Gaylord Fact Finders Genealogical Society

Publisher of "The Keystone" is the Gaylord Fact Finders Genealogical Society, a non-profit organization. Publication is in January, April, July, and October.
Membership dues are $10.00 per individual (or $ 12.00 per family), and are due by the May meeting each year. If the dues are not received, that member will not receive the July issue of "The Keystone." Regular meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month (August - November, and March - June) at the Otsego County Historical Museum, 320 W. Main, Gaylord. Correspondence should be sent to the address shown at the top.

The first issue of "The Keystone", was prepared in July, 1987, by Marleah Muzyl. For the last several years, she has printed and distributed our publication. Now, after nearly 13 years, she is resigning from "The Keystone" staff!!! Patricia Moehring has volunteered to assume these responsibilities from Marleah. For all of these years, we can only offer our thanks to Marleah for a great job, well done in her usual efficient manner, and we also offer thanks to Pat for continuing the fine precedent set for her. We feel confident that she will also continue this responsibility in great form.

This issue includes some medical terms, a short family history, some unusual research sources, fifteen sources for maiden names, incorporation dates of some northern cities and villages, and some up-coming events.

"Many youngsters are curious about their heritage. They know their parents; if they are lucky, they are living with both of them. If they are very lucky, they know - maybe even live with - one or more grandparents. But the average elementary school boy or girl (in the fourth through sixth grades, say) only knows about living relatives. This book will help them learn more, to dig more deeply, to understand, how to do the research necessary to create a simple family tree. It will give them both the tools and the appetite to learn more about their roots, to uncover the stories and events that make them and their families unique.

"Roots for Kids" is based on a twelve-week course the author developed for her fourth grade class. Each chapter is based on a forty-five minute classroom session. While the book is suitable for adoption by teachers seeking to supplement their middle school social studies curriculum with material on family history, its principal use will be by and with individual young people. The book is written at a level appropriate to its audience. The author moves slowly and carefully, as she takes young readers through an introduction to genealogy, to discussions of their families and their parents' families ... learning how to ask questions (oral history) ... researching local state and national records ... using libraries and historical societies ... much more.

"A native of Bristol, Vermont, Susie Beller has been involved in genealogical research for more than sixteen years. In addition to her teaching experience with young people, she has taught advanced genealogy courses to adult education classes."

