RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 14 December 2005, Vol. 8, No. 50 (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/ ============================================================ IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND/OR SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. Editor's Desk: Sites Worth Seeing "How Much Is That?" "Christmas Archives" 1b. Tips from Readers: "Conquering the Wild LNUs" "Saluting the Family's Military Past" "Ah Ha! Ah Ha!" 1c. Using RootsWeb: "Waiting -- Patiently" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Using Photos to Smash Brick Walls" 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Latin Translations" "Keeping Track of Correspondents" "Utilizing Free E-mail Services" "Problems in Storing CDs" "Deciphering Mysterious Words" 7. Humor/Humour: "Out of Africa" 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =========================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: Sites Worth Seeing HOW MUCH IS THAT? What was the value of a U.S. dollar in 1895? Worth of the UK pound from 1830 to 2004? Genealogists will have fun playing with the "Relative Value" options available here. For example, if great- great-grandpa's U.S. estate was worth $300 in 1832, what is it worth in 2003 dollars (the most recent year available)? Answer: In 2003, $300 from 1832 is worth: $6,409.63 using the Consumer Price Index $6,672.88 using the GDP deflator $67,354.24 using the unskilled wage $124,932.02 using the GDP per capita $3,316,130.48 using the relative share of GDP http://www.eh.net/hmit/ * * * CHRISTIMAS ARCHIVES. "The Chronological History of the Christmas Tree." http://www.christmasarchives.com/trees.html 1b. TIPS FROM READERS Conquering the Wild LNUS By Janet Nelson Your article about using LMU, MNU, NMI, etc. when a name is unknown did not go far enough. A couple years ago you ran an article about replacing such acronyms with [--?--]. [Editor's note: See "In Search of the Wild LNUs" http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20030827.txt] Made sense to me, so I made a week-long project of going through my two Family Tree Maker data bases and putting in [--?--] wherever a first name, maiden name or last name was unknown. So I have things like Mary Smith married [--?--] Jones abt 1857 or Mary Smith married Roy [--?--]. It is amazing how many relatives can give the first name of someone who married into the family, but not the last. Later, when I find the marriage record or death record, it is easy to correct with the proper name. Of course, my Family Tree Maker software had a fit, but I soon got used to its queries about the symbol and continued merrily along. It is great. Instead of Unknowns or _____ and various acronyms, anyone can look at a page and see what is unknown easily by the [--?--] and finding them in the index is not a guessing game as to what acronym was used on that one. It is a wonderful help when working out families off the censuses before 1850 as I can enter each child as [--?--] Smith, M, born Betw 1810-1820 and where or [--?--] Smith, F, born Betw 1810-1820 and where When there are two or more of the same sex for the same time period the software will query me, "Is [--?--] Smith, M b. between 1810-1820 the same as [--?--] Smith, M b. between 1810-1820? I simply click "No" and both are placed on the family group sheet. Eventually many are replaced by names, but the others remain in the tree to be found by other genealogists or by queries from other researchers who have the family history of the missing [--?--] Smith. I can't recommend your suggested system highly enough. It took me a week to go through more than 15,000 entries in my database, making the change, but it was well worth it. * * * Saluting the Family's Military Past By Joan Alyea in Pueblo, Colorado, USA When one of our grandsons recently joined the U.S. Marines, I decided to make up a short history of family members who have been in the service, since he expressed an interest in having this information. The resulting book is about 40 pages. It includes all family lines for both myself and my husband. It begins with the American Revolution and ends with the Korean War, which involved my husband. For many of the ancestors, I have photos, too, and for some in World War II, photos of the men in Europe. At the end, I generated a number of family trees in my genealogy program, going from the oldest individual direct to our grandson, so he could use these for reference. The entire project was done in Microsoft Word and printed on a Canon printer, on both sides of the paper. I then bound each copy with my handy binding machine. This would be a great gift for any young person who is in the service, and it is easy to do when you already have the information in your files. I would have suggested this project sooner -- but I was busy trying to get it done for Christmas! * * * Ah Ha! Ah Ha! By Jan Wirch-Wright in Menlo Park, California, USA I want to share an "Ah ha" moment with