New on sackettfamily.info

The Sackett Family Association website sackettfamily.info has been updated with the following new and revised pages:

• Burials, England
  • Revised Essex (44 records, 19 new)
  • Added Essex, Hornchurch Cemetery (2)
  • Added Essex, Rainham Cemetery (1)
  • Added Essex, West Ham Cemetery (16)
  • Revised Middlesex (20 records, 12 new)
  • Added Middlesex, Islington Cemetery (5)
  • Added Middlesex, Islington Crematorium (1)
  • Added Middlesex, St Pancras Cemetery (6)
  • Added Northamptonshire (3)
  • Added Northamptonshire, Kettering Crematorium (3)
  • Added Nottinghamshire (1)
  • Added Nottinghamshire, Newark Cemetery (1)
• Added Pennsylvania baptisms (13)
• Added Pennsylvania burials (21)
• Added Pennsylvania marriages (12)
• Added London apprenticeship indentures (17)
• Added Documents gallery
• Added Sackett shipwrights of London, documents & chart
• Added Arden H Sackett (1837–1919) gallery & descendant chart
• Added History of Solano and Napa Counties, California (2)
• Added History of Olmsted County, Minnesota (1)
• New members 349 Michael W Sackett

Many thanks to Association members Joan Leary of Havering, Essex, and Leonard A Sackett of Berkley, Michigan, for contributing to the Sackett history. Joan has researched West Ham (Essex, England) Cemetery records. Len has provided family photographs going back to his great-grandfather Arden H Sackett.
Added to the website is a historic documents gallery, so far containing London apprenticeship and freeman papers. Contributions to the gallery will be welcome.

Who was Sipe Sackett?

Thurmon King writes:
"The post about the picture of an unidentified person reminded me of a picture I received a while back. The picture is of a Sipe Sackett taken 3 December 1911 at the Ore Hill Mine near Warren, Grafton Co., New Hampshire.
I think that Sipe was a nickname and trying to guess at his age, I haven't come up with who this guy is."

Please leave a comment if you think you can identify this mystery Sackett.

New on sackettfamily.info

The Sackett Family Association website sackettfamily.info has been updated with the following:

• New members 343 Katharine Sackett Visser, 344 Jennifer Walz Selby, 345 Chris Kimball, 346 Schuyler Sackett, 347 Ann Parmenter, 348 Craig Behrens
• Albany County, New York, deeds
• Updated Thurmon King's database

The website is back online after the recent hacking, and appears to be working normally.
Thurmon's database continues to grow. He has added 471 individuals since the last update in November, and has added more data to the records of people already published. Records of 29,555 people are now online.

Do you recognize this young lady?

Association member Dennis Gottier has found this daguerreotype photograph among his mother's family items.

Daguerreotypes were commonly used from the 1840s to 1860s, which might put the young lady's birth in the range 1820 to 1840.

Dennis does not know if the subject is a Sackett, but is hoping someone might recognize her.

2012 Sackett Reunion is open for reservations

For anyone planning to attend this year’s reunion in Westfield, MA in September, you can now make your hotel reservations.  The hotel is the Holiday Inn Express in Westfield, MA.  It is located just off exit 3 off Route I-90 which is also called the Mass Pike.  The hotel address is 39 Southampton Rd. Westfield, MA  01085.  The phone number is: 413-564-6900.   A block of rooms has been reserved under “Sackett Family Reunion” at a reduced rate of $119.95 per night for the dates of September 19, 20, 21 and 22, 2012.  The rooms are all double queen rooms.
Please plan your stay so that you check in at least by Wednesday, September 19 as the meeting will begin PROMPTLY at 9 a.m. on the following morning, Thursday, September 20 in the conference room at the hotel.  Our meetings are scheduled for the 3 days September 20, 21 and 22 with a group dinner planned for the evening of September 22, so if you are planning to attend the entire meeting, you should plan to check out of the hotel the morning of September 23.
If you have not already advised either Deb Barbee or me that you are attending, please do so.  Also, some of you mentioned bringing your spouse, family or children and we need to know how many will be in your party and also all the names of those attending with you.  This is for head count and also for badges, etc. 
Making your reservations should go smoothly, but if there are any questions or problems, my contact at the hotel is the manager, Arlee Meade.  Or you can contact me at slp3000gt@cox.net.

Best regards,
Sharon Powalka
North Granby, CT

New on sackettfamily.info

The Sackett Family Association website sackettfamily.info has been updated with the following new pages:

• Massachusetts vital records, 1911–1915
• New members 339 Mary Brade, 340 Nathan Sackett, 341 Crystal E Sackett, 342 Kathleen "Kathi" Normandeau
• Adopt-a-newspaper research project (20 records added; total 1,245)
• Sackett places
• Early Sacketts timeline chart
• Notable Sacketts timeline chart 

Additional information on places bearing the Sackett name would be welcome. In particular, it would be interesting to know who the places were named after.

The timeline charts are an attempt to show the lifespans of some early and notable Sacketts in the context of historical events.

New on sackettfamily.info

The Sackett Family Association website sackettfamily.info has been updated with the following new and revised pages:

• Ohio deaths and burials (470 records)
• Massachusetts Masons membership cards (25 records)
• Updated DNA Project (added results for Paul S Sackett & Terry J Sackett; revised conclusions for Vermont and New Haven lines)
• TSFA website added to British Library UK Web Archive
• New members 335 Joseph Sackett, 336 Rebecca Paul, 337 Thomas Neumann, 338 Paul Sackett
• Revised member's page 178 Joan Leary
• Updated Thurmon King's database

Sackett Family Association historian Thurmon King continues to add ever more content to his database. This now contains records for 36,345 people. After removing for privacy reasons those still living or born after about 1920, records for 29,147 people are now online with this update. If you have not checked recently, you may find more information on the Sacketts in your line. If you find gaps, and you have more information, do please let Thurmon know. This is a collaborative venture!

The Association website has been accepted for preservation by the British Library UK Web Archive. The entire site will be archived by the Library at approximately six-monthly intervals, with the archived copies being publicly available. It will be interesting in years to come to see how the site contents change over time. It is also a significant step in ensuring the preservation of our laboriously gathered Sackett data.