ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 3, No. 17, 26 April 2000, Circulation: 615,038 (c) 1998-2000 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ RootsWeb.com, Inc., P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 Editors: Julia M. Case and Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG RWR-Editors@rootsweb.com RootsWeb HelpDesk: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ Advertising: rrti@rootsweb.com Media Contact: stwalsh@rootsweb.com TO UNSUBSCRIBE from the free weekly genealogy e-zines, ROOTSWEB REVIEW and MISSING LINKS, send any e-mail to: rootsweb-review-unsubscribe@rootsweb.com TO SUBSCRIBE, send to rootsweb-review-subscribe@rootsweb.com IN THIS ISSUE: o News and Notes at RootsWeb (ISTG Makes Its First Million; BMD is Innocent: FreeBMD! (England and Wales); Ancestor Tables of U.S. Presidents Complete (for now); RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees: That's All They Wrote (for now); WW II Stories: Read Tomorrow's Legends Today; Fraud and Treachery Rampant at IBSSG) o Grafting Family Trees, by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG o WorldConnect Tip: Changing Options for your GEDCOM 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 (search or download) * * * * * NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB ISTG MAKES ITS FIRST MILLION. The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG) http://istg.rootsweb.com/ recently entertained its one millionth visitor. ISTG volunteers have transcribed and posted to its searchable database nearly 3,000 ships passenger lists from voyages spanning a period of 400 years and traveling to and from ports worldwide. If you have a transcribed passenger list you would like to contribute to the ISTG database, or if you would like to learn what is involved in being an ISTG volunteer transcriber, please see the FAQs posted at the ISTG home page. For links to resources on the Web about all things maritime, see ISTG's outstanding resource, THE COMPASS. Access all ISTG pages via the front door at its home page, http://istg.rootsweb.com/ * * * FreeBMD (England Wales). http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ FreeBMD is an index to civil registration records of births, marriages, and deaths in England and Wales, 1837-1899. (U.K. law prohibits publication of such information more recent than 100 years old.) With the permission of the appropriate authorities, online volunteers from all over the world are creating an index to the records now available to the public. The work is in its infancy, so you should not yet expect to find an entry about the particular record of most interest to you. On the other hand, more than 1,200,000 records have been indexed and the work steadily progresses, so it certainly is worth doing a search now and then if you are looking for vital records from England or Wales in the 1837-1899 time frame. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer transcriber for the FreeBMD Project, please read the FAQs linked from its home page. And, remember the slogan: "BMD is innocent. FreeBMD!" * * * ANCESTOR TABLES OF U.S. PRESIDENTS COMPLETE (UNTIL ELECTION). http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/presidents/index.html From the work published by Gary Boyd Roberts of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG has created a complete set of Web pages of ahnentafels (ancestor tables) for all of the presidents of the United States to date. Perhaps one or more is your cousin. Don't know? Take a look. * * * ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES: THAT'S ALL THEY WROTE http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/ After completing the first 30 lessons, the authors/compilers are taking a break to catch their collective breath and begin revising and updating the lessons. The new RWGuide GenConnect boards linked from the RWGuide home page a week ago have proven already to be a useful resource. Direct links are: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/RWGuide/Queries and http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/RWGuide/Names/ * * * WORLD WAR II STORIES AND PHOTOS: READ TOMORROW'S LEGENDS TODAY http://www.rootsweb.com/WWII/ While the emphasis is on World War II, stories are welcome about wars from other eras and from veterans everywhere. Grab a hanky and settle in to read some great stories as well as post your own. * * * SUCCESS STORY SCRAPBOOK http://resources.rootsweb.com/~press/ Want to be discovered? Post a story in RootsWeb's Success Story Scrapbook where your home town newspaper will find it. **PAID ADVERTISEMENTS** The May/June issue of FAMILY CHRONICLE is packed with articles: "Tracing Your English and Welsh Roots," "Top Research Websites," "25 Tips for Researching at Family History Centers," "Using the Freedom of Information Act," "Tracing Ancestors through Civil War Records," and many others. Find out how you can obtain a trial copy by visiting