RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 3 November 2004, Vol. 7, No. 44, Circulation: 823,673+ (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/ 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/ Search/download past issues of the RootsWeb Review: http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ RootsWeb HelpDesk: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. Editor's Desk: Some Sites Worth Seeing 1b. Tips from Readers: "Creative Spelling for Genealogists" 1c. Adventures Online: "Trying to Put the Shine Back on the STERLING Tree" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Finding My Paternal Grandmother's Family" "Bumping into Cousins Online" 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: "Response to 'Keeping a Promise'" "More Suggestions" "Take My Relatives -- Please" "About Citing Our Sources" 8. Humor/Humour: "Some Grave Problems" 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. EDITOR'S DESK. Some Sites Worth Seeing RMS LUSITANIA. This British passenger liner, carrying a number of Americans, was torpedoed off the Irish coast during World War I by the German submarine U-20. The websites provide passenger and crew lists, facts, figures, and firsts about the ship, history, and a media gallery. http://rmslusitania.info/pages/index.html http://www.pbs.org/lostliners/lusitania.html POLES. Learn about the oldest permanent Polish settlement in America. http://www.pannamariatx.com/history.html GERMAN ROOTS? Ortsfamilienbücher are German community historical and genealogical books and many are now online, arranged by locality. http://db.genealogy.net/ofb/map.cgi?land=deutschland * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS Creative Spelling for Genealogists By Lori McLeod Wilke http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~formyfamily/ Who would have thought that Smald K. McLEOD was actually my grandfather, Donald Ross McLEOD? But that is exactly how he was listed in the 1920 Census index. If I hadn't known better I would have gotten a persecution complex while browsing that particular index because my granduncle was also listed incorrectly as "Worteleam" McLEOD! What was his real name? William Norman McLEOD. Those are examples of extreme issues encountered while browsing census indexes. While the experience was frustrating, it was also educational. I learned to not give in when I know that I know that my relative was in a particular area at a particular time. I eventually found Smald K. and Worteleam, I mean, Donald Ross and William Norman by going image by image through the area where I knew they would have lived in 1920. Another example involved searching an index of wills in Sumter County, South Carolina. Three generations of researchers had looked for the estate file (probate) of our Daniel McLEOD who died in 1852 in that county. None had been able to find it. Out of curiosity I looked at the estate file of another Daniel McLEOD who died a few years later than ours and was surprised to find the appraisal of the estate of MY Daniel mistakenly filed in with the other Daniel. I went back to the index and read that there was a file for a David McLEOD with a death year the same year my Daniel died and with a widow administering the estate with the same name as my Daniel's widow. Pulling the records revealed that the indexer had mistakenly headed that particular file as that of a David and not a Daniel McLEOD. Mystery solved. It pays to look at everything more than once and to spend time going through the files that you just know don't connect to your family. The persons doing the indexing and the filing do not know the family lines the way we researchers do, and therefore mistakes are easily made, even if not so easily found! [Editor's note: The calligraphic look-alikes -- Daniel and David -- are a common problem for researchers as are phonetic equivalents, such as Sincere for St. Cyr and other spelling irregularities, such as Cowper (pronounced as Cooper). See "Why U Can't Find Your Ancestors: Misspeld Knames -- A Commun Probblem for Reeserchors": http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson8.htm and "Do You Ear what I Ear?" by Michael John Neill: http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/07_27_99.htm#3 ] * * * Have you encountered or solved a pesky research problem? Share it with the RootsWeb Review readers. Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com * * * 1c. Adventures Online: Trying to Put the Shine Back on the STERLING Tree More than a dozen newfound cousins contacted Susan Sterling in the first few weeks after she uploaded her GEDCOM to RootsWeb's WorldConnect. Many of these cousins in her STERLING, GEIST, HORNBLOWER, ROTHCHILD, SHADEWELL, and DEMENT lines were delighted to share information and have her add their twigs to her tree and its rapidly spreading branches in return for all that they learned from her research. Susan dutifully added everything to the STERLING file in her genealogy program on her computer and remembered to give attribution to each person who shared data with her as being the source of that information. When adding the data she obtained from Maude DEMENT of Canada about the descendants of great-grandfather August DEMENT's brother Claude and wife Lilly (BUNTING) DEMENT, she opted not to include the family gossip about Claude's involvement with the Chicago mob. Since no one had any proof of Claude's mob affiliation she felt a responsibility not to spread rumors that might be hurtful to living family members. Susan decides