10 The Julian News
April 30, 2014
Exploring Genealogy
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Motherʼs Day is just around the corner. Mom would love to hear your memories of growing up. Put them is writing so they are not lost. These will last longer than flowers. Your 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy could be a starting point for you. Ghost Counties There is and has been talk of dividing California into multiple states. If that happens will they divide it at county boundaries or divide a county in half. Then would there be two of that county, one for each state or would one be renamed. In almost every state, there have been counties that, for one reason or another, have been discontinued. This can present a problem if you are researching for a county that “isnʼt” anymore. California had Benicia County that was created in 1850, and renamed Solano. Or how about Klamath County that was created in 1851 from northern part of Trinity County. The area was mostly mining land, and apparently its leadership was fairly corrupt. The county was abolished in 1875, and parts of the county went to Del Norte, Humboldt, Siskiyou and Trinity Counties. Knowing the history of the county is important for your research. Next column – The Town that Moved 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy (Each week I will be giving you a prompt that will invite you to record memories and insights about your own life for future descendants (52 weeks of Personal Genealogy). Write down your memories on your computer, in your journal or start a new journal.) Week 17 Pets. Did you have any pets as a child? If so, what types and what were their names. Do you have pets now? Describe them as well. If you did not have pets, you can discuss those of neighbors or other family members. Last week -Week 16. Restaurants. What was your favorite local restaurant as a child? Where was it located, and what was your favorite meal? Did you know the staff personally? What is your favorite restaurant now? Taken from “52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy and Family History” by Amy Coffin. Amyʼs blog is located at http://wetree.blogpost.com
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Ennui Often times when I’m sitting at the keyboard with a deadline approaching and the ideas aren’t exactly dropping out of the sky, I can always resort to my Aunt Judy and one of her pithy emails for a little inspiration. Now “AJ” has the perspective of the “Greatest Generation”. We very rarely agree politically but she’s smart, well read, still does the Sunday Times puzzle in ink and has a sense of humor and knows what’s funny regardless of what side of the political aisle the barb falls. Here’s a few “apolitical aphorisms” from one of her recent posts. “If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates”. Jay Leno “The problem with political jokes is they get elected”. Henry Cate VII, King of England from 1485 till his death in 1509. He was the last Englishman to win the crown on the battlefield “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office”. Aesop, a Greek storyteller sometime around 600 to 500 B.C. There’s no certainty that he really existed but fables credited to him exist today. “If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these State of the Union speeches, there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven”. Will Rogers, was born to a Cherokee family in present day Oklahoma. He was a famous actor in the 1930s, a humorist, cowboy, and a social commentator whose commentary stands the test of time. “Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river”. Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party and leader of the Soviet
Union presiding over the “cold war” and during the Cuban Missile Crisis. “When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it”. Clarence Darrow, born before the Civil War gaining fame as an attorney and member of the Civil Liberties Union. He was the defense attorney in the Leopold Loeb case winning life for his confessed clients instead of death. He was also the defense attorney in the Scopes Monkey trial in Tennessee in a case pitting the Bible and creationism against the teaching of evolution. “Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you”. Author unknown, but believed to have been born in New Jersey in 1952. His witness protection agent lost him somewhere in the Southern California mountains in 2012. “Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel”. John Quinton, a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF who after a mid-air crash strapped a parachute to an Air Cadet, booted him out of the plane and went to his own death in the subsequent crash. “Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other”. Oscar Ameringer, a German immigrant, socialist, author and organizer and head of the Oklahoma Socialist Party. “I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them”. Adlai Stevenson ll was from a political family. He was Governor of Illinois, U.N. Ambassador and two-time democratic candidate for President. “A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country”. Tex Guinan, (Mary Louise Cecelia Guinan) was born in the 1880s in Waco, Texas. She was an actress, saloonkeeper and businesswoman. She died in Canada of dysentery at 49 years old. “Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks”. Doug Larson was a columnist for the Door County Advocate a small town newspaper in Wisconsin.
And then she (AJ), wrote me about the genius and ingenuity of Americans when they are placed in “have to get it done” challenges. It seems a toothpaste factory had a problem of the occasional box being shipped without a tube inside. This was due to the way the production line was set up, and people with experience in designing production lines will tell you how difficult it is to have everything happen with timings so precise that every single unit coming out of it is perfect 100% of the time. Responding to customer complaints, the CEO of the toothpaste company hired an external engineering company to solve their empty boxes problem. Six months (and $8 million) later they had a fantastic solution and solved the problem by using high-tech precision scales that would sound a bell and flash lights whenever a toothpaste box would weigh less than it should. The line would stop, and someone would walk over and yank the defective box pressing another button when done to restart the line. No empty boxes ever shipped out of the factory after the scales were put in place. customer complaints dropped, and the company was gaining market share. Three weeks after the installation of the system, the number of defects picked up by the scales was zero. It should've been picking up at least a few dozen a day, so maybe there was something wrong with the engineers report. After some investigation, the engineers came back saying the report was actually correct. The scales really weren't picking up any defects, because all boxes that got to that point in the conveyor belt were good. Puzzled, the CEO went down to the factory floor and walks up to the part of the line where the precision scales were installed. A few feet before the scale, there was a $20 desk fan, blowing empty boxes off the belt and into a bin. "Oh, that," says one of the workers, “Old Jimmy got so tired of walking down here every time the bell rang, that he spent his own money and put the fan in himself.” This reminds me of the time
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