ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 2, No. 32, 11 August 1999, Circulation: 348,354+ (c) 1999 RootsWeb.com, Inc. RootsWeb.com, Inc., P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 Editors: Julia M. Case and Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG RootsWeb HelpDesk: CONTENTS. News and Notes at RootsWeb (RootsWeb Adds State Resources; Donations Help RootsWeb Help You; RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees: Lesson Nine -- Census (worldwide), Soundex Index, and Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex; RootsWeb Banner Contest; GenSeeker Search Engine; International Internet Genealogical Society July-August Newsletter; New Community Mailing Lists and Web Pages; Support RootsWeb with a Click); Connecting through RootsWeb; Mailing Lists; New Web Pages; New HomePages at RootsWeb; USGenWeb Archives Project; USGenWeb Census Project; Letters to the Editors; Advertisements; Humor; Reprint Policy * * * * * NEWS AND NOTES AT ROOTSWEB ROOTSWEB ADDS U.S. STATE RESOURCES. Adding to the existing County and Surname Resources, RootsWeb now has U.S. State Resource pages online. You can visit any U.S. state at: where you replace the "XX" with the two letter postal code, like "CA" for California, for the state you wish to visit. At the resource page, you can search many databases, subscribe to the state mailing list, and take advantage of many other genealogical resources. * * * DONATIONS ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED AND HELP ROOTSWEB HELP YOU. For details about support levels, benefits, and payment options, visit or e-mail . RootsWeb's mailing address is: RootsWeb.com, Inc., P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798. (Please write your e-mail address on correspondence and checks.) * * * ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES ("RootsWeb Guide") . Lesson Nine is Census Records (worldwide), Soundex, and Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex (especially helpful for identifying Eastern European surnames and localities). Whether you are new to RootsWeb or new to genealogical research, the RootsWeb Guide is a good place to begin exploring. Lessons are brief and highly interactive, with links to resources at RootsWeb and elsewhere on the Internet being an integral part of each. Even experienced genealogists and/or Internauts will find useful tidbits. . * * * ROOTSWEB BANNER CONTEST. Feel creative? Design a banner (468x60 pixels) urging contributions to RootsWeb. If it has the highest click-through rate for the month of September 1999, you will win a dinner for two (up to $200 value) at the restaurant of your choice paid for personally by RootsWeb's CEO, Bob Tillman. Send your banners to: by 31 August 1999. We will run all banners that are not outright offensive. Hint: Bob has a quirky sense of humor. * * * HAVE YOU TRIED GENSEEKER, the new search engine that accesses almost all sites at RootsWeb and many genealogical sites elsewhere on the Web? These searches are more than three times faster than they were before we upgraded the CPU and disk subsystem. Access GenSeeker at . The amount of material accessed by GenSeeker is huge and will grow quickly as this search engine indexes an ever-increasing number of Web sites. Use GenSeeker often to find new items of interest. GenSeeker is a good example of your contributions at work to make free genealogical data accessible on the Web. * * * INTERNATIONAL INTERNET GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY (IIGS). The July- August IIGS Newsletter is now available on the Web at: * * * NEW COMMUNITY MAILING LISTS. New community mailing lists are listed at as soon as they are established. You can subscribe to a list at that page. Autos Community: 57-CHEVY Crafts Community: POTTERY, SCRAPBOOKS Family Community: MILITARY-FAMILIES Food Community: WILD-GAME-RECIPES Health Community: LUPUS, POLIO-SURVIVORS, WEIGHT-LOSS Living Community: HINTS-AND-TIPS Movies Community: FILM-NOIR Nature Community: WILD-BIRDS, WILDFLOWERS Outdoors Community: CYCLING, SAILING Pets Community: PET-BIRDS Science Community: SETI [the search for extraterrestrial intelligence] Sports Community: GIRLS-SOFTBALL, TENNIS NEW COMMUNITY WEB PAGES Collectible Gardens KittyPix * * * SUPPORT ROOTSWEB WITH A CLICK. You can support RootsWeb and free genealogy online by going to and clicking on the "Show me commercial banners" option. This activates certain extra commercial banners on Surname Helper, GenConnect, and search-engine pages, which generate revenue for RootsWeb. This in turn enables RootsWeb to obtain the funds for more free genealogical material and to provide better services to online genealogists. Thank you for supporting RootsWeb. * * * * * CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. I wish to thank the creator, staff, and volunteers of RootsWeb. You