RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 7, No. 11, 17 March 2004, Circulation: 841,312+ (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/ =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS AND NOTES. 1a. "Updating E-mail Addresses: Make It Easier for Cousins to Find You" 1b. Editor's Desk: "Looking at the Home Arts: Cooking and Sewing" 1c. Upcoming Online Classes 1d. Tips from Readers: "Surviving a Computer Crash" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Patiently Waiting" 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: "Getting the Stories Straight"; "Creative Genealogy"; "Rattling Skeletons in the Closet"; "Telling Tales to Enumerators"; "Mysterious Stranger Appears"; "Following Bread Crumbs"; "Posting GEDCOMs"; "Brits Recorded Them Twice"; and "Official Records No Assurance of Accuracy" 8. Humor/Humour: "Funny Names Dangling on Family Trees" 9. Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; RW Help; Advertising Contacts ======================================================================== 1. NEWS AND NOTES. 1a. Updating E-mail Addresses: Make It Easier for Cousins to Find You Chances are, at one time or other, you have posted messages on RootsWeb mailing lists, message boards; uploaded a GEDCOM to WorldConnect, or submitted surnames you are researching to the RootsWeb Surname List (RSL). Naturally, you're hoping that someone will come along and find your query or data and will contact you with additional information, break down your brick walls, or inform you that she is your long-lost cousin Winifred Wunderbar from Dubuque. (You know the cousin who inherited the family Bible that your 4th-great-grandparents brought over from Germany with them in 1807 that has all the family history meticulously recorded in it -- hey, we all dream!) However, maybe some, or all, of those important queries and that carefully researched data of yours were posted under an e-mail address from which you are no longer able to receive mail. Cousin Winifred may be tearing her hair out attempting to find you and, unless you have left a breadcrumb trail or she is psychic, you are going to miss out on all the information she wants to share with you. Take time today to check the RootsWeb resources you have used over the years and update your e-mail address or post new, updated information that will enable your cousins to find you. WORLDCONNECT. To update your address on a WorldConnect GEDCOM, start here: http://wc.rootsweb.com/ or click on the FAMILY TREES tab at the top of any RootsWeb page. Click on START HERE and type in your user name and password for the account you wish to update. If you don't remember either or both, go to Password Central to obtain the information: http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ or click on the PASSWORDS tab on any RootsWeb page. After accessing the WorldConnect SET-UP page, find the box where your e- mail address is displayed and change it. Then scroll to the bottom of the page and click on: UPLOAD/UPDATE to submit the change. You do not need to upload a new GEDCOM to change your e-mail address. If you have more than one account at WorldConnect, you must make the e-mail changes on each one. By following these instructions your existing GEDCOMs will be reprocessed to display the change in options you have selected--the updated e-mail address. MESSAGE BOARDS. Updating your e-mail address is easy and can be accomplished globally on all message boards at once -- if you are a registered board user. LOGIN on the boards, click on MY PROFILE, and make the changes to your e-mail and post e-mail addresses. If you are not a registered user, register now by clicking on LOGIN, and on NEW TO ROOTSWEB -- SIGN UP NOW. Register, using your OLD e-mail address. LOGIN under your new account and update MY PROFILE as outlined above. MAILING LISTS. You cannot update your e-mail address on old mailing list posts but you can post a new message with your new e-mail address (provided you are currently subscribed to the lists) on the lists where you had previously posted under the old address. Be sure to include any new information you have learned since you last posted a query on the list and make note that your e-mail address has changed since then. RSL. Instructions for updating your e-mail address can be found on the RSL Edit page located here: http://rsl.