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The S.C. Confederate Relic Room and Military
Museum is featured in an upcoming episode of the critically acclaimed PBS show
History Detectives. The episode explores a privately owned flag that is
linked to the largely forgotten African-American 371st
Infantry Regiment, which fought in World War I and mainly from South Carolina.
The flag’s owner contacted History Detectives to investigate its
authenticity. The show’s producers then contacted the museum because it has two
371st flags in its collection, one
of which is currently on display in the exhibit “Forgotten Stories: SC Fights
the Great War.” In January, the production crew filmed a portion of the episode
at the museum, interviewing Sarah Wooton, Chief Curator of Collections and
Exhibitions, about the 371st
Regiment and the flags.
The episode will air July 7 at
9:00 as part of the sixth season of History Detectives.
Founded
in 1896, the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum is the oldest
museum in the Columbia area. The museum focuses on South Carolina’s military
history from the Revolutionary War to the present War on Terror.
About the 371st Regiment
The 371st Infantry Regiment formed in August 1917 and consisted of
African-American draftees mostly from South Carolina. After training at Camp
Jackson, the unit arrived on the Western Front in April 1918. It was placed
under the command of the French Army because of their desperate need for new
troops, and out of fear that racial tension might erupt between
African-American and white American soldiers. The unit was reorganized to fit
the French army structure and spent the spring of 1918 training in French
tactics. The regiment was put into battle to relieve the exhausted French and
allied Italian units and fought until the end of the war.
A
community reception was held in February, 1919 at Allen University in honor of
the return of the 371st. The two flags of the regiment that were carried in
France were presented to the community at that time. Those flags are part of
the collection of the S.C. Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum. One of
these flags is now conserved and on display for the first time in the museum's
history
Monday, June
30, 2008
This week’s new video on the
SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum’s YouTube Channel features Sarah
Wooton, Chief Curator, discussing the African-American 371st
Infantry Regiment that served in WWI. The 371st, draftees mainly
from South Carolina, trained at Camp Jackson before serving with the French
during the war. The Regiment, and the museum, will be featured on PBS's
History Detectives July 7 at
9:00.
The museum’s site video can
be accessed by visiting
www.crr.sc.gov/videos or
http://www.youtube.com/SCCRRMM. After creating a free YouTube account
visitors choose to subscribe to the channel by clicking the “Subscribe” button
in the top right hand corner of the page. New videos are added regularly.
Founded in 1896, the SC
Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum is the oldest museum in the
Columbia area. The museum focuses on South Carolina’s military history from
the Revolutionary War to the present War on Terror.
Thursday, June
26, 2008
I just want to let you know
this so that you can pass it on. Ancestry.com does have the 1840 Census
for Abbeville District (county) South Carolina even though they don’t have it
listed under the counties for 1840 S.C. census and it is not indexed (a search
for someone in Abbeville County will result in “no matches”). They have put
Abbeville County (District) under Charleston (county). Anyone living in
Abbeville in 1840 can be found in Charleston.
1840 United States Federal Census (Ancestry.com)
search engine page
http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=8057&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0
scroll down to states that are
included in this census and click on South Carolina
Abbeville and Anderson
Districts (counties) are not listed.
A search result for my
ancestor (just using his name and leaving the county blank) shows that he is in
Charleston County. However, the census page has Abbeville District written on
the side (left).
Anyone using the search engine
looking for someone in Abbeville County, should put Charleston for the county.
Elizabeth S. Pitts
Secretary/Treasurer
ONDC
Wednesday, June
11, 2008
Since Father's Day falls on the 3rd
Sunday, our regular meeting day, please make plans to attend on the 4th Sunday
in June.
Monday, June
9, 2008
Video of the Week Features a 'Blood-Stained' Mexican War Era Scarf
This
week’s new video on the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum’s
YouTube Channel features Rachel Cockrell, Registrar, discussing a silk scarf
that belonged to Pvt. Thomas Tillman, who was killed in 1847 during the
Mexican War. Tillman was part of the SC Volunteers, Shield’s Brigade.
Records on the scarf indicate that it was blood-stained but this cannot be
confirmed without forensic analysis.
The museum’s site video
can be accessed by visiting
www.crr.sc.gov/videos or
http://www.youtube.com/SCCRRMM. After creating a free YouTube account
visitors choose to subscribe to the channel by clicking the “Subscribe”
button in the top right hand corner of the page. New videos are added
regularly.
Founded in 1896, the SC
Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum is the oldest museum in the
Columbia area. The museum focuses on South Carolina’s military history from
the Revolutionary War to the present War on Terror.
Friday, May
9, 2008
Reminder: No regular meeting
in May, only business meeting of officers.
A special guest speaker, Mike
Becknell will present our program the 3rd Sunday in June, 2008. Mark your
calendar. Bring a guest.
Monday, May
5, 2008
This week’s new video on the SC
Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum’s YouTube Channel features Krissy
Dunn, Curator of History, discussing the recently acquired McRae Papers
Collection. These papers provide rare documentation of blockade running and
the purchasing operations of the Confederacy. The papers belonged to Colin J.
McRae, the South’s purchasing agent in England. The collection was found in
the attic of a historic home in Alabama. Visit
http://www.crr.sc.gov/support/mcrae/
for more information about the
papers.
The museum’s site video can be
accessed by visiting
www.crr.sc.gov/videos or
http://www.youtube.com/SCCRRMM. After creating a free YouTube account
visitors choose to subscribe to the channel by clicking the “Subscribe” button
in the top right hand corner of the page. New videos are added regularly.
Founded in 1896, the SC
Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum is the oldest museum in the
Columbia area. The museum focuses on South Carolina’s military history from
the Revolutionary War to the present War on Terror.
Saturday,
April 26, 2008
This week’s new video on the
SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum’s YouTube Channel features Chief
Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Sarah Wooton discussing a laptop donated
by Major Scott Bell. This laptop was used when he recently served in Iraq and
is now part of the museum’s Write from the Front Collection. This award winning
program seeks to collect and preserve the emails and digital photos from
soldiers during the current War on Terror.
The
museum’s site video can be accessed by visiting
www.crr.sc.gov/videos or
http://www.youtube.com/SCCRRMM. After creating a free YouTube account
visitors choose to subscribe to the channel by clicking the “Subscribe” button
in the top right hand corner of the page. New videos are added regularly.
