Marin County Genealogical Society
 

Kin Tracer Contents


Years  Page
 1977 - 1986 Kin Tracer Indexes 1
 1987 - 1997 Kin Tracer Indexes 2
 1998 - 2008 Kin Tracer Indexes 3
 2008 - Today Kin Tracer Indexes 4
  


Kin Tracer Indexes - Page 1:  1977 - 1986

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Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 1977

 A  Member’s Search In Europe; The Spilsbury C. Garrett’s Home; Great Register of Marin, 1892; Novato’s Pioneer Memorial Cemetery; Rook Review

Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1978

Early History of Macon, Franklin Co., Nebraska; Sarah Arbuckle  and the Indian Chief; Excerpts from a Pioneer Letter; Book Review; New Members; Queries;  Naturalization Records for your Ancestors?; How the California Poppy is Growing in Kiel, West Germany; Daphne-Fernwood Cemetery Burials; Pioneer Memorial  Cemetery Burials

Vol. 1, No. 3, Summer 1978

Some Wild Rides For Life; Research Is Time-Consuming…Especially If You Read The Ads; Sarah Arbuckle Sequel; New Members; Genealogy and History; Uncle Harry; Miwok Indian Cemetery; Barking Up the Wrong Tree; What Is A Grandmother?; A Homesteader’s Letter; Queries; Book Review

Vol.  1, No. 4, Fall 1978

Turn-About;  New Members; A Letter from Caleb C. Thomas, 1851; Dauernheim Family Bible Records; Queries; The Green Family of Courtland, Sacramento county, California; Brilliant First Borns; Book Review; Whitman Private Cemetery, Wells, N.Y.;  Early Days in the West, taken from the Chapman Family Workbook; Name Index to 1978 Marin Kin Tracer Issues

Click here for the Index to Names Appearing in Volume 1

Vol. 2, #1, Winter 1978

Editorial; Federation of Genealogical Societies; New Members;  Calendar of Events; Turn-About; Mr. Robert Anderson’s Presentation to the Society; The Care of Old Photographs; Book Review; Letters to the  Editor; Queries; Books Donated to the MCGS Library; Incidents in the Life of Gus Ehrenberg, Part  1; Story on Old Brick Church Brings the Clapps out in Droves; Hopkins, Leonard Family Reunion Held; Peter Anderson’s Civil War Pension Claim; Better, Wiser and Happier; A Legend; Imagination; Cousin Finder; Exchange Publications

Vol. 2, #2, Spring 1979

Descendants of California Pioneers; Newsletter Exchange Program; Turn-About; Schleswig-Holstein/American Research Project; Letters to the Editor; Kentucky to Texas – 1866; Chief Big Tree Sequel; For The Man Who Has Everything; New Members; Incidents in the Life of Gus Ehrenberg; Serendipity; Retracing Your Steps; Marin County Tocsin, 25 Apr. 1891; The County of Armagh, Ireland; Queries; Searching in California

Vol. 2, #3, Summer 1979

Heredity; Research Committee; Editorial; Letters to the Editor; Genealogical Abbreviations and International Symbols; Anyone Researching Shirley?; How Josephine County, Oregon Got Its Name; Ledgerwood Memoirs; Early Childhood in Corte Madera; Book Review; Calendar of Events; Turn-About; Memories of a Prairie Pioneer; Mrs. Wedmore Willis of Hatteras; The Boston Directory, 1789; Queries

Vol. 2, #4, Fall 1979

Editorial; New Members; Letters  to the Editor; Turn-About; Robbery of Passenger Train #20; Weather Moves; Adoptees Liberty Movement Association; Catherine Littlefield Greene; Postmistress Worth; How Can You Become Your Own Grandfather; Book Review; Queries; Tombstone Humor; The Old Timers Speak; Hunting Up Ancestors

Click here for the Index to Names Appearing in Volume 2

Vol. 3, #1, Winter 1979

Editorial; Letters to the Editor; Turn-About; New Year’s Resolutions for Genealogists; Found on an 1851 Census of England; Fortune Favors Prepared Minds; Line of Lieut. John Greene of Coventry; The Chapman Family Historical Workbook; Finding Cousins; Marin County Tocsin, June 17, 1911; To Prove Your Age; A Precious Piece of San Rafael Real Estate; Librarian’s Corner; Calendar of Events; Success; Book Reviews; Selected Letters of John Avery Compton; Queries; Index to 1979 Marin Kin Tracer; Tombstone Humor

