RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 5, No. 48, 27 November 2002, Circulation: 1,050,127+ (c) 1998-2002 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE: IT IS A POST-ONLY MAILING Do not send RWR subscription requests and modifications to the editor. Please see Section 10. Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com Certification: http://www.bcgcertification.org/certification/ * * * Post your genealogical queries on all relevant surname, locality, and topic message boards and mailing lists: Message Boards: http://boards.rootsweb.com/ Mailing Lists: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ RootsWeb's HelpDesk: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ ======================================================================= In This Issue: 1. News and Notes. (1a. "What? You Have No Mail!" 1b. Tips from Readers: "Taking Advantage of Technology" 2. Connecting through RootsWeb: "Wee Bit More Than Luck of the Irish"; "Slender Threads Create Ties That Bind" 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. Ancestry.com News and Notes; Online Lessons 8. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Accusing Cousins"; "Just Another Cemetery Story"; "But Grandmother, What a Strange Name You Have" 9. Humor: "Do You Think Papa Approved?" 10. RWR Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; Archives; Subscription Modification Instructions ====================================================================== 1. News and Notes: ------------------ 1a. What? You Have No Mail! An increasing number of RootsWeb Mailing List subscribers and their ISPs have begun using spam-filtering tools. These filters do not always function well with the delivery of Mailing List messages. Filters that require the sender of a message to register at a website to allow mail to be delivered are generally not compatible with Mailing Lists. Some filters require Mailing List addresses to be added to a Safe List or a special "approved" Mailing List section. If you or your ISP use a spam-filtering program and you are a RootsWeb Mailing List subscriber, remember to consider your list mail when setting up your options. If you have questions as to whether or not your filters can be adapted to accommodate list mail, your ISP tech support representatives should be able to assist you in selecting the proper settings. Consider spam filters as a likely culprit, if you suspect you might not be receiving all of your Mailing List messages, and assuming that you have done the following: --Obtained a list of all your subscribed to Mailing Lists from Password Central: http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ just to be sure you have not been removed from the list in question. (By the way, did you know that Password Central can be accessed by clicking on the Passwords Tab shown at the top on any RootsWeb page?) --Checked the threaded Mailing List archives for the list http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ to be sure messages have been posted that you have not received. Type in the Mailing List name (without any -L or -D) and click to view an outline of messages to look for those you might have missed. ---Contacted the list administrator at: LISTNAME-admin@rootsweb.com (replace the word LISTNAME with the actual name of the list -- using no -L or -D) to check whether the administrator has received any bounced mail notices for your address and, if so, to learn the reason for them. If you are currently subscribed to a Mailing List and messages have been posted to it that you have not received, spam filtering may be the cause whether or not the administrator has received bounces. In some instances, spam filters result in your ISP (or your installed application) simply discarding the messages with no notice to you. In other cases, the administrator will have received bounces indicating that the list mail is considered spam. Once you determine that spam filters are the problem, check your setups -- if you've installed a spam filter. Or check with your ISP tech support representative, if your ISP has installed the filters. If the problem is with your ISP then its tech support should be able to assist you in resolving the conflict once you explain that you want to receive RootsWeb list mai, and that it is not spam. * * * 1b. Tips from Readers: Taking Advantage of Technology --Pat Preston ppreston44@aol.com I have been researching my father's PRESTON family, but had hit some stumbling blocks. When I started my father, his siblings and parents were deceased and I had only five individuals that I knew. My PRESTONs came from Vermont through Pennsylvania and eventually settled in Pike County, Indiana. I decided to use Web search engines to explore the telephone "white pages." Using an Indiana map I typed in the names of towns surrounding Pike County within a 50-mile radius and typed in the surname PRESTON. Printing out the lists of various towns I started a long and tedious letter-writing campaign. I started last February and in August I hit the mother lode. I had sent a letter to a gentleman who proved to be my father's second cousin. After a correspondence of a couple letters this lovely man and his wife told me that they had my grandfather PRESTON's Bible. Words can not describe my joy when it arrived in the mail. But, not content with the help they had provided, this newfound relative forwarded my letters to another individual in the same town. His wife, a PRESTON, was deceased but he had kept the correspondence she had received from other distant relatives over the years and immediately forwarded it to me -- 94 pages of information and letters. Some, of course, I had so it verified the accuracy of what I had researched, but there was new information aplenty. Don't give up and take a tip from my story, if you haven't tried this as a research tool, try it. What have you got to lose -- only time, and we all know that people who do genealogy research have plenty of this, don't we? 