RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 26 January 2005, Vol. 8, No. 4, 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: Some Sites Worth Seeing "Canadian Photographer Turns Up Befitting Stone "Power of Place" "Testing" "Displaced Persons" 1b. Using RootsWeb: "Making Most of Message Boards" 1c. Tips from Readers: "Preserving Their Histories" 1d. Lessons Online Available 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Finding Finnish Connections" 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: "Exploring the Royal Guard Connection" "Saddling Up a Legend" "Right Under Our Noses" 8. Humor/Humour: "There Goes the Neighborhood" 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. Editor's Desk: Some Sites Worth Seeing Canadian Photographer Turns Up Befitting Stone Murray Pletsch writes that his hobby and contribution to the family research "world" is to photograph entire cemeteries by township and by county in the vast area of northeastern Ontario, Canada. Pletsch puts these pictures up on his personal website for researchers from all over the world to use at: http://nocgg.maddoc.net/ "One day, after almost finishing a cemetery in the sweltering heat, I was fighting off ravenous black flies, deer flies, horse flies, mosquitoes, watching for bears, and looking for the end of this huge cemetery and I was in great pain," he relates. "Just as I as about to break prematurely for the day and head to my air- conditioned van, I had to take a second look at a headstone just ahead. The surname on this stone was -- DEADMAN. "After I photographed that stone, my pain left and there was a skip in my gait as I headed for my car in a state of amazement at the irony and shaking my head in disbelief," said Pletsche. Take a peek: http://nocgg.maddoc.net/nipissin/terrace/se/deadman1.jpg * * * Power of Place. This new database, compiled by journalists, draws from hundreds of published sources to offer a list of prior post office names, railroad depots, plat names, informal place names, and merged communities in the United States. http://www.epodunk.com/ * * * Testing. Think you're good at U.S. geography? Test your skills at locating states, placing them on a map, and naming the state capitals. There are beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm * * * Displaced Persons For those researching German, Austrian, Italian, and French displaced persons after World War II. http://www.dpcamps.org/ * * * 1b. USING ROOTSWEB: Making Most of Message Boards After a short learning period spent reading the RootsWeb Review articles to which she had been referred and lurking and listening to advice, Nancy NEWCOMER began to feel like an old pro in using the RootsWeb mailing lists. She soon learned that some of her favorite lists were those that were "gatewayed" to a corresponding message board. Gateways are a one-way passage where message board posts are automatically forwarded onto mailing lists. Nancy noted that the best method of replying to a gatewayed message was to click on the link in the message and reply on the message board. However, she soon realized that she still had a lot to learn about message boards and how they might be able to assist her in her research in a slightly different way than mailing lists. An article -- "Making Most of Message Boards and Mailing Lists" -- in the RootsWeb Review archives explained the difference between mailing lists and message boards as well as their similarities. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20040128.txt This gave Nancy an idea of when it might be more appropriate to post a message to a message board rather than a mailing list, but she still wanted to learn more about message boards and how they functioned. She had learned the hard way when she barged onto mailing lists without taking the time to investigate them before she jumped on board. She wasn't about to make that mistake a second time. So she searched in the RootsWeb Review archives again and located many articles that explained what she needed to know to use the message boards effectively -- finding and navigating boards, posting messages, and searching among the myriad of already-posted queries and data. MEANDERING THROUGH THE MESSAGE BOARDS (locating boards, navigation -- the basics): http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20020710.txt MAXIMIZING SEARCHES ON MESSAGE BOARDS (using the advanced search feature): http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20030108.txt MESSAGE BOARDS. UTILIZING SURNAME-SPECIFIC SEARCHES (searching for those difficult surnames): http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20030924.txt PORTALS TO SUCCESS (message board gateway): http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20020731.txt