March 1998
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MARES MEETING ROOM 1722 E 19 FREMONT NE PROGRAM: That Elusive Maiden Name Claire Mares BROWSE NITE - 23 March 1998 7 P.M. |
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| We had a great program presented to us by
Renee Bunck on latest computer technology...... She invaded the meeting
room with all kinds of new equipment, like what did you Say?
For one thing, she brought in a new monitor so that everyone could see what was going on at the front of the room. There was a hand scanner , a new laptop, and she explained and passed Claire's QuickPad around..Then there was a new digital camera sitting on a tripod-taking pictures of our members at the meeting! It was then sent into the laptop and then to the monitor...Wow, there was Claire and Dick laughing up a storm over a joke! But hey that wasn't all, she took a snapshot, cut and pasted Claire into other photos and then she "cloned" her. Claire was sure she had a twin with her for a bit... Next came a demo on scanning - she took one of Claire's small calendars of "cats," and then it came up on the screen. What does Claire think of this?
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Arlington, formerly Bell Creek, was laid out by the Sioux City & Pacific Railroad in 1869. The first improvements were made the same year, the Railroad Company erecting a large depot, also a large store building, and Samuel A Francis, one of the early settlers of Fontenelle, and John Waynick, of Chariton Iowa, built two residences and opened a lumber yard. A grain warehouse was built by L H Jones, a blacksmith shop by John Butler in 1870, and E K Gilbert a shoe shop in 1872. First birth was of a son to John Butler, first marriage was of Joshua G Benster to Cora Jones and Miss Kate Parker taught the first school. The public school building was erected in the fall of 1876, and in 1872 a Methodist Church. The name of both post office and town was changed to Arlington early
in the year 1882.
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ON THE MEND - Marlene Heinsohn who had minor(?)  surgery
on her foot. She has been home-bound and we wish her a speedy recovery.
Wonder if she has found something new in her family ancestry.
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No new books this month -
Margie and Claire have been putting some of our cemetery books into new
books and all pages are in sleeves for some of the counties. Hoping to
find additional shelving for our books by placing several items in one
book.
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| THE INTERNET CONNECTION
by Renee Bunck
If you would like to use the Internet to help with your family research, there are really two different approaches that I have found helpful - location based searches and surname based searches.
For a surname search, you can use your favorite There are quite a number of web sites that specialize in helping genealogists find others researching the same family name. The Roots Surname List http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/searches/rslsearch.html is probably the oldest and most organized of these sites. Enter a name, and you will be shown a list of matching names with dates and places to help determine a possible match. The researchers listed on the Roots Surname List must renew their
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Internet Connection continued...
Another good place for a surname search is the Family Tree If you find a CD that might be interesting, but you are not sure...,
connect to http://www.seidata.com/~lhoffman/cdlist.html
As I was putting this column together, I stumbled on another site that
looks promising:
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Return to the Dodge county NEGenWeb site
P O Box
0023
We extend our deepest sympathy
to James Spath and family in the loss of his brother, Roger Spath of Chicago
Illinois on 7 Feb 1998.
NOTICE - Sealed proposals
will be received at the County Clerk's Office until Wednesday noon, March
6th, for a certain building situated at the north end of the Fremont precinct
bridge; the same as was occupied by the toll-keeper. By Order of
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
and request
a lookup. These volunteers can send you a small sample from the CD
to give you an idea of the information it contains.