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Wee Bit More Than Luck of the Irish --Jerry Lou Gallagher aileron@tcainternet.com Due to my files in WorldConnect http://wc.rootsweb.com/ at RootsWeb.com, I have been contacted many times in the past from cousins wanting and sharing information on my lines. However, when it came to my husband's Irish connections, there has never been a hit until now. I was lucky enough to see the 1901, 1911 census records, cemetery records, and immigration records from the website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegal/ourgartan.htm I was able to find the surnames HARLEY, GALLAGHER, CARR, and other relations and was able to add many cousins, and in one case a generation back. In the case of the CARR family I added a brother of my husband's great-grandmother, Ellen CARR. Hugh CARR and Anne COLL lived in Glendowanbeg, Gartan Parish, Donegal, Ireland. After I included this family in my genealogical program and updated it to WorldConnect, a descendant here in the U.S. contacted me to give me additional children of the family. What has unfolded is astonishing as she had a scrap of paper written by a deceased member of the family that had another generation back on the CARR line in Glendowanbeg. A quick check with the registrar's office and their death dates were confirmed. Hugh CARR died 13 June 1884 -- 102 years old--and his wife, Ellen (O'HARA) CARR (of Sligo) died 17 January 1895 -- 90 years old! The e-mails have been flying between us and the newly found 3rd cousin, and we hope to meet in the near future. We both are subscribers to Ancestry.com and have been able to follow the family that came to the U.S. by the online census records. Thanks, RootsWeb for providing a place we can post our information and connect! * * * Slender Threads Create Ties That Bind --Patti Cantrell marpactx@yahoo.com http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cantrell/ http://cantrell.mybravenet.com/crain.html I have the most exciting news! I have my family history on my website and at RootsWeb so I get lots of e-mail from different people wishing to know more info on their surnames and most are not even connected to our family. A few months ago I was contacted by a young man wishing to find out more about his father's family and at first I just thought he had the wrong family because of his name. After checking him out and gathering info from some family members it turned out that he is the son of my first cousin. His mother moved to California before his birth so he never knew any of his father's family. Jon didn't wish contact with his father but with his grandmother. I put him in touch with several of the family members and e-mailed him now and then to check on how he was doing. He's a very nice young man about 30 who lives in California with his mother and is an only child -- or so I thought. Last week I received an e-mail from Ruthann who said she was the daughter of my cousin Ricky. I e-mailed her back and asked her to verify some family info and I also contacted an aunt who verified that Ricky had a daughter, but didn't keep in touch. Ruthann and I have been chatting back and forth and so I contacted Jon to let him know he had a half sister who also was reared by her mother and grandparents as an only child! With the permission of Jon and Ruthann I shared their information with each other. Recently they met by e-mail and IM (Instant Messenger) for the first time! I think that this is so wonderful and I hope all goes well and that they remain in contact with one another for a very long time. Perhaps someday they can meet . . . I am so excited that my family history website has put two nice young people in touch with the sibling they never knew existed and would have never known I suppose if it had not been for the family history I have online. 3. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ --------------------------------------------- The following new user-contributed databases have come online recently (these are name searchable, but they are not browseable.) ITALY. Alberona. Italian Births -- Alberona and Foggia, 1809-1889 248 records; C Giambattista http://userdb.rootsweb.com/italy/ CALIFORNIA. Santa Cruz County. Watsonville Union High School, 1906 Manzanitas; 342 records; Janece Carter Streig for the Pajaro Valley Historical Society http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ CALIFORNIA. Santa Cruz County. Watsonville Union High School, 1907 Manzanitas; 397 records; Janece Carter Streig for the Pajaro Valley Historical Society http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ KANSAS. Montgomery County. Cherryvale High School, Class of 1960 48 records; Tom McCorkill http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MARYLAND. Washington County. 