MESSAGE BOARD ICONS: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20020529.txt VISUAL AIDS ON MESSAGE BOARDS (more message board icons): http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20020814.txt WHERE AND HOW TO POST ON MESSAGE BOARDS: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20020904.txt EFFECTIVE MESSAGE BOARD POSTING: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20020911.txt MESSAGE BOARD QUERIES (using the Subject, Surname, and Classification fields): http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20020724.txt MESSAGE BOARD ATTACHMENTS: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20020605.txt MESSAGE BOARDS OPTIONS -- SAY IT WITH PICTURES (more about attachments): http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20030528.txt WILL THE MYSTERY GUEST SIGN IN, PLEASE? (Message Board Registration and Login): http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20040303.txt Nancy was most intrigued by the option of adding a picture to a message board post, something she couldn't do in her use of the mailing lists. She thought of the photo she had found in her maiden grandaunt Bertha BLANK's attic when she was cleaning out the old house to be sold after her relative's death. Who was the dapper gentleman with a mustache -- wearing his Sunday best suit? She couldn't identify the picture and it nagged at her for many years. She decided to scan the photo and attach it to a query on the BLANK surname message board to see if anyone could identify the unknown family member she suspected, but couldn't prove, belonged in the BLANK family -- somewhere. She knew not to expect instantaneous responses from message board posts as many new visitors checked the boards over a period of time and replies were often delayed. So, Nancy was a bit shocked when she received a notice that she had a reply to her query the very first week after she posted the message and uploaded the picture of the dapper dude. It was from a man in Houston, Texas named Beau BLANK, who was the great- grandson of the man in the photo. He told her he had an identical photo hanging on the wall of his home. The man in the photo was Winthrop BLANK, the brother of grandaunt Bertha BLANK and Nancy's maternal grand- mother, Wilma BLANK. Now Nancy was not only able to place a name and relationship to the photo but she had also found a new cousin in the bargain who had additional family information to share. She was rapidly learning that much can be gained in the world of Internet genealogical research when one is willing to share and reach out to others. Nancy hoped other new family history researchers would learn this valuable lesson, but she giggled when she thought that probably few of them would be able to literally fill in the BLANKs as she had. * * * 1c. Tips from Readers: Preserving Their Histories By Shannon Suarez Abbott As far back as I can remember, my father has told wonderful stories of his childhood. He grew up in all the Gulf Coast states except Texas. His was a tough life for a young boy and then teenager. During the Depression, they built a "house" of oak trees (some of them left growing where they stood) and palmetto leaves. Most of their food came from the Gulf -- shrimp, crab, fish -- and from the woods around them -- palmetto hearts and poke salad. When his parents divorced, he floated from grandparents to aunts and uncles and back again -- working when he could. His life was far different from our naive and protected life in middle class Texas where he settled when he married our mother. As kids and again as adults, we've spent hours listening to those stories and been enthralled by them over and over. I still wonder how on earth he managed to survive some of his experiences. I didn't want to lose those stories, so when Dad turned 79 a few years ago, I had him record them for me. I now have five tapes full of his memories and he's had the pleasure of re-living his life again. I've transcribed those memories and published them in a booklet, complete with old photographs and lists of ancestors and descendants. The book- lets were given to my siblings for their birthdays recently -- and a copy to Dad as well. Yes, he's still alive and going strong at 82! I just wish I'd done the same for my mother, who died nearly 20 years ago. Now I realize she never told us much about her childhood. Those memories are lost forever. Don't wait to save the memories of your parents and grandparents; you may never get another chance. [Editor's Note: For interviewing and writing family memories tips, see: --"Step-by-Step Guide to Oral History," by Judith Moyer http://www.dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/oralHistory.html --"Tips for Oral History Interviewing," by Kip