Introduction

Greetings to all readers of “Daltons in History” !

You may have noticed that the website homepage now includes the Federation of Family History Societies logo to signify that our website was highly commended in their 2009 competition for the best website award. As reported in “Daltons in History” two months ago, the DGS was delighted to receive this recognition and it is a great tribute to our webmasters and to all who contribute to the main DGS website and to the Dalton Data Bank and the Dalton Forum. You will also now find links from our homepage to both the Federation of Family History Societies and the Guild of One Name Studies websites. These two websites contain a wealth of useful information for the family historian, so if you are not familiar with them, do take a look.

October has seen the publication of the latest issue of our Dalton International DNA Project Progress Report and further details will be found below along with the usual updates to keep you fully informed about all our various DGS activities.

Future DGS events

As everyone will be aware, 2010 marks the 40th Anniversary of the founding of the Dalton Genealogical Society and we will hold a special Gathering and Annual General Meeting in Surrey, England over the weekend of Fri/Sat/Sun 30th/31st July/1st August 2010. Arrangements have been made for the main events on the Saturday to take place at the Surrey National Golf Club, Chaldon, Surrey. These will include our conference during the day and a splendid celebratory dinner in the evening. The conference programme will include guest speakers and our AGM, and there will also be entertainment in the evening. The theme of the weekend will be Daltons in Surrey and we are arranging a programme of activities and visits for the Friday and the Sunday. Accommodation will be available locally. The Surrey National Golf Club is beautifully situated and has a modern clubhouse with excellent conference and dining facilities. Further information may be found at www.surreynational.co.uk.

The detailed planning for this 40th Anniversary celebration is currently under way and further information will be announced here in “Daltons in History” at the turn of the year, and in the next issue of the DGS Journal (Volume 51). In the meantime, please reserve the dates in your diary now. It would be very helpful to have an early indication of numbers attending and I would appreciate a short email (to michaelndalton@aol.com) as soon as possible if you are planning to come. Thank you to those who have already been in touch. This information will enable us to ensure that we reserve enough accommodation and it will help with the planning and organisation of the various events and activities over the weekend. We hope that many members and their families will join us for this very special gathering, and that overseas members will use it as an opportunity to visit other parts of the UK as well.

For 2011 we have arranged for the DGS Annual Gathering to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA over the weekend of Fri/Sat/Sun 14th/15th/16th October 2011. This will be another very special event and I am most grateful to our North American Secretary, Karen Dalton Preston, for undertaking to be the gathering organiser. Karen and her team are now putting the more detailed plans in place and some further information will be found in her notes in this issue of “Daltons in History”.

The 2011 DGS Annual General Meeting will be held in the UK earlier in the year and an announcement about that will be made later.

For 2012 and beyond we have a number of suggestions already. If you have any particular thoughts about where you might like to meet, or a particular Dalton theme you think we should incorporate, we would really like to hear from you with your ideas.

The Dalton International DNA Project (DIDP)

During October Issue 3 of the Dalton International DNA Project Progress Report has been published. This includes all the new participants who have joined the project up to January 2009. There were 99 participants included in Issue 2 of the report published in January 2008 and Issue 3 has 126 sets of markers recorded and analysed. This represents an impressive expansion of the project. Additionally, many participants have extended their number of markers and this adds considerably to the value of the database as a whole to our Dalton family history researches.

The report is a landmark document and extends to 54 pages. The number of separately identifiable genetic families has increased from 10 to 13. The number of singletons has increased by just three, from 18 to 21. This reflects the high success rate that we are achieving, with nearly all new project participants finding matches with existing project members.

This month “Daltons in History” includes two separate sections entitled “Latest Dalton International DNA Project News” and “Summary of the DIDP Progress Report Issue 3”. Please do read these for further information. We have also updated the DNA Project pages with additional extracts from the report.

