ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Free Weekly E-zine Vol. 4, No. 52, 26 December 2001, Circulation: 903,629+ (c) 1998-2001 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ Do not reply to this message. This is a post-only mailing. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see instructions at the end. Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist RWR-Editor@rootsweb.com Advertisement: Scott Brenay sbrenay@myfamilyinc.com =================================================================== IN THIS ISSUE News and Notes (1a. Spotlight on Some Distinctive Web Pages; 1b. New User-contributed Databases; Paid Advertisements) 2. Connecting through RootsWeb: "But Grandma, What a Funny Name You Have;" "From Europe with Love;" and "Santa Delivers Early" 3. New Mailing Lists 4. New Web Pages 5. New FreePages and HomePages (Web sites) 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag 7. USGenWeb and WorldGenWeb 8. Humor: "When You're Having Fun Anyway." 9. Submissions Guidelines; Reprint Policy; Contacts, Subscribe or Unsubscribe Instructions; Back Issues ================================================================ 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a.SPOTLIGHT ON SOME DISTINCTIVE WEB PAGES AT ROOTSWEB ARKANSAS. Federal Land Records. Pre-1908 Homestead and Bounty-land Patents index. Arranged alphabetically by counties. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ar/fedland.htm CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. St. Michael's Catholic Church (1633 N. Cleveland Avenue). This church was built in 1852 by German settlers and rebuilt in 1872 after the Great Fire of 1871. Its records contain many baptism entries for children whose parents came from all over Germany, Poland, Bohemia, Austria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Many of these records provide the exact birthplace of the parents. The years of 1870 and 1871 have been extracted by W. David Samuelsen, of the GermanyGenWeb Project. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wggerman/databases/stmichel/index.htm OREGON. Multnomah County. Listing of the area's yearbook indexes. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/or/multnoma/schools/ 1b. NEW USER-CONTRIBUTED DATABASES AT ROOTSWEB: ----------------------------------------------- The following datasets have come online recently: IRELAND. Trehy Vital Records (Births) 282 records; Patrick C Trehy http://userdb.rootsweb.com/uki/ U.S.A.: World War I. USS Lake View Log Book Officer List. 28 February 1918; 11 records; Dr. Brian P. Parker http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ FLORIDA. Okaloosa County. Almarante Cemetery 601 records; James Wood http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ FLORIDA. Okaloosa County. Magnolia Cemetery 190 records; James Wood http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Grafton County. Various cemeteries in Haverhill; 3,226 records; Connie Verratti http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ OKLAHOMA. Jefferson County. Hastings Cemetery 1,217 records; Jim Smith http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ OREGON. Multnomah County. 1927 Jefferson High School, Portland; 235 records; Patricia L. Dunn-Hanning http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ OREGON. Multnomah County. Ulysses S. Grant High School 1931 Yearbook, Portland; 150 records; Patricia L. Dunn-Hanning http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ PENNSYLVANIA. Lehigh County. Christman [surname] marriages; 610 records; Douglas E. Hill http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ TEXAS. Wood County. Ebenezer Cemetery; 48 records; Gary Hardy http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ WASHINGTON. Clark County. 1959 Clark College (K through Z); Vancouver; 514 records; Patricia L. Dunn-Hanning http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ WASHINGTON. Yakima County. 1926 Wapato High School Yearbook, Wapato; 337 records; Patricia L. Dunn-Hanning http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ RootsWeb thanks the individuals and groups who contribute their data to share with all of the genealogical community. See the full list of contributors at http://userdb.rootsweb.com/contributors.html 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 databases -- other than your personal family tree (genealogies should be 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. 