Over the years, one of the fun things about the Professional Management
Conference has been the door prizes. After thinking hard and learning tons
of stuff from our lecturers, attendees also get to experience the thrill of
the draw. Kind of like having your own birthday party, too.
Here are a few of the wonderful items that thoughtful vendors have already
supplied for our door prizes. This is just a start. I'll keep you posted
about any other donations that come through. The PMC Committee is very
grateful
So far as I know, my email address is not anywhere at the APG site. Since I
received all of the scam messages, plus others, I would guess that the
address "harvester" is getting his info elsewhere.
Frankly, after many years of not getting much spam and only infrequent
virus-contaminated messages, the number of messages in these two categories
is almost as large as the number of "legit"e mails.
The cracker came last week. i did a Google look-up for something and clicked
on one of the hits. A message appear
APG NEWS BULLETIN:
PMC EARLY REGISTRATION
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
APG PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE
Wednesday, 7 August 2002, DoubleTree Hotel, Ontario, California
In conjunction with the Federation of Genealogical Societies' Conference
Have you registered for the Fifth Annual APG Professional Management
Conference (APG PMC)? You haven't? Better hurry; you will be the only APG
member not at the APG PMC. Everyone will be having a good time, learning a
lot and networking with friends and associates, and you
A few notes on marriage bonds:
The amount of a marriage bond varied considerably from place to place in the
early 19th century. I have seen bonds range from $20 to to $1500, depending
upon the locale and affluence of clientele. Young lawyers in the late 18th
and early 19th centuries often used the bondsman business to help establish
themselves in practice. I recently worked on a lineage which listed the
young Andrew Jackson as the bondsman in three separate marriages. The client
believed that there had bee
Morris Simon [masimon@bellsouth.net] stated:
>The amount of a marriage bond varied considerably from place to place in >the early 19th century. I have seen bonds range from $20 to to $1500, >depending upon the locale and affluence of clientele.
I'm interested in what state(s) you have seen a variance in the amount of the MARRIAGE bond, based on the affluence of the clientele. Every bond I have seen in the states I am most familiar with (NC, VA, TN, KY) the bond amount appears to have been set by the stat
The New York State Dept of Corrections site is
http://www.docs.state.ny.us/
and their Historical Society is
http://www.correctionhistory.org/
My cousin wrote to Attica (NY) prison and got us the records of my
grandfathers brother who was in Attica in the 1950s. I should say up to
the 1970s even. They were copies of the original inmate file cards
which listed offences, in and out times, and of course his photos. We
found out after he was related through a second marriage and not
directly related.
Acadians are a distinct group and certainly the heading would not apply in
general to French-speaking Canadians. Acadians were different from Quebecois,
for example (let alone Haitians, Sephardic Jews, etc. who might be
French-speakers in Canada). Persons of Acadian descent live in various parts
of Quebec, Maritime Provinces, other provinces of Canada, as well as in
Louisiana, a number of states along the east coast of the U.S, in France, the
Caribbean, the Falkland Islands and other places. So if y
Hi;
I agree with Connie when she wrote -
Although this doesn't answer the original
question, I wanted to share these
experiences with everyone and say, just hang in
there, if one thing doesn't
work, try another approach.
I recently had to try to access Medical
Examiner's records in Massachusetts from 1919 for
a client. I asked many sources, and no one could
tell me who had custody of these records,
although everyone agreed I probably could not
gain access to them. Then, I was discussing the
pro
I've done quite a bit of research in deeds in New England, and I think that
this was simply an error on the part of the clerk. Usually the statement of
"in the right of [wife]" is inserted after the name of the husband. The
clerk may have been rushing since this was not an important deed, for the
quitclaim of a dower right does not rank high. I think that the quitclaim,
however, would be valid. Also remember these are almost always copies of
the original quitclaim, which may have included her name.
Vaugh
A new version of Personal Ancestral File (version 5.2.18) is now available for downloading. It was posted to the website today.
http://www.ldscatalog.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prrfnbr=369179&prmenbr=1402&CGRY_NUM=373032&RowStart=1&LocCode=FH
Here it is: the third installment of generous door prize donations for our
upcoming Professional Management Conference.
I've told you a few times to register for the PMC, and some of you haven't
been paying attention. Now I have a message of great import: I can only make
slips for door prize drawings for those who register BEFORE AUGUST 1ST.
You deserve an explanation. This is the date by which we can create a
printout of attendees and I can cut that printout into slips all of which
are identical in size,
I am writing a book to be published in 2003 by RH Press on Planning and
Organizing for a Family Reunion (title will change).
Have you or yours held family reunions? Do you have ideas or experiences
to share? I am interested in both success and disasters! Do you have any
antique photos (with no living people in them, as that requires a
permission consent from each one!) you might propose to include in this
book?
Please contact me offlist at the below email to offer help - I'll
acknowledge your contributio
Connie wrote:
> I have a question about probate laws/rules/customs. , , ,
> I need to research the laws/rules/customs that would require that a
> married woman not be listed in such a deed. Suggestions?