http://www.familychronicle.com Obtain a trial copy of April/May HISTORY MAGAZINE with articles "Connecting the World: the History of the Telegraph and Telephone," "1910: Highlights of the Decade," "The Country Store," "The 1918 Influenza Pandemic that Killed More People than WW I," "Saffron, the World's Most Expensive Spice," and many others. Find out how you can obtain a trial copy by visiting http://www.history-magazine.com ****************************************** FREE TWICE-MONTHLY EMAIL NEWSLETTER Dozens of Books & CDs at Publisher-Only Sale Prices in Each Issue Message "subscribe email newsletter" to heritagebooks@pipeline.com HERITAGE BOOKS, INC. 1540 Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie MD 20715 ****************************************** **END PAID ADVERTISEMENTS** FRAUD AND TREACHERY RAMPANT AT IBSSG. The International Black Sheep Society of Genealogists (IBSSG) has outdone itself at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~blksheep/index.html with its newest page, the Genealogy Hall of Shame, devoted to exposing genealogical fraud. (See related story, GRAFTING FAMILY TREES.) * * * * * GRAFTING FAMILY TREES by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG Not even your family histories are safe from those who want to make a quick buck at your expense. Moreover, you might have been hoodwinked with a fabricated genealogy and your relatives might have been victims of estate frauds -- an old con game, and you might not even realize it. Early in the 20th century, about 200 fabricated genealogies were produced by Gustav Anjou (1863-1942), a Staten Island, New York forger of genealogical records. Anjou developed a profitable business in mail-order ancestors for wealthy clients willing to pay about $9,000 for a family history. More than 100 genealogies compiled by Anjou have been located. They are widely accessible in most large libraries and have been reprinted many times, and probably are being used today by genealogists who are not aware that the pedigrees are false. Anjou, and others like him, simply grafted noble and royal ancestors onto their client's trees, sometimes by using invented European parishes and forged wills and vital records. Not only did Anjou falsify many genealogies, evidently he fabricated his own pedigree and credentials, according to Gordon L. Remington, Fellow of the Utah Genealogical Association and editor of GENEALOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE UTAH GENEALOGICAL ASSOCIATION, in an article that appeared in Volume 19, Nos. 1 & 2 (1991) of that periodical. In the same issue also appears an excellent article on estate frauds by Helen Hinchliff, and one by Robert Charles Anderson on the Anjou pedigrees. According to Anderson, a certified genealogist and Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, a typical Anjou pedigree displays four recognizable (at least to the more experienced researcher) features: -- A dazzling range of connections among dozens of immigrants (mostly to New England). -- Many wild geographical leaps, outside the normal range of migration patterns. -- An overwhelming number of citations to documents that actually exist, and include what Anjou says they include. -- Here and there an "invented" document, without citation, which appears to support the many connections. Among the genealogies compiled by Anjou are those for: BEACH, BELL, CALDWELL, DENT, FREEMAN, GRANT, HENDERSON, HOUSTON, MARSHALL, McCORMICK, NOWELL/NOELL, ORMOND, ROCKWELL, SEAMAN, TER BUSH, WELLING, and WHEELER. For an extensive listing along with the call numbers of the Anjou genealogies available at the Family History Library, see FRAUDULENT LINEAGES: http://www.linkline.com/personal/xymox/fraud/fraud223.htm http://www.linkline.com/personal/xymox/fraud/fraud224.htm See also "Watch Out for Fake Family Trees," by James Pylant, editor of AMERICAN GENEALOGY MAGAZINE: http://www.genealogymagazine.com/watoutforfak.html Estate frauds touched hundreds of thousands of American families. If you uncover references to a fortune or estate that some of your relatives tried to obtain years ago, be wary. Also, you may encounter family members who will not admit that they or their parents were defrauded and who still believe there is a lost family fortune out there somewhere. The bulk of estate frauds has been associated with common surnames. These scams -- many of which occurred about 75 to 100 years ago -- worked like this. Confidence men sought "missing heirs" by placing advertisements in the personal ads or legal notices of newspapers. Then they planted stories in newspapers about huge estates that were soon to be awarded to rightful heirs. Naturally many people responded. Then these "heirs" -- at the urging of the swindlers -- would form associations as estate claimants, incorporate under the laws of their state and write letters to their cousins encouraging them to join the association, and pay the membership dues and special