RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 5, No. 49, 4 December 2002, Circulation: 1,049,474+ (c) 1998-2002 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com Certification: http://www.bcgcertification.org/certification/ * * * Post 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/ RootsWeb's Password Central: Forgotten passwords, user IDs, etc. http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ Do not send RWR subscription requests and modifications to the editor. Please see Section 10. ======================================================================= In This Issue: 1. News and Notes. (1a. "Sharing: The RootsWeb Spirit"; 1b. Tips from Readers: "Spam Without Eggs") 2. Connecting through RootsWeb: "Finding Needle in a Haystack"; "Around the World I Searched for You" 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 8. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Leaving No Stone Unturned"; "Solving Genealogical Jigsaw Puzzles" 9. Humor: "Long-lasting Comment" 10. RWR Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; Archives; Subscription Modification Instructions ====================================================================== 1. News and Notes: ------------------ 1a. Sharing: The RootsWeb Spirit. The RootsWeb spirit is about sharing our family history information with others--contributing what we know or have compiled so that others with similar interests may benefit from our research, information, and expertise. Of course, we hope in return to learn from others' contributions. How can you contribute and share the data you have collected while researching your family history? RootsWeb is a huge place, with many nooks and crannies, so before deciding where to submit your data, consider the nature and amount of information you have gathered, as well as the format in which you have recorded it. If you have limited information and are really more interested in asking a question (also known as a query), your best option is to post on the free Mailing Lists and/or Message Boards. Surnames and Localities (places where your families once lived) lists and boards are excellent starting points. RootsWeb's Mailing Lists and Message Boards are incredible electronic vehicles for making contact with others who have similar research interests. To learn about, find, and join Mailing Lists go here: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ To locate Message Boards start at: http://boards.rootsweb.com/ If you have just a few records -- death notices, funeral cards, obituaries, baptismal records, marriage notices, etc., and/or the data you have collected is in free-flowing text in sentences and paragraphs, the best place to share it is on the appropriate Message Boards. These boards are not just for queries -- they are a globally searchable repository for mini- databases and individually transcribed documents. Use the FIND A BOARD searchbox or the INDEX pages, accessible from the main Message Board page, to locate an appropriate board for posting your information. Your data might be just what someone has been seeking for years. If you have a larger collection (more than a few records) of single-type genealogical data (i.e. birth records, death records, cemetery records), and if your data is formatted in consistent, labeled columns or fields (or you are willing to make it so), you may wish to submit it to the User- Contributed Database section where RootsWeb programmers will make your data searchable within a master database of similar type records. For additional information see: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ If you have compiled some or all of your family history data in a genealogy software program where it can be converted to a GEDCOM (GEnealogical Data COMMunication) file format, the best place to share it is at WorldConnect. http://wc.rootsweb.com/ Click on START HERE to submit your family tree. For additional instructions on submitting your family tree to WorldConnect, see: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/FAQ/wcsubmit1.html Submitting a large or small family tree to WorldConnect will enable other researchers to contact you and to place notes on your file with additional or corrected information. Thus, having a file on WorldConnect is an excellent means of learning as well as sharing information. No one knows about all the family lines you might be researching unless you put the information out where it can be found. If your genealogical data doesn't fit into any of the above categories, or if you would like to display it in a unique format, consider creating your own free genealogy-related website at RootsWeb by requesting what's called a "Freepages Account." http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ If your major goal is to make contact with others