MORE DISEASES (fatal and otherwise) -
Ague	Fever
Air swellings	Air or gas in intestines
Anchylosis	Stiff joint
Androsis	Too little perspiration
Aneurysm	A permanent abnormal, blood filled dilation of a blood vessel resulting from disease of the vessel wall
Anthrax	A carbuncle or boil which is larger and more painful than a boil.
Arachnitis	Inflammation of membranes in the brain.
Ascites	Dropsy of the belly; a collection of water in the stomach.
Bad Blood	Syphilis.
Barber's Itch	Ring-worm of the beard.
Bilious Colic	Tortuous pain in the belly.
Bloody Flux	Dysentery - inflammation of the bowels; colitis.
Blue Disease	A blue tint to the body. Body warmth is reduced to hampering breathing; usually fatal.
Bright's Disease	Albumen in the urine.
Brain Fever	Intense headache; fever, vertigo, intolerance to light and sound.
Bronchorrhea	Bronchial flue.
Brown Tail Rash	Rash on the skin caused by gypsy moth. Hairs are carried on the wind and lodge in the pores of the skin.
Bronze John	Yellow fever.
Childbains	Sore swelling on the foot or hand caused by exposure to cold.
Child-bed fever	Blood poisoning during pregnancy.
Clap	Gonorrhea.
Confinement	Undergoing childbirth.
Costiveness	Constipation.
Cretinism	Abnormal condition marked by physical stunting and mental deficiency, caused by severe thyroid deficiency.
Crusted Tetter	Impetigo.
Debility	Weakness, infirmity.
Devonshire Colic	Painter's Colic.
Dry belly-ache	Painter's Colic.
Dysentery	A disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood, usually caused by infection.
Dyspepsia	Indigestion.
Egyptian Chlorosis	Hookworm.
Endocarditis	Inflammation of the heart and its valves.
Erysipelas	An acute disease with fever, associated with intense inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissues caused by a shortage of red blood cells.
False Measles	Rose rash.
Fatty Liver	Cirrhosis.
Fits	Convulsions.
Flatulent Colic	Wind colic.
Glandular Fever	Mononucleosis.
Gravel	A deposit of small masses in the kidneys and urinary bladder.
Green Sickness	A green tint to the skin of a young girl in puberty.
Grippe (or LaGrippe)	Influenza (flu).
Idrosis	Greatly increased perspiration.
Indican in the urine	Poisonous material thrown back into the system.
Infantile Debility	Marasmus.
Infantile Spinal Paralysis	Polio.
Jail Fever	Typhus.
King's Evil	Scrofula, swelling of the neck glands.
Lock Jaw	Tetanus.
Lumbago	Rheumatic pain in the back.
Lung Fever	Pneumonia.
Lung Sickness	Tuberculosis.
Milk Crust	Red itchy pimples on face or scalp of infants, which burst and exude a sticky fluid forming a yellow crust.
Milk Leg	Phlebitis. Inflammation of the leg beginning two - seven weeks after giving birth.
Milk Sickness	Trembles - nausea, vomiting, debility, peculiar breath odor.
Mother's Marks	Dilation of minute blood vessels.
Mortification	Complete death of part of the body, changing it to black, stinking mass.
Neuralgia	Acute pain radiating along the nerves.
Osmidrosis	Perspiration with a peculiar smell.
Painter's Colic	Colic with slow lead poisoning.
Palsy	Uncontrollable tremor of the body or a part of it.
Pellagra	Diseased caused by eating spoiled corn. Vomiting, diarrhea, swollen and sore tongue and red ulcerated mouth, rash on the body, and body sores.
Phlebitis	Tenderness or hardness of infected vein.
Piles	Hemorrhoids.
Plague (Black Death)	Bubonic plague.
Pleurisy	Inflammation and mucus in lungs.
Podagara	Gout.
Pott's Disease	Tuberculosis of the spine.
Pox	Syphilis.
Puerperal	Pertaining to childbirth.
Purple Disease	Rash of spots on body, small, round and bright red, changing to purple or dark-red in irregular livid patches.
Putrid Fever	Typhus.
Pyemia	Blood poisoning from pus in the blood.
Quinsy	Streptococcal tonsillitis.
Rheumatism	Inflammation of the joints.
Saint Vitus' Dance	Nervous disorder which creates involuntary contractions.
Sciatica	Painful condition in hip and/or thigh.
Ship Fever	Typhus.
Spotted Fever	Spinal Meningitis
Saint Anthony's Fire	Erysipelas
Summer Complaint	Infantile Cholera
Typhus	Contagious disease transmitted to man by bite of fleas, lice, etc.
Uremia	Toxic blood in the urine.
Wind Colic	Distressing pain in the bowels.
Will Sorter's Disease	Anthrax.
(Much of these definitions came from the MGC newsletter of Nov. 1999)

    July, 1996 was the first time we came to Gaylord. We moved here from Bellflower, California. We lived in California for four years and three months. My folks were living in Atlanta, Michigan at the time, and we came to visit them. While visiting, my husband was reading the newspapers looking for a job. We liked Northern Michigan rather than southern Michigan, were we used to live. He saw an advertisement for help needed at U.S. Plywood. It was their two-week summer shut-down. He applied for the job, and then we left for "down below" to my sister's to see if, by any chance, someone had called him for the job. We were there a few days and he got a call to come to work at U.S. Plywood.
    We bought a small house east of Sparr, on the corner of Gibbs and Sawyer Roads. Our children attended Johannesburg School. In March 1975, U.S. Plywood Champion Paper had a lockout and many men were out of work. We sold our house and moved to Rogersville, Tennessee. His brother and family were living around there, and we did follow each other from state to state. Our oldest son did graduate from Johannesburg-Lewiston School in June of 1975. We moved to Tennessee in September. My husband took an early retirement from TRW the end of April, 1991, and we came back to Gaylord.
    Most of our children had jobs, gotten married, and had children of their own and did not come back with us. Made me very home-sick but we were hoping in time that they would follow us, but never did to this day. We go visit them a few times a year and they enjoy coming back for a visit here, love the great outdoors in the summer as it isn't so hot, and hunting with their father in the fall. They miss not having us close, but like us up here, so they can come back to their "ole stomping grounds." In time we may move closer to get away from the snow and the drive down there will be getting to much. My husband was born and raised in West Tennessee, and our children are in East Tennessee. I was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. My folks are both gone now, but do have a brother and sister in Michigan and a few other states.

