ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 3, No. 14, 5 April 2000, Circulation: 415,661+ (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: Media Contact: 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 News and Notes at RootsWeb (WorldConnect Tip; Web Page Design Contest Winner; RootsWeb Staffer Wins First-Place; Success Stories Scrapbook; WW II Stories Page; FreePages Help; ISTG's "The Compass"; RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees: American Land Records) o Treasure Map to RootsWeb o Connecting through RootsWeb o New Genealogy Mailing Lists o New Genealogy Web Pages o GenConnect o USGenWeb Archives o Letters to the Editors o Humor o Reprint Policy, Back Issues, How to Subscribe/Unsubscribe * * * * * NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB WORLDCONNECT TIP: USING POST-EM NOTES WITH WORLDCONNECT When searching WorldConnect have you ever come across an entry in someone else's file and realized that you have additional or corrected information for this individual? Perhaps you wish to link your GEDCOM to someone else's, or even link two or more of your own. You may have new information concerning an entry in your own WorldConnect GEDCOM, but too little to warrant uploading a new GEDCOM. All of these situations are perfect for using a Post-em note. To use a Post-em go to the page you wish to add to or correct. Click on the link that says ADD POST-EM. You will be asked for your name, e-mail address, your message, and as an option, a URL and description to link to a Web page. You will also be asked to choose a password for your Post-em which will allow you, the creator of the Post-em (and ONLY you) to return to the note, and either edit or delete it. Since WorldConnect GEDCOMS are owned by the submitter, the GEDCOM owner may elect to remove (but never edit) a Post-em created by a visitor. While the Post-em creator uses his password to edit or delete the note, the GEDCOM owner uses the database password to delete a Post-em. Should you forget your WorldConnect database password, or your Post-em password, visit Password Central and have it sent to you. For more WORLDCONNECT TIPS, visit * * * WEB PAGE DESIGN CONTEST. A hush falls over the room. The winner is: Bob Dominy with an honorable mention for creativity to: Julie Orlando Thanks to everyone who participated. * * * ROOTSWEB STAFFER WINS FIRST-PLACE. An informed source reveals that our Rhonda McClure has won the first-place prize in an annual contest sponsored by the Connecticut Society of Genealogists for her book, THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO ONLINE GENEALOGY. Rhonda, co-author of ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES, also has an article entitled "From the Past to the Future: A Look at Online Genealogy" in the "Fall 1999 October/November/ December" issue of GENEALOGICAL COMPUTING's quarterly journal. * * * SUCCESS STORY SCRAPBOOK RootsWeb is pleased to announce a new Web page that provides users with a place to share their success stories. Success begets success, and many other genealogists will be inspired by the stories posted on this new page. We hope the stories will encourage those who have yet to make a major breakthrough and we think the Success Story Scrapbook will be a place for those who feel stuck to find good ideas to use in their own research. News media outlets are always on the lookout for local success stories. For instance, when long-separated family members are reunited, it becomes a powerful human interest story. As a result of posting a story on this new site, you may well receive local press coverage about your success. This not only would be satisfying for you, but also would be inspiring to others. * * * WORLD WAR II STORIES. Do you have biographies of veterans that you would like to share? Want to find an old buddy? Register at the Lost and Found Window. Photos are welcome here if you don't want to make your own page. Post a memorial to a loved one in the Veterans' Garden. Post your story on RootsWeb's new World War II Message Board at * * * FREEPAGES HELP. Need help with FreePages? Visit RootsWeb's new Freepages Support Board at * * * IMMIGRANT SHIPS TRANSCRIBERS GUILD (ISTG): THE COMPASS. At the ISTG's "The Compass" site, you will find links to Web sites for researching emigration, immigration, and naturalization; more than 100 passenger list sites; ethnic research; libraries and archives; types, descriptions, and images of passenger ships; and additional worldwide maritime information available both online and offline. * * * ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES. In addition to brief, interactive online genealogy lessons, you'll find links to resources at RootsWeb and elsewhere on the Internet. INDEX TO LESSONS Lesson 29: AMERICAN LAND RECORDS. 