RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 7, No. 12, 24 March 2004, Circulation: 841,188+ (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.Mailing Lists: Seeing Double? 1b. Editor's Desk: "Cornish Online Census Update" and "Commemorative Flagholders and Plaques" 1c. Tips from Readers: "Tiptoeing Through Pension Abstracts" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Exploring Links to Mark Twain" 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: "Relying on Family Memories"; "On a Crooked Trail to Wales"; "Et Tu, Brute?"; "Finding a Flower in the Graveyard"; "Pre-Nuptial Genealogical Test"; "Styling Cognomen"; "Pulling Ancestral Rank"; "Learning the Hard Way"; "Sifting Through Family Lore"; "Swimming Upstream"; "Caution on Rewritable CDs"; "Leaving Puzzle for Descendants"; and "McWho?" 8. Humor/Humour: "Lost in Translation" 9. Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; RW Help; Advertising Contacts ======================================================================== 1. NEWS AND NOTES. 1a. RootsWeb Mailing List Messages: Seeing Double? RootsWeb mailing list subscribers report from time to time that they are receiving duplicates or multiples of list messages. Should this happen to you, keep the following items in mind. If the list administrator has set the list software to direct replies to the individual poster rather than to the list or if an individual poster has a specific REPLY TO setting in his e-mail program, replies are frequently directed to both the poster and the list -- resulting in two copies of the reply for the original poster. This is normal -- delete the extra copy of a reply to your message. If you are receiving duplicate copies of ALL mail coming from a list or lists, it is possible that you are subscribed to the list(s) more than once under different addresses. List software checks for exact duplicate subscriptions and will not send out two copies of list mail if the exact same address is subscribed more than once to a list. However, the software is unable detect variant address such as susie@isp.net and susie@mail.isp.net. Additionally, if you resubscribed to a list after changing service providers but failed to unsubscribe your old obsolete address; it is possible that your old ISP is continuing to forward your list mail to your new address in addition to your current provider delivering mail to you. If you suspect that either of the above situations might be the culprit in your duplicate mail problem, contact the list administrator privately and explain what is happening. Ask the administrator to check the subscriber list and remove the old or variant, address. Include in your message any e-mail addresses under which you might be subscribed to the list. You can contact any list administrator by writing to: LISTNAME-admin@rootsweb.com replacing the generic word LISTNAME with the actual name of the list (no -L or -D). Under no circumstance should you post a message ON the list about your duplicate problem or ask other list members if they, too, are receiving duplicates. List mail is only sent out from RootsWeb one time and even if some others on the list are receiving duplicates it is unlikely that the cause of their problem is the same as yours as there are numerous possible causes for this phenomenon. Moreover, your fellow list members cannot help you resolve your specific duplicate problem -- only the list administrator can do so, or can direct you to the proper place to receive help. When contacting the list administrator for help, include BOTH copies of ONE duplicate message (the SAME message) that you have recently received from the list and include full, expanded headers for BOTH copies of the message. If you don't know how to expand headers, see this page: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/listadmins/headersfull.html You will find instructions for most popular e-mail programs here. Most duplicate mail problems, other than those described above, result from issues on the receiving end at your ISP -- usually connectivity or download problems with your mail, or issues related to your e-mail client revolving around filtering or corrupted files. Some ISPs permit mail to be left on the server and this can result in duplicate downloads of the same messages. In any of these cases, only your ISP tech support can help you. * * * 1b. EDITOR'S DESK. "Cornish Online Census Update" and "Commemorative Flagholders and Plaques" CORNISH ONLINE CENSUS UPDATE: Michael J. McCormich writes: "You might like to know that we have completed the transcription of the 1891 census returns for Cornwall. They have been transcribed, checked and validated according to the procedures of Free Census and can be accessed via the main Free Census site at: http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ or via the Cornwall Online Census Project http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/ukocp.html We have nearly finished the 1841 returns for Cornwall, plus 25 percent of the 1851 and 1861 returns." * * * COMMEMORATIVE