RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 5 January December 2005, Vol. 8, No. 1, Circulation: 816,285+ (c) 1998-2005 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ * * * Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com Certification: http://www.bcgcertification.org/certification/ * * * Keep informed about the latest news, new databases, webpages and mailing lists at RootsWeb. Subscribe to the free weekly RootsWeb Review. http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ Search/download past issues of the RootsWeb Review: http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ * * * Is your e-mail address up-to-date at all RootsWeb sources? http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ * * * 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/ RootsWeb HelpDesk: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. Editor's Desk: "Mailing Lists: More Than Names and Places" "Writers: Start Your Keyboards" 1b. Using RootsWeb: "Address Changes: Getting Up-to-Date" 1c. Tips from Readers: "Walls Are Falling Down, Falling Down" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Finding Our French Connection" 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: "Kudos to Contributors" "Seeing Double in Colorado" "Shotgun Wedding -- Perhaps?" "Hilarious Names Upon Our Trees" "Ancient Roots of Hilarious Name" "Greek, Latin, and Mythological Names" 'Finding a Few NUTTY Ones on the Family Tree 8. Humor/Humour: "Graveyard Warnings" 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. Editor's Desk: Mailing Lists: More Than Names and Places If you are like most genealogists you search by surnames and localities. While RootsWeb offers thousands of mailing lists on these topics, there are some excellent mailing lists pertaining to other categories, such as how to operate and get the most out of your genealogy software. Among the popular genealogy software programs with mailing lists devoted to them are: AFT (Ancestry Family Tree), BK (Brother's Keeper), FTM (Family Tree Maker), LEGACY, PAF (Personal Ancestral File; various versions), ROOTSMAGIC, and TMG (The Master Genealogist), plus various other software-related topics available. Check them out at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/ * * * Writers: Start Your Keyboards The International Society of Family History Writers and Editors (ISFHWE) sponsors an annual "Excellence in Writing" competition to recognize outstanding writing in genealogical columns and articles. The contest is open to members of ISFHWE -- both published and unpublished authors. Entrants may join ISFHWE at the time of their contest submission. The contest is judged by professionals in the fields of genealogy and journalism. This year's contest has four categories: --Newspaper columns (published in 2004) --Articles (published in 2004) --Genealogy research story (original, unpublished article) --Want-to-be writer/columnist (original, unpublished material) Winners in each category will be awarded a cash prize and a certificate. The awards presentation will take place at the ISFHWE Awards banquet to be held at the National Genealogical Society conference in Nashville, Tennessee, 1-4 June 2005. (Those unable to attend will receive their awards after the conference.) ISFHWE is open to columnists, writers (published and unpublished), editors, and anyone interested in family history writing and publication. This organization was founded in 1987 and originally was named the Council of Genealogy Columnists. Its primary objective is to encourage high standards in genealogical journalism. Its mailing list, hosted by RootsWeb is open to all. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Genealogical_Societies/CGC.html Its website is located at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cgc/ Rules, information and entry form are available at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cgc/2005rules.htm. Entries must be received by the coordinator no earlier than 9 February and no later than 23 February 2005. Send entries (along with your check for the appropriate entry fees and membership dues to: ISFHWE 2005 6584 Red Fox Rd. Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1631 * * * 1b. Using RootsWeb: Address Changes: Getting Up-to-Date It is often said that it is a woman's prerogative to change her mind but Philip Flexmore can give most women a run for their money when it comes to making changes. Phil has had five different e-mail addresses in the past year! The first change wasn't by choice -- his small local ISP (Internet Service Provider) was bought out by a large national company and his e- mail address changed as a result. Since the ISP was good about forwarding mail temporarily from the old to new address, Phil wasn't overly meticulous at the time in updating his address with all of his correspondents. However, Phil soon decided that the new provider was not to his liking and he switched to another company--hence another e-mail address change. Then, midyear, Phil purchased a new computer and received six months free with yet another service provider necessitating yet another change of e-mail address. The final blow came at Christmastime when Phil's wife surprised him with a super-fast cable modem and broadband service. Yet another e-mail address change! The situation wouldn't be so bad if all Phil needed to do was to notify a few friends in his address book of his current e-mail address. But, Phil is a family history researcher and has placed his various and sundry e-mail addresses in many places around the Internet in hopes of being contacted by cousins and others with information on the ancestors for whom he is looking. Additionally, Phil has used (and is still using) many RootsWeb resources and he just assumed (oh, no!) that RootsWeb would know about his address changes automatically. Not so. RootsWeb does not keep track of its users' e-mail addresses and has no magical tool to locate a new address for someone. So, if someone is trying to contact Phil with several generations of "newly discovered" ancestors, they are probably hitting a dead end and giving up when the e-mails are returned as "user unknown." Phil decides to do a Google search on his various defunct e-mail addresses and is shocked to discover the length and breadth of the outdated listings returned for each address. Next he checks the resources he has used at RootsWeb. He decides to post new queries on his subscribed RootsWeb mailing lists under his new (and hopefully permanent) e-mail address so that others will be aware of his address change and will be able to contact him in the future. He also checks Password Central (by clicking on the Password tab on any RootsWeb page) to obtain a list of all his subscribed lists to be sure he is subscribed under his new address to all of his favorite lists. Phil also remembers to write privately to the list administrators at LISTNAME-admin@rootsweb.com (replacing the generic word LISTNAME with the actual name of the lists) to have his dead e-mail address unsubscribed from the lists. Then he updates his address on his RootsWeb Surname List entries and his WorldConnect GEDCOMs, plus on each Post-em Note he has posted on his own and other submitters' databases. Since Phil also has a Freepages website, he updates his address on his page and on the RootsWeb guestbook he uses on his website, and also notifies RootsWeb's accounts manager of his new address. Lastly, Phil went to the RootsWeb/Ancestry message boards by selecting the Message Board tab on a RootsWeb page) and logged in. Then he clicked on "My Profile." He discovered there are actually two places to update his account there -- one says E-MAIL and the other says POST E-MAIL. Then he remember he needed to change his address for the RootsWeb Review, too. He took care of that by going to: http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ Phil is all caught up and ready for the new year. How about you? Perhaps someone is looking for you with lots of information to share. Is your e- mail address current on all the RootsWeb resources? For instructions in updating your address, see: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/addresses/ * * * 1c. Tips from Readers: Walls Are Falling Down, Falling Down By Sherril Scott For about seven years, I have been trying to locate the name of the ship my KRALICEK family came over on. I had lots of family information showing they had immigrated to New York from Chechograd, Russia in November of 1898, but no matter how hard I searched I could not locate a ship name. I read the tip from Joanne Kennedy on how to search the Ellis Island records using the "White Form" on Steve Morse's website, with initials, Soundex codes and dates. I had previously searched the Ellis Island records dozens of times without any luck, but off I went to try it one more time using her tips. I ran a search on my great-grandfather Wenzel KRALICEK from "Russia." I came up with quite a few hits for sound-alike names, but still nothing on my Wenzel. I ran it again using the first initial and then the name of Wenzel's wife --Franziska. Again with no luck. Then the name of a young girl caught my eye. She was from "Teschegorod" with Russian ethnicity. She had the last name spelling of KRALITSCHEK and the first name of Franziska. Using the name of the child, I backtracked to the manifest entries and found great-grandpa Wenzel KRALICEK, along with the whole family, listed with the spelling of their last name as KRALITSCHEK. He was listed as being of Austria/Bohemian ethnicity and last place of residence being Teschegorod, (Chechograd) Russia! The spellings were really off, but they are definitely my lost family. So why didn't great-grandpa Wenzel come up in my original search? Because he was from Austria/Bohemia, not Russia, but the children were all born in Russia, so when I ran great-grandma Franziska's first name, it picked up on her daughter who was named after her -- and she was born in Russia. Down fell the bricks. I just wanted to tell everyone to keep reading the great tips in the RootsWeb Review and never pass up an opportunity to try it just one more time. One day something you read here will shed a new light on the way you research, one that just might break down that brick wall. Then you can get on to chipping away at the next one. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Finding Our French Connection By Terry Parker in Hagerstown, Maryland, USA Several years ago I started my family research. My uncle told me we had relatives somewhere in France but lost contact after several years. We had pictures and a last-known location, but not sure if anyone was still living or of any other relatives. No one in the family had any idea on how to locate this relative so I got the idea to write the French consulate in New York. Weeks later I got a letter stating they found our relative and gave them the information and told me they were trying to find us as well. I was still learning about genealogy, so it was a bit confusing as to who I was going to be in touch with as it was my dad's grandfather who went there to begin with. Well he married again in France and had a son and that's who contacted me by letter. It was in French so I had to get the local high school French teacher to translate the letter. We shared photos and information and he was so happy to be in touch with us. But, sadly a few months later he passed away and once again we lost contact. Just a very few days ago I got an e-mail from France and what do you know -- it was the grandson who turns out to be my cousin. I asked him how he found me and he said on RootsWeb where I had posted our tree and I was the contact. We e-mailed each other every day till he called me from France and we spoke for 80 minutes. It was awesome. He called Christmas Eve and spoke with a few others in the family. His dad is very happy to finally be back in touch with the relatives in America. We have had a family reunion for years and when I told him about it, they were excited and now want to come here to meet the relatives they have found -- so imagine what a reunion we will have in June 2005. I just had to share this success story with you as I have always read other such stories, but never had the success till now. Thank you for helping us to make the "French connection." * * * Do you have an online or other "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 28,700 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ANDREJKO, ANTONIDES BONINI, BONNICI, BREITMAN, BUSHART, BUSSO CABALLERO, CABOT, CARLYON CARROLL-DNA -- Discuss CARROLL (surname) DNA projects CROMPTON-ENG-LAN -- CROMPTON (surname) in or from Lancashire, England DAVILA, DENCE, DIRK, DOBLER, DRAYSON EGGIMANN FELAN GALLARDO, GRUNDBACHER GIBSON-Tryon -- Descendants of Tryon Gibson (ca 1775-1840), who lived in South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Texas before 1850 GLOVER-DNA -- Discuss GLOVER (surname) DNA projects GOWEN-CANADA -- GOWEN (surname) in Canada HECKART, HIZER, HOLLINGHURST, HOLTZBAUM HOPKINS-STEPHEN -- Descendants of Stephen Hopkins, who arrived in America on the "Mayflower" in 1620 KEIL-RUS-VOLGA -- Keil family that emigrated from the Volga region of Russia LANGENHEIM MARQUISS, MINKS MILLER-SE -- MILLER (surname) in southeastern United States NAVARRO PARCELL, PHOAL, PISTNER, PRAUNER PIKE-DNA -- Discuss PIKE (surname) DNA projects RENDON, RHOTON SIELING, SPITERI SMOTHERS-DNA -- Discuss SMOTHERS (surname) DNA projects TESTIN, THACKSTON, TOLMIE, TUTIN VERKERK, VIELLARD WEISSENSTEIN, WHERRITT, WIELING NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ -- The British Raj is an informal term for the period of British rule of most of the Indian subcontinent or present- day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka (previously known as Ceylon). It lasted from 1858, when the rule of the British East India Company was transferred to the Crown, until 1947, when the independence of British India was granted and Pakistan was formed. From 1886 to 1937 it included Burma, now called Myanmar. 