assessments for legal fees to fight for their "estates." Newspaper wire services picked up dozens of such items about meetings of these various "heirs groups" in small towns. Eventually these stories began to appear in major newspapers such as THE NEW YORK TIMES. Naturally, appearance in prestigious newspapers gave credence to the stories of the estates. Among the well-known estate frauds are those for these surnames: BAKER, DRAKE, EDWARDS, EDWARDS-HALL, FISHER, HARPER, HYDE, JANS, KOHLER, MERCER, SPRINGER, and VAN HORN. Read more about the "Baker Land Hoax," "Buchanan Estate Scams," "Halberts' Clone," "False and Faked Mayflower Genealogy," "Faked Seminoles in the Confederate Army," and "Hoax of the Century," by following the links from the International Black Sheep Society of Genealogists' Genealogy Hall of Shame: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~blksheep/shame/index.htm See also: Baronage's "Caveat Emptor" http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-01/caveat02.html in re name histories and family crests; Cyndi's List: Myths, Hoaxes & Scams: http://www.cyndislist.com/myths.htm ; and Genealogical Web Site Watchdog, which lists many Web sites that provide misleading or inaccurate genealogical information: http://www.ancestordetective.com/watchdog.htm You might want to take a closer look at your family tree to see if some illustrious or phony ancestors have been grafted onto it and, if so, by whom. Before you brag to your grandchildren about those noble or royal lines, or those famous connections, be sure you are not perpetuating a myth, passing along a hoax, or barking up the wrong tree. * * * * * WORLDCONNECT TIP: CHANGING OPTIONS FOR YOUR GEDCOM* Your viewable WorldConnect file is a composite of the GEDCOM you upload and the options you select on the setup page, which include your owner information, display options, upload and download options. Unlike changes you make to the GEDCOM itself, changes in your selected options can be made without uploading a corrected file. Probably the most common option changes are to e-mail addresses and how to display records of living persons. To change options, enter the user code and password for your GEDCOM that you wish to change, then go to the setup page at http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igmuser.cgi. Click on the button for the Standard or Advanced setup page. Use the Advanced setup page if you most recently added/updated your GEDCOM before there was a choice of Standard or Advanced, or if you previously used the Advanced setup page. (If you use the Standard page after having used the Advanced page, the option of Ignore to Clean or Remove the living will change, depending upon which box you check. However, the Standard page will not automatically override any other advanced selections you previously made.) After completing selection of the options to be changed, click on the upload/update button to reprocess the existing GEDCOM. IMPORTANT: LEAVE BLANK item 8 on the Standard setup page or item 18 on the Advanced set-up page. (As long as you do not put an entry in the box for the location of the GEDCOM -- item 8 for Standard setup or item 18 for Advanced setup -- WorldConnect will know you wish to reprocess options on an existing file rather than upload a replacement file.) See more WORLDCONNECT TIPS http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/tips/ The WorldConnect database now contains nearly 29 million names. *What is a GEDCOM? Learn the answer to this and your other questions about genealogical software options in RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees, Lesson 3: Using Technology to Dig up Roots, at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson3.htm * * * * * CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. MISSING WINKS Liz Carmichael, Toronto My grandmother, Annie Henrietta WINKS (1856-1955), was one of the youngest of about 13 children, all born in England. I had a great deal of information about her and the younger siblings, but after questioning relatives had only the names of her older siblings. Two of the elder brothers were Harry and Albert. All I knew about them was the fact that they fought together with Garibaldi (around 1859-60), had stolen some chickens and were to be shot, but managed to escape. I thought that these partners in crime must have been buddies. In January 2000, I put my GEDCOM in the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ and while browsing there among the WINKS names on 3 March, I found several references to Albert George WINKS. On further examination, I found that his parents, Henry WINKS and Frances Ann WOODWARD, were my great-grandparents. But, he was married in New York and had children in Brooklyn and Utah. My family has always enjoyed traveling and this has continued down the generations, so I felt it was quite in keeping that one should have traveled to the U.S. and remained there. I telephoned one