Sperry http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=66 --Oral History links at Cyndi's List http://www.cyndislist.com/oral.htm --Some inexpensive how-to books you can buy: "Grandma's Memory Book" http://shops.ancestry.com/product.asp?productid=3820&shopid=0 "From Memories to Manuscript: 5-step Method" http://shops.ancestry.com/product.asp?productid=2120&shopid=0 "Writing the Family Narrative" http://shops.ancestry.com/product.asp?productid=1035&shopid=0] * * * 1d. Lessons Online Available. Learn how to find your ancestors with these upcoming online genealogy classes available at MyFamily.com. For $29.95 (unless otherwise marked), each class includes: -- Four weeks of lessons and interaction with a genealogy expert. -- 30-day free access to applicable Ancestry.com collections. (For details on which collections will be available, see the individual class descriptions.) -- Tips and advice on how to find ancestors online. -- Lessons through site interaction and worksheets. -- Ability to create your family tree using Online Family Tree software and downloadable genealogy forms. -- Collaboration with other site members to grow your family tree over the course of a year. ENGLISH RESEARCH CLASS. Starts January 27. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3567&sourceid=481 GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET. Starts January 27. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4437&sourceid=481 IRISH RESEARCH CLASS. Starts January 27. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3560&sourceid=481 WORLD CENSUS RECORDS CLASS. Starts February 2. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3744&sourceid=481 JEWISH BASIC RESEARCH CLASS. Starts February 3. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=5224&sourceid=481 SCANDINAVIAN RESEARCH CLASS. Starts February 4. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=5309&sourceid=481 GERMAN BASIC RESEARCH CLASS. Starts February 10. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3667&sourceid=481 SLOVAK INTERMEDIATE RESEARCH CLASS. Starts February 10. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4667&sourceid=481 ADOPTION INVESTIGATIVE COURSE ($199.95). Starts February 15. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=5032&sourceid=481 GERMAN INTERMEDIATE RESEARCH CLASS. Starts February 15. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4622&sourceid=481 EASTERN EUROPE INTERMEDIATE RESEARCH CLASS. Starts February 17. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=5043&sourceid=481 LOST LOVES, FAMILY, FRIENDS, MILITARY INVESTIGATIVE COURSE ($199.95). Starts February 22. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=5033&sourceid=481 FAMILY TREE MAKER 2005 CLASS. Starts February 24, 2005. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4802&sourceid=481 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Finding Finnish Connections By Dorothy Mercer in Richmond, Kentucky My grandparents came from Finland, but neither grandparent had passed on much information on their families. Years ago my mother had given me names of two aunts who still lived in Finland, two uncles on the West Coast, and a long-deceased aunt in Ohio. With my mother in her 90s and incompetent, I couldn't ask her anything. I knew that grandma came from Raahe in Finland and knew her birthdate. Finally I found her birth record in the IGI (International Genealogical Index) at FamilySearch.org. There were names of the aunts and uncles I knew about and others, too. But the greatest find was my great-grand- father's name. His name was Niilo UNTINEN. I already knew that there were few UNTINENS in the United States, but I decided to look again for living UNTINENS. I had decided to simply contact some of those few to see if they were relatives. To my surprise, one man was named Niilo UNTINEN (out of only about a dozen people). And he lived on the West Coast. So I wrote to him, telling him that he had my great-grandfather's name and asking if he was related to a great uncle. Bingo! He was the son of grandma's youngest brother. My mother hadn't known that she still had living first cousins. His sister was also alive. Niilo called me, greatly excited at finding more family. We soon ex- changed pictures and stories. Then he told me of a cousin in my generation, Jean AUEL, who wrote the "Clan of the Cave Bear" series. He also told me of a cousin Lila in Alberta, Canada, who did genealogy work. She turned out to have been looking for family for more than 30 years. She was the one who had posted the first Niilo and his family in the IGI files. She had obtained all the certified records she could get from Finnish churches (the legal documents there were the church records). But she had hit absolute brick walls