RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 7, No. 10, 10 March 2004, Circulation: 841,576+ (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 read 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. "Parting the Shamrocks: Find Your Irish Ancestors" 1b. Editor's Desk: "Reader Churns Up Criminal in Her Tree"; and "Good News from Arizona" 1c. Tips from Readers: "Signing Your Work" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Cooking Up a Family Reunion" 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: "Patrick, I Hardly Knew Ye"; "Counting Noses"; "Putting Them Together"; "Uncle Grandpa"; "Finding Gold in Black Sheep Files"; "Exploring Family Secrets"; and "Judging Too Quickly" 8. Humor/Humour: "Appropriate Occupation?" Answer to Last Week's Genealogical Quiz 9. Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; RW Help; Advertising Contacts ======================================================================== 1. NEWS AND NOTES. 1a. Parting the Shamrocks: Find Your Irish Ancestors It's that time of year again when it seems like the whole world is wearing green, singing "Danny Boy," and claiming to have Irish ancestry. However, millions of us do have Irish roots or think we do. Whether you live in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or other far-flung shores, you may just as likely have Irish ancestors as you would if you were to dwell on the Emerald Isle itself. Between 1820 and 1920 alone, 4.7 million Irish came to America. In addition, approximately one in 30 Americans have Ulster-Scots (or Scotch-Irish) ancestors perched somewhere in the branches of their tree. What these ancestors have in common is that they can be elusive due to variations in the spelling of their surnames. Not only do the surnames themselves vary from record to record, but the punctuation used in the Irish surnames can make searching (or rather FINDING) difficult. Perhaps your O'CONNORs might be listed on a census as CONNOR, CONNER, OCONNOR, O'CONNER, MCCONNOR, OCONOR or maybe even OCONNELL, and a search engine might not find OCONNOR and O'CONNOR or O CONNOR unless you search using all possible spellings and MISspellings. Don't forget to look for O"CONNOR as well. You may find your MCFADDENs hiding as MC FADDEN, MC_FADDEN, MC.FADDEN, or MACFADDEN, so the secret to finding them is in being creative and typing each variation you can think of into a search engine. While search engines are wonderful tools, each one is programmed in a slightly different manner, so experiment to see just what each can do. If you search O'CONNOR and OCONNOR, do you get the same results? If you search with all upper case or mixed case or lower case letters do you get the same number of "hits"? For example, a general surname search on the WorldConnect database at http://wc.rootsweb.com/ for the surname O'Connor yields more than 31,000 hits, while a search for OConnor results in a mere 500+ results. On the RootsWeb/Ancestry message boards http://boards.rootsweb.com/ where general searches are limited to 2,000 maximum results, searching only the O'CONNOR board to narrow down the hits for comparison purposes results in more than 1,100 hits on oconnor, slightly fewer on o'connor, more than 150 for O"Connor, and slightly fewer than a thousand for O'Connor. Case sensitivity is an issue where general board searches are concerned -- with more results being found when using all lower case letters. A search of the OCONNOR mailing list archives at: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl (type in OCONNOR as the list you wish to search), results in 23 hits for both O'Connor and OConnor for the current year. However, searches on previous years for both spellings yield slightly different results when the apostrophe is used and when it isn't. So it is important to search both ways. The key is to experiment with each search engine and to try various spellings, punctuation, spaces, and MISspellings when dealing with your Irish ancestors. Help to light up those Irish eyes with a smile by being creative in your Irish surname searches. And that's no blarney. Tracing Irish Trees: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson21.htm * * * 1b. EDITOR'S DESK. Reader Churns Up Criminal in Her Tree Bev Ewing wrote to say that she decided to look at the Leavenworth, Kansas user-contributed database at RootsWeb that I mentioned in "Lassoing a Horsethief" in the March 3 RootsWeb Review ... but "Knowing that my bootlegger would not show up in the list because the index does not yet cover the Prohibition Era, I put in the surname anyway and found (horror of horrors!) a relative serving time for manufacturing oleomargarine!" Ewing didn't mention the year of her relative's crime, but "The first prolonged and impassioned controversy in the (U.S.) Congress involving a pure food issue took place in 1886, pitting the reigning champion, butter, against a challenger, oleomargarine. Butter won, and oleomargarine was taxed and placed under other restraints that persisted on the federal level until 1950. The debate in 1886 between the defenders of a natural food and those of its alleged artificial substitute centered not only on matters of vested interest, but also pondered concerns about the public health, issues of governmental authority, and the myths in which were enshrined the meaning of the American