Volume 5; Number 2
Fall 1984

FALL PROGRAM

The theme for the Rochester Genealogical Society's l984-85 Fall Program is "Genealogy Comes Alive," and we hope it does for you with the following programs. The Mini-workshop Series will be repeated for anyone just starting their research (and for others who like to sit thru anything relating to genealogy). The society continues to meet the third Thursday of each month (Dec, July & Aug. excepted) at St.Paul's Episcopal Church, East Ave. and Vick Park B at 7:00 P.M. for the Mini-workshops and 7:30 for the regular meetings. Visitors are welcome.

QUESTIONS?

Beginning in the next issue of the "Hear Ye" we would like to start a Question and Answer column to help you with any problems relating to Rochester, Monroe County and the whole Genesee Valley Region. We do not claim to know all the answers but we will do our best to answer your questions about places in the area, location of vital, church, cemetery, probate, census, land, naturalizations records, or any other item related to this area. (Obviously, our Queries section is still the medium for the questions concerning your ancestors.)

Please keep your questions as specific and as short as possible. Write to Dick Halsey at the Rochester Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 92533, Rochester, N.Y. 14692.

NEW PUBLICATION

The Rochester Genealogical Society is proud to announce the publication of Monroe County, N.Y. Cemetery Record Index by Lawrence Naukam. This book locates all known cemeteries in Monroe County of the past and present and also gives date begun. More importantly for the genealogist, it tells if any records of the cemetery exist and where the records are. The book will be available at meetings for $3.00 or $4.00 by mail from the Society at P.O. Box 92533, Rochester, N.Y. 14692.

PROJECTS
Jean Burr

You are not a true genealogist until you have done something for others or similar words were spoken by Eleanor Myers of CNY at a RGS meeting some years ago.

Is it time for our society to start another special project of indexing or whatever? Independently, or with other groups, some of us have already been doing little and big special projects which need to be surveyed and listed to prevent repetition.

Those members interested in the survey and starting a project, please meet with me for about five minutes during coffee break at the September meeting. If you have questions, please feel free to call me at 865-8067.

PLACE NAME

Having trouble locating a place name? Contact the United States Board of Geographic Names. c/o Donald J. Orth, Domestic Geographic Names, U.S. Board on Geographic Names, National Center Stop 523, Reston, VA 22092

From: Connecticut Society of Genealogists Inc. Newsletter Sept./Oct. 1982.

CHURCH RECORDS
Contributed by D. Halsey
(Cont'd from Vol 5, No. 1)

Vital records from the diary of Rev. Abel Haskell

RESEARCH EXCHANGE

The following person is willing to exchange research time. Mr. Marion C. Hays (RGS #157), research in city and county of Los Angeles, CA in exchange for search in Monroe Co. & Rensselaer Co. please check RGS membership list for address and write, enclosing a SASE.

A CONNECTING LINK

How often have you searched for a connecting link between two families and never seem to find it. Intuition tells you there is a relationship but concrete evidence is lacking. Here is one instance articles from two different publications tie together to give that elusive link.

Our Fall 1981 issue of the Hear Ye on page 6 printed an abstract, Memoirs of Joannah Adams Frank. The author had a brother, Aaron Adams and a sister, Laura Ann. Laura (b 1802) married one Gaylord Willsey. Contained in Tree Talks, March 1984 (publication of Central New York Genealogical Society) are excerpts from tbe diary of the Honorable Jacob Willsey (contributed by Carol Willsey Bell of Youngstown, Ohio). On page 62, of Tree Talks, for 4 March 1833 Jacob recorded, "Aaron Adams came out from Mount Morris" (N.Y.). As you prooably have surmised, Mount Morris was the home of Joannah, Aaron and Laura Ann Adams, and thus that elusive link has been established.

RECENT LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS
Contributed by Charlene Guyer

The Rochester Public Library has recently acquired the following books:

• A Handbook for Adoptees and Birthparents by Jayne Askin.
• How to Search Census Records, by Evelyn Cox.
• Guides to Historical Resources in the following N.Y.S. Counties:
  Chautauqua
  Chenango
  Cattaraugus
  Cortland
  These guides are a product of the N.Y. Historical Resources Center at Cornell University Library in Ithaca, N.Y.

CANADIAN INFORMATION

Anyone with Canadian ancestry may write for the free 33 page pamphlet published by the Canadian government at Public Archives, Canada, Ottawa, Ontario KlA 0N3, Canada.

From: Connecticut Society of Genealogists Inc. Newsletter Jan./ Feb. 1983.

Charlene Guyer (#130) has approximately 50 cemetery listings for Dundas County, Ontario, Canada. If you have anyone from Morrisburg, Williamsburg or Cornwall areas, chances are your individuals may appear in one of the cemetery listings copied by Charlene.

NEW JERSEY

The New Jersey State Library, 155 W. State Street, Trenton, N.J. 05625 now has a Family Name Index on file. The staff will check this index for a SASE.

From Connecticut Society of Genealogist Inc. Newsletter Setp./Oct. 1982.

HOOKER CEMETERY, IRONDEQUOIT, N.Y

Prepared from all existing data by R.J. Gustafson June l977

c = Minor under 18
v = Veteran

continued in next issue

OTHER REGIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES

In addition to our own group there are other genealogical societies near Rochester that offer programs and perhaps information of value to you. Julie Steitz, kindly provided the following list and also reports at each of our meetings on upcoming presentations, events, meeting times and location for these other organizations:

EARTHQUAKE

On April 18, 1906, an earthquake measuring 8.25 on the Richter Scale rocked San Francisco. The quake, lasting 48 seconds, and the subsequent fire, lasting three days and nights, caused tremendous property damage. The number of casualties, never completely tabulated, was in the hundreds.

To arrive at an accurate total for the number of dead, Mrs. Gladys Hansen, San Francisco City Archivist, has made a thorough search of all available records. Her total of 826 known dead far exceeds the official figure of 475 given by the 1907 Board of Supervisors. Yet even with her careful calculations, Mrs. Hansen believes the revised figure too low. She appeals to anyone having knowledge of any person killed in the 1906 disaster to write to her with whatever information they have. The names of the dead will be entered in the official roster in the Public Library, available to researchers of history and genealogy.

We encourage anyone seeking information on people killed in the 1906 Earthquake and Fire to write to: Mrs. Gladys Hansen, San Francisco Archives, Public Library, Civic Center, San Francisco, CA 94102. Please enclose a stamped, self addressed envelope.

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