RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 16 November 2005, Vol. 8, No. 46 (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: Check here for announcements: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ * * * For best results, when contacting the RootsWeb HelpDesk, provide information about your computer (PC or Macintosh), its operating system (Windows 2000, XP, Mac OSX, etc.) and your Web browser and its version. If the question pertains to something you have found on a RootsWeb site, please include the URL [that's the Web address; starts with http://]. http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/form1.html * * * =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. Editor's Desk: Some Sites Worth Seeing This Week: "Two Longs and a Short"; "Don's Mom and the Turkey" 1b. Tips from Readers: "Finding Family in WWI Draft Records" "Creative Photocopying" "A Secret Weapon" 1c. Using RootsWeb: "Sharing Your Family Tree" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "My Remarkable SCHULTZ Search Weekend" 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Filtering Spam from our Genealogy Messages" "Tracing a Surname's Roots" "Singing a Sweet Tune" 7. Humor/Humour: "Improving Road Signs" 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: Sites Worth Seeing This Week TWO LONGS AND A SHORT: South Dakota Sailor Phones Home in November 1950 http://www.petuniapress.com/ml/19990714.txt DON'S MOM AND THE TURKEY: A Classic Thanksgiving Tale to Share http://www.petuniapress.com/turkey3.htm * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS Finding Family in WWI Draft Records By Frances Willess When I think of draft registration, my mental image is of people 30 and under, so I was amazed when I found a World War I (WWI) Draft Registration form for my grandfather -- Washington Irving BEASLEY. He was born in 1875. I was even more surprised to find one for my husband's grandfather Francis Monroe BLAIR, showing he was born 3 November 1872. That was a double surprise -- the family has always shown his birth date as 1875. My dad, Fay BARKLEY, born in 1898, was on a train waiting to leave for the army on 11 November 1918 and was sent back home. So people need to check for their family members who were born as far back as 1870s. Even though they did not actually serve in World War I, they may appear in the draft card registrations now available online to subscribers at Ancestry.com. In addition to finding personal information about many relatives besides ancestors, I even found my grandmother's brother. We had always thought his name was James Adam HARVICK, but it was actually James Addison HARVICK. Those WWI Draft Registration records are a gold mine of genealogy and enabled me to find a "lost" branch of our family. * * * Creative Photocopying By Arnold Chamove in Palmerston North, New Zealand When I was stuck in Poland without a photocopier or the language to ask for one, I discovered that a digital camera works very well as a digital copier for documents. I use the "macro" setting, which allows you to get very close to the document. Then when you are home, you can enlarge and see in great detail. * * * A Secret Weapon By Jack Novicki in Hawthorne, New Jersey, USA How many times have you seen a 19th-century newspaper notice of a marriage or death starting with, "On the 14th inst. James SMITH and Mary JONES were married by the . . ." But what is the day? Was it last month, this month, or when? What was the day great-grandfather died? What day was Mary born? My secret weapon will answer all of the above. The abbreviation "inst." stands for "instant" or "in current month." I used to count back on my fingers and toes, use scratch paper and hope I got it right. The secret weapon that makes the job a cinch is the "World Almanac" published by World Almanac Books. It has a "Perpetual Calendar" spanning the years 1821 to 2080. It even has Julian and Gregorian Calendars running from 1583 to 1802. Its website is: (http://www.worldalmanac.com/) By using the "Perpetual Calendar" you can, almost instantly, locate the day, month and year in question. For example, if the newspaper was published on 20 December 1852 you could determine, using the perpetual calendar, that the publication day was a Monday and the 14th inst. was Tuesday the 14th. So you now know that Mary and James were married last Tuesday. I wonder why? As good as the almanac is I could not find that answer. Well, back to old-fashioned research. [Editor's note: You can see a perpetual calendar online at: http://www.infoplease.com/calendar.php] * * * Do you have a tip to share with other researchers? Send them to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Sharing Your Family Tree Anna OAKS has been compiling her family history over the past few months. She now realizes that it isn't a project that will ever be "completed." There is always more to learn and additional