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The Evansville Courier & Press...
featured a story about a couple that are retired teachers with their barn posting the college degrees that their family has earned. This was not to brag, but to promote education. The barn has the logos of six colleges (all from Indiana!) with how many degrees listed below each logo (17 degrees in total). It is unique and very cool!!! Here is a link to the news story with photo of the barn: http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/feb/08/barnstorming-for-education/
He had been a Principal at our little southern Indiana school in Selvin (Warrick County) for just one or two years near the time of "The Great Consolidation" in 1962 of many very small schools across rural Indiana. Ed Raber later served as the Principal for Tecumseh High School in Lynville. His wife Valada was the English teacher at Selvin right after college and until our school closed; later, she mostly taught at Rockport, Indiana. Us silly boys all had a "crush" on the young, beautiful Mrs. Raber, but some of us learned a little grammar, anyway. [Mrs. Raber (still beautiful), if you read this, just remember that I am getting old and have forgotten most that you taught me!]
The "Raber barnstorming-for-education" story reminded me of how there were many even smaller schools in our area before they consolidated them into Selvin Grade School & High School... these were the one-room schools for all grades. In grade school at Selvin, the first 6 grades were in only three rooms with one teacher for two grades. I did fairly well in school, mostly because instead of studying for my class (I did all of that at home), I listened to the teacher for the other grade. I kind of took each grade twice!
Many of these little schools are forgotten in history, but for just one, two or three generations back, many of our ancestors that managed to go to school attended these one-room schools.
- Written by JGWest
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
"Hobbies, Sports & Basketball"
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For most of us in Southern Indiana... Basketball is tops. We have had great players & coaches in high school, college & professional levels of the game of basketball. Growing up, I loved basketball, playing on the Selvin [Indiana] School basketball team from 5th. grade through the end of my Freshman year. Bear in mind that I was very short and was not very good, but the school was so small they needed me in case one or two players did not show or fouled out. I watched most of all of our games right there on the bench right next to the coach. I got in free to the games, too!
There were lots of famous players like Larry Bird, Steve Alford, Ed Smallwood, Calbert Cheaney, Walter McCarty, Scott Haffner, Kwame James, Richie Schueler and coaches like Bobby Knight of Indiana University and Arad McCutchan from Evansville College in Southern Indiana!
One of the greatest local players was Jerry Sloan,who was born 28 Mar 1942 & at nearly age 70, resigned as the head coach of the NBA Utah Jazz basketball team in his 23rd. year of coaching the team on 10 Feb 2011. Sloan holds the record for coaching the same team over the longest tenure. Before becoming a coach Sloan was an NBA basketball star for the Chicago Bulls. He is in the Basketball Hall of Fame as a Coach. You can just Google the name "Jerry Sloan" for the many records that he holds as a coach & NBA player.
Sloan was born in McLeansboro, Illinois and came to Evansville College to play basketball leading the Purple Aces to two consecutive NCAA Division II National Championships!
Sloan & Larry Humes at Evansville played a lot like John Stockton & Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz. I attended Evansville College about that time of this great Aces dynasty. It was not University of Evansville until about 2-3 years after Sloan graduated from Evansville College. In 1965, the Aces with Sloan had a perfect season (29-0) winning the NCAA Division II National Championship at Roberts Stadium with standing room only. My friend at the time, Dennis Avery, and I stood the whole game way above the bleachers to watch one of the most exciting games in local basketball history! Evansville defeated Southern Illinois by only one to three points in overtime! Evansville beat the SIU team 3 times that season by a total of about 6 points! They were pretty much evenly matched with the Aces being lucky enough to win all 3 times! Sloan was a 3-year All-American at Evansville.
-Written by JGWest
For most of us in Southern Indiana... Basketball is tops. We have had great players & coaches in high school, college & professional levels of the game of basketball. Growing up, I loved basketball, playing on the Selvin [Indiana] School basketball team from 5th. grade through the end of my Freshman year. Bear in mind that I was very short and was not very good, but the school was so small they needed me in case one or two players did not show or fouled out. I watched most of all of our games right there on the bench right next to the coach. I got in free to the games, too!
