Saturday Serendipity (November 27, 2021)

 

As folks recover from the gathering and feasting of Thankgiving, here are a few suggested reads while dealing with the guilt of overindulging.  ;-)

1.    A little over a week ago there was a post on what I consider to be the premier genealogy-related blog out of Rhode Island.  I am referring to One Rhode Island Family by Diane Boumenot and the announcement of her new book about the Rhode Island State Census.  Read here about the book and why it could be very useful to you if you have any Rhode Island roots. 

2.    The Weekly Genealogist of NEHGS highlighted a piece this week from mentalfloss.com titled "11 Foods Missing From the First Thankgiving."  If you guessed that pizza was missing, you would be correct, but to read about the 11 identified in the article go here.

3.    The most recent edition of The Writer's Almanac from Garrison Keillor noted that today is the birthday of critic and writer James Agee (born in 1909).  Read here the summary about Agee, but in particular read in the summary an extended quote from his classic book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, that will resonate with those of us who are immersed in genealogy and family history.

4.   James Tanner, of Genealogy's Star blog, posted yesterday about the use of live text OCR (optical character recognition).  Read here about what this is and what it can do for you in your genealogy research.

5.    Ahh, the frustrations that are just an annoying inevitability when doing genealogy research.  There is simply no way to avoid them completely and that is why a good rant is cathartic.  Jacqi Stevens, of A Family Tapestry blog, got a good rant off her chest this week and just reading it made my latest frustration melt away temporarily because "misery loves company."  ;-)  Read "A Rant About Really Old Newspapers" here.

6.    Janine Adams, professional organizer and author of Organize Your Family History blog, posted this week about abandoning your paper research files and going digital.  Read her steps to digital genealogy here.  While I agree paper has its real downsides, it has some advantages over pure digital records.  If you are going digital in your genealogy record keeping, perhaps rather than scanning and then shredding, one might consider if any other family member might be interested in your paper files and all the work you put into it -- look at it as another "backup" if your hard drive or other backups should fail.  If no one is interested in your paper files then by all means go ahead and shred.  ;-) 

7.    Marian Wood, of Climbing My Family Tree blog, reviewed a new book by one of her favorite website authors.  Read here Marian's review of the new reference book Learning More About Your Ancestors Online by Kenneth R. Marks  

8.    Another article highlighted recently in The Weeekly Genealogist of NEHGS, is one about solving the code for an alchemist's recipe for the Philosophers' Stone.  Read here about the code, how it was broken, and how modern chemists will soon try to re-create the formula to see what happens. 

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Copyright 2021, John D. Tew

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What Is HathiTrust and Why Do Genealogists Need to Be Familiar With it?

In 2008 a group of a dozen universities and the eleven libraries in the University of California system founded what was called the HathiTrust.  The universities involved were those members of the former Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), which was formed in 1958 by the presidents of the university members of the Big Ten athletic conference as the academic consortium counterpart to the athletic organization.  In 1958 the member universities were: the University of Chicago[1], University of Illinois, Indiana University,  University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Purdue University, and the University of Wisconsin.  Pennsylvania State University was added to the consortium in 1990 when it was admitted to the Big Ten and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was added in 2011 for the same reason. In 2013 both Rutgers University and the University of Maryland joined the consortium and in 2014 both also were admitted to the Big Ten athletic conference.  Following the growth in the membership of both the athletic conference and the academic consortium, the name of the consortium was changed to the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) on June 29, 2016.

"Hathi" is from the Hindi language and it is the word for "elephant."  The word is pronounced like "hah-tee."  The name choice makes sense when one learns about the programs and projects instituted by HathiTrust and then recalls the association that the elephant has come to have with possession of a good long-term memory.  The saying "memory like an elephant" is derived at least in part by the ability elephants are said to have to remember the person who trained them even when they have not seen the person for twenty years or more.  It is the contributions of the HathiTrust Shared Print Program and the HathiTrust Digital Library project to the preservation of the collective long-term memory of our science and culture that makes the trust name so appropriate.

The HathiTrust Shared Print Program is a commitment by the participating libraries to retain and preserve as a distributed "collective collection" for at least 25 years monograph volumes that number some 18 million volumes as of a few years ago.  The HathiTrust Digital Library is a huge repository of digital content obtained from research libraries and includes content from Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives.  Digital content is also contributed by local libraries.  The repository is administered by the University of Michigan.

