RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 8 December 2004, Vol. 7, No. 49, Circulation: 816,285+ (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/ * * * Is your e-mail address up-to-date at all RootsWeb sources? http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. Editor's Desk: "1881 England and Wales Census" "Attention Former attbi.com Subscribers" "New Bill Will Close Records to Genealogists" 1b. Tips from Readers: "Low-Tech Method Provides High Success" 1c. Using RootsWeb: "Unlocking the Gate to Success" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Staring into the Past" 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: "Wildcarding for Ancestors" "Confessions of a Transcriber" "Tree Errors Created by Software" "Born at Sea" 8. Humor/Humour: "Flawless Ancestor" 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: 1881 England and Wales Census Index and Images Available For the first time, the fully searchable 1881 England and Wales census index is now linked with digital images of the original census documents at Ancestry.com. The index/image integration allows researchers to more easily search for their ancestors who were living in the England and Wales at that time. --The index is free; the images are available via subscription to Ancestry's UK and Ireland Records Collection. --Customer corrections and comments are available on the 1881 census, and errors in the index can now be corrected. --Includes more than 27 million names, linked to 1.4 million images for England, Wales, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands The 1881 England and Wales census index and images can be accessed at http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/census/uk/ * * * Attention Former attbi.com Subscribers When attbi.com went out of existence nearly two years ago, subscribers were given until December 31, 2004 to update their e-mail addresses to reflect the current domain. After that date, e-mail will no longer be forwarded from attbi.com addresses to the new domains at Comcast and elsewhere. RootsWeb users and volunteer administrators who are still having mail forwarded from attbi.com addresses need to update their addresses immediately. If you are a former attbi.com subscriber, check your current list subscriptions and administrator addresses at Password Central by clicking on the Password tab at the top of any RootsWeb page, or at: http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ For instructions to update your e-mail address for various RootsWeb resources, see: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/addresses/ * * * New Bill Will Close Records to Genealogists HR10, which was mentioned in the 13 October issue of RootsWeb Review, has passed out of the U.S. House of Representatives and is now part of S.2845. The amendments suggested by David Rencher in his letter to the bill's sponsor, Congressman J. Dennis Hastert, were NOT incorporated into this legislation. Thus, the terms of HR10 will now be considered by the Senate, as part of S.2845. If S.2845 becomes law, as now written, family historians will face some real challenges in attempts to obtain birth records, even on long- deceased individuals. Specifically, what genealogists need to do is suggest to their lawmakers the addition of Sec. 3061(b)(1)(A)(iii) that would read: "who is alive on the date that access to their birth certificate is requested." This addition would clarify that the legislation (soon to be law) applies ONLY to birth certificates of CURRENTLY LIVING PERSONS. If you do not know your U.S. Senator's e-mail address, you can find it at http://www.senate.gov/ This bill can be found online at http://thomas.loc.gov/ Put in S.2845 (in the bill number window) and then select item No. 3; and go to Subtitle B--Identity Management Security; Chapter 2--Improved Security for Birth Certificates. * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Low-Tech Method Provides High Success By Sister Therese Gregoire in Lacombe, Louisiana While many of us, amateur genealogists at best, pursue our all-absorbing hobby via the Internet, we sometimes forget the old "snail-mail" route. In completing the family tree, I have been trying to locate information on each of the siblings of Melina LEMIRE, my great-grandmother and the siblings of my grandfather, Edouard F. GREGOIRE. Having had limited success on the Internet, and not able to afford the travel to distant places, I decided to try some old technology. Among my long-deceased grandfather's things held by his last living son, we recently discovered an old scrapbook, filled with newspaper clippings of weddings, obituaries, and World War II notes on family members serving in the military. What a great starting point! Each week I take a single news clipping and try to match up the names to data I already have. I've noticed that pallbearers are very often nephews or grandchildren of the deceased person, and members of the wedding parties are often related. When there's a possibility that an individual is still living, judging from dates, I go to two sources to locate