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The Annual Picnic

Erie Canal History at Lock 62 Canal Park

Lock 62 on Old Erie Canal – photo by R E Heintz

On 20 June 1996 members of the Rochester Genealogical Society, and guests, will have the opportunity to step back in history and learn about, and view part of, the Old Erie Canal. Larry Feasel returns to RGS to enthrall us again as he spins tales on a long forgotten section of the Erie Canal many people don't even know exist. Have you ever eaten at the Spring House Restaurant and wondered how this stately old building on Monroe Avenue could have been a tavern on the Erie Canal? Or have you ever been curious about the high embankment (with a large wooden sign) behind and between the Pittsford Wegman's and Pittsford Plaza? This is part of the original Erie Canal! This is the location of the original Lock 62!

Lock 62 Canal Park starts on French Road behind Pittsford Plaza and extends north to the area behind the Spring House. Look for a wooden sign and clearing on the north side of French Road. The gathering for our annual picnic will commence about 5:30 P.M. with Larry Feasel's talk on the "History of the Erie Canal" scheduled for 6:45 P.M. Bring lawn chairs and good walking shoes. There are no picnic tables and the walk to the duel locks is on unpaved trail but well worth the experience. Parking is limited at the entrance to the park so you may have to park along French Road. The choice of this site was recommended by Mr. Feasel to provide everyone with the "flavor" of the original canal and a "taste" of canal history. Mark this one on your calendar and join us for an exciting evening presentation and walk.

— Jim Swarts

Message from the President
by Edward H. Gaulin

My wife, having just retired, needed to get away for a while this winter. We left the snow and cold to spend a few months in one our favorite places. Bradenton FL, a booming town of about 100,000, is located on the Gulf of Mexico, between the cities of Tampa-St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Venice. Great winter weather and fabulous white beaches have attracted snow-birds from the United States, Canada, and several European countries. Consequently, the average age of the winter residents must be more than 70. Guess what they do in their spare time?

Bradenton's Central Library has a worthwhile genealogical collection. It is housed in a bright, modem building overlooking the river. The library's collection has benefited from substantial annual gifts from the local genealogy society, which meets in the building. Society members are usually available in the department to assist inexperienced researchers with their work. I attended one meeting, 10:00 am to noon on the first Wednesday, and immediately became a member of the Manasota Genealogical Society (MGS). Each month they also have a workshop in the afternoon following the meeting which is devoted to a single subject. Last month their theme was Scottish research.

The MGS has several special interest groups (SIG), one is the Computer Interest Group (CIG). CIG members specialize in Personal Ancestral File (PAF) and are usually relatively inexperienced people. The PAF “experts” stay with the CIG for a year or so, then move on, frequently to the very active PC Users Group in town. The Manatee PC Users Group also has a number of SIGs, including genealogy.

Society members comprise the majority of the staff of the newly expanded LDS Family History Center in Bradenton. As you might expect, the FHC is also a very busy place, but has limited hours.

I thought I should explain where I have been for the past few months, but the balance of the message is to illustrate how members of an organization like ours supports their community. Your help will be needed between now and this summer to insure the success of the upcoming RGS/FGS Convention. It feels good to volunteer!

Noted German Expert to Speak at April Joint Meeting
by Jim Swarts

The annual joint meeting with the Kodak Genealogical Society has been expanded this year to include the Tri- Town Genealogical Society, the Genealogical Roundtable, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Rochester. This meeting will feature a prominent expert on German genealogical research.

Ms. Jane Adams Clarke of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania will be our speaker for the April meeting. Ms. Clark has been a professional genealogist for over twenty years, specializing in southeastern Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania German, and German research. She has researched in archives in England, France, and Germany as well as areas of the United States. She has published articles in Pennsylvania Folklife, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, and (FGS) Forum. Additionally, she has been a book reviewer for the National Genealogical Society Magazine, and The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. She is also editor of Penn in Hand, the newsletter of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Clarke is Executive Director of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (GSP), past and honorary President of GSP. She was the first woman elected in the 100 year history of that Society. She is also a Member of the Board of the Federation of Genealogical Societies and a member of many historical and genealogical societies.