According to Wikipedia, as of late 2015 HathiTrust comprised over 13.7 million volumes and some 5.3 million of them were in the public domain in the U.S.  [There are now some 17 million volumes in the collection.]  Importantly, HathiTrust provides full-text search across the entire repository and in 2016 alone more than 6.17 million users in the United States and 236 other nations used HathiTrust for more than 10.9 million research sessions.  A web application called PageTurner is available at HathiTrust for viewing publications in the repository.  The application allows versions of the publications to be downloaded as a .pdf file and viewing of pages can be accomplished using thumbnail views, flipping, scrolling, or one page at a time. Recent changes to the viewer application are explained in a short illustrated YouTube video embedded on the HathiTrust home page at https://www.hathitrust.org. 

The HathiTrust repository has not been without controversy.  In 2011 the Authors Guild sued HathiTrust over alleged massive violations of copyright.  The federal Courts ruled in 2012 that the use of digitized books by Google fell under the fair use doctrine based on the "transformativeness" involved -- meaning that while the works involved had been transformed into digital versions the process had not infringed on the copyright holders' rights.  The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court ruling in June 2014 finding that giving search and accessibility for the visually impaired provided grounds for regarding the service as a transformative and fair use.  The matter was remanded to the lower court to reconsider the matter of the Guild's standing to sue with respect to the HathiTrust library preservation copies.  As of 2021 the HathiTrust copyright policy has been published with the following language

            "[M]any works in our collection are protected by copyright law, so we cannot ordinarily publicly display large portions of those protected works unless we have permission from the copyright holder", and thus "if we cannot determine the copyright or permission status of a work, we restrict access to that work until we can establish its status. Because of differences in international copyright laws, access is also restricted for users outside the United States to works published outside the United States after and including 1896."

So what does this have to do with genealogy?  Why should genealogists be interested in the HathiTrust repository?

The answer is simple and has to do with what can be found in a collection of some 17 million digitized volumes being preserved in the repository and made available for easy viewing.  Many, if not most, of the works in the collection are long out of print, in the public domain, and not easily found and accessed elsewhere in the original published book form without great effort and possible expense of traveling to a physical library or making a time consuming inter-library request for temporary use of the book.  Two examples will suffice to illustrate what is out there and available to the genealogist with internet connection and basic computer research skills.

Suppose you are interested in learning more about the early history of Rhode Island and particularly about the settlement of Aquidneck Island in Narragansett Bay.  If you go to the HathiTrust home page and do a search for "early history of Rhode Island" you will find that there are over 925,000 results.  But if you have read that there is a book from 1920 titled "History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" and enter that in the search bar, Voila!  There it is. . . a 1920 book on that subject by Thomas William Bicknell along with thousands of other results for old books that delve into the history of Rhode Island at various levels.

Or suppose that you are interested in the genealogy of the Carpenter family in the United States that originated from colonial Rehoboth, Massachusetts.  You have heard of a late 19th century genealogy on that family that has often been cited to even though it is recognized to have a number of errors or inaccuracies.  You do not recall the author and you just want to be able to see it without going to the DAR Library in Washington, D.C. where you are told there is a rare physical copy of the massive book.  You want to be able to view it yourself for clues and possible leads for your research.  You go to the HathiTrust home page and enter "Carpenter family Rehoboth, Massachusetts."  You are almost instantly provided with 45,398 results for your search, but the sixth hit down is a thumbnail view of the title page of an 1898 genealogy by Amos B. Carpenter titled "A genealogical history of the Rehoboth branch of the Carpenter family in America, brought down from their English ancestor John Carpenter 1303, with many biographical notes of descendants and allied families."  You click on the "Full View" link and within seconds you can now view a digitized version of the entire 976 pages compliments of digitization of an original copy owned by Cornell University.

The HathiTrust Digital Library should clearly be an arrow in the quiver of every dedicated genealogist.  Just give it a try!

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[1]  The university of Chicago was a founding member of the Big Ten conference, but withdrew from the athletic conference in 1946. Nevertheless, an invitation to the University to join the academic consortium in 1958 was accepted.  The University of Chicago is not currently a member of the BTAA.