Founded
in 1896, the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum is the oldest museum
in the Columbia area. The museum focuses on South Carolina’s military history
from the Revolutionary War to the present War on Terror.
Wednesday,
April 16, 2008
Civil War Photography
Lecture and Demonstration, Exhibit Featuring Iconic Period Images
On April 26, the SC Confederate Relic Room &
Military Museum is hosting a lecture and demonstration on Civil War
photography. This event coincides with the museum’s latest exhibit, “Civil
War Photographs from the David L. Hack Collection.” This traveling
exhibit organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia features
unique and rare period photographs.
These images include Robert E. Lee in the
uniform he wore while surrendering at Appomattox and Abraham Lincoln’s last
formal photo session in the White House. Photographs of battlefield medicine
tents at Gettysburg, a military band, and Confederate spy Rose Greenhow are
among the unique scenes on display. Also included is one of the first
examples of photo journalism in American history – Alexander Gardner’s
photograph series of the Lincoln assassination conspirators’ execution.
Brooks Johnson, Curator of Photography at the
Chrysler Museum, will speak about iconic photographs on display, as well as
the photographers of the Civil War. He will also discuss the various
techniques utilized in this time period. A brief exhibit tour will follow the
lecture.
After the tour, Jonathan Goley, a Columbia
area photographer and artist, will provide an educational demonstration of wet
plate collodion photography. This was one technique used by photographers
during the Civil War.
The event begins at 1:00pm and is free to the
public. This program is sponsored by The Humanities Council SC, a state
program of the National Endowment for the Humanities; inspiring, engaging and
enriching South Carolinians with programs on literature, history, culture and
heritage.
For more information about
the exhibit, please visit
http://www.crr.sc.gov/exhibitions/current/.
Wednesday,
April 2, 2008
:Preview Video of New Exhibit
A preview video of the SC
Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum’s
new 'Civil War Photographs' exhibit has been posted to the museum's YouTube
Channel. The video features
Chief Curator Sarah Wooton giving
a brief overview and tour of the exhibit, which is open through June 28.
The museum’s video site can be
accessed by visiting http://www.youtube.com/SCCRRMM.
After creating a free YouTube account visitors choose to subscribe to the
channel by clicking the “Subscribe” button in the top right hand corner of
the page. New videos will be added regularly.
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Saturday, March
29, 2008
NOW OPEN - Preview at
http://www.crr.sc.gov/exhibitions/
Iconic Images of the Civil War Featured in New Photography Exhibit
COLUMBIA,
SC — Robert E. Lee in the uniform he wore while surrendering at Appomattox.
Abraham Lincoln’s last formal photo session in the White House. The moment
when the Lincoln assassination plotters were executed.
These
images – and dozens of other iconic photographs of America’s bloody Civil
War – are at the S.C. Confederate
Relic Room and Military Museum as part of a fascinating new exhibit, “Civil
War Photographs from the David L. Hack Collection.” The first South
Carolina appearance for the traveling exhibit organized by the Chrysler
Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia will feature over 50 unique photographs.
“The
images in this collection are stark, human and unforgettable and will be of
great interest to both the military history enthusiast and the general
public,” said museum Director Allen Roberson. “These are some of the most
powerful and well-known photographs in our nation’s history.”
They
range from portraits of Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow and her
daughter to battle front scenes and studio shots of soldiers and their
tattered flags. Some of the subjects, like Gen. George Armstrong Custer,
would make their mark after the war. The exhibit also explains the technical
processes used by photographers during this time when photography was first
becoming a mass medium.
The
exhibit includes images from a variety of photographers who worked in the
North and South. While Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner are perhaps the
most well-known photographers of the war, there were several talented
photographers who worked in the South. However, they struggled to produce
images during the war due to difficulties in obtaining supplies.
Both
exhibits close June 28, 2008. They will be displayed in two galleries
located within the main gallery.
Tuesday, March
25, 2008
OPENING FRIDAY - Preview at
http://www.crr.sc.gov/exhibitions/upcoming/
Iconic
Images of the Civil War Featured in New Photography Exhibit
COLUMBIA, SC — Robert
E. Lee in the uniform he wore while surrendering at Appomattox. Abraham
Lincoln’s last formal photo session in the White House. The moment when
the Lincoln assassination plotters were executed.
These images – and
dozens of other iconic photographs of America’s bloody Civil War – are coming to
the S.C. Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum March 28 as part of a
fascinating new exhibit, “Civil War Photographs from the David L. Hack
Collection.” The first South Carolina appearance for the traveling
exhibit organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia will
feature over 50 unique period photographs.
“The images in this
collection are stark, human and unforgettable and will be of great interest to
both the military history enthusiast and the general public,” said museum
Director Allen Roberson. “These are some of the most powerful and well-known
photographs in our nation’s history.”
They range from
portraits of Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow and her daughter to battle
front scenes and studio shots of soldiers and their tattered flags. Some of the
subjects, like Gen. George Armstrong Custer, would make their mark after the
war. The exhibit also explains the technical processes used by photographers
during this time when photography was first becoming a mass medium.
The exhibit includes
images from a variety of photographers who worked in the North and South. While
Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner are perhaps the most well-known photographers
of the war, there were several talented photographers who worked in the South.
However, they struggled to produce images during the war due to difficulties in
obtaining supplies.
The Chrysler exhibit
has been supplemented with a few examples from South Carolina photographers that
are from the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum’s collection or borrowed
from the South Caroliniana Library.
Also on exhibit will
be “Civil War Redux: Pinhole Photographs by Willie Anne Wright,” which features
photographs depicting Civil War re-enactors using the primitive pinhole
photography process. Using this technique, Wright (b. 1924) followed living
historians to many re-enactments to document scenes similar to those that
interested Civil War-era photographers.
Both exhibits open
March 28, 2008 and close June 28, 2008. They will be displayed in two galleries
located within the main gallery.
Saturday, March
22, 2008
Subject: Video of the Week Features Artifact Conservation
This
week’s new video on the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum’s YouTube
Channel features Rachel Cockrell, Registrar, demonstrating minor conservation
techniques on a bolo knife that is in the museum’s permanent collection. This
is the same knife that Joe Long discusses in an earlier video.
