RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 1 February 2006, Vol. 9, No. 5 (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: "SSDI Updated"; "Lost in Canada?"; "African American Genealogy Featured on PBS-TV"; "Hooray for Packrats" Some Sites Worth Seeing: "American State Papers"; "Highland County, Ohio"; and "Norwegian Research" 1b. Tips from Readers: "When Grandma Won't Talk" 1c. Using RootsWeb: "Calling Out the Pedigree Police" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Tracking Scandinavians to Fjords and Farms" 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Translating Names in Texas" "Her Name Was -- What?" "Tangled Roots; Twisted Branches" 7. Humor/Humour: Divine Assistance Down Under 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ======================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND/OR SOME SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: SSDI UPDATED. RootsWeb offers access to the Social Security Death Index (SSDI), which includes deaths records through December 2005. This free database contains several important bits of information on the more 76,601,656 persons whose deaths are on file with the U.S.'s Social Security Administration (SSA), including: social security number, date of issuance, state of issuance, date of birth, date of death, and last address of record. The SSDI is created from the SSA's Death Master File. It is a database of people whose deaths were reported to the SSA beginning about 1962. The SSA Death Master File and SSDI are used by leading U.S. government, financial, investigative, credit-reporting organization, medical research, and other industries to verify identity as well as to prevent fraud -- and to comply with the U.S. Patriot Act. http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/ http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson10.htm * * * LOST IN CANADA? Now researchers seeking their Canadian roots can search 150 million records covering the years 1592-2002 through Ancestry.ca -- a new Canadian site. The new site (http://www.ancestry.ca) is part of the World Deluxe subscriber's package (and also is available through a new Canada Deluxe membership). It includes the following databases: --1911 Canada Census (first and only fully indexed online). This database is an every-name index to individuals enumerated in the 1911 Canada Census, the fifth census of Canada since confederation in 1867. The names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images. This census includes nine provinces -- Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan, and two territories -- the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories. --Ontario Birth Index, 1869-1907 --Ontario Marriage Index, 1858-1899 --Ontario Death Index, 1869-1932 --Ontario, Canada Census Index, 1871 --Ontario and Nova Scotia Census Records, 1800-1842 --Canadian Genealogy Index, 1600s-1900s --Canadian Directories (address and phone), 1995-2002 * * * AFRICAN AMERICAN GENEALOGY FEATURED ON PBS-TV "African American Lives" takes Alex Haley's "Roots" saga to a whole new level through moving stories of personal discovery. Using genealogy, oral history, family stories and DNA analysis to trace lineage through American history and back to Africa, the PBS-TV series provides a life-changing journey for a diverse group of highly accomplished African Americans. The series, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., profiles some of the most accomplished African-Americans of our time, using genealogy and DNA to trace their roots down through American history and back to Africa Episodes 1 and 2 premiere Wednesday, 1 February and episodes 3 and 4 air next Wednesday. Complete details about the series can be found at: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/about.html * * * HOORAY FOR PACKRATS. "In 200 Years of Family Letters, a Nation's Story," by Kirk Johnson (New York Times, 29 January) writes about a Cowan family that has kept letters written to one another for more than 200 years, creating one of the largest private family troves that has turned up in recent years. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/national/29letter.html?emc=eta1 * * * SOME SITES WORTH SEEING. AMERICAN STATE PAPERS. Comprising 38 physical volumes, they contain the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838. The site is searchable and browseable. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsp.html OHIO. Highland County. New Market Township. This site has added new material that includes an account book of an early pioneer, new Civil War data, and family photos. The New Market GEDCOM Project continues to grow as more data is found and donated by community descendants. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohcnewma/ NORWEGIAN RESEARCH. How to Trace Your Ancestors in Norway. http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/sab/howto.html NORSK UTVANDRING TIL USA 1825-2000 (Norwegian immigration to USA). http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/utstilling/ 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: When Grandma Won't Talk How can you find your ancestors when grandma won't talk about them? Such was the dilemma for one of my neighbors whom I offered to help with her family history research. Her grandmother Susan (name changed to protect her privacy) is living in a nursing home. Susan had never talked about her ancestry other than to say that her mother Mary Mello had come from Portugal, lived in California and then moved to Utah where she died. End of story -- Susan would tell no more. Nothing was known of Mary Mello's husband or other children. The first thing we did was search the Internet cemetery transcriptions for Mary Mello. Utah has a wonderful Cemetery Inventory database that will search