RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 31 August 2005, Vol. 8, No. 35, 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: "RootsWeb Meeting at FGS" "TV Series Seeks Family History Stories" 1b. Tips from Readers: "Flash Solution" 1c. Using RootsWeb: Solving Genealogical Mysteries: "The Other Shoe Drops" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Never Ever Give Up Searching" 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: "A Bit of a Cad What?" 8. Humor/Humour: "A Twist of Fate" 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: RootsWeb Meeting at FGS By Peter Drinkwater, Product Manager, RootsWeb You are invited to attend a RootsWeb discussion meeting that is being held in conjunction with the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) annual national conference in Salt Lake City, Utah on Friday, 9 September at 2 p.m. in room 250A. Attending this RootsWeb meeting at FGS does not require conference registration. The exhibitor's hall and the Ancestry.com booth are open to the public, free of charge. FGS also offers a one-day registration option should you decide that you'd like attend conference lectures. Information about the conference can be found at http://www.fgs.org/2005conf/FGS-2005.htm We look forward to the opportunity to meet with you and exchange ideas about how to improve RootsWeb. Come share your opinions and ideas. --What do you find most helpful at RootsWeb? --Least helpful? --What would you most like us to add or change about the site? Since seating is limited, please help us plan for the right number by sending an e-mail to: trees@myfamilyinc.com with "RootsWeb meeting" in the subject line. Even if you can't attend the meeting we'd still like to hear from you. Send a message to trees@myfamilyinc.com with "RootsWeb" in the subject line, and share with us what you like about RootsWeb, anything you don't like, and any ideas that you have to make it better. * * * TV Series Seeks Family History Stories First Flight Productions, of Harrisonburg, Virginia, is producing the pilot and series episodes for a television show called "Across Generations" that chronicle unusual stories genealogists have uncovered in their research into their families' history. Its website has examples of what it calls stories with a real "wow factor" along with details and how to submit your family's story. http://www.firstflightproductions.com/ http://www.firstflightproductions.com/pilot.html 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Flash Solution By Suzanne Heinitz-Dodge, West Valley City, Utah, USA It was with complete empathy that I read Patricia NEIDIGH's story about her genealogy trip that she took without taking her genealogy papers. I did the same thing a few years ago when I took a long-awaited for trip to Massachusetts and Maine. I have learned my lesson and would like to share my solution. I purchased a flash drive. It is small, about the size of a cigarette lighter. (http://www.usbflashdrive.org/usbfd_faq.html) Every time I put more information into my genealogy program, I make a new GEDCOM and replace the one I made after the last entries. I carry this with me everywhere! I use a GEDCOM rather than a backup file, because it can be read by any computer, where a backup file of your genealogy will only be good on your own computer [or require a certain genealogy application to read it]. And you can save yourself packing all of those paper documents. I love using it. I teach a genealogy class at the local Senior Center and encourage all of my students to use one. * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Solving Genealogical Mysteries: Part 2. The Other Shoe Drops [Editor's note: Part 1 appeared in last week's RootsWeb Review: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/2005/0824.txt The names are fictitious, but circumstances in the story are based on actual events and family stories.] Flora FICKLE's jaw dropped as she continued reading the e-mail from the stranger who thought he knew what happened to Flora's great-grandfather, Francis FICKLE, Sr. Her ancestor disappeared in 1887 at age 32 -- presumed dead based upon the circumstances. Harry FICKLE had found Flora's WorldConnect file and her messages in the archives of the RootsWeb mailing list at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ through a Google search. Harry wanted to compare notes more closely with her because he felt that there were remarkable similarities between his great-grandfather, Frank FICKLE, who had married Harriet HYDER in Saint Louis, Missouri, less than a year after Flora's great-grandpa, Francis FICKLE, vanished in Pennsylvania one cold December day. Harry told Flora that the date of birth on Frank FICKLE's tombstone agreed to the day with that of Flora's ancestor Francis. Census records in Missouri, where Frank had settled into married life with Harriet, indicated that he was born in Pennsylvania. Harry said he didn't know if it was of any importance but the only possession that had belonged to his great-grandfather was a small weathered photo of a man and woman, which supposedly Frank had carried in his wallet. Harry had no idea who the couple in the photo was, but he attached a scanned image to