RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Free Weekly E-zine Vol. 5, No. 10, 6 March 2002, Circulation: 926,992 (c) 1998-2002 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ Do not reply to this message. This is a post-only mailing. Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist RWR-Editor@rootsweb.com Certification: http://www.bcgcertification.org/certification/ RootsWeb Review does not publish or answer genealogical queries, and the editor regrets that she is unable to provide any personal research assistance. Post your queries on all relevant surname and locality message boards: http://boards.rootsweb.com/ and mailing lists: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees: http://www.rootsweb.com/rwguide/ All back issues of RootsWeb Review can be searched and downloaded at: http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ ====================================================================== IN THIS ISSUE 1. Connecting through RootsWeb: Hope Springs Eternally; Barking Up the Wrong Tree; Finding Family Treasures 2. News and Notes (2a. Ancestry Launches New Project; 2b. Bad Critters; 2c. New User-contributed Databases; 2d. Spotlighted Pages at RootsWeb) 3. New Mailing Lists 4. New Web Pages 5. New FreePages and HomePages 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag 7. What's New for Ancestry.com Subscribers 8. WorldGenWeb and USGenWeb 9. Humor: "Sounds Like . . ." 10. Submissions Guidelines; Reprint Policy; Subscribe or Unsubscribe Instructions; Help Contact ================================================================ 1. CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hope Springs Eternally By Gillie Millar gillrr@hotmail.com At long last I have found a site of immense use and pleasure to me. It arrived in today's issue of RootsWeb Review [Vol. 5, No. 9, Feb. 27, 2002], and it was the site called "New Zealand Bound," which was mentioned in Spotlight on Some Distinctive Web Pages at RootsWeb. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/ I have searched for over 15 years via the Internet to find out how my ggg-grandmother arrived in New Zealand, and I found her today on this site. Why I chose to open the site for the ship "Waitangi" I have no idea. Maybe my somewhat well-developed intuition was working overtime -- I don't know, but there was the information I have searched so long and so hard for: The names of Amos HOPE, his wife Julia (BEACH) and his children Alfred HOPE, Fanny HOPE (my ggg-grandmother), Amos HOPE, Junior, who I knew about, and also Annie HOPE (age 8 months). I had always thought Fanny came to New Zealand on her own. Now I know all the family came and now I can search further to find more information. I cannot thank the author of the "New Zealand Bound" site enough! * * * Barking Up the Wrong Tree By Ida Garza IGarza@TrammellCrow.com I had just about run out of family in 2000. Being the youngest of a large extended family, I had buried all but a few of my relatives. My brother was dying at that point, and my last couple of cousins were not long for this world. I was feeling quite alone and was occupying my time in an effort to find some of my mother's relatives in Ontario, Canada. I got a call that changed all that. The woman introduced herself as an "intermediary." My "family" was looking for me. What family? It seems I was adopted, as was my brother. We were never told. My biological mother had given me up for adoption. My biological father was an English sailor who was on minesweeper duty in West Africa during World War II. I agreed to make contact with my mother's family. I discovered I have five half sisters and brothers, and a large number of cousins on her side. After getting a copy of my original birth certificate, I wondered if I could find my father's family. He was from Newfoundland. I got on a mailing list for that locality and started poring over census records, everything I could find online. The results were inconclusive. I found a few men with that name, but had no town or other family members to reference him to. I noticed a lady on the mailing list that used my father's surname as a middle name. I e-mailed her privately and asked if by chance there was a gentleman in her family by that name, that was in World War II, etc. She responded that there was, but she thought she should clear it with the family before giving me any info. I got a call from one of my six half brothers and sisters in Newfoundland shortly after that, welcoming me to the family. They all knew of me, I was a twig on the family tree. When my father had been able to contact my mother, she had told him I had died, rather than been adopted. As one family member paraphrased American author Mark Twain -- "rumors of my death had been greatly exaggerated." So just about the time you think life has no more surprises, think again. I was climbing the wrong family tree. I have met all my brothers and sisters -- 11 of them. Now I am busy climbing the right family tree, and having a lot of fun doing it. * * * Finding Family Treasures By Lottie Bardoel mlbardoel@silvercrest.ab.ca