Midwest Computer Genealogy newsletter for March 2002
Volume 9 Number 3

The Midwest Computer Genealogy group meets the 3rd Saturday of each month in the Community room at Bannister Mall.  The meetings start at 9 AM.  Enter the mall the south main mall entrance on the east side of the building.  The community room entrance is to the left once inside the mall entrance doors.

Scheduled monthly MCG Programs are listed below:

March 16, 2002  (A note from Judy Revare) Hi everyone, there has been a change in our March program. Jack's book will not be here from the printers by our March meeting. Don Bjuland has graciously consented to present the program on a showing of the various top genealogy software programs. This will be a presentation of how the programs look and the different features of each of them. It is not a how to use, but a demo of available software demonstration. Our thanks to Don for switching his program to the month of March.

April 20, 2002 Tom Leathers, publisher of the Squire will tell us about having your genealogy book professionally published.

To volunteer or make suggestions for programs please contact Judy Revare at Judy@revare.com or Jack Revare at Jack@revare.com. Judy is the group program chairperson.

The Family Origins users group meets monthly but by the time I get notice of the monthly meeting and get the newsletter out the meeting has come and gone so to keep up on the FOG meeting please visit the web sites listed as follows.

To go directly to the FOG page use this URL: http://chezjacq.com/MCG.htm#FOG  Check the web site for the February 2, 2002 meeting. I wasn't able to schedule it at the Blue Valley Library.  Or you can contact Rowena at snowtop@juno.com for more information.

To check on MCG use: http://chezjacq.com/MCG.htm this site contains the list of future MCG meetings as well as the newsletter.

President's Comments for the month.

We are about to finish another year at Bannister Mall as our meeting place, next month will be our last meeting there unless we can renew our verbal contract for the meeting room usage. I have talked to the lady in charge of the meeting room, and have yet to get a definite answer one way or the other. So, it looks like we might be meeting on a month-to-month basis until something is settled. She says that the entire mall is going to be renovated, and is not sure if there will be any meeting rooms after that. At $250.00 dollars a year, I really do not see how they can afford not to have our business. I sort of think we are the ones that have been keeping them going.

I want to talk a little about some of our members --- How many of you saw the write up in The Kansas Star about one of our members, Lewis Hahn? It was in the 3-1-2002 Star under the title "Hats off to the Hahns". Lewis has been the Treasurer of our organization since it's beginning. Lewis has been a volunteer worker at the Archives for a number of years, but the write up was primarily about Arline and Lewis's work in the Johnson County Elections. "They have supervised elections for a combined total of 75 years", according to the Star article. I thought it was a very nice tribute to Lewis and Arline. It kind of puffs you up a little just because you have had an opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the famous and important people in this world. Congratulations Lewis and Arline.

We have also had two of our members to die recently. Don Bjuland, our Newsletter Editor is going to write something about one of our member's death, but I want to write a little about the other member, Henry Llewellyn.

Henry and his family moved to Odessa in about 1957 (some of these dates may be off a little, but it will be close  I am doing all of this by memory, and you know what happens to that at my age). He and Ruth had met in college (Park College in Parkville, Mo) fell in love, married and after serving in WWII as a Navy Pilot, a stint at University of Missouri School of Mines in Rolla, Mo to get his Civil Engineering degree, they had three children. Henry and Ruth had 3 lovely grand daughters. Henry worked as an engineer for the city of Kansas City for a while then the Corps of Engineers until his retirement. My family moved to Odessa in 1961. Very shortly after that I became acquainted with Henry. It seems that on a Sunday afternoon, some lady was having car trouble (she was driving a VW Bug) and Henry was trying to help her. He told her not to try the starter while he was working on it, but she misunderstood and turned on the starter. That is when I met Henry, one finger shorter and bleeding profusely. Over the years I took care of Henry, Ruth, Jim, Georgia and Joe as well as Henry's mother and Ruth's mother and father. Ruth even worked in our office for 10 or 15 years, I served on the School Board with Henry and we were all good friends. Henry and Ruth would do any thing to help any one. Both served on numerous boards and committees to help their community in any way they could. I never heard either one of them say anything bad about anyone, I never saw either one do anything bad to any one, I am not sure if either one ever even had a bad thought about anyone. Henry developed Parkinson's disease about 12 years ago, and their daughter developed breast cancer about the same time. Ruth worried herself a lot about both of them and died of a heart attack about 5 or 6 years ago. With in the last two years their daughter developed breast cancer in the other breast and just finished treatment for this second cancer maybe 3 or 4 months ago. About two weeks ago Henry's two grand daughters in North Carolina, who were rooming together while going to college, were killed along with others in a fire at their apartment building. The fire was caused by arson and the person causing the fire has been charged with murder. On the same day Henry's daughter was having a CAT Scan done and was being given the bad news that her cancer had recurred in a metastatic form.  The entire family flew to North Carolina (except for Henry who was by now in the nursing home) for memorial services for the two grand daughters. Upon arranging in North Carolina, Henry's daughter's husband received word that his father had died of a heart attack. After the memorial was over there, Henry's daughter and her husband flew back here to attend his father's memorial and visited with Henry. They left here on Wednesday February the 27th to go home and start more chemotherapy. Henry developed pneumonia Monday and was hospitalized. He died Wednesday 3-6-2002.