FLAGHOLDERS and PLAQUES of various organizations. This is a pictorial collection of photographs of these markers found in U.S. cemeteries. http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/flaghold/flaghold.htm * * * 1c. TIPS FROM READERS. Tiptoeing Through Pension Abstracts By Anne Sloan Pamela Burnette's "Cooking Up a Family Reunion" reminded me of my serendipitous experiences tracing my SLOAN and TOWNE lines. One day several years ago, I got the bright idea that since my SLOAN ancestor (parents and birthplace unknown) was in the American Revolution, he might have had brothers who also served. I looked in Virgil D. White's "Pension Abstracts" and found two possible siblings. One of them said in his pension application, that the family had come with their father, George SLOAN, from County Armagh, Ireland to Hartford, Connecticut in 1755. Not only did this tie-in with my ancestor's background, but I later found George linked by land records for Hartford, Connecticut and Washington, Massachusetts to my Thomas SLOAN. A few months later, it dawned on me that I might find a clue to my Betsy TOWNE problem (no parents) using the same method. Looking in White's books again, I found a William TOWNE that fit. He received his pension once in Connecticut and once in New York City where he was living with a married daughter (who I believe to Betsy (TOWNE) JESSUP and who I know lived in New York). He died about 1827 but his wife, Mary (REYNOLDS) TOWNE, received his pension twice in New York City and then later in Nashville, Tennessee. Betsy's daughter, Angeline Elizabeth JESSUP, had married my great- grandfather, John Henry SLOAN (his grandfather was my SLOAN Revolutionary War ancestor), in New York in 1829. In 1841, the SLOAN family moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Sure enough, I found Mary TOWNE, d. 1851, buried in the SLOAN family plot at Nashville City Cemetery. Now I not only have found an additional Revolutionary War ancestor, a name -- George Sloan -- for the immigrant ancestor, a location for the family in Ireland, and Betsy TOWNE'S parents' names and lines; but I also found I am a collateral descendent of three of the Salem witches -- sisters of Jacob TOWNE who was William's ancestor. A pretty good genealogical haul from two brief, serendipitous forays into the Revolutionary War pension abstracts. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Exploring Links to Mark Twain By Kim Iris Clemons Because of a message posted on Wayne County, New York board three long- lost cousins I didn't even know existed contacted me and shared a photo of the farm on Canandaigua Road that I was looking for. We have had fun piecing together our mutual past. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywayne/williamson/purdyfruitfarm.html Putney Julius CLEMONS and Myrtle M. PECK of Manchester, New York and Ambrose and Phebe CLEMENS were our great-grandparents. (Note the spellings.) We had all heard that Samuel CLEMENS (Mark Twain) was a relative and that the CLEMENS name took a change in spelling at some point to CLEMONS. My new cousins and I are teaming up to try to make the Samuel CLEMENS connection to our CLEMONS family and we are making plans to meet this summer. If anyone can help us make the CLEMENS connection, we will appreciate it. Thank you. [Editor's note: For more on Samuel Clemens' family history see: http://www.marktwainmuseum.org/Genealogy.html http://www.marktwainmuseum.org/CLEMENS.html For help with name-spelling problems, see RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees: "Why You Can't Find Them: Misspeld Knames]: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson8.htm 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 28,000 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS AHLBORN BETHARDS CHOMCZYK DEICHLER, DONIPHAN, DUNGY LUCY-ENG -- The Lucy surname in England MINCONE, MULDOWNEY TAKEWELL, TRISTAN VANEIKEN WHACK, WOULARD YOUNG-NY -- The YOUNG surname in New York, USA NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS NA-NEZ-PERCE-TRIBE -- Nez Perce ancestors VA-FAIRFAX-GENEALOGICA-SOCIETY -- Fairfax, Virginia, Genealogical Society NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS CT-GUILFORD -- Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut 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 Owen County, Kentucky website can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyowen/ CANADA cannf -- Newfoundland and Labrador Provinces onnbogs -- Nipissing (Ontario, Canada) Branch, OGS SLOVAKIA svkcmet -- Metzenseifen (town), Slovakia U.S.A. gacmils -- Milstead (city in Rockdale County), Georgia kycarro2 -- Carroll County (Kentucky) kygalla2 -- Gallatin County (Kentucky) kyowen -- Owen County (Kentucky) maceasto -- Easton (city in Bristol County), Massachusetts macrehob -- Rehoboth (city in Bristol County), Massachusetts ohcccgo -- Cuyahoga County (Ohio) of Council of Genealogical Organizations txdrcudc -- Davis-Reagan Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy 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 ALLISON/ELLISON DNA PROJECT. It has been discovered that two groups of ALLISONS/ELLISONS with distinctly different DNA scores both have their origins in Lanarkshire, Scotland. One group of ALLISONS/ELLISONS with matching DNA scores traces its ancestry back to Long Island, New York in the 1600s and early 1700s and to Orange and Rockland counties, New York in the 1700s. Other participants have unique DNA scores and each man is waiting for another participant with a matching DNA score to join the DNA project. The webpage shows the paternal ancestry charts of the participants. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~allisonellisondna/ IRELAND. County Tyrone. Linked to the County Tyrone Mailing List. The subscribers of the mailing list have combined in a community effort to provide transcriptions of genealogical and historical information to those seeking ancestors in this locality. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cotyroneireland/ KENNEDY, SHEEHAN FAMILIES. Family tree includes COTTRELL, GILL, GORELL, HANKINSON, KENNEDY, LOGIER, PYCROFT, SHEEHAN, SHORT, and TANNER from England and Ireland who settled in South Australia and Victoria. [Note: this is a 3-line URL; copy and paste it carefully]: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kenshe/ Branches%20of%20My%20Family%20Tree_files/ Branches%20of%20My%20Family%20Tree.htm MASSACHUSETTS. Plymouth County. Electronic edition of Williams Latham's "Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater" (1882) -- cemetery transcriptions for twelve major and several minor cemeteries in Bridgewater, East Bridgewater, and West Bridgewater. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mabridge/latham/contents.html SHALVOY, SCOLLIN. Family trees, stories, and genealogy data for the SHALVOY, SCOLLIN, COSTELLO, MCGEEHAN, REARDON, and CULHANE families. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~shalvoyresearch/ WALDIE. Descendants of Edward WALDIE with information about LOGIER, MCEWAN, WILSON, COTTRELL, and CURRY of the Ballarat area of Victoria, Australia. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kenshe/e_waldie/ ======================= Paid Advertisements ======================== LET MY ANCESTORS HELP YOU FIND YOUR FAMILY Spectacular Books to Give You A Boost ** Bestseller from the U.K. -- The Family and Local History Handbook. 46,000 copies sold. 100+ articles -- 5,700+ addresses. ** The North American Railroad Directory ** Publishing Family Histories, Large and Small ** Capture the Memories Interview Books http://www.myancestorsfound.com/products.htm April 26th Research Retreat at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Come get away with us and spend a week of uninterrupted research at the world's largest genealogy library. Daily classes, personal help from skilled and caring professionals, new friends! 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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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Relying on Family Memories By Peggy Ferrell I have found several instances where there was a first child that died very young and who was not known to the later members of the family, or a child was born and died when the siblings were too young to remember. The birth of that child was denied by a brother, but his mother confirmed it. Lack of photos or other evidence is not necessarily conclusive. We have had some listed on the census as dead before this census, as in how many children have you had? how many still alive? This information was also requested on my birth certificate which was in 1934 in Tennessee. * * * On a Crooked Trail to Wales By Mary Adams Arroyo I got started in my family genealogy three years ago and have learned a lot as far as research in that time. My first source of information was my Mom and four of her sisters who all immigrated to the United States from Ireland. I was surprised to find out how little they knew about past generations. One thing they all thought was that their fraternal grandmother was Welsh (being from Wales). Her maiden name was HOYE. Well, in one of my many searches online I found the name of their grandfather and his mother's name was listed as Jane WELSH. After proving the connection with census records and birth certificates, I presented this information to my aunts about their great-grandmother at a family gathering. They all thought this misunderstanding was hysterical and we had a great laugh over it. I remember a game we played in school where one person whispered a story to another person and passed the story to all the kids in the class one at a time. It was funny how the story changed by the time it reached the last person. As in family lore, facts can be distorted over the years, but you just might find a clue in the jumbled story to send you in the right direction. Every time I see my aunts at family events, I pick their brains and almost always come away with another clue or a bit of information they had forgotten. So don't give