Do You Know A Conger? � Honey & Quinine

Link to a July 4th, 2007 blog posting by Job Conger who, for a time, was the editor of the "Conger Confab" newsletter. Job writes about his relationship with noted Conger researcher and publisher, Maxine (Crowell) Leonard, and how he came to be the editor of the newsletter. There are some nice comments to Job's posting that may be of interest to Conger researchers.

Do You Know A Conger? � Honey & Quinine: "Do You Know A Conger? July 4, 2007 by jobconger"

Change, Upload, Discovery

Shari, one of my friends in genealogy, suggested that I consider making some changes in the sidebar organization on my Google blogs. I decided to move the Links box to the top of the screen and my Profile box to the bottom. I also set the colors for the Followers box to make the text more readable. Thanks Shari for caring enough to make some suggestions.

Deceased researcher, Maxine (Crowell) Leonard published the two-volume "The Conger Family of America." She was also the editor/publisher of "The Conger Confab." When I worked at The Library of Congress I discovered that she had donated the two-volume set and copies of the "Confabs" to the library. Later I found a list of libraries that have a copy of Volume One along with the names of the donors. Yesterday I returned this page of information to the Internet. It had been part of my website on AOL.

Thomas Lambert, another friend in genealogy, prepared a 61-page document about the Atkinson - Lippincott families of Monroe county, Ohio which he posted to the Internet. It's been there for some time. I just noticed it yesterday and posted a link to this blog. He gives credit for co-authorship to: himself, Robert Guilinger, Richard Henthorn and Gary Chesney. We all corresponded and exchanged information several years ago. Anyone interested in these Monroe county families owes a debt of gratitude to Thomas for his work.

Mr. Dickie

Atkinson and Lippincott - Their Ancestors and Descendants

Atkinson and Lippincott - Their Ancestors and Descendants is a 61-page book about these Monroe Co., Ohio families. Co-authors of the piece were: Robert R. Guilinger, Gary K. Chesney, Richard E. Henthorn and Thomas W. Lambert. Mr. Lambert posted the information on the Internet.

Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Page Book: Atkinson and Lippincott - Their ancestors and Descendants: Title Page

"Conger Family of America"

Libraries Holding
Conger Publications
of
H. Maxine (Crowell) Leonard
(Donors Names in Parenthesis)

Note: If you are able to provide further information that would add to this list your input would be welcome. In particular, I would like to record the names of libraries holding copies of Volume Two. I'm also willing to add the names of individuals who own copies. Richard Henthorn owns copies of both Volumes One and Two.

Conger Family of America
Volume One

California

• Los Angeles Public, Los Angeles (Maxine Leonard)
• Vallejo Public (Dave L.)

Colorado

• Denver Public, Denver (John F. Conger)
• Fort Collins Public, Fort Collins, CO
• LDS Library, Colorado Springs (Maxine Leonard)

Connecticut

• Connecticut State, Hartford

District of Columbia

• Library of Congress (Maxine Leonard)
• DAR Library

Georgia

• Atlantic Public, Atlanta ( Ledlie W. Conger & Ledlie W. Conger, Jr.)

Illinois

• Newbury Library, Chicago (Lauren T. Conger)

Indiana

• Indiana State, Indianapolis

Iowa

• Iowa Historical Society, Des Moines (Maxine Leonard)
• Iowa Genealogical Society, Des Moines (Maxine Leonard)
• LDS Library, Ames (Maxine Leonard)
• NE Iowa Genealogical Society, Waterloo, (Maxine Leonard)
• Jonathan Clark Conger House, Washington (Maxine Leonard)
• Iowa State Historical Society, Iowa City (Maxine Leonard)
• Oelwein Public, Oelwein (Violet Sims)

Massachusetts

• New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston (Maxine Leonard)

Michigan

• Michigan State, Lansing (1973 Conger-Gregation Cousins)

Mississippi

• First Regional Library, Hernando, MS (James Frank Conger)

Missouri

• St. Louis Public, St. Louis
• Jefferson Memorial, St. Louis
• Kansas City Public, Kansas City (Maxine Leonard)

New Jersey

• New Jersey State, Trenton
• New Jersey Historical Society, Newark
• Somerset County Library, Somerville (Clyde Conger)
• Woodbridge Public, Woodbridge (1973 Conger-Gregation Cousins)
• Rutgers University, New Brunswick

New York

• New York Public, New York City
• Onondaga Public, Syracuse
• New York State, Albany
• Buffalo Public, Buffalo (Norma Harvey)

Ohio

• Cincinnati Public, Cincinnati
• Western Reserve, Cleveland (Eunice Halls and Peninsula Cousins)
• Lyme Church, Bellevue (Maxine Leonard)
• Preble County Historical Library, Eaton (Jack Daugherty and Maxine Leonard)

Tennesse

• Justin Potter Library, Smithville (Fannie Conger Hayes)

Texas

• Dallas Public, Dallas (Nanette Reichert)
• Clayton Library, Houston (Keith Conger)
• Southwestern Genealogical, El Paso (Maxine Leonard)

Utah

• Salt Lake City Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City (Maxine Leonard)
• Everton Publishers, Logan (Maxine Leonard)

Wisconsin

• State Historical Society, Madison

Canada

• Ontario Genealogical Society, Ontario (Maxine Leonard)

"The Conger Family of America, Volume 1," is on LDS, microfilm #1307658, Item 2, and may be ordered for use at your local Family History Center.

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Conger Family of America
Volume Two

District of Columbia

• Library of Congress (Maxine Leonard)

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The Conger Confabs
Quarterly Newsletters 1975-1994

District of Columbia

• Library of Congress (Maxine Leonard)

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Email: Dick.Henthorn@gmail.com
Revised: 12 Sep 1998
Revised 30 Sep 2009
File: CFA.txt

Yoho Genealogy

Yoho Genealogy

Yesterday and today I worked on a project to create Delicious bookmarks to Yoho Descendant Charts, shared by researcher, T. Vernon Anderson, on the USGenWeb Marshall county, West Virginia website.

You can see the links and a few lines about each chart by clicking on any of the following links:

Find all Mr. Dickie's Yoho bookmarks

Find all Mr. Dickie's Anderson bookmarks

Find all Mr. Dickie's Yoho and Anderson bookmarks

Wayback Machine

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theoloy tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. ... We are spinning our own fates, good or evil ... (William James in Excuses Begone! by Wayne Dyer, p. 17)

Explore all possibilities and listen to your intuition. (Susan Smith Jones, Choose to Live Each Day Fully, Day 265)

Let me not force my own certainties on others. I could be wrong. A generous tolerance can smooth out many rough places in my day-to-day living. (One Day at a Time in Al-Anon, 16 September)

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Yesterday I learned how to copy and paste text for the Delicious "Note" field when I want to create a posting from Firefox.

I learning about the Wayback Machine. I discovered that some of my webpages from the old AOL website can be found at this website. To find the pages I need to remember the URLs of the various places where I uploaded the pages. I plan to write more about this on my genealogy "News" blog and in reply to a posting on GenForum that asks what happened to the website.

Mr. Dickie

DearMYRTLE, your friend in genealogy.

Link to:
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