RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 9 March 2005, Vol. 8, No. 10, 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/ * * * 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, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. Editor's Desk: "Knowing What Enumerators Were Instructed" 1b. Using RootsWeb: "Painting the Net Green" 1c. Tips from Readers: "Ashes of Your Deceased" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Reuniting via Message Board" 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: "Up Close Look at Legends" "Dem Bones! Dem Bones! Dem Dry Bones!" 8. Humor/Humour: "And Clean Your Rooms, Too" 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. Editor's Desk: Knowing What Enumerators Were Instructed Searching for American families is pretty easy these days -- especially if you subscribe to the U.S. census records at Ancestry.com. Just type in the names and narrow the search to a particular census year and state, right? Alas, it is not always that simple. And, even when you find them, how can you be sure they are yours, when the ages and other information do not quite match? Did our ancestors really lie to the enumerators? Did the census takers "pad" the records? Of course, there is no way to know for sure in a particular instance, but knowing what the rules were and how the answers were suppose to be recorded can make you a better family historian. Such knowledge might enable you to sort out some anomalies you encounter during your census searches. The enumerator instructions for the 1850-2000 census years are online and well worth the time to read them in order to understand the questions asked and how the responses were to be recorded. American censuses are available for searching for the years 1790-1930. http://www.ipums.org/usa/voliii/ For example, in the instructions for the 1910 U.S. census under "ages of children" the enumerator was instructed to take particular pains to get the exact ages of children. The instructions were that in the case of a child not two years old, the age should be given in *completed months,* expressed as twelfths of a year. If a child was not yet a month old, enter the age as 0/12, but note again that this question should be answered with reference to April 15 [Census Day]. A child who is just a year old on the 17th of April 1910 should nevertheless be returned as 11/12, because that is the age in completed months on April 15. So, if you, like many researchers, have assumed that the ages given were those as of the day of the enumerator's visit, take a closer look, noting what the official Census Day was for each census. You might have made an assumption that is erroneous. U.S. Censuses for 1790-1800-1810-1820 had a Census Day of the first Monday in August, which ranged from August 2 to August 7. For the years 1830-1900, Census Day was 1 June. In 1910 it was 15 April; in 1920 it was 1 January; and in 1930 it was 1 April. The 1910 instructions pertaining to Column 8 were: Persons who were single on April 15 should be so reported, even though they may have married between that date and the day of your visit; and, similarly, persons who become widowed or divorced after April 15 should be returned as married if that was their condition on that date. In Column 12 (place of birth of this person) if the person was born in the United States, give the state or territory (not county, city, or town) in which born. The words "United States" are not sufficiently definite. A person born in what is now West Virginia, North Dakota, South Dakota, or Oklahoma should be reported as so born, although at the time of his birth the particular region may have had a different name. Enumerators also were cautioned not to rely upon the language spoken to determine birthplace, noting that this is especially true of German, for "more than one-third of the Austrians and nearly three-fourths of the Swiss speak German. In the case of persons speaking German, therefore, inquire carefully whether the birthplace was Germany, Switzerland, Austria, or elsewhere." Column 12--about "mother tongue"--can trip you up if you are not aware of the instructions given to the enumerators. They were told that the question "What is your mother tongue or native language?" should be asked of all persons who were born in any foreign country, and the answer should be written in column 12, after the name of the country of birth. In order to save space, the abbreviations (which were indicated on separate "List of foreign countries") should be used for the country of birth, but the language given as the mother tongue should be written out in full. For example, if a person reports that he was born in Russia and that his mother tongue is Lithuanian, write in column 12 Russ.--Lithuanian; or if a person reports that he was born in Switzerland and that his mother tongue is German, write Switz.--German. The name of the mother tongue must be given even when it is the same as the language of the country in which the person was born. Thus, if a person reports that he was born in England and that his mother tongue is English, write Eng.