The
museum’s site video can be accessed by visiting
http://www.youtube.com/SCCRRMM.
After creating a free YouTube account visitors choose to subscribe to the
channel by clicking the “Subscribe” button in the top right hand corner of the
page. New videos will be added regularly.
Founded in 1896, the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum is the
oldest museum in the Columbia area. The museum focuses on South Carolina’s
military history from the Revolutionary War to the present War on Terror.
Friday, March
21, 2008
ONDC Program 3rd Sunday, April 2008
Mr. Kenneth H. Robison II. will present a program on War With Spain at our
April Meeting, April 20, 2008, 3:00 p.m. at The Lutheran Church Of The
Redeemer, Newberry, S.C. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend. Bring
a friend. Guests are always welcome.
Wednesday, March
19, 2008
Maryland State Archives
The Maryland State Archives currently has a search
feature which allows you to search for digital images of land records for the
Colony/State of Maryland. The search feature is currently in the test phase
and is free. You just have to create an account. To access the land records,
go to the state archives homepage at
www.msa.md.gov.
On the left side of this page under "General Information", there is a link
called "MDLandRec.Net". Select this link and it will prompt you for your User
Id (your e-mail address) and a password, which you will receive via e-mail
after you create an account. Your browser may need to be set to allow cookies
and pop-ups from this site. On the left side of the webpage, you will see a
listing of counties. Select the county, and you find a link to the indices to
the land records, as well as, the land records books themselves. There is also
a link to a user guide to that explain how to use the site.
Greenville County Historical Records
The Greenville County Government website also has
digital images of legal records with free access. These records can be
accessed at the following link: http://greenvillecounty.org/apps/Historical_Records_Search/.
The site has Records of Council Commissioners, Court of Common Pleas, Court of
General Sessions, Probate Records, Register of Deeds, and Sheriff's Office
Monday, March
17, 2008
ESCN Database Reports - Index to
the Early SC Newspapers
I searched this database
index, some years ago, and got some great information. You can check by state
to see what libraries have the ESCN books/microfilms of the newspapers. I
found the name of the ship in which my ancestor came to SC on and from where
it had embarked…my ancestor arrived in Charleston, SC, 15 Feb 1768, from
London England on the brigantine St. Peter. The “story” of his passage can be
found in a Council Journal (I think all of these are at SCA), in which the
record of this ship’s passengers petitioned for land. ESCN Search Service
will, after you have checked their online database for the surname(s), copy
the newspaper information and send to you for a fee. But, if you are lucky,
you can get this same information from a library which has these books (that
the ESCN have compiled). Read more about it at the following links….
http://www.escndatabase.com/
Main page
http://www.escndatabase.com/name1.htm Online Listing of Surnames
http://www.escndatabase.com/hold1.htm Microfilm [or book] Locations By
State
http://www.escndatabase.com/sr_intro.htm
ESCN Database Introduction (and to their search service)
http://www.escndatabase.com/howto_sr.htm How to Order a Surname Search
There are 61 Pitts and 253
Pitt.
ESCN
Database Reports (ISSN 1082-6637) is an ongoing series of
reference books that provide Quick Reference Indexing of data found in the
local news and advertisement sections of the early South Carolina newspapers.
There is one book published for each calendar year of a particular early
newspaper's publication life. Each book contains four (4) separate Database
Reports that provide newspaper publication data on the following general
subject classifications:
Individual Names
Organizational Names
Shipping & Maritime Articles
Slavery Related Articles
Additionally, beginning with newspaper
publication year 1760, two (2) more Database Reports were added to our
ESCN Database Reports books, to
provide newspaper publication data on the general subject classifications of:
Name References
Blind Advertisements
Titles
and Publication Years of the Early South Carolina Newspapers
South
Carolina
Gazette, 1732-1775
Gazette of the State of South Carolina,
1777-1780
South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal,
1765-1775
Charlestown Gazette, 1778-1780
South Carolina Weekly Gazette,
1758-1764
South Carolina and American General
Gazette, 1764-1781
Royal South Carolina Gazette,
1780-1782
Royal Gazette, 1781-1782
Documents found
on Ancestry.com.
Pay rosters and muster
rolls that were found in the book Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the
Revolutionary War, Vol. I.
You can find this
book on Ancestry.com. Go to search, Military Records, scroll down until you
find the above name and click on it. From there you can go directly to each
section of the book. There is a page called Sources And Abbreviations that
give
all of the source documents where the information was found.
The Preface included
in this book explain that “most of the information is derived exclusively from
Military Records located in the archives of the United States, Canada, and Great
Britain. Because of the types of material available it was necessary to limit
the scope of the book to specific military records. Thus, among the
records not
included are the Colonial Office Papers in the Public Record Office, London,
England. These records include Loyalists’ claims for losses as well as state
papers
and correspondence relating to the Colonial and Revolutionary War periods. "Since
much of this material has been published elsewhere, it is not included here.”
You can follow the
same process to find the book, Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the
Revolution.
You can use this
information as you see fit. Personally, unless a book is a transcription of
legal documents, such as muster rolls, pay rolls, deeds, wills and estates,
etc., it should ONLY be used as a source to be verified.
Saturday, March
15, 2008
Subject: Preview Civil War Photography Exhibit
Please visit
the link below for a preview of the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military
Museum's upcoming exhibit, "Civil War Photographs from the David L. Hack
Collection."
This exhibit
features some of the most iconic images of the Civil War.
They range from portraits of Confederate spy
Rose O'Neal Greenhow and her daughter to battle front scenes and studio shots
of soldiers and their tattered flags. Some of the subjects, like Gen. George
Armstrong Custer, would make their mark after the war. The exhibit also
explains the technical processes used by photographers during this time when
photography was first becoming a mass medium.
The exhibit includes images
from a variety of photographers who worked in the North and South. It opens
March 28 and closes June 28. Please visit this link for a preview of this
exciting exhibit and our website for more information.
Subject: Video of the Week Features Historic Bibles
This
week’s new video on the SC
Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum’s YouTube Channel features several
historic Bibles and other religious artifacts that are part of the permanent
collection – including one that stopped a bullet. The segment is hosted by
Curator of History Kristina Dunn.
The
museum’s video site can be accessed
by visiting
http://www.youtube.com/SCCRRMM. After creating a free YouTube account
visitors choose to subscribe to the channel by clicking the “Subscribe” button
in the top right hand corner of the page. New videos will be added regularly.
