RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 2 February 2005, Vol. 8, No. 5, Circulation: 811,065+ (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/ =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. Editor's Desk: Some Sites Worth Seeing DeafBiographies.com Launched 1b. Using RootsWeb: "Planting Your Family Tree at WorldConnect" 1c. Tips from Readers: "Using Technology to Tell Family Stories" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Naval Link Untangles Hoosier Knot" 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: "Buried in a Swiss Avalanche" "Prune that Family Tree" "Our Stowaways to America" 8. Humor/Humour: "Heeding His Brother's Advice" 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. Editor's Desk: Some Sites Worth Seeing DeafBiographies.com is a new website, created and compiled by Amy Johnson Crow, CG, which is devoted to biographical facts about deaf Americans through the early 20th century. The facts might be a birth, death, marriage, or school admission -- anything pertaining to the person's life. Currently, there are more than 6,500 records in its database. Each record has a source citation, making it easy for researchers to see where the information came from. A unique aspect to DeafBiographies is that users can register (for free) and enter facts. The site also features histories and pictures of U.S. schools for the deaf. Many records pertaining to deaf individuals contain tremendous amounts of genealogical information. Even if you do not have a deaf ancestor, if you have a collateral who was deaf, there might be great information here to help you with your genealogical research. http://www.deafbiographies.com/ * * * Specific U.K and U.S. censuses include information about those who were deaf. For example, the question was included on the 1851, 1861 1881, and 1891 UK returns. On U.S. censuses, the 1830 through 1880, and the 1910 enumerations have information about the deaf. If you overlooked these sometimes valuable clues about your ancestors and relatives, go back and take a closer look at the censures. See also: "Childhood Diseases in the Victorian Age, Part I: The Families," by Karen Frisch http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=5550 "England and Wales: Getting More from Online Censuses," by Sherry Irvine, CGRS, FSA (Scot) http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=9224 * * * 1b. USING ROOTSWEB: Planting Your Family Tree at WorldConnect Nancy Newcomer was starting to make excellent progress in her family history research now that she had become an old pro at the effective use of RootsWeb mailing lists and message boards. She had connected with more cousins than she ever dreamed she had, and was spending all of her spare time entering names, dates, places, notes, and sources into her genealogy program. Some of the data was directly attributable to those who had responded to her queries on the lists and boards. This data was fleshed out as Nancy followed up on suggestions to obtain original records--where available. She had reached the point where she had more than 500 well-documented entries in her file. In the true spirit of sharing, which had con- tributed so much to her own research, she was eager and ready to return the favor by sharing her data with others. She decided to create a GEDCOM (GEnealogical Data COMmunication) file from her database and upload the file to RootsWeb's WorldConnect. http://wc.rootsweb.com/ Nancy already had learned about searching and navigating the existing files at WorldConnect from the mentors on her subscribed mailing lists. She had learned even more by reviewing RootsWeb Review articles in the archives: USING WORLDCONNECT EFFECTIVELY (the basics plus definitions of terms such as SOUNDEX and METAPHONE) http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20021030.txt WORLDCONNECT GLOBAL SEARCH (includes explanation of the icons) http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20021106.txt WC/AWT: FINDING ONE TREE WITHIN A FOREST http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20030430.txt WHITTLING 'EM DOWN (using Advanced Search) http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20030305.txt MANEUVERING AROUND WORLDCONNECT (exploring and navigating around an individual file -- includes adding Post-em Notes) http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20021113.txt Nancy was now moving forward and exploring the RootsWeb Review articles in the archives that explained uploading a file of her own and other details she'd need to know in submitting her own database. She found the following articles the most helpful and bookmarked them: UPLOADING TO WORLDCONNECT http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20021211.txt STOP, LOOK, and GEDCOM (making sure the file you are about to upload to WorldConnect is a GEDCOM file) http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20030618.txt WORLDCONNECT. CHANGING OPTIONS http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20030312.txt TIDYING UP YOUR WORLDCONNECT GEDCOMS (updating your GEDCOM on WorldConnect) http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20031224.txt WORLDCONNECT SECRET (WorldConnect as the perfect backup) http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20031210.txt Nancy headed for the main WorldConnect page, clicked on START HERE, selected her user code and password, and uploaded her GEDCOM successfully in a short time. She found and reviewed her file after uploading it and basked in the warm glow of the satisfaction that sharing with others had brought to her. * * * 1c. Tips from Readers: Using Technology to Tell Family Stories By Barbara Heinrich Two years ago while visiting my then 87-year-old mother