Ms. Clarke will be presenting lectures on “Eighteenth Century German Immigration to Pennsylvania” and “Tips on Researching in Southeast Pennsylvania.” It should prove to be an exciting evening that will be a learning experience for everyone as well as an enjoyable time. Please plan to attend.

Points of Entry: A Major Genealogical-Related Photographic Exhibit
by "Ozzie" Salyards

Beginning on 13 April 1996, the Rochester area community, and in particular the genealogical community, will have the opportunity to view an outstanding photographic exhibition at the George Eastman House on East Avenue. This exhibition is entitled Points of Entry and deals with immigration to the United States and American culture. For the past century and a half, photographs have documented the faces and experiences of those who immigrated to this country. Many of America's finest photographers have been immigrants themselves.

Points of Entry is a three-part exhibit: 1. “A Nation of Strangers,” 2.“Reframing America,” 3. “Tracing Cultures.” Three museums collaborated together to assemble this exhibit: The Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego CA), The Center for Creative Photography (Tucson AZ), and The Friends of Photography (San Francisco CA).

“Nation of Strangers:”
Immigration is America's defining issue. It is central to our history, to our future. No country ever produced as seductive an image or created such a substantial pull on the world's popular imagination as the United States. Photographs identifying the earliest groups of immigrants do not exist. The major nineteenth-century waves of immigrants were, however, well documented. This exhibition brings together a diverse range of images, including etchings of slave ships, daguerreotypes of Chinese goldminers in California and Jewish immigrants from England, Irish brigades during the Civil War; Norwegian farmers in Wisconsin, Japanese sugar cane workers in Hawaii, and Ethiopian tribesmen at Ellis Island. There is much more. I had the opportunity of viewing this display in San Diego this past October and I was greatly moved.
“Reframing America:”
“Reframing America” explores a quarter-century of American history when European emigres were transforming photography in this country and creating a startling new vision of America. Fleeing revolution, fascism, war, and persecution, and seeking the greater employment and artistic opportunities that this country offered. The works of seven emigre photographers are displayed. Collectively, these photographers helped create new ways of envisioning the complex social fabric of this country within the confines of a camera lens and the parameters of standard black-and-white prints.
“Tracing Cultures:”
This display presents the work of 12 artists who reflect a widespread current within contemporary art. They use photography as the basis of their investigation of the personal, social and political impact of crossing cultural boundaries. Some are recent immigrants to the United States; some are first-, second- and third-generation Americans. Still others have roots in the United States that are older than the country itself. All focus on their personal experience of the distance between their heritage and the conventional model of what it means to be an American.

As stated above, this exhibition will be at the George Eastman House on East Avenue from 13 April to 15 September 1996. We are pleased that it will be available to visitors coming to the FGS Genealogical Conference in August.

(The above material was condensed from a descriptive flyer prepared by the three collaborating museums.)

Old Ogden & Parma Deeds

“The First Founders of Parma - Research Tools” is Parma Town Historian Shirley Cox-Husted's latest book commemorating Parma's Bicentennial Year.

Her first effort to celebrate the settlement of the area by courageous New England Yankees was: “The Wagon Wheel Cook Book: 200 Years of Cooking in Monroe County”, which was published in October. “First Founders” is a 50 page book designed to help individuals researching family history or the history of their homes and farms.

Excerpts from deeds for properties in what is now Parma and Ogden from 1797-1820 are included since the geographical subdivision that became Parma included all the territory now in Ogden until 1817. The north section was called “Braddock Bay Township”, the stretch along Ridge Road was designated as “The Gore” and the south portion was “Fairfield”.

The first sales in Parma were made along Hill Road and Burritt Road, while Ogden's first landowners were members of the Colby family who settled in the present Colby Road area. Purchasers had to travel to Canandaigua to register their deeds until 1802, then to the land office at Batavia until 1821 when Monroe County was created.

A bibliography of books and maps supplement the deed records, there are tips on how to date a house and some old maps are reprinted. Parcels of land sold for $1.00 to $3.00 an acre and purchasers could have credit for five years before payments had to be made. When that time expired, those unable to pay left their farms here and moved on leaving their log cabins, cleared acreage and orchards behind them. By then, Husted notes, the Erie Canal had opened and traveling West was much easier.

Who really was a pioneer? “My esteemed Assistant Town Historian Grace Witty used to say that if you didn't fell the trees, you weren't a pioneer! These are the folks who felled the trees!” Husted notes.

