RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 5, No. 52, 25 December 2002, Circulation: 1,029,092+ (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/ * * * Do not use your e-mail REPLY option to this post-only e-zine and do not send RWR subscription requests and modifications to the editor. Please see Section 10 below for help and e-mail addresses * * * TO FIND YOUR ANCESTORS AND COUSINS: 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/ Search for links, clues and connections in WorldConnect: http://wc.rootsweb.com/ RootsWeb's HelpDesk: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ RootsWeb's Password Central: Forgotten passwords, user IDs, etc. http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ ======================================================================= In This Issue: 1. News and Notes. (1a. Stamping Out Errors; 1b. Guarding Your Passwords; 1c. Tips from Readers 2. Connecting through RootsWeb: "Finding Families" 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: Sorting Out the Cousins: "Keith and Kin"; "What About Those English Cousins?"; "Auntie and the OED"; "Cousin-german"; "But, Sugar . . ."; "The Author Responds"; Christmas Gift!: Gifting Game Has Southern Roots"; "Magic Words"; "Lots of Fun"; and "Author Buried with Responses" 9. Humor: "Creating a Musical Family" 10. RWR Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; Archives; Subscription Modification Instructions ====================================================================== 1. News and Notes: By Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG, Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com -------------------------------------------------- 1a. Stamping Out Errors Daily your editor and the RootsWeb HelpDesk receive comments and complaints about some "incorrect" genealogical information that has been discovered online. Unfortunately, you are barking up the wrong tree. We can't help you. There is no army of editors and professional genealogists at RootsWeb or on the Internet who check and verify genealogical data or family trees -- posted by individuals. RootsWeb hosts thousands and thousands of independently authored webpages, but it does not edit or verify the information posted therein. Moreover, there is no way to prevent incorrect genealogical information -- or information that disagrees with your findings -- from appearing on the Internet or in traditional sources either, for that matter. Genealogical errors can be found everywhere -- in Internet databases such as WorldConnect, in Message Board posts, in Mailing List messages and archives, in books, in historical society records, and even in official records. All of us make typographical and transcription errors and the more often data is keyed and re-keyed the greater the chance of errors. There is no law prohibiting you or your cousins from submitting or posting error-ridden data online (or publishing it in a book). A major complaint received is about the spelling of surnames, but there is no right or wrong way to spell a surname. See: "Why U Can't Find Your Ancestors: Misspeld Knames --A Commun Probblem for Researchers," http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson8.htm What you can do though when you find information that you believe to be incorrect or disagrees with your records is to counteract it by posting or submitting the information that you have. Wherever someone can submit incorrect information online, you can add the corrected data. Post your data and sources or evidence for your conclusions on appropriate RootsWeb Message Boards, Mailing Lists, and/or submit your family tree to WorldConnect. By ensuring that the correct information is also readily available, others viewing both sets of data can make informed decisions. Additionally, by including the sources for your data it will assist other researchers to know where the information came from and which version of the "facts" are more likely to be accurate. * * * Guarding Your Passwords While you do not need a password for most resources at RootsWeb there are a few areas where you will use passwords to ensure that only you access your files, or to thwart spammers from harvesting addresses. Such areas include the WorldConnect Project, RootsWeb Surname List (RSL), and Post-em Notes. If a password is required, in most instances you will be able to create your own. Never post your passwords in public places such as on a RootsWeb Mailing List or Message Board. Be careful not to copy any correspondence you have received that includes any of your passwords, such as responses from Password Central: http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ that include user codes and passwords, to a publicly accessible or publicly archived location such as a Mailing List or Message Board. Posting passwords publicly could enable others to gain access to your accounts and to remove or edit your information. Should you accidentally expose your password publicly, change the password immediately to keep your account secure. Most RootsWeb passwords can be changed by