Jeanette Taggart Holmes
Jeanette was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 3, 1923 the second of five children.
She attended Lafayette Grammar School which, at that time, was across the street from the present high rise office building of the LDS Church at the corner of State Street and North Temple. The school later became the Missionary Training Center for a few years.
The family moved to Price, Utah for a short time and later to Billings, Montana. The family lived in Billings for about six years where they were able to enjoy frequent family visits with their Taggart relatives in Cowley and Cody, Wyoming. "After the death of her father, the family returned to Salt Lake City where she attended high school, graduating a year early. She served as a student officer, as editor of the school newspaper, and as a member of the school debate team which won first place in the Utah State Debate Championships.
While attending school, she worked at a variety of different jobs. After high school, she attended the University of Utah. She was awarded three separate scholarships at high school graduation - one in debate, one in journalism, and the third for being selected as the outstanding high school graduate in the Salt Lake County high schools.
"In June 1943, she married her high school-college sweetheart Gordon Holmes, and they moved to Palo Alto, California where he attended Stanford Medical School. She took a job at the medical school and, in addition, worked as a volunteer for the Red Cross. (This was during World War II.) After medical school graduation, they moved to Sacramento, California where he served as a flight surgeon in the Air Force at both Mather Field and at McClellan Field.
At the end of the war, they returned to San Francisco where he took a surgical residency at Stanford Medical School and she again took a job at the same school.
"It was at this time that the nations of the world met in world conference at San Francisco to establish the United Nations. Jeanette took the job as Secretary of Hospitality and Entertainment for the United Nations. This was truly a unique opportunity and was a most interesting and significant experience.
"Upon completion of Gordon's surgical residency, they moved to Berkeley, Ca., where he began his surgical practice. He had two sisters and two brothers living in the area. Two years later, they removed to Lafayette, California, a Berkeley suburb, where they lived for thirty-two years.
"Jeanette has five children, four sons and a daughter, and twelve grandchildren. "Jeanette served for ten years as a Cub Scout leader and four years as a Girl Scout leader. She served also as primary president, relief society president, young women's president, as a teacher, stake leader, activities chairman, and family history volunteer at the Oakland Family History Library. These positions were in addition to many fund-raising duties for ward building fund drives, welfare dinners, welfare farm assignments, ward and stake welfare canning assignments at the regional Church cannery and many community civic services.
"She also took a correspondence course in interior decorating from the New York School of Interior Design as well as many courses in genealogy and computer science. Today she is still going to school to improve her skills in computer genealogy and regularly attends classes and seminars in the area, including monthly meetings in Silicon Valley sponsored by the Silicon Valley Personal Ancestral File User Group.
"Her hobbies have been gardening, golf, tennis, skiing, knitting, quilting, genealogy, and travel. For the last twenty years, after her family activities, these hobbies have been gradually replaced by her almost total devotion to genealogy and family history research. She teaches genealogy classes, volunteers weekly at the Danville Stake Family History Library, and is a genealogy consultant in her ward, spending many hours helping others (members and many non-members) to do their own personal family searches.
"Her personal library is a testimony to the time and effort she has expended in her own family search. The shelves of binders in her bookcases record the over fifteen thousand ordinances which she submitted and which were cleared for temple work. These were in addition to the many more thousands which she submitted which were found to have been done or submitted by others.
"She has written three short overviews of some of her ancestors, and presently is working to complete the story of her Puritan New England Taggart and Parks family ancestors. Much of her time is spent in documenting information and correcting many of the errors which are found on many of the sources available to researchers. Over the years these errors have been repeated and proliferated in many published books and histories. She has become strongly committed to the motto ‘No more Junk Genealogy.'
"Jeanette states that she has an unwavering testimony of the truthfulness of the Gospel as taught in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and she feels a deep gratitude for her staunch and honorable ancestry - for their sterling examples of service, sacrifice, loyalty, commitment, and integrity!
One of her favorite quotes (which she found in her family research) was in the History of Windham, New Hampshire, (a center of many of our Scots-Irish ancestors). It read ‘MEN DIE. EXAMPLES AND PRINCIPLES LIVE.' These six words pretty much sum up her philosophy of life." ‘It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.'