RootsWeb Review readers. I have been looking for my father and his family in the 1930 U.S. census for the past five years. His name is unusual, as are his parents' names; however, his brother had a pretty common first name. Five years ago, I really didn't think I would have a problem finding any of them. Boy, was I wrong! I have done every type of search I could think of or that had ever been suggested -- all to no avail. A few nights ago, I thought I'd give my search for my Dad one last try before I gave up for good. I started searching again. At first I got the same search results. Then in the middle of the night, I was inspired to try a different type of search. I thought I would look for his brother instead -- his name is Monte, which I had deemed a really "common" name. My search parameters: "Monte" in "Oregon" born in "Oregon" in "1927" and died in "Oregon" in "2002" Six entries down on my initial search, I see an entry -- "WEICH, Monte -- age 4, son of Emil H. and Johanna WEICH." Those are my grandparents' first names. When I look at the image, I see what the problem is -- it is poorly handwritten and then it was transcribed incorrectly. This is IT! This is my father's family! My Dad's name was transcribed as WEICH, Labone - not the "WIRCH, La Rone" I have been looking for! Even with a Soundex search, this record did not come up. Moral: Don't assume and don't give up hope! If you can, try a kind of different search. If you find yourself stuck on an ancestor you know should be there -- think outside the box. Use the "Advanced Search" option. Check other names, locations, etc. Look for a child. In my case, there were only a few children named "Monte" living in Multnomah County who were born after 1926. Only three came to light, only one with that slightly weird variant on "WIRCH." That turns out to be the correct record. 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Waiting -- Patiently You have probably met people like Hilda HASTY at least once in your life. Hilda is always in a hurry, scurrying around and hopping from one project to another. You can imagine what she's like when she takes a rare moment for her hobby of gathering her family history. Hilda subscribes to a few RootsWeb mailing lists (http://lists.rootsweb.com/) to research her American and English Quaker ancestors. She knew when she started her research that her great-grand- parents, Richard and Patience WILLIS, had belonged to a Quaker Monthly Meeting. She had a copy of their marriage record that listed all of the family and guests as witnesses to the marriage. Hilda figured with her well-documented Quaker lineage that she'd be able to put a completed family tree together in no time. Hilda liked the instant results she usually obtained when posting a query about her Quaker surnames on the various surname lists and also on the QUAKER-ROOTS-L list. A fellow subscriber on one of her lists, Todd THOROMAN, suggested that she might be able to fill in a few gaps in her line and make contact with new cousins who are not subscribed to the mailing lists if she would post a query on the RootsWeb/Ancestry message boards (http://boards.rootsweb.com/). She was warned, though, that the boards don't work exactly the same way the lists do. Hilda's past experience with message boards was through the "gateway," which copied some board messages onto a few of her mailing lists. She'd only posted a message on the boards once. She posted a query and, when no replies were immediately forthcoming, gave up on the boards as a research tool. She wasn't sure she wanted to try this resource again. She'd posted her message over a year ago and never got any response. Nevertheless, Hilda returned to the board where she had originally posted that long-ago message and couldn't believe her eyes. She did have replies to her message after all this time. In the intervening year she had changed e-mail addresses twice -- once when her ISP changed ownership, and another time when she got her DSL service and switched providers. She hadn't stopped to think she should update her e-mail address by logging in on the boards and clicking on "My Profile." Had she done that, she'd have been notified of replies to her query. Hilda wasted no time in replying to her new cousins who had supplied some of the information she'd been seeking. For the past month, the answers had been waiting for her on the board and she hadn't known to look for them. The reply that contained the much-needed data she'd been seeking was dated nearly 11 months after the time Hilda's initial query was posted. This was an entirely new concept for Hilda -- that she might obtain a reply to a query so long after her original message was placed on the board. Hilda decided to post another query with the additional information she'd learned from the previous reply and also to again include some of the questions that still remained about missing entries in her tree. Results were not instantaneous this time either, but eventually someone replied with the missing pieces to her puzzle. Although, her first attempt at posting hadn't yielded answers for all questions she'd asked -- the second attempt got better results. Hilda was reminded of the old saying "if at first you don't succeed, try, try, again" and she realized that sometimes, you need to try another approach and re-post your query -- rewording it if necessary -- and possibly it will draw a response eventually. Hilda began to see the benefit of patience and persistence and realized that patience wasn't just a name in her Quaker family tree -- it truly is a virtue in researching family history. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Using Photos to Smash Brick Walls By Susan Hopkins in Urbana, Illinois, USA This year, and at other times, I've had several breakthroughs on previously unidentified old family photos. It happened because: --Others were able to find me because I posted my family tree files at WorldConnect on RootsWeb. --We scanned and sent each other a few photos of both identified and unidentified people. This worked because our ancestors sent their siblings and cousins photos of themselves and their families. Ever send a photo of yourself to a relative? Ever go to a family reunion and take photos of different groupings of people? Guess what, your ancestors often did the same thing. It recently occurred to me to send a scan of a four-generation photo to a descendant of the only person identified on the back of the photo, John HOPKINS, the eldest brother of my husband's 2nd-great-grandfather. And, lo and behold, the person I sent the scan to had a photo with the same four people, wearing the same clothes and with the same background, but her copy had 28 others, including my husband's great-grandparents -- Phoebe BEERS and William Willard HOPKINS. She has identified two of the three in my photo who were not labeled and I've corrected and added to what she knew of the people in her photo. This larger group photo, likely taken in honor of the eldest's 95th birthday, also tells us that her line and my husband's were in contact with each other in 1904 when the photo was probably taken. And, we can approximate the year because of the apparent ages of some of the identified little girls in the larger group photo. I had another photo of a woman in Victorian-era style clothing, standing behind an interesting chair, taken by a photographer in Niles, Michigan. My husband's grandmother had labeled the photo with the name of a woman who, as far as I could tell, had never lived in Niles, Michigan. Then a different genealogy contact sent a scan of a photo taken by the same photographer in Niles. The chair was the same and the man sitting in it was positively identified. Poking around in our collections, I discovered a photo of a second woman, same chair, and same photographer. Knowing the family lines that had handed down these photos, between us we figured out that the two women were sisters who had moved to Niles, one marrying the identified man in the photo sent to me. Several other siblings had remained in Huron County, Ohio and my husband and I had inherited the photo collections from two of those sisters. The sisters in Niles had sent photos of themselves to the family they left behind. Not only that, further scans sent by e-mail turned up photos that folks in Ohio had sent to the relatives in Michigan. Not only was I able to identify photos for other people, but their copies made me look with new eyes at our collection of unidentified people. I had long thought that the cabinet-style photos we had of my husband's 2nd-great-grandparents, Jane EASTERLY and Willard Knowles HOPKINS, looked too dreamy and might have been retouched to pretty them up. Sure enough the photo exchange turned up more realistic-looking tintypes in the Michigan collection and previously unrecognized ones in ours. In some cases, the Michiganders I'm corresponding with know only that a photo was taken in a particular town in Huron County, Ohio. But when I have the same unidentified photo, we know that person was of significance to both the women who stayed and the ones who moved and we can look for additional clues to narrow down the likely subject even further. And how did I happen to be in contact with other descendants of ancestors who were born in the early 1800s? Well, duh, I have posted all my family tree lines at RootsWeb.com's WorldConnect (http://wc.rootsweb.com). I have it set up so that people have to contact me directly if they want a copy of any of my GEDCOMs in order to reduce the propagation of any incomplete research. Only one person has ever asked for a file. But, I've connected with a number of people with whom to share not only photos, but also bits of data, lines of thought and helpful corrections. Sometimes we've been able to divide up research tasks based on what resources we each have access to. Divide, combine, and conquer! ========================== Advertisement ============================ GET HELP WITH YOUR BRITISH GENEALOGY British Ancestors, a British company with researchers throughout England and Scotland has helped more than 4,500 satisfied clients worldwide since 1999. Researchers will search the records of your English and Scottish ancestors stored in archives throughout England and Scotland, most of which are unavailable on the Internet. Friendly service, affordable prices and free research assessments. For a FREE no-obligation research assessment, visit http://www.britishancestors.com/consultrwr/ ====================== End Advertisement ============================== 3. 