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Aunt Bill's (Wilma McCune Mintier) Manuscript - WDS Intro
Aunt Bill
("Auntie Bill")
These page contain the manuscript of my Grand-Aunt's ("Auntie Bill" - Wilma McCune Mintier) family lines. She died in 1983 at the age of 85 years. She never married, so had no children of her own.
However, she was a teacher - in Egypt, where she taught in Egyptian Mission schools for 6 years, then in Pittsburg and Ohio. She was very involved with Christian Education under the auspices of the United Presbyterian Church, and was made Chairman of the Children's Work section of the Christian Education Division of the National Council of Churches in 1957, after having been a member for years. She was involved in leading many Presbyterian and education conferences, and loved to teach.
She was a world-traveler - Every Christmas, her nieces and nephews received either items she'd brought back from Egypt or her travels. I believe she hoped it would instill a desire in them to look up the places from which they came in the encyclopedia, and learn about it.
And, she could talk to anyone, anywhere, at any time - She constantly struck up conversations with strangers, who sometimes turned out to know even more about our family than she did. Some of these stories can be found in the sections in these page.
While no sources were listed for a lot of the information in her manuscript, she seems to have been very thorough. I have found very few errors, and most of those minor, in my own research online (mostly at Ancestry.com) on these families.
I believe I received my copy of her ... I'm calling it a manuscript ,,, for Christmas, 1970, as did many of the family members who were there. I was 15, then, and while I read through it a few times over the years, the genealogy bug didn't hit me until later in life, as it does many others. I'm sure she had even more copies, giving most to family as they visited her or she them, and probably relevant sections to local historical societies. Here's the label that she put on the inside cover:
My Reticence
I wrestled with my own paranoia about putting my own works and research on the internet, after having seen many others' works plagiarized in part, or completely, without acknowledgement or sourcing of any type for some time. Then, recently, a correspondent with whom I hadn't for over a year, contacted me again, after finding a document from the Mount Pleasant Historical Society in a "lost" folder while he was looking for something else. He forwarded a copy of it to me, and I immediately recognized it as from Aunt Bill's manuscript. A little more correspondence, and he said:
I also, do not appreciate my work being published on someone else's web site without acknowledgment. I always try to acknowledge where I get the information from. I know that people have copied my data because they also copied the mistake, so be it. I think it is important to share the data that we get with others who are trying to find their roots and family. I do believe in that very strongly and I will give what ever I can to those folks.
The person to whom he'd originally forwarded the copy began corresponding with me. She said:
I thought you would like to know that I had also received a partial copy of your aunt's work from yet another ... researcher, it was even less complete than the one ... sent me, but it was what started me off on this quest to find the original source of the story. Your aunt's work has gotten around!
[Later] So far, the information in your aunt's work matches up perfectly with what I know of the John Sr. family and the Judge James family, she looks like she did great work!
To this, I replied:
[W]ith Aunt Bill's manuscript having "been around", now I feel a little better about the idea of putting it on the internet ... Knowing what I know about Aunt Bill, she'd probably have been one of the first to use Ancestry.com, and would probably have had her research "on the 'net" before many others would have.
I truly believe that last statement.
And, with that, here it is. I hope it helps.
The Manuscript
BRIEF HISTORY
OF SOME
OF THE FAMILY LINES
OF WILMA McCUNE MINTIER
1970
Transcriber Notes
I tore up my knee in late 2003, and, after surgery to fix it, was in a rehab center for six weeks, recovering. While there, using a laptop, I transcribed the manuscript, separating it into "Family Groupings" (she originally titled the sections with the family name only), and saving each ... "chapter" as a separate document. To keep it sorted in the order in which it appeared in the book, I prefixed each filename with "S##", where "S" is "Section" and "##" would be the section or chapter number. Inside each, I prefixed the section number with "Mintier Lines", so it would be easier to tell it was part of a whole.
For the TEXT files, I transcribed each page, duplicating, but changing the family charts, from from Rev. William A Mintier and Pearl Amsden McCune on. Please note that they are set up with "no-wrap" on, meaning each paragraph is a very long line. Simply right-click on each, Save the file to disk, open in Notepad or and equivalent program, and click Format/Word-Wrap. The lower part of the text files are around 90 characters wide, so you may also want to reset the font-size smaller.
In creating the web-pages, I duplicated (from the first section I did), everyone from Rev. William A Mintier and Pearl Amsden McCune on. I did NOT double-check against the original for that section (since it SHOULD have all been the same). Be aware that there may be slight differences in the actual text.
A link to the text file for each (written in Notebook) is included in each section's web page. Each text version is formatted fairly closely to the way it appears in Aunt Bill's manuscript, except that I allowed the lines to wrap as I typed, rather than try to match the typewritten text exactly. I also slightly modified the family charts section for readability.
Any notes I made within the transcription (text files or webpages) are between square-brackets "[" and "]".
I have also included PDFs containing the scans of the originals of each section. If you decide to print them, you may want to change the colors to black & white. Please note that I've left the names in, but blocked out the birth years of anyone known to still be living in 2007 for privacy. My father wonders "who cares", but there are people in the list I have little contact with, now, and want to head off any complaints about "invasion of privacy."
-wds
[Mintier Lines - Sections]
- S01 - Intro - Thank you and poem
- S02 - Mintier
- S03 - Hammond
- S04 - Henderson
- S05 - Nichol
- S06 - McCune
- S07 - Rotheram
- S08 - Dunlap
- S09 - Alexander
- S10 - Mitchell
- S11 - Appendix - Poem and several photocopies of family pictures
Please let me know if you find this information helpful, or find transcription errors.
by Bill Sanders © February
20, 2007 - email:
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