in finding two sisters of her grandfather. She had found records that one had immigrated to the U.S. as a single woman. There was no record anywhere of my grandmother who came after she married. Grandma and her sister Mary were the only two that I knew much about. So we have been able together to nearly complete the family. Lila had even met some of the relatives on a trip to Finland. This past summer, Lila was living temporarily in Salt Lake City and working as a volunteer helper in the main genealogical library there. I extended a business trip to spend a few days with her. We both found great delight in getting to know each other, and she showed me how to use library resources to begin the search for grandpa's family. I have found several other family branches by calling people with the right last names in the right areas. None has been unwilling to talk, although they have varied widely in how interested they are in genealogy. It has been a fruitful technique, but never more so than in calling Niilo. * * * 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 28,800 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS AMADO BALLENDINE, BARRERA, BARRERE BAKER-WILLIAM-Neptune -- Descendants of William Baker, a convict of the Second Fleet ship, Neptune, 1790 to Australia GLAHN, GOODBREAD GILBERT-DNA -- Discussing GILBERT surname DNA projects HUPPENBAUER JORRETT MCELVAINE, MUZZY MORGAN-COL-MORGAN -- Descendants of Col. Morgan Morgan (1688-1766), who settled in what is now Berkeley County, West Virginia OLENSKI, OLINSKI RITCHOT SWANAY SMITH-LEIC-ENG -- Genealogical discussions of the SMITH surname of Leicester, England THEOPHILUS ZAMORA, ZAVALA NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS AUS-WA-SAVING-GRAVES -- Discuss cemeteries in Western Australia and the saving of the graves in those cemeteries and their transcription records CAN-HUDSONS-BAY-COMPANY -- Genealogical discussions pertaining to the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada CAN-ON-CEMETERY-CG -- Ontario (Canada) Cemeteries Conservation Group--a group of interested people whose objective is to use this mailing list to help resolve cemetery issues for any cemetery within the province of Ontario with the exchange of ideas and solutions HUCKSTERS-AND-TEAMSTERS -- Genealogical discussions involving the occupations of hucksters (peddlers) and teamsters (wagon drivers to early 20th-century truck drivers) ME-IRISH -- Discussing Irish immigrants who settled in Maine, U.S.A. OH-CLEVELAND-SLOVAK-GERMAN -- Genealogical discussions covering Slovakian and German research in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio OH-STARK-OGS -- For members of the Stark County, Chapter of Ohio Genealogical Society (OGS) NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS CAN-QC-OUTAOUAIS -- Outaouais, Quebec, Canada CAN-QC-PONTIAC -- Pontiac, Quebec, Canada CAN-QC-ROUYN-NORANDA -- Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada CAN-QC-TÉMISCAMINGUE -- Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada SCT-JURA -- Isle of Jura, Argyll, Scotland 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 Liddesdale, Scotland website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~sctlidde/ ENGLAND engcshal -- Shalstone (parish), Buckinghamshire, England SCOTLAND sctlidde -- Liddesdale U.S.A. macglouc -- Gloucester (city), Massachusetts maclawre -- Lawrence (city), Massachusetts macrockp -- Rockport (city), Massachusetts mdpstpd -- Peggy Stewart Tea Party (Maryland) Chapter DAR ohcemete -- Cemeteries (Ohio) 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, GRIFFITH, STAFFORD. The recent update adds about 3,000 new people to the database raising the total number of entries to 19,685. The new entries deal primarily with four families: --Isaac Newton Griffith descendants of Montezuma and Carroll, Iowa. --Families of George Franklin Stafford and his wives of central Texas. --Descendants of Justus H. Akin of Rensselaer County, New York --Descendants of Evaline Akin of Saline County, Arkansas. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~akin/AkinFamilyHistory.html http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~akin/ BETTY's GENEALOGIES. Includes Amish-Mennonite (two cemeteries); a Swiss Volhynian database; and Harvey County, Kansas -- its Amish and Mennonite families. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bettysgenealogies/ PENNSYLVANIA. Wills and Testaments transcriptions of mostly those in southeast colonial Pennsylvania, including Christian Stauffer, Casper Seibt, Jacob Mathias Showalter, and Abraham Clemens. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cwolfram/wills/index.