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<DIV>Thank you for posting your methodology! This is fantastic - just superb. Much much bigger than a simple "why didn't I think of that" - GENIUS!</DIV>
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<DIV>The excell spreadsheet, timeline and map really are key in giving the whole thing perspective and "big picture" of the who/what/ when/ where etc. I'm sooooo darned excited to put this into practice with what I have - may break down some brick walls! Woo hoo!. </DIV>
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<DIV>Thank you oodles. All the best wishes from another 'nut' </DIV>
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<DIV>Carole</DIV>
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<DIV>Researching Parrott, Hanson, Stringer, Corter, Rowe</DIV>
<DIV> <BR><BR><FONT face="garamond, new york, times, serif"> <FONT size=4><STRONG> </STRONG>...CPJ...</FONT></FONT><BR><BR>--- On <B>Sat, 3/10/12, ffarner@coinet.com <I><ffarner@coinet.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: ffarner@coinet.com <ffarner@coinet.com><BR>Subject: [or-roots] The Lost Album and Nebraska<BR>To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><BR>Date: Saturday, March 10, 2012, 9:22 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Hi Linda et al,<BR><BR>The State was: Nebraska<BR>County: Antelope<BR>City & County seat: Petersburg<BR>Town: Loretto<BR><BR>I am attaching a Street & Trips Map, but you probably don’t need it.<BR><BR>I don’t find my notes, but I’ll go through the process. If it gets too<BR>boring just stop. I won’t mind.<BR><BR>1. I cataloged each photo into an Excel Spreadsheet. There were around<BR>sixty of them.<BR>2. I then gleaned every bit of information from every photo. That included:<BR>a. Names on back,<BR>b. Locations on back;<BR>c. Dates on back; and<BR>d. Any readable data in the photos themselves.<BR>3. I then went through multiple sorts by:<BR>a. Date;<BR>b. First names<BR>c. Last names<BR>d.
Locations<BR>i. By state;<BR>ii. By county; and,<BR>iii. By city, then town.<BR>4. From these sorts I was able to create a timeline over about fifteen years.<BR>5. From THIS data I was able to construct a [mental] three dimensional<BR>framework of people, locations, and interrelationships of the photo’s.<BR>6. The timeline showed the life of a teen aged girl from about mid grade<BR>school through college and into her first teaching job.<BR>7. It was obvious she was quite proud of the ‘Ladies Walking Club’ [not a<BR>real name. I never learned it.] and the ‘walks’ they took to surrounding<BR>towns, and back home.<BR>8. Next, a search of the available census records showed the street she<BR>lived on, and correlated two others [boys] in the photographs as her<BR>neighbors. They all grew up
together.<BR>9. Posting all this family and address data on a map, then looking at the<BR>area in general I was able to discover there was a private school about<BR>two blocks away from the place she grew up. This is/was about as far as I<BR>could get without outside help. Did I mention I was a Federal Marine<BR>Investigator for twenty years? LOL<BR>10. I then went into Anywho [it’s been commercialized now] and found the<BR>area.<BR>11. My next thought was, “Who would probably be in a long-term, stable job<BR>in the community, who would be in tune with the daily lives of persons of<BR>this age group?”<BR>12. Google Earth showed the area [today and probably then] as a farming<BR>county with towns, even buildings that interdigitated well with the<BR>photo’s.<BR>13. So I called the town high school and talked with the school,
head,<BR>Secretary. I had given her only about ten percent of my information when<BR>she interrupted me and said, “Oh! You need to be talking with [I cannot<BR>remember this lady’s name]. She knows all about it, and is in the process<BR>of writing a county history right now.”<BR>14. I dialed up this lead and had a wonderful chat. She confirmed she was<BR>a few months away from publishing and would be delighted to become the<BR>caretaker of the album. I got her address and mailed it off to her in the<BR>name of the La Pine Genealogical Society.<BR><BR>I don’t immediately find my notes on the actual investigation or the<BR>subsequent talk I gave concerning the search and my search methods. <BR>Sorry.<BR><BR>I can tell you that she grew up in the south east quadrant of Petersburg<BR>and probably went to grade school at the private school just down the<BR>block. The photo’s show, and satellite