Vol. 3, #2, Spring 1980

Editorial; Our President Addresses Landmark Society; A Word of Advice; Letters to the Editor; Librarian’s Corner; The Miwok Coastal Indian Tribe; Marin Fifty Years Ago; Dating Old Photos; 42 Year Separation Ends; Selected Letters of John Avery Compton; The Cherokee Strip; Where Immigrants Go; Turn-About; Tombstone Humor; Book Reviews; Queries

Vol. 3, #3, Summer 1980

President’s Message; Letters to the Editor; Peter Donahue and James Wilkins; Marin Fifty Years Ago; Genealogy – Christine Rojas; An Appeal for Donations; The Scotch-Irish, part 1; A Graveyard Hunt; Turn-About; Book Reviews; Half a Skeleton; Tombstone Humor; Genealogical Speakers’ Pool; Queries; Ancestors of our Members – William E. Austin; Librarian’s Corner

Vol. 3, #4, Fall 1980

Editorial; New Members; Letters to the Editor; Nostalgia Night; Genealogy Hints; Librarian’s Corner; Reminiscences of Wyoming; Turn-About; A Life-Saving Diary; Names in my Family; The Scotch-Irish, Part 2; A Herd of Herds; Bible Records: The John Stower Bible; The Paterson Family; Queries; Tombstone Humor; Book Reviews; Past Programs of the Sonoma County Genealogical Society; Genealogical Speakers’  Pool

Vol. 4, #1, Winter 1980

Society Happenings; New Members; Birthday of J. H. Clark; Calendar of Events; Turn-About; WPA; Where the  ‘ell did the “L” Go? (Stower-Wallace); It’s the Name that Counts; The Fisher Family; Patriotic Record of Theodore S. Gillis; Huguenot Records – S. Minet; Recollections of Maude Quiggle Proctor; Tombstone Humor; Queries; Index to Vol. 3

Vol. 4, #2, Spring 1981

Editorial; New members; Calendar; Winging Out on a Grain of Truth (or what a lot of oral family history turns out to be); Tubbing Etiquette; Bouquets and Brickbats; How Far Out Can One Get?;  April Fool;  Rev. War Pension Application; Hope is the Dream of a Waking Man; Sometimes Genealogy Can be a Bore; Bible of Dora Pfluger Albrecht; Marin Fifty Years Ago; The Saga of Pilot Rock; recollections of Maude Quiggle Proctor; The Puzzle; The Northshore Wedding; Books Available for Borrowing; Wyoming County Record; Lost Treasures; Instant hate Mail; Tombstone Humor; Dear Blabby;  Queries

Vol. 4, #3, Summer 1981

Editorials, New Members; Letters To Editor, Family Reunions, Calendar of Events; Book Review, Old Medical Remedies; Turn-About; Family Associations; Finding Kissin’ Cousins; North Shore Wedding – 2nd Generation; In a Fit of Rage; Rose Clans of America; The Holcombes; Tombstone Humor; How To Read a Deed; Middle Spring Church; SASE Searches; Pioneers of Marin County – Bolinas Twp.; Queries

Vol. 4, #4, Fall 1981

Letters to the Editor, New Exchanges, New Members; Society Happenings, Calendar of Events; Book Reviews; turn-About; Family Associations; SASE Searches; Genealogical Query Columns; Genealogical Resources in the Bay Area; Orphan Train; surname Index – What is it?; Special Collections; Middle Spring Church; Ancestors of our Members -  George Deal; The Defenses of Washington; Tombstone  Humor;  Pioneers of Marin County  - Nicasio, Novato, Point Reyes Twps.;  Queries

Vol. 5, #1, Winter 1982

Society Happenings; New Library Location; Book Review; Turn-About; Genealogical Query Columns; Surname Index; Family Associations; SASE Searches; Tombstone Humor; Federal Census 1790-1970; Population Census  1790-1970; Using the1900 Census; 1910 Census; Soundex – How To Use It; Soundex Holdings of Census Bureau; Abbreviations Used in Soundex; Example of Soundex Card; State Territorial Census; Mortality Schedules; Pioneers of Marin County – San Rafael; Queries; New Members; Index To Volume 4