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/rsledit.cgi Click on: Edit existing researcher data, including e-mail address . WEBSITES. Also, if you have a website housed at RootsWeb and your e-mail address has changed since you set up your account you should inform RootsWeb in case staff needs to contact you about your site. Drop a note to: accounts@rootsweb.com (providing your old and new e-mail addresses). So, if like most of us your e-mail address has changed at some point and you have not updated your contact address scattered across various RootsWeb resources, do it today. Don't leave Cousin Winifred wondering how she can reach you with the goldmine of information she has on your Wunderbar family history. * * * 1b. EDITOR'S DESK. Looking at the Home Arts: Cooking and Sewing FOOD. Why do they call it "corned beef"? How did Thomas Jefferson make ice cream? What did the pioneers cook along the Oregon Trail? What goes in the Cornish Pasty? According to Christopher Lean at Cornwall Online, "It was once said that the Devil would never dare to cross the River Tamar into Cornwall for fear of ending up as a filling in a Cornish Pasty. For centuries the Cornish have been filling their famous pasties with almost any ingredients that you would care to think of. The traditional filling is, of course, beef and potato, usually with slices of onion and swede mixed in as well, but the humble pasty can also be found in a number of other guises. Popular fillings down the years have included Egg and Bacon, Rabbit, Apples, Figs, Jam, and Egg and Currants." See "Food Timeline" created by the Morris County, New Jersey, Library for a fascinating look at food through the centuries, and some recipes. http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html SEWING. In the 1980s a gift of an old sampler was made to the Montgomery County Historical Society in Fort Johnson, New York by an EVANS family in next-door Fulton County. This year, the sampler will be celebrated for the historical society's 2004 museum season. The sampler was embroidered by one Mary Ann PIERSON at the age of 10 and dated 1833. More has been learned about her. PIERSON researchers may want to visit the historical society's website to see a photo of the sampler and learn more about Mary Ann and her family. Fort Johnson National Historic Site http://www.oldfortjohnson.org/ The Mary Ann Pierson Sampler http://www.oldfortjohnson.org/sampler.html http://www.oldfortjohnson.org/fullsampler.html * * * 1c. UPCOMING ONLINE CLASSES: Each class is only $39.95 with a 30-day subscription including Ancestry's online census images. Instructors cover eight lessons, two lessons a week. You can work at your own pace on your own schedule. Prerequisite for all classes: A working knowledge of computers (please view the Beginning Computer Genealogy course outline to see if you know the basics). Details about all of the online classes can be found here: http://www.myfamily.com/isapi.dll?c=home&htx=gentraining&_lin=1 Native American Research Class. Starts March 25. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4551&sourceid=481 Eastern (and Central) Europe Basic Research Class. Starts March 31. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4624&sourceid=481 Family Tree Maker 11 Class. Starts March 31. You must have Family Tree Maker 11 software prior to the start of class. (Family Tree Maker is not compatible with a Mac system). http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4802&sourceid=481 Beginning Genealogy Computer Class. Starts April 1. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3562&sourceid=481 Slovak Beginning Research Class. Starts April 1. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4477&sourceid=481 Learn How To Research Your Scottish Ancestry. Starts April 15. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3561&sourceid=481 * * * 1d. TIPS FROM READERS. Surviving a Computer Crash By Lori Jett Of course I back up all my genealogy files on CD-RW and keep them in a safe place and send my mom a new copy on CD-RW periodically for extra safety, but, I recently spent a month in Virginia helping my son and daughter-in-law while she was expecting my first grandbaby. During this time my husband (who stayed home to work) crashed my computer and took it to a repair service where it formatted my hard drive. He was hoping to fix my computer before I got home (like I wouldn't notice or something!) I had everything backed up except my favorites list on Internet Explorer and my e-mail address book on Outlook Express. Now, I did have a form I got free on Ancestry.com where I had written most of the e-mail addresses of relatives and fellow researchers, but I lost a few that had sent me a new e-mail address that I failed to change on the form. And, I lost all the precious "Favorites" links that I had found over the years. Solution. I bought a small fat 5.5"x4" 200-page spiral notebook in which I now write all my passwords and user IDs, e-mail addresses, and website URLs that I come across. I also called my mom and had her give me all the "Favorites" she had saved for genealogy (most of which I had sent her when I saved them for myself) and added these to my book. I'm sure I am still missing quite a few items but at least this will never happen again. I just want to use my experience with this to warn you all now, it only takes about 30 minutes tops to record all this info in a little note- book. It can save you heartache and work in the future. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Patiently Waiting By Elaine Reschke Two years ago I submitted an inquiry to a message board and six weeks ago I got a response from a young man in Germany who was researching the same person. Since then we have corresponded by e-mail almost daily. We have been helping each other with our research. He has added several persons to my family tree and I have added a few to his. Although he is native-born German, he writes quite good English. He has been a goldmine for me. Message boards DO WORK, although sometimes it can take years. 