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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/10/first-impressions-using-family-tree-on.html">First Impressions: Using Family Tree on FamilySearch.org</a> </h3> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4428059934254882231" itemprop="description articleBody"> I have started using the Family Tree feature developed by FamilySearch.org. As you may know, this has been available for use by LDS members for some time. Well, now it is out of beta testing and available to non-LDS members.<br/> <br/> Development continues on Family Tree, which is termed an update that will eventaully replace FamilySearch.org, believe it or not. You can experience Family Tree for yourself by registering to use it at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://familysearch.org/invite/familytree_tab.">http://familysearch.org/invite/familytree_tab.</a><br/> <br/> I was particularly interested in trying out Family Tree to research my parternal ancestry in Finland. I entered some preliminary information through my paternal great grandparents and Family Tree found and added several more generations--to the middle 16th century, in fact. I'm pretty comfortable with what it generated for my paternal grandmother's line, but my grandfather's line appears to me a bit shaky. The new information is based on family relationships researched by others and on the International Genealogical Index.<br/> <br/> At the moment, there are few sources included in my FamilySearch Family Tree, but I am confident that I can find and add them as the parishes in central Finland kept good records. It's just a matter of checking each generation of ancestors back through the records, which are becoming available online.<br/> <br/> A reference guide for using Family Search Family Tree is available at <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://broadcast.lds.org/eLearning/fhd/Community/en/FamilySearch/FamilyTree/pdf/familyTreeUserGuide.pdf.">http://broadcast.lds.org/eLearning/fhd/Community/en/FamilySearch/FamilyTree/pdf/familyTreeUserGuide.pdf.</a></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br/></span> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I will also be adding information on my mother's ancestry, which happens to go back to pre-colonial days in America. That also should be interesting.</span><br/> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br/></span> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br/></span> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"> <span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <meta content="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/profile/10368077610371840451" itemprop="url"/> <a class="g-profile" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/profile/10368077610371840451" rel="author" title="author profile"> <span itemprop="name">whuskonen</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <meta content="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/10/first-impressions-using-family-tree-on.html" itemprop="url"/> <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/10/first-impressions-using-family-tree-on.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" itemprop="datePublished" title="2012-10-23T14:54:00-07:00">2:54 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="reaction-buttons"> </span> <span class="star-ratings"> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/10/first-impressions-using-family-tree-on.html#comment-form" onclick=""> No comments: </a> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1211893591"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=4428059934254882231&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <div class="post-share-buttons goog-inline-block"> <a class="goog-inline-block share-button sb-email" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=4428059934254882231&target=email" target="_blank" title="Email This"><span class="share-button-link-text">Email This</span></a><a class="goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=4428059934254882231&target=blog" onclick="window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); return false;" target="_blank" title="BlogThis!"><span class="share-button-link-text">BlogThis!</span></a><a class="goog-inline-block share-button sb-twitter" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=4428059934254882231&target=twitter" target="_blank" title="Share to Twitter"><span class="share-button-link-text">Share to Twitter</span></a><a class="goog-inline-block share-button sb-facebook" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=4428059934254882231&target=facebook" onclick="window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=430,width=640"); return false;" target="_blank" title="Share to Facebook"><span class="share-button-link-text">Share to Facebook</span></a><a class="goog-inline-block share-button sb-pinterest" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=4428059934254882231&target=pinterest" target="_blank" title="Share to Pinterest"><span class="share-button-link-text">Share to Pinterest</span></a><div class="goog-inline-block dummy-container"><g:plusone source="blogger:blog:plusone" href="http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/10/first-impressions-using-family-tree-on.html" size="medium" width="300" annotation="inline"/></div> </div> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"> <span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"> <span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting"> <meta content="1675893023001213285" itemprop="blogId"/> <meta content="9199663943768736024" itemprop="postId"/> <a name="9199663943768736024"></a> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/10/wow-i-knew-ancestrycom-was-valuable-but.html">Wow! I Knew Ancestry.com was Valuable, but ...