she has sufficient new "branches" on her tree -- in fact it has nearly doubled -- to warrant uploading a new, updated, tree to WorldConnect. Some of the new information she's added to her genealogy file and is about to add to her online tree was contributed by means of Post-em Notes (user-added notes) placed by other researchers. Susan decides to remove those notes now that the information will become a permanent part of her updated tree. (As the database owner of this tree she can use her original user code and password to remove the notes added by others.) She clicks on the PASSWORDS tab at the top of the RootsWeb home page and obtains a complete list of the Post-ems attached to her file. Then she removes each one. Next, Susan creates a new GEDCOM of her family tree and makes note of the location where it is stored on her computer's hard drive. On the RootsWeb home page she clicks on the FAMILY TREES tab. It takes her to WorldConnect where she locates the link there that says "Also, go here to update or correct your existing Family Tree." Susan types in her original user code and password and clicks to access the User Setup/Edit page. She completes the item on this page that asks for the location of the GEDCOM by using the browse button to find the file on her computer. She then clicks on UPLOAD/UPDATE at the bottom of the page and her new file replaces her old one in a short time. The new tree automatically overrides the old tree at WorldConnect. Susan browses through her new file and all appears correct, but when she performs a search of names in her file she finds all the information jumbled in the search results. Then she remembers reading in the WorldConnect FAQs back when she uploaded her original database that it takes a day or so for the global search engine to index a new file (even though the new file is available). She realizes it must work the same way for updated files, and sure enough, when she returns the following day and performs new searches for surnames in her file, the search results now match her updated entries. Susan is a happy camper . . . well, almost. There is still that one sticky wicket she has to deal with and has been putting off -- the nasty missive from Rupert RAKESTRAW in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Rupert was none too happy to have learned via Susan's file, and the newly discovered baptismal register, about his great-grandfather Jeremiah RAKESTRAW having been the biological child of Lucretia SHADEWELL and Nigel RAKESTRAW and not the child of Portia SHADEWELL, Lucretia's sister who had later married Nigel and raised the boy as her own. It seems Jeremiah RAKESTRAW went on to become an itinerant preacher and somehow it just seemed, well, unseemly for his illegitimacy to be made public after all these years -- or so Rupert opined. Susan thought long and hard about the matter as she had about great-granduncle Claude's possible mob ties. But Susan felt strongly about this one -- unlike the rumors surrounding Claude, Jeremiah's lineage was proven and all of the immediate parties to the events were long dead, so Susan decided to send a firm, but polite, reply to Rupert. Susan tells Rupert that the information about Jeremiah will remain in her database. She explains that facts are facts and don't cast any judgments. She understands that this new information comes as a shock to him, but she urges him to give it some thought and appreciate that perhaps Jeremiah would actually approve of the truth coming to light and his proper heritage being made known. She assures him that no one is being hurt when facts are presented about lineages of those individuals no longer living and they certainly cast no aspersions on the character of family members, living or dead. She goes on to say that she hopes Rupert will be willing to share additional family information to be included in the family tree as she delights in finding new cousins worldwide. She clicks "send," hoping Rupert will appreciate her view and will come around to accepting her data as being a relevant part of the STERLING family tree. How will Rupert react? Will Susan's informants be pleased when they find their information has been added to her updated tree? Next Week: Burnishing Leaves and Pruning Twigs * * * 1d. EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS. Upcoming Online Classes: Each class, unless otherwise noted, is $29.95 USD and includes access to select Ancestry.com collections for 30 days. Instructors cover eight lessons. 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 these and upcoming online classes are here: http://www.myfamily.com/isapi.dll?c=home&htx=gentraining&_lin=1 LEARN HOW TO RESEARCH YOUR SCOTTISH ANCESTRY. Starts November 10. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3561&sourceid=481 GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET. Starts November 11. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4437&sourceid=481 U.S. GREAT LAKES REGION. Starts November 12. This course focuses on generalized and locality- specific resources of six states in this area--Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. A summary of each state's history and geography will be provided, as well as tips on where to find important genealogical resources such as census, land, probate, and vital records, and information on how to document your findings. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=5188&sourceid=481 FAMILY TREE MAKER 2005 CLASS. Starts November 15. Family Tree Maker 2005 has an all new look and a few new features. After this class you will be able to navigate in the program, create great charts and reports, and even create your own family book. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4802&sourceid=481 SCANDINAVIAN RESEARCH CLASS. Starts November 15. Scandinavian influences can be found all over Europe. From the early time of the Vikings through the golden age of the Kalmar Union, these northern Europeans dominated in both power and culture. This class will help you to learn more about your Nordic roots, including the history of the people, their culture, and the records to help you discover details about your ancestors' lives. Class covers Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=5309&sourceid=481 SLOVAK INTERMEDIATE RESEARCH CLASS. Starts November 15. There are a handful of cluster Slovak communities throughout the United States that blossomed during the immigration influx of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This class continues from the basic research class, focusing on how to expand your research into a more community-oriented protocol, how to network (on and offline) with fellow Slovaks through groups and societies, research church records, develop a website, and much more. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4667&sourceid=481 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Finding My Paternal Grandmother's Family By Fran Patten In 1907 my paternal grandparents, Charles PATTEN and Minnie (DOYLE) PATTEN put my father and uncle on a train in South Dakota and sent them to Kokomo, Indiana to live with their PATTEN grandparents. My father was only two years old; Uncle Pat was seven. My father never saw his mother again though she found Uncle Pat in the 1940s and even showed up on his door step in the company of a member of the DOYLE family. She did write to my father, but he didn't write back and he never talked about the situation. He was very loyal to his grandparents and the eight aunts that he had grown up with. Our grand- father Charlie appeared every so often at his parents' farm and even appeared at our home now and then throughout my childhood. He also helped with my sister's college expenses. In an effort to find out about the PATTEN side of the family, I posted a query on a RootsWeb mailing list. I answered an e-mail from Alice and received an instant answer. She immediately e-mailed a picture of Thomas DOYLE, Minnie's father, and pictures of Alice's grandfather, a brother to Minnie, and two of his sisters. Alice has a wonderful website with genealogy and a number of other interesting articles. My sister met Alice and we both have met her parents. To read the poignant story of Thomas DOYLE and other interesting stories, family history and even a great cookie recipe go to: "Alice's Interesting Dead Folks" at: http://members.aol.com/alicebeard/tom.html * * * Bumping into Cousins Online By Jeff Watts I was surfing the Web and ran across a WATTS in the UK, so I sent an e-mail stating I was a descendant of mat-making weavers from Poplar, London, who lived there throughout the 19th century. Surprise -- back came a reply, "I am descended from mat weavers in East London, UK." A year later, when in England I met this gentleman and as he entered the room, he exclaimed, "Do you ever look like my Dad." Receiving his family history going back to the 18th century, I discovered that his gg-uncle John Watts and my great-great-grandfather John Watts are likely to be the same person, as both lived in East London, were mat weavers, and were of the same generation. So far I have found no documentary proof that they are the same person, but circumstantially they are. After ecclesiastical records are searched shall I and my possible cousin have our DNAs checked? * * * Do you have an online "connecting" story to share? Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 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 28,600 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS AVERY-YEO -- Descendents of Yeo Avery from Cornwell, England, who immigrated to Virginia BEIERLE, BUERKLE BARTLETT-DNA -- Discuss BARTLETT DNA projects CAPPERSON, CHRYSTAL, CULBERSTON DECROW, DOSTAL EIGHTEEN FOURMAN KAUTZMAN, KNOPH LAITY LEE-STEPHEN -- Genealogical discussions regarding the family and descendants of Stephen Lee (1791-1854) RICKUS SIMPERS, SLOMA NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS IL-CHICAGO-NORWEGIANS -- Genealogical discussions regarding Norwegian immigrants to Chicago, Illinois MN-LogCamps -- Genealogical discussions regarding the logging camps in Minnesota (late 1800s to mid-1900s) 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. For example, the Billings County, North Dakota website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndbillin/ U.S.A. flsbgs -- South Bay (Florida) Genealogy Society ilabccd -- Ansel Brainerd Cook (Illinois) Chapter DAR ndbillin -- Billings County (North Dakota) ohspag -- Springfield, Pennsylvania (Ohio) Genforum paalncem -- Allentown Cemeteries (Pennsylvania) pabccdar -- Bucks County (Pennsylvania) Chapter DAR pabcdar -- Bellefonte (Pennsylvania) Chapter DAR vaffcdar -- Four Flags (Virginia) Chapter DAR (DAR: Daughters of the American Revolution) 5. New/Updated Freepages and Homepages -------------------------------------- Has your website ever been mentioned here or do you have a new, updated, or substantially revised website located at RootsWeb (it will have "freepages" or "homepages" in the URL)? 