who are researching the same surnames (last names) in the same localities as you, consider submitting your surnames to the RootsWeb Surname List (RSL) -- in addition to making use of other resources. http://rsl.rootsweb.com/ You can be part of the RootsWeb spirit of sharing and contributing information whether you decide to post a query or data on a RootsWeb Mailing List or Message Board, submit data to the User-Contributed Databases, upload a GEDCOM to WorldConnect, submit your surnames to the RSL, or create your personal website on Freepages. You may want to make use of all or a combination of several of these options for maximum results * * * 1b. Tips from Readers: Spam Without Eggs Thanks to: Adri Bisenberger,Toronto bisenberger@yahoo.com With regard to your recent article "What? You Have No Mail!" I found out that on some ISPs the e-mail might go directly to the designated folder (usually the trash can) if the anti-spam feature is geared to catch certain words in incoming e-mails. Let's say you don't want to receive any e-mail containing the word "diet," then such e-mails will directly go to the trash can folder. Since it is possible to use dozens of different "catch words" in the setup, sooner or later genuine e-mails containing those words will never reach the addressee -- unless the trash can is searched immediately. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Finding Needle in Haystack By Gayle (née Bryer) Bovalino bovalino@origin.net.au Maryborough Victoria Australia We have just found out from my mother's aunt that my mother has a half brother. The "Slender Threads Create Ties That Bind" story in last week's RootsWeb Review has given me a little bit of hope that one day we may find him, although at 72 years of age now he will probably be passed away before we do. With only the information that his mother's surname was AUSTIN or AUSTEN, his father was John ARGENT, and he was born in 1930 around Brisbane, we think it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack, but as your stories show we never know what may turn up. Thank you, RootsWeb, for helping to make things happen. * * * Around the World I Searched for You . . . By Rebecca Rodgers washbrook@mindspring.com Washbrook-l@rootsweb.com List Administrator Once again you have made another family connection possible. I was alerted by RootsWeb that a Post-em had been placed on my paternal great-uncle's name. It stated that this was that person's grandfather and to please contact him as soon as possible. Always taking things like this with a grain of salt, I promptly and politely wrote back asking how I could help. A very excited e-mail was sent in reply: "I am the son of Russell Lesley RODGERS,(deceased) and have only just met up with some of the RODGERS family after nearly 50 years (it's a long story)." The long story is that his father died in a plane crash when Glenn was about one year old. His mother left the country and remarried. Glenn never really knew much about his dad and until this year didn't really ask his mother for information. But he decide he wanted to know more. So far he has been reunited with an uncle and aunt, another cousin and myself. Before the day he met them and got onto the Internet with Ancestry.com (and on a whim typed in our surname RODGERS) he had no idea of any other family members. The best part is that he is interested in knocking down the brick walls I have regarding this family for the last two years. Our other "new" cousin still lives in India and has offered to help as well. I am no longer alone in my search of where my father's family comes from. Glenn and I spoke via long distance telephone (he's in the UK and I'm in the USA) and are both excited and happy to have met another elusive "RODGERS from India!" From both of us -- our heartfelt thanks for helping families come together. You made my Thanksgiving holiday that much more special. 3. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ --------------------------------------------- No new ones were created this past week. 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/ 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/ 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 County Carlow, Ireland website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlcar/ IRELAND irlcar -- County Carlow SCOTLAND sctclkfc -- Clackmannanshire UK Free Census Project sctwlnfc -- West Lothian UK Free Census Project U.S.A. iafrankl -- Franklin County, Iowa iahumbol -- Humboldt County, Iowa milapee2 -- Lapeer County, Michigan mistcla3 -- St. Clair County, Michigan mitusco2 -- Tuscola County, Michigan ncfcgs -- Forsyth County Genealogical Society (North Carolina) njatlant -- Atlantic County, New Jersey nydutch2 -- Dutchess County, New York nyotseg2 -- Otsego County, New York paclario -- Clarion County, Pennsylvania