experience." For more on this slippery subject that our American ancestors had to deal with, see "1906 Food and Drug Act": http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/history2.html * * * GOOD NEWS. The Grand Canyon State (Arizona) recently released its birth (1887-1928) and death (1878-1953) certificates online as PDF files. http://genealogy.az.gov/ * * * 1c. TIPS FROM READERS. Signing Your Work By Laura Keyes Perry I have a request for people who have genealogy websites or post information about family history online. Please, you dear people, put your name on your work. I am constantly amazed by people who put hours and hours of work into a webpage and then fail to put their own names anywhere on it. If you don't want a lot of queries, then put a name but not an address, but please put your name, so that (1) you get credit for your work and (2) other researchers can cite a source for the information. If possible, put your name on every page of your website -- some people are not technologically savvy enough to find your home page if a search turns up a page in the middle of it. But, please put your name on your home page! [Editor's Note: Remember to update your e-mail address on your trees at WorldConnect, too. The RootsWeb HelpDesk receives requests daily from your cousins wanting to make contact with you and they can't because your e-mail address is invalid.] 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Cooking up a Family Reunion By Pamela Burnette If you've done genealogy for some time I'm sure you've all had a serendipitous find in a library or cemetery as you look for some clue -- any clue -- to your family tree. I recently had a serendipitous find of my own to date, and all because of the a fund-raising cookbook project for the Claiborne County, Tennessee Cemetery Association. The cookbook -- "Don't Stand in the Sun with Butter on Your Head" -- has sold better than I ever dreamed thanks to the support of the folks on the Claiborne County mailing list and the people that read about it in the local Tennessee newspaper. We had two orders for the book from Monroe, Michigan, both of which were from people on the mailing list. When I was received an order for a third book from Monroe, Michigan I was quite surprised by it. The Tennessee newspaper article had reached the eyes of my stepmother via her mother who receives the paper and passes it on to share with her daughter. When my stepmother ordered the cookbook there was NO WAY in the world for her to know that she was ordering it from me because the check and the order goes directly to the cemetery association in Tennessee and I live in California and mail them out from here. However, I knew as soon as she saw the return address she'd know who it was from. To save ya'll from my whole family history I'll just say my brother and I have been estranged from my father's family all of our lives. I met him once, he wasn't interested but I struck up a warm friendship with my stepmother. But, we lost track of one another and there's been no contact for probably 25 or so years. Anyway, I wrote her a short note, enclosed it with the cookbook and sent it off. Low and behold, we've discovered we have two half sisters that are eager as are we to meet one another. My brother and I are old enough to be their parents but what the heck! This coming May over the long 3- day weekend I'll go back to my brother's in Indiana and they'll come down to meet us. And all because of a cookbook that some of the folks on a RootsWeb mailing list contributed to so we could raise funds for a county cemetery Association. Just goes to show you, what goes around comes around tenfold. 3. New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brand-new mailing lists can be found under OTHER/MISCELLANEOUS until moved to their proper categories. For 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 BLACKHURST, BOFFA, BUFFA EANES GASPARRO, GRUENDING KIRKIN, KUEHNLING MARZULLO OUCHI RAIMONDO SAMEC, SCIARAFFA, SESSA, SHURLEY THORNBURY, TRIMARCO TUCKERS-NewEngland--TUCKER surname; New England states--Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS ASIAN-ROYALTY--Asian rulers and notables, and their families, from Afghanistan, Turkmanistan and Central Asia to Siberia, and the Pacific and Indian oceans UT-UGA -- Announcements of the Utah Genealogical Association NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS NF-TRINITYBAY -- Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Canada 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 Miner County, South Dakota website can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~sdminer/ Canada bccgig -- Cranbrook (British Columbia, Canada) Genealogy Interest Group U.S.A. alwalke2 -- Walker County (Alabama) laalhn -- ALHN (Louisiana) sdletter -- Letter (South Dakota) project--part of SDGenWeb sdminer -- Miner County (South Dakota) tniaccar -- The Isaac Anderson (Tennessee) Chapter Children of the American Revolution txilcdrt -- Isaac Low (Texas) Chapter Daughters of the Republic of Texas 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 HAMMER, LASATER, WAITT, and SCOTT families. The recent primary locations of these families are: HAMMER -- Indiana (Hamilton County); LASATER -- Indiana (Delaware County), and Texas; WAITT -- Indiana (Hamilton, Clinton and Jefferson counties), and Massachusetts; (City of Malden); SCOTT -- Indiana (Delaware and Henry counties). http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dvhammer/ ILLINOIS. Fayette County. Includes 20 years of school rosters for the one-room Mahon School in Brownstown, Otego Township. The years covered are 1930-31 through 1960-51. The school was converted to a single ninth grade thereafter. These records are posted in context in a spreadsheet- like table so that the relationships between the students and their siblings and other classmates can be more easily viewed. Their guardians' names are posted where available. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mahonschool/ NORTON. The NORTON family from Stapenhill parish (South Derbyshire, England) and nearby Burton upon Trent. The site includes family group sheets linked to family wills, along with databases of NORTON entries from the GRO births, marriages and deaths indexes for Burton on Trent Registration District, and NORTON entries extracted from Burton on Trent and South Derbyshire Church and cemetery records. These entries are also linked back to family group sheets. Includes full census transcripts for the village of Cauldwell (Stapenhill) for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, and transcripts of seven Trade Directories for Stapenhill parish, issued between 1821-1860. As a result of a recent discovery of family connections to the establishment of the General Baptist Connexion in the area, two extracts from 19th century histories of the Baptist Church in South Derbyshire are also included. Wills and group sheets for associated family names are also included for ASHMOLE, BAXTER, SHEAVYN of Derbyshire and GOODWIN, TOMPSON, and WALTON of Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, plus many other associated names. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blanchec/indexdby.htm ======================= Paid Advertisements ======================== Subscribe to Family Chronicle Today and Receive a FREE copy of "500 Brickwall Solutions to Genealogy Problems" For a limited time, Family Chronicle, the magazine for people researching their roots, is offering a great bonus for new subscribers. Subscribe before March 19, 2004 and we'll send you a FREE copy of our newest book, "500 Brickwall Solutions to Genealogy Problems" as our gift to you. This beautifully bound, 432-page volume, now in its second printing, contains over 500 stories of people who have overcome their genealogy "brickwalls." For more information about "500 Brickwall Solutions" and to subscribe today, visit our secure server at https://familychronicle.com/rootsweb/free500.htm =================== End of Paid Advertisements ===================== 6. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ ---------------------------------------------- The following databases have come online recently. They are searchable, but not browseable. U.S.A. Military Records: World War II: Asian-American Service Units: Surnames A-D; 1,090 records; Surnames E-H; 2,295 records; Dianne Kiyomoto http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ Spanish American War: Astor Battery 99 records; Linda Franks Beebe http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ ARKANSAS. Conway County. Morrilton. "Petit Jean Country Headlight," April-December 2003 (missing some May issues); 416 records; C. West http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ NEW YORK. Genesee County. Batavia. "Daily News," 1917-1920; 11,401 records; Leilani Spring http://userdb.rootsweb.com/news/ TEXAS. Wichita County. Electra. "Star News"; Obituaries February 26 and March 4, 2004; 9 records; Jane Engbrock http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick, I Hardly Knew Ye By Kim Davis For 17 years, I have been looking for my 2great-grandfather. My elderly grandmother told me his name was Patrick RYDER and that he came from the County Mayo in Ireland. Despite looking in as many sources I could get my hands on -- online and off -- finding Patrick appeared to be a brick wall that was never to be scaled. I was aghast at how many Patrick RYDERS existed, yet none was my Patrick. When grandmother was alive, she gave me a huge box to go through. I found a probate pleading for Kate RYDER in the administration of her estate. This court document was dated 1949 and was from Sangamon County, Illinois. Who was Kate RYDER? Did she have a connection to my elusive Patrick? This document has been resting in plastic in my notebook for the last 12 years with a big penciled "Who?" written on the front. It's funny how one can get so caught up in finding an elusive ancestor that you don't really look at what is in front of you. I have since learned to spread out my information every once in awhile and take another look at it. I contacted the Sangamon County Circuit Court regarding Kate RYDER's estate. Although I didn't have a case number and was a little apprehen- sive that there might be no information in the court's archives, I was presently surprised to learn it had a whole file in her name. It appears that if a person died without will, it was required that an "Affidavit of Heirs" be submitted for the court's approval to sell any assets to cover the decedent's debts. For $3 (USD) and a self-addressed, stamped envelope, the clerk sent me a copy of the "Affidavit of Heirs." Pay dirt -- big time! The entire