JEFFERSON COUNTY NEW YORK

FROM THE COORDINATORS

June, 2009: Random thoughts, as I try to format the Pioneers Folder. Remember both these coordinators claim to be computer illiterate. Sometimes we can decipher a .pdf file, but mostly not. If you want your pioneer on the website, please use a word or a wordperfect format. If you want him (these are mostly male) up in a timely fashion please copy one of the older files, like Wagoner or Dixon, and we can have it up in hours...providing we're home. Absolutely the best way for us is for you to type the words directly into an email. If there is no reference to Jefferson County, we will delete that pioneer. If there is no contact information, he's lost to us and to everyone else.
In this position, one learns constantly, and wishes one had the time to explore all the fascinating websites which come to one's attention. This morning websites on Civil War topics with a New York State slant came up at Civil War Ring. If you haven't discovered it, we have some Civil War Biographies at Brief Civil War Biographies , and will be happy to add any other Civil War vets from Jefferson County you might send in.
The lilacs are fading, a sad thing for me. The spirea is in full bloom, happily. Your ancestors would know it as "bridal wreath", and that's the name my lazy memory brings to mind first. Another name which came to mind as grand nephew was mowing the lawn..."Your great great grandmother called them pineys, and so did your father's grandfather, but they were always peonies to my mother..." How quickly these little quirks disappear from the family's memory. Like "Evanses Mills" for Evans Mills. And "golden robin" for Baltimore oriole. And those so welcome harbingers of spring, the flunky dunks, the bur-ba-lees, and the whoo-whoo birds. Yes, we know the correct names now, but I haven't heard a flunky dunk for sixty years...the bird books say they are disappearing. I miss them.

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