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Ancestry of Jodie Foster (born 1962)

Biography and ancestry of Jodie Foster, actress, director and producer.

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1 Jodie Foster

Lucius Fisher Foster III, an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, already had three children by a previous wife, when he met Evelyn Ella "Brandy" Almond and married her impetuously in Tijuana, Mexico after a New Year's celebration in 1954. It was also Brandy's second marriage. The marriage however was rocky and after three children, Brandy filed papers for divorce 3 Aug 1959 in Los Angeles Superior Court. ("Foster Child", p5 wj). Lucius did not respond to the papers, and so the divorce was finalized two years later. Lucius and Brandy had been divorced for some time before Jodie was born. Her brother Buddy explains Jodie's conception as the result of a brief re-encounter between their parents some time after the divorce. Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster was born 19 Nov 1962 in Los Angeles County, California, the youngest daughter of four children. At Jodie's delivery, Aunt Jo, Brandy's lover according to Buddy Foster's book, went into the delivery room with Brandy for a 36-hour labor. The umbilical cord was wrapped around Jodie's neck. Brandy stayed in the hospital for a week. (Foster Child, p12 wj) Jodie's mother supported the family by doing public relations work for a film producer ("What's Driving Miss Foster?" by Michael Segell. Redbook, Nov 1991). Both Jodie's parents later briefly married other people.

Jodie's brother Lucius "Buddy" Foster was a child-star, most well-known in his television roles as "Johnny Dow" in 17 episodes of "Hondo" in 1967; and as "Mike Jones" in 29 episodes of Mayberry, R.F.D. from 1968 to 1971, opposite his "father" Ken Berry. Buddy would later write an autobiography in which among other things, he complains that their mother devoted her attention to Jodie, at his expense, and that is why his career ended too early. The book caused an estrangement between Buddy and Jodie. They have two older sisters, but whether they communicate with Buddy, is not known to me.

Although [Jodie] Foster's first acting appearance was at three years old, her first significant role came in 1976 as an underage prostitute in Taxi Driver, receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. After becoming a star, Jodie attended school at the prestigious Lycee Francais. Jodie received unwanted attention when in 1981 John Hinckley, who had developed a fixation on her, attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan to try to impress her.

Jodie Foster won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1988 for playing a rape survivor in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling, a gifted FBI trainee, assisting in a hunt for a serial killer. This performance received international acclaim and her second Oscar for Best Actress." ("Jodie Foster", permanent-link to archived version on Wikipedia)

She met her long-term partner Cydney Bernard (b. 1953) in 1993/4 on the set of the film "Sommersby". They lived together for 14 or 15 years. After long speculation about her sexuality, Jodie finally came out Dec 2007. Jodie has two sons, but has deflected questions about who their father(s) might be.

In 1997, her brother Buddy Foster, wrote a book ''Foster Child'', which purports to be a biography of Jodie Foster, but has been called a biography of the entire Foster family. The book discusses many events growing up in his family. He paints his mother in a villainous way, especially stating that she spent all his career earnings, and that when Jodie became a star, the rest of the family suffered some neglect. This was evidently why his budding career ended prematurely.

Jodie and Cydney split up and Jodie began seeing another woman, I believe slightly younger than herself.

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2 Lucius Fisher Foster III

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Front page of Lucius' website
Modernisticproperties.com
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Lucius Fisher Foster III was born 16 Apr 1922 ("Foster Child", p22 wj) in Colorado (possibly in Denver), the son of Lucius Foster and his wife Constance Richardson. This entry in the Ancestry World Tree claims his parents married in Denver. His mother remarried in 1928/9 to Leslie B Irwin, an investment securities salesman. Robert Battle states that Leslie's middle name was "Bessel". An article in the magazine ''She Australia'' excepted here states that "Lt Col Lucius Fisher Foster III, [was] a former Battle of Britain fighter (this battle fought 10 July 1940 - 31 October 1940), and one of the most highly decorated fliers in the US airforce." This last fact is doubtful and needs firm evidence. Such an event would have been widely published and I'm just not finding that. Jodie Foster is quoted in that article stating that she has only met her father about three times. I was able to confirm that Lucius was a Lieutenant in the U.S. 8th Air Force in 1943 and a Captain in 1945.

His son Lucius Fisher "Buddy" Foster IV reports in his book "Foster Child" that Lucius first went to New York University in Greenwich Village, but once WWII had started, he got the patriotic spirit. Since the U.S. was not yet committed to the fight, he went to Canada and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. Later he was commissioned in the U.S. Army 8th Air Force. ("Foster Child", p27 wj)

Site reader, Peter Randall a historian of the U.S. 8th Air Force tells me : "I do though have a note of Foster being a member of number 133 "Eagle" Squadron RAF but he does not appear on the rosters. He did however become a member of the 336th Fighter Squadron, USAAF on 29 September 1942 and that is the date on which the three "Eagle" Squadrons of American volunteers in the RAF became the 4th Fighter Group. Numbers 71, 131 and 133 Eagle Squadrons becoming respectively numbers 334, 335 and 336 Fighter Squadrons of the 4th FG. I can only assume that he was a "late arrival" in 133 and therefore not on their roster but on the roster of 336 FS.

"On entry into the AAF, he received the service number O-885245 which should enable you to trace subsequent service details. Foster flew his first mission with 4th FG on 29 April 1943 which was also the first operational mission of the 336th FS. In total he was credited with 22 sorties with 336 FS of which 2 were weather reconnaissance flights, one as a "spare", meaning that he was available to fill in for any early returner (unused spares usually returned when the enemy coast was reached) and five of the 22 were "early returns" due to engine or other mechanical problems. He flew his last operational mission on 6 July 1943 and rotated home to the ZI in August 1943. I have him as still being a 2/Lt. when he left the 4th FG."

In 1946, "Lucius Fisher Foster" is shown in the Voter's Registration living at the same Los Angeles address as his mother Constance. In October 1952, Lucius was living in Boise, Idaho since he gave this as his home address when he was then returning from Manila. This might have been where he was living, when this article states that Lucius "...already had three kids from a previous marriage. In 1954, he met a pretty young woman named Evelyn Ella "Brandy" Almond at a fencing club and married her impetuously during a trip to Tijuana, Mexico." It would certainly be interesting if someone could track down these half-siblings of Jodie Foster. Maybe they grew up in Boise ? This article from the Oakland Tribune dated 1976 states that "...when I married Lucius Foster, he'd already had three sons by his first wife." On his own website at modernisticproperties.com Lucius states that he left the Air Force in 1954.

Following their marriage Lucius and Brandy lived in Los Angeles since their four children were all born in that county, the youngest of whom was the actress Jodie Foster. "The first house I remember [living in with dad] was the one at the top of Fairfax Drive... 1930s Spanish mission-style....The street was a cul-de-sac." (Foster Child, p8 wj) "Dad was a philanderer." Once Brandy and "the other woman" got into a cat-fight. That woman ended up as Lucius' third wife. (Foster Child, p9 wj)

Lucius' mother Constance died 25 Oct 1955 in Los Angeles County as "Mrs Constance Gerst". She was killed when a cigarette caused a blaze on the second floor of her mansion. After her death, which "destroyed her $150, 000 home", the "Los Angeles Times" reports that her son and her [then] husband were fighting over her estimated $500, 000 estate.

Buddy Foster states that Brandy filed divorce papers 3 Aug 1959 in Los Angeles Superior Court stating that they had been separated since 28 Jul of that year. The divorce was bitter, and at one point, Lucius kidnapped the children and enrolled them in school. Brandy found out where they were and went and got them. (Foster Child, p10-11 wj) Lucius refused to respond to the divorce papers, so the divorce was finalized two years later. Brandy was awarded one hundred dollars per child. Buddy states that Jodie was conceived when their mother went to Lucius to plead for child-support money. Buddy alleges that Lucius demanded sex for the payment and that is how Jodie was conceived in 1962. (Foster Child, p11 wj) Lucius was evidently an attorney in 1960 when he was "representing owners of three lots" in a Van Nuys land-use case.

