ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Free Weekly E-zine Vol. 4, No. 48, 28 November 2001, Circulation: 899,127+ (c) 1998-2001 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ DO NOT USE YOUR REPLY OPTION TO SEND MESSAGES TO ROOTSWEB REVIEW ====================================================================== Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist RWR-Editor@rootsweb.com RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ Advertisement: Scott Brenay sbrenay@myfamilyinc.com ====================================================================== STOP SPREADING VIRUSES and WORMS CLEAN UP YOUR COMPUTERS--YOUR GENEALOGY DATA IS AT RISK Free Online Virus Scanner: http://housecall.antivirus.com/pc_housecall/ Use Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or 5.5? Be Sure You Have This Patch: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp Viruses, Trojans and Worms: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/virus.html ====================================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: News and Notes (1a. Spotlight on Distinctive Web Pages; 1b. New User-contributed Databases 1c. WorldConnect 1d. RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees; 1e. Shaking Your Family Tree; 1f. A Virus in Time for the Holidays; 1g. Advertisements) 2. Connecting through RootsWeb 3. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag 4. New Mailing Lists 5. New Web Pages 6. New FreePages and HomePages (Web sites) 7. USGenWeb and WorldGenWeb 8. Humor 9. Submissions Guidelines; Reprint Policy; Contacts, Subscribe or Unsubscribe Instructions; Back Issues; Missing Links ================================================================ 1. NEWS AND NOTES -------------------------------- 1a. SPOTLIGHT ON DISTINCTIVE WEB PAGES AT ROOTSWEB. BIBLES. This site has 211 Bibles (so far), most with original scanned images and transcripts. Plus there is a summary and full surname index to them. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~allister/ CAMBRIDGESHIRE [U.K.] TAVERNS AND PUBLIC HOUSES IN 1839. This is a listing town by town of the pubs and taverns in this locality, plus names of their landlords. [2-line URL] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/ 1839Pigots/1839index.html DECATUR COUNTY, IOWA. Includes postings from old newspapers, such as obituaries, social gatherings, and marriages; also township maps, many cemeteries, plus an index and transcription of "Biographical Sketches" and "History of Decatur County." http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu/ MADISON COUNTY, ARKANSAS. Drakes Creek Cemetery. There's a photo of every gravesite in the cemetery with the names listed alphabetically. [2-line URL] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdrake71053/ arcemetery_drakescreek [Editor's Note: Have you found some unique and valuable genealogical records posted on a Web site that is hosted by RootsWeb.com? If so, please let us know about it via e-mail: and don't forget to include the complete URL.] 1b. NEW USER-CONTRIBUTED DATABASES AT ROOTSWEB: ----------------------------------------------- The following datasets have come online recently: CALIFORNIA. Los Angeles County. John C. Fremont High School-S1935- Graduates. 501 records; Carolyn Wolfe-Hoffman http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ ILLINOIS. Christian County. 1928-29 Eighth to Ninth Year Graduates of the Rural Schools. 160 records; Betty K. Meadows http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ IOWA. Hancock County. Newspaper index, mostly vital statistics; 8,416 records; Carol Dean for Hancock County Genealogical Society. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/news/ MARYLAND. Howard County. Name index to the 1862 Civil War Enrollment Ledgers; 1,622 records; Richard Bush, for the Howard County Genealogical Society http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ NEW JERSEY. Hunterdon County. Musconetcong Valley Cemetery 64 records; Jackie Kube http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ OHIO. Mahoning County. Struthers High School Class of 1958 144 records; David A. Williams SHS 1958 http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ OREGON. Oregon Tombstone Pictures 474 records; Barbara Herring http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ OREGON. Multnomah County. 1936 Franklin HS, seniors, Portland 124 records; Patricia L. Dunn-Hanning http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ SOUTH DAKOTA. Brookings County. The Bomb--Brookings 1918 HS Yearbook 288 records; Gail McCormick http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ TEXAS. Bexar County. Fischer-Schertz Cemetery on Aviation Blvd. (Universal City, TX); 4 records; Bill Wilson http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ WASHINGTON. Clark County. 