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W. G. Yates – CCC Honorable Discharge Alaska

June 30, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

Civilian Conservation Corp Experience, Wm YATES 1940

Recently, when going through some more of our Yates family documents, I found one that I hadn’t remembered seeing before. Or, at least I didn’t remember scanning it and putting it in the Yates documents folder until now. My dad passed away in June of 1996 and in the four years previous, he had written [...]

Filed Under: History, Memories, Photos, Travel Tagged With: Alaska, Bordeaux, CCC's, Civilian Conservation Corps, dog salmon, honorable discharge, Petersburg, Twin Creek Camp, W. G. Yates - CCC Honorable Discharge Alaska, William Gale Yates

2010 Census: Keep A Copy For Your Descendants

June 13, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

1930 Yates family, Bordeaux, WA Have you filled out your 2010 census and sent it back yet? If not, make sure you do, and be sure to make a copy for your records so your descendants can find it 72 years from now! Granted, there’s not a lot of information they ask for in this [...]

Filed Under: Census, Genealogy, Old Bordeaux Washington Tagged With: Bordeaux, Census, genealogical research, Genealogy

MyFamily Confusion With Old And New Sites

June 3, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

Years ago, when I first subscribed to Ancestry, they had free MyFamily sites. I had two of them in those days: Yates and Allied Families, and Wilkerson and Allied Families. I happily added tons of census records, photos, and any other sundry that pertained to our history. Then, MyFamily decided this was a pretty lucrative [...]