Lucius and Brandy's four children, all born in Los Angeles County are:
  1. Lucinda Courtney "Cindy" Foster born 26 Oct 1954
  2. Constance Elizabeth "Connie" Foster born 30 Oct 1955
  3. Lucius F "Buddy" Foster born 12 Jul 1957
  4. Alicia C "Jodie" Foster born 19 Nov 1962

When Brandy was five months pregnant with Jodie "Dad was back, and he was obviously furious." He smashed the door lock, burst in, Brandy was yelling and throwing things at him and demanding he leave. Just then a woman with only a white towel wrapped around her emerged from my mother's bedroom. Close-cropped hair and dark skin, in her right hand was a gun. "Josephine Dominguez Hill or Aunt Jo... moved into our home that same day, bringing her son Chris two years younger than me.... Aunt Jo was my mother's lover and had been for several years" (Foster Child, p7 wj) "Jo was an inspector in the aviation industry." (Foster Child, p8 wj)

Cindy and Constance apparently never broke into television and film, their mother describes them as shy, but a newspaper account written at the time of Buddy's first television appearances states that his sisters are "...fashion models". At any rate, it is Lucius Fisher "Buddy" Foster IV who first became a child-star. He first appeared in commercials, then he was in a 23 Jan 1967 "Petticoat Junction". But he is most well-known in his television roles as "Johnny Dow" in 17 episodes of "Hondo" in 1967-68; and as "Mike Jones" in 29 episodes of Mayberry, R.F.D. from 1968 to 1971, opposite his "father" Ken Berry. Some people would confuse Buddy here with Ron Howard who had played Andy Griffith's son in the earlier "The Andy Griffith Show" which ran until 1968.
Buddy Foster in 1968

Buddy would later write an autobiography in which he complains that their mother devoted her attention to Jodie, at his expense, and that is why his career ended. Buddy and Jodie are estranged. She describing his book as "... a desperate cry for help." The first mentions of Jodie Foster in the newspaper, constantly describe her as the "...sister of Buddy Foster". Meanwhile in 1967 Lucius married a Patricia Brennan, but then they divorced several months later.

In Nov 1968, Buddy mentioned as the "child star of the CBS television series, 'Mayberry, R.F.D'" was selected to be the grand marshal of the Hayward [California] christmas parade. In that article the "Argus" of Fremont describes Brandy as a "former singer". "Last year Buddy was a star in the TV series 'Hondo'". Watch Buddy as "Mike" in this 1969 segment from Mayberry R.F.D. on YouTube.
Buddy Foster in 1967


In 1969, this article describes Lucius as an attorney, and "Brandy Almond" as a singer. However, on his own website, Lucius only states that since 1954, he has been licensed as a Real Estate Broker. A site reader informs me that Lucius married a woman named Pat by 1971, or within the period 1971-74, and they lived in the Hollywood Hills. Pat, this reader states was insanely jealous of Lucius' children. They divorced. This site reader also informs me that Lucius told him that Brandy was a lesbian, and was living with a partner in 1971. Lucius later married Madeleine Lee, a design student of Chinese ancestry, 26 years his junior. In a 1994 interview printed in the "Philadelphia Inquirer", Lucius said that he was now reconciled with his daughter Jodie.

When Buddy Foster's book on his sister was released, ''Entertainment Weekly'' did a review dated 1997, in part stating that Lucius was then living, aged 75. Lucius was apparently yet living as late as 2003, when his name appears online in a few comments that he evidently posted to various forums. His own site modernisticproperties.com evidently declares that he is yet living in 2006. This post from Apr 2010 would appear as well, to actually be Lucius Foster.

In his book, Buddy shows a picture of Lucius around the same he met Brandy, and then several more over the years, with a final picture when Lucius was perhaps around seventy.

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  • "Foster Child:A Biography of Jodie Foster", by [her brother] Buddy Foster with Leon Wagener ISBN 0525941436 (WorldCat entry so you can find it in a library). Dutton, 1997. 278 pp with a dedication "In memory of Josephine Dominguez Hill"
  • 1930 Census of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California showing : "Leslie B Irvin 30, married first at 29, IL/IL/IL, Salesman, Investment Securities; Constance R Irvin 27, married first at 17, TN/TN/VA; Courteney Foster, step-daughter, 8, CO; Lucius F Foster Jr 7 stepson CO"
  • 8th Air Force Fighter Group : "41-6186 P-47C 334 QP- Crash-landed 29 Jan 1943 - Lt. Lucius F Foster (336 FS)"
  • ''New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957'' showing : "Restricted Personnel Roster, ''Aquitania'', 4 Oct 1945, For Reception Station Fort McArthur, California. Lucius F Foster III, Capt, 532 S Arden Blvd, Los Angeles, Calif." While a footnote on this document states : "Capt Lucius F Foster... AC is designated Officer in charge and Custodian of Records for Reception Sta Gp RE 6047-A-20, from present station until relieved by competent auth in the U.S." Turning to page one of this roster we see here that they were sailing out of Southampton, England leaving 28 Sep 1945
  • California Voter Registrations 1900-1968:
  • California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1893-1957 showing :"on the General Charles Gould Morton (ship), departing Manila, Philippines, and arrival at San Francisco, 4 Oct 1952, Lucius F Foster of Boise Idaho, born abt 1922"
  • California Birth Index 1905-95 showing for father Foster, and mother Almond : "Lucinda Courtney Foster born 26 Oct 1954, Constance Elizabeth Foster born 30 Oct 1955, Lucius F Foster born 12 Jul 1957, Alicia C Foster born 19 Nov 1962." All born in Los Angeles County.
  • "Owners of 4 Lots Protest City Bid to Change Zoning", ''Valley News'' (Van Nuys, CA), 29 Nov 29 1960 : "Lucius Foster, representing owners of three of the lots, argued multiple dwellings would be the best usage for the property:
    • "We have seen the drift of industry to the West Valley, employing a large amount of electronics personnel. It is hard for many of these people to maintain their own homes since many only stay here for three to five years. Homes are expensive in this area - the Woodland Hills foreclosure rate is the fifth highest in Southern California. We would suffer a considerable loss of this property if it should be rezoned to R-1. It is close to the freeway and well suited for apartment development."

3 Evelyn Ella Almond

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Evelyn Ella "Brandy" Almond was born about 1927/8 ("age 41" Aug 1969). Buddy Foster, in his book states here: "My mother was born Evelyn Della Almond on 21 Sep 1928 in the Bronx. Soon after her birth, she was taken from her mother forever and brought to Rockford Illinois, where she was raised by Lucy Lefler Almond". He further states here that: "Our biological maternal grandmother was a tragic figure named Josie Almond. She was born in Rockford, Illinois..." Josie had an affair with a much older man, and got pregnant. Lucy Lefler Almond was married to John L Almond Jr a cousin of Josie's.

Here the ''International Who's Who of Women'' calls Jodie's mother "Eileen". An article in ''Rolling Stone'' states that Brandy was "...Born in the Bronx to a strict German family, [and] raised in Rockford, Illinois." Jodie Foster, in that same article, speaking of her mother states: "She's an only child, and she doesn't like to be around people that much."

A site reader tells me that Brandy went to Roosevelt Junior High School in Rockford. Buddy states that she graduated from that school in 1942 and was then enrolled, against her will, in the St Mary's Academy in Milwaukee. While there, she learned that her biological mother Josie "...never having recovered from the anguish of giving up her love child, had grown hugely obese, a situation compounded by an untreatable thyroid condition. Miserable, Josie committed suicide." (Foster Child, p20 wj) After graduating from St Marys, Brandy went to Chicago "where she sang in numerous jazz clubs, achieving a modest success. There she fell in love with, and married a young navy man, also from Rockford." (Foster Child, p20 wj)

A site reader tells me that Evelyn Della Almond married Raymond Francis Mazur on 19 Nov 1945 at the Catholic church in Rockford. There was one of this name living in the 1930 census in Rockford, son of John and Anna, and then aged 9". Perhaps he is that same one who then married in 1955 to Wanda Wolfe in Cook County, Illinois. In 1976 this article in the Oakland Tribune states that Brandy was born in the Bronx, reared in Rockford, and then graduated from St Mary's Academy in Milwaukee. Following her divorce from her first husband, "...she and a girlfriend Gloria Cannon, motored out to Los Angeles in the 1950s". She got a job in LA working for Bell Telephone in the Yellow Pages division.

Sometime before 1952, she moved to the Los Angeles area, where she met Lucius Foster. This article states that Lucius "...already had three kids from a previous marriage. In 1954, he met a pretty young woman named Evelyn "Brandy" Almond at a fencing club and married her impetuously during a trip to Tijuana, Mexico." Buddy adds that they were married by a Justice of the Peace. However this article (dated 1976) states that they married in Las Vegas in 1953, evidently confusing Brandy's second and third marriage. "The first house I remember [living in with dad] was the one at the top of Fairfax Drive... 1930s Spanish mission-style....The street was a cul-de-sac." (Foster Child, p8 wj) "Dad was a philanderer." Once Brandy and "the other woman" got into a cat-fight. That woman ended up as Lucius' third wife. (Foster Child, p9 wj)

Lucius and Brandy's four children, all born in Los Angeles County are:
  1. Lucinda Courtney "Cindy" Foster born 26 Oct 1954
  2. Constance Elizabeth "Connie" Foster born 30 Oct 1955
  3. Lucius F "Buddy" Foster born 12 Jul 1957
  4. Alicia C "Jodie" Foster born 19 Nov 1962

Buddy Foster states that Brandy filed divorce papers 3 Aug 1959 in Los Angeles Superior Court stating that they had been separated since 28 Jul of that year. "I was four months pregnant with Jodie when we divorced in 1962", she says. They had four children, all born in Los Angeles County, the oldest being Lucinda Courtney Foster born 26 Oct 1954, and the youngest being the actress Jodie Foster. The divorce was bitter, and at one point, Lucius kidnapped the children and enrolled them in school. Brandy found out where they were and went and got them. (Foster Child, p10-11 wj) Lucius refused to respond to the divorce papers, so the divorce was finalized two years later.

After the divorce, Brandy and the children moved to the upper floor of a duplex on Hamel Street. (Foster Child, p 11 wj) When Brandy was five months pregnant with Jodie "Dad was back, and he was obviously furious." He smashed the door lock, burst in, Brandy was yelling and throwing things at him and demanding he leave. Just then a woman with only a white towel wrapped around her emerged from my mother's bedroom. Close-cropped hair and dark skin, in her right hand was a gun. "Josephine Dominguez Hill or Aunt Jo... moved into our home that same day, bringing her son Chris two years younger than me.... Aunt Jo was my mother's lover and had been for several years" (Foster Child, p7 wj) "Jo was an inspector in the aviation industry." (Foster Child, p8 wj) At Jodie's delivery, Aunt Jo went into the delivery room with Brandy for a 36-hour labor. The umbilical cord was wrapped around Jodies neck. Brandy stayed in the hospital for a week. (Foster Child, p12 wj)

Josephine Dominguez had been born in Phoenix, Arizona on 9 Oct 1930, shortly afterward her family moved to Los Angeles. She graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1948 and enlisted in the Women's Army Corps. At some point before 1960 she married a Mr Hill and had a son Chris about 1959, whom Buddy describes as "two years younger than me". Jo also had a sister named Georgia. (Foster Child, p29, p43 wj) This exact birthdate allows me to find her here in the California Death Index : "Josephine D Hill, born 9 Oct 1930 Arizona, died 31 May 1984 Los Angeles [County], father's name Dominguez, mother's name Santamaria"

"About six months after Jodie was born, we moved out of the cramped duplex on Hamel Road.... Our new home was Aunt Jo's brand-new tract house in the Granada Hills section of the San Fernando Valley." (Foster Child, p33 wj) Brandy herself in that article in the Oakland Tribune states that after her divorce from Lucius, she had a friend "...Josephine Hill. She had a large house and let us all move in with her."

Buddy's book "Foster Child" is now on Google Books in snippet form where this search shows us that he calls this lady "Josephine Dominguez Hill or Aunt Jo.. moved into our home bringing her son Chris..." And here he states: "Aunt Jo was born 9 Oct 1930 in Tucson, Arizona..."

Buddy, had a friend who had appeared on television, and Buddy decided that he also wanted to be an actor. An agent was lined up, and he started appearing in advertisements. Once the money began coming in, Brandy and the children moved out, and into a place by the ocean in Newport Beach. "Jo and Chris did not move with us." (Foster Child, p49 wj) At this time Jodie was four years old.

From 1966 to 1969 Evelyn was married to "Billy R Bransom". In 1967, Buddy landed a recurring role on "Hondo" where he appeared in 17 episodes. This was followed the next year, by his most well-known role on "Mayberry, R.F.D." In 1969, this article describes Lucius as an attorney, and "Brandy Almond" as a singer. An article about Buddy here, describes his mother as "Brandy Almond singer". Jodie's mother supported the family by doing public relations work for a film producer ("What's Driving Miss Foster?" by Michael Segell. Redbook, Nov 1991). There is a Billy Ray Bransom who was born in Texas in 1933 according to this birth entry, had three sons there with a woman named Joyce Sue Record from 1955 to 1958. Could he be this one who married Evelyn? If so, the knowledge that he had three sons, may discount the statement that Lucius, her prior husband, had had three sons. It's just possible that the sources are confused on this point.

At some point after 1965, the family moved to a new house on Cahuenga Terrace in the Hollywood Hills, I wonder if this is related to her marriage to Billy Bransom? In 1969, Brandy announces she is planning to marry a handsome rugged studio technician on the Mayberry set named Frank Miller. They went to Las Vegas but later called to say the wedding was off (Foster Child, p71 wj) Apparently Aunt Jo's sister Georgia or Georgina, knew a close friend of Frank's and let it blurt out that she thought that Brandy and Jo were still an item. (Foster Child, p72 wj) A site reader tells me that in 1971, Lucius told him that Brandy was a lesbian and was then living with a lover. So there must be another woman I haven't found out about yet. In 1976, an article states that Evelyn had been dating a Jacques Gabay of Toulouse, France and may soon marry him. Josephine Hill died in 1984 from an excruciating form of cancer, but Buddy states that Brandy withheld that from her children for two years, because she felt betrayed by Jo. (Foster Child, p73 wj) Evelyn was yet living as late as 2003 when she appeared with Jodie in a photograph.

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4 Lucius Fisher Foster II

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Lucius Fisher Foster II was born 30 Oct 1898 in Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado to Alexis C Foster, a native of Tennessee and his wife Alice from Illinois. "In the Spring of 1917, Lucius F Foster of Denver, Colo., my roommate, and I ran away from Hotchkiss school to enlist in the Navy at Newport, R.I. However, my father, Dr W L Culbert... brought us back...." (Source) It's possible that he is that same Lucius F Foster who is listed here as "Chief Q M [quarter-master], U S Navy, Denver". About 1920 or 1921, possibly in Denver, he married Constance Marie Robertson, a native of Tennessee, whose family had moved to Denver about 1909.

By 1926, Lucius and Constance had moved to Chicago. They had two children Courteney and Lucius, but they divorced. In Apr 1928 Constance filed in Circuit court charging desertion. (Source) In Dec 1928 he is being called a "paper manufacturer of local prominence". (Source) Another article calls him "western manager of the Union Bag and Paper company." In the 1930 census, while Constance appears in the Los Angeles census in 1930 re-married, with her children listed as her new husband's step-children; Lucius appears with a new wife and a 10-month-old baby, living in Richmond, Virginia.

Lucius moved to the New York area where a "Lucius F Foster" is listed as a real estate agent. When his father Alexis died in 1945, Lucius was listed surviving him, and then a member of the WPB in Washington. He is called Director of the Orders and Regulations Bureau here in 1945. He is surely that same Lucius Foster who then, in 1946, became deputy director of the CPA's bureau of reconversion priorities. In 1947 I find him listed here as the Director Order Clearance Division, with legal residence in Florida. He is surely that same Lucius F Foster who was director of the Cigarette Manufacturer's Association in 1948. A few years later he is again cited, which the group now being called the MCMA. In 1951 he is called "of Guild associates". And the associate director of the CMAM in 1952. In 1956 he is the executive director of the Massachusetts Music Operators Association. In 1959 as the executive director of the Western Wood Heel Manufacturers Association.

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  • 1900 Census of Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado showing : "Alexis C Foster, Head, Apr 1868, 32, married two years TN/TN/TN, Merchant of Credit - Dry Goods, Rents home; Alice F, wife, Apr 1874, 26, married 2 years, mother of 1, 1 living, IL/WI/NY; Lucius F, son, Oct 1898, CO/TN/IL; Claudine Plagman, servant, May 1867, 33, IA/Germany/Germany"
  • ''New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957'' showing, arriving on the S S Belgenland, from Boulognes, leaving 12 June 1926, arriving at New York 20 Jun 1926, Lucius Foster, 28, born Denver, Col 30 Oct 1898, resident of 343 S Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL and Constance Marie Foster, 25, born at Paris, Tennessee 28 Aug 1900, resident of 343 S Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL
  • 1930 Census of Richmond, Virginia showing : "Lucius F Foster, head, MW, 31, married first at 29, CO/TN/IL, Sales Manager, Retail Paper Corp; Beatrice, wife, 21, married first at 19, IL/IL/IN; Beatrice R, daughter, 10/12, WA/CO/IL; May Conyer, servant, FW, 20, single, Scotland/Scotland/Scotland, maid"

5 Constance Marie Robertson

Mrs Constance Foster in 1928

Constance Marie Robertson was born 28 Aug 1900 at Paris, Tennessee, the daughter of Samuel Richard Robertson and his wife Martha Elizabeth Hughes. By about 1909, the family had moved to Denver, Colorado, where they appear in the 1910 Census and where her father was admitted to the bar in 1913. About 1919/21 she married Lucius Foster, probably in Denver, and they had two surviving children: Courtenay and Lucius Jr both born in Colorado. They were probably married by the time of the 1920 census, as she does not appear that year in the household of her parents in Denver. By 1926, she and Lucius are living in Chicago. Lucius and she divorced. In Apr 1928 Constance filed in Circuit court charging desertion. (Source) As "Mrs Connie Foster", she next married W Clark Richards in May 1928. About 1928/9 she remarried to Leslie B Irvin (1901-78) as his first wife. Leslie was an investment security salesman, born in Illinois. The family appears in the 1930 census in Los Angeles, California.