were the avenue that brought back to me my natural family, after a 52-year, 2-month forced separation by adoption. By searching your query pages for the GULLETT surname, and knowing only what was stated on my adoption papers, I have found my older sister and brother. At this time I can't find the words to express my gratitude and my thanks. May the great spirit that lives in all of us bless and keep you by his side. James Barnett * * * I started in January of this year on the family genealogy. With a lot of help from RootsWeb members I traced my husband's mother's genealogy back to Ireland, England, and Germany. On my husband's father's side it was not very easy, because we knew nothing about his family. I only had the name of his grandparents. After a long search and the help of the Southwest Oklahoma Genealogy Society (Linda Garrison and Owen Fry) I found the whereabouts of my husband's family, and to our surprise we found two brothers and two sisters for my husband. His dad was married once before with us not knowing it. One of the sisters is still alive. Last Sunday my husband met his sister. Thank you again for all the help at RootsWeb. Katharina Hines * * * [This message was posted to QUILTING-L@crafts.rootsweb.com, a part of the new RootsWeb Crafts community.] I have a wonderful little story I would like to share with all of you. I was told to check rootsweb.com to find instructions for the Bug Jar quilt. While I was searching, I ran across some family heritage information and decided to look my family up, not ever dreaming I would actually find something. Well, I did. I have found a cousin who has traced my great-grandmother's roots all the way back to 1687 and William Penn's colony. What a wonderful surprise. Now we are going to try tracing my great- grandfather's roots. You just never know what you are going to find on the Internet. If I hadn't been looking for the Bug Jar quilt, I would have never found this information. So, I would just like to say thank you to all who have made this possible. Jerrilynn Dortch * * * * * MAILING LISTS. For an index to most user mailing lists hosted by RootsWeb, visit . IF YOU DO NOT HAVE WEB ACCESS but would like to know if a RootsWeb-hosted mailing list exists for a particular surname, send a SUBSCRIBE request in accordance with the instructions below, filling in the desired surname where the example shows [name of list]. If the list exists, you will receive confirmation that your address has been added to the list. If the list does not exist, your message will bounce back to you with a message advising there is no such address. Try alternate spellings. NEW MAILING LIST REQUESTS. USGenWeb and WorldGenWeb hosts may have FREE locality mailing lists for the areas they host and for that purpose may ignore the "Contributors only" warning on the list request page. Please request new mailing lists at: TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE from any RootsWeb-hosted 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 are interested in Pennsylvania research, send a SUBSCRIBE message to: . NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS PENNSYLVANIA -- Pennsylvania * * * * * NEW WEB ACCOUNT REQUESTS. Please see the instructions at . NEW WEB SITES. Some of these might not yet be accessible. 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. FOR EXAMPLE, to visit the Lincolnshire Family History Society Web page, go to . ENGLAND englfhs -- Lincolnshire Family History Society SCOTLAND sctmln -- Midlothian SIERRA LEONE slewgw -- Sierra Leone U.S.A. almgscp -- Montgomery Gen. Society Cemetery Project (Alabama) altuscal -- Tuscaloosa County, Alabama gaturner -- Turner County, Georgia latangip -- Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana ncalexan -- Alexander County, North Carolina nhcsandw -- Sandwich, New Hampshire (city) ohacogs -- Ashland County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society ohbrown -- Brown County, Ohio ohflgrg -- Friends of Library Gen. Research Group (Ohio) pahpha -- Horsham Preservation and Historical Association (Pennsylvania) txacgsl -- Atascosa County Genealogical Society Library (Texas) txseghs -- San Elizario Gen. and Historical Society (Texas) NEW HOME PAGES AT ROOTSWEB GABBERT and Allied Families Shirley GUNN's Broken Threads Cheryl HARRIS's Genealogy Page Story Thompson and Abigail HELMS KEMENDICS Family Tree The Lancashire Oracle MARKER Genealogy Home Page MOUNT Family Genealogy POPP Family Genealogy Web Page POOHBOS' Pages PUCKETT -- Bob's Homepage TEMPLIN Family Genealogy TIPTON, WOOD, DEAN & WOODWARD Families WILDER Connections WILKINSON-TOPLEY Family Tree * * * * * USGENWEB ARCHIVES -- CENSUS IMAGES UPLOADED LAST WEEK ILLINOIS. 1850 Logan County. LOUISIANA. 1810 Natchitoches Parish. WEST VIRGINIA. 1910 Greenbrier County. USGENWEB ARCHIVES -- OTHER SUBMISSIONS LAST WEEK KENTUCKY. 