herald newspaper in 1910:
Pearl Blanding grew from birth in Madison Lake, Minnesota in 1892 to spend a year or two in Sibley, Georgia and Palm Beach Florida as a child, to eventually landing by train with her family in Los Angeles, California in 1903. Post cards, land records, marriage and divorce records, news paper articles, and mysterious notes and photographs helped mold an interesting story of the life of Pearl, the fearless female in Donna's life.
There were no lack of interesting yet nearly forgotten family tales that Donna followed up on, from baseball scoring expert who romanced the baseball players, to the connection with Don Blanding, Hawaiian poet and artist, and Edward G. Robinson, famous Hollywood actor. From the 1910s to the 1940s Pearl, and her two sisters, Fern and Grace married a total of 11 men. Each man with his own colorful story. Although Pearl had no children her legacy lives on in these colorful stories.
Web links discussed, included the following:
---Fold 3 Military Records www.fold3.com (Subscription site with free areas such as War of 1812 pension records)
---California Digital Newspaper Collection: http://cdnc.ucr.edu (free)
---California Death Index 1940-1997 – www.Ancestry.com (subscription)
---Maps: Google Earth
(free) and Family Tree Maker software (purchase).
---Don Blanding – Aloha, Don BlandingCollectors Society. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aloha-donblanding/
---Maureen Taylor, photo detective: http://www.maureentaylor.com
---YouTube genealogy videos:
www.youtube.com/user/ancestrycom
, www.youtube.com/user/GenealogyGems
, www.youtube.com/user/DearMyrtle
---Fold 3 Military Records www.fold3.com (Subscription site with free areas such as War of 1812 pension records)
---California Digital Newspaper Collection: http://cdnc.ucr.edu (free)
---Census records: www.ancestry.com (subscription) and www.familysearch.org (free)
---Los Angeles City Directories
L.A. Public Library website - http://rescarta.lapl.org
(free); ancestry.com (subscription)
---Los Angeles Voting Registration – www.ancestry.com (subscription)
---California Marriages 1850-1952 - www.familysearch.org
(free); Los Angeles County Archives – Norwalk, Calif… purchase certificate but
can search the record books on site.
---Genealogy Webinars schedule:
www.geneawebinars.com
---New Television shows about Genealogy:
--Who Do You Think You Are … on cable channel TLC
--Who Do You Think You Are … on cable channel TLC
--Genealogy Roadshow
on PBS Mondays from Sep 23 to Oct 14 9 pm ET
2013
-- Family Tree – HBO
starting Sundays May 12, 2013 10:30 pm
ET
--- Lost Cousins http://www.lostcousins.com/newsletters/may13news.htm free newsletter interesting with news of British research
tips. Peter also has a subscription site
at www.LostCousins.co.uk. “The aim of LostCousins is to connect members researching the same
ancestors so that that you can share information with your cousins - and also,
perhaps, collaborate on future research.”
Peter notes that the
UK site www.findmypast.co.uk is the only one
that currently has ALL of findmypast's British records – as opposed to
findmypast.com based in the US for British records and US Census.
---British databases www.findmypast.co.uk (Subscription)
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| Madademia Nut Bread Pudding by Faith Burgwinkel |
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| Harriet Hoffman, Fa'aki and Kurt Richter, and Stan Yon enjoying the meeting |
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