ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 4, No. 12, 21 March 2001, Circulation: 791,921+ (c) 1998-2001 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ ROOTSWEB REVIEW and MISSING LINKS are free, weekly e-zines Editors: Julia M. Case and Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG RWR-Editors@rootsweb.com Advertising: sbrenay@myfamilyinc.com RootsWeb HelpDesk: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ Data Submission Form: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit.html New Databases (check often): http://searches.rootsweb.com/ IN THIS ISSUE o Buried Treasure at RootsWeb o News and Notes from RootsWeb (Searchable Databases at RootsWeb; Who Has the Data?; WorldConnect; Postcards from RootsWeb; Shaking Your Family Tree; RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees) o Sharing the Wealth 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 or Unsubscribe BURIED TREASURE AT ROOTSWEB. A recent addition to the vast and varied resources of the USGenWeb Archives Project and an example of the level of quality of material being placed online is THE GERMAN SETTLEMENT AT ANAHEIM, by Dorothea Jean Paule, a M.A. thesis presented to the Faculty of the Department of History, The University of Southern California, 1952. Chapters include an Introduction, Prelude to Settlement, Establishment of the Colony, Early Economic Activities, Culture and Institutions, and Growth of the Community plus an extensive Bibliography. ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ca/orange/history/anaheim/ Also included are maps showing (1) the region in 1855, (2) land owners in 1860, and (3) land utilization in 1868. The plat map showing land owners in 1860 is at [NOTE TWO-LINE URL] http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/california/citymap/ anaheim/anaheim-1860.jpg NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB SEARCHABLE DATABASES AT ROOTSWEB. RootsWeb thanks all of the individuals and groups who contribute their data to share with the genealogical community. See the full list of contributors at http://userdb.rootsweb.com/contributors.html INTERNATIONAL CEMETERY PHOTOS. Volunteers (Special Project) 2,800 records; Paula Easton http://userdb.rootsweb.com/volunteers/ * * * WHO HAS THE DATA? Does your state, province, county, parish, or church have a database available that has not yet been placed on RootsWeb and that you think would be of interest to genealogists and historians? Do you have a database other than your personal family tree (personal genealogies are best posted at WorldConnect http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ ) that you would like to share that you think would be of value and interest to others? In most cases, RootsWeb would be proud to host them. Please use the data submission form to tell us about such databases: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit.html * * * RootsWeb's WORLDCONNECT contains more than 61 million names and new GEDCOMs are added daily. Search WorldConnect and upload your own GEDCOM(s) to http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ HOW TO SUBMIT A FAMILY TREE WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A GEDCOM FILE Q. I'd like to place my family tree online, but I don't have any of the information on my computer in a genealogy program. Can I type in the information online? A. WorldConnect family tree submissions must be in GEDCOM format. Create a GEDCOM by following the instructions at http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/FAQ/wcgedcom3.html Learn about some of the most popular GEDCOM-compatible genealogy programs in RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees, Guide 3 "Software and GEDCOM" at http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson3.htm If you prefer to place your family tree online by directly entering the information rather than creating a file on your own computer, use Ancestry's Online Family Tree (OFT) at http://ancestry.com/oft/ For maximum exposure, then you can download your GEDCOM from OFT and upload it to WorldConnect. * * * POSTCARDS AT ROOTSWEB. Send free electronic greetings to online family and friends from http://postcards.rootsweb.com/ * * * SHAKING YOUR FAMILY TREE (SYFT) by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG. Did Grandpa really have to walk 20 miles to get to school? Use a Sanborn map to see if he stretched the truth a tad. Learn more about these fire insurance maps and how they can be utilized in your genealogical quests. Read this week's SYFT column at http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/syft/curcolumn.htm SYFT columns are archived by subject and can be browsed at http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/syft/ * * * ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES (RWGuide) http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ American Land Records http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson29.htm ** PAID ADVERTISEMENTS ** U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS IMAGES. Have you seen the U.S. Federal Census Images at Ancestry.com? Now you can view original documents online! Ancestry.com continues the census images project with new images from the 1900 U.S. Federal Census, adding some data from Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. Get access for only $39.95. 