MAY 19, 2017, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3
into your family
roots this Saturday
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
If
you’ve seen enough
Iris Festival parades in
your lifetime and you want to
get out of town before traffic
gets nuts, the Keizer Stake of
the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints (LDS) has an
opportunity for you.
On Saturday, May 20, the
Keizer Stake is sponsoring
Family Discovery Day at the
Family History Center, 862
45th Av-
enue N.E. in
Salem.
From 8:30 a.m.
to noon, the
center is of-
fering free
classes on
discovering
family roots.
“The fo-
cus is on how
to use the available tools and
how to put it all together once
you have the information,” said
Don Garrett, director.
Attendees won’t spend time
on computers, but will learn
how to start a genealogy search
and begin compiling informa-
tion. Garrett suggested bring-
ing a pen and paper for taking
notes, but handouts will also be
available.
All family members are
welcome, but there are no ac-
tivities planned for children 12
and under.
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bases available online – like an-
cestry.com or myheritage.com
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cess, the Family History Center
offers access to those resources
for free twice a week, Tues-
days from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and
Wednesdays, 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.
“After they’ve found some
of the information, we can help
them fill out a pedigree chart
or family group record,” Gar-
rett said.
Depending on where a
family originates from, there
are some volunteers who can
assist in reading, and teaching
others how to read, foreign
language records.
Investigating genealogy can
lead to all sorts of surprises,
Garrett said.
Garrett himself spent time
looking into his father’s histo-
ry and it led him to Scotland.
When he had trouble pinning
down his great grandfather’s
birth records, he realized that
a tombstone might be his best
bet for a date.
“I sent for a phonebook in
the area where he lived and
thumbed through it for two
weeks before finding the cem-
etery where he was buried,”
Garrett said.
He wrote a letter to the
caretaker and received a re-
sponse with a Polaroid of the
tombstone marking his an-
cestor’s grave. There was only
one problem: the name on the
stone was completely wrong.
“My great grandfather’s
name was John Garrett and the
tombstone had the name Wil-
liam Robertson,” Garrett said.
The letter explained the
discrepancy. Garrett’s great
grandfather had been buried
atop Robertson, and another
relative had been buried on
top of John Garrett. The note
also invited Garrett to pay
£1-per-letter fee to have the
additional names added to the
tombstone.
“Those are the kinds of
things that happen when you
do the work,” Garrett said.
While the Family History
Center is sponsored by the
LDS church, Garrett said any-
one of any faith is welcome.
“There is no missionary
work or prosthelytising at the
center,” he said.
ROBBERY,
continued from Page A1
with the courts by the Mari-
on County District Attorney’s
Office.
During an interview, Sides
provided information that was
not known outside of law en-
forcement and said he com-
mitted the robberies to fuel a
heroin addiction.
The female accomplice,
Kalinda Rae Strader, was ar-
rested at a Salem bar Friday,
May 12, and charged with a
parole violation.
Sides is being held at Mar-
ion County Correctional Fa-
cility and his bail has been set
at $500,000.
The identity of the vehicle
owner led FBI and Salem po-
lice investigators to Sides, who
had a criminal history of bank
robberies and most recently
came off federal supervision
in 2012.
After the Key Bank rob-
bery, on May 11, Salem po-
lice officers arrested Sides
at his home on Bever Drive
Northeast. More than $1,000
was taken from Key Bank ac-
cording to paperwork filed