RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 6, No. 38, 17 September 2003, Circulation: 946,910+ (c) 1998-2003 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com Certification: http://www.bcgcertification.org/certification/ * * * Find your ancestors: WorldConnect: http://wc.rootsweb.com/ Search and post messages on all relevant surname, locality, and topic Message Boards and Mailing Lists: Message Boards: http://boards.rootsweb.com/ Mailing Lists: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ Learn how to find your ancestors: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ * * * Do not send ANY subscription/e-mail address changes/requests/questions to the editor. She cannot help you. Using your REPLY TO option to this newsletter sends your message into never-never cyberland. To contact the editor, write to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com See Section 9 below for RootsWeb Review subscription guidelines and instructions or contact the RootsWeb HelpDesk for assistance. http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help.cgi =============================================================== In This Issue: 1. NEWS AND NOTES. 1a. "MAILING LISTS: Encountering Prepends"; 1b. "NSDAR Volunteers Offer Lookups"; 1c. Items from the Editor's Virtual Desk; 1d. Tips from Readers: "Creating a Chronology" 2. Connecting through RootsWeb: "Looking for Mom" 3. New RootsWeb Mailing Lists 4. New Webpages at RootsWeb 5. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 6. New User-contributed Databases 7. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Obsessing Over NMIs"; "Military Intelligence"; "Putting a Place with Names"; "Mailing List Suggestion"; "Piecing a Genealogy Together"; "What Shall We Name the Webpage?"; "More Creative Naming" and "Programmers Lagging Behind" 8. Humor/Humour: "Dust to Dust" 9. RWR Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; Archives; Addresses; Subscription Modification Instructions =============================================================== 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. MAILING LISTS: Encountering Prepends If you subscribe to some of the more than 27,000 Mailing Lists at RootsWeb you might have come face to face with a prepend and not even realized it. A prepend is the inclusion of the list's name or an abbreviation of it, which is inserted between brackets into the subject line of each message posted to a Mailing List. For example, TXTRAVIS-L list messages are prepended [TXTRAVIS] and the FREEPAGES-HELP-L list messages include the prepend [FreeHelp]. Not all RootsWeb Mailing Lists use the prepend as a means for the subscribers to recognize mail coming from the lists. The decision whether or not to use a prepend is left entirely to the list administrator. There are valid arguments on both sides of the prepends issue and it can become a "hot-button" debate among list subscribers. Those in favor of using prepends argue that it can help sort and filter list messages and to recognize list mail when it lands in your e-mail's inbox. Since long mailing list names can be abbreviated in the prepend it doesn't have to take up much space and can serve as a valuable sorting tool, especially for those list members who use a service provider where true filtering of e-mail is not feasible. Some mailing list subscribers also feel more confident about opening mail from unknown senders (since list mail is sent out with the sender identified as the poster and not the list) when they see a list name prepended in the subject line of the incoming message. On the other hand, many RootsWeb list administrators point out that the majority of subscribers do have the capability to filter list mail into folders by means of header information other than the prepended list name and that the use of a prepend, no matter how abbreviated, obscures the subject of the incoming message by shortening the space available for the actual subject. Another argument is that the reliance on prepends to determine if a message is actually coming from a RootsWeb Mailing List provides a false sense of security. Some viruses copy the subjects from old list mail (including the prepend) or grab it from any old e-mail messages it finds on the infected system. Prepends can be especially annoying to those who are subscribed in digest mode as the digests are clearly labeled as coming from the list, thus rendering the prepends meaningless to these subscribers. While many mailing list subscribers feel quite strongly about prepends for mailing lists -- pro and con -- the final decision regarding their use or not rests with the list admin (administrator). Unless invited to give opinions on a mailing list, if you wish to comment to an admin about your preferences on this issue, you should send your message privately (and politely) to the list admin by writing to the admin address: LISTNAME-admin@rootsweb.com replacing the word LISTNAME with the actual mailing list name (no -L or -D). For example, to write to the SMITH admin, send your e-mail to: SMITH-admin@rootsweb.com While you can express your preference on the matter, RootsWeb leaves the decision whether or not to use a prepend entirely up to the list administrator. 