of the three submitters of this information, and she was astounded to hear from me, was not on e-mail, and knew nothing beyond the names of her great- and great-great- grandparents. Although 11 years older than I am, she is of a later generation. I subsequently sent her a 9-page document filling her in on the many details of our family. Before March was over, I received an e-mail from New Zealand -- from the great-grandson of Harry (Henry Albert) WINKS, together with a beautiful photograph of my 8-year-old grandmother in a large family group. He knew very little about the younger family members and their descendants, except that my grandmother was an artist and one of her paintings was owned by a family member in New Zealand. We corresponded back and forth over the next few days, and we have all been in a state of euphoria. In the midst of all this, I received a package from my new second cousin in Idaho, giving me family group sheets and several pages of intriguing stories about her ancestors. Her WINKS grandmother had married a Welshman who was a Mormon and emigrated with his family to Utah, then later moved to Idaho. There Albert's descendants have remained, while most of Harry's descendants have remained in New Zealand. In the meantime, I have started another branch of the family in Canada. I like to imagine Harry and Albert, once partners in crime, reunited up there and now reconnected in cyberspace, helping us to find them. * * * POST-EMS DO THE TRICK by Jillaine Smith, Washington, D.C. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jillaine/ I want to put in a plug for using the Post-Ems that RootsWeb makes available both on GEDCOMs uploaded to the WorldConnect Project http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com and on the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/ Many months ago, I was searching the SSDI, found a listing for my grandfather and "attached" a post-em, identifying him as my grandfather, and how to reach me. Months passed. I forgot about what I'd done. Then, months later, but within the same week, I received e-mails from two different distant cousins who had found me through -- in one case, the SSDI post-em, and in the second case, through the GEDCOM I'd uploaded to WorldConnect. Both were related to my grandfather John SESS. The woman who found me through the post-em on the SSDI provided a whole new generation that we had not known about, including the names of the man and wife who originally came over from Germany to Cincinnati, Ohio with four of their adult sons. I am descended from one of those sons, but I did not know about any of the others, or of the original parents who came over, or of the town from which they came. A whole new branch sprouted out of the side of my tree -- all thanks to the simple use of adding a post-em during my SSDI research. It was completely worth the extra few minutes it took. Thanks, RootsWeb, for adding such great functionality! * * * * * MAILING LISTS. For an index to most genealogy mailing lists hosted by RootsWeb, visit http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW MAILING LIST REQUESTS. 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FOR EXAMPLE, if you are interested in the surname MERZ, send your SUBSCRIBE message to MERZ-L-request@rootsweb.com NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS, GENCONNECT BOARDS, AND CLUSTERS Arey Bitzell, Brasington Cockshott, Creasy Emch Fowers Gesbeck, Goeglein Heider, Hollopeter Jakway, Jayroe, Johannsen Kellerman, Kettner, Knaggs, Kushner Lachs, Listen Mahorney, Mastenbrook, Meanes, Merz, Moodie Nefdt, Norejko Quattrone, Quinley, Quintier, Quizenbeury Rothenberger, Ryle Shrewsberry, Silhavy, Solesbury, Spurway, Staab, Stokes-WilliamHenry (decendants of William Henry STOKES) Trenham, Tribbitt Utterback VanBrocklin Wittmann, Woon NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS ENGLAND ENG-CORNWALL-LISKEARD -- Liskeard Parish ENGNGS -- Nottinghamshire Genealogy Society full members ENGNGS-CORE -- Nottinghamshire Genealogy Society officers IRELAND GEN-TRIVIA-IRELAND -- non-genealogical material IRL-GALWAY-WOODFORD -- Woodford area, County Galway MEXICO MEX-AGUASCALIENTES -- Mexican State of Aguascalientes SAINT-DOMINGUE -- Saint Domingue genealogy discussion group U.S.A. AZ-WESTVALLEYGENEALOGY -- West Valley Gen. Society (Phoenix) OTHER CASTOR-ASSOC -- Castor Association of America POWHATAN-INDIANS -- Powhatan and Wicocomico Indians * * * * * NEW WEB ACCOUNT REQUESTS. Please see the instructions at http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi 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. http://www.rootsweb.com/~[account name]. Note that the ~[tilde] before the account name is required. FOR EXAMPLE, to visit the Bremen, Germany Web page, go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~deubre/ CANADA abgrande -- Grande Prairie, Alberta ENGLAND englei -- Leicestershire GERMANY deubre -- Bremen (Federal State and