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New Page or Event |
| 01 AUG 2005 |
It's Our NINTH Anniversary |
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Tri-Counties
Ninth Birthday Postcard Blitz. - This month commemorates
the ninth anniversary of the founding of Tri-Counties Genealogy & History
Site. During that period countless individuals have shared their family
and community artifacts and resources with us, and also countless volunteers
have given their time and skills supporting our project. To show appreciation
to them and to commemorate this entirely unplanned for event (Believe me,
I never could have anticipated I'd continue this so long or so extensively)
I'd like to initiate a postcard blitz. Send a postcard representing
your state, county or city (or country if outside U.S.) To Joyce
M. Tice, 2068 Shaw Road, Mansfield PA 16933. These will be arranged
into a display in the Sullivan Township Museum where our local volunteers
can see them and see the appreciation all of you have for the site. If
you have any kind remarks to make about our site or its volunteers, please
include them on the card. Be sure to include your address (at least City,
State) and your email address. It will be a fun commemoration of the years
of effort that have gone into developing the site and a continued motivator
and show of appreciation for those who have invested so much of their time
making it possible. It will be interesting and rewarding to see how far
our efforts have extended in bringing you, our guests and fellow volunteers
and contributors, the history of this area and the interconnections of
its people. |
| 02 AUG 2005 |
Austin - Austin Family of Union |
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1854-1900 Park Church Marriage
Records of Rev. Thomas K. Beecher |
| 05 AUG 2005 |
Postcard Shower a Hit at Mansfield Post Office
Hi All, Today one of our local rural mail carriers visited here about
her genealogy and to visit the museum. I had not met her before but I mentioned
that the site was nine years old now and she said they knew all about it
at the post office. It seems that they, too, are having a great time and
get all excited looking at where all the postcards are coming from. They
pass them around and enjoy seeing all the places represented. It had occurred
to me that my own mail carrier must be interested in what's going on, but
I did not think about the rest of them sorting the mail. So, the staff
at the Mansfield Post Office thank you for making their days a little brighter
and more interesting and I thank you for the same. I'll give another update
after Saturday's mail and will try to get that breakdown by state up for
you to see and some of the postcards. Gardening and the museum keep me
distracted from site work. It is a terrific collection of postcards and
greetings and a great lot of fun for me and, I guess, a lot of other people.
So far the prize for distance is Tasmania. Karlena says she is from
down under down under (South of Australia) and claims the distance prize.
I think she is right about that. That would be hard to beat. |
| 07 AUG 2005 |
State by State Tally for
Ninth Anniversary Postcard Shower |
| 08 AUG 2005 |
Chemung County Will Abstracts
1836 to 1850 |
| 11 AUG 2005 |
Wagner's Grocery store - Pine City
NY |
| 12 AUG 2005 |
An Entry for our Emigrant Section - Charles
E. Wilcox - Smithfield to South Dakota |
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Esther Squires & Ephraim
McConnell - Sullivan to Nebraska |
| 13 AUG 2005 |
1901 Trowbridge School |
| 14 AUG 2005 |
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| Today's volunteer of note is Bailey, shown above helping Mama photograph
a large aerial print of Prospect Cemetery. To hold down the paper, which
has been rolled and retains the curve, I used a TV remote on one side,
a binocular on the other and a 17 pound cat right smack in the middle.
Bailey's opacity and unwavering detemination got him banned to the porch
until the job was done. |
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| 18 AUG 2005 |
1906 Deed - Wolf to Butler
in Delmar |
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1916 Elmira College Yearbook
- Names of Seniors |
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1913 First President
of Elmira College, Augustus Cowles, Dies - Includes information
on founding of college |
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1913 Faculty of
Elmira College |
| 19 AUG 2005 |
Besley Cemetery 2005
(Columbia Valley Cemetery) |
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Lowman Railroad Depot |
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1890 Town of Erin Tax Roll |
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| 21 AUG 2005 |
Family of Harriet SMITH & William
Herschel BURT |
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Tioga County Memorial Gardens 2005 |
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Gillett Family Photos |
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Whitneyville Cemetery (2005) |
| 25 AUG 2005 |
1870 Census - Burlington Borough |
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1870 Census - Burlington Township |
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The Ultimate Sport for house cats - High Intensity Bird Watching
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| 26 AUG 2005 |
Cemetery on Wynkoop Creek Road,
Town of Chemung |
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Start of Chapter 27 of David Craft
history added |
| 27-28 AUG 2005 |
It's a Revolutionary War event
AUGUST 27 & 28, 2005
The Chemung Valley Living History Center
along with the 64th Regiment of Foot, invite you to an
18th century living history event at Newtown Battlefield. The quiet mountaintop
will again erupt with activity as the British Crown forces and their Native
allies clash with the soldiers of the Continental Army. Watch 18th
century-style war games Saturday and a battle re-enactment on Sunday.