I think I got this from the Taggart Family Newsletter, Unknown date
Jeanette was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 3, 1923 the second of five children.
She attended Lafayette Grammar School which, at that time, was across the street from the present high rise office building of the LDS Church at the corner of State Street and North Temple. The school later became the Missionary Training Center for a few years.
The family moved to Price, Utah for a short time and later to Billings, Montana. The family lived in Billings for about six years where they were able to enjoy frequent family visits with their Taggart relatives in Cowley and Cody, Wyoming. "After the death of her father, the family returned to Salt Lake City where she attended high school, graduating a year early. She served as a student officer, as editor of the school newspaper, and as a member of the school debate team which won first place in the Utah State Debate Championships.
While attending school, she worked at a variety of different jobs. After high school, she attended the University of Utah. She was awarded three separate scholarships at high school graduation - one in debate, one in journalism, and the third for being selected as the outstanding high school graduate in the Salt Lake County high schools.
"In June 1943, she married her high school-college sweetheart Gordon Holmes, and they moved to Palo Alto, California where he attended Stanford Medical School. She took a job at the medical school and, in addition, worked as a volunteer for the Red Cross. (This was during World War II.) After medical school graduation, they moved to Sacramento, California where he served as a flight surgeon in the Air Force at both Mather Field and at McClellan Field.
At the end of the war, they returned to San Francisco where he took a surgical residency at Stanford Medical School and she again took a job at the same school.
"It was at this time that the nations of the world met in world conference at San Francisco to establish the United Nations. Jeanette took the job as Secretary of Hospitality and Entertainment for the United Nations. This was truly a unique opportunity and was a most interesting and significant experience.
"Upon completion of Gordon's surgical residency, they moved to Berkeley, Ca., where he began his surgical practice. He had two sisters and two brothers living in the area. Two years later, they removed to Lafayette, California, a Berkeley suburb, where they lived for thirty-two years.
"Jeanette has five children, four sons and a daughter, and twelve grandchildren. "Jeanette served for ten years as a Cub Scout leader and four years as a Girl Scout leader. She served also as primary president, relief society president, young women's president, as a teacher, stake leader, activities chairman, and family history volunteer at the Oakland Family History Library. These positions were in addition to many fund-raising duties for ward building fund drives, welfare dinners, welfare farm assignments, ward and stake welfare canning assignments at the regional Church cannery and many community civic services.
"She also took a correspondence course in interior decorating from the New York School of Interior Design as well as many courses in genealogy and computer science. Today she is still going to school to improve her skills in computer genealogy and regularly attends classes and seminars in the area, including monthly meetings in Silicon Valley sponsored by the Silicon Valley Personal Ancestral File User Group.
"Her hobbies have been gardening, golf, tennis, skiing, knitting, quilting, genealogy, and travel. For the last twenty years, after her family activities, these hobbies have been gradually replaced by her almost total devotion to genealogy and family history research. She teaches genealogy classes, volunteers weekly at the Danville Stake Family History Library, and is a genealogy consultant in her ward, spending many hours helping others (members and many non-members) to do their own personal family searches.
"Her personal library is a testimony to the time and effort she has expended in her own family search. The shelves of binders in her bookcases record the over fifteen thousand ordinances which she submitted and which were cleared for temple work. These were in addition to the many more thousands which she submitted which were found to have been done or submitted by others.
"She has written three short overviews of some of her ancestors, and presently is working to complete the story of her Puritan New England Taggart and Parks family ancestors. Much of her time is spent in documenting information and correcting many of the errors which are found on many of the sources available to researchers. Over the years these errors have been repeated and proliferated in many published books and histories. She has become strongly committed to the motto ‘No more Junk Genealogy.'
"Jeanette states that she has an unwavering testimony of the truthfulness of the Gospel as taught in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and she feels a deep gratitude for her staunch and honorable ancestry - for their sterling examples of service, sacrifice, loyalty, commitment, and integrity!
One of her favorite quotes (which she found in her family research) was in the History of Windham, New Hampshire, (a center of many of our Scots-Irish ancestors). It read ‘MEN DIE. EXAMPLES AND PRINCIPLES LIVE.' These six words pretty much sum up her philosophy of life." ‘It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.'
