VAUGHAN, ETC N EW S L E T T ER
January 1987
EDITOR; Verna Baker Banes
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VOL. V, January, 1987
Your support for continuing the NEWSLETTER In 1987 is appreciated. Over 130 people have
already sent donations, many in excess of the $8 suggested. In order to reach new contacts, will
you please send to me suggestions or copies of
—-Genealogy columns in newspapers or magazines.
—--Publications where paid advertising is available.
—-Names of people working on Vaughan/Vaughn lines.
I will then write letters giving details about the newsletter. If you can put a notice in a genealogical
quarterly, that will be a great help. A suggested statement: VAUGHAN, ETC. NEWSLETTER
serves as an exchange of information on all spellings, all lines of this surname. Send SASE and facts
on your line to Verna Banes, 5302 Marsh Creek Drive, Austin, TX 78759 or P.O. Sox 7435.
Hantsvi.lle, TX. 77340,
THE VAUGHAE), VAUGHN. ETC. COLLECTION
The amount of genealogical informaton collected on Vaughans, Vaughns, etc. has grown far beyond
my wildest dreamsl Filing it for easy retrieval has become a challenge so I have set up
--Manila file folders for each reader, containing your correspondence and copies of my replies to you.
--Manila folders for originals and transcriptions of pension applications and other legal documents on
individual Vaughans, Vaughns.
-—Index card file for each person with whom I have had correspondence.
---Computer mailing label list.
The manila folders1 are now kept in boxes sitting on the dresser in our guest bedroom. As the collection
grows, a 4-drawer file cabinet where all records can be stored properly will be required. As this
newsletter, has no official connection to any organization, I feel an obligation to preserve it so it can be
given to a library or interested group when I can no longer handle it. Maybe some agency will even want
to microfilm, the material and thus make it readily available to future researchers. It would be a shame
for any of this research to be lost !
I'm sharing these thoughts (dreams?) and activities so you can be aware of how your correspondence and
research is handled. None of your letters, notes, etc., will be discarded; but if you use notebook size (about
8 1/2 x 11 inch) paper and write on only one side (and type when possible), the records can be more easily
preserved.
THANKS FOR YOUR KIND WORDS AND ENCOURAGEMENT!
We may eventually move to Huntsville, TX to be near our daughter and family. If you should fail to reach
me at the Austin address, use the alternative one given above.
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