All members of the project have been circulated by email and invited to request their copy of the full report. All those who have requested it should now have received their copy by email. If, as a project participant, you still wish to receive the report but have not advised me, please contact me by email immediately. We do ask that those who receive the report are current members of the DGS. The subscription contributes towards the cost of retaining our consultant and, of course, brings many other benefits as well.

The DGS Journal

John Dalton, Editor of the DGS Journal, is always pleased to receive further contributions of material for the Journal. Volume 51 (for December 2009) will be published at the end of the year and contributions need to be with John as soon as possible and by mid-November at the absolute latest.

Back issues of the DGS Journal continue to be available. On this website you can access the DGS Journal Index from the homepage. Here you will find a full synopsis of the contents of the Journal of the Dalton Genealogical Society commencing with Volume 1 published back in 1970 through to Volume 41 published in December 2004. Lists of contents are available for Volumes 42 to 50 and the full synopses will be available in due course. Copies of all back numbers are available for purchase and these can be obtained from DGS member, Mrs Pat Robinson (address: Mallards, 3 High Street, The Green, Barrington, Cambridge CB2 5QX, UK email: gandprobinson@waitrose.com.) Details of prices, including postage and packing, will be found with the index.

Conclusion

Enjoy this month’s issue of “Daltons in History”, your regular monthly update on everything that is happening in the world of Dalton family history. We will be back again at the beginning of December.

Thank you for your attention and best wishes to you all.

Yours very sincerely

Michael Neale Dalton
Chairman and Honorary Life President of the Dalton Genealogical Society

Michael Dalton, as coordinator of the project gives an update on its current status and looks forward to 2010.

Issue 3 of the Dalton International DNA Project Progress Report has now been published. This includes all those who joined the project up to the end of January 2009. There were 99 participants included in Issue 2 of the report and Issue 3 has 126 sets of markers recorded and analysed. This represents an impressive expansion of the project. Additionally, many participants have extended their number of markers and this adds considerably to the value of the database as a whole to our Dalton family history researches.

The report is a landmark document and extends to 54 pages. As part of the Orange conference, I gave a presentation which previewed its contents. This presentation may be viewed here on the DGS website in the Photo/Video Gallery.

The number of separately identifiable genetic families has increased from 10 to 13. The number of singletons has increased by just three, from 18 to 21. This reflects the high success rate that we are achieving, with nearly all new project participants finding matches with existing project members.

Following this update, you will find an extract from Issue 3 of the report giving a summary of the main conclusions. In addition, on the DNA Project pages on this website are:

• The foreword to the report, which includes a history of the project
• A description of the DNA process and how it assists the family historian

We already have a number of further participants who have joined the project during the past few months and currently there are a total of 131 sets of markers in our database. DIDP is one of the largest and most respected projects of its type internationally, but we still need to expand it further, particularly with individuals who have documented ancestral lines that take them back to known English or Irish Dalton origins. The strength of the database as a family history research tool lies in its size, and its continued growth is of paramount importance to us all. So, if you are a Dalton male please do think about joining this well established and exciting project.

Looking ahead to 2010 the project will undoubtedly continue to grow. Alongside this we anticipate putting more focus on the identification of most recent common ancestors within the various genetic families. This will be assisted by the appointment of coordinators for each genetic family, and the individual websites that have now been set up for a number of genetic families at www.dalton-dna.net to enable family tree data to be shared. Working with Chris Pomery, we are looking at ways of providing more regular updates to each genetic family group, with reports to the groups being more frequent and the publication of the full report therefore correspondingly less frequent.

You are invited to contact us by email if you would like to join the project, or if you have any questions which you wish to raise. The details for the overall coordination of the project, and for the individual genetic family coordinators are as follows:

• The overall coordinator for the project is Michael Neale Dalton, Chairman & Honorary Life President of the Dalton Genealogical Society. He is also the group administrator for DIDP with Family Tree DNA.

• The deputy coordinator for the project is Karen Dalton Preston, North American Secretary of the DGS. She is also a co-administrator for DIDP with Family Tree DNA.

