RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 12 January December 2005, Vol. 8, No. 2, 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 "Tsunami Disaster Relief--How to Help" 1a. Editor's Desk: Some Sites Worth Seeing "Canadian Connections" and "Canada-related Mailing Lists" "UK Search Engine" "DAR Look-ups" "American Civil War Maps" 1b. Using RootsWeb: "Showing Newbies the Ropes" 1c. Tips from Readers: "Before the Memories Fade" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Detour Leads to Family" 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: "More Thoughts on Born-at-sea Legends" "Not Wanted Dead or Alive" "Mailing List Query Quickly Produces Answer" "Starting a Family Tradition Pays Off" "The Case of Fast-Moving Ancestors and Slow-moving Enumerators" 8. Humor/Humour: "You Don't Say!" 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS AND NOTES Tsunami Disaster Relief--How to Help http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/tsunami.html 1a. Editor's Desk: Some Sites Worth Seeing CANADIAN CONNECTIONS: Hudson's Bay Company and Real Royal Engineers The Children of Fort Langley deals with the approximately 108 Hudson's Bay Company employees who worked at Fort Langley in what is now British Columbia, Canada, between 1827 and 1894. Many of the descendants of these men and their wives stayed on the West Coast but some did not. Descendants from as far away as Scotland have been located. http://www.fortlangley.ca/ http://www.fortlangley.ca/employee.html Hudson's Bay Company Archives (Archives of Manitoba) http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/ The Real Royal Engineers (RE) deals with the men of the North American Boundary Commission, specifically the Royal Engineers who came to British Columbia in the fall of 1858 and spring of 1859, to help cut the boundary between the United States and Canada. The REs came by ship, around Cape Horn, some bringing their wives and children. Most stayed in British Columbia when the RE disbanded in 1863. http://www.royalengineers.ca/CDroll.html http://www.royalengineers.ca/BBCroll.html http://www.royalengineers.ca/sindex.html CANADA-RELATED MAILING LISTS http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/ * * * UNITED KINGDOM SEARCH ENGINE. Its results focus on U.K.-specific web content. Give it a try for historical and genealogical information. http://www.ukwizz.com/ * * * DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Do you think you might have an ancestor who served in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)? Would you like to know whether your ancestor is listed with the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) in the "Patriot Index"? A helpful group of organized DAR VIS volunteers monitor the RootsWeb DAR Message Board every day and welcome lookup requests. Include your Revolutionary War-era ancestor's first and last name, spouse's name (if known), dates of birth, death, and state of residence When posting your lookup request. You need not be interested in joining The NSDAR to request a lookup. http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.organizations.dar * * * AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MAPS (1861-1865). Brings together materials from three premier collections -- the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/ * * * 1b. USING ROOTSWEB: Showing Newbies the Ropes When Steve Sterner finally got around to checking his RootsWeb mailing list messages late one January evening, he was in no mood for wasting time. He'd had a rough day at the office and arrived home to face a "honey do" list that his wife claimed had reached the urgent level for attention, plus Steve, Jr. brought home a failing grade on his latest history paper. History was Steve Sr.'s favorite subject in school and this had led to his hobby as a serious family history researcher. Steve's interest had been kindled by his research into the American Civil War and his great- great-grandfather who had been wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. This interest progressed to tracing his ancestors back to the American Revolution and then further back to Germany where they migrated from Switzerland after the Thirty Years War. Genealogical research brought history to life for Steve and he had become quite an expert through years of study and hard work. He leaped into online research in the early days of the Internet. Newsgroups and mailing lists were avenues for learning and sharing with which he was familiar. Message boards and online family trees were also resources he accessed on an almost daily basis. So, when Steve opened his mailbox that evening to find a string of unintelligible messages posted by Nancy Newcomer on his favorite Civil War RootsWeb mailing list, his anger rose to the boiling point. Good grief! Nancy was typing in ALL CAPS and was not including a subject line. She provided no dates and places that would have aided someone