1958 Clark College, A thru L, Vancouver 467 records; Patricia L. Dunn-Hanning http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ WASHINGTON. Clark County. 1959 Clark College, A-J, Vancouver 529 records; Patricia L. Dunn-Hanning http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ 1c. WORLDCONNECT. Unable to find your ancestors or your cousins? Try searching the more than 179 million names at WorldConnect or post your GEDCOMs there and let your cousins find you. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ 1d. ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES. Finding your ancestors is more than typing in a name in a search engine. Learn how to find and use records where the information you seek may be buried. http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ Find Your Germanic Ancestors (also Austrian, Dutch, Belgium, Swiss, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein roots) http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson26.htm 1e. SHAKING YOUR FAMILY TREE. Preserve Your Family Stories. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/curcolumn.htm SYFT columns are archived by categories and can be found at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/ 1f. A VIRUS IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, by Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens, CGRS, CGL. See Ancestry Daily News Thursday, Nov. 29, or later at: http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/extra/4948.asp ====================================================================== 1g. ADVERTISEMENTS Free Quote for Printing Your History Sheridan Publishing, the Internet's premier printer of personal and family histories, invites you over for a free quote on printing your history. You choose the cover and design, we can do the rest: http://www.sheridanpublishing.com/ ************************************************************* The Oct/Nov issue of HISTORY MAGAZINE is on the newsstands now but you can obtain a FREE trial copy by visiting http://www.history-magazine.com/ Articles include "History of the Circus," "Highlights of the 1580s," "Development of Wallpaper," "England's Greatest Medieval Project-- The Domesday Book," "Volcanoes," "History of Arsenic Use," "History of Early Navigation," "The Evolution of Meal Times," and many others. HISTORY MAGAZINE articles cover the social conditions that affected the lives of our ancestors. Check out our Web feature "This Day in History" by visiting: http://www.history-magazine.com/ ************************************************************* The Nov/Dec issue of FAMILY CHRONICLE is a special Genealogy on the Internet issue. On the newsstands now or you can obtain a free trial copy by visiting http://www.familychronicle.com/ Articles include a survey on Uses and Abuses of the Internet plus "A Perfect Season for Searching Online," "Overcoming Brickwalls Online," "Genealogy Databases Worth Searching," "Cyndi Howells--Which Way to My Ancestors," "What is a GEDCOM File?" "Searching or Sourcing?" and "Post to Get the Most" plus many others. Purchase our fastest-selling special ever, "Dating Old Photographs" at $12 including shipping: http://www.familychronicle.com/ ====================================================================== 2. CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. --------------------------------------------------------------- CLOSING WINDOWS ON THE PAST. By Joe Flynn In March 2001 I asked RootsWeb Review for help in finding the daughter of a sailor (Garland Eddington) who was killed during the Battle of Saipan in 1944. The man was a shipmate of my brother who wrote about him in a letter home. He told of his death and that the man's wife had a baby girl two days before he was killed. My brother's letter contained probably the last conversation with the man who gave his life for his country, and told how well thought of he was by shipmates. I wanted to share that letter with his now 57-year-old daughter, but all I had to go on was the man's name and the fact that he was from Oklahoma. Within hour of my request appearing in RootsWeb Review, I received more than 20 offers to help. Some provided the basic education I needed to continue the search; others offered to research records and make copies; and still others offered timely moral support. I was given a site for the Eddington family tree and made contact with relatives who contacted other relatives. Leads ran out, however, as the widow had remarried, left Oklahoma and lost contact with the Eddington family. I also received leads on six shipmates who had served on the LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) with my brother and Garland Eddington. They gave