RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 24 August 2005, Vol. 8, No. 34, 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/ * * * RootsWeb HelpDesk http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ * * * =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. Editor's Desk: Tip; Google; Colorado; Classes 1b. Tips from Readers: "Checking Out Family Rumors" 1c. Using RootsWeb: "Solving Genealogical Mysteries" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Making a Genealogical Loop" 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: "Confounding Coincidences Continue" "Solving One Mystery Leads to Another" "Feeding Jesse James" "Genetic Propensity, Perhaps?" 8. Humor/Humour: "Overruled by Higher Court" 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: Tip; Google; Colorado; Classes Tip of the Week: Lost? At a dead-end or a brick wall? Review those records you found earlier in your research. Studying records and data now that you have more knowledge of the extended and collateral families may unravel your family's mysteries. * * * Sites Worth Seeing: Google: Language Tools http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en Rocky Mountain High -- Colorado State Archives: http://kiwi.state.co.us/archive/publicrecordsearch.do * * * Learn how to research and make the most of online material. EASTERN EUROPE BASIC RESEARCH CLASS ($29.95). Starts September 1. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4624&sourceid=481 JEWISH BASIC RESEARCH CLASS ($29.95). Starts September 1. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=5224&sourceid=481 INTERMEDIATE GENEALOGY RESEARCH CLASS ($29.95). Starts September 8. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3668&sourceid=481 WORLD CENSUS RECORDS CLASS ($29.95). Starts September 8. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3744&sourceid=481 GERMAN BASIC RESEARCH CLASS ($29.95). Starts September 15. http://ancestry.myfamily.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3667&sourceid=481 * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Checking Out Family Rumors By Richard E. Elden My maternal grandfather, Seymour HORTON, was the son of Mary BLOOMER (the daughter of Isaac BLOOMER), and a Henry HORTON who had graduated from Yale, and practiced as an attorney in Syracuse, New York. My "family rumor was that "Seymour, who had been orphaned at an early age, was brought up in Ovid Township, Seneca County, New York by John Purcel, a relative on the maternal side." I used the "library approach" and found two books -- the first stated that "Abraham BLOOMER settled in the woods of Military Lot No. 21 about 1800 . . . Among his children were Abraham BLOOMER, who died March 3, 1862; Elijah K. BLOOMER, Hiram BLOOMER, Isaac BLOOMER, who died September 12, 1835, and James BLOOMER. The second book stated that Isaac BLOOMER and his wife, Sarah DUNLAP, were the parents of Adrian, b. ca.1832, Amaretta, b. ca. 1834, and Mary, b. ca. 1835 according to 1850 census data, and that Amaretta married George SCOTT at the home of her uncle, George DUNLAP. It looked like all I would have to do is to document these stories and tie in the PURCELS and my research was going to be a "piece of cake" -- until I went to the office of the Seneca County Historian. The Seneca County Historian in Waterloo has a card file of at least 30,000 alphabetized cards, each card containing extracts from public records or newspapers from the 1800s comprising a person's name, a terse 2-3 line abstract of the reference and reference to the source. I scanned through a 10-inch pile of BLOOMER cards and selected about 50 cards, which were copied for me there (also PURCELL cards to tie into my family. When I got home, I scanned and converted the copies with an OCR program to be computer readable and sorted. Three of the abstracts that follow completely contradict assumptions of the above quoted paragraph. (1) ISAAC L. BLOOMER, CR, [Cemetery Record] 11/10/1879, 59, SARAH A. 1/16/1916, 84. SARAH DUNLAP BLOOMER, 7/30/1910, 84, lot 163, union cern. ovid, (2) ISAAC BLOOMER CR [Cemetery Record] d. 9/11/1835, 37 5 5 MARIAH, wife, dau of Abner and Hannah KETCHUM. (3) ISAAC BLOOMER, PP. of Ovid, 3619 d. 9/12/1835, ch. Mary, 3 months, Adrian, 4 yr., Amiritta, 2, under Cornelius V. Covert, guardian. Clearly, Isaac L BLOOMER and his wife Sarah (DUNLAP) BLOOMER could not have been the parents of Adrian, Amaretta and Mary BLOOMER as Sarah would have been respectively 6, 8 and 9 at their births as seen from the 1850 census data. Further, the second abstract shows there was another Isaac BLOOMER who was born 6 Apr 1798, and he married Mariah KETCHUM who was born 30 Nov 1794, and these two were the parents of Adrian, Amaretta and Mary as shown by the third abstract. However, the "Uncle George" issue was a problem. In checking all of the data that I had obtained from the county historian's files and other records I was able to (1) document my grandfather's maternal ancestry, (2) document descendant charts for both James BLOOMER