all of the transcribed cemeteries in the state at one time. Through that we found Mary Mello buried in the Elwood Cemetery in Utah. The burial record included Mary Mello's birth year. Because Grandma Susan was over 75 years of age, I knew she would appear in the 1930 census as a young girl. Knowing how old Mary Mello would have been in 1930, we did a search for her and her daughter "Susan" in the California 1930 census. To our happy surprise we found them and Mary's husband -- Frank Mello (a new name!). Then we stepped back 10 years and did a search for Frank Mello in the 1920 census. Even greater surprise -- Frank had not yet married Mary, but was living with his mother and siblings. We were able to positively identify him because of his age, the location and his occupation. Plus one of his sisters had the same name as one that he and Mary later gave their daughter. In just 20 minutes we had extended the family line back two generations, with many more names and dates than had previously been known. And as for the family tradition that the ancestors had come from Portugal -- they were actually from the Azores, a group of islands just off the coast of Portugal. I'm sure there is more that can be found easily -- now that we have more information to go on. Grandma didn't need to talk after all! * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Calling Out the Pedigree Police Ben BULLEN had only one goal when he started researching his family history -- to collect everything he could find on the BULLEN family. Unlike many family historians who pride themselves in personally checking every detail of each entry they put into their genealogy software program, Ben accepted whatever his family members sent him -- by snail mail and e-mail and from every Internet resource he found. Ben downloaded all of the related (no matter how remotely) GEDCOMs he could find and then without so much as a sideways glance at the data, he merged them with his own file. By the time Ben felt his GEDCOM was huge enough to be publicly displayed, he zipped the file to upload it to WorldConnect (http://wc.rootsweb.com/) because even with his broadband connection it would have taken a long time to place his data online had he not zipped the file. Imagine the looks of disgust on the faces of other BULLEN researchers like Betty BULLEN, Ann (BULLEN) FRETWELL, and Mary (BULLEN) MOAN when the trio almost simultaneously found Ben's newly published family tree. Mary's mother was incorrectly merged into Ben's tree, making it appear that she was married to her grandfather and before she was even born! Good grief! Betty's grandfather was married to his own sister according to this poor excuse for a family tree -- a "family tree of horrors" she mumbled under her breath. Ann, an optimist, wrote to Ben asking him to make corrections and she also placed a Post-em Note on all of the numerous errors she found in his tree. She became less optimistic as the days and weeks went by and there was no reply from Ben -- who had in the meantime posted an updated GEDCOM to WorldConnect adding more and more names but failing to even acknowledge that the file contained any errors. Ann also found that her helpful Post-ems had been deleted by Ben. Mary and Betty also attempted to contact Ben with no better luck. Mary MOAN even found that after her third attempt to get through to Ben expressing her displeasure in no uncertain terms -- he'd blocked future e-mail from her and she began receiving bounces. So, what recourse do Mary, Betty, and Ann have in forcing Ben to fix or remove his erroneous data in his less-than-stellar family tree? Well, they could always call on the Genealogy Police... It is 3 a.m. and Ben BULLEN is sound asleep in his elegant townhouse in a suburb of New York City when all of a sudden the silence is broken by sirens and a knock on the door. "Ben BULLEN, come out with your hands up. We've come to take you in for posting inaccurate information on the Internet! The jig is up, don't try anything stupid like reformatting your hard drive or swallowing copies of your family tree. RootsWeb and your ISP have teamed up and turned over all the evidence we need." Still slightly groggy and wiping the sleep from his eyes after being awakened from his deep sleep, Ben swears he hears the "Cops" tele- vision show theme in the background -- "Whacha gonna do, BAD BOY, BAD BOY. Whacha gonna do when they come for you? BAD BOY, BAD BOY." Ben, now wide awake, listens as one of the men reads: "You are being charged with the crime of uploading a felonious GEDCOM to the Internet. This crime is punishable in the State of New York with forfeiture of your right to use the Internet and your computer for a period of time not to exceed 90 days. In addition you will have to turn in your copy of your genealogy software program. You have the right to remain silent. You have the right to a professional genealogist. If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed for you by the Accurate Family Trees Court." Sound a bit far-fetched? Or maybe you have run into a few Ben BULLENs and wished you could call the Genealogy Police. Of course, this isn't an option, but what do you do when you find your family inaccurately listed in someone else's tree and that person is uncooperative in correcting the errors or cannot be contacted? Actually not much. The realization you must come to is that you cannot control the flow of incorrect information on the Internet or elsewhere (we don't burn old family history books, even though many of them are inaccurate and some are downright fraudulent genealogies). You can only suggest corrections to others, but you can't force them to change their data -- no matter how erroneous. There are no judges, juries or Pedigree Police to decide what is correct and incorrect or to enforce accuracy of genealogical compilations. The best approach to inaccurate information, especially what you find on the Internet, is to do an end run around it by ensuring that your carefully researched and compiled family history data is uploaded and accessible also wherever the incorrect information can be found. Include your notes and sources so that others who find your genealogy online can draw their own conclusions. It won't take long for others to see that Ben BULLEN has just been feeding them a lot of bull and that your family tree is the accurate one. And that's no bull. ======Advertisements====== BOOK NOTES. HORSEMEN OF THE FIRST FRONTIER (1788-1900) AND THE SERPENTS LEGACY. This new 600-page hardcover nonfiction book contains about 200 short biographies of Australian pioneers, military and civil officers, administrators, clergymen, emancipated convicts, and free settlers. 