Dayton Obits Reminder

For PDF of an Obituary from Dayton, search in the Dayton Obits website. If you found, copy Dayton Obits Search result & paste in an email to MAG-REF@daytonmetrolibrary.org. Limit your request to no more than 3 at a time, & understand they are limited resources. They will respond as soon as they are able.

Interactive Full Family Tree

I've published a fully interactive Family Tree, all generations, all branches.

No login necessary.  Free.  It's quite simplistic, but that has it's advantages too :)  Click on boxes of names to view that person's tree.  There's also a name search, see Names tab at top, then click letter of last name to find the person you're looking for.

Interactive Hook-Sparks Family Tree

New Family Tree Posters Available for Download

I have updated the Family Tree Posters, and created additional Family Tree Posters for Different Generations.  These tree posters are shown as a link under the Photo Albums Menu; Family Tree Posters are the last item in the Photo Albums Menu.  It will redirect to you to my file server with all the posters.  Here is also a link to the Posters.

Reunion Reminder

When: 1:30PM - 6:30PM on Saturday, August 1, 2015.
Where: Hill & Dales Park, 2655 S Patterson Blvd, Kettering, Ohio





Bring:

• family photos 
• ancestral photos for copying
• prepared food for sharing - those traveling long distances to the reunion need not provide food
• sunscreen
• small dollar bills for cash raffle

Budget

As the host of this reunion, I have a very small budget.  I reserved the shelter for $150.  I am providing paper plates, cups, utensils. I'm asking families who live in Ohio to please bring large shareable portions of food to the event, as this will help me with my food budget for the event.  The shelter has functioning electric outlets, which will allow for a couple of crock pots.  

I am also putting some items up for auction and raffle to serve as a FUNdraiser to assist with the budget for this event as well as my general ancestry expenditures.  I am by no means getting rich by selling some of these items; I assure you, these are items of love, and this ancestry work is a passionate but expensive hobby of mine.  I have monthly expenses strictly for ancestry related items of at least $60 per month.  These monthly expenses include a file server hosting the ancestry photos and videos which you all have been enjoying.  This file server is expensive, but, it's very nice, as it allows me to easily share and organize high resolution items with you all, and you are able to download them and use them however you like.  I also have purchased many rare antique books which contain precious information about our heritage.  I say all this just so you know that by bidding on and/or purchasing these items for sale, that you are not lining my pockets with cash. 

I really think you're going to like this first item up for auction.  Check it out on ebay here: Hook Photo Collage

Historical Library

I'm working to make my own library of original sources available to you all online.

I have made a few titles available to you already, with more to come. They are under the label Downloadable Docs.

I have discovered that Internet Explorer doesn't like the file share service that I'm using.  If you use Google's Chrome as your internet browser instead of Internet Explorer, it works without any problems at all.  So, if you don't already have Chrome, please consider downloading this as an alternate internet browser.

The documents are password protected, so you will need a password from me.  No user names, just a password.  It will prompt you for the password when you try to view the file.  You can choose to view the file using the online viewer, or you may also download a copy of it to your computer in Adobe PDF format.

Julia Augusta Cox Hook Story Sharing

Click below image to view Julia's story

Family Reunion

Aug 1, 2015 1:30 - 6:30

Hills & Dales Metropark- Paw Paw/Parking Lot

Looking through our precious Family Reunion photos, I can't help but wonder how the families, spread far and wide as they were, kept track of each other and got word around of a reunion.  Without Facebook, texting, and other 2010+ technologies, my generation would likely be clueless.  Nevertheless, keeping the family connected must've been important to them.  Postcards, letters, phone calls, and newspaper ads were their tools of the day.  I believe it's time we put our communications to work to bring about a reunion for the next generation of Philip and Julia Hook's descendants.

More details will come, but please mark this date on your calendar.  Aug 1, 2015.

Link to Facebook Event