ROOTSWEB REVIEW: Genealogical Data Cooperative News Vol. 1, No. 28, 23 December 1998; Circulation: 241,900+ Copyright (c) 1998 RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative Editors: Julia M. Case and Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG * * * * * CONTENTS. News and Notes from RootsWeb; Connecting through RootsWeb; Mailing Lists; Web Sites; New GenConnect Surname Boards; Neat Online Stuff Free; Humor; Reprint Policy; Unsubscribe Instructions * * * * * NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB DONATIONS TO HELP SUPPORT ROOTSWEB ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED. For details about support levels/benefits and payment options, please visit: or send e-mail to: . RootsWeb's address is: RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative, P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798. (Please include your e-mail address on all correspondence and checks.) * * * HELPDESK TIPS. Wonder whether you can upgrade your RootsWeb membership level? Yes, you can. The HelpDesk FAQ "Memberships" explains how. Visit . * * * * * CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB: Thanks for sharing your stories. I have many RootsWeb success stories, and have met a number of cousins who have become my good friends, sometimes even becoming part of my extended family. My first big success resulted from being a look-up volunteer. I got a request to check a book for someone's grandfather. It turned out that the grandfather in question was my great-grandmother's brother. The person who asked that question and I have become close, share a lot of our research, and have been very helpful to each other. Since then, I have joined several other cousin groups at RootsWeb, two of them with their own e-mail lists that work together. When GenConnect came along, I posted a query about one of my dead ends and had a response from another cousin, who has my whole line with documentation back to the immigrant ancestor, born in France about 1742. She needed more on my direct line which was entangled. I have just sent a small donation to RootsWeb in honor of my RootsWeb cousins. I know that I would not be nearly as far along in my research without RootsWeb, nor would some of the people I have helped. I think we are breaking new ground in family research here, and I am pleased to be a part of it as a participant and volunteer. Pat Thomas * * * I was starting to research my OHLHAUSEN roots and noticed two postings for that name on the RootsWeb Surname List (RSL). I replied to the one that seemed more probable to be in my line and guess what? It was! I found a cousin in Abilene, Texas (I am in Colorado) and he was able to tell me that one of my relatives had done extensive research on the Ohlhausen family (a five-volume book). I have been able to find out so much about the family in such a short time that I wanted to let you know. Thanks for RootsWeb. Kim Elkins * * * I am in the middle of fixing turkey, dressing and all the fixings for dinner tomorrow, and I was thinking about "thankfulness." It occurred to me that I was thankful for all the obvious things but one very important thing, as this year I discovered the Internet and more importantly RootsWeb. When we sit down and say Grace tomorrow, RootsWeb will be included. Due to the fact that RootsWeb exists, we have found so many ancestors. Last month I decided to send my $12 in for each ancestor that I found from this point on. This is not going to be possible because of the gold mine I hit this last weekend. My bank account is not that large. Up until Saturday, I knew the name of my 4th-great- grandfather, Samuel Lane RICHARDSON. He died in 1820 in Vigo County, Indiana. I figured that LANE might be a family name, but was unable to get back any farther. Because RootsWeb has taught me so much and so well, I now have information to check out that probably will take me back