I think I got this from the Taggart Family Newsletter, Unknown date
Jeanette Taggart Holmes
Jeanette was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 3, 1923 the second of five children.
She attended Lafayette Grammar School which, at that time, was across the street from the present high rise office building of the LDS Church at the corner of State Street and North Temple. The school later became the Missionary Training Center for a few years.
The family moved to Price, Utah for a short time and later to Billings, Montana. The family lived in Billings for about six years where they were able to enjoy frequent family visits with their Taggart relatives in Cowley and Cody, Wyoming. "After the death of her father, the family returned to Salt Lake City where she attended high school, graduating a year early. She served as a student officer, as editor of the school newspaper, and as a member of the school debate team which won first place in the Utah State Debate Championships.
While attending school, she worked at a variety of different jobs. After high school, she attended the University of Utah. She was awarded three separate scholarships at high school graduation - one in debate, one in journalism, and the third for being selected as the outstanding high school graduate in the Salt Lake County high schools.
"In June 1943, she married her high school-college sweetheart Gordon Holmes, and they moved to Palo Alto, California where he attended Stanford Medical School. She took a job at the medical school and, in addition, worked as a volunteer for the Red Cross. (This was during World War II.) After medical school graduation, they moved to Sacramento, California where he served as a flight surgeon in the Air Force at both Mather Field and at McClellan Field.
At the end of the war, they returned to San Francisco where he took a surgical residency at Stanford Medical School and she again took a job at the same school.
"It was at this time that the nations of the world met in world conference at San Francisco to establish the United Nations. Jeanette took the job as Secretary of Hospitality and Entertainment for the United Nations. This was truly a unique opportunity and was a most interesting and significant experience.
"Upon completion of Gordon's surgical residency, they moved to Berkeley, Ca., where he began his surgical practice. He had two sisters and two brothers living in the area. Two years later, they removed to Lafayette, California, a Berkeley suburb, where they lived for thirty-two years.
"Jeanette has five children, four sons and a daughter, and twelve grandchildren. "Jeanette served for ten years as a Cub Scout leader and four years as a Girl Scout leader. She served also as primary president, relief society president, young women's president, as a teacher, stake leader, activities chairman, and family history volunteer at the Oakland Family History Library. These positions were in addition to many fund-raising duties for ward building fund drives, welfare dinners, welfare farm assignments, ward and stake welfare canning assignments at the regional Church cannery and many community civic services.
"She also took a correspondence course in interior decorating from the New York School of Interior Design as well as many courses in genealogy and computer science. Today she is still going to school to improve her skills in computer genealogy and regularly attends classes and seminars in the area, including monthly meetings in Silicon Valley sponsored by the Silicon Valley Personal Ancestral File User Group.
"Her hobbies have been gardening, golf, tennis, skiing, knitting, quilting, genealogy, and travel. For the last twenty years, after her family activities, these hobbies have been gradually replaced by her almost total devotion to genealogy and family history research. She teaches genealogy classes, volunteers weekly at the Danville Stake Family History Library, and is a genealogy consultant in her ward, spending many hours helping others (members and many non-members) to do their own personal family searches.
"Her personal library is a testimony to the time and effort she has expended in her own family search. The shelves of binders in her bookcases record the over fifteen thousand ordinances which she submitted and which were cleared for temple work. These were in addition to the many more thousands which she submitted which were found to have been done or submitted by others.
"She has written three short overviews of some of her ancestors, and presently is working to complete the story of her Puritan New England Taggart and Parks family ancestors. Much of her time is spent in documenting information and correcting many of the errors which are found on many of the sources available to researchers. Over the years these errors have been repeated and proliferated in many published books and histories. She has become strongly committed to the motto ‘No more Junk Genealogy.'
"Jeanette states that she has an unwavering testimony of the truthfulness of the Gospel as taught in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and she feels a deep gratitude for her staunch and honorable ancestry - for their sterling examples of service, sacrifice, loyalty, commitment, and integrity!
One of her favorite quotes (which she found in her family research) was in the History of Windham, New Hampshire, (a center of many of our Scots-Irish ancestors). It read ‘MEN DIE. EXAMPLES AND PRINCIPLES LIVE.' These six words pretty much sum up her philosophy of life." ‘It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.'
