Elected Officers:

President: Ron Hardy

1st VP: Open

2nd VP: Beverly Weldon

Sec: Virginia Piper

Treasurer: Paul Smith

Chair Persons &

Special Assignments:

Communications: Dot Becknell

Editorial: Jae Jaeger

Executive: Ron Hardy

Facilities: Bill Graham

FGS Del: Jeaneen Darnell

Finance: Jeaneen Darnell

Historical: Gloria Fortney

Honors: Janice Meredith

Librarian: Janice Meredith

Membership: Linda Brown

Nom: Jim Hemphill

Publications: Mary Craig

Research: Jenise Brantley

Special Programs: Terri Walker

Asst. Special Programs:

Mary Craig

Ways & Means: Jenise Brantley

Website: Dot Becknell

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Tulsa Genealogical Society News Dec 2012

Best Wishes

throughout the

holiday

season!

It’s the first of the month!

Have you backed up your data?

If you have moved, changed your contact phone number or your

email address, please inform Linda Brown,

Membership Chair, (llbrown2000@cox.net) You will

receive email reminders (or phone calls) of our

meetings and other events in your mailbox...that is if

we have your correct address.

Support TGS - 50/50 Drawing Door Prize!

Buy a ticket(s) and win half the total! $1=1 ticket; $5 = 6 tickets,

$10 = 12 tickets! TGS retains half — lucky ticket wins the rest!

Fay Rene Hanks won in November

Carolyn Steele (Renown author and TGS member)

continues her blog, Preserving Legends, concerning all things

even remotely touching on genealogy, whether stories,

research, or just interesting tidbits of life.

You are invited to visit at:

http://preservinglegends.blogspot.com/

The Twelve Days of

Christmas (Genealogy Style)

My true love gave to me

Twelve census searches Eleven family bibles Ten e-mail contacts

Nine headstone rubbings Eight wills and admins Seven miners mining

Six second cousins Five coats of arms Four GEDCOM files

Three old wills Two CD-ROMs

And a branch in my family tree.

--Author Unknown

November in Review

We really enjoyed our guest speaker Ms. Kathryn

Red Corn-Lynn director of the Osage Indian

Nation Museum and Library Archives located in

Pawhuska, OK. She presented a program citing

many of the historical facts which shaped the lives

and the traditional values of the Osage Indian

Nation.

If you would like to learn more about the Osage

Indian Nation, please visit their website

www.osagetribe.com/museum

Or visit the museum at

819 Grandview, Pawhuska, OK

Museum Hours:

Tues-Sat, 8:30am-5pm

(closed on holidays)

Upcoming 2012-2013

TGS Meetings/Events.

Dec. 17 - TGS Holiday Celebration Jan. 21 - Cemetery Grave Symbols and

what they mean - Natalie SilverRaven Feb. 18 - Ellis Island - Ron Hardy, TGS

President

TGS Nov 2012

Financials

Total Income: $ 1180.50

Total Disbursements: $ - 838.29

Net Gain/Loss $ 350.21

TGS Current Members: 85

These are copies of actual correspondence

received by the Family History Department.

Our 2nd great grandfather was found dead crossing the plains in the library. He was

married 3 times in the endowment house and has 21 children.

He and his daughter are listed as not being born.

I would like to find out if I have any living relatives or dead relatives or ancestors in my

family.

Will you send me a list of all the Dripps in your library?

My Grandfather died at the age of 3.

We are sending you 5 children in a separate envelope.

Documentation: Family Bible in possession of Aunt Merle until the tornado hit Topeka,

Kansas. Now only the Good Lord knows where it is.

The wife of #22 could not be found. Somebody suggested that she might have been

stillborn - what do you think?

I am mailing you my aunt and uncle and 3 of their children.

Enclosed please find my Grandmother. I have worked on her for 30 years without success.

Now see what you can do!

I have a hard time finding myself in London. If I were there I was very small and cannot be

found.

This family had 7 nephews that I am unable to find. If you know who they are, please add

them to the list.

We lost our Grandmother, will you please send us a copy?

Will you please send me the name of my first wife? I have forgotten her name.

A 14-year-old boy wrote: "I do not want you to do my research for me. Will you please

send me all of the material on the Welch line, in the US, England and Scotland countries? I

will do the research."

Ah…. Research!

"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.

"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.

"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'

"Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

"VIRGINIA O'HANLON.

"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."

VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by

the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they

see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by

their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or

children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere

insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless

world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping

the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love

and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and

give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would

be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as

if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then,

no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should

have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with

which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun, and the

quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran

newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history's most reprinted newspaper

editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other

editorials, and on posters and stamps.

Continued on next page

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!

You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on

Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see San-

ta Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus,

but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real

things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see.

Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but

that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imag-

ine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise in-

side, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the

strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men

that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love,

romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the super-

nal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all

this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand

years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now,

he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

*Full text of the editorial with digital image from the original newspaper.

From the Newseum, Washington, DC http://www.newseum.org/yesvirginia/

Continued from page 4

Safe travels to all of you as you go “over the river and through the woods”.

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