RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 18 January 2006, Vol. 9, No. 3 (c) 1998-2006 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/ * * * ========================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND/OR SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. Editor's Desk: "Writers' Contest"; DAR Lookups; Sites: Minnesota, New Netherland, and British Death Duty Registers 1b. Tips from Readers: "Finding Lost Relatives Through Technology" 1c. Using RootsWeb: "Sorting Out Surname Variants" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Family Bible Returned" "Aunt Finally Finds Niece" 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Pushing Onward" "Outwitting the Living" "Creating Poster-size Tree" "Etiquette in England" "Insulting Married Women" "Foundling Found in Garden" 7. Humor/Humour: "Chip Off the Old (Original) Block" 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ========================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SOME SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: WRITERS' CONTEST. The International Society of Family History Writers and Editors (ISFHWE), one of the many organizations whose website and mailing list are hosted by RootsWeb.com, is sponsoring its annual "Excellence in Writing" competition. The contest, whose purpose is to recognize excellence in genealogical columns and articles, is open to all members of ISFHWE, both published and unpublished authors. Entrants may join ISFHWE at the time of their contest submission. The contest is judged by professionals in the fields of genealogy and journalism. The contest has four categories: --Newspaper columns (published in 2005) --Articles (published in 2005) --Genealogy research story (original, unpublished article) --Want-to-be Writer/Columnist (original, unpublished material) Awards come with a cash prize. The awards presentation will take place at the ISFHWE awards banquet at the National Genealogical Society (NGS conference in Chicago, Illinois, 8 June 2006. (Those unable to attend will receive their awards after the conference.) Entries must be received by the coordinator no later than 1 March 2006. Rules, specific information, and entry form are available at http://www.rootsweb.com/~cgc/ * * * NEED A DAR LOOKUP? Do you think you might have an ancestor who served in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)? Would you like to know whether your ancestor is listed with the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) in the "Patriot Index"? A helpful group of organized DAR VIS volunteers monitor the RootsWeb DAR Message Board every day and welcome lookup requests. Include your Revolutionary War-era ancestor's first and last name, spouse's name (if known), dates of birth, death, and state of residence When posting your lookup request. You need not be interested in joining the DAR to request a lookup. http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.organizations.dar * * * SOME SITES WORTH SEEING. MINNESOTA. Check the Dalby Database with more than 1.5 million records, such as cemetery, Civil War, newspaper articles, and others of interest to genealogists. http://www.dalbydata.com/ DUTCH TREAT. Take a virtual tour of New Netherland and also find books and publications on the subject. http://www.nnp.org/ http://www.nnp.org/fnn/fnnstore/books.html BRITISH DEATH DUTY REGISTERS, 1796-1811. These records hold details of wills and bequests for estates of England and Wales liable to death duties (from courts other than the Prerogative Court of Canterbury). http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/death-duty.asp * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS Finding Lost Relatives Through Technology By Vivian Dickinson A few years ago I decided to try to find my mother's maternal family. My sister had started the genealogy and gotten a bit of information from my maternal grandmother which she gave to me as a starting point. This included some cards my grandmother had received from her younger brother on special occasions. These cards were in French as my grandmother was from France, maiden name CRAMPON. My sister had had them translated and they told of the life of a young boy during World War II. It was not pleasant. My grandmother was already in Canada by then so this was the only way to share in her brother's life from that point on. I read the translations and began to wonder. If my granduncle were that young during WWII, would he still be alive today? How could I find out? I had his name and an address from his last card to my grandmother and other personal information she had already provided. In reading the cards I had been able to glean some good genealogical data. I went to the Internet and searched the International 411 for his name and address as I had it. Believe it or not -- he was still alive and still at that address. I composed a letter, in English, and sent it to him, along with a copy of the genealogical information I had gathered to date. I apologized for disturbing him, asked if I had the right person but if not, to accept my apologies and discard the contents. I heard