</a> </h3> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9199663943768736024" itemprop="description articleBody"> Ancestry.com has annouced that it has arranged a sale to take it private. The genealogical database provider has been listed on NASDAQ for several years (Nasdaq:ACOM), and now the major stockholders believe that they can enhance their holdings by taking it private.<br/> <br/> Yesterday, Ancestry.com and Permira, a European private equity firm with global reach, announced that a company owned by the Permira funds plus co-investors have entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Ancestry.com for $32.00 per share in cash. The total value of the transaction: $1.6 billion.<br/> <br/> The good news is (I think) that Tim Sullivan, Ancestry.com’s President and Chief Executive Officer, and Howard Hochhauser, Ancestry.com’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, will maintain a majority of their equity stakes in the company as part of the transaction. Spectrum Equity will also remain an investor in the company.<br/> <br/> The current thinking is that this move won't affect the way that subscribers are able to use what is claimed to be the world's largest provider of genealogical data online. We'll see.<br/> <br/> If you would like to read the official annoucement, go to my other blog, NEOH Genealogy Blog at h<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://neohgen.blogspot.com/">ttp://neohgen.blogspot.com/</a> to see the news release. <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"> <span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <meta content="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/profile/10368077610371840451" itemprop="url"/> <a class="g-profile" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/profile/10368077610371840451" rel="author" title="author profile"> <span itemprop="name">whuskonen</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <meta content="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/10/wow-i-knew-ancestrycom-was-valuable-but.html" itemprop="url"/> <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/10/wow-i-knew-ancestrycom-was-valuable-but.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" itemprop="datePublished" title="2012-10-23T14:07:00-07:00">2:07 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="reaction-buttons"> </span> <span class="star-ratings"> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/10/wow-i-knew-ancestrycom-was-valuable-but.html#comment-form" onclick=""> No comments: </a> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1211893591"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=9199663943768736024&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <div class="post-share-buttons goog-inline-block"> <a class="goog-inline-block share-button sb-email" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=9199663943768736024&target=email" target="_blank" title="Email This"><span class="share-button-link-text">Email This</span></a><a class="goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=9199663943768736024&target=blog" onclick="window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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The final five states of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/https://the1940census.com/">1940 US Census Project</a> have been posted on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/https://familysearch.org/">FamilySearch.org</a> website! These states include <b>Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, South Carolina and Tennessee.</b> We have posted the indexes for <b>Guam, Panama Canal and Virgin Islands</b>, as well. <b>American Samoa</b> is nearly complete and <b>Puerto Rico</b> is 25% complete. These last two territories will be posted as soon as they are ready to post.<o:p></o:p></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><br/></span> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/https://the1940census.com/">1940 US Census Project</a> started on the April 4<sup>th</sup> of this year. With the posting of the last states today, we have published the census 73 days earlier than expected! What a great thing to brag about. And it was all due to a great group of dedicated volunteer indexers like you.<o:p></o:p></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><br/></span> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Once again we want to thank every one of you who have worked so hard to help create this valuable census index. Your efforts have been remarkable. Many will benefit from your hard work for many years to come. <o:p></o:p></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><br/></span> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">I’ve said this before and would like to repeat it again. We hope you will continue to visit the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/https://indexing.familysearch.org/projtab/current_projects.jsf">FamilySearch Indexing</a> site and index some of the many other collections we currently have available. Your indexing and arbitration skills are seriously needed. We invite you to continue using your skills to make more records freely available to all who want to discover who they are and where they came from.<o:p></o:p></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><br/></span> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">Thank you for being a part of this great project.<o:p></o:p></span> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"> <span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <meta content="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/profile/10368077610371840451" itemprop="url"/> <a class="g-profile" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/profile/10368077610371840451" rel="author" title="author profile"> <span itemprop="name">whuskonen</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <meta content="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/08/familysearch-posts-last-5-states.html" itemprop="url"/> <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/08/familysearch-posts-last-5-states.