I think I got this from the Taggart Family Newsletter, Unknown date
Jeanette was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 3, 1923 the second of five children.
She attended Lafayette Grammar School which, at that time, was across the street from the present high rise office building of the LDS Church at the corner of State Street and North Temple. The school later became the Missionary Training Center for a few years.
The family moved to Price, Utah for a short time and later to Billings, Montana. The family lived in Billings for about six years where they were able to enjoy frequent family visits with their Taggart relatives in Cowley and Cody, Wyoming. "After the death of her father, the family returned to Salt Lake City where she attended high school, graduating a year early. She served as a student officer, as editor of the school newspaper, and as a member of the school debate team which won first place in the Utah State Debate Championships.
While attending school, she worked at a variety of different jobs. After high school, she attended the University of Utah. She was awarded three separate scholarships at high school graduation - one in debate, one in journalism, and the third for being selected as the outstanding high school graduate in the Salt Lake County high schools.
"In June 1943, she married her high school-college sweetheart Gordon Holmes, and they moved to Palo Alto, California where he attended Stanford Medical School. She took a job at the medical school and, in addition, worked as a volunteer for the Red Cross. (This was during World War II.) After medical school graduation, they moved to Sacramento, California where he served as a flight surgeon in the Air Force at both Mather Field and at McClellan Field.
At the end of the war, they returned to San Francisco where he took a surgical residency at Stanford Medical School and she again took a job at the same school.
"It was at this time that the nations of the world met in world conference at San Francisco to establish the United Nations. Jeanette took the job as Secretary of Hospitality and Entertainment for the United Nations. This was truly a unique opportunity and was a most interesting and significant experience.
"Upon completion of Gordon's surgical residency, they moved to Berkeley, Ca., where he began his surgical practice. He had two sisters and two brothers living in the area. Two years later, they removed to Lafayette, California, a Berkeley suburb, where they lived for thirty-two years.
"Jeanette has five children, four sons and a daughter, and twelve grandchildren. "Jeanette served for ten years as a Cub Scout leader and four years as a Girl Scout leader. She served also as primary president, relief society president, young women's president, as a teacher, stake leader, activities chairman, and family history volunteer at the Oakland Family History Library. These positions were in addition to many fund-raising duties for ward building fund drives, welfare dinners, welfare farm assignments, ward and stake welfare canning assignments at the regional Church cannery and many community civic services.
"She also took a correspondence course in interior decorating from the New York School of Interior Design as well as many courses in genealogy and computer science. Today she is still going to school to improve her skills in computer genealogy and regularly attends classes and seminars in the area, including monthly meetings in Silicon Valley sponsored by the Silicon Valley Personal Ancestral File User Group.
"Her hobbies have been gardening, golf, tennis, skiing, knitting, quilting, genealogy, and travel. For the last twenty years, after her family activities, these hobbies have been gradually replaced by her almost total devotion to genealogy and family history research. She teaches genealogy classes, volunteers weekly at the Danville Stake Family History Library, and is a genealogy consultant in her ward, spending many hours helping others (members and many non-members) to do their own personal family searches.
"Her personal library is a testimony to the time and effort she has expended in her own family search. The shelves of binders in her bookcases record the over fifteen thousand ordinances which she submitted and which were cleared for temple work. These were in addition to the many more thousands which she submitted which were found to have been done or submitted by others.
"She has written three short overviews of some of her ancestors, and presently is working to complete the story of her Puritan New England Taggart and Parks family ancestors. Much of her time is spent in documenting information and correcting many of the errors which are found on many of the sources available to researchers. Over the years these errors have been repeated and proliferated in many published books and histories. She has become strongly committed to the motto ‘No more Junk Genealogy.'
"Jeanette states that she has an unwavering testimony of the truthfulness of the Gospel as taught in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and she feels a deep gratitude for her staunch and honorable ancestry - for their sterling examples of service, sacrifice, loyalty, commitment, and integrity!
One of her favorite quotes (which she found in her family research) was in the History of Windham, New Hampshire, (a center of many of our Scots-Irish ancestors). It read ‘MEN DIE. EXAMPLES AND PRINCIPLES LIVE.' These six words pretty much sum up her philosophy of life." ‘It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.'
I think I got this from the Taggart Family Newsletter, Unknown date
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