up on the first interview with relations. And have fun with it -- we do. * * * Et Tu, Brute? By Glenys Puxty I had to laugh when I saw the name Julius CAESAR whilst trawling through a UK census. His occupation? Surgeon! Perhaps he was trying to make up for the killings of earlier days? With apologies to anyone living, with this name. * * * Finding a Flower in the Graveyard By Bonnie Tharpe While surveying a cemetery, I recently ran across a headstone that has the name Iama Rose Searcy. I thought that was so sweet -- I am a Rose. * * * Pre-Nuptial Genealogical Test By Nicole Henke Sometimes reality is really humorous and horrendous at the same time: Here I've spent six years working on my family's genealogy -- tracing three lines (mom, stepdad and biological father's family) and finally find the man of my dreams, only to discover that he had to think to remember his great-grandparents names, and has no clue beyond them. AAGGGGGHHHHH! Guess I know what I'll be doing AFTER the honeymoon -- starting that fourth line, so our kids won't be at the loss I was. * * * Styling Cognomens By Dan Gamber Americans are used to certain word orders: adjective before noun, given name before surname. But, those rules should not be considered universal. Just as many other languages usually put the adjective after the noun, some other cultures put the given name after the surname. That even appears in some surprising places, particularly France. Check the official records for Maurice CHEVALIER and you will find that he was really Chevalier MAURICE. I have encountered this in use today, in official correspondence. While it may seem "obvious" in the case of "American" names that "Smith John" is "really" "John Smith," what would you do with "Proth René"? (Who I thank for reminding me). Not to mention cases where "Smith" is a given name and "John" is a surname. [Editor's note: An online biography says Maurice Chevalier was born 12 September 1888, the son of a house painter, Charles Victor Chevalier and Joséphine Van der Bosche. His mother was of Belgian origins.] http://www.rfimusique.com/siteFr/biographie/biographie_9067.asp * * * Pulling Ancestral Rank By Len Knotts For several years I had been searching for the true name of my 3g-grandfather Maurice. His name was given to me by the family as Lot Angelique MAURICE. That is the name on his wife Marie Vervé JOURDAN's tombstone (1888) in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Both names had a nice ring to them. I also had his citizenship application with the name Lo Angelique and a deed with the same spelling. A cousin and I speculated that "Lo" might be short for Louis as he had a son named Louis. Recently I contacted a researcher in the Isle of Jersey through "Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness" and he was nice enough to find the marriage record of "Lot" and Marie in 1839. My 3g-grandfather was born 1792, Sarances, Coutances, Normandy, France. Coutances is near a town called Saint Lo. My 3g-Grandfather's name was: SAINT LO ANGELIQUE MAURICE! (Perhaps he gave up the "Saint" because of his lifestyle), However, this gives me a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity -- the next time I am at a genealogy meeting, and someone in a suit and tie mentions with a bit of pomp and a slight upturn of the nose that "I am descended from royalty," I can hook my thumbs under my suspenders, which hold up my blue jeans, cock my head a trifle and say with just a hint of scorn, "Oh, really, well I am descended from ... (pause) a SAINT." At this point I'll turn and stroll slowly away with a bit of religious dignity before he can ask about the details of my statement. * * * Learning the Hard Way By Ken Greene In the News and Notes section of the March 17 RWR, you mentioned updating e-mail addresses so people can contact you. I learned this first-hand. It wasn't a distant cousin trying to contact me or someone trying to return a family Bible, it was someone a little closer to my heart. More than 13 years ago, I went through a bitter divorce and my ex-wife got full custody of our (then) two-year-old daughter. I moved away and had no contact with my little girl since January of 1991. All these years have passed and even though I kept tabs on where she was living, I had no contact with her at all. This past February, my daughter, now 15, called me to say that she loved me and wanted to start a relationship with me. We talked for hours and she asked me if I had posted a family tree on the Web. As it turns out, about three years ago she had seen my family tree and tried to contact me through the link I provided -- an e-mail address that's been out of date by about four years. I lost an additional three years of knowing my child because I never updated my e-mail address. * * * Sifting Through Family Lore By Shirley Anderson/Keas I was quite interested in some of your stories in RWR. It is interesting to note that I can identify with some of them. We were raised in Spokane, Washington. My mother's grandparents Howard and Mary SHONKWILER left