[or-roots] List inactivity

Tue Sep 19 01:17:53 PDT 2017

I received all of this, many thanks! Who has been lost from the list?  I missed that, sorry. If I understand correctly, we are in a roll call? I'm a Native Oregonian, born in Portland, raised in Tigard. My father was b. in Canada 1904, my mother in Salem, OR 1907. Mother's father's family from Oregon< Missouri<Indiana<Kentucky<North Carolina<Virginia, not sure before that. Mother's mother's family from Oregon<Washington<Pennsylvania<New Brunswick, Canada (before that one side Scotland and the other Germany).
My main local brick wall is with my husband's side: RE: his mother's Drake/Halstead/Reed ancestry. Phoebe Halstead married Moses Francis Drake (b. 1832 Parkman, Maine; his grandfather Oliver Drake fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill) in Henry Co, IL 1858; they moved to Tacoma, Pierce County, and had land in Thurston County, WA. 
They divorced in 1890 in Tacoma, Pierce County, WA. He deeded all his land to the oldest son, to take care of Phoebe (she never remarried) and family, and disappeared. He'd been a railroad worker, and itinerant preacher to WA Native Americans, like a circuit rider. He reappeared in Portland, OR in 1900 at the Multnomah County Poor Farm up on the hill as a laborer, no family. (His youngest daughter Lois Drake,19, died in the horrible 4th of July 1900 streetcar disaster in South Tacoma, and he's not listed as a mourner at the funeral). He died of "paralysis agitans" AKA Parkinson's Disease at the county hospital March 6, 1905. No family claimed him, no funeral, no burial place named on death cert. 
Phoebe Halstead Drake's brother Jacob Halstead was an Oregon Trail Pioneer who came out with A.H. Bray (both of their mothers were Winters) in 1852 to Lane County; he married Britannia Malone of the Malone Family that settled McMinnville, OR. She died in 1860 (buried in a tiny cemetery in Mac next to a hardware store). Jacob Halstead is in the 1860 census with his kids right here in Washington County! Hillsboro it seems, as a hotel proprietor, but I can't find anything on him or his hotel. 
Jacob Halstead later married Jane Constable, who came West to Oregon in 1851, at the Cornelius home, and they had more children, later moving to Pierce County, WA, where he established Halstead House in Tacoma near what is now Stadium High School. Unfortunately Halstead House no longer exists, but the lovely Geiger House is now a B&B - one of his daughters married a Geiger.
Any ideas?Thanks, Paulette 

    On Monday, September 18, 2017 12:01 PM, "Bony, Jan" <jbony at ochoco.com> wrote:

 Glen, we talked about this before! Let me know the next time you are at CCGS, and I'll come over. I'm only few blocks away from there, down on 5th st across from the hangers at Pearson.
Jan
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Glen and Bonnie Jones <glenkc7mbm at outlook.com> wrote:

Jan I was born and raised in Clark County and am a past vice president of the Clark County Genealogy society and my family history goes back beyond 1829 Here in the Northwest,  I currently live in Stayton Oregon but still volunteer at ccgs when I can.Glen Jones Sent from my Verizon HTC Smartphone
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From: "Bony, Jan" <jbony at ochoco.com>
To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state. or.us>
Subject: [or-roots] List inactivity
Date: Mon, Sep 18, 2017 10:43 AM
I'm a first generation Oregonian who is currently living in Vancouver Washington. My parents were both born in Des Moines, Iowa. So, Iowa has been my main genealogy focus.
My interest is in Oregon is its history. I am the State Coordinator for the ORGenWeb project, it is part of a national group of volunteers who provide free genealogy web sites. In Oregon, we are mostly county orientated. Many states have city & county, along with a state page that offers links to more generic information. I always feel bad using my email lists to solicit information for my state or county sites. So, that is why I don't respond much.
Now, I have been gaining materials from my mother in law on her and her husband's family trees.  They all came as early as 1854 one the wagon trains. As I find time, around updating web sites and researching my own family, and just generic life getting in the way, I'll start posting the "out-law" side of my marriage...  
Jan
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Leslie Chapman <pil3hvar at gmail.com> wrote:

Folks have been mentioning for the last few days they aren't receiving
any posts.

I would suggest that it is because there haven't been many.

In the past I have posted on a fairly regular basis either a question
relevant to Oregon or on occasion I have taken advantage of Layne's
good nature and asked for help on things usually from adjacent states.

I have not had a lot of time for some while now for genealogy and then
there was a period when I was unable to post or at least my posts did
not show up in my yahoo account. For some reason when Layne and I
finally got me able to post by adding my gmail account to Or roots I
now receive everything in both accounts even though the Yahoo account
supposedly was removed. Ironically for a while I could post in either
account and it only showed up in the other account. I attribute this
to technology not liking me. My son is pretty sure it is a PEBKAC
situation;

OKAY; strike that last bit, posted this and another post from Yahoo
and they just disappeared into the ether, so will try gmail.

Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair

I get very annoyed when I do something exactly right three times on my
puter and do not get the correct result then he punches in the same
command and gets the correct result, again he is sure it is as stated
above.

But I digress; One of the sad reasons our list has become
significantly less active is we lost a number of the people who were
most active on the list and some of the rest were in failing health
last I heard. That is unfortunately kind of a universal trend. My
girlfriend and I recently joined the Eagles and now we find that we
are invited to attend a meeting to determine if the local Aerie will
continue to function. As with fraternal organizations the impetus to
pursuing  genealogy is fading I believe. There are still some new
folks interested but the numbers who are too busy to continue and the
attrition rate on those of us in our later years seems to be thinning
the ranks.

I know that the few posts I HAVE  made in the past year or so since I
was able to post again have not received much if any response where in
the past at least four of five would have a suggestion or an answer, I
have been lucky if I got more than one response.

Just for the sake of argument I will post a query separate from this
on my current family page and lets see what kind of response I get.

Leslie Chapman

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