back that he was the right person, but that he was sending the paperwork to his niece to respond as she had a better grasp of English. She was ecstatic to receive this information because it finally told her what had happened to her father. She knew only that he had died and her mother had remarried. My cousin and I corresponded by e-mail for quite a while after that and thanks to her I was able to expand my mother's tree and find a number of new cousins in the United States. * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Sorting Out Surname Variants Christy CAKE and Pete PAINTER reached the point in comparing their family trees where they have figured out that they are, indeed, cousins. However, along the way the two sometimes felt like the blind men touching different parts of the elephant when comparing notes. The information they found in researching their mutual PAINTERs wasn't always in agreement--especially where the spelling of names comes into play. Pete is quite certain that the surname PAINTER was originally BENDER when their mutual Germanic immigrant ancestor left the western Palatinate in the early 18th century and settled in Pennsylvania. PAINTER isn't a translation of BENDER, Pete explained, but the letters B and P in German are often interchanged and to English-speaking people in Virginia (where a branch of their PAINTER family migrated about 1774) the two words could have sounded alike and the name have evolved from BENDER to PAINTER. Christy doesn't see the logic in the name evolution, but by comparing notes with Pete as to the facts they can each prove about their PAINTERs she has to admit that George BENDER, Jr., of Pennsylvania and George PAINTER of Virginia are a perfect match. The most convincing piece of evidence is the Pennsylvania will of Johan George BENDER, Sr., who lists his son, George, Jr. as living in Augusta County, Virginia. Christy had traced her PAINTERs back to Rockingham County, Virginia. She was not sure this tied in with Pete's finding of Johan George, Sr.'s will listing George, Jr., in Augusta County until Pete pointed out that Augusta County originally encompassed the area that later became Rockingham County. Christy and Pete's PAINTERs lived in Rockingham County, but at the time Johan George BENDER, Sr. wrote his will in 1777 this was still Augusta County. Christy and Pete were contacted by Betty BINDER who found the two cousins through their posts on the PAINTER mailing list. She believes she descends from their mutual ancestor, Johan George BENDER, Sr. However, Betty's branch of the BENDER line migrated from Pennsylvania to North Carolina along with a church group. Betty's main focus is centered around a John BENDER who before removing to North Carolina had married in Pennsylvania in 1779 to a Catherine BECKER. The evidence Betty puts forth suggests that her John BENDER is the brother of their George BENDER, Jr. -- also listed in Johan George Sr.'s 1777 will. However, John BENDER's surname evolved into BINDER in North Carolina. Church records in that state indicated that John BINDER, originally of Pennsylvania, was married to a Mary BAKER. Betty wasn't sure whether Mary BAKER and Catherine BECKER were one person or two different wives. Pete pointed out that the surname BECKER often became BAKER in English- speaking areas and that the name represented a near translation of the occupation baker. Pete suggested the Mary and Catherine confusion could be explained if it could be ascertained whether Mary's full name could possibly be Mary Catherine BECKER/BAKER and that her baptismal record might reveal the answer. Pete explained that Germans generally used a baptismal first name, such as Mary or Johan (as the BENDER's immigrant had done), for formal or religious purposes, but went by their middle personal name (Rufnamen) throughout their lives. These three cousins discovered that being too rigid in researching the spelling of ancestors' surnames can result in painting yourself into a corner. They've resolved not to get all bent out of shape over their BENDERs. =============== Advertisement ====================== Internet Genealogy -- Download a FREE Preview Issue! Internet Genealogy is a new magazine from the publishers of Family Chronicle and History Magazine. The first issue will be on newsstands at the end of February and will carry a cover date of April/May 2006. For a limited time, you can download a FREE preview issue of Internet Genealogy. You can also take advantage of a limited time introductory subscription offer of $20 (US) or $23 (Cdn) for one year. Visit http://internet-genealogy.com/IG_subsRW.htm * * * REQUEST A SEARCH FOR YOUR ANCESTORS AT THE FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY ANCESTOR SEEKERS researchers at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City will search this vast collection for your ancestors from the U.S./Canada, Ireland, Germany, Holland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Latin America. If you commission the work (there's no obligation to do that!) prices start from $50 US. For a FREE initial e-mail consultation visit http://www.ancestorseekers.com/research/rwr/ RESEARCHERS URGENTLY REQUIRED TO CONDUCT U.S, GERMAN and OTHER RESEARCH AT THE FHL Visit http://www.ancestorseekers.com/researcherswanted.htm ================ End Advertisement ==================== 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: Family Bible Returned By Patrick Colvin It still is amazing to open my e-mail to hear from someone I don't know with the information that I was seeking. It's because of RootsWeb and Family Tree Maker that this can happen. My latest involved a woman from Kirkland, Washington who contacted me to return an 1874 family Bible -- intact with marriage records, birth records, and deaths. This bible started out in Alexandria Bay, New York. It also included poems, clippings, flowers pressed between the pages, and four hair clippings. I truly feel that it's because of services such as yours that this can happen. Keep up the great work and my thanks for your organization. * * * Aunt Finally Finds Niece By Barbara Mallory Philippus in Austin, Texas, USA I just read the story of the person that found her friend's father from World War II-era, so I decide to tell my story along the same line. I knew that my brother had fathered a child in Baltimore, Maryland during WWII. However I never knew her name. I only had a picture of her at about age four and knew where and when she was born. I thought of her over the years, but could not figure out a way to try to locate her, as the parents were never married. I had no idea that she carried my brother's last name or I would have probably found her early on. His name was listed on her birth certificate as her father, which I did not expect. One day doing a search on a RootsWeb site I found a short message. "Does anyone know a [---] [---] who was from Texas and stationed in near or in Baltimore, Maryland in 1945?" My instinct immediately kicked in and I seem to know this was my niece. I e-mailed asking her a few more question and telling her of the picture. She ask if the little girl in the picture had a spot in the middle of her forehead. Going back and examining the picture, sure enough there was the spot. Her aunt had a picture of my brother, but over the years it was misplaced or lost. I sent several pictures of my brother and her aunt was able to verify that it was my brother. We exchanged many more family pictures and e-mail messages. I went to met her about six months after our discovery. We are since very much in touch with each other and planning another visit soon. * * * Tell us how you made an online connection. Have you found a special cousin? A photograph of your great-grandparents? Solved a missing link that enabled you to take your roots back to Charlemagne? Did you leap over some brick walls or cleverly figure out where your grandmother was hiding in a census? Do tell! Dazzle us with your brilliant sleuthing or uncanny luck. We're all ears. Send your tales of genealogical adventure to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 3. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ ---------------------------------------------- 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/ 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. LOUISIANA. Bienville Parish. Ringgold. Pleasant Grove Cemetery; 794 records; Maxine Blake Morgan http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ MARYLAND. Washington County. Hagerstown. Hagerstown High School alumni list, 1934; 291 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ NEW YORK. Genesee County. Batavia. "Batavia Daily News'; 9,769 records; Leilani Spring, Volunteer of the Genesee County Historian http://userdb.rootsweb.com/news/ SOUTH CAROLINA. Cherokee County. Gaffney. Cherokee Avenue Baptist Church. Nursery Class 1952; 206 records; Nursery Class 1953-54; 24 records; Barb Selletti http://userdb.rootsweb.com/churchrecords/ TEXAS. Knox County. Benjamin. Benjamin School 1979 Yearbook; 135 records; Jane Engbrock http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ Lavaca County. Pilot Grove Cemetery; 632 records; Dylan Saylor http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ 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 DUNHAM, WILCOX, TROTT, KIRK. The website has been substantially updated with marriages, cemetery records, genealogies, and other vital records from various localities in Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/new.htm GLIDDON, GLIDDEN, GLYDON. As there were only 270 males of all ages recorded with these surnames in the 1901 census of England and Wales, it would appear that the current holders of these names are probably all related. This website has been created to offer an opportunity for this family to re-connect by publishing their stories, lineages, and photos. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gliddon/GliddonHome.htm JARED. This site contains the "Books of Jared," written by Eleanor McAllister HALL and has been updated to include the posting of Volume 3. Click on "The Books" link to find all the books. These files are "searchable" using Adobe Reader. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bookofjared/ OWEN, ROBERTSON, VANN ANCESTRY. Includes OWEN, HUDSON, ROBERTSON, WISE, VANN, VARNEDOE, and related lines, with family origins, individual life sketches, notes, photos, Civil War soldiers and other events. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lcowen/ SARSFIELD. Dedicated to worldwide examples of the use of the name SARSFIELD in commemorative naming of places and things. These range from a town in Canada to a US Navy destroyer, a mansion in South Carolina and a plantation in Maine to a sports stadium in Argentina. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~n1b2sarsfield/sarsfield_name/ SCOTLAND. Banffshire censuses 1841, 1851, and 1861. Banffshire FreeCEN Project records are being transcribed by FreeCEN volunteers. Help is always welcome. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~banff1841/ Inverness-shire 1851 census records are being transcribed by FreeCEN volunteers. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~banff1841/Inverness1851.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] CANADA canquebe -- Quebec candeser -- Deseronto FRANCE Framonts -- Mont-Saint-Martin U.S.A. arsg -- Arkansas Saving Graves cacaoa -- Castor Association of America (California) caclamir -- La Mirada City (California) gapauld3 -- Paulding County (Georgia) inhowar2 -- Howard County (Indiana) maclakev -- Lakeville City (Massachusetts) mscchgs -- Choctaw County (Mississippi) Historical and Genealogical Society tnafamer -- African American Griots (Tennessee) tncbcdar -- Chickasaw Bluff (Tennessee) Chapter DAR txhopkin -- Hopkins County (Texas) vascdar -- Spotsylvania (Virginia) Chapter DAR DAR--Daughters of the American Revolution * * * New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- 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 GREENHELD (includes GREENEHELD), GRIVES KENNEDY-DNA, KOBIALKA LAMPITT (includes LAMPIT, LAMPETT, and LAMPET), LUFFE MACHI, MCFEELY, McHUGO PENKAVA RASBURY VITECK WALROND NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS CAN-SK-CEMETERIES -- Cemeteries in Saskatchewan. Sharing information, location, and other things directly related. NEW ETHNIC OR SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS CADATA -- New files uploaded to the CAGenWeb (CaliforniaGenWeb) Archives GULF-STATE-GUARDS -- Civil War re-enacting, genealogy, history, and education are the primary focuses. The list will be used to notify of historical information of the original Gulf State Guards (2nd Florida Company F), to update members of upcoming events, to inform new recruits of information about the company, and to provide general assistance. TMG-STL-USERS -- St. Louis (Missouri) Region User Group of The Master Genealogist (TMG) software program. The list is open to anyone with an interest in using TMG software. Y-DNA-HAPLOGROUP-G -- Discussion of issues involving Y-chromosome DNA determined or predicted to be haplogroup G. Participants would make relevant queries or discuss the genealogical significance making use of related genealogical, archeological, historical and biological studies or theories. 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Pushing Onward By Jo Anne Frazier Lohse I just finished reading last week's RootsWeb Review. One article, "Finding a Family for My Friend" by Patty M., really touched me. She mentioned that "something" just kept pushing her on. What a wonderful story. I just wondered if anyone out there could figure out what that "something" is that pushes you on? I, too, have that. I just call it "A Stirring." * * * Outwitting the Living By Jennifer Hill Ertmer in Pennsylvania, USA I had to chuckle when I read last week's RootsWeb Review about the elderly parent who commented about family tree research that these people were all dead and gone and what good comes from the search. I too had a similar experience with my dad's baby sister who, when I first got "into" family tree research made a similar comment to me. She had no interest in learning about our roots, and furthermore, made no bones about telling me that she didn't remember anything either. Therefore, the point was "don't even bother me with this balderdash!" It took me a long time--about three years--before I made a breakthrough in my dad's mother's family. Both sides of my paternal ancestors were what I refer to as "first families"--meaning both my great-grandfathers had married twice and had families (large ones at that) with both wives and my grandmother and grandfather were each from the "first family." When I made a break in my grandmother's family tree, I found a cousin of my dad's who lives only about 22 miles from me and from my aunt and so, I phoned him and introduced myself to him. Luckily, his grandmother had been a full sister to my grandmother and I asked him if he would be willing to meet me at my aunt's home some afternoon. He agreed to this readily as he remembered this aunt as well as one of my uncles (now deceased). However, he didn't recollect my dad as he had passed away 60 years ago and memories do fade. We met at my aunt's home and I was initially really surprised at the resemblance this cousin had to one of my dad's brothers -- same shape face, same hair cut/style and