JOE
BARBER’S COLUMN
Welcome
to those kin who have subscribed to our newsletter since the spring 2000
edition. We hope you will find it interesting.
Summer
vacation for the most part is now only a memory. Perhaps some of you visited
some of your roots or spent time on other genealogical activities this summer.
One
of our summer events was to visit Carberry, MB the area where my mother (my
Olmstead connection) was born and where there are still several Olmstead second
and third cousins. We visited with some of those cousins and also visited the
Carberry cemetery, the resting-place of many Olmsteads as well as members of
allied families.
Another
highlight was a visit from two third cousins from Saskatoon, SK whom I had just
recently met over the Internet, largely through the good work of Doreen
Dolleman. These cousins were surprised to learn of the numerous Olmstead kin
they have in SK and western Canada. We had an interesting time reviewing
various family connections and in particular trying to identify a number of
photographs which had been in their family for years.
I’m
sure you would all want to extend your best wishes to Jack and Stella Olmstead
of Huntsville, ON who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 30,
2000. Jack descends from Moses, son of Jabez. It was a pleasure meeting Jack
and Stella during the Olmste(a)d Family Association reunion at Chautauqua, NY
in September 1999.
In
our last newsletter I mentioned about consolidating the material I had gathered
over the years pertaining to the descendants of Ephraim Olmstead who was in
Renfrew County, ON, in the early to mid
1800s. Ephraim is from the Jeremiah family, which Doreen Dolleman reports on in
this edition. Largely through the research of Doreen, Eleanor Bennitt of the
state of Washington is now able to trace her roots to Ephraim and this was
something that had eluded Eleanor for years. Just recently I have met Wayne
Olmstead of Kenogami Lake,ON and Clifford Olmstead of Whitney, ON on the
Internet. Wayne and Clifford descend from Ephraim. They are adding to the
information I already had on this rather large family.
Hopefully
in the near future we will be able to send you a list of our subscribers which
will indicate some of the early generations for each of you and which may help
you contact others in the same family line from Jabez.
May
your research efforts in the months ahead be productive.
Joe
Barber