RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 13 April 2005, Vol. 8, No. 15, Circulation: 806,273+ (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: "State(s) of Mind" 1b. Using RootsWeb: "Private Concerns" 1c. Tips from Readers: "Power of Online Publishing" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Untangling Roots Through Pictures" 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: "Fracturing Names" "Finding the Right Repository" "Utilizing Internet Search Engines" "More Ancient News" 8. Humor/Humour: "Stop That Schedule Thief" 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. Editor's Desk: State(s) of Mind Karen NELSON HANGSLEBEN provided information about a CROSEN family that has been written up in area newspapers because of its unique naming pattern. An obituary in the "Hampshire Review" (Romney, West Virginia) reveals these unusual given names. Montana CROSEN, 85, of Winchester, formerly of Cross Junction, died Wednesday, March 9, 2005 . . . Mr. CROSEN was born Nov. 6, 1919, in Frederick County, the son of Utah and Rhode Island (PLACE) CROSEN. He was a former operator of the Crosen Store in Reynolds Store and an Army veteran of World War II . . . Surviving with his wife are two sons, Gary P. CROSEN and Gladstone D. "Stoney" CROSEN . . . a brother, Kansas CROSEN . . . four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Three brothers, Oklahoma CROSEN, Vermont CROSEN, and Georgia CROSEN, and five sisters, Virginia MAYES, Minnesota BISHOP, Maryland WINGFIELD, Florida STOTLER, and Tennessee HOVERMALE, are deceased. Utah CROSEN's family is enumerated in the 1930 U.S. census in Gainesborough, Frederick County, Virginia. Have you discovered any ancestors named for U.S. states? Is this a naming phenomenon of American families or were locality names (parishes, shires, and counties, for example) given to children in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, etc.? A search of the 1930 U.S. census by given name only reveals some interesting naming patterns in American families. While none popped up for Massachusetts and only one each for Rhode Island and Connecticut many were named for the states of Texas, Indiana, Arizona, Kansas, Maine, and Louisiana. While mostly daughters were given the states' names, wonder why Ohio and Vermont came to be mostly names for sons? Oh, well, ancestors named for a state are a welcome relief from the plethora of Johns, Williams, Marys and Elizabeths, eh? * * * 1b. USING ROOTSWEB: Private Concerns Question. What can I do if I find private information about myself and my living family members published at RootsWeb? Answer. That depends upon the nature of the "private" information and where you have found it. Most information about living individuals is not considered "private" and it is widely accessible. Names, dates, and places are public, not private, information. GEDCOMs (GEnealogical Data COMmunications) submitted to WorldConnect http://wc.rootsweb.com/ are automatically "cleaned" for entries that involve individuals born prior to 1930 -- if there is no information listed in the death field. The submitter of the GEDCOM can elect an earlier date for treating individuals as "living" or can even remove the living individual from a file completely for public display purposes. The 1930 U.S. census is available to the public. Thus anyone appearing in it might appear in someone's posted family tree, even though that individual is only say 76 years young. If you find information about yourself in a WorldConnect family tree file you can contact the submitter at the e-mail address provided on any page of the database and politely request that it be removed from public display. However, unless this information is actually private (LIVING Smith is NOT private) in nature and/or concerns someone born after 1930, it can only be removed through the courtesy of the submitter. RootsWeb does not edit or alter these user-owned and controlled trees. Note: Some genealogy programs allow users to privatize (exclude) certain individuals or data when creating the GEDCOM and prior to submitting it to WorldConnect. However, this approach is not recommended as the data you remove is the very data WorldConnect's filters need to establish whether an individual is to be treated as living or dead. Also, removing data from the raw file you submit to WorldConnect prohibits it from preserving your complete genealogy file to be used by you as a backup should you need to restore lost data on your own computer. If you don't submit it, you can't retrieve it later. Q. I'm concerned about identity theft and worry that if information about my family is found at RootsWeb it could lead to my identity being stolen. A. "Identify theft" has become a buzz word, but it is a misnomer. Actually in most instances it refers to credit card theft and most of that happens offline. A recent survey reported on the Better Business Bureau website