to answer her questions. How did she expect anyone to help her? Steve whipped off a retort to the list in an effort to educate this "Newbie" in the proper method of posting to a genealogy mailing list. Yes, it's that time of year again when many newly minted genealogists fire up their new computers and head out to explore the wilds of the Internet. They frequently collide with veterans of Internet genealogy -- often resulting in conflict such as that between Nancy and Steve. Almost immediately Steve regretted his abrasive e-mail to the list, but once he'd hit "send" there was no turning back. He realized it would have been better if he written a polite personal note to Nancy and/or contacted the list administrator so that she could have given Nancy advice privately. Steve took the next-best action and posted an apology to the list and to Nancy specifically, and hoped he hadn't turned her off of the list or dampened her interest in learning about her ancestors. But, sometimes the damage done in haste is difficult to erase -- especially when an eager, but inexperienced, "Newbie" is on the receiving end. Think twice and pause before reacting to inappropriate messages. If you feel a "Newbie" needs help it is often best to write to the list admin and let her or him handle the matter. Any RootsWeb list admin can be contacted privately by writing to: LISTNAME-admin@rootsweb.com (replacing the generic word LISTNAME with the actual name of the list). And, if you are one of the "Newbies" to RootsWeb, the computer, or to genealogy -- welcome and here are some pointers: A good place to start is with the RootsWeb homepage: http://www.rootsweb.com/ The usual starting point on this page is to type in the names you are looking for in the RootsWeb search box at the top of the page, but remember, it is only a beginning. Do not type in your own name and expect to find your family history already completed for you. The searches are for ancestors -- prior generations -- not for the living. If you do not find the information you had hoped to find using the search box, it doesn't mean that there is nothing to be found for you at RootsWeb. It only means nothing was found in some of its unique databases. Explore the links under "Getting Started" on the homepage and, even if you are not new to genealogical research, you may discover valuable tips in the 31 topics of RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees. http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ Compiling a family tree isn't an instant hobby -- it takes time and effort to uncover names, dates, and other facts about your ancestors and to identify which ones are really yours. Explore all of the links on the homepage that interest you. The next resources you probably will want to make use of are the mailing lists and message boards. An index of all mailing lists at RootsWeb can be found at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ Navigate through the index pages to find surname, locality, or topic lists that will be relevant in your searches. The index pages for each specific list include links to searchable and browseable archives where you can check to see whether your family has already been discussed on a list. You can also use the archives to get a feel for a list to help you decide whether you want to subscribe to it or not. Subscribing to mailing lists and using message boards at RootsWeb is entirely free. Once subscribed to a list you can unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions included in the welcome letter you receive. Save that letter for future reference and read it carefully. The letter often includes specific list rules and guidelines for the one you are joining. Once subscribed to a list you will receive all messages posted by other list members to the list and you can also post a query of your own in case other list members might be able to help you. To search, browse, or post a query on the message boards, start at: http://boards.rootsweb.com/ Use the "Find A Board" search box or navigate through the board hierarchy to find the boards of use in your research. Post a query or response to an existing message, if appropriate. Posting a query on a message board and/or participating in a mailing list does not always yield instantaneous results, but you probably will receive some answers to your questions and make contact with cousins as a result of your inquiries. Patience is the watchword when beginning your quest for your family history and RootsWeb resources are among the best tools (all free) that you will find on the Internet to aid in your search. Need additional resources to help you learn the ropes? Try GEN-NEWBIE-L. If you are new to computers or genealogy, consider GEN-NEWBIE mailing list. This is an extremely active list that generates many messages. For more information about it see: http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ Another popular one is SENIOR-NEWBIE-L. Despite its name, it doesn't check IDs at the virtual door to see how old you are. The list is for anyone who would like a gentle touch in learning how to use the Internet and/or computers for genealogy. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Miscellaneous/SENIOR-NEWBIE.html For actual genealogy-related hints and tips, the companion list to SENIOR-NEWBIE-L is ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Miscellaneous/ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS.html Overwhelmed by all the geek-speak and techno-babble? Check out these sites: Kat's Tips on Computers and Scanners: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Brian's Basic Computer Tasks http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~besley/basic.html * * * 1c. Tips from Readers: Before the Memories Fade By Jean A. Stogner Several years ago while visiting with my dad and stepmom, I decided to get some cassette tapes and sit down with dad and get him to tell me some of the memories of his childhood and growing up in the Atlanta, Georgia area. I had been working on my ADAIR lineage for several years and I thought that some of his recollections might help with facts he remembered of his father, grandfather, aunts, uncles, and cousins. He always loved telling of humorous events that he recalled for he had a wonderful sense of humor. Some of the stories I had heard on more than one occasion, but I loved hearing them again. I tucked those tapes away shortly after my visit in preparation for relocating to another state. My dad passed away in April 2004. He was 91 years old. This past fall I took my tapes to a local lady who transferred the material onto CDs. When I told her what the material was, she asked me to bring pictures of my dad with the cassettes. She designed the disc labels and the cover of the case with dad's pictures. I had a set made not only for myself, but copies for my siblings as well. They were thrilled to have them. I share this thinking that maybe those of you who still have your parents or grandparents and are also addicted to this "genealogy thing" will be encouraged to do something like this while they are still here and before their memories fade. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Detour Leads to Family By Janet (Bruce) Nelson in Yuma, Arizona, USA Last spring we were headed toward Kansas and a relative's wedding. On the way we stopped to meet a new cousin (1C1R) on my maternal side in Colorado Springs, Colorado. We had not known of each other's existence until the winter before when I found them through their mother's Social Security Death Index listing, the 1930 U.S. census for Colorado Springs and the phone book. But while there, Kansas was struck with one tornado after another. Never having been near a tornado in 70 years, I did not want to have such an experience at this point in my life, so talked my hubby into heading north, making the run east through South Dakota, getting in an unscheduled visit with our eldest grandson, who lives near Sioux Falls, and then dropping down to Kansas for the wedding. On the way, we detoured into Keya Paha County, the northernmost county of Nebraska, hoping to find out what became of my paternal great-grand- father's brother, Jeduthun BRUCE, who left Wisconsin in 1881. We had found the grave of one of his sons, Robert N. BRUCE, a couple of years before in Cherry County, Nebraska, and managed to get a fairly good listing of his family. One of his daughters, Donna T. BRUCE, had married a Frank DAY of Gregory, South Dakota. In Keya Paha we found the grave of Jeduthun and his other son, Nelson F. BRUCE, and his daughter-in-law, Florence. The historical society was able to add considerable information about the family. No descendants were known to be still living in the area. But another researcher, Bonnie, from North Platte, Nebraska had left her name and phone number for contact about the same family. We called and left a message on her answering machine. (Since then we have expanded the family of Jeduthun's only daughter, as Bonnie was of that line). Heading on north to South Dakota, I looked at the map and said, "Why don't we turn off before we hit I-90, as here is Gregory, South Dakota and it is east of where we are. Maybe we can find some of the descendants of Donna (BRUCE) DAY." My hubby hung a right less than a mile later and we headed for Gregory. On the way, almost to Gregory, is a wide spot in the road called Dallas. Looking at one of the buildings as we passed I saw the "Frank Day Supper Club." "Stop! Go back! That is too much of a coincidence." My hubby is never keen to turn the motor home around when towing our Jeep, but he found a wide enough place to do it and we drove back. We walked in to see walls covered with family pictures of Frank and Donna (BRUCE) DAY, their children, grandchildren, and friends. The supper club had passed to their son, Frank Jr., and then to his daughters. We had just