• The founder of DIDP is Millicent Craig, Vice President of the DGS, who continues as a co-administrator for DIDP with Family Tree DNA.

Any questions that you have about the project should be referred to Michael Dalton or Karen Preston in the first instance, or directly to the appropriate genetic family coordinator as follows:

There are a number of genetic family coordinators yet to be appointed. Volunteers are sought and anyone who is interested in taking on this role should contact Michael Dalton.

Summary of the Dalton International DNA Project Progress Report Issue 3 – published October 2009

Our Chairman Michael Dalton gives an update on the Dalton International DNA Project (DIDP) to coincide with the publication of Issue 3 of the Project Progress Report to all participants. This summary includes extracts from the report itself.

The report includes a total of 126 participants. Of these 104 are Y-chromosome DNA results within our own Dalton International Project hosted by Family Tree DNA. A further 22 results have been inferred by us, in part or in whole, through links with other Dalton surname projects. A number of further results have now been received, too recent for inclusion this time, but they will of course be incorporated into the next issue.

The strength of the DIDP lies in its size, and in its ability to draw together all this data in one place. We welcome all Daltons to make their results available within our project in order to further our collective research into all components of the Dalton family worldwide. Only by aggregating all our data together can we create the best opportunity for individual Daltons to identify their true ‘genetic family’ and thus uncover their Dalton ancestral origins.

Everyone who passes their DNA results to the DIDP is eligible to receive a copy of the full report which then allows them to interpret their genetic history and identify the most potentially profitable areas for their future family history research.

The goal of DIDP is to test all of the contending theories about the multiple origins of Dalton families around the world, and to reach consensus about the most likely hypotheses to explain both the DNA results and our current documentary research.
This report summarises the position of the Dalton International DNA Project at the beginning of 2009, cross-referencing the DNA results of 126 Dalton men with information about their documented origins.

Of the 104 DIDP men tested, 19 live in the emigrant-donating countries of the ‘Old World’ (the UK & Ireland) while 85 are descendants of Dalton emigrants and live outside of the UK and Ireland.

By country of residence, 76 reside in the USA, 17 in the UK, 6 in Australia, 2 each in Ireland and Canada, plus one in New Zealand.

Key DIDP Conclusions

As the project stands in 2009 the key conclusions are:

1. The bearers of the Dalton surname worldwide have multiple genetic origins, i.e. the surname appears to have been acquired by individual ancestors independently of each other at different times and in different places.

2. The project’s results are currently aggregated into thirteen distinct ‘genetic families’ each of which contains identical or highly similar DNA results.

3. Six of these genetic families trace back to origins in mainland UK, four in Ireland, and three within the USA.

We expect that all currently US-origin genetic families almost certainly have their ultimate documented origin in either Ireland or the UK, though they may more immediately be documented to ancestors living in the USA. It is quite possible that not only will some of the singletons turn out to be documented as part of existing genetic families, but also that some of the genetic families, when documented into a single tree, will turn out to be linked to another genetic family. Without detailed documentary research it is hard, purely from the DNA results alone, to predict quite how often this kind of linkage will occur.

4. 21 results (“singletons”) have so far not been linked to any other individual in the project. This percentage of non-matching results is low for a major surname DNA project.

5. The spelling variations of Dolton, Daulton and D’Alton are found within recognizable Dalton genetic families, not as separate trees with distinct surnames and DNA signatures.

6. The modal ‘genetic family’ -- Genetic Family A -- has now grown to include 44 results, only one of which claims an origin outside of the USA. The modal result identifies the DNA signature that is so far the most frequently found among the men coming forward to take the DNA test. Even though it is the most ‘popular’ result, that does not prove that this DNA signature represents (a) the oldest or original Dalton tree, or (b) the Dalton tree with the most descendants alive today, or (c) that it is the most populous Dalton tree looking at the entire history of the surname. Only detailed documentary research can confirm whether any of the three claims above are associated with the modal result or not.

