| Fiske Genealogical Foundation
Newsletter - December 2001 |
Our Thanks to
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| Bill and Mary Schofield Eberle began doing research with Arthur Fiske when his Library was still housed on Queen Anne Hill. Bill was very involved with the move to the Pioneer Building and built some of the tall 6 foot black bookcases that the Library still uses. He specifically remembers when he and Ace Fricke had to move all of the books one more time to make space for another row. They also built the showcase. Bill also typed the Records of the First Episcopal Methodist Church, Washington Territory available from the Fiske Library. Bill continues to work on his book on the Royal Lines. He has put it all on a data base and keeps finding more lines to connect. Currently he has more than 37,100 people in the data base, using the Family Tree Maker program. A copy of this book is housed at the Fiske Library. On Arthur’s suggestion ten years ago, Bill has brought the genealogy of Esther Brewster Herrick and Noahdiah Woodruff down to the present. Bill recalls that Arthur told him that “this is what we should all do” with our family research. One of Mary's successful ideas was leaving her card with a note in a library book on a page about an ancestor they were researching in California. Some time later he got a call from a “cousin” who found them in Seattle. They both descended from a Welsh coal miner who came to California in 1851. Bill has just retired from his volunteer position of formatting the Fiske Newsletter. He recalls that Mary Peters did the first issue, but Bill has done it since the second issue. Bill continues to work in the computer lab at Shoreline Community College. |
As our current newsletter went to press, we received the sad news of Mary Eberle's death on Dec. 4th. Our condolences to the Eberle family.
Carolyn Blount
| Display Your Family Research | Jack Seeley will be the first Fiske Library member to display his family research in the Library. Other members can present their research on a monthly rotation. The displays will then be available for use at the various genealogy fairs in which the Fiske Library participate. Members who would like to have their work on view for a month should contact Jack Seeley or Carolyn Blount. |
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Annual Holiday Season Reception |
The Annual Fiske Genealogical Foundation Meeting
and Holiday Season Reception will be combined in 2001.
A holiday reception of punch and cookies will follow the last class of the fall session on
Wednesday, November 28th, 2001.
So save the date, be sure to attend the class on Naming Patterns in Genealogical Research with Mary Peters, and stay on for annual reports and refreshments.