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Copyright 2021, John D. Tew

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Heather's Honor Roll Project (November 14, 2021)---Wallingford, CT World War II Memorial Part 6---close up panel photos

 

Three days ago, November 11, 2021, I contributed to the 2021 call for additions to the Honor Roll project of Heather Rojo by posting the sixth listing of surnames on the World War II Memorial in Wallingford, CT.  That post completed the process of transcribing the 2,039 names of the men and women from the Wallingford, Connecticut area who served their country during World War II (my father being among them).

As the above photograph of the WW II memorial on the grounds of the Wallingford Town Hall illustrates, there are seven panels each with triple columns of the names of those who served. Starting with my 2016 Veterans Day post, many, but nowhere near all of the names listed on the first panel, were transcribed. The surnames are in alphabetical order across the entire seven panels. 

My post of November 10th, 2016 transcribed and listed all the names on the first panel from George C. Abbott, Jr. to Joseph E. Buza -- 244 names altogether. My Memorial Day 2017 post listed all the surnames  that begin with C through E -- 298 names in all.   For Veterans Day November 8, 2017, I transcribed an additional 317 surnames covering those beginning with F through I and the Veterans Day 2019 post added 242 more names covering surnames beginning with J through L.  For Veterans Day 2020 395 surnames covering all of those beginning with M through Q were transcribed and posted.  Transcription of the entire memorial was completed and posted on November 11, 2021.  The 543 names transcribed for that post covered all the surnames beginning with R through Z.  

In keeping with my intent to also post close-ups of the panels showing all the names I have transcribed and listed, this is the post of panel close-ups to provide photographs of all the surnames that begin with R through Z. This procedure has been followed for all the previous panel transcriptions.  The transcribed names are posted first and photographs of the panel close-ups covering the posted names follow shortly thereafter so that those who want to have an actual image of the memorial and the name of ancestors or relatives can take them from these posted photographs.

In early posts of the panel close-ups I think I neglected to mention that some of the names have a star/asterisk preceding the inscribed name.  This means that the starred person gave the ultimate sacrifice and died in service during the war.

I am very indebted to my cousin, Bruce Marquardt of Wallingford, for so willingly photographing the panels in close-up for me after my efforts to do so failed.  Thank you Bruce!

The following panel close-ups cover the R to Z surnames on the Wallingford WWII memorial from Paul R. Rabito  through Walter J. Zwible.  Please note that in order to be sure all names were photographed, the photos overlap and some names are therefore shown more than once.  The repeated names can thus be used to orient the precise order of the names from Rabito to Zwible.  The alphabetical order flows down the first column and then up to the top of the second column, down the second column, and finally up to the top of third column on each of the panels. 

The surnames starting with R begin with Paul R. Rabito in the first column of the first close-up (Photo No. 1 below) and continues down that column through to Photo 3 and the name Donald F. Roudi.  The surnames starting with R then continue in the second column of Photo 4 with the name Patrick J. Roudi and follow down that column to the name John R. Ryan where the R surnames are completed and the S surnames begin with the name William P. Saas.  This process is repeated for the remaining surnames from S through Z proceeding in the same manner from Photo 5 through Photo 13 going down a column to its end and then up to the next column and so forth until the last name on the memorial, Walter J. Zwible, is reached.

Photo 1

Photo 2

Photo 3

Photo 4

Photo 5

Photo 6

Photo 7

Photo 8

Photo 9

Photo 10

Photo 11

Photo 12

Photo 13

Photo 14

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All close-up photographs of the panels of the WWII memorial are by Bruce Marquardt of Wallingford, Connecticut.

Photo of the entire memorial is by the author.

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Copyright 2021, John D. Tew

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Saturday Serendipity (November 13, 2021)

 

Here are a few recommended reads for this weekend.

1.    With all the recent attention to the "right to privacy" and its close cousin, the much touted and often misconstrued right of "personal freedom," perhaps it is time to give some attention to the Supreme Court Justice sometimes called the "Jewish Jefferson."  The Writers Almanac noted today that it is the birthday of Justice Louis Brandeis.  Brandeis was an interesting and complicated man, but he is credited with introducing the concept of a right to privacy into our legal system.  The NPR program Fresh Air once aired a piece on Justice Brandeis and you can read a transcript of that program here. 