--English; For tips on pre-1930 U.S. censuses and other countries, please see: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson9.htm 1b. USING ROOTSWEB: Painting the Net Green It's March again and coming up on the day when even Angelina RICCI and Isadore STEINBERG place an O' in front of their names, don their finest green clothing, and jauntily speak with a slightly off-kilter Irish brogue. The world claims to be a wee bit Irish on St. Patrick's Day. Millions of us actually do have Irish roots or think we do. Whether we live in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or other far- flung shores, we may just as likely have Irish ancestors as if we were to dwell on the Emerald Isle itself. Between 1820 and 1920 alone, 4.7 million Irish came to America. In addition, approximately one in 30 Americans have Ulster-Scots (or Scotch-Irish) ancestors perched somewhere in the branches of their family tree. So, you can imagine how important St. Patrick's Day is to Katey O'REILLY whose ancestors on both sides of her family emigrated from Ireland to New York City during the 1840s as a consequence of the potato famine in their native land. Katey had heard the stories of the hardship and poverty faced by her Irish immigrant ancestors and how her great-grandmother's brother, little Daniel O'MALLEY, had died on the long and difficult voyage. She knew that her family had come to America in order to survive and in hope of creating a better life for future generations. That was Katey-- part of the future generation who was benefiting from the sacrifices of her hard-working, often oppressed, Irish immigrant ancestors. The least Katey could do, she thought, was learn as much as she could about them so that their story, their lives and struggles, would not be forgotten. Katey began nosing around various genealogy sites on the Internet and landed on RootsWeb's homepage: http://www.rootsweb.com/ Next she clicked on the link to the RootsWeb Guide to Tracing Family Trees in hopes of finding specific information about tracing Irish family trees. She was in luck. She found it at: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson21.htm Katey decided to check out the thousands of RootsWeb mailing lists: in search of lists about Irish genealogy, history, culture, and immigration to America during the potato famine. She started at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ Then she clicked on a link that took her to the Irish locality lists http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/IRL/ and then she found a link to the IRL-GALWAY list. She knew from family lore that Galway was the county home of her ancestors. She was pleased to read in the list description that "genealogy, culture, history, folklore, mythology, heritage, tradition, religion, pedigrees, lineage, ancestry, places, things, individuals, families or groups of people, are topics for discussion on the list." This was just what she sought. She did a bit more scrolling through the index pages and came to the "Other" list category under which she located the ETHNIC-IRISH sub- category. She clicked through and found there was a list for discussion of IRISH-IN-NEW-YORK-CITY. Just what she needed. Katey subscribed to these mailing lists and then headed off to: http://boards.rootsweb.com/ to search for the locality board for County Galway, Ireland. She also checked out the "Topic" message boards under Ethnic/Race and found a board for Irish in New York -- and also noted that this board is gatewayed to the mailing list to which she had just subscribed above [messages posted to the board also appear on the corresponding list]. Next Katey investigated the searchable user-contributed databases for the UK and Ireland at: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/uki/ She also learned about the millions of family trees that have been submitted to RootsWeb's WorldConnect/Ancestry World Tree, which is searchable at: http://wc.rootsweb.com/ So she went to WorldConnect's main page and searched on the surnames of interest to her and when those surnames were too common and resulted in too many hits--she moved to advanced searches and specified birth locations such as Ireland or even Galway or New York City. She experimented a bit with spelling as she knew Irish names were often misspelled in some records. For instance O'Reilly could easily be listed as Reilly. Katey was learning more and more through the above resources at RootsWeb -- but she quickly discovered that this was a journey of more than just one day out of the year. She may have started her quest on St. Patrick's Day but she was not about to lose interest in this research just because the festivities were ending. Learning about her heritage and the sacrifices of her ancestors was going to be a life-long project and one she would continue to enjoy throughout her life. * * * Did you know that when you use a search engine to find your Irish ancestors with names such as O'CONNOR, it can make searching (or rather finding them) difficult? Perhaps your O'CONNORs are listed on a census as CONNOR, CONNER, OCONNOR, O'CONNER, MCCONNOR, OCONOR or maybe even as OCONNELL, and a search engine might not find OCONNOR and O'CONNOR or O CONNOR unless you search using all possible spellings and the MISspellings. Don't forget to look for O"CONNOR as well (note the quotation mark instead of an apostrophe). A general surname search on the WorldConnect database at http://wc.rootsweb.com/ for the surname O'Connor yields nearly 35,000 hits, while a search for OConnor results in a mere 700+ results. The key is being creative when searching on Irish surnames. Experiment with each search engine and try various spellings, punctuation, spaces, and MISspellings and may the luck of the Irish be with you. 1c. Tips from Readers: Ashes of Your Deceased By R. Beda Coffey in McKinney, Texas, USA My husband was cremated because it was cheaper to bring him home that way. I purchased a stone in the cemetery where his family is buried. He is generation No. 5. In addition, I also put his parents' names and my parents' names under our names with our marriage date in the middle. On the back of the stone is our children's names and birth dates. This gives a hint to anyone who we are and how we are related to others in the cemetery. I take pictures of all tombstones of family members to go in our family history along with any other pictures I can get. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Reuniting via Message Board By J. Hanley Browsing a message board featuring my father's surname, I discovered that someone had sent in a message looking for relatives with his surname and four others in my family lineage. I thought, "Our family is so small, I've got to be related to this person." With the exception of my siblings and me, all our relatives have spent time in orphanages and foster homes. Our parents were orphans raised in orphanages. Hope-filled, I contacted the writer and discovered she was the daughter of one of my maternal first cousins. I had seen this first cousin the last time more than 50 years ago when her family was broken up due to the death of her father. Thanks to e-mail we established an online communication. From there, we visited for a wedding. I saw my first cousin across a hotel lobby just as she spotted me. Without a word we ran to each other and hugged. We needed no introductions, each of us look just like our mothers, who were sisters. Since then we have stayed in touch and I have been reunited with three other cousins in the family. I am so grateful for Ancestry and RootsWeb and especially for the message boards. * * * 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 28,900 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS BARHEIT, BAUMEISTER CAMMACK DICKETTS DEAN-HARDY -- Descendants and ancestors of Hardy Dean (died 1823) of Wake County, North Carolina FAWLEY, FLUCK GEARHEART MACCREE, MORANZ OHLWEIN PADO, PALSER RIKARD SPAHR, STEINHAUER TITIUS YOXALL NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS NJ-GSNJ -- Genealogy Society of New Jersey 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 Elkhard County, Indiana 4-H Genealogy Club's website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~inec4hgc/ U.S.A. algreene -- Greene County (Alabama) ilprrg -- Pommern Research Resource Group (Illinois) inec4hgc -- Elkhart County (Indiana) 4-H Genealogy Club kybell3 -- Bell County (Kentucky) kyrobert -- Robert County (Kentucky) machaver -- Haverhill (city) (Massachusetts) macipswi -- Ipswich (city) (Massachusetts) macmanch -- Manchester (city) (Massachusetts) macmarbl -- Marblehead (city) (Massachusetts) miejlcd -- Elizabeth Jane LaBatt (Michigan) Chapter DAR mnwaton2 -- Watonwan County (Minnesota) ndgwfbr -- Ft. 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Pictures taken during turn of the century in Onaway in Presque Isle County, Michigan. Logging pictures -- log jam in river and New Lumber Mill at Tower, Michigan in Cheboygan County. Casnovia is in Muskegon County, Michigan. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~confido/ferguson-pincombe.html 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. Passenger Lists: Passengers through New York, 1894-1923; CULLIVAN (surname), 40 records; Susan Cullivan Daily http://userdb.rootsweb.com/passenger/ Passengers through Ellis Island (New York), 1902-1924; PREPUTNIEWICZ (surname) and variants; 20 records; E. Ann Reese Horton http://userdb.rootsweb.com/passenger/ VERMONT. Caledonia County. Danville. Death Index, 1784-1998; 1,381 records; Robert H. Goss http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ * * * 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/ 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Up Close Look at Legends By P. O'Connor In researching my MARKEE family, I heard the legend of two brothers who left England. Having only enough money to pay for one passage, William stowed his younger brother, James, away in a barrel until they were at sea. Then James worked for his passage. I could find no proof of that, but a MARKEE researcher sent me a newspaper article, from the Gloucester Journal dated June 7, 1773: "Monday the house of John WOOD of Tainton was broke open and from 40 pounds which the poor man had earned with great industry, and had put by to support him in his old age. The money was hid in some old rags in a clock-safe. The thieves prove to be James and William MARKEY, two young carpenters who lived in the parish, but who have lately fallen into an idle habit from frequenting alehouses. William MARKEY is brought to our castle gaol, but the other escaped, and carried off the money with him." She went on to say, "There are some more transcriptions of articles in the newspapers of the time, in which both James and William were caught and tried and convicted -- James was reprieved in August 1773, and in April 1774 William was reprieved. It doesn't appear they were transported for their crime, as in the same newspaper there appeared a list of criminals being transported to the U.S. and the MARKEY boys were not among them. This might also be the case because they were both officially reprieved, not punished." She also sent information on the will of James, Sr., but there was no mention of sons named William or James. So I started researching. In the IGI, I found a marriage for James MARKEY and Anne VERREY on Aug. 20, 1757. In the Parish Registers, 1538-1858; Church of England, Parish Church of Taynton, Gloucestershire, I found the baptisms of five children. William, bapt. Apr 18, 1756; Joseph, bapt. Aug 12, 1759; John; Nancy, bapt. July 29, 1770, and Hannah, bapt. Dec 19, 1773. Checking other James MARKEYS, I found a marriage for James to Amey TRIGG on July 19, 1747. On the Taynton, England website, I found a cemetery at St. Lawrence Parish Church, Taynton and there I found a tombstone. In memory of Amey, the Wife of James Markey, of ye Par. She died Dec 28th 1753 ag 29 