and Abraham BLOOMER and (3) develop an interesting story. Turns out there were two BLOOMER family lines in Ovid Township, one headed by Abraham BLOOMER and the other by James BLOOMER (the father of Isaac BLOOMER, d. 9\11\1835, Seymour Horton's grandfather). Abraham and James BLOOMER are probably related and have been confused owing to the duplication of given names and names of their spouses, the close proximity of their homes in Ovid Township and their membership in the same church, the Scott's Corners Baptist Church. James BLOOMER died in 1799 leaving his wife. Even printed sources can be wrong -- so it pays to do the research in all available sources. * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Solving Genealogical Mysteries [Editor's note: The names are fictitious, but circumstances in the story are based on actual events and family stories] Flora FICKLE lovingly remembers the stories her grandfather told her as a child. It was those stories that instilled in her an insatiable desire to learn more about her family history -- especially the family mystery. Flora had heard many times how her great-grandfather, Francis FICKLE, had kissed his beloved wife Mary on the cheek, saying he'd be home in a few hours, walked out the door, hitched up the horse and wagon and headed off down the road that ran along Big Conewago Creek in rural Central Pennsylvania. It was a cold day in December and Francis was headed to a nearby shop to purchase some supplies they would need in preparation for the hard winter months ahead. Francis FICKLE was never seen or heard from again. He was presumed dead after his horse -- with the empty wagon in tow -- returned home the following day. Had the horse bolted and Francis fallen from the wagon into the frigid water of the creek? Or had he been seized with a sudden fatal illness, perhaps a heart attack, and his body dragged off by wild animals? Flora always shuddered at the thought of that. The only thing known for sure is that Francis must have met with some unkind fate that cold December day in 1887. Although her grandfather had come to terms with the inevitable -- that his father had died a cruel death in the prime of life -- for Flora, the unsolved family mystery was as if the other shoe had never dropped. What really had happened to Francis FICKLE, Sr. on that icy road along Big Conewago Creek? Mary (YOUNGLOVE) FICKLE was left to raise her nine children on her own. They were all under the age of 10 at the time -- including Flora FICKLE's grandfather, Francis, Jr. The youngest children, two sets of twins, were ages two years and three months old respectively. Times were tough -- the family had barely made ends meet even before Francis' disappearance and things got even worse afterward. Francis Jr., being the "eldest" at the ripe old age of nine, became the "man" of the household. He quit school to work the farm taking his father's place in the fields. After several years, the widow, Mary FICKLE, remarried a much older man, Andreas ALTVATER, a lonely widower of German descent. ALTVATER was a master carpenter and, most importantly, made a comfortable living at his trade making it possible for him to provide for his new large young family -- his own children being grown and married. Mary was content with her second marriage. Andreas treated her and the children well, but it was primarily a marriage of convenience and she continued to mourn for her lost true love -- Francis FICKLE. His mother's second marriage came too late for Francis, Jr., whose childhood was forever marred due to losing his father at such an early time in his life. In later years Francis talked his grandchildren's ears off about those difficult years when any of them would listen. Flora knew all the stories by heart and included many of them in her extensive notes when she created her genealogy file on her computer and uploaded a GEDCOM to WorldConnect (http://wc.rootsweb.com/). Flora also joined the RootsWeb Pennsylvania mailing list for the county where her great-grandparents had lived -- always hoping to learn more about Francis, Sr.'s disappearance. Perhaps someone would have access to old newspaper articles and could answer her queries on the list. To Flora it seemed as if the earth had opened up and swallowed her great-grandfather whole. That is, this was what everyone had thought for more than 100 years until Flora checked her e-mail one fateful day. Flora scanned through her genealogy e-mails faithfully before heading off to work every morning. She was just taking the first sip of her coffee when the subject line in a message she scrolled past caught her eye. It caused her to bolt upright and spill a few drops of coffee on her keyboard. Frantically she blotted up the liquid and then eagerly read the message that was about to change her life forever. It began, "I believe I know what happened to your Francis FICKLE." Next Week: The Other Shoe Drops 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Making a Genealogical Loop By Arlin W. Neal in Camden, South