There were lots of famous players like Larry Bird, Steve Alford, Ed Smallwood, Calbert Cheaney, Walter McCarty, Scott Haffner, Kwame James, Richie Schueler and coaches like Bobby Knight of Indiana University and Arad McCutchan from Evansville College in Southern Indiana!
One of the greatest local players was Jerry Sloan,who was born 28 Mar 1942 & at nearly age 70, resigned as the head coach of the NBA Utah Jazz basketball team in his 23rd. year of coaching the team on 10 Feb 2011. Sloan holds the record for coaching the same team over the longest tenure. Before becoming a coach Sloan was an NBA basketball star for the Chicago Bulls. He is in the Basketball Hall of Fame as a Coach. You can just Google the name "Jerry Sloan" for the many records that he holds as a coach & NBA player.
Sloan was born in McLeansboro, Illinois and came to Evansville College to play basketball leading the Purple Aces to two consecutive NCAA Division II National Championships!
Sloan & Larry Humes at Evansville played a lot like John Stockton & Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz. I attended Evansville College about that time of this great Aces dynasty. It was not University of Evansville until about 2-3 years after Sloan graduated from Evansville College. In 1965, the Aces with Sloan had a perfect season (29-0) winning the NCAA Division II National Championship at Roberts Stadium with standing room only. My friend at the time, Dennis Avery, and I stood the whole game way above the bleachers to watch one of the most exciting games in local basketball history! Evansville defeated Southern Illinois by only one to three points in overtime! Evansville beat the SIU team 3 times that season by a total of about 6 points! They were pretty much evenly matched with the Aces being lucky enough to win all 3 times! Sloan was a 3-year All-American at Evansville.
-Written by JGWest
Thursday, February 10, 2011
"Episode 2 'Who Do You Think You Are?' Season 2"
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Tim McGraw
When Tim found his Birth Certificate, he discovered that the man he called "Dad" was not his father after all! The country music superstar uncovers his father's heritage among the Founding Fathers. The show is on NBC tomorrow night (Friday, 11 Feb 2011).
As genealogical researchers, we teach others to look for primary records and to cite your findings about that person. We tell you to do that so you & others will be able to verify your proof of relationships in your family history. We always say: "Start with yourself and work back into time!" This episode with Tim McGraw illustrates the reason to start with yourself. You may not discover that one or both of your parents are not blood parents, but you may discover that they used different names for you or for themselves. My wife discovered that her birth certificate had the correct day & month, but had the year of her adoption instead of her birth year! When they typed up the birth certificate after she was adopted the typist carelessly put the current year and recorded it in the local county registry! We were getting our marriage license to get married. Becky was 19 years old, but the "new" birth certificate showed her as only being 17... and she would have to obtain both of her parents permission to marry. Without going into a lot of details, we got proof of her actual birth year and the wedding was on! I just demonstrated two examples of why you need to start with yourself and work backwards.
- Preview by JGWest
Tim McGraw
When Tim found his Birth Certificate, he discovered that the man he called "Dad" was not his father after all! The country music superstar uncovers his father's heritage among the Founding Fathers. The show is on NBC tomorrow night (Friday, 11 Feb 2011).
As genealogical researchers, we teach others to look for primary records and to cite your findings about that person. We tell you to do that so you & others will be able to verify your proof of relationships in your family history. We always say: "Start with yourself and work back into time!" This episode with Tim McGraw illustrates the reason to start with yourself. You may not discover that one or both of your parents are not blood parents, but you may discover that they used different names for you or for themselves. My wife discovered that her birth certificate had the correct day & month, but had the year of her adoption instead of her birth year! When they typed up the birth certificate after she was adopted the typist carelessly put the current year and recorded it in the local county registry! We were getting our marriage license to get married. Becky was 19 years old, but the "new" birth certificate showed her as only being 17... and she would have to obtain both of her parents permission to marry. Without going into a lot of details, we got proof of her actual birth year and the wedding was on! I just demonstrated two examples of why you need to start with yourself and work backwards.