sdwlcml -- Willow Lake Community Museum and Library (South Dakota) txbrooks -- Brooks County, Texas txcamero -- Cameron County, Texas txjimwel -- Jim Wells County, Texas txkenedy -- Kenedy County, Texas txwillac -- Willacy County, Texas txyoakum -- Yoakum County, 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 ALLERSTON, AUMICK BINET, BLASEG, BRACEGIRDLE, BRITTIAN DESHAZER FELDKAMP GIESICK HALLAT JEDELE KLOEHN, KRZISKE MUSETTI PRUNER, PURRIER ROBAR, ROMANOFF ROBERTSON-TEXAS -- The Robertson surname in Texas (USA) SILCOTT, SNACKENBERG, SNACKENBERGER, SOILLEUX TARBOX, VICTORIA WELLENSIEK ZINKAND NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS KY-OWSLEY-CO-HISTORICAL-SOCIETY -- The Owsley County (Kentucky) Historical Society MI-BELLEVUE-HS--The Bellevue (Eaton County, Michigan) Historical Society POORHOUSES -- Discussions pertaining to anything related to these people, circumstances, finding their families, history of poorhouses, etc. SAXONY_ROOTS -- Companion list to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~saxonyroots/ NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS NY-SOUTHERN -- Genealogical or historical interest in the southern counties of New York consisting of Broome, Bronx, Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Greene, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Queens, Putnam, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk, Sullivan, Tioga, Ulster, and Westchester. POL-KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE -- Kujawsko-Pomorskie province, Poland 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.] BLISSMER FAMILY: Our small history in America and Germany. 1750-present. New page in the German language to assist non-English-reading visitors. German surnames include: BODIEN, KNIESTEN, LAFFERTHON, MEYER, MOLL, MYOHL, NISSEN, NUBER, SCHADLICH, SCHMIDTKE, STERNER, WELKER, WENDLER, and ULRICH. Klicken sie hier. Danke. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blissmer/ HOLTZERMANN, VELECHOVSKY. Descendants of Heinrich Eberhard HOLTZERMANN and Karl VELECHOVSKY. Surnames also include: DETTMER, FRIESE, GAGG, HOLTERMANN, KOEHNE, LEHMANN, MADDEN, MENKE, OTTO, SCHETTER, SCHROEDER, THALEN, WALLNER, WHARTON, and WINTER. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~earbar/holtzermannandvelechovsky/ OHIO. Montgomery County. Dayton. Oakwood High School Yearbooks 1923, 1924, and 1926. Scans of the yearbooks, including faculty, students, organiza- tions, and autographs -- for family research. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cribbs/oh_oakwood/ OKLAHOMA. Logan County. Historical and genealogical information. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tammie/logan.htm POLAND. Raczki. This website provides an introduction to the culture, topography, and history of the Raczki locality in the extreme northeastern part of Poland; major researched surnames involved are: OSTROWSKI, KOZ?OWSKI, SADOWSKI, STELMACH, and ZAB?OCKI; information is also available on the aristocratic PAC family. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raczki/ TODD FAMILY OF CAROLINE COUNTY, MARYLAND. Primarily dealing with the descendants of Michael TODD, III (ca 1733-1802) and his wife Mary JOHNSON (born 1733), of Caroline County, Maryland. Major family lines include HUBBARD, BEAUCHAMP, WILLIAMSON, SULLIVAN, WRIGHT, BLADES, WILLIS, MELONEY, SMITH, WOOTERS, FOUNTAIN, and HARDESTY. Also records and other information on all known ancestors of the website author, E. Parker TODD, and of his wife, Patricia Ann LAYTON, as well as abstracts of the 1870 and 1880 (partial for 1880) census records for Caroline County, Maryland. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~carolines/ ===================== Paid Advertisements ======================= Organize Your Life with FranklinCovey! Kids, work, meetings, and pets - life can get pretty hectic for a family these days. Let FranklinCovey help you plan and accomplish more! http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4072&sourceid=4868 * * * Save up to 85% on Inkjet Cartridges at 2SaveOnInkjet.com The absolute lowest prices for top quality ink anywhere! All cartridges and refills are 100% guaranteed. Fast, everyday shipping. Top-rated service. You'll wish you new about 2SaveOnInkjet before now. Bookmark your new favorite source for ink! http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4083&sourceid=4897 * * * My hard drive crashed and I never made a backup. How can I get my files back? 