1939 Graduating Class, Hancock High School, 26 records; Linda Irvin-Craig http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ TEXAS. HOPKINS surnames--Texas Death Index, 1903-1940 663 records; Paul R. Wilcox, Jr. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ 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 of names or databases -- other than your personal family tree (genealogies can be posted at WorldConnect: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ ) -- that you would like to share and 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/ Want to submit data, but not sure you can do it? It's easy. See: "Creating Databases" RWR 5:17, 24 April 2002, item 2e and RWR 5:18, 1 May 2002, item 2c. http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ 4. New Webpages at RootsWeb Request a Free Web Account: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Some of these pages 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/~[accountname] Note that the ~[tilde] before the Web account name is required. Example: The Bullock County, Alabama website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~albulloc/ CANADA canpchs -- Pioneer Cemetery Heritage Society of St. Margaret's Bay SCOTLAND sctbor -- Borders (region) U.S.A. albulloc -- Bullock County, Alabama almarsha -- Marshall County, Alabama azslhs -- Show Low Historical Society (White Mountains or Navajo and Apache counties in Arizona) incliber -- Liberty Township, Porter County, Indiana kyhchgs -- Henderson County Historical and Genealogical Society (Kentucky) kyhende2 -- Henderson County, Kentucky lawpvcm -- Washington Parish Virtual Cemetery Map (Louisiana) mecgrene -- Greene, Androscoggin County, Maine mibhs -- Bellevue Historical Society (Eaton County, Michigan) mipahs -- Pickford Area Historical Society (Michigan) txomrscv -- O. M. Roberts Camp No. 178, Sons of Confederate Veterans (Waxahachie, Texas) 5. New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Note: The following are Mailing Lists -- not webpages. For more information and an index to the more than 25,900 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and easy subscribing options, go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ To subscribe or unsubscribe to/from any RootsWeb-hosted Mailing List, send a plain text e-mail message with only the word SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the message body and the subject line to: [name of list]-L-request@rootsweb.com (for mail mode) or to: [name of list]-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode) NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ABEY, AYLING BARTOW, BLUNSOME, BOOMERSHINE, BRASHIER, BUTRICK CREECROFT, CUSHWAY DEFEVER, DEHAAN, DONAIS FLEISCHHAUER GELATT, GLASKIN GILL-UK -- The GILL surname in the United Kingdom HERTER LEADINGHAM MUEHLBAUER, MULVENNA PIRKLE THORN-UK -- The THORN surname in the United Kingdom THORNE-UK -- The THORNE surname in the United Kingdom VANDERBECK WEGENER YALLOP NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS FSGS -- Florida State Genealogical Society NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS ENG-YKS-BARNSLEY -- Barnsley, Yorkshire, England NJ-HUDSON-KEARNY -- Kearny (town), Hudson, New Jersey 6. New Personal Freepages and Homepages at RootsWeb --------------------------------------------------- [Note: When your new, updated, or substantially revised personal pages located at RootsWeb (they will have "freepages" or "homepages" in the URL) are up and ready for visitors, please send the URL (Web address), along with a brief description, including the major pertinent surnames and what is available on your site to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com Comments and questions about any of these independently authored webpages should be directed to their respective compilers/webmasters.] BROOKS and MORKILL. Descendants of Samuel BROOKS and Richard Dalby MORKILL. Surnames include: BEDEL, BOWEN, BREWSTER, DAMON, GREENLEE, JOHNSTON, LEBARON, MACFARLANE, MARQUIS, MORKIL, MORRISON, OSGOOD, ROBINS, SANBORN, THOMPSON, TOMLINSON, WALLEY, WHITE, and WRIGHT. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~earbar/brooksandmorkill/ KYSOR--THOMAS ANCESTORS. Includes "The CATHCART Story"; "Traveling by Covered Wagon"; and The COX-NICHOLSON Saga. Surnames include: BOHUN, BROOKS, CATHCART, COX, GOUSHILL, FITZ-ALAN, KYSOR, MOLINEAUX, NICHOLSON, PATEGENET, STANLEY, THOMAS, WARENNE, and WARREN. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kysor/ ORPHAN TRAINS -- ORPHAN-TRAINS Mail List Home Page, with links to sites and additional material on the subject. The orphan trains carried thousands of American children to new homes in various states. Discussions pertaining to anything related to these children, circumstances, finding their families, and history of these trains, are encouraged. The time period ranges from the 1850s to about 1930. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/orphan-trains-l.htm PAT AND JIM'S GENEALOGY SITE -- The descendants' list is upgraded regularly; includes many photos, histories, and documents; divided into four main family branches: --Peter GARY and Catherine KESTER of Somerset County, Pennsylvania -- Surnames include GARY, GEARY, MOOSE, SHIELDS, and CLARK. --Thomas JEWELL and Elizabeth GRAHAM of Montgomery County, Virginia -- Surnames include JEWEL/JEWELL, HALL, GRAHAM, AIKENS, DAVIS, and VANOVER -- Samuel LITTLE and Elizabeth "Betsy" BOONE of North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas. Surnames include BAYLESS, BOONE, BRANDON, BROWN, JONES, LITTLE, MCCARROLL, MAUGRIDGE, OLDHAM, and WINSTON. --TUCKER FAMILY of New England: Ancestors and Descendants -- Surnames include AYRES, BATES, BURT, COOK, CURTIS, DUTTON, HATHAWAY, HICKS, GRIMES, MCLAUGHLIN, MOOR, PHILLIPS, SHARPE, SHERMAN, TUCKER, WOOD, and WILSON. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/ RICE FAMILIES IN AMERICA -- includes an online index of "The Immigrants," Book 2 of the Rice Family Book Project. A work in progress; http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ricefamiliesinusa/ STANDISH and BEMONT Genealogy. A large database of STANDISH, BEMONT/BEMENT/BEAUMONT, and related lines with site search engines. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~stoneyfield/ TENNESSEE. Dekalb County Research. Contains research links, census, and selected family information for those researching in this locality. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rmbeckman/USA/TN/dekalb.html TENNESSEE. Van Buren County Research. Contains research links, census, and selected family information for those researching in this locality. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rmbeckman/USA/TN/vanburen.html TURCOTT AND FAMILY. Current family surnames being researched are: TURCOTTE/TURCOTT, DUBE, BERUBE, PELLETIER, SOUCY, BRILLANT, LAGACE/LAGASSE, CYR, ROBITAILLE, DUPONT, and many others. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~turcottelagace/ ===================== Paid Advertisements ======================= Explore the November selection of 20 NEW BOOKS and CDs at http://www.genealogical.com/ * CDs with MD and VA families, NC wills, and Mayflower progeny (of course). * Genealogy reference books about computers/Internet, Native Americans, the Revolutionary War, New England, NJ, VA, KY, and the knights and barons of Great Britain. Just click on http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3666&sourceid=2153 * * * Organize Your Life with FranklinCovey! 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News and Notes from Ancestry.com ----------------------------------- Yorkshire Parish and Probate Records. Discovering your English roots prior to the civil registration of vital records in 1837 can mean searching through the records of individual parishes. Luckily, many of these records are extant and some date back to 1538. Yorkshire, in the northeast region of England, is the home to a famous pudding of the same name and the Bronte sisters, authors of influential literary works. Additionally, this region is the ancestral home of many Americans whose Quaker ancestors emigrated from there in the 17th and 18th centuries. Although records from Yorkshire have been available on the site for some time, Ancestry.com is continually adding updates in an effort to ensure the highest quality for those using this database. Yorkshire, the largest county in Britain, lies in the industrial heart- land of Britain and includes such cites as Bradford, Sheffield, and Leeds. Parish records from the county range in date from the early 1500s through the mid-1800s and can provide an invaluable resource for researchers interested in this area. Access these valuable records and support RootsWeb.com by subscribing today. Click here: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?sourceid=481&targetid=3526 * * * LEARN ONLINE. http://www.myfamily.com/isapi.dll?c=home&htx=gentraining Class fees ($29.95 per class) normally include a 30-day subscription to Ancestry.com (including online census images). However, due to the upcoming holidays some classes, such as those listed below, will run for six weeks, providing students with an extra 10 days of access. ENGLISH FAMILY TREES CLASS. Starts 3 December. Now you can learn how to research your English ancestry with Sherry Irvine, an accredited genealogist from Canada. Class includes genealogy basics plus such topics as English parish records, unique surname spellings, church records, lost records and more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3567&sourceid=481 IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION RESEARCH CLASS. Starts 11 December. "They Must Have Swum" -- how to find your ancestors’ immigration records. Don't miss the boat. Join George Morgan, an accredited genealogist, to learn about immigration patterns all over the world, where to find the records, why do they migrate, resources online, different types of records, and much more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3598&sourceid=481 8. From RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag [Editor's note: The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the editor or of RootsWeb.com]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Accusing Cousins --Judy Ryden jryden@roguecc.edu http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~spratlen/ I agree with most of what Suzi Plooster wrote in last week's RootsWeb Review (RWR 5:47 "Sharing, Caring, and Paying"). I've been in the same boat of being asked to pay to send someone information too bulky or complex to send over the Internet. However, Suzi and others should not be so quick to judge the publishing of information as being "their" info. I received some material from a 5- times-removed "cousin" a couple of years ago. Since that time, I have been researching our joint line and published my findings on the Web. This "cousin" immediately wrote me accusing me of publishing