RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Free Weekly E-zine Vol. 5, No. 30, 24 July 2002, Circulation: 1,054,695 (c) 1998-2002 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist RWR-Editor@rootsweb.com This it is a post-only mailing. Please do not send any subscription requests to the editor. To unsubscribe, send plain text e-mail message to: Rootsweb-Review-unsubscribe@rootsweb.com Need to do an e-mail address change? See: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/addresses/#newsletters Search/download all back issues of RootsWeb Review: http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ ======================================================================== IN THIS ISSUE 1. News and Notes. (1a. SSDI Updates; 1b. Non-genealogy Mailing Lists Closing; 1c. RootsWeb is a Forbes Favorite; 1d. Message Board Queries) 2. Connecting through RootsWeb: "Australian Headstones" 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New Webpages at RootsWeb 5. New RootsWeb Mailing Lists 6. New FreePages and HomePages (personal webpages at RootsWeb) 7. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Mooing right along," "Keeping up with the SMITHs," "Avoiding the famous and the infamous," "Give me a VALENTINE, she said WEEKly," "It's a FOX HUNT (honest); "Something fishy online" 8. Humor: Caution: Low Tide Groaner 9. RWR Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; Archives; Instructions ======================================================================== 1. NEWS AND NOTES ----------------- 1a. SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX (SSDI) UPDATED. The SSDI is now current through June 2002. RootsWeb usually receives the monthly SSDI update from Social Security Administration about five or six weeks after a month ends -- it does not arrive at RootsWeb on the first day of the following month. http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/ 1b. RootsWeb has been supporting non-genealogy mailing lists for a few years, and in our drive to better focus on what we do best -- genealogy -- these non-genealogy mailing lists will be closing at the end of July. Otherwise, it is business as usual with our mailing lists. 1c. Forbes Magazine recently issued its Summer 2002 "Best of the Web" edition. RootsWeb is listed as a "Forbes Favorite" and Ancestry.com is listed as a "Best of the Web" pick. A review is included for each site. http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/category.jhtml?id=71 You can find this entire "Best of the Web" list at: http://www.forbes.com/bow/ 1d. MESSAGE BOARD QUERIES. Posting queries on a RootsWeb/Ancestry Message Boards is an excellent way to find others who are researching the same or connecting families, and who may have information you seek. Today's online researchers are busy people, so make sure that your messages are easy to locate and understood. To accomplish this make proper use of the SUBJECT line, SURNAME box, and CLASSIFICATION menu when you post. SUBJECT LINE: Make the subject complete, concise, and specific in describing the content of your message. Do not use vague subjects such as "genealogy," "searching," or "looking for grandfather." It is assumed that anyone posting or reading these Message Boards is searching for genealogy-related information. Put yourself in the place of someone scanning through hundreds of posts on the Message Boards. Does your SUBJECT LINE identify the content of your query? "Seek parents of John Kelly, born 1842, Clay County, Kentucky" is good. A SUBJECT LINE can contain up to 53 characters, including spaces. If you are posting information (data as opposed to a query), make the SUBJECT LINE: "Will of James Smith probated 1873, Bell County, Texas" or "Obituary of Mary (Curran) Murphy, died May 1901, Dublin, Ireland." Women's maiden names are commonly put in parentheses to so identify them. Remember Message Boards are read and used by researchers around the world, so identify your ancestors and data, watch those abbreviations, and don't assume everyone knows where or what SF, CA is. Let there be no doubt, spell it out. SURNAME BOX ENTRIES: Enter only the surnames that you have included in the message you have posted in this box. Do NOT include a bunch of surnames just because you are researching them. List surnames one at a time and separate them with a comma. Example: Smith, Cousins, James, Kohlhammer, Van Allen, de la Croix, Wood, Woods. Whether you list the names in upper, lower, or mixed case is not important. Surnames that have common spelling variants such as Wood and Woods should be listed separately and NOT as: Wood(s) or Wood/Woods. The search engine will not pick them up correctly if they are shown in the latter two styles. The purpose of the SURNAME BOX entries is to enable Message Board searchers to use the ADVANCED SEARCH option and search ONLY on the names you have listed in the box indicating that they are surnames. It eliminates from searches words appearing elsewhere in a post (but not listed in the SURNAME BOX) such as the poster's name (Sally Smith may have posted numerous messages on the board and signed them with her full name in the message body), a common word (such as Cousins above), or given name (such as James above). Do not enter