ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 2, No. 48, 1 December 1999, Circulation: 376,614+ (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: Advertising: Public Relations/Press: DONATIONS HELP ROOTSWEB HELP YOU AND ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED. For details about support levels, benefits, and payment options (check or credit card), e-mail or visit . Mailing address: RootsWeb.com, Inc., P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798. (Please write your e-mail address on all correspondence and checks.) * * * * * IN THIS ISSUE: o Announcements from the CEO o RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees o Missing Links Holiday Pages o Communities Mailing Lists and Web Pages o New Genealogy Mailing Lists o New Genealogy Web Pages o GenConnect o USGenWeb Archives Project o USGenWeb Census Project o Letters to the Editors o Reprint Policy, Back Issues, How to Subscribe/Unsubscribe * ADVERTISEMENTS * "Finding Religious Records in Colonial North America," "Web Sites Worth Surfing," "The Migration of Families," "An Update of Using Scanners," "Restoring Your Old Photos," "Finding Canadian Ancestors," "Using a Family History Center." These are a few of the articles in the current issue of FAMILY CHRONICLE magazine. Find out how you can get a free trial copy by visiting . SOMETHING FOR NOTHING? Get 300 personalized address labels FREE from iPrint.com! Pay only $1.45 for shipping within the U.S. Limited-time offer. 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Don't forget to register your own or your favorite genealogical or historical sites at RootsLink -- RootsWeb's free URL registry. Sites need not be located on RootsWeb to register. Search the thousands of sites already registered and register new ones at . * * * ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES . 19 interactive genealogy lessons with links to relevant resources at RootsWeb and elsewhere on the Internet are available in HTML and PDF formats. Another 11 lessons are in the works. With the holidays upon us, it's a good time to hone our family folklore interviewing skills. You'll find interviewing suggestions in Lesson One at . * * * HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Visit the MISSING LINKS holiday pages at * ADVERTISEMENT * FINDING THE NAME OF A SPOUSE. You can often find the name of an individual's spouse on any of the documents listed below. If you have the information required to find one of these documents, select the name of that document. The items in the list are ordered from most to least important. If you do not have the minimum information required, select one of the "Finding the minimum information" links at the end of the article. VITAL RECORDS . To find a spouse's name on a marriage record, you must at least know the full name of the bridegroom and/or the full maiden name of the bride; and the entire married name of one of the spouses for a divorce record. You must also know the approximate year of the event and the state or county where the event took place. CENSUS RECORDS . Beginning in 1850, the U.S. census recorded each individual's name and their relationship to the head of household. To find an individual's name in census records, you must at least know the individual's full name, the state, and the county in which the individual lived when the census was taken. If you are using census records for 1870 or earlier, you can probably use an index that only requires the state and surname. CHURCH RECORDS . To find the name of an individual's spouse in church marriage records, such as a marriage certificate, you must at least know the individual's name and either the name of the church where the ceremony was performed or the name of the clergyman that appears on the certificate. BIBLE RECORDS . To find the name of an individual's spouse in Bible records that are no longer in the family's possession, you must at least know the individual's full maiden name or married name, as well as the state and county in which the individual lived. MILITARY RECORDS . To find the name of an individual's spouse in an American military pension record, you must at least know the veteran's name, the branch of service, such as Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, the state from which the