to 1610 England on my Richardson line -- and Lane WAS a family name. How can anyone put a price on that? Thank you RootsWeb for "being." You are very much appreciated. Roberta Hammer * * * I have always been interested in genealogy only as a kibitzer; however, when I bought my computer three years ago, I went into high gear. The first genealogical site I visited was RootsWeb, and I began searching for the names I was interested in. The first person I found listed in the RootsWeb Surname List (RSL) looking for contact with others researching LUMBY answered me immediately and said he had more than 5,000 references dating back to 1500 and knew my branch back to the parents of my great- grandfather, Joseph Rawson Lumby, professor of Divinity at Cambridge University, UK in the late 1800s. He had not been able to trace my grandfather, a son of Joseph Rawson Lumby. I was able to fill in the gaps with information that John Rawson Lumby had immigrated to Canada at the age of 18 and had worked as a cowboy and farmed just outside of Winnipeg. He had become a fairly well- known newspaper editor in Fort William, Ontario, and died in 1942. Another contact I made through RootsWeb was David Bellhouse. We had a BELLHOUSE in our background, so I got in touch and we found that his great-grandfather had married a STACPOOLE, who turned out to be a sister of my maternal grandmother. He was able to provide me with a direct lineage (confirmed by Burke's "Irish Family Records") through her (Lizzie Grace Stacpoole Lumby ) to Bartholemew Stacpoole, who is noted in the source mentioned as being the bailiff of Limerick, Ireland in 1596. Through my paternal grandmother, Corrine May TACKETT, I was able to trace the Tackett line back to a Louis (Lewis) TACQUETTE, a Huguenot, who arrived in Virginia in 1686/87. Corrine May Tackett's mother was a DURKEE, with direct line back to William Durkee b. 1630, Heath, Ireland, d. 1704 in Maryland, who was deported to the Caribbean by Oliver Cromwell, made his way to the colonies, married a colonial girl, and started a line that comes down to me. I owe this all to RootsWeb. Thank you very much. Ralf L. Aldrich, Thunder Bay, Ontario * * * * * MAILING LISTS: To subscribe or unsubscribe from any RootsWeb mailing list, send an e-mail message with only the word SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the subject and the body of the message to [name of list]-L-request@rootsweb.com (for mail mode) or to [name of list]-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode). For example, if you have interests in Upper Canada research, send a SUBSCRIBE message to: For an index to most user mailing lists hosted by RootsWeb, visit . NEW MAILING LIST REQUESTS. 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Please request new mailing lists at: NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ALBAN BASKETT (includes variants) BUCHMAN (includes BUCHMANN, BUCKMAN(N)) CATHEY (includes CATHY) CHILDRESS COUILLARD FLOHR (includes FLOOR and FLOR) FREELAND GODOWN GRATTIDGE (includes GRATWICK, GRATWICH, GREATOREX, and other variants) HALL-DAVID (David Hall descendants -- NC, TN, AR, MO, OK) HEDGEPETH (includes HEDGPETH) HENNION (includes HENION, HENYON) HENSON-MARION (ancestors of Marion Henson who married Elizabeth Gibbons and left Morristown, Tennessee about 1890) HEPLER (includes HEPPLER, HOPPLER) HOYLE (includes HOILE; especially originating in British Isles) IZATT (includes ISATT, ISET, IZET, and other variants) JEWELL KELLOGG KIRKMAN MCCLENNEN (includes McLENNAN, McCLENNAN) MCKNELLY MITER (includes MITTER, MITRE) MODLIN (includes MAUDLIN and other variants) NAGLE (includes NAGEL, NAUGLE, and other variants) RAINWATER (includes RAINWATERS) ROHRBOUGH (includes variants) SINKS TIMM TOLLETT TREMBLE USSERY (includes USERY, USREY, USRY, and other variants) VROOMAN WENT (includes WENDT) WOODLIEF (includes WOODLIFF) NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS CANADA UPPER-CANADA -- the region split from the Province of Quebec after the American Revolution, its history and settlement by Loyalists, British and German soldiers U.S.A. 