anything other than surnames in the SURNAME BOX. Do not enter any given (first) names or locations, and do not use descriptive words such as "and," "many more," "Jr.," or "etc." Avoid all punctuation (except for commas, which are used to form the separation between each surname entry) unless it is a part of a surname. CLASSIFICATION: The purpose of proper classification of messages is to enable Message Board users to view and/or search messages by data type. If you are posting a query or replying to a query, use the default classification of QUERY from the drop-down menu. If you are posting actual data, select the type that most closely matches the type of information you are posting: BIBLE, CEMETERY, WILL, DEED, PENSION, MARRIAGE, BIOGRAPHY, etc. (These are all listed under MESSAGE TYPE). If you post a question about a document, such as a deed or a marriage record, or if you request a lookup, it is classified as a QUERY -- not as a DEED, MARRIAGE, or LOOKUP. Only transcribed data are classified as one of the data types. To learn more about Message Boards, see also: "Message Board Solutions," (RootsWeb Review 5:29, 17 July 2002) "Meandering Through the Message Boards" (RWR 5:28, 10 July 2002); "Discovering Display Options on the Message Boards" (RWR 5:27, 3 July 2002); "Getting the Most Out of Message Boards" (RWR 5:26, 26 June 2002); and "Message Board Attach- ments" (RWR 5:23, 5 June 2002); and "Message Board Icons" (RWR 5:22, 29 May 2002) -- all issues of RWR are searchable and downloadable here: http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ 2. CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Australian Headstones Teach and Connect By Jan Veacock janmveacock@yahoo.com Teacher, Urban Environmental Education Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Further to my article "Headstones, Epitaphs and Education," which appeared in RootsWeb Review, Vol.5, No. 24 April, 2002, I thought that you may be interested in some of the feedback I received regarding the headstones mentioned in the article. With regard to the headstone of Susan RALLS and her son George who died at the age of five days, I received a message the next day (after the story appeared) from a maybe relative who lives in New Zealand. Apparently, RALLS is a rare surname -- there are only one or two families in Australia and New Zealand. He said that he had seen the name in RootsWeb Review and would like further information on George RALLS Snr. [Senior] as he had an uncle with several greats (I think) called George RALLS. I e-mailed him with the wording from the headstone. He replied in great excitement, because George RALLS Snr. [Senior] is listed on the headstone as "master of the ship 'Maryborough'" and his relative had been a ship's captain in the 1870s sailing clippers and emigrant ships between NZ and Australian and England. We concluded that the likelihood of two ship's captains called George RALLS plying the same route at the same time was fairly remote as the name is very rare. Subsequent to this, an e-mail was sent to his cousin in New Zealand, who wrote to her father who lives in Manly, a suburb of Brisbane. Mr. RALLS wrote to me asking for directions to the cemetery. I replied and later that month received another letter confirming that George RALLS was in fact his relative. He and his wife visited the headstone on the anniversary of Susan's death [she died 21 May 1870, aged 27] and left a pot of chrysanthemums at the foot. Children from schools who visited for the next two weeks wanted to know the story of the flowers! George RALLS Snr. [Senior] returned to England where he married again and had a second family. News of his first wife and infant son came as a considerable surprise to all present day relatives as he had apparently never spoken of them. By the way, this headstone features in a local "ghost tour" run by a local operator. On the back of the headstone, by some quirk of fretting (erosion of the sandstone) and some co-incidental colonising of lichen, there is a reasonable approximation of "The Angel of Death." You have to have some imagination, but it does indeed look like the Grim Reaper. This is not for the children's consumption -- they find the cemetery spooky enough as it is. With regard to Medora Ann LITTLE whose epitaph is "Her children arise up and call her blessed; her husband also and he praiseth her," which students find quite moving, I received an e-mail from her great-grand- daughter with more information on Medora, whose father had been the harbourmaster for the port of Brisbane. Her husband, Robert LITTLE, married again some time after Medora's death and had a second family. He is buried in Sri Lanka. I must admit to be very surprised at the interest that this story engendered among readers of RootsWeb Review. I received several messages of congratulations from teachers and others about the way that the cemetery was being used to further interest in history generally, as well as from those whose relatives were originally buried in the cemetery. I also found an old report that listed more than 800 people who were buried in the cemetery which I have since put onto a database. Regarding the effect on students of a programme like this, all you can hope for when you teach students for one day in their school life is that you light a spark that will lead them to realise that history is not dull and dry but interesting, fascinating and fun. Teaching in a day visit environmental education centre is like this -- students come in for one day only. Teachers at their schools will build on the things that they did and saw and hopefully learnt. 