the user with the exception of webpage accounts and PML -- Personalized Mailing List program, a benefit extended to former RootsWeb contributors. Webmasters' passwords can be changed only in extreme, extenuating situations (and requires RootsWeb staff intervention). PML passwords can not be changed. * * * 1c. Tips from Readers. Thanks to: Allen L. Wheatley Cemeteries@teafor2.com http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~t42cemeteries/ In reference to advertisement copy that appeared in RootsWeb Review 5:51: My hard drive crashed and I never made a backup. How can I get my files back? I had thousands of names, years of hard work and a great deal of money and travel invested. When was the last time you backed up your data? This brought to mind the quote: "The only thing you've managed to save is what you have given away." Don't be stingy with the data you have collected. Share it with others, and do your backups, too * * * Author, Author! Would the author of "A Quaker in Milwaukee" article please contact the editor at: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com * * * 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Finding Families --Dave Parks dave_parks@hotmail.com I've been searching for PARKS family connections for many years now, and not long ago a couple of my posts paid off. Not only do I have a new brother, a living aunt and uncle, and a cousin that has been at this longer than I have, but I now have answers to many questions about my deceased father. If all that weren't enough, my wife was put in touch with the baby girl she gave up for adoption 24 years ago. What a blessing your web site and the Internet have been. Finding family is so easy now that I can't imagine why more people aren't doing it. 3. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ --------------------------------------------- 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. * * * The following datasets have come online recently (these are name searchable, but they are not browseable): AUSTRALIA. Holmes births, 1790-1915 907 records; Larry Clemmet http://userdb.rootsweb.com/aus/ U.S.A. Death Records: Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Cooperative Center for Health Statistics, Death Index 1911-1950 168,526 records; Karen J. Lowe http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ ARKANSAS. Howard County. Duckett Cemetery 147 records; Holly and Lisa Childs http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ CALIFORNIA. Santa Cruz County. Watsonville High School, 1915 Manzanitas 446 records; Janece Carter Streig for the Pajaro Valley Historical Association http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ KENTUCKY. 1911 Index to Kentucky births 72,133 records; Pam Carey Durstock http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ KENTUCKY. 1912 Index to Kentucky births 72,109 records; Pam Carey Durstock http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham County. 1887 births, from the 1888 annual report for Derry; 40 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham County. 1888 births, from the 1889 annual report for Derry; 33 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham County. 1890 Births, from the 1891 annual report for Derry; 36 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham County. 1891 births, from the 1892 annual report for Derry; 46 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham County. 1892 births, from the 1893 annual report for Derry; 55 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham County. 1893 births, from the 1894 annual report for Derry; 53 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham County. 1894 births, from the 1895 annual report for Derry; 36 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham County. 1895 births, from the 1896 annual report for Derry; 56 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham County. 1896 births, from the 1897 annual report for Derry; 54 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham County. 1897 births, from the 1898 annual report for Derry; 56 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham County. 1898 births, from the 1899 annual report for Derry NH 49 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham County. 1899 births, from the 1900 annual report for Derry; 48 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham County. 1900 births, from the 1901 annual report for Derry; 64 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham County. 1901 births, from the 1902 annual report for Derry; 64 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham County. 1902 births, from the 1903 annual report for Derry; 72 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham County. 