me a warm response, including personal memories, copies of the ship's log, and even photos of Eddington. The cook told me that before the Battle of Saipan, he was preparing sandwiches and Eddington came in and said, "Cookie. If you give me a sandwich I'll do a little tap dance for you." The cook laughed, Eddington did his dance and got his sandwich. He said, Eddington was always trying to lift their spirits. The ship's skipper told me he had a letter from Eddington's wife after he was killed; a letter he would release to the daughter when we found her. One of the offers to help was from a founder of the LCI National Association who taught me all about LCIs and put me in touch with others who had been in the Battle of Saipan and the rest of the Pacific Campaign. He also told me about a national reunion of LCI sailors that I attended in Reno, Nevada last June. The background information was growing, but the search had stalled; the moral support troops then provided the encouragement to press on. Persistence and expertise in research by the volunteers and relatives paid off. New leads opened up as the new married name of Eddington's widow was found. Then a death certificate for the mother was found with lead to a city in California -- not 90 miles from where I live. Other records finally gave us the name and address of the daughter of Garland Eddington. But then it occurred to me that since she had been adopted as an infant by her stepfather she might not know of her biological father. So, back to the relatives to verify that yes, she was aware of her biological father. I wrote her a letter explaining who I was, the nature of the search and outlining the now considerable information, photos, and letters that I would like to give her. I also noted that if she did not wish to reopen this chapter of her life to let me know in the envelope I had provided. No response. After a month and numerous discussions with volunteers, I wrote a second letter with return receipt requested to verify that we had reached the correct individual. I received the signature of the missing daughter, but no further response. Obviously not the result that I and my team of hardcore optimists had hoped for. It is also a result difficult to fathom by people who devote endless time and energy to tracking ancestors and attempting to put a human face and personality on names in our family history, but we know that some people prefer to leave closed the windows to the past, and we honor that wish. The information I have gathered has been passed on to a family member who will add it to the Eddington Family History. And the offer remains open for the daughter of Garland Eddington, should time erode the barriers to revisiting the past. I want to thank RootsWeb Review and all the wonderful people who so willingly gave of their time and expertise. Without that help I would never have found her. So, for all you e-mail angels out there, and you know who you are, tilt your haloes a little -- you earned it. LAND. LOTS OF LAND =================== Thanks to RootsWeb Review I found the land John W. Campbell, my 2g-grandfather, owned in Illinois. This is great to add to my family records--Carol Powell 3. FROM ROOTSWEB REVIEW'S BOTTOMLESS MAILBAG -------------------------------------------- SHOTS IN THE DARK ================== Dorothy Paul writes: Seems that we all have some, or many, family photos that we inherit that are unlabeled. Using the new, wonderful image attachment on the Message Boards http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=main&r=rw I would like to post unlabeled photos, circa 1900 from my Grandma Paul's album to the county board where she grew up. I am hoping that houses in the photos may be in other photos that folks in the area have identified as they are rather distinctive. However, the subject of unlabeled photos is being addressed piece-meal by county sites and genealogical society sites. It would be nice to have some organized way to approach the matter. [Editor's note: Great idea. Post pictures under QUERY on surname and/or locality Message Boards since the purpose is to ask others to look at the photos and see if they can match to anything in their own collections.] CLUES IN THE KITCHEN ==================== Every morning for Grandpa's breakfast Grandma cooked him red-hot sausages and poured the grease over coffee grounds. It made about 1/4 cup. She let it set while she made the biscuits and eggs and gravy. Grandpa would spoon the mixture over his eggs and bread, instead of butter. I never thought to ask Grandpa where he got this recipe. Grandma always said it was something his mother did and was the way he liked his breakfast, he had showed her how to make it. I wonder if anyone else has ever heard of this recipe? They lived on a farm and