1850 Spencer County Census KENTUCKY. 1850 Pike County Census KENTUCKY. Spencer County. Some death/marriage/birth records KENTUCKY. Bullitt County. Additional Deeds KENTUCKY. Breckinridge County. Additional Obituaries KENTUCKY. Hardin County. Fort Knox Cemetery. Known burials by county, including Hardin, Bullitt, and Meade counties. KENTUCKY. 1850 Casey County Census MAINE. Knox County. Cushing Cemeteries and Burial Plots NORTH DAKOTA. Nelson County Bureau of Land Management Records NORTH DAKOTA. Oliver County Bureau of Land Management Records NORTH DAKOTA. Pierce County Bureau of Land Management Records NORTH DAKOTA. Ramsey County Bureau of Land Management Records NORTH DAKOTA. Ransom County Bureau of Land Management Records NORTH DAKOTA. Renville County Bureau of Land Management Records NORTH DAKOTA. Richland County Bureau of Land Management Records NORTH DAKOTA. Rolette County Bureau of Land Management Records NORTH DAKOTA. Sheridan County Bureau of Land Management Records NORTH DAKOTA. Sioux County Bureau of Land Management Records. NORTH DAKOTA. Slope County Bureau of Land Management Records NORTH DAKOTA. Slope County Newspapers, 1907-1912; 1913-1915; 1916-1918; 1919-1920. NORTH DAKOTA. Stark County Bureau of Land Management Records NORTH DAKOTA. Steele County Bureau of Land Management Records NORTH DAKOTA. Stutsman County Bureau of Land Management Records OHIO. Delaware County Revolutionary War Pension Files PENNSYLVANIA. 1850 Clearfield County Census VIRGINIA. 1854 Pittsylvania County Death Register USGENWEB CENSUS PROJECT -- TRANSCRIPTIONS IOWA. 1850 Warren County Census MISSISSIPPI. 1820 Greene County Census TEXAS. 1850 Fannin County Census * * * * * LETTERS TO THE EDITORS may be posted to the GenConnect board at http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/RWR-LettersToTheEditor or sent to RWR-Editors@rootsweb.com. I have a Bible from James Herbert WYLIE, son of William Oliver WYLIE and Ella F. (TIMANUS) WYLIE, born August 11, 1893 in Baltimore, Maryland, died July 11, 1932 Baltimore, Maryland, buried in Lorrain Cemetery 7-14-1932. Baby boy to above Ella F. TIMANUS WYLIE died 12-14-?? Information in the First Baptist Church, Baltimore, Maryland 12-04-1910. James H. WYLIE, born 4-6-1830 in Baltimore, Maryland, died 2-15-1901 in Forest Park, Maryland, married 7-28-1854 Baltimore, Maryland by Dr. Bruce to Sarah Elizabeth DENNIS, born 7-17-1833 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, died 6-6-1923 Allendale Road, Baltimore, Maryland. The First Baptist Church had its 125th anniversary 12-4-1910. I think that is all and it is hard to read in some cases. William Bennett * * * * * HUMOR. Thanks to Jack Pepper for relaying the following tech support stories making the rounds. This guy calls in to complain that he gets "access denied" message every time he logs in. It turned out he was typing his user name and password in capital letters. 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The index catalogs more than 5,000 total titles, listing every article according to locality, family (surname), and/or research methodology. The current printed volume contains 30 bound volumes. Once an appropriate citation is located, users can follow a link from the citation to information about the publisher of the periodical. If the publisher no longer exists, users are encouraged to check their local library or historical society for availability of the periodical. Users may also contact the Allen County Public Library, which owns a copy of each periodical indexed in PERSI, for photocopies of articles. Details are available at their Web site at: "Prior to 1997, PERSI was only available in print or on microfiche and sold for nearly $2,000, making it practically inaccessible to the average genealogist. Consequently, it wasn't very well-known and was very underutilized," says Ancestry.com co-founder Paul B. Allen. "Once published on CD-ROM and on the Ancestry.com Web site, PERSI became available to nearly every researcher and sold in record numbers." For more information on this valuable research tool, George G. Morgan wrote a very helpful article on the subject for the June 18 Ancestry Daily News. It is available online at: Ancestry.com members can search PERSI online at: Researchers can also purchase PERSI on CD-ROM at: * * END ADVERTISEMENTS * * PERMISSION TO REPRINT articles from ROOTSWEB REVIEW is granted unless specifically stated otherwise, PROVIDED: (1) the reprint is used for non-commercial, educational purposes; and (2) the following notice appears at the end of the article: Written by Previously published by RootsWeb.com, Inc., RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Genealogy News, Vol. 2, No. 32, 11 August 1999. RootsWeb: * * * * * BACK ISSUES OF ROOTSWEB REVIEW are available for download from . 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