Copies are available at Parma Town Hall for $5.95. Mail orders may be made by calling (716) 392-1915. There is a $2.00 mailing fee.

A Piece of the Puzzle
by Jeff Schlatter

Genealogy is like doing a jig-saw puzzle, lots of little pieces with all sorts of unexpected shapes. When you find one clue that falls in place, there seems to be a whole slew that are completely missing or misplaced. These “missing ones” are what make genealogy so interesting. Not only do you have to find the missing pieces, but you also have to figure out if you are in the right puzzle.

One of my most intriguing puzzles that I partially solved is about my great-great-great-grandfather, George Stull. George was quite a person to follow through the years and with the help of a friend in New York, June Feder, we were able to piece together his whereabouts and doings. June, whom I discovered through the Ancestral File at the LDS Branch Library, is also researching the surname Stull.

The odyssey started when I discovered in my grandfather's little notebook of names & dates, an entry saying, “Lucy Mary Coe married Stull.” Although my grandfather did not write who Lucy was nor Mr. Stull's first name, at least there were some clues. Through other data he had given me, I concluded she was from Sterling, Whiteside County, Illinois and confirmed this in a county history book that she was, in fact, married to George Stull. It also stated they had come to Whiteside County in 1839 from New York and the article went on to list their seven children. Quite a gold mine in itself, but I wanted more! With this information, I thought it would be a cinch to find them in the census. Since the Stull family came to Whiteside County in 1839, they should be in the 1840 census of Whiteside County, IL. A hit, but, as you may know, the 1840 census only lists the name of the head of the household and then how many people are in different age groups. It did not provide the background data I desired, so I moved on to the 1850 census, which has more detailed information. I searched high and low in the Whiteside County census only to find there was no listing for a George Stull. But wait, his wife was living with her mother, Mary Coe. What happened to him? Was he traveling during the census? It was the same discovery in the 1860 census, no George, just a listing for his wife and children. Did he die? Since the last child was born in 1847, he must have gone between 1847 and 1850. However, there was no death record or cemetery register for him. It was becoming frustrating!

I decided to let the George Stull information rest and moved on to trace his wife's side, the Coes. There were bunches and gobs of material on the Coes and it was easy to track (including a book that traces the Coes back to 1340 in England). Strange as it may seem, that is where the break was! Lucy's father, Simeon Maltby Coe, died in 1848 and left a Will that was dated June 5th, 1848. In it, the following statement was written: “... beloved daughter of the testator named Lucy Mary and whereas during the last eight years the said George Stull has inflicted almost a continued and uninterrupted series of abuses upon the person and feelings of the said

“…Lucy Mary - too grievous to be bore as the said testator verily believes. Now therefore I will and bequeath to the said Stull the sum of one Dollar and no more…”

Wow! What a strong statement, but a clue to George's whereabouts. With a little additional checking, I found the divorce papers dated August 1848 in the Whiteside Courthouse. So that is what happened to George! But where did he go after the divorce? With the assistance of my New York friend, June, who found him in the 1850 census of New York, we learned that George had gone back to Rush, Monroe County, New York. [George and his two sons, George and Eugene, were living in 3 separate households! Two other children were living in Sterling, IL with their mother, Lucy, and grandmother, Mary Coe.] He later remarried and moved back to Illinois in 1856 where they had a child, Estella. His second wife, Caroline, died in July of 1878. His death is still a mystery because there is no death record in either Illinois or in New York (the Rush, Monroe Co., New York records burned). However, at Pine Hill Cemetery in Rush, NY there is a grave stone in the Stull family plot marked, “George 1805 -1887.” June and I concur this must be the same George.

Although it was a shock for me to find this discovery of a divorce, it was satisfying to complete a section of the puzzle, but there are still questions that probably will remain unanswered, such as: Why did George become abusive? Did it start when they came to Illinois? Was the Illinois frontier not to his liking and if so why did he come back with his second wife? Aah, the fun of genealogy, trying to speculate what happened.

It took almost two years of prodding and probing to uncover this “hidden” information. One thing I learned from the experience is that you must look at all avenues or sources available to try to solve the riddle. If not for the Will, I would still be assuming George had died between 1847 and 1850 and the death record was lost or not recorded. That is what you get for assuming! Now I have a partially completed puzzle with a little clearer picture, but there are still gaps; and there is always that missing piece of the puzzle.