3. NEW FREE USER-CONTRIBUTED DATABASES AT ROOTSWEB --------------------------------------------------- WHO HAS THE DATA? Does your state, province, county, parish, church, old military unit or alma mater have material available that you think would be of interest to genealogists and historians? Do you have any compiled lists or 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. Please see the guidelines, tutorial and examples of data formats for user-contributed data: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/guidelines.html Use this submission form: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ Questions about submitting your material? Go to RootsWeb Help Desk: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ The following new user-contributed databases have come online recently (these are name searchable, but are not browseable): CANADA. ATKINSON surname on the 1881 Census, Maccan, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada; 38 records; Pat Vause http://userdb.rootsweb.com/canada/ U.S.A. Military Records: World War II: 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion, Medical Detachment; 19 records; Kathleen Snowberger http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ U.S.A. Military Records: World War II: 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion, Officers; 74 records; Kathleen Snowberger http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ IDAHO. Payette County. Washoe Cemetery 25 records; Patty Theurer http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ KANSAS. Meade County. Meade Kansas Elementary School; 1929 Yearbook 304 records; William Pickering http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MISSISSIPPI. Mississippi Marriage Index Data, 1870-1925 3,092 records; Raymond Montgomery http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ MISSISSIPPI. Pike County. Boyd Cemetery 41 records; Earl Alexander http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ MISSISSIPPI. Pike County. Brent Cemetery 29 records; Earl Alexander http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ MISSISSIPPI. Pike County. Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery 65 records; Earl Alexander http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ MISSISSIPPI. Pike County. Wingo Cemetery 11 records; Earl Alexander http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ TEXAS. Briscoe County. 1880 Census. 12 records; Lorie MacDonald-Christian http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ TEXAS. Carson County. Panhandle Elementary School; 1961-62; 1st Grade; 133 records; John J. Armstrong http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ TEXAS Carson County. Panhandle Elementary School; 1961-62; 2nd Grade; 101 records; John J. Armstrong http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ TEXAS. Carson County. Panhandle Elementary School; 1961-62; 3rd Grade; 106 records; John J. Armstrong http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ TEXAS. Carson County. School Days; Panhandle Elementary School 1961-62; 4th Grade; 94 records; John J. Armstrong http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ TEXAS. Carson County. School Days; Panhandle Elementary School 1961-62; 5th Grade; 88 records; John J. Armstrong http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ VERMONT. Rutland County. Poultney Cemetery inscriptions 9 records; Bill Graves http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ WISCONSIN. Milwaukee County. 1932 St. Leo's Grade School graduates 69 records; Kevin Harding http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ RootsWeb thanks the individuals and groups who contribute their material to share with the worldwide genealogical community. Currently there's more than 9.4 million records that can be searched. See the full list of contributors at: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/contributors.html 4. NEW WEBPAGES AT ROOTSWEB ---------------------------- Some of these webpages might not yet be accessible. If one that interests you isn't up yet, please check again in a few days or next week. Note that the ~[tilde] before the Web account name is required. http://www.rootsweb.com/~[account name]/ To request a free Web account: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ U.S.A. idgem -- Gem County, Idaho idpayett -- Payette County, Idaho idteton -- Teton County, Idaho kylincol -- Lincoln County, Kentucky kypulask -- Pulaski County, Kentucky moicgs -- Iron County Genealogy Society (Missouri) morchs -- Ralls County Historical Society (Missouri) mtalhn -- Montana American Local History Network ncrobcem -- Robeson County, North Carolina Indian Cemeteries njbmd -- NJGenWeb Births, Marriages, and Deaths Project orgpgs -- Grants Pass Genealogy Society (Josephine County, Oregon) padauphi -- Dauphin County, Pennsylvania pawashi2 -- Washington