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 ALSDORF ANDERSON-VA-GraysonCo -- ANDERSON families that migrated into or out of Grayson County, Virginia BULLIMORE CARSTENSEN DEIICHLER, DINSDALE, DUNKUM FLOMERFELT, FREEL GARIPPO HAJEK, HOROBIN, HOSEK KREISSINGER LANGSRAFFE, LODOWICK MUNOZ MEREDITH-IRISH -- The Meredith surname in or from Ireland RISENER TELLER, TROLLIP VAUTIER WELLEVER, WILTFONG YOAST NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS HISPANIC-SW -- For Spanish/Latino/Hispanic surname research in the Southwest (U.S.A.) PA-FAYETTE-OBITS -- Obituaries pertaining to Fayette County, Pennsylvania PERSONAL-HISTORIAN-USERS -- Personal Historian software by Gipsi UNITED-BRETHREN -- Genealogical discussions relating to the United Brethren Church WI-OrphanTrain -- Orphan train riders to Wisconsin (companion list to http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiorphan/) NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS ONT-HURON-DISTRICT -- Huron District, Ontario, 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 Craven County, North Carolina website can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccraven/ England englei2 -- Leicestershire (England) engnth2 -- Northampton (England) U.S.A. azscvgs -- Sun City Vistoso (Arizona) Genealogical Society cahsjgs -- Hemet-San Jacinto (California) Genealogical Society descgs -- Sussex County (Delaware) Genealogical Society flgssvc -- Genealogical Society of southeast Volusia County (Florida) gagreen2 -- Greene County (Georgia) gaspald2 -- Spalding County (Georgia) indcpcc -- Delaware County (Indiana) Pioneer Cemetery Committee kycaldw2 -- Caldwell County (Kentucky) kycritte -- Crittenden County (Kentucky) kyliving -- Livingston County (Kentucky) kylyon -- Lyon County (Kentucky) kymarsha -- Marshall County (Kentucky) mioscod2 -- Oscoda County (Michigan) mtfoat -- Friends of Old Agency on the Teton (Montana) nccraven -- Craven County (North Carolina) okfhg -- Friendship Historical Group (Oklahoma) usorphns -- Orphanages (United States) vascvhs -- Scott County, Virginia, Historical Society vtlamoi2 -- Lamoille County (Vermont) Wales wlsmer2 -- Merionethshire (Wales) 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 KIDNEY. Tracking the descendents of John/Jan KIDNEY from Barbados from the 1600s to the 1900s. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~jankidney/ SOOTY'S HOME PAGE. Passenger Lists to New Zealand; some Pakeha (European)/Maori names, New Zealand and World War I New Zealanders who enlisted in London 1914, Te Puke, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Surnames include: CAMPBELL, McCAIG, McQUARRIE--New Cumnock, AYR, Scotland; GUTHRIE, MILLAR--Ochiltree, AYR, Scotland; COXON--Spondon, Derbyshire, England; LEWIN-PUTTERILL -- Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sooty/ ZEIMER. New discoveries about the descendants of William ZIEMER on Chicago's North Side and information and photographs from that branch of the family have prompted updates to information on the ZIEMERS in Chicago and the ZIEMER Family Photo Album, which includes never-before published photos of the immigrant ancestors, Martin and Caroline ZIEMER, an introduction to the North Side ZIEMERS, and a few historic photos of ZIEMERs, POSTS, and VANSELOWS together in 1916. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ziemer/ZIEMER/ziemer.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ziemer/ZIEMER/ziemeralbum.html ======================= Paid Advertisement ======================== NO-FIND NO-FEE OFFER FROM BRITISH ANCESTORS "I never thought I could obtain so much information at so little cost"--(JB, Connecticut) Our researchers will personally visit archives throughout England and Scotland to find your British ancestors (1813-1950). Birth, marriage, death, church, census 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 assessment, visit http://www.britishancestors/rwr/ =================== End of Paid Advertisement ===================== 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. ENGLAND. 1891 Census: East Suffolk. Hollesley. The Colonial College, 77 records; E. Young http://userdb.rootsweb.com/uki/ CALIFORNIA. Sacramento County. Hagginwood. Hagginwood Grammar School Class of 1938; 61 records; Dr. K. Earle Cochrane http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ KANSAS. Sedgwick County. Old Mission Cemetery: Mausoleum Interment Records; 2,135 records; David G. Stuart http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ TEXAS. Wichita County. Wichita Falls. Midwestern State University, 2003 Indians' Football Team Roster; 90 records; Jane Engbrock 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting the Stories Straight By Marvin S. Barger I see many comments about dates and other information being reported differently, one researcher from another. However, there is another even larger problem