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The Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry is an alphabetically listed glossary of terms and words used in heraldry, and provides useful insight to the deciphering of historic heraldry. Armorial Families: A Directory of Coat- Armor, is a directory of some gentlemen who were entitled to bear arms in Great Britain, and shows those arms said to be borne by legal authority. Both books include descriptions and explanations of heraldic terms as well as supplementary illustrations. Their simplicity of presentation and convenience provide for quick and easy reference tools. Search Armorial Families: A Directory of Coat-Armor, and Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry now to learn more about heraldry. Support RootsWeb when you subscribe to search and decode legally documented coats of arms today. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?sourceid=1380&targetid=3707 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Leaving No Stone Unturned By Elise McIntosh e.mcintosh@insightbb.com My quest to document my ancestors began in 1964 with an effort to find my mother's father and her grandparents. All the other grandparents and families were accounted for. Mother was only seven years old when grandpa died. Mother, who died in 1998, never learned who her father's parents were. Grandpa Richard Earl SHEARER had married my grandmother Jewel COOK under the alias of Richard E. SHERRY, as a bigamist in 1925! I even have the marriage license to prove it. He had a wife and three living children. I have their wedding picture and divorce papers. So how could we possibly believe anything else that grandpa had told the family about his background? Genealogy wasn't that easy in the early years. You couldn't just do the research on the Internet. Grandpa's first wife, Emma LIPKE SHEARER, divorced Richard in 1930 so that the three children from the second marriage could be legitimized. Miss Emma also told Aunt Alene about what Richard had done. Aunt Alene began a correspondence that would be sustained for years, but never to my knowledge were her parents' names mentioned to the family. Grandpa died in 1933. In 1952, Aunt Alene and her husband Uncle Floyd came from California to visit us in Vicksburg, Mississippi. We learned about her and her family, but unfortunately not who her parents were. As if grandpa's dying in mom's early childhood wasn't enough of a challenge, he told the family that his parents were killed in a "carriage accident in northern Kentucky" and that he and his sister, Alene Isabel SHEARER had been raised in an orphans' home in Indiana. Research showed that he and Aunt Alene were actually raised by his mother's sister --Mary E. CRAWFORD and her husband, George BOLIN, a grocer in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was listed in their household on the 1900 census. My search shifted from state to state: Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Florida, and even California. In 2000, someone at the Allen County, Indiana Public Library suggested that I obtain Aunt Alene's marriage license from Marion County, Indiana. I ignored the suggestion for two years because I already had the information. After spending a sizable amount of money on professional researchers, and a lot of library time searching census records in a personal quest to find grandpa in any records, it all came down to a stone that was left unturned. The information needed to connect to grandpa's parents was listed in the "Record of Return Marriages County of Marion, Indiana" -- obtained when I asked for the marriage license and any associated documents that might show parentage. For two years, I continued searching for information that was right under my nose had I asked for the marriage license. And the irony of it was that I'd been looking in all the wrong places focusing on Marion County instead of Floyd County, Indiana. It turns out that grandpa's father was Captain Samuel M. SHEARER, a steamboat engineer (and probably captain) which accounts for the title "captain" shown on the marriage license. He married one Libbie M. CRAWFORD on 28 June 1880. Captain SHEARER died 28 March 1884 from tuberculosis in New Albany, Indiana at age 24, only 3 months before his second child, my grandfather, was born. With a name to research, I went to the Floyd County, Indiana census records on the Internet. On the 1870 census there was great-grandpa Samuel's family, the names of his mother, father and his siblings. I also found great-grandma Libbie's parents and her siblings, including the sister, Mary, who took Libbie's children in when they were orphaned. There is still much information to be learned, such as what happened to great- grandma Libbie and why her children were raised by her sister, but within four weeks I had two generations back and documented from microfilm -- after searching for 38 years. My advice to all researchers is: "Follow up on any and all leads. It just may provide the link you need to connect the dots. Leave no stone unturned. * * * Solving Genealogical Jigsaw Puzzles By Jay H. ozyoates@hotmail.com