Jeffery A. Schlatter is the membership chairman of the Peoria County Genealogical Society, and the editor of the monthly newsletter, the “PCGS NEWS.” The Society also publishes a quarterly journal called “PRAIRIE ROOTS.” The Society has many publications for sale, such as cemetery books and the 1860 census for Peoria County. They do research of Peoria Co. records in the County Courthouse and the Peoria Public Library, for a minimum donation of $5 per surname. Their dues are $17 per individual, or $19 per family. ($2 less for seniors.) They have a Computer Interest Group and their own BBS, for which they ask members to donate $20 for its use.

Their address is: Peoria County Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 1489, Peoria, Illinois 61655-1489.

The Handwritting on the Wall
by Ruth Metzler

We stepped through the doorway-back in time, as it seemed-for the darkened room and the faint smell of dried apples and cinnamon slowed us down.

Traffic had been heavy on this vacation/genealogical jaunt around Massachusetts. The weather had been uncomfortably hot. The search in the last library had been disappointingly tedious and nonproductive. It would be a welcome break to visit this old historic house. And then – lunch.

It was the restored seventeenth century home of my ancestor Captain John Whipple. I had learned most of the facts about him before I left home. He was born in Bocking, Essex, England and baptized there on 29 August 1596. He and his older brother Matthew had come to Massachusetts and by 1636 their names were on record with land grants in Ipswich Town. A vigorous merchant, he had also been active in town affairs and his name appeared in records concerning bridge-building, employment of a school teacher, and the construction of a town wharf. His home and hearth must have seen considerable activity too, for twelve Whipple children grew up in this home.

I was interested in the youngest, Sarah Whipple, born 3 November 1641 and married at twenty to Deacon Joseph Goodhue also of Ipswich. Looking around the paneled great room, with diamond-shaped leaded windows opening out to the family kitchen I herb garden, I thought about Sarah. Had she as a girl helped to wash those windows? Clean those wide plank floor boards? Prepare some clove-gillyflower syrup when someone suffered sunstroke? (Herbal recipes were posted on the walls.)

We slowly proceeded up the tight narrow, steep staircase, other tourists before us and more coming behind. We saw three small bedrooms, old chests, quilts with tiny pieces hand-sewn with even tinier stitches. There were tine candle-holders with hand-dipped tallow candles. (Had Sarah helped in the candle-making?) We slowly picked our way down the stairs. There on a wall were the herbal recipes. Then I saw it.

It was a hand-written letter, framed under glass. It was hung a little too high for me to read easily, but I made out “Dear husband, if by sudden death I am taken away from thee, there is infolded among thy papers something that I have to say to thee and others.” It was dated July 14, 1681. It appeared to be the original letter. My spine tingled despite the heat-this letter was over 300 years old! And it was written by my maternal ancestor, Sarah Whipple Goodhue. One of the attending docents was very helpful. If I was interested in reading all of that letter, written by a daughter of the house, I would find a printed transcription of it “up the hill” in the Ipswich Public Library, in a certain volume in a particular collection, in a locked room-but there was a way to obtain permission! Suddenly, lunch seemed unimportant.

That afternoon, I found and read the entire letter. Its beautiful, direct and clear language spoke to my heart across the three intervening centuries. Sarah was confiding in her “Dear Husband”, that she had a fear that “a sudden change might take place in the family very soon”. She sympathized with him should he find himself without the “weak help which is so near and dear unto thee,” and, with “a great family of children.” [Here I stopped to check the dates. Yes, Sarah and Joseph Goodhue had eight children living on July 14, 1681.] Therefore, she suggests to him how “to dispose of two or three of my children.” JOHN, 2 years old, might be given to cousin Symond Stacy. The NEWBORN CHILD, son or daughter, one or two (did she have a premonition?) might be freely bequeathed to her parents. SUSANNA, “a hearty girl”, would be quickly helpful to cousin Catharine Whipple, who would herself be helpful to the child.

To her parents she gives “hearty and humble thanks” for the fatherly and motherly love “so great”... “for the which [sic] in a poor requital, I...yet trust in God...that...you be not troubled for the loss of an unworthy daughter, but rejoice in the free grace of God, that there is hope of rejoicing together hereafter in the place of everlasting joy and blessedness.”

