Cotopaxi Colony - my genealogy research tips and hints

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Frequently asked questions

My name is Jennifer Moore Lowe and I am the author of this site. I have an MBA degree and I have been doing genealogy research since I was 16 years old. These are the questions I am asked most often:

1. Are you Jewish? I am not Jewish. I do not descend from anyone at the Cotopaxi Colony. Nor does anyone in my family. However, I do love the Jewish people and I love Israel and travel there as often as I can.

2. Why do you research the Cotopaxi Colony? Our parents purchased the Texaco station in Cotopaxi in 1973. Dad died in 1992, but mom continued to live there until 2007. They are both buried in the Cotopaxi cemetery. I am interested in local history. I live about 35 miles east of Cotopaxi.

3. How did you get started doing this research? One of the Colony descendants asked me to complete his family tree. In that process, he would ask me questions about the Colonists and I did not have answers. I told him I would see what I could find out. That began sometime before 2005.

4. Will you write a book? Eventually. But it seems the more I find, the more questions it raises and the more research I need to do.

5. What can I do to get copies of your research? I will happily share what I have found with anyone who descends from the Colonists. For others, I am happy to assist them with their research, but the research I have completed will remain proprietary until it is published.

6. Where is the Cotopaxi Cemetery? First, I think it's important to know that the Jewish burials were the very first at Cotopaxi. The gentiles graves surround them. For about 125 years, the Jewish graves were unattended. My brother, Nelson Moore, and his family, set about to clean up the area, fence it in, add markers and headstones. He cared when no one else did.

Take Hwy 50 to Cotopaxi. Turn north, go over the bridge. Go past the school then turn left and follow the gravel road up behind the school. There's an open gate and you can drive right in. You will see the fence and the Menorah on your left.

7. How do I read this blog? Many people read the most recent post first and that's fine. But if you want to read it in the order it was written, go below to the "Blog Archive" and start with February, 2016. Or you can go to the section "Critical Documents" below and that is in date order. I think it's important to read everything in order to get a feel for the entire story.

8. Is more information available?

The Cotopaxi KehilaLinks site at Jewishgen

The Cotopaxi-Colony website

The Essential Documents

This is a list of what I consider to be the essential documents concerning the Cotopaxi Colony. All of these documents were referenced in Flora Satt's 1950 Thesis on Cotopaxi. No "new" discoveries here....just posting the docutments in full so we have access to them. As I post blogs with new documents, I will add them to this list in date order. You can then click on the link and read each blog.

July 1, 1844 Saltiel’s father - bigamy case

July 1, 1844 Saltiel’s father - bigamy case - part 2 - Saltiel raised in an Askhanezi home

1866 Saltiel at Ft Laramie, dishonorable discharge from Union Army.

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June 29, 1882 To HEAS from Julius Schwarz. The first report we have on the Colony

July, 1882 Cotopaxi had an Ark, a Torah and a Synagogue

Oct 6, 1882 Morris Tuska report from his 7/30/1882 visit to Cotopaxi

Oct 27, 1882 Saltiel’s response to Tuska’s report

Oct 27, 1882 A longer reply from Saltiel to the American Hebrew

Oct 23, 1882 Schwarz Report Part 1

Oct 23, 1882 Schwarz Report Part 2

Oct 23, 1882 Schwarz Report Part 3