2.    This week it was announced that the American Ancestors website of NEHGS (New England Historic Genealogy Society) will launch a "new user friendly website."  The changes are expected to occur this coming Tuesday, November 16th.  You can learn more by visiting the web page announcing the changes here.

3.    Yesterday marked the day that Ellis Island closed after more than 12 million immigrants had been processed through the immigration center located there.  It had been designated the first federal immigration center by President Harrison and before that immigration was handled by the individual states.  On November 12, 1954 the operations at Ellis Island were shuttered after the last detainee was released.  It was then an abandoned site until 1984 when restoration of the island began and eventually became the largest restoration project in U.S. history.  The Immigration Museum at Ellis Island has attracted as many as 30 million visitors and it is estimated that some 40% of Americans can trace their ancestry to someone who passed through Ellis Island.  Read more about the history of Ellis Island here. 

4.    And speaking of Ellis Island, The Weekly Genealogist of American Ancestors made note of an article about surname changes for immigrants at Ellis Island.  Titled "Jews Changing Their Surname at Ellis Island: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Name Changes at Ellis Island is a Big, Fat Lie," you can read the piece by Rabbi Pinchas Landis here.

5.    As we fast approach Thanksgiving 2021 we are about to be inundated with stories about the 1621 celebration of the fall harvest by the Plymouth planters and Massasoit, the sachem of the Wampanoags, and some of his men.  Many consider that celebration to be the first Thanksgiving.  But how do the Wampanoags of today feel about that 1621 celebration?  According to a recent article in The Washington Post, the tribe helped the planters survive and be able to celebrate their first harvest and the tribe still regrets their decision to do so.  Read the article here. 

6.    During this season of giving, if your thoughts turn to whether and how to make gift donations of family artifacts and similar historic materials to a museum, library, or other institution, then you should start with reading a short post about the process.  Marian Burk Wood, of Climbing My Family Tree blog, provides just the right starting place (with links).  Read "Where Are Your Family's Artifacts" here.

7.    Looking for a stimulating book to read––or perhaps gift to someone during the coming holiday season?  Jacqi Stevens, of A Family Tapestry blog, reviews Range (2019) by David Epstein.  Read her review here.

8.    And finally, for those who have been thinking about reducing their blog to book form–– and who might have read my posts about the use of IntoRealPages (with which I have no connection whatsoever other than being a happy customer)–– they are having a 25% off sale (5% more than their usual coupons).  https://intorealpages.com The sale code is WINTER21.

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Copyright 2021, John D. Tew

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Heather's Honor Roll Project (November 11, 2021)––Wallingford, CT World War II Memorial Part 6: Surnames R through Z.

 

Today -- Thursday, November 11,  2021 -- is Veterans Day. 

Among the military Honor Roll memorials located in Wallingford, Connecticut on the grounds of the Town Hall is one for those who served (and in some cases died) in World War II. It is by far the most extensive memorial listing of veterans of war who lived in Wallingford.  The list contains hundreds of names -- in fact so many that it has taken several posts to get them all transcribed and published. This is the sixth post of names from the Wallingford WWII Memorial.  [A post was not done in 2018 due to our relocation to New Jersey from Virginia.]  This listing will cover all the surnames in alphabetical order from R through Z, which comprises 543 names for this post.  With this final post, a total of 2,039 names will have been transcribed from the Wallingford, CT World War Two memorial. 

For the first post listing the 244 surnames from this memorial that begin with A or B, please see the earliest post here.  The second post listing the 298 surnames that begin with C through E can be viewed here.  The third post listing 317 surnames that begin F through I can be viewed here.    The fourth post listing the 242 surnames J through L can be viewed here.  And the fifth post listing surnames M through Q and covering 395 surnames can be viewed here.  

I know that finding a database of transcribed names is one thing for those who are searching for ancestors and relatives, but for those who cannot make a trip to see the actual memorial, a photograph of their family member's name would be a very useful gift for inclusion in a family genealogy; therefore, it is my intention to do a blog post shortly after posting each list of transcribed names to publish the photographs from which I worked to do the transcriptions. Please check back here periodically after you see a listed name of an ancestor or relative in a post and you will then be able to get a photograph of the name in a close-up of the memorial panel containing your family member's name. 

