2015 February Board Agenda

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January 2015 Annual Board Meeting Agenda

The annual board meeting of the Dunham-Singletary Family Connections Association is scheduled
for Saturday, 15 February 2015 at 1:00 pm Pacific – 4:00 pm Eastern. If you would like to attend
the conference call please Contact Jeff Dunham at: jeffreymdunham@gmail.com

The Agenda for the meeting is as follows:

Item 1 - Secretarial Report

Minutes from the 2014 Meeting

Passing of John L Dunham Board Member and Secretary 3 Nov 2014

Gratia received a call today from John's son David about his passing

Resignation of of Lloyd E. Dunham

I believe it is time for me to relinquish my position on the board. I have not been at all active to the benefit of the DSFC organization and as only one of two Canadian members have obviously been ineffective as a recruiter. I'm approaching my eighty-fourth birthday and find I am not even that active in keeping up my own research. This was brought home to me when I lost my only sibling, my brother Jack, the Sunday before Christmas and his son-in-law asked me to provide some family background as his children had almost no knowledge of their fathers family or background. I will be going into the hospital on March 6th., for a TKR (total knee replacement) and after recovery for the other knee to be replaced in late summer. I will continue to be a member and hope to put more effort into my research.

I want to thank Gratia, Pat, Audrey and all the other members for the fellowship I have felt in belonging to this very worthwhile organization.

Lloyd E. Dunham, Inspector - Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Rtd)

In case you are wondering why I would sign off this way, it is because my rank is a Royal Commission from Queen Elizabeth. A royal commission is a life long appointment and I am very proud of my English origins.

Item 2 - Treasurer Report

2014 End of Year Report

Item 3 - Proposed new Board Members and Secretary

The following DS-FC members are in good standing and will accept the position as a Board Member if Elected: John Duguid -- Jackie Coniglio -- Bruce Dunham. Bio's follow:

John Dunham Duguid

My Grandfather, Lewis G. Dunham was born in Braintree, Vermont in 1871. He became employed as a trainman with The Central Vermont Railway. My other, Dorothy (Dunham) Duguid was born in White River Junction, VT in 1909. Around 1914 Lewis moved his wife Abbie and two daughters to Canada and began working for the Canadian National Railway as a brakeman and later as a conductor. In 1929 Dorothy married Arthur A. Duguid, a Canadian of Scottish heritage in what is now Thunder Bay, Ontario on Lake Superior. Twins, Grace and Glenn were born there in 1930. I was born in 1938, and Charlotte in 1944. In 1948 the family moved to Toronto. After high school and technical training I was employed as a radio operator for the Canadian Department of Transport. In the 1960s I relocated to England and worked as sea-going radio officer in the British Merchant Navy. In 1969 I returned to Canada and was employed in various technical jobs. In 1982 I went back to school for training in computer programming and accounting. In 1993 I moved to Central Texas and held administrative positions with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and with the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. I have been retired since 2005, living in San Marcos, TX, and for the past few years have served as coordinator for our group's DNA Project.

Jackie Coniglio

My name is Jacqualyn (Jackie) Beck Coniglio and I am a cousin of Gratia. My great grandfather, Charles Foster Dunham, and her grandmother were sister and brother. Charles Foster had several Children, Mable, Jessie, and my grandfather, Dennis Rockwell Dunham. Dennis had a large family, eight daughters and a son. One of these died of the Spanish Flu in the 1918 epidemic. The rest survived to adulthood. The third youngest of these was my mother, Edna Norainne Dunham. Although most of this branch of the family had settled in Wisconsin by the late 1800’s, my grandfather traveled west around the time of world war I to work in the gas fields in Elk Basin, Wyoming. My mother was born there in a tent which was the temporary shelter being provided to workers at that time. Within a couple of years they returned to Nekoosa, WI where most of the family lived and my grandfather worked for the paper mill. (Anyone remember Nekoosa Bond Paper?)

I was born in Madison, WI and grew up in various towns in south central WI, Hancock, Wis Dells, and Wis Rapids. I lived in Wisconsin until about 1959 when I moved to Niagara Falls, NY. I married my husband Guy in 1963 and we have two grown children, Lisa, who is an adjunct professor at Binghamton Community college in Binghamton, NY. And Guy IV who is an IT and CAD man for Whirlwind Electronics, here in Rochester, NY. We live in a suburb of Rochester, NY where we have been in our second house since 1973. My husband retired from Bausch and Lomb where he worked as head of IT systems for almost 40 years. I have a younger brother and sister who live in Iowa and Florida and a half- sister in Mississippi and half- brother in Florida.

