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Welcome to our Blog pages. Please post your comments or queries here.
Visit our Society Calendar to see what’s happening in the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society that may not be noted on our society’s web site at SBCGS
March 18, 2007 at 7:37 pm
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April 22, 2007 at 1:33 pm
I have enjoyed your SBCGS site and especially the cemetery listings you have so far. I am sure this involves a lot of work for you. Do you have any rough date when you might have the Point Sal cemetery online? I have a relative who was swept off the Point Sal pier and drowned during a tidal wave in 1878. Thank you for all your hard work!!
April 22, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Thanks for your comments, Jerry. When I have more information on the Point Sal Cemetery, I will post a comment to that question. In the meantime, you will soon be able to view the Old Catholic Cemetery in Guadalupe online at http://www.cagenweb.com/santabarbara/sbcgs/.
April 25, 2007 at 9:00 am
I’ve used your site quite often over the years and cannot begin to thank you for all the important time & effort your crew puts into it. We all appreciate your dedication to this project.
–Josh Jenkins, Columbia, Maryland–
Researcher of Hollister and Martin family who lived in Goleta area in late 1800’s.
April 25, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Josh, Thanks for your comments. I would be happy, with your consent, to put your link on the SB Co. GenWeb page for Hollister and Martin references. Hollister is a well-known name here, of course. I am really happy to know that there are people interested in looking into this blog and leaving comments. Thank you to all who do!
Dorothy
July 28, 2007 at 10:58 pm
I have recently found your website while looking for info on my great, great grandfather. He was Benigno Gutierrez the drugist.I have found from your site that he died in 1902 which differs from what I found in the book ” Santa Barbara History Makers” I believe 1902 to be the correct info. I am quite excited about other family history I have found on your website. I appreciate all your hard work. Debra.
July 29, 2007 at 1:27 am
Hi Debra,
It’s always nice to hear from Santa Barbara’s descendants. Our area is very rich in history. The death records posted are from the County Records, so the 1902 date is correct. Let us know what other families you are researching here.
Dorothy
September 21, 2007 at 7:43 pm
I am very impressed with the improvements and additions to the web site. I have many relatives in the Goleta Cemetary and, up until now, really had little opportunity to look at data about their location in the cemetary or their dates of birth/demise. Working on a genealogy myself, this information is very much appreciated. Keep up the GREAT work!!!
October 1, 2007 at 10:27 am
I just found my wife’s great great grandparents in the Carpinteria Cemetery transcriptions after a 2 year search from our home in Ontario Canada. Fantastic!! Robert and Susannah Howsam emigrated to California after spending 40 years farming and raising a large family just east and north of Toronto. We knew they had gone to near L.A. in the 1890’s, but now we know where. Would there have been a local newspaper in 1913/1915 (dates on their stone) that would have carried a death notice / obit? Would there be a city directory for this time period? At this time we do not know if they lived in a community or on a farm nor whether they had any family living there. Thanks to the transcribers for all their hard work. Greatly appreciated.
Bob Brockman, Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
ps: Bob Howsam, coach of the Cincinati Reds in the ’60s is a great grandson.
October 2, 2007 at 10:37 am
Bob, Thanks for reporting your success in locating your Howsams. I will followup with you directly. There were no Carpinteria newspapers in the early years, most Carpinteria events being reported in the Santa Barbara newspapers. Check out our Carpinteria event, “Picnic in the Cemetery” on October 13, 2007 under Activities or Calendar on this Blog.
Dorothy
November 29, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Hi,
I’m in desperate need of help. I’ve been trying to locate my baby brother who according to my mother was born in Santa Barbara, Ca. @ Saint Francis Hospital on July 5th, 1969. How ever my parents being a migrant family did not speak or understood english well enough. My parents did not received their deceased baby boy from the hospital, they where told by their doctor Lorenzo Sanchez that the hospital would take care of it.
The only information that I have is that my brother was named Lorenzo Romo and birth and death records do exist. He is not listed in any of Santa Barbara’s cementeries. My Father’s mane is Fermin Romo Martinez and my mother’s name is Fermina Moran Moran.
We would appreciate your help with any information reagrding the where abouts of his remains.
Sincerely,
Maria L Quezada
10089 Carlyle St.
Ventura, Ca 93004
805-659-3657
January 10, 2008 at 9:58 pm
I am looking for my Aunt, her last known name is Ruth Ada Gingrich English, she would be 90 years old now. Her daughter, father and ex-husband are all buried at Santa Maria Cemetery, my father will turn 92 in a couple of weeks and one of his wishes is to know what has happened to his sister!! If there is anyone out there that can provide me with any information it would greatly appreciated
January 22, 2008 at 6:31 am
Hi. I finally read the reply to my blog entry from April, 2007! Yes, I would like it if you could have the link to my site posted. As I stated before, I research the Hollister family and Martin family of the area. My Hollister line was not directly (though I’m sure in some way) related to William Welles Hollister and the Hollisters who came from Ohio I think it was.
The links to the separate Hollister and Martin pages I maintain can be found by going to: http://www.ancestorstalker.com and looking for the “Family Pages”. Each surname has it’s own link and page.
The furthest back of each line that lived in SB County were:
George Emmons Hollister who was born 22 February, 1850 in Johnson (McLaughlin’s Prarie), La Grange County, Indiana to Samuel Emmons Hollister and Mary Ann Demarest.
Petrus “Peter” Pulver Martin was born 6 January, 1804 in Cohocton, Steuben County, New York to Nicholas Martin, Jr. and Anna Maria Teter.
George E. Hollister (above) married the above Peter P. Martin’s daughter Lanie Jane Martin on 20 November, 1872 in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California.
This website has filled in many gaps in my lines.
One suggestion…in reference to updates on the site. There are many areas of the page that has “new” in black or red, or updates in parenth. ().
A simpler way to track updates may simplify the site so you don’t have to put notes beside record listings.
What I do for my site is at the top put “Updated January 22, 2008″ with a link. If you click the link you can see all updates for a specific date. Then, I have a “Change Detection” signup which allows users to be notified by e-mail when the update page is updated…alerting them to new developments and additions.
I use Change Detection to monitor this site in fact for updates.
Again, thanks for all the hard work.
–Josh–
January 22, 2008 at 6:36 am
Maria – I just read your blog entry. Sorry to hear about what your family went through with this. I would ask the Hospital Director what happened. If they are not straight with you, can you get a lawyer for them to release the information. Not sure if they would release directly to you or would have to be the parents. Either way, I’m sure a lawyer could get you the information.
Good luck,
Josh
January 22, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Maria and Josh,
Maria and I spoke on the phone about a month ago, and we determined that the baby Lorenzo Romo was most likely retained by the hospital and disposed of according to the death record. I believe Maria said that the death record stated his body was “donated to science” for teaching. Maria could ask the question of her local hospital what could have been done with the remains in this case. St Francis Hospital in Santa Barbara is no longer as it has been closed for several years now. Cottage Hospital took it over to build affordable housing for their employees. Cottage Hospital may have the records.
April 24, 2008 at 8:48 am
Old Catholic Cemetery in Guadalupe on Point Sal Road link is bad on the front page. The PDF document is accessible by accessing the directory..