1903 births, from the 1904 annual report for Derry; 77 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ OHIO. Hocking County. STEEL deaths (Lemuel, Nathaniel, Calvin and wives) 7 records; Darlene Poppe http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ * * * 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/ 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: Schöndorf (a community in the Banat) website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~huncscho/ HUNGARY huncscho -- Schöndorf (a community in the Banat) U.S.A. arudc -- Arkansas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy mojaccem -- Jackson, Andrew County, Missouri Cemeteries ncbath -- Bath County, North Carolina txjohnso -- Johnson County, Texas wimarbio -- Marinette County, Wisconsin Biographies Project 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 26,000 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and easy subscribing options, go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS CRAIGE DEVORSS ENDECOTT HUTLEY KATTERMAN, KEYTE, KLOPFER LAUCK, LAUGHERY NAUMAN POHLE, PRINTZ, PURDHAM SEEKFORD, SHEMWELL, STANAT, SY TROOP ULENBEERG WANDELL, WHALE YARBER NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS KY-KIDS -- For kids to research genealogy in Kentucky NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS SWE-VRM-NORDMARKEN -- Nordmarken (civil district), Varmland, Sweden * * * 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) 6. New Personal Freepages and Homepages at RootsWeb ---------------------------------------------------- Note: Comments and questions about any of these independently authored webpages should be directed to their respective compilers/webmasters. 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 * * * HEDGPETH. Originally called the Homepage of the Hedgpeth-L@RootsWeb.com, but generally referred to as the H*D*P*TH site, it covers all spelling variations from any location. Spellings include: HADSPETH, HEADSPEATH, HEDGEPATH, HEDGEPETH, HEDGESPETH, HEDGPATH, HEDGPETH, HEDGSPATH, HEDGSPETH, HUDSPEATH, HUDSPETH, and HUDSPITH -- to name a few. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hedgpeth/ IACOBUCCI-PRESUTTI-REEVES-BLACKFORD FAMILIES. Database containing family records for IACOBUCCI-PRESUTTI and other families from Pratola Peligna, Italy; also related records for REEVES and BLACKFORD. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~carolyne47/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. The New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association's (NHOGA) website is now up. NHOGA is an organization dedicated to the preservation of New Hampshire's historic graveyards. In addition to information about the association and its activities, the site contains a locator database for all graveyards and cemeteries in New Hampshire. Each individual graveyard entry is linked to a map showing its location. New Hampshire has many small family graveyards, often located deep in the woods or on abandoned roads. The locator database allows users to find these remote locations. Since many of these burial sites are known by the name of the family buried there, the database also provides a source for clues on where to look for relatives. At present, there are no listings of individuals buried at these sites, but that information will be added to the web site as it becomes available. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nhoga/ NEW YORK. FROM GERMANY TO BUFFALO. Buffalo (Erie County) resources here include: St. Peters German Evangelical Church Records: Searchable (with ctrl-f), browseable, and updatable transcription of the first four years (1849-1852 inclusive) of marriages, baptisms, deaths; Concordia Cemetery records (1875-1920): Searchable (with ctrl-F), browseable, and updatable records from one of the oldest cemeteries in Buffalo; the Buffalo East Side Working Group: Resources and a discussion list about this early German neighborhood. Resources include "Surnames by Street" (ca 1890), a list of people researching surnames from this area, and pages of photos and descriptions of businesses, churches, schools and more from this neighborhood. Other Helpful Resources: My Elisabetha: Genealogical Adventures in the Rheinpfalz documents a true story of using RootsWeb and other online sources in conjunction with church and civil records to find one's ancestors and a set of mailing lists and compilations of resources and researchers for BETZ, JAUCH, GLUNZ, and SCHMIDT. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jillaine/ POORHOUSES-L Mailing List Home Page. This list is for the discussion of the poorhouses that were homes to thousands of people in any and all U.S. states. Discussions pertaining to anything related to these people, circumstances, finding their families, history of poorhouses, etc. are encouraged. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/poorhouses-l.htm WELLS FAMILY PICTURE ALBUM. The website has been updated recently with more photos and family names. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nilajean/ 7. News and Notes from Ancestry.com ----------------------------------- For those with ancestors in the United Kingdom, you now have one more reason to be excited. Through an agreement with England's Public Record Office, MyFamily.com, Inc. has launched of an immense project to make available online the indexed, and digitized images of census returns for England and Wales from 1841 through 1891 -- creating the most comprehensive collection of English census records on the Web. The initial release of these images included more than 20,000 names from the 1891 Oxfordshire census. Images for Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Cornwall, Kent, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and most of the Channel Islands are also now available, with plans to publish new census images each week. Corresponding indexes will be released over the next few months, with hopes to be completely imaged and indexed by mid-2003. The 1891 England and Wales Census brings the total names available to subscribers of the "U.K. and Ireland Collection" to 100 million. Click to view a free sample, or support RootsWeb.com by subscribing today. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?sourceid=1380&targetid=4052 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorting Out the Cousins [Editor's note: Ron Spiers' comment in last week's RootsWeb Review about the proper use of the term "cousins" generated a great deal of mail. Here's some excerpts from a few of those letters:] Keith and Kin I know of no Americans who apply "cousin" to anyone with the same surname. I do, however, know plenty -- especially in the South -- who apply it loosely to blood kin and kindred souls alike. The "kindred souls" part no doubt offends brother Spiers. We Americans (some English, too, I suspect) sometimes use "brother" in a figurative sense, too. Kinship terms are used for unrelated people whose association with the individual or family makes them part of the family social circle. I grew up with childless "aunts" and "uncles" who were unrelated, lifelong friends of my parents. If they had children of their own, I have no doubt those would have been called cousins. This fight was lost long ago--in England as well as in America. --Duncan Morrow cmorrow@ix.netcom.com * * * What About Those English Cousins? Ron Spiers asked: "Why not use it correctly?" Fair question. Here are some answers. 1. The role of a dictionary is to report how people do use language, not to prescribe how people should use language, although, admittedly, there are certain arrogant people who seem to enjoy lording it over others by proclaiming the "proper" use of a word based upon no more reliable an authority than a collection compiled by some fallible human beings who have nothing better to do with their time. 2. The Oxford English Dictionary is exactly that: an English dictionary. It is not an "American" dictionary, or a dictionary of "American English." It has no more authority over Americans or American usage than the Queen herself, an issue that was pretty well settled in 1776. 3. Any culture has as much right/authority to determine and define its terms of relationship as any other. In our country, for example, "uncle" may be applied equally to your father's or mother's brother and to your father's or mother's sister's husband. In other words, he may be an uncle "by blood," or an uncle "by marriage." But in our culture, he's still just "your uncle." Other cultures may use other terms to distinguish. 4. You observe that the OED defines cousin (and specifically "first cousin") as the child of one's uncle or aunt. Suppose, for example, your uncle is an uncle-by-marriage, and that he was married and had children before he married your aunt. Are his children by that previous marriage your "cousins"? They certainly are not. Unless you want to call them "step cousins." Yet, in many families, they are simply referred to as cousins, because it's polite, respectful, and convenient. 5. And how about "our English cousins" or "our American cousins"? I've heard these terms off and on throughout most of my lifetime. Is this "incorrect" because the OED didn't authorize it? Now, with all that said, Ron, here's wishing you a happy holiday with all the joys and blessings of the Christmas season. God rest ye, merry gentlemen! --DrB u4eah@hsnp.com * * * Auntie and the OED Has Mr. Spiers ever noted that the British children use the word "auntie" as a title for any adult female friend of the family? Or "uncle" for their male counterparts? Either the word is being used "incorrectly," or I grew up in a more closely-knit (English) village than I have ever previously appreciated! It should also be noted that language in not immutable and evolves through time. I have the most recent edition of the OED, which was printed in 1991 and many of its entries will have been produced considerably before that. This is long enough for changes in nuance and meaning to become standard within the language as it is actually used. "Cousin" is a word that can loosely apply to many people in the family and I find it a friendly generic term for distant kin. Dictionaries list the different meanings for the same word, and context should help to define which is intended. If I am discussing the structure of my family tree, the word "cousin" will be used strictly to express commonality of grandparents. If I am chatting informally with a