RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 15 February 2006, Vol. 9, No. 7 (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 SOME SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. Editor's Desk: "Cool Tools for RW Web Authors" "Australian Finds French Roots in English Newspaper" Book Notes; Some Sites Worth Seeing 1b. Tips from Readers: "Searching for My Baby Brother" 1c. Using RootsWeb: "Subscribing and Unsubscribing to Mailing Lists" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Oh My Christina!" 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Bestowing Unlucky Names" "Encounter in Yorkshire" "Canadian Researcher Reads Between the Lines" "Belaboring a Point" 7. Humor/Humour: "Compact WWII Model" 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ======================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1. EDITOR'S DESK: NEWS, NOTES; SOME SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: COOL TOOLS FOR ROOTSWEB WEB AUTHORS. Both new and experienced Web authors sometimes prefer WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing of their Web pages. The ability to see immediately how the page will appear in a browser can have definite advantages. RootsWeb has now added that capability to the resident File Managers on all user web servers: Freepages, WWW, Homepages, and Virts. Click the "HTML WYSIWYG-Edit" button to access this new tool. http://www.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/fileman/file_manager.cgi http://homepages.rootsweb.com/fileman/file_manager.cgi http://freepages.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/fileman/file_manager.cgi http://virts.rootsweb.com/fileman/file_manager.cgi The interface is simple and intuitive, utilizing the icons/buttons used by most word processors or other editors. Font face, size, and color are selected from drop-down menus. Buttons are available for bold, italic, underline, strikeout, subscript or superscript, and left, right, or center alignment of text. Click the "Insert Table" icon to call the dialogue for table design and layout, i.e. border, colors, columns, rows, etc., and the "Link" icon when adding a hyper (hot) link. The toggle button allows you to toggle easily between WYSIWYG and HTML views for subtle manual changes to the HTML. All questions and comments about the new editor for FREEPAGES accounts should be sent to the Freepages-Help mailing list. Instructions on subscribing and posting are here: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/RootsWeb_Support/Freepages-Help.html All questions and comments about WWW, HOMEPAGES, or the VIRTS (virtual accounts) File Manager should be sent to the RootsWeb-Help mailing list: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/RootsWeb_Support/RootsWeb-Help.html * * * AUSTRALIAN FINDS FRENCH ROOTS IN ENGLISH NEWSPAPER VIA ROOTSWEB. Nick Vine Hall, a genealogist and maritime historian in Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia (www.vinehall.com.au), wrote to Richard Heaton in England to say, "Thanks so much for your wonderful website and database on the early Bath newspapers of 1773. I just found two hits for my French Huguenot ROUBEL family after searching for 30 years the hard way. I tripped over this in the wonderful RootsWeb newsletter." Heaton responded, "Very many thanks for your positive feedback. Allied to my very long term passion of genealogy I've been collecting (largely British) newspapers for some 10 years or so (they were reasonably cheap then!). Many of the titles were quite rare and some issues probably the very last surviving copy of what was probably a limited print run. The C18th papers in particular are true windows into a lost world and have given me a much broader understanding of live and events our ancestors lived through. "When I started transcribing, I decided they were worth sharing with a wider audience and RootsWeb kindly allowed me the space to make them available. Rather than just pick out the only "interesting" bits (and C18th papers printed plenty of reports you'd not get away with today), I decided to tackle the whole newspaper wherever possible, especially as so many ancestors appear in the "Adverts" rather than the main text. The newspapers while ephemeral were supposed to be read and hopefully wherever the editors are, they'd be pleased to know their efforts are now available to a much wider audience!" [Editor's Note: Heaton's outstanding British newspaper collection can be found at his website. The index is accessed through http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutillieul/index.html] * * * BOOK NOTES: BRITISH SCHOOLS IN INDIA. "Under the Old School Topee," by Hazel Innes Craig, is the story of the British schools that grew up in India in the latter half of the 19th century. http://oldmhs.com/under_school_topee.htm NEW YORK. The Jefferson County, New York Genealogical Society has published a volume entitled "Jefferson County, New York Will Abstracts 1830-1850." Prepared by members of the society the volume contains abstracts of all wills (over 300) in books A through E. These are the earliest wills extant in the county. The book contains two maps, one showing the towns of Jefferson County in 1829 and the other of the towns as they existed in 1850. There is a brief history of the formation of Jefferson County and its towns. And, there is an every-name index. The book is a soft-cover volume, 194 pages, printed by Benjamin Printers of Watertown, New York in 2004. Copies can be ordered from JCNYGS, Attention Robert VanBrocklin, P.O. Box 6453, Watertown, NY 13601. Checks for $20 (includes postage) should be made out to JCNYGS. * * * SOME SITES WORTH SEEING: BEGINNERS' LATIN. Introduction to the problems you may find with Latin vocabulary and grammar in British documents from 1086 to 1733. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/beginners/reference/default.htm COLORADO. El Paso County. Colorado Springs. Evergreen Cemetery Interment Records and Tombstone Transcriptions. The first phase of the online project by Valerie Eichler Lair includes the burials for 1973 to April 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977 to 7 June 1978 -- and 2001. http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/colorado/elpaso.html EGGLESTON. "The Deep Southern Roots of Stella STEVENS," is an article by James Pylant about the family tree of actress Stella STEVENS (born Estelle EGGLESTON). Related surnames include CARO, FLYNN, COOPER, ARNOLD, and TYLER. http://www.genealogymagazine.com/stellastevens.html * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Searching for My Baby Brother By Judy Ingram Schuur After my parents died I decided to research my ancestry for future generations. I remembered my dad bringing up the subject of a stillborn baby boy that was born to them about 1946. It seemed to be painful for him to talk about losing this baby so I never asked him questions about the baby. He had mentioned that he had to bury the baby and he buried him in the shoebox that the hospital had given him with "Baby Boy INGRAM" inside. It seemed to bother my dad that our "Baby Boy INGRAM" never had a proper burial. I thought about my baby brother being buried in some unknown location and what a pity that I hadn't questioned dad about the location of the burial. Many years went by, but Baby Boy INGRAM haunted my thoughts as I researched. I looked for the birth record and couldn't find any record of the birth. I started questioning my siblings trying to gain any bit of information that would help me locate our Baby Boy INGRAM'S burial place -- with no results. In 2004 I decided to have a family reunion since we hadn't had one in years due to different deaths in the family. I called a maternal aunt of mine to find out the addresses of some of my relatives. While we were talking I mentioned I had been researching our genealogy and had some information that I would give to the different branches of the family. As we were talking, I decided to ask Aunt Berdella about some of my brick walls and I mentioned our Baby Boy INGRAM. Before I got the whole sentence out of my mouth, Aunt Berdella said, "Oh, I remember the night your dad and grandpa buried the baby!" I was thrilled to death to find out that my maternal grandfather had taken my dad with the remains of my baby brother and buried him in the DYSON family plot at the foot of my Uncle Donald DYSON'S grave. My Uncle Donald drown when he was 14 years old and was the first-born son of Samuel Ernest DYSON. Baby Boy INGRAM was the first born son of my dad, William Raleigh INGRAM. I contacted a close friend of mine in Chandlerville (Cass County) Illinois where my mom