Connie, the most precise answer to your question would be garnered by
reading Vermont's legal code in operation in 1816.
Short of that, you might go back to the article done by George R. Ryskamp,
J.D., AG, "Fundamental Common-Law Concepts for the Genealogist: Marriage,
Divorce, and Coverture," *National Ge
Morris Simon" wrote:
> As for the range in amounts, I was not aware that state (or
> territorial?) entities set the marriage bond amount. "One hundred
> pounds sterling" was a common amount of marriage bonds in
> counties and parishes of more settled Atlantic colonies such as
> Virginia, while $150 or $200 was a more usual amount in frontier
> towns of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. I had always thought
> the amount was related to numbers of landed property owners in
> particular
Just to add to other bond issue mentioned by Donn......
Surrogates Court: Executors of estates sometimes had to post a bond, as
well as the guardian did for the children of the deceased.
--
Cindy Amrhein
Town of Alabama Historian
Genesee Co., NY
**********************
Historian's Page - Alabama, NY
http://www2.pcom.net/cinjod/historian/
Experience the town of Alabama in Genesee County, New York. History, tombstone inscriptions, census records, history of the Tonawanda Seneca Indians and the Iroquois. En
In a message dated 7/5/02 8:49:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
llawson3@telestream.com writes:
> I have found a program that is seeming to work. If you have your own
> ISP (not AOL or compuserve), this program seems to be making a
> difference in my email box.
> --
Leslie-
In fairness, I would add that those who do use AOL (and I'm assuming
Compuserve works the same way now as AOL) can automatically delete any
messages and attachments without ever downloading them to their computer and
they don't n
Thursday July 18, The Daily News Tribune, Waltham MA reports a story
about the MA records closing bill with quotes from Massachusetts Deputy
DPH Commissioner Marianne Fleckner, Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers
Association executive director Bill Plante, Massachusetts Secretary of
State William Galvin spokesman Brian McNiff and the New England
Historic Genealogical Society genealogist Marie Daly at
http://www.dailynewstribune.com/news/local_regional/birthrecords07182002.htm
This article is very brief an
Hi;
In reply to:
Just to add to other bond issue mentioned by
Donn......
Surrogates Court: Executors of estates sometimes
had to post a bond, as
well as the guardian did for the children of the
deceased.
It is my understanding that this is to guard
against the possibility of the executor 'making
off' with the estate, and leaving the rightful
heirs with nothing. I don't know what the
marriage bond is for, though. I haven't come
across that sort of thing in New England, and any
mention I have re
I sent an earlier list of door prizes for our upcoming Professional
Management Conference in southern California. Here is an update. We are
getting a wonderful mix of things to help in your work as well as a few gift
items that will make us remember that we have our own families to
commemorate, too!
If you haven't considered joining us on Tuesday for our conference, please
reconsider. Just the social aspect alone of networking should have you
intrigued, not to say the prospects of gaining contacts, learni
Barbara,
Marriage bonds are not unique to Louisiana. (See THE SOURCE, rev. ed., p.
89). Apparently they were more common in the South than elsewhere, however.
One purpose, it seems, was to insure that litigation costs would be covered,
if incurred later in the case of an annullment, etc. Sometimes the bonds are
filed separately from the marriage records.
Hope this helps.
Claire
Attention: APG Members attending FGS Conference.
All APG members are invited to attend the annual APG Roundtable.
We will meet Tuesday evening, August 6, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., in the Lake
Arrowhead room,
Doubletree Hotel, Ontario, California.
The topic for discussion will be: APG's How to Hire Brochure: Getting it
Right for the 21st Century. Craig Scott will moderate and facilitate.
This is a great way to 'kick-off' the conference - meet old friends,
welcome new APG members, and participate in a stimu
I wrote a reference librarian at the Law Library of Louisiana to ask her about marriage bonds here. This was her reply:
From the Civil Code of the State of Louisiana with the Statutory Amendments from 1825 to 1866 inclusive, Fuqua, ed. (1867)
Civil Code Art. 105 - Before granting the license, the judge shall require of the intended husband a bond, with a surety in a sum proportioned to his means, with condition that there exists no legal impediment to the mariage. The duration of the security is fixed to
All civilian employees of the Federal government have 'personnel folders'
that are forwarded to a main archive no earlier than one year after leaving
federal service (death may cause it to be different). I was a Navy civil
servant and my daughter a Naval Human Resources Specialist, so have
firsthand knowledge of civilian personnel records (and I mailed away for
mine and received a complete folder shortly thereafter). Here's the
address:
National Archives and Records Administration
National Personnel Re
Hello,
The Massachusetts Genealogical Council (MGC) has received SOME
unofficial reports that H5158 will NOT be recommended from the House
Rules Committee for a third reading
http://www.state.ma.us/legis/comm/h33.htm
However, the MGC is also receiving reports that the Registry of Vital
Records, Registrar Stanley E. Nyberg, Ph.D. is still maintaining an
ERRONEOUS POSITION that H5158 is supported by the MGC - causing
confusion with some representatives, and attempting to proceed with
this bill passage befo