missed the family who had all traveled to Cherry County, Nebraska (where we had been three days before) to decorate the graves of family for Memorial Day. But with phone numbers and the Internet, we have made contact and the tree has grown by leaps and bounds to BRUCE and DAY relatives we never knew we had -- in Nebraska, Arkansas and South Dakota. And to think, if I had not been afraid of tornados, we never would have made that detour . . . * * * 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 ABEYTA, ALLENDE, ARRELLANO ARMSTRONG-DNA -- Discussing ARMSTRONG (surname) DNA projects BRINER, BURNINGHAM DEGUERIN, DOENGES, DUCKLOW FAIL, FANSLAU, FARSTER, FLYTHE GUETZKOW HADLE, HEIBERT KEPFORD LEVERTON, LONGNECKER, LOVETINSKY MEASON MCCAIN-DNA -- Discussing McCAIN (surname) DNA projects; including alternate spellings of McKANE and O'KANE NEWALL SPRIESTERSBACH WYNNE-MD-VA -- The WYNNE families from/in Maryland and Virginia with emphasis on lines to Sir John of Gwydir NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS AUS-ROOTSMAGIC-USERS -- RootsMagic User Group, Australia BRITISH-MARINERS -- Genealogical discussions of information pertaining to British Mariners 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 Saint George, Maine website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mecstgeo/ AUSTRALIA nswaphs -- Alstonville Plateau (New South Wales) Historical Society U.S.A. mecstgeo -- Saint George, Knox County (Maine) mncotto2 -- Cottonwood County (Minnesota) 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 * * * CROSS. The 1864 Civil War Diary of Farrin Cross (Co. H, 13th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry). http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~laneblood/civildiary.html HILTON. Descendants of William and Jane Hilton of Lucknow, India circa 1830s-1880s http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kenshe/hilton/ MONHOLLEN, MONHOLLAND. Pertaining to Monhollen research; other surnames include ANDERSON, BENNETT, BRAY, BRYANT, COKER, HAMBLIN, HILL, MOORE, MOWERY, POWERS, TILLOTSON, WILSON, and YOUNG, http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~sizemoregenealogy/ NEW ZEALAND. Auckland. The military extracts from the Auckland Weekly News, 1914-1919 are now fully searchable and online and also included are the "Appeals by Reservists," so even if your man didn't serve overseas he might still be included. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sooty/awntitle.html Also see "War Death Notices" from the Auckland Weekly News, 1915-1919: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sooty/awnrohtitle.html 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. NEW ZEALAND. WAIKATO. Second Regiment Waikato Militia -- New Zealand Land Wars, 1863; 1,510 records; Russell Thorne http://userdb.rootsweb.com/intl/ U.S.A. FLORIDA. Brevard County. Cocoa. Cocoa Tribune, deaths 1955-1959; 903 records; Jim and Bonnie Garmon http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ OREGON. Columbia County. Saint Helens. Saint Helens High School Class of 1941; 75 records; Carol White http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- More Thoughts on Born-at-sea Legends By Lila Niemann Garner As we all know, family lore is not always reliable, and Patricia S. Smith's "proof" may be exactly correct [RootsWeb Review 29 Dec. 2004]. As a dedicated researcher of Germans in several parts of what is now Germany, on the other hand, I'm troubled by the conclusion reached by the genealogist doing on-site research for Smith. I can see a pos- sibility that the "born at sea" story is true. Germans had a custom of reusing names of deceased children, sometimes using names again and again. Moreover, it is not at all unusual for German families to contain two *living* siblings bearing exactly the same names. For starters, I'd be sure that the Edward she found on her second search was not one of the four children whose deaths were recorded. Next, I'd be very sure that the 9-month-old child on the manifest was not nine days old. Another pitfall is that sometimes those manifests are hand copies of deteriorated originals. My experience has been that when that is the case, it is so stated before the first page of the manifest. Transcription errors are very likely, especially when difficult-to-read documents are copied by hand. Since the family sailed from Bremen and the Bremen departure lists were destroyed, the manifest is an arrival list which may have been created while the ship was en route, making a nine-day-old child's birth at sea a distinct possibility. If one can find documentation proving that Edward was indeed the child who was 9 (or 11) months old when the family sailed, another possibility of skewed family lore looms: A child *was* born at sea and either died immediately or during the early childhoods of the surviving siblings, making the story true, but not true of the person to whom it was attributed. * * * Not