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I am a "newbie" and could use all the help I can get, which is why I thought getting your trial offer would be good. It came in the mail yesterday and I've read it twice since then! It was packed with information and provided additional insight on the quality of data obtained through the Internet, which I found very helpful. The articles regarding the various software programs available confirmed my own thoughts--good organizational tools. I highlighted the various Web sites noted throughout the issue and plan on checking out every one. I felt I just had to tell you how terrific this issue was to me. It is a delight! A goldmine of information, suggestions on research and assistance. In closing, I'd like to let you know that I am subscribing today. Sincerely, Linda T. Adams " To receive your free trial copy visit" http://www.familychronicle.com/ **********************END OF PAID ADVERTISEMENTS********************** 2. CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- BUT, GRANDMA, WHAT A FUNNY NAME YOU HAVE By Kurt Pickering pickeringenealogist_hodges@hotmail.com Today, I gave up -- then took one more shot and scored! My great- grandmother, Ella Mae EVANS, has been rather a thorn in my family tree. I knew she'd been born in Illinois about 1866 and in 1889 married my great-grandfather--Emery Charles HODGES, son of Harden and Phoebe [LOVELESS] HODGES in Champaign County, Illinois. On a rare visit to the National Archives, I (finally) corralled her in the 1880 censuses of Champaign County, in the household of George and Minerva EVANS, and then found the "pre-Ella" family in 1860. One put them in Homer, the other in South Homer, and one gave Minerva's middle initial as A. George EVANS is a blacksmith born in New York; Minerva turns out to have been born Minerva Ann DUNHAM in Ohio, where George appeared as a 19-year-old New York-born blacksmith in the 1850 census. The 1850 census has her in the household of one Spencer DUNHAM; her mother's name looks to me (and a friend at the library) like Elora but other genealogies say it's Eliza; she was a New Jersey native. George and Minerva married in Ohio in 1855. But where the heck were they in the 1870? No index shows them that year. It wasn't the year that only households with young kids were indexed [Editor's note, that would be 1880], and even if it had been there should have had a whole bunch of kids -- Charles T., Emma, Lotty J., George W., Ella Mae, maybe even Samuel C. I posted all this to the Evans and Illinois census lists often, to no avail. I even found several George Evanses in 1870 Chicago and wondered if business or other factors had temporarily separated them. Today, I decided they must be one of those families who were just flat missed. Still, figuring how big can Homer, Illinois be, I decided to go last ditch: forget the index and cruise the Ancestry.com census images line-by-line. [Editor's note: Homer, Illinois had a population of 917 in 1890]. Homer Village only has 20 pages; near the top of page 18, I see: DUNNAN, Eliza, age 58 -- born in New Jersey! That was SOOO close to Minerva's mother, Eliza DUNHAM, that I went back through the ditto marks to find the household surname. It didn't match, BUT then I looked at the kids' first names: Samuel, 1; Ellen, 3; George, 5; Lotta, 7; Emma, 11. Even though the surname doesn't match and Ellen should be Ella, it was just too much for coincidence. Back I went to the bottom of page 17, where I found: Charles, 14; Minerva, 34; and George, 33. George is a New York-born blacksmith; Minerva is a 34-year-old Ohio native. George is too young by 10 years, but Minerva's perfect -- and all the kids' first names plus the mother-in-law are just too much for coincidence. Also, George owns $15,000 worth of real estate (in 1870, remember!) -- and Mom had said her grandpa married his wealthy boss's daughter. So why didn't anyone ever find them before? Because the surname written both next to George on page 17 and next to Emma in the carry- over on page 18 (the rest being ditto-marked) was EWING rather than EVANS. Good grief. An index is a great thing, folks. So is the census itself -- as is Ancestry.com for placing it online, since I could never before get at northern censuses here in Tennessee. But because enumerators were human -- maybe hard of hearing, maybe careless, maybe grossly incompetent -- stay at it the way Sam Spade would. I'm sorry, does that date me? Keep at it as Thomas Magnum, Sonny Crockett or Nash Bridges would! * * * FROM EUROPE, WITH LOVE By Linda Bellofatto lbellofatto@snet.net You asked for stories about connections made through RootsWeb this year. (I also have an Ancestry.com subscription). I had posted a surname query on several message boards, including one for Bohemia. I was looking for information about my great-grandfather, about whom we knew very little, including the original spelling of his last name. As the result of research my father and some other relatives did years ago, I did have a lot of information about said great-grandfather's wife's family and offered to share it. Although these family histories had been sent around to various relatives in the early- to mid-1970s, I thought perhaps some of the younger generations might not have seen this information and might be interested. I received a notice that my posting had a reply. It was from a woman who was doing research for her father-in-law. They had been searching for several years and had had no luck. They knew that her father-in law's father had changed the family name, but they thought it had been the same as one of the names I posted. There had been some sort of rift or falling out in the family with the result being they knew very