My uncle, Glenn Edward Wells, a fourth great-grandchild of Samuel and Sobriety BUNKER Williams, died June 5, 2007 in Bakersfield, Kern Co., California. He was the only son of Frank and Verna WINSLOW Wells, born March 5, 1925 in Traver, Tulare Co., California.
His family moved to Bakersfield when he was just a toddler. He attended several local schools and East Bakersfield High School until he joined the U.S. Navy in 1942.Glenn Wells married Lorraine Lee January 18, 1948 in Bakersfield, Kern Co., California. He had worked for the Southern Pacific Railway eight years before joining Carpenters
Local 743 in May 1953 and is a 50-plus year member. He worked on many projects including a lot of the freeway overpasses in the Bakersfield area, and countless housing tracts.
Survivors include his wife; two of his three sons, Frank and Randy Wells; daughters-in-law, Debbie, Lela and Sandra; three sisters, Wilma Detling of Pleasanton, California, and Edna Valdez and Evelyn Weaver, both of Bakersfield; and many grand and great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews..He was preceded in death by son Donald Trent Wells; great-grandson, Roderick Scott-Pugh;and parents, Frank William and Verna Winslow Wells.
Posted in Bunker Family History, Detling Family History, Personal.
This is a synoposis of recent changes to the Roblee web site. The site is at http://www.robleesonline.org. Navigate to the research page to find the following, or use the links below.
Presumed Descendants of William Rublier and Abigail Brush (Adobe PDF format - 1.4 MB) - Cindy Walcott’s compilation. Please note Cindy’s comments: “I think this works for our present purposes. I told [fellow Roblee researcher] Bob Robblee that I would compile a file that includes the folk that went from Dutchess Co. to Lanesborough and from there to Granville and to Vermont — and beyond. This is it! I am hoping that it will help folks to put their families in context.” This file is password protected. The file is restricted to prevent misuse of the information contained in it, as some of it is speculative. The document is freely available to family researchers with that in mind. The current password to open this file is CW_2007 (case sensitive). If you lose this password, you can always obtain it by request to the list. We only used a password to discourage someone from downloading the information from our web site and republishing it without all the caveats Cindy mentions. If you have corrections or addtions, send to the list (Cindy will get them). [filename: http://www.robleesonline.org/William_Rublier_Descendants.pdf].
The following files may be downloaded by anyone (not password protected):
Descendants of Ruben and Phebe Roblee - Compiled by G. W. Carpenter, Revised April 1949 (Adobe PDF format - 6.6 MB) [filename: http://www.robleesonline.org/Carpenter_mss_rev_1949.pdf].
Supplemental Manuscript on the Roblee Genealogy — Compiled by George W. Carpenter, June 1949 (Adobe PDF format - 1.9 MB) [filename: http://www.robleesonline.org/Carpenter_supp.pdf].
Mikesville Cemetery — Jay S. Van Zeeland provided these photographs of Roblees buried in Mikesville Cemetery on Cty Hwy T ΒΌ Mile North of Oakridge Rd in Clayton, Winnebago Co., Wisconsin. The GPS coordinates for Clayton, Downtown are N440129 W0883233. [link: http://greencity.phanfare.com/album/281047].
Union Creek Cemetery - Photos — This album includes photographs of headstones of Roblees or their relatives located in Union Cemetery, North Creek, New York. The pictures were taken by Jo Ann Smith and furnished to fellow Roblee researchers by Jean Thomas Baker. A few photos were added from Gloria Waldron Hukle. [link: http://greencity.phanfare.com/album/260190].
We hope you will find these materials interesting and useful.
Posted in Detling Family History, Roblee Researchers.
I’ve uploaded a major update to my family history data base. This data now includes information on 10,915 individuals and 4,017 families, complete with notes and source details. The data base is accessible to individuals two different ways–through WorldConnect at rootsweb.com (data base name: ddetling) or via my web site at http://www.greencity.org/TNG. If you use my web site searchable data, and find you are related, please register so I may contact you to exchange and supplement information.
Posted in Detling Family History.
Cindy Walcott has sent me scanned copies of what has been referred to by Roblee researchers as the Carpenter manuscript. Since several versions of these exist, I will be matching them up to the ones I have (though these copies have been stored since I have all data for those related to me entered in my on-line data base), and we will be making them available as PDF files on the Roblee researchers web site at http://www.robleesonline.org.
Posted in Detling Family History, Roblee Researchers.
My couple-of-months long experiment with phpBB to create a community application for exchange of information is being abandoned. I had a few legitimate users, about what I expected for this type of software. But the site was quickly being overwhelmed by spammers attempting to join so they could market their various products. I had the site set to approve users, so I could catch them all, but the “maintenance” function was taking way too much time. Consequently the forum has been abandoned, and the files will be deleted. Of course, this blog will remain, as well as the other features of my site at www.greencity.org.
Posted in Personal, Web Site News.
The underlying software used to produce this WordPress blog has been updated to version 2.1.3.
Posted in Computer Interests, Web Site News.
Photographs of headstones taken by Jo Ann Smith in Union Cemetery, North Creek, New York, of Roblees or their relatives are included in a photo album. These pictures were furnished by Jo Ann to Roblee researcher Jean Thomas Baker (my cousin), who has forwarded them on to me for posting in this album with Jo Ann’s permission. Gloria Waldron Hukle has also furnished some additional photos from the same cemetery.
Visit this photo album at http://greencity.phanfare.com/album/260190
All photographs are captioned.
Posted in Detling Family History, Digital Photography, Roblee Researchers, Web Site News.
I’ve been spending the last few days installing software and hardware on a new laptop, which runs Windows Vista. I wasn’t too thrilled about the switch, but needed to buy a laptop to do genealogy work while traveling. Ordered one, and, voila, Microsoft has convinced computer manufacturers that, come what may, users will switch to Vista. Actually, the OS isn’t bad. Of course, I will have to move my genealogy files, etc. to it, and then I’m planning to rebuild the desktop machine. Seems the original motherboard had a weak memory slot and I couldn’t make it recognize the four DIMM strips in it. It would only recognize two of them no matter how I configured it. The new laptop will permit me to rebuild it, and I will use that machine almost exclusively as a photo editing work station and media center. In the meantime, I’ll be able to read e-mail, keep working on my family history, and do simple photo editing on the laptop.
Posted in Computer Interests, Personal.
Thanks to Denise Foley Ford, I have updated the family data base to trace the descendants of Melzar Winslow and Mary Octavia Picraux (along with her ancestors). This allowed me to update information previously shared by another descendant, Murllin Howetter, who shared data on this family in 2002. There had been some uncertainty about Mary’s ancestral lines, but these have now been identified as tracing to Belgium, where the spelling of the last name was Piquereau. Not all of Denise’s data has been integrated into my data base, but those related to the Bunker family have been included. Descendants of Melzar and Mary Picraux Winslow also are descendants of Sobriety Bunker, D15-II.
Posted in Bunker Family History.
With all the hype earlier last week about the troubles that the three-week advance in Daylight Saving Time might mean to Microsoft products, etc., we managed to survive the test reasonably well. So far, no issues with the changeover. Many people were expecting their calendars to be disrupted, etc. I simply too the precaution of printing out my Outlook calendar at the office on Friday, and made sure I didn’t have anything critical loaded in Outlook loaded at home. Of course, there is/was not patch for my ancient Palm m515, so I’m simply going to ignore it for 3 weeks, and let it change to PST when it thinks it should. Of course, when I get to the office on Monday, I expect all kinds of trouble with my calendar. I’ll just adjust it for 3 weeks. Big deal!
Posted in Computer Interests, Personal.
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