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.
This site has been updated to the latest Word Press software (version 2.1.2). Earlier this week, hackers were able to corrupt some installations of version 2.1.1, and all Word Press bloggers have been asked to install the updated software to correct the problem.
Posted in Computer Interests, Web Site News.
Colorado is famous for mining and madams, and hostess LiAnn Pennington has arranged a gold rush of events at part of the 94th annual meeting of the Bunker Family Association. June 14-17. Walk where they did–the miners and madams that is. The reunion will include a tour of the red light district in downtown Denver. Our tour guide will share with us stories from the seamy side of Denver, including the police scandal, while we do a walking tour of Denver’s revitalized lower downtown district. We will end our tour by Coors Field - home of the Colorado Rockies baseball team. If you are interested in going to a game, there are tickets available from sellers on the street. We don’t call them scalpers because Denver City Ordinance does not allow them to sell tickets for more than the face value. The Rockies are playing the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, game time is 7:05 p.m. The hotel offers complimentary shuttles to/from the ball field and all other downtown attractions.
Our next tour will take us to Central City. Central City is 30 minutes from Denver (no long bus ride - yea!). It was a mining town, which is now a casino town. June 16th is Madam Lou Bunch Day, celebrated in style with a brass bed race through town. We are offering Hidee Mine tours. From Central City’s web site we are told we will be able to:
“Learn geology, mineralogy, and history, while walking 700 feet underground. The Hidee Gold Mine is a well lit, dry, and safe environment. The average temperature inside the mine is 45 degrees Fahrenheit year ’round so a sweater or jacket is recommended. The ground is level and wheelchair accessible and the back height (ceiling) is generally above 6 foot. Use a hammer and chisel to carve out your own high-grade gold ore to take home. Tour guides are actual hard-rock miners. Tours are approximately 45 minutes underground with ample time given to enjoy gold panning or lunch outside the mine.”
There are so many things to do in downtown Denver. The Red Lion Hotel is right next to Invesco Field at Mile High - home of the Denver Broncos. Too bad it is not football season! Across the highway are Coors Field, The Pepsi Center, Six Flags Elitch Gardens, and Colorado’s Ocean Journey.
Worried about getting to the hotel? Shuttles from Denver International Airport to the Red Lion (reunion hotel) are about $18.00 each way. Super Shuttle is easy to make advance reservations with. Their web site is www.supershuttle.com.
Watch for future articles about the reunion for info about handling the altitude, our ever changing weather - it just snowed for the 7th week in a row!, and other activities available in the area. You may find you need to stay longer! The registration form for the reunion is a downloadable PDF file located at:
http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org/94th%20BFA%20Reunion%20Registration.pdf 
Posted in Bunker Family History, Detling Family History.
This year the Bowne House Historical Society in New York marks the 350th anniversary of a significant event for religious freedom. From the society’s news release:
On December 27, 1657, thirty townspeople of Flushing, Queens signed a “remonstrance” addressed to Peter Stuyvesant, the director general of the Dutch colony, New Netherland. The two-page letter, set down by a local cleric, protested Stuyvesant’s ban on the rights of Quakers to assemble and worship in the colony. Significantly, it further demanded that all people–regardless of religion or ethnic background–be given “free egresse and regresse unto our Town, and houses, as God shall persuade our consciences.”
Stuyvesant ignored the Flushing Remonstrance, as it came to be known, but its principles were later tested by John Bowne, an English immigrant and prosperous landowner in Flushing. Although not a Quaker himself, Bowne was married to Quaker minister Hannah Feake Bowne. In defiance of Stuyvesant’s ban, Bowne allowed people of her faith to meet and worship in their Flushing farmhouse. For this “crime,” Stuyvesant imprisoned Bowne in 1662 and banished him to Holland. Refusing to capitulate, Bowne argued his case before the Dutch West India Company. In 1663, the company revoked Stuyvesant’s ban, and ordered him “to allow everyone to have his own belief, as long as he behaves quietly.”
The historical society is seeking descendants of the men who signed the Flushing Remonstrance, as well as Peter Stuyvestant and his sheriff Resolved Waldron. One of Resolved Waldron’s descendants–William Waldron– married Judah Brodt (Bradt) in l804 and produced 14 Waldrons, four of whom married Roblees. The complete text of the news release is available at http://www.robleesonline.org/Flushing_Remonstrance.pdf.
Posted in Bradt/Brott Family, Detling Family History, Roblee Researchers.
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