- Preview by JGWest
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
TSGS Meeting Recap For Those Not Attending
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Tri-State Genealogical Society Meeting Report
We had a very good meeting last night despite the cold temps! About 20 people came out for the meeting. The following report is being offered for the other 320 TSGS members that was not able to attend the meeting.
The Treasurer's Report gave a current balance of $7,756 and 340 members. We approved the proposed budget for the current year. The Acquisition Committee now has $2,000 approved to buy books & other research materials to deposit at Willard Library. All of the research materials that we obtain are placed on the stacks for any researchers to use (open to the general public). TSGS has added about $100,000 worth of books since our organization began. In the earlier years $2,000 bought a lot more books than it does today. The nominating committee was announced with Don Counts as Chair along with Bettie Cook. Don reported to me after the meeting that all Officers had been selected with one or two Directors needing to be confirmed. The attendance prize was won by Sue Hebbeler... she chose the TSGS paid one-year membership! Congratulations, Sue!! Thanks for attending!!!
Christopher Cooke, Superintendent of the Evansville City Cemeteries, sent me information from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources about the Historic Preservation Month Photo Contest from the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology... for more info go to this link: http://www.in.gov/dnr/historic/3994.htm
Our speaker last night, Kim Nightingale gave a program concerning German "ahnentafeln" or "ancestor charts. According to John T. Humphrey, in Germany beginning in 1933, it became law that all governmental employees had to obtain an Ahnenpass with ancestor charts containing 4-6 generations which would have from 15 to 60 ancestors with 11 to 52 surnames. These German SS Records required that all family relationships be proven by documentation with each document being certified. At the end of World War II, the U.S. acquired the original records of the SS and archived them on microfilm now stored at the Maryland College Park campus of the National Archives - being part of Record Group 242, Collection of Foreign Records Seized. Mr. Humphrey discovered these records at NARA in 2003 & has been getting the word out about the value of these records to genealogists. Go here for more information on Military & SS Records: http://www.archives.gov/research/captured-german-records/foreign-records-seized.html
If today's weather (late afternoon snow with slippery streets) was one day sooner, we would have had to cancel the meeting. Everyone seemed to like Kim's presentation... it was well prepared and concise with a very nice outline with all of the pertinent facts & links.
- Submitted by JGWest
Tri-State Genealogical Society Meeting Report
We had a very good meeting last night despite the cold temps! About 20 people came out for the meeting. The following report is being offered for the other 320 TSGS members that was not able to attend the meeting.
The Treasurer's Report gave a current balance of $7,756 and 340 members. We approved the proposed budget for the current year. The Acquisition Committee now has $2,000 approved to buy books & other research materials to deposit at Willard Library. All of the research materials that we obtain are placed on the stacks for any researchers to use (open to the general public). TSGS has added about $100,000 worth of books since our organization began. In the earlier years $2,000 bought a lot more books than it does today. The nominating committee was announced with Don Counts as Chair along with Bettie Cook. Don reported to me after the meeting that all Officers had been selected with one or two Directors needing to be confirmed. The attendance prize was won by Sue Hebbeler... she chose the TSGS paid one-year membership! Congratulations, Sue!! Thanks for attending!!!
Christopher Cooke, Superintendent of the Evansville City Cemeteries, sent me information from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources about the Historic Preservation Month Photo Contest from the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology... for more info go to this link: http://www.in.gov/dnr/historic/3994.htm
Our speaker last night, Kim Nightingale gave a program concerning German "ahnentafeln" or "ancestor charts. According to John T. Humphrey, in Germany beginning in 1933, it became law that all governmental employees had to obtain an Ahnenpass with ancestor charts containing 4-6 generations which would have from 15 to 60 ancestors with 11 to 52 surnames. These German SS Records required that all family relationships be proven by documentation with each document being certified. At the end of World War II, the U.S. acquired the original records of the SS and archived them on microfilm now stored at the Maryland College Park campus of the National Archives - being part of Record Group 242, Collection of Foreign Records Seized. Mr. Humphrey discovered these records at NARA in 2003 & has been getting the word out about the value of these records to genealogists. Go here for more information on Military & SS Records: http://www.archives.gov/research/captured-german-records/foreign-records-seized.html
If today's weather (late afternoon snow with slippery streets) was one day sooner, we would have had to cancel the meeting. Everyone seemed to like Kim's presentation... it was well prepared and concise with a very nice outline with all of the pertinent facts & links.
