RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 6 July 2005, Vol. 8, No. 27, Circulation: 804,154+ (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 weekly RootsWeb Review. http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ * * * Search and share family trees at WorldConnect: http://wc.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, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. Editor's Desk: Some Sites Worth Seeing "Canadian Bill Opens Census Records" "See Britain 2005" "Summer School" 1b. Tips from Readers: "The Great Mid-Texas Train Robbery" "Watching for Relatives on the Telly" 1c. Using RootsWeb: "Surviving the Summer Drought on Mailing Lists" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "ET Phones Home" 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: "Understanding Old Phrases" 8. Humor/Humour: "Marrying Young" 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: Sites Worth Seeing; Summer School Canadian Bill Opens Census Records The Canadian Bill S-18, which allows public access to 20th-century census records, is finally about to become law. It is reported that the Library and Archives of Canada has already scanned images of the 1911 National Census of Canada and they should be available online almost immediately. Canadian genealogists may be able to spend the summer looking for ancestors in these 1911 records. Read more at: http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazce/gazce117.htm A complete history of the project can be found at: http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/ Canada Archives is at: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/ Sea Britain 2005 This is a special issue of the National Archives News and offers genealogists an opportunity to search for Trafalgar ancestors. This database contains the names of 18,000-plus individuals who fought in Lord Nelson's fleet in the famous battle of 21 October 1805. It includes Royal Navy commissioned and warrant officers, ratings, supemumeraties, and Royal Marines. These participants were not only British -- many were born in various continents and countries, including Africa, America, West Indies, India, and most countries in Europe. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/trafalgarancestors/ * * * Summer School. Take some online classes and learn how to utilize various sources that will enable you to find your ancestors. These upcoming online genealogy classes are available at MyFamily.com for $29.95 each and 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. EASTERN EUROPE INTERMEDIATE RESEARCH CLASS. Starts July 7. This class will take you beyond the basics into researching your Central and Eastern European roots using both traditional and online sources. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=5043&sourceid=481 SCANDINAVIAN RESEARCH CLASS. Starts July 14. This class will help you to learn more about your Nordic roots (covers Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) including the history of the people, their culture, and the records to help you discover details about your ancestors' lives. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=5309&sourceid=481 BEGINNING GENEALOGY COMPUTER CLASS. Starts July 14. Learn how to take your family history research further using your computer. Optimize your subscriptions by learning how to use the MyFamily and Ancestry.com sites. Download information, upload your GEDCOM, and learn computer terminology, For the beginning genealogist, it also teaches you how to use your computer to improve your research. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3562&sourceid=481 SLOVAK INTERMEDIATE RESEARCH CLASS. Starts July 21. There are a handful of "cluster" Slovak communities throughout the United States that blossomed during the immigration influx of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This class continues on from the basic research class, focusing on how to expand your research into a more community-oriented protocol, how to network (on and offline) with fellow Slovaks through groups and societies, research church records, and develop a website. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4667&sourceid=481 GERMAN INTERMEDIATE RESEARCH CLASS. Starts July 21. Focuses on additional German research methodology and sources in the U.S. and Germany, using histories to understand the context of your ancestors' lives (and thus producing more clues for your genealogical research), and records available for German-American settlements. Research into other German-speaking countries will also be discussed. Prerequisite: Beginning German Research class. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4622&sourceid=481 IRISH RESEARCH CLASS. Starts July 28. Learn how to research your Irish ancestry with Sherry Irvine, a certified genealogist and regular contributor to the "Ancestry Daily News." The course covers genealogy basics, Irish surnames, civil records, census records, probate, and land records -- with a special focus on resources online. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3560&sourceid=481 * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: The Great Mid-Texas Train Robbery By J. Edmund White in St. Louis, Missouri, USA Early in 2005, I was idly watching and only half listening to the PBS-TV program "Antiques Roadshow," one that originated in Memphis, Tennessee. When a gold pocket watch was shown with the inscription "L. L. WHITE," I perked up and then heard the people talking about Wells Fargo and yelled to my wife, "That's my great-uncle!" I knew the story because I have a copy of a newspaper article published on the 75th anniversary of the event that the headline called "The Great Mid-Texas Train Robbery" and was described as "one of the Southwest's last great train robberies" (Brownwood Bulletin, Brownwood, Texas, June 10, 1973). Briefly, on June 9, 1898, when the train had stopped at Coleman Junction, Coleman County, Texas, bandits forced the crew to get off and then tried to enter the Wells Fargo car. The express manager, L. L. WHITE, thwarted the attempt by refusing to unlock the door even when the robbers started shooting through it and one bullet "shaved off one of his eyebrows" and continuing to refuse when they threatened to dynamite the car. They were driven off when a passenger on the train began to fire at them and two of them were wounded. Unsure how to find the name of the watch owner, I phoned station WGBH-TV in Boston. A man there was very helpful, saying that, although they do not give out names, he would forward a letter from me to the proper person. The station did indeed forward my letter about my grandfather, his brother (L. L.), and further information to convince the reader that I was truly a relative. Soon I received a phone call from someone in Memphis whose surname was familiar to me as belonging to relatives of whom I had heard but none of whom I had met. The current owner of the watch is a second cousin once removed (2C1R). My newfound cousin and I have exchanged letters and old photographs and are planning to get together. Thanks to "Antiques Roadshow" and to WGBH, I'm looking forward to meeting my cousin and seeing the now famous watch. * * * Watching for 'Rellies' on the Telly By Pell Kruttschnitt As a devout watcher of Antiques Roadshow, awhile back the show originated in Reno, Nevada. A woman was having an F. Scott Fitzgerald autograph appraised. A close-up shot clearly showed the name "Lorrine PELL" on the page (the woman's aunt had given her the book). I wrote a letter to WGBH-TV Boston, originator of these shows, with details that Lorraine PELL was also my aunt, married to Duncan Clarkson PELL Jr., my uncle -- both individuals long gone at this time. WGBH-TV forwarded my letter and a short time later, an e-mail arrived from Pat (MISHLER) CRAWLEY, who was also very much surprised. We have e-mailed and if they ever get to California, we plan to meet in person and talk about family. If you notice the name PELL -- yes, it is the other half of my name. My mother was Dorothy Ogden PELL. So, it pays to watch TV for ancestors who might pop up anywhere. * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Surviving the Summer Drought on Mailing Lists Subscribers to many of the more than 29,200 mailing lists at RootsWeb http://lists.rootsweb.com/ often notice that during the summer months for those in the Northern Hemisphere activity levels drop as people are away on vacation or spending their free time gardening or swimming in the lake, rather than digging up their genealogical roots and diving into the gene pool. How can RootsWeb mailing list subscribers and administrators alike keep the flow of information alive during the summer drought? Here are some suggestions gleaned from RootsWeb list administrators: ---If your vacation includes a visit to your old hometown or includes any genealogy research in your travels, consider sharing your findings with the list when you return home. If you made copies of some records while conducting your research, post the information to an appropriate list. If other names are included in the material you copied for your family, post those as well since they may be of interest to other list subscribers on a locality list. ---On locality lists, sharing items of historical interest for various towns is within the scope of the lists. If you paid a visit to your old hometown recently, consider sharing what changes you found in the town since you were growing up there. ---If you have some spare time during the summer, post a list of books you own (which are appropriate for the topic of the list) in which you would be willing to do lookups. List admins may wish to encourage "lookup weekends" where everyone on the list offers to look up information in one resource they own or to which they have easy access. ---Have you visited any old cemeteries during your vacation? If so, post information about family members you located in the cemeteries and list the locations of these cemeteries so that others will be able to find them (many old cemeteries are in out-of-the-way locations) the next time they travel to the area. ---Start a discussion about the maternal lines descending from a specific ancestor as these are often overlooked. This topic could be appropriate for either a surname or locality list as long as the connection to the list surname or location is included in the messages. ---Initiate a discussion about ancestors who served in various wars -- on the appropriate lists, of course. ---Post family records you have around the house such as old pensions, wills, Bible records, etc. to a mailing list or, preferably, to a RootsWeb/Ancestry message board http://boards.rootsweb.com/ that is gatewayed to a corresponding mailing list. Not only will this provide a permanent transcription of the data by placing it online for your own future reference, but you will be helping others who search for these records in the future. ---Post a query that is sure to lead to discussion such as starting a thread about the best places to go on a visit to a specific locality to find information -- courthouses vs. historical societies and genealogical societies perhaps. Remember to keep any discussion you initiate within the scope of the list on which you are posting the message and be sure to check first with the list administrator if you have any doubt about the appropriateness of a message or thread on a specific list. You can contact any RootsWeb list admin in the following manner: Address a new e-mail to: LISTNAME-admin@rootsweb.com replacing the word LISTNAME with the actual name of the list. Help overcome the summer doldrums by diving into the deep end of the gene pool and planting some roots for discussion on the RootsWeb mailing lists. You might get a bumper crop of ancestors in return. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ET Phones Home By Mary TURNBULL in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada As a young lad in Holland, Jaap wanted to get married to Wil in 1968 but needed his legal father's permission even though he was 22 years old. So off he went to find this man only to be told, "You are not my son -- you are the son of a Canadian Liberator." He then asked his mother, who said, "He is your father." (The mother had divorced him one month before Jaap was born). After many years Japp's uncle told him that he was the son of a Canadian Liberator, but out of respect for his mother he left his quest until after she died in 1988. He had pictures and a name -- Ernest TURNBULL. who was in the Canadian Army and who served in Holland. In the meantime I (Ernie's widow, whom he married in 1983 after being a a bachelor for 58 years) was asked by a RootsWeb lister on the Lincolnshire list if I wanted to put his name and picture on his website under "Tribute to World War II Veterans," with a little background about where he served. I agreed and so Ernie's picture and story were posted on that website -- in his uniform of the 1st Canadian Scottish Regiment. (My grandchildren called Ernie "E.T." because he would put his finger up to them every time they met and say, "ET phone home.") Jaap started his quest to find his birth father and asked the Association of Liberation Children (http://www.liberationchildren.org/) for help. He had many pictures of Ernie all wearing a tam. But the one I had put on the website was with a different hat. They felt it was not the same soldier, so again Jaap hit a snag, but he never stopped searching. Jaap felt that this was the same man as his youngest son is so much like Ernest. He tried again and a gentleman from the organization contacted me. After many e-mails and exchanging the identical pictures that both Jaap and I had in albums, the organization asked if I would phone them. Jaap was right -- this was his father, Ernest TURNBULL, of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Ernie passed away in 1995 and never met his son. Last week Jaap and Wil came to British Columbia to see us, They came with open hearts and there was an instant bond. We were all so excited, Jaap wanted to know what his father's life had been like. He met Ernie's brother and sister, their families, me, his stepchildren and their husbands and grandchildren and their partners, best friends (a second family to his father's), and fellow workers (and their wives) from the British Columbia Sugar Company where Ernie had worked for 42 years. We had created a movie for Ernie about his 32 years fishing at Fawn Lake, 1961-1993, and we had a tape of his mother and Ernie talking in 1973. At last Ernie was not just a name or a picture for Jaap, he was a loving, giving man who treasured family and friends. He now had this to share with his family in Holland. Jaap went home with all the stories of his father and the DVD of "Fawn Lake Memories." He played it for his family, and after it was over, he clicked back from DVD to the television and up came ET (the movie) on the screen, Jaap says it was ET calling home -- I believe it was too. When Jaap was born at home in Holland in 1946 his grandmother registered his birth -- his mother wanted to call him after his father, Ernest, but his grandmother made a spelling mistake and registered it as Ernst, so he always had a missing "E" in his life -- till now, Jaap says he has found his missing "E." I have received the most precious gift, a part of Ernie living in Jaap, his sons, and grandchildren. He is a credit to his mother who raised a fine son and Wil is a loving wife. They have a very caring family -- I appreciate all their letters. Thanks to George on our Lincolnshire list who asked if I would like to have my husband's picture on his site at: http://www.localdial.com/users/airforce/R-o-H.html Thanks to Lou and all the listers for the Lincolnshire list, and thank you, RootsWeb. If it had not been for your Lincolnshire list we still would not have connected. 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For information and an index to the more than 29,200 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ANDRUSIAK BOW, BRACKBILL DEPUTY DAISEY-MOSES -- Ancestors or descendents of Moses Daisey from Delaware EVERITT-UK -- The EVERITT surname in the United Kingdom FAIRGRIEVE GOLDTHWAITE KEIFER MCCROSKEY, MILLIRON REVERCOMB, RISELING TOMPLAIT VANE WALKEDEN, WOODHEAD, WUNDERLE NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS CALUMET-STEEL -- Steelworkers in the Calumet Area (Illinois/Indiana, shores of Lake Michigan) CHEROKEE-DNA -- Discussing and sharing information regarding the Cherokee (Native Americans) DNA Project CITINGSOURCES -- Discussing of how to cite and document sources of your genealogical research DECIPHER -- Assistance with deciphering handwriting of online genealogy images IL-COOK-CHICAGO -- Chicago, Cook county, Illinois (restricted to genealogy topics within the city limits only) MELUNGEON-DNA -- Discussing and sharing information regarding Melungeon DNA Projects USA-TEACHERS -- Genealogical discussions of teachers in the United States (genealogically related) focusing on researching early teachers and their role in history as a tool in family research 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 League City, Texas, Genealogical Society's website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlcgs2/ U.S.A. dcalhn -- District of Columbia ALHN Project ilrocki2 -- Rock Island County (Illinois) kygwjp -- KY GenWeb Project -- Jackson Purchase momzcb -- Mt. Zion Cemetery (Missouri) Board tnatcdar -- Avery Trace (Tennessee) Chapter DAR txlcgs2 -- League City (Texas) Genealogical Society varvcdar -- Roanoke Valley (Virginia) Chapter DAR Key: AALHN — American Local History Network DAR — Daughters of the American Revolution 5. New/Updated Freepages and Homepages -------------------------------------- Can your cousins find your website at RootsWeb? Has it ever been mentioned here or do you have a new, updated, or substantially revised website 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 CRACROFT, CRACRAFT, CRAYCRAFT, CRAYCROFT. Dedicated to all spellings of and includes a brief history of our English CRACROFT ancestors. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~danlcc/index.html HUNT of England. Pertains to the Hunt family with origins in the villages of Berkshire and Oxfordshire, notably East Hendred. The family was recusant Catholic for centuries and has a link to the Oxfordshire DANDRIDGE family that spawned Martha (DANDRIDGE) CUSTIS WASHINGTON. Other surnames include FLUDGATE, MONEY, WYATT, GOODENOUGH, ALLEN, and CARTER. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hendred/tree.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. ENGLAND. Devon. Cook/Cooke in Crediton, IGI; 62 records; Christine Brugman http://userdb.rootsweb.com/uki/ NETHERLANDS. Dutch census, 1947. Bor surname; 673 records; Geurt Bor http://userdb.rootsweb.com/intl/ U.S.A. Military Records: Lieutenant Colonel William Francis Buckley, United States Army, assassinated 1985; 1 record; Michelle Buckley http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ Naturalization Records: Selected records for Bustard/Busteed surname, 1852-1896; 15 records. Margaret Busteed-Remon http://userdb.rootsweb.com/naturalization/ Passenger Lists: O'Neil/O'Neill passengers from Castletownbere, County Cork, Ireland, arriving at Ellis Island, New York. 72 records. Susan Cullivan Daily http://userdb.rootsweb.com/passenger/ Passenger Lists: St. George passengers, October 1667, sailing to Maryland from Waterford, Ireland. 180 records; Robert Lee Owens http://userdb.rootsweb.com/passenger/ GEORGIA. Heard County. Stephen Stephens Family Bible, 1773-1866; 44 records. Greg Young http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ IDAHO. Shoshone County. Kellogg-Wardner High School graduates -- 1927, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1934; 323 records; Catherine Van Cott http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ Kellogg. World War I veterans recognized on Memorial Day 1934, 92 records; Catherine Van Cott http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ ILLINOIS. 1865 Illinois census -- selected records for Lewis surname; 25 records. Yolanda Lewis http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ Cook County. Chicago. Walter H. Rogers's death record, 1946, 1 record; Joseph L. Rhodes http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ INDIANA. Bartholomew County. William J. T. Saucer's Civil War account book, 13th Regiment Indiana Volunteers, September 10, 1864; 80 records; Brad Cogdell http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ Tippecanoe County. West Lafayette. 1948 Purdue University commencement candidates; 1,466 records. Susan Archer http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ KANSAS. Barber County. Sun City. 1926-1948 Sun City High School graduates, plus administrators, teachers, and students in grades 1-11 in 1958; 372 records. Johnette Hodgin http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MISSOURI. Boone County. Old Robinson Cemetery; 5 records. Gerald H. Shelnutt Robinson Cemetery; 22 records. Larry McKenzie and Jerry Shelnutt http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ NEBRASKA. Lancaster County. Panama. Panama Cemetery; 248 records; Jeanne Sherman Young http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ OREGON. Multnomah County. School directory of staff and board members, 1956-1957; 1,132 records. Kathy Barker http://userdb.rootsweb.com/groups/ TEXAS. 1850 U.S. census. Maddox surname and variants; 31 records. Katheryn Haddad Maddox for the MaddoxDNA Group http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ VIRGINIA. Floyd County. 1831-1850 personal property tax records for Lewis surname; 3 records; Giles County. 1832-1845 personal property tax records for Lewis surname, 8 records; Mercer County. 1837-1850 personal property tax records for Lewis surname; 7 records; Monroe County. 1835-1850 personal property tax records for Lewis surname, 48 records; Russell County. 1833-1850 personal property tax records for Lewis/Loois surname, 40 records; Wythe County. 1831-1849 personal property tax records for Lewis surname, 18 records; Yolanda Lewis http://userdb.rootsweb.com/tax_voter/ Surry County. Will index, 1800-1852; 2,832 records. Anne Gwaltney for Surry County, Virginia, Historical Society and Museums, Inc http://userdb.rootsweb.com/courtrecords/ 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Understanding Old Phrases By Chad Milliner The humor section in the last RootsWeb Review referred to a minister in the 1880 British census who was "Without Cure of Souls." This note was not an indictment on his pastoral abilities. Instead, it simply meant that he was not currently the pastor of a congregation. Quoting from an online dictionary: "2. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure. The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. --Spelman." http://dict.die.net/cure/ I think this shows the importance of realizing that phrases in documents may not mean what we think they do. 8. Humor/Humour: Marrying Young ------------------------------- Thanks to Bill Lawson: In the 1920 census of New York City, I found my family; Dad, Mom, my sister Julie, and me. Julie was listed as age 2 and married, and I was listed as 11/12 (months) and married! * * * 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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