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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 13:37:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: David A. Henry <dah1(a)gte.net>
To: CARMAN-ROOTS-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [CARMAN-ROOTS-L] wsc notes May-1999
P.S. I will have to check my copy of the rolls of Microfilm for WSC mss....I
am not sure if Marvin had them copied from the Libary (although I believe he
did), or had a copy of the film that was already made. If they copied his
from the books, it would be interesting to see if the markings were there at
that time...which should be about 1989 because I attempted to bind the books
for easy reference around that time and only got as far as the family books, I
did not bind or even copy all of the material that was on those two rolls. I
did this at work...of course with my employers knowledge....david
Patricia Tidmarsh wrote:
25 years later.
Yesterday I visited the NYPL Local History and Genealogy Reading Room,
passing through the newly restored Main Reading Room which looks exactly
as it always has only brighter since the blackout paint from WWII has been
removed from the windows and all the furniture has been redone. Now the
first four rows of table are for computers connected to internet sources
and the next two are for laptops.
In the room leading to the main reading room there are computers connected
to the internet -- 15 minutes allowed and the Carman Web Space at
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~carman looked very good. 25 years ago there
were card catalogs, then photocopies of the cards in big books and now of
course computers.
Another change is that the Local History and Geneaology room has been
moved to the South Side of the Main Reading Room from the North Side but
it is essentially the same.
And William Stillwell Carman's "Carman Family" is still there too. The
volumes and covered with a dark green clothlike cover and slipped into
cardboard boxes. The corners of the brittle tan pages flake off when the
pages are turned and the ink seems lighter. But the red ink and pencil is
there. I found the page for Joseph-5 No. 46 of Book 10
and took a picture of the pencilled note by Unknown Author #6 "If John 21
was born in 1701 these cannot be his grandchildren" which does not show up
in the microfilm. Joseph-5's children were born around 1727 -- but --
the birthdate of John 4 was pencilled in by Unknown Author #1, not by
Willam Stillwell Carman. WSC omitted it. Although Samuel-3 sons John and
Richard who are mentioned in his 1728 will were not in the 1698 census in
Hempstead, there is no proof they were born after 1698.
The Carman mss. is like an early map which shows California as an island.
It has some inaccuracies which we now know to be untrue. There are also
paintings of the flat earth, floating in a globe of sky blue. The Hindus
show the world perched on top of an elephant. And so it goes.
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