RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 7, No. 14, 7 April 2004, Circulation: 840,331+ (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."RootsWeb DAFFYnitions: Geek to Me" 1b. Editor's Desk: Military Medals 1d. Tips from Readers: "Old Scam Now Targeting Genealogists" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Gold in California (lists, that is)" 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: "Bounder, or Man on a Fast Horse?"; "Wobbling on Spellings"; "Perils of Family Lore"; "An Italian Rose"; "Gravestone Inscription Mystery"; "Updating E-mail Addresses on Trees"; and "Stamping Out Myths No Easy Task" 8. Humor/Humour: "Pushing His Luck" 9. Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; Help; Advertising Contacts ===================================================================== 1. NEWS AND NOTES. 1a. RootsWeb DAFFYnitions: Geek to Me When using RootsWeb's many free resources you probably have come upon terms that appear daft or as if one must be a geek (computer technical whiz) to grasp their meaning. Some are terms or word usages that you don't encounter in your day-to-day life and might be confusing to anyone who wasn't born with a silver mouse -- a computer mouse that is -- in his hand. The first cryptic definitions you may encounter at RootsWeb are NAMETAG, USERNAME, USER CODE, or USER ID (ID=identification). Any of these terms used in various places around RootsWeb refer to the need for you to establish a code or name that will identify you as the author/ submitter/compiler of the information you are posting or uploading to RootsWeb. This code is referred to as a Nametag on the RootsWeb Surname List (RSL) http://rsl.rootsweb.com , while WorldConnect, http://wc.rootsweb.com calls this identifier a User Code. For WorldConnect accounts, the User Code not only serves as an identifier but also as a part of the URL (web address) for your account. When "registering" as a RootsWeb message board user, your identifier is called a Username. For mailing lists, you have no identifier other than the e-mail address with which you "subscribe" to (join) a list. Message boards: http://boards.rootsweb.com Mailing lists: http://lists.rootsweb.com . All of the above resources are free for you to use. The purpose of creating an identifying User Code or Username is to readily connect your data to you (security) and to enable you to access your information to edit or delete it, if need be (accessibility). Another term--REGISTRATION--is used for some features of the RootsWeb message boards. Registration is the creation of an "account" (a record of basic information that saves settings for you and maintains your name and address in a database). Registration helps to identify you through a Username and password making board usage more secure and customized. Having an "account" and "registering" to use message board features at RootsWeb is always free and does not indicate any charges. You are not asked to divulge any private information or credit card data. Once you are registered, you can then LOGIN to use the boards -- another term that might seem Geek to you. Logging in means that you are using your pre-established Username and password so that you are then recognized as a specific registered user. Again, the purposes are for identification, accessibility, and customization to meet your needs. PASSWORDS at RootsWeb are mostly user (meaning YOU) created. You establish them by selecting letters, numbers, or a combination of letters and numbers of your choice to be your password. RootsWeb passwords should be kept secret and you should not share them with anyone. If you forget your passwords, you can retrieve them from Password Central: http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ or, for message boards only, by clicking on FORGOT YOUR PASSWORD? on the LOGIN page for the boards. Only Web accounts and PML (Personalized Mailing Lists -- a perk for former RootsWeb sponsors) passwords are assigned by RootsWeb. The reason is that greater security is needed for these. SUBSCRIBE is another term you will encounter. As applied at RootsWeb, the term does not denote any fee for any service. RootsWeb services are free, but some do require that you request to receive the service. You will mostly hear the term SUBSCRIBE in relationship to RootsWeb mailing lists and the weekly RootsWeb Review. This means that you MUST send an e-mail to request that you receive mail from the lists and the RootsWeb Review. Your request to join a mailing list (subscribe to it) also enables you to contribute to it by posting a message for all list members to see and respond to, if desired. Mailing list mail is never sent by RootsWeb unsolicited -- it always requires a subscription/ request on your part. DATABASE is another reference you will see used frequently at RootsWeb. A database is a collection of similar type records/data compiled into a single file. Your WorldConnect GEDCOM is a database, for example. The RootsWeb User-contributed Database program is another example of a collection of similar type records submitted in a uniform format. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit GATEWAY. At RootsWeb this term describes a bridge, link, or passageway, by which messages posted to message boards are transmitted to a corresponding paired mailing list. The topic or subject matter of the list and board must be identical for them to be paired and for the gateway to be turned on between the two. The message board gateway is a one-way feature. It only works to copy messages from the board to the list and not vice versa. Those who post a message to a gatewayed message board will see a yellow highlighted blurb on the board explaining that their post is being copied to the corresponding mailing list. * * * 1b. EDITOR'S DESK. Military Medals More than 3,400 Medals of Honor have been presented to U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen since the decoration's creation in 1861.Do you have an ancestor or relative among them? See: "Medal of Honor Citations" http://www.army.mil/cmh/Moh1.htm Looking for your 19th-century ancestors who served in the British and Indian Armies? You might find them in some of the photographs, campaign medals, and biographies here: http://www.members.dca.net/fbl/ * * * 1c. TIPS FROM READERS. Old Scam Now Targeting Genealogists By Ed Criscuolo For 20 years or more, long before the Internet as we know it, there was a scam going on by mail known as the "Nigerian Scam" (also known as a "4-1-9" or "Advance Fee Fraud" scheme). Nowadays, it is done via e- mail over the Internet. Typically, messages from Nigeria (or Sierra Leone, or the Ivory Coast, or almost any other foreign nation) are sent to addresses taken from large mailing lists. They go something like this: A wealthy foreigner needs your help moving millions of dollars from his homeland to yours and will reward you with a hefty percentage of this fortune if you agree to assist him. In another variation: A church or religious organization is contacted by a wealthy foreigner who says he desires nothing more than to leave his considerable fortune to that particular group. Now there is a new variation, specifically targeting genealogists. In it, the scammer claims to have the same surname as you, and wants you to pose as his uncle (or other family member) in order to assist in claiming/releasing/transferring a large sum of money left by his late family, which he will share . . . Clearly this has been designed to prey on our usual eagerness to help out anyone with the same surname. After all, they might really be family. Should you agree to participate in this international bail-out, something will go wrong. Paperwork will be delayed. Questions will be asked. Officials will need to be bribed. Money from you, an insignificant sum, really, in light of the windfall about to land in your lap, will be required to get things back on track. You pay, you wait for the transfer . . . and all you'll get in return are more excuses about why the funds are being held up and assurances that everything can be straightened out if you'll just send a bit more cash to help the process along. Once your bank account has been sucked dry or you start making threats, you'll never hear from these scammers again. As for the money you've thrown at this -- it's gone forever. Information on this scam can be found at the 419 Coalition Website: http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/ 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gold in California (lists, that is) By Jacquelyn Cotter Although I am fairly new to genealogy I just had to share how thanking Betty on the NORCAL-L mailing list for her transcription of a newspaper article regarding a member of the Donner Party burying silver coins/treasure led to my eventually putting her in contact with a distant cousin of hers, another Donner Party family descendant. Neither cousin was aware of the other, and I am as thrilled as though it had been within my own family. [Editor note: The Donner Party was composed of westward-bound migrants whose survivors supposedly practiced cannibalism after being trapped in a snowstorm near what's now Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border in October 1846. See: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/donner/ ] 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 AGGETT BLUNTSON, BRANDHAM COAL DEBARR, DOMEK FABUAB, FREGEAU, FUER GIULANI QUELCH SAMBLE, SEIGLER, SHERWIL, SHROSBREE, SODREL, SOUTHERTON, SPANGENBERG WHITENETT, WYTTENBACH NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS ARAB-AND-MOSLEM -- Arab and Moslem genealogical research CAN-NB-OBITS -- Obituaries pertaining to individuals of or from New Brunswick, Canada IN-LAWRENCE-MTZionCemetery -- Regarding the restoration of Mt. Zion Cemetery, Lawrence County, Indiana NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS ENG-NBL-BERWICK-UPON-TWEED -- Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England NOR-VEST-AGDER -- Vest-Agder, Norway VACRADFO -- Radford (independent city), Virginia WI-PAINESVILLE -- Painesville, Milwaukee, Wisconsin--Companion list for http://painesville.topcities.com/painesville.htm 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 National Ladies Auxiliary (California), SAR website can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~canlasar/ U.S.A. canlasar -- National Ladies Auxiliary (California), SAR caphm -- Pittsburg (California) Historical Museum palhm -- LeRoy Heritage Museum (Pennsylvania) sdlbgs -- Lyman-Brule Genealogical Society (South Dakota) tnmeigs - Meigs County (Tennessee) tnmonroe -- Monroe County (Tennessee) txcolem2 -- Coleman County (Texas) vacradfo -- City of Radford (Virginia) U.S.Territory: Virgin Islands viadg -- Ancestor Discovery Group, Inc. 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 SOUTHALL. Dasey SOUTHALL's Family Bible. [Note 2-line URL] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sassytazzy/southall/bible/ shbible.html John W. SOUTHALL's Family Bible. [Note: 2-line URL] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sassytazzy/southall/bible/ danlsh.html TAYLOR. Union Provost Marshal civilian files maintained during the Civil War (1861-1865). Compilation of 273 TAYLOR civilians in 29 states. Included are letters written by TAYLOR civilians complaining about property theft, stolen horses, food, and clothing. Military court cases of both civilians and soldiers, including murder, disloyalty, secessionist activity, assault and battery, selling liquor to soldiers, passports to travel in the City of Washington, D.C.; passports to travel from state to state, and Oath of Allegiances taken by both citizens, and business owners. http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~bldr/provost.html TATE, ROTHGEB. Major surnames are: ROTHGEB, MILLER, MORRIS, TATE, HEARD, STAUFFER, SIGLER, LEATHERMAN, GROVES, SCHAEFER, and RIDENOUR. Includes photos and family stories. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~timtannietate/ TENNESSEE. Claiborne County. The Claiborne County Pioneer Project is a private endeavor to record the genealogy of its residents (born, lived or died) prior to 1910. More than 95,000 individuals have been documented so far. Click on the "Names" for the name index; "Links" for 20 more years of minutes added to the Big Spring Primitive Baptist Church; plus a name index to "Old Time Tazewell" and an ALLISON/ELLISON Civil War list have been added. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ccpp/pioneer/ VERMONT. Burlington. List of early (1789-1833) marriages -- extracted from the town clerk's office and the Unitarian Church records. [Note: 2-line URL] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nekg3/files/ marriage-burlington.htm ======================= 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.com/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. INDIANA. Fulton County. Rochester High School, 1923; 317 records; Robert Van Lue http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ KENTUCKY. Clay County. Selected marriage records associated with CLARK, CLARKSON, and CLARKSTON surnames; 286 records; Gloria Kay Vandiver Inman http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ MICHIGAN. Benzie County. Almira Township, Almira School District No. 2; Class of 1887; 18 records; Ernie Herst http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ NORTH CAROLINA. Pitt County. Greenville. East Carolina University 1960-1961 graduates (partial--surnames beginning with A); 138 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ TEXAS. Denton County. Denton. University of North Texas; deceased alumni; 79 records; Jane Engbrock http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ TEXAS. Wichita County. Wichita Falls. 1977-1978 Barwise Junior High School staff; 46 records; 1977 students, 620 records; Jane Engbrock 1946-1959 Midwestern State University graduates; 48 records; Ann O. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ VIRGINIA. Hopewell (Independent City); Hopewell High School Class of 1937; 78 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ VIRGINIA. South Boston (Independent City); Tobacco Board of Trade, 1907, as reported by the Richmond Times-Dispatch; 45 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/groups/ 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bounder, or Man on a Fast Horse? By Dick Anderson When I finally found my grandfather he was in southern Virginia. A few months later he showed up in the north of the United States. I was puzzled by this change in culture but attributed it to a need to find work--he had been born on a farm and his parents appeared to be poor. Later, I found the real reason when I saw a copy of court papers that showed he had been indicted for promising to marry a women and then failing to do so. The indictment was dropped because the person being sued had disappeared. Lo and behold, my grandfather showed up at about this time -- far to the north. Imagine that! * * * Wobbling on Spellings By Christine Buckley in the UK Professionally, I've been connected with literary editing. This is quite useful in genealogy; for example, the troublesome Scottish z I would guess is related to a medieval letter called yogh, rather than the Greek zeta. Sometimes it represented g, sometimes y, sometimes ch. Dalziel ('Dayell') is a clear example of the y use in Scottish names. Similarly, the y of Ye Olde English Tea-Shoppe, etc., derives from the Anglo-Saxon letter 'thorn', similar to a carelessly written y in medieval script. It was always pronounced 'th'. I came to genealogy knowing that there was little thought of normalization in English spelling until the advent of printing, and the process took several hundred years. The spelling of names began to be standardized with 19th-century civil registration and censuses, roughly the same time that general literacy in England and Wales became an official target. (The Scottish education system, broadly speaking, was -- probably still is -- better than England's. In Wales, of course, the target was literacy in English.) Because censuses were intended to produce statistics, rather than to record an individual's identity, enumerators didn't give first priority to spelling names "correctly"; and a local enumerator went totally to pieces when faced with the biblical Kerenhappuch. Names still wobbled, anyway. I know of two cases in England, probably late 19th century where families changed the preferred spelling of their surname because a registrar made a mistake, and the family believed they had to keep to what the registrar had written. At least, that was their story. I know how difficult it is to copy something exactly. I don't even trust myself to get it right, certainly not without careful checking. As to family stories: my 92-year-old paternal grandmother's information (gathered 30 years ago) has been totally reliable, while many of my mother's stories have proved to be untrue. She was a very honest person, and I haven't yet discovered who told her the porkies. I'm rather relieved that she didn't live to hear her family mythology debunked. In order to stay sane, it helps to believe that genealogy is an art rather than a science, certainly beyond civil registration and censuses; that almost any element of any single record just might be wrong; and that some things will always remain unknowable. Maybe it takes a computer to make a proper mess of things, but human beings can do a fair job unaided. * * * Perils of Family Lore By Richard Bock Here is another example of how you can't necessarily believe the family tradition. When I began researching my family tree, I started by relying on a book written by my Dad's cousin, who traced the Bock family back to a Henry Bock who immigrated from Germany in the mid-19th century. He reported, presumably based on family tradition, that Henry and his wife and