Learn about 18th century dress during
a men's military fashion show, and a ladies' fashion show. Stroll
through Sutler Row and visit 18th century merchants. Wander through the
camps and speak with British and American soldiers. See what life
was like for the women and children, or camp followers, who trailed behind
the 18th century armies. Visit the Indian Village and learn about the culture
of the northeastern woodland tribes. Watch craftsmen and women at
work.
Adults $5, students/seniors $3, under 6 free
Family rate is $15 (2 adults and up to 4 children under age 18)
Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM
Sunday 10 AM to 4:00 PM
Come relive the 18th Century at the Park named for one of the little
known, but important battles of the Revolutionary War and visit one of
Chemung County?s most scenic parks. Living History demonstrations
Saturday and Sunday. Camps and Indian village open to the public
Saturday and Sunday. Food vendors, Sons of the American Revolution booth
and period sutlers open all weekend. While you are here, why
not help with the historic improvements to the park by joining the Chemung
Valley Living History Center.
War games on Saturday. Battle on Sunday, time TBA.
You have now entered the 18th century in the year 1779.
The war has been going on for 4 years with a stalemate developing between
the Crown and those in rebellion against it. If you listen, you can hear
sounds of action - muskets and rifles firing- occasionally, an artillery
piece going off, or a war hoop. Sometimes you can see some
of the action, at others, only hear it. You are invisible to
the fighting of the action, but you can see and hear all that goes on about
you. Please do not give away the surprise by following the
troops into the woods, but walk the paved areas and watch and listen. Please
use caution and do not approach men firing guns or cannons.
For more info visit www.chemungvalley.org or call: 607-733-0950 |
| 27 AUG 2005 |
I wanted to write and let you know that we still have seats available
on our third Local History Bus Tour of the Summer here at the Chemung
County Historical Society. On Saturday, August 27, 2005 from
9:00AM to 1:00PM - Experience "The Chemung Canal: A Link in the Great Chain"
from Elmira to Watkins Glen with author Gary Emerson. From 1833 to 1878,
the Chemung Canal served as one of the lateral canals in New York State
providing access to the Erie Canal through the Cayuga and Seneca Canal.
The Chemung Canal connected the Chemung River in Elmira, New York to Seneca
Lake at Watkins Glen, New York. A navigable feeder supplied water to the
canal from the Chemung River near Corning, New York. Although the canal
had a short life, it did a great deal to change the landscape and the economy
of the local area as part of the great chain of canals that once criss-crossed
New York State.
This four-hour Saturday trip includes a boxed take along brunch. Cost
is $25.00 for members, $30.00 for non-members.
If you have been thinking about it, you will need to act fast because
seats are filling up fast. Call us today at 607.734.4167 and reserve
a seat for you and a friend! Ride along for local history with the
Chemung County Historical Society!
Jason Harmon
Education Coordinator
Chemung County Historical Society
415 East Water Street
Elmira, NY 14901
(T) 607-734-4167, ext. 205
(F) 607-734-1565
educator@chemungvalleymuseum.org |
| 30 AUG 2005 |
Roy Kinney, A Special
Music Teacher at Jobs Corners |
| 31 AUG 2005 |
Updates on our Tri-County Friends in Louisiana and Mississippi -
devastated by Katrina
This month's postcard celebration gave me access to where some of our
friends are located. I contacted Clinton Terry of New Orleans and he answered
that he is safe and sound at a friend's house out of the devastated area.
I also attempted to contact Creig Crippen in Gulfport. He has not answered
yet. I sent a note to his brother to see what he has heard and will update
you when I hear back. Their postcards are shown below |
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