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HISTORY MAGAZINE is on the newsstands or you can obtain a Free trial copy by visiting http://www.history-magazine.com/ * * * Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the No. 1 Source for Family History Online. Search more than 700 MILLION NAMES and trace your family tree today. Go to: www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11GC ** END PAID ADVERTISEMENTS ** SHARING THE WEALTH by Jack Flak jackflak@earthlink.net When I was a newbie researcher, looking for any person or clue from 10 different lines I was researching, I soon found RootsWeb and left most of the other sites behind. I joined some mailing lists and placed some queries on the boards. Like so many people, I have received very little during my lifetime for free -- I paid for just about everything I have had. So, when other researchers found information for me as a result of those early queries, while I was thrilled to have it, I felt a little uncomfortable, because I didn't have to pay for it. It was given freely, generously, and that was not something I was used to. After about the tenth time this occurred, in the back of my mind the feeling of owing something was growing. After all, I now had one line all the way back to the early 1600s; two others back to the 1700s. For this, I had paid not a dime. I didn't like it, getting something for nothing -- after all, hadn't I been warned a hundred times in my lifetime that everything has its price? One day, I read a query written by a woman searching for information that I had. I quickly e-mailed her the information, and was rewarded with a return e-mail thanking me profusely for helping her find her family line she had spent months searching for, with no luck. She offered to pay me, but there was no need for that. My dilemma was solved. That I had helped her delivered me from some of that feeling that I owed something -- I had paid a little on that loan. My next step was to find out how I could help. If I gave just a little bit of my research time to helping others, I would be able to pay back what I had so freely received. I volunteered for this and for that of projects hosted by RootsWeb -- I index the obituaries in three newspapers for the Obituary Daily Times http://www.rootsweb.com/~obituary/ I transcribe census data for the USGenWeb Archives Project http://www.usgenweb.org/ ; I have posted my family information on WorldConnect http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ , I use the Post-ems features to record additional information about families and individuals, and I respond to online queries that relate to some of the more than 10,000 individuals now included in my family files, among other things. It really doesn't take that much time, and the rewards for helping other people are beyond what I ever imagined. It is better than putting money in the bank. I know that my efforts help others fill out their family trees, shortens their research time, and I hope will cause them one day to give some of their research time over to helping the next wave of newbie genealogists. I love the thanks that I get -- I admit it! And when others see the results of my research and think I have done well, I like that, too. But mostly, I like it when somebody finds their ancestors because I shared information with them, and they are left with that feeling of wonder and intrigue that goes along with finally finding ancestors you've been looking for, or that you didn't know existed. So, as I indirectly repay those who were so helpful to me, I am rewarded all the more. Many thanks to RootsWeb for making this possible. CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. SHETLAND STRAYS WANDER FAR by Chris Best, Birmingham, England chris@best.u-net.com I have been researching my Shetland Islands, Scotland, ancestry for a few years, particularly my father's SCOTT / THOMSON family who left the tiny Shetland settlements of Hoswick and Channerwick about 1855. I thought it would be an impossible task to find them post-emigration. However, I visited the archives in Sunderland, County Durham, England, looking particularly at the 1861 census (as I knew the family were not mentioned in the 1861 census in Shetland and there were Sunderland connections). Whilst looking in the census I came across some Shetland strays (not connected with my family) which I posted on the RootsWeb Shetland message board. I thought no more of it; then a couple of days later I had an e-mail from a lady in Queensland, Australia. She was writing on behalf of a friend of hers who had been looking for her grandmother's family for 16 years without success and wondered if I had come across a family called SCOTT while I was searching the census. Yes, you've guessed it -- connections. The friend's grandmother was my great-grandfather's sister. We have been corresponding for a while now and I hope to meet her one day soon. We both have a whole lot of new "rellies" as they say in Australia. Oh yes, and a contact I had