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" itemprop="datePublished" title="2012-08-22T07:00:00-07:00">7:00 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="reaction-buttons"> </span> <span class="star-ratings"> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/08/familysearch-posts-last-5-states.html#comment-form" onclick=""> 5 comments: </a> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1211893591"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=8938172906562757126&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <div class="post-share-buttons goog-inline-block"> <a class="goog-inline-block share-button sb-email" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=8938172906562757126&target=email" target="_blank" title="Email This"><span class="share-button-link-text">Email This</span></a><a class="goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=8938172906562757126&target=blog" onclick="window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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The bicentennial of Brecksville Township's founding actually was celebrated last year in a year-long celebration, with a specially emphasis during Home Days in June. A historical subcommittee had been working for a couple years on the book and originally hoped to have it available during the Bicentennial Year, but the deadline for copy was gradually pushed back until December 31 2011. Then came the production process of copy editing, submitting photographs, laying it out, and proof reading the pages.<br/> <br/> I am proud to have been a subcommittee member working on the book. I researched and wrote the first draft of the first chapter which summarized the founding of Brecksville. It was an interesting and challenging assignment.<br/> <br/> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Honor the Past, Embrace the Present, Envision the Future </span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">can be purchased for $45. The book also comes with a 2-hr DVD containing videos and photos of the 2011 year-long Bicentennial celebration. You can purchase the book at the following locations:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Brecksville City Hall, 9069 Brecksville Road<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"> The Human Services Center, Two Community Drive<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"> The Brecksville Historical Association Archives, Blossom Hill, Oakes Road<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Western Reserve Bank, 8751 Brecksville Road <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">Faulhaber Funeral Home, 7915 Broadview Road</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">Books will also be available at several events during the coming months. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">August 26, Concert on the Square<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">September 8, Firefighters’ Clam Bake<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">October 7, BHA Apple Butter Festival<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">October 28, Booville<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">November 4-5, Heartfelt Holiday Alternative (maybe, maybe not)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">November 8, Chippewa Garden Club Design Program<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">December 2, Christmas Parade</span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br/></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">Please pass this information on to your friends and neighbors. Thank you for your support of the Brecksville Bicentennial!<o:p></o:p></span></div> <br/> <br/> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"> <span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <meta content="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/profile/10368077610371840451" itemprop="url"/> <a class="g-profile" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/profile/10368077610371840451" rel="author" title="author profile"> <span itemprop="name">whuskonen</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <meta content="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/08/brecksville-bicentennial-book-offered.html" itemprop="url"/> <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/08/brecksville-bicentennial-book-offered.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" itemprop="datePublished" title="2012-08-21T13:26:00-07:00">1:26 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="reaction-buttons"> </span> <span class="star-ratings"> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/08/brecksville-bicentennial-book-offered.html#comment-form" onclick=""> No comments: </a> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1211893591"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=5145772956135839699&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <div class="post-share-buttons goog-inline-block"> <a class="goog-inline-block share-button sb-email" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=5145772956135839699&target=email" target="_blank" title="Email This"><span class="share-button-link-text">Email This</span></a><a class="goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=5145772956135839699&target=blog" onclick="window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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Using it, I was able to find a couple of families very easily that presented some problems with the 1940 index on Ancestry.com.<br/> <br/> For example, my overall search for my boyhood neighbor, Lawrence Betts, led directly to him on FamilySearch. In Ancestry's index, he was indexed as Lawrence Betta, and I had to scroll through a list of results before I spotted him, along with his father, Harold.