"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 announcement came late Friday afternoon that the Texas State Library and Archives received enough in pledges to keep ProQuest/HeritageQuest for another year. The Gladys Harrington Library (GHL) had to come up with $6000 to pledge so it could remain available to its patrons in the library and remotely on their PCs at home. Genealogy Friends was proud to have available the $3000 to pledge to GHL to keep the site. They are to be congratulated for their progressive thinking and money making expertise.
Next year will be another struggle if the fees are increased and the library budgets continue to tighten the belt around spending. It is possible that TexShare will be offered at $5 or so, to those who want to use it at home. Personally, this seems like a great idea. The $5 mentioned is just something that is currently being examined to see if it is feasible or not. Whatever the nominal charge for TexShare, it is worth it to have it available at home for late night searches.
For more on what is available through TexShare and HeritageQuest please refer to my last week s column where it is explained.
FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY SALT LAKE
With the new changes coming to the Family History Library, visitors there will find the history and biographies collection has been moved from the Joseph Smith Building back into the library s domain. It will not be available for access until September. The family group archive is now only available on microfilm. There are additional workspace, computer workstations and computer training areas. The United States/Canada book collection will not be available in June and July until it is moved to its new location on the third floor. There are no plans at present to move the US/Canada film section from its home on the second floor.
If you are visiting the library this summer you might want to call ahead to be sure the titles or collection you will be using is available. Call the office of Library Public Affairs at 808-346-6044, extension 1054 or email fhl-publicaffairs@ldschurch.org.
MEMORIES OF COLLIN COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
What a warm, fuzzy feeling to pick up a book and discover it talks about your home place and even mentions people you knew as a child. That is what I did this weekend. I picked up a little 87-page book written by Eddie Sarge Stimpson, Jr. titled Remembers of Mose, The Life of Mose Stimpson and His Times. I never knew any of the Stimpsons except Sarge. I have met him a couple of times in the library. He is a nice, talkative, gentle man whom I liked the first time I met him. I liked his book. Although it is about a slave family who came from Virginia to Texas whose white owners give one young Mose to a family coming west, separating him from his family forever, Sarge was gentle in his writing. Everyone should read this. It is full of information on Collin County, share cropping, and the early settlers. It is a must read.
Remembers of Mose is available for $16.95 from Heritage Farmstead Museum, 1900 West 15th Street, Plano, Texas 75075. The Web site is www.heritagefarmstead.org.
These [articles] appear each week, after appearing in the Plano Star Courier, Little Elm Journal, North Texas Star Publications.
If you descend from John Burns of South Carolina, and Marshall County, Tennessee, I am Tracing Our Roots at Burns Family History Research & Development Project.
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.