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ARKANSAS -- 244,456 General Land Office Records to 1908 CALIFORNIA -- Sacramento County: 1890 Great Register LOUISIANA -- 126,347 General Land Office Records to 1908 SOUTH CAROLINA -- York County: Census Index, 1790-1850 SOUTH DAKOTA Dakota Territories Census -- 1860 Genealogical Society Quarterly Index Brown County History Index Brule County History Index Campbell County Obituaries Charles Mix County 1906 Atlas Edmunds County Cemeteries Edmunds County Obituaries from the "Bowdle Pioneer" TENNESSEE -- Lincoln County Marriages from 1895 to 1910 VERMONT -- Saxtons River 1920 Census WISCONSIN -- 260,530 General Land Office Records to 1908 ROOTS LOCATION LIST NAME FINDER. Search for the names of genealogists who are researching a specific location to find those with research interests in common. They may be looking for the same families. This source still contains a great deal of useful information although it was last updated in March 1998. SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX. Search the millions of death records in this database compiled by the Social Security Administration. It is updated monthly and also contains user- created Post-Em notes that may connect you to other researchers. MISCELLANEOUS DOWNLOADABLE GENEALOGICALLY-RELATED FILES. MISSING LINKS ARCHIVES. Browse all back issues of MISSING LINKS: RootsWeb's Genealogy Journal, beginning 16 August 1996 and filed by year/month/date of publication (e.g., 19960816.txt). USGENWEB ARCHIVES CENSUS PROJECT. Many census records have been transcribed from the original handwritten census enumeration forms by USGenWeb volunteers. Transcriptions and digital images of some U.S. census records are available at USGENWEB ARCHIVES PENSIONS PROJECT. Contains transcriptions of U.S. military pension applications. USGENWEB ARCHIVES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS PROJECT. Contains material of genealogical and historical interest that does not fall into the standard state/county category. USGENWEB ARCHIVES TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION PROJECT. Tombstone inscriptions from cemeteries in the United States, transcribed by USGenWeb volunteers. USGENWEB LINEAGE PROJECT. Contains a list of researchers who are looking for descendants of one particular ancestor who must have lived in the United States at one time and must have been born before 31 December 1850. Links include the ancestor's name, location, and dates, an e-mail link to the researcher, and the researcher's Web page on the family, if there is one. WEB SITES HOSTED BY ROOTSWEB. RootsWeb hosts many independently authored genealogy-related Web sites that are an especially good place to browse. HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY WEB SITES MISCELLANEOUS GENEALOGY-RELATED WEB SITES SURNAME-RELATED WEB SITES UNITED STATES GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL WEB SITES * * * * * CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. Hi Fantastic People at Rootsweb: . . . We could go on and on about all the help you folks have been to us. We found you a little over a year ago and our family contacts have jumped from about 75 to more than 1,200. Our families migrated to and from all parts of the world. It was an awesome task even trying to know how to begin discovering our family history. We live in a pretty isolated part of the world and although there are some resources available locally our undertaking seemed daunting. Well, thankfully, we found you on the `net and haven't looked back. We began with your lessons and Gen-Newbie and Rootsweb-L. We then progressed to more than 30 mailing lists , RSL , etc. From