Vol. 5, #2, Spring 1982

Calendar of Events; New Members; Society Happenings; Periodical Exchanges; Book Review; Librarian’s Corner; Turn-About; Family Associations; SASE Searches; Genealogical Query Columns; Land Family Reunion; Marin County Cemetery Records; Marin County Census Records; Old California Newspapers; Books on California Pioneers; Family Reunions; Father of the Yukon – Jack McQuesten; One Inspirational Ancestor; Ancestors of Our Members in the S.F. Earthquake; Tombstone Humor; The Seasoning; John Frederick – Civil War Soldier; Pioneers of Marin County; Queries

Vol. 5, #3, Summer 1982

Society Happenings; 1982-83 Officers; Calendar of Events; New Members; Turn-About; Family Associations; SASE Searches; Genealogical Query Columns; Old Photos; History of Photography; Restoration of Photographs; Cartes de Visite by Eaton S. Lothrop Jr.; Traeling Artists by Eaton S. Lothrop Jr.; How To Date An Old Photograph; How To Photograph Tombstones; Do Your Own Photocopying; Photo Cards; Pioneers of Marin County; Immigrant Ships; Queries

Vol. 5, #4, Fall 1982

Calendar of Events; Family Tree Placemats; Book Review; New Members; Turn-About; Family Associations; Genealogical Query Columns; Ancestors of Our Members – Adair Family; Cousins Chart; Land Records; Land Descriptions; How To Obtain Copies of Homestead Papers; How To Locate a Claim in the Cherokee Outlet; Land Acts;  Deeds;  Public Lands; Wong Family; A Joyful Reunion After 73 Years; Pioneers of Marin County;  Queries

Vol. 6, #1, Winter 1982

Editorial; Book Review; Turn-About; Family Associations; Pilgrim Ship Mayflower; S.F. Public Library Genealogical Collection Dispersal; Military Records; Order For Copies of Veterans’ Records; Example of Pension Application; Example of Military Service Record; American Wars and Engagements Before 1902; Reference Books Pertaining to Military Records; Selected List of Books on Rev. War Soldiers at BYU; Military Personnel Records Held By State Agencies; Rev. War Records in the Archives and Records Division of the VA State Library; More Reference Books Pertaining to Military Records; The Confederate Museum in Bermuda; State Agencies That Maintain Revolutionary Records; Queries

Vol. 6, #2, Spring 1983

Turn-About; Genealogical Query Columns; Family Associations; New Members; Death Records; Cemetery Records; Death Certificate Abstract; Burial Invitations; Obituaries; Epitaphs and Tombstones; Inventors-Talking Tombstones; Pioneers of Marin County; Name Index Vol. 5 and Vol. 6, #1

Vol. 6, #3, Summer 1983

Calendar of Events; Society Happenings; Book Review; Turn-About; Family Associations; Genealogical Query Columns; German Research; New Members; German Surnames With English Meanings; German Terms and English Translations; German Societies; Genealogical Research in Germany; Local German Social Clubs; Pioneers of Marin County  (Tomales); Queries

Vol. 6, #4, Fall 1983

Calendar of Events; Society Happenings; New Members; Book Review; Turn-About; Family Associations; Genealogical Query Columns; Everton Workshop – San Mateo; Marin County Births, 1861-1876; Pioneers of Marin County; Portraits: James McCausland, Thomas A.  Thornby, Lewis Osborn; Queries

Vol. 7, #1, Winter 1984

Society Happenings; Calendar of Events; Book Review; Turn-About; Family Associations; Genealogical Query Columns; Foreign Research Tips; New Members; Marin County Births, 1877-1885; Marin County Pioneers; Ancestor Charts of Joy Deal Lehman and A. Ruskauff Milavec; Queries

Vol. 7, #2, Spring 1985

Calendar of Events; New Members; Book Review; New Books In The Library; Turn-About; Family Associations; Genealogical Query Columns; foreign Research Tips; NGS Conference; Amendments to Bylaws; Nominations for 1984-85 Officers; Marin County Births, 1886-1889; Ancestor Charts of Members, Carolyn Joyner Flagg, Carma Symes Houweling, Donna Wallin, Marjorie Frazee Meikle, David Meikle; Queries