family was listed. Kate RYDER was my 2g-grandfather's daughter, and the biggest news of all? Patrick was not a Patrick, he is a John. I have since obtained death certificates for the two 2g-grandparents and the information is flowing together. Finally, the mystery of Patrick is solved, but quite frankly, after all that wondering and searching for so many years I feel like something's missing -- like a warm comfortable blanket. Patrick was indeed always there, and now, he's not. * * * Counting Noses By Phyllis Reed I have worked on the last three U.S. censuses as an enumerator. Unless you are a homeless person, someone reported your information although it may not be accurate. Enumerators have to visit addresses at least three times if they do not have a form, even when the house has been demolished, to verify that the address is or is not there, is or is not occupied. Territories are switched so different people check each address against previous information. When enumerators cannot reach any person at home, the neighbor fills in what they know. Did your elderly mother-in-law that lives with you mention that some nice person came around and she gave them your information? Is your neighbor that you never talk to the only one who is always in the neighborhood? They reported your information for you. Enumerators usually do the best that they can, but too many people slam the door in your face saying "I'm not telling the government anything" and too many neighbors have no idea how many children you have, let alone their names and ages. So in 2010, Americans, give that enumerator a break, be as helpful as you can or refer them to the other neighbor who knows more about the missing family than you do. Your descendants will thank you for it. * * * Putting Them Together By Sharon Montgomery I submitted an extensive GEDCOM online about three years ago. Last year I received an e-mail from a third cousin in Oregon who ended up sending me (online) a wonderful picture of my great-grandparents, Jefferson HILL and Elzona BAUCUM. No one in our family knew such a picture existed, and it brought several of us to tears to have such a treasure. If that were not enough, another cousin contacted me, saying he presently lives 30 minutes away from my 2great-grandparents' old homestead in Virginia. He plans to get pictures and information for me, as I live in Oklahoma. Folks--put your information online, and let's get "in tough" with our living relatives. I describe my hobby as this: "GENEALOGY: Bringing the dead back to life and the living back together." * * * Uncle Grandpa By Suzanne Heinitz Dodge In 1889, my grandmother, Hattie Sophia HARMISON married William Ezra BUTLER. Grandpa and oldest son, Ira, came down with typhoid fever. Grandpa never fully recovered, and had to go to work in the Walnut Grove Flour Mill (in Kansas).The flour dust was too much for him, and so when they heard that homesteads were opening up in Oklahoma Territory, they sold their home, and headed there in a covered wagon. When their seventh child was just three years old, Grandpa BUTLER passed away, leaving Grandma alone on the Oklahoma prairie with seven young children to raise. She did everything to keep her family together. Many well-meaning friends and neighbors offered to take this child or that one, but she refused, and resolved to keep her family together. She took in washing and ironing and bought a second-hand carpet loom, to weave carpets. The older children helped as they could, by threading the loom, sewing, winding rags into balls, and winding the shuttles. The children went through whooping cough and typhoid fever and it wasn't long before grandma’s health completely gave out. The oldest boys quit school and got what jobs they could to help out. They raised vegetables and the younger children peddled them around to the neighbors. Still through it all, her spirit was strong, and she refused to give up or give in to the pressure to let her children go. In the fall of 1907, she ended up in the hospital, and was told that her days of hard labor were over. Her brother came and took them by train to Great Bend, Kansas, where she and the children moved in with her mother. While still recuperating from illness she received a letter from a German fellow she had met when she was a young girl growing up on the Kansas homestead of her father. His name was Reinhardt KEIL, and he had learned of her plight through mutual acquaintances. It seemed that Rheinhardt was raising his 10 children, who desperately needed a mother, since the death of his dear wife, Mollie née BAUER. He wrote for per- mission to visit her. On February 3, 1908 they married, united the two families: the English BUTLERS and the Volga-German KEILS. Eventually, Hattie and Reinhardt had two children of their own, creating a family of 19 children. As the children grew, it somehow was natural that they would be drawn to each other. And so it was that Henry KEIL and Florence BUTLER were married, as were Chauncey BUTLER and Amelia KEIL.Their children have the unique position of being double cousins to each other. The story doesn't stop there. Grandpa KEIL had a nephew who came to work for him on the farm. Fred (as they called him) HEINITZ was a young man barely 20, and he took a shine to his uncle’s stepdaughter, Gertrude BUTLER. Before long, they too married. I am the