FOUND at Springfield, Kentucky court house, basement:
Marriage of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks 10 Jun., 1806, on file at court house.
Surety: Richard Berry, Guardian; married 12 Jun., 1806 by Jesse Head.
Actual bond in locked security on first floor.

City directories - Chamber of commerce - Voter's lists - Tax Roles - Officials' Biographies - School Records - School Census - College Alumni Associations - Society Registers (DAR, lodges, farmers, etc.) - Military claims - Steamship rosters - telephone directories - Railroad pension applications - labor union records - accident reports - geographical dictionaries - atlases - Prison admissions - State Dept. of Corrections - State Census - Court Records for name changes, guardianships, etc., - witchcraft trials - Doctor's journals - Medical licenses - World War I Registration Card Requests from National Archives, East, in Georgia.

1. Failure to make accurate references - from whom and where they were found;
2. Failure to give credit to the source from which material was copied;
3. Failure to check out records in publications and proving the facts before including them;
4. Failure to identify towns, counties, and states, so locations mentioned are clear;
5. Failure to recognize the importance of researching all date of female lines;
6. Failure to use only standard abbreviations, and to be consistent throughout.

CLUES IN MILITARY MARKER REQUESTS - Military grave markers are not provided unless requested by survivor of the veteran. That request made for a deceased relative or ancestor could contain important genealogical information.

A copy of the marker request can be obtained from:
Office of Memorial Programs (402A), National Cemetery Systems, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C. 20420.
Also that office can supply the location of a burial in any National Cemetery.
(From Niagara Co. Genealogical Soc., New York, April - June, 1997)

All fifteen ways will not work on the same person; it depends on the time, place, and where the person lived. Try for three proofs, but get at least two. You'll find it may not be to difficult. (Jean Waller)

April 29, 2000 "Ships' Passengers Lists" at Library of Michigan and Presidents' Workshop

May 6, 2000 Eaton County Genealogical Society presents Dr. George K. Schweitzer and Shirley Hodges at Holiday Inn South, Lansing, Mich. Cost is $30.00 including lunch.

July 20 -22, 2000 "Genealogy in the New Millennium" Conference at Grand Wayne Center, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Officers for 1999-2000:		Committees:
President	Donna Marrs	Obituaries/Vital Records	Donna Marrs
Vice President	Marleah Muzyl		Marleah Muzyl
Recording Secretary	Mary "Dell" Krueger	Membership
Corresp. Secretary	Donna Marrs	Social	Patricia Moehring
Treasurer	Jackie Skinner	Newsletter	Donna Marrs Patricia Moehring
Past-President	Uilani Clifton	Programs	Sue Giessel
		Inter-Society Liaison	Donna Marrs
These officers and Past-President comprise our executive board.		MGC Delegates	Donna Marrs Marleah Muzyl
		Publications	Sue Giessel
		Historian	Pat Moehring

#174	Donald R. Moss, 7806 Blue Grass Dr., Parkville, Missouri, 64152
	816-741-5196
	Researching Moss, Grubbe, Schlienz, June
#175	Diana Joan Severns, Box 589, Cottage Grove, Oregon, 97424
	541-942-0536 e-mail dianas@ordata.com
	Researching Grubbe, Lockwood, McCormick

CITY	INCORPORATION	VILLAGE	INCORPORATION
Cheboygan	1889	Mackinaw City	1882
Petoskey	1895	Kalkaska	1887
Traverse City	1895	Mancelona	1889
Mackinac Island	1899	Bellaire	1891
Onaway	1903	Boyne Falls	1893
Charlevoix	1905	Central Lake	1895
Boyne City	1907	Elk Rapids	1900
East Jordan	1911	Vanderbilt	1901
Gaylord	1922	Wolverine	1903
Harbor Springs	1932	Alanson	1905
Grayling	1935	Pellston	1907
		Ellsworth	1938
(Extracted from East Jordan News Herald May 6, 1954)