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 CLINE, ALLRED, and DANIEL. The site includes information about George W. CLINE, his wife, children, and grandchildren. including information gleaned from a Civil War record. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sybleg/ NICHOLS. James Wilson NICHOLS (born 1820, Tennessee, died 1891, Texas). Other surnames: WALKER, DANIELL, MARSHALL, DAY, SOWELL, HARRISON, MUSGROVE, KELLY, REICH, RECTOR, POLK, FESSENDEN, SMITH, BISHOP, and McDONIEL. Includes genealogy, photos, and records of these lines. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nichols1836/ UK. VILLAGES. "Southern Life," created by Chris and Caroline Hayles. Gives a potted history of more than 1,900 villages in Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Isle of Wight, West Sussex, and Surrey with more than 2,400 photographs. Includes histories of parish churches, local famous people, and events, plus a links page, which has been divided into various categories and also includes the addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses, where applicable, of the Record offices in the UK. The website started three years ago when a subscriber to the Hampshire list asked what one village looked like and about some of its history. This website is extremely large, containing more than 2,500 pages so a good supply of coffee and a comfortable chair is needed! http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/ 6. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb ---------------------------------------------- SHARING OPPORTUNITY. Does your alma mater, old military unit, church, parish, province, county or state have material available that you think would be of interest to genealogists and historians? Do you have any compiled lists of names or databases (other than your personal genealogy) that you would like to share and that you think would be of value and interest to others? In most cases, RootsWeb would be proud to host such material. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ The following databases have come online recently. They are searchable, but not browseable. Search: To look for specific data or occurrence of text in a file. Browse: To view the entire contents of a file or a group of files. CALIFORNIA. San Diego County. San Diego. City Directories, 1914-1967 (various years; selected records); 172 records; Marilyn Lane http://userdb.rootsweb.com/citydir/ ILLINOIS. Saint Clair County. East St. Louis. City Directories, 1905-1930 (various years; McAteer surname); 33 records; Marilyn Lane http://userdb.rootsweb.com/citydir/ KANSAS. Greenwood County. Madison. Madison Index, 1894-1901; 3,242 records; Lyon County. Emporia. Emporia Journal, 1880-1881; 1,717 records; Emporia Ledger, 1874-1882; 7,441 records; Robert and Lois Hodge for Flint Hills Genealogical Society http://userdb.rootsweb.com/news/ MASSACHUSETTS. Suffolk County. Boston. 1853 Boston City Directory, (McCann surname); 16 records; Denise McCann http://userdb.rootsweb.com/citydir/ MICHIGAN. Berrien County. Niles. City Directories 1892-1931, (various years; Arnold surname); 48 records; Marilyn Lane http://userdb.rootsweb.com/citydir/ Kent County. Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids High School Class of 1894; 83 records; Denis Edeline http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ Kent County. Rockford. Rockford Register, Obituaries and Biographies. 1871-1941; 4,749 records; Tim Kalee http://userdb.rootsweb.com/news/ MINNESOTA. Saint Louis County. Duluth. City Directories, 1902-1906, (various years; Dunham and Longmuir surnames); 10 records; Marilyn Lane http://userdb.rootsweb.com/citydir/ MISSOURI. St. Louis (Independent City). City Directories, 1851-1951, (selected surnames); 995 records; Marilyn Lane http://userdb.rootsweb.com/citydir/ NEW JERSEY. Essex County. Cedar Grove and Verona. City Directory, 1933, (surnames beginning with Z); 52 records; Jodie Lutter http://userdb.rootsweb.com/citydir/ OHIO. Hamilton County. Cincinnati. Spring Grove Cemetery; (selected records with ties to the Wunder surname); 990 records; Bill Fogle http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ TEXAS. Montague County. Salona. Salona Cemetery; (selected records); 29 records; Kathy Tally http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ 7. FROM ROOTSWEB REVIEW'S BOTTOMLESS MAILBAG [Editor's note: The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the editor or of RootsWeb.com]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Response to "Keeping a Promise" By Patricia Kruge In response to Doris Waggoner's desire to honor her father's wishes and donate all his materials to one repository, consider the following alternatives: 1. Copy the Methodist materials and give the copies to the Methodist archives and the entire collection to another repository of your choice. This would keep the entire collection intact. If the copies are high quality, the archives should willingly accept them. Just be sure to include the location of the original materials in the documents given to the Methodist archives so future researchers could double check the originals if they felt they needed to do so. 2. Donate the entire collection to one repository that would be large enough to attract both family researchers and those interested in a Methodist-specific topic. Some possibilities might include state historical societies or universities that have "special collections" or manuscript holdings. A Methodist university might be another option. As long as any repository that receives the materials routinely contributes