{"id":9843,"date":"2015-03-04T16:39:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T16:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=9843"},"modified":"2021-04-21T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T18:50:23","slug":"remembering-genealogists-charles-edna-townsend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/remembering-genealogists-charles-edna-townsend.html","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Genealogists Charles & Edna Townsend"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought about Charles and Edna Townsend today \u2013 they were pillars of the genealogical community.<\/p>\n

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Source: GenealogyBank.com and eBay, Sarasota Herald-Tribune (Sarasota, Florida), 16 May 2002<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I first met them in the 1960s when they stopped by the library where I worked. Charles Delmar Townsend (1911-2009) and his wife Edna Carolyn Waugh (1908-1989) were prolific genealogists, writers and publishers. They were good people dedicated to family history research.<\/p>\n

They are best remembered for their two journals: Ancestral Notes<\/em> from CHEDWATO<\/span> (1954-1968) and the Car-Del Scribe<\/em><\/a> (1964-1988).<\/p>\n

The name of their publishing company \u2013 CHEDWATO \u2013 is an acronym from their names.<\/p>\n

CH \u2013 Charles
\nED \u2013 Edna
\nWA \u2013 Waugh
\nTO – Townsend<\/p>\n

They had deep New England ancestral roots. We were distant cousins, so I decided to look up their online family trees to remind myself of our mutual ancestors.<\/p>\n

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I quickly realized that they had never created an online family tree. Digging deeper I located Charles\u2019s obituary in GenealogyBank in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune (Sarasota, Florida)<\/span>. Within minutes I started pulling together his family tree running back several generations, and found that I am related to both him and his wife multiple times over.<\/p>\n

Here were two of America\u2019s important genealogists, but their time was mostly before the current era of instant family history online. I took the time and added their details to several of the online family tree sites.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t let your story be lost.
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