Constance and Leslie were divorced by 1936 when he appears as "single" on a ship manifest. Constance married lastly to Louis Gerst. After her death, Louis states that he was "the man whom she held out as her husband for a period of sixteen years". I take this to mean either that they were married in 1939, or at least moved-in together that year. Louis Gerst appears living with her in the 1952 Voter Registration Rolls. She appears as "Mrs Constance Gerst, but her husband if he is living with her, is not registered in the Voter's Registration in 1944 living at 532 S Arden Blvd. Note that this is the same address used above by her son Lucius in 1946. By 1952 she is appearing at 805 S Windsor Blvd with Louis Gerst at the same address. A Louis Gerst born 1894 NY, died 1959 Los Angeles appear in the California Death Index, which is possibly him. The "Los Angeles Times" calls him a "clothing manufacturer".

Constance died 25 Oct 1955 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County as "Mrs Constance Gerst". She was killed when a cigarette caused a blaze on the second floor of her mansion. After her death, which "destroyed her $150, 000 home", the "Los Angeles Times" reports that her son and her [then] husband were fighting over her estimated $500, 000 estate. She had purportedly left a will leaving "Everything ... to Michael and Ming Toy and other grandchildren I may have." Louis Gerst went to court to fight that will claiming it was not legitimate, that fight prompted this court decision.

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  • 1910 Census of Denver, Denver County, Colorado showing : "Samuel R Richardson, 32, married first time, 10 years ago, TN/KY/TN, Broker, Real Estate, owns home; Elizabeth H 28, married first time, 10 years ago, MS/TN/MS; Marie C 9 TN; Louanna H 7 TN; Samuel R 5 TN"
  • ''World War I Draft Registration Cards'' showing : "Leslie Bessell Irvin, 2 Mar 1900, Student at the University of Minnesota, Father: George [?] R Irvin of St Paul, registered at St Paul, Rumsey County, Minnesota, 12 Sep 1918"
  • ''New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957'' showing, arriving on the S S Belgenland, from Boulognes, leaving 12 June 1926, arriving at New York 20 Jun 1926, Lucius Foster, 28, born Denver, Col 30 Oct 1898, resident of 343 S Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL and Constance Marie Foster, 25, born at Paris, Tennessee 28 Aug 1900, resident of 343 S Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL
  • ''Border Crossings from Canada to US, 1895-1956'', British Columbia manifest, Dec 1936, R.M.M.S. ''Aorangi'', sailing from Honolulu, Dec 18, 1936, arriving at Victoria, BC, Dec 25, 1936, Leslie B Irvin, 36, Male, Single, born Macomb, IL, 2 Mar 1900, residence 160 S Gramercy Place, Los Angeles, CA"
    • "Los Angeles City, 1944, Mrs Constance Gerst, 532 S Arden Blvd, manufacturer, D[emocrat]"
    • "Los Angeles City, 1946, Mrs Constance Gerst, 532 S Arden Blvd, D[emocrat]"
    • "Los Angeles City, 1948, Mrs Constance Gerst, 532 S Arden Blvd, D[emocrat]"
    • "Los Angeles City, 1952, Mrs Constance R Gerst, 805 S Windsor Blvd, R[epublican]; also same address Louis Gerst, R[epublican]"
  • California Death Index, 1940-97 showing : "Constance Gerst, born 28 Aug 1901 TN, died 25 Oct 1955 Los Angeles County, CA. Father Hughes, Mother Robertson"
  • Long Beach "Press Telegram", 26 Oct 1955, "Rich Man's Wife Dies in Blaze at Mansion"

6 Mr Unknown

I do not yet know the name of Evelyn "Brandy" Almond's father. She had a secret lover, a much older successful Wall Street broker of German extraction. She got pregnant. (Foster Child, p17 wj) Evelyn was born about 1927/8 in the Bronx, and raised in Rockford, Illinois. Brandy is called an "only child" by her daughter Jodie in an interview. A site reader informs me that the family had something to do with a company called Almond Shipping out of Rockford.

7 Josie Almond

Josie Almond was born in Rockford, Illinois, but her family later moved to Brooklyn, New York by 1928. She had a secret lover, a much older successful Wall Street broker of German extraction. She got pregnant. (Foster Child, p17 wj) Soon after the birth of her child, it was taken from her forever, they would never see each other again. "The child was brought to Rockford to be raised by Lucy Lefler Almond and her husband John L Almond Jr, a postman who was a cousin." (Foster Child, p17 wj) Lucy Lefler has been born in Rockford 19 Mar 1896. (see John and Lucy in the 1920 census of Rockford, both age 22) John started having an affair with Helen a pretty neighbor. "Other branches of the Almond family took in Lucy and Mom until Lucy was able to get a job working for the Barber Coleman Company... she met Charles Schmidt... he became her second husband... [he died] in 1962." (Foster Child, p18 wj)

A site reader tells me that Brandy went to Roosevelt Junior High School in Rockford. Buddy states that she graduated from that school in 1942 and was then enrolled, against her will, in the St Mary's Academy in Milwaukee. While there, she learned that her biological mother Josie "...never having recovered from the anguish of giving up her love child, had grown hugely obese, a situation compounded by an untreatable thyroid condition. Miserable, Josie committed suicide." (Foster Child, p20 wj)


8 Alexis Caldwell Foster

Alexis C Foster was born 25 Jul 1867, in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, the son of Turner J Foster. His obituary states that "as a young man" he moved to Denver, and he was certainly there in 1895 when he appears in a directory that year as the manager of the credit department of Daniels & Fisher. In 1898, possibly in Denver, he married Alice Eddy Fisher, a native of Illinois. Possibly she was the boss' daughter? They appear in the 1900 Census in Denver where Alexis is a "Merchant of Credit".

By 1902, Alexis was cashier at the Daniels Bank. In 1920 he was elected President of the Bankers Trust Company of Denver. In 1917, he lists his occupation as "Investment Banking", and in 1924 as "banking". The next year, listing his address as the "U.S. National Bank of Denver". His obituary states that he became Vice-President of this bank, but does not specify the year.

In 1928 he lists his address as "44 Wall Street, New York". Around this time, he and Alice moved to Ossining, New York in tony Westchester County, where they are listed in the 1930 census, with a house then worth $200, 000, and his occupation as "Proprietor Investment Bank". Since this was 1930, that house must have been effectively a palace.

In 1936, he is listed living in Scarsdale. Alexis Caldwell Foster died in 30 Apr 1945 at the Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, New York, but while a resident of Scarsdale, per his obituary published in the ''New York Times''. His obituary describes him as a "Senior executive" of the Calvin Bullock banking firm, which he had joined in 1930.