veteran entered the service, and the war in which the veteran served. If the period of service was after 1916, you must also know entry and release dates, military ID number, Social Security number, whether an officer or enlisted, and date of birth. PROBATE RECORDS . To find the name of an individual's spouse in probate records, you must at least know the individual's full name at time of death, the approximate date of death, and the county or town in which the individual lived at the time of death. NEWSPAPERS . To find the name of an individual's spouse in a birth, engagement, wedding announcement, or obituary, you must at least know the approximate date of the event, the name of either individual, and the state and city or town where the event took place. For a description of the records listed above, see the topic Genealogy dictionary . For help finding the minimum information required to locate any of the records listed above, select one of the following items: VITAL RECORDS CENSUS RECORDS CHURCH RECORDS BIBLE RECORDS MILITARY RECORDS PROBATE RECORDS NEWSPAPERS * * * * * NEW MAILING LISTS IN COMMUNITIES. Communities mailing lists and Web pages are listed at as soon as they are established. You can subscribe to a list at that page. To learn which communities lists are up for adoption, visit: . NEW WEB PAGES IN COMMUNITIES * * * * * MAILING LISTS. For an index to most user mailing lists hosted by RootsWeb, visit . NEW MAILING LIST REQUESTS. 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, to discuss the England GenWeb Project, send a SUBSCRIBE message to: . NEW SURNAMES MAILING LISTS, GenCONNECT BOARDS, AND CLUSTERS AGNER BERRY-ALABAMA -- BERRY surname and variants in Alabama FICKLE (includes FICKEL) FOXHALL (includes FOXALL) GUTERL HARTILL (includes HARTHILL) IMPSON JACKSON-TAYLOR-DESCENDANTS -- Descendants of Jas. S. Jackson, Sr. and Marjoriet TAYLOR LAUTZENHISER PLANTZ PURFURST (includes PURFUERST and PURFEERST) SEEFELDT SULSER (includes SULCER and SULSAR) WAKEHAM WELDAY ZAPPE NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS AUSTRALIA AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT -- Geelong and District, Victoria (south central to south western Victoria) ENGLAND ENG-LIVERPOOL -- Liverpool ENGLAND-GenWeb -- to keep visitors informed of what is going on with the EnglandGenWeb Project U.S.A. GAARCHIVE -- for volunteers of the GAGenWeb Archives Project NEW ETHNIC, SPECIAL INTEREST, AND MISCELLANEOUS MAILING LISTS AHSGR-GENEALOGY-RESEARCH -- For the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR) Genealogy Research/ Service Committee AHSGR-TECH-COMM -- For the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR) Technology Committee FAMILYSEARCH -- to assist with questions about doing research on the Familysearch Internet site (searching, downloading, contributing, cross-referencing, microfilm numbers, and basic getting started skills. FO-etc -- For people using Family Origins software. This list expands beyond software specific issues and includes associated topics that remain relevant to the use of Family Origins software and related genealogy projects. StateGenSites -- For those who wish to communicate with columnists writing for stategensites.com lead column, "Adventures in Genealogy" WY-CENSUS -- USGenWeb Census Archives for the State of Wyoming * * * * * 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 Tangier, Nova Scotia Web page, go to . CANADA nsctangi -- Tangier, Nova Scotia (community) onpeterb -- Peterborough County, Ontario U.S.A. genrace -- American Cross-Race Genealogical Research nmeddy -- Eddy County, New Mexico sccyauha -- Yauhannah, South Carolina (city) slaveinf -- Slave Information * * * * * GENCONNECT. RootsWeb hosts more than 60,000 surname GenConnect boards that are in need of people to maintain them. Visit: o For a complete list of adoptable GenConnect surname boards o For the form to request to adopt a GenConnect surname board (the same form is used for surname mailing list requests) Have you found a genealogical treasure, such as a photo album or an old Bible containing a completed family record page, that you would like to see reunited with its family? If so, in addition to submitting a notice for publication in the "Somebody's Links" section of MISSING LINKS or in the SOMEBODY'S LINKS NEWSLETTER, you also may post a notice about it on the GenConnect board at . * * * * * USGENWEB ARCHIVES -- THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER, November 29, 1999 http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/1999/nov/nov29.htm USGENWEB ARCHIVES -- CENSUS IMAGES GEORGIA. 