- Submitted by JGWest
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
THE CAPTAIN'S LOG –
TSGS News
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TSGS Meeting Notice!
When: 08 Feb 2011 Tuesday Night
Time: 7:00 PM
Where: Willard Library - 2nd. Floor
What: Monthly Meeting
A drawing for an attendance prize will be awarded at close of meeting... you must be present to win.
The Tri-State Genealogical Society will have a brief business meeting followed by a presentation by Kim Nightingale "German Military Records." Anyone interested in genealogy is invited... you do not need to be a member to attend the society's monthly meetings.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This time of the year, weather conditions may cause the society to cancel meetings... the decision to cancel usually is determined the day of the meeting, providing short notice. We will use a policy for automatic cancellation if the Evansville Vanderburgh County School Corporation cancels school the morning of the meeting. Since a bad weather system may develop later in the day (or that night), check this blog for cancellation notice or call Willard Library.
John G. West, TSGS President
TSGS Meeting Notice!
When: 08 Feb 2011 Tuesday Night
Time: 7:00 PM
Where: Willard Library - 2nd. Floor
What: Monthly Meeting
A drawing for an attendance prize will be awarded at close of meeting... you must be present to win.
The Tri-State Genealogical Society will have a brief business meeting followed by a presentation by Kim Nightingale "German Military Records." Anyone interested in genealogy is invited... you do not need to be a member to attend the society's monthly meetings.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This time of the year, weather conditions may cause the society to cancel meetings... the decision to cancel usually is determined the day of the meeting, providing short notice. We will use a policy for automatic cancellation if the Evansville Vanderburgh County School Corporation cancels school the morning of the meeting. Since a bad weather system may develop later in the day (or that night), check this blog for cancellation notice or call Willard Library.
John G. West, TSGS President
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Dock at the Library - TSGS Meeting Notice
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TSGS Meeting Notice!
When: 08 Feb 2011 Tuesday Night
Time: 7:00 PM
Where: Willard Library - 2nd. Floor
What: Monthly Meeting
A drawing for an attendance prize will be awarded at close of meeting... you must be present to win.
The Tri-State Genealogical Society will have a brief business meeting followed by a presentation by Kim Nightingale "German Military Records"
Anyone interested in genealogy (or in German military records as it may affect family history) is invited... you do not need to be a member to attend the society's monthly meetings.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This time of the year, weather conditions may cause the society to cancel meetings... the decision to cancel usually is determined the day of the meeting, providing short notice. We will use a policy for automatic cancellation if the Evansville Vanderburgh County School Corporation cancels school the morning of the meeting. Since a bad weather system may develop later in the day (or that night), check this blog for cancellation notice or call Willard Library.
John G. West, TSGS President
TSGS Meeting Notice!
When: 08 Feb 2011 Tuesday Night
Time: 7:00 PM
Where: Willard Library - 2nd. Floor
What: Monthly Meeting
A drawing for an attendance prize will be awarded at close of meeting... you must be present to win.
The Tri-State Genealogical Society will have a brief business meeting followed by a presentation by Kim Nightingale "German Military Records"
Anyone interested in genealogy (or in German military records as it may affect family history) is invited... you do not need to be a member to attend the society's monthly meetings.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This time of the year, weather conditions may cause the society to cancel meetings... the decision to cancel usually is determined the day of the meeting, providing short notice. We will use a policy for automatic cancellation if the Evansville Vanderburgh County School Corporation cancels school the morning of the meeting. Since a bad weather system may develop later in the day (or that night), check this blog for cancellation notice or call Willard Library.
John G. West, TSGS President
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