and looking at old photos, one of my nieces kept asking, "Who's this? What was this about? Who were they?" My brother and I were astonished! Why didn't everyone know? Then and there I had a project that formed for the future. I borrowed as many photos as my mom would let me have, asked stories and names on some I didn't know. Armed with a ton of photos I flew home and my adventure of preserving history for the younger generations began. I used a program called Pinnacle (a digital video editing/authoring software application) that icons as Studio 8. Many of the new young movie makers who sell to TV or hopefully to the big screen use this program. You can produce DVDs, VHS tapes, send as e-mails, etc. On my Windows XP and my Epson 1260 scanner I began the laborious process. This idea is not for the faint of heart, new computer people, or those not interested in details and more details and technical issues. Also you must be willing to invest HOURS of time and look through many slides and photos and get the scoop on them from various relatives--especially the older ones. I had fun doing this project, but tore my hair out on numerous occasions. My first project was to trace my dad's maternal side of the family in pictures and stories. I have all dates and names recorded and some stories on Family Tree Maker (genealogy program), but who will ever go through that beside a genealogist? I spent hours learning the program and scanning old photos to "The Richard Trester Story" file. In this program you can create titles, add voice, and put music in the background. It takes longer to do than when you are using movie film or camcorder usage, but this was all *old* information--and mostly in black and white. When I finished I thought I had a pretty good DVD for family members-- about 20 minutes' worth. And, without my son-in-laws patient help it never would have been completed. (Now, one and a half years later, I will not show this DVD to anyone else--the quality is lacking.) Next was a DVD on my dad's paternal side that was exciting for me because I had just made a connection to my grandfather's family (he and my great-aunt had been orphaned when they were youngsters). Much of the old info no one else knew. And, I carried it up to present date with my family, my brother's, and my sister's. Everyone was in it. I also had a section on "Our Weddings," "Our Pets," "Some Graduations," and my parents' 50th wedding celebration (that everyone had attended). Was this one better? You bet! I had learned a lot of tricks to the program and had solved the problem of background noise and exploding letters (like p's and b's). This one was about 40 minutes. It met with great acclaim from the family. It took at least a 100 hours to do. My mother's story, which incorporated maternal and paternal info into one DVD, included adding maps, and clip art, some humorous during longer stories into the program. This one was about 48 minutes. My mother recorded some of the voice-over, too. By now everyone was aghast at how the quality had improved and the info they were viewing. How much more interesting than just watching someone's slide show or old photo albums. We all spent part of our summers at our grandparents' cottage on a lake in Wisconsin. But why did they buy it? What was behind it all? How did the cottage transform into a year-round house, etc. This project was 50 minutes long. My mother, uncle, and mother's neighbor whose family had built at the same time were all the final authorities on stories and issues. (She got a VHS copy for herself as she and her parents were woven throughout the project.) My uncle, who is 93, our family patriarch, and also a genealogist couldn't get over all the work I had done and the info I had easily incorporated into the photos. Cousins and my brother said, "Thanks for all your work." and, "I'm glad YOU did it and not me!" Some gal friends were visiting while I was viewing a final copy of this DVD and made me play the whole thing for them. They were astonished and amazed how good it was -- and not boring. Could they do one of their family? By now my husband had said, "When are you going to do *my* family?" This is our current project and this one will employ movie clips that will be interspersed throughout the film. This one gets into Ellis Island files, Austria during World War I and immigration. I am producing the project and he is directing the order and will provide most of the voice-over. His latest comment was, "I'm glad you are doing this. I never would have done it!" He is not into details. So, if you have the time or inclination -- try it. It's a good way to record your family roots. There are other programs that will make CDs and DVDs, but some of them will not cut a DVD or will not allow voice- over and background music. Explore. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Naval Link Untangles Hoosier Knot By Woodlief Thomas, Jr. in Naples New York In early December I received an e-mail out of the blue from a representative of a group of Navy men who had served on the destroyer William Maxwell Wood during its 30 some years of duty. William Maxwell WOOD, M.D. USN was a naval surgeon for more than 40 years and became the first surgeon general of the U.S. Navy. These officers and men are trying to get the Navy to name another destroyer after Dr. WOOD. They turned to the Internet to try to track down descendants of the illustrious doctor, found my WorldConnect database at RootsWeb and got in touch with me. The story does not end here, however. In the course of our cor- respondence about the WOOD family, I came in contact with another WOOD descendant who had much information about a part of the family that I had no data on, except that I was aware of its existence. He has done a great deal of research and was able to send me copies of documents delineating the members and life of the WOOD family in Terre Haute, Indiana, where I had been able to spend exactly one hour in the Vigo County courthouse many years ago. The crowning touch to the story is that this new "cousin" is a member of the WOOD family by adoption. His great-grandfather was adopted into the WOOD family. This really bumps head on into the question of what is family. Editor's Note: You can find more about William Maxwell Wood at Virtual American Biographies: http://www.famousamericans.net/williammaxwellwood/ * * * Do you have an online or other "connecting" story to share? 