RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 7, No. 8, 25 February 2004, Circulation: 873,513+ (c) 1998-2004 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ * * * Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com Certification: http://www.bcgcertification.org/certification/ * * * 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. Your "REPLY TO" e-mail option will not reach the editor. See subscription change instructions at end of this newsletter. * * * Search and share family trees: WorldConnect: http://wc.rootsweb.com/ Learn how to find your ancestors: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ Post and search 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/ =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS AND NOTES. 1a. "Keys to the Kingdom: Your Passwords" 1b. Editor's Desk: "Lost in the Tyrol" 1c. Tips from Readers: "Creating Family Heirlooms" 2. Connecting through RootsWeb: "An International Success Story" 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: "Adoptee's Wild West Roots Sprouted in Dodge City"; "Give It a Rest"; "Eager to Share"; "One Big Happy UNK Family"; "No LITTLE Project Sorting Cousins"; and "Yoo-hoo, Enumerators!" 8. Humor/Humour: "Cloning Around" 9. Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; RW Help; Advertising Contacts ======================================================================== 1. NEWS AND NOTES. 1a. Keys to the Kingdom: Your Passwords Since RootsWeb resources are freely available most do not require any sort of password or special code to access them. However, a few resources do. But, in most cases, where user codes and passwords are required they are ones that you select or create for yourself. WorldConnect family tree database passwords and user codes, selected by you when submitting your files, serve the purpose of allowing you and only you to upload, remove, or update your GEDCOM; to download the full unedited version of your GEDCOM; to set options for the display of your family tree; and to remove Post-em Notes others have added to your file -- if you choose to do so. The purpose of the password is to protect your data and help you preserve the integrity of the file you submitted. Post-em Notes that you add to databases throughout RootsWeb (such as WorldConnect files, User-contributed Databases, and SSDI entries) require passwords so that you, the submitter, (and only you) can edit or remove the note. The only exception to this, as noted above, is that database submitters to WorldConnect may remove (but not edit) any Post- ems added to files they have submitted. RootsWeb mailing lists, while requiring a free subscription to join and participate, do not require a user code or password of any sort unless you serve as a mailing list administrator. Administrator passwords enable access to list management tools. RootsWeb Surname List (RSL) submitters establish a password and user name (called a "nametag") when they first submit entries to the RSL. This allows submitters to return and edit or remove their entries. The RootsWeb/Ancestry message boards require registration and the establishment of a password and user name for *some* features of board usage. While you do not have to register and login to search or browse the boards or to post a message or to reply to a message on the boards, doing so provides you with the capability of globally updating your account information should your name or e-mail address change in the future. Registration is required for the message boards should you decide that you: --Wish to request the creation of a new board --Serve as a board administrator --Wish to report abuse on a board --Establish a "My Favorites" list of favorite boards or authors with easy access links to the "My Favorites" --Utilize the "My Notifications" feature of boards that lets you know when new posts have been made The above features all require some sort of verification as to your identity in order to provide security to protect your information and settings. The passwords for all of the above RootsWeb areas are user set and user controlled and exist for the security and convenience of the user. Should you forget any of your user names and/or passwords they can be retrieved from Password Central: http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ with the exception of mailing list administrator passwords, which are retrieved directly from the admin list tools page and message board passwords, which are retrieved via the FORGOT YOUR PASSWORD? link when logging in on the boards. There are only two types of passwords at RootsWeb that are not set by the user. They are: Webpage accounts and PML (Personalized Mailing Lists). PML is a service limited to former RootsWeb sponsors. Both are required for a greater degree of security for RootsWeb. Web accounts grant a limited access to RootsWeb servers and, therefore, require a secure password. You may not change these passwords to one of your own choosing or one that you can easily remember, so please don't ask to do so. Webpage accessories such as a RootsWeb guestbook and/or counter can be created by the user and require a user-created password when they are established. All passwords are retrievable from Password Central with the exception of those for webpage counters, which you must maintain on your own. No record of counter passwords is maintained by RootsWeb. When using RootsWeb resources that require a password and/or user code, guard them safely and do not share them with others. They are your keys to protect and preserve the integrity of your data. Use them wisely. * * * 1b. EDITOR'S DESK. Lost in the Tyrol Tom Dorcher writes that "there seems to be a shortage on the Net for Austrian genealogy resources, especially the Tyrol area." The Tyrol (Tirol) is a beautiful region of the Alps in western Austria and northern Italy. It was inhabited in ancient times by Celtic peoples, and to the dismay of genealogists tracing their families there, it was constantly passed back and forth, in whole or in part, between Austria and Italy in the 1800s. Its present division dates from the Treaty of St. Germain in 1919. RootsWeb has a mailing list -- AUT-TYROL-L -- for this locality, which is trilingual (English, German, and Italian). This mailing list is for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in Tyrol (including South-Tyrol, nowadays part of Italia).You will find it here: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/AUT/ You can find the Message Board for this locality at [Note: 2 lines]: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p= localities.ceeurope.austria.Prov.tirol Or go the boards: http://boards.rootsweb.com/ and select the following options: LOCALITIES/CENTRAL EUROPE/AUSTRIA/PROVINCES/TIROL See also: TyrolGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~auttir/ German Genealogy: Tirol http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/AUT/tirol.html Cyndi's List: Austria/Österreich: http://www.cyndislist.com/austria.htm There may be a shortage on online records for this region, but making contact with others researching in the same locality and exploring the Web for clues might help Tom move some mountains--genealogical ones, that is * * * 1c. TIPS FROM READERS. Creating Family Heirlooms By Lisa Butler When I was little, I love to search through my grandparents' shed behind their house. It was filled with all the family heirlooms that no longer fit in their tiny retirement house. My favorite object was a huge Norwegian trunk, though I do not know if it was from the GOPLINS or BAKKEN side of the family. The slats were red and the panels were silvery white and everything was carved intricately. It was truly a work of art. Grandma Millie GOPLIN became quite senile in her later years and sold the trunk and other antiques to "a nice young man who came to the door." I have no doubt that the nice young antiques salesman ripped off a poor elderly woman without a bit of guilt. I have mourned for that trunk for decades, especially after I began researching our family tree and realized its true worth. Not its worth in money, but its value as a link to the past, to those Norwegian ancestors who had given up everything except what fit into those immigrant trunks, to come to a new country. Recently I decided I wanted my own heirloom trunk to pass on to my children. I located a craftsman who does Norwegian chip carving. He built me a wooden trunk with elaborate carved decorations and borders, and carved on the sides of the trunk were the names of all my Norwegian ancestors: RASMUSSEN from Levanger, NIELSEN from Trondhjem, HALVORSEN from Avaldsnoes, OLESEN from Nord Torpa, GOPLEN from Valdres, BAKKEN from Søndre Land, and JENSEN from Feiring. Under the lid, he carved "Handcrafted for Lisa Nan Goplin Butler," the year and his name. I jokingly refer to it as "My Family Tree Trunk." I can never replace that beloved lost trunk of my grandparents, but my children and their children will possess a marvelous reminder of me. And, unlike the unknown origins of that lost trunk, my ancestors will always know who their trunk belonged to, who their ancestors were, and where they came from. Stored in the bottom of the trunk is a copy of the family tree that I have labored over for the past five years. Heirlooms of the past are scarce in any family. Treasured objects are destroyed, lost, or sold. Too many children have to share too few family treasures. We must not forget, however, that we can create our own heirlooms that will be treasured by future generations. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- An International Success Story By Elaine Holm I had no knowledge of any of my ancestors immigrating to the United States but, late one night, I entered one of my surnames into the SSDI, (Social Security Death Index) on RootsWeb. Imagine my shock and surprise at finding that one of my relatives had died in the USA. That wasn't to be the end of my surprises with regard to this individual though. Two days later I received an e-mail in answer to a message I'd posted. It was from this particular individual's granddaughter. We have since been exchanging details and getting to know each other. So my advice is check everywhere. Someone might even have been visiting their homeland or have emigrated at census time. They might even have died or married -- far from home. Thank you RootsWeb -- for helping me find a cousin I didn't know about and ending an 80-year-old feud. 3. New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- For more information and an index to the more than 27,900 RootsWeb- hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ALBERTUS BEVENOUR, BREAD BARTON-DNA -- The BARTON DNA project BONHAM-CARTER -- The BONHAM-CARTER surname COLOROW DORTCH HANNER, HENIKA LAZZARA, LOTSEY MCQUILKEN, MUSHET MCQUILKEN-SCOTLAND -- The McQUILKEN surname in Scotland RICCARDI SHENEMAN, SOACHE SMITH-NY -- The Smith surname who were in or from New York STRANKS-ENG-BUCKS -- The STRANKS surname from Buckinghamshire, England NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS CAN-NS-CEMETERIES -- Nova Scotia, Canada, cemeteries GENSMARTS -- Discussing and sharing of information regarding the GenSmarts automated genealogy research software NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS MinisinkValley -- Genealogical research of the area known "Minisink Valley" as defined by the Minisink Historical Society defines the Minisink Valley: http://www.minisink.org/patent.html SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN -- Cape Town, South Africa genealogy 4. New Webpages at RootsWeb To Request a Free Web Account: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Some of these webpages 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 Green County (Kentucky) Genealogical Society website can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygcgs/ MEXICO mexbajas -- Baja California Sur mexjal -- Jalisco mexmexic -- Mexico mexpuebl -- Puebla mextab -- Tabasco U.S.A. kygcgs -- Green County (Kentucky) Genealogical Society milivin2 -- Livingston County (Michigan) njhswc -- Historical Society of West Caldwell (New Jersey) sdday -- Day County (South Dakota) tnschm -- Smith County (Tennessee) Historical Museum wambcdar -- Mary Ball (Washington) Chapter DAR 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 ENGLISH ROOTS. Includes MAY, HOWITT, LAPWOOD (LAPPETT), BAYLISS, BARRATT, SCOTT, VINEY. So far traced back to: Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire; Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire; Sudbury, Suffolk; Helmdon, Northamptonshire; Maidstone, Kent. Also BOOCOCK, READ, COOK, GILBERT, TAULKES, JOHNSON, mostly of East Midlands; plus RELTON, TAYLOR, BEATTY, GORNAL, and WARBRICK, mostly of the North West. http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=richjmay HARRISON ROOTS and BRANCHES. Includes family group sheets, photos, family cemetery transcriptions, tombstone photos, family biographies and stories, records, Civil War pension files (Clark), etc.; covering the following surnames: HARRISON, OWEN, FOX, CONNELL, PITZER, PECK, CLARK, CULP, MADDUX, KINCHELOE, BRICE, ZIEGENBEIN. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/ The book, "Growing Up With Tulsa" by Blanche Opal Kern Schad, a Harrison descendant is in the book section: http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/tulsa/ MY COUNTRY HOME ON THE WEB. Surnames include: LEONARD, RAINES, GRAVES, WOODWARD, ALMAY, ALLEN, CHANDLER, MODE, RUPE, HOBBS, GLENN, SCOTT, LEWIS, ZIRKLE, HERTZEL, KELLER, STEINER, RIDENOUR, STEPHENSON, ELLIS, DAVIS, WILLIAMS, WESTMORELAND, WILLIAMS, and GRIFFIN. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ourfolkstales/ NEBRASKA. NEGenWeb Project "Ancestor's Sharing Center" has a new updated look. This site is dedicated to reuniting families with the memorabilia that their Nebraska ancestors left behind. If you have any mystery Nebraska memorabilia, please consider sharing it (details at the site). Check to see if photographs of your ancestors have been found. http://www.rootsweb.com/~neasc/ REMFRY: ONE-NAME STUDY. This surname was primarily located in Cornwall, England in the 18th and 19th centuries. Webpages include census transcripts, links to wills, a list of researchers and their interests, a REMFRY coat-of-arms, and look-ups in a database of more than 5,000 entries. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~remfry/ ======================= Paid Advertisements ======================== GET HELP WITH YOUR RESEARCH FROM MY ANCESTORS We offer FREE E-MAIL CONSULTATIONS for your research questions and RESEARCH RETREATS in Salt Lake City. Learn more at http://www.myancestorsfound.com/ Most of us live under so much pressure--it's essential to get away from time to time. What could be better than to RETREAT from our daily worries and spend some uninterrupted time working on family history? And what better place than the Family History Library in Salt Lake City -- with the largest genealogical collection in the world? Our next Research Retreat is April 26-May 1. Group size is limited so don't delay! * Six nights at the Plaza Hotel -- right next to the Library -- you couldn't get closer * Personal assistance from our caring and skilled professionals * Daily research classes and Library orientation =================== End of Paid Advertisements ===================== 6. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ ---------------------------------------------- The following databases have come online recently: U.S.A. Book Indexes: "Francis Marion FARLEY and Lulu CAIN, Their Ancestors and Descendants," by Lucille Farley Speer 2,129 records; E. Kerley http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ Cemetery Records: Various burials with ties to Butte, Montana; 78 records; Linda Albright on behalf of Vicki M. Miller and Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ CALIFORNIA. Humboldt County. Eureka. Fifth Division, Naval Militia, enlistment dates 1879-1899; 381 records; Karen Hendricks for Humboldt Genealogical Society http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ MINNESOTA. Houston County. Houston. Houston High School graduates, 1909 and 1911; 14 records; Sue Wilson http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MISSOURI. Miller County. Eldon. Tol Wood Cemetery; 378 records; Jim and Karen Arnel http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ MONTANA. Silver Bow County. Butte. Mount Moriah Cemetery (partial); 14,913 records; Linda Albright on behalf of Vicki M. Miller and Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ SOUTH CAROLINA. Chester County. Chester. New Hope United Methodist Church Cemetery; 466 records; Ann Thomas Grant http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ Wilksburg Baptist Church Cemetery; 90 records; Ann Thomas Grant http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ Colleton County. Walterboro. "Press and Standard," 1873-1929 13,166 records; Lawrence Ulmer http://userdb.rootsweb.com/news/ TEXAS. Guadalupe County. Seguin. Selected obituaries from "Gazette-Enterprise," 2003-2004; 161 records; Valeri Schrauth http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ WASHINGTON. San Juan County. Eastsound, Orcas Island. Woodlawn and Bostian Cemeteries, 557 records; Joanne Johnston, Priscilla Haines, and Sandra Taylor http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Adoptee's Wild West Roots Sprouted in Dodge City By Phil Little, Wichita, Kansas Some years ago I prepared and sent to our three children a seven- generation chart, as I understood it at that time. When son Kent received his in California, his wife, Suzanne (Sue) thought it looked very nice but soon became depressed. She said, "I don't have any blood relatives, I was adopted." It did not take Kent very long to sympathize with her and start seeking a genealogy researcher who specialized in adoptive cases. He found a good one. She soon identified Sue's mother and that her mother had also been adopted. She also found her mother's husband, but he was not Sue's father. All three were deceased. Turns out that Chuck conceived Sue while the husband of Sue's mother was in prison. However, the researcher was able to locate an uncle of Sue's biological father who had done some genealogy. Kent and Sue carefully contacted the uncle who also lived in California. He was receptive to meeting them and gave them valuable information about Sue's father. He said her great-great-grandfather was Michel SUGHRUE who had a twin brother, Patrick, and that both of them had served as peace officers in Clark and Ford counties and in Dodge City, Kansas in the