Researching Nellie Eyster
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The name Nellie means "form of HELEN, ELLEN, and ELEANOR" and is of English origin.
Records of Nellie Eyster on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Nellie Eyster and the Eyster Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Eyster Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Eyster family tree.
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Eyster Family History Databases
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Eyster Forums
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Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on Nellie Eyster. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Nellie Eyster
Nellie Blessing Eyster
Penelope "Nellie" Blessing Eyster (December 7, 1836 – February 21, 1922) was an American journalist, writer, lecturer, and social reformer.
Eyster, the first President of the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association, was a grand-niece of Barbara Fritchie. Her first book, Sunny Hours of the Child Life of Tom and Mary, received the endorsement of Oliver Wendell Holmes. In 1870, she published "A Dame of the Quakers" in Harper's Magazine, and later, "How the Star Spangled Banner Found Its Tune". "The Colonial Boy" was published in 1890 and was adopted by most of the school and church libraries in the United States. "A Chinese Quaker", published in 1902, was quoted as introducing a valuable history of the Chinese immigration in San Francisco. Other books included, Chincapin Charlie, On the Wing, and Tom Harding and His Friends. She wrote for the New-York Tribune and Riverside Magazine; and edited with Gail Hamilton.
Eyster assisted In the purchase of Mount Vernon (George Washington's home) for the U.S.; and served as an officer of the Great Sanitary Commission during the American Civil War. Eyster's teaching extended to California's Chinese immigrants; she was also a teacher of music, rhetoric and belles lettres in various seminaries; and was a state lecturer on scientific temperance in colleges and public schools. She was State President of Juvenile Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of California, president of the California Women's Indian Association, and president emeritus of the League of American Pen Women.
Source: Nellie Blessing Eyster, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Eyster
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