Wanted Dead or Alive By John Ruch, Ottawa, CANADA In genealogy it is dangerous to be a know-it-all, and even more dangerous to assume others are as well acquainted with general knowledge as you are. Because of my familiarity with some United Empire Loyalist sources, a lady asked me if I had encountered any Loyalists named Rosenkrantz. (That is a marvelous name -- in German it means "wreath of roses" or "rosary"). Now, any high school student who has read Shakespeare's "Hamlet" knows that in it a character named Rosenkrantz met a very sticky end along with his companion, Gildenstern. With my tongue in cheek and an exaggerated sense of my own wit I replied: "I regret to inform you that Rosenkrantz does not appear in these sources, nor for that matter does Gildenstern. In fact, I have it on good authority that both are dead." To this my correspondent replied: "You must have confused my query with someone else's. I did not ask about anyone called Gildenstern." * * * Mailing List Query Quickly Produces Answer By Pat Almquist For over five years, I have been searching for my husband's maternal grandmother's family. Her name is Augusta Elizabeth PEIL. She was born and married in Holyrood, Ellsworth County, Kansas but I could not find anything on her. Neither Ellsworth County nor the State of Kansas had a record of her birth since she was born in 1888. After placing a query on your GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS -- http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS.html -- I received three replies in less than 24 hours and was directed to her father, Christ PIEL (note the different spelling) in the 1900 Ellsworth County, Kansas census, showing his 12-year-old daughter Lizzie! That old saying, "Two heads are better than one" certainly is true in this instance. Thanks to all of you who assisted me. * * * Starting a Family Tradition Pays Off By Liesje T. Germ in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, USA I have been researching the BURKE and WARD lines of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was not able to get anywhere. I knew my great- grandmother was Rose WARD who was married to James BURKE -- according to my mother. By all family accounts Rose's brother was Joseph (Uncle Joe to my grandmother) and her father was also Joseph. After numerous census searches, including going through them one by one, I came up empty- handed. With the holidays coming up and my recent move to the Philadelphia area, I decided I'd start a family tradition with my children of putting flowers on my great-grandparents' graves. When I called the cemetery to find their exact location, the receptionist asked if I wanted the location of all the plots bought by Rose BURKE? Eureka! I had never even considered the connection that any plots bought by Rose BURKE were probably all family members. What I discovered was a Patrick J. WARD and upon further investigation determined that this was Patrick Joseph WARD, aka "Uncle Joe." With his real name and a date of birth, I went back to the census records. There they were -- my great-great-grandmother was listed as Winny instead of Winifred, my great-grandmother was listed as Rosaline (when her name was Rose Ellen), and her siblings were Patrick J., Annie (her name was Hannah), and Richard. The most fascinating thing was that my elusive great-great-grandfather Joseph was elusive for a reason -- his name was Richard, not Joseph. None of this information would have been discovered by me except that I took, literally, one minute to give the cemetery a call because I wanted to start a family traditional with my three young children. Here's to the holiday season, family traditions, and a lot of good luck and kind people. * * * The Case of Fast-Moving Ancestors and Slow-moving Enumerators By Kitty Huddleston in Anacortes, Washington, USA In the case of someone being recorded twice in the same American census it may not be an error at all. If you check the dates that the enumerations were actually done, you may find that your ancestors had just switched boarding houses in the intervening months. I found someone counted twice in the 1920 U.S. census. In January he was listed as an inmate at the county jail. By February he had been moved to a work farm and was counted again. This is no fault of the census takers; only a reflection of the ever-moving population of the country -- for whatever reason. 8. Humor/Humour: You Don't Say! ------------------------------- Thanks to: Jan Babb-McClintock My grandmother's maiden name was HARRY. I received a query once from a woman who wondered if we shared some common ancestors. She began this way: "Hello, I'm from the HARRY arm of the family . . ." * * * Found a humorous sign or entry in census, parish, church, etc. records? Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ----------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIPTIONS. 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