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                     CFA Online Newsletter
        
                          April 2002
 
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                           WELCOME

Thank you for subscribing to the CFA Online Newsletter. We're happy
to have you with us and we'd like to hear from you.  If you have
something to add to the newsletter or ideas for future editions,
please contact Cindy at (archive only). Thanks!

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                            UPDATES

1930 Census Release - Has it already been 72 years?  

The 1930 Federal Census will open to the public on Monday, 
April 1, 2002, at the National Archives Building located at 
700 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. in the District of Columbia, 
and at the regional archives in Anchorage, Atlanta, Boston, 
Chicago, Denver, Fort Worth, Kansas City, Laguna Niguel, CA, 
New York City, downtown Philadelphia, Pittsfield, MA, 
San Francisco and Seattle.

In addition to the access at the Archives, Ancestry.com is 
planning on posting digital images of the census pages within
hours of its release.  Ancestry.com requires a subscription to
access these images. You can view their press release at:
http://www.prnewswire.com/micro/MYFAM
 
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                          CFA WEB SITE

Want to present your family history to the world!?
Want to locate distant cousins!?
Want to assist other Chapman researchers!?

Let's post your Chapman family history to the CFA web site!

On the site you'll find that many members have already posted their 
Ahnentafels.  http://www.ChapmanFamilies.org/tafels.html

What is an Ahnentafel? Ahnentafel is a German word meaning 
'ancestor table'. Used by genealogists, it's a way of numbering 
the ancestors of a given person. The starting person is given 
the number 1. Their father is number 2 and mother number 3. 
To find the father of any person, double that number. To 
find the mother, double the number and add one.

Now that we've covered the names, dates, places... Let's take this
one step further.  

Do you have old Chapman family photos???  GREAT! 

Why don't you add them to the Photo Archive on the web site?! This
is a new section of the web site that's currently in development. 
We need several more photos before we can add the archive to the 
site.

So let's gather up all of our family history and drop the CFA an
email note at: cfa  

Let us work with you on a case by case basis and figure out the 
most painless way to convert your hard work and collection to 
the web site! 

   http://www.chapmanfamilies.org

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                    2002 ANNUAL CONVENTION

Help spread the word!!  Are you corresponding with other Chapman
researchers?  Posting Chapman messages online?  Visiting other
Chapman web sites?  Invite others to join the CFA Convention
in Salt Lake City.  You can direct them to the CFA web site for
more information:
   http://www.chapmanfamilies.org/conv.html

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                    WEB SITES OF INTEREST

Salt Lake Convention & Visitors Bureau - this site includes much
information about the Salt Lake Utah area.
   http://www.saltlake.org

Café Chapman - located in the historic Adlerfelt traverse on the
fortress island of Sveaborg near Helsinki Sweden. The cafe's name
comes from Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, a shipbuilder during the
1700's.
http://www.sipuli.com/chapman/history.html

Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (1721-1808) - Swedish Vice-Admiral and naval 
architect. This site contains historical information and a time-line
for Fredrik.  Not all of the site is written in English, but much
is translated.
http://pc-78-120.udac.se:8001/WWW/Nautica/Biography/Chapman,_FH.html

Sydney Chapman, Mathematician (1888-1970) - born near Manchester,
England, Chapman's main area of research was the Earth's magnetic 
field.  He was honored with many awards.  The lunar Crater Chapman
is named after him. 
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Chapman.html

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                         MEMBERSHIP INFO

You can view the membership information on the CFA Web Site at: 
http://www.chapmanfamilies.org/member.html

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                         CFA OFFICERS

PRESIDENT: 
Robert Chapman           email: robertbchapman@cs.com

VICE PRESIDENT: 
(Vacant)

SECRETARY:
Jackie Chapman Konecny   email: JKone27534@aol.com 

TREASURER:
M.D. Chapman Morgan      email: 74454.2063@compuserve.com

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:
Robert L. Sonfield       email: robert@sonfield.com

LIBRARIAN:
Dian Chapman Gustafson   email: chappie@1extreme.net

HISTORIAN:
(Vacant)

EDITOR:
Robert B. Chapman        email: robertbchapman@cs.com

GENEALOGIST:
(Vacant)  

WEBMASTER:
Cindy Kuhn               email: sinda_k@yahoo.com

PUBLICIST:
Phyllis "Shelly" Chapman email: lazarusette@hotmail.com

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY:
Gilbert K. Alford, Jr.   

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Should you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please
contact Cindy Kuhn, CFA Online Newsletter Editor, by email at
sinda_k@yahoo.com 
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