distant relation, my use of the word "cousin" will be intended to assert our kinship and to indicate friendliness: perhaps a verbal equivalent of the smiley symbols. --Katherine Watts * * * Cousin-german An additional tip regarding cousins is that a first cousin can be referred to as a "cousin-german." I have seen this particularly in the indices to England and Wales wills from 1858. --Tom Kidman kidman@onetel.net.uk * * * But, Sugar . . . I appreciate Mr. Spiers' concern about correct use of words and meanings, but in many parts of the U.S., your objection would be met with, "But Sugar, we ARE all cousins!" ("Sugar" and "Honey" are terms of endearment used, along with "cousin," quite freely, which I realize is quite at odds with your British reserve. If you'll forgive us our free (but not incorrect) use of "cousin," we'll overlook your misspellings of color, honor, etc. --Rick Van Dusen rickvandusen@lafn.org * * * The Author Responds I want to thank all those who so kindly responded by e-mail to me regarding my question on "cousins." I have had wonderfully informative and friendly replies and have responded directly to most. As a matter of interest I have just returned to England after a superb tour of the two Carolinas and Georgia. Thank you and a happy 2003. --Ron Spiers rg.spiers@ntlworld.com * * * [Editor's Note: Here's another Relationship Quiz. Some kinship purists wonder why so many genealogists refer to a "great-aunt" or "great- uncle" when they really mean a grandaunt or granduncle -- the sibling of one's grandmother or grandfather? Check your OEDs and Funk & Wagnalls] * * * Christmas Gift! [Editor's Note: Susan Buce's tale about "Dealing with a Peculiar Family Tradition" in last week's RootsWeb Review generated much mail also ... here's a sampling:] Gifting Game has Southern Roots "Christmas Gift!" is a very old Christmas tradition, especially in the South. It was reported on before the time of George Washington, and it was reported that it was the way gifts of coins were given by him to his servants. It was common in families in the South to play this little game of greeting one another first. C. H. Rollins used "Christmas Gift" as the title for her Christmas anthology about African-Americans, but it was not solely an African-American custom. -- Sherry slinders@attbi.com> * * * Magic Words My family had this tradition. I think it might have come from my mother's side. She grew up in the country in western Louisiana. The difference with my family is that it had material rewards. If you said, "Christmas Eve Gift" to a family member first, the person you said it to owed you a gift. The gift didn't have to be anything of value, but they had to come up with a gift. One of my daughters loved to be on the gift-giving end, and prepared a number of neat little inexpensive gifts. She would coax a member of the family to say "Christmas Eve Gift" so she could present them with the gift she had carefully wrapped. It was sometimes fun just to act "dumb" and see to what extent she would go in order to get you to say the magic words. --Ken Hestand khestand@charter.net * * * Lots of Fun Susan's story of "Christmas Eve Gift" is so familiar (especially the sneaky and underhanded methods of being first) that it could easily be my family. In my family the tradition was handed down by grandparents who were raised in Searcy County, Arkansas, and later moved to Carnegie, Oklahoma. I never thought to ask them where they learned the tradition but it has been in the family for well over a 100 years. Their families were from Tennessee and Missouri. As a child 50 years ago one of the great pleasures of the Christmas season was to get other family members by beating them saying "Christmas Eve Gift." . . . As Susan says our large extended family may not have been totally "normal" but we still have lots of fun with "Christmas Eve Gift"! --Judy Oldziewski harness75@earthlink.net * * * Author Buried with Responses I wanted to thank you for publishing my "Christmas Eve Gift" story. The results have been overwhelming. I've already had 72 different e-mails (and this is only the first day the newsletter has been out!) from folks who tell me that this is a custom in their families, too (or in the families they married into) . . . --Susan Buce buce@gorge.net 9. Humor: Creating a Musical Family ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks to: Satima Flavell Neist satimafn@mpx.com.au in Perth, Western Australia Further to the unusual names on the British 1881 census quoted by recent submitters, here are three children from a lateral branch of my KILBURN family: Handel FISHER 10 Hayden FISHER 8 Herr Von FISHER 6 Their parents must have been keen for their offspring to be musical, perhaps to the point of naming one after a German music teacher. What is more, it must have been something of a family tradition, for a few miles away we find the following possible relative: Hayden FISHER 25 -- Occ: Music Teacher 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 (500 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. 52, 25 December 2002. * * * *