I have been trying to identify a John MIDDLETON of Middleton Hall but found there are 21 towns called "Middleton" in the A-Z Atlas of Great Britain. All the information I had was: Sir Richard LOWTHER, b. 1532 Lowther Hall d.1607, m. Frances MIDDLETON Middleton (daughter of John MIDDLETON, d. 15/2/1579, [son of Geoffrey of Middleton and Margaret KIRKHAM], and Ann TUNSTALL, [daughter of Brian TUNSTALL of Thurland Castle, Lancashire d. 9/9/1513 at Battle of Flodden and Isabel BOYNTON b. ca 1484 Ackham, Yorkshire]. Brian TUNSTALL was the son of Thomas and his wife Ann NEVILLE.) Determined not to give up, I scoured the Net, not just for genealogies, but for references to any of the above information, and gleaned these separate nuggets: * 1314 -- The Manor of Beetham was held by a family of its own name, one of whom is Thomas de Betham, who was several times knight of the shire for Westmorland, and who died in 1314. It was afterwards carried in marriage to the Middletons, the last of whom on record is Sir George Middleton, who was knighted by Charles I. * Anne Betham m. 1483-5 Sir Robert Middleton of Leighton Hall [son of Sir Geoffrey who was a younger son of John Middleton of Middleton Hall]. The Leighton Hall line terminated with Sir George, who was knighted by Charles I. * Patronage of the Chantry Chapel of St Marys, founded by the Crofts in 15th century came to the Middleton family along with Leighton Hall, by the marriage of Alyson Croft with Geoffrey Middleton in 1438. * In 1489, Sir Robert Middleton was assigned Yealand Conyers with Leighton after his father's marriage into the family of the then owners, the Crofts. Thenceforth these manors descended through the Middletons. * MIDDLETON township and chapelry is bounded on the west by the river Lune, on the north west by the Rother, which divides it from Yorkshire, and here falls into the Lune, and on the south by the township of Barbon. It contains a number of detached houses, and the small hamlet of Middleton Head, seven miles N. by E. of Kirkby-Lonsdale, and three and a half miles S.W. of Sedbergh. The manor was held by a family of its own name for 10 generations, one of whom, John Middleton, Esq., enfranchised the tenants in the reign of James I (1603-1625), so that it is now held of the Earl of Lonsdale, as lessee of the great Barony of Kendal, by the payment of a small quit-rent. Middleton Hall, once the residence of the Middletons, was a large castellated building. The portion of it still habitable is occupied by a farmer. * 1640-50 -- The tenants of the Lancashire Royalist Sir George Middleton took advantage of the Revolution of the 1640s-50s and in particular of his absence and the sequestration of his estates, to overthrow his authority. The Middletons' estates were centred on the parish of Warton on the northern border of Lancashire. In Warton the Middletons held the manors of Yealand Redmayne, Yealand Conyers and Yealand Storrs, and Leighton where they lived. They also had lands in Silverdale and Lindeth. Bordering on the parish were their manors of Over Kellett (on the southeastern side), and Burton, just over the county border in Westmorland. They also had miscellaneous parcels of land scattered throughout Lancashire and Westmorland. From the above I can ascertain with reasonable certainty that my John is from the Westmorland family. The information isn't yet completely proven, but each piece fits together like a jigsaw puzzle and every future clue adds to the picture. Sure, some may seem to fit but prove false, but half the fun is in the search, and every little fact about them is a bonus. 9. Humor: Long-lasting Comment ------------------------------------- Thanks to: Alan Stoner alan.stoner@blueyonder.co.uk Seeing your census humo(u)r in the latest RootsWeb Review reminded me of an entry found in the British 1881 census. William HOWE M 31 M Little Orton, Cumberland, England Rel: Head Occ: Plumber Mary HOWE M 31 F Portlock, Scotland Rel: Wife Occ: Chancellor Of Exchequer One wonders whether the husband provided the information as a dry comment on the traits of his Scottish wife, or the wife to show who was in charge. 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. All mail sent to the RootsWeb Review editor is considered to be for publication; send in plain text (no html, stationery, or attachments) to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com * * * Search/download all back issues of RootsWeb Review: http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ * * * Do not send RWR subscription requests and modifications to the editor. Please use the following RWR addresses: RWR-on@rootsweb.com -- adds you to the RWR Mailing List. RWR-off@rootsweb.com -- removes you from the RWR Mailing List. * * * 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. 49, 4 December 2002. * * * *