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| REVISED January 2012 | A GENEALOGY WEBSITE |
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About your webmaster: My name is Katie. I am a personal researcher and not a commercial website. I have been doing genealogy research for over 30 years. I graduated from Simpson College with a Bachelor of Music Education degree back in the 60's. I am also a certificated paralegal. I worked for the Los Angeles Superior Court, working in civil law for over 17 years, and am now retired. I sang professionally with the Mitzelfeld Chorale, and the Norman Luboff Chorale, and also did numerous small choral assignments over the year, but my greatest love was singing with the Cathedral Choir of the First Congregational Church for over 40 years, during which I also sang with the Los Angeles Bach Festival. I am a lifetime member of Clan Douglas of North America, and am currently a member of MENSA. |
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This beautiful lady is unidentified and may or may not be Laura Allen Love. There was no identification on the picture |
The tintype was introduced in 1856, and enjoyed widespread
popularity until about 1900. The tintype gets its name from the fact that the image is
produced on a thin metal plate. Like the Daguerreotype and Ambrotype, the emulsion was
directly exposed in the camera, without any need for a negative, so the images are often
unique. My site is named the Tin Type Shop because of the two lovely old tintypes I
found in a family album. They were black and unrecognizable when I first found
them. Now you can see the lovely ladies they represented.
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This is identified Laura Allen Love because her name appears on the back of the original |
| Daguerreotype was utilized between 1839 and 1860 and is the medium used for many of the older pictures on my site. The Daguerreotype plate was difficult and time consuming to make. A sheet of copper was plated with a thin coat of silver. This was then polished until the surface was mirror like. The photograph surface was very fragile. Daguerreotypes were typically encased. The picture usually had a brass 'mat' placed directly on the plate, and then glass was placed over this, without touching the photographic plate. Since the photograph is silver on copper, it will not attract a magnet. Also, if the plate is carefully removed from the case, you can see the copper on the back | ||
Ambrotype was created in 1854 and reached the height of its popularity between 1855 through 1860. The Ambrotype photograph was made by coating a piece of glass with silver solution and exposing this to the image. The image is on the BACK of the glass and is sandwiched with another glass behind it. The back glass is coated with a black substance. Care must be taken to not scratch the back, dark surface, as you will scratch away the photograph. Because the photograph is glass and very fragile, all Ambrotype pictures were mounted in a frame, usually brass, and then placed in protective case. |
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21 January 2012 by Kathryn Pegelow (a series of small stories and bits of poetry written over the years. This continues to be a work in progress and is purely included as a means of sharing my thoughts. ) |
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| FAMILY
- clicking on this word takes you to the genealogy
section Revised January 2012
Please note: Due to the high volume of requests, which take time away from my regular work, while there is no charge for viewing these pages, there is a charge for assisting you with your research. See Welcome page for more details. We have received an enormous amount of assistance from fellow researchers, which help is much appreciated by all. What we are attempting to do is to coordinate all of the massive bits of information floating about and consolidating them into one big website. There will be errors, but as we find corrections, we are attempting to make them. If you find something that requires correction, please provide your documentation otherwise I cannot change it. There is a great deal of misinformation on our family lines, including the census records. Some misspells were created because people were illiterate, or the information was given by someone other than the individual involved. When that occurred, the recorder simply spelled it the best they could. I have begun consolidating family lines that others are submitting on Ancestry.com and connecting the entire group together as much as possible Please visit the newest addition - the Craven/Cravens/Cravin line. The Dillard Family has been cleared through the 1850 census and will be posted soon. It will take time to download due to the size, but should be well worth the effort. It currently contains over 200 interconnected families and continues to grow. Douglas and Douglass have been cleared through 1850 and I am now working on Douglass in 1860. The results will be posted once they have been completed. Eastwood and Blagg were previously completed through 1850, 1860 and 1870. These have been available for some time. What you see on this website is what is in my database. As of this update, I have begun adding new names to the individuals list. These are in PDF format and may require that you have Adobe reader to access these reports. Adobe Reader is available as a free download directly from the Adobe website. Most of the indexes are up and running. Future Ahnentafels will also be published in PDF format because I am using the new Familytreemaker for MAC and that is the format it uses for publishing. I will try to keep both formats up and running for those who cannot figure out how to download the free PDF reader, but the old information will not be updated. A note to those who send letters requesting additional information, |
