Elected Officers:

President: Ron Hardy

1st VP: Betty Trinka

2nd VP: Beverly Weldon

Sec: Virginia Piper

Treasurer: Paul Smith

Chair Persons &

Special Assignments:

Gen. Classes: Janet Cottrell

Com: Dorothy Becknell

Editorial: Jae Jaeger

Executive: Ron Hardy

Facilities: Bill Graham

FGS Del: Jeaneen Darnell

Finance: Jeaneen Darnell

Grants:

Historical: Gloria Fortney

Honors: Janice Meredith

Librarian: Janice Meredith

Membership: Linda Brown

Nom: Jim Hemphill

Office Manager:

Publications: Mary Craig

Research:

Jenise Brantley

Special Programs:

Terri Walker

Asst. Special Programs:

Mary Craig

Ways & Means:

Jenise Brantley

Tulsa Genealogical Society News, Twig-bits

TGS E-Newsletter

We’re on the Web!

Check us out at

www.tulsagenealogy.org

May 2012

May 21st, 2012, Genealogy Class

6 P.M. - “Cemetery Research”

Instructor, Janet Cottrell, Education Chair

“Families of the Territorial Towns”

7 P.M.

Speaker, David

Breed, SW

Historical

Society

David M Breed has served, since early 1981, as the organizing and Executive

Director for Western Neighbors Inc., a private community-based social service

organization serving the neighborhoods and families of the historic areas of

Tulsa south and west of the Arkansas River.

Breed served, from 1995 until 2010, as an Executive Secretary for the

Southwest Tulsa Chamber of Commerce and he continues to serve in a similar

capacity with the Southwest Tulsa Historical Society.

From the mid-1970s until Tulsa’s Centennial Year in 1998, Breed conducted and

narrated the day-long urban/historical Tulsa Tours for Leadership Tulsa for 23

years.

Come early to enjoy the fellowship and our hospitality

Door prize will be awarded at meetings!

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.

The TGS Annual

Business Meeting

Following the speaker’s

presentation on May 21st.

Annual Reports from various

Chairs and executive officers

will be presented

It is also time for the election

for 2012—2013 TGS Board of

Directors.

Ballots will be available at the

meeting.

The ballot will contain the

names of: Linda Brown, Mary

Craig, Jeaneen Darnell, Marilyn

Been, and Beverly Weldon.

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/

To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a

source, a tree without a root. -- Chinese Proverb

Carol Ellis, (TGS

member) has suffered

double losses in her

family in the last month.

March 30, 2012, her

y o u n g e s t g r e a t

grandson, 5 month old Bryan Lee, died

suddenly. Bryan was one of a twin to

Baylee Renee. These precious babies had

struggled into life and he blessed this

family while he lived.

Carol has been travelling frequently 500

miles to Texas to care for her elderly

mother, who passed away April 3. Doris

Warren Harrison was descendant of a

Baptist Family who established the first

Baptist Church in Coryell Co., Texas, in

1850.

FYI: How did people get along in the days before co-

pays, insurance plans, and modern medical care? What

would Great-Grandma do?

For a headache:

Apply cabbage-leaf poultice to forehead.

In case that doesn’t work, wear a salt herring

around the throat.

The first hospital in America, 1751, the Pennsylvania

Hospital in Philadelphia, refused to admit anyone

deemed to have an incurable disease, anyone with

smallpox, and women who arrived with young

children. Additionally, two taxpayers were needed as

sponsors for each admitted person to ensure that

burial costs could be paid. Patients were to abide by

all doctors orders, not wear street clothes, and not to

gamble, curse, or spit.

Ancestry January/February 2007 vol 25, no.1, p.34.

TGS Annual Book Sale

VOLUNTEERS are needed on May 1st to help unpack the books for the sale and

are needed on May 3rd, to help organize the sale tables, 9 to Noon (both days) or as

much time as you can give.

Volunteers are needed to help with the sale on Friday and Saturday, May 4 and 5,

will be the weekend for our big sale event. TGS membership is encouraged to donate “softly used” fiction,

non-fiction books, hard cover, paper back, movies, craft magazines, genealogy magazines, School Annuals,

etc. Bring them to the library so that they can be organized for the sale. Contact Linda Brown or Ron

Hardy for other information.

While you weren’t looking…A new gravestone website was

developing…

BillionGraves (www.billiongraves.com)—a

cemetery recording website—has been up

and running for a while now. The

interesting aspect of this endeavor is that it

uses technology to split the task of

recording cemeteries. People who have

smart phones or tablets can go through a

cemetery and use built-in device cameras to

take gravestone photographs and the

BillionGraves app to upload pictures to the

BillionGraves website. Website users can

see the photographs and transcribe what’s

on the gravestone to create a searchable

index.

Everybody can search for gravestones and

anyone can get involved. You can join BillionGraves, which is free, and start taking pictures or transcribing

immediately. So, if you’ve been looking for a painless way to contribute, BillionGraves might be just the

project for you.

Indians, Squatters, Settlers and Soldiers in the

“Old Southwest” Presented by the FGS

Local host The Alabama Genealogical Society

Aug 29 - Sep 1, 2012 Birmingham, AL

Visit the FGS 2012 Conference Website to review this year's sessions and

special events and register for the conference.

http://www.fgs.org/2012conference/

Meetings:

September - May

3rd Monday

Genealogy Class 6 pm

General Meeting: 7 pm

Open to public at no charge

P O Box 585

Tulsa, OK 74101-0585 918 - 627 - 4224

Library Location

9136 Briar Village Shopping Center (31st & Mingo, behind the stores)

Tulsa Genea log i ca l Soc ie ty

“Promoting Family History Research...Worth Looking for - Worth Finding!”

April Meeting Review

May 12th - Mini Workshop

Barbara Fulton “Dowsing for Graves”

“Orphan Trains”

Beginning in 1854, for seventy-six years thousands of homeless,

neglected poor children from New York City were moved west to rural

towns and farm communities. They traveled by rail. Families took them

into their homes. Some became foster children or were adopted into a

family. Others lived as boarders, apprentices, or live-in laborers. Some

found good homes; others found a new life of indentured service or

even abuse. Some loved and were loved in their new homes. Others ran

away or moved on to another family. The idea was that families would

provide the children food, clothing, and a living space in return for their

help on the farms. It was hoped that the children would become an

integral part of the families, that they would be adopted. When it

actually worked that way, it was usually great. Children grew up,

married, raised families, and contributed to the growing nation.

Newsletter Editor: Dorothy Becknell

Ron Hardy, Speaker

It is time to renew your dues to the Tulsa Genealogy Society

New password for Member’s Only website will be issued as you

renew (New TGS Year begins July 1st)

Individual/Society/Library: $25.

Joint (2 people at same address): $35.

Benefits of membership include access to the Members

Only Website, the TGS E-Newsletter and copies of

publications distributed by the Society to its membership.

Mail your renewal to:

TGS Membership Renewal

P.O. Box 585

Tulsa, OK 74101-0585