Wow Don,
Thanks for your efforts to help me. I enjoyed your writing and your stories. I
will emulate your efforts in Elko County and see what I can come up with. You
are a great communicator and this is what I need to push myself to work on.
Most people don't know who I am when I'm working in Elko, looks like the idea
to talk with others is key.
I have plans to spend extensive time in the future in Elko County. Husband and I
just bought property there this last summer and will use it for a summer home.
We are so excited, but the property is a fixer upper. Actually, the property
was my grandparents place built in the 1930's, so we have our work cut out for
us. But, in the down time, I will be digging in the history books to see if I
can't gleen more for the good of the family researchers in the area.
I have relatives that settled ranch land in Winnemucca. Miller is the surname
and it would be fun to share stories with them about your site and efforts.
Maybe they have ideas to help you. I will ask if you'd like. Thanks again for
the adventures.
Take care and good luck,
Maureen Brook
Quoting Don Tharp <detict(a)cox.net>:
Hi Maureen,
The short answer is that I've been lucky meeting some very generous
people. One, Fred Kemmerle, has published many of the cemeteries of
Humboldt and Pershing counties, and also several of Elco. I wrote him
and he gave me permission to post anything he had developed. His
email address is on the cemetery headings if you wish to contact him.
I still have some cemeteries that I haven't put on line.
Fred is an interesting person himself. He told me he doesn't own a
computer, just uses the one in his California library. He told me his
main interest was in the Pony Express, and in visiting the various
express stations and routes he started recording the cemeteries he
found. He seems a very nice person, so I do believe he would allow
you to publish the Elco cemeteries on your web site if asked.
The Brigham Young University has a marriage index of the Western
States online that is very easy to extract county names from. Instead
of looking for a particular name, just by typing in the county one
gets a whole list of marriages for that county. I wrote BYU and asked
permission to put Humboldt on line stating I would credit them and
they gave me permission to use their data base. Pershing county is
included in that also as they didn't separate from Humboldt county until
1919.
Humboldt county itself has extracted and compiled their marriage
records and have them printed out. Because I had marriages up to 1900
I asked them for 1900 through 1930, I seldom post marriages past that
date, privacy in mind. They did charge me for the copies, but very
reasonable.
The City Clerk's office in Winnemucca had all of the Winnemucca
Cemetery burials, some 4000 burials and they gave me printed copies
of those, wouldn't even take pay for them. I found the caretaker of
the cemetery and he toured the cemetery with me, took me to some
stones of interest and was all around very helpful.
I spent a little over a week there this past June, really worked it
in with a vacation with my daughter's family. They flew into Salt
Lake City and drove over, I drove to Winnimucca. They helped me read
and photograph a couple of cemeteries. But by myself, it took me five
long days to photograph the Winnemucca cemetery using a camera with 3
gigs of memory cards and transferring them to a portable computer and
memory sticks each night, just to make sure I didn't lose any of them.
The material given to me by the City Clerk is actually an update of
material of the Winnemucca cemetery that is already online, I believe
I've seen it in the Archives. However, the only dates they have are
the death date and burial date and of course the location of the
burial site. None of the entries had the birth dates or any comments
one would find on the stones.
You might find an entry of interest, but you wouldn't know if it was
a 2 year old child or a 70 year old person. That's why I wanted to
photograph the cemetery, so I could translate the birth dates and
comments to the entries provided by the City Clerk's office. I
believe researchers would be more interested in birth dates and
comments of, daughter of, wife of, served in Army, Navy, native of
Wisconsin, etc., than they are of the exact location of the grave.
That can usually be found by contacting the caretakers.
I live in Wichita, Kansas so it was about a 4000 mile round trip, but
well worth the effort as I did meet a lot of nice and interesting people.
You will note that I haven't said much about Pershing county. That
county is just the opposite of Humboldt. All the people I met there
in Lovelock were very helpful and generous, the County Clerk had the
marriage records in their original entry form, but no one had
extracted the information. The City Clerk didn't have cemetery
records but did refer me to someone locally that did keep records,
but to date I haven't been able to contact her. I have been so busy
with the other material that I haven't made the repeated efforts it
is going to take to get in touch with her. In the meantime I'm using
Fred's material even if it is some 10-15 years old. So all in all I
had great success in Humboldt, but not too much in Pershing.
I mentioned subscribing to the local newspaper in Winnemmuca and did
so after the editor assured me I could publish the obituaries they
entered. Also, the City Library had a ton of information there, I
could have spent a couple of months in their special collection. But
the librarian has been working for years extracting interesting
information, those articles that contained names, from the old
newspapers. She has a large data base of those articles and can't
decide how to get them online. She has several alternatives, but
seems budgets get in her way most of the time. You can be sure I
informed her that I could see that they got online<grin>. I still
haven't given up, but owe her a couple of messages and information.
The above is a long winded way of answering your question which is
simply, the credit is due to the efforts and generosity of other
people who I met for the first time.
Take care Maureen and I wish you the best in your efforts for Elco
county. Please let me know if I can ever be of help.
DonT
At 08:55 AM 10/27/2007, you wrote:
>Hi Don,
>
>I am Maureen Brook, the coordinator for Elko County.
>
>I am amazed at the work you've done for Humbolt County. I am
>impressed. I'd like
>to find out how you accomplished this. I'd like to get more done for Elko
>County.
>
>How did you get the data for Humbolt County to put up on the web? It
>sounds like
>you visit the area and this maybe what I need to do.
>
>I make it to Elko County once a year in the summer months. I don't know many
>genealogists in the area, but have been to the library and the courthouse.
I'd
>like to maximize my efforts when in the area.
>
>If you could give me some guidance,information or help. I'd really like to
>accomplish what you have going for Humbolt County.
>
>Thanks and have a great day,
>Maureen Brook
>
>Quoting Don Tharp <detict(a)cox.net>:
>
> > Hello, I've just finished posting about 400 entries to the marriage
> > index for Humboldt county marriages of 1900 through 1909. I'll be
> > posting others in 10 year increments through 1929.
> >
> > Also, I took some pictures while in Winnemucca last summer and I have
> > posted these for the the Ovorada and Pioneer cemeteries in Humboldt
> > county and the Native American cemetery in Pershing county.
> >
> > The marriges and cemeteries can be found by following the links on
> > the main Humboldt page at address
> >
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nv/county/humboldt/index.html
> > and the Native American cemetery pictures can be found by following
> > the cemetery links on the main page for Pershing county at address
> >
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nv/county/pershing/index.html
> >
> > I'm still working on the Winnemucca cemetery, but have a long way to
> > go before that will be complete. Bear with me.
> >
> > Don Tharp
> >
> >
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