News and Notes, ARHFS V4 I4

The "Genealogist's Magazine" for September 1995 carries the obituary of Sir Anthony Wagner, noted British genealogist and author, as well as Clarenceux King of Arms Since 1978. Among Sir Anthony's many publications is his PEDIGREE AND PROGRESS which will be of interest to many with ancestry in the Allegheny Region. PEDIGREE AND PROGRESS contains a number of pedigrees of European Royalty making connections in some cases to the Roman Empire. A number of area families have ancestry among the European Nobility, and Sir Anthony's PEDIGREE AND PROGRESS will be of interest to descendants of those families.

Remember this is the last issue of ARA you will receive if you do not pay your 1996 membership dues. The dues are due in March. Please get these in so we will know how many members we will have for the coming year. And TELL A FRIEND!

See Eunice Conrad article in this issue.

ARFHS is sorry to learn of the death o* Mrs. Charles (Odie) Chapman of Beverly, WV. For many years a noted local genealogist, the work or Mrs. Chapman, in collecting area cemetery records is unequalled. Mrs. Chapman was also active with the Stalnaker family association and the DAR. Allegheny Region genealogy has lost a major contributor with Mrs. Chapman's passing.

A number of persons from a wide area attended the "Family History Share Day" held at the Franklin LDS Church in October. The event was hosted by ARFHS member Jennie Hott, who is also librarian of the Franklin Church. A good many persons were in attendance from several counties and states, and a good time was had By all. Thanks to the Franklin LDS Church and Mrs. Hott for hosting the event.

The recent arson fire in Elkins has completely destroyed the Ink Spot printing company, who has printed our journal since the beginning. Jim and Zany, Gillespie have been invaluable in their assistance to the editor in preparing copy, "cleaning up" submitted copy, typesetting, and offering general advice. The Gillespies deserve part of the credit for the past issues of ARA, and it is hoped that they will be back in gear soon.

With the explosion of the information age we find ourselves in today, many people are interested in doing genealogical research on-line Over the past six months, the amount of genealogical information available on the Internet has grown exponentially It is truly amazing People are beginning to put their entire lineages on-line, completely searchable and freely accessible to interested parties, it will not be long before you will be able to browse Census records in their entirety with the ease of a point and click from your home computer.

The Allegheny Regional Family History Society would like to take a strong lead in providing information for our posterity In generations to come, this will undoubtedly mean information in electronic form. We are undertaking a grass-roots effort to provide this information on-line. Thanks to the World Wide Web, you may now access information at the following url:

To visit our site, you may wish to use a provider like America On-Line or Compuserve to get access We will be contacting these companies to find out when they plan on putting a local dial-up number in the Elkins region. The Public Library or the local college may be able to provide assistance as well.

The information we would like to provide electronically includes, the Journal of Allegheny Regional Ancestors, Cemetery Readings, histories, lineages, records, pictures, area information, articles, gedcom files ... the possibilities are endless.

We would like to ask for your donations of materials be made to be included in our on-line project. This may include any information you can provide, i.e. publications, articles, newspaper clippings, gedcom files, pictures, notices, queries .....

Some guidelines for submissions are:

If you have an article generated by a word processing program, please send a diskette containing the file as well as a hardcopy, if possible the best format to save a document in is text only. however we do have several converters available The files can be DOS, Windows. or Macintosh formats.

If you have a typewritten document, please send the best copy possible, Script fonts and handwriting do not scan very well.

If you would like to have photographs included with your submission, please send a reprint of the photo, or a scanned image of the photo in .pict .jpeg, .gif, or Adobe Photoshop format. We will be trying to obtain discounts from local businesses for assistance

If you would like any of the materials returned, please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope with your submission. Copyright notices will be published along with the documents.