It makes you wonder, some times, just how much a family is required to suffer. It also reminds me of something that I learned a long time ago. No matter how bad things seem to be, if you look around you will find some one else that has it worse, and it will make thankful for what you have, and ashamed for feeling sorry for your self.

See You Saturday March 16, 2002

Wayne

Secretary's report for the Meeting of February 2001.

Bob Harrison's motion to continue to meet at Bannister Mall was approved.

Louis Hahn, our faithful treasurer, is moving out of the area. Bill Hawkins will take over the job.

Lois Scully provided coffee. Judy Revare brought doughnuts for us.

Judy introduced Marilyn Finke who spoke on "Preparing for the 1930 Census". It will be released on April 1. Because there is a Soundex only for the Southeastern part of the U. S. and parts of Kentucky and Virginia, we must use other ways to find the information. She mentioned NARA Publication T 1224, Descriptions of Census Enumeration Districts, 1830-1890 and 1910 -1950. For 1930 only, this new film gives 1930 ED (enumeration district) numbers and their corresponding 1920 numbers. If you have your ED number for 1920, you will have the 1930 ED number. Other ways to get a street address is from naturalization papers, birth, death and marriage certificates and city directories. NARA has information from all medium sized city directories from 1928-1932. At the back of the Polk Directory everything is by street name and number. Or one may write to the local genealogy society, enclose SAS and five dollars with a request for a street address. T1224, Cross Index to Selected City and Enumeration of the 1910 Census is useful. It has precinct maps and boundaries of enumeration districts.

Marilyn Finke gave us excellent handouts to help us access the 1930 census and the answers to the thirty- two questions asked on that census.

By Mary Robinson

Wayne mentioned that your editor would report on the member who died in February.  I received a letter from Sue Nelson dated 2-20-2002 and it said her father Kenneth W. Nelson had passed away earlier this week and that I could remove him from the mailing list.  Ken used to attend our meeting regularly until he moved to Greenwood, IN and he continued his membership to date.

I am running close on time to get this newsletter out this month as I was in Branson from Thursday and got back today Sunday March 10th and was checking my email and noticed my computer was acting funny.  It was running slow and when I got to the icons on the start screen they would jump around as brought the mouse near them.  I was lucky as I had a new version of Norton lying near the computer that I had never got installed.  Well after a bit of battle with Norton and the computer I got the new version in and downl0oaded the newer updates from the web site.  It came back and said there was trouble with Works.exe and then I finally got it to scan the computer's 53365 files and it told me that 28 were infected with w32 badtran and also w32 magist.3 it repaired 23 files and put the other 5 files in a quarantined file, I hope.  Norton gave me the file names and they don't seem to be system files that I can see.  Anyway it is back up to speed but will have to learn where the icons are located again as they stayed in new spots.  How I got them is not known, as I don't remember opening any funny files today after I got home but I did have some warning mail notices of a W32 virus but no attachments on the warnings.  Come in on E-mail?

Keep the antivirus files up to date.

Have some more items I could use but will save them for future as it is time to get this newsletter on its way and out of the computer.

Looking at this file as I get ready to sent it out I see that the font and sizes are changing for some reason so guess will have to do a bit of readying and see how to control it a bit better than we are doing.

Contact members of the group are as follows:

President----------  Wayne Boydston     816-230-3140   odessssadoc@juno.com

Vice President----Ralph Stirlen -----      816-532-0229   rstirlen@swbell.net

Co-sec-------------   Ivan Waite --------       816-318-0892   ilwait@earthlink.net

Co-sec-------------   Mary Robinson------   913-384-3339   MHRobinson@aol.com

Program chair----Judy Revare--------      913-491-1768  judy@revare.com

Treasurer--------- William Hawkins                                bihawk@earthlink.net

Group dues are $12 a year and the year runs from June 30th to July 1st of the following year.  New member dues are prorated at a dollar a month for balance of club year remaining.

Don Bjuland (editor)  dbjuland@worldnet.att.net

Hope this does not go out twice but the computer said the first one did not send for some reason per Norton so will resend it again to make sure so forgive me if get it twice.

I forgot I had a note on a paper on the computer table and didn't find it until I sent out the newsletter.   As I had promised to include it in the newsletter for March I will make an extra supplement so I can keep my promise.

Should be easy to do as the addresses should still be ok from yesterday.

A TMG Meeting is held the 4th Thursday of each month starting at 10:00 AM. The meeting is in Hanson Hall of the Old Mission United Methodist Church located at 5519 State Park Road. This address is located at the southeast corner of the intersection of  Mission road and Shawnee Mission Parkway

For questions contact Judy Revare at 913-491-1768 or email to judy@revare.com .