In like vein, to each of her brothers and sisters, she counsels, and remembers shared joys and comforts.

To her children, she writes at length with personal words, pious instruction, “serious exhortation” and shared spiritual experience. To JOSEPH, her first, she counsels that he study, labour, and enjoy eternal peace. MARY, she urges to strive to “choose the better part” as Mary, mother of Jesus. WILLIAM, who had his name “FOR THY GRANDFATHER'S SAKE” [my capital letters] is told to “tread in his steps.” And SARAH, “Sarah's daughter thou shalt be, if thou continuest in doing well, Labour so in holiness among the daughters to walk, as that thou mayest excel”

“And so my children all, if I must be gone, I with tears bid you all Farewell. The Lord bless you all”

Then she turns her thoughts towards her husband, remembering the “twenty years experience of thy love to me.” Tenderly, intimately, she thanks him for his cheerful love, great care for her and “much pains.” “Although I was necessarily often absent from the publick worship of God... thy reading of scriptures and writing of sermons, and repeating them over to me... brought it home to me.”

She anticipated his question: “If thou couldest ask me a reason why I thus declare myself?” Her answer is direct: “I cannot answer no other but this; that I have had of late a strong persuasion upon my mind, that by sudden death I should be surprized, either at my travail or soon after it.” Why had she not told him face to face, rather than write it down? She answers that also: “Further, if thou could'st ask me why I did not discover some of these particulars of my mind to thee before, my answer is because I knew that thou wert tender hearted towards me, and therefore I would not create thee needless trouble.”

In as beautiful an expression of love which any woman ever gave a man, she concludes

O dear heart, if I must leave thee and thine here behind,
Of my natural affection here is my heart and hand.

Be courageous, and on the living God bear up thy heart
In so great a breach as this.

(Signed) Sarah Goodhue

Sarah's pains were upon her seven days after she wrote the letter and folded it away among her husband's papers. She was “delivered of two hopeful children.” One twin died. The other, a girl whom Joseph named Hannah, lived. Sarah herself did not.

Her letter has been kept, a treasure not only to Joseph and her family, but now to Ipswich as their most precious original document. It is framed and hung in her childhood home, visited daily by summer tourists like myself.

Presumable her wishes were followed, in the disposition of her children; I have not looked into that. I do know that Sarah, her oldest daughter, met and married John Kimball/Kimble at Watertown, although he too had been born in Ipswich. Few daughters 17 years of age receive such a legacy from so strong a mother, as Sarah Goodhue received from her mother in July 1681. And few vacationing genealogists, as myself, receive such a vivid and personal legacy directly from the heart and pen of the ancestor for whom they had searched. I felt as though I had slipped into a time warp at Ipswich and communicated with my ancestor, when I stepped through the doorway of the old Whipple house and read the handwriting on the wall.

1996 FGS Conference Update
by Jim Hall, Local Arrangemants Chair

The Program/Registration Brochure was completed in mid-January and distribution commenced immediately. Copies should be in the hands of RGS and KGS members hands by now. Let us know if not received. Thousands of the booklets are being distributed around the nation and Canada, with 5000 included in an Ontario Canada Genealogical Society mailing. Thousands more have gone to NY, CT, and the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, and groups of fifty and one hundred are being distributed locally and around the Northeast by RGS members. Call Scott Chase for copies.

RGS and KGS members are asked to submit names and addresses of acquaintances that are active in genealogy, but may not have been contacted about the conference. Please send your list to Dick Halsey at the RGS P.O. BOX. Dick is collecting names to submit to the FGS Headquarters in Richardson, TX.

A tour of the Rochester Conference Center and the Holiday Inn Headquarters Hotel were made with David Rencher and Dean Hunter in early January, along with a meeting of the Local Arrangements Team. The City of Rochester has adopted a one year trial for a nighttime “Trolley (small bus) Service” for the summer of 1996. This will allow Conference attendees to tour the central business (including Frontier Field) district and the historical/museum areas in the eastern part of Rochester. Frontier Field is expected to be available for the Saturday Night Gala.

The reservations for the Exhibit Hall are moving at a brisk pace with 106 of 130 already completed. Other aspects of the event are happening as planned. The Local Arrangements Team meets bi-monthly.

