ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 3, No. 3, 19 January 2000, Circulation: 387,429+ (c) 1998-2000 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 European and British Royalty and Nobility o FreeREG Project (English Parish Registers) o RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees o Connecting through RootsWeb o New Genealogy Mailing Lists o New Genealogy Web Pages o GenConnect o USGenWeb Archives Project o Letters to the Editors o Reprint Policy, Back Issues, How to Subscribe/Unsubscribe **PAID ADVERTISEMENT** The current issue of FAMILY CHRONICLE includes an article by Cyndi Howells entitled "Researching Using the Internet," along with other articles, "The Search For Missing Irish Family and Friends," "Writing a Family History," "Immigration at Castle Garden," "Unjumbling Land Deeds," "Immigrant Letters from Germany," and many others. 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RootsWeb can reach its goal of 100 million names uploaded by the end of 2000 only with your help. Search the names already there and upload your own GEDCOM. You'll find detailed answers to questions about WorldConnect at . Don't risk missing a relative looking to share with you years of priceless research. o GEDCOM is the acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication, created by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) to facilitate the exchange of genealogical data among different software programs. A GEDCOM is a text file that is created automatically in a special format from information that is in a genealogical software program's database -- no need to re-key. Most, but not all, genealogical software programs have GEDCOM capability. For more information, see o Did your ancestor participate in the American Revolution? Upload your GEDCOM to RootsWeb's WORLDCONNECT then use a Post-Em to add information about military service or other interesting details to an ancestor's record. o RootsWeb Accepts GEDCOMs on Removable Media. If you experience difficulty uploading your GEDCOM for any reason, please feel free to send it to RootsWeb WorldConnect Project, 1001 Tower Way, #120, Bakersfield, CA 93309 on a floppy, ZIP disk, or CD. We will upload it for you and send you notification by e-mail of your account name and password. Please allow at least two weeks for this process. Thereafter, you can change the viewing options at any time by going to o WORLDCONNECT and GENCONNECT are now "Connected." A number of RootsWeb users report a novel combined use of RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project and its GenConnect Surname and County message boards. After uploading their GEDCOMs to the WorldConnect project, these clever users have then posted messages containing an active link to these GEDCOMs on the GenConnect message boards that relate to their surnames and/or counties of interest. The result is that anyone seeing the posts on the GenConnect message boards can then click through directly to the uploaded GEDCOM. Kudos to our users for inventing a wonderful combined use of RootsWeb resources. o We Work While You Sleep. How would you like to wake up each morning, pour yourself a cup of coffee, turn on your computer, log on to your e-mail, and be greeted by a list of hot genealogy leads relating exactly to your research interests? Now you can have your wish. To quote Dr. Brian Leverich, "This may be the best single tool I have ever used for online genealogy. Magnificent. Simply magnificent." When you become a RootsWeb contributor or upgrade to the $24/year level you gain access to RootsWeb's new Personalized Mailing List (PML). PML allows you to enter multiple complex search terms and receive daily e-mail notification of any new post that matches those search terms on any of RootsWeb's nearly 15,000+ archived mailing lists, 140,000+ message boards, and 792,000+ RootsWeb Surname List (RSL) entries. This magnificent tool is RootsWeb's "thank you" to its financial contributors. o Locate your Web site in the finest of company. To date, RootsWeb has fulfilled 5,261 requests for unlimited free Web space from genealogical and historical societies, family associations, individual genealogists and many others. Move your site to RootsWeb, the largest traffic genealogy Web site in the world, and people interested in genealogy and history can find it. For free unlimited Web space: . Remember that one FreePages account can accommodate multiple Web sites, each of which can be located in a different section of RootsWeb. You can change or remove completely your FreePages Web site at any time and RootsWeb will never burn it onto a CD-ROM or charge others to access it. * * * * * EUROPEAN AND BRITISH ROYALTY AND NOBILITY. So, Charles, What's Her Family Like? The Ancestry of Camilla Parker-Bowles "Want to be the center of attention at your next cocktail party?" asked Robert R. Tillman, CEO of RootsWeb.com. See if some of the branches of Camilla's tree intertwine with yours. * * * * * ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES. Index to lessons: * * * * * The FreeREG Project by Rod Neep The FreeREG Project's objective is to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage and burial records, which have been transcribed into a database from English parish registers. The recording of baptisms, marriages and burials in parish registers began in 1538. The FreeREG Project is part of the FreeUKGEN Project, and a companion project to the FreeBMD Project, which is a database of the GRO birth, marriage and death indexes from 1837. In FreeREG, parish register entries will be made available through a search engine only. It is not the objective of FreeREG to make transcripts, or even indexes of parish registers available on the Internet, or to publish them for sale on disk or CD or in printed form. For complete transcriptions and microfiche/films of original parish records, where available, refer to the local county records offices, family history societies or to the microfilm/fiche holdings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through its worldwide network of branch libraries (Family History Centers). There are three FreeREG databases, one each for baptisms, marriages, and burials. FreeREG is a brand-new project. We currently have only a few hundred thousand records in the database, and so you should not expect to find your ancestors in the database yet. What we are looking for now is transcribers, and those who have already made transcriptions of parish registers onto computer, who will allow their data to be included in the database so that people can search for events relating to individual ancestors. We are also looking for county coordinators, and, most importantly, programmers! The FreeREG Web pages at contain information about the project