Rockdale County GaArchives History .....Rockdale County Genealogical Society-Newsletter November 2005 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Larry C. Knowles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002854 March 16, 2009, 8:41 pm JEANS & GENES Rockdale County Genealogical Society Publication-November 2005 ______________________________________________________________ November 13, 2005, Meeting The November meeting will be our final meeting of the year. It will be held in the meeting room at the library at 3:00 P.M. on November 13, 2005. We don’t meet in December because of the holidays. As usual we will have our “taste of the past” where we bring dishes that reflect what our ancestors ate. There will not be a speaker. The program will be one of sharing and comparing of the year’s result of our research. You will want to bring your collection of research to share with the other members. The nominating committee has been hard at work putting together a slate of officers for 2006. The committee is being chaired by Gerre Byrd. She has almost completed the task of filling the slots for all of the needed candidates. If you have a thought as to who would be a good candidate possibility, Gerre would appreciate hearing from you. We should be able to finalize the election process at the November meeting. Sherry Pierce has already begun lining up speakers for the coming year. This is one of the most important tasks we always face each year. Engaging the membership by always having an interesting program is the only way to keep the members active. We will be hard put to top the efforts that were accomplished during 2005. Anyone having an idea about a particular individual who could serve as a speaker should contact Sherry and give the information to her. ______________________________________________________________ New Books Added to Library Shelves Index 1820 NC Census 929.3756 POT Find Public Records Fast 352.387 SAN Genealogist’s Companion & Sourcebook 929.1 CRO Vanishing Georgia 975.8 GEO Winton (Barnwell) County, SC Minutes of County Court & Will Book 1 929.3757.SOU Sullivan, A Direct Bloodline 929.2 SUL ______________________________________________________ Library Visitors Share Research Names Wanda Shipley, 1072 Angel Ln.,Powder Springs, Ga. 30127, shiperaw@yahoo.com - Researching Young and Almand Karl Plenge, Box 2132, Lake City, FL 32056 karlplenge@letu.edu - Researching Tommey and Mann P. Satterfield, 180 Lke Side Dr., Covington, Ga. 30016. Researching Scott Pendley and Griggs. K. Chandler, P. O. Box 194, Jersey, Ga. 30018. Researching Chandler. Yvane Cain, 1770 Phillips Rd., Lithonia, Ga. Researching McKnight Randy Rogers, Jackson, MS, Researching Almond, Gregory Ken Thomas, Decatur, Ga. Researching Ashburn George Smith, 3210 Chimney Cover Dr. 30041. No Names Given John Bozeman, 1226 Lambeth Way, Conyers, GA. No names given. Phyllis A. Thompson, 4468 Salem Rd., Covington, Ga. 30016. Researching Bradford and Black. Carrie Hutcherson, 2196 Hampton Tr., Conyers, Ga. 30013. No names given. The reason that we have always tried to list the information for the researchers who have visited the library is to provide the opportunity for the members to be able to contact the researcher if he or she is researching a similar surname. We sincerely hope that this will not be objectionable. Some individuals have expressed concern about having names and addresses and phone numbers etc. posted on the web for anyone to access. There is concern at this time about identity theft. Therefore, if anyone listed here wishes to have the information deleted, we will comply with their wishes. We can change the listing to only show an email address if that information is provided to the editor at the email at the end of this newsletter. ________________________________________________________________ Look Back To See What Our Ancestors Were Doing In keeping with the idea of providing a taste of the past, we include the list of those individuals winning premiums at the Rockdale County Fair of 1878: Mrs. J. F. Marston, best lot fresh butter, $1.00 Mrs. K. A. McNair, best butter six months old, $1.00 D. N. Hudson, best 2 native hams, $1.00 Mrs. Susan Peek, best jar of lard, $1.00 Mrs. E. C. Thrasher, Best collection dried fruit, $1.00 Mrs. E. C. Thrasher, best collection Jellies, preserves, pickles, $3.00 Mrs. T. H. Harden, best lot canned fruit, $1.00 