Tri-Counties Genealogy & History by Joyce M. Tice
This Month's Library Additions at Tri-Counties Site
01 DEC 2007 TO 31 DEC -  Month 136
Bradford County PA
Chemung County NY
Tioga County PA
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Time to hang your stockings. Here are two I just finished knitting for my neighbors. 
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NOTE: By using the sidebar links on the What's New Pages, you can link to any other place on this massive site. This is our SITE MAP. Be sure you know how to use them . It will save you a lot of time and make the site much more efficient for you to use. It will also guide you to resources you may have overlooked even if you have used the site for many years. Subject links on the left and Township links on the right. The verbal site map is in the bars at right and left of list and the graphic site map is below the What's New list.
Site Map By Subject in Left Bar Site Map by Place in Right Bar
Subjects
December 2007 Tri-Counties Month 136 - Site Established August 1996
Townships
Articles
1900 Museum
Bibles
Biography
Books
Business
Celebrations
Cemeteries
Census
206 Centenarians
Churches
Clippings
Communities
Crime
Deeds
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Emigrants
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Families
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Government
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Kelsey
Legal Papers
Let's Visit
Letters
Libraries
Our Library
Maps
Marriages
Migration
Military
Museums
Newspapers
Obituaries
Obits by 
Cemetery
Organizations
P. O. H.
Pensions
Photographers
Places
Poetry (Local)
Politics
Post Offices
Postcards
Purpose
Queries
Reference Books
Research Services
Research Tips
Reunions
Schools
Scrapbooks
Search
Sports
Stuff & Nonsense
Submit (How to)
Success
Tall Tales
Tax
Theaters
Then-Now
Time
Tourist Places
Towns
Trains
Travel
Vital Records
Volunteer
Wills
Women
"Chinese" Proverb - The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Date
Event or New Page
Partitioned Search Engine for users of the What's New Page Reindexed 30 NOV at 15775 pages - 
Preview Bradford County Historical Society Christmas Events
01 DEC
It's moving month. After eleven years on the Rootsweb server, I am moving the site to a new location. Most of the entry point files that you have been using for all these many years will remain on Rootsweb, so you will not have to change your URLs to enter the site unless you eventually want to. 
Most of the content, however, will be relocated to a new server with our own domain - joycetice.com. It will be a tedious process, but I'll do all I can to make it as seamless as possible for you. I have a lot of preparation to do before then which is too boring to tell you about-- I will make sure the site is up and running on the new server before I delete files on the Rootsweb server. 
Cary - Cooley Family Bible Records
02 DEC  1819 Robert Potter Pension Papers
04 DEC 1907 Whittaker Letters
05 DEC Partitioned Search Engine for users of the What's New Page Reindexed 30 NOV at 15779 pages - 
06 DEC News from SRAC
07 DEC 1832 Pension Papers of Caleb White
08 DEC Leroy Holly Home Festival
Dedication of the Sesquicentennial Time Capsules at noon, Mansfield PA
1860 Litchfield Census - Submitted March 2006 by Sheri AUSTIN Flora and discovered during the pre-move cleanup process. Better late than never. 
09 DEC Southport Historical Society 1:30 Joyce will be speaking at 2:30 - Ice Day - No Show
As I clean up and relocate pages to the new server, I will list them here. If you have used the site a long time, or if you are a new guest, you may have missed some of these. Everything that is on the new server [joycetice.com] is still on the old server [rootsweb.com] . The search engine will still be directing you to the old server until the move is complete.
1883 Tioga County History -- rootsweb -- joycetice
1897 Tioga County History-- rootsweb -- joycetice
1891 Bradford County History - Bradsby-- rootsweb -- joycetice
1919 The Passenger Pigeon-- rootsweb --joycetice
1879 Four County History-- rootsweb -- joycetice
1845 Wyoming History-- rootsweb -- joycetice
Dec 10 Tioga County Alien Records -- rootsweb -- joycetice
Dec 11 Brookfield Township Photos from David Young
1954 Chatham School from Marie NEAL King
Leraysville Photos from Lyle Rockwell
Rome Photos
Partitioned Search Engine for users of the What's New Page Reindexed 11 DEC at 15788 pages - 
DEC 13 I redirected the entry page last night to the new location. I still have lots of cleanup to do, but we are on our way. Search engine still accessses the old location until further notice. 
DEC 14 I changed settings on PICO to search new site, BUT I did not press the right button to make it do it. Now I have.  It should be working again in a couple of hours from now [now is 10:43 est] My fault. Nobody panic. 
Wrong again -- It was not my fault. I did things right, reindexed twice, and it still did not work - I contacted PICO and it turns out they are on overload this AM - everyone is reindexing - so they are doing mine again and monitoring it. 2:24 EST
Anyone accessing this page on the old rootsweb server will want to change all bookmarks to the site to the new server at joycetice.com -SOON. Even pages that I do not remove from the old server will NOT be updated or pages added. That will only happen on the new server. 
  OK - PICO is now pointed at new server BUT there are some pages I have not moved yet and some I have deleted as redundant; It's OK to use
Number of docs expected : 15780
  Number of docs found : 15385
15 DEC  1801 Tax Assessment, Town of Newtown, Tioga county NY
2007 Middlebury Union Cemetery Listing - a start
Pico 15584
Congratulations on your Internet move!  It appears almost flawless from the outside.  You should be very proud! Happy Holidays! Ellen Buglewicz
Whew!! What a relief!!
2006 Pioneer Cemetery on Butler Farm
18 DEC Rescue Dog's Christmas Poem
All pages are moved, but the site cleanup continues. After eleven years there are a lot of stragglers out there to be sorted. Major Tidy up going on that will take a LONG time.
 