generations and branches to discover. Anna is at the stage of her research where she has documented several generations. She has compiled the usual array of names, dates, and places. Additionally, Anna has amassed voluminous notes from interviews with elderly family members and has carefully documented her sources. Anna struck up a conversation with her friend, Susie SMART, while researching at the library and proudly told Susie she had reached the 500-name mark in her family tree. Susie commented that it was about time Anna started thinking about uploading her tree to an online repository. Susie went on to say she'd uploaded her family tree a couple years ago in GEDCOM format to RootsWeb's WorldConnect (http://wc.rootsweb.com/) and has been regularly updating the data she placed there ever since. Anna expressed concern with sharing her research in such a public place. After all -- her file includes many living family members and she wouldn't want her notes for these individuals to be on public display. Susie explained that anyone born after 1930 with nothing listed in the death field for that individual would have all information, including notes and even first name, privatized by WorldConnect's living filters. The submitter may also extend that cutoff for the living to an earlier year, if desired. And it is possible to exclude specified individuals from public view by using the Advanced Set-up page options when uploading your GEDCOM. Anna is also concerned about strangers, people who are not her family members, just taking the data she uploads to a public location and merging it with their own trees just to gather more names. Anna doesn't want the "name collectors" getting their grubby hands on her data. And what about errors Anna might have in her own tree and want to fix later on? Sure, she can fix the errors in her own database by simply revisiting the Set-up page and using her original user code and password to upload an edited file to replace the original . . . but what about people who might have copied the old file before it was updated and who would spread the misinformation and never fix the error? Susie agreed that there were many issues for Anna to consider before deciding whether she wants to share her data publicly in a repository such as WorldConnect and there are no right or wrong answers to the questions Anna is asking. Ultimately, Anna will have to decide for herself whether she wants to keep her family tree under wraps and share with no one (facing the very likely possibility that one day her family tree might be lost or thrown away by disinterested family members). Should she share data only with selected family members privately or share with the world by publishing the data online at WorldConnect or elsewhere. Susie admitted that once you share data with anyone else, even a trusted family member, you cannot control what that person does with the information. Susie had shared her data with her Aunt Gabby long before her own tree was ever uploaded to the Internet. Susie later learned that Aunt Gabby had, in turn, shared Susie's research with many people via e- mail and GEDCOMs. So it isn't only online repositories that serve to spread genealogy research. Furthermore, when Aunt Gabby retyped Susie's nearly flawless family tree, she mistyped several names and dates and got a few relationships wrong in the bargain. However, Susie reminded Anna, you never lose control of what you, yourself, do with your family tree -- the one that has your name on it as the submitter. Susie went on to say that this was the very reason she eventually decided to upload her tree to WorldConnect. She believes that by uploading her own GEDCOM under her own name and keeping her own data up-to-date and accurate that everyone would be able to find her tree if they also searched and found Aunt Gabby's less-than-stellar version of her tree. Susie had other reasons for uploading her GEDCOM to WorldConnect. Mostly Susie is interested in having potential cousins find her and share with her as she was sharing with them by publishing her data for the world to see. What better way to accomplish this than to have her data become part of the largest Internet family tree program at RootsWeb/Ancestry? Additionally, by having her file included at WorldConnect Susie saved her data when she experienced a computer crash and found her backup disk to be corrupted! Since Susie's tree is quite a bit larger than Anna's current database she would have been up the proverbial creek with no paddle, she exclaimed, had it not been for WorldConnect's feature whereby a database submitter can enter their password and user code to access the Set-up page and click on the RETRIEVE GEDCOM button to recover their complete unedited GEDCOM. Anna was still a bit concerned about all the incorrect data she'd seen on the Internet in family trees and asked Susie why on earth places such as WorldConnect