little about the family, only that they were Bohemian, and the names of her father-in-law's grandparents. After getting a little more information from her, I found a match in my family tree. Her father-in-law and my father are second cousins, and thus her husband and I are third cousins. I sent copies of the family histories that I had, which traces the family back to the early 1800s. We also exchanged scanned photos via e-mail. I now have "new" cousins who have also become friends. By using the SSDI (Social Security Death Index) I discovered one "old timer" -- in her 90s -- from the same family tree but descended from a different sibling) had passed away very recently. I was then able to find her obituary and through that the addresses of her children. They were unaware that they had relatives on the East Coast, and now I have some other new friends. We have also shared photos and histories, which I have in turn shared with the first group I mentioned. Through another posting to the Czech Republic General Message Board, I obtained the name of a researcher in the Czech Republic. Today I received the results of some of his initial research. We've finally tracked down that original great-grandfather I mentioned, and although he often proclaimed himself to be Bohemian, it turns out his family is from a town in what is now the Ukraine. I also found out the marriage dates for my great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents as well as a lot of other useful information. Through the BOHEMIA mailing list I found out the immigration date of another branch of the family, including the fact that two previously unknown siblings came over with them! So you can see, RootsWeb and Ancestry have been instrumental in so many breakthroughs in my research. And I just started this past spring. I can't wait to see what I'll turn up in 2002. * * * SANTA DELIVERS EARLY By Pat Scheele pat@nebraskaruralweb.com http://www.ancestorstories.org/ An elderly woman I knew as "Aunt Minnie" was always assumed to have been adopted into my family. She was raised with my grandfather, Bill MARTIN, in and around Granite City, Madison County, Illinois in the 1920s and 1930s. I wrote to Aunt Minnie hoping to glean some memories of her childhood and found out that she was born to a Hattie BESSON in St Louis, Missouri, but was left to board with an elderly couple, Charles and Lydia GAULCH who lived near Belleville, Saint Clair County, Illinois. When Charles died, she then went to live with a couple in Belleville by the surname of GROOM, and was legally adopted by them. As long as she could remember, my relatives, Estelle (CAMPBELL) PUFALT and Charles PUFALT came to visit every Sunday -- a trip of 20 to 30 miles -- by car in the 1920s. One day Estelle quit coming and Frances, her sister came. At some point, due to some family problems, Minnie went to live with my great-grandma Frances (CAMPBELL) EFTIMOFF. Minnie actually used the name of Minnie GALCH (a variant spelling of GAULCH) for years because she did not have ready access to the adoption papers to prove the GROOM surname. Minnie tried for many years to find her birth family, but to no avail. By the time that I began writing to her, she had formed her own ideas and just wasn't interested. But I continued to look on the Web and ended up connecting with Merl BESSON. Merl, it seems, is Minnie's cousin that she has never known. We have sent many letters back and forth and Minnie continues to remember small details that have helped us in our research efforts. However, several mysteries remain: --How is Hattie BESSON connected to the GAULCH family? --How were Charles and Lydia GAULCH related to the GROOM family? --How is my CAMPBELL family related to the GROOMS, GAULCH, and BESSON families? My best present came in the mail yesterday when I got a wonderful "thank you" letter from Minnie. While there are still many unanswered questions, she has found a cousin in Merl BESSON. RootsWeb provided the space for much of the information that I found that helped me find Hattie and Merl. This should be a good lesson to all of us, not to give up looking. Aunt Minnie is now almost 90 and just found her roots. Happy new year to all. 3. NEW ROOTSWEB MAILING LISTS ----------------------------- (Editor's Note: The following are mailing lists not Web pages) For an index to the more than 23,600 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy mailing lists and easy subscribing options, please visit http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS BOUSMAN CARUS-WILSON-ENG-CORNWALL -- CARUS WILSON surname in Cornwall, England DUREPAIRE FARR-UK HAWKINS-ENG-CORNWALL -- HAWKINS surname in Cornwall, England JAUCH LEBENBERG PLAYFAIR VISCHER WITHNALL NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS AL-CIVIL-WAR -- descendants of persons from Alabama who served in the Civil War NY-RGS -- Rochester (New York) Genealogical Society members NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS U.S.A. NY-HUDSONRV -- Genealogy, history and culture of the counties bordering the Hudson River 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) TO REQUEST A NEW MAILING LIST: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ 4. 