22 DEC Winter Solstice - NOW the days will start to lengthen - WHEN Does the New Year Begin?
24 DEC PICO 15621
25 DEC
26 DEC Picture collection from the Village of Holliday from Jim Borden
PICO 15555
27 DEC Do you play Sudoku ? Here are free puzzles http://www.websudoku.com/
30 DEC Excessive site clean up maintenance has left me with tendonitis in both shoulders and my badly swollen right hand/wrist in a splint. Nerve conductivity tests coming up. Expressions of sympathy will be greatefully received. :) I have been spending hours a day  - every day - at the computer for the past 25 years. This is not a new thing,  Why now? Have to slow down a bit - for a while. Horrors!!
1800 Newtown tax Assessment
31 DEC Farewell to 2007. It's been a great year for me and I hope for you, too. Best wishes for 2008
Postcards from Rummersfield
1950 Fisher School in Standing Stone AND 1954 Fisher School in Standing Stone
Albany
Armenia
Ashland
Asylum
Athens
Baldwin
Barclay
Big Flats
Bloss
Brookfield
Burlington
Canton
Catlin
Charleston
Chatham
Chemung
Clymer
Columbia
Covington
Deerfield
Delmar
Duncan
Durell
Elk
Elkland
Elmira
Erin
Farmington
Franklin
Gaines
Granville
Hamilton
Herrick
Horseheads
Jackson
Knoxville
Lawrence
LeRoy
Liberty
Litchfield
Mansfield
Middlebury
Monroe
Morris
N. Towanda
Nelson
Orwell
Osceola
Overton
Pike
Putnam
Richmond
Ridgebury
Rome
Roseville
Rutland
S. Waverly
Sayre
Sheshequin
Shippen
Smithfield
South Creek
Southport
Springfield
Standing Stone
Stevens
Sullivan
Sylvania
Terry
Tioga
Towanda
Troy
Tuscarora
Ulster
Union
VanEtten
Veteran
W. Burlington
Ward
Warren
Wells
Wellsboro
Westfield
Wilmot
Windham
Wyalusing
Wysox
Future Local Events of Interest to Historians
14 JAN CCHS Annual Meeting
06 FEb 2008 Bradford County Florida Picnic - Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008, at the Magnolia Bldg. Lakeside Complex, Lakeland, Florida.  9:30 AM to 2:00 PM  $4.00 each.  Bring table service and a food item.  Ham, rolls and condiments will be provided.
20 FEB 2008 Hoodie Hoo Day - See March 2007 Mountain Home Article

Here is a  PICO Search Engine for you to use. This is the ONLY search engine that can reliably pick up information from my four inter-linked site directories. This starts at the main page of the site and indexes the 15,775 pages in the ~srgp, ~patioga, ~pabradfo, and ~nychemun directories as of  Nov 2007. Pages added to the site since then will not be included until next time I reindex.. .