mailing addresses. I use AnyWho (the AT&T white pages) for the U.S. http://www.anywho.com/wp.html and Canada 411 for Canadian relatives. http://findaperson.canada411.ca/ Even though the clippings are old -- some of them dating back to the 1920s -- I start my search in the state I think they may have lived. I select three to six likely candidates, draft a letter giving them enough information so that they know it isn't a scam, request the information I'm trying to locate and give both my mailing and my e-mail address. For instance, my grandfather had a brother that we knew very little about-- just a name, date of birth and the fact that he had gone to British Colombia. An Internet volunteer eventually located and sent me his obituary. It mentioned he had a daughter and two grandchildren living at time of death in the 1960s. Figuring the daughter, who was of my dad's generation, was most likely passed away, I zeroed in on the grandson. I found three individuals in Canada 411 with that name and sent my letter to all of them. Several months later, I was amazed to receive a beautifully typed letter from his mother. My dad's first cousin was still living, a woman in her early 70s. She had photos of my grandfather -- her Uncle Ed -- as a young man, and old letters in French, which she could not decipher, but I could. Not only did I find information, I'm now delighting in our regular correspondence. In the last few months I've found the son of my grandmother's half brother. I've also located some half-dozen second cousins and a few third cousins who have each filled in a branch for one of my great- grandmother's siblings and I'm delighting in the new acquaintances with family scattered across the North American continent. * * * Have you encountered and solved a pesky research problem? Share it with the RootsWeb Review readers. Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com * * * 1c. Using RootsWeb: Unlocking the Gate to Success Allison Linck has been a RootsWeb user for several years and she has figured out her own secret to success in making the most of RootsWeb's message boards and mailing lists. Given the choice to post her query or request for information on one of several relevant lists or boards, Ally opts to post her message on a message board that is "gatewayed" to a corresponding mailing list. To spot a message board that is gatewayed to a mailing list, Ally looks for a yellow envelope icon superimposed over the sheets of paper icon that represents a message board. There also will be a yellow highlighted blurb explaining that posts made to the message board also appear on the corresponding mailing list. Ally discovered these one-way gateways -- used by many of the thousands of volunteer mailing list and message board administrators -- to be a handy feature of the RootsWeb boards and lists. The gateway allows the automatic copying of message board posts directly to the corresponding mailing list. Therefore, Ally posts her message on the message board for the mailing lists to which she is subscribed. This feature also permits Ally (and anyone else) to have their message board posts viewed and replied to by the mailing list members as well as by others who search only the message boards -- even for lists to which they are not subscribed. In this manner, Ally knows she reaches a wider audience and also maximizes her chance to obtain the best possible response. Researchers must subscribe to a mailing list in order to participate in the discussion and there are good reasons for this requirement. Subscription helps to eliminate spam because it limits the ability to post messages to only those who have joined the list. For the most part, researchers who join (subscribe to) a mailing list and read and post messages on the list are actively interested in the topic, locality, or surname that is the subject of the mailing list. Subscribing to several lists for surnames and localities of the greatest importance in her research, Ally's learned that mailing lists are great for real-time in-depth group discussion of a subject. But she also appreciates having access to the expertise of list members on lists to which she isn't subscribed -- via the gateway. Ally makes use of message boards for peripheral research into her allied and collateral lines, and subjects of passing or minor interest -- boards for subjects which don't interest her to the extent of subscribing to the list where she would receive all list correspondence. However, she is still looking for any and all responses she can get -- including those from list members. When list subscribers wish to reply to Ally, or have information for her, they need to click on the link included in the message. This takes them directly to her post on the board. There they can click on "Post Reply" and type in their response. That way Ally will be notified of the response and will be able to view it on the board. Additionally, the list subscriber's reply will be gatewayed back to the Mailing List so they need not post a separate response there. There may be some instances when it is not