indicates that the vast majority of so-called "identity theft" cases involve "paper" theft -- not Internet theft. Even the cases that do involve the Internet are the result of computer viruses, spyware, stolen passwords, and "phishing" scams and are not due to information found on genealogy websites. Genealogy websites do not even represent a blip on the radar of this problem. http://www.bbbonline.org/idtheft/safetyQuiz.asp Q. Banks and credit card companies use my mother's maiden name for identification purposes. Won't having that information available at RootsWeb make it possible for someone to steal my identity? Thieves need more than names to get into your bank account. However, you should not use easily found information for identifiers or passwords for your bank, credit card or other financial account information. If you have previously given your mother's maiden name or your birthdate as an account identifier -- call or visit the bank or other institution where you have the account and change the identifying password to one that is not publicly available. Even if you do not post genealogical information on the Internet, your birthdate and mother's maiden name may be publicly accessible in various places and they should not be used for identification purposes. Heed the advice in these articles: http://www.creditreporting.com/id-theft.html http://www.aarp.org/bulletin/yourlife/Articles/a2004-01-28-8tips.html Safeguard all data which is actually *personal* and should be kept private -- such as your Social Security number, bank account and credit card numbers. Do not include this type of private information in any of your genealogical records -- on or off the Internet. Q. The SSDI (Social Security Death Index) at RootsWeb includes the Social Security numbers of my deceased family members. Won't this put them at risk of having their identities stolen? A. On the contrary, the publishing of the Social Security numbers and names of deceased individuals enables businesses and other interested parties to verify whether or not a Social Security number is active or whether the account holder is deceased. This actually serves to prevent identity theft by publicly posting a list of deceased individuals. Social Security numbers are not re-used. Ever since we saw the first "cries of alarm" over someone stealing your identity because you put your real name on one of your e-mails, Richard Pence, a newspaperman and long-time genealogist, has been challenging the various newsgroups and mailing lists to provide him with authenticated information showing that genealogical information was the underlying cause of an identity theft. No one has seriously tried -- except Pence claims that he did get an e-mail from someone that claimed "that it actually happened to a neighbor of my cousin." Further questioning revealed that that one statement was the extent of the sender's knowledge about the fate of the neighbor. Pence reports, "So, although I have made repeated challenges it is now approaching 20 years and no one has provided a documented case ("documented" meaning verifiable by police or court records) yet." [Editor's note: Richard Allen "Dick" Pence is one of the pioneers of computer genealogy. He was among the first to see the value of personal computers for genealogical recordkeeping and began organizing his records with one of the earliest of these machines in 1978. http://www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/ http://www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/twolongs.htm] * * * 1c. Tips from Readers: Power of Online Publishing By Elaine Schenot (aka The Queenealogist) The HECHT Family of Dayton, Ohio, USA http://home.comcast.net/~schenot/hecht_leyes/hecht.html While researching the HECHT branch of my family tree, I tried to match as many census records as possible against the names given in a family history essay written nearly 70 years ago by relatives. (This essay has turned out to be a treasure trove of names, but more than half of the dates it cites are incorrect.) When I found my immigrant HECHT ancestors, Martin and Margaret, in the 1860 and 1870 censuses for Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, I discovered they had another son, Joseph, who wasn't mentioned in the essay. I can't help being curious about relatives not in my direct line: A truncated branch on my family tree is a gaping hole in the story. When I tried tracing Joseph HECHT, I found him in the 1880 census in Dayton, enumerated as "Jos. Heck," with a wife and two young sons. After 1880, Joseph disappears from Dayton. I couldn't find him in any state in any subsequent census year. No real luck in tracing his wife and sons, either. (Later I discovered that the census taker had written down the wrong name for the younger boy.) When I obtained an interment list of every HECHT in Calvary Cemetery in Dayton, where the rest of the family is buried, I didn't find Joseph HECHT