SEARCH at Tri-Counties


Many Thanks to the site guests who have chipped in to cover the costs of this search engiine. We will start our 2007 contract with search capacity of 16, 000 pages and increase in increments of 1000 as the year and added pages progress. Your donations are needed to cover this cost which is now well over $1300 per year. I can't do it FOR YOU without your help.  Donor Listing & Directions
February 2006 - $620 for another six months
August 2006 - $620 for another six months
October 2006 - Add 1000 page capacity to 16,000 pages $83-
February 2007 - $730
August 2007 - $730
Send Donations to help cover this and other site costs to Joyce - Next PICO bill due 27 Feb 2008

Ask Joyce's Cat

PicoSearch
  Help

See  Also PARTITIONED search engine to search just sections of the site. -- Below
Use the Drop Down Windowto search selected areas of site for Obituaries and other slected information
These represent directories in the site's structure. Clipping section includes scrapbooks of obituaries, marriages, gossip, etc. It also includes new obits where the cemetery is not identified. The Obit by cemetery pages are by county BUT obits may be on an obit by cemetery page OR in the Clipping - scrapbook section. Check both. Also remember that people are often buried in a different county than the one in which they lived or died. Another point to be aware of is that some of the very small cemeteries that have few obits will have the obits on the cemetery listing page. They will be missed by this partitioned search of just the obituary directories. They will show up on the search which covers the entire site or the burials.
If you do not click the drop down list, you will think this is just the same form of the search engine we have had for several years. It is NOT - It is a major enhancement of its utility which I will develop further depending on positive feedback I do or do not get. At this point it partitions the obituaries and cemetery listings only. While obits are added daily, the search engine in not reindexed that frequently. Added obituaries will only register when the search engine is reindexed.
Here is an IMPORTANT tip - If you use a DATE restriction in your search, be aware that refers to the date I last changed a particular page - It is a file date, NOT a date for an event.

This PARTITIONED Search engine HERE is your most valuable tool for getting maximum results from this Tri-Counties Site. Use the Drop Down Arrow for the categories

  Help
Site Search by PicoSearch

This will only cover the few pages that have been moved to this server so far.

AND I do not have control over when it is reindexed, so it may be days behind any changes or additions.

Google
 

LEROY HOLLY HOME TOUR SLATED FOR DECEMBER 8

LeRoy Heritage Museum, Inc. announces that the second annual LeRoy Holly Home Tour will be held December 8, 2007, from 12 noon to 4 p.m.

The tour will feature five historic homes in the community of LeRoy, beautifully decorated for the Christmas season. A variety of activities will also take place at the LeRoy Community Building (school house) during the event.

Tickets will be sold the day of the event. The price of the ticket includes the self-guided tour of the first floor of each home, the opportunity to enter for the chance to win door prizes, and holiday refreshments. In addition, a variety of live musical entertainment such as the Alba Brass will be available throughout the afternoon, as well as craft vendors, the museum gift shop, and a display showing the current renovation work taking place at the museum.

The tour will include two houses that were featured last year plus three new homes. This years participants are Mike & Lisa Miosi, Ron & Angie Kirby, Mark & Laura Crossan and Ron & Ruthie Bly. Each year homeowners use their imaginations and create new and different ways to adorn their homes for the season. As a result, visitors are guaranteed a different experience each year.

The much anticipated LeRoy Holly Home Tour helps fulfill the museum goal of preservation by featuring historic homes that have been or are currently being restored by their owners. It also assists in fulfilling the goal of education by sharing historical facts about each home with visitors. Last years participants were also pleased with the community pride fostered by the event.

