Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Thoughts on Stephen Kings Book

I really enjoy reading Stephen King I like the book on writing I got to get to know the author better Stephen King and to personally see all his views on writing the book shows his talent he is so wonderfully gifted as a writer! I stayed once at a hotel that stephen king wrote his book the shining at the Stanley in colorado so yes I do like his style of writing its so entertaining!

What I have got out of Feature Writing Class

What I have learned and got out of this class is I have learned to write Feature stories and how in general to write better stories for my major in Journalism. The Associate Press Style has taught me how to abbreviate things in Journalism.Iknow now how to write with more feeling and to use a voice in my writing

Friday, February 12, 2010

My Life at the Society

At a Glance: My Genealogy work
What:
Helpful Resorces
http://www.linncountygenealogysociety.org/
Located at Albany Public Library.

http://albanyregionalmuseum.org/
Located on 2nd St. Downtown Albany

http://www.lincountyhistoricalsociety.org/
no location meet once a month at Mennonite Village Albany Ore.
For more information contact Albany Regional Museum.

It all began back 5 years ago in 2005. My name is Jerry Duncan and I work at the genealogy society it has been a wonderful experience, I have a love for this place and helping trace peoples family. I love genealogy and I have been doing some genealogy work for 10 years now.

I never get bored I keep busy when no ones around I do research,There is no real downside to the job except when no one has been in our office for a while. The most interesting part of the job is when I can help people out with a problem and helping them solve it.

Jerry researches old cemeteries he researches the old headstones ones without markers. Jerry enjoys this part very much because he can learn about the history and solve the mysteries.

Jerry went on to say my enjoyment for genealogy research and all the history has inspired me to work here.


The most interesting
Part of Jerry’s job
Is when I can help
People out with
A problem and helping
Them solve it.

A Passion From the Start

At a Glance:
What:
Helpful Resources:
http://www.linncountygenealogysociety.org/

http://www.linncountyhistoricalsociety.org/

http://www.brownsvillemuseum.org/

Going back to the year 2000, when Arthur and Carol Langley became members and volunteers at the Genealogy Society. They both have a love for tracing family history not only for themselves but for other people. Arthur and Carol have enjoyed seeing people walk through the door at the society, they have enjoyed meeting and helping those people trace their family history. Arthur and Carol feel that their job is very rewarding in helping people find out their roots.

Around eight years ago a lady at the Genealogy Society fell ill and had to leave her work her passion behind. So Arthur felt a need to take over her place. Arthur now does her job as writing the Society’s newsletter every month. Now Arthur has wrote the newsletter for eight years, he takes pride in it.

The other part of my interesting job is putting together the obituaries so we can have documentation of historical deaths for the future generations. I obtain the obituaries from The Democrat Herald and put them into books for the society’s records. Arthur also works on the Donation land claims from the 1800s, in which takes time in researching. Arthur goes on to say I have a pretty important job here people depend on me for the deaths, and Arthur goes on saying its not depressing looking at all the death records all the time its just a part of life.

Arthur admits to the downside of the job the boring part is when my works all complete and no one enters those lonely doors. It gets lonely to not have anyone come in to get help on tracing family, look up records,maps and other types of historical documents and books.

Arthur and his wife Carol enjoy it here and feel at home. People can feel their passion for their work. The couple is interested in tracing their family roots more. Arthur mentions if he and his wife get bored on the job they just start doing research, and organize the books and try and keep busy.

The monthly newsletter that Arthur works on is called the Heritage. Arthur also digitizes the Linn county newspapers for Albany,Brownsville and Scio, this is for genealogy purposes and he has done this for several years.


Arthur has been working on a research project on restoring the 1890s census that was destroyed by water .So he has been keeping very busy going through old newspapers and family history records. In Arthur’s own words I have been working on this project for eight years now, it’s been a very long and drawn out project, a lot of digging and intensive researching.Arthur and Carol told me that the most fun and interesting part of their job is meeting people, through the decade we have met a lot of different people. Helping the people trace their family history is also the fun.








The other part of Arthur and Carol
My interesting enjoy seeing people
job walk through the door of the society
Arthur said is
Putting together
The obituaries
So we can have
Documentation
Of historicalDeaths for the future.