1b. NSDAR VOLUNTEERS OFFER LOOKUPS. Do you think you might have an ancestor who served in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)? Would you like to know whether your ancestor is listed with the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) in its "Patriot Index"? A helpful group of NSDAR VIS Volunteers monitor the RootsWeb DAR Message Board every day and welcome lookup requests. Include your Revolutionary War-era ancestor's first and last name, spouse's name (if known), dates of birth, death, and state of residence when posting your lookup request. You need not be interested in joining the NSDAR to request a lookup. [Note: This is a 2-line URL -- copy and paste it carefully] http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p= topics.organizations.dar * * * 1c. ITEMS FROM THE EDITOR'S VIRTUAL DESK. RootsWeb Review readers provide me with a great deal of interesting genealogical and historical information. For example, Gillie Millar has create a website with many links to various sites (free and pay) that are particularly helpful if you're searching for ancestors in England, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. http://www.usefulwebs.netfirms.com/ * * * Wondering how to care for your books and documents at home? Here's some practical tips from the Norfolk Record Office: http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/leisure/archives/nrocons.htm * * * What was it like in London during World War II and how did our families cope with the blitz? See: London at War, 1939-1945: http://www.holnet.org.uk/learningzone/londonatwar/index.html And "Remembering the Blitz of London" (7 September 1940 - 11 May 1941) includes the Blitz Web Exhibition http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/MOLsite/exhibits/blitz/intro.html * * * 1d. TIPS FROM READERS. Creating a Chronology By Sarah E. Carroll Jim.N.Sally.Carroll@worldnet.att.net I have invented a useful method of placing family history in context. I created a database including date, address, job information, etc. By this "pigeon hole" method I was able to place more or less accurately the places my husband and I lived and the jobs we held, and I can sort them, if needed. It made a concise table of information and recalled for me a greater survey than a resume and in a much smaller space. My database allows me to examine this information page by page or in table form. It's very easy to amend as more information comes to mind -- an improvement on the outline we were taught to create in high school-- as the basis for a family history book. I was surprised to find my husband and I had 20 address changes during our 48 years together. Some as short as three months and one 13 years long. In one afternoon of effort I was able to list our employment history as well. Now to fill in the texture of the years. At least I have a start on the chronology spanning 75 years. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Looking for Mom By Claudia Glass glasss2001@hotmail.com I was adopted as an infant. However, it seems as if I've always known who my mother was, as we were inadvertently given a document among our formal adoption papers that we weren't really supposed to have, but I was never quite sure where she came from until I was about 27 years old. I spent months in a search for her, and finally located her through an obituary on another member of her family. I sent her a Christmas card but did not receive response. A few months later, I phoned someone I believed was her sister and discovered that it was the correct family. I even got to speak to my mother for a few minutes, but when I asked whether I could see her or have a picture of her, she said "no." For years, I honored her wishes, and I only called her when I had some upheaval in my life . . . She was always gracious, always very kind, and each time I hoped she would change her mind about seeing me, but each time I asked, the answer was still "no." I took up the pursuit of genealogy when I was 14, but after I turned 40, I painstaking began to gather information on my birth family, too (GRIFFIN, MORRISON). In some ways, it's been much harder because I know so few of the variables and no one in the family. In the last move, I lost my copy of my grandmother's obituary, which had enabled me to find my mother and her sister, and I was hoping to rebuild that part of my file, so I placed a query in a couple of the county message boards on RootsWeb asking if anyone would be so kind as to find it and send me a copy or a transcription. Months went by, but it finally struck gold. I received an e-mail last week telling me there was a response to both of my queries -- from the same man it turns out. He explained that he was in a terrible rush, but was going to the Southeast USA within the next few days and would try to get me a copy when he went to see his aunt. He told me her name -- it was my mother's name. He explained further in his next message that he and his sister were the only descendants of my grandmother (the one I wrote the query about) and grandfather. So, with trepidation I wrote back and told him that he and his sister are not the only descendants left in that generation. I then went on to explain that my mother (his aunt) had a child, (apparently out of wedlock) and gave it up for adoption. I said, "I'm your first cousin and I would like to know about my family." He wrote back within hours and told me he and his sister were both thrilled to find out about me. He said it had been a one-in-a- million find for both of us, because he had called up his own name via a search on Google.com looking