For readers who take the time to scan the names, you will notice that unlike memorials for earlier wars there are a significant number of women listed on this memorial. Also, apart from the sheer number of names on this World War II memorial, one will note the wonderful ethnic diversity of the surnames in the lists. And there are a number of obvious family members listed so that it appears several possible brother, father/son, husband/wife, and cousin combinations are listed.

My father is listed on the World War II memorial in Wallingford since he briefly attended a year of post-high school education at Lyman Hall in Wallingford before he entered Kings Point, the United States Merchant Marine Academy.  Prior to 1957 what is the present Town Hall was the Lyman Hall High School. [1]  I previously posted a close-up of a cropped section of names containing my father's listing here. This post continues the transcription of the hundreds of other names that are honored on the World War II memorial. The transcription posts will be submitted as part of Heather Rojo's wonderful Honor Roll project, which has the goal of creating a searchable listing of all U.S. war veterans on memorials erected around this country.

One other point to make on this Veterans Day regarding memorials specific to World War Two veterans–   the names on this and other WW II memorials around the country list members of what has often been called "The Greatest Generation."  The names on these memorials recognize the hundreds of thousands of men and women who sacrificed years of their youth or middle age -- and in many cases their very lives -- to combat an undeniable evil.  As we pause again this year to commemorate those members of the greatest generation who served and died in WW II, it is important to realize -- with respect to this particular memorial and so many others like it -- that almost all of the men and women named on WWII memorials are no longer with us. If they survived the war, the great majority have lived their lives and passed on. Very, very few remain with us today. READ THEIR NAMES and lift a glass today to all of those who made the ultimate sacrifice and to those who served! 

The names of the men and women honored on the Wallingford World War II memorial with surnames beginning with R through Z are as follows in alphabetical order within surname category and as read left to right across the columns .  .  .

Paul R. Rabito                             Alfred O. Racker                             Walter E. Racker

William F. Racker                        Karl Raczkovy                                 George J. Raffeta

Nicholas Raissis                           Andrew F. Rakaczky                       Ralph L. Raver

John E. Reardon                           Edward R. Rector                           Raymond L. Reed

Angus M. Rees                             Raymond J. Reiske                         Robert F. Reiske

Edward G. Renzendes                  Robert L. Revere                             Donald P. Reynolds

George E. Reynolds                     James J. Reynolds                           James P. Reynolds

Thomas F. Reynolds                    Robert Rhoades                                Frederick W. Ribie

Edward Riccio                             Esther Riccitelli                                John J. Riccitelli

Joseph Riccitelli                           Behard M. Rieske, Jr.                      Carl J. Rinaldi

Graziadio L. Rinaldi                    William D. Riordan                          Harry C. Riotte, Jr.

Joseph Riotte                                Robert J. Riotte                                Salvatore J. Ripa

Anthony K. Rish                          Joseph J. Rish                                   Steven R. Rish

William L. Risso                          Donald H. Ritchie                             Edward F. Ritz

Emil J. Ritz                                  William F. Ritz                                  Joseph D. Roberge

William H. Roberge                     John Robertson                                 Maynard W. Robinson

Adelino J. Rodrigues                   Joseph J. Rodrigues                           Robert L. Rogers

William H. Rolston                      John Rondo                                       John M. Rosick

Michael Rosick                            Harry O.E. Roslund                           Raymond H. Ross

Peter J. Rossi                                Donald F. Roudi                                Patrick J. Roudi

Ralph C. Roudi                             Edmund J. Rovas                              Hazelwood, Rowe

William Rubin                               Chester C. Rudziak                          Eugene Rumi

Adwin Rusczek                            Joseph Rusczek                                 Joseph J. Russell

Frank Russo                                 William P. Saas                                  Joseph E. Sabith

Alexander Sabo                            Andrew Sabo, Jr.                               August Sabo

Bernard Sabo                                Carles Sabo                                       John Sabo Jr.

Joseph Sabo, Jr.                            Joseph L. Sabo, Jr.                            Francis R. Sabota

Henry E. Sagnella                        Benjamin W. Sakowich                    John J. Salvadori, Jr.

