The dresses were fin- ished for my nieces wedding with a full ½ hour to spare. The rest of summer was spent trying to beat the heat, and what better place to find air conditioning than the library. You might remember my worst nightmare when my main computer, the external hard-drive and my lap top all died within two weeks. To my horror the complete backup included my folders, just not the contents of the folders. I lost all of the family research data in one fell swoop. Lost also was all the e-mail cor- respondence, copies of my letters to others, my census maps that were scanned and custom- ized with family loca- tions and dates. While in the process of re- entering all of the data, I found a lady of inter- est. Family says she was teaching in Chi- cago in 1871. The fam- ily never heard from her since that fateful October 9th date. I want to find out if she was one of the fatal victims of ―the great conflagra- tion‖ or just moved on and never contacted the family again. I also hope my story will remind everyone, don‘t assume you have a valid backup – check it out! Can you access your backed up infor- mation? Volume 1, Issue 1 What Happened to Summer? September 2005 First meeting of 2005- 2006 Season  Thursday, September 1st  7:00 p.m. 12th & Connec- tion—Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints  Membership Dues to Pauline Aldrich  Singles: $14.00  Couples: $19.00  After September 30th add $1.00 to appropriate amount. Sound-Ex: How to do it yourself 2 Washington State Library & the Death Index 3 Common Research Mis- takes 3 Stumped? What next? 3 The Wonder of the Cen- sus Indexes 4 Historical Newspapers now On-Line 4 Tidbits of Life 5 Marriage in 19th Century England 6 Inside this issue: TheMason Log Mason County Genealogical Society The Power ofYour Library Card! Your Timberland Re- gional Library card has just grown in power. You can now get a li- brary account at the Seattle Public Library Branches. Anyone who wants to borrow mate- rials from Seattle, must show a TRL library card and appropriate ID. Seattle staff will give you a Seattle card to use for borrowing Seattle materials – which may be returned either to Seattle or to TRL. Just remember – Seattle charges DAILY Late Fines so the ma- terials need to be re- turned to the local TRL ahead of the due date to avoid the fines. Legacy: What work was expected of you? How did you feel about it? Which chores did you not mind and which did you want to get out of? How did you get your spending money? How did you spend it? , OCR Text: The dresses were fin- ished for my nieces wedding with a full ½ hour to spare. The rest of summer was spent trying to beat the heat, and what better place to find air conditioning than the library. You might remember my worst nightmare when my main computer, the external hard-drive and my lap top all died within two weeks. To my horror the complete backup included my folders, just not the contents of the folders. I lost all of the family research data in one fell swoop. Lost also was all the e-mail cor- respondence, copies of my letters to others, my census maps that were scanned and custom- ized with family loca- tions and dates. While in the process of re- entering all of the data, I found a lady of inter- est. Family says she was teaching in Chi- cago in 1871. The fam- ily never heard from her since that fateful October 9th date. I want to find out if she was one of the fatal victims of ―the great conflagra- tion‖ or just moved on and never contacted the family again. I also hope my story will remind everyone, don‘t assume you have a valid backup – check it out! Can you access your backed up infor- mation? Volume 1, Issue 1 What Happened to Summer? September 2005 First meeting of 2005- 2006 Season  Thursday, September 1st  7:00 p.m. 12th & Connec- tion—Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints  Membership Dues to Pauline Aldrich  Singles: $14.00  Couples: $19.00  After September 30th add $1.00 to appropriate amount. Sound-Ex: How to do it yourself 2 Washington State Library & the Death Index 3 Common Research Mis- takes 3 Stumped? What next? 3 The Wonder of the Cen- sus Indexes 4 Historical Newspapers now On-Line 4 Tidbits of Life 5 Marriage in 19th Century England 6 Inside this issue: TheMason Log Mason County Genealogical Society The Power ofYour Library Card! Your Timberland Re- gional Library card has just grown in power. You can now get a li- brary account at the Seattle Public Library Branches. Anyone who wants to borrow mate- rials from Seattle, must show a TRL library card and appropriate ID. Seattle staff will give you a Seattle card to use for borrowing Seattle materials – which may be returned either to Seattle or to TRL. Just remember – Seattle charges DAILY Late Fines so the ma- terials need to be re- turned to the local TRL ahead of the due date to avoid the fines. Legacy: What work was expected of you? How did you feel about it? Which chores did you not mind and which did you want to get out of? How did you get your spending money? How did you spend it? , Mason County Genealogical Society,Mason Logs,Mason Logs,2005,V1 I1 MCGS Sep 2005 Newsletter.pdf,September+2005.pdf Page 1, September+2005.pdf Page 1