didn't monitor or edit some of the obvious errors in the trees. Susie asked Anna to think about that for a minute and consider who at RootsWeb would determine which data was accurate and whose was not and what a large staff it would require, if it were even feasible. However, there would be no way to make that determination as genealogical data is ever-changing based upon new discoveries of evidence and records and what seems accurate evidence one day may be disproved the next. Susie explained that the best means of counteracting shoddy or incorrect trees was to upload your own well-researched database and let those who found your tree in a search (as well as the inaccurate ones) decide for themselves what to believe and what to reject. Anna went home and thought it all over. She decided that the advantages of sharing her tree publicly by uploading it to WorldConnect far outweighed her negative concerns. If her little file was ever to grow into a mighty OAKS tree she would need to share it so her cousins could find her. They sure couldn't find it on her computer! She also realized she was only responsible for the database carrying her name and contact information and that there no use worrying about what others' trees did or did not contain. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- My Remarkable SCHULTZ Search Weekend By Joseph F. Martin in Romeoville, Illinois On a Friday in August I posted a message to several mailing lists about looking for ancestors missing from the online U.S. census indexes. The databases were made from the microfilmed copies of the census, but the Soundex was made from the original enumerations. One researcher has found three census pages missing on one roll of microfilm. Thus, someone not in the databases might appear in the Soundex. A researcher from Oregon wrote and asked how to search the Soundex for her missing great-grandfather. She had checked an online 1900 index several times with no success. I wrote and told her that I was going to NARA [National Archives and Records Administration] and that she should send me the names, and I would check the Soundex for her. She did. I asked if she could check the online 1930 index for my missing John F. SCHULTZ of Michigan, brother of my great-grandfather. Saturday morning I had her reply with three men by the same name and age -- one in Michigan and two in Indiana. Incredibly, my John SCHULTZ was one of the Indiana men who was then in Steuben County and he had remarried after his first wife died in Tuscola County, Michigan. All the personal information matched exactly. Also that day a volunteer from the Tuscola County Historical Society responded to my June request for a lookup for a death record for his first wife, Laura AHRENS SCHULTZ. Laura died one month to the day after their 1926 marriage. Then I located a volunteer in Tuscola County who agreed to go to the Gilford Township Cemetery and get a photo of her tombstone for me. Next I located a volunteer on the Steuben County GenWeb page who had a book of cemetery records. I wrote and asked her if she would check the book. Literally, in 10 minutes she responded with the gravestone inscription for John F. SHULTZ (he dropped the "c"). He died in 1934 and was a World War I veteran. On Sunday afternoon I sent an e-mail to the Steuben County Clerk and asked if a marriage record and death record were available for John F. SHULTZ. Sunday evening I received the e-mail copy of the Laura SCHULTZ gravestone photo from the volunteer in Tuscola County. On Monday morning the clerk in Tuscola County wrote and gave me the date of the second marriage and told me how to get a copy. She referred me to the health department for a death record. That afternoon the Steuben County Health Department told me how to get a death record. Monday evening I contacted the Steuben County volunteer and asked if she would be willing to take a photo of John SHULTZ tombstone. She said she would. Monday evening I completed a photo request to her with a check, a request to Steuben County for the marriage record and for the death record of John Shultz, a request to the archives of Michigan for any possible military record, and a request to the Personnel Records Center in St. Louis for any possible military record for World War I. Now here is the kicker. Three years ago I found that another SCHULTZ brother, Joseph, had died in Steuben County in 1969 in the county home. He left no survivors. His obituary noted that he had "delivered ice in the Lake James area for many years." The 1930 census for John SHULTZ showed that he was living in the Lake James Cottages and his occupation was "proprietor of a retail ice house." Unfortunately, I did not locate the great-grandfather in the 1900 Soundex for the researcher in Oregon. So far I have received some military records for John SHULTZ from the archives of Michigan and his death record from Steuben County. The