Primary Sources for 8
  • ''Ballenger & Richards Denver City Directory''
    • ''for the year 1902'' (page 41) : "The Daniels Bank; William Cooke Daniels, President; William C Weaver, Vice-President; Alexis C Foster, Cashier. 1119 Sixteenth Street"
    • (page 419) : "Alexis C Foster (large type), cashier The Daniels Bank, 1119 16th, r 1405 Downing av."
  • 1900 Census of Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado showing : "Alexis C Foster, Head, Apr 1868, 32, married two years TN/TN/TN, Merchant of Credit - Dry Goods, Rents home; Alice F, wife, Apr 1874, 26, married 2 years, mother of 1, 1 living, IL/WI/NY; Lucius F, son, Oct 1898, CO/TN/IL; Claudine Plagman, servant, May 1867, 33, IA/Germany/Germany"
  • 1910 Census of Denver, Denver County, Colorado showing : "Alexis C Foster, head, 42, married first time, 12 years ago, TN/AL/TN, banking, bank, owns home; Alice F, wife, 34, married first time, 12 years ago, mother of 4, 3 living, IL/WI/NY, no occupation; Lucius F, son 10, CO/TN/IL; Katherine L, daughter, 8 (or 3 ?), CO/TN/IL; Cynthia B, daughter, 2, CO/TN/IL; Sarah S Beatty, servant, 35, England/Ireland/Ireland, housemaid, private family; Mary S Craig, servant, 42, WI/Scotland/Ireland, nurse, private family"
    • Note: Living next door is John Foster, 49, TN a physician, probably brother of Alexis
  • ''US Passport Applications, 1795-1925'' showing : "Colorado, Denver County" stamped "5 Feb 1917", "Alexis Caldwell Foster, born at Nashville, Tennessee 25 Jul 1867, father Turner J Foster born at Franklin Tenn; resident of Denver, Colorado; occupation: Investment Banking", applying to visit the countries of "Panama, Jamaica, Cuba, for pleasure", intends to leave on the "Heredia, sailing from New Orleans, LA on 14 Feb 1917", signed "31 Jan 1917"
  • New Orleans Passenger Lists, 1820-1945 showing : "On the Atenas, sailing from Havana, 31 Mar 1917, arriving New Orleans 2 Apr 1917; Alexis Foster, 49 years 8 months, born 25 Jul 1867, Nashville, Tenn, resident of 738 Pearl Street, Denver; Alice Foster, 41 years 11 months, born 19 Apr 1875, Denver, resident of 738 Pearl Street, Denver"
  • ''New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957'' showing : "On the S S Arcadian, sailing from Bermuda 2 Jan 1924, arriving at New York 4 Jan 1924; Alexis Foster, 55, born 25 Jul 1867 Nashville, Tenn; Alice L Foster, 48, born 19 Apr 1875 Chicago, Ill; Katharine Foster, 17, born 12 Dec 1906 Denver Col; Cynthia Foster, 15, born 10 Apr 1908 Denver Col; Florence Whitehead, 15, born 10 May 1908 Denver Col; all living at 3800 So. University Ave., Denver Col"
  • ''US Passport Applications, 1795-1925'' showing : "Colorado, Denver County", stamped "8 May 1924", "Alexis Caldwell Foster, born Nashville, Tennessee, 25 Jul 1867, father Turner S Foster born in Franklin, Tennessee; I reside in Denver, occupation banking", applies to visit "England, France, for travel, leaving on the Franconia, 31 May 1924 from New York"
  • ''New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957'' showing : "On the S S Leviathan, sailing from Southampton, 5 Aug 1924, arriving at New York, 12 Aug 1924, Alexis C Foster, 57, married, born Nashville, Tenn, 21 Jul 1867, Address: U S National Bank Denver Colo"
  • ''New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957'' showing : "On the S S Homeric, sailing from Cherbourg, 3 Aug 1928, arriving at New York, 15 Aug 1928, Alexis Foster, 61, born 25 Jul 1867, Nashville, Tenn; Alice Foster, born 19 Apr 1877 Chicago Ill; of 44 Wall Street, New York"
  • ''New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957'' showing : "On the S S Majestic, sailing from Southampton 3 Feb 1936, arriving at New York 19 Feb 1936, Alexis C Foster, born 25 Jul 1867 Nashville Tenn, of 14 Cartasen Road, Scarsdale, NY"
  • ''New York Times'', 1 May 1945, pg 23 "Alexis C Foster - Executive of the Calvin Bullock Banking Firm Dies at 77 - Bronxville, NY, April 30 - Alexis C Fisher of 3 Lockwood Road, Scarsdale, a senior executive of the Calvin Bullock banking firm at 1 Wall Street, New York, died here today in the Lawrence Hospital at the age of 77. &mash; Born in Nashville, Tenn., as a young man he moved to Denver and there became cashier of the Daniels Bank, and vice president of its successor, the United States National Bank of Denver. Later he was a member of Sweet, Causey & Co., investment bankers, and in 1920 was elected president of the Bankers Trust Company of Denver. Since 1930 he had been with the Calvin Bullock. - Mr. Foster was a member of the Knollwood Country Club. - He leaves a widow, who was Alice Eddy Fisher of Chicago at their marriage in 1898; a son, Lucius F. Foster, an official of the WPB in Washington, and two daughters, Katharine Louise Foster and Mrs. Paul Wolf, wife of Colonel Wolf, commanding officer of Hill Field, Utah."

Secondary sources for 8
  • BGMI showing : "Foster, Alexis Caldwell (1867-1945)", in ''Who Was Who in America''. A companion biographical reference work to Who's Who in America. Volume 2, 1943-1950. Chicago: A.N. Marquis Co., 1963. (WhAm 2)

9 Alice Fisher

Primary Sources for 9
  • 1900 Census of Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado showing : "Alexis C Foster, Head, Apr 1868, 32, married two years TN/TN/TN, Merchant of Credit - Dry Goods, Rents home; Alice F, wife, Apr 1874, 26, married 2 years, mother of 1, 1 living, IL/WI/NY; Lucius F, son, Oct 1898, CO/TN/IL; Claudine Plagman, servant, May 1867, 33, IA/Germany/Germany"
  • 1910 Census of Denver, Denver County, Colorado showing : "Alexis C Foster, head, 42, married first time, 12 years ago, TN/AL/TN, banking, bank, owns home; Alice F, wife, 34, married first time, 12 years ago, mother of 4, 3 living, IL/WI/NY, no occupation; Lucius F, son 10, CO/TN/IL; Katherine L, daughter, 8 (or 3 ?), CO/TN/IL; Cynthia B, daughter, 2, CO/TN/IL; Sarah S Beatty, servant, 35, England/Ireland/Ireland, housemaid, private family; Mary S Craig, servant, 42, WI/Scotland/Ireland, nurse, private family"
    • Note: Living next door is John Foster, 49, TN a physician, probably brother of Alexis

10 Samuel Richard Robertson


Sources for 10
  • 1910 Census of Denver, Denver County, Colorado showing : "Samuel R Richardson, 32, married first time, 10 years ago, TN/KY/TN, Broker, Real Estate, owns home; Elizabeth H 28, married first time, 10 years ago, MS/TN/MS; Marie C 9 TN; Louanna H 7 TN; Samuel R 5 TN"

11 Elizabeth Martha Hughes

Elizabeth Martha Hughes was born 4 Jul 1882. On 24 Aug 1899 she married Samuel Richard Robertson and by about 1909 they had moved to Denver, Colorado, where he went into law practice, being admitted to the bar in 1913.

Elizabeth and Samuel had three children. He died in Denver, but she died 13 Oct 1955 at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles, California.

Secondary sources for 11

  • This entry in the Ancestry World Tree, by anonymous, showing Elizabeth Martha Hughes, born 4 Jul 1882, died 13 Oct 1955 in Santa Monica, CA. Married Samuel Richard Robertson 24 Aug 1899 in Jackson, TN. Showing one child Louanna Harris Robertson born 28 Jun 1902 in Jackson, TN, married Harry Carlson in Denver, Colorado.
  • This entry in the Ancestry World Tree, by anonymous showing same as above, plus died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, cremated Chapel of the Pinan, and born Luka, MS. Husband's entry shows he was an attorney, moved to Denver about 1909, admit to bar 1913

==12==
==13==
==14==
==15==
==16==
==17==

18 Lucius Fisher

Primary sources for 18

19 "Mrs Lucius Fisher"

Primary sources for 19
==Lineal Ascent==
The below is an unsourced view from OneWorldTree

*Constance Robertson
*Samuel Richard Robertson 1878-1944
*Louanna Noble Harris 1849-99
*Elizabeth Ann Dewitt 1821-1849

===Continuation A===
Through Elizabeth Dewitt's father:
*Washington J Dewitt 1799-1852
*Harris Dewitt 1756-1829
*Martin Dewitt 1720-1793
*Charles Dewitt 1683-1741
*William Dewitt 1637-1658

===Continuation B===
Through Elizabeth Dewitt's mother:
*Mary E Bearden 1803-89
*Richard Bearden 1770-1845
*Benjamin Bearden 1748-1821
*Lettice Winn 1723-1797
*Minor Winn 1704-78
*Minor Winn 1668-1730
*John Winn 1627-1694
**Note: the connection of John Winn who appears in Westmoreland, as a son of Owen Wynne below is probably incorrect.
*Owen Wynne 1586-1660
*John Wynn 1553-1626


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Freelance Work From Home: Creating Your Online Portfolio
by WorkFromHomeJobs
3 Mar 2012 at 8:28am

When you work from home as a freelance professional, you will need to create a digital portfolio of all of your accomplishments. This portfolio allows potential clients to examine your work, see if they can ?connect? with your style, and establish a trust between client and professional.

An online portfolio is simply a personal website that has a catalogue of all your work available. It is important to establish this portfolio as soon as you decide to freelance. If you are brand new to the industry, fill your portfolio with samples, and update the site as you begin to add clients.