early 1880s. For some time Sue had wanted to visit Dodge City, as she has been a captive reader of the Wild West by authors like Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey. In May 2003 they came to visit us. Time pressure limited the visit in Dodge City to a day and a half. We managed to search two of the three historical libraries and a museum there. We found plaques that listed the SUGHRUE brothers as law officers with Wyatt, Morgan and Virgil EARP, Bat MASTERSON, Bill TILGHMAN, and Doc HOLIDAY. Michael SUGHRUE had served as sheriff of Clark and Ford counties and co-marshal with his twin, Pat, in Dodge City. When we finished the search Sue left with 226 photocopies and a camera full of exposed film -- very excited and happy. The SUGHRUES were Chuck's paternal grandmother's relatives. The SUGHRUE twins had served in the Union Army in the Civil War. The researcher told Sue she has a great heritage in the United States and that some of her father's family came from England and one or more served in the Revolutionary War. Sue emphatically said, "We are coming back to Dodge City and bringing aunt and uncle. They are as enthusiastic as we." Kent said the fees paid the researcher were the best money he ever spent. [Editor's Note: For more about the Wild West of Kansas, see: Kansas State Historical Society's "Topics in Kansas History: Old West" at http://www.kshs.org/research/topics/oldwest/essay.htm and Dodge City's Boot Hill Museum at http://www.boothill.org/ ] * * * Give It a Rest By Steve Haynes Can't we just give it a rest? If you don't like finding information that you know is inaccurate, then stop reading and move on. Better yet, write a one-time e-mail and attempt to set the record straight as you know it to be, then move on. I have seen the same mistakes over and over. But I chose to take what was there and attempt to prove or disprove. Even with the mistakes I have made headway in my own research. Not once have I complained about inaccurate dates, names, etc. At least people are trying. If we succeed in scaring off the new people because of mistakes or lack of citations or whatever, then the newbie may never publish again, even when he or she finds the gem hundreds are still looking for. It happens everywhere. Years ago, at a science-fiction website, some of the "experts" took great pleasure in belittling newbies who had made glaring mistakes. Only the ones with the guts to withstand the online humiliation stayed. Who knows how many good writers were scared off. Let people make mistakes. If you were so talented you wouldn't be looking at their "horrible" genealogy files anyway. * * * Eager to Share By Lori Jett Just had to add my two cents' worth regarding the fuss about inaccurate info in family trees and "names only" info. I started my MORROW/TAYLOR family tree about three years ago, so consider myself an intermediate researcher. I gathered all the info I could from family sources and began building my tree. As I learned about RootsWeb and Ancestry.com, I found quite a bit of info rather quickly and so added it to my tree. I would then go back and research records and archives to find "proof" of my information, but in doing so would come across scads of info on other lines in my tree. Also answers to inquiries I had made began coming in and I found myself in "information overload!" At the same time family members and "cousins" were asking what info I had so far so I posted my tree on RootsWeb/Ancestry. I know it's not finished (will it ever be?) and I know some of it is inaccurate, but finding the time to correct it, add new findings, and add in sources along with taking care of a busy family is difficult.I am constantly working on doing just that, but it takes time. I agree that finding inaccurate info is aggravating but I've found some surprising connections through them. So, my point is give us time and if you know my info is incorrect, then share the truth and help me out a little. I was so eager to share because of all the others who shared with me that I posted whatever I had as soon as possible. * * * One Big Happy UNK Family By Pete and Judie Stunz When I first started searching for my ancestors and their siblings, sometimes I would come across the surname UNK. I thus wrote my cousin, who has done a lot of research, and asked if perhaps all the UNKs were related? I quickly got a response back, letting me know that UNK was the abbreviation for UNKNOWN. I couldn't help but laugh at myself for not knowing that at my age. [Editor's Note: See "In Search of the Wild LNUs" in RWR: 27 Aug. 20003 http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20030827.txt ] * * * No LITTLE Project Sorting