My Body in this earth confined Then I three Children left behind Twas pale fac'd Death that brought me hither We liv'd in Love let us lie together Amey died in Dec. of 1753, leaving three children and James remarried in August of 1754. But who were Amey's children? I found three children baptized in Taynton; Christian;, bapt May 15, 1748; Phoebe, bapt Nov 25, 1750 and James, bapt Dec 28, 1753. Now I have half brothers, William and James, agreeing with the legend. On a film at the Family History Library, I found several other newspaper articles. In the Gloucestershire Journal, Monday, August 9, 1773 it reported that James Markey was also capitally convicted for burglary, but afterwards reprieved and William Markey, having the small-pox, could not take his trial. We sent for papers from the court at Gloucestershire and received the following information. Justices of Assize for the Oxford Circuit St. James's 14th Sept. 1773 Gentlemen, The following persons having been tried and convicted before you respectively in the last Oxford Circuit of the several crimes hereinafter specified, viz. (here are some 18 named, No. 11 is): James MARKEY at Gloucester, for the County of Gloucester, for housebreaking. And you, having by certificate under your hands humbly recommended them as proper objects of His Majesty's Royal Mercy, on condition of Transportation, His Majesty has thereupon been graciously pleased to extend His Royal Mercy to them upon the said condition, and has commanded me to signify the same to you that you may accordingly give the necessary orders for the Transportation of the said (names and sentences) --- and the said James MARKEY, Samuel JONES, Thomas HARVEY, Edward TAYLOR, and John GOUGH, for the term of their natural lives to some of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, pursuant to the Act of Parliament in that Behalf. (signed) Jam. Rickford The Gloucestershire Journal--Monday, April 4, 1774: At our Assices [Assize] last week no less than 16 criminals received sentence of death, viz. Josiah GARDINER, James DONNALD and Wm. CATENECH, for breaking open the house of Mr. HUNTLEY, of Hascomb; Rich. PALKNER, for robbing and cutting the throat of John BIRD, of Stonchouse; Wm. TOWNSEND, for attempting to murder Rich. NEWELL, of Ampney; Wm. MARKEY, for breaking open the house of John WOOD; John PYKE, for horse stealing; Thomas RUDDER for stealing cloth from Fromhill Mill; Wm. WICKS and James BROWN for stealing cloth from Mr. TIPPORTS, of Dursley; Robert BROWN for horse stealing; Thomas RAYER and John LEWIS, for breaking open the cellar of Mr. STONE; John PREWITT for sheep stealing; Wm. HALE for stealing cloth; and Charles PETTYFORD, for a burglary. However the Judge reprieved the 11 last, and left the five first for execution. Then, in Peter Coldham's, "The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage," I found them: James MARKEY, sentenced, reprieved for transportation, Summer 1773. William MARKEY, sentenced, reprieved for transportation, Lent 1774. I even found the ships that sailed at that time, In July 1773, the "Tayloe," Master John Ogilvy, to Virginia. In April, 1774, the "Thornton," Master John Kidd, to America So, the truth is our brothers didn't come voluntarily and James was not smuggled aboard in a barrel. They were convicted of burglary, sentenced to death, then reprieved for transportation to the colonies. Fortunately for them the American Revolution occurred two to three years after they were transported. * * * Dem Bones! Dem Bones! Dem Dry Bones! By Cheryl Bills In reply to a message board quest regarding Alma HARMON of Glenwood, Iowa, I received the following information which I cherish: "I have an Alma Harmon from "Graves Registration Service," state capital in Des Moines, Iowa. It says he was born in 1834, died Feb. 5, 1881 at Glenwood. This record says his wife's name was Elizabeth and that he had a son, Elmer. He enlisted Oct 30, 1862 at Davenport, Iowa; discharged Feb. 4, 1865. He was a private in Co. A., 4th Iowa Infantry. Burial at Glenwood. Does any of this fit your Alma Harmon?" Yes! It does! On the back of this record of Alma HARMON was an interesting story: "On Friday, May 24, 1935, a group of Legionnaires from Glenwood, Iowa, in the presence of County Coroner, F.H. RAYNOR, who represented the State Board of Health, moved the body of HARMON from Potter's Field. Only the handles of the casket were found, but the entire bone structure, which had reposed in its earthen bed for more than 50 years, was found to be intact. The bony fingers of the skeleton were crossed over the body just as the hand had been folded in earth's last sleep. Although all traces of the garments were gone, the buttons remained in position on the framework and a bow tie was in position around the neck. These material remains of one who had once offered his life in the service of his nation were reverently assembled, placed in an appropriate box and buried in a place of honor in the G.A.R. [Grand Army of the Republic] plot between two of his comrades. A government headstone has been placed at his new grave." This wonderful person who answered my query went far and beyond the call of duty to send me this information and to take a picture of the headstone. This was certainly an act of genealogy kindness. 8. Humor/Humour: And Clean Your Rooms, Too --------------------------------------------- Thanks to: S. Brennan While researching U.S. census records recently, I came across an entry where the occupations of the two eldest sons, aged 18 and 16, were listed (by a parent, I'm sure) as "loafing." * * * 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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