his e- mail just in case it was significant. He went on to say that there was one unique characteristic that could possibly prove to be the clincher that the two men were the same person. Flora's extensive notes in her WorldConnect file, based upon family stories told to her by her grandfather, included the fact that Francis FICKLE had one blue eye and one brown eye. This was the subject of much discussion in the family as it was quite unusual. Harry said that his grandfather, Henry FICKLE, told him about his father having this same rare characteristic -- one blue and one brown eye -- and that Frank had always bragged he was one-of-a-kind and God had thrown away the mold after creating him. Flora nearly fell off her computer chair when she saw the scanned photo Harry sent -- she knew at a glance that it was the same photo she had also inherited (only her copy was in far better condition) of her great- great-grandparents -- Francis FICKLE's mother and father. The evidence was pretty overwhelming that Francis and Frank were one. While family lore handed down orally in a family can't always be relied upon to be accurate -- the tangible evidence in this case was overwhelming. So, it appeared that Francis FICKLE must have staged his own disappearance knowing that he'd be presumed dead, and headed west to wind up in Missouri where he met and married Harriet HYDER, and he never looked back. The reasons for his actions probably will never be known and Frank never revealed to anyone in Missouri that he already had a wife and nine children back in Pennsylvania. After marrying Harriet HYDER the couple produced 13 children, including three sets of twins. Francis was nothing if not prolific. For more than 100 years the Pennsylvania FICKLE descendants and the Missouri FICKLE descendants multiplied and prospered with neither large family knowing about the existence of the other. But, in the blink of an eye that all changed. Harry and Flora continued to share information and helped organize a family reunion, which was attended by members of the Pennsylvania and Missouri FICKLE families. The cousins marveled over how great a physical resemblance they bore to one another. Before computers and the Internet and the advent of so much genealogical information being freely shared and published online in places such as RootsWeb's WorldConnect (http://wc.rootsweb.com/) the FICKLE families probably never would have found one another. With powerful search engines making it possible to locate any name or keyword among the millions of messages housed in the RootsWeb mailing list archives discoveries and connections of this nature are being made every day. RootsWeb provides many remarkable genealogical resources, but its greatest resource is people -- RootsWeb users. They are the ones who may hold the key to unlocking your family mysteries, which otherwise might remain hidden away forever. You just have to be brave enough to explore, open to accepting evidence that comes your way, and willing to share your family history research. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Never Ever Give Up Searching By Sandra Tyler Duncan I was searching for the data on my Dad's deceased siblings so I began looking for help in Akron, Ohio through RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness). (http://www.raogk.org/) I started in Ohio because while my dad was the oldest and was born in Virginia, the next three children in that family were born in Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia, then there were twins that only lived 48 hours (and I had no idea where they were born), but the youngest three were born in Akron. So that is why I decided to start in that locality. The first RAOGK guy wrote that he was leaving for vacation and apologetically asked if I could try another volunteer. So when I tried again I found Judy. She replied with quite a bit of information on my dad and his siblings (gulp, I do not remember where she said that she got the information). While I was cleaning papers out of my computer room and I found an old large manila envelope that my dad had scribbled on years ago -- postdated 8 November 1975. And there plain as can be was the notation that my dad had a sister and brother (the twins, Mildred and Willard) who were buried at a cemetery in West Virginia. So I shot a letter to Judy who had done some early RAOGK research for me and answered some of my oldest questions about my grandparents' breakup many years ago. My dad and his sister (Aunt Edna), lived with some people whose names I do not recognize, Aunt Thelma and Uncle Benny were put in a home and I found the home with them listed in it as inmates in the 1930 census. Judy had mentioned that my Uncle James had married and so I asked her to get me the certificate -- not vital, but you never know. Recently she sent me a letter saying that she also found a marriage certificate for my dad and it was not to my mom. I knew that my dad was married before he married my mom, but I never ever figured that I would know any more than that. 