Building Your Online Portfolio Website design – The first thing that you want to do when you build your online portfolio is establish a clean and fresh looking website. You do not want to use too many bold colours or over-populate the pages with text or graphics. You want the potential client to be able to concentrate on your work and not be distracted by the site. Promote Your Work – Not Yourself. Your clients want to know what type of work you produce, and they want to be able to feel like they can relate to you through that work. You must base your portfolio on your work and not use it as a social page describing all your personal details. Make Contact Information Easy To Find – If the client is impressed, they will want to immediately contact you. Make sure that it is easy for them to do this. Each of your pages should have a way for them to contact you posted somewhere on the page that is easy to find. Navigation Matters – Make sure that the person viewing your site can easily navigate through the site. Nothing is worse than becoming impatient with a site because you can?t find what you are looking for. Hard to navigate sites do not make sales. Information Overload – Do not over-describe your work; let the work speak for itself. The average Internet user will not pause long enough to read long paragraphs or extended explanations. They want to scan the page, grab the key words and examine the product, nothing more and nothing less. You must accommodate this frame of mind or risk losing the client. Avoid PDF?s If Possible – Just like the information overload described above, most Internet users will not download a PDF to review product information. Unless it is very necessary to use PDF?s should be avoided at all costs. Hard To Understand Text – Do not write text for your site that is too hard to understand by the average reader. You must take into account that when someone is looking for a freelancer in your industry it is because they do not have the ability or knowledge to perform the task themselves. You cater to their inexperience with the subject without making it look like you are talking down to your audience. Avoid ?Advertisement- Styled? Designs – Consumers are very selective at what they choose to view on the Internet. With this in mind, many have learned to tune-out anything that may be considered advertising. Setting up your at part of your portfolio to resemble an advertisement, such as using flashing text or banner size graphics, will cause the viewer to ignore what that area of the site contains. Paper Copies And Digital Back-Up

While it is becoming more and more rare for a freelance professional to go from business to business carrying a leather portfolio case and showing their works to clients, it is still something you should have prepared in the event that it is needed. You never know what opportunities may arise.

It is also very important that you have back-up companies of your portfolio in the event that there are any problems with your site. These problems can occur in many forms, and it is imperative that you are able to restore the site quickly.

Your online portfolio will become your number one marketing tool. It is the first thing that your client will see, and it will help them determine if you are the right choice for their task. Keeping and maintaining your online portfolio should be your number one priority, ensuring your freelance success.


Work At Home Professionals Need Fresh Air And Friendship
by WorkFromHomeJobs
1 Mar 2012 at 1:55am

Working from home as a freelance operator, a home based employee, or as a business owner is a dream come true for many people. The typical work at home professional is highly dedicated, almost to the point of being a workaholic. While it is true that many work from home so they can be more available to their families and friends, they often skip events and outings to ?catch up? on a few things.

This is not healthy for the work at home professionals for many reasons including:

Loss of interaction with family and friends leads to a lonely existence. Extended periods of time alone can cause depression Lack of exercise and movement is bad for your health Extended periods in front of a computer monitor is bad for your eyes Lack of sunlight can lead to vitamin deficiencies that inhibit your health Loss of experiences that you can never experience again What Work At Home Professionals Can Do To Avoid This Problem

People that have a tendency to overwork often have to force themselves to take time off. They make promises to themselves and then, since the promise was only to themselves, they easily break that promise and continue working.

Listed are a few ways that you can avoid being caught in this trap:

Set a play date with your children away from the home. Any parent will tell you that it is nearly impossible to break a play date with a child. Perhaps it is the guilt you feel from the sad eyes; perhaps it is because you know a cancellation will bring chaos to the house. Whatever the reason, most people are unable to break these dates and will actually leave the office.

Many people decide to work from home to be more available to their children. This thought is often lost when work piles on. Arranging this play date will not only make your children happy, it will bring you back to your original goal and make you feel happy as well.

Make a mid-day date with your significant other. When was the last time that the two of you did something as terribly romantic as slipping away in the middle of a busy day to be with each other? This is one of the best relationship tools on the planet, and it really helps the home based worker deal with the loneliness that they often feel. Join a civic group and sign up to volunteer. Business owners should never pass on the opportunity to network with other business owners. Joining a civic group, and actively participating in that group, will reap the work at home professional many rewards.
Your first reward is the opportunity to be away from the office for a while. Much like making a play date with your children, people that commit to charity work are often too embarrassed to back out once they have committed to the event.

Actively participating in your community will also give you ample time to network with other business people. Every person you meet is a potential client, and the friends you make are good for your well-being.

Finally, performing acts of charity will always provide some solace to even the most hectic mind. When you know that your actions have helped, the good feeling you have is enough to carry you through even the most difficult of times. Pre-Pay For Entertainment. Home based professionals are generally very conscious of their money, and spending money on wasteful things is unacceptable. By pre-purchasing tickets to events that you want to go see you will force yourself to commit to the event. The mere thought of paying all that money to see a soccer game and then not using the tickets will inspire you to leave your office and attend. Set Business Hours. When a person works outside of the home they generally have set times to work each day. There is a specific time to arrive at work, and there is a specific time to leave. With a home based business it is easy to simply slip behind the computer when you awake, and slip away when you are ready to retire at night. Establishing work hours will force you to comply with a schedule. It will also help you attain your original goals to spend more time with the people you love or the hobby you enjoy.


Why All Freelance Writers Must Own A Shredder
by WorkFromHomeJobs
27 Feb 2012 at 3:14am

No one wants to think about things like stolen trade secrets or identity theft. No one wants to think that someone could ruffle through their rubbish and pull out your discarded writings and use it for crime. Most freelance writers do not even think that their rough-drafts are worth the paper they scribbled their notes on. However, information theft is one of the most prominent crimes in the world.

Freelance writers working from home must take precautions to protect their client information. They must take the necessary steps to ensure that whatever data they are entrusted with remains confidential. Freelancers who do not protect the interests of their client may face liability lawsuits.

Digital Protection

When you are transmitting data over the Internet, is important to establish a secure connection. You can have extra security added to your website through your hosting company and the cost is very minimal.

You should also make sure that your data transmissions are protected from malware and viruses. It would be a liability issue if a file you transmit carries one of these malicious programs and infects the receiving computer.

Digital files that you store at home should be kept on a portable hard drive that can be unplugged from the computer when it is not in use. This ensures that if your system is hacked, these files cannot be accessed.

Paper File Protection

If your client provides paperwork for you to use as a basis of your work, make sure that it is always filed properly. If the materials are not required to be returned to the client, ask if they would want the files immediately shredded or stored for future use.

Any scrap paper that you use to take notes on the project should either be kept with the file or shredded, regardless of relevance. Copies that printed off of your computer and were not perfect should be destroyed.

Invoices, payment information, credit card or banking information should be stored in the same manner. Keep your paper files locked as an extra act of precaution.

Why The Paranoia?

Information is the hottest commodity, and yes, people will go to great lengths to obtain information that they can sell. A criminal looking through your trash to find an old credit card statement will think they hit gold when they find corporate banking information.

Additional Benefit Of Protecting Your Data

When you can provide your client with this extra security, they will feel better about working with you on a regular basis. A company that believes that you have their best interests in mind will become a regular client.

You should be very straightforward to your clients about the security measures that you use both on and offline. Many clients who visit your information page may decide to select you over another economy-priced writer simply because you offer this extended protection.

Every minute of every day someone has personal information stolen. These victims spend months, and sometimes years, fixing all the problems that this identity theft has caused.


Data Entry Positions Offering Hundreds Of Pounds Per Day Are A Scam
by WorkFromHomeJobs
24 Feb 2012 at 5:42am

Everyone that begins investigating work from home positions will come across the banner advertisements. These advertisements are designed to grab your attention. They make promises of large sums of money with little effort or time. You see them everywhere, and your curiosity is peaked.

You are more than likely a new mum. This is the largest group of people that work from home. The thought of making that much money in so little time means that you can work only one or two days to earn what you need, giving you ample time with your little one.

The more you think about it, the more tempting it becomes. You do a little more research, and you keep finding the ads. Finally the temptation for easy money is so overwhelming that you click on the banner and find yourself reading a landing page that tells you that you must act now.

Instinctively, you reach for your credit card and you grab at the opportunity. Sadly, you just wasted your money.

How These Programs Work

Data entry sites that offer large amounts of money for data entry work are nothing more than an envelope stuffing scheme in digital format. The company, after you pay a very large sum of money to join, provides you with digital advertising exactly like the banner you clicked on, and a list of places where you should begin to promote your link. If and when someone registers with the parent company through your link, you will receive a commission. That is all there is to this scam.

They advertise it as ?data entry? because they suggest that you place classified advertisements which, technically, require you to type in the ad. As for the money, they calculate how long it would take you to type that advertisement, say 2 minutes, and multiply that number into an hour. Using the 2 minute time frame this means you could type in 30 an hour. If each sale generates 10 pounds for you, technically you could earn 300 pounds per hour.

It is creative math to make their scam look credible.

Finding Real Data Entry Work At Home Positions

When you are looking for real work at home data entry positions the first thing that you should do is avoid any advertisements offering large sums of money for your work. In the telecommuting industry most employees that work from home make the same or a little more than their office-based counterparts. Freelancers may be able to increase their pay by offering special services.