advice we received from RootsWeb staff and members, we branched out to other areas like the LDS, etc. We decided to make our genealogy trip of a lifetime and again turned to RootsWeb for assistance. Many people answered the call and helped us greatly with our itinerary, e. g., begin in Salt Lake, move to major centers in the places where your families originated, etc. Locations of historical societies, libraries, courthouses, motels, and restaurants were offered. Someone sent us a telephone directory, many forwarded maps, etc. One family even put us up in their home. Now back at home we are still sifting through the boxes of materials we collected as well as more than 2,000 photos we took with our newly purchased digital camera. Now we have more questions and are starting to be back in touch with contacts we made through RootsWeb as well as reaching out to new ones for more advice and suggestions. Compliments to all of you for the new things you are adding and bettering. You're a great mob! We can't thank you enough . . . Best wishes and happy hunting to you all, John and JoAnn O'Neil Halls Head, Mandurah, Western Australia On the beautiful turquoise blue Indian Ocean * * * I am having a wonderful week. Since putting my GEDCOM up on WorldConnect I have gotten several replies. Not only that, but I have gotten my ELLIS and JAQUES tintypes back from the photographer and was at last able to identify two pictures that had gone unidentified for decades. I now am the proud owner of two never before seen pictures of, Ezekiel ELLIS and his wife, Margaret Ann Parker McCoy ELLIS from Tennessee. They were the parents of Benjamin Abbott ELLIS, whose daughter Sarah was the mother of Millard Nathaniel JAQUES, my great-grandfather. These pictures take my photo library back one more generation along the JAQUES/S ELLIS lines in Missouri. They are Sarah JAQUESS's grandparents. Without the GEDCOM up at WorldConnect, the person who gave me the tools to identify the images would not have known about me. You enabled me to add one more tenuous link to my past. Now if I can locate Bill JAQUES in San Bernardino, California, I will have a stronger family file. Never give up. Thanks, RootsWeb. Sylvia Stevens * * * * * MAILING LISTS. For an index to most genealogy 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, if you are interested the genealogy, history, and culture of the native peoples of Mexico, send your SUBSCRIBE message to NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS, GENCONNECT BOARDS, AND CLUSTERS Aguero, Akens Bolhuis, Bonsal, Bottenus, Brinckerhoff, Buhmann, Buist Camidge, Chess, Chunn, Coffer, Cowsert, Crystal Deputat Eiermann, Ewoldt Fatula, Frommherz Gigler, Goodreds, Grosvenor, Grugett, Gurule Herberger, Hinojosa, Hogencamp, Holsey Kaiper, Kellas, Kellington, Kennefic, Kippax, Kleback Legate, Lehrmann, Leuck, Lunger, Lungren Making, Menadue, Michalski, Milosierny, Moncur, Muckleroy, Mutuszak Nistler, Noyce Oertling Petz, Pierzchalski, Pluhator, Ply, Prondzinski, Putz Radle, Reynard, Roughley Seebacher, Self-Family, Smuin, Stavely, Stedner, Streight, Sutherlin Tingler, Traeger Valente, Vinkie Wadle, Waloch, Weisnesel, Westra, Wreford, Wykoff NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS CANADA CAN-NS-ANTIGONISH -- Antigonish County, Nova Scotia HONDURAS HONDURAS-GENWEB MEXICO MEXICAN-INDIAN -- Genealogy, history, and culture of the native peoples of Mexico U.S.A. NCDOGS -- Durham-Orange Gen. Society (North Carolina) VA-CHURCH-HILL -- Church Hill area of Richmond, Virginia NEW ETHNIC, SPECIAL INTEREST, AND MISCELLANEOUS MAILING LISTS HDDDP -- Halifax and Dartmouth Digital Directory Project NA-FAMILY-LEGENDS -- Research of families with legends of Native American ancestry * * * * * 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 Williams County, Ohio Web page, go to CANADA bcnorthw -- Northwest Region, British Columbia U.S.A. alfhn -- Friends of Historic Northport (Alabama) ilissdsa -- International Society of Sons and Daughters of Slave Ancestry (Illinois) inbcgs -- Brown County Genealogical Society, Inc. (Indiana) monwmgs -- Northwest Missouri Genealogical Society mstchgs -- Tishomingo County Historical and Genealogical Society (Mississippi) mtteton -- Teton County, Montana