made through RootsWeb found all the family together in the 1861 Sunderland census -- the Australian lady's grandmother had been born there in 1860. Thanks, RootsWeb, for bringing us together. LEONIDAS AND PERCIFUL UNITE CLAN by Lillian Stauffacher lilbear@itctel.com I have used RootsWeb to try to find links to my father's long- lost family. When my step-grandmother died in l965, we lost our last living contact with dad's side of the family. When dad, Harold NEWELL, died in l962, we kept the family Bible, but no one took much interest in it, nor did they have anyone contact the family for information. Last summer, I decided it was high time I began the search. I had recently learned that my great-grandfather's name was Leonidas NEWELL. I knew that he had two children, one being Perciful Aldelbirt NEWELL. I left a message on a NEWELLL message board at RootsWeb, asking anyone with a Leonidas and Perciful NEWELL connection to contact me. Within 24 hours I had two responses! The first was from Gayle Caldwell, who later told me she had never gone to the message board until the night she read my message. It turned out to be that our great-grandfathers were brothers. The other person, Bill NEWELL, was also connected through another brother Leonidas. The three of us have become instant e-mail friends, exchanging much family history, pictures of an 1898 NEWELL family reunion that has everyone identified, and events of our own lives. I have the family Bible, Bill has 30 years of extensive genealogical work, and Gayle has genealogical connections through years of research. Although I have little knowledge of the "correct" way to do genealogical study, I have been able to provide middle names of ancestors, verify birth and death records, and make connections to other branches of our tree. Bill was able to tell Gayle and me that there should be a lot of other members of our tree. You see, Leonidas NEWELL was one of 10 children born to the union of George NEWELL (born 13 November 1812 in Brown County, Ohio and died 24 January 1882 in Birmingham, Van Buren County, Iowa) and Matilda Jane MOORE (born 11 April 1833, Warren County, Indiana. We have recently found one more cousin, but we would welcome any other family member to contact us. Genealogy has given all of us a real sense of belonging, as well as bringing out a certain amount of the "Sherlock Holmes" that lies dormant in all of us. We often joke about the fact that our NEWELL clan is up in heaven leading all us "earthly" creatures to each other. Among the other things that never cease to amaze us is how close our ancestors came to each other, often without knowing another family member was within a 15-minute drive. Are other people still out there who could be as close? Only time can tell us. Eternal thanks to Leonidas and Perciful for guiding us all to each other. FIDDLING AROUND by Nancy Guy nancyguy2000@yahoo.com A few years ago I got interested in genealogy and decided to trace my mother's family with as many pictures as I could find, hoping one day toput it into book form and give to her as a gift. My mother has helped a great deal by giving me all my grandmother's pictures, but many were not identified. I decided to use this rule of thumb -- if I could get at least three older people in the community to tell who a person is with no prompting then I would write the name on the back of the picture. This has worked out very well; some even had more than the three to identify them. However, there was one very old picture no one could identify of a man holding a fiddle standing beside a man holding a banjo. I had had the picture four years and had shown it to everyone I thought might have known the men, but no one knew. One day, my husband and I were in a used book store, when he found one called MUSIC FROM EASTERN TENNESSEE. As he looking through it, he yelled, "Hey! Here's your picture." In the book was my picture identified as "unnamed musicians." We dug deeper in old books and magazines and found another book that had old store records from Butler, Tennessee, and in the book was my great-great-grandfather's name. He had bought fiddle strings at this store. When we got home, my husband took out a picture of my great- grandfather and the man with the fiddle who might be his father. The resemblance was uncanny. Still, I wasn't sure, but when my mom's oldest sister called me and I told her all about it, she said, "You know I never thought, but dad always said he had a picture of his grandfather and we never knew which one it was because they were unnamed. I bet that's the one." Finally, I still wasn't sure, but one day while visiting a very distant relative, we were going through her mother's pictures and she had a copy of the picture. When I ask her who it was she said, "I'm not sure but the name `Johnson' is written on the back." I had my answer. My great-great-grandfather's name was Johnson POTTER. What is so neat about all this is I have a granddaughter and this picture is of her great-great-great-great-grandfather. One day, when I get this book done, I will have a copy made for her so she will remember her people and where she came from. That is why I think RootsWeb is so special. I have