Founded
in 1896, the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum is the oldest
museum in the Columbia area. The museum focuses on South Carolina’s military
history from the Revolutionary War to the present War on Terror.
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No regular meeting Sunday, January 20, only meeting of the officers.
The next regular meeting of ONDC will be February 17, 2008, 3pm, Lutheran
Church of The Redeemer, same time, same place.
Elizabeth S. (Lib) Pitts
Secretary/Treasurer
Webmistress
Old Newberry District Chapter
Sunday,
January 20, 2008
(from The State newspaper, issue November
25, 2007, page B5)
Nelle Taylor was the wife of our chapter’s
Vice-President – Joel Taylor.
NELLE TAYLOR
SALUDA -- Nelle
Harmon Taylor, distinguished educator, died Friday, November 23, 2007, at the
age of 77 in the Saluda Nursing Center. The family will receive friends at Ramey
Funeral Home Sunday from 6:00-8:00 p.m. The funeral will be Monday at 2:00 p.m.
at St. Paul United Methodist Church in Saluda. Graveside services will follow in
the Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery, Prosperity (off SC-391), around 3:15
p.m. or after.
Mrs.
Taylor was born September 26, 1930, in Prosperity, SC, to Frank Simpson Harmon
and Mattie Barnette Bedenbaugh Harmon. She was the last born of five siblings
including Doris Ruth Harmon Hawkins, Mary Lucile Harmon Lowe, Geneva Harmon Wall
and Tommy Harmon. She graduated from Winthrop College with a BA in English. She
later earned an M.Ed. in Education Administration from the University of South
Carolina. She married Malcolm Joel Taylor in 1951. Her sons, Thomas Joel "Tommy"
Taylor and Timothy Harmon Taylor were born in 1958 and 1968, respectively.
Nelle
Taylor's career as an educator and public education advocate took distinct
phases. She taught English at Saluda High School for 13 years, at various times
acting as faculty advisor for the yearbook, plays, speech contests, and class
trips. She served as the school's first guidance counselor for 13 years. She
moved to the district office as Saluda's first director of instruction for 9
years and finished her career as Saluda District One School's first female
district superintendent for 7 years.
Her
years of service to Saluda were interrupted only by the year she was president
of the 24,000 member South Carolina Education Association. Dedication to
promotion of teaching as a profession led to many opportunities. Mrs. Taylor was
elected to the National Education Association's Board of Directors, attended
numerous NEA conventions, and represented the United States at the World
Confederation of Organizations of Teaching in Berlin. She was the South Carolina
Higher Education Commission's first female chair and was instrumental in the
development of the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Math in
Hartsville as a member of the school's board and foundation since 1993. She
served for many years on the University of South Carolina's Education Foundation
Board.
Mrs.
Taylor was honored with honorary doctorates by Winthrop University (1984) and
Lander University (1989) and the Order of the Palmetto (1988). Schuyler and
Yvonne Moore endowed the Nelle Taylor scholarship in special education at the
University of South Carolina in Columbia. The Saluda County Education
Association also created a Nelle Taylor scholarship for Saluda High School
students intending to major in education. The Congaree Council of Girls Scouts
named her a "Woman of Distinction" in 1994.
In
addition to her professional life, Mrs. Taylor devoted her best to St. Paul
United Methodist Church. She served as Sunday School teacher, taking much of
several days to prepare each lesson. She was chair of the administrative
council, lay leader, president of the local United Methodist Women, and
representative to the annual conference, among other jobs. She served the South
Carolina Conference on the Episcopacy Committee for eight years and helped plan
the inauguration of the late Bishop Joseph Bethea. She considered co-chairing
the St. Paul Centennial committee with dear friend Dr. Ruby P. Herlong to have
been one of her most satisfying experiences in the church. Locally, Nelle also
volunteered at the Saluda Museum and served as chair of the Saluda Historical
Association Board of Directors.
Nelle
was a devoted mother and wife in addition to her many responsibilities outside
the home. She is survived by her husband, partner, and best friend of 56 years,
Joel Taylor. They met when Joel's family moved to town when they were 10 years
old. In addition her sons, Timothy married Melinda Wash in 1992. They presented
Nelle with her grandson, Luke Harmon Taylor, the absolute joy of her life, May
26, 2006. Mrs. Taylor is also survived by her sister Geneva and numerous
nephews, nieces, and cousins who have remained in constant touch through
gatherings each year.
The
family wishes to thank all those who have sent cards or stopped by to visit
Nelle through her hospitalization and the staff of Lexington Medical Center 8th
floor and Saluda Nursing Center.
Memorials may be made to the St. Paul United Methodist Church Family Life Center
Fund (102 East Butler Ave., Saluda, SC 29138), the Nelle Taylor Educator
Scholarship (attention Willie Scott, Saluda Middle School, Ivory Key Road,
Saluda, SC 29138), or the Nelle Taylor Scholarship in Special Education (contact
Gloria Price at gloriap@gwm.sc.eduor (803)-777-3075).
Saturday,
January 12, 2008
ROBERT PITTS
Robert Stonewall Pitts, 83, of Gold Street, Bremen, died Jan. 6, 2008.
Mr. Pitts was born Aug. 31, 1924, in Alabama to the late Augustus Pitts and
Ludie Stevens Pitts. He was a retired baker and was a veteran of the United
States Army.
In addition to his parents, he was also preceded in death by his wife, Catherine
Pitts, and a son, Benny Pitts.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Robert R. and Faye Pitts, and a
daughter, Roxie L. McCoy, all of Bremen, nine grandchildren, 16
great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Funeral services will be Wednesday, Jan. 9, at 11 a.m. at Hightower Funeral Home
in Bremen with Rev. Travis Pritchard officiating. Pallbearers will be Jimmy
McCarley, Larry McCarley, Mike Crews, Roy Hearn, Ron Rooks and Chris Brown.
Burial will follow in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
Saturday,
January 5, 2008
This may be a repeat for
some of you. But this website covers early counties in Georgia that
many Pitts are associated with. Very easy to search and each county has
some good links to other sources. Don't forget to review the links from time
to time to help with your research.