7. Genetic Family A is a textbook example of a genetic bottleneck. This phenomenon occurs when a gene pool is restricted in some way, most usually as the result of emigration (when only a sub-set of the total gene pool of a country emigrates and successfully reproduces overseas) or catastrophe (when only a sub-set of the original gene pool survives). Broadly speaking, one would expect that the American Dalton gene pool is less genetically diverse than the original Dalton gene pool in the British Isles, and that the American Dalton gene pool will reveal a strong modal result (i.e. one family has reproduced more efficiently in the USA since its arrival than all the other Dalton families). The astonishing growth of Genetic Family A in the Americas during the past three or four centuries deserves to be cited as an example for other surname groups of the huge differences between the genetic profile of groups of DNA testees sampled in the British Isles and in emigrant-rich countries outside of it.

Characteristics of the Dalton Genetic Families

The 13 genetic families identified to date in the DIDP show the following key characteristics:

1. Ten belong in haplogroup R1b, the most common haplogroup in Europe and identified with the earliest post-Ice Age expansion to the edge of western Europe.

2. The two largest genetic families account for half of all DIDP participants.

3. Based purely upon geographical similarities and the frequency of DNA results found so far, it appears that several genetic families may turn out to be sub-groups of other, older and larger, genetic families:

• Genetic families G & X could turn out to be part of genetic family A.
• Genetic family Y could be part of genetic family E, or vice versa.
• Genetic families I or J could be part of genetic families B or D.
• Genetic family H could be part of genetic family F, or vice versa.

Geographical Locations of Dalton Genetic Families

The Dalton DNA Project has identified the counties or states of origin of all of the men taking part. The table below identifies the genetic families linked to the different geographical areas given by project participants as the origin of their family tree, where known. This allows a Dalton man joining our DNA project, who has already traced his family tree back to a specific country and county or state of origin, to check whether the genetic family predicted by the results below turns out to be correct.

From Maureen Collins, Australian and New Zealand Secretary

I took these photos a couple of years ago when staying with friends in Ballarat, which is a historic gold mining town in inland Victoria. It has been funded by the Victorian Returned Services League (RSL) with help from the Victorian State Government and at the time I was there, it is the only one of its kind in Victoria and, indeed, in Australia.

Prisoner of War Memorial in Ballarat, Victoria

There are 14 Dalton names on the memorial with the initials: AW, FA, FP, GG, HA, J, J, KL, L, MJ, R, RJ, S, WJ and Dalton-Goodwin, CR. Perhaps there are DGS members or website readers who know more about those listed. These people were imprisoned in different wars and in different countries including France, Turkey, Korea and the Orange Free State.

List of Daltons on the Ballarat Memorial

I do not live in Victoria but perhaps someone else could provide a little more information on this amazing memorial. Some more information is available at http://www.ballarat.com/memorial.htm and various other sites.

From Tom Wood and Gerry Dalton, our intrepid travellers

Tom and Gerry found the attached article in the Fox History of Queensland on the World Vital Records website and it makes reference to a Pierce Dalton of Charleville. Below is description of Fox's History.

From World Vital records:

"Fox's History of Queensland" is similar to the Cyclopedias that were published for most states of Australia around the beginning of the 20th Century. Cyclopedias are a vast resource of historical and biographical information on the state concerned - the people, towns, industries, professional, commercial and social institutions and much more. Fox's History of Queensland? is the largest of these publications and is very rare; an original set can cost as much as $3000.

This comprehensive Queensland resource includes information ranging from flora and fauna to industry, from geology and history to politics as well as information relevant to the day on schools, hospitals, infrastructure and farming. It includes a large section on the major towns, regions and homesteads throughout Queensland, as well as a large number of biographies on influential and ordinary citizens throughout the community. The three volumes have thousands of illustrations scattered throughout, a large number of these being photos of people as well as places, buildings, and scenes from the past.

An extract mentioning Pierce Dalton on this page

There is not a lot of information about Pierce Dalton, he is only mentioned in passing in an article about a Mr McDonald. It may, however, be a start for someone. (The article, as it is, is difficult to read).

