JOE BARBER’S COLUMN

 

 

Hello again one and all and a special welcome to those who have joined our group in the past few months. I hope you find this newsletter and subsequent ones interesting.

 

We give a special thanks to Danean Mitchell who has written for this newsletter. I am sure Carl would like to hear from others who have some family history they can share with the rest of us.

 

While traveling to Calgary, AB last May I learned of an Olmsted clock being offered for sale in Calgary by a person who repairs antique clocks as well as buying and selling them. I arranged to see the clock and through a trade reference book which the vendor had was able to determine the clock had been made for Charles Albert Olmsted, a watchmaker and jeweler in Ottawa, ON from about 1890 until his death in 1943. There is more about this clock elsewhere in this newsletter. Daniel Olmsted of Swift Current, SK is now the proud owner of this clock.  He purchased it because of the name Olmsted on the face and as well he is interested in collectibles. Some of Daniel’s kin have traced their family ancestry back to Nicholas (1615-1684), #4 in the Genealogy of the Olmsted family in America 1632-1912.

 

A project that I have been working on for some time and which is also part of this newsletter is a mailing list of our subscribers with their early pedigree line from Jabez, to the extent I know it.  If anyone is unhappy about his or her address being displayed blame me, not Carl, as it is my idea. I failed to make my code column wide enough for the long zip codes and the + after 5 digits simply means there is a zip code extension. One of the objectives of this project is to show who your closer kin are in the event you do not know of them already. Some of our subscribers are from the James of Hartford group or the Richard of Norwalk group and another of the shortcomings of my program is that I cannot record your information, and so they are omitted  Also there are some subscribers who I don’t have information for and these people are omitted also.  Carl and I would appreciate receiving any corrections or added data people can provide.

 

Happy ancestor hunting in the months ahead.

 

Joe Barber