This is from the leader of the African-American Special Interest Group of the GFO. If you find any of them useful in our collective research, they can be added to a wiki page. I was doing more researc

Hello! Attached is a spreadsheet I got from MaryLynn which has all the miners that died in the Franklin disaster with some information I added which I hope will be useful. In addition to the spreadshe

Melanie--here is a great newspaper article about Theron B. Corey upon his retirement from mining. The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, October 27, 1895, P

Found this magazine issued in 1994 by the Washington State Historical Society which has an article on the Franklin mine. It mentions Theron B. Corey (who I am researching) but it might also be of inte

I have got to get this spreadsheet available to others in this group. I spent the afternoon browsing through the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper from 1892 - 1900 just using "Franklin mines" for s

I didn't know if the group would be interested as he's a white miner. But happy to share! and would welcome any new information anyone comes up with! Thanks, Rebecca

I have been reading through the earlier emails that have been sent in this group to try to get myself caught up with what has been discussed. I didn't find any discussion about this so I am throwing i

Ignore the part in my previous message about the Ancestry Tree as I think I found it. BUT, is there a way to see which miners have been set up even if they are floating around somewhere? I thought I s

According to the Washington State Coal Mine Map Collection website, "About 1,100 individual maps representing about 230 mines comprise the Washington State coal mine map collection, which is held at t

Sorry about the incorrect time in the previous notice. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Society@SKCGS.groups.io Calendar <noreply@groups.io> Date: Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 7:44 PM Subject: [SK

Be sure to register! South King County Genealogical Society and Black Diamond Historical Society present Janice Lovelace speaking on "Black Miners in the West" via Zoom tomorrow, Sunday, October 24, 2

Symposium on Researching African Americans in Newspapers The University of Maryland Libraries invites you to attend Researching African Americans in Newspapers a free online symposium, Thursday, Octob

FYI. We're not that far back on many of our fellows, but we'll get there, I hope! -v ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Emma MacBeath <macbeathgen@...> Date: Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 6:44 PM Sub

Hi folks, I mentioned this in the chat today. I'm still in the learning stage for this project within Wikitree -- before this past week, I had added only cousins and their spouses, and I'm not done wi

The wiki page R. L. Polk & Co., Seattle City Directory, 1891 1893 has been created by Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman@...>.

The Mossback's latest email mentioned Franklin and a large KKK rally, so I began looking at his linked sources. I've not yet found anything on that rally; only the one in Issaquah in 1924, which I had

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The wiki page Sources Consulted has been created by Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman@...>.

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https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/coal-miners-grave-sites-on-eastside-tell-a-little-known-story/ ... two headstones: Caleb Lock, son of John Lock, born in North Carolina and died May 12, 1903;