Ozzie Salyards continues to receive offers to volunteer (and to receive some free Conference attendance!). A special group of volunteers from the Ontario (County) Genealogical Society has offered to assist at the Conference. Scott Chase has organized a sale of souvenir drink mugs and T-shirts at pre-registration and at the Conference. The rest of the TEAM is stepping in to help as special needs arise. See the list of the TEAM members included here for more information.

This may be the last Hear Ye, Hear Ye before the Conference, so the TEAM urges you to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to participate in such a wonderful program. The presentations are right at home in the Rochester area, or a short drive for our nearby neighbors. Plan to also visit the nearby attractions. The Greater Rochester Visitors Association will be present to guide you to the places and people that make Rochester such a great place to visit.

Queries

1.	PURCELL	Looking for information on Perry and Julia Mahoney Purcell who immigrated to Rochester, NY from Ireland, the moved to Palmyra, NY. Children Ellen b. Aug. 30,1857 and James b. Oct. 1859? Pat Tenney, 3072 Mountain View, Green valley, AZ. 85614-1002.
2.	BUSH DAVIS WOOD	Searching for information on Ralph Bush, b. July 7, 1901, Covington, PA. 1915 Monroe Co. census list him as living with aunt and uncle Lewis C. and Nora Robbins Davis at 1664 Lake Ave. Greece, NY. Need date and place of death for both. Also looking for information on Welland Wood, b. Feb 8, 1870 in PA. and died Dec 23,1945 in Rochester, NY. Alliene Robbins Titus, 22 Albert Avenue, Buffalo, NY. 14207-2120.
3.	CLARK	Looking for any information regarding Herbert Wells Clark, b. Leicester, NY 1873, son of William Ephraim Clark, b. 1824 Leicester, NY. Also Benjamin Clark, b. 1781 and son Ransom Clark, b. 1812. Sandra Leith McGowan, 95 Tito Lane, Wilton, CT 06897
4.	DAVIS SCOTT ENSIGN	Seeking any and all information on Davis and Scott families, specifically Hope Davis who settled in Parma, NY in 1805 and wife Betsey Scott of Spencerport. Also information on the Freeman Ensign family from the same area. Mary H. Craig, 5364 E. 30th Place, Tulsa, OK. 74114.
5.	ZICKGRAF ROSTOCK KREWER	Looking for marriage and child information on John (Johannes) Zickgraf and Caroline Rostock who lived at 86 Saxton Street, Rochester at the time of the 1900 census. Also his sister Cunigunda Zickgraf who married Michael Krewer on March 29, 1891 in Rochester. John H. Zickgraf, 2335 Cortina Circle, Escondido, CA. 92029.
6.	CRAIG DOCK(E)RY	Seeking information on the following from Monroe County, Riga area: Alexander and Sarah Craig, 1840's; Patrick, Michael & Bridget Dock(e)ry, 1840's. John Hartmann, 20621 Tiller Cr., Huntington Beach, CA 92646.
7.	HADLEY	Looking for marriage license between Hiram Moses Hadley and Betsy W. ? She born 1810 and family lived in Penfield, NY area. Robert J. Moore, Rt 2 Box 365, Noble, OK. 73068.
8.	CADY FULLER	Searching for information on John R. Cady, b. August 1822, Pittsford, NY. died April 18, 1903, Summertown, TN. and Mary A. Fuller, b. about 1822-26 in NY. died Jan 1855, Summit Co. Ohio. Miriam E. Cady, RR2 Balmy Beach Road, Owen Sound, Ontario, N4K 5N4 Canada.
9.	HUNGERFORD	Friend purchased a portrait of George Hungerford, dated Rochester, NY 1830. Looking to place it in the hands of family member. William H. Ellis, 8609 North Arnold Palmer Drive, Tucson, AZ. 85742.
10.	FRENCH	Searching for a picture of Emily S. McCoy French, a famous psychic who died in Rochester June 22, 1912. N. Riley Heagerty, 189 E. 6th St., Oswego, NY 13126.
11.	PRENTICE DUNHAM THORNTON	Seeking any and all information about Christopher Prentice, b. 1779 CT. Married Deborah Matilda Dunham. Also Stephen Prentice and wife Calista Thornton, She died 1833 in Penfield, NY. All in the Penfield, NY area in the early to mid 1800's. Valentine Prentice Descendants, c/o L. J. Dewald, 9190 Oak Leaf Way, Granite Bay, CA 95746.
12.	STONE	Searching for marriage records for Hiram Hoyt Stone and Elizabeth Stone, believed to have been married about 1833 in Rochester. Moved to Chicago prior to 1850 and then to Waukesha, WI. Gloria J. Barnes, 34515 25th Ave. S.W., Federal Way, WA 98023-3015.
13.	DRURY	Seeking anyone searching Drury lines in Maryland. Donald Drury, 1496 Wilton Dr., . Columbus, OH 43227.
14.	BOYER ALBRIGHT	Looking for death dates or obits on Hazel E. Boyer, b. 1895 PA, and Arthur H. Albright, b. 1891 Rochester. Both lived in Rochester as of 1933. Bill J. Auman, 445 Benedict Street, Saint Marys, PA. 15857.
15.	MURPHY	Looking for obituary or burial information on Jeannette Agnes Murphy, born about 1882 in NY. Lived in Rochester thru 1952, lastly at 645 Averill Ave. Kevin Trickey, 312 Jackson, Delta, Ohio 43515-1505.
16.	GOODMAN	Seeking descendants of 7 children of John and Charlotte Goodman - England to Canada, 1837; to Rochester, 1870s; Eliz. m Will Shewman; Jenny m Will Ely and Henry Goodwin; Fannie m Chas. Martin; James m Frances Millward; Andrew m but unknown; Marg. Alice m Hiram McNett and Albert Courson; Richard m Josephine. All had children. Lloyd Jones Box 194, Stirling, Ontario Canada K0K 3EO.


