The Chula Vista Genealogical Society Research Group meeting on September 14th had nine members in attendance. Our illustrious leader, Randy Seaver, was absent, however. Randy played hooky for this session to attend the FGS conference back in Springfield, Illinois then to Fort Wayne to do some research at the Allen County Public Library followed by a stop in Michigan to visit blogger friends and finally to Wisconsin to complete his genealogy tour with Linda. You can follow him on his tour at www.geneamusings.com
In
the first hour and a half, the group watched a Legacy Family Tree
webinar by Thomas MacEntee who presented "BACKING UP Your
Genealogy Data," which Randy obtained at the SCGS Jamboree in
June.
The
handout attachment was sent to all members the day before the meeting
for them to print out and bring to the meeting. In the presentation,
Thomas discussed Making
a data backup plan, Identifying data for backup, Types of backups
and several Online
data backup services.
After
the presentation we had an open sharing, with research highlights,
questions and answers, etc.
The
highlights:
*
Karen shared a discovery that
may explain how an ancestor named Leland Stanford Steeves got his
name.
Leland Stanford,
of course, was a prominent early California tycoon, governor and
founder of the now prestigious Stanford
University.
She
learned that her ancestor was born just seven days after the death of
his famous namesake and his parents probably used the news of
Stanford’s death to pick a name for their new son. Maybe for good
luck or prestige in life. Karen has so far found no connection
between her Steeves ancestors and the Stanfords.
*
Shirley has
been working in the 1790-1840s on her Pearsals,
Millers
and Graves
lines. She found it interesting that her
ancestor Thomas Graves enlisted twice in the War of 1812, and has a
pension file. The file enabled her to find his family in the 1810 US
Census in Minden, New York. It appears that he would not have been
much over twelve years old on his first enlistment. John Graves, the
father, enlisted in the War of 1812 also.
*
Verena told
us about her confusion while working on her Debra Magroo. It seems
there are so many Magroos in the area where she is researching that
it is hard to know who is who.
*
Dearl
said he had the same problem with his Glenn line in South Carolina.
In looking for one of his Glenn ancestors in the early censuses he
found fifteen men, (heads of household), all with same name.
The
next CVGS Research Group meeting will be Wednesday,
October 12th at 12 noon in
the Conference Room at the Chula Vista Civic Center Branch Library.
No topic has been selected but Randy will probably have much to tell
us about his Midwest Genealogy Tour and the FGS conference.
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