The houses that will be featured on the tour are steeped in history. The oldest was built over 150 years ago. Another of the homes was built by one of LeRoy's early doctors, and still another was considered a model of what the ideal farm should look like. One of LeRoy's old hotels, currently undergoing restoration, will also be featured, and visitors will have the opportunity to see the large Victorian ballroom which was a significant source of entertainment in the community 100 years ago.

This special day is also a fundraiser for the LeRoy Heritage Museum, Inc. The museum is currently restoring the former Open Hand Grange in LeRoy which will become a museum and research library covering LeRoy Township and Barclay Mountain history. The facility is on schedule to be completed by the summer of 2008 and events such as the Holly Home Tour are helping to raise the $25,000 that is needed to finish the building.

Laura's This-n-That, located in the center of LeRoy (and featured on the tour), will be contributing 20% of their profit from that day to the museum. This will be a great opportunity to do some Christmas shopping, while benefiting LeRoy Heritage Museum at the same time!

LeRoy Heritage Museum, Inc. is offering businesses the opportunity to sponsor this event. A business name and contact information may be placed in an ad in the Holly Home Tour guide brochure that will be distributed to visitors during the tour. For details about this opportunity, call 570-364-5770 or visit the museum website to download a form.

The Holly Home Tour is just a part of this special holiday weekend in LeRoy. After the tour, visitors will be encouraged to stop at the historic LeRoy General Store to order their dinner. A famous Heritage Cheese Steak may be perfect on a winter day. Later in the evening the LeRoy Independent Baptist Church will feature its popular event entitled, "Bethlehem Boulevard." This is an interactive walking tour of the village of Bethlehem that is built inside the church facility and will be expanded this year with new additions to the town.

To view photos of the houses being featured on the Holly Home Tour, or to see an up-to-date schedule of events, visit the LeRoy Heritage Museum website at www.leroyheritage.org, and click on "Holly Home Tour" in the Events section. If you have questions, call 570-364-5770 or email leroymuseum@frontiernet.net.


The Bradford County Historical Society
Holiday Celebrations at the Museum
       The Bradford County Historical Society has planned several exciting days at the museum in Towanda
to celebrate the upcoming holidays.  The four day event (Dec. 6 – Dec. 9) will begin Thursday evening and conclude Sunday afternoon.  All of the activities will be held at the Bradford County Historical Museum (the old jail building on Pine Street.).   There will be something to entertain all museum patrons and their guests from party-goers to families with children.  Please check out the schedule of Christmas events and  mark your calendar so you are sure not to miss any of the festivities.   If you have questions about any of the planned activities you can call Lynn Pliske, event chairperson at 265-0216 or the museum at 265-2240.

Christmas Tree Gala
Thursday, December 6th
 6:00 - 8:30 PM

       Come to see the Museum decorated for the Holidays and enjoy a delightful time with friends and neighbors.   Joel and Sue Christian will provide the musical entertainment for the evening.  There will be a selection of tasty food, beer, wine, soft drinks, and an array of festive cookies and sweets.  Tours of the museum will feature the season’s special exhibit - Toys and Winter Fun from Generations Past. There will be a chance to win prizes throughout the night.  The evening’s events will include the much anticipated Christmas Tree Auction offering many fine decorated Christmas trees and holiday items for you to bid on.  Advance tickets and are available at the Museum, C&N  Bank in Towanda, and Sturzen Furniture in Towanda and Sayre.                                                                                                     $8 in advance /$10 at the door

Brown Bag Lunch at the Museum
Friday, December 7th
10:00 – 2:00

       Bring your “brown bag” lunch and enjoy a well deserved break at the museum. The Great Room will be the perfect place to spend your lunch-hour as we welcome you with festive holiday decorations, music and the aroma of hot cider and cookies (available free of charge).   Make sure to tour the museum and visit the gift shop!                                                                                                                                                     Free admission
Kids at the Museum
Saturday, December 8th
10:00 -2:00

       Bring the family to the museum and watch as your children marvel at the many items displayed in the exhibit Toys and Winter Fun from Generations Past!  All of the children will have fun playing games and making their own ornaments with Santa’s elves.  Tour the museum while the holiday decorations are up and visit the gift shop.  Holiday refreshments will be served                                                            Free admission                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    .

