ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 3, No. 21, 24 May 2000, Circulation: 615,661+ (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. 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Four new free and fully searchable databases were added to RootsWeb during the past week. o TEXAS BIRTH SUMMARY RECORDS Records (1950-1995) has 11,974,269 records with 308,979 surnames http://userdb.rootsweb.com/tx/birth/summary/search.cgi o TEXAS BIRTH RECORDS, PART 2 (1926-1949) has 3,211,268 records with 164,733 surnames. This set has more information, including the parents' names. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/tx/birth/general/search.cgi o TEXAS MARRIAGE RECORDS (1966-1995) contains 5,269,009 records http://userdb.rootsweb.com/tx/marriage/search.cgi o TEXAS DIVORCE RECORDS (1968-1997) contains 2,543,376 http://userdb.rootsweb.com/tx/divorce/search.cgi * * * SHAKING YOUR FAMILY TREE (SYFT). Myra Vanderpool Gormley's Los Angeles Times Syndicate genealogy columns are browsable at RootsWeb at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/ Read this week's column, `TAPS' HONORS AMERICAN VETERANS at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/curcolumn.htm * * * SUCCESS STORY SCRAPBOOK. Read and post your own success stories at http://resources.rootsweb.com/~press/ * * * STORIES OF VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II AND OTHER WARS. Read and post war stories from any country and any era at http://www.rootsweb.com/WWII/ * * * THE GREATEST GENERATION, WORLD WAR II is a fitting tribute on the U.S.A.'s Memorial Day. http://www.rootsweb.com/WWII/ * * * ROOTSWEB IN THE NEWS. RootsWeb was named the GnomeFAVORITE for Monday: http://www.lockergnome.com/issues/daily/20000522.html **PAID ADVERTISEMENTS** ******************************************** FREE COMPLETE CATALOG 1300+ BOOKS & CD-ROMS all published by Heritage Books, Inc. Request Catalog #150 1-800-398-7709 or heritagebooks@pipeline.com HERITAGE BOOKS, INC. 1540 Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie MD 20715 ******************************************** Just one of the tips in our FAMILY CHRONICLE article "25 Tips for Researching at Family History Centers" could help you with a breakthrough. 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THE MYSTERY OF ALLEN BRITTON by Debbie Barrett http://www.rootsweb.com/~wipierce/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywashin/ For years I had been searching for the eldest son of my great- great-grandparents, Nathaniel and Rebecca (HOUSLER) BRITTON. According to the 1850 and 1860 census for McKean County, Pennsylvania, his name was Allen and from my great-great- grandmother's 1907 obituary, I learned that he had died in the Civil War. Armed with this information I set out on my quest. I knew that the only unit recruited from Cameron County, Pennsylvania was the 84th PA Volunteers, Company G. My first order of business was to try to find a military record or pension application for Allen. Perhaps he had been married and his widow had filed for one. I sent to the NARA asking for information on Allen BRITTON, 84th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company C. I received a file several weeks later but upon inspection realized that it could not be my Allen BRITTON. This man had survived the war, married and had children. Nor did he serve from the correct unit. There were no other military records for Allen BRITTON. I knew now that I had to find a roster from the company in which he served and on a whim one day decided to check the Internet for a Web site dedicated to the 84th. I found a great one, but no roster was listed at that time. I e-mailed the Webmaster explaining my dilemma and, although he himself did not have a roster, he knew someone who did and sent me his address. I wrote to the man, a Park Ranger at the Gettysburg Memorial and received information a short while later that the only Allen listed in the 84th Pennsylvania was a William Allen FREEMAN. He was in the right unit, his name was Allen, but nothing else fit. This gentleman was later going to the NARA in Washington D.C. and offered to look for a pension file for this William Allen to see if we could determine who he was. Several weeks later I received a package in the mail from him and there inside was the pension application submitted by my great-great-grandmother based on the service of her son, William Allen FREEMAN. Along with that the historian had a letter written by another soldier telling of the death of two privates in the 84th, Co. G around the time of the passing of William Allen FREEMAN. It seems he died, as so many others had, not in battle, but in camp of disease on 10 February 1862 in [what became West] Virginia. I had not heard of Rebecca having been married twice, but here was evidence of a prior relationship so I began digging around in that. I checked the McKean County PAGenWeb site and looked in the 1840 Shippen Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania census when Allen would have been just a year old and there in the household of Rebecca's parents, John