I wanted to share my story of how I came to find some fascinating [family] letters. I subscribe to the Marquette County, Wisconsin RootsWeb mailing list ( among many others) and someone posted a link to the Wisconsin Historical Society's archives at: http://arcat.library.wisc.edu/ I followed this link and on my first attempt I entered FULLER/Personal Name. I found on the second hit: FULLER, Caleb F. b. 1829. Knowing that I had a fellow who matched this date, I followed the link to the description where I found: "Papers of FULLER, Marquette County, Wisconsin; including family correspondence; letters, 1864-1865, from Private William P. FULLER, Company E, 1st Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Regiment; letters, 1861-1863, from Corporal Charles W. FULLER, Company E, 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment; and a pocket diary, 1856, kept by Alpha A. FULLER. Includes descriptions of Camp Randall and of the army physical exam; a Masonic ball program from Montello, Wisconsin; and a circular for Palmer's patent leg and arm (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1861). Knowing now that this was indeed my family I replied to the list with what I had found, and a kind soul -- Dan from Marquette County -- offered to go to the library and photocopy these letters for me. He promptly did so and mailed them off to me. Thanks to the great mailing lists at RootsWeb I have been able to find these letters that otherwise would have sat unnoticed -- for who knows how long? I have posted these letters for everyone to see at my Home Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fullercaleb/ 2. NEWS AND NOTES ----------------- 2a. Ancestry.com recently launched its new Images Online project by posting the Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly (VGSQ) database. A good genealogist knows the importance of following up online research with original records, but until recently, for many genealogists, accessing remote records could be difficult at best. In its continuing effort to provide its users with the best tools available, Ancestry.com is bringing images of original records as near as your home computer with the launch of its new Images Online project. The ability to view images of the original record adds greatly to the value to Ancestry.com site subscriptions. To view the images, Ancestry.com offers two new choices, which were created in-house specifically for this project: The Universal Viewer, which is compatible with most Windows-based and Macintosh browsers and the Ancestry Image Viewer (AIV), which Ancestry.com recommends for those using IE 4.01 or higher, and Windows 98 or higher, in order to take full advantage of these powerful features: --Real-time zooming and scrolling --Precision magnification with the select zoom tool --Brightness and contrast controls --Floating magnifier --High-quality mode for today's faster computers --High-quality printing to desktop printers The posting of the VGSQ database marks the launch of Images Online, and as time goes by, more and more of Ancestry.com's daily postings will contain links to images, which will be both searchable and browseable. Current Ancestry.com data subscribers can view these images at: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=481&key=D6131 2b. BAD CRITTERS: VIRUSES, TROJANS, and WORMS --------------------------------------------- New ones pop up weekly and old ones continue to circulate, making a good anti-virus software program a must. However, it must be kept updated in order to be effective. Don't risk your precious genealogy data -- make sure your home (and office) computers are free of these bad critters. For a free online check visit: http://housecall.antivirus.com/pc_housecall/ Other helpful sites include: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ http://www.stanford.edu/group/partners/hoaxes.shtml http://www.europe.f-secure.com/v-descs/ 2c. NEW FREE USER-CONTRIBUTED DATABASES AT ROOTSWEB: ---------------------------------------------------- The following databases have come online recently: ARKANSAS. Hempstead County. Zion Cemetery 101 records; Gary Hardy http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ CALIFORNIA. Los Angeles County. Los Angeles County Marriage Index, 1880-1891; 15,104 records; Kevin Currin http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ MICHIGAN. Newaygo County. School Souvenirs 128 records; Carolyn Monarch http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ NORTH CAROLINA. Chatham County. Asbury Methodist Church Cemetery Records 456 records; the Rev. Max and David Gilmore http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ OHIO. Scioto County. Worley Run Cemetery, Friendship; 229 records; Joyce M. Slack-Sadler and Jackie P. Sadler-Journey http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ OREGON. Multnomah County. 