Welcome to the Friends of Cemeteries of middle Georgia
website. This website contains searchable indexes to over 43,000 graves and
over 800 cemeteries in Baldwin, Hancock, Jones, Washington and Wilkinson
Counties, Georgia.
http://www.friendsofcems.org/default.asp
or click on Related Links in Left Column
Rick and Terri Hills, Pitts researchers shared this
information to assist researchers.
Terri
Friday,
January 4, 2008
NEW - COMING SOON !
Federal Census Newberry, South Carolina 1790 - 1840
This is a 4-volume series of abstracts of the Federal Enumeration
Census for Newberry County. All of the
information from the original census is contained in these volumes including
names of heads of household, number of other persons in the various age
categories in the household, and original census page numbers. Often the
census taker gave occupations and nicknames to distinguish similar names of
individuals. All four volumes are 8½ x 11 spiral bound with index.
Volume 1 by David E. Sease and Edith Greisser.
Volumes 2, 3, & 4 by Edith Greisser.
1790 – 1810,
208 pages
Total price:
$17.00
1820,
176 pages
Total price:
$17.00
1830,
280 pages
Total price:
$22.00
1840,
268 pages
Total price:
$22.00
Friday,
December 21, 2007
I just noticed the posting from the Clamp's regarding cleaning the Folk
cemetery. Please pass my appreciation to them on behalf of the Folk family.
Assume they know that this is not the oldest Folk Cemetery in their area.
This is the cemetery of the John Adam Folk Junior family. His father John
Adam Folk Sr is buried in the Folk-Busby-Cannon cemetery on Hwy 176. Someone
has also cleaned it off in recent months and our deepest appreciation to them
also.
Hope you have a great holiday season and a wonderful New Year.
Perry Folk
Wednesday,
December 19, 2007
Jay Clamp and Keys Clamp cleaned up the Old Folk graveyard.
"Newberry County South Carolina Cemeteries, Vol. 1. p. 32, as follows:
John Adam Folk, aged 56 years and 6 months, Mrs. Catharine Folk, Age 32
years 5 months 26 days, John David Lafayette, s/o J. A. and Catherine Folk,
5/15/1825 - 5/16/1858, William Orlander Chesterfield Folk, s/o J. A. and
Catherine Folk, 10-13-1829 - 8/15/1852
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
My name is Henry Luther. I am
currently looking at purchasing the old Richard's Plantation House that once
stood in Maybinton, South Carolina. The house was dismantled several years
ago and put into storage. The information I have is that the house was built
for a Berry Richards under the supervision of a free slave in 1850. Any
information you could share about the family would be greatly appreciated.
Henry Luther
info@chotafalls.com
Saturday, December 8, 2007
In grief, and yet in a sure and certain hope for the resurrection of the
dead, I announce the death of my father, Max Waldrop.
Robert Max L Waldrop Sr. died December 7, 2007 at his home in Arvada,
Colorado, after a long struggle with cancer. He was born September 9, 1925, in
Frederick, Oklahoma, to William Glen Waldrop and Dovie Irene Bagwell Waldrop.
His grandparents, L. E. and Mollie Howdeshell Waldrop and Americus Madison
and Eva Lena Smith Bagwell, came from Texas to Oklahoma Territory before
statehood. His grandfather A. M. Bagwell participated in the opening of
the Big Pasture in 1906, the last large tract of land opened for settlement in
Oklahoma, and his grandfather L. E. Waldrop served on the Oklahoma Board of
Agriculture. The Waldrops came from Sherman, Texas, in 1903, at first settling
near Chattanooga, Oklahoma, and then moving closer to Frederick.
L. E. Waldrop was the son of William Henry and Elmira Louisa Gossett Waldrop.
Max L graduated from Henderson and Union schools in rural Tillman County, and
served in the Merchant Marine during World War II. After the war, he
attended Cameron College in Lawton, Oklahoma, and married Betty Jo Cassidy.
They had two children, Robert Jr. and Susan Marie. He was a farmer until 1975,
when Betty Jo passed away and he moved to Colorado, first to Lake City, and then
to Denver. In Colorado he worked as a commodities broker. In 1981 he
married Claudette Copper of Arvada, and became father to her two children, Terry
and Ann.
Max L greatly loved his family, the outdoors, hunting, and fishing, and was
always willing to lend a helping hand to family, friends, neighbors, and
strangers. He could fix anything with baling wire and duct-tape. He knew
the agricultural markets from the grassroots, as a farmer and later as a
professional trader in agricultural commodities. He was a life-long blood
donor, giving gallons of his own blood to help others. He could ride, hunt,
fish, shoot, fly a private plane, and play poker. He was a member at
Trinity Presbyterian Church in Arvada.
He is survived by his wife Claudette of Arvada, his daughter Susan of Arvada,
son Robert Jr. of Oklahoma City, and his family with Claudette --
Terry and his wife Tammy and their children Tanner and Alisa of Arvada,
and Ann and her husband Shannon and son Christopher of Stratford, Colorado. We
are who we are today because of his great love, principles, and example.
Graveside rites with military honors will be held Tuesday, December 11th, at
the Ft. Logan National Cemetery in Denver, at 2 PM. The funeral service will be
Wednesday, December 12th, at 2 PM at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Arvada.
Memorial donations may be made in his memory to your favorite charity or to the
Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House.
Eternal rest grant to him, O Lord, and may eternal light shine upon him.
May his soul, and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy
of God, rest in peace.
Bob Waldrop, Oklahoma City
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
I have just written and published a new book on the Dutch
Fork. The title is:
Yesterday When They Were Young; Life in the Dutch Fork
The book has original letters that were written by the Eleazers, Koons, and
Jacobs
during the American Civil War.
The book may be purchased at Barnes and Noble, The Newberry Book Store, or
online at www.yesterdaywhen.com or
www.amazon.com
If you need any further information, please contact me.
EJones
docej@earthlink.net
Friday, November 2, 2007
Hi Lib
I'd like to ask a favor. If you have contact with
Caldwell people, maybe you can pass on the page at my web site at
www.pittsclan.com.
The University of South Carolina is
inviting descendants of John Calhoun Caldwell to come to festivities at the
Newberry opera house and at the USC commencements.
Its all in the newsletter. This is early in
December.