gotten information from it I couldn't have gotten anywhere else. * * * * * MAILING LISTS. For an index to the more than 21,000 RootsWeb- hosted genealogy mailing lists, visit http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW MAILING LIST REQUESTS. Please request new mailing lists at http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE from a RootsWeb-hosted mailing list, send e-mail 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 in the history, genealogy, and stories of life along Kentucky's Little Sandy river, e-mail your subscribe request to KY-LITTLE-SANDY-L-request@rootsweb.com NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS, GENCONNECT BOARDS, AND CLUSTERS Arter Boening, Bongerz, Bradsworth Cozza, Craswell, Croteau, Croto, Crotto Danehower, Derstine, Dippman, Dom Effinger, Elsperman, Emanuels, Engstrom, Ernstmeyer, Escritt, Evsay Faux, Ferlic, Fraley-East-KY, Fye Gaut, Gean, Girardin, Goethe, Goshorn, Grobe Hack, Hanan, Hariston, Harnes, Hearns, Hierl, Hilz, Hinchliffe, Huyett, Hysell Joines Kellaway, Kelloway, Kilroe, Kissler, Klimasz, Knoell, Knowell Larew, Lashinski, Lavigne Mayall, Mlodzik, Moroyoqui Nolder, Novacek Ohannan, Ohanneen, Ohannon, Oyervides Perrett, Petersdotter, Phillis, Pilitowski, Piloli, Planner Rehberg, Rementer, Remmel, Rodgers-Irish, Roelofson, Roessler, Rogers-Irish, Rogers-MD, Rogers-NC, Rogers-OH, Rogers-VA, Rogers-WVA, Rupple, Rutkowski Shutts, Siller, Silvestri, Sixgunlover, Sleisher, Snipp, Sturgill, Suloff Tyler-William (descendants of William TYLER) Vehar, Verveelen Wheatleigh, Winandy, Wuyek Yearsley Zoz NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA-SCHOOLS -- school information and past pupils CANADA CAN-ONT-PARRY-SOUND -- "non-society" county/district list CAN-ONT-RENFREW -- "non-society" county/district list CAN-ONT-SUDBURY -- "non-society" county/district list U.S.A. KY-LITTLE-SANDY -- History, stories, and genealogy along the Little Sandy River of Kentucky OH-MV-MEMORIES -- the old days in the Miami Valley of Ohio ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS IA-IRISH -- Irish born who settled in Iowa TEXTPAD TX-LOOSE-ENDS -- For those living out of area wishing to receive Lynna's column, post queries, or discuss it * * * * * NEW WEB ACCOUNT REQUESTS. Please see the instructions at http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ 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 Web page for Gwinnett County, Georgia, go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagwinne/ CANADA nscdartm -- Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (community) ENGLAND enggroid -- GRO Index Searches GREECE grcwgw -- Greece WorldGenWeb IRAN irnwgw -- Iran WorldGenWeb U.S.A. fllkcdar -- Lawrence Kearny Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Florida) gagwinne -- Gwinnett County, Georgia iadickin -- Dickinson County, Iowa iarecrds -- Iowa Records iawinneb -- Winnebago County, Iowa idbonnev -- Bonneville County, Idaho kspratt -- Pratt County, Kansas mnpope -- Pope County, Minnesota mnwabcw -- Wabasha County, Minnesota Civil War Records mnwabbio -- Wabasha County, Minnesota Biographies and Historical Information mtgolden -- Golden Valley County, Montana mtravall -- Ravalli County, Montana nvcarson -- Carson County, Nevada nvesmera -- Esmeralda County, Nevada nvlvnfhc -- Las Vegas Nevada Family History Center nycnydar -- Champlain, New York Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution vasnptmp -- Shenandoah National Park -- the mountain people (and their descendants) SOME NEW HOMEPAGES AND FREEPAGES BEV'S GENEALOGY PAGE. Focus on Polish, Italian, and Latin American research. Surnames: BRYCHEL, SIKORSKI, TURZYNSKI, TENUTA, WILSON, BRADLEY, RAUDALES, QUIJANO, CARIAS, and VARELA. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bevsgenealogy/ HARDCASTLE GENEALOGY. Hardcastle from Yorkshire, England (and migration to the U.S.A.). Also includes for Yorkshire: BENSON, BEST, COATES, ENGLAND, GILL, GRA(I)NGE, HOLMES, JOY, LEATHAM, LEWIS, NELSON, ROWLENSON, SA(U)NDERSON, SINGLETON, THORNTON, WALKER and WATKINS. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mikecast/ HUBBARD GLEANINGS. HUBBARD and associated lineages that began in New England. Data, files, photos, many links. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hubbard/ MARKLAND AND ALLIED FAMILIES (VIRGIN, BOULWARE, GENTRY, HARDISON et al.) Data from the National Archives includes Revolutionary War pension transcripts, wills, and transcripts from the papers of the Continental Congress. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~familyinformation/ SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS, 1907. Photographs and biographies of select school superintendents (various cities and states). [NOTE TWO-LINE URL] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ ~censusresearch/Superintendents/BiographyIndex.htm SNOW and RIVETT FAMILY GENEALOGY. Also ROBERTSON, ELKIN, CUMMING, HEATLY, JOHNSTON, CULBERT, LANSING, and RAPSON. Ancestors from England, Scotland and Ireland. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~snowbird/ SWICORD BRANCHES. Families of South Carolina/Georgia who were from Black Forest area of Germany. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rswicord/ UK. ENG-SHEFFIELD. Connected with mailing list for those researching ancestors in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/ * * * * * GENCONNECT. RootsWeb hosts many surname GenConnect boards that are in need of people to support 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/ * * * * * USGENWEB ARCHIVES. THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER contains the USGenWeb Archives submissions during the last week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/index.htm USGW-ARCHIVES-ANNOUNCE is a read-only mailing list for weekly announcements of updates and submissions to the USGenWeb Archives. To subscribe, send e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE to USGW-ARCHIVES-ANNOUNCE-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com For an online version visit http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/USGW-ARCHIVES-ANNOUNCE Please send submissions to Maggie at arc_rwr@yahoo.com DAILY-UPLOADS-L is a read-only mailing list that announces every file uploaded or changed in the USGenWeb Archives. To subscribe, send e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE to DAILY-UPLOADS-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com * * * * * LETTERS TO THE EDITORS. Please send letters and all submissions as plain text e-mail messages (no attachments or html) to RWR-Editors@rootsweb.com [We might have published this letter when it arrived six months ago, but even so we think it bears repeating as a nifty and timely tip, with cemetery h[a]unting season (between snow/ice and snakes/tics/chiggers/poison ivy) upon us in many places.] LOCATING SMALL GRAVEYARDS. When searching for a graveyard in the woods where you know it is in the general area, stand back and take a good look. If you see any trees out of proportion, by being taller than the rest, start your search there. For 40 years I have been locating old cemeteries and have found this to work in many instances. Loggers will rarely cut a tree around a graveyard. Carolyn Ballantyne, Maine gore@pivot.net * * * [This is part of a message that appeared on 6 February 2001 on the mailing list ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com under the subject "4 years later... A Roots-L success story"] From 1992 to 1996 I was working on a single person project. I was trying to find any descendants of my client/friend's uncle, Gilbert Haven Wilson. Today, I had the pleasure of showing Gilbert's burial site and last residence to his great grandson (Brad); all because of a query I placed in Roots-L on 31 December 1996. The funny thing is that the query wasn't so much on information on Gilbert himself, but on the subject: WWI musician -- how do I find out more? Actually, I never did get an answer to the query itself, but since Gilbert's name was listed in the query, Brad found it and tracked me down to see if maybe Gilbert was the same Gilbert for whom he was looking. It was the same man, and Brad had to come to Los Angeles county for a conference, so we arranged to meet and I took him to the cemetery, and then to the location where Gilbert had lived. Naturally, Brad has been thrilled to find his great-grandfather, and great-aunt (who is living), and through her, Gilbert's ancestry. But the real pleasure was mine -- in being able to have some closure on a man who I tracked to many locations across the [U.S.A.]. Never give up on a query -- the answer many come four years down the line like mine did. My e-mail address had changed, but Brad found me using the Internet because I keep a high profile and have a permanent forwarding address through Switchboard. Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett kathryn@bassett.net * * * * * HUMOR. Thanks to John L. German JOHGER@SAFECO.com WE HAVE LIFT-OFF When still a young man, Uncle Harvey was told he would live a long life by adding a little gunpowder to his breakfast every morning. So every morning for the rest of his life he sprinkled some gunpowder on his morning eggs or corn flakes. The formula seems to have worked as Uncle Harvey lived to be 106 years old. At his death he left four children, 26 grandchildren, 58 great- grandchildren, 12 great-great-grandchildren, and a 15-foot hole in the wall of the crematorium. * * * * * ROOTSWEB REVIEW and MISSING LINKS do not publish queries and the editors regret that they are unable to provide research assistance. You can subscribe to the relevant surname and locality mailing lists http://lists.rootsweb.com/ and then post queries to those lists. You can access all of the resources and search all of the databases hosted by RootsWeb by starting at RootsWeb's main page http://www.rootsweb.com/. Be sure to search the WorldConnect database (which now contains more than 61 million entries from GEDCOM files uploaded by RootsWeb users) frequently, as new material is added daily. Any letter, story, or article submitted for consideration for publication in ROOTSWEB REVIEW or MISSING LINKS or should be sent as a plain text e-mail message to rwr-editors@rootsweb.com 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]. 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