youngest of eight children from that union. We grew up with the unusual distinction of having our grandpa to also be our great-grand- uncle! For our dad, it must have been odd to have his uncle as his father-in-law. When the family got together, it was sometimes confusing to the children for our dad to call grandpa "uncle." * * * Finding Gold in Black Sheep Files By John Leslie Regarding "Lassoing a Horsethief" and about the Leavenworth, Kansas federal prisoners records, you mentioned finding a horsethief in the family -- one of the common fears of new researchers. In 1898 one of my relatives in Indian Territory was arrested, charged and sentenced to Leavenworth, too. He is listed in the database. He was charged with larceny. I sent for his records, which the people at the National Archives and Records said were pretty thin. I got the papers and they have among them who he sent letters to and who sent him letters and their relationship to him, as well as where they lived. The papers also show he received a pardon instead of a commutation of his sentence. There are things about his stay that are not in the papers, though -- such as the copy I have of the unconditional pardon granted to him by President William McKinley, which is several pages long. * * * Exploring Family Secrets By David Eick Shortly after my mother died unexpectedly, my grandmother pulled me aside to share that the man I had always believed was my grandfather actually was not. That is to say, she had conceived my mother while married to another man. That may not seem too unusual, but then she went on to tell me that the man she had been married to actually was married to other women at the same time he was married to her. When they all found out about each other, they all divorced him. That was in 1941 and each wife had children. At first, hearing this story 50 years after the divorce, I was angry that this "snake" had treated my grandmother that way. But, as time went by, I became driven to find out more about my biological grand- father. Many people, including some relatives, criticized me and said I might be wasting my time. Others said I might not like what I find out. I decided to take my chances and kept on searching for the father my mother never really knew. My efforts were complicated because we could not find anyone around who remembered him. He had a traveling job with the railroads, and had used a couple different names, including "Jack." Based on my mother's birth certificate, we decided his real name was Lawrence Felix BLANKENSHIP. I posted numerous queries on various websites over the past three or four years, with no luck. I had all but given up hope when, out of the blue, I was contacted by someone with a very similar story. BLANKENSHIP had been married to their mother at the same time he was married to my grandmother, but kept them in separate towns. He had children with her, and named them very similar names as he had my grandmother's children. In fact, one of his daughters had the exact same name as my mother -- Betty. Like me, this other family had been looking a long time with little success. But, they recently had found his parents' graves (my great- grandparents), and curiously enough, they were buried in the same small cemetery in California where my great-aunt and uncle were buried. The question remained, what became of this man after he was divorced by all these women? (We think there were four in all, but have yet to get copies of the court records or transcripts). Was there any chance he was still alive? Working together via e-mail, we eliminated several other Lawrence BLANKENSHIPS that we found in such records as the SSDI (Social Security Death Index). Then, just last month, my new "e-mail relatives" found records indicating Lawrence died in 1961 and is buried in Nevada. They also found that he died of cancer at a young age -- an important fact for me to be aware of. So, overall, I think it paid to persist in my search. I gained valuable information and contact with relatives I might never have known existed. I am hoping to meet them face-to-face next summer. Now I just wonder, where are the other children and grandchildren who share these genes with me? Hopefully, we'll find them someday. * * * Judging Too Quickly By Becky Richardson I have to share my story of finding "a horsethief in the family," re the recent Kansas penitentiary article. After doing genealogy for many years, I never found a family member incarcerated until I was looking for a man and found him listed far from the rest of his family on a census page where all the young men were listed as "Inmate." I said to myself, well, he's part of the family too, so looked at the previous page to record what correctional facility he was at, only to see -- "St. Stanislaus Seminary." 8. Humor/Humour: Appropriate Occupation? ----------------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Sharon Campbell of Perth Western Australia While looking at census records, I noticed the WOLF family of Trumbull County, Ohio in 1850. Occupation: Drovers * * * Answers to last week's genealogical quiz: Grandfather--lumber mill; Father--railroader; Uncle--conservationist; Cousin--author; Grandmother--mayor; Mother--antique dealer; Aunt--dairy farmer 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. 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