Thursday, 18 April 1996 (Annual Joint Meeting)
Theme:	European Research Series: Germany
Program:	Jane Adams Clark, Director, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania; Eighteenth Century German Immigration to Pennsylvania; and Tips on Researching in Southeast Pennsylvania (see page 14 for more information.)

Thursday, 16 May 1996
Theme:	European Research Series: Italy
Workshop:	Kaye Gill: Italian Regional Research
Program:	Michael LaSorte: Italian Research – Some Examples

Thursday, 20 June 1996 (Annual Picnic)
Theme:	Annual Picnic (5:30 P.M.)
Place:	Lock 62 Canal Park (French Road behind Pittsford Plaza)
Program:	Larry Feasel: History of the Erie Canal (6:45 P.M.)

Conference Chair		David E. Rencher
Program Chair		Roger Joslyn
Publicity Chair		Karen Mauer Green
Treasurer		Gary Mokotoff
Publications Chair		Karen Mauer Green
Rochester Staff
Local Arrangements Chair		James A. Hall
Program Assistants		Ruth Metzler
Publicity Assistant		Scott Chase
Rochester Publications Assistant		Roy Thurston
Exhibits Coorrdinator		Richard Halsey
Volunteer Coordinator		Lowell "Ozzie" Salyards
Registration Coordinator Assistant:		Patrick Mulich Jean Cody
Hospitality Coordinator		Charlene Freundlich
Audio/Visual Coordinator		Robert Barnes
Banquet/Luncheon Coordinator		Patrick Mulich
Tours/Visitors Coordinator		James Swarts

Directors:		Julie Steitz (1996) & Robert J. Gustafson(1997)
President:		Edward H. Gaulin
Vice Pres & Program Chair:		James L. Swarts
Recording Secy:		Martha R. Reagan
Corresponding Secy:		David Serianni
Treasurer:		Roy Thurston
Membership Chair:		Richard Halsey

Computer Interest Group (CIG):		Mark Bewicke
Publications:		Scott Chase
Other Society Liaison:		Deborah Barnes
DAR Liaison:		Dorothy Bailey
SAR Liaison:		Dr. Larry L. Blackman
FHC Liaison:		Sharleen Peck
Welcoming:		JulIe Steitz & Barbara Grzymkowski
Publicity:		Robert J. Gustafson
Refreshments:		Nicole Wieme, Pat Mims, & Romayne Kline
Tape Library:		R. Carter Livermore
Book Raffle:		Warren Fishbaugh
HEAR YE Editor:		Jim Paprocki