a son left Hamburg and immigrated to the U.S. in the 1840s and that the mother had died on the trip and been buried at sea. I thought that was a poignant tale, but when I finally located the actual German hometown of the family (nowhere near Hamburg) and consulted the church archives there, I discovered that 1) the family had immigrated in 1857; 2) not just a single son but five children had come; and 3) the mother had died and been buried in her home town before the voyage -- not buried at sea. The real puzzle is how this story got started. I guess I'll never know. * * * An Italian Rose By Beth Panozzo in Alabama While researching my husband's Italian family, I found a census report on his great-grandfather. Along with the expected family members was listed a "Rose," who was further identified as a granddaughter who was born in Italy. Since only one son was born in Italy before the family emigrated, he had to be the father of Rose. But I'd never heard of a Rose. My husband had never heard of a Rose. His father had no memory of a Rose and he should have been a cousin of hers. Who was Rose? Asking around produced nothing but blank stares and denials. Finally found an uncle who was persuaded to at least acknowledge that there was indeed a Rose and that she was the daughter of the man I reasoned she had to be. He further added that she died at 20 or 21 and that there was some major scandal involved, but that was as far as he was willing to go. So, absent a miracle, we will never know more about this black sheep of the family and we would never known about her at all without the census report. I'm sure my husband's family was not the first (and won't be the last) to conveniently forget about a bothersome family member. * * * Gravestone Inscription Mystery By Annie Stanley in Connecticut On the subject of gravestones and changes/mistakes made, I thought what I had stumbled across in my research readers might find interesting. My 2g-grandfather's first wife, after 10 years of a normal marriage started hearing voices that no one else heard, seeing people that no one else did -- and carried on conversations with these often malicious hallucinations. Her medical records, after a long search, gave me these accounts. The woman was previously described as happy, morally upright and hard working. She was eventually confined to the Queen Street Asylum in Toronto. She was there for 16 years -- from 1876 until her death from tuberculosis in 1892. Upon her death, her dutiful husband, who hadn't remarried and paid all her bills for the asylum, brought her home and buried her in the local graveyard. On her stone it reads "The Golden Gates were opened, A Gentle Voice Said Come, And With Farewells Unspoken, She Gently Entered Home." I still haven't figured out why my 2g-grandfather would put the reference to hearing voices on the headstone when the poor woman had to spend 16 years in a 19th century asylum because of voices that she heard. I've given him the benefit of the doubt and figured he just told the stonecutter to "put something nice" on it. At times I have thought this to be rather comical, other times, kind of sad, but I sure would like to find out why that exact phrase was used. * * * Updating E-mail Addresses on Trees By Norrita Sanders in Idaho I think it is great to persuade those people with new e-mail addresses to update by e-mail. But there are many that won't see your posting that have trees uploaded and you cannot reach them because their e-mail address is no good. PLEASE can you either inform them privately or make an announcement to drop the tree if they don't update their e-mail address.It is very frustrating to find a tree posted and then not be able to contact the author for questions or more data. [Editor's Note: We included information about updating e-mail addresses on your trees posted in RootsWeb's WorldConnect in 17 March issue of the RWR, but for those who missed it, here it is again: 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.] * * * Stamping Out Myths No Easy Task By D. L. Clark I have to agree with Mavis Garland about family stories I have one such sticky incident going on now in my family. My great-aunt absolutely swears that her grandmother and twin sister came from England on ship. She knew it was so because her mother told her how they got seasick in the crossing. Unfortunately, not a single census bears this out. I have found her grandmother and great-grandmother's births as being right here in the good ol' USA. She won't hear of it and takes it as a personal insult. I now just let her believe what she wants. I do believe someone in the family came across and told the story, but each time it was just told as "grandma," and no one bothered to change grandma to gg-grandma or whatever. I also have been told since birth how I have Cherokee in me, trouble is I haven't been able to bear this out either. I have found other tribes of Native Americans way back, but I was told as if the Cherokee was my dad's and mom's grandparents. Interestingly though, every SIMMONS I have encountered online also has this same story in their family, even though they came from different regions. Families do like a good tale, don't they? Remember in the past they didn't have television to keep their imaginations occupied. 8. Humor/Humour: Pushing His Luck --------------------------------- Thanks to Don Bankston for his contribution of this article to the Butts County, Georgia newspaper collection in the USGenWeb Archives. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm Middle Ga. Argus -- Week of April 27, 1882. One of our inquisitive young men while out looking at the convicts work; prompted by curiosity or sympathy enquired of one of them what crime he had committed to bring himself under the condemnation of the law; to which the man in the stripes replied: "I stole a grist mill, and when I went back after the dam and pond they caught me." 9. 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