Steuben County Public Library has located his obituary and will mail me a copy. That was a most remarkable weekend. [Editor's note: for more about Soundex and U.S. census records see: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson9.htm and "The WPA Census Soundexing Projects," by Claire Prechtel-Kluskens http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2002/spring/soundex- projects.html] ======================== Advertisements ============================ BOOK NOTES: ELKHORN TAVERTN 1860, The Pea Ridge Community. This new book by Patrick L. and Sharolyn S. McCoy, contains a complete transcription of the 1860 census of Mount Vernon and Sugar Creek townships near the battlefield at Elkhorn Tavern, a significant conflict and early turning point in the Civil War west of the Mississippi River. 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Browse: To view the entire contents of a file or a group of files. ALASKA. Kenai Peninsula Borough. Kasilof. Spruce Grove Cemetery; 761 records; Ninilchik. Transfiguration of Our Lord, Russian Orthodox Church; 100 records; Seward. Woodlawn Cemetery; 112 records; Totem Tracers Genealogical Society http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ CALIFORNIA. Santa Clara County. History of Santa Clara County, Index (partial) 74 records; Lori J. Wicks http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ Officials of Santa Clara County, 1851; 123 records; Societies represented in San Jose, California 1888; 31 records; Lori J. Wicks http://userdb.rootsweb.com/groups/ DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Washington. Alumni Lists for Marjorie Webster School, 1934; 28 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ ILLINOIS. Sangamon County. Springfield. Ursuline Academy, Class of 1960; 57 records; Janice Stukenberg Petterchak http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MARYLAND. Washington County. Boonsboro. Boonsboro High School alumni list for 1934 graduates; 36 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ Hagerstown Elks, officers, 1934; 13 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/groups/ MISSOURI. Commanders of the Missouri volunteers, January 1862; 59 records; Missi Darnell http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ NEW YORK. Genesee County. Batavia. Batavia "Daily News," headlines, 1938-1939; 8,343 records; Leilani Spring, Volunteer of the Genesee County, New York, Historian http://userdb.rootsweb.com/news/ OREGON. Multnomah County. Portland. Marycrest Girls' High School, Class of 1960; 80 records; Caron Tait http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ PENNSYLVANIA. Northumberland County. Birth record for Jonas Raup, 1841; 1 record; Janet Rae Senkarik http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ VIRGINIA. Culpeper County. Culpeper. Alumni lists for 1934 graduates; 17 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ Spotsylvania County. Honor roll at R.E. Lee High School, October 1921; 25 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ SHARING OPPORTUNITY. Does your alma mater, old military unit, church, parish, province, county or state have material available that you think would be of interest to genealogists and historians? Do you have any compiled lists of names or databases (other than your personal genealogy) that you would like to share and that you think would be of value and interest to others? In most cases, RootsWeb would be proud to host such material. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ 4. New/Updated Freepages and Homepages -------------------------------------- ANDERSON, APPEL, ARNOLD, BROOKS, BROWN, CAREY/CARY, CLARK, GLENN, HUNKER, KAUL, LEDERER, MURRAY, REIDENBACH, and STROBEL. Major localities involved are: Germany (Bayern, Prussia, Würtemberg), Scotland, Ireland, and United States (Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio, and New York). "My Family Tree with Lots of Branches." http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sodacat231/ * * * 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 5. New 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] GERMANY deusach2 -- Sachsen-Anhalt MEXICO mexjalis -- Jalisco U.S.A. azmjfcdar -- Mary Jane Forsythe (Arizona) Chapter DAR capvvgs -- Palo Verde Valley Genealogical Society (California) gajbcdar -- John Benning (Georgia) Chapter DAR gasg -- Georgia (state) Saving Graves ilcemete -- Illinois (state) Cemeteries ilhca -- Hunter Cemetery Association (Illinois) kssvgs -- Smokey Valley Genealogical Society (Kansas) kygrays2 -- Grayson County (Kentucky) moccdar -- Columbian (Missouri) Chapter DAR msayjscv -- Attala Yellow Jackets (Mississippi) Chapter SCV scgssc -- Genealogical Society of South Carolina DAR -- Daughters of the American Revolution SCV -- Sons of Confederate Veterans * * * New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- MAILING LISTS. Brand-new mailing lists can be found under OTHER/MISCELLANEOUS until moved to their proper categories. For information and an index to the more than 29,500 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ADAMS-VA (ADAMS in Virginia, USA) COPPINS, CROWTHERS FARNI GRAHE HUDDART LINENDOLL McCLAREN, McCLEAREN, MOREN SCARBERRY, SLONAKER, SNETHEN, SPIEGELBERG TARHALLA, THIRKILL 6. 