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He had a brother and sister, through whom I have three male cousins and one female cousin. My grandmother was born in Texas and her sister had children, whose last name I knew. But that was about all I knew. I had lost track of everyone. So I posted a message on RootsWeb's surname message board. Some months later, I received an e-mail titled "Found you!" It was from my cousin Bill in South Dakota. He had been looking for me. He knew where all my living cousins were and I got in touch with them, too. Finally I even went to Iowa, not far from where Bill lives, to the small town and Bill and I found our Swedish grand- father's 1918 obituary, which told me where he had lived in Sweden. That's as far as I have gotten with the Swedish grandfather -- he seems to be one of those that drop out of the sky and leave no trace of their origins. But on my grandmother's side I learned she was from Bosque County, Texas, so I got on the Bosque County message board and turned up a cousin Ted who still lives there, who told me that the family has a reunion every other Labor Day weekend in the Norse (Norwegian) Historic Area near Clifton, Texas. So I went to that, too, and met about a hundred relatives. We stayed with Ted and his wife, who were gracious hosts. It turned out he has a painting given to him by one of his family that was painted by my great-grandfather Lars! I have photographed it and plan to frame an enlarged copy. I was still doing Internet research, now in Bosque County, and discovered that Lars had not died the year my great-aunt was born (in the 1890s) as the family was told, but rather had divorced my great- grandmother. The family story apparently was to cover the embarrassment of the divorce. I still have to find out what the grounds were (with typical genealogist's luck, I was in Bosque County while the courthouse was being remodeled and the old divorce records were in inaccessible storage). But I will send an e-mail to the Bosque County historian who offered to research the records when they are available. I have found out which farm in Norway the family came from and got a history of the farm from the Internet that traces my grandmother's maternal line back to the mid-1600s. I have visited the farm, which is a beautiful spot on a fjord. I also found the Digitalarkivet website (http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/) where all the historical church and government records are online and have traced Lars's family back to the 1700s. I learned a lot of Norwegian in the process -- only don't ask me to pronounce it. And, it all began on a surname message board on RootsWeb. * * * 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. ALABAMA. Jefferson County. Crooked Creek Cemetery; 118 records. Odom-Nail Cemetery; 64 records. Turnham Cemetery; 56 records. Robin Miner http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ CALIFORNIA. Death Index, 1905-1929 BIXBY (surname), 64 records. BLACKBURN (surname), 151 records. TRAFTON (surname), 17 records. Janece Streig http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ CONNECTICUT. Fairfield County. Chalk Hill Middle School Class of 1974 8th Grade, 284 records. 7th Grade, 324 records. New Haven County. Ansonia. Ansonia High School, Senior Class of 1926, 107 records. Michele Oltra http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Washington. National Savings and Trust Company, officers and directors, 1920; 18 records. American National Bank, officers and directors, 1920; 31 records. Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/groups/ FLORIDA. Slaves of General William Bailey of Florida, 1865; 32 records. Betsy Ford http://userdb.rootsweb.com/groups/ GEORGIA. Bulloch County. Statesboro. marriage licenses, 1947; 12 records. JoAnn Hagans Harris http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ LOUISIANA. Bienville Parish. Campground Cemetery; 679 records. Maxine Blake Morgan http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ NEW YORK. Albany County. Albany. St. Agnes Cemetery; McCarton burials; 13 records. Nan Brennan http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ Orange County. United States Military Academy, 1880-81; 247 records. Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ NORTH CAROLINA. Edgecombe County. Cemeteries; 149 records. Annette Roebuck http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ TENNESSEE. Knox County. Hylton-Henley-Wilson-Waters; 139 records; Amanda Elizabeth Hylton Fowler http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ TEXAS. Hill County. Malone. Salem Lutheran Cemetery; 502 records. Martha Young for Salem Lutheran Church. 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 CANADA. Saskatchewan. Cemetery listings and photographs for the Drake Cemetery and North Star Mennonite Cemetery at Drake. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~drakesk/cemetery.html CODINGTON, CODDINGTON, CORRINGTON. Descendants of Stockdale CODDINGTON (1569-1667) and also Gov. William CODDINGTON (extinct in male line). Stockdale Coddington (1569-1650) was the earliest immigrant America. Surnames also include: JAMESON, DOUTHIT, DOUTHITT, and DOUTHET. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coddingtons/ ELLIOTTs of New England. Elliott names found primarily or originating in New England states; births prior to 1850, marriages prior to 1875, deaths prior to 1900. Variant spellings include: ELIOT, ELIOTT, ELLIOT, ELLIOTT, ELLET, ELLETT, ELLIDE, ELLIT, ELLYOTT, and ELLOT. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~elliottsofnewengland USS NEVADA. Updated with five new pages. Includes 1934 Navy and Marine officers and crew lists, boxing and wrestling champions, 1921-1934, 1932 Christmas dinner menu; the Ship's Ball on 23 April 1935 in Long Beach, California; Civil War photos taken in camp somewhere in South Carolina of Charles Harvey PETERS, son of Joseph and Sarah (BALL) PETERS, who married Eliza WALSH. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~ussnevada/ussnevada/ 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] U.S.A. caoa -- Castor (surname) Association of America ctchampt -- Town of Hampton (Windham County, Connecticut) iabcgs2 -- Buchanan County (Iowa) Genealogical Society ksncgs2 -- Norton County (Kansas) Genealogical Society kylchs -- Lewis County (Kentucky) Historical Society ohkcgs -- Knox County (Ohio) Genealogical Society ohlucas2 -- Lucas County (Ohio) * * * 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 29,600 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ No new mailing lists were created this week. 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Translating Names in Texas By Barbara Beadles I was looking recently at the 1920 Wood County, Texas census for the household of William CREELMAN. I knew that my grandparents were married there in 1918 and that my grandmother already had a small son from a previous marriage who was born in 1915 His name was "R. L." I asked my grandmother years ago what "R. L." stood for and she told me that she had in mind when she named him, Russell Linny, but said his real name was simply "R. L." That's the only name he ever went by. When I found the family on the 1920 census, I was surprised to see that the only child listed there was the right age, but was named Sorrell. I finally realized that the census taker had asked her the child's name and she had replied, "It's R. L." -- but the census taker heard only "Sorrell." * * * Her Name Was -- What? By Thom Faircloth, president of the Germanna Foundation (http://www.germanna.org/foundation.html) Katherine Reab's article on thinking in accents when searching census records reminds me of the time I found my Aunt "Johnnie" in the census in South Georgia in the 1920s. She is listed as Johnnie Analyzer Gay. This one had me stumped until I asked my 94-year-old great-aunt Esther BLIZZARD about it. She said her name was Johnnie Anna Eliza. But with the south Georgia accent and the habit of replacing the trailing letter "a" with an "er" sound, it was spoken as one word -- "analyzer." Funny mystery solved. * * * Tangled Roots; Twisted Branches By Kay Sera When I read the article, "I'm My Own Grandpa," I smiled and recalled my high school days. I had heard it many times on the jukebox in our local soda fountain. Little did I realize that I would later have a similar event in a collateral line in my own family tree. Due to the fact the main individuals are minors, I have changed the surname. A great-grandfather and great-grandmother, Patrick and Ann DOE, had two children, Mark DOE, who never married, and Susan DOE, Susan DOE married Stephen SMITH and they had two daughters, Mary SMITH (unmarried) and Louise SMITH. Louise SMITH married Joseph JOHNSON and they had two children, Ashley JOHNSON and Grant JOHNSON. They divorced and neither individual was able to care for or support their children. The great-grandparents, Patrick and Ann DOE, adopted the children and changed their surname to DOE. This adoption resulted in the children, Ashley DOE and Grant DOE, becoming brother and sister to their former grandmother Susan (DOE) SMITH and granduncle Mark DOE. They also became their mother Louise SMITH's and her sister Mary SMITH's aunt and uncle. Since that time Louise (DOE) SMITH JOHNSON has remarried -- to Richard MURPHY and has had a daughter, Sandra MURPHY. Sandra MURPHY is the half sister of Ashley DOE and Grant DOE and Louise (DOE) SMITH JOHNSON and Richard MURPHY are now Sandra's grandaunt and granduncle. Whoever said that genealogy is boring does not realize the excitement of the hunt and chase and the thrill of an unexpected discovery. Then there is always that "To Do List" to keep you motivated. Was that relative really a horse thief or was it just another rumor? 7. Humor/Humour: Divine Assistance Down Under --------------------------------------------- Thanks to Margaret Stott in New Zealand Whilst searching the Web for information re an ancestor buried in the Lockhart Cemetery in NSW, Australia, I found the following report in "Transport Projects nominated by the Lockhart Shire Council": "Lockhart Cemetery Road: unsealed road providing soul [sic] means of entry to the cemetery. project will provide all-weather sealed access, and reducing dust." Divine assistance by the local council perhaps? * * * Thanks to Stephen Lignowski, who found the following: In the 1860 U.S. census for Marshall County, Marion, Iowa, (M653-335; p. 34, line 22) there is a listing for 15-year-old Ann G. Thrope -- or Miss Ann Thrope. Wonder if she ever married? * * * Found a humorous sign or entry in census, parish, church, etc. records? Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 8. 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