Anthony J. Samal                         Candido D. Sammito                        Santo G. Sammito

Julius P. Samosky                        Joseph P. Sanchuk                              Joseph J. Santillo

Louis J. Santillo                           Daniel Santoro                                   Joseph P. Santoro

Donald W. Sarafin                        Leo F. Sarafin                                    John F. Sargent, Jr.

Warren N. Sargent                        Andrew B. Sari                                 Charles J. Sass

Ralph P. Sassi                               Joseph J. Satton                                Clifford L. Saunders

Henry R. Saunders                       James L. Saunders                            Robert J. Saunders

Robert J. Scacchetti                     Frank Scagnelli                                 Joseph Scagnelli

Philip Scagnelli                           Michael Scarpa                                  Robert E. Schellinger

Norman P. Schipke                      Wlater W. Schipke, Jr.                     Bertram J. Schnakenberg

Roy F. Schomburg                        Raymond F. Schonn                         Edward B. Schott

Augustus A. Schultz                    George E. Schultz                             Joseph P. Schultz

Paul J. Schultz                              Philip A. Schultz                              Leo Scionti

David W. Scott                             Raymond Scott                                 Robert G. Scranton

Bela J. Secunda                            Stephen S. Secunda                          William J. Secunda

Louis F. Segalini                           Joseph J. Selesh, Jr.                          Bertam Self

Albert J. Selvaggi                         Rocco J. Selvaggi                             Edward W. Semrau

John A. Senese                            Julius A. Senese                                 Joseph L. Serrat

Ralph Server                                Eleanor N. Setterlund                        James E. Shaw

John T. Shaw, Jr.                           William Shaw                                   John F. Sheahan

Clarence J. Sheehy                        Edward T. Sheehy                            Isaiah Shein

Milton C. Shepard                        Warren C. Shepard                            John J. Sheptock

Robert H. Shiels                            Ruth A. Shookies                             Francis J. Shortell

Lester C. Shortell                         Richard J. Shortell                            Wilbur C. Shortell

James W. Shortelle                       Robert E. Shortelle                            Thomas R. Shortelle

Marshall S. Shute                         Charles S. Siedlicki                           John M. Siedlicki

Sophia K. Siedlicki                       Stanley M. Siedlicki                         Edward J. Sieron

David L. Sills                                Frank J. Silverstream                       Robert P. Silverstream

John F. Simeone                            George E. Simmons                        Henry Simmons

John M. Simmons                         Matthew J. Simmons                       Peter Simmons

William C. Simmons                    Alexander R. Simon                        Anthony L. Simon

Julius A. Simon                            Louis J. Simon                                 Stephen P. Simon

William B. Simon                        Julion Simoni                                   Olga N. Simoni

Bertha L. Sittnick                        Clarence A. Sittnick                          Ralph A. Sittnick

Raymond F. Sittnick                    Robert M. Sittnick                            Frank S. Sleseinski

Walter J. Sleseinski                     Lester E. Slie                                     Raymond T. Slie

Robert R. Slie                              John B. Slonski                                 Kenneth J. Slonski

Stanley F. Slonski                        William Slonski                                Charles R. Smith

Edward H. Smith, Jr.                    Henry B. Smith, III                           Robert H. Snedeker

Andrew Snyder                            Frank J. Soboslai                               John S. Soboslai

Edward A. Socha                         Albert S. Sokolowski                        Bernard Solkoske

Edward J. Solkoske                     Bernard Solters                                  Charles B. Soltesz

Stephen F. Somolya                    Edward R. Sondey                              Ted R. Sondey

Joseph M. Soos                           Frank A. Sopczak                               Alexander Soria

Joseph Soria                                Charles J. Sotak                                  Joseph Sotak

Joseph Sousa                               Kenneth J. Spellacy                            Andrew J. Squarceri

Eugene St. Cartier                       John E. St. Cartier                              Francis C. St. John

Seymour St. John                        Albert N. St. Onge                              Matthew W. Stabach

Nicholas J. Stabile                      Edward Stak                                        Louis E. Stak

Henry W. Stankus                       John S. Stankus                                   August J. Stanlaski

Charles S. Stanwood                   Alfred F. Stansiewski                         Joesph A. Stansiewski

Walter P. Stansiewski                 Clara Stearns                                       Lloyd B. Steele

Nancy Steele                               Robert N. Steele                                 Stanley W. Stego

Walter L. Steinhilber                  George W. Steiniger                           Charles Stella

Salvatore S. Stella                       Harry E. Sterling                                Edward S. Stevens

George D. Stevens                      Howard N. Stevens                            John B. Stevens

Kenneth F. Stevenson                Franklin W. Stewart                            Lloyd R. Stimpson, Jr.