City) deunsac -- Niedersachsen KOREA korwgw-s -- South Korea U.S.A. artcfha -- Tri County Family History Association (Arkansas) ingsmc -- Genealogical Society of Marion County (Indiana) kylewis -- Lewis County, Kentucky utboxeld -- Box Elder County, Utah ututah -- Utah County, Utah WORLDWIDE grc -- Genealogy Research Club SOME NEW HOMEPAGES AND FREEPAGES ADUCCI, BAMBROUGH, BISTODEAU, CZAJKOWSKI, CLARK, GUIMONT, KLIMCZAK, NAWIESNIAK, KRETZ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~patty0802 BRUSKOTTER & KESTLY FAMILIES OF OHIO AND VICINITY http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com\~welles\Bruskotter\ CAMPBELL, DAVIS, HOULAHAN, LANGANI, RYLE http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~zasu/ DAVIESS COUNTY, MISSOURI CEMETERIES: map, driving directions, photos, transcription information, more. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sareid/ IBACH Family Archives. A surname repository for IBACH, EBACH, EBOCH, EBAUGH, EIBACH, EPOCH, JBACH http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ibach/index.htm ALLEN, DIBBLE, STEWART, BERRY, CLACK, SHANKS, WILLIAMS, HANKS, WALKER, KNOWLTON, FARNHAM, READ, CARTER, QUILLEY, EVEMEY, CHARLESWORTH, HIRST, BARROW, BESWICK, HANKES, BEEBE, MORSE, TOWNE, ABRAHAM, DAVIES, PHELPS, SMITH, BINGHAM, LEWIS, HICKERSON, WOOLSEY, JORGENSEN, LARSEN, JENSEN, NIELSEN, HANSEN, ANDERSEN, MADSEN, RASMUSSEN, THOMPSON, THOMSEN, NIELSDATTER, JENSEN, NIELSEN, PETTERSEN http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~us4allen/index.html MENARY Surname Resource Site. MANAREY, MANARY, MENARAIS, MENARRY MENERAY, MENERET, MENEREY, MENURET, MINARY http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~menary/index.htm STELLMONS, BURDICKS, TRIPPS, BAKERS, WADDELLS, KINCANNONS, YENNES, LANDS, SENTEES, WILLIAMS, and allied families of Montana, Missouri, Idaho, Illinois, and Indiana. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~stelly/index.htm WAR OF 1812 SOUTH CAROLINA (rosters of South Carolina soldiers) http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~york/1812SC.html WELLS & ALLIED FAMILIES OF THE EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND AND DELAWARE (descendants of James WELL(E)S Sr.) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com\~welles\WELLES\ * * * * * 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 http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/surnames/adoptable/ o For the form to request to adopt a GenConnect surname board (the same form is used for surname mailing list requests) http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ 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: Somebodys-Links-Newsletter-L-request@rootsweb.com, you can read and post notices to the GenConnect SOMEBODY'S LINKS board: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/SomebodysLinks/ * * * * * USGENWEB ARCHIVES -- THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER contains the current USGenWeb Archives submissions from the last week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/ 24 April 2000 issue http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/2000/apr/apr24.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: usgw-archives-announce-l-request@rootsweb.com * * * * * LETTERS TO THE EDITORS may be posted to the GenConnect board at http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/RWR-LettersToTheEditor or e-mailed to RWR-Editors@rootsweb.com. * * * Thanks heaps. You have just opened up a whole new dimension in my search for my roots. Am having a ball and learning a lot. Thank you. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/ Connie consmith@wanet.com.au * * * I love the RootsWeb information you e-mail me. I have learned so much through your information. I have found my great-great- grandfather BARKER, last night only few minutes and got all eight generations from 1800 go back to 1623. It was a miracle. After 25 years, I had only from the present back to 1800s but keep me "dead end the road" for 25 years and hard search on the BARKER but nothing to be found and a lot of frustration and I have tried to use FTM CDs but nothing. So you send the Web site "Worldconnect" address, I try one time then big "jackpot" and can't believe that I have found all and retire on BARKER genealogy in few minutes. Also I found other surname line EAKLE and can't believe it was much goes as far to Germany in 1600s. I had only EAKLE from present to 1913 but not more than. I have found from 1913 goes to 1600s. I keep digging and digging and really fast finding information and it is worth rather than LDS Web site and little waste time ever taking too long search but LDS doesn't puzzle together. Highly recommend that I encourage everyone should be join GEDCOM in future if you not have on GEDCOM list then do enter your family history and will be BIG help for other can add up puzzle to puzzle. 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