"Tracing Our Roots" Newsletter Archive (A monthly genealogy newsletter written by the late Brenda Kellow, dec'd, for the Plano Star Courier newspaper. We've included all the ones we could recover.)
The New Year is a time for making resolutions and a time for changing things for the better. That goes double for me for I always strive to give my readers the very latest changes, hints, news, opportunities, publications, and tips. Sometimes it is a little difficult. Just to keep up with the buying and selling going on in the genealogy field is a test in compiling a complicated genealogy. However, I try to keep up. Here is the first news announcement for this year, 2003.
Leland K. Meitzler just announced that he bought back Heritage Quest Magazine and much of the retail business a few weeks ago from Vivendi, who had bought it from ProQuest over a year ago, which had purchased it from Heritage Quest, who had acquired it from the American Genealogy and Lending Library (AGLL). The first issue with Leland as the new owner will begin with the first issue this year. They plan to continue with their fine tradition making only a few changes such as an extended query section and larger fonts for those of us who need larger print.
ProQuest will continue to service the libraries with microform and data resources. Their office will continue in North Salt Lake.
EVERTON S
Having served the community for over 57 years, Everton s Family History Network relocated its corporate facilities to their Genealogy Library in Nibley, Utah. At the new location, everything will be under one roof. Everton s invites visitors to Nibley to drop buy and visit their Genealogy Library. The address is 3223 South Main, Nibley, UT 84321. The new phone number is 800-443-6325, or visit the web site at http://www.everton.com/.
ANCESTRY COMPLETED THE INDEXES
Ancestry.com just placed all the 1930 census indexes online a couple of days before Christmas. What a present for all of us members who have been waiting for the indexes to arrive online. They also have all the 1920 indexes online. Examine the indexes at http://www.ancestry.com/.
Terri is researching the James P. Farrell family. James and his wife Melville H. Meason moved to Plano from Monroe County, Missouri about 1870. Ten years later James is listed on the census as a hardware merchant and his brother, George Farrell a marshal, is living in the household. By 1900, the Farrells, this time listed in the census as a blacksmith, live in Dallas. They are the parents of: Birdie married to Noah L. Kerr (Birdie taught school in Plano before she married); Clara Maud married to William Sterling Uhl; Lillie A. (died 1876); James (died 1881); Lonnie (died July 14, 1899); and Terri s ancestor Fred Clint Farrell who married Myra Buchanan.
Fred Farrell died 1949 in Ft. Worth but his brother James died earlier on February 15, 1915. Melville died April 18, 1911. James, Melville, and four of their children are buried at the Plano Mutual Cemetery.
If any of you are searching the descendants of Birdie and N. L. Kerr or Clara Maud and W. Sterling Uhl, please contact Terry McRae at the above address.
CENSUS DONATION
Thanks to a generous donation from Genealogy Friends, the Genealogy Section will now have the complete 1850 census of the U.S. and the addition of the following states of the 1840 U.S. census: Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, and Michigan. The gift totals about $8,784.
Brenda Kellow, dec'd, Certified Genealogist and Certified Genealogical Instructor, had a Bachelor s Degree in history and taught genealogy courses at the local Community College and computer genealogy at the University.