and Catherine (CHADWICK) HOUSLER, was a woman the age of Rebecca and a child the age of William. So where was her husband? Rebecca had married Nathaniel around 1844, so something must have happened to him between 1839 when Allen was born and then. Armed with this information I began a campaign of badgering my elderly relations as to who Rebecca's first husband could have been. They soon realized that I would not give up until I found what I was looking for and I was rewarded by letters written between two family genealogists in the 1940s. It appears that great-great-grandmother had not been married to the father of her first child, William. His name was not known for certain but he was possibly Benjamin FREEMAN of McKean County, Pennsylvania, who shows up later married with children. Rebecca and Nathaniel left Pennsylvania forever in 1865, going first to Iowa and then to Pierce County, Wisconsin, where both died and are buried. But what of William Allen FREEMAN? Where did he lie? I knew that many families were never able to recover the bodies of their loved ones who died in the war. Back then if the family could not afford to bring the body home, they were buried where they died. Was this William's fate? So back to the Cameron County PAGenWeb site (Cameron County was formed from McKean County in 1860) and there listed in the Rich Valley Cemetery records was William. He was brought home to Cameron County, Pennsylvania, where his grave is decorated every Memorial Day by the local inhabitants in remembrance of the sacrifice he made for his country, something for which I am deeply indebted to them. No member of my family remains in the area to pay him the honor and knowing that others are, in our place, pleases me greatly. And now, finally, thanks to the many wonderful resources the Internet offers, the truth of Allen BRITTON (William Allen FREEMAN) can be told. * * * THE MEDAL by Mary Unger [This was originally published in RootsWeb's "Success Stories Scrapbook" http://resources.rootsweb.com/~press/ and, with a few changes, is reprinted here with the author's kind permission.] About a year ago, a young relative (13) was searching through the attic furniture in his grandmother's soon-to-be sold house. In the back of a drawer, he found a matchbox. Inside was an old, tarnished American Civil War medal. Knowing that I'm the family "gene," he gave it to me. A quick polish revealed that the medal was silver, but the initials JT and the New York volunteer regiment was a mystery. None of our REED family had ventured out of Mercer County in the Civil War and none, not even the in-laws had the "JT" initials. In fact, I learned that the piece of furniture had been purchased at a yard sale -- no one knew its origin. I posted a query on a New York RootsWeb mailing list and quickly a list member e-mailed me with the name of the regiment and a list of all who had served in it. JT was identified as Jacob TEBERATH. The surname did not appear in any of the RootsWeb surname lists, so I tried the next best thing that came to mind: social security records. BINGO; there was only one hit of recent vintage in the Midwest. With long-distance operator assistance, I asked for the same spelling of the surname in the same city: there was only one match. Placing the call, I discovered that back in Germany in the mid-1800s JT was one of two brothers; he came to the United States and fought in the Civil War. His brother came after the war. Although there were no direct descendants of JT, the family members I phoned were direct relatives of his brother and had been hard at work on their family history for years. They were delighted to receive not only the Civil War medal but also a drawing of an old Civil War veteran wearing JT's medal done by the highly talented 13-year-old who had found it. * * * I have a wonderful success story of finding relatives through RootsWeb -- A one in a million chance. I knew very little of my grandfather except where he was buried. At the cemetery I found out his father and mother's first names. After going to the archives I found what had to be his family but with an older child present in the house. I searched for the surname at RootsWeb and found a few references to Oscar NAYLOR. Upon checking further I found a page by an Angela that was amazing. There was my great-grandmother and finally an answer to my questions. She was married prior to her marriage to my great- grandfather and had two boys, one having died in infancy. She then had four children, my grandfather one of them, then remarried and had another son. This third husband's name, GUMMOW, was the name my father knew her by. I also found out that she was born a BELDING and the male line back several generations from her mother Jane Ann SOUTH. Thank you so much Angela for such thorough research and RootsWeb for the opportunity to discover my heritage. Carol Ewers * * * * * 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 would like to discuss vintage photographs, send your SUBSCRIBE request to VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L-request@rootsweb.com NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS, GENCONNECT BOARDS, AND CLUSTERS SURNAMES Benjey, Bolander, Briguglio Callabro, Cascio, Collett-William (descendants of William Collett b. ca 1762 NC d. 1820/1821 Clay Co., Kentucky), Collingwood, Crate Drain Freebody Grosser, Gulline Haulk, Hayton, Hearst, Huesman Infinger Jines Kadel, Karrer, Kretchmer Laffer, Leone, Lorber Matlosz, Mercurio, McGinness, McKendree Newstead, Niernsee, Nocita Pipe, Prisock Richings Sachmann, Schneeweis, Scites, Sedgewick, Shanks-Can (Shanks family members researching the surname in Canada), Slater, Slider, Southgate, Stansberry, Stiver Worbington Simbelmqn NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS CANADA CAN-ALB-OBITS -- for posting daily obituaries only from the province of ALBERTA ENGLAND ENG-NORTH-YORKS -- interest in North Yorkshire genealogy MEXICO MEX-COLIMA -- Estado de Colima, Mexico U.S.A. MO-AR-WRV -- families of the White River Valley in Missouri and Arkansas NEW-ENG-NATAM -- History and genealogy of Native Americans in the New England area, including New York OTHER NEW MAILING LISTS GOOD-SHEPHERD-HOMES -- Good Shepherd homes for wayward girls VINTAGE-PHOTOS -- Types of photos, restoration, aging photos, proper storage, etc. * * * * * 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 LaGrange County, Indiana Web page, go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~inlagran/ U.S.A. ctsmfsd -- The Society of Middletown First Settlers Descendants (1650-1654) (Connecticut) gapchs -- Peach County Historical Society (Georgia) inlagran -- LaGrange County, Indiana nhgrafto -- Grafton County, New Hampshire ohmcogs -- Mercer County Ohio Genealogy Society okbcha -- Bryan County Heritage Association (Oklahoma) txgrimes -- Grimes County, Texas txrrcdar -- Ralph Ripley Chapter Texas Daughters of the American Revolution wiwgc -- Wisconsin Genealogical Council SOME NEW HOMEPAGES AND FREEPAGES ASHWORTH, BAKER, CARVER, EHLERS, ERICKSON, LA TOURETTE, PATZKOWSKI, SCOTT, SPONBERG, STROMBERG http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~brentspg/ BRISTOL Family Association http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bristolfamilyassociation BURGUM FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY. Researches BURGUM and BURGHAM. The society has more than 100 members in the UK, Australia, Brazil, and the U.S.A. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bfhs/index.html CHINN, MILLER, PAYTON, DUNCAN, MYERS, BISHOP, STONER, MITCHELL http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~randiem/ KINSEY/COSKREY Update. Families associated with Thomas KINSEY Sr. (1781-1868) and his wife Sarah Jane McNUTT, who died in Coryell County, Texas. Covers families across the South including BROWNING, CORNELIUS, COSKREY, GREER, GUEST, HEAD, KINSEY, MCNUTT, PUTHUFF, WHITE and many others. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~asvra/kcupdate.html PERRY, HOFMOCKEL, GIRKIN, BRUNS, BRINKMAN, CLAY, SPAULDING, MULLER, MOTT, ROUSE, FOX, MCMILLAN http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~olli/ STANCLIFF Family Home Page. Families of married STANCLIFF daughters: ADAMS, ADAMSON, ALLEN, ALLIN, ARGENBRIGHT, ARMSTRONG, BAKER, BARNES, BARRETT, BARRON, BATES, BEAGLE, BEAM, BENEDICT, BENNER, BEVIN, BOOGE, BOUGHTON, BOWMAN, BRAINERD, BRAYMAN, CARLSON, CHADWICK, CHILDS, CHILSON, CHRISTY, CLARK, COMER, COTTRELL, CRANDALL, CROUCH, CROW, CUNNINGHAM, DAVIS, DEACON, DEWITT, DICKENS, DOWNS, DUFFY, DUHADWAY, EARLE, EDDY, FITZGERALD, FITZGIBBON, FITZPATRICK, FLORY, FLUEGEL, FORD, FRANCIS, FRANKLIN, FRENCH, FULLER, GIBBS, GIDDINGS, GOFF, GOODALE, GORE, GRAFF, GREEN, GROVER, HALE, HARTER, HARVEY, HAYBARGER, HEWES, HICKS, HIGBY, HILLARD, HOLDER, INGRAM, JORDAN, KARKER, KELLER, KELLY, KELSEY, KICE, KIDWELL, KIZZIAR, KNAPP, LAKE, LEE, LESTER, LEW, LEWIS, LOOMIS, LOVELESS, MARSH, MAY, MCCANN, MCCRAY, MCFARLAND, MCNISH, MCPHEETER, MCQUISTON, MILES, MILLER, MIX, MONTOYNE, MORRISON, MOSHER, MUNROE, NEELY, NICHOLS, NIEBERT, O'DONLEY, ODELL, OLDS, OLIVER, ORE, PATRICK, PEAK, PINNEY, POTTER, PROCTOR, PUTNAM, RANDALL, REDMAN, ROBARDS, ROBERTS, ROSS, SAFFORD, SCHRIBER, SCOTT, SEAMON, SHERWOOD, SHIPMAN, SLADE, STACKHOUSE, STAFFORD, STANDEVEN, STEPHENS, STEVENS, STEVISON, STEWART, STILSON, STRADER, STRAWSER, SWARTZ, TALMAGE, TAYLOR, THOMPSON, THROCKMORTON, TRIPP, VANCISE, VAUGHN, WARD, WEESNER, WHEELER, WHITMORE, WHITTINGTON, WILCOX, WILDER, WILES, WILLARD, WILLIAMS, WISE, WISWELL, WOOD, WRIGLEY http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rstancliff/index.htm SULLIVAN/SWIETON Home Page. SULLIVAN, KERRIGAN, CUNNINGHAM, COUGHLIN, from Co. Clare, Donegal, Tyrone, Fermanagh; SWIETON, PAWLIK, KACZKA, WARZECHA from Ryglice and Jodlowa, Poland; all to Bristol, New Britain, Berlin and Meriden, Connecticut. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~msjenkins/ VAUSE, ADKINS, SHORES, PALMER, DYKES, STANLEY http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~familiesforever/ * * * * * 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/ 22 May 2000 issue http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/2000/may/may22.