For further information go to:

http://www.archivecdbooks.com.au/Foxs-History-of-Queensland-1919-23-p/au4021.htm

The previous articles about Minnie Abbott appeared in the September and October editions of “Daltons in History”.

In the October edition we left the story of Minnie Abbott early in 1915. She had travelled from Tonopah to San Francisco where she had arranged a hospital room for the injured Jack Whyte.

There next appeared the following excerpt in the February 5th 1915 Tonopah Daily Bonanza:

It stated that Jack Whyte had died in San Francisco. He was described as a labour agitator in many cities and had a national reputation as a trouble maker. He was born in Oakland 40 years previously and had been jailed for 6 months for resisting the police and had taken part in recent troubles in Tonopah. When Stegal was arrested Whyte refused to make a deposition against him, not through friendliness, but because, as he said, “he had no respect for the law and would not seek its support ".

Shortly afterwards this report was submitted confirming the death of Jack Whyte:

An investigation by Goldfield Consolidated Mining Company
Submitted February 10th 1915

It was reported that an F.G. Ellison had returned to Goldfield from Los Angeles. He formerly worked at Tonopah, and was quite a heavy drinker. He is described as an “old friend of Minnie Abbott's who was the secretary of the Propaganda League at Tonopah, and was also friendly with Bill McGucken and Jack Whyte, now deceased”.

The story of Minnie Abbott continues with the death of Stegal, the man who shot Jack Whyte.

The Tonopah Bonanza April 29th 1915 “Stegal dies gazing at photograph of the woman he hopelessly loved".

This is the headline of a newspaper article describing the death of R.L.J.D. Stegal which describes how “Gazing at the picture of the woman he loved Mrs Minnie Abbott, Stegal sent his soul to eternity yesterday morning in the rooming house over the Morrow store”. It also mentions that Minnie Abbott left Tonopah shortly after the case was dropped which had added to Stegal’s despondency and that he had also frequently asked her to marry him but she was not free to do so.

Little is known about Minnie Abbott in the following years but Bill has managed to find further information which may be attributed to her.

In 1916, on the 1916 voters list for Alameda County Oakland Precinct 226, there is a Mrs Minnie Abbott, 3805 Flemming Ave, a cook and a member of the Socialist Party. But on the 1928 voter registration list she and a William B. Dalton are living at 805 Washington St., Oakland Precinct No. 253, Alameda County, where she is described as a housekeeper and he a hotel proprietor. They are both listed as Republican.

Has she married again to another Dalton, reverted to her maiden name or what?

There is also another listing in Precinct No. 318 for her living at 2120 13th Avenue, listed as a housewife and a Republican.

Later that year on September 8th 1928 she and her husband were mentioned in an article in the Oakland Tribune where they are listed as a Dr. B. Dalton, and Mrs Minnie Dalton of 805 Washington St., Oakland and that they were among the 10 people injured in a bus accident. The latter does not match the information on the 1928 voter registration card. Where does the “doctor” come from, when previously registered as a voter his occupation was given as hotel proprietor?

There are further references to her in voter registration lists between 1930 and 1942 where she is always listed as a housewife living in the Oakland Precinct, at times a Republican, a Democrat or Progressive. Similarly, William is listed (with the exception of 1931) but now his occupation given as ironworker.

In the 1930 Census her age, at first marriage, is given as 16 or 1888 which closely matches the records Bill found for his Marinda’s birth (1871 + 16 =1887).

It states that his age for his first marriage, William Benno Dalton, was 38, or 1916, and apparently her father was born in New York. (This is only about his marriage, it might not even have been to Minnie).

Whilst the 1930 Census did not have any notation as to whether this was a first marriage [M or M1] or a second marriage [M2] the notation of the age at first marriage shows that she was 16 and he was 38. But, the Census also shows that he was 52 while she was 58 – so it had to be a second marriage at least for her. The Census entry doesn’t actually say that they are married to each other, just that they are listed as married – but to whom?