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If one that interests you isn't up yet, please check again in a few days or a week. . Note that the ~[tilde] before the account name is required and will work for most. If not, you'll find most of them at USGenWeb or WorldGenWeb . For example, to visit the page for Inverness, Scotland, go to: . IRELAND irlmayo -- County Mayo SCOTLAND sctinv -- Inverness U.S.A. arclark -- Clark County, Arkansas camcgs -- Merced County (California) Genealogical Society debiog -- Delaware Biographies gapolk -- Polk County, Georgia gawhitf -- Whitfield County, Georgia idcamas -- Camas County, Idaho inunion -- Union County, Indiana mocapeg2 -- Cape Girardeau County, Missouri moiron2 -- Iron County, Missouri mojeffe2 -- Jefferson County, Missouri mopemis2 -- Pemiscot County, Missouri mostodd2 -- Stoddard County, Missouri ohdarke -- Darke County, Ohio scoconee -- Oconee County, South Carolina scoldcam -- Old Camden County, South Carolina txtcgs -- Tyler County (Texas) Genealogical Society wasnohom -- Snohomish County, Washington wiashlan -- Ashland County, Wisconsin MISCELLANEOUS amerevgs -- American Revolution Era Genealogical Society HOME PAGES LANDON Family Research Group WATKINS Genealogy Page -- descendants of Reese WATKINS (1731-1805), Joel HENDERSON (1788-1868), Ralph KEELER (1637-?), and Joseph CANTEY. Jr. (1780-?). * * * * * GENCONNECT ANNOUNCES NEW SURNAME BOARDS. Pam Carey Durstock provided the following information. Last week RootsWeb announced the availability of GenConnect surname boards as a new benefit offered to Sponsors and Donors. Please visit . If you are not familiar with GenConnect, please visit and the surname index at . Link to GenConnect Fun Facts at . Since last week's announcement 1,550 new surname boards have come online for 424 surnames (each surname can have up to seven board types -- queries, Bible records, biographies, deeds, obituaries, pensions, and wills). Please visit the boards for your favorite surnames. If you post some data while you are there, the whole genealogical community will benefit. Here is a list of GenConnect surname boards as of 19 December. (N.B.: The URL for surname boards beginning with A is . For surname boards beginning with another letter, simply substitute another letter for the A in the URL.) Ackerman, Adams, Adkins, Aldrich, Armes, Arthur, Auger, Awtrey, Baisden, Bankston, Barger, Barnett, Barringer, Basford, Beaird, Bear, Beem, Bemis, Benn, Bergerson, Bernard, Bibbins, Bible, Bishop, Blackburn, Blackwell, Blagdon, Blanchard, Blanshan, Bloyd, Boatright, Bowen, Bowles, Bozeman, Braden, Bradford, Brainerd, Branson, Braun, Brinager, Brinkley, Brobst, Bronte, Broughton, Broyles, Buchanan, Burket, Burnett, Burns, Byrd, Cagle, Cales, Call, Cannon, Caples, Carmack, Carman, Carroll, Carwile, Case, Causey, Cavin, Childers, Chinn, Clayton, Clayworth, Clendinen, Cochran, Coffin, Coker, Colby, Collings, Colvin, Combs, Connally, Copeland, Corns, Corwin, Coslow, Coulehan, Countryman, Cowley, Cox, Crain, Cranford, Crews, Crocker, Cronwoven, Cullop, Culver, Currell, Cuthrell, Dalton, Davenport, Davidson, DeGarmo, Decker, Dehart, Dellinger, Dennett, Dent, Dever, Deweese, Dierdorff, Dixon, Donnelly, Doub, Dover, Downing, Dressback, DuBose, Durman, Dwinell, Dwyer, Eller, Elliott, Emmes, Engle, Faulkner, Faust, Feathers, Ferguson, Fincher, Fisher, Fisk, Flanagan, Fleenor, Flesher, Foote, Forey, Forren, Fountaine, Fox, Freeman, Fuller, Gallagher, Gard, Garoutte, Garrison, Gaskins, Gaulding, Gay, Geiger, Gibbons, Glattfelder, Goad, Gore, Greenslit, Griffin, Guthrie, Hackett, Hagan, Hagerty, Haile, Haines, HallDavid, Hallman, Hamlin, Hancock, Hanratty, Harrell, Harrington, Hartman, Harvey, Hatcher, Haughn, Head, Hennion, Hepler, Hersum, Hiestand, Higbie, Higginbotham, Higgins, Hightower, Hodges, Hoffman, Holder, Hollinger, Hollingsworth, Hommel, Hornaday, Howland, Hoyle, Huddleston, Hughes, Humphreys, Huss, Hyde, Icenogle, Irish, Isaacs, Jefferson, Jerome, Jewell, Jordan, Journey, Judd, Kaufman, Kellogg, Kennedy, Kimbro, King, Kinzer, Kirkpatrick, Klemme, Kornegay, Kunza, Ladd, Lamb, Lanaghan, Latey, Lathrop, Latimer, Latta, Lawrence, Layzell, Leach, Leake, Letson, Lincoln, Locke, Lorance, Lovelace, Lovette, Lucas, Lufborrow, Lumbley, MacCurry, MacDaniel, Mackey, Maderas, Maley, Mallory, Mann, Markham, McCarley, McCarty, McClennen, McCurdy, McDonald, McGee, McGovney, McHugh, McKinney, McKnight, McKown, McLees, McLinden, McNeal, McPhail, Meacham, Medley, Meriwether, Miller, Mills, Moffitt, Montgomgery, Mooney, Morrison, Mottram, Mount, Murphy, Myatt, Myers, Neeley, Neibaur, Netterville, New, Newton, Nicholson, Norwood, ORourke, Odam, Odell, Oliver, Orear, Owens, Paddack, Page, Parker, Pate, Pearsall, Peden, Penny, Pfouts, Phelan, Phifer, Philbin, Philbrick, Phillips, Pierce, Pletsch, Posey, Pridgen, Pruitt, Pruner, Pryor, Pyle, Quick, Quiggle, Quigley, Reckinger, Reeb, Remick, Rhea, Riker, Rinehart, Roach, Robertson, Robinson, Rohrer, Romspert, Rose, Rosenberger, Ross, Roth, Rowell, Rowland, Rude, Rutherford, Saathoff, Sackett, Saffell, Saint, Sankey, Sawyer, Schaub, Schmoyer, Seaman, Secor, Self, Sellers, Shannon, Shaw, Shirk, Shiver, Shockey, Shoemake, Sholar, Shropshire, Shuman, Singletary, Sinks, Sires, Skiles, Slough, Slye, Smith, Snead, Snowdon, Solon, Soutter, Spainhour, Speidel, Spicer, Spruill, Starling, Starr, StarrHenry, Staten, Steichen, Steinke, Stinchfield, Stocker, Sturm, Summa, Sumner, Sutton, Swindle, Sykes, Tallent, Tart, Tarwater, Taulbee, Teasley, Tebbetts, Temple, Thames, Thornton, Timbrell, Timm, Tipton, Tolson, Toseley, Transou, Trice, Urban, Utter, VanArsdale, VanCleave, VanOrden, Vanderpool, Varner, Vencill, Vieau, Vincent, Voss, Vrooman, Wade, Wagoner, Walker, Wallace, Walsh, Weathers, Weborg, Webster, Went, Wertz, West, Whitwell, Wick, Wier, Wilbanks, Wilhite, Wilkinson, Winn, Wise, Wood, Woodard, Woodlief, Woolford, Wright, Yancey * * * * * Thanks to RootsWeb's corporate sponsor for the next article. NEAT ONLINE STUFF FREE! by Kent Deverell, Online Producer Palladium Interactive, Inc. As the old saying goes, nothing comes without a price. It's quite amazing, however, to consider the amount of information available to online genealogists for little or no cost. From data to advice to community, there's little doubt that you'll find what you're looking for with a few -- sometimes many -- clicks of the mouse. Starting with data, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of sites with substantial collections of free, searchable data. Of course, someone is paying for the information to be made available online, either a commercial firm or dedicated genealogists like those who financially support RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative (the PBS of online genealogy). At RootsWeb , the largest genealogy site on the Web, you can search databases with millions of names, including the venerable RootsWeb Surname List. Lineages, Inc., the data providers for Palladium's Ultimate Family Data Library series, also has a wealth of searchable information online at . Try the lineage-linked pedigree charts in its "Next of Kin" database or explore its ample collection of military records. This is also a great place to search the always current SSDI (Social Security Death Index). For beginning and advanced genealogists alike, the Web is a virtual compendium of helpful reference and how-to guides. Surf to and you can find informative articles ranging from an exhaustive "getting started" guide to a detailed tutorial on using the Georgia Land Lotteries. Want more free stuff? Take a look at the thousands of choices neatly categorized at Cyndi's