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. * * * One of the best "helps" that your newsletter provides is just the nuts and bolts of good research. One of the earliest things I learned from reading the personal postings was to check name variations. I thought I had scrupulously learned this, but it came home to me again just the other day. I am researching SOICE in Indiana and Kansas. I had become quite frustrated because I could find the SOICE families in Indiana in the 1880 census, but not in 1870. Since one child was old enough to have been included in the 1870 census, I started looking in other states where some related families were, but to no avail. Finally, sitting around very late night and mumbling the name aloud to myself, I realized I had committed a basic cardinal sin. I wrote down every possible sound variation of the name, went back to census records the next day and there they were under SOSS. So thanks very much! Janet Miller I can't believe I've been online at RootsWeb for a year and it is time to renew. Since contributing, I've discovered one dozen distant cousins, discovered where ALL my Polish ancestors were from (no small feat), host three surname lists (ZUEHLKE, WALOCH, and SZATKOWSKI), and subscribe to several others. However, the biggest thrill was to "meet" a fourth cousin who has my great- great-grandparents' 1880 photographs from Stargard, Pommern. She found me on WorldConnect! I'm upgrading my sponsorship! It is a pleasure to fund this program. Next year, I will want that Web space to have my genealogy site! Lauri Kraemer Serafin RootsWeb, you are incredible! Just last Saturday, May 14, 2000, I joined two mailing lists. Quite serendipitously, that very same day, I saw that the keeper of GERMAN-TEXAN-L@rootsweb.com was David Crane, with KLEIN in his ancestor list. KLEIN is my mother's maiden name (our ancestors came to Texas in 1844). I e-mailed David, who turned out to be my fourth cousin. He had no information on my grandfather's children, so I filled him in, adding about 25 KLEINs to his tree. He e-mailed me his ENTIRE RESEARCH of 30 years--can you believe it? What a wonderful man. The next day, I received e-mail from Bob Curtis in San Antonio, who forwarded an e-mail from Arthur Teschler, telling Brian Bivona in Waco for his cousin Carol Richardson for her cousin in Round Rock, about the best Translation Team on the Internet: GEN-DE-L@rootweb.com . WOW! I now have translators for my great-grandmother's diary, 1875-76, and a poem from her brother, 1859. I had given up locating a translator at an affordable price here. Thanks to you all and to RootsWeb and David Crane for making it all possible. Sarah Reveley, San Antonio, Texas Just wanted to let everyone know that RootsWeb mailing lists really work! In the past month, I have connected with three cousins and many others who have been very helpful with look-ups and suggestions. I have gotten more information in one month than I have in five years of off-and-on searching through libraries, archives, etc. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Charleen Baselice Since uploading some 10 GEDCOMs to RootsWeb's WorldConnect http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com , I have received about six e-mails, mostly regarding corrections. There is just one problem -- only two of them used the title of the file, i.e., surname. I do not maintain just one database, I have 18 of them with thousands of names. . . When writing to a submitter [it is helpful to] use the title of the GEDCOM in the subject line or to use the Post-ems [to comment]. Joyce Barnett I wanted to add to Jennifer Sutton's message. I am 17, and started my genealogy when I was 14. If you count work with my parents, I was about 9 when I started. When I first started, I subscribed to EVERY RootsWeb list that I thought I may connect with: Smith, Jones, Snow . . . you name it. All were kind to me, going out of their way to help me because I was so young. But the thing that made me mad was that libraries and archives, like the Library of Congress (and I think the NARA), won't allow researchers into the archive UNLESS they are over the age of 16 and have a picture ID. Anyone can get an ID from the DMV, but to be over 16 is hard to do. It's incidents like this which make young people believe that adults don't think they can do anything. I wanted to address this issue and make sure others knew about what happens to the younger generation. (On my father's side I've gotten back into the 1600-1500s, and on my mother's to the 1750s.) Good luck to everyone else! Sara Gredler Sweet Briar College http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sarakath/index.html * * * * * HUMOR: Why Dogs Can't Use Computers (Reason 137) They can't help attacking the screen when they hear "You've Got Mail." * * * * * 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 [author's name, e-mail address, and URL, if given]. Previously published by RootsWeb.com, Inc., RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Genealogy News, Vol. 3, No. 21, 24 May 2000. 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