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CHURCH -Revised January 2012 Please visit the church's website for the most complete information. They have totally revised their website and updated everything so it is no longer necessary for me to post the schedules and such. http://www.fccla.org. I will continue to post historical information as I find it. I have uncovered a resource of old newspaper articles which should make the historical section interesting. Dr. R. Scott Colglazier, our Sr. Minister, invites you to join us for church services any Sunday at our 11:00 am service in the beautiful sanctuary of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, 540 S. Commonwealth Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012. First Church welcomes all regardless of religious affiliation. Each member of our ministerial staff brings their special gifts to the service. We are blessed to have such a wonderful group of fine religious leaders guiding our way. Since the arrival of Dr. Colglazier, First Church is experiencing new growth, exciting changes and a sense of peace such as it has not experienced in years. We are wecoming new members and have doubled our professional group. Jonathan Talberg has used his impecable taste and brought us some really top-notch individuals to give us a new and inproved sound. Come and join us! We are a combination professional/volunteer choir. If you would like to join the choir volunteers, please contact Dr. Jonathan Talberg or his assistant, Jad lin Hornbecker and request an audition. (213) 385-1345. If you are a student and looking to enhance your knowledge of choral music, this is the choir to sign with in Los Angeles. We are continuously learning new, top quality music for the Sunday services. You will improve your ability to sight read, gain experience is singing in many languages and enjoy the comraderie of friends. Our organist in residence is S. Wayne Foster. He now has an Organ Scholar, Jaebon Hwang...our first in years. She is a talented organist/pianist, a composer and sings in the choir. (For the first time in years, we have more male than female singers. Come on, ladies, join us. In order for the choir to grow, we need to keep a balance.)Clicking takes you to information regarding my Church and the history of our sect. You will also find information regarding the Los Angeles Bach Festival and the Great Organs of First church, which collectively create the largest church draw knob pipe organ in the world. We have just recently received a huge box of photos and old clippings from the church and hope to have some of this scanned and available in the very near future, including a nice write up on the stained glass windows. Many of these photos will be in black and white due to the period in which they were taken. A portion of the Stained Glass Window Collection, both in black and white and many in color, is now up and running as is a section written by Jim Rhone in 1956 which gives a history of Cedar Lake Camp and how its development was envisioned by the original purchasers. Cedar Lake Camp has been a filming location for many years. Some of these films are now available for purchase through The Country Store (See Link below) If you have historical photos or documentation from First church and would like to share, please contact the webmaster. (see address below) |
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| HISTORY Revised
January 2012
This takes you to a history of state and county formations. We will be adding places to visit, by state in the near future. If you know of a place to stay or to visit in your state, please let us know. (See address below) This section is due for a major overhaul. . I am adding links to sites that should be helpful to the researcher to the individual pages. i.e. If you go to the Georgia page, you will find links to research facilities on that subject at the bottom of the page. You will need your back arrow to return to this site as you are being directed to another web site. If anyone wants to undertake this project, please contact the webmaster. If you are working with "Front Page", you can e-mail me an html copy to upload. If not, I can copy and past a written report. Please do not copy someone else's work verbatim. Proper citations should be used giving credit where credit is due. I am currently working on extracting the Douglas/Douglass families from the 1860 census and attempting to coordinate information from others. At present, I am working on the State of New Jersey for the Douglass line. This work takes several months to complete and will be uploaded when finished. Due to the intensity of this project, I will not be able to do personal research for others unless they are willing to pay for the assistance. Please see the history index for the proposed fees. I hope to be adding a links section to special historical sites at some point in the future. |
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Please visit our newest additions to the Tin Type Shop. Your purchases help to keep this site up and running. Our stores are updated regularly. We will be adding more affiliate stores as we find products that compliment our research materials. THE COUNTRY STORE. Our store is now divided into special collections, some of which benefit the church, camp and school. A portion of the proceeds from the Little Pilgrim Collection are being donated to Pilgrim School for a scholarship fund. A portion of the proceeds from the church Collection are being donated to the church to help fund the camp, the upkeep of the stained glass windows and our pipe organ. The proceeds from the scenic and historic collection will be used to help fund further research. Additional gift products are available through our Cafe Press store. These items included gift boxes, clocks, ornaments, pillows