What Will Become of It?

What Will Become of It?

The other day I was thinking about Wetzel Co., WV because I discovered a Facebook Group for the county that I didn't know about.

I have been working on the genealogy of folks from Wetzel Co., WV for many years. In fact, I used to be in touch with some of the folks from the county genealogy society before they decided to disband. In those days I donated four genealogy documents to the society. I was co-compiler on a couple of them. The society had the documents hard bound and then placed them in the genealogy section of the county library at New Martinsville, WV.

I visited New Martinsville several times and the library once. That was before the donations were placed in the library, so I have never seen the bound volumes.

Yesterday I checked the catalog to refresh my memory about the donations. I searched for "Author, Henthorn, Richard E.."

This activity brought to mind a subject that has been on my mind for months, "What Will Become of It?" I have been working on genealogy projects for over 30 years. There are thousands of pages of information on my computer in the RootsMagic program. Some of the information has been shared with other people in digital formats such as PDFs, some has been shared on Facebook in my private Group and other Groups, some Conger information is hosted by a Conger friend in Iowa, some information is shared in two of my genealogy Google blogs, some is on my Google Site, some is shared on my private Box account, some has been donated,in printed form, to various genealogy libraries around the USA.

I turned 81 year old this month and I have been in poor health for about ten months. It's time to come to grips with the issue of What Will Become of It?

Dick Henthorn

12 May 2020

Tri-County Researcher

I Seek

Does anyone have back issues of the West Virginia Tri-County Researcher that you want to sell?

I'm also interested in obtaining a copy of a 1983 volume about the history of people of Wetzel county, West Virginia. Title: History of Wetzel County, West Virginia, 1983, published by the Wetzel County Genealogical Society.

If the price is right I may be interested.

Dick Henthorn

11 Jan 2018

Preserving the Work of Billy Lynn "Bill" Cunningham

About the Work of Billy Lynn "Bill" Cunningham (deceased)

OLD website (Bill Cunningham’s) - No changes can be made
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wvwetzel/

NEW website: Wetzel County WVGenWeb
Glenda Thompson; Wetzel County Volunteer County Coordinator
http://www.wvgenweb.org/wetzel/index.html
http://www.wvgenweb.org/wetzel/contact-me.html

The program that Bill trained me on for the Wetzel genealogical website on Rootsweb was extremely outdated. I had been having problems with it crashing in the middle of my work. I spoke with Bill’s family & the decision was made to just leave the website as it was. Ancestry .com acquired (who acquired Rootsweb) started doing updates and links started going bad, and then saw a post they made on the main Rootsweb page. I was concerned they may pull page(s) and/or close the site down.

Their post:
“As you know, RootsWeb is a collection of products that has grown organically over the last two decades. Many of these have not been updated or maintained in years. Ancestry is currently working on updating and revising World Connect, Mailing Lists, and hosted sites such as Free Pages over the next twelve months; however, all other products and functionality are under review. We will continue to notify you of updates here as decisions are made.”

I spoke again with Bill’s family and informed them of my concerns. It was decided that I turn the Wetzel County WV’s Rootsweb website over to the WV Genweb state coordinator, as they use their own server. All of the data on the old server (Rootsweb) would be transferred over to the new (WVGenWeb). This move would guarantee that the data would not be lost & the site could be updated. This was made with the condition that Bill’s work was to be left online, for as long as ancestry decides to leave it there.

Many thanks to:
Glenda Thompson (WVGenWeb Coordinator) & Connie Burkett (WVGenWeb Asst. State Coordinator) who worked tirelessly transferring the data to the new website.

Linda Cunningham Fluharty for her guidance/support throughout my tenure as Bill’s designated replacement.

Barbara, Brian & Diane Cunningham for their support/assistance with this transfer.

Bill Cunningham for all of the work he did to create & maintain the “Go To” place for Wetzel County, WV genealogy for many, many years. He is fondly remembered & greatly missed.
(Written by Joyce (Schaefer) Yowler, 10 Nov 2017, on the Wetzel County, West Virginia Genealogy page on Facebook)

Shared with permission of Joyce (Shaefer) Yowler
Dick Henthorn
10 Nov 2017

John Woodrow Richmond and Helen Lucille Postlewaite

John Woodrow Richmond and Helen Lucille Postlewaite

Recently I prepared a 9-page PDF report about the family of John Woodrow Richmond and Helen Lucille Postlewaite and shared it to, my membership only, Henthorn Genealogy page on Facebook.

I worked on the Richmond family for many years.  More recently, I began compiling information about the Postlewaite family (There are several spellings for the last name, Postlewaite.)

The descendants of this couple have links to: Cecil; Dakan; Goddard; Parsons; Thomas; Weekly; Wood; Wykert; Yeater; and Yoho to name a few. Below I'm sharing the information I have recorded in the individual records of the couple.

I often record Social Security Numbers in my file.  I have a switch set to leave out the SSN when I create a report. You can see how that looks in the information about John Woodrow Richmond.

If this family is of interest, and you are willing to reciprocate, contact me to arrange sharing of information.

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John Woodrow RICHMOND was born on 14 Feb 1915 in Newdale, Wetzel Co., WV. He died on 11Nov 1977 at the age of 62 in New Martinsville, Wetzel Co., WV. He was buried in Nov 1977 in New Martinsville, Wetzel Co., WV, Northview Cemetery.

John Woodrow Richmond

PARENTS: Parson Seth Richmond and LaSena Florence Phillips

MARRIAGE: 10 Sep 1935 (25/312). No location given.
(Source: Ohio Valley Richmonds - Their Kith and Kin, Ethel L. Briggs, 1976, p. 83)

Problem: Was the middle name, Woodrow or Woodroe?

SS Death Index: John Richmond; b. 14 Feb 1915;issued: WV; d. Nov 1977; last place of residence: New Martinsville, WV; zipcode: 26155;

FINDAGRAVE: Memorial# 55418177


John Woodrow RICHMOND and Helen Lucille "Lucille" POSTLEWAITE were married on 10 Sep 1935 in Wetzel Co., WV. Helen Lucille "Lucille" POSTLEWAITE, daughter of General Sherman POSTLETHWAITE and Eva Myrtle BERDINE, was born on 14 Jun 1920 in Pine Grove, Wetzel Co., WV. She died on 22 Mar 2010 at the age of 89 in New Martinsville, Wetzel Co., WV. She was buried in Mar 2010 in New Martinsville, Wetzel Co., WV, Northview Cemetery.

Helen Lucille Postlewaite

PARENTS: General Sherman Postlethwaite and Eva Myrtle Berdine
(Furnished by Richard E. Henthorn)

AKA: Lucille

FINDAGRAVE: Memorial# 52241462

CHILDREN: Eleven


Richard E. Henthorn
7 Sep 2016

'via Blog this'

Exchanging Information On Facebook

There are country groups and family groups for genealogy on Facebook.  Lately, there have been some good exchanges of information on the Greene county, Pennsylvania and Wetzel county, West Virginia groups.  Some of the folks have subscriptions to Ancestry.com. I have never subscribed, so I don't really have an appreciation for what is available.  Today I read some good information about ship arrivals.

From time to time I shared PDF files to the File areas of some of the groups.  I encourage others to share in a similar manner.  That idea hasn't amounted to much, to date.

I also encourage everyone to learn how to use their genealogy programs.  Learn to export and import GEDCOM files.  Learn how to produce files in "text" or PDF format and be willing to reciprocate when someone shares information.

Plan ahead. Give thought to which libraries you might want to donate a copy of your work.

Dick Henthorn
29 January 2015