Callaway Family Association - July 2001 CFANet

THE CALLAWAY FAMILY ASSOCIATION
CFANET e-NEWSLETTER
July 2001

Volume II No. 7

BULLETIN BILL'S BLURB
You might have noticed that the CFA web site was out of action at the beginning of June. Our Webmaster, Donna Morgan, has asked me to tell you: "I'm sorry for the down time on the CFA web site. The company who hosts our site merged with 2 other companies and their servers were down for over a week. I hope they don't plan to do that again anytime soon! Sorry too that it caused a problem for all our Chat folks. It's nice to know, though, that so many people have found our site and missed it when it was down."

Also, due in large part to the response from many of you, the Bulletins are once again posted on the CFA web site each month and all past issues can be found under CFANet Archives. However, the Bios have been deleted, for privacy reasons. There will be no Bulletin published in August, but during the summer I will be updating the E-Mail Address List. It will be attached to the September issue.

REPORT OF CFA GENEALOGIST - Sherrill Williams for May 2001 Board of Directors Meeting

1. The distribution of CFA charts to volunteer members has been fairly successful. Volunteers are still needed for several major family lines, and a few "unconnected" lines. Volunteers are still needed for:

(1) John and Bethany Arnold Callaway (Peter)
(2) Joseph and Isabella Graves Henderson Callaway (Peter)
(3) Thomas and Nancy Hosea Callaway (Peter)
(4) Francis Callaway (Joseph)
(5) John and Jane Pyle Callaway of Georgia (unconnected)
(6) Caleb Calloway of North Carolina (unconnected)

2. Some volunteers continue to seek "guidelines" for inputting the chart data into the Family Tree Maker program. I understand that the name and address of each CFA member who has submitted charts should be put into the program. However, because many charts contain "erroneous" and "unproven" data - and since most of the volunteers can recognize such data, should they not be allowed to do their own reconciling of such conflicts as they do their "inputting"? That would hasten the day when these lineages will be ready to add to the Peter and Joseph charts now on the CFA web site.

3. In regard to item #2 (above), it would be helpful if the Technology Committee, including Russ Callaway, Gene Callaway, Kermit Bridges and Dan Smith, settle on a standardized set of "guidelines" to be provided to each volunteer. If this needs clarification, I can be contacted.

4. I am now forwarding requests for information from new "queriests" to the appropriate volunteers for response. Quite a few of these queries are left on the CFA web site and are forwarded to me by Donna Morgan. Kay Minchew also gets a few. Our web site appears to be attracting a good deal of interest, resulting in some new members. Other questions come via the Callaway (rootsweb) mail list. Having the "volunteers" to respond to questions aids in freeing up more of my time to work on the English project.

5. The English project continues to move along. I work almost daily on correlating the records we have collected, and transcribing from "old" and "middle" English the many document copies we have acquired. Frequent e-mail discussions have been held with Bill Piper in England, Dr. Bruce Callaway in Australia, and Warwick Kellaway in New Zealand. All have records to share and compare. These exchanges have been very helpful in understanding the results of our English research. In a few years we should have a good overview of the English Callaway/Kellaway family. When we can finally establish the exact roots of Peter and Joseph, we should then be able to make a fairly good assessment of our family origins.

6. We have launched our new "international section" for Callaway Journal 2001. We are beginning small, but will increase this section as we can organize our material to be more usable and understandable to the general membership.

7. Plans are underway for the 5th annual English research trip. {An update on these plans is given at the end of this Bulletin}

Congratulations to CFA member David F. Moore (Cary's son), who was called by the New York Press Association and invited to conduct a seminar on photography at their 2001 Annual Meeting in Albany, NY.

STATE / REGIONAL ACTIVITIES
Nothing to report from the US this time, but in Canada a very interesting event happened in Ontario on Sunday, June 3. To coincide with my visit to Hamilton, ON (to attend the 50th reunion of the Class of '51 at McMaster University), a get-together of all the Callaways in that area of the province was arranged by Helen Callaway, who happens to be the Operations Manager of GlobalGenealogy.Com, Inc. Helen's husband, Don and his brother Dave, along with their father Murray and uncle Ross, were all there along with all their spouses and offspring. A fun afternoon was had at Helen and Don's home and the group was interested to hear about the Callaway Family Association. Hopefully, one or more new CFA members will be forthcoming. Thanks, Helen, for organizing this family gathering. It was interesting to hear the history of that branch of the Callaway family. While in the area, I visited the GlobalGenealogy.Com offices and store in Milton, ON and was impressed by the huge selection of books, videos, guides, charts & forms, software, CD ROMs, modern and historic maps, etc. Their 2001 Catalogue contains thousands of items. Visit their website at www.globalgenealogy.com .

Berniece Miller sends along a cute story about AUNT EDNA.
As a new bride, Aunt Edna moved into the small home on her husband's ranch near Snowflake. She put a shoe box on a shelf in her closet and asked her husband never to touch it. For 50 years Uncle Jack left the box alone, until Aunt Edna was old and dying. One day, when he was putting their affairs in order, he found the box again and thought it might hold something important. Opening it, he found two doilies and $82,500 in cash. He took the box to her and asked about the contents. "My mother gave me that box the day we were married", she explained. "She told me to make a doily to help ease my frustrations every time I got mad at you. "Uncle Jack was very touched that in 50 years she'd only been mad at him twice. "What's the $82,500 for?" he asked. "Oh, that's the money I made selling the doilies."

CFA CD DATA PROJECT - Russ Callaway, CFA Technologist
The CFA CD Project is coming along nicely. John Wilson is getting the data into Access as I am able to provide it to him. We plan on sending a sample data CD in July to the Computer Committee for their testing and suggestions. It will contain a small part of each data base to see how the real full data will work, prior to getting all of the data converted. I have recently purchased OmniPage Pro 11.0 to convert the Journals into .pdf format so the user can use the free Adobe Acrobat reader to search and read the Journals. It has been a slow job, with Kaye Lanning-Minchew doing the original scan to MS Word, and then I converted that to .pdf files. The census record conversion is progressing well with the image to text conversion. We have 132 pages of the 273 done so far. We are hoping for a completion date of the Annual Meeting. However it looks more like Spring 2002 with the amount of conversion work that I have to do. Anyone with OmniPage Pro 11.0 is welcome to take a Journal and convert it to .pdf format for us. Other programs I have used are just not suited to this work. However if you have one, let me know, please.

JOURNAL 2001
Speaking of Journals, Ben Callaway, Editor, has indicated that this year's Journal should be in the mail later this month. It should be a dandy, and I hope you all have renewed your memberships so that you will receive your copy. Happy reading over the summer!

RESEARCH TRIP TO ENGLAND 2001
Our team of "three ladies" - Sherrill Williams, Pat Schnurr & Cary Moore - will be heading back to England on August 31 and will return on September 29. They will spend the first week working in the County Records Offices of Devon, Dorset, and Wiltshire, then move on to Somerset the next week, followed by a few days in Hampshire. The remainder of the time will be spent at the Public Records Office in Richmond. During the trip, our genealogists will examine, among many other things, the Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills, which are on microfilm at the PRO at Kew. They will also review Chancery Court cases, and follow up on information obtained in previous research trips. It is my good fortune to have arranged to spend 2 weeks in England myself, during the time that Sherrill, Pat and Cary will be there. I will be researching my own line of the Callaway family in Somerset, and plan to meet the three ladies in Taunton at the Somerset Records Office from September 11 - 14. More about that in the Fall.

Bill Callaway, CFANET Coordinator Parksville, B.C., Canada

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