William Benno Dalton, according to the WWII draft card he filled out was born in Cleveland, October 7th 1879. So is this Marinda’s second marriage? If this is correct she was widowed or divorced between 1910 -16.

A female family member recently told Bill that her parents did not talk much about Aunt Min. She thought that Aunt Min had been involved in something that the family would not find appealing such as running a brothel somewhere and that when Aunt Min came to visit her parents she was so broke that she asked for a loan. His informant remembered that Minnie lived somewhere in California, possibly El Cetteto and that during WWII she had thought of going to stay with her. This information links with who Bill thinks is Marinda Dalton.

Little is known about Minnie’s life until her death is reported on January 3rd 1957 at the Abney Sanatorium, Berkley, Alameda County, California, where she had been for 2½ weeks (This place is apparently a Nursing Home rather than a psychiatric facility). No cause of death is shown but the date and state of birth are correct. The informant is a Thomas Dalton, which was the name of one of her brothers, however the name of her father is given as George Dalton (not William Henry Dalton) and the birthplace is unknown, as is her mother’s name. If the informant was her brother you would have expected this to be correct. Minnie is listed as widowed.

Bill has found an obituary that clearly confirms that she is the person he thought she was.

DALTON, Minnie, in Berkeley, Jan. 3 1957, loving wife of the late William B. Dalton. A Native of Ohio, aged 85 years. Friends may call at the Berkeley Chapel of the Freeman & Cox-Roach & Leonard, 2414 Grove Street at Haste until 9 p.m. Saturday. Services and internment, Tonopah, Nevada.

This shows that she was buried back in Tonopah, Nevada and that she apparently lived for many years in the San Francisco Bay area. He does not know why she was buried in Tonopah – had she returned in the intervening years to the area she had been so active in or perhaps her husband was buried there? The Californian Death Certificate states that she was cremated at the Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland. My source in the Nye County, Nevada Museum has been unable to find any record of a Dalton burial in Tonopah.

So was William B. Dalton her second husband? Did she marry again after having wed William Abbott in 1889? Was there a divorce, or had Billy Abbott died, OR was there a little touch of bigamy? If she did marry William Benno Dalton then he would be the third Dalton line for Bill to follow. It is thought he may have come from Ireland as did the Dalton who married Bill’s grandmother’s sister. Was he her brother, as he claimed on his Social Security application form?

"In the SS-5 application for a Social Security Card, this William B. Dalton, her apparent husband, states that his mother is "Celia Dalton" (the same name as Marinda's mother) and his father is Wm. Ed. Dalton. That is the same name as her father but the middle name is wrong." If this Celia Dalton was his mother, her maiden name was Johnson. On the death record for this man, his mother’s surname is listed as Kline.

Was he a hotel proprietor, as he claimed on his voting registration form, or a doctor as he claimed after the bus accident? Did she get divorced – there are a lot of questions still to be answered?

Can any of our readers help Bill with the story of Minnie, a lady with an interesting life?

Contact: Bill Dalton at rnbill@centurytel.net

From Maureen Collins, Australian and New Zealand Secretary

The following is correspondence resulting from an email from Nan Kleiber who Maureen met on her travels:

Some more Daltons appeared in my mind the other day - Les Daltons, four brothers from the Belgian comic book series "Lucky Luke". Les Daltons are the bad guys in this cowboy/shoot-'em-up series.

She added later:

Lucky Luke is much beloved by kids in France [like Asterix and TinTin] . . and full of wild-west stuff, which I find most amusing in the French context.

Can anybody help with this? Contact the Editor, Dairne Irwin: dairneirwin@ntlworld.com

Well, I was wishing for Autumn weather, and that's just what we have now Temperatures in Las Vegas went from the 90's to the 50's in a matter of days. These cooler temperature are perfect for staying in, and working on genealogy!