ncdogs -- Durham-Orange Gen. Society Inc. (North Carolina) ohwillia -- Williams County, Ohio txechc -- Ellis County Historical Commission (Texas) txfhas -- Fort Hood Archaeological Society (Texas) wiashlan -- Ashland County, Wisconsin wibayfie -- Bayfield County, Wisconsin wiwaukes -- Waukesha County, Wisconsin wiwausha -- Waushara County, Wisconsin SOME NEW HOMEPAGES AND FREEPAGES BIRTCHER Surname. Anything and everything on BIRTCHER surname. BRINKLEY, BLUE, NEW, BUNCH, TODD, HUCKABEE, SINGLETON, et al. McCurtain County, Oklahoma information. BUMBER, BROMBEREK, KOZLOWSKI, WESOLOWSKI, HOWE, MADDEN, RIORDAN, and TRACEY (Polish and Irish ancestors) CAYUGA COUNTY, Springport, Ledyard, Aurelius. Maps, air photos and geological information on Cayuga County, New York. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~springport/stuff.html HARP-THOMAS-MARION-L Home Page. Web site and mailing list dealing with the ancestors of Thomas Marion HARP, Sr., born 1732 in Virginia and settled in Granville County, North Carolina, who may be the son of Joshua and Mary BUDD EARP. LINDNER-LINTNER MEMORABILIA MY MASTER SITE. Graphic displays of the information most requested from RootsWeb list and GenForum query work. PARSONS, HARDY, TUBBS, WARNER, VAN BRUGGEN, ARMSTRONG, MCMILLAN, and more in southern U. S., Massachusetts, Scotland, the Netherlands, and some other places. The Thomas A. PICK Home Page. A listing of people in the Eifel area of the Rheinland. Approximately 87,000 entries. QUEENSCASTLE. Large Donegal, Ireland research database; also has a site of interest for Polish research and Russian research. SPELLMAN, GSELL, EGLAND, HERSHEY, LONGANECKER, HUBER, EBERLY, CRATSENBERG, JOHANSON, and related families. STEELE. Descendants of Ninian STEELE, born 1669 in Scotland. A compilation of several family researchers whose information I found on the Internet. SULLENS and SULLINS Census Records. depository of all known U.S. census records for the SULLENS/SULLINS clan. * * * * * GENCONNECT. 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: , you can read and post notices to the GenConnect SOMEBODY'S LINKS board: * * * * * USGENWEB ARCHIVES -- THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER contains the current USGenWeb Archives submissions from the last week. 3 April 2000 issue http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/2000/apr/apr3.htm USGW-ARCHIVES-ANNOUNCE-L is a read-only mailing list for weekly announcements of new updates and submissions to the USGenWeb Archives. To subscribe, send e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE in the body of the message 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. * * * Please accept the following donation as a token of our appreciation for letting us have a Web site on RootsWeb. We have been quite impressed and pleased with the response we have been getting. We have noticed an increase in the number of queries, memberships, and requests for our publications. This in turn has enabled us to increase our programs, find and publish more original source material, increase the holdings of our genealogical collection at the Flint Public Library, as well as make our presence known to the genealogical community. . . [T]hanks again for your help and support. Keep up the good work. Darrell Owen Hardenburg, Treasurer The Flint Genealogical Society * * * Over the past months I've seen several reasons given to post GEDCOMs to RootsWeb's WorldConnect project. I've yet to see one that's most obvious -- as bait. I have not found a line I'm actively researching in the WorldConnect database so far. However, once I posted a GEDCOM of my database I began hearing from various collateral lines, ones I'm unlikely to actively research. Sometimes I have something useful for them. More often they have something new for me. It's easy because once the hook was baited by submitting the GEDCOM, I didn't have to spend any time trolling. RootsWeb did that for me and all I have to do is periodically reel in the information. Sherman Watkins * * * * * HUMOR. Thanks to "The Original Email Joke of the Day." To subscribe mailto:subscribe-joker@send.memail.com My Mother taught me about GENETICS . . . 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