itself, information for volunteers, information for people who want to search the database, and details of the type of information from baptism, marriage and burial registers that it contains. The FREEREG-L@rootsweb.com mailing list is essentially for those who are interested in contributing to the project in some way, but it is now open for anyone to join. * * * * * CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. My ancestor, Frederick AVELING, was a London solicitor in the 1820s and later Town Clerk of Paddington in London for 30 years to 1870. His portrait hangs in the Lord Mayor's Offices in London and we have another here in New Zealand. You would think knowing a great deal about his life we would know about his family too, but we did not. In the 1851 census, Frederick said he was born at Luton in Bedfordshire. From family information we knew the date was 1 January 1797. I had consulted the county record office to no avail. I had all but given up and was following another family -- the LAVERs, of Essex, England, when through RootsWeb's Essex mailing list a Laver directed me to some very nice people who were doing a Laver one-name study and who sent me a great deal of information on the Laver family. In passing, I mentioned Frederick Aveling and his apparent appearance from nowhere. Well, Dawn Laver went to the Society of Genealogists Library in London and looked at an old transcript of the Luton Parish Registers and found Frederick Aveling! The problem had been that he was born out of wedlock. He was baptised on 15 January 1797 to Elizabeth Aveling and John SMITH. This couple later married in 1798 and had another son, Edwin Smith, in 1799. We have a book in our family inscribed "Henry Aveling [son of Frederick Aveling] the gift of his Uncle Edwin, 1832." We never knew who Uncle Edwin was; now we do. Further evidence was from an old Will of John Kingsbury Lott (who married Fanny Aveling, we think the sister of Frederick Aveling's mother Elizabeth) mentioning both Frederick Aveling and Edwin Smith "of Birmingham"! All this through RootWeb -- a 150-year mystery solved. Nicholas E. H. Aveling **PAID ADVERTISEMENT** The Civil War CD-ROM I, The War of the Rebellion: A compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 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RootsWeb hosts many surname GenConnect boards that are in need of people to maintain them. 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 (to subscribe, send e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE to: , also you may post a notice the GenConnect SOMEBODY'S LINKS board at * * * * * USGENWEB ARCHIVES -- THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER contains the current USGenWeb Archives submissions from the last week. January 17, 2000 issue USGW-ARCHIVES-ANNOUNCE is a read-only mailing list for weekly announcements of new updates and submissions to the USGenWeb Archives. It is open to anyone who wishes to subscribe. To subscribe, send e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE to this address: * * * * * LETTERS TO THE EDITORS may be posted to the GenConnect board at http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/RWR-LettersToTheEditor or e-mailed to RWR-Editors@rootsweb.com. I can't even begin to tell you how much the World Connect Project has helped me in finding more information on my lines and adding new "cousins" to my tree. I am so glad to be able to have a spot for my GEDCOM file and that it is really mine and not going to be burned onto a CD for profit (not mine)! I can update as often as needed and look for others working the same lines, all in one area. I recommend to anyone who wants to have some luck at linking up with other "lost" relatives, that this is a good way to do just that. Thanks again. I am also a RootsWeb supporter and will continue to be one. Kathie Harrison [Posted to the WorldConnect board] I am very proud of Rootsweb. This site has grown and is continuing to serve such a great need. Your SSDI is one of the best out there and other things you add are excellent. I have been doing genealogy for 43 years and consider this Web site one of the best and highly recommend it over many of the others. Keep up the good work and my hat's off to two of my long-time friends Julie Case and Myra Gormley. Glenda Thayer [Posted to Freepages-Help-L@rootsweb.com] I have thirty plus years of both UNIX and programming experience, plus unlimited (and free) space on my own domain, and I still use the FreePages for genealogy files, because of the exposure to other researchers. I used to have my genealogy pages on my own site and didn't get two hits a month. In the two months I've had my pages on RootsWeb there have been hundreds, plus responses to the GEDCOMs on WorldConnect. Liz Wallis I just love this site [RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees at ]! It is so informative and fun to look at. I am inexperienced, but I love doing genealogy and your site has been a wonderful and amusing teaching tool. Thank you for all of your efforts. Jane Simonson I am new to Internet genealogy, and I must tell you how great these lessons [are]. . . I tell every one about how good, organized and very informative they are. Have just finished lessons #23 and it's the best one yet. They just get keep getting better with each posting. I really am learning lots and just wanted to say a big thank you. Blondie Mock I'm very happy to have RootsWeb as a resource. I've found some very helpful information in this free resource -- even more than I've found in paid resources. (This is why I became a sponsor, by the way.) This is to remind everyone of the benefits of getting copies of census records. It only takes a quarter and an extra moment to copy the page. Not only is it faster than copying the data, but also it keeps you from overlooking other information on the page. I recently had a good day at NARA, and found several "missing persons" from my tree. I was able to compare them to a list of marriages I had and get spouses' surnames, then I went back to my copy for the previous census year and there were the spouses, whole families, living right next door. If I had just extracted the data I thought I wanted, I would have missed these connections. Len Niesen I have used your pages and am a subscriber to RootsWeb Review and Missing Links. I have gotten a lot of useful information from all of this. I am going to become a sponsor plus by mail but I had to tell you how much I have used and enjoyed your pages and articles. I am new to genealogy and do not have much to go on as far as my own family tree is concerned but with your help I have been making some progress. I thank you for this because without your help I couldn't have done it. 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