Dalton DNA Project Group A:

In October, I assumed the role of coordinator for Genetic Family A within the DIDP. With David's help, a web page and a separate email mailing list have been created for Group A members. If you are a member of Group A, and you haven't already received a Welcome message, please contact me at karen@golden-hills.com, and I'll be happy to add you to the mailing list.

If you are a male Dalton, and you believe you may have a family tree connection to the Daltons of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee or Kentucky, I invite you to join the Dalton International DNA Project, and submit your DNA to confirm a connection.

DGS Gathering - Salt Lake City, 2011:

Plans are progressing for our Annual DGS Gathering for 2011. As you already know, we will be meeting in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. Salt Lake City is the home of the Family History Library, the largest genealogical library in the world.

The headquarters hotel has been selected for the event. I am very pleased to announce that we will be gathering at the Salt Lake City Plaza Hotel, which is next door to the Family History Library, and right on Temple Square. The hotel staff has been very helpful and willing to accommodate our needs for guest rooms and meeting space. Even at this early date, the hotel is offering DGS members a very special room rate of $89.00 USD per night. To view a map of Salt Lake City, including the location of the Gathering, please go to http://www.tinyurl.com/DGSMeeting

For more info on the hotel, please visit their web site at http://www.plaza-hotel.com/. You can also view the Salt Lake City Visitor's Guide site at http://www.visitsaltlake.com/visit/. It's not too soon to begin planning your visit!

Dalton Data Bank Update:

New Articles / Updates:

19 October, 2009:

Dalton Chronicles - The Tuite-Dalton Family Contributed by Rodney Dalton, Utah

13 October, 2009:

Dalton Chronicles - Dalton Australian Bushrangers Contributed by Rodney Dalton, Utah

12 October, 2009:

Dalton Chronicles - Yorkshire Daltons Come to America Contributed by Rodney Dalton, Utah

8 October, 2009:

Dalton Chronicles - Capt. Valentine T. Dalton Contributed by Rodney Dalton, Utah

6 October, 2009:

Dalton Chronicles - Dalton Cities Worldwide Contributed by Rodney Dalton, Utah

5 October, 2009:

Canada - Corrected Kings County Prince Edward Island 1891 Census Contributed by Steve Szabo, Canada

1 October, 2009:

Dalton Chronicles - Emmett Dalton's Life Story Contributed by Rodney Dalton, Utah
Canada - Nova Scotia Marriages & Miscellaneous updated Contributed by Mike Dalton, Oregon

DDB Usage Statistics October 1st thru October 27th:

2,318 total Visitors from 24 Countries

USA - 42.5% (down 6% from September)
UK - 31.9% (up 4.5% from September)
Ireland - 7.5% (up .8% from September)
South Africa - 4.9% (up 1.9% from September)
Australia - 4.4% (down .3% from September)
Brazil & Argentina - 2.4% (up .7% from September)
Canada - 1.5% (up .2% from September)
France - 1.4% (down 1.8% from September)
New Zealand - 1.2% (unchanged from September)
Rest of the World - 2.3% (up .7% from September)

75.4% were New Visitors

124 visitors came from the old Databank site

Google AdWords Campaign:

1,495 Visitors clicked on one of the Ads, which were displayed 264,384 times (.56% Click Thru Ratio).

Best wishes to everyone!

Karen Dalton Preston
Secretary for North America

Our usual thanks to this month's contributors. We always look forward to receiving your e-mails and reading the latest news about your Dalton families. Why not consider putting your family history into print through "Daltons in History" or into the DGS Journal that is produced twice a year.

Please continue to send to me any ideas for future articles and also keep looking for any information to include in the "Dalton Strays" section and the "Anything Dalton Challenge".

We are still hoping to start a new topic on places called "Dalton" around the world. All contributions will be gratefully received. Please send them to Howard Dalton at howard.dalton@hotmail.co.uk who is co-ordinating this topic.

Contributions for the December issue need to be with me no later than 25th November 2009. (e-mail: dairneirwin@ntlworld.com).

Please be on time with your articles as it causes problems when it comes to actually producing "Daltons in History" and putting it up on the website.