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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="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</a> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Denise<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The web page I made for my parents is at: <a href="http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/">http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/</a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My genealogy related pages are at:<br><a href="http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~merritt/">http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~merritt/</a><br>and <a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~merritt/">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~merritt/</a><br>The latter created using John Cardinal's Second Site</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>User of The Master Genealogist (TMG) <a href="http://www.whollygenes.com/">http://www.whollygenes.com/</a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Leslie Chapman<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> or-roots mail list<br><b>Subject:</b> [or-roots] Any suggestions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Les C<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>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 the</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> </span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><a href="http://www.legacy.com/legacies/university-of-washington/?personid=148280501&affiliateID=1380" target="_blank" title="Visit University of Washington Legacies to see similar profiles"><span style='color:#034E83;text-decoration:none'>University of Washington</span></a>. 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.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Published in News Tribune (Tacoma) on February 1, 2011</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></td></tr></table><p class=avgcert><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>