1880 Appling County GEORGIA. 1910 Madison County ILLINOIS. 1860 Crawford County MISSISSIPPI. 1880 Jones County MISSOURI. 1900 Polk County NORTH DAKOTA. 1910 Walsh County (by township) OHIO. 1820 Brown County OHIO. 1820 Clermont County PENNSYLVANIA. 1810 Huntingdon County SOUTH CAROLINA. 1820 Abbeville County SOUTH CAROLINA. 1830 Abbeville County TENNESSEE. 1850 Smith County TENNESSEE. 1860 Van Buren County TEXAS. 1900 Coke County TEXAS. 1910 Coke County TEXAS. 1920 Coke County VIRGINIA. 1810 Brunswick County USGENWEB ARCHIVES -- TRANSCRIPTIONS [Note: All material between a set of angle brackets is a part of the URL. In the case of a URL that is longer than one line, it will be necessary for you either to cut and paste the full URL or to type it carefully into your browser.] ARKANSAS. 1830 Jackson County Census ARKANSAS. 1840 Jackson County Census ARKANSAS. 1830 St. Francis County Census ARKANSAS. 1840 St. Francis County Census NEW HAMPSHIRE. Belknap County. Gilmanton - Smith Meeting House Burial Ground NEW HAMPSHIRE. Carroll County, NH Families. ABBOTT of Ossipee ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nh/carroll/family/abbott.txt NEW HAMPSHIRE. Hillsborough County. Town of Temple, Petition NORTH CAROLINA. 1850 Orange County Census OHIO. Geauga County Cemeteries Updated SOUTH CAROLINA. 1800 Barnwell County Census Images Index SOUTH DAKOTA. Day County. Confirmations, Bergen Lutheran Church SOUTH DAKOTA. Day County. Confirmations, Bethlehem Luth. Church ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/sd/day/church/bethlehem.txt SOUTH DAKOTA. Day County. History of Bethlehem Lutheran Church SOUTH DAKOTA. Hyde County Roster of Highmore High School Students, 1939-1940, extracted from the 1940 HISODAK Yearbook SOUTH DAKOTA. Hyde County Roster of Highmore High School Students, 1940-1941, extracted from the 1941 HISODAK Yearbook SOUTH DAKOTA. Hyde County Roster of Highmore High School Students, 1944-1945, extracted from the 1945 HISODAK Yearbook TEXAS. 1910 Crosby County Census TEXAS. 1880 Shelby County Census WEST VIRGINIA. Revised List of the Deceased Soldiers of the World War -- West Virginia WEST VIRGINIA. Revised List of Deceased Soldiers of the World War, 1922 -- West Virginia. Introduction and Abbreviations WEST VIRGINIA. Officers and Enlisted Men of the United States Naval Services who Died During the World War from West Virginia * * * * * USGENWEB CENSUS PROJECT -- TRANSCRIPTIONS ALABAMA. 1840 Randolph County ALABAMA. 1850 Shelby County ARKANSAS. 1850 Searcy County CALIFORNIA. 1860 Los Angeles County (Partial - San Juan Twp) COLORADO. 1920 Cheyenne County (Partial - Precinct 1) GEORGIA. 1860 Marion County GEORGIA. 1830 Telfair County GEORGIA. 1850 Thomas County ILLINOIS. 1920 Clinton County (Partial -- Breeze Twp) ILLINOIS. 1820 Pope County ILLINOIS. 1860 Vermilion County (Partial -- Ross Twp) INDIANA. 1850 Fayette County INDIANA. 1850 Grant County INDIANA. 1850 Lake County INDIANA. 1850 LaPorte County IOWA. 1870 Pottawattamie County (Council Bluffs, Ward 4 cont.) IOWA. 1880 Palo Alto County (Partial -- Village of Emmetsburg, Lost Island Twp, Village of Ruthven, Walnut Twp) KANSAS. 1920 Greeley County MARYLAND. 1790 Harford County MARYLAND. 1850 Worcester County MASSACHUSETTS. 1910 Worcester County (Partial -- Mendon Twp) MICHIGAN. 1890 Isabella County (Special Schedule Union Veterans) MICHIGAN. 1850 Lapeer County MISSOURI. 1910 Butler County (Partial -- Gillis Bluff Twp, Neely Twp, Neelyville, Pike Slough, Poplar Bluff Twp) MISSOURI. 1840 Pulaski County PENNSYLVANIA. 1850 Bradford County (Partial) PENNSYLVANIA. 1870 Butler County (Partial -- Adams Twp) PENNSYLVANIA. 1870 Cambria County (Partial -- Croyle Twp, Summittville Twp, Willmore Borough) PENNSYLVANIA. 1800 Fayette County (Partial -- Springhill Twp) PENNSYLVANIA. 1870 Schuylkill County (Partial -- Branch Twp) TEXAS. 1860 Gray County VIRGINIA. 1850 Barbour County * * * * * 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. 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