and other custom-made items. Thanks to those of you who have already shopped. I hope you liked our products. Bookstore Amazon.com has restored the affiliate bookstore to California dealers. I am in process of rebuilding the contents of this store. In the new store, you will find numerous books on genealogy. They are listed by state. I am also including genealogy specific software available through Amazon. Once these are completed, I will be adding books that are surname specific to our research. Please shop through this store as the commissions paid by Amazon.com will help pay to keep this site up and running. Scots Web Store. Through this affilite program, you can purchase fine quality woolens, cashmere sweaters, dress goods, jewelery, giftware and more. These products come directly from Scotland. Eventually, I hope to find a German, British, and Irish affiliate stores. I am only going to be afilliating with outside stores that carry quality goods. For the American goods, I will be looking at stores that carry traditional goods and if there is an interest, perhaps some costuming and re-enactment goods stores. Our sincere thanks to our latest new customers. Please visit THE COUNTRY STORE and our sister stores. Our stores have been updated effective 28 October 2011. Please note that in clicking the links to these sections you will be leaving the Tin Type Shop website. Please use your back arrow to return to this site. I collect old photographs to make my products. If you have old photos (preferaby pre 1900's), and want to get rid of them, let me know. |
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| For those of you new to the site, when you see a
word that is underlined and highlighted, this is a link to another page. If you
double click on the word, it is like turning a page in a book. If the back link does
not work, just use your back arrow and it will return you to the previous page.
Check the bottom of the page as well as there may be important links to help you to other
informative sites. Again, you can return to this site by using your back
arrow. The encryption has been temporarily turned off. If you need
copies for your records, please contact me at kpegelow@hotmail.com
If you are requesting information on the Pegelow line, please contact Gary at glpegelow@hotmail.com as he maintains his own
database separate from mine. Each aspect of my site is divided into three
main sections. The primary section of this will be the Family pages, which comprise
our lineage and the individuals who came before. I welcome any and all documentation
to these families and would love to see your Ahnentafels to see where you fit into the
puzzle. Where possible, photos have been included of individuals. We have been
placing these Ahnentafels into a big database and are slowly comparing them to the census
records for verification. I am extracting all individuals in those years with
similar surnames and trying to see how many of these families we can connect into one big
family. My family name pages are divided into two separate surname sections. Douglas is my line. Pegelow is my husband's line. Please click on the word "Family" and then on the surname you wish to research to get the correct index. To go directly to my line, click on the underlined word [DOUGLAS SURNAME INDEX] or SPECIAL NOTE RE PEGELOW POST: The old Pegelow Post remains on this website. Gary has begun building a whole new site, which contains a lot more information on this line. Please visit his new website as well as the old. PEGELOW [New Site] PEGELOW 2 [Old Site] Please keep checking back. If you have data you would like to have added, please contact me. Any photos you wish to share should be in jpeg format and please reduce size before sending via e-mail. thanks. |
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| [LIBRARY INDEX] The on-line library collection--In this collection you will find several books on Congregational History, on the History of First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, general books on American History and other out-of-print books that may interest the reader. These are hand-transcribed and not scanned, so please excuse the time delays in posting. This method is kinder to the antiquity of the paper, which is often dry and brittle with age. ***NEW BOOK***A Manual of the Protestant and Protestant Episcopal Churches of Syracuse New York" is partially up. This is an illustrated book and in many cases, includes a full listing of the members of the individual churches. Photos include the church and the minister of the period. It was published in 1895 by the Men's Aid Society of the Geddes Congregational church of Syracuse, New York and is an invaluable research source for those looking for lost family members in Syracuse during the period of the lost 1890 census. More pages should be added to this book as time permits. | ||
| Thank you for your interest. Be sure to send me an e-mail if you have any questions, suggestions, or additional family lines that connect up with mine. (kpegelow@hotmail.com) I try to give credit for new information received. If you have photographs of family members and want to post them, contact me via e-mail and I will give you a site where they can be uploaded so I can add them to this site. Should you find any missing links, please let me know. Click on any underlined and highlighted word and it will take you to a new location. Some of the links are off-site. To return to this page, please use your back arrow in the address bar. | ||
| Note: Advertising and pornographic materials sent to this e-mail address are automatically deleted without reading. Please do not waste your time or mine. I do not support SPAM. If you receive mail purporting to be from me, please contact me and report it. Thanks. Katie | ||
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