descriptions of their manuscript holdings to the National Union Catalog Manuscript Collection (NUCMC), the information about the father's papers will be included in the global database. Then, anyone in the world with Internet access can find the material description and its location via the NUCMC catalog on the Library of Congress website at http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html * * * More Suggestions By Ida Skarson McCormick in Seattle The Methodist-related material belongs in the appropriate Methodist regional archives, because it is important raw material for church history. Copies of some items, such as his wife's obituary (she was a missionary, too), probably belong in both repositories. And the book Doris is writing does, too. Obtain an agreement from the Methodist archives to return any items it culls out. The other material probably should not go to the small genealogical society, because it most likely will not be able to inventory it or take care of it. It or another society may want any genealogy books, however. Most genealogical societies just can't handle the loose material and you risk it winding up in the recycling when some over- zealous volunteer gets in a house-cleaning mood. If the material is well organized in hanging file folders in a filing cabinet, the society may not even have any floor space to put a filing cabinet. The volume of material is a definite factor. It is best to get some kind of agreement in writing in advance, so the repository knows it has a legal obligation to take care of the material. I would place a letter with each donation stating the contents and location of the material at the other repository, so that interested researchers finding one repository could also find the other. Doris may want to keep the original photo album in the family and place appropriate copies of certain photos in the repositories. The former photo archivist at the Seattle Art Museum advocates not taking apart a photo or snapshot album, because the order of it is significant. A museum may be interested in receiving the photo album and loose pictures, if related to its area. I'm sure her father would understand the need to split up the collection and that the proper steps were taken to preserve it, albeit in two (or more) places. * * * Take My Relatives -- Please By Nancy Jones I love it when someone adds my information to their own! What I do not like is seeing my own notes about my parents and family copied. Example: Boris Overkill writes this note for his mother (my 3rd cousin by marriage): "Mom was a big fan of elderberry wine and drank it every day." If I copy that without editing, it appears that "mom" was my mother. How embarrassing. My mom didn't drink! My solution would be to edit out Boris' personal info and instead write: "Lotta Dolittle is said to have been fond of elderberry wine. Source: Research of Boris Overkill, descendant." Please, borrow my relatives if they are yours, too, but don't forget to edit out my notes. And don't forget to write me; I love meeting new cousins. [Editor's Note: It is not necessary to be related to anyone in order to compile a genealogy. While facts are free for the using, any original creative notes and narratives (more than just facts), which are often found in our genealogies, are copyrightable and should be used only with written permission of the author and the source cited properly. Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work. Give proper credit to those from whom you borrow and quote. See "Copyright Fundamentals for Genealogy," by Michael Patrick Goad on U.S. copyright: http://www.stellar-one.com/copyright_concepts/fundamentals_gene.htm] * * * About Citing Our Sources By Larry Bidwell I have seen many articles complaining about "stolen" genealogical information, lack of credits, etc. I have been assembling a family tree that has grown quite large containing information from my own sources and from portions of family trees obtained online, mostly from Genealogy.com. For the latter, I would like to know myself who prepared the family tree. The tree is only identified by a volume and tree number. Is this all that is needed for a proper citation? Eventually, I would like to save my family tree to the Web, but don't know how to give proper credit for the portions obtained from others or how to receive credit for the overall family tree myself. A recent article mentioned "accepted protocol." I have no idea what this might be or where I can find out about it. [Editor's note: For tips on citing electronic sources study "A Cite for Sore Eyes: Quality Citations for Electronic Genealogy Sources," by Mark Howells at: http://www.oz.net/~markhow/writing/cite.htm See also: "Skillbuilding: Citing Your Sources" http://www.bcgcertification.org/skillbuilders/skbld959.html "Creating Worthwhile Genealogies for our Families and Descendants" http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson12.htm "Citing Sources" (many links): http://www.cyndislist.com/citing.htm] 8. Humor/Humour: Some Grave Problems -------------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Bill Handley in Rabun Gap, Georgia, USA I was traveling from New Jersey to Pennsylvania and saw a sign on an entrance wall: "Positively no digging and planting in this cemetery!" * * * Found a humorous entry in census, parish, church, etc. records? Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ----------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIPTIONS. 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