THE HOLLINGSWORTH REGISTER |
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 4. |
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The three trips to do professional research for clients
by your editor in part accounts for the tremendous delay in
getting the Sept. and Dec. 1978 issues of Hollingsworth Register
into print and into the hands of our subscribers. After the trip
already described in the June issue, pp. 21-25, we were sent
back, in September, to Salt Lake City, Utah, to do two weeks'
more work in the great genealogical library there. (Three weeks
were planned, but the semi-annual "Conference" of the L.D.S.
Church made it impossible to obtain a room in any cubbyhole in
northern Utah, for the needed period!). More material for H.R.
was, of course, obtained in any spare time we could find. But,
upon return to Los Angeles in conclusion of that work, another
client hired your editor, this time to travel to San Jose,
California, and "clean out" the courthouse of Santa Clara County
on several specific names; also to visit libraries and
cemeteries. That feat was accomplished in a week. A day or two
were taken to visit Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara, California,
just to "kick back" and relax.
The day set to return to Los Angeles was painted with the horror of the great brush fire which nearly destroyed Malibu, along with another separate one which burnt up part of Mandeville Canyon. It was your editor's sad journey in from Santa Barbara, to see the smoke of that burning ascending skyward and westward across the Pacific as far as the Island of Santa Cruz. The bus was re-routed because the fire was so agressive. Smoke filled the air, and borate bombers flew over the bus, dropping foaming cargo on both sides of the highway. The city of Santa Monica was stinking with smoke. That was on the 23d of Oct. 1978. It was later learned that the Malibu fire had been deliberately set! All subscribers should be advised that many issues may come late not only because of the above described circumstances, but because your editor has another similar assignment for Summer, 1979! This one won't be so long. The March issue, 1979, will be a month late in delivery, at least. This issue was put to bed (in journalistic jargon) on Monday the 12th of March 1979! In this number you will consequently find some events from 1979, in spite of the fact it is called a 1978 publication. All readers are encouraged to send along clippings of any type which mention Hollingsworth or Hollingworth, or descendants, for any of the Obituary, Marriage or Miscellany columns. A strike in the paper industry has also hampered our ability to get the usual supply of paper. Some is bond rather than mimeo. This issue is being proof read on the first day of spring, 21 March 1979. |
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