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For information and an index to the more than 29,400 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ SURNAMES BLANKMAYER, BRAYMAN, BUGGELM, BURUS CARDINALE, CUBISS FAGGIANI, FERMAZIN HEUERMANN, HOELLER LAPE, LIGHTBOUN MAJERUS, MILLETTS NODES SHIRREFF, SMALLPIECE, STEIGERWALT TILFORD, TURSCAK WEBB -- DNA research WETENKAMP NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS AUS-ARMY-NURSING -- Australian Army Nursing service from 1903 AUS-HOSPITALS -- hospitals and hospital records in the Australian states and territories NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS MID-TN -- Middle Tennessee (one of three grand divisions of the state) NY-ARCHIVES-ANNOUNCE -- announcements of submissions of records to the USGenWeb Archives Project for New York 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 Roosevelt County, Montana website is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mtroosev/ GERMANY ~deubar -- British Army of the Rhine (Germany) U.S.A. ~wabento2 -- Benton County (Washington) ~ilswedim -- Swedish Immigrants (Illinois) ~mtroosev -- Roosevelt County (Montana) ~ksdclirm -- Decatur County Last Indian Raid Museum (Kansas) ~varvdar -- Rockfish Valley (Virginia) Chapter DAR ~aroppelo -- Oppelo (city in Conway County, Arkansas) 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 HUNTER, BRANT, SOUTHWICK, OAKLEY, LAWRENCE, WOLVERSON, DUNCOMBE, TARBUCK, DOWEN from the Willenhall-Wolverhampton area in United Kingdom; DUNCAN, ROBERTSON, and CROLL from Scotland; WANNOP from Cumberland; HACKNEY, ALLEN, PALMER, BATHO, LAWFORD from the area around London. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hunter/ KENTUCKY. Genealogy data such as marriage and cemetery records, taxpayer lists, church members, naturalizations--various years, various counties. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gruber/kentucky/ NEW ZEALAND. List and description of French political and criminal ex- prisoners from New Caledonia to Auckland--21 February 1880. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sooty/frenchprisoners.html 6. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ ---------------------------------------------- No new databases this week. 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Bit of a Cad What? By Patsy McMillan in New Zealand I think the old-fashioned word for him is cad and my opinion has not really changed from the first time I discovered that my 2-great-grand- father had a penchant for not being truthful. When I first asked my mother for information on her grandparents she told me "Oh yes, my grandmother always told us she was 'born on a French ship in Spanish waters' or was that a 'Spanish ship in French waters?'" Nevertheless she told us she was born on board ship coming to New Zealand. Well, I thought, this could be tricky, at the time I was researching 15 years ago there was no Internet -- everything was done by snail mail (post) and not a lot of records available for searching regarding births at sea. However, I did find out that births at sea were recorded by the captain and registered at Somerset House when the ship returned to the England. Checking these records proved fruitless, as there was no mention of Edith de LONGUEVILLE GRAHAM, my maternal great-grandmother. Edith's age at her death worked out that she would have been born ca 1859-1860. I then decided to quiz mother again and this time she told me "Oh yes, that's right Charles' Edith's father, well he was the British Consul in Peru or Chile I can't quite remember which!" Now this really had me excited, so I sat down and wrote a polite enquiry to the British and Foreign Commonwealth Office -- a reply from whom stated (with much authority I might add) "We can find no records of Charles de LONGUEVILLE GRAHAM having been employed by Her Majesty's Government at any time." So that seemed to be that. By this time I had found Charles' death and had managed to get a copy of his obituary -- wonderful stuff. It rattled off how he was a shipping reporter for the Otago Witness (newspaper) and that he had spent some years in the South American republics, that he had arrived in New Zealand in 1866 aboard the "Warrior Queen" with his wife Amelia and that he was an expert on all things to do with Freemasonry and had been instrumental in setting up a number of Freemasonry Lodges in Otago and Southland. From this I could see perhaps where mother's family had got the story about Peru or Chile, but it didn't help me find the birth of my great- grandmother at all. I then purchased the birth registrations of all of Charles and Amelia's children born here in New Zealand determined to see if I could find Edith. As is usual when researching you can get sidetracked and when I noticed that the birth registrations of his children were signed by Charles, I was happy to see that he had noted his date and place of marriage as Saint Martin-in-the-Field in London 1 June 1861 on every one (I have to give him a medal for accurately remembering over the years the date and place of his 'supposed' marriage). This kept me busy for at least 10 years off and on. I must have searched each and every church surrounding Saint Martin-in-the-Fields in London for the marriage of Charles and Amelia (née PILKINGTON). Not a thing. By this time I had contact with other New Zealand descendants and from