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. LITHUANIA ltuwgw -- Lithuania NEW ZEALAND nzlnorth -- Northland U.S.A. nerock -- Rock County, Nebraska nvwhite2 -- White Pine County, Nevada TO REQUEST A WEB ACCOUNT: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ 5. 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: rwr-editor@rootsweb.com ] Comments and questions about any of these independently authored Web pages should be directed to their respective compilers/webmasters. BISBEE. Researchers willing to do research for other Bisbees; links to more BISBEE family sites. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bisbee/Research.html BOYD. The Ancestors of Lawrence Gardner Boyd with more than 1,000 names, all indexed. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lgboyd/default.htm In 1991 William Riley Boyd published THE DESCENDANTS and ANCESTORS of JAMES BOYD and NANCY WIER, it is now published here with a few corrections and additions. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lgboyd/boydbook.htm DURRENBERGER FAMILY. Information and tree of the family from Alsace, Switzerland, and America. Includes variant spellings of DERRENBERGER, DERENBERGER, DERNBERGER, TERRYBERRY, TERABERRY, etc. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fams/durrenberger/ FREILINO, THOMPSON GENEALOGY WEB SITE: FREILINO and BARISONE in Asti, Italy and Pennsylvania; TIPPETT in Cornwall, England; Tennessee and Pennsylvania; ARCHIBALD in Scotland and Pennsylvania; HINES in County Galway, Ireland, New York and Pennsylvania; TRASK in Ohio; LEHMAN in Pennsylvania; and BRAGG in New York. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~freilikl GENEALOGICAL WASTE BASKET. Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files: CALHOUN, BRIANT/BRYANT, FRANK, HARALSON, PAINTER. Civil War Pension Files: PAINTER. Civil War Service Records: PAINTER, FICKLIN. Photocopies available by U.S. mail. Estate file abstracts: David PAINTER, Henry REED, William BRYAN, Enos STONE, Robert VANRENSSALAER, Cotton SMITH. Photocopies by U.S. mail. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~westward/military.html HAND, BEEMAN. HAND of Cape May, New Jersey and Washington County, Ohio; BEEMAN of Warren, Connecticut and Portage County, Ohio; and the 1782 Volunteer Militia from Washington County, Pennsylvania and the Moravian Indians Massacre. George C. Willison's Home Page. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gwilli824/ HARRISON, DAVIS, STILLWELL, OGLESBY, ROE, CROSE, SAGER, AKE, WRIGHT, and SOULE. The Descendants of William HARRISON who seek to discover documentation of the lineage of William Harrison, a supposed son of Benjamin (IV) Harrison and Anne (Carter) Harrison, and to find parents of Martha STILLWELL and explore collateral family lines. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~maizeblue6/index.html LANGHORN. The Terry LANGHORN Family History Pages; developed by a small, dispersed group of researchers living in England -- in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Hampshire and Gloucestershire; with cousins elsewhere in the world, notably in the United Stats, Canada and South Africa. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~langhornline/ MISSOURI. Christian County cemeteries. ROLLER CEMETERY with links to whom is buried where, and more than 80 pictures of grave markers. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lgboyd/rollercem.htm VAUGHN CEMETERY: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lgboyd/vaughn.htm HOLLAND/JONES CEMETERY: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lgboyd/hollandjones.htm NEW YORK GENEALOGY AND BEYOND. Major sections include TUBBS and COLVIN (Steuben County, and others) JAQUAY (Madison County), GROVER (Tompkins County), REIGLE/RIEGEL (Seneca County), CROSGROVE & MATEER (Chautauqua County), and records and photos from Westfield, Chautauqua County. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~taughannock/ O'NEALS IN DELAWARE: Birth, marriage, death, census, and land records, etc. Related surnames: AUGUST, CHIPMAN, DORRIS, GINDER, GRAHAM, LANK, SPICER, and WALKER. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~august/ RATLIFF, SMITH and allied lines. Family History. Many Quaker lines, photos, documents, and more. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monticue/ RELATIONSHIP CHART. Yet another way to explain cousin relationships, but not using a table. [2-line URL] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kordyban/chart/ relationship_chart.html TAFT FAMILY RESEARCH AND RESOURCES. Includes information on the Taft Family Association. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~taft/ WALES. MOSS VALLEY. 19th-century and early 20th-century transcripts (broadly UK-related) and illustrations providing background info for family history research; local history for the Wrexham area, north Wales; and some photos. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mossvalley/ 6. FROM ROOTSWEB REVIEW'S BOTTOMLESS MAILBAG -------------------------------------------- FOUR-WHEELING OVER A 40-YEAR-OLD BRICK WALL By Lisa Bohac Oh2BaCat@aol.com My mother began researching in the early 1960s when researching family roots really wasn't popular. Although my mother has been admitted to DAR (Daughters of American Revolution) and to UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), she continues in her quest to tie up loose ends. One of those loose ends was to locate the grave site of her 2-great-grandfather, Wm. F. M. ALLEN. Cemetery listings in books had been of no help, and very few clues were available. A serious search to locate his grave site occurred when my mother, my Aunt Bettye, and I, took a three-day genealogy trip to East Texas. Through uncommon and unexplainable means, we found a way over our brick wall. At 3 p.m. on the last day of our research trip we made our final stop at the genealogical society's library in Sulphur Springs (Hopkins County), Texas. We searched through and studied books feverishly since the library closed at 5 o'clock. I decided to look at land records and found where Wm. F. M. ALLEN, had, indeed, owned land in Hopkins County back in the late 1800s. I consulted with a volunteer, who then eagerly went to the old, stored county maps and reverently pulled out a huge map and spread it out. She found the land parcel and told us the land had been located near Cornersville, a community that had long since vanished. Not found on any maps today, Cornersville had existed about four miles north of Winnsboro on Highway 11. By now it was after 5 o'clock, but I was determined to see this land that my 3-great-grandfather once owned. Knowing the sun would set soon on that brisk November day, we hustled to get there before dark. My mother appeased my desire to see this land since she knew there is no way to halt my novice researcher's zealousness. My aunt was impatient and wanted to "hit the road home" since it was a five-hour drive. On top of that, Aunt Bettye pretty much thought I was crazy in wanting to see land that had once been in the family. Determined as I was, and having been designated as the chauffeur for three days, I headed out south on Highway 11. I followed the directions the society's volunteer had provided to the vanished community of Cornersville. After what seemed like an eternity of driving on a sandy road which was full of twists and turns, my aunt and mother became afraid I would get the car stuck, so I finally gave in to them and stopped the car as we approached a fork in the road. We discussed what to do next -- turn around and start home, or choose to go left or right at the fork. Like the setting sun, I felt myself losing hope in my desire to locate the land. Suddenly, at that very moment, a shiny, red pickup truck arrived from nowhere. I gazed out the driver's side window and realized the dirt driveway to our left was somewhat on higher ground and wasn't visible. The young man had stopped and was getting out of the truck to close a gate that was also hidden from our view. Impulsively, I leaned out the car window and hollered at the young man just before he drove off. He stopped his truck and I asked him if he knew of any ALLEN families that may have owned land in the area at one time or another. Candidly, his reply was, "Yes, my great-granddaddy owned land here and he was an ALLEN, but we own it now." I about fell out the window of the car. I then asked, "Who's your great-granddaddy?" He replied, "William ALLEN." I think I might have scared him a little when I exclaimed, "We're kin!" Cell phones certainly come in handy. We used ours to let the young man call his grandparents and then we spoke to and met these newly found descendants of my 3-great-grandfather's second marriage. They knew exactly where Wm. F. M. ALLEN was buried. Several hours later on that dark, but starry, night, we ventured to the Harmony Church and cemetery to visit his grave. The three of us wondered how on earth we could have found his grave in this way. And, to this day, we keep telling ourselves that with the timing involved around every little event of that day, that it wasn't of this earth at all. 7. USGENWEB and WORLDGENWEB ---------------------------- The USGenWeb Project http://usgenweb.org/ is one of the several volunteer genealogy projects and many of its states and county 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/index.htm The WorldGenWeb Project http://worldgenweb.org/ is one of the several volunteer genealogy projects and many of its pagthat is hosted by RootsWeb. 8. HUMOR: WHEN YOU'RE HAVING FUN ANYWAY. Thanks to Jenny M. Calvin jcalvin5@cafes.net for sharing this story: My grandfather, now 98 years old and still very sharp, had some pictures of his trip to England in 1928 and 1929. As I was going through the pictures with him recently, I asked him about the various sites and the people in the pictures. Some of them he remembered, but at one point he exclaimed, "How should I know? That was 30 or 40 years ago!" My, how time flies! 9. 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