Special Dec 2013 prices for family history books, especially the George Allen Wadsworth 30th anniversary book

“Put your history back in your family.” LaRae Free Kerr                                                         PRICE LIST

For our 2012 Lafe Wadsworth family reunion, I was asked to reprint our family histories. And since 2013 is the 30^th anniversary of the George Allen Wadsworth – Pilley to Panaca book, I was urged to get that revision with it’s amazing and significant revelations regarding our Wadsworth family printed as well. It has taken much work, effort, materials, computer expertise, knowledge, time, etc. to get these done. Since we love our ancestors and our cousins, even those we don’t yet know, we are offering these books to anyone interested.

Please go to itsallrelatives.org to order in the simplest possible way. Click on the Buy Now button, enter the number of books you want to purchase and follow the instructions. We are having a special in November/December 2013 for those who would like these books for Christmas giving. It works this way: Send a check to Mark Wadsworth at HC 74 Box 304 Pioche, NV 89042 at the lower price below.  If Mark receives orders for 100 books at the lower price, he will order them and deliver them. If orders do not reach 100 books, Mark will destroy the checks, and you will still be able to order from itsallrelatives.org at these frightfully low regular prices. Or you can send him the additional $3, and he will still get the book to you.

TITLE                                                                                REGULAR PRICE                100-ORDER PRICE [NOV/DEC]

George Allen Wadsworth – Pilley to Panaca                $44.99                                 $41.99                  Wow

Dollie                                                                                $7.99                                   $6.99                    What Prices

The Hollingshead Rollins Family                                  $19.99                                 $17.99

The Samuel Lee Family History                                   $14.99                                 $12.99

History of Thomas Sirls Terry                                       $16.99                                 $14.99

Pulsipher Family History                                               $11.99                                 $10.99

Rachel Dibley Wheeler Free: Her Story                         $7.99                                   $6.99

It’s All Relatives Columns                                             $14.99                                 $12.99

We want you to have these histories and believe they will change your lives for good. So if there is any problem please contact us: itsallrelatives@sfcn.org.

The history of the world is not complete until it includes yours. LaRae Free Kerr 

Histories now available

The really great, miraculous news is that eight family history books are now available to bless people’s lives at www.itsallrelatives.org. The George Allen Wadsworth – Pilley to Panaca book which included information about the 1856 and 1857 handcart treks felt like a handcart trek in and of itself. It is a miracle, maybe several, that it is up and ready to bless lives. [The modern digital printing capabilities and the older, 1983 fonts, were incompatible for just one problem. Our wonderful computer man solved that for us at great sacrifice for us. So much thanks to him. And it is through the generosity of Margo that the simple yet functional website is up and ready to go. Here again there were many problems including the original provider not providing though paid. Thank you.]

  My mantra is: Put your family history back in your family!

The George Allen Wadsworth - Pilley to Panaca book, all 600+ pages of it, is ready for purchase. It includes all of the old 1983 book plus new information and updates on the kidnapping, Wadsworth genealogy, Broadbent genealogy, English relatives, and research reports so those of you who desire to continue this great work will not have to redo the last 60 years worth of research.

Buy this 30th anniversary edition of the book now. Read and use the information for talks, family home evenings, school reports, etc. This is a great gift for Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, even missionaries. All our recently called/returned/serving missionaries were asked to bring information on their families to their missions.

The recommended price for this book was $49.99.  You can purchase it for $44.99 at www.itsallrelatives.org. And there is a pre-Christmas special I will explain in the next entry.

You can get the George Allen Wadsworth - Pilley to Panaca book for $41.99 if you send a check for that amount to Mark Wadsworth at HC 74 Box 304 Pioche NV 89043 in October and November.  He will collect the checks, and if there are orders for 100 books or more and Mark places the order of 100 or more at one time, voila!, you have great gifts for a great price.

The books will then be sent to Mark who will disperse them in December. Thanks to all who aided me in this uncomprehendingly complex project. This and 7 additional family history books are also available at www.itsallrelatives.org.

The historical titles include these names in the titles and include many, many more names in the texts.

George Allen Wadsworth, Alice Allen and Elizabeth Broadbent

Zera Pulsipher and Mary Ann Brown

Thomas Sirls Terry, Eliza Jane Pulsipher, Mary Ann Pulsipher and Hannah Leavitt

Samuel Lee and Elizabeth Gilham, ancestors of Harold B Lee

Rachel Wheeler and Wenlock Free

Dollie Hollingshead and Lafe Wadsworth

Many others

2013 is the 30th anniversary of the George Allen Wadsworth book

As far as the Wadsworth genealogy goes, I believe we are dealing with some basic genealogical procedures. One of the reasons we publish what we discover about our families is so family members can read and enjoy their heritage. Another reason is to invite others to join the discussion, to make additions and corrections. This has been true for the 1983 Wadsworth book. Had it not been published we would never have known that Uncle James Wadsworth stopped off and stayed in Iowa, for no one would have made that connection and contacted us. There was certainly nothing on our side to indicate Uncle James had not completed his return journey to England. In fact, the whole kidnapping story seemed like a fairy tale at first. Then only some very secondary family legends and two other documents gave any indication that a kidnapping might have taken place: the 1860 census and the note from Bishop Willis which are in the book.

But because the book was written, some really great connections have been made – with you for one, with the Hutchinson and Eckles families, and with others. Great people with great information who were willing to share. The other innovation that has changed the whole face of genealogy is, of course, the Internet. Even had we had an inkling Uncle James did not return to England, where would we have looked for him? Until we could do major Internet searches, it would have been impossible to find him. So two of the new chapters added to the end of the revised book cover many new events for 1856 and 1857 even though Uncle James is not our direct ancestor. It’s such a great true story.

Another genealogy research issue we may be dealing with here is that of primary versus secondary sources. Primary sources, as you well know, are those created near the time and place of the event by someone deeply involved in the event. By this measure, Elder Edwards’ journal is as primary as it is possible to get, for he wrote the entries when and where they happened. Further, when he reported on the visit to “James Wadsworth” in England others were with him. He had witnesses. The paragraph from his journal mentioning this visit with ”James Wadsworth” is duplicated in the new section of the book, and the name is clearly James Wadsworth. We now know it is NOT Uncle James Wadsworth. I leave it to others to discover which James Wadsworth he visited.

On the other hand, the newspaper articles of 1856 and 1857 are secondary, NOT written near the time of the event by people closely involved, not only because they were reproduced several times but also because they are so biased. In the timeline I have created for 1856 and 1857, I have attempted mightily to sort out the events with their times and places. Whether it is possible to be completely correct from the content of the newspaper articles is doubtful. Still I’ve done my best as well as checked primary sources – the records of John Pulsipher and Dan Jones, for example, as well as wagon company records, Utah court records, etc.

Though I had looked for official records back in the early 1980s in the Utah Archives, neither I nor the archivist could find anything about the kidnapping. However, a few months ago, thanks to an Internet entry, Walter and I visited the Utah State Archives, located and copied the actual indictment Uncle James made against his nephew George. What a coup.

Now that I have all of my mother’s Wadsworth research materials from the professionals my parents hired as well as my own, I was able to determine with wills that the Anne Stead/Wadsworth family could not be ancestral. I also showed that the Haxworth line is not ancestral. But we have added more generations that appear to be correct than we have taken away. This information is in the book in the form of Research Reports, so that others can start where we left off rather than having to start at the beginning as we did.

Hopefully, the book, George Allen Wadsworth – Pilley to Panaca as revised and republished in its 30th year will continue to bring relatives together as well as to provide new-found data about the family.