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Gauss and his Children
This web site gathers together information about the descendants of Carl Friedrich Gauss. I envision it as a meeting place for researchers and family members, since both groups have an interest in this information.
I would also like to invite those whose find a relative here to include their own stories.
Some of the families included here are: ~ Balque ~ Beck ~ Borden ~ Burchsted ~ Chambless ~ Devore ~ Fawcett ~ Garven ~ Gauss ~ Glenday ~ Horne ~ Jackson ~ Johns ~ Kennedy ~ Lindsay ~ Long ~ McCluer ~ McDearmon ~ Morgan ~ Orrick ~ Ottenberg ~ Sanderson ~ Shadoan ~ Shelton ~ Sibley ~ Simmons ~ Stoltze ~ Tunnell ~ Worthington ~
Please feel free to add comments to the discussion pages, which you can reach by clicking the tab at the top of any page you would like to comment on. You can also contact me directly. I will allow anyone to edit the discussion pages as long as it doesnt become a problem.
What's New
The state of Missouri has been putting scans of death certificates on-line. I think I found out when they were just starting, but they have really got a substantial number available now. I am really finding this useful; it's a great resource.
Posted to a Rennels web site:
David....because you're so good at this, maybe you can clear up a few things. My dad, Joe Pifer, adopted son of Mary Effa Wright and Robert Pifer was born July 6, 1907. But was it in McAlistser, Indiana or McAlester, Oklahoma? He was taken to the Baby Fold in Normal Illinois by a Matthew Johns and Ethel Johns, where his name was Joseph Ashton Johns.. His Navy discharge papers list his birthplace as Tulsa, Oklahoma. We've been unable to find anything more. Thanks, Rita Rennels
I have somehow broken the Parser functions. That may not mean a lot to you, but you will notice that some pages are, if not broken, at least cracked. I'll fix it when I get a chance. Susan 13:08, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Add a new News Item ~o~ More News...
Dont know where to start?
Try the letters or the John Jay Johns Journal, 1860 to 1865. I know that there is an awful lot here, but I have tried to organize it into reasonable categories. Starting points are Category:People, Category:Documents, Category:Dates and Category:Places. The places category is not very fleshed out at the moment. You can always get to these categories by way of the links under navigation. There is also a [./genealogy Genealogy Data Site] for people on the wiki, plus many more who are not on the wiki.
Favorite Things
One of my favorite things about the site is the 'Dates index' (see left). There, the 300 years covered by this site are broken up into centuries, then decades. On each decade page, births, deaths, documents written and world and family events are listed for each year, forming a kind of time-line for the site. For instance, see 1860-1869. Of course, this requires a certain amount of attention, adding date properties to the appropriate pages, but I have more or less gotten into a habit with that.
About the site Software
This page is part of a MediaWiki site, like Wikipedia. Every page is editable by any logged in user, although I have been developing some conventions that make things easier to find. See the Help section for more. In addition, there is a genealogical software, Next Generation of Genealogy Site Building. Each person with a page in the wiki (if the connection has been made) is linked to a page in the genealogy. See About This Site for more information.
Blogs
I have added a blog for my commentary on the work I am doing on this site, and also for my other interests.
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Thanks To:
- The Collectors who originally gathered these materials: Anne Durfee Gauss, Minna Gauss Reeves, William T. Gauss, Helen Worthington Gauss, Helen Worthington Sansone.
- My brother, Bob Chambless, for his special help and support, and also to the rest of my immediate family.
- Bob Newsome, for keeping the Johns family genealogy, and generously allowing me to use it as a base.
- Skip Johns, for generously loaning me the Virginia Stash.
- Bill Fawcett, for generously sharing with me the manuscript of his privately printed book on the Fawcett family.
- Ruth Ratliff who sent additional information on the Fawcett family.
- Dave Willis and Alan Morgan who shared info on John Jay Johns daughter Louisa Johns Morgan and that branch of the family, as well as the wonderful portraits of John Jay Johns sons, Glover, Arthur and Shirley, and the wonderful picture of the Johns house in St. Charles, Mo.
- Countless others who have emailed me and generously shared information with me.