images now confirm this was and<BR>apparently still it a wealthy part of town. Her first teaching job was in<BR>the one-roomed school house in Lorreto.<BR><BR>And this is where the album ends. There was a single photo in the album,<BR>un-mounted that was of a sternwheeler on the Willamette River. As I<BR>recall there was no information on that photo.<BR><BR>My lingering questions include:<BR>1. Why was this one photograph (the sternwheeler) not mounted?<BR>2. Why was it in this album?<BR>3. Why was this album in Portland, Oregon?<BR>4. Was it a link to the next phase of her life? or,<BR>5. Was the album held by a descendant and the sternwheeler just got into<BR>the wrong album?<BR><BR>These questions I shall probably never learn the answers to. However, the<BR>reason I got involved was, my roots extend back into Webster and Adams<BR>Counties
in Nebraska. For many years there was a large family gathering<BR>of Porteniers, Farners, and allied families, in Hastings, of up to about<BR>eighty persons. It dwindled down over the years and they stopped holding<BR>them when it got down to only eight of us remaining. I keep hoping to<BR>have a reason to go back sometime. Maybe I’ll be able to head north from<BR>Hastings and see Lorreto and Petersburg myself.<BR>There. That’s the long winded version. All I can say is, If you are still<BR>reading this then you are truly a genealogy nut, like me!!<BR><BR>Fred Farner<BR><BR>[I am interested in the Crow’s that settled in or around Lane County,<BR>Oregon. I have a number of them in data form, but no correlation as they<BR>appear to be randomly buried all over the area with no discernible pattern<BR>as yet. There is even a small town that bears the family name.]<BR><BR>+++A critique of my efforts show that I
used the little half inch wide<BR>Post-It notes to assign numbers to each photo. They kept falling off. <BR>Should I become involved in a project like this again I would immediately<BR>scan the fronts and backs of each photo into a spreadsheet. The<BR>correlation job would have been much easier as I could have appended each<BR>note to the scanned image page, rather than using even more Post-It’s, and<BR>having them fall off too.+++<BR><BR>The attached map operates in Microsoft Streets & Trips.<BR><BR>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<BR><BR>> Hi,<BR>> I couldn't resist asking if the small town in Nebraska was in Washington<BR>> Co.? Was it Blair or Vacoma or Tekama? Did you return it to its family or<BR>> just<BR>> the county genealogy society? Do you know any of the last names of the<BR>> family who owned the album?<BR>> Just asking because my family was left with a lot of
old photos from a<BR>> spinster great aunt and I spent a lot of time researching the people and<BR>> finding<BR>> descendants to share with and so your album interested me. Hope you don't<BR>> mind all the questions.<BR>> Thanks!<BR>> Linda Purvis<BR>> Beaverton, Or<BR>><BR>><BR>> In a message dated 3/9/12 5:53:26 AM, <A href="http://us.mc1102.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ffarner@coinet.com" ymailto="mailto:ffarner@coinet.com">ffarner@coinet.com</A> writes:<BR>><BR>><BR>>> I just read this post rather belatedly. Yes, we have a very active<BR>>> genealogy society in La Pine. In addition to the normal meeting stuff,<BR>>> we<BR>>> were very instrumental in burying five sets of unclaimed cremains last<BR>>> fall, complete with head stones. Our group is active.<BR>>><BR>>> Last summer we 'rescued' an album of old photographs literally from a<BR>>>
dumpster. I used to be a Federal Marine Investigator. I did the<BR>>> investigator thing and we found the album really belonged in a small<BR>>> town<BR>>> in Nebraska. We got it back to its home just as a history if their<BR>>> county<BR>>> was being written. I made a training lesson of non-standard genealogy<BR>>> search methods out of it for our group.<BR>>><BR>>> If you have questions you may contact me, and I will relay into the<BR>>> group.<BR>>> If anyone is in La Pine on a second or forth Tuesday stop on in at the<BR>>> new Seniors Center and say hi.<BR>>><BR>> _____________________________________________________<BR>> or-roots mailing list<BR>> <A href="http://us.mc1102.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" ymailto="mailto:or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</A><BR>> <A
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