Scioto County, Ohio for Spokane in about 1900. Now I was told by some well-meaning family member that they came in a wagon. I found out doing my genealogy that this was not true at all. My great-grandfather worked for the Great Northern Railroad. Tall tale #2. Grandma was hidden in a cook pot because of Indians in Ohio. Absolute lie. The Indians were not causing trouble. Great-grandma Mary BRAME SHONKWILER was born in 1876 in Scioto County Ohio. Was also told that her mother Elizabeth SETH BRAME was killed by Indians. Found out that Elizabeth and her second husband Jacob TRITT traveled by train with the SHONKWILERS to Spokane. Elizabeth lived to a ripe old age of 90 and died at Mary BRAME SHONKWILER's home in 1941. I think this is a wonderful story. But, shame on the one who told such a terrible tale. But, this is what makes genealogy so much fun. * * * Swimming Upstream By Donald Pelton When it comes to name problems, I ran into about five George PARKERS on two different lines. At one point, I made a transcription error and split one George Parker into two [editor gasps]. It seems that my 4g- grandfather was Sam PARKER, who married Mary PARKER (no relation) and between them they had five George PARKER ancestors. To further complicate things, my Abraham BLACKSHER had two wives. One had a daughter Nancy who married Dr. Peter James Parker, and another had a son, Captain Uriah T. BLACKSHER whose daughter Mattie was Dr. Peter J. PARKER'S second wife. So I think that would make Mattie BLACKSHER a half grandniece of Nancy BLACKSHER. In a collection of surviving letters (hardbound in a thin book called "Grandfather to Grandson"), Dr. Peter James PARKER talks about Captain BLACKSHER as if he is just a friend and fellow officer in the Confederate Cavalry -- not a relative. Had there been DNA testing at that time, they would have been able to know that they were more than just friends for sure. As for unusual names, the most unusual name I have found on my family tree was 4g-randfather Preserved Fish DAKIN (1749-1835). I wonder if his friends called him Lox? * * * Caution on Rewritable CDs By Ann M. McCay Having just read the article about backing up onto Rewritable CDs, I am concerned that many readers will take that advice and count heavily on that product to ensure the safety of their invaluable genealogy research. I recently read another article on the unreliability of the RWs and strong suggestion to rely only on Write-only CDs. I purchased a large number of the Write-onlys and when I began to copy one of the RWs full of old family photos and files, I found that it was already unstable -- and it had been used only one time -- the time I saved to it! Please advise readers to research these products and decide for themselves where they feel safest storing files that could be lost forever. * * * Leaving Puzzle for Descendants By Susan Buce http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~buce/ I have always considered you have to take census results with a grain of salt.I have a great-grandmother, Omie BRESHEARS, whose death date would have placed her at three years younger than the first census recorded after her birth. I've always taken the census as a more accurate in this instance. Omie was a twin to Nancy, and I always figured the person reporting their age to the census taker was unlikely to confuse the ages of two active three-year-olds with what would have been two infants according to Omie's death record. However, I also had the personal experience of participating in the 2000 U.S. census. At the time I had living with me, a young foreign exchange student from Slovakia. The census wanted everyone living in my household at the time, so I included her on the census. I wonder what some genealogist years from now will think about a Slovak name being included in my household, but there was nowhere to clarify that point on the census form. * * * McWho? By Richard L. Ornauer I read with great interest your comments on MCFADDEN, etc. Several years ago I went back to Idaho to see family and do research including photo- graphing the gravestones of my family. My father's grandparents and parents came from Scotland to Idaho and are buried there. All my life I had thought my great-grandmother was Agnes McFADDEN. To my utter astonishment her name on the stone was McFAZDEN. After recovering from the shock, I changed the name in my files. To add to your list of possible variations on the name I would include McFAZDEN. 8. Humor/Humour: Lost in Translation ------------------------------------ Thanks to: David Jackson Recently while researching my wife's family in the 1850 census in Harrison Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, I came across an interesting combination of names in one household. Enumerated with a SMITH family were Fifus HAIR and Ignatz BALD -- both born in Germany. 9. Submission Guidelines, Changes, 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. Your "REPLY TO" e-mail option will not reach the editor. 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