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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 * * * BLODGETT, D'APPOLITO, EILAND, GARRISON, GRIFFITH, HUTSON, KISTHARDT, LANSFORD, LOLLAR, LUM, MOORE, NEWMAN, ROBISON, ROSS, SODEMANN, TRACY, TUBB, WINSLOW, and ZEMAN. Includes information and photos on about 19 families. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~familyofours/ BRITAIN/ENGLAND/EUROPE. Miscellaneous Resources. Hackney coaches is a list of the 400 hackney coach licenses of England in July and August of 1662, giving names and addresses. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~frpayments/HC1662/ Tontines. A list of the 1,012 nominees form Britain and continental Europe to receive benefit of survivorship from the first British tontine giving names and ages, in 1693, addresses and a description that usually includes the name of the father, his address, and rank, profession or occupation http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~frpayments/MA1693/index.htm 6. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb 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. U.S.A. Marriage Records: Selected marriages, 1800-1900s -- Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas 4,338 records; Marianne Collier http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ IOWA. Adair County. Marriages 1854-1914 (partial listing); 2,092 records; Norma L. Neilson http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ PENNSYLVANIA. Susquehanna County. Lenox Township. Tower Cemetery (also known as Acre Lake Cemetery and West Lenox Cemetery); 786 records; Harry Biesecker http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ TEXAS. Gregg County. Longview. Pine Tree High School Class of 1937; 42 records; Pat Almquist 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Buried in a Swiss Avalanche By Stacey Kirsch in Wood Dale, Illinois Our family legend was that our Swiss ancestors -- BOWARs -- came to the United States after their parents were killed in an avalanche in the 1830s. There was also much confusion about the ages of the brother and sister pair that "was sent over to live with relatives after their parents died in the avalanche." After putting various clues together, I figured out what their original last name was -- BOUVARD -- where they were from, and I went to the town they came from in Switzerland -- it's not even in the mountains or anywhere near them. I also found out that the confusion about the ages was because there were three siblings, not two, and after 100 years the descendants of one mixed the other two siblings together. * * * Prune that Family Tree By Steve and Nita Stacey I knew, as a small child, not to ask a lot of questions of Aunt Beckie. The older boys were discouraged from playing cops and robbers and were quieted at the first "pow, pow, pow." Mother said it made Aunt Beckie nervous. Aunt Beckie was a widow, the second wife of my great-grandfather's brother. The brothers lived next to each other on farmland split by the trunk line of a small railroad and the major road southward from the county seat. This location made the property quite desirable and the brothers had withstood efforts of the local banker, a man who was considered the father of the community by some (and a crook by many others). Today, a community college is located on the site and the area is prime commercial property. Alex, my great-grandfather, died in 1936. Our family sold the property to Uncle Amos. In 1940, Uncle Amos was found unconscious at the rear of his store. He suffered from severe head wounds and his daily receipts were missing. Uncle Amos died after several days. The agents for the bank and other speculators swarmed the home seeking to buy the property or, in the case of the bank, to call in the debts. The older sons from the first marriage came to the aid of Aunt Beckie and paid the bank and all other debts. Uncle Amos owed a large sum for his purchases of excavating equipment and dump trucks -- a business he had just started and one operated today by a grandson. After his death, the bank would never get another dime of their money. The assault against Uncle Amos went unsolved. Aunt Beckie would refer to his death as an accident despite the missing money. Time dims most memories and the family moved on. Then, I moved home after many years in the hospitality industry. My jobs had taken me from the Dakotas to south Louisiana with stops in Minnesota, Arkansas, and Florida. The adjustment to rural life was not difficult because I had discovered the joy of family research. This new hobby took me to see Aunt Beckie. She gave me some information on her children from the marriage before Uncle Amos and her children with Uncle Amos. The children she brought to the marriage were not relatives, but I decided to include them because some were close to our family. One son was dead--killed by gunfire--but other than birth, death, and burial data, I knew little about him. After several years, I was visiting the oldest daughter of Uncle Amos