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Filtering Spam from our Genealogy Messages By Rick Van Dusen newnethboy@hotmail.com Peter Savage's comments about spam filters are right-on, but we need to make note of the sender's side of the issue: Knowing that spam is such a problem, the sender needs to use the subject line to make it as clear as possible that this is not spam. Spammers are now using sender names that look real, so the name is not going to do the job. Use a subject such as "World Connect post on VAN DUSEN" to make it clear at a glance this is real mail. From the receiver's side another way of dealing with spam is to have an e-mail account that you use only for genealogy postings. The one I give here is such an account. I recommend this be a free account from a permanent, browser-based provider, such as Hotmail or Yahoo. Such an account will stay with you as you change ISPs, upgrade to broadband, etc., so someone who reads your post in five years can still reach you. Plus, your "real" e-mail account is not flooded with genealogy stuff. Meanwhile, this account is hardly ever used, so it shouldn't get spammed too badly, at least for a while. By the way, set security low so those replies to your posts will reach you. * * * Tracing a Surname's Roots By Kinter D. Bernard, Jr. Christine Buckley mentioned in last week's RootsWeb Review about pronunciations of names making it difficult for people to find ancestors. There are several instances of this in Virginia that I'm aware of. For instance, TALIAFERRO became TOLLIVER because the English immigrants pronounced it that way and when people migrated, education came a long way behind survival. Another one is BEECHAM which was originally spelled BEAUCHAMP but, again, the English immigrants pronounced it that way. In my own family, we know it was spelled BERNARD on a coat of arms. However, in England it was spelled the same way for the most part but pronounced BARNARD (Bar'nerd) and was engraved on tombstones that way. People from that family who came to Virginia probably still said Bar'nerd. It is likely that the name became spelled as BARNARD during migration. [Editor's Note: Interestingly, according to the 2003 "Dictionary of American Family Names" (Patrick Hanks, editor), BERNARD may be an English, French, Dutch, Polish, Czech, or Slovenian surname. It comes from a Germanic personal name and its popularity is traced to it having been borne by St. Bernard of Clairvaux (ca 1090-1153), who was the founder and abbot of the Cistercian monastery at Clairvaux in France. The name of Jean BERNARD is documented in Quebec City in 1666. BARNARD (English and French) is the variant of BERNARD. The name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward.] * * * Singing a Sweet Tune By Lew Holt In 2003 Alice and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. The following week we went to Hawaii. It was our 50th state to have been in. I had a brother at Pearl Harbor during the attack by the Japanese on 7 December 1941. My brother died later in the war of tuberculosis. We went to Pearl Harbor where my brother was during the attack. One afternoon we returned to our 11th-story hotel room exhausted and sat quietly resting. The sliding glass doors were open to the balcony. A little bird lit on the railing and sang us a beautiful tune. We sat there charmed by the moment. After we returned home, I told a friend about the bird singing for us. She commented, "You know who that was, don't you?" I didn't understand what she was she was implying. She said, "That was your brother Bill singing to you." Perhaps it was, I would like to think so anyway. 7. Humor/Humour: Improving Road Signs ------------------------------------- Thanks to David Hill Several years ago a highway had to be moved in northern Iowa and the only road leading to the local cemetery was apparently re-routed and ended so that it ran parallel to the new highway. Iowa law apparently requires a "DEAD END" sign to be placed at the entrance to all public roads that do not connect to the rest of the road systems. One day while traveling on the highway there was a funeral procession driving up the hill to the cemetery. As the hearse passed the large "DEAD END" sign, I thought it was in bad taste. Apparently someone must have complained because now the sign reads: "NO OUTLET." Not much of an improvement! * * * Found a humorous sign or entry in census, parish, church, etc. records? Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 8. 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