<br/> <br/> Good job, FamilySearch! <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"> <span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <meta content="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/profile/10368077610371840451" itemprop="url"/> <a class="g-profile" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/profile/10368077610371840451" rel="author" title="author profile"> <span itemprop="name">whuskonen</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <meta content="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/08/familysearchs-index-of-1940-census.html" itemprop="url"/> <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/08/familysearchs-index-of-1940-census.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" itemprop="datePublished" title="2012-08-18T07:30:00-07:00">7:30 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="reaction-buttons"> </span> <span class="star-ratings"> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://collectingancestors.blogspot.com/2012/08/familysearchs-index-of-1940-census.html#comment-form" onclick=""> No comments: </a> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1211893591"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=1852735076112171753&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <div class="post-share-buttons goog-inline-block"> <a class="goog-inline-block share-button sb-email" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=1852735076112171753&target=email" target="_blank" title="Email This"><span class="share-button-link-text">Email This</span></a><a class="goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=1675893023001213285&postID=1852735076112171753&target=blog" onclick="window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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Note that Ohio is being added in this latest round of index uploads to FamilySearch:<br/> <br/> <br/> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">August 16, 2012 By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/https://familysearch.org/blog/author/andersonsf/" title="Posts by Steve">Steve</a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br/></div> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Many of you have asked what the latest status is for posting the remaining states that make up the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/https://the1940census.com/">1940 US Census project</a>. Today we will be posting 9 more states to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/https://familysearch.org/">FamilySearch</a> website. These states include <b>Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Wisconsin</b>, for a total of 37,575,945 additional records.<o:p></o:p></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As it looks now, we will have one more release before the end of the month, at which time the entire census index will be posted as a searchable index. Next week we expect to publish the remaining states of <b>Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Tennessee</b>. At that time we will also post the territories of <b>Guam, Panama Canal, and US Virgin Islands</b>. After that, we will have only the two territories of <b>American Samoa and Puerto Rico</b>, which we hope to have posted by the end of the month. <o:p></o:p></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Once again we want to thank the tens of thousands of you who have worked so hard to help create this valuable census index. Your efforts have been remarkable and the results are applauded by many throughout the entire country.<o:p></o:p></span><br/> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As we bring this project to a close, we hope that you will continue to visit the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/https://indexing.familysearch.org/projtab/current_projects.jsf">FamilySearch Indexing site</a> and index some of the other collections we currently have available. 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font-size: 12pt;">One day last week I received a phone call from Carl Feather, a feature writer for the Ashtabula, Ohio, </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Star Beacon.</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> He was calling at the suggestion of Penny Redmon, my wife’s first cousin once removed, to see if we had a photo of Buster, the beloved pet of my wife’s grandfather, James Van Court. He was writing a feature article about Buster, and his devotion to James, even after James’ death.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We didn’t have a photo in our family files, but I did a Google search for “Buster” and “Dog Mourns His Master.” Several search results showed up as appearing in the online database, NewspaperArchive.com. I have a subscription to this database so I signed in and searched for Buster.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many results appeared in papers across the country on or around June 15, 1936. It seems that an article was distributed by a newspaper syndication service that told the story of Buster up to that point. Some of the search results included a photograph with the story.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Accompanying this article is the photo that appeared in the June 15, 1935, issue of the Circleville, Ohio, <i>Tribune</i>—on the first page no less. [A side note: the price for the issue was three cents.]<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227/http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4VZh9zVX2pI/UClAxmlA5kI/AAAAAAAAAyI/HWTORJ1S-ls/s1600/Buster+Mourning+His+Master+1935+cropped_edited-1.tif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517172227im_/http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4VZh9zVX2pI/UClAxmlA5kI/AAAAAAAAAyI/HWTORJ1S-ls/s320/Buster+Mourning+His+Master+1935+cropped_edited-1.tif" width="320"/></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br/></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">James Van Court was a farmer in Richmond Township in Ashtabula County. He moved there with his wife, Mary, and sons, Richard and Clyde, from Ritchey County, West Virginia, before the 1910 census, which shows them living in Richmond Township. James died in 1928, well before my wife, Mary Jane, was born. She grew up living on James’ farm so the setting of the story about Buster was very familiar to her. Otherwise, she knew little about her Grandfather Van Court.