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. GEORGIA. Clarke County. Athens. University of Georgia, Class of 1914; 68 records; Meredith Clapper http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ ILLINOIS. Rock Island County. Moline. Moline High School Graduates, 1876-1899; 378 records; Moline Public Schools Employees, 1898-1900; 154 records; Moline Public Schools, Roll of Honor Students 1898-1899; 353 records; Moline Public Schools, Superintendents (1878-1898) and Board Members (1899-1900); 13 records; Linda P. Cohn 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Exploring the Royal Guard Connection By Karl Schwerin Family tradition has it that my Great-great-grandfather Johann Carl Friedrich SCHWERIN (1815-1895) from Mecklenburg-Schwerin served in the Royal Guard of the Prussian emperor. This is unlikely because the Prussian emperor favored tall soldiers, and Friedrich was characterized as a "short" man. It is more likely that this tradition stems from historical distortion of his father's occupation as a coachman in Neubrandenburg. A palais was built in the Neubrandenburg Markt in 1774-85 (Baedeker, Northern Germany 1925:139). The palais was built by the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a much smaller territory between Mecklenburg- Schwerin and Brandenburg Prussia. Mecklenburg-Strelitz was never ruled by Prussia and was not connected to the province of Brandenburg. In the final days of World War II, the Russian Army burned the whole inner city of Neubrandenburg, thus nothing of the earlier construction remains (per e-mail communication from K. L. Renter, a former inhabitant of Neubrandenburg) It seems likely that Jacob Friedrich SCHWERIN (1769-?) (father of Johann Carl Friedrich Schwerin) as a coachman transported the duke on one or more occasions. He may even have been formally employed as a coachman by the duke. Thus from his father's serving as coachman for the minor Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the family tradition evolved into Johann Carl Friedrich serving in the Prussian Royal Guard. But by the time of his son Johann Carl Friedrich's marriage in 1838, Jacob Friedrich was working as a laborer in Kraase, Mecklenburg-Schwerin. * * * Saddling Up a Legend By Steve Adamson The legend: My great-grandfather, then living in Polk County, Missouri joined the U. S. Army at the beginning of the Mexican War (1846-48). He marched from Missouri to Texas with Sam Houston (or Stephen F. Austin, or some other U. S. hero). He fought the Mexicans, including participating in the Battle of San Jacinto, and was wounded in battle. The truth: As documented in his own words from his applications for bounty land and, many years later, for a pension: He enlisted in the U. S. Army at Bolivar, Polk County, Missouri and rode his horse to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas where he was sworn in; rode to a camp in what is now northern New Mexico. Then (about nine months after leaving) he returned to Fort Leavenworth for discharge and to his home to Polk County. He was never in battle and his only injury was to his knee, which was hurt when he fell off his horse fording a creek during military exercises in New Mexico. * * * Right Under Our Noses By Phil Cordes Back in the 1920s my aunt started her genealogy research on her father's family, PHILLIPS. She immediately ran into a brick wall in trying to find the first name of her PHILLIPS great-grandfather. She was told the story that her great-grandparents and their family were on a flat boat on the Ohio River going no one knows where, but thought to be along Kentucky-Indiana area, when he (the great-grandfather) fell overboard and was drowned. The wife was so distraught that she refused to allow any of the children to ever speak his first name. So no one ever knew his first name. Not until, that is, in about 1999 I went to the Marion County Health Department in Indianapolis, Indiana, and requested a copy of my great- grandfather's death record. He was a son of the unknown great-grandfather PHILLIPS. His 1913 death certificate showed his father's name to be Joseph PHILLIPS. Doing a little more checking with another son's death record confirmed the name was Joseph PHILLIPS. After all those years the answer was right under our noses and we didn't know it. 8. Humor/Humour: There Goes the Neighborhood -------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Carol Sue Gibbs While searching census records in a Middle Tennessee county, I found that the household listed before my ancestor in 1860 had only four females. Their ages: 60, 24, 21 and 3. Their occupation: EASY VIRTUES! I'm inclined to think that the information for that household came from a neighbor -- my ancestor perhaps. * * * 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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