The
Rawlin(g)s Rollin(g)s Family History Association
Vol. 3, No. 2 June
1990
Dear Cousins:
The
response to the 1990 Newsletter subscription renewal has been quite good,
although we are still about 25 subscriptions short of 1989. We have picked up 5
new ones, however, mostly from word-of-mouth of our regular subscribers.
Membership is 124 as of the first of June. Unfortunately, I cannot mail a copy
of this month's newsletter to those who have not re-subscribed, so I hope when
he or she does not receive this month's issue I will be contacted.
There are
a few items of interest to you, state by state, genealogically speaking, in
this month's Newsletter. In Kansas, for example, the Kansas State Historical
Society is asking the Kansas legislature to give them permission to access
books and printed materials from the archives to the public. Write the Kansas
Council of Genealogical Societies, P.O.Box 8030, Topeka, KS 66608-0038, for
information. In addition, the state legislature has opened vital records previously
closed to the public. Copies of birth and death certificates after 1911,
marriages after May 1, 1913, and divorces granted after July 1951, are now
available from the State Dept. of Health & Environment, Bureau of Vital
Statistics, Topeka, KS 66620.
Any
reports you may have received that the Pennsylvania State Archives have been
closed are not true. However, there are new ho&-s. Contact Western
Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, 4338 Bigelow Blvd., Pittsburgh, PA
15213-2695.
The Ohio Historical Society no longer charges a different fee for death
certificates to members and non-members. The fee is $7 for either category.
Write to the Ohio Historical Society, 1982 Velma Ave., Columbus, OH 43211-2497.
If you can go to the Society in person, you can do the work yourself and make a
25¢ copy from the microfilm.
The 1920 Federal population census will be opened to
the public on March 1, 1992. At that time microfilmed copies will be available
for research at the National Archives in Washington, DC, and the eleven
regional archives across the nation. The 1920 census consists of 2,076 rolls
(35mm) of population schedules, and 8,590 rolls (16mm) of Soundex indexes for
all states, totaling 10,666 rolls. Ordering information will become available
closer to the 1992 release date.
Once
again it is your contributions to the newsletter that makes it worth reading.
Lots of information in this month's issue, particularly a continuation of the
RICHARD RAWLINGS of Maryland descendancy by Bob Bockmiller together with Beverly
Allan. RICHARD may or may not have come from England, we only know he died in
Anne Arundel County, MD in 1696. He was married to Jane ___, and so far as we
know had 5 children: RICHARD JR., JOHN, MARY, OLIVE and ELIZABETH. In the
December 1989 issue of the newsletter, P.12 is a brief resume of the children
and grandchildren of RICHARD and Jane. RICHARD'S son JOHN married Eleanor
Ridgely, and they had 7 children. It is JOHN'S son JOHN about whom we will hear
this month, Pp 7 to 10.
THE
EDITOR