Carolina, USA This is about the end of a long search that ended very different than I could have imagined. When I started my family research many years ago, I found so much information on the different sites that are located throughout your network of services that I can't even begin to thank you enough for all the help RootsWeb has provided over the years. I was working on the line of my family that included WILKERSONS, SULLIVANS, ALLENS and JONESES. I found the family of the ALLENs with much work and many hours spent in travel and sitting in libraries and in front of my computer. I found some cousins in the WILKERSON line of my family and we even have a family site where we exchange information. I found cousin from the SULLIVAN line and am still working on that line. On day I got an e-mail from a cousin who descends from the first wife of my great-great-grandfather. She informed me that she found me via one of the RootsWeb sites and saw where we were related and wanted to know if I was interested in exchanging information. I can't tell you how much this information was to me. My ancestor was a Henry ALLEN from Tennessee. He married Nancy A. JONES and moved to Kentucky. My great-great-grand parents, George WILKERSON and Tiriece ALLEN (the daughter of Nancy and Henry ALLEN) had a daughter named Hannah WILKERSON who married Steve Scott SULLIVAN. These are the parents of my paternal grandmother. Steve's parents were William SULLIVAN and Abigale JONES. Through the information that I received from my newfound relative, I discovered that all the time I was looking for the parents of Abigale JONES, who I thought were JONESes, it turns out that they were ALLENs. Abigale was married to an Elijah JONES before she married my great- great-grandfather, so her maiden name was not JONES as first thought, but instead it was ALLEN. To further entwine the family roots, this Elijah JONES was the brother of my great-great-great-grandmother, Nancy A. (JONES) ALLEN and Abigale (ALLEN) JONES was the sister of my great- great-great-grandfather. In the research that I had done previously on the ALLENs I had found an Abigale ALLEN who had a sister named Mary Ann, who married a MASON. However, I didn't think that my great-great-great-grandaunt was also my great-great-grandmother, but she was. The brick wall finally came tumbling down. I had found this family about two years ago and I didn't even know it was mine. It pays keep in touch with family and to make new connections to old family lines. ======================== Advertisement ============================ BOOK NOTES. "Creating an Heirloom: Writing Your Family's Cookbook," is a new book by Wendy A. 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For information and an index to the more than 29,350 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ No new mailing lists this week. 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 URL of the Guilford County (NC) Genealogical Society website is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgcgs/ CANADA ~canectm -- Ellis Chapel Trustees Museum (Ontario) U.S.A. ~nmafamer -- African American Griots Project (New Mexico) ~okafamer -- African American Griots Project (Oklahoma) ~laslaagp -- St. Landry Parish African American Griots Project (Louisiana) ~ncgcgs -- Guilford County Genealogical Society (North Carolina) ~papaps -- Prospect Area Preservation Society (Pennsylvania) ~gatcdar2 -- Thronateeska (Georgia) Chapter DAR ~dcewcdar -- Eleanor Wilson (Washington, DC) Chapter DAR ~orgco2 -- Genealogical Council (Oregon) ~pacambr2 -- Cambria County (Pennsylvania) Key: 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 (its Web address), along with a brief description, including the major pertinent surnames and what is available on your site, to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com CANADA. CEMETERY SIGNS. Submitted by volunteers. Photos of cemetery entrance signs from cemeteries (by province). British Columbia. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cemsigns/bc/ Ontario. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cemsigns/on/ Quebec http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cemsigns/qc/ Saskatchewan http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cemsigns/sk/ HOLTZ, FERRIS, KOEHN, COVELL, and related families. Descendant charts of families, HOLTZ, FERRIS, KOEHN, COVELL, BAYLISS, ERNEST, LEWIS, and VOSS -- immigrants from Germany and England to western New York state. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~holtz/ LAPENSEE and LEROUX. Family tree includes surnames of GADBOIS, HAMEL, LAPENSEE, LAPERLE, LARUE, LEROUX, ROUX, and VANDANDAIQUE in the area of Stormont County, Ontario and various counties of Quebec. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wentil/ 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. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Washington. National Cathedral School of the Washington Cathedral graduates, 1941; 61 records. Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MINNESOTA. Hennepin County. Alumni, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy 1916; 38 records. David Hirscher http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ Murray County. 12th Annual Commencement of the Rural Schools, 1921; 42 records. Gary A Mischke http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MISSOURI. Howell County. Burnham Cemetery; 187 records. Epps (also called Eppes) Cemetery; 213 records. Lisa Budd http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ NEW YORK. Genesee County. Batavia "Daily News," 1934-35; 7,587 records; Leilani Spring, volunteer of the county historian http://userdb.rootsweb.com/news/ TENNESSEE. Marion County. 1900 census; 350 records. Michele Milligan http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ VIRGINIA. Henrico County and Richmond. 1923 graduates from Westhampton College, Richmond College, and T. C. Williams School of Law; 113 records. Paula Lucy Delosh 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Confounding Coincidences Continue By Richard May in Suffolk, UK I wrote some time ago in RootsWeb Review ("Discovering Ancestors Hidden Under Spelling Variations") an article which mentioned the recently discovered "coincidence" of my great-great-grandfather Stephen LAPWOOD having been born in 1842 just four miles from where we now live. There were no family links with the area from about 1850 to 1992. I have now discovered an even more uncanny coincidence. We knew my grandfather, Mervyn Alexander MAY -- grandson of Stephen -- was born in 1902 in Bristol. It now appears that he was born in the same (short and unremarkable) street where my best friend from school now lives. Our childhood homes and school were in Derbyshire -- over 100 miles and another world away, and Bristol is a very large city. We have been regularly visiting this street for more than 10 years without knowing its importance to us. Have others had similar experiences? It certainly makes research even more exciting. * * * Solving One Mystery Leads to Another By Donna Hodach-Price While researching my grandfather's arrival to America from Italy, I was absolutely stumped as to why I could not locate him on the Ellis Island website. Luckily, I was able to navigate through this mystery and in doing so, found a larger one. Using the 1930 census, I was able to locate the entry for my grandfather Nick ALBINO and his family living in Blue Island, Illinois. A few blocks away, I found his mother living with Nick's brother. Using the dates of immigration arrival in the 1930 census, I searched for my grandfather, but there was no listing for him. I tried all variations of spellings, departure ports and his age -- all to no avail. Frustrated, I searched for my great-grandmother Filomena. I was delighted to find her listed and quickly printed off the record. I filed it to be reviewed later. Several months passed and I had just received my grandfather's "Petition for Naturalization," which confirmed for me that he had indeed arrived at Ellis Island and gave me the date as well as the name of the ship. Additionally, his petition indicated that he had been issued a "Certificate of Arrival," so I was assured that his arrival record had been cross-checked by the INS [Immigration and Naturalization Service). Using the database at http://www.daddezio.com/genealogy/ships/index.html#search I entered the name of the ship. Various dates of arrival were posted and one date came to within one day of the date indicated on my grandfather's petition. But something looked vaguely familiar about the name of the ship and date. Then all at once it occurred to me that this was the same date and ship that his mother Filomena had come in on. But how could I have missed him? Using the images at http://www.ellisisland.org/ I hand-searched every page for Nick ALBINO but still found nothing. I realized that I was running out of search options when I came upon the final pages or the manifest where the "Record of Aliens Held For Special Inquiry" were listed. Scanning the page, I found Filomena listed as a "Likely Public Charge," but the entry also indicated that there were two in her party. I looked closer and found that on the very next line the person listed as traveling with her was Giuseppe GALBINI. I looked once again at Filomena's arrival record and this time, compared that with Giuseppe GALBINI. It seems that Giuseppe was traveling with his mother as indicated in the "Departure Manifest," and they were both traveling to the same destination in Blue Island, Illinois -- the identical address of the home of Filomena's son and the home of Giuseppe's brother, Donato. The name of the ship was correct, the date was correct, the age was correct, the destination was correct, but the name was Giuseppe GALBINI - not Nicolina ALBINO (my grandfather's known name.) Thankfully for me, my grandfather was naturalized, but further investigation into my family history has suggested that neither of the names GALBINI nor ALBINO were his real name, so a greater mystery looms! The