Preserving Family Photos

These are my excellent parents. Apparently they were going to a party with some kind of western theme. My dad does not normally wear a holster. The other pictures are of me and two of my three sisters; Josie and Lizzy.

A few days ago I went to Archivers in Orem. I went there to get some cotton gloves, acid free paper, pen and box. Most if not all the store was devoted to scrap booking. Which is cute and fun, but I don't find myself very creative. Maybe I'll check out a book from the library on the principles of graphic design.

But I digress. When my mother in law came to visit us she brought a bunch of old family photos. We are in the process of scanning them into the computer. My husband is a tiff. fan. But I am okay with jpeg, on some things. For those of you who don't know, jpeg is a less rich file format. So they are a bit smaller on hard drive space and people are usually more okay with you sending them that kind of picture for the same reason.

I really wanted to show you all a picture of Matilda Jackson Copeland, but I can't find it on the computer I'm using right now. If I do, I'll post again.

Happy researching!

Rada

Oh Thank Heaven for Death Records

As I mentioned in my previous post I am looking for Copeland's in Missouri. The Missouri Digital Archives have been such a big help. Yesterday I went there online with my trusty laptop and typed in Copeland under the death certificate heading and scrolled through, I was able to find 5 or 6 more death certificates for people in my family. WOO HOO! Some of them even lead me to their spouses. I love primary sources. I am thinking of applying this method to the sirname Jackson as well. This may prove more difficult because I think that, that particular sir name is more prevalent than Copeland is , but who knows. I'll give it a whirl.

The people who's death certificates I found yesterday are:

Calvin C Copland 1846-1927
Charles Copeland 1881-1953
Edward Melvin Copeland 1877-1954
George Easly Copeland 1885-1928
Lucy Hargrove Copeland 1887-1954
William Ray Copeland 1841-1918

First Post

Hello. The interest and love of genealogy for me, is deeply rooted. When I was young, my Uncle Keith would come to visit us for the Christmas holidays. We lived in Sandy Utah. Keith would take me with him to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. While at the library I would help him find our ancestors.

I really don't know how much help a ten or eleven year old girl would be, but it was fun. I remember searching in the quite, cloistered half light of the microfilm reader looking for two particular names that Keith had given me. Searching.....searching. Bingo! I found it! I was so proud of myself. Keith, was happy too and wrote the source in his note book and made a copy of the document we had found. Then, the search was then on again. Many a happy Christmas time was spent in the library.

Since that time the desire to discover my ancestors has never left me. I find that I can do genealogy for hours. It really sucks me in. The difference is that now I can do a lot of it from my home computer, which I love, in addition to all the old methods; which I have to admit I am rusty at, If I every really learned them at all.

This is the documentation of my adventure. If you by chance stumble across my blog before I have it going in full swing Then let me share with you a little bit of what I know.

I am currently researching Copeland's and Lyle's. Although mostly Copeland. They lived in Kansas and Missouri in the 1850's. Oliver Willard Copeland married Matilda Lee Jackson on December 13, 1889 in Stockton, Cedar, Missouri. They had 2 boys: George Joshua and John Orville.

Oliver Willard remarried Clara Victoria Burchett Putnum in 1942. This most likely means that Matilda died. However I can not find her death date. I know that Matilda and Oliver are living in Cedar Co. Missouri in 1930 from the census record. She must have died in between 1930-1942.

As a side note a really good online resource if you are looking for vital records in Missouri is Missouri digital heritage. You can even look up births prior to 1910. http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/birthdeath/

Matilda's husband Oliver Willard is buried in Parsons Kansas at Oakwood Cemetary. At least one of her children is as well. Since I am not able to find her death date online, and searches at the Family History Center have not turned up anything. I am going to write the Missouri State Archives for hopefully her death certificate. If by chance she died in Kansas, then I will write them as well.

If my newly acquired readership has any suggestions, I would be happy to take them.

Thanks for reading!