listed among them. So then I went looking at RootsWeb for Ohio-born HECHTs. There I found Amy RAY's family tree, "Knox Family, Indiana," posted at RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project. She had provided biographical notes for William Henry HECHT, born 15 Feb 1878 in Ohio, which mentioned "Parents killed in auto crash? when 5. Lived with Shoemaker, Klug (Klugg, Klugge?) in Fort Wayne, IN." William's father was listed as "Unknown HECHT," with no name given for his mother. "William HECHT, born in 1878 in Ohio, but raised in Indiana" -- the reference to Indiana rang a bell for me. Looking again at the 1880 census listing for "Jos. Heck" and family, I saw that Joseph's wife Mary was listed as having been born in Indiana. And their two-year-old son was named William. The possibility of a connection was tantalizing. Before e-mailing Amy, I spent time looking up census and other records for Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana. Some of the items I found included the 1900 census for Fort Wayne, which listed Edward J. HECHT (born in Ohio, father born in Ohio, mother born in Indiana) living in the home of Christina GROTHAUS. The 1880 census for Fort Wayne showed the household of Henry and Christina GROTHAUS on the same page with a KLUG family. I arrived at the tentative conclusion that Joseph and Mary HECHT's boys somehow ended up living with relatives -- possibly their maternal grandmother -- in Fort Wayne. I e-mailed Amy, suggesting how my Dayton HECHT family might tie-in with her Fort Wayne HECHT ancestor. Amy was gracious and enthusiastic in her response and shared what information she had gathered since posting her notes about William HECHT. Armed with the information I was able to provide, Amy went to the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne and worked at gathering marriage, obituary, probate, guardianship, and interment records that told the story of Joseph HECHT and his family. (And she sent me copies of all the source materials!) Here, in a nutshell, is what we learned: Both Joseph and Mary HECHT died while their sons were quite young. Joseph died of tuberculosis at age 31 on 19 February 1883 and was buried two days later in Calvary Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio. Joseph's full name turns out to have been George Joseph HECHT. His interment record listed him as "George J. HECHT," which is why I couldn't find him at first. His wife, Mary (GROTHAUS) HECHT, died at age 28 -- that same year, on 26 October 1883 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, at the home of her parents, Henry and Christina (KLUG) GROTHAUS. Mary's last will and testament, dated four days before her death, designated her father, Henry, as guardian of her two sons, five-year-old William and four-year-old Edward. The orphaned HECHT brothers, born in Dayton, Ohio, were raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana by their maternal grandparents. When parents die young, as Joseph and Mary HECHT did, their family histories often die with them. What made the difference here is that Amy not only posted her family tree at RootsWeb but also included biographical notes that allowed me to see the possible connection. While Amy probably would have broken through her brick wall eventually, this was a golden opportunity to work together to solve a mystery that mattered to both of us. And, yes, it turns out that Amy and I are fourth cousins! 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Untangling Roots Through Pictures By Susan C. Hopkins in Urbana, Illinois, USA Periodically there are letters from people who refuse to post their family trees at RootsWeb/Ancestry. Here's an example of a reason to share data. My husband's family has an extensive collection of old photos, most from the 1800s, and I've been fortunate to add to that collection when a distant relative passed along three photo albums. Not unexpectedly, many of the photos are not labeled. With two different family lines, I've had some success in identifying photos or gaining copies of old photos because of contacts made either on bulletin boards or because of my posted family trees. In the most recent situation, it appears that sisters who were living in two different states exchanged photos. My husband is descended from one sister, "L" and "G" are descended from another. We found and re-found each other through our family tree postings at RootsWeb/Ancestry. Now, armed with scanners, each other's information on where people were located, and our back-and-forth reasoning via e-mail, we've been able to compare and identify several photos so far. In one case, I had the photo of the sister who had moved from Huron County, Ohio to Niles, Michigan and "L" had the photo of her husband. The backs of the photos indicated the same photographer and the photos showed the same carved chair was used for a prop. In another case, the painted portrait of Jane