same sparkling icy-blue eyes as well. My aunt didn't recognize him and it took a few minutes before she figured out who he was and how he connects to her but then, the photos came out and she had a great time looking over old family pictures with him and talking about family members long gone. After he left, she confronted me -- asking if I had set it up for him to come visit and I said that yes, I had. Then, tongue-in-cheek, I casually reminded her that sometimes some good things do come from searching for the names of a bunch of dead people after all. Since that time, she has reverted back though in her thinking patterns and does not want me to mention anything about my family tree research or to ask her any questions as she has now decided that it is too painful for her. She is now of the opinion that my grandmother was frequently hurt by the actions of her half brothers and sisters and often made to feel like a second-class citizen by them. I don't think that is really what happened as my mother never mentioned any bad feelings with my grandmother's half siblings or their children acting uppity or snobbish. My cousin and I have since come to the conclusion this is yet another of my aunt's delusional thinking about family and things from the past because she has convinced herself that everyone -- family, friends, neighbors -- all look down on her as not being of their ilk or caliber. My cousin and I know that is far from being the truth there too! Just one of those things that come, unfortunately, with age and the mindset that frequently does set in there, too. We have to try to look at the information we get from a completely unbiased stance because age sometimes can bring somewhat strange thinking patterns. * * * Creating Poster-size Tree By Teresa Wagner, Rockford, Michigan, USA I gave my parents a copy of our family tree last Christmas. I printed out two "Ancestor Trees" from my Family Tree Maker 6.0 -- one for my father and one for my mother. It took eight sheets of paper that I taped together. I then put it into a poster frame. I had to edit some of the relatives to make it fit on the eight pages and keep it legible. I chose the "Ancestor Tree" format because it prints out the birth, marriage and death dates and places. My parents hung them side by side over their computer. Now I don't get those questions, "What was Robert's wife's maiden name?" * * * Etiquette in England By Julia in London, England Amy in Virginia asks if it is a Southern custom for a married woman to use her husband's first name. In England, it is still considered polite in private correspondence to address the envelope to "Mrs. John Doe." Her husband on his own is "John Doe Esq." (for Esquire). If she divorces, however, she would then be "Mrs. Jane Doe" until she remarries. Printed business letters on the other hand seem to use the woman's own initials so she would be "Mrs. J. Doe" (for Jane, not John) or "Mrs. J. V. Doe" if her given names were Jane Victoria, for example. * * * Insulting Married Women By Chris in Colorado, USA I grew up in the Upper Midwest of the United States and I don't have a copy of an etiquette book at hand, but I remember being told it was improper, even an insult, to address a letter to a married woman or widow by anything other than her husband's name (Mrs. John Doe). "Mrs. Jane Doe," etc., was used for divorcees. I remember that mom's department store charge cards were in the "Mrs. John Doe" format, and that's how she signed them. Perhaps the advent of plastic and more women in the work force led to women being seen as something besides an adjunct to their husbands (the anonymous "and uxor" of old deeds). It was about time, but some of the older generation still cling to "proper forms of address." They are appropriate for formal situations like wedding invitations, but they've mostly gone by the board in informal correspondence. Frankly, I found researching my Swedish ancestors refreshing because women kept their own names throughout life. * * * Foundling Found in Garden By Anne Whalen in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Years ago while researching in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, I found an entry concerning "a foundling that had been placed in the local minister's vegetable patch." The minister entered the following as a baptism in his parish registers, "Eureka Ina Garden. A foundling left in my vegetable garden, baptized by me on this date." Unfortunately the minister had another entry to make under "Burials" as Eureka Ina Garden died later that week. Eureka means "I have found it." 7. Humor/Humour: Chip off the Old (Original) Block ---------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Glennis Snell in Pretoria, South Africa Found in the Arminian (sic) Bible Christians Register Book of Baptisms in the Dook Circuit, Devon, England (FHL Film No. 0917111): Thomas Original, son of Original Martin and his wife Mary (daughter of Thomas and Jenefer Clarke). Born 22 July 1824 and baptised by Moses Pearn on 26 September 1824. * * * 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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