County, Pennsylvania sclancas -- Lancaster County, South Carolina sdrcsgr -- Rapid City Society for Genealogical Research (Pennington County, South Dakota) txstarr -- Starr County, Texas 5. NEW ROOTSWEB MAILING LISTS ----------------------------- The following are NOT webpages--they are mailing lists. For more information and an index to the more than 25,200 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy mailing lists and the subscribing options, please go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ 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) To request a new mailing list: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ALBERTY BAMBINETTI, BEDLINGTON, BENSINGER, BEVELS, BISSONNET, BRENNA CARNICER, CHVALNIK, COOMER, COPAN, CORNEIL, CRUMMEY DAIX, DEUE, DROVER ECHARD, ELLENWOOD, ELLERMAN FOSTER-KY -- The FOSTER surname in Kentucky (esp. western Kentucky) GATTO HADDRELL, HEIDBREDER, HEMINGS, HEUSTON, HIRSCHAUER, HOLDERITH, HURLBERT KUNSMAN LINSON, LYNK MALINAK, MESSERSCHMIDT, MIDDLEMORE NEATHERY PURTLE RAKER, REZAK, ROCKLEY SARMIENTO, SKREDSVIG, SKRESVIG, SOMMERKORN, SONSTEBY, SWABY TANKSLEY, TONSING, TRULIK WARTENBERG, WERMKE NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS GDMUML -- Discussing the GENTECH genealogical data model and a UML (Unified Modeling Language) representation of it; of interest to genealogical method researchers and software developers NATIVEAMERICAN-BURIALGROUNDS -- Discuss remaining/lost Native American burial grounds in the United States NY-SCOTS -- The immigration of Scots to settlements in New York state US-CONVICT-ANCESTORS -- Researching (genealogical resources available) for American ancestors convicted of a crime NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS VENEZUELA - Venezuela (country) 6. NEW PERSONAL FREEPAGES AND HOMEPAGES AT ROOTSWEB --------------------------------------------------- [Note: When your new personal webpages located at RootsWeb are up and ready for visitors, please send the URL (Web address) along with a brief description to: rwr-editor@rootsweb.com Comments and questions about any of these independently authored webpages should be directed to their respective compilers/webmasters.] BLAKER. Transcription of the book "Sussex in Bygone Days: Reminiscences of Nathaniel Paine BLAKER, M.R.C.S": 1835-1920, a farmer's son in Sussex, England, who grew up to be a surgeon. Chapters on sport, schooling, medical training at that time, social life and clothing. His comparisons of his youth with his present day are rather idiosyncratic. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blaker/rem_index.html FALINS. FALINS of Scott County, Virginia and their allied families. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rebeccafalin/falin.html HAGGERTY, BATEMAN, CLARKE, MEREDITH and REYNOLDS from Ireland; SMALL from England; and BARNHART, HUFF and MAPES who came to Canada via U.S.A. Includes related families of SMALL, BARNHART, and HUFF, all who settled Ontario, Canada before 1855. Counties included primarily Hastings, Prince Edward, Simcoe, Wellington, and Middlesex. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sharonmh/ ILLINOIS, SOUTH DAKOTA. Stark and Peoria counties in Illinois and Beadle County, South Dakota. Some genealogy resources for these localities -- including photos, transcribed books, newspapers, tax lists, biographies, high school yearbooks, phone books, and more. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~karensfamilyfiles/ JENNIFER'S GENEALOGY PAGE. Examining the descendants of Reginald FOSTER, Thomas GROVER, Issac KENNEY (KINNEY), and Lt. John ANDREWS of Maine and 1600-1800 Massachusetts. Allied names include: BURNHAM, COGSWELL, LORD, HOOD, WHEELER, and JEWETT. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sagadahoccome/ MENZAK. History and legacy of Jacob and Theodesia MENZAK, who immigrated to Canada from Bukovina in 1909. This is the story of a family that has spawned seven generations of proud Canadian and American citizens. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~menzak/ NEBRASKA. Southwest Lancaster County Genealogical Society and Denton Historical Society "Treasures." News, information, and announcements for and about: Berks, Burnham, Centerville, Cheese Creek, Cobb Junction., Denton, Emerald, Hallam, Kramer, Martell, Olive Branch, Princeton, Rokeby, Sprague, and Yankee Hill. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/ SMITH AND VAUGHAN FAMILY TREES. Includes: John W. SMITH, SOLDAN, von HACHENBURG, HABSBURG, SULDAN, SASS, BUSKEY, WIDBY, and ZUELCH. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~deonna/ VERRIOR/VERRY. 