Herman Stoleman                        David A. Stone                                 Donald R. Stone

Ferdinand J. Straub                     Ignastius J. Strojny                            Charles H. Strong

Michael Stupakevich                  Joseph L. Stupski                               Stanley J. Stupski

Thomas E. Sullivan                    Irene Sunday                                      Frank M. Susie

Wasil Susinkevich                     Albert H. Sutterlin                              Anthony S. Swabski

Frank J. Swantek                       Robert T. Swartwout                           Charles W. Sweeney

Richard C. Swenberg                Rudolph F. Swiatek                            Walter F. Swidock

Frank Swistak                           Arthur G. Sylvia, Sr.                           Arthur Sylvia, Jr.

Joseph Sypek                            Stanley Sypek                                     Raymond J. Szekunda

Joseph Szilvasy                        Maragret H. Szilvasy                          Francis T. Taber

Rufus H. Taber                          David J. Taczli                                    Jack H. Tafeen

James I. Talbot                          John H. Talbot                                    Richard C. Talbot

Robert H. Talbot                        John Tamasi                                       Elmer Tanch

Andrew F. Tanganelli                Stanley K. Tanger                              Walter P. Tangney

Francis Tanik                            Frank J. Tartaglia                                Peter O. Tassmer

Roger P. Tassmer                      William F. Tassmer                             Casimer C. Tatara

Edward J. Taylor                       Hubert J. Taylor                                  James M. Taylor

Robert C. Taylor                       Walter J. Taylor, Jr.                             William A. Taylor

Andrew W. Tencza                    Alfred W. Tenczar                               Joseph G. Tenczar

Stanley J. Tenczar                     John A. Terribile                                  Michael S. Terribile

Alfred J. Tessmer                      Edward J. Tessmer                               Edward J. Tester

William F. Tester                       Arnold Tew [my father]                    Kenneth W. Theis

Joseph F. Thewlis                      William Q. Thewlis                            August A. Thiede

Edward F. Thiede                       Arthur Thomas                                   Richard Thomas

Robert S. Thompson                  Victor M. Thunberg                            Havery H. Thurrott

James Thurrott                            Richard V. Thurrott                            Robert F. Tierney

Vincent J. Tierney                       Edward Till                                        Joseph J. Timko

Francis A. Tipple                        Edward F. Tomko                               Frank M. Tomko

Joseph F. Tomko                        Steven J. Tomko, Jr.                            William C. Tomko

John A. Tordo                            Alphonse Torelli                                   Michael Torelli

Ralph M. Torelli                        Andrew J. Toth                                    Arthur W. Toth

Edwin W. Toth                        Julius N. Toth                                       Louis S. Toth

Stephen J. Toth                         William Toth                                        Donald F. Totz

Henry A. Totz                            Donald S. Tracy                                  Robert W. Tracy

Jerome P. Travers                       Charles Treat                                      Edward C. Treloar

Howard A. Treloar                    Claude S. Tremper                               Kuster Trofimchik

Ted Trombley                            Charles F. Trowbridge                        Stanley P. Trybulski

Edward Trzciensky                    Frank Trzciensky                                Joseph P. Trzciensky

Walter M. Trzciensky                William Trzciensky                            John J. Tubiak

John S. Tulipan                           Maurice W. Tully                              Alex M. Turdin

Paul P. Turi                                 Steve J. Turi                                      Albert J. Turner

Ralph F. Tuscano, Jr.                 Thaddeus Tutak                                  Harry W. Tuttle

Arnold W. Tyler                        Royal F. Tyler                                     Steve J. Unger

Robert Unwin                            Charles H. Upham                             Anne Urban

Barbara Urban                           Pasquale Urbano                                Joseph S. Urso