on her 100 birthday celebration. In our conversation about her early married years, she lamented how tough things were after Poppa (Uncle Amos) died. She cursed "that lowlife SOB of Beckie's that killed Poppa." Everyone in the room gasped. Her daughter pleaded that she not get worked up. One of the children said, "Don't pay any attention to Momma." My old cousin was defiant. She looked directly at me and said, "If you want to know how Poppa died, you come see me when we can be alone." I couldn't wait. The meeting day came and passed. My old cousin was ill and was moved to her daughter's home in another town. This scenario happened several more times and the 101st birthday came about. Big plans were made and our 104-year-old cousin was going to attend from Mobile. Everyone anticipated the meeting of two old cousins who had not seen each other since "Hitler was a corpse." (My old cousin used world events to put things into a timeline.) The day came and the oldest cousin became ill and could not attend. Disappointed, I patiently waited to get a chair near the old cousin. Finally, I was seated next to her and asked if she remembered the conversation of the previous year. She told me she was writing it down and wanted me to tell the truth about her Poppa. In 1940, Aunt Beckie had a 15-year-old son named Ray SMITH. I learned that the family suspected Ray to be the culprit. He went to live with other relatives and was soon in the war. His military record was one continuous stockade sentence except when in combat areas. He was imprisoned in Florida after the war and the family, including Aunt Beckie, did not discuss him. Occasionally, he would slip into town and visit his mother but avoided all contact with his stepsiblings. Ray appeared in a soybean field in 1966 where my father and uncle were cutting beans. They watched as a figure wearing expensive clothes stepped from a Buick station wagon and approached across the dusty ground. My uncle recognized him first and after a short visit, Ray left. It was the last time they ever saw him, but not the last time they heard of him. The next day, a man driving a Buick station wagon robbed a county bank. In the five previous years, there were bank robberies in three rural communities within a few miles from our home. The bank robbed on the day after the soybean field visit had been robbed the previous year. Reports of bank robberies made the news in south Alabama for the next two years. Law enforcement officials claimed they were the work of the same gang. My dad received a call early one morning and was told to turn to the Montgomery television station. The scene was of Young's Motel in Opp, Alabama. It showed a dozen or more men wearing FBI jackets milling about, some asking questions, some checking over a car with white sheets draped over the rear window. A man wearing handcuffs was shown being placed into a state trooper car. The reporter announced that longtime criminal, Johnny Ray SMITH, had been shot to death by the FBI when he refused to surrender after being cornered. Disguised as a woman, SMITH made it to his car and weapons stash but could not overcome the firepower of the FBI. His driver was not harmed and was taken into custody. Years later, on a visit with my old cousin, I heard her curse for the second time when she commented, "You can saw that SOB's limb off the family tree." * * * Our Stowaways to America By Virginia R. Skoglund in the USA When I started doing family research on my father's family, one of the first things I found was a story of how the original ancestors arrived in the United States. Two half brothers tried to get work on a ship but were told that the smaller brother was too small. They left the ship and tried to figure how they could stow away. The older put the youngest into an empty barrel and rolled the barrel onto the ship with the rest of the crew loading the ship. This was in the 1700s. Well, many years later I finally got a hold of a published copy of an older family member's family research. Sure enough there was his version of the family story. I was older myself by then and I decided to do my own research. Eventually I got back to the 1700s and guess what? There were the two half brothers--but they were not stowaways on a ship. They were burglars. They stole money from a neighbor's house. One was caught and eventually so was the second. While in gaol [jail] in England, one of the brothers became ill, so only one could appear in court. He was sentenced to death. As was the custom in 1773, he was offered "transportation to the Colonies" -- on the condition that he had to stay and never come back. Of course, he accepted. He was shipped to the Virginia Colony immediately. Six months later, the second brother recovered from his illness and was brought to court. He was sentenced to death and then offered transportation like his brother. He, of course, accepted and was shipped to the Maryland Colony in 1774. (The illness was smallpox and I guess that they didn't think that he would recover.) Whenever I talk to someone new to genealogy, one of the first things I ask them is, "What if you find out the one of your ancestors is a "horse thief," etc.? What would you think? Would it make any difference to you?" If you can't laugh, don't do genealogy! 8. Humor/Humour: Heeding His Brother's Advice --------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Jim Ormiston John Ormiston (1807-1869) married Helen Wait (1810-1884) at Chirnside, Berwickshire in 1843. I think he was looking for a wife when his older brother, James, told him to go to Helen Wait. So, he did and they had three children. * * * 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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