My descent is from Deacon John Dunham and I am very proud of our extensive and interesting family. My uncle Dennis was one of the males tested for DNA that helped establish our line. I hope I can be of service to all of you interested in your heritage. At 76 I am the second oldest survivor in our branch of Dunhams.

Bruce William Dunham

I am a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder with a degree in History. Born in Casablanca, Morocco and lived in Paris, Washington, DC, Santiago, Chile and Bogota, Colombia before my 12th birthday. My interest in family history originates with my Great Aunt Hilda Rockwood of Bennington, Vt. who traced her side of the family back to Edward Fuller of the Mayflower with connections to the Loomis, White, Weeks, and Rowley families of Bennington, Vt. and Falmouth, Massachusetts. The first picture is of my grandfather Jesse Loomis Dunham and grandmother Hazel Rockwood Dunham which links the Dunham family to the Mayflower descendants. My earliest memories of life in the Bennington area are of the house in Shaftsbury, Vt. where my father grew up and of the Bennington Battlefield Monument where my ancestor Obadiah Dunham (p. 235 of Isaac W. Dunham’s book) of Pownal, Vt. fought in Seth Warner’s Regiment of the Green Mountain Boys.

Line from Deacon John Dunham 1; Rev. Thomas Dunham 2; Nathaniel Dunham 3 of Wrentham, Ma and Hebron, CT; Jabez 4; Obadiah 5; Obadiah 6; Alfred 7; Dewey 8; Herbert Stanley 9; Jesse Loomis 10; Elmer 11; Bruce William Dunham 12

Please note that I have included a direct link from Rev. Thomas Dunham to Deacon John in my lineage. I believe that with Thomas Dunham's disappearance from the Plymouth records after 1649/50 and sudden appearance in the records of Marshfield, Sheepscot, and Saco of a Thomas Dunham/Denham thereafter this is a more reasonable explanation for this lineage. This connection has been suggested by various historians and appears to be more logical than that offered by George McCracken. My DNA results also support this conclusion which I consider more reasonable than a connection through an unnamed cousin or uncle of Deacon John. Hopefully further research will clear this up.

Interim Secretary is need due to death of John L Dunham

Item 4 - 2015 Budget

Annual Corporation Reporting Fee 15.00

Federation of Genealogical Societies 2016 45.00

Research Fees and Supplies - Gratia Mahony 1,800.00

Domain Registration - Donation by Jeff Dunham 0.00

Total 1,860.00

Total Memberships paid as of 9 Feb 2015 --- 65

Net income less Paypal Fees -- approx. $1600.00

Item 5 - DNA Project Report

Here are the numbers from our project as they stand today:

A total of 87 men have been tested.

42 are of the Deacon John line.

3 have been tested to the 111 marker level, 8 to the 67 level, 20 to the 37 level, 6 to the 25 level, and 5 to the 12 level

27 are of the Singletary line.

7 have been tested to the 67 level, 11 to 37 level, 2 to the 25 level, and 7 to the 12 level.

3 are of the G-M201 group.

All 3 are tested to the 67 level.

13 are of the R-M269 group.

3 have been tested to the 67 level, 7 to the 37 level, 1 to the 25 level, and 2 to the 12 level.

There are 2 others, one each tested to the 67 and 37 levels.

The only current activity is Fred Dunham (kit 213189) who has just upgraded from the 37 level to the 67 level. His result should be available about mid March.

Our group has arranged for Robert Dunham (kit 294602), a resident in England, to be tested to the 37 level. He is of the Deacon John line.

John D.Duguid Project Coordinator.

Item 6 - Website Status - DS-FC and Dunham's in America

The DS-FC Website has had several updates in the past several months. DS-FC Newsletter - New index to the issues has been posted and a New Index to the Articles in each issue is in the works. Several older Newsletter where a supplement was required have been combined. Link to:Newsletters

The Dunham Families in America Genealogy pages are in the process of being updated and converted from HTML into the WikiMedia format which will provide easier access. A new Entry page has been completed and can be viewed at: DFIA. This new Entry page is ready to go public and the link on the Main DS-FC page will be updated shortly.

If you follow links for Deacon John Dunham you will be able to see the new pages and some 4th Generation Descendants that have been added. A Name Index with links to the page where that person is first found is in the works. Please let us know your Questions and Comments to:

Jeff, Trudy, James, Gratia

Item 7 - Report of the Bedfordshire Research to date

Gratia will have a report.

Item 8 - Proposal for Dunham Research Funding in England