Christmas Book Sale
Sunday, December 9th
11:00 – 3:00

       Browse the many titles on display in the reference library on the third floor of the museum.  Choose the perfect gift for that someone special and take advantage of the once a year pricing on some popular items. Be the first to take home a signed copy of BCHS’s new book “BARCLAY MOUNTAIN – A History”.  After shopping stop down to the Great Room and enjoy yummy cookies and punch.  Save time to tour the museum!                                                                                                                                                    Free admission



SRAC News
t is my pleasure to announce to the friends and membership of SRAC that we have purchased a building at 345 Broad Street in Waverly!

We will continue to keep our headquarter mailing address at our current Sayre Address and will actually accept or direct much mail to the Center, just for convenience and to always stay grounded in the state (PA) that we were incorporated in,while reaching out to our friends in NY.

Let's face it - - the Indians didn't have these borders..and we will strive to ensure that we continue to support the Northern Tier of New York and Southern Pa as we laid down in our bylaws when were were founded.

To learn more about our plans - visit http://sracenter.blogspot.com/2007/11/stone-soup.html

Deb Twigg
Executive Director
S.R.A.C
www.SRACenter.org
H - (607)565-2536

What's all the chatter? - Find out now at SRACenter.blogspot.com



A Rescue Dog's Christmas Poem

Tis the night before Christmas and all through the town,
every shelter is full - we are lost, but not found,
Our numbers are hung on our kennels so bare,
we hope every minute that someone will care,
They'll come to adopt us and give us the call,
"Come here, Max and Sparkie - come fetch your new ball!!

But now we sit here and think of the days...
we were treated so fondly - we had cute, baby ways,
Once we were little, then we grew and we grew
now we're no longer young and we're no longer new.

So out the back door we were thrown like the trash,
they reacted so quickly - why were they so rash?
We "jump on the children:, "don't come when they call",
we "bark when they leave us", climb over the wall.
We should have been neutered, we should have been spayed,
now we suffer the consequence of the errors THEY made.

If only they'd trained us, if only we knew...
we'd have done what they asked us and worshiped them, too.
We were left in the backyard, or worse -let to roam-
now we're tired and lonely and out of a home.
They dropped us off here and they kissed us good-bye...
"Maybe someone else will give you a try."

So now here we are, all confused and alone...
in a shelter with others who long for a home.
The kind workers come through with a meal and a pat,
with so many to care for, they can't stay to chat.
They move to the next kennel, giving each of us cheer...
we know that they wonder how long we'll be here.

We lay down to sleep and sweet dreams fill our heads...
of a home filled with love and our own cozy beds.
Then we wake to see sad eyes, brimming with tears -
our friends filled with emptiness, worry, and fear.

If you can't adopt us and there's no room at the Inn -
could you help with the bills and fill our food bin?
We count on your kindness each day of the year -
can you give more than hope to everyone here?

Please make a donation to pay for the heat...
and help get us something special to eat.
The shelter that cares for us wants us to live,
and more of us will, if more people will give.

Author Unknown


Chemung County Historical Society’s Annual Meeting

Monday, January 14, 2008 at 5:30

Schedule at a Glance

5:30 - Reception

6:00 - Dinner Catered by PDR

6:45 - Business Meeting: Welcome New Trustees

7:00 - Program: Chemung Valley Heritage: An Archaeological

Perspective presented by Dr. Nina Versaggi, Director of the Public Archaeology at Binghamton University

8:00 – Adjourn Meeting

The cost is $15.00 per person.  Please RSVP by Friday January 11, 2008 to (607)-734-4167.
Take this opportunity to say goodbye to outgoing trustees  and welcome new trustees while enjoying an evening of friends, food, and fun.
Kerry Lippincott
Education Coordinator
Chemung Valley History Museum
415 E. Water St.
Elmira, NY 14901
phone: (607) 734-4167, ext. 205
fax: (607) 734-1565
educator@chemungvalleymuseum.org

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