made their own butter, so it wasn't because they didn't have butter to season with. My grandfather, James Andrew Smith was born in Randolph County, Arkansas in 1900. Family history says he had Apache and Irish roots. -- CaptGone SWEDISH-AMERICANS ================= About a year ago I accidentally found a whole branch of my grandfather in U.S.A.. I did not even know they had emigrated. One peculiar name draw my attention when I searched people from the parish where my mother was born. Now I have relatives in America -- a lot! I am in touch now and then with a very nice family and have even received photos. I still find it UNBELIEVABLE! --Eva Holmén of Gothenburg, Sweden 4. NEW ROOTSWEB MAILING LISTS ----------------------------- (Editor's Note: The following are mailing lists not Web pages) For an index to the more than 23,200 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy mailing lists, visit http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS: AMSTUTZ, ANNETTE, ARBLASTER, ARNST, ASPINALL BETAQUE CAMERON-CANADA, CAPECE, CHAMPION-UK, CURLES DAGWELL, DOBES EICKEMEYER FAGAN-IRELAND, FOSH, FOUACE, FOUACHE GAERKE, GIARDINA, GOACHER, GREININGER HARTLAND, HEADLEE, HEADLEY, HOEKEMA LAMBIE, LUCAS-AUSTRALIA MACTHOMAS, McELVANY, McGRAY, McTHOMAS MARSOLEK, MONTY, MOONEN, MOULISON, MULRONEY, MULWEE NEWNHAM-UK, NOTESTINE PRIESTER, PRINSEP, PURCELLA QUENNELL ROWLAND-UK, RUTKIEWITZ SIPCHEN, SMITH-CT, SPEDDEN, SUPULVER, SWINGLER TALADA, TAYLOR-UK, THIESSEN, TRUMPER WHOOLERY, WICHERT NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS AR-OLD-NEWSPAPERS -- Old Arkansas newspapers AR-Surnames CORNWALL-TO-NZ -- Descendants of Cornish nationality who migrated to New Zealand GENEWEAVER -- Software program for creating and maintaining your family health history GERMANS-TO-PHILA -- German immigrants to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania GOLDEN-GATE - General interest announcements relating to the Golden Gate Genealogy Forum, including both AOL- and Web-based resources and activities. OUTLAWS-OF-THE-OLD-WEST -- Research of ancestors who were outlaws of the Old West. SOUTHERN-PLANTATIONS -- History and owners of Southern Plantations VA-AfricanAmer -- African Americans in the state of Virginia WATERPOWER - Share information between family history and industrial technology WITCH-HUNTING -- For descendants of any person mentioned in original records relating to witch hunting NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS AUS-Qld-Sunshine-Coast -- Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia CT-Branford -- Branford and North Branford, New Haven, Connecticut CT-Northbranford -- North Branford, New Haven, Connecticut CT-Southington -- Southington, Hartford, Connecticut ENG-Lan-Eccles -- Parish of Eccles, Lancashire, England REQUEST A NEW MAILING LIST: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE to/from any RootsWeb-hosted mailing list, send plain text e-mail with only the word SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the message body to: [name of list]-L-request@rootsweb.com (for mail mode) or to: [name of list]-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode) 5. NEW WEB SITES AT ROOTSWEB ---------------------------- 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 next week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~[account name] Note that the ~[tilde] before the Web account name is required. AUSTRALIA auscqfha -- Central Queenland Family History Association Inc. U.S.A. aldcgs -- DeKalb County Genealogical Society (Alabama) alshelb2 -- Shelby County, Alabama coshs -- Sheridan Historical Society (Colorado_ ctcsouth -- Southington Town, Connecticut flpchs -- Putnam County Historical Society (Florida) inbarcgs -- Bartholomew County Genealogical Society (Indiana) kyahgp -- Kentucky American History and Genealogy Project kycumber -- Cumberland County, Kentucky TO REQUEST A WEB ACCOUNT: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ 6. SOME NEW HOMEPAGES AND FREEPAGES ------------------------------------ [Note: When your new personal Web pages at RootsWeb are up and ready for visitors, please send a brief description (use the style shown below) and the URL (address) to: ] Comments and questions about any of these independently authored Web pages should be directed to their respective compilers/webmasters. 1913 VOLTUNO SHIP DISASTER. In October of 1913 the ship "Volturno," sailing from Rotterdam to New York with emigrants from European countries, caught fire and had to be abandoned; 523 of the 657 persons on board were saved, but 134 persons, among who were 65 crewmembers, died in the flames or in the waves. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~daamen1/volturno/ AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER TRANSCRIPTS: Transcriptions of early Australian newspapers, particularly "The Queenslander" and others from the late 1800s to early 1900s, originally posted to Rootsweb Aust+NZ list by Bev Edmonds of Toowoomba, Qld, Australia. These include many birth, death and marriage announcements, legal summaries and gossip; also some transcriptions by Chris Bryce of some Australian newspapers of mid-1950s http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hcastle/ BURGUM FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY. Contains more than 270 pages with biographies, family trees and historical data including birth, marriage and death certificates. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bfhs KENTUCKY. Morgan County. Murphy Fork Road Cemeteries. Indexes and photographs of the majority of the gravestones in the two cemeteries -- Murphy Fork Cemetery and Ben Murphy Cemetery -- located here. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tmsgen/mfcem.html McAVAN, McEVAN, McVAN(N) Family Home Page: Information is provided on researched family lines and on miscellaneous items we would like to eventually connect with a line -- contributions are welcome. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mcvan/ RAYMOND, RAYMENTS of Essex County. Massachusetts. Photographs of 17th- century deeds from this locality involving RAYMENTS and RAYMONDS. See historic deeds such as: John RAYMENT, Roger CONANT, William DODGE, Benjamin BALCH as executors for Thomas SCRUGGS, sell property in 1656 (Book 1 Leaf 33); Richard Rayment sells one-quarter portion of ye good ketch Hopewell in 1660 (Book 2 Leaf 3), and Land purchased for the 2nd church in Beverly (Book 27, p. 161). [2-line URL] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymondfamily/ EssexCoDeeds/images_index.html TIFFANY'S GENEALOGY AND HISTORY PAGE: Home of the Iowa researcher database and Tiffany's surnames of VAN HOOSAN/HOOSEN, HOLMES, APPLEGATE, GOODEILL, SALYER, HENDERSON, MILLER, and MØLLER http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tanari/ VERMONT. Barnet, Caledonia County. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~willowvt/ WISCONSIN. Richland County Cemetery Locator. All 16 Richland townships are represented in a selection box, which will take you to that township page. Each page contains a map that shows where that township is located in Richland County and another map shows all the locations of the cemeteries within that township. Includes links to township histories, cemetery burial listings and photographs. [2-line URL] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~djnsl/ RichlandCemeteryLocator.html 7. USGENWEB and WORLDGENWEB ---------------------------- The USGenWeb Project http://usgenweb.org/ is one of the several volunteer genealogy projects and many of its states' and counties' Web pages and mailing lists are hosted by RootsWeb. THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER contains the USGenWeb Archives submissions in the last week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/ 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 Please send submissions to Maggie at arc_rwr@yahoo.com For an online version, go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/USGW-ARCHIVES-ANNOUNCE/ 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 CENSUS-ANNOUNCE-L is a USGenWeb Census Project read-only mailing list for weekly announcements of updates and submissions to the USGenWeb Census Project. To subscribe, send e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE to CENSUS-ANNOUNCE-L-request@rootsweb.com For an online version, go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/nu/ The WorldGenWeb Project http://worldgenweb.org/ is one of the several volunteer genealogy projects hosted by RootsWeb. It publishes a monthly newsletter. To subscribe to WorldGenWeb Review, send a plain text e-mail message to: WORLDGENWEB-REVIEW-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM with only the word SUBSCRIBE in the body of your message. 8. HUMOR: GENDER SPECIFIC. Thanks to Brenda Tanner My six-year-old son was looking through my family history photo album, and asked if he was related to anybody. I told him that everyone in the book was his ancestor. As he was looking at Abia William Brown Sr.'s picture, he looked up at me with a very serious expression on his face and said, "Is it all right if I call him an "anbrother" instead of an "ansister" since he is a man? 9. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES, REPRINT POLICY, SUBSCRIPTION, and HELP ----------------------------------------------------------------- ROOTSWEB REVIEW does not publish or answer genealogical queries, and the editor regrets that she is unable to provide research assistance. 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