Lost Treasures Placements April 2008 to March 2009

The Lost Treasures Group placed the following items for this year April 2008 to March 2009:

• Two sets of newspaper clippings
• Family Bibles: Samuel Clark, Edwin Clark / Butler, Britton / Moon and Mosher / Forbes Family Bibles.
• Family Photos: The Edna Banta Photo Collection: Simmons, Harve, Simmons, Dodge, Barrow, Bunn, Galbraith, Walker and Wyatt; the Gulick photo collection; and the Blanchard photos.
• Miscell. Documents: Lastly we found a home for the Jedediah Miller and Jonas Stevens document collection which included Land Deeds, an account passbook, a general inventory of documents, a will for Jedediah Miller. If you would like further information on these Documents please contact the San Diego Genealogical Society email SDGSinfo@yahoo.com

Our average time for placement was 3.5 months. This average will probably increase due to increased complexity of the miscellaneous documents and scanning and transcribing Family Bibles that have not yet been published in the San Diego Genealogical Society's publication "Leaves and Saplings". We will offer short term research projects for other researchers in the San Diego Genealogical Society.

Miller/Stevens Documents placed with descendant

The two volume collection of Jedediah Miller and Jonas Stevens documents was placed with a descendant of this family (both Jedediah Miller and Jonas Stevens). The collection included original land records and a will for Jedediah Miller. An inventory was completed more than ten years ago by a SDGS volunteer. One of the interesting things in the pass book (account book) for Jonas Stevens from the 1800s.

Banta Photos, Legacy 7.0 tutorial, Julian visit

I visited the Pioneer Cemetery Julian, California yesterday! We ascended "boot hill" where the oldest cemetery is located. I wanted to find out if anyone has published a book on who is buried there but the Julian Museum is not open during the week. I guess I could have gone to the library but I was overheating and needed to get inside out of the sun!

I am still plugging away at those Banta Photos. I can't wait to get them scanned and up on the Lost Treasures website! I really want to get them into the hands of the Banta descendant from the Arizona State Genealogical society.

I just received my Legacy 7.0 tutorial book. I can can look at a map of my ancestors and there are some new search features I need to figure out how to use. I suppose my biggest problem is that I have most of my genealogical data in a page with footnote format (sources are with in the text) so I have to figure out how to resolve that problem.