Friday, May 23, 2014

Diane's Other Likes - May 2014 (with maybe just a litte #genealogy)

I read a good number of other blog articles each day, mostly on my phone on the train. Many don't fit into my usual #genealogy mode, so I've decided to give a short heads-up once every few weeks to other news and events I'm interested in. I'll be sharing a list of upcoming walking tours and the like soon too.

So for May 2014

First and foremost, the Vancouver Postcard Club's annual Paper and Collectables Show and Sale is this Sunday, May 25 at the Hastings Community Centre in Vancouver. See more info on the Club's website: http://vancouverpostcardclub.ca/?p=747

And one more for this weekend - The Maple Ridge Museum will be at the Bandstand in Memorial Peace Park tomorrow for the year's first outing of "History Goes to Market!  Celebrating the museum's 40th anniversary along with the Haney Farmer's Market's 10th anniversary. Rain or shine! 9 am to 2 pm: http://www.haneyfarmersmarket.org/


And these -

A Cake Bakes in Brooklyn. Some will be astonished that I follow a 'baking' blog, but really, there's lots of history there. And I always learn something. This article is about Matrimony Cake, almost what we call "Matrimonial Bars' but it does look different. Love the instruction to "Cook till mushy". So romantic, eh!  http://www.acakebakesinbrooklyn.com/2014/05/say-i-do-to-matrimony-cake.html

Price Tags, Gordon Price's blog - thought provoking articles, mainly to do with Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada where I live. Lots of views on local transit and transportation, for instance - makes me excitable! but here's a good news, feel good, making a difference example about a new community garden area in Vancouver.
Transformation: A Garden in Mount Pleasant written by Scot Bathgate: http://pricetags.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/transformation-a-garden-in-mount-pleasant

Roedde House. Visit this charming home in downtown Vancouver for Tea and a Tour and/or attend one of the Sunday concerts or a Jazz evening: http://www.roeddehouse.org/en/activities/cultural-activities/cultural-activities-xba

Vancouver Heritage Foundation's Heritage Home Tour is on June 1, 2014, Visit 11 remarkable homes. Get your tickets now: http://www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/

And you knew I'd sneak in some genealogy, right?

Nancy H Vest at Keeping Grandma Alive…and all the others, too has reviewed a new mystery, Hiding the Past: A Genealogical Crime Mystery by Nathan Dylan Goodwin. She liked it, and I'm sure I will too. It's almost on my reader now. (Apparently I needed to update Kindle. Another to-do for today. DONE!)


Memorial Day USA - Kenneth Scott Bates - 52 Ancestors

As this is US Memorial Day weekend, it's certainly a good time to research your USA military members and families for free. I'm thinking particularly of one of my US veteran cousins today, Kenneth Scott Bates (1919-1998), son of Edward Kimball Bates and Harriott(e) Alice Louise Scott. Kenneth was very interested in his family history and shared information and documents when he visited us in Vancouver, BC.

There are several offers for free access to selected military records.

To May 26 Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.com/cs/us/memorialday2014

And all May - Fold3: http://go.fold3.com/wwii/ The newest records at Fold3 are for US Medal of Honor recipients. For more about this collection, see this Fold3 blog article: http://blog.fold3.com/medal-of-honor-recipients

To May 26 My Heritage: http://pages.myheritage.com/memorialday

My Heritage is my current favourite of the BIG commercial websites. I made a somewhat surprising discovery there last night, in fact. So far, My Heritage seems to have a wide range of types and dates of US military records, millions they say, from the War Between the States through to World War II -  too long a list to post.

Don't forget that FamilySearch also has US military records.  I often find that it's helpful to go back and forth. If I can't find someone in one website's indexes, I may find it in another and the information included may be a bit different  - or there may be associated articles to explain certain aspects of the records, as there are at FamilySearch.

BATES, SCOTT family get together, in Montpelier, Vermont, at the Bates home, c. 1920. Kenneth Bates is the young one in the back row here.

Shown are - Front: Janet Muriel Scott, my mum, from Newdale, Manitoba, Canada; Edward Wallace Bates, my cousin.
Second row: Jeannette Bates, my cousin; May Janet (Wood) Scott from Nottawa, Ontario, Canada, born in Bean Hill, Connecticut, USA, my great grandmother; Amy Estella (Irwin) Scott from Newdale, my grandmother; Annie Pollock Scott, my great aunt, also from Nottawa.
Back: Hariott(e) Alice Louise, Hattie, (Scott) Bates, my great aunt, born in Nottawa, Ontario, Canada; and Edward Kimball Bates, Hattie's husband, with their younger son, Kenneth Scott Bates.

Postcard, Made in Canada, black & white, unmailed. I believe the photographer was my grandfather, James Walter Scott from Newdale, born in Nottawa. Individuals were identified by my grandmother, Amy Estella Scott, in the 1960s.