FREEBORN PATTERSON was stolen from a family farm in Richland County, Ohio in the early 1970s. In the 1990s, a family member shared a multigenerational photo taken in front of the portrait in the 1950s. A few years ago, I happened upon a descendant of Jane's through a RootsWeb FREEBORN (surname) board. He in turn had an original carte de visite (photograph) of Jane. From what I could see of Jane's face and bonnet details in the 1950s photo, which was all that showed, it was clear that it had been copied from the fuller length carte de visite. Jane's great-grandson was also able to identify his family in a group photo from the 1930s that I had. This isn't the only example of knowledge I've gained because others have found my trees at RootsWeb/Ancestry. In several cases I've gained co- researchers with access to information that I don't have, and vice versa. Together we've had a more successful family history hunt than we would have had otherwise. Besides, I don't have to hope that I beat my own death in order to publish my work. Anyway, for me the hunt is what is the most fun. So what to do about those who copy and make mistakes? First of all, I include my comments and sources, so others can both evaluate the quality of my work and, in some cases, help me correct my own jumps to confusion. Secondly, I no longer allow complete downloads from the online trees. I am happy to share just the needed portion of the file with anyone who contacts me directly. This should reduce the propagation of incomplete information, as my own tree is a work in progress. Despite my trees being works in progress, I've certainly made more progress on them by sharing and being found. * * * Do you have an online or other "connecting" story to share? 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For information and an index to the more than 29,000 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ALEXANDER-DNA -- Discuss the ALEXANDER (surname) DNA projects BLANCETT-DNA -- Discuss the BLANCETT (surname) DNA projects CASTAGNETTA DIXON-UK -- Researching DIXON families in the United Kingdom EISENGREIN GESLAIN HOENIG, HONEYWOOD, HULBARD MANEY NORTON-UK -- Researching NORTON families in the United Kingdom ROHN SHADLEY, SHELMADINE, SINSEL, STHRESHLEY VANIER WOYCHINSKI WOOD-NY -- Researching WOOD (surname) in New York state NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS CAN-ONTARIO-IRISH -- Genealogical discussions of Irish immigration to Ontario Province, Canada IL-HISTORY -- Genealogical discussions covering the history of Illinois TX-SPGS -- Members of the South Plains (Texas) Genealogical Society NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS CAN-ON-CARRICK -- Carrick Township, Bruce County, Canada CAN-ON-HOWICK -- Howick Township, Huron County, Canada CAN-ON-NORMANBY -- Normanby Township, Grey County, Canada ENG-SOM-EASTCHINNOCK -- East Chinnock, Somerset, England PANAMA-CANAL -- Researching ancestors who worked and or lived in the Panama Canal Zone 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 San Antonio (Texas) Genealogical and Historical Society's website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txsaghs2/ U.S.A. cakcgs -- Kern County (California) Genealogical Society fllckgs -- Lake County (Florida) Kinseekers Genealogical Society idbdrc -- Boise (Idaho) Dead Relative Collectors mimonroe -- Monroe County (Michigan) mncrowwi -- Crow Wing County (Minnesota) mnfreeb2 -- Freeborn County (Minnesota) neyork2 -- York County (Nebraska) nhaha -- Auburn (New Hampshire) Historical Association nycmiddl -- Middletown (city), (New York) txsaghs2 -- San Antonio (Texas) Genealogical Historical Society 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 RISENER. "Relatively Risener" pertains to research on the RISENER surname (any spelling) as well as related surnames of MORGAN, ESTES, ALDRIDGE, BENTON, GILBREATH, WALLACE, DRISKILL, BATES, BEATY, RODEN, SELF, McDANIEL, and HOOD. Site has marriage documents, photos, and military records. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fordad/ UNGER. All known descendants and their allied families of Jacob Unger 1788-1846 from Germany to South Carolina and Mississippi. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unger/ 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. CANADA. Prince Edward Island. Murray Harbour. New Murray Harbour Cemetery. 490 records; J. Edward and Marion Josey. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/canada/ U.S.A. NEW JERSEY. Hudson County. Jersey City. William L. Dickinson High School, January 1926 graduates; 149 records; June 1926 graduates; 204 records; Jodie Lutter. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ NEW YORK. Genesee County. Batavia. "Daily News," 1930-1931; 8,402 records; Leilani Spring, Genesee County (New York) History Department volunteer http://userdb.rootsweb.com/news/ 7. FROM ROOTSWEB REVIEW'S BOTTOMLESS MAILBAG [Editor's note: The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the editor or of RootsWeb.com]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fracturing Names By Emilie Garcia in Port Orchard, Washington, USA I checked that entry in the Pueblo Colorado Census of 1900 for that couple named Henry and Mary NEW YEARS. All I can think of is that their surname was really NUNEZ, Enrique and Maria. In Spanish, NUNES/NUNEZ has a tilde above the second "N" and is pronounced NOON-YEZ. Maybe that sounded like NEWYEARS to the enumerator. There were few Hispanics in Colorado at the time and these people didn't seem to have anyone nearby who could translate for them. They did have a neighbor from France who probably could have translated for them, except for the spelling of the surname. I found this problem of fractured Hispanic surnames in the 1860 Los Amoles, New Mexico census. All but the most common Hispanic surnames were so fractured by the enumerator, a Mr. FRAZIER, that I feel he either had a hearing problem and/or just quickly wrote down what he heard phonetically. I know all the people in that community were Hispanic and I am familiar with all their surnames since I am related to most of them, but I can't for the life of me figure out the surnames the way they were written down. I am going to have to print out each page, then try to find the families listed in a previous or subsequent census to see what the surnames really were. This is going to be tedious and time-consuming, and I don't have too many kind words to say about FRAZIER. I was cursing him under my breath while trying to decipher what he wrote. * * * Finding the Right Repository By John V. Beck in Bloomington, Indiana; jbeck@kiva.net What a miracle the Internet is -- if only we'd had it years ago. I really appreciate reading RootsWeb Review. Recently I've found that a tumor that took up residence in my liver is branching out and that my days are numbered. Certainly genealogists know that no one lives forever (except for one great-great-great-grandfather who seems to have been taken up by a golden chariot!) but I was pretty sure it didn't mean me -- look at all those wonderful longevity genes on both sides. Anyway, I'm faced with de-accessing tons of stuff and wonder if someone might have some ideas of what one should do? I have a bit of time -- for which I'm most grateful -- but I would like to NOT leave a mess. The university (Indiana) library here is not interested -- nor is the county library -- in books and periodicals and certainly not in neatly organized research folders. There's not the time and I do not have the energy to sell things online. I can pass some boxes of research on to other fellow researchers, although many are older than I am. Certainly others have faced this situation and might have ideas. I would appreciate any response that you or your readers might have. Enclosed is an SASE (oops, what a polite creature of habit I am!) Thanks. * * * Utilizing Internet Search Engines By Pell Kruttschnitt Doing family history, I found a familiar name in residence with my grandfather, Julius KRUTTSCHNITT, in Houston, Texas circa 1892. Though not a family member, Josephine VIGNAUX was my grandmother's personal maid for many years. "Googled" her name on a whim. Came back that her will had been drawn up by an attorney, Gordon BUCK with files at the University of Virginia law library and even the box number. I e-mailed the university and was able to obtain copies of Josephine's will and my grandmother's as well. Contacting my professional genealogist in New Orleans, I not only obtained a picture of Josephine's grave but also her death certificate and other pertinent information. This interesting woman, born in France, died at the age of 97, is buried in New Orleans having spent most of her life with the family and my grandmother. The Net is really an amazing source of information with search engines such as Google. * * * More Ancient News By Håkan Bergström in Brussels, Belgium Just to put things straight -- the oldest still existing newspaper is the "Swedish Post" -- och Inrikes Tidningar published from 1645. http://www.poit.org/ http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:XlnQMvJy-WcJ:www.wan-press.org/article2823.html+post+och+inrikes+tidningar+1645&hl=nl 8. Humor/Humour: Stop That Schedule Thief ----------------------------------------- Thanks to: Charles Atkinson in Canada While searching through the unindexed 1861 census for the City of Gateshead, (UK), I came across a gap in the sequence of schedule numbers. There was no Schedule 44. At the end of this ED (Enumeration District) there was a note: "*44. Lodger left and took schedule with him." It appears that all kinds of mishaps occurred, which led to missing census entries. So, if you can not find your ancestors in the census -- blame the lodger! * * * 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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