Robert F. Vacca                         Paul F. Vaka                                       Joseph P. Valentine

Vincent J. Valentine                  Helen M. Vancky                               Lloyd J. Vanemburgh

Irving C. Vanleuvan                  John W. Vanski                                 William J. Vanski

Charles A. Vantassell                Anthony L. Vass                                Maynard L. Vass

Rudolph J. Vecoli                      William L. Vekony                            Edward A. Velardi

Virginio J. Viarengo                  Andrew Viski                                    Joseph J. Vitali

Lawrence Vitali                        Vincent L. Vitali                                Arthur Vitellli

Louis Vitelli                              Theodore Vlasovetz                          Anthony Voss

Robert D. Vroom, Jr.                 Frank Vumback                                Barbara R. Wachtelhausen

Robert L. Wachtelhausen          Charles Wade                                   Arthur J. Wallace

Floyd Wallace, Jr.                      Robert Wallace                                Arthur Wamsley, Jr.

Charles Ward                             Edward J. Ward                               Carroll Warren

Alex W. Warro                           George M. Warro                            Michael Warzeniak

Peter Warzeniak                        Philenon A. Warzocha                     Peter Washkevich

Anthony Wasilewski                  Francis C. Wasilewski                    Henry V.  Wasilewski

Nicholas J. Wasilewski              Victor Wasilewski                           Walter W. Wasilewski

Walter W. Wasilewski                Wanda Wasilewski                          Gabriel L. Wasko

Gordon Webster                          George H. Weiden                          John F. Welch

Mark T. Welch                            Francis E. Wells                             Albert C. Wendt

Henry F. Wendt                           Herman T. Wendt                           Theodore J. Wendt

Alex Werbiski                            Miroslav F. West                             William H. Wheeler

Irving M. White                        James C. White                                Warren E. White

Francis H. Whitehouse              Leslie H. Whitney                            Stanley S. Wieczorek

Frank S. Wieland                       Niels J. Wigforss                              Andrew Wigh

Francis G. Wigh                        John B. Wilcox                                John Wild

Harold S. Wilkins                      Robert K. Wilks                              Charles E. Williams

Charles F. Williams                   Daniel N. Williams                          Edward R. Williams

George T. Williams                   Richard E. Williams                        Robert C. Williams, Jr.

Thomas H. Williams                 Warren B. Williams                        George C. Wilson

Edward R. Winchell                  Keith B. Winchell                           Edward J. Witkowski

John Wojewodka                       Theodore Wojtasik                           Joseph F. Wolak

Walter J. Wolak                         William W. Wolak                            Adolf F. Wolcheski

George A. Wolcheski                Joseph J. Wolcheski                          Harry M. Wolf

George A. Wood                        John M. Wooding                            Raymond F. Wooding, Jr.

Philip E. Woodtke                     William F. Woodtke                        Stanley Woronick

Harry F. Worrall                        James E. Wrinn                                Joseph J. Wrinn

Harry R. Wustrack                    Leo J. Yacek                                    Walter J. Yacek

Frank J. Yasensky                     Frank J. Yaskot                                 Jennie Yaskot

Walter J. Yaskot                        John H. Yeamens                              Joseph E. Yergeau

Zigmond Yonoski                     Bernard York                                    Donald Young

James T. Young                        Warren S. Young                               Felix A. Yuris

Walter A. Yuris                         Anne E. Yusza                                   Walter B. Yusza

Charles L. Zabrowski               Joseph J. Zambory                            Steve A. Zambory

Gino Zandri                              George Zborovancik                         Joseph Zborovancik, Jr.

Julius Zeher                              Edward J. Zenkiewicz                      Frank P. Zenkiewicz

John S. Zenkiewicz                  Joseph R. Zesk                                 Charles J. Zieminski

Edward A. Zieminski                Henry A. Zieminski                         John E. Zieminski

Edward Zienkowicz                  Robert R. Zima                                John J. Zocco

Theodore J. Zolkiewicz            Vincent R. Zolkiewicz                     Paul Peter Zuk

Charles W. Zunda                     Edward W. Zunda                            Frank S. Zunda

John S. Zunda                           Alexander W. Zwible                       Walter J. Zwible

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