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 Dawes County, Nebraska website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nedawes/ U.S.A. flfgs -- Florida Genealogical Society nedawes -- Dawes County (Nebraska) ohlccogs -- Lucas County (Ohio) Chapter OGS txsfcdar -- Six Flags (Texas) Chapter DAR varags -- Rockbridge Area (Virginia) Genealogical Society wvelhcje -- Elizabeth Ludington Hagens-Col. John Evans (West Virginia) Chapter DAR Key: APG—Association of Professional Genealogists DAR—Daughters of the American Revolution DRT—Daughters of the Republic of Texas OGS—Ohio Genealogical Society SUV—Sons of Union Veterans (American Civil War) USD—Daughters of the War of 1812 UDC—United Daughters of Confederacy (Confederate States of America) 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 * * * AKIN, APPERSON, BARRETT, BONNER, BRIGANCE, BUSSEY, CHAPPELL, COLCLOUGH, CONNELLY, CORDRAY, COTTLE, GANT, GENTRY, HAACK, HARRIS, HEATH, JONES (Georgia/Alabama), JONES (North Carolina/Tennessee), LEMASTER, LENTZ, MANLOVE, MOORE, NEWTON, PICKLE, REED, RUTLEDGE, SMOTHERMAN, SPORE, STUMP, SWALLOW, THOMAS, WEST, WHEELER, WILLIAMS, and WILLINGHAM. Includes DNA projects of BONNER, LENTZ, NEWTON, and SPORE; censuses, wills, obituaries, family histories, Bible images, photographs, and descendants lists. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gbonner/ BRANSON. Most Wanted Ancestors. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/branson.html BRANSON, DAY. The family of Thomas BRANSON and Elizabeth DAY; from England to New Jersey, USA. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/branson/WC_TOC.HTM BROWN, ADAMS, DANIELS, ARY. Includes sources and photos. The BROWN line originating in Massachusetts and migrating through New York to Iowa and the Pacific Northwest. The ADAMS family originating in New Jersey and migrating through New York to Michigan and Dakota Territory with some settlement in the Pacific Northwest. The DANIELS family originating in England and migrating to Wisconsin and Dakota Territory around Civil War time. The ARY line which originated in Virginia and migrated through Ohio and Illinois to Iowa. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pioneerfamilies/homepage.htm ENGLAND. Coastguards on Sheppey. Updated with the Sheppey, Kent censuses from 1841 to 1901 (containing Coastguards and families), plus baptisms, marriages and burials of Coastguards and families. Include links to other Coastguard sites in the UK. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~puxty/ HORTON, HANDELL. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~marnat52/ LEININGER. Leininger Family of northwest Ohio. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~keller/lein/work/index.html LORENTZ, HEILIGER. The family of Johannes LORENTZ and Anna Margaretha HEILIGER; from Germany to New Jersey, USA. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/lorentz/WC_TOC.HTM LORANCE/LORENTZ/LOWRANCE. Most Wanted Ancestors. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/lorance.html MOFFIT, STUART. The family of Robert MOFFITT and Margaret STUART; from Ireland to North Carolina, USA. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/moffitt/WC_TOC.HTM MOFFITT/MOFFETT/MOFFAT/MOFFATT. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/moffitt.html TENNESSEE. Claiborne County. Friends of the Genealogy Library. Click on the link for "Booklist" for all the books located at this library for researching your family. http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnfoglcc/ 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. Alameda County. History of Alameda County, Biographies and Portraits 403 records; Lori Wicks http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ Humboldt County. Babies Delivered by Mary Deborah Hinton Goff, 1873-1892. 158 records; Humboldt County Historical Society by Karen Hendricks http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ FLORIDA. Brevard County. Cocoa. Cocoa Tribune, deaths 1955-1959; 903 records; Jim and Bonnie Garmon http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ MONTANA. Wibaux County. Wibaux. Wibaux Pioneer-Gazette, 1907 marriages and deaths; 47 records; E. A. Cecil http://userdb.rootsweb.com/news/ 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kudos to Contributors By Kay McCullough in Casper, Wyoming, USA On Christmas afternoon as I once again cleaned my basement (I love Christmas afternoon and evening for this very reason), I stopped to read the latest edition of RootsWeb Review. WOW -- what inspirational and challenging stories for the New Year's resolve deep inside me. I was honored to read about Allan Andrade's dedication to the families of the sailors killed 60 years ago during World War II. May God bless him. Virginia Rhodes Nuta deserves a medal for genealogical perseverance -- her dogged pursuit of any information she could glean on Baby Rhodes and her successful outcome is a blueprint for anyone's research dilemma. My Santa hat is off to her. Sharon Atkins Lockett telling us about family history kindnesses shared throughout the world comes at the right time --- the spirit of Christmas can last all year long, if we let it. And Lisa Rex and Bonnie Garber took the time to provide great information/tips for research. Thanks to the continually wonderful editor