for an old speech and his grandmother's name popped up. Logistics (for getting together) are going to be tough. One cousin lives in South Carolina, the other one lives near Los Angeles and I live halfway between them. My California cousin said that finding out about me sure did explain why it felt like prying information out of "enemy agents" when they tried to learn something about the family . . . I believe my cousin is correct when he says that we are going to have some serious fun trading stories. And I've learned that weird ability I have for remembering the most ridiculous trivia while not being able to recognize the faces of anyone I don't see more than once a year -- or worse, recognizing that I know them but not being able to remember their name is a family thing. My cousins says they all are that way. Whatever you are looking for is out there somewhere. All it takes to find it is for the right set of circumstances to be set into place. Don't give up trying. 3. New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- The following are Mailing Lists, not websites. For more information and an index to the more than 27,100 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and easy subscribing options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ MAILING LISTS. For an index to more than 27,200 RootsWeb- hosted genealogy mailing lists, visit http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS AUS-NSW-CEMETERIES -- Genealogical discussion about New South Wales (Australia) cemeteries FEEFHS -- Companion list to FEEFHS web site -- http://feefhs.org/ GA-CentralPioneers -- For genealogical discussions of people who needed a passport to travel through central Georgia (1785-1839). Counties covered by this list: Butts, Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Henry, Lanier, Meriwether, Pike, and Spalding NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS SWE-SKR-FALKOPING -- Falkoping, Skarasborg, Sweden WLS-CMN-FELINFOEL -- Felinfoel, Carmarthenshire, Wales NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS BONNIFIELD, BREDEHOFT, BROTHERIDGE CUTMORE DEBLAEY, DUCKERS FOREE, FULHAM, FULLEM GEACH, GENZMAN HARRISON-ALABAMA -- The HARRISON surname in or from Alabama LESSING, LOLLEY, LORANTAS MCINTEE MARTIN-AR -- The MARTIN surname in Arkansas PALMERS, PALMORE SCHARTLMUELLER, SHATWELL, STACKS, SUPPLE TOEPPE, TROUTNER, TWIGGS 4. New Webpages at RootsWeb To Request a Free Web Account: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Some of these pages might not yet be accessible. They are created by volunteers, so 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 Rio Arriba County (New Mexico) website can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmrioarr/ U.S.A. caljcdar -- La Jolla (California) Chapter DAR flscdar -- Seminole (Florida) Chapter DAR garandol -- Randolph County (Georgia) gastewar -- Stewart County (Georgia) ilfhs -- Fillmore (Montgomery County, Illinois) Historical Society inowen2 -- Owen County (Indiana) kymchgs2 -- McCreary County (Kentucky) Historical and Genealogical Society mdtscdar -- Thomas Stone (Maryland) Chapter DAR neobits -- Nebraska Obituaries nmrioarr -- Rio Arriba County (New Mexico) nmsantaf -- Santa Fe County (New Mexico) nyocgs2 -- Oswego County (New York) Genealogical Society ohhcdar -- Hetuck (Ohio) Chapter DAR wvudc -- UDC (State chapter) 5. New/Updated Freepages, Homepages, and WorldConnect Uploads ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 AUSTRALIA. Carnamah, Western Australia. Winchester Cemetery. Includes location, description, map, index of burials, transcription of interment book, and photos of monuments. Carnamah Historical Society. http://www.rootsweb.com/~auschs/page2.html NEW MEXICO. Tombstones. Thousands of photos of tombstones, churches, and cemeteries in New Mexico. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nmtombstones/ ======================= Paid Advertisements ======================== Family Chronicle's October issue is now on newsstands. Learn how to Get the Best from Internet Searches, Medieval Genealogy Records, Using Online Census Data, Managing a DNA Project, How to Acquire a REAL Coat- of-Arms, Websites Worth Surfing . . . and more. SPECIAL until 25 September: Get a FREE copy of Family Chronicle's book Introduction to Genealogy with your paid subscription. The introduction is particularly useful for people starting out on their ancestral quest. 184 pages. Thousands sold at $25. To subscribe, and see a full lineup of the features in the introduction, visit http://www.familychronicle.com/rootsweb/FCintro_03.htm * * * NO-FIND NO-FEE OFFER FROM BRITISH ANCESTORS "I never thought I could obtain so much information at so little cost" (JB, Connecticut) UK-based researchers will search British archives for birth and marriage records of your English and Scottish ancestors (1813-1950). Also census, church and other records. In most cases we can offer a NO-FIND NO-FEE service -- we find your ancestors or you pay nothing. For a FREE e-mail consultation visit www.britishancestors.com http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=774&sourceid=1028 =================== End of Paid Advertisements ===================== 6. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ ---------------------------------------------- The following user-contributed databases have come online recently. They are searchable, but not browseable. ENGLAND. Various records for the THORPE surname; 31 records; Mark Keeper http://userdb.rootsweb.com/uki/ U.S.A. ALABAMA. Geneva County. Fellowship Cemetery, (west of Hartford); 56 records; Julia Bell Dixon http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ ILLINOIS. Clark County. Land and Lot Tax Assessment, 1919, Melrose Township; 406 records; Personal Property Tax List, 1913, York Township, 345 records; Cindy McCachern http://userdb.rootsweb.com/tax_voter/ KANSAS. Lyon County. Admire Independent, 1891-1892, Admire; 580 records; Americus Greeting, 1890-1898, Americus; 3,591 records; Americus Greeting, 1904-1906, Americus; 2,476 records; Americus Ledger, 1885-1889, Americus, 4,090 records; Emporia Daily Tidings, 1894, Emporia; 2,277 records; Robert and Lois Hodge for Flint Hills Genealogical Society http://userdb.rootsweb.com/news/ MASSACHUSETTS. Hampden County. Brimfield Cemetery; 23 records; Juanita Johnson http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ MARYLAND. Baltimore County. Court of Common Pleas; marriages; November 1894 (Only records of bridegrooms with "S" surnames) 50 records; Stacey C. Garrison http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ MARYLAND. Montgomery County. Bethesda. Landon School Class of 1983, 182 records; Landon School Class of 1984, 65 records; Landon School Class of 1985, 61 records; Landon School Class of 1986, 57 records; Landon School Class of 1987, 65 records; Landon School Class of 1988, 65 records; Landon School Class of 1989, 53 records; E. Kerley http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ NORTH CAROLINA. Orange County. Carr United Methodist Church Cemetery; 60 records; Efland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, 34 records; Five Forks Baptist Church Cemetery, Cedar Grove, 51 records; Mt. Adar Baptist Church Cemetery, 52 records; E. Kerley http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ PENNSYLVANIA. Luzerne County. Wilkes Barre. G.A.R. Memorial High School Class of 1931; 122 records; Ray Blaum http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ VIRGINIA. Hanover County. Ashland. Randolph-Macon Methodist College, Class of 1941; 55 records; Paula L. Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ 7. 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Obsessing Over NMIs By Mike Hurburgh mrjsj@ozemail.com.au It is only Americans (and possibly Canadians) who have this obsession with NMIs, etc., and therefore the recent discussion has been a bit "ho- hum." British, Australian, and New Zealand researchers don't have this problem. In everyday life if one has a middle name it is not often used or well known even to close friends and family. Middle initials are rarely used, and only when the first name is also initialised (as in Joseph Bloggs and J.B. Bloggs, but hardly ever Joseph B. Bloggs). In compiling genealogical information, if individuals have a second name, or more, they are included -- if none is known, no notation is necessary. There is no assumption that every one should have one! Many middle names are very useful for identification, as families often have a tradition of passing them down through the generations, or using parental names for the children. The most confusing situations I have come across were a later child named the same as an earlier one who had died, including the same middle name, and cousins born at similar times being given the same names. Swapping first and second names has also figured many times in my ancestry. A far more difficult problem is the null entry in the birth register -- no names at all! Transcriptions and indexes will only show "un-named." But I have been lucky a few times -- checking the original documentation has revealed a penciled note in the margin with the final chosen names. This is not just an historical problem. My own birth record shows "- - - Hurburgh"! My other names are noted below as being added to the register 10 days later. I never have had an adequate explanation from my parents as to exactly what they were thinking. So overjoyed at my arrival that they were speechless? And then they chose two names very common at the time? * * * Military Intelligence By Barb Chapman barbchapman73@comcast.net All this talk about NMN, NMI, and other designations for initials or lack of name remind me of the old story about the young man who was drafted into the U.S. Army. His parents had given him only initials, no names, so on his induction paperwork he wrote his name as: R.(only) B.(only) Jones. On all his military paperwork, he was referred to as Ronly Bonly Jones. * * * Putting a Place with Names By John Anibal john.anibal@verizon.net I would like to ask those posting to message boards (and mailing lists) to include city or town, county, and state, [even the country, when appropriate] along with the names you are interested in. It would make it so much easier to find a person named David JONES if the places are listed. [Editor's Note: A time frame is invaluable also. My 17th-century David JONES is not likely of interest to someone looking for one that was born in 1893]. * * * Mailing List Suggestion By Susan Marston smarston@mn.rr.com May I add my two cents' worth on the subject of replying to posts in messages on mailing lists? I wish all list administrators would set the parameters so that when you hit "REPLY" the message goes back to the list and hitting REPLY ALL sends it to both the list and the poster. I wondered