convenient or possible for mailing list users to post their responses to Ally on the message boards as described above. For example, if they have an e-mail only service and/or limited access to the Internet, and as a result read and compose e-mail for mailing lists while offline then clicking on the URL link in the message is inconvenient or impossible. To reply to Ally's gatewayed message under such circumstances, they must remember to include a private response to Ally when they reply to the list. To accomplish this, they need to make sure that Ally's e-mail address, which is included in the gatewayed list post, appears in the "Send To" box of their e-mail message. Ally is such a big fan of gatewayed mailing lists and message boards that, on occasion, when she was subscribed to a list that was not gatewayed to a corresponding message board, she contacted the list administrator to suggest the gateway be opened. (You can always contact a list administrator by writing to LISTNAME-admin@rootsweb.com, replacing the word LISTNAME with the actual mailing list's name. For instance, if Ally wants to contact the SMITH mailing list administrator, she would write to: SMITH-admin@rootsweb.com). Turning on the gateway between a list and a board can only be accomplished by mutual agreement between the list and board administrator. Ally knows that the decision isn't hers to make -- so she is polite and considerate when writing to express her desire to see a gateway turned on. So, now that Ally has shared her favorite secret to success by using the "gateway" on RootsWeb lists and boards, feel free to pass it along to other researchers -- but only to a few hundred of your closest friends trying to find their long-lost ancestors. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Staring into the Past By Jo Anne Lohse I am a new subscriber to RootsWeb Review and I have a story to share. I was looking through the November 10 edition and came across the link to the Missouri Civil War Museum: http://www.missouricivilwarmuseum.org/ Since I'm researching my FRAZIER-BUSTER heritage from Missouri, I thought I would browse through its photo gallery. I looked through the surnames and failed to find my FRAZIER or BUSTER surnames. I did happen across the name SCHOTT. I have a close friend with that surname, so clicked into the photo gallery and I almost fell off my chair. The man in the picture is Joseph Anton SCHOTT from the 8th Regiment Missouri Infantry Volunteers (U.S.). The man staring back at me from my computer screen looks EXACTLY like my girlfriend. The faces are so identical that it would appear that her face was super-imposed on his. I printed the picture and showed it to our mutual friends at work. Many were freaked out, because (1) they are not genealogists and (2) this man lived 143 years ago. Just tonight I was able to show the picture of Joseph Anton SCHOTT to my friend and she, too, was amazed. In fact, she is going to take it with her in a couple of weeks to Arizona to show it to her parents. The photo was submitted by the soldier's great-granddaughter, Debbie Schaberg. My friend and I agreed to try and contact Debbie after she returns from visiting her parents in Arizona in December, and showing them the picture. Incidents like these make genealogy the fun and exciting hobby that it is! * * * 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 ARAM BETTES, BICKNESE, BORNERT, BRIDEKIRK BALLINGER-DNA -- Discussing BALLINGER DNA projects DIEBOLD, DILKS FIESELER GUILLIAMS HARAM, HOLNESS HOLT-DNA -- Discussing HOLT DNA projects JOHNSTON-DNA -- Discussing JOHNSTON DNA projects MARARIAN, MONGAR, MUNSCH NEVILLE-DNA -- Discussing NEVILLE DNA projects ONORI SANTARELLI, SCHRODT, SIDDELL, SPENCELEY, STARING SWAIN-DNA -- Discussing SWAIN DNA projects TOMASSACCI THOMPSON-MAINE -- The THOMPSON surname in Maine VAHLSING, VIDMER VANDENBOSSCHE -- The VANDEN BOSSCHE surname WESEMANN NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS FL-SOUTHBAYGEN -- Discussing activities of the South Bay Genealogy (Florida) Society; Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~flsbgs/ IN-GSMC -- Discussing activities of the Genealogical Society of Marion County, Indiana 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 Medina County (Ohio) Chapter OGS website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohmdogs2/ U.S.A. mohcapg -- Heartland (Missouri) Chapter APG ohmcogs2 -- Medina County (Ohio) Chapter OGS orecdar -- Eulalona (Oregon) Chapter DAR tnfoglcc -- Friends of the Genealogy Library Claiborne County (Tennessee) Key: DAR—Daughters of the American Revolution DRT—Daughters of the Republic of Texas USD—Daughters of the War of 1812 UDC—United Daughters of Confederacy OGS—Ohio Genealogical Society APG—Association of Professional Genealogists 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 * * * BLIESMER, LANGBEHN, WULF. This new site was created to present the data about three families from Fehmarn Island, Germany to Calumet City, Illinois. Each family has its own tree, how they interconnect, and surnames. The Bliesmer links to the American Blissmer site. The Blissmer site also has a link to our America and German surnames. Via the Blissmer spelling, there are trees for America, Germany, and Russia (which leads to France). http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~blissmer/ CAWTHORN, SCOTT, PALMER, and DeSILVA PALMER. Family history pages. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/ DUGGAN. Our Duggan Family Genealogies. This is a huge reference resource, especially for Dutch surnames with more than 88,600 names. Registers of some 120+ surnames are included. Those registers larger than 50kb are these: ADAMS, ADDAIR, BECKERINK, BEMERS, CHEELY, CONE, COWLEY, DAMCOTT, DEBBINK, DEUNK, DUGGAN, DULANEY, DULMES, DUNNEWOLD, EININK, ELINK, ESKEW, FREDERICK, FREEMAN, FREERS, FRENCH, GHEESLING, GILMORE, GROSS, GUSSINKLO, HAGLER, HEINEN, HESSELINK, HUININK, HYMAN, JORDAN, JOYCE, KILLINGSWORTH, KIRBY, KROSENBRINK, LAUCK, LEGTERS, LENOIR, LINDER, MADDUX, MALPASS, MANNING, MEERDINK, NECKERS, NIJENHUIS, OONK, PARKS, PIETENPOL, PLECKENPOL, PORTER, POTTER, RENEGAR, REUSLINK, RICE, RINGWALD, ROBINS, RODES, RUEHL, SCHOLTEN, SCHREURS, SIKKINK, SMITHWICK, STANLEY, STANTON, STONE, TenDOLLE, TenHAKEN, TenHULSEN, TenPAS, TeSELLE, TeWINKEL, UMMINGER, VanHOOSER, WALKER, WAMELINK, WILTERDINK, and WOLTERINK http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~duggan/ ENGLAND. Newspaper extracts from old newspapers in the Merseyside area, lots of updates from January 1899 -- continually updating. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dadds/MERSEYSIDE.index.html ENGLAND. Now includes a picture album of old Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/Gallery/index.html ENGLAND. Cambridgeshire Taverns & Public Houses in 1839. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/1839Pigots/1839index.html MISSOURI. Christian County. Among the things added is the index to personal property tax records for 1879-1900 and the index by name, location, and year of those receiving land patents, as well as a beginning study of the women homesteaders. Other records include the index to the marriage records for 1859-1940, the land tax record of 1875, the agricultural census of 1876, the 1900 and 1910 federal censuses, church rolls for 1846-1892 of Prospect Baptist Church and a researcher's guide. http://www.rootsweb.com/~moccl/ NEW ZEALAND. More than 200 essays on European women who lived in South Taranaki (West Coast, North Island) from the 1830s to the 1990s, plus a list of the South Taranaki women who signed the Suffrage Petition of 1893. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sooty/stwomen.html WOOD, WALDSPURGER. Research on the primary surnames of the extended WOOD and WALDSPURGER branches. Areas include Montgomery, Philadelphia, Allegheny, and York counties in Pennsylvania. Other surnames: VAUTIER, SPERRY, COX, HAGER, BUPP, PFEIFFER, and WOOD. Also includes information on the Hatfield Train Wreck of September 1900. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kelleywood/ 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. CANADA. Ontario. Perth County. Natives of Ireland buried in Roman Catholic Cemeteries; 295 records; Thomas J. Hunter http://userdb.rootsweb.com/canada/ Ontario. 1901 Census, Toronto Center, District 116; 549 records; M. Hellam http://userdb.rootsweb.com/canada/ U.S.A. CALIFORNIA. Selected Death Records 1905-1939 (Salisbury surname), 118 records; Ruth Seibert http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ ILLINOIS. Effingham County. Effingham. Little Prairie Cemetery, Jackson Township; 191 records; Russell W. Zears http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ MINNESOTA. Minnesota State Music Teachers' Association, Second Annual Meeting, May 1903; 220 records; Charlie Deutsch http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ TEXAS. Erath County. Stephenville. Pilot Knob Cemetery; 126 records; Jill Doyle http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ VIRGINIA. Norfolk (Independent City); Joseph Scholz death record, 1935; 1 record; Jennifer Scholz http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ WISCONSIN. Outagamie County. Appleton. "The Open Door: A History of First Congregational Church, 1850-2000"; 318 records; Susan Marston http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wildcarding for Ancestors By Kaye Powell in Texas To follow the current theme of thinking of creative ways to find ancestors on indexed documents, I've gotten handy with various wild cards and how Ancestry.com's census index can be sorted. In contrast, Heritage Quest's census index is absolutely literal. Now that so many census years at Ancestry.com are every-person indexed, sorting can bring up pools of listings almost too large to handle, so I revert to HQ for heads of households. In some cases once found, the images are so poor I use the information to get to the better film images at Ancestry so I can read them. Also, once I've found a name spelling I want to know what other households with the same or similar spelling live or have lived in that same place -- state, county, township, and (knock knock) peek into their homes. Back to wild cards. One surname I research is spelled on census and transcribed so many ways, that I search for McKinney as mck?n*y or mck?n* (with maybe a given name and place; or even only surname + birth state, in another state) and those doesn't miss many -- mostly those few transcribed with a space like mc k?n*. Another trick using wildcards is on given names; you can use wild cards in both given and surnames at once, while using Soundex too. Ancestry's engine is smart enough to know what names go with wm geo jno and so forth. What if you don't know if she's going by Diane or Diana? Try dian? -- it always wants at least three letters, sometimes four before using the wild cards. How about ann*, too. One L or two -- phil* Just yesterday I found something at familysearch.org that's been under my nose all along for years, but I've been ignoring. I have mystery BROWNs from Centre County, Pennsylvania. Valentine Brown's the more unusual given name than Daniel and who'd look at Valentine BREON in Pennsylvania? Not I. Oh well, why not? * * * Confessions of a Transcriber By Joyce Lintner in Canada I helped to transcribe the Ontario 1891 census for the Ontario Genealogical Society. On one of the sets of forms that I received to copy the original census taker did not cross one "t" or dot his "i's." The name TATE looked like TALE, Peter -- Peler, Matthew -- Mallhew, etc. The i's were not too hard to figure out, but the t's did cause a problem and I probably misspelled some of the names. * * * Tree Errors Created by Software By Nessa Burns Reifsnyder I just wanted to offer a response to Ken Kohlmann's "Carelessly Composed Trees" article in the 1 December issue. As an example of "imagined information," Kohlmann cited the annoyance factor of perusing WorldConnect trees with "individuals born in the 1500s and 1600s listed as living." I recently changed genealogy programs (from Mac-based Gene to PC-based Legacy), and much to my delight, the GEDCOM transition between such radically different programs was nearly seamless. However, my first WorldConnect upload of data from the new platform gave me a rude surprise: Legacy's free version had imposed a "still living" note on many, many individuals, even though I knew full well they were long since dead. Apparently this widespread mistake occurred because I did not have a date of death for these people. The paid version of Legacy allows a universal clean-up of erroneous info like this, but I wasn't able to purchase and download the additional program for awhile. There were some other minor glitches that occurred in this GEDCOM transition, such as random blank spaces inserted in my usually carefully tended Notes sections. I know these are quirks of my own situation, but I wanted to let you know that sometimes such oddities or errors are not under our immediate control. It's ironic that Kohlmann's piece appeared in the same issue as "The Joys of Inveterate Button Pushing," which spoke with encouragement and understanding to all genealogists whose eagerness sometimes leads their data astray. Perhaps my GEDCOM transition was hampered by this phenomenon (um, yes, I'm sure it was!). But at heart, there are few of us online genealogists who truly don't care whether we're accurate or not -- we're just learning, all of us, every day. And I'm still pushing buttons in Legacy, as the paid version has so many new, nifty features that I've never had access to before. * * * Born at Sea By Elizabeth Golden While searching my deceased husband's genealogy I found his father's household census for 1920. It showed the mother-in-law living in the household of my husband's father. Her father was listed as being "born at sea." I have no maiden name for her -- is there any way I can search for her father? This question of those born at sea might also interest other researchers. 8. Humor/Humour: Flawless Ancestor ------------------------------------------ Thanks to: Sue Richart in Chewelah, Washington, USA While searching for McGAFFIGAN in the "Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston 1848-1891," one of the arriving McGAFFIGANS was a bit more special than others. On each of the 3x5 cards there is place to indicate the mental and physical health of the passenger. Most of the time, the records indicate "good" or "healthy." However, Bridget McGAFFIGAN, age 19, "spinster," was different. She was listed as "Perfect." I couldn't help, but smile. * * * Found a humorous sign or entry in census, parish, church, etc. records? Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ----------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIPTIONS. To manage your e-mail communications (i.e. to subscribe or unsubscribe to this newsletter, or to sign up for others), visit our newsletter management center any time at: http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ The RootsWeb Review is a free publication of MyFamily.com, Inc., 360 West 4800 North, Provo, UT, 84604 * * * 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. 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