Mrs. D. M. Almand, second best lot canned fruit, $1.00 J. D. Winburn, best collection of pickles, $1.00 Mrs. S. M. Sanford, best collection of bread, $l.00 Mrs. P. G. Turner, Newton Co., best made gentlemen’s suit, $2.00 Miss Jessie Winburn, best calico dress, $1.00 Mrs. C. M. Neal, best calico quilt, $1.00 Mrs. Welcome Almand, best log cabin quilt, $1.00 Mrs. Cowart, best worsted quilt, $1.00 Mrs. Allie Tarvis, best worked silk quilt, $2.00 Mrs. H. A. Smith, age 65, best calico quilt, $1.00 Mrs. McConnel, best raised quilt, (com, recom, prem) Mrs. C. M. Neal, best woven counterpane, $1.00 Mrs. Ralph Neal, best checked counterpane, (com. recom, prem.) Mrs. J. E. Whitaker, best coverlet, $1.00 Mrs. Margaret Farmer, best woolen jeans, $1.00 Mrs. A. H. Zachry, best hearth rug, $1.00 Mrs. P. A. McCollum, best rug carpet, $1.00 Mrs. Ralph New, second best rug carpet, $1.00 Mrs. A. J. Crawley, Henry County, handsomest pillow cover, $1.00 Miss Jessie Winburn, best shirt made by a girl under 13 years, $2.00 Mrs. Sarah Zachry, best child’s crotched saque, $1.00 Miss Graves, Newton County, best handkerchief, $1.00 Mrs. J. F. Marston, most beautiful shawl, $1.00 Mrs. E. C. Thrasher, best fancy knitting, $1.00 Mrs. Cowart, best specimen tatin, $1.00 Miss L. O. Reed, best tidy, $1.00 Miss C. Marston, best lamp or vase mat, $1.00 Miss Mary White, best tidy on java canvas, $1.00 Miss M. A. Wallace, best pin cushion, $1.00 Mrs. Mars, 70 years of age, Newton Co., best specimen embroidery, $1.00 Miss Carrie Stewart, best specimen applique work, $1.00 Miss J. D. Gray, Newton Co., best silk embroidery, $1.00 Miss S. G. Griffin, best display hair work, $1.00 Miss Adelia Winburn, best display wax work, $1.00 Miss Annie Lee, best display seed work, $1.00 Miss M. A. Taylor, best display rustic work, $1.00 Miss Puttin, Newton Co., best display bead work, $1.00 Miss C. Marston, best feather work, $1.00 Mrs. Carrie Stewart, best crocheting merit and variety, $1.00 Mrs. J. D. Gray, Newton Co., best Afghan, $1.00 Mrs. J. D. Winburn, best feather brush, $1.00 Master Charlie Robinson, Newton Co., carving in wood, $1.00 Mrs. A. J. Haygood, best catchall, $1.00 Miss Ella Hollingsworth, age 12, best calico quilt, $1.00 Miss Tiny Good, best ironed shirt, $1.00 Mrs. Carrie Stewart, best darned sock, $1.00 We would have liked to have shown the complete list; but, the newspaper editor failed to continue the list in the next issue as he indicated. There would have had to have been more farm related produce. None-the-less, this listing will give us "food" for thought. We would like to know if anyone knows what a log cabin quilt is. Perhaps it was made from random scraps of cloth in no particular order. And, what about all of the silk work? It must have been terribly difficult and time consuming. Who ever heard of making a pair of woolen jeans. They were probably made from scratch by spinning the wool and making the cloth on a loom. Wonder when they started making them out of cotton. The names of the people could have been taken right from the history of Rockdale. The Marstons: Mr. Marston was a carpenter who built much of the town's houses and commercial buildings. He built the Zingara Lodge building. The Strewarts were one of the earliest Conyers families. The Almands were merchants and influenced everything from banking to undertaking. The Zachrys: we know about their cemetery. Mrs. S. M. Sanford: she is probably the mother of the man for whom Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga. is named. . The White family for whom White Road is named. The Peek family: Peek Street is named for W. L. Peek. He ran for governor on a third party ticket. He failed to carry his home county. He was very big in agricultural matters. There is a story behind every name. ________________________________________________________________ Jackie's Figures on the Heritage Book Since I am in the process of sending another sales tax report to the state, thought you might would like to know of our progress with the sale of the heritage book. Book Sales $59,432.97 Interest Earned(Money Market Acct) * 896.78 Total Receipts $ 60,329.75 Paid Out Walsworth Publishing $ 29,507.64 Don Mills (Overruns) 17,754.00 Ga. Sales Tax 2,332.51 Misc. Receipts * 1,073.01 Books for Special Collections Room 8,970.45 Total Expense $ 59,637.61 Cash on Hand $ 692.14 * Money put in money market acct. until we