than that. To prove it to yourself, get one male and one female from the same family to write about their grandfather and grandmother. You will hardly know they are the same person, especially if the time period covers the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. * * * Creative Genealogy By Jim Hopper My 2great-grandmother Hopper was Elizabeth (Unknown) Hopper, wife of Livingston HOPPER, who was born about 1810 in North Carolina and died before 1880 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. Several years ago a fellow HOPPER researcher informed me that Elizabeth's maiden name was BREWER. When I ask where she had found this information, she cited page 27 in a book titled "Descendants of Isaac Wilson, Country Doctor," by Gaines and Sonja WILSON. Mrs. WILSON was a professor at a college in Kansas City, Kansas. The locality of the book was Wilson County, Tennessee. A quick search for the book didn't turn up a copy I could read so I e- mailed the professor at the university for information but never received an answer. When I ask my informant if the book gave a source for the fact that Elizabeth's maiden name was BREWER I was told it did not. I went online to various message boards and other online groups interested in this HOPPER line and stated that Elizabeth's maiden name could have been BREWER and gave a disclaimer which stated where, when and how I received the information. Very soon thereafter most of the people who had information online about this HOPPER line started showing Elizabeth's maiden as BREWER with no explication as to how they reached that conclusion. I still show her as Elizabeth Unknown, (Brewer?) in my database. Could she have been a BREWER? Yes, because there were plenty of BREWERS in Claiborne County, Tennessee at that time. Her daughter, Mary Jane HOPPER, married Mahlon BREWER. * * * Rattling Skeletons in the Closet By Lorin1G There isn't a horsethief in my husband's family. But we had always heard the story of his great-grandfather as somewhat of an heroic figure. Grandma said her father had been a Chicago policeman and was shot during the 1886 Haymarket Riot. He died a few days later. We were all enthralled with this story so I was shocked when I called the Chicago Police Department to confirm that indeed his star was enshrined with others of policemen who had been killed in the line of duty. I was told that he had never been in the police force. The friendly department archivist suggested I look in newspaper accounts of the time, which I did, and never found anything that would confirm the story. Sometime later I sent for great-grandpa's death certificate. The death date was three years different from what we had been told, but coincided with the fact that Grandma was only nine years old at the time of her father's death. What really shocked us was the cause of death: Great- grandpa was shot in a fight by J. O' ROURKE, who most likely was his brother-in-law. Great-grandma was Maggie O'ROURKE and she had a brother James. We later obtained the coroner's report and indeed, Maggie was a witness at the hearing. What really confirmed that this indeed was great-grandpa was when we contacted the cemetery where he was buried and was informed that the owner of the gravesite was grandma. Did the family really know the truth all this time? Grandma is dead, and all of her children are gone, so no one is alive to deny or confirm the truth. [Editor's Note; The Chicago Public Library has more on the Haymarket Riot, including pictures:] http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/haymarket.html * * * Telling Tales to Enumerators By Gabrielle David While I love the information found in censuses, and have spent countless hours searching for relatives in them through years, I always take the information found with a grain of salt. We've all had family members grow younger, as my great-grandmother Eva HUNTOON did. But how many other lies are there? I suspect some were told about citizenship, and I've noticed birthplaces change -- perhaps because the informant didn't know, but didn't want to say so, or the enumerator told them just to guess. There must have been a temptation to lie about the value of possessions and maybe even occupations. I know a man and his wife who, feeling the census was an intrusion, took great delight in claiming vastly different ethnic backgrounds than their own and fabricated other information as well. This wasn't in 1880 or 1930, it was in 2000. I feel sorry for their descendants. * * * Mysterious Stranger Appears By Elaine Oakes I have an extra person in the family tree. The 1930 U.S. census shows a youngest daughter in my mother's family, named after my grandmother. I was very surprised and asked my aunt, who said there was no such person. I have enough family photos and other information that if she had existed there should have been at least a hint. * * * Following Bread Crumbs By Kathleen Wagner Genealogists are taught to be as specific as possible when citing sources; full publication facts down to the page number. With the growth of the Internet, the amount of material