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. ARKANSAS. Clark County. Arkadelphia Helms African-American Cemetery; 311 records. Bethlehem African-American Cemetery; 256 records. Clayborn Chapel African-American Cemetery; 146 records. Greenville (Smithton) African-American Cemetery; 54 records. Gum Springs African-American Cemetery; 56 records. Holly Grove African-American Cemetery; 54 records. Kansas African-American Cemetery; 36 records. Methodist Rome African-American Cemetery; 107 records. Mitchell African-American Cemetery; 21 records; Piney Grove African American Cemetery; 209 records. Richmond Hill African-American Cemetery; 126 records. Rose Hedge African-American Cemetery; 47 records. Sandy Community African-American Cemetery; 27 records. Shady Grove African-American Cemetery; 78 records. Shady Grove II African-American Cemetery; 88 records. St. Clair African-American Cemetery; 70 records. Vaden African-American Cemetery; 39 records. Bennie L. Phifer III http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ CALIFORNIA. Los Angeles County. Santa Monica. Santa Monica High School Alumni 1930 through 1935; 1,497 records. Catherine Van Cott http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ Napa County. Napa. Bar of Napa Alumni Listing, 1879; 16 records. Lori J. Wicks http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ Tuolumne County. "A History of Tuolumne County, California" (biography index) 165 records. Lori J. Wicks http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ LOUISIANA. Bienville Parish. Bienville. Providence Cemetery; 2,014 records. Maxine Blake Morgan http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ Orleans Parish. John McDonogh High School, 1965 senior alumni; 596 records. Jerry Simpson http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MISSOURI. Cape Girardeau County. Gordonville. Baptisms for the Zion Lutheran Church, 881 records. Marcine Lohman (Amelung) http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ Iron County. Marriage Book B; 1,176 records. Marcine Lohman (Amelung) http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ UTAH. Davis County. Bountiful. Lakeview Memorial Cemetery and Mortuary; 1,410 records. Aaron Andersen http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ VIRGINIA. Floyd County. "A History of Its People and Places," by Amos Wood; 14,753 records. Katina Keith for NSDAR http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ WASHINGTON. Company D, 73rd Quartermaster Battalion (Light Maintenance) 174 records. Dann E. Mullen http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ * * * 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 -------------------------------------- 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 CORNISH. Surnames are: PAYNTER, QUICK, RICHARDS, and WALLIS/WALLISH from Cornwall, England. Includes photographs (Wallis page) taken by Ken Wallis of Chycarne Farm, St. Just (Penwith), plus updated family information on the WALLIS and QUICK pages. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~niloc/CornishFamily.htm NEWSPAPERS. Transcriptions of old U.S. newspapers found in the attic. Mostly genealogical, but some articles, which are just interesting or amusing. Newspapers are primarily from Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, and Staunton, Virginia. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~oldnewspapers/ PENNSYLVANIA. Washington County, Washington (aka Little Washington). Life in Washington County from 1700s to the present with a focus on lives of those who have lived there. A section called "Town Talk" provides history of towns in the county and where you can submit information about the lives of your ancestors and about the towns. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~florian/ VERMONT. Caledonia County. Has five more towns: Burke, Hardwick, Kirby, Newark, and Sheffield. The site also includes the towns of Barnet, Danville, Peacham, Ryegate, Sutton, and Waterford http://www.rootsweb.com/~vtcbarne/ WASHINGTON. Okanogan County--Genealogy Resources and Links. Includes Omak High School yearbook photos of the 1925 and 1926 senior classes. http://freepages.school-alumni.rootsweb.com/~heeyjude/ohs1925/ http://freepages.school-alumni.rootsweb.com/~heeyjude/ohs1926/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heeyjude/Okanogan/resources.html 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] AUSTRALIA ausgen -- AustraliaGenWeb U.S.A. gawilke3 -- Wilkes County (Georgia) ilcook2 -- Cook County (Illinois) ksatchi2 -- Atchison County (Kansas) kswabau2 -- Wabaunsee County (Kansas) kyclark3 -- Clark County (Kentucky) mtvalley -- Valley County (Montana) njsscusd -- State Society (New Jersey) Chapter USD wifhfdl -- Friends of Historic Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) USD--US Daughters of the War of 1812 * * * 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 APPLEFORD BUESCHEN (BÜSCHEN) EISER ELISEUSON (ELISEUSEN, ELISEUSSEN, and ELISENSON) FREILEY HEAPS KNOWLES-DNA LOHMEYER (LOMEYER, LOHMEIER, and LOMEIER) MITSCHELE OTTERSON REITZAMMER SCHMICH NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS ITA-FOUNDLINGS-TROVATELLI -- During the 1800s thousands of infants were abandoned or taken away from unwed mothers in Italy. Birth records omitted both parents' names (to save honor) and a surname was created for the infant who was placed in foster care. PIONEER-SONS-DAUGHTERS-POLKCO-IA -- Pioneer Sons and Daughters Society of Polk County, Iowa -- a list for special notices and announcements to members as well as a monthly newsletter 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latin Translations By Philip Vaughan in Reading, England Further to the helpful note by Jack Novicki in a recent issue of the RootsWeb Review regarding the use of "inst" -- meaning current month -- in older newspaper reports, I would add the other Latinism, which may puzzle some researchers is "ult" meaning a date not this month but last month. * * * Keeping Track of Correspondents By Jean McColl Coleman in Lenoir, North Carolina, USA I suggest that researchers with much family information keep a list of those with whom they have corresponded -- e-mail addresses or postal addresses. Probably most of those people will have the e-mail letters or correspondence and files incorporated into their own research, as I have (with permission and proper documentation). If anything were to happen to "family pictures," etc. that were passed on to someone else -- the recipient would have copies to help the originator. I have found this so very valuable. Under each surname I have a list of addresses and names and some dates (of the correspondence so I will know just how current it is). * * * Utilizing Free E-mail Services By Howard Grisso in Medford, Oregon, USA There are many free e-mail sites on the Internet. Pick one and use it exclusively for your genealogy-related e-mail. I use one that has a large amount of free space and I have a separate folder for each surname. When an e-mail arrives, I sort it to the right surname. It makes it very easy to keep track of e-mails and even easier to send copies to family members and fellow researchers. * * * Problems in Storing CDs By James Wrathall It's good to be prepared, but in this case [keeping a genealogy CD in a small cooler in one's car] mentioned in 23 November edition of the RootsWeb Review it might be better to keep the CD in a temperature- and humidity-controlled place, e.g. a bank vault. The reason is that, even if the cooler is hermetically sealed (to keep out dust and oxidants in the air) and unless the cooler has its own cooling (or heating) source, it will become the same temperature as its environment, regardless of the degree of insulation. Given the extreme range of temperatures that an automobile in my state (California) can experience (subzero to over 120F), I would strongly advise against storing anything valuable in a car, particularly something as prone to data loss as a CD, which may only have a useful life of two to five years -- in ideal conditions. * * * Deciphering Mysterious Words By Gail in Florida, USA In addition to the UNK, MNU, LNU that was written about recently, I had a similar experience when a friend of mine asked if I could decode some of her inherited genealogical material. Many of the dates in the records were shown as, an example: 81Y5M10D. It didn't take too long for me to ask if these many dates were shown in the "death" areas. When told they were, I suggested that perhaps the "Y" was years, "M" was months, and "D" was days. My reputation as an experienced genealogist was sealed that day! 7. Humor/Humour: Out of Africa ------------------------------------- Thanks to: Alan Hattle in Abuja, Nigeria Having been posted on assignment to Nigeria for a few years, I am reliant on the Internet and RootsWeb for all genealogical research as other sources are nonexistent. However, I keep myself amused by the wealth of imaginative company signs here in West Africa. The second-best I've seen (after one advertising "Live Frozen Chickens") is for an under-the-tree small company on the outskirts of Jos, proclaiming the "Final Home Construction Company." It is, of course, a coffin-maker! * * * Found a humorous sign or entry in census, parish, church, etc. records? Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ----------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIPTIONS. 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