Cousins By Linda Wessel My mother, Frances LITTLE, was an only child; my father, Bruce NORMAN, had one sibling who died without children. I have no aunts, uncles or cousins. However, because my grandparents all came from large families I have 75 persons in two generations to research. My grandfather's line is very straightforward (none of the brothers married twin sisters) for the most part, although I do have a 4th- generation grandmother who was an aunt by marriage to her own daughter. Humor, I think, is in the eye of the reader and I've gotten a lot of laughs out of my quirky ancestors. None of that could have ever prepared me for my maternal family. Grandmother had 23 individuals on her side of the LITTLE tree. My grandfather, Joe LITTLE, had 27 on his side, but this did not include his grandfather's brother and his 10 children, or his mother's dozen siblings. Except for Joe's granduncle, who lived in another part of the state, they generally raised their kids and died in an area not very far from where they themselves were born and raised. On the surface it all seems so simple -- except for the proliferation of double cousins. This occurred because more than one child from the same collateral family married into the LITTLE clan. My grandmother is a perfect example. She, her brother Jim, and their uncle, William WARFIELD, married LITTLE first cousins. There are four MILLERS who did the same thing, but, except for the two MILLERS who are a first cousin and 1C1R--first cousin once removed (the grandfather and brother were siblings), the three families are not related. These same kinds of multiple relationships colored the fabric of the LITTLE family very brightly from the U.S. Eastern Seaboard in the 18th century to the 20th-century ancestor who gave life to 18 children who married their township neighbors in Illinois. By the time I finished separating the LITTLE aunts and uncles from their other cousins I was convinced I was my own ancestor. Unfortunately, this was only the beginning of the confusion for each preceding LITTLE generation introduced new double cousins into the mix. The fifth generation, for instance, produced three families (LITTLE, WISNER, and HOLMES) that married seven times while they moved between two states. The biggest surprise, though, came when I discovered my ancestor was related to both his eighth-generation granddaughter and her husband. Now all I have to do is explain it to my grandchildren. * * * Yoo-hoo, Enumerators! By Sharon Emerson After searching and searching the censuses for relatives and lucky at that only to have to go back to late 1800s, I did indeed find most of them. Found them even after encountering several different spelling of last names on both sides of the family. For some reason (maybe hoping someone in the future would be looking for me) I realized they wouldn't find me in the census -- at least not so far. As I haven't looked at the 1950 or 1960 U.S. census [not open to the public yet], and I might be there. But here it is 2004 and I have never filled out any kind of census. Nor has my husband. We're lost souls and my goodness, so are my children, too! I wonder how accurate the census has been for the past 40 or 50 years? How many more people are wandering around not accounted for? If someone has a good answer for me I'd like to hear it. 8. Humor/Humour: Cloning Around ------------------------------------------------ Thanks to: Jeanne Crews Just came across this census record-- 1900 U.S. Federal Census: Tucker County, West Virginia Carr Jesse A. Head Sep 1868 Carr Virginia Wife Dec 1868 Carr Margaret Daughter July 1888 Carr Joseph C. Son April 1893 Carr Lula C. Daughter Sept 1896 Carr Wilbert Clone Feb 1896 And we thought clones were something new! 9. Submission Guidelines, Changes, Advertising Contacts, Reprint Policy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (please, no attachments) to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com Search/download past issues of RootsWeb Review: http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ * * * HOW TO HANDLE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION CHANGES Do not send any subscription requests or e-mail address changes to the editor. Please use these special e-mail addresses: RWR-on@rootsweb.com -- this adds you to the RWR Mailing List. RWR-off@rootsweb.com -- this removes you from the RWR Mailing List. If you need assistance with any RootsWeb resources or e-mail changes, kindly visit the HelpDesk: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help.cgi * * * ROOTSWEB REVIEW ADVERTISING CONTACTS: Ad Sales Operations Mgr. 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