Remember that going to work for an employer as an off-site employee will not cost you anything. You would never pay to be hired into a position offline; you should never pay to be hired into one online. Telecommuting positions are real employment opportunities. You will need to submit a CV, you will go through an interview, and you will be hired at no cost to you.

Real telecommuting positions for data entry work can be found online through various job placement agencies or classified sites. You may also find that applying direct to major corporations through their online HR department will place you in a position to find off-site work that is not publically advertised.

You can also find many telecommuting positions right in your own community. As business owners look for ways to reduce their expenses, many are turning to telecommuters to fill their positions. However, many are not sure where to find people to fill these positions. Distributing your CV and a business card to local businesses can lead to a home based data entry position.

The Most Important Thing To Remember

When you are searching for work at home data entry positions you need to remember that:

You should never pay to be hired by a company You should never pay to find out who is hiring data entry personnel. Companies do not publish books to find employees, they place help wanted advertisements Never believe a company that is offering large sums of money for relatively little work

Even when you believe that you have found a legitimate company online to work for as a data entry specialist, take a few moments of your time and do a little background research on the company.

This five or ten minutes that you devote to checking out the company will save you many headaches and heartaches in the long run.


Freelance Technical Writing Niche Markets Often Overlooked
by WorkFromHomeJobs
21 Feb 2012 at 10:10am

When you are a work from home freelance writer you often bid on a variety of projects to gain experience and to pay the bills. One day you are completing a technical writing job, and the next day you begin writing marketing articles on a product you have never heard of until that day. Eventually as you become more experienced and comfortable with this type of work you will develop preferences for the types of assignments that you desire.

Many freelance writers enjoy the crisp writing style that technical writing provides. It allows you to educate and inform through your writing. You can use your creativity to make the documents you create sound as if they were written by a PhD, even though you do not hold a Doctorate. However, many writers believe that they must hold an advanced degree to even enter into this writing market. This is untrue, and many writers who could generate a very good income from technical writing are passing on the opportunities.

While there are times that it will be necessary to have a specific educational background to complete a technical writing assignment, most assignments can be completed by anyone with the talent to write.

Freelancers who desire to write in the technical writing style may wish to consider the following 7 niche markets. These are very popular technical writing markets that are often overlooked.

Grant Writing
Organisations that wish to receive money from the government or endowment programs must complete a grant application to be considered for the program. Most people, however, are ill-equipped to prepare the grant application. Grant applications are very intricate, and the slightest omission can cause the applicant to be denied. Because most people do not feel comfortable preparing the grant application, they turn to skilled freelance technical writers.

CV and Cover Letter Writer
This type of professional writing is highly in demand. While many people are given the basics on how to create a CV, most do not have the ability to create one that will actually get them hired. A recent review of some of the top employers in the country have stated that CV?s that have spelling mistakes, are filled with catch phrases such as ?team player,? and are not in the correct format are automatically overlooked. With unemployment at such a high level, technical writers that can generate a CV that helps someone get hired will have a long list of clients.

Employment Papers
Many employers want business-specific paperwork for their employees, but often fail to create them and opt for generic forms purchased online. Creating employment forms, benefit forms and employee manuals is a very lucrative niche. You can also create employment form for foreign companies that are now doing business in the UK and need forms created in English.

Instruction Booklets
Many instructions created by a company when they first produce a product are too hard for the average person to understand. There is a large market for creating How-To booklets for products that are new to the market.

Translation Writing
Many companies wish to sell their products in other countries but do not have the skills to write instructions in other languages. If you can translate into one or more languages, this is a very broad market.

Case Studies
A case study is a written report that informs a company about a problem that has occurred within their product line. The case study will require a listing of different scenarios of the outcome of this problem, and it must also provide one or more solutions to the problem. Case studies are very intricate and require a significant amount of research. In many cases, case studies require 6 or more months to complete. Case writing pays very well, however, because of the length of time it takes to complete a project you must take your finances into consideration prior to accepting this type of work.

Tests
Schools, textbook publishers, tutors, and online institutions are all required to administer tests. If you have the ability to create tests from written material that is provided to you, you can become a test composer. This type of work is always in demand, especially by the text book publishing houses.


The 4/4 Plan For Successful Home Business Marketing On The Internet
by WorkFromHomeJobs
20 Feb 2012 at 4:39am

When you own a home based business, especially one that is entirely run on the Internet, it is exceedingly important that you market your company successfully. A business that cannot drive traffic to their site and generate sales is a business that does not make a profit.

The easiest method for online marketing success is to use the 4/4 plan. This plan is very basic: 4 steps you must take for marketing success and 4 steps you must avoid. Online marketing can be mastered by anyone when following the 4/4 plan.

4 Steps To Marketing Success Marketing Plan. Every successful business will have a written marketing plan. Your marketing plan should consist of the following items:

Who the target market is for your product Goals for your marketing divided up into 3 month increments Methods of marketing you intend to use now and in the future How you will track the success of each marketing strategy that you use.

Social Media. This is the social media generation and you must find a way to incorporate at least half of your marketing methods into social media. Create pages for your product or business on various social sites and interact with the public. You should target blogs and other community based sites that are based on your products or services and become an active member. It is also a good idea to start a blog or community about your product yourself and invite others to join.

Article Marketing. Writing informational articles about your product or service and posting them to the many different article base sites is a great way to connect to your target market in their time of need. People will search the Internet for information more than any other reason. When they come across your well-written article that provides the information that they are seeking, there is a very good chance you will make a sale. As an additional bonus, many article base sites will split the revenue with you when someone reads your article and clicks through on an advertisement. This provides you with a residual income opportunity because these articles are posted on the sites indefinitely.

Video Marketing. As the Internet continues to expand, new methods of marketing enter into the market. The latest trend in marketing is video advertising. Creating a short video about your product or service, an instructional piece, or even a quick seminar is very popular. The great thing about this type of marketing is that people do not expect to see a movie-quality video clip about your product; they expect to see a ?real? person. This allows the consumer to become familiar with the person they are buying from, and video marketing is helping many businesses excel. 4 Marketing Mistakes To Avoid Imitating Another Marketing Plan. Many ?marketing guru?s? will tell you that to be successful all you have to do is implement the exact same marketing plan they did, and you will be a success. While there may be a chance that this will work, more often than not it will not. Each business owners knows their business and themselves better than anyone. You must draw on the strengths of your product or service, and your talents as a business owner, to create a marketing plan suited for your business. While it is always good to draw from the experiences of others, you must create a marketing plan that is unique to your business.

Only Using Free Marketing Tools. The Internet offers several ways to market your business for free. You should use every one of them to your advantage if it suits your marketing plan. However, you should not avoid paid advertising altogether. Pay per click and paid banner advertising allows you to target a specific type of client, and it has the ability to increase your conversion rate.

Failing To Address The Right Market. You need to do a little research before you begin marketing to make sure that the right people are seeing your advertisements. It is a waste of your time and money if you market to the wrong audience. For example, if you are marketing acne cream, you probably do not have to do any marketing on sites that are geared for seniors. This sounds very basic, but many people believe they should include everyone in their target marketing just in case they are able to make an additional sale. In reality you are wasting a lot of time, money, and effort by targeting outside of your true target market.

Becoming Complacent. You cannot stop marketing your product ? ever. If you want to be a success, you must continually promote your product or services.


7 Tips To Keeping An Organised Work From Home Business
by WorkFromHomeJobs
17 Feb 2012 at 2:48am

If there is one thing that could destroy a home business quickly, it is disorganisation. Being disorganised not only wastes time, space, and money, it also can destroy client relations. What could possibly be worse than having to call your client for credit card information because you ?misplaced? their banking information since the last time you called?

Being organised is natural to some people, but to most it is a skill that must be learned. The good news is that it can be learned quite easily, and the skills easily become habit. The following 7 tips should help anyone become more organised in their home office.