Vol. 7, #3, Summer 1985

Calendar of Events; Society Happenings; New Members; Book Review; Turn-About; Genealogical Query Columns; Family Associations; Foreign Research Tips; California Vital Statistics; Grandma’s Apron; the Family Registry; Military Service Records; Ancestor Charts of Mary Strain Lee, Elaine Daum, Barbara Bennett Brabo, Peggy Haskell Bohler, Gail Conover, Shirley Holm Elam; Marin County Pioneers; Queries

Vol. 7, #4, Fall 1985

Calendar of Events; Turn-About; Family Associations; Genealogical Query Columns; Foreign Research Tips; Who Was That Family Tree I Saw You With?; Marin  County Cemetery Records; Ancestor Charts of Members – Charmaine Burdell, Jeani Schnabel Ward, Catherine Lutes Gowdy, Florence Alexander Carney, Dorothy Lowe,  Shirley Elkins  Craner, Judith Little Martin; Fifteen Ways To Find A Maiden Name; Clawson Family Bible; Pioneers of Marin County; Queries

Vol. 8, #1, Winter 1984

Calendar of Events; Turn About; Family Associations; Foreign Research Tips; Genealogical Query Columns in Newspapers; New Members; Genealogy Classes; Interlibrary Loan Code; Genealogical Resources Through Interlibrary Loan; Ancestor Charts of George McCall, Alberta De Massi, Susan Trumbull, Virginia Rolle, Pat Phillips, Glenna Bernheim; Queries

Vol. 8, #2, Spring 1985

Calendar of Events; New Members; Turn-About; Family Associations; Genealogical Query Columns; Foreign Research Tips; Ireland; Ireland Addresses and Libraries; Irish Bibliography; County Map of Ireland; Ancestors In A Computer; Ancestor Charts of Members Helen Symes Epperson, Marilyn Ackerman Myers, Barbara Eaton Wyatt, Tommie Whitener, Shirley Davis Chapman, Gail Conover; How To Number 5-Generation Charts; How To Have a Family Reunion; Queries

Vol. 8, #3, Summer 1985

Calendar of Events; Book Review; From the Mailbag; Family Associations; Genealogical Query Columns; Foreign Research Tips; Bible Records  - Trumbull and Hanson; What’s In A Name?; Ancestors; Old Handwriting and Symbols; New Members; Member Ancestor Charts - Maxwell, Rainey, Sherman, Cundiff, Levine, Dangers; History of Marin County; Queries

Vol. 8, #4, Fall1985

Editorial; Calendar of Events; New Members; Turn-About; Family Associations;  Foreign Research Tips; How To Find Out About Your Past; Tracing Your Ancestors in England; Mini-History of England; Queries; Ancestor  Charts of Dorothy Swinson deWitt Baldwin

Vol. 9, #1, Winter 1985

Calendar of Events; Book Review; Family Associations; Foreign Research Tips; New Members; Search For Descendants of Early Marin Residents; Tips for the Amateur When Compiling a Family History; General History and Settlement of Marin County; Queries

Vol. 9, #2, Spring 1986

Calendar of Events; Turn About; From the Mailbag; Family Associations; Foreign Research Tips; Bible Records (Decker); I Can’t Find Them in the Census; New Members; Historical Marin Documents; Lending Libraries; Marin Co. Civil War List; Grand Jury Report Letter; Queries

Vol. 9, #3, Summer 1986

New Officers; Calendar of Events; Book Review; From the Mailbag; Family Associations; Librarian’s Corner; How Are You Doing on Your Family Research?; Marin County Deaths, 1873-1892; Genealogical Research Through Free Queries in the Newspapers; Consolidating and Disposing of Your Genealogy; Queries; Family History Workshop

Vol. 9, #4, Fall 1986

Calendar of Events; From the Mailbag; Turn-About; Family Associations; What is Genealogy?; Marin County Deaths, 1873-1892; New Members; History of Marin County

Vol. 10, #1, Winter 1986

Calendar of Events; New Members; Family Associations; Proving His Death by Deeds; New From Sutro Library; New Passenger Arrival Lists at National Archives; Research Display Night; Letter From Alex Haley; Roots of Dorothy Redford; A Genealogist’s Christmas Eve; Marin County Deaths – 1873-1892; History of Marin County