why one mailing list to which I belonged never had any answers to the questions posted -- until I realized that people were hitting the REPLY button and their answers never made it back to the list -- they went only to the poster. What a waste of opportunities for the mailing list subscribers, not to mention future searchers of the mailing list archives. (The list administrator kindly changed the settings when I inquired.) * * * Piecing a Genealogy Together By Diane Wolford, snowberi@aol.com In regard to Patricia who was annoyed over names of personal web pages... Personally, I don't CARE what they name them. A title is a title, and they have the right to name it whatever they wish. It's their page. I'm just grateful they bother to SHARE their information with the rest of us and overjoyed when they add notes and sources, just not usual names, dates, places. Most of the time it is simple to navigate and search through webpages. A F brings up a search window. Type in the surname you're interested in -- you're in. People put information on webpages because they wish to share. It's a great starting place for researchers. Are there errors? Yes. Even "solid" documents can have errors. However, people still need to work on their own line, not just surf and expect to have instant results. I still run into frustrated people when they want all their genealogy out on the Web instantly going back to their immigrants or into the 1400s, if possible. I tell them that researching your family is like putting together a picture puzzle -- and the pieces are just not on the table in front of you. One piece may be under the couch, another in the bottom drawer in a chest in the garage, the other in your neighbor's yard by the old oak tree. At some point, YOU have to hunt. * * * What Shall We Name the Webpage? By Sara Stewart sarakay@cybercomm.net In response to the objection to "cutesy" webpage titles ("Naming Your Websites"), Patricia needs to develop better research techniques. Apparently she is visually scanning the RootsWeb directory of home pages for the surname she is researching. Not very efficient! She would be much better served by investing that time in learning to use an Internet search engine, or by learning to use the many other resources that RootsWeb offers, such as the surname Message Boards, RSL and World- Connect. As to her objection to "cutesy" webpage titles, when she has researched a little longer she will no doubt realize that she has four grandparents, eight-great grandparents and 16 great-great-grandparents. So which of my 16 great-great grandparents' surnames would she have me use in the title? I can't choose, being equally interested in all my lines. Thus is born the "cutesy" title with no surname. I created my webpage to share my research, but honestly, after reading comments like Patricia's, and after getting a slew of e-mail requests for "everything you have" from folks who are far better at receiving than giving, I'm tempted to take it down. * * * More Creative Naming By Loren P Meissner LPMeissner@msn.com I've been using Zzz for unknown surnames since I started doing genealogy online. Two good reasons, in my opinion: 1. I think it's less likely to be confused than "Unk" or many other choices. I'd expect that someone seeing the maiden name "Mary Zzz" would immediately have the reaction: "Whoa, there, 'Zzz' can't really be a name." 2. It sorts at the end of alphabetic lists, so it's out of the way when you don't want to see it and easy to find when you do. [Editor's Note: In our increasingly global society, genealogists should strive to make it easy for everyone to understand their files. To avoid these many variants (and endless possibilities), like everyone creating their own genealogy numbering system, when a surname is unknown, either leave the space blank or use [--?--]. And, women on your family tree should always be recorded by their maiden (birth) names.] * * * Programmers Lagging Behind By Rick BassoProfundo3@Cox.net There are other complications besides children born to unwed mothers that genealogy programs are going to have to address sooner or later. How about children born from in vitro fertilization? Some come from donated sperm and/or eggs; others have surrogate mothers or relatives who conceive and bear babies for women unable to do so. Then there is the rapidly growing question of how to register children of same-sex parents. Some are adopted. Some were born to previous unions, but are being raised by two fathers or two mothers. Still others are the biological children of one of the men, born to a surrogate mother. My PAF program hasn't yet given me a way to show STEPchildren, let alone any of these. [Editor's note: RootsWeb has several PAF-users mailing lists as well as other genealogy software lists. To find the one of interest to you look here. Someone might have answers for you. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/ ] 8. Humor/Humour: Dust to Dust ------------------------------------ Thanks to: Nic Maennling maennling@sympatico.ca When I was quite young I always thought the words spoken at a funeral were "In the name of the Father, the Son and into the hole he goes." It made perfect sense to me for that occasion. The confusion began when I was corrected. 9. Submission Guidelines, Advertising Contacts, Reprint Policy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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