lesson here is to be on the lookout for the obscure as well as the obvious. * * * Feeding Jesse James By Angela Soden I was told, repeatedly as I grew up, that my great-grandfather often talked about how Jesse JAMES, the outlaw, would come to check on his mother and she would make him a sandwich. It sounded like a lot of other folk tales told about Jesse James. Later, I learned that my great-great-grandfather had abandoned his family and that his wife was left to raise my great-grandfather on her own. This made the story a little more plausible. After all, it wasn't uncommon in those days for a women in that position to be visited by family or close caring friends. But why Jesse James? Could it have been another family member that was replaced by Jesse's name with time? Because her maiden and married names were not JAMES by far. For a long time we (my mother and I) could not trace back our family history in this line any further back than my great-great-grandparents. So we put several e-mails for most wanted surnames on the Internet. It took about 3-4 years, but we finally got a hit. Someone e-mailed us one day with the information that we needed. Apparently, my great-great-great grandfather had changed his name (and was the only one in the family to do so). The only documentation of this is a family Bible that was in the possession of the generous person that e-mailed us. This still didn't give us the answer to the Jesse JAMES story, but it gave us the jump start that we needed. We started going to work on the line. We found some information that did not prove the stories, but made them much more plausible. Apparently, Jesse JAMES was the cousin of my great-great-grandfather who left his family. So, if the family was close enough, it is certainly possible that Jesse would have visited my great-great- grandmother. My great-grandfather was born and raised in northeastern Kansas. This puts him in the right place at the right time. * * * Genetic Propensity, Perhaps? By Roger STANLEY in Melbourne. Australia. I recently used our local library resource centre for "Free Settlers to Melbourne, Australia" during the 1830s, which revealed the incredible varietal spelling of McGAIRY for the same person. Catherine McGAIRY sailed from Edinburgh to Melbourne. She later married, Robert SEATON and all is fine on the various records. However, when the first child was born five years later the maiden name of Catherine Seaton was: McGERRY. The child died eight months later and the maiden name of mother: MacGARRY. There were three children born, two of whom died and the maiden name of mother was shown as: McGAIRRY; MacGAIREY and McGERREY. Her death certificate in 1858 was Catherine SEATON, maiden name: MacGAIRY. In death almost correct. My mother, born Catherine McGAIRY who knew nothing of this possible ancestor, was variously known as: YATES, STANLEY, DINSDALE, and SCANLON and died as Catherine McGAIRY -- all the spellings are correct on the records. Was there a genetic propensity to have different names to compensate for different spellings of one name? Isn't family research fabulous? 8. Humor/Humour: Overruled by Higher Court --------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Jerry Ferrin http://www.rootsweb.com/~ksbarber/ COURT IN THE OLD DAYS Barber County (Kansas) Index, February 4, 1937 http://www.rootsweb.com/~ksbarber/court_21apr1885.html "Lawyers frequently find some remarkable court records. A. L. ORR, local attorney, recently found an entry in the record of the district court that is somewhat out of the ordinary. This entry may be found on page 301 in a journal now in the office of the clerk of the district court for Barber County. The divorce case was to be heard at the term of court soon after the terrible Elm Creek flood here in 1885. Here is the journal entry: "And now to-wit: On this 21st day of April 1885, the same being the first day of the regular April term 1885 of the said District court the said cause was duly called for hearing. "Whereupon E. SAMPLE, Esq. presented a motion asking a withdrawal of the petition in said action filed and the dismissal of the said action. On consideration the Court doth find that the said action was an action for divorce, that upon this day and prior to the assembling of this court a summons bourne by the swift and silent messenger of the Great Tribunal had been served upon this plaintiff that as the night died away she floated out upon the ocean of eternity up to the throne of judgment; That the prayers addressed to this court have been answered by another, that the Supreme Court has summarily disposed of all the issues in this action by granting the decree of divorce and taking said plaintiff and her minor child from the jurisdiction of this Court to one from which no error lies and whose rulings are wisdom. It is ordered therefore that said cause be dismissed and that no costs be taxed in this action." * * * Found a humorous sign or entry in census, parish, church, etc. records? 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