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FROM ROOTSWEB REVIEW'S BOTTOMLESS MAILBAG -------------------------------------------- [Editor's Note: "Making Brick Walls," by Delores Rochelle Walls in RootsWeb Review 3 July opened the floodgates on Internet name-searching adventures. Think you have problems finding your ancestors? Read on:] Mooing right along Just to add two of my research problems to those of Brick Wall. I am a MILK/MILKS family researcher, so you can easily imagine what kind of hits I get when I try search for MILK family members. I am amazed at how many of our ancestors wrote about the milk from cows. My primary research line is YORK/YORKS, and I quickly learned how many of our ancestors were from the state of New York. Talk about a lot of hits to wade through. But, I should add, I am always grateful just to have so much ancestral data available on the Web. It takes a lot of work by a lot of people to provide so much information for us genealogists to search. --Bob Yorks bigblue60@mybluelight.com YORKS-YERKS-YERXA-YEREX-YOUREX, MILK-MILKS, BOWERS, COURTAD- COURTADE, and LAMBERT * * * Keeping up with the SMITHs I sympathize with the "brick walls" problem but try searching for a John Smith! Yes, my great-grandfather was John Loden SMITH, but I finally found him and his father William SMITH. I can't get beyond William since the courthouse records in Alabama were burned by Sherman. --Charlene S. Crumby cjcrumby@juno.com [Editor's Note. You might want to check your American Civil War history more closely as General William Tecumseh Sherman's "March to the Sea" during the American Civil War was through Georgia and the Carolinas -- not Alabama. Also, never accept blindly the old (often inaccurate) story that the courthouse records burned; many records were re-recorded and seldom were all the records burned.] * * * Avoiding the famous and the infamous I read of the troubles of researchers with their surnames. My maiden name was LADYMAN and when I put that in for a surname I get transvestites, etc. I tried "googling" for Ladyman+ Wills not knowing that there was an M.P. called Wills, so I got everything about my cousin an M.P. and M.P. Wills. I have to remember to put genealogy in front in order to not to get on the nasty sites. --Doris Rimmer nee Ladyman d.rimmer@ntlworld.com * * * Give me a VALENTINE, she said WEEKly I can certainly relate and sympathize with DeeDee Kitchen and many others. My dad's family is WEEKS. It seems that just about all of them as far back as I have gotten had at least one child named James. My great-great-grandfather was James WEEKS, he had a son, James Porter WEEKS, he had a son James Porter WEEKS, and so it goes. Heck, my grandfather, who was named after his uncle, was James Ernest WEEKS. Have you ever tried searching the last name WEEKS? You get weeks of the year, weeks of the month, how many weeks ago, weeks old, etc. I just couldn't have any uncommon names. The others I have found so far are just about as bad. For VALENTINE, another of my surnames, you get Valentine's day, flowers, candy, etc. --Frances Smith fsmith@nctr.fda.gov It's a FOX HUNT (honest) Having surnames that also are nouns does make Internet searches interesting. For example, searching for CUFF gets lot of hits describing apparel. Then there are FOX and HUNT. (Yes, Caroline FOX really did marry Arthur HUNT to become Caroline FOX HUNT). But, I've found the most "interesting" results when searching for PARADICE. The best way to reduce unwanted results on that one is to filter the search to remove explicit text. --Annette L. Smith annette_smith@telus.net * * * Something fishy online I, too, have had great frustration in researching some names due to their word equivalents. Doing a search for TROUT produces especially fishy results. I'd think that the whole world revolved around trout fishing. However, one BIG hint for webmasters: In the head section of your Web pages, embed the following line: meta name="keywords" content="family, genealogy, descendancy" And, of course, the family names or other terms can be inserted as meta keywords. This helps researchers who use the search terms of family, genealogy, or descendancy in their search, and greatly helps to weed out all the spurious returns. You can also insert the following line: meta name="description" content="A genealogy of the Liglerfutz family of North Escambria." Or whatever. Just make sure that it's embedded in the webpage's head, not the body. --John Knouse jaknouse@frognet.net http://www.jaknouse.athens.oh.us/genealogy/genealogy.shtml 8. HUMOR: Caution: Low Tide Groaner ----------------------------------- Thanks to: Joyce Crabbe Maxwell joyce.maxwell2@verizon.net In response to Mr. Drake's comment in last week's RootsWeb Review that he can remember all the TERRAPIN family because he has "turtle recall," I'd share my CRABB info, but I'm too shellfish. 9. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES, REPRINT POLICY, RWR ARCHIVES, SUBSCRIPTIONS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- We welcome short (500 words or less) articles, stories, or letters for publication in the RootsWeb Review. We reserve the right to edit all submissions. They should be sent as a plain text e-mail message (no html and no attachments) to: rwr-editor@rootsweb.com RootsWeb Review does not publish or answer genealogical queries, and the editor regrets that she is unable to provide any personal research assistance or advice. Post genealogical queries on all relevant surname, locality and topic boards and lists: message boards: http://boards.rootsweb.com/ mailing lists: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees http://rwguide.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: Previously published in RootsWeb Review: Vol. 5, No. 30, 24 July 2002. ========================================================================