without her permission. I sent her my original sources from my own research. The names and relationships I ended up with were indeed the same as what she'd sent me, but I had done my own research. I've never heard from her since -- no apology. [Editor's note: It is unfortunate that some *cousins* do not understand that no one owns our ancestors or the uncopyrightable facts about them, such as their names, birth dates and places, spouses' names, dates and places of marriages, and death dates and places. Of course, polite genealogists acknowledge and give credit to those who have been kind enough to share research information. However, there are many novice online family historians who have not learned yet to record where they obtained information or to give proper credit to their cousins. See Michael John Neill's article: "I Want It All" http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/6103.asp See also George G. Morgan's articles: "Citation Corner Index Page": http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/george/4696.asp and "The Ethics and Etiquette of Sharing": http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/george/852.asp ] * * * Just Another Cemetery Story --Virginia Rhodes Nuta vrnuta@starpower.net My father has passed away, but he left me a family tree that showed a 3rd-great-grandfather and 3rd-great-grandmother buried in a certain cemetery near a certain church in Brunerstown, Kentucky, at a certain distance in a certain direction from Louisville. I could not find Brunerstown on a map. No one had ever heard of Brunerstown. I thought Dad made a mistake. Recently I was able to visit Louisville. In a genealogy library, where the librarians had not heard of Brunerstown or the church or cemetery, I found a small local history of another little town, Jeffersontown, where some family had married. Lo and behold, the author wrote that it was once called Brunerstown. The book was written 25 years ago and said the church Dad had mentioned was still around. I found the church in a phone book. I begged the hotel staff to make a map and told my husband we were taking a ride. The church wasn't open when we got there, so I knocked on the door of a nearby house. It was the parsonage, and although the parson couldn't come to the door, the teenage son gave directions to the cemetery. We followed the directions, but it was only because of my husband's sharp eyes that we saw the little signs taking us through a new subdivision. When we started walking through the cemetery my heart sank. The older stones were illegible and we were looking for a death in 1848. After 15 minutes, as the sun was setting, I told my husband we should give up. Just at that moment, I glanced down at an old tilting stone next to me, and there, set into the ground in front of it, was a wonderful bronze plaque with my ancestor's name on it. He was a veteran of the War of 1812, and it seems someone had placed plaques throughout the cemetery at the graves of each veteran. After much gasping and many happy excla- mations, I then noticed that his wife was buried next to him and by some stroke of fortune, her stone was legible. Think of the ways I could have missed these graves! No information from Dad, no local history publication, no available phone book, no hotel staff to make a map, no one at home at the parsonage, no signs to the cemetery in the ground, no veterans' plaques, no kind fate smiling upon me with regard to the wife--any one of these things would have derailed me. So I ask you, was it meant to be? Lessons learned: Read everything! Persist! And trust Dad! * * * But Grandmother, What a Strange Name You Have --Robert W Barlow barlowrw@yahoo.com For years I have looked everywhere for my 2x-great-grandmother. I have pictures of her. I have all kinds of dates and children's names and addresses, but I could not find her anywhere. She married John TATE, maybe TAIT, sometime around 1853 in England somewhere -- Still have not found that out. She was born Eleanor NICOLSON. March 5 1833, in Durham, and we have not found out where yet. I have a letter from her brother to her dated 5 August 1855, with all the dates of brothers and sisters. It is a wonderful letter that has filled in some of the holes. There is no place name in it with the exception of a John NICLOLSON (cousin) being married shortly in Wolsingham. They came to Canada after the birth of their son John William TATE. We think maybe in 1866. John died in Port Perry, Ontario 21 May 1879 -- just before the 1881 census. On going into the 1881 census I could not find Eleanor. After being frustrated with not finding her I typed in TATE, and the place name. There she was, but the person taking the census wrote her name as Hellenor TATE. 9. Humor: Do You Think Papa Approved? ------------------------------------- Thanks to: Hattaway@aol.com 1880 Census, Washington County, Georgia, ED 126, family 246 Brown, James B -- head -- Farmer Brown, Emerline -- wife -- Keeping house Meeks, John Oliver -- son-in-law -- Tramp, good for no body Meeks, Nancy Elizabeth -- wife -- At home 10. Submission Guidelines, Reprint Policy, RWR Archives, Subscriptions ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 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. RootsWeb Review welcomes short (600 words or less) articles, humor, stories, or letters and reserves the right to edit all submissions. 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