List , which is hosted by RootsWeb. Surf's up. There's no limit to what you might find. * * * * * HUMOR. Thanks to Brian Lissette of "Sunny Laid-back" Tauranga, New Zealand , who writes: With Christmas being so near, this Turkey recipe may be of interest to your readers. This recipe has been used by numerous households in this part of our world. CHRISTMAS TURKEY WITH POPCORN STUFFING Sooner or later every domestic chef has to cook the Christmas turkey. Hopefully this will make the formidable task somewhat easier. Since the turkey will be frozen, it is important to remember that for roasting, the bird must be completely thawed. This procedure will take several hours, and in the case of very large birds, up to two days. Well in advance of cooking the turkey, you should make sure that you have a roasting dish large enough to fit the bird in; also remember that there should be room for roasting the vegetables, and, of course, that your oven must be large enough. Get up early in the morning and allow up to 5-6 hours roasting time for a large turkey, including 1-1/2 hours for the vegetables. To stuff the turkey -- it is recommended that you have stale bread for the stuffing. This can be covered over for several days and made into crumbs in readiness, thus saving precious time on Christmas Day. It is not recommended that the bird should be stuffed the night before and kept in the refrigerator. It is best that if the stuffing is made earlier, it be refrigerated and kept separate from the bird. Stuff the bird early on Christmas morning. Remove the giblets and neck from the thawed bird and put in a saucepan with water to cover, a bay leaf, peppercorns and salt. Simmer for at least 1 hour. The stock can then be strained and used for gravy and if liked, the giblets can be chopped and added to the gravy. Popcorn Stuffing -- 3 cups soft bread crumbs 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves 2 onions chopped finely 1 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons chopped parsley 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage 2 eggs 3 sausages 1 cup popping corn (above is sufficient for a 6-pound bird) Put the bread crumbs into a mixing bowl with the onion. (Coarse onion will not cook, so cut it finely). Add the chopped herbs, salt and pepper, then stir in the eggs until all is lightly bound together. Use this to fill the cavity of the bird, allowing sufficient room for the popping corn to be packed in last. Use the sausages to fill the neck cavity of the bird. Do not pack the stuffing in hard. Use small skewers to secure the skin of the bird over the stuffing. To roast the bird -- Place the bird in a greased baking dish and pour a small quantity of melted butter over the top of the bird and cover with foil (allow sufficient air gaps). Baste frequently as this helps develop an even glossy golden brown skin. How to determine if the turkey is cooked -- the skin will be a golden brown colour, the temperature button will have popped, the backside of the bird will have been blown open, the skewers will be protruding from the wall opposite the oven, and your oven door will be lying on the kitchen floor. [Do Not Try This at Home.] Have a very Merry Christmas! * * * * * PERMISSION TO REPRINT articles from ROOTSWEB REVIEW is granted unless specifically stated otherwise, PROVIDED (1) The reprint is used for non-commercial, educational purposes. (2) This notice must appear at the end of the article: Written by Previously published by RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative, RootsWeb Review, Vol. 1, No. 28, 23 December 1998. You may visit RootsWeb's main Web page at . * * * * * ROOTSWEB REVIEW is e-mailed on Wednesdays to all RootsWeb Members, subscribers to RootsWeb-hosted mailing lists, submitters to the RootsWeb Surname List (RSL), and other RootsWeb users. DOWNLOAD BACK ISSUES FROM . 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