one I heard the tale that some time either just prior to, or just after the death of Charles in 1906 there was an almighty family row, something that changed the whole family and caused a breakdown in family relations. When I asked my mother if she had heard of anything similar again she said, "Oh yes the story was that when Charles died his first wife had come out to New Zealand and taken everything. I was beginning to think that there was something 'not quite kosher with our Charles de LONGUEVILLE GRAHAM. What first wife? How right I was. By now the Internet had arrived, not as we now know it, of course, but the BBS (Bulletin Boards) and it was here I made contact with cousins of my GRAHAM family in England. Weren't they surprised! They had no idea that one of the family called Charles de LONGUEVILLE GRAHAM had come to the Antipodes. As a matter of fact they didn't have a note of anyone called Charles de LONGUEVILLE GRAHAM. It didn't take us long to work out that Charles had actually been baptised Inigo Charles GRAHAM (to this day I have no idea where the de LONGUEVILLE came from) in 1828 in Kent and had married Annie HOWELL in 1854 who had borne him two sons. One called George Hall Thomas GRAHAM (born 1850 prior to their marriage) and the other named for his father Inigo Charles de Longueville GRAHAM (born 1859). There is a gap of some five or six years that I have yet to fill but Inigo, now using the name Charles de LONGUEVILLE GRAHAM, found himself another lady friend namely Amelia PILKINGTON and sailed to New Zealand in 1866 aboard the "Warrior Queen." The GRAHAM family was from Charlton in Kent -- a well-to-do family and into "good works" as the saying goes. Charles' uncles had been upstand- ing members of the local community for many years as had his grandfather and were businessmen who owned a building, surveying and auctioneer business. Charles' father was William Bardin GRAHAM an excise officer (and another story) and his mother was Susannah Margarite JONES. His grandfather was George GRAHAM and he was the one that started the Charlton business and is noted in the 1826-27 Woolwich Directory as living in Hare St, -- auctioneer, builder, carpenter and undertaker. By this time I seemed to be going around in circles. I had all this information from England about Charles' family but I still did not know how come he had arrived in New Zealand and where his marriage to Amelia could be located or where the birth of my great-grandmother took place. My cousin in England wrote to the Library and Museum of the United Grand Lodge of England in London asking if they had information on Charles de LONGUEVILLE GRAHAM after I had sent her a copy of his obituary noting his lodge affiliations here. Back came a wonderful reply. Yes, they did have information and listed in their letter were the entries noted in their registers. Charles de LONGUEVILLE GRAHAM had first joined the lodge in, of all places, Knysna in South Africa in 1861, then in London in 1865, then the New Zealand lodges starting from 1875. That explained the "South American" story or at least it did to me as by now I had of course been talking to the experts who had said all along "never believe anything you are told until you have checked and double checked" and "remember that family stories that come down the generations have a tendency to grow." How right they were. Since 1990 I had checked just about every conceivable place for Charles and Amelia's marriage (including New Zealand) and had come to the conclusion that they had not married. Over the years I had also searched for the divorce or death of Charles' first wife Annie (n&e HOWELL) and had not found that either. I continued my research into the GRAHAM family amassing quite a large amount of information, photographs, copies of wills, census papers, etc., but the birth record of my great-grandmother still eluded me as did Charles and Amelia's marriage record. In 1998, by this time a reasonably experienced researcher, I was helping a fellow "genie" with her New Zealand research. I was searching for a marriage for a John OWEN and in the library I was zooming through the microfiche across the "Ps" when the name Amelia Susannah PILKINGTON flashed before my eyes. I stopped. It couldn't be -- could it? How many Amelia Susannah PILKINGTONs would have been in New Zealand in 1892? I took down the number and then checked for GRAHAM and there he was Charles de LONGUEVILLE GRAHAM. Finally, after all those years, there was the marriage of Charles and Amelia -- but in 1892? I had only searched in the New Zealand files up to 1890 believing that would have been far enough. Another lesson learned. When the copy of the marriage registration arrived I noticed that he still was not being particularly truthful. He had noted his age as 59 (he was 64); he noted he was a widower on 30 June 1867 (Annie HOWELL was still very much alive -- she died in 1896); he noted he was born in Inverness (he was born in Kent); he noted his father as being a colonel in Her Majesty's Services (he was an excise officer); and finally he noted that his mother's maiden name was de LONGUEVILLE (her maiden name was JONES). Amelia managed to fill in her part of the registration with the truth. This