ABSTRACT. Premiere issue! Features articles by family members and photographs. In this issue: Dick Wed Ginevra, Alice Smith, Sam Gililland, Dixie Tucker, Lola Tucker, Pete Gililland, Jess Gililland, Ginevra Gililland's Story, Dixie Tucker Story, Old Wild Man, and a Tribute to Champion Rodeoers - Tulie Water Tank.

Littell's DAY Family, Memo 4, 20 Jul 2004

ABSTRACT. This paper is essentially the Day family as presented in the classic New Jersey genealogy reference, Littell’s First Settlers of Passaic Valley, pages 113–23. The original, however, is difficult to follow, so it is rearranged here into modified Register format as endorsed by the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) and other leading genealogical societies. And it is annotated from primary sources.

Transcription of EBENEZER DURAND's Revolutionary War Pension File, Memo 3, 19 May 2001

ABSTRACT. The complete pension file for Pvt EBENEZER DURAND was photocopied from microfilm in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) office in Seattle WA, 17 May 2001. This is a transcription of the 58 pages of that file, made from the photocopy. Memo 2 above, the George Washington letter, is derived from one page of this file.

Two GILILLAND Wills, Memo 5, 29 May 2001

ABSTRACT. The wills and probate files for JOHN GILILLAND and Robert Gililland, fully transcribed, from photocopies obtained in Lincoln Co, MO by Robert P Gililland.

Nine Letters from Frederick Durand Beach to Harvey Durand, 1898-9, Memo 6, 20 Jun 2001

ABSTRACT. Frederick Durand Beach is the author of a manuscript, Durand Genealogy, Descendants of Dr. John (Jean) Durand, Huguenot, Who Was in Milford, Conn., in 1696, Later Derby Conn., where His Children Were Born ..., which now resides in the Whitney Library of the New Haven Colony Historical Society (NHCHS) in CT. The manuscript, dated 1918 when Beach died, is the basis for much of the small book Durand Family, Descendants of Dr. John Durand, a Huguenot, Born 1664, La Rochelle, France, by Samuel Relf Durand, 1965.

The nine letters transcribed here are from Beach to one of Dr John Durand’s descendants, Harvey Durand, five generations removed. So they show the technique Beach used to do his research: He found descendants and then hounded them for information about their respective branches of the family. The letters, actually old yellowed copies of typed transcripts of them, as I received them, now reside at the NHCHS too.

Also transcribed are three successive cover letters from various relatives as the letters made their way down the generations to me.