[or-roots] Any suggestions

[Sue Steward]

Doesn't appear to be the same Rickard that Les has mentioned:

Social Security Death Index
Name: Thomas E. Rickard SSN: 542-34-9026
Last Residence: 98499 Tacoma, Pierce, Washington
Born: 11 Jul 1931
Died: 21 Jan 2011
State (Year) SSN issued: Oregon (Before 1951)


On 4/7/2011 6:22 PM, Denise Sproed wrote:
>
> http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=smithd&id=I3473 
> <http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=smithd&id=I3473>  
> is a worldconnect file of an individual researching a RICKARD family 
> in California that might know where this man fits in a RICKARD family 
> tree.
>
> Denise
>
> A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists
>
> The web page I made for my parents is at: 
> http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/ 
> <http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/%7Emerritt/>
>
> My genealogy related pages are at:
> http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~merritt/ 
> <http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Emerritt/>
> and http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~merritt/ 
> <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Emerritt/>
> The latter created using John Cardinal's Second Site
>
> User of The Master Genealogist (TMG) http://www.whollygenes.com/
>
> *From:*or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us 
> [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] *On Behalf Of 
> *Leslie Chapman
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:54 PM
> *To:* or-roots mail list
> *Subject:* [or-roots] Any suggestions
>
> The only lead I can think of for this is to go the University to see 
> if they have anything that would help. I am assuming that these folks 
> are the folks who ended up with Toms stuff that are looking for his 
> next of kin. I know he had a lot of photography and artsy kind of 
> stuff. Anyway this is an old friend of the family whose Oregon 
> connection for me is I met him here in Reedsport on the family farm 
> and he shared many of his pictures of that farm with me as well as he 
> and i spent quite a bit of time sharing genealogy on Milan M. Melvin 
> the first and his descendants.
>
> What I am hoping for is someone might have access to the Cal birth 
> index and that information might give some clues to family if he has 
> any at all.
>
> Les C
>
>
> Thomas Rickard Thomas Rickard was born in California 74 years ago. He 
> died January 21, 2011 in Tacoma, Washington, where he had lived for 
> the past fifty years. He received degrees in Landscape Architecture 
> from the University of Oregon and in Architecture from theUniversity 
> of Washington 
> <http://www.legacy.com/legacies/university-of-washington/?personid=148280501&affiliateID=1380>. 
> For most of his professional career he practiced landscape 
> architecture with the firm of Chaffee Zumwalt & Associates in 
> Lakewood, where he started a "TGIF" tradition which will continue Tom 
> was a man of many talents and interests. His academic training 
> included fine art at the University of Oregon and he produced 
> paintings in oil and watercolors. The latter medium was his favorite, 
> and his paintings have been exhibited in numerous galleries and 
> museums throughout the Northwest. Early in his architectural career he 
> developed an interest in the works of Frank Lloyd Wright. He traveled 
> far and wide photographing the "master's" completed works. He became 
> an acknowledged expert in this field and his lectures on Frank Lloyd 
> Wright were informative, entertaining, and most memorable.
>
> Published in News Tribune (Tacoma) on February 1, 2011
>
>
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