started buying books for Special Collections Room. * Includes postage, mailers, advertising, post office box rent & misc. supplies. Receipts available. Respectfully Submitted Heloise J. Smith, Treas. If you have any books still available to sell, would you let me know. Need to make a report to Don Mills. Also we have about 50 others available for sale. Will have an ad coming out in the Library Newsletter. Reduced price to $55.00. No reprints. May 1997 until 2006 a long time to continue holding these. Still need your help to get them sold. (For your info, we send cost of book to Don Mills when sold. These are considered the overruns. Our profit on each book is $15.00) (Ed: Our thanks to Jackie for a job well done.) _______________________________________________________________ Use of Obituary Copyright I have a ton of obituaries and memorial cards collected by family members that I would like to put up on a web site. My questions are about copyright restriction in the USA: - is the restriction on written material 80 years from the date of publication? - would that restriction cover memorial cards as well as obituaries? Memorial cards are distributed at viewings and funerals; they contain the deceased’s name, date of death, name of the funeral home, cemetery etc. On the web site I would not copy the memorial card verbatim but would put the information it contains on a form. My interpretation is that copyright law covers intellectual property, i.e. it would cover an obituary because someone wrote it, but a memorial card is essentially a list of facts so it would not be covered. I’d appreciate your opinions and comments. Thanks, Sara Copyright does not exist in information. So, AFAIK, putting the information from the memorial cards onto a form would not be in infringe anybody’s copyright. Though putting scanned images of them on the web would probably infringe copyright. I cannot comment specifically on US law but internationally copyright persist, in written material, for 70 years from the death of the author (irrespective of who owns the copyright) - or if anonymous from the date of publication. Chris Hi Sara, You could contact the paper or papers concerned and ask permission to copy the obit and add a statement like the following ““All rights reserved by “The Tribune” News paper of New York, USA.” You are in effect giving then as being the source of the information. I have found in most cases that the News Paper in question is only to willing to allow this as they in turn get free Advertising. Food for thought. Cheers, David. Hi David, Thanks for your response. I’ve done that in the past, with articles, but unfortunately these obits are just clippings with no information to identify which papers they came from. Sara Where I come from (originally), most obituaries are written by the family and provided to the paper. The paper then prints them as a service. The only ones that are written by the paper are the ones with no family (who claims them) to write it for them. Those are usually much shorter and have very little detail, especially about family history. Likewise, the death notice / funeral cards are usually created by the funeral home, not the paper. - Andrew W Applegarth ...never considered copyright on an obituary before... _____________________________________________________________ JEANS & GENES is a publication of the Rockdale County Genealogical Society. % Nancy Guinn Library, 864 Green St. SW, Conyers, Ga. 30012 President: Bill Freese V. President: Martha Brown Treasurer: Jackie Smith Secretary: Bertha Little Program Cochairmen: Sherry Pierce, Norma Owens Membership Chairman: Gerre Byrd Publicity & Newsletter: Marion T. Farmer 1500 A. Pine Log Rd NE Conyers, GA. 30012 mtf@mindspring.com http://mtf.home.mindspring.com _______________________________________________ Additional comments: This back issue of the Rockdale County Genealogical Society newsletter has been copied with permission from the personal website of editor, Marion Farmer, as his website is nearing capacity. For simplicity the few photos or graphics have not been included here. Websites previously linked from Marion’s site will not be operative here. Sites that are still active may be found by entering their listed URLs. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/rockdale/history/other/rockdale99nms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 13.6 Kb