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Announcements and news
IFindings from the
Fullerton Genealogy Study
IGhost Town Rhyolite
IGenealogy goes beyond all those 'begats'
IProject Caino-Torp
IWeb surfers crowd onto Ellis Island site
IThe Finnish Historical Newspaper Library 1771 -1860
Identified Emigrant Register
Searching Family Genealogy Online
Taking the Offensive Against E-mails Containing
Viruses
Scandinavian records on CD-ROM
Inherited eye disease most commonly found in Swede-Finns
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Findings
from the Fullerton Genealogy Study
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Master's Thesis Project by Pamela J. Drake
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According to some sources, genealogy is the number one hobby
in the United States. Indeed, the percent of U.S. population
interested in family history has increased from 45% in 1996
to 60% in 2000 according to a recent national telephone survey.
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Suzy McCoy is an historian and a caretaker of the Ghost Town Rhyolite.
She has been researching Rhyolite for four years, studying the history
of the people who lived there and trying to bring the place back to
life with stories of what it was like living and working there. Old
foundations have been found and tagged, to be identified later. A display
will be set up to help visitors understand that Rhyolite was not all
miners and dirt. She plans to review old newspapers, tax records, documents,
etc. The data will be put into a database and posted on the Rhyolite
website and if anyone sends her names and dates, she will do some research
and share whatever information she finds. Suzy said there were a lot
of Finnish and Swedish miners in Rhyolite 100 years ago, and she would
welcome any information about them, including pictures. I have already
submitted pictures and some data about my father's cousin from Finland
who was a miner in Rhyolite. He was known as one of the fastest drillers
in the west around 1906. -June Pelo 3/12 2002
| Genealogy
goes beyond all those 'begats' A wave of genealogical
interest sees novice historians digging for their roots - and
publishing the results By Mary Wiltenburg | Staff writer of The
Christian Science Monitor |
In 1993, on the initiative of Ragnar Mannil and the late Helge Smedjebacka,
a project was started to present the oldest generations of the two
ancient families of Caino (Kainu) and Torp (Torppa). The home of both
families is in Veteli, about thirty miles southeast of the town of
Kokkola (Gamlakarleby). Today the descendants of the families - both
Finnish-speaking and Swedish-speaking - live mostly in the valleys
of the Vetelinjoki and Kronoby rivers (in Keski-Pohjanmaa/Mellersta
Österbotten), but many also live in Sweden and in America. At
the first general meeting in 1993 a committee was appointed with Helge
Smedjebacka as chairman. It was common knowledge that a lot of research
had already been done in the matter but there was also a lot of controversy
as to the origin of the two families and their relationship to each
other. Since a lot of research had already been done, it was thought
that compilation and publication of the material would be "a piece
of cake". Unfortunately this turned out to be an illusion and what
was first thought to take a couple of years to produce a book of about
200 pages, has now been going on for 8 years and the book will probably
be close to 700 pages. As the material tended to expand too much,
the committe decided that it would only include families whose children
were born not later than the year 1799. Nevertheless the material
comprises close to 3,000 families. It was the intention of the committee
to finish the book and get it published during the spring of 2001
- or at least in the course of the year 2001. But due to changes and
other delays, publication is now expected during the spring of year
2002. There will probably be a Swedish and a Finnish edition, and
perhaps an English edition which would contain only articles about
the families. Those interested in getting a copy of the book may contact
the secretary of the committee Jan-Erik Nygren. (e-mail:jan-erik.nygren@pp.inet.fi)
No price has yet been determined for the book.
| Web
surfers crowd onto Ellis Island site by Gwendolyn Mariano
CNET News.com. An Ellis Island site that lets people dig into
their ancestry via the Web has taken root, with the site recording
1.5 billion hits in its first six months. |
The Identified
Emigrants Database lists individuals who have emigrated from Finland
to overseas countries, and Russia. The purpose of the database is
to help researchers find emigrants, and to avoid duplicate research
when an emigrant has already been identified by another researcher.
Data about emigrants
leaving Finland needs to be included as well as data concerning their
destination country. Visitors to the site are encouraged to send information
about emigrants from their own research, from books, etc.
Following information
is needed for every record:
given name(s)
family name(s)
full date of birth
place of birth in Finland
full date of death
place of death in the United States, Canada, Central America, South
America, Australia, New Zealand or Russia (or the Soviet Union)
including state, province or territory
source of information
name and e-mail address of submitter of the data
Data is posted using
an easy-to-use form. New entries will be visible after the administrator
has approved the data. Please post the data for each individual only
once.
Note! There are several
records in the database with information from obituaries. They will
soon be moved to a new Obituary Database which is under construction.
The Identified Emigrants
Database is in test use. A search for birth and death places as well
as time limits for births and deaths will be added later. Comments,
suggestions, and error reports may be sent to migrants@genealogia.fi.
JP 10/16 2001
Last Thursday, I experienced a malicious attack on my e-mail account
by unknown perpetrators. When I logged on in the morning, my anti-virus
program, Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2000, began alerting on incoming
e-mails. The first alert screen asked how I wanted to handle the detected
virus. The choices were to repair the problem, delete it, or quarantine
it. When I selected repair it, the next screen usually indicated that
the program couldn't repair the file and asked me if I wanted to quarantine
it. When I said OK, I got a third screen that said that the file had
been quarantined. I received more than three hundred e-mails on Thursday
that contained viruses and I had to click on three screens for each
one. This overwhelmed my computer system and it crashed twice in the
process. Note: Mac and Linux users need not send me e-mails about
the virtues of their systems over the one I use. I realize the limitations
of Windows-based PCs and choose to stay with my current system...
The LDS Church's release of millions of Scandinavian records on CD-ROM
is being hailed as a major new reference tool for genealogists seeking
to peel away the mystery of their Old World roots. The eight-disk
Vital Records Index for Scandinavia contains 4.5 million records --
3.5 million culled from birth and christening documents and 1 million
from marriage certificates recorded in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and
Finland.
Her maiden name was Johnson. She was of Swede-Finn descent. And she
had an eye disease, Schnyder's Dystrophy, that causes clouding in
the cornea, the curved front of the eye. Dr. Jayne Weiss did not think
much about the woman's name or ethnicity until she saw another patient
a year later in 1988. She also had Schnyder's Dystrophy. She, too,
was Swede-Finn. And her name was Johnson. Six months later, a young
doctor called Weiss to consult about a patient he had examined for
Schnyder's Dystrophy. Weiss immediately asked the patient: Is your
last name Johnson and are you Swede-Finn? "How did you know?" Weiss
says the patient asked in amazement. "Because you have Schnyder's
Dystrophy," she recalls responding. Jayne Weiss knew she was onto
something...
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Queries about unidentified objects & persons
on photos:
7 tintypes (ca 8.7 x 6.5 cm) Studio photographs from
Worcester, Massachusetts (??). The persons might be immigrants
from Närpes, Finland. In which decade are the photographs
taken? Collection of May-Gret Holmberg.
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Two women
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Woman
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Trio
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Three men
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Two women
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Two men in car
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Can anyone identify the steamship? Here on the cover
of a forthcoming book by Art Jura. The photo was taken by Charles
Uno Nordlund ca 1893, obviously in Kristinestad, Finland and is owned
by Olle Haavisto. SS 8/2/2001
Detail of a photo of the "Norra Finland" taken in Kristinestad
after 1897. There is a very good resemblance of the steamships in the
two photos, though the photos could be taken from opposite sides of
the "Norra Finland". SS 8/5/2001
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Marcelino Jané
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