Barry's Bits and Upcoming Events

                       Upcoming Events                         

Barry Hinman and Mary Lou Grunigen volunteer at the San Mateo County Genealogical Society library located at Canada College in Redwood City. They welcome members of the Society and visitors who would like a tour of the library and an introduction to its holdings. They are also available, of course, to consult about genealogical problems or research strategies. They are there from 1:00-4:00 on the second Tuesday of every month if the Canada library is open to the public on that day.  

November Meeting: Prohibition

      

Speaker: Ray Cosyn

Date:  Saturday, November 17, 2018

               10:00 am Cookies & coffee

               10:30 am - 12 noon 

        

Location: Grace Lutheran Church, 2825 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo

         Entrance in back.

From 1920-43, the United States prohibited the manufacturing and sale of alcohol. How and why did this happen and what was its impact? What impact did this period have on your family?

January 2019 Meeting

Blogging for Sharing Family History Stories
Speaker: Craig Siulinski
Saturday, January 26, 2019   10:30am - 12:00 pm 

Hoover Institution Archives - Part 2 of a series on local archives

As the Menlo Park Monday class continues our investigation of archives in the area, we have come across a few which seem to be little known to genealogists, yet which store a fantastic collection of resources.  Well, it depends on what you are researching.



The Hoover Institution is right here in our backyard on the Stanford campus.  There are several repositories here: the main archives, which extends underground right under Hoover Tower (yes), the library with open shelves, which is normally in the tower but is undergoing renovation right now, the exhibit space in a separate building which has rotating exhibits of historical interest, and the institution itself, which provides space for researchers from around the world.

To quote from their website: "Today, the Library & Archives that bear Hoover’s name boast nearly one million volumes and more than six thousand archival collections—in sixty-nine languages from more than one hundred fifty countries—pertaining to war, revolution, and peace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Institution's resources support a vibrant international community of scholars and a broad public interested in the meaning and role of history."

Our class went to visit a couple of weeks ago and were met by one of the research librarians who introduced us to some of the more interesting holdings in their collections.
Jean Cannon, Hoover archivist, gave us a most interesting tour of the archives and Vietnam photo exhibition.

We met at the steps to Hoover Tower.  Most of us took the Marguerite shuttle, which stops right in front.

Founded by Herbert Hoover in 1919, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives are dedicated to documenting war, revolution, and peace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

 Some of the items on display:  the orders to drop the bomb (lunch first), letters from Chiang Kai-shek, photos of Mao, KGB mug books, a piece of the Lusitania, a skull X-Ray (don't ask).

Joseph Warren Stilwell was a United States Army general who served in the China Burma India Theater during World War II. His caustic personality was reflected in the nickname "Vinegar Joe". Distrust of his Allies and a lack of resources meant Stilwell was continually forced to improvise. 

                      

John McCain, shot down in Hanoi.  American hero.   Mug Book kept by KGB agents.  

WE SHOT THE WAR: OVERSEAS WEEKLY IN VIETNAM   Rarely seen photographs take center stage for the Hoover Library & Archives’ new exhibition We Shot the War: Overseas Weekly in Vietnam

The archives are open to the public.  Registration and a photo ID are required.  Materials allowed are similar to other restricted archives.

Margaret Melaney and the
Trinity Monday Genealogy Club

SMC Newspapers: The Redwood City Daily Tribune

The Fourth Estate: 

A Weekly Newspaper for Advertisers and Newspaper Makers

3 Feb 1923 p26

The Daily Tribune, began publishing on 1 May 1923. Its publishers were George Morrell and Dallas E. Wood of Palo Alto and its first editor was John Robinson.

In 1931 the Tribune merged with the Redwood City Standard and for three years the joint name Redwood City Tribune and Redwood City Standard was used.

In 1934 the paper returned to the use of the name, Redwood City Tribune and continued until 1979.

In 1979 the Redwood City Tribune combined with the Palo Alto Times becoming the Peninsula Times-Tribune.  The combined paper struggled through the next fourteen years but eventually folded.  According to Jay Thorwaldson, who had worked for the Palo Alto Times before the merger, it "never succeeded in reflecting its communities and was killed in 1993."[1]  


Online
SMCGS Obituary Index - RWC Tribune 1969-1992

• Redwood City tribune. : (Redwood City, Calif.) 1923-1931 (n) 1st year, no. 1 (May 1, 1923)-9th year, no. 156 (Oct. 28, 1931) Original RCL, Microfilm RCL, CA Lib, UCR
• Redwood City tribune and Redwood City standard. : (Redwood City, Calif.) 1931-1934 (n) 9th year, no. 157 (Oct. 29, 1931)-12th year, no. 119 (Sept. 20, 1934) Original RCL, Microfilm RCL, CA Lib, UCR (s)
• Redwood City tribune. : (Redwood City, Calif.) 1934-1979 (n) 12th year, no. 120 (Sept. 21, 1934)- ceased in 1979 Original RCL (p), Microfilm RCL, CA Lib, UCR (s)
• Peninsula times tribune. : (Palo Alto, Calif.) 1979-1984 (d) 87th year [i.e. 1st year], no. 1 (Apr. 2, 1979)-6th year, no. 252 (Sept. 8, 1984) Microfilm CA Lib, UCR (s)
• Times tribune. : (Palo Alto, Calif.) 1984-1989 (d) 6th year, no. 253 (Sept. 9, 1984)- ; 96th year (July 15, 1989)  Microfilm CA Lib, UCR 
• The Peninsula times tribune. : (Palo Alto, Calif.) 1989-1993 (d) 96th year (July 16, 1989)-101st year, no. 67 (Mar. 12, 1993)  Microfilm CA Lib, UCR 

[1] A 1950's60s Golden Age for Newspapers  12 Sep 2011 SF Public Press

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(w) weekly (d) daily (n) daily except Sunday and holidays
(p) partial run  (s) scattered missing issues
CA Lib - California State Library
UCR - University of California Riverside - Newspaper Master Files
RCL - Redwood City Public Library
SM Lib - San Mateo City Library