1941 Staff, Ulysses S. Grant High School, Portland; 86 records; Patricia L. Dunn-Hanning http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ OREGON. Multnomah County. St. Helens Hall Junior College, 1937 Yearbook, Portland; 108 records; Patricia L. Dunn-Hanning http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ PENNSYLVANIA. Luzerne County. Deaths from Hazleton Standard-Speaker newspaper, January-June 1995; 990 records; Dalice Fadden http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ TENNESSEE. Sevier County. 1900 Census Head of Household Index; 3,818 records; Owen Wolfe http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ WHO HAS THE DATA? Does your state, province, county, parish, church, or alma mater 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 can 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. See the guidelines, tutorial and examples of data formats for user- contributed data: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/guidelines.html Please use this submission form: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ RootsWeb thanks 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 2d. SPOTLIGHT ON SOME DISTINCTIVE WEB PAGES AT ROOTSWEB ------------------------------------------------------- CANADA SHIP ARRIVALS. This is part of the acclaimed "Compass" section of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG), which is hosted by RootsWeb. [Note: This is a 2-line URL] http://istg.rootsweb.com/newcompass/non_am_pass/ nonam_pass/index_canada.html SENIOR-NEWBIE is not a Web page, but a mailing list for senior citizens who are new to genealogy, the Internet, and/or computers and seek a list that is slower paced and less intimidating. Join this helpful list and/or search its archives: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Miscellaneous/SENIOR-NEWBIE.html 3. NEW ROOTSWEB MAILING LISTS ----------------------------- [Editor's Note: The following are NOT Web pages--they are mailing lists] To subscribe or unsubscribe to/from any RootsWeb-hosted mailing list, send a plain text (not HTML) e-mail message 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) For more information and an index to the more than 24,200 RootsWeb- hosted genealogy mailing lists and the subscribing options, go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ To request a new mailing list: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS FITZPATRICKS-OK-GRADY -- FITZPATRICK families of Grady County, Oklahoma LA-OLD-NEWS -- Old Louisiana newspapers MA-OLD-NEWS -- Old Massachusetts newspapers MD-OLD-NEWS -- Old Maryland newspapers ME-OLD-NEWS -- Old Maine newspapers MN-OLD-NEWS -- Old Minnesota newspapers MS-OLD-NEWS -- Old Mississippi newspapers MT-OLD-NEWS -- Old Montana newspapers ND-OLD-NEWS -- Old North Dakota newspapers NE-OLD-NEWS -- Old Nebraska newspapers NH-OLD-NEWS -- Old New Hampshire newspapers NM-OLD-NEWS -- Old New Mexico newspapers NV-OLD-NEWS -- Old Nevada newspapers NY-OLD-NEWS -- Old New York newspapers SCOT-DNA -- The Scottish Clan DNA project UT-UGA-SLC -- Announcement list for the members of the Salt Lake Chapter of the Utah Genealogical Association NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS DEU-SCHLESIEN -- Schlesien/Silesia region of Germany NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS CHATTAWAY, COAN DOONAN FERRYMAN HEATHINGTON IREDALE LYERLY MALARKEY, MEALEY, MOMINEE, MUSKER WHITSED, WISCAVER, WOJTECKA 4. NEW WEB PAGES 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. To request a free Web account: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ CANADA nsmusquo -- Musquodoboit Valley, Nova Scotia ENGLAND engcotsw -- The Cotswolds engdorse -- Dorset Parish Register Baptisms, Marriages and Burials U.S.A. cascgsi -- Solano County Genealogical Society, Inc. (California) gaatkins -- Atkinson County, Georgia gabartow -- Bartow County, Georgia gacgr -- Coastal Georgia Region gafchs -- Historical Society of Forsyth County, Inc. (Georgia) ilgssi -- Genealogy Society of Southern Illinois intcpcrg -- Tippecanoe County Pioneer Cemetery Restoration Group (Indiana) lacihsl -- Canary Islands Heritage Society of Louisiana laeastba -- East Baton Rouge Parish (Louisiana) mocallaw -- Callaway County, Missouri momonroe -- Monroe County, Missouri momontg2 -- Montgomery County, Missouri msstone -- Stone County, Mississippi njcsecau -- Secaucus, New Jersey (town) njhunter -- Hunterdon County, New Jersey orwcdar -- Wahkeena Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Oregon) txhidalg -- Hidalgo County, Texas vaochs -- Orange County Historical Society (Virginia) wabchsm -- Benton County Historical Society and Museum (Washington) wiracin2 -- Racine County, Wisconsin wv7wvsuv -- Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 7th West Virginia Infantry Camp 7 5. NEW FREEPAGES AND HOMEPAGES (PERSONAL WEB SITES AT ROOTSWEB) --------------------------------------------------------------- [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.] BLISSMER. BLISSMER family tree; America and Germany,1760-present. Includes list of surnames in the BLISSMER family. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blissmer BRUDER. BRUDER family from Germany (Prussia) to McComb and Presque Isle, counties, Michigan, USA. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~confido/bruder.html CURRAN. CURRAN genealogy/family information and links that contain CURRAN people. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~carhart/Curran/ FULLER, BOWEN, HANDY, FRY, and PHETTEPLACE. FULLER family letters, plus mention of many other individuals of Washington and Marquette counties, Wisconsin; Smithfield Township, Providence County, Rhode Island, and Blackstone, Three Rivers area of Massachusetts. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fullercaleb/ GURR. Genealogical history, family trees and biographies of GURRS descending from John GUR of Chatham, Kent, England in the late 1600s. Covers family branches in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in addition to the United Kingdom. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gurrs/ HARRIS. Miscellaneous HARRIS family data--worldwide http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~confido/hindex2.htm HILLS TO OREGON. A collection of first-person source documents re-published on the Web to assist researchers into the Isaac HILL family and the FINE parents of Elizabeth HILL; includes some RUSSELL documents. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hill2oregon/ LOVELAND. Family History. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~djmurphy/loveland/ NEW YORK. New York Times death notices -- a list of names, death dates, and the source of the date and newspaper page starting with Jan. 1, 1929. This is an ongoing project. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nytdn/ PIERCE, BEELER. Families from the Leadmine Bend area of Sharps Chapel, [Union County] Tennessee. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~piercesa/Index.htm PYATT, CHAMP, GORRELL, BELLAMY, REYNOLDS, FINCH and related families. Information on the EVELAND family, as well as photos and much more. Most of these families were found in the Mid-Ohio Valley of the United States -- Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and also from the states of Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania -- includes some from Canada. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~deadrelatives W*NN*COTT. The WINNACOTT page contains many surnames being researched in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Sussex [United Kingdom]. It also has much information on the Parish of St. Gennys in Cornwall. A HYDE/HIDE collection of information is being put together for all those who bear the name in West Sussex. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~winnacott/ WOMACK FILES. Focusing on the WOMACK surname and all variants thereof, with a special emphasis on the WOMACKs of Texas. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~womackfiles/ ************************PAID ADVERTISEMENTS************************ Ink Refills: Save 70% Save up to 70% on inkjet cartridges and get FREE Shipping too! No minimum order required for U.S. and Canada. All our products are 100% guaranteed. Finding what you need is very easy. Our customer service team is top rated. Fast everyday shipping. 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[I know] the joy of searching for a name only to find it under another spelling or interpretation, when COWING is COWAN or COWENS, CUMBER is COMBER or CUMPER, and JELLY is GELLY, JELEE, or SELLY . . . [I know about] "the where on earth is that?" feeling as I've stumbled across yet another unfamiliar place name. I am thankful that I did find some plain ordinary farm workers who had stayed in the same district or thereabouts for a few generations before getting itchy feet -- otherwise I would still be working at finding my great-grandparents for all four branches instead of just two. As frustrating as researching a family tree can sometimes be, the people you meet along the way who stop and help (or offer to help) even though they are doing their own searching make it a very memorable pastime in so many ways. * * * DNA and SAR By Betsy Loweer Lowrey B.Lowrey@stanleyassociates.com The articles on DNA testing and the SAR (Sons of the American Revolution) in recent issue of RootsWeb Review [RWR 5:8, 20 Feb. 2002] caught my attention since I currently work with one of the national officers. His response to the quandary posed by the two authors is as follows: "The official position of the SAR would be voiced by the Genealogist General who can be reached by e-mail, I believe, through the SAR web site at: http://www.sar.org/ "Generally, the SAR position on establishing lineage is 'preponderance of evidence.' If DNA evidence accomplishes that, then it would probably be acceptable. As for what that might lead to, in my opinion I don't see a lot of activity along those lines. For issues within the past 100 to 200 years there are usually enough records available to prove or disprove lineage. You just have to find them. For older issues it is doubtful that the bodies in question could be found." * * * Communicating Around the World By Carol Nutile Burke cburke@uconnvm.uconn.edu I thank the writer of the "Think Globally" letter [RWR 5:9, 27 Feb. 2002] and I agree that all postings