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I reported back to Feather that we didn’t have an original photo of Buster and forwarded to him a copy of the photo printed in the Circleville newspaper. In return, he sent me a copy of the article he had written. It is reproduced below:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dog Mourns His Master<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">By Carl E. Feather, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Staff Writer, Ashtabula <i>Star Beacon<o:p></o:p></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The most famous resident of the Richmond Township Cemetery rests in an unmarked grave.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At the northwest corner of this cemetery are the graves of James and Mary VanCourt, who migrated to Richmond Township from Richey County, W.Va., around 1915 [sic] and purchased the farm immediately west of the cemetery. A muscular man with a head of thick hair and a large, bushy mustache, VanCourt was a farmer and skilled horse handler.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">However it was his herding dog, a tan-and-white Scotch collie named Buster, for which VanCourt would become most famous. And the fame would not come until after VanCourt’s death in the spring of 1928.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">From that point on, Buster, who was 7 at the time of his master’s demise, kept a vigil beside VanCourt’s grave until the day of his own death, nearly eight years later.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Buster’s poignant story made headlines in at least 50 newspapers and was retold in <i>A Book of Famous Dogs</i>, by Albert Payson Terhune, published in 1939 by The Sun Dial Press.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The late Jim Fenton VanCourt [Mary Jane’s cousin], who died in January 2011, was probably the last living person who could claim to have known Buster. Jim was the grandson of James S. VanCourt and was named after him and his maternal grandfather, Fenton Gould. Jim VanCourt grew up in Richmond Township about a half mile from his grandparents’ farm. After his grandfather died, Jim and his father Richard cared for the herd, rising at 4:30 a.m. to walk the half-mile to the farm.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Every morning Dad [Mary Jane’s uncle, Richard] would say ‘Come on son, we got to go milk cows.’ I used to walk behind him to help break the cold wind,” said VanCourt in a telephone interview in 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">James S. VanCourt hand-picked Buster from a litter of pups and trained the dog to be a herder, driver and watchdog. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“He was among a litter of pups that Uncle Perry had. Uncle Perry and Aunt Lena lived near Conneaut,” Jim VanCourt wrote in a letter. “They had a farm as well as ... orchard. My mother and dad went there to get peaches and pears.” [Perry migrated to Conneaut Township, Ohio, sometime before the 1930 census.]<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Terhune, in his <i>Famous Dogs</i> volume states that Buster was taught the precise boundaries of the farm and that he was never to broach those boarders.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jim VanCourt recalls Buster as a smart canine who knew a variety of commands.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Dad would say, ‘Buster, go get the bull,’ and he’d bring up the bull. Or he’d say, ‘Buster, go get the horses,’ and he’d bring up the horses,” VanCourt recalled in the 2003 interview.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As a youngster, VanCourt used Buster’s intelligence to his own advantage. If he were responsible for rounding up the cows for the evening milking, VanCourt would simply get a milk bucket from the barn, rattle it near Buster, and the dog would proceed to the pasture to herd the animals into the milking parlor.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“He’d hear that pail rattling and away he’d go,” VanCourt said.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">He also recalls Buster as being very protective of him and his grandmother. “He’d always stand between her and any one who came into the driveway,” Jim VanCourt said.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Buster also protected the lad from ornery roosters that roamed the farm.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“My grandmother had this old rooster that would get me cornered,” VanCourt said. “She’d say, ‘Buster, get him!’ Boy, the feathers would fly then. He was quite a dog.”<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">VanCourt does not recall what illness claimed his grandfather, but Terhune’s book suggests it was a lingering one. [James Van Court’s death certificate states that the doctor attended him for five months before his death from apoplexy.] Buster stayed by his side throughout it.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Buster followed the funeral procession to the cemetery, and after the dirt was mounded upon the grave, the collie laid down upon it, a living bouquet of faithfulness. Mary VanCourt and the cemetery superintendent unsuccessfully tried to coax him from his watch.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The shadows of the barn slowly crept across the pasture and eventually enveloped Buster and the grave of his master. Some other animal or person had to round up the cows that night. Buster had a vigil to keep.