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Mauget Newsletter, Thursday, April 16, 1998

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Mauget’s are Talking

This Web site is minimal so far, but it has already catalyzed communications. Its been operating for one month. I’ve heard from cousins, their offspring, an uncle, and some people that know a Mauget or two. These are mostly the cyber-connected people. I’ve learned of others that aren’t on a computer. I even bumped into (in an electronic manner) a little guy called Brandon born in the same hospital as I was, but 54 years later. A link to his little footprints is in the new Mauget Links section.

Names of Living People Heard Last Month

1. Bonnie Mauget Sparks
2. Joseph W. Mauget
3. Luanne Mauget
4. Nemoa Melvina Mauget
5. Peggy Mauget
6. Dr Steven A. Mauget – El Nino expert
7. Jules Jean Mauget, brother of Neoma – his full name has been used by at least three ancestors!
8. Richard Russell Mauget
9. Ian Jevon McKinley
10. Irene Melvina Deeds Mauget
11. Christy Krapko Bowls
12. Robert Mauget
13. Dianna Mauget
14. Austin Jean Mauget
15. Paige Marcelle Mauget
16. Brandon Lee Mauget
17. Michael Louis Mauget
18. Stephanie Mauget
19. Cameron Mauget
20. Aaron Mauget
21. Hanna Mauget
22. Schuyler Michael Mauget Dornbrier
23. Jules (Jay) Mauget
24. Harold Kirshner
25. Caralee Jo Hyatt Dunbar
26. Jeremey Edward Mauget
27. Jeffrey Ernest Mauget
28. Carey Grice Mauget
29. Louis Edward Mauget (jr)

The numbers mean nothing except as a count. If I omitted someone, it was an accident. Let me know – I’ll fix it or add names. Thanks to those of you who signed the guest book or sent Email. I tried to answer all of the notes. Those on aol.com seem to have full mailboxes. Several attempts bounced back to me.

Geneology

I spent $50 on some genealogy software from Broderbund. It’s smart at linking people together into families. There are four CD-ROMs with it that are mostly teasers. Two of them have about a bizillion people’s names on them. When I get a hit on a name, it connects to a Web site that wants to sell me a CD-ROM with the actual information about the person. It’s good that Mauget’s are rare, or it could get expensive.

I’ve had more success with the other two CD’s. They have social security deaths from 1936 through 1996. I hit many deceased Mauget’s there. There is actual information with each name. It transfers automatically into the family tree being built in the software. Then, in the case where I have already started a name, it asks me if the information is for that person. It’s clever about figuring who is descended from whom. I had some incest problems before I got it right. My father and I have the same name, so my kids were my moms and mine for awhile until I noticed! I feel weird thinking about it

I bumped into the female lineage problem right away. I couldn’t find my Aunt Marcelle, until I remembered she married a Bradford. I looked in the Bradfords and found her – birth date and all. It’s sad how we lose females in this society. For example, where are my high school girl friends (both of them)? Probably all around Spokane, but how do I know their names? Neoma dodged the problem by keeping the name.

I noticed a cluster of dead Mauget’s around Cincinnati, Ohio and Fort Thomas, Kentucky. The Web telephone listings show a live Joffre and Wanda couple in that area. Anybody know about them?

I ran into a disadvantage in Social Security death records. Not everybody had a number until recently.

I’m going a little slow with the genealogy part, because I want to get it right, and not have it revolving around my branch. I have free software to export the stuff to HTML (Web-speak) when I get ready to launch.

San Francisco

My week there went well last month. I was with 14,000 people during the day, but alone most nights. I closed up Chinatown twice. My favorite waiter, Edsel Ford Fong, died forteen years ago. I discovered this when I revisited his restaurant after a 20 year hiatus. He was famous as the rudest waiter in the world. I went to his dive and stuffed myself for $9.95, which is almost zero in San Francisco money. I didn’t catch any diseases either. The restaurant is a roofed-over alley. You enter through the kitchen. The best (worst) dining room is the top floor. They drop the order slip down a dumbwaiter on a weighted fish line. The place is a little rough, and small. I could put 1.5 Buick Regal’s end-to-end in the restaurant, but the doors wouldn’t open. I miss Edsel cursing in Mandarin down the dumbwaiter shaft and making me wash plates.

My next trip is to Yorktown, New York, in May.

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I’m working on this project, slowly but surely. I’ll tack old issues of this newsletter on the end until the file slows in loading. (Late note: I'm separating each issue now. -Ed Mauget, Dec. 31, 1998)

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