should somehow indicate the full spelling of the locations mentioned in the posting. Abbreviations are not helpful since if one is reading the Message Boards from locations outside of the United States, then "CT" has no useful meaning. This may also explain why we seldom, if ever, see postings or responses from researchers in other countries. Perhaps they wonder to where in the world our abbreviations refer . . . Is there some unrecognized impediment that seems to prevent or hinder foreign readers from responding to or perhaps even reading postings on our boards -- especially the surname message boards? Even if one can't read the messages, it is a great help to find a surname message board whereby one knows that others (in another country) are searching the same name. The next problem for the foreign reader (and us too)) is to translate the messages. If messages are carefully and simply worded, one can use computerized translations to get the essence of the message. Is it possible that at the top of surname Message Boards, RootsWeb could put in a link to computerized translation sites so if we see a foreign- language message under a surname, we could quickly link and translate the message? * * * Other Thoughts on International Communications By E. Boomhower" eboomhower@juno.com Since there are multiple millions of United States citizens who use RootsWeb and millions of Canadians, it seems that a practical "short- list" of expectations would include: --Submitters offering information outside the United States and Canada could include the country's designations: UK or GB, AU, etc. In the case of WA in Australia, it could be designated WA-AU. --Since spelling everything out demands (literally) hundreds of thousands of extra key-strokes on the part of RootsWeb personnel and submitters (collectively billions of needless strokes), it should be presumed that unless otherwise specified that all two-letter abbreviations are U.S. states or Canadian provinces. --Since the Australian federal census data is never released, why would anyone confuse the obvious (NARA census releases) with the impossible (Australian secrecy)? Let's face it, as one does even a cursory amount of research, they (like myself) learn to figure many things out by ourselves. Genealogy is all about figuring out "puzzles," and putting the pieces where they fit. 7. WHAT'S NEW FOR ANCESTRY.COM SUBSCRIBERS ------------------------------------------ AMERICAN CENSUSES. Recently Ancestry.com updated its 1920 U.S. (federal) census index, adding the states of New Hampshire (172,318 names); New Jersey (1,088,991 names); and New Mexico (122,455 names). This census collection now includes more than 425 million names on 10 million images dating from 1790 to 1920. The 1920 census index is now 26 percent complete with images also available for: Chicago, Illinois, and states of New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, and Washington. To subscribe to Ancestry.com's Images Online and/or Ancestry.com databases, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid-3205&sourceid=481 8. WORLDGENWEB and USGENWEB --------------------------- The WorldGenWeb Project http://worldgenweb.org/ is one of the several volunteer genealogy projects and many of its pages are hosted by RootsWeb. You might be surprised at some of the free treasures here. The USGenWeb Project http://usgenweb.org/ is another volunteer genealogy project and many of its state and county Web pages and mailing lists are hosted by RootsWeb. You'll find the USGenWeb Archives Newsletter at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/index.htm 9. HUMOR: "Sounds like . . ." ---------------------------- Thanks to: Judith Crowder wjcrow@wyoming.com Over 35 years ago I was a young wife and mother trying to help out with some of the family expenses. Since I had to stay home and had some writing experience, I applied for and was accepted as a local correspondent (or stringer) for a statewide newspaper. Much of my news-gathering could be done by telephone. However, I was fairly new to the area and didn't know who very many people were. One day I heard something interesting about a "Casey O'Connell" -- a teacher at the local high school, so I called the school to talk to him. I got my information and sent it off to the newspaper. Three days later I received a phone call from him and he could hardly talk because of laughing so hard. He told me he had really enjoyed the article, especially because his friends were asking how he had suddenly become an Irishman when all his life he had been Japanese. His name was actually Keiji Okano. * * * GO FOR THE GOLD: The Olympics for Genealogists http://www.petuniapress.com/goforgold.html 10. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES, REPRINT POLICY, SUBSCRIBING HELP ----------------------------------------------------------- Short articles, stories, or letters submitted for consideration for publication in the RootsWeb Review should be sent to rwr-editor@rootsweb.com as a plain text e-mail message (no attachments). 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