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Day after day, Buster remained on the grave, despite the daily visit and coaxing of Mary VanCourt. She brought sustenance to him, as did neighbors who heard about his dedication and came to see this phenomenon for themselves. But he ate and drank little.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Word of the collie’s stunt spread beyond the hamlet, and Buster’s story was soon printed in both local and regional newspapers. It seemed as if the more press and visitations he received, the more determined the dog became to waste away on the grave of his master.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“At these increasing signs of pining away, human attention redoubled,” writes Terhune. “In scorching suns, in sluicing rains, Buster maintained his queer vigil; while the farm work suffered acutely from the chore dog’s absence.”<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Eventually, the sight of a farm dog starving himself on his master’s grave no longer became a novelty. The crowds stopped coming. Buster got lonely. And very, very hungry.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On some unrecorded resurrection morning, Buster, by this time a skeleton with matted, muddy fur hanging from it, rose from the mound and galloped down the hill to the farmhouse. His arrival was greeted by the family’s joy and rewarded with a hearty breakfast and long stop at the watering tub.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">His body thus nourished, Buster returned to the farm and resumed his duties of keeping things in order until evening, when he returned to the pasture and brought the cows in for milking.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But when his duties were done, Buster cast his eyes toward the knoll, trotted across the pasture, crawled under the wire fence between field and cemetery, and, with a sigh, laid down upon his master’s grave.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The next morning, Buster was back at the farmhouse, ready to begin his duties.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For the next seven years, this became Buster’s life: work on the farm when duty called; climb the hill to the cemetery when the grief became overwhelming. His myriad trips, always taken along the same direct route from farmhouse to grave, made “afresh each season a well worn path across fields of summer grain and winter snow,” according to an Aug. 11, 1932, article in the Ashtabula Star-Beacon.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The years of sleeping in wintry torment, of barking commands at the cows and living with a heavy heart finally took their toll on Buster. Age was wearing away at Mary VanCourt, as well, whose poor health often confined her to the same room where her husband settled his debt to youth.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Buster transferred his vigil to the widow, choosing a spot outside the kitchen door where he could monitor her well-being while keeping an eye on the grave across the pasture. His trips to the grave became less frequent as arthritis took its toll on his joints and time clouded his once bright eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On March 31, 1936, Buster attempted one more trip to the grave of his master, but his tired body could not make the journey. Family members found him lying exhausted in the meadow. They carried him to the back porch of the farmhouse, where he lay whimpering and crying through the night, “his shaggy head between feeble forepaws,” according to a newspaper story.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At 4 a.m. April 1, Mary VanCourt awoke and instinctively listened for Buster’s whimpering. All was quiet, except for the wind moaning across the cemetery knoll.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jim VanCourt’s father and his uncle, Clyde, buried Buster at 10:30 that morning, at the eastern border of the farm, just a few feet from the grave of James VanCourt. It was Mary VanCourt’s wish that the beloved, faithful dog be buried near her husband’s grave, at the spot in the fence where he had entered the cemetery countless times.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">They chose for his coffin a treasured wooden toolbox that had belonged to his master.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mary VanCourt died in 1945. Jim still cried when he thought of her and those days on the farm. “I can still see my grandmother going out to gather the eggs at the hen house and Buster tagging right along with her,” he said. “It was a good life.”<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The farm passed to Clyde VanCourt, then to his son, Syd, who died in 2000. The VanCourts, like Buster, have faded from the Richmond Township scene. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">No stone marks the grave of this faithful companion. Seventy-six cycles of life and death have reclaimed the path that Buster’s massive paws once cut across the pasture. Terhune’s book is long out of print and the sheets of newsprint on which his stories were printed are yellowed and crumbling.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Many of us humans live too long,” wrote Terhune. “But I think all dogs die too soon.”<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Standing on the Richmond Cemetery knoll on a summer afternoon, looking west toward the old barn and pasture, one who knows the story of Buster can imagine a happier scene in an ethereal world beyond our own.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Today, one likes to believe,” a newspaper reporter wrote on April 1, 1936, “Buster trots beside his master in the warm sun of eternal springtime, happy; 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