and her elves, too. You are loved and cherished. * * * Seeing Double in Colorado By David C Abernathy My father Charles and Uncle Harold were counted twice in the 1930 Rio Grande County, Colorado census. It appears that both a SPENCER and a WALLACE household had them for roomers. Since this is a very small town in the mountains of Colorado I know that there were not two people with the same names, plus the wives' names match correctly. This is just an example how the records were and still today are not very accurate. * * * Shotgun Wedding -- Perhaps? By David W. Coffey My 3-great-grandfather, Golson Wilson COFFEY, obviously had a strange sense of humor. In 1860 he granted permission for his 16-year-old son, (my 2-great-grandfather), William F. COFFEY, to marry. Here is the transcription of the record as recorded in the book "Russell County, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1826-1860," compiled by Mrs. Carol Sanders: "William F. Coffey and Elizabeth A. Brown, daughter of Harvey Brown of Russell Co., married on 2 Jan. 1860 at the home of her father in the presence of John W. Coffey and William Coffey, signed M. W. Wilson. Bond signed William (X) Coffey and Napolean B. Brown. Consent as follows: Jan 2, 1860 authoriase [sic] the clerk of the court to isue [sic] a death warnt [sic] to William Coffey. Signed G.W. (X) Coffey" * * * Hilarious Names Upon Our Trees By Mike Knoll Contributor Denny Shirer did not say if the people named Hilarious in the censuses were enumerated by the same person, but I wonder if the name was not the result of the census enumerator's misunderstanding of Hieronymous, a fairly common German given name, way back when. * * * Ancient Roots of Hilarious Name By Bill Hansen I was amused (no pun intended) on the forename Hilarious and its variations (Hilarus/Hilarious) mentioned in a recent RootsWeb Review. The only persons I have found with that forename are of either Swiss or German origin. The name is derived from St. Hilarius, a native of Sardinia, who was elected Pope in 461 and died 28 Feb. 468. The name appears to be prominent in both German and Swiss families due to the works of another saint, St. Fridolin. Fridolin or a variation is a name is also a semi-common forename in Switzerland and lower Germany. I have several ancestors of Swiss origin who were named either Hilarius or Fridolin. According to Catholic text, St. Fridolin, was founder of the Monastery of Säckingen, Baden, in the sixth century. In accordance with a later tradition, St. Fridolin is venerated as the first Irish missionary who labored among the Alamanni on the Upper Rhine [an ecclesiastical province that included the Archdiocese of Freiburg and the suffragan Dioceses of Fulda, Mainz, Limburg, and Rottenburg] in the time of the Merovingians. Fridolin (or Fridold) belonged to a noble family in Ireland and at first labored as a missionary in his native land. Afterwards crossing to France, he came to Poitiers, where in answer to a vision, he sought the relics of St. Hilarius, and built a church for their reception. See: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06303c.htm * * * Greek, Latin, and Mythological Names By Frank Grenfell Denny Shirer's article about the given name "Hilarious" is less surprising if one realises that it comes straight from Greek and means Cheerful. The modern version is, of course, Hilary. In the 19th century names were often chosen for their meaning, many taken from Greek or Latin, or classical mythology, or the Old Testament. For instance, Agatha and Ophelia are Greek for Good and Help. Many of them sound very dated these days, while others are still in common use -- Andrew and Margaret mean Manly and Pearl. The seventh, eighth and ninth sons of a large family, and cousins of mine, were respectively Robert Septimus, Francis Octavius and Riversdale Nonus, taken from the Latin numbers. Sadly Robert died at Omdurman, Sudan in 1898 at the age of 23, and both Francis and Riversdale in World War I, Francis receiving the Victoria Cross -- Britain's highest military honour. * * * Finding a Few NUTTY Ones on the Family Tree By James Blair In reference to: "Hilarious (et al)," I have one, I am descended from Isabelle Grant NUTTY, the wife of my great-grandfather, Thomas H. BLAIR. During my research I met a lot of NUTTY people. 8. Humor/Humour: Graveyard Warnings ------------------------------------------ Thanks to: Suzanne Lombardo in Connecticut, USA Sign at the entrance to a graveyard of a small country church in Kent, England: WATCH YOUR STEP * * * Thanks to: Elizabeth Duke in Dunedin, New Zealand, who spotted this one near Naseby, Central Otago, New Zealand: CEMETERY NO EXIT * * * Found a humorous sign or entry in census, parish, church, etc. records? Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 9. 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