find spurred me on to find my great-grandmother's birth, so like a good researcher I started the New Zealand search again. I decided that she had to have been born in New Zealand and that maybe her age was incorrect. I found her born 8th May 1867 -- the birth being registered in Dunedin. Another salutary lesson (I had only searched five years either side of 1860) about keeping an open mind when working with ages -- they are often incorrect and can confuse. In 2004, I was determined to find out what happened to Annie HOWELL, Charles' first wife and her children. Then came the breakthrough. In August I was discussing the 1871 census for London on the Internet mailing list and asked if anyone had the CD with a specific London address. I told them I was looking for a Thomas GRAHAM and his family. Within a day I had a reply and attached was a page from the 1871 census mentioning Thomas GRAHAM and there, two households from Thomas, was Annie GRAHAM with her son Inigo Charles de LONGUEVILLE GRAHAM along with Annie's two brothers, George and Thomas HOWELL. I could not believe my eyes, what a stroke of luck. The lady who sent the page said she noticed the name Annie GRAHAM and thought maybe she was mine as well. Here was Charles' first wife decidedly not dead and as far as I could ascertain not divorced either. She had listed herself as a widow on the census. I decided to check the 1901 census online to see if Annie was there but there was no sign of her. I then checked out the Free BMD site online. Luck was with me and in the July quarter of 1896 I found a mention of the death of an Annie F. GRAHAM age 66. I took a chance fairly sure that this was her and sent for a copy of the death certificate. Sure enough when it arrived it was the one I was looking for the death being notified by her grandson A. J. GRAHAM. This gave me a clue that one of her two sons at least had married and had children (a search for another day) Again I talked to my mother and told her that the story about "the first wife coming to New Zealand and taking everything after Charles had died" could not have happened as Annie was dead by 1906 and we discussed the fact that maybe it was not Annie that had come out to New Zealand but perhaps one or both of her sons. That would explain the awful family row that other New Zealand cousins had heard about. It certainly fit the story. I know also that Charles had not left a will that meant perhaps the first family had precedence over his New Zealand family? So, in essence it seems to me that my 2-great-grandfather was a cad. He married in the United Kingdom and had two sons (that I know of) came to New Zealand with his de facto wife and had by her two sons and six daughters -- not marrying until quite late in life and even then fibbing on his marriage registration. He had "airs above his station" (his de Longueville name change and the stories of South America, etc.) and could not even admit that his mother's maiden name was JONES. His father was an excise officer (and a bad one at that) but Charles preferred to let people think his father was a serving officer in the armed forces. Even the death notice in the Otago Witness for Charles' younger brother Harry was incorrect, stating that George GRAHAM was "High Bailiff of West Kent," which was untrue and caused me endless grief trying to access information about same. For all that Charles tried to lift his family further up the social ladder it is a shame that he died prior to World War I. Both his New Zealand sons, Reginald and Launcelot, joined the New Zealand forces. Launcelot served with distinction at Gallipoli and was awarded the DCM (Distinguished Conduct Medal). Charles' grandson, Robert ELLMERS, also served with distinction in Flanders, dying in battle at the age of 20 and was awarded the Military Medal for his bravery. I still have an enormous amount of work to fill in all the gaps. I would dearly love to find descendents of family from Charles' first marriage and to that end I am now searching the 1861 census to see if I can find Annie and Charles with their two sons and perhaps other family as well. There is even a sneaking suspicion that he may have been married prior to marrying Annie HOWELL. I have at times wondered what Charles would make of me, his great- granddaughter, uncovering all the family secrets. He would be mortified I am sure, and yet his descendents are fascinated by his story and his actions and to my relief they all keep telling me to "keep up the good work and don't forget to send us copies of what you find." So I continue to dig and with the advent of the Internet as we know it the exchange of information and speed of research has made it much easier. The 1861 census is now a priority to see who else may have been with Annie GRAHAM and her sons on that night . . . the search goes on. 8. Humor/Humour: A Twist of Fate --------------------------------- Thanks to: Mrs. Dale Caverly in Brampton, Ontario, Canada My mother joked about her grandparents, Ernest Frederick William KNOTT and Mary Amelia Emma Maude BOW. She always thought it was cute that a BOW turned into a KNOTT. * * * 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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