Use the ?one-touch? method of handling paperwork. This method means that when you pick something up, you complete everything necessary to process that paperwork, including filing it when you are done. For example: when the mail comes in, open one letter at a time, respond as necessary and file or dispose of the letter when you are done. You have only had to touch it once, and the task is complete. Make sure you have enough office space. When you started your business you took up an end table in the corner of your flat. As you have grown, your need for more space has increased. Failing to address this need for more space makes your office disorganised and leads to poor work performance. It is important that you have enough space to stay clutter-free and comfortable. Write a To-Do list each day and complete it before retiring for the evening. One of the easiest ways to become disorganised is to allow back work to pile up on your desk and around your workspace. It is important that you keep on schedule so that you stay organised and have more free time to do the things you enjoy. Outsource projects that you do not feel comfortable completing. If you do not feel good about calculating your taxes or paying your bills on time, hire a virtual assistant. It is very common for people to allow things to become disorganised as a way to justify not completing a task. By using a virtual assistant for your weaker points, you remain organised. Set family limits on your space. While this advice seems a little rough, it is very true. When you work from home it is only common sense to think that family and friends are going to ?pop in? to your office. Make sure that when they visit they take their extra stuff with them. It is amazing how much stuff children will leave behind if they think mum will clean up after them. Empty your trash bin each night. Many work at home professionals do not take the trash out each night like a regular office does. Maybe the thought does not occur to them until the bin is full, or maybe they are just tired after a long day. This is a bad habit to get into because it gives you a subconscious view that it is alright to leave things around the office until tomorrow. This is one of the main reasons that large offices empty trash each night, even if the bins are not completely full. It is to give the appearance of organisation and to encourage employees on a subconscious level to act in the same manner. Go digital whenever possible. The less paperwork you create, the less mess you will generate. You will also see a reduction in your office expenses as you convert over to a digital office instead of a paper based one.
How To Evaluate A Home Business Offer In 3 Easy Steps
by WorkFromHomeJobs
14 Feb 2012 at 5:54am

When a person decides that they want to start a home business, it is easy to become overwhelmed with the offers that are put before you. There are so many different sales pitches and business angles that you are not sure what is for real and what is a scam. It can become so burdensome that many people give up on the idea of starting a home business altogether.

You do not have to give up on your dream of starting a home business. All you have to do is learn how to evaluate the offers that are presented to you. Once you learn how to distinguish the good from the bad, the real from the scam, you will be able to select the type of home business that best suits your personality and lifestyle.

Examine the offer letter and website of the company that is pitching a product or service to you as a home based business. While this may seem like an automatic thing, many people do not take the time to research the company or business any further than the sales letter.
Look at their website. Does it contain the following?

Spelling or grammatical errors. This may be a sign that it was created by a foreign company and is not a legitimate site. Grammatical errors also suggest deception as many scammers use this technique to have you believe you read one thing when it really was something else. Full contact information including a physical street address. Make sure that you map the address to make sure it is a real building and not a vacant lot. Phone numbers where you can call customer service and the corporate office? Websites that only have email contact information should be avoided. Are the links in the site good or are they broken? Broken links signify that the company does not properly maintain their site. This should be a reflection of their product or service.

This same information applies to any written sales materials that they provide you. A company does not want to hide its identity or distribute marketing materials that make them look bad if they are legitimate. Research the business model. When you are considering entering into a home based business that was originally created by someone else, you need to verify that their business model works. Does their plan have short term and long term goals and plans? Does their business model account for slow periods or other problems that may occur. If their business plan is simply to sell you a marketing kit filled with brochures and samples, you may wish to think again.
Take the time and do an Internet search on the business model of the company and see what others have to say. Read reviews by others who have invested into the company that is not directly connected to you by family or friendship. Look to see if there are positive or negative reports about them with various business agencies. A few minutes of research are well worth the effort. Make sure that you are passionate about the product, service or business type. Many people make a quick decision about working from home because they are desperate for this type of employment. People also make business decisions based on what family and friends tell them is the best decision, or because they are already involved in the business.
A person will not find success in a home based business unless they are truly passionate about the business. You must love what you sell or you will never be able to convince someone else to make a purchase.

If your business plan passes all three of these steps, you are on your way to a very successful and happy career. Never jump into a home based business without evaluating it carefully, you will be happy that you took the time.


Why Online Videos Should Be Your Next Marketing Tool
by WorkFromHomeJobs
12 Feb 2012 at 4:13am

The Internet is continually changing; every day brings about a new marketing tool or scheme. Only five years ago a business could face possible extinction if their website did not contain an opt-in email newsletter. Now, the newsletter trend has gone the way of the dinosaur and everyone is using RSS feeds. Some trends, however, remain powerful tools on a website, such as an eBook or a free download.

The newest trend in marketing is the video clip. Google has announced that in 2011, the word ?video? was searched more than any of the other common words. It outranked love, jobs, news, and gambling. Video clips have become so popular that Google now ranks websites that contain video clips higher than other sites, regardless of SEO content.

A recent study conducted on online video usage has shown that nearly 62% of all Internet users watched a video at some point during 2011. In fact, with the increased popularity of How-To video clips, the study anticipates that figure to reach 71% or higher in 2012.

Video clips are quite easy to produce, easy to share and can bring many people to your site that may not have visited before. Videos can be viewed in emails, on mobile devices, and on a regular computer, making it a very versatile tool.

But I Am Not A Movie Maker

You do not have to be a professional to create a video clip for your site. A quick script, a home video camera and an uplink to your site is all you need. Editing software is commonly available, and most cameras come with this software in their packaging.

Your clip does not need to be long. On average they are between 1-2 minutes in length. It does not need to be spectacular or have special effects, but it should flow smoothly and provide an answer to a question.

If you are not comfortable creating a video, there are many freelancers that will create a video clip for your business at a relatively low cost. Unlike 20 years ago when video production was incredibly expensive, the digital age has made this type of process affordable to anyone.

Loading Your Video Clip

When you create a file name for your video to post to your site, make sure that you incorporate the words ?How-To? or ?Product Demonstration? into the file name. This will help the Internet spiders find your videos faster and give them higher rankings than other videos that they would deem personal creations.

Advertising Your Video

Once you have created your video, you are not restricted to only placing it on your site. You can post it to your company social page, place it on YouTube, or even use it for email marketing purposes. You should change the file name when you post it off of your site, however, to increase the presence of your video under different categories.

Many experienced marketers also take out pay-per-click campaigns specifically for their videos. While this is still a new trend in marketing, it has shown to produce very high conversion rates. While this may change in a few years like the importance of a newsletter, it may also stay around indefinitely like email. People enjoy visual stimulation, which is one of the reasons that the Internet is so popular, Providing this stimulation through a video will have positive effects on your site and work from home business.


Creating An eBook Can Provide You With Long Lasting Residual Income
by WorkFromHomeJobs
9 Feb 2012 at 7:49am

There have been many new products and services that have been created as a direct result of the Internet. Of those creations, the eBook is perhaps the most popular. eBooks have many advantages including:

Anyone can write one They are very easy to publish and distribute with minimal cost involved Depending on the subject matter, many can be used as a freebie to encourage people to purchase from a website There is absolutely no printing costs involved Because eBooks are delivered digitally there are never any shipping costs This type of publication can easily be revised and edited Publishing houses are not involved so there are no denials of publication and no sharing of profits Digital delivery satisfies the consumers need to have instant gratification. Once it is written you can continue to sell it for as long as you desire Creating A Profitable Book

The trick to creating a successful eBook is writing about something you are passionate about. If you have a favourite hobby, a business, a product you enjoy, a political idea, or even a theory, you can write an eBook. The great news is that with a population of 7 billion people on this planet, there will be plenty of people that have the same interests or views as you and will want to purchase the book.

When you start to write your eBook, you should keep the following in mind:

Try to keep the book centred on your original thought. You want to create a niche book; a book that will stand apart from more generalised texts. You can always write more books about related topics. Research the subject online for keywords. You want to sprinkle enough keywords throughout the text to make sure it is picked up by the search engines. Do not read too many other texts about the subject; you want to keep your ideas as fresh and original as possible. Write an outline before you begin the project to provide yourself a guideline. Make sure that your information will flow from opening to conclusion effortlessly. Create documents and graphs or insert pictures that you own into the book to make it more eye appealing. It is recommended that you only use pictures that you personally take and own. This way there is never any type of confusion about ownership. Proof read your work at least twice before you finalize the project. Two times is enough for you to catch any grammatical or spelling errors and to verify that the story flows. If you continue to revise after this point, it will never reach publication. Once The Book Is Finished

Once your eBook is completed, you will need to start marketing it for sale. There are two ways to market your product: affiliate sales and website sales. Websites like Clickbank will allow you to upload your eBook to their site and they will make it available for sale through their site and their affiliates. Using this method will reduce many headaches for the novice eBook writer such as credit card processing and order fulfilment. However, the site will take a portion of the sales to cover their expenses, fees and affiliate costs.

It is recommended that you create a domain that is dedicated to your eBook and/or topic. By creating a site that gives the potential book buyer additional information, you will increase your conversion rate for sales. Many eBook writers will purchase several similar domain names to market the same book. You will need to determine how the purchaser will receive the book, either through auto responder or link, and set the site up accordingly. It is also recommended that you establish a PayPal account for payment processing.

Once you have chosen either of these methods, or both, you will also need to market your eBook in other places. Social networking sites are a great place to advertise and interact with people about your eBook. Pay-per-click advertising is also an option, but this will depend on your initial marketing budget.

One final way of marketing your program is to create your own affiliate program. Offer affiliate marketers a large commission for promoting your book. An average commission may only be 20%, increase your commission to 40% and watch the professional marketers sell your book like mad. Since there are literally no other costs involved in sending out these digital files, this high commission is worth the exposure.


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