now available and Web authors copyrighting their material, I think we have to change our style of sourcing. I use a "bread crumb" source style: Visit the Theroff Files by Paul Theroff at http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/ or "New Hampshire 1732 Census, Jay Mack Holbrook, 1981" or "Join the New England Historical Genealogy Society at www.nehgs.org." I want researchers to know that I have found info at these sources, but check it out for yourself. Every source has to be evaluated by the individual researcher. If someone copies my info, they are only passing on my clue. I am happy to leave some "bread crumbs" for other researchers. I have a copy of the book or have a printout of the Web material, so I know what page number, etc., is cited in that source and have judged the reliability for myself. * * * Posting GEDCOMs By Sherril Scott My GEDCOM is a work in progress -- are they ever finished? There is always another yet to be found ancestor out there somewhere. We all start most of our research with little more than a name. I enter a name into my family tree when I make the connection, then I start my research. Sometimes I find documentation, sometimes I don't. But the name remains in my GEDCOM until I can find the data to back it up. That's my way of keeping track of what I need to work on, and what I thought was the purpose of my GEDCOM files. For the folks (new and veteran) who are being intimidated and criticized by all those "other" genealogists I can't tell you how important it is to post your GEDCOM in a place like RootsWeb. I posted my GEDCOM on RootsWeb's World Connect about a year ago, just as a backup location for my file. Shortly after I posted it, my computer crashed, and I lost all of my files. Without my posted GEDCOM, I would not have been able to recover my valuable family history, and all my years of work would have been lost to me. I would have had to spend a great many hours trying to reconstruct all that was lost. For those folks that complain about "name collections" I've gained a lot of information from other folks just by reading a list of names, and then brainstorming with another researcher to fill in those blanks. Not to mention all those nice people I have met! So my thanks goes out to everyone who posts what they have, with or without complete documentation. For those who are not willing to share their research, you're missing out on all the fun! * * * Brits Recorded Them Twice By Alex Dow If the contributor ("Timing Is Everything") has the opportunity of looking at the 1881 British census, she will find that many of the inhabitants are also recorded twice. Typically, there are minor differences such as: 12 High St High Street, Number 12 Maggie Mc Donald Margaret Mc Donald Councillor, Shopkeeper Shopkeeper, Councillor etc., but clearly referring to the same persons. * * * Official Records No Assurance of Accuracy By Chuck Harthy In assembling family histories/genealogies even reliance on official records is quite often inaccurate. Many years ago while working in a county clerk's office, the deputy asked why I spent so much time in the birth records -- they were open at that time. She commented that "half the kids in this county were caught in a fence row!" I was shocked to hear the comment, but found out later that there was some truth to her comment. One of our town's prominent citizens -- long since deceased and no descendants -- was sired by the hired man because his father was incapable due to a Civil War injury While working on one of my families, one of the cousins would not give me information. I finally asked my father why she was reluctant. Apparently, she and her sisters were sired by the hired man at the insistence of their "father." The records indicated a conventional situation. And, I just completed work on a family in which several children were "conceived without formality." In two instances, two children were born with different men as the biological father. My point being, careful research and documentation does not necessarily assure accuracy in the development of our genealogy. Phil Albro's article, "Evidence and Proof," should be required reading for anyone working in this great hobby of ours. http://www.albrojournal.com/evidence.htm 8. Humor/Humour: Funny Names Dangling on Family Trees ----------------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Connie Trier Recently I found my 2great-grandfather in the 1850 census. John MYERS had been eluding me for a year, and I thought I had tried all the spelling variations, but I had missed one. John MIRES was working as a farm laborer just a page away from his future bride's family. Today while searching for another elusive ancestor I came across the surname CHRYSJONSON. How many CHRISTIANSONS would look for that spelling? It seemed to be a quirk of the census taker, because other persons were listed with the given names of Chrystopher and Chrysjon. Some fun names I've found while searching were: Orange Grove M. McCOMPY and a 21-year-old wagonmaker named Redhead BOLLARD 9. 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