Love,
Henry
Friday, October 19, 2007
ONDC Meeting Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 3:00 PM
at Redeemer Lutheran Church. Speaker will be the Town of Chapin Mayor Stan
Shealy. Stan will give a presentation on the history of the Town of Chapin.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Have you seen this website...
www.smgf.org ...the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy
Foundation? You can submit your DNA to them for free and they put it
into their database. They do not give you a copy of your DNA profile back, but
you can check online to see if you match up with any other participants.
John Caldwell was one of the first five alumni from what was then South
Carolina College. The University of South Carolina are planning to celebrate
the 200th year of USC commencements.
The five students all came from Newberry county. The events are planned for
the month of December and they are looking for descendants.
Please contact James Hammond at (803)771-8474
jhammond@thestate.com or Ben Boatwright
bensbassbuggies@yahoo.com. Ben is the person who contacted me and is
known in the genealogist community.
The other 4 graduates were Anderson Crenshaw, Walter Crenshaw, George W.
Glen and John W. Harper
Henry Pitts
While entering pictures on my web site of dad stationed at the Panama
Canal Zone, I remembered a story he told me when he first enlisted
before WW2. The recruitment officer gave him a choice of 2 assignments.
One was to be stationed at the Panama Canal, the other was at the
Philippine Islands. He said it didn't make a difference to him so a flip
of the coin picked the Canal Zone. He could have been a part of the
Death March when Japan invaded and I wouldn't be here today.
Henry Pitts
While googling around for something completely different I came
across this site.
http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/p/pitts/index.html
I got completely intrigued and saw results of the various Pitts
clans. I joined and submitted for a 37 marker test, about $180. I
should match up to the Pitts group 2. If I don't then this will be a
short forum. Results in about 4 weeks.
Henry Pitts Henry's Pitts clan Genealogy can be seen at
http://pittsclan.blogspot.com/
Thanks, Henry for sharing with us.
OCTOBER 2007
IDENTIFYING ALL CEMETERIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA FOR THE FUTURE
Early this year, my friend Gary Flynn & I
started a huge undertaking - we wanted to identify all the cemeteries in SC's
(46) counties. Not simply by general location, but by Longitude x Latitude
using a GPS receiver. That project webpage is located at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/southcarolina/sc-graves/sc-graves1.html.
As you will notice, it's in the very final stages of construction - Gary just
needs to double-check (15) counties. By preserving these GPS
values, researchers a thousand years from now will have the ability
to draw cemetery finding maps.
Please feel free to use any of our posted
information, as you see fit. I'm sure that we have located some cemeteries
that your society knows nothing about and maybe you might want to check them
out. These cemeteries will normally be listed as Unknown #(?) or Unknown Name
#(?). If you want to add cemetery names, please send your info to Gary at
ke8fd@bellsouth.net.
Webpage corrections should be sent to me at
gcgenweb@bellsouth.net.
Regards,
Paul M Kankula - NN8NN
Golden Corner GenWeb Project Coordinator
SC Cemetery GPS Mapping Coordinator
August 2007
NEXT REGULAR MEETING - ONDC - SEPTEMBER 16, 2007 - Mike Becknell will speak on tombstone art and emblems. Please mark your calendar and join us at 3pm at the Lutheran Church Of The Redeemer in Newberry, S.C.. We will meet in the same room upstairs, and an elevator is available to second floor.
Chris Prince is our editor for the Fall Quarterly this year, and mailings are planned for September.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO POST YOUR EMAIL AT THE END OF THIS NEWSLETTER SO YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY RECEIVE NOTICES OF EVENTS AND ANY CHANGES. REMEMBER ALSO THAT IF YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS CHANGES YOU NEED TO "REDO" YOUR ENTRY.
If you have contributions for the Winter Quarterly, please get this information in to Mrs. Margaret Jayroe who will be our editor for the Winter Quarterly to be mailed out in December.
Re: Yancey Jackson Dickert: Note he was a charter member of Newberry. Thank you Connie for sharing this with us.
Yancey Jackson "Jack" Dickert - MIDLAND, Mich. - Yancey Jackson (Jack)
Dickert, 90, died Friday, August 17 in Midland, MI. He was born June 7,
1917, in Newberry, SC, to the late Yancey T. and Annie (Sligh) Dickert and
married to the late Dorothy (DeeDee) Newcomer. Mr. Dickert was a graduate
of Newberry College and earned a master's degree at UNC-Chapel Hill. He
worked as a chemist with the S.C. Dept. of Agriculture before enlisting in
the Army Air Corps during WWII. After the war, he worked for Dow Chemical,
Midland, MI, becoming a senior research chemist. There he helped develop
many products, including the amino acid, Lysine. In 1980, Mr. Dickert
retired from Dow and focused on his family's genealogy, publishing three
books on the Dickert and Sligh families. Mr. Dickert was a charter member
of the Newberry Genealogical Society and belonged to the Dutch Fork and
Lexington societies. He was a member of First United Methodist Church of
Midland. He is survived by daughters, Wanda Jones, Ginny McCormick, Pamela
Allen, and Kathleen Bee; eight grandchildren. Also surviving are a brother,
Roland Dickert, sisters, Harriett Smith and Mary Louise Smith, a
sister-in-law, Lera Dickert. He was predeceased by his wife, his sisters,
Nellie Dickert and Roberta West; and brothers, Bill Dickert and Dan
Dickert, all of Newberry. Funeral services are Wednesday, August 22, 2007,
at First United Methodist Church, conducted by Dr. Charles Keyworth.
Smith-Minor Funeral Home is in charge. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be
made to Newberry College, 2100 College Street, Newberry, SC 29108.
«Obituary posted: August 22, 2007»
S.C. GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. ANNUAL MEETING !!! If you are planning to attend the annual SCGS Meeting to be held in Edgefield, S.C. this year, you'd best make your reservation. Lib just got the last available room at Edgefield Inn, Edgefield, SC and she thought she was making early reservations. The meeting is November 2nd through 3rd, 2007, hosted by The Old Edgefield District Genealogical Society. A complete schedule of events will be available in the upcoming Carolina Herald or you may visit the Old Edgefield District website at oedgs.net.
Those who have personal computers may now search for documents at the on-line records index at www.archivesindex.sc.gov/
ONDC will soon be forwarding each member an application form to renew membership for 2008. Please try to get your renewals in no later than December 2007 so Lib can get the end of year bookwork completed. Thanks!
Please mark your calendar for 2008 and plan to attend our regular meetings when possible. There will be no regular meeting in May, July (state meeting), August, and December 2008. We are trying to accommodate membership who have school children, and conflicting meetings with the Historical and Museum Society since many of our members belong to both. Also, when the 3rd Sunday falls close to Easter and Father's Day, we will meet on the 4th Sunday, so check the schedule on our website and local newspaper for changes.
VOLUNTEERS ARE ALWAYS NEEDED. Have you considered volunteering to be an officer for Old Newberry District Chapter?
PROJECT: ONDC has a project underway to microfilm records that have not been previously available. We appreciate the donations given to assist with this project. All donations are always appreciated no matter how small.
Have you placed your email at the end of Newsletter so you can automatically receive news that is shared. If not, please plan to do so.
An attempt was made to send out notice recently about meetings; however, because four or five members have failed to send in changes for their email addresses, the combined list for emailing would not go through. PLEASE SEND LIB YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS (PRINT PLEASE) . EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE ALREADY DONE SO, PLEASE REPEAT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS ON YOUR RENEWAL. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE AN EMAIL, WILL YOU PLEASE WRITE "NONE" ON THAT LINE. MANY THANKS!
There will be no regular meeting of ONDC on the 3rd Sunday in August. The next regular meeting will be 3rd Sunday September 16th at which time Mike Becknell will present our program.; Lutheran Church Of The Redeemer, Newberry, SC. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend if possible.
Please remember to post your email address at the end of the Newsletter on ONDC website so you can automatically receive any news posted there.
Do you have any news to share with the membership or community? If so, please forward it to your secretary, Lib Pitts.
I was unable to send the routine email out because four or five of the emails were no longer valid. I will attempt it again tomorrow.
Elizabeth S. (Lib) Pitts
Secretary/Treasurer
Webmistress
Old Newberry District Chapter
http://www.newberry.scgen.org
There will ONLY be a business meeting of officers in August. The next regular meeting will be held the 3rd Sunday 3pm Lutheran Church of Redeemer, Newberry, S.C. Special guest speaker will be Mike Becknell.
Because of the rising price of postage and supplies, it has become necessary to raise the price of our publications. Please review the list of publications and make note of this. We have tried to make ends meet without raising our prices, but it just didn't work out. We have left the CD at $25.00, but prices on the other publications has been raised to meet expense. These prices will go into effect September 1, 2007.
EMAIL ADDRESSES, MAILING ADDRESSES: Lib is having quarterlies returned because of incorrect addresses. ALSO please remember, if you have a post office box, the post office WILL NOT deliver to your home address. When these are returned it cost 50 cents each. Email addresses apparently have been changed without notifying Lib because she is having about ten email notices returned. Please make sure when you change your email that you either email Lib or send in a card with the new address printed so the mailing list can be updated. Lib wishes to thank those who have sent in changes and corrections. That is a big help. If you haven't received your quarterly, don't wait more than a couple of weeks before you let Lib know so she can check records and be sure of your mailing address.
Changing over of the website to a new server has caused many problems we are trying to solve. Please keep reporting problems you spot so Lib can (hopefully) get them fixed.
If you haven't re-entered your email address for the newsletter, please do so. One does not have to be a member to do this, but we'd love to have those of you who are not members to join us. A printable Application Form is on our website.
July 2007
Dr. Robert H. Stoudemire
Cayce
Funeral services for Dr. Robert H. Stoudemire, 86, will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Ebenezer Lutheran Church, Columbia, with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation will follow in the church reception room.
Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, is assisting the family.
Dr. Stoudemire died Sunday, July 22, 2007, at the Lowman Home. Born in Little Mountain, he was a son of the late Asman Stoudemire and Hattie Derrick Stoudemire. He graduated from Newberry College, earned a master's degree in political science at the University of South Carolina and did graduate work at the University of North Carolina. In 1971, Newberry College awarded him a doctor of laws degree, especially recognizing his work in the revising of the South Carolina Constitution of 1895.
An Army veteran of World War II, he served three years in the Signal Company of the 42nd Infantry Rainbow Division in Germany and Austria.
In 1948, Dr. Stoudemire joined the staff of the Bureau of Governmental Research and Department of Political Science of USC. He retired in 1983 being named a professor emeritus of political science and director of the Bureau of Governmental Research. While at the university, he worked closely with the Municipal and County Associations, the S.C.
General Assembly and many departments of state government. He directed training programs for governmental employees for many years obtaining some federal Title I funds. He edited the University of S.C. Carolina Governmental Review for 19 years and wrote numerous articles on S.C. State and local governments.
Dr. Stoudemire was the first chairman of the State Employees Grievance Committee and served six years. He was the educational director of Girls State for 21 years. He served as research director of the S.C. Constitution Review Committee and prepared most of the revised articles approved by the voters of South Carolina. At the same time, he served as director of the State Reorganization Commission. He worked on the staff of Gov. John West for two and one-half years, especially carrying out the recommendations of a Management Review Committee.
One of the founders of the Richland-Lexington Council on Aging, Dr. Stoudemire served as chairman for two years and eight years on the Executive Committee. He was also a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging in 1960 and served many years on the Legislative Committee of the State AARP.
Active in the State Employees Association, he served two terms as president and many years on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors. He was named State Male Employee of the Year in 1970.
Active in the Lutheran Church, Dr. Stoudemire served on the Synod's Executive Committee for six years and was a delegate to the National Assembly in 1970. At Ebenezer Lutheran Church, he was elected to five four-year terms on the Church Council; served as Sunday school superintendent, Sunday schoolteacher for 30 years and on numerous boards and committees. He was on call committees to recommend four pastors. He was also an honorary council member.
Dr. Stoudemire was an active member of the United States, South Carolina and Lexington County Democratic Party.
Surviving are nieces and nephews, Marilyn Koon Hendrix, Sylvia Stoudemire Wallace, Luanne Harmon Mayer, Julian Stoudemire, Wayne Koon, Stewart Stoudemire, Edward Stoudemire, Frank Harmon, Phillip Stoudemire and Craig Harmon; and close friends, Keith (Clay) Robinson, Wilbur (Buddy) Robinson, Wanda Wilson and Jack Thompson. Dr. Stoudemire's wife, Mary Livingston Stoudemire, died in 1980.
www.dunbarfunerals.com
Published in The Greenville News: 07-24-2007
Dr. Stoudemire's picture is in the Greenville News/Lib
NEW LINK to help you. Under the Index on the Home Page you will find Resources. Click on that and check out the websites. I added Genealogy Trails http://genealogytrails.com/scar/newberry/index.htm, and member Dena Whitesell is webmistress for Newberry. She has also placed ONDC link on their website and hopefully this will get us some new members.
SUBJECT: Change in Internet Servers for ONDC. Thank you for your patience while Larry Ulmer, State Treasurer, SCGS, Inc. makes changes to a new server. I am trying to get the "gliches" worked out. If you will, please go to the end of the Newsletter and re-enter your email address if you have not been receiving in July. OR send me an email with your email and request that I enter it for you. I will be glad to do that. This is free for members AND the community. Thank you! Also, please use this link to enter the ONDC website: http://www.newberry.scgen.org/ Thank you.
SUBJECT: how to use GOOGLE to create powerful genealogy searches.
Rootsweb just added a new GOOGLE listserv for discussion of search
techniques using google.com. I just made a large post on there that I
thought I would share with the other lists I belong to. You will be
surprised at some of the results you get with these search techniques. I
use them practically every day when I'm researching.
I know a lot of people have no idea of the power of google search
techniques. A while back I started my own list of helpful google
operators with examples of them. So, to hopefully get this list started I
thought I would share them. Feel free to cross-post this to other lists
if you like. You go to google and type the commands into the search box
to use them. Alternately, if you have the google toolbar you can type the
commands in the toolbox search box.
1) How to search for sites that link back to another site:
example: Let's say you've found a great web site for your Smythe family
research. Let's say that site is called www.smythefamily.com. There
might be other people out there who also like that site and have linked
back to it, and maybe you've never seen that other site. The command to
find that other site is:
link:www.smythe.com
This will give you a list of any sites that google has indexed that link
to www.smythe.com.
2) How to search for sites that are similar to another site:
This technique is the same as if you clicked the "Similar pages" link on a
list of returned results from a standard google search. What it will do
is show you sites that cover material that is similar to the site you are
interested in. For the example I'll use my own Mat(t)hews genealogy site:
related:www.bluntrazor.com
If you used this command you would get a short list of sites that google
says are related to or similar to my site.
3) How to restrict a google search to a single web site or domain:
We all use google or similar search pages to find things related to our
genealogy research, but how often do we get TONS and TONS of results that
are of no interest to us? A lot. Wouldn't it be really useful if you
could restrict a search to a single web site? Let's say you only want to
search rootsweb (sure they have search links for everything, but I don't
think they have a single search to look at everything at once) or you only
want to search the forums at genealogy.com. There are several different
ways to search for different things so I'll show all the ones that come to
mind with examples for each:
The first again uses my web site to search for the surname "Pace":
site:bluntrazor.com Pace
The search returns 11 results and the search box on my site returns 12 so
google does pretty good with that one (always remember that google can
only return results for pages that it has indexed and there is no
guarantee that it has indexed every single page on a web site.)
Let's take that a little further and search for a man named Thomas Pace.
Most people would put Thomas Pace in quote marks " " and you can certainly
do that with your search, eg. site:bluntrazor.com "Thomas Pace", but I
find it easier to use a google shortcut:
site:bluntrazor.com Thomas Pace
Saves us a keystroke doing that. I find this search method really helpful
when searching the forums at genealogy.com since they don't seem to have a
global forum search. To use the command there you would do this:
site:genforum.genealogy.com Thomas Pace
This turns up results for Thomas Pace on boards other than the Pace family
forum. Keep in mind that this search will only return results for "Thomas
Pace" together and not "Thomas or Pace" separately. I've found that in
general google does NOT have all of the genforums indexed, but you should
get results from different forums that will hopefully give you an idea of
some new places to look.
What if you wanted to search for more than one surname from a single site?
To do that we use what is called the "pipe" character: | . This key will
be found most likely above your ENTER key. To search for two different
names, eg. Isaac OR James from my site you would use:
site:bluntrazor.com Isaac | James (alternately you could do
site:bluntrazor.com Isaac OR James but the "OR" must be capitalized)
this gives us a list of pages where EITHER of those names appear.
Finally, if you want pages that include both Isaac and James on the same
page, but not together (not as a single name "Isaac James") you would do:
site:bluntrazor.com Isaac and James
For some reason google tells me I don't need to use the word and, but I
always get fewer results if I don't use it.
4) How to get results from pages with a specific name in the web site
title:
When I first saw this operator I was a little sceptical of it's
usefulness, but when I used it I was surprised. A web page's title is the
text you find at the top of your browser in the blue bar. I think part of
the usefulness of this method is that it is a way to further narrow down a
search. Let's say you were looking for pages on Charles City County
(Virginia). If you just googled Charles City county you get over a half
million results, but if you set the search to only those pages with
Charles City County in the title of the page it cuts that number down to
just over 5,000 (still a lot, but better than a half million). To use
this technique you do this:
intitle:Charles.City.County
Returns from the above are going to have Charles City County in that exact
order in the title (see below if you don't want the words necessarily in
that order)
If you were searching for a very unique surname this could prove helpful:
intitle:Blackwelder
Blackwelder is my mother's maiden name and everyone with the surname is
related without question.
Remember, any words put into a web page's title are going to be important
as the site is generally specifically about whatever the title says.
If you wanted Charles City County to appear in the title, but not
necessarily in that order you would do this:
allintitle:Charles City County
allintitle will catch variations such as a web page title "County of
Charles City". Curiously, allintitle only returns 505 results versus the
broader intitle:Charles.City.County which gives 5,000 results. So, it
pays to try it both ways.
5) How to get results from pages with a specific name in the web site url
(address):
This one might seem like it's splitting hairs with intitle, but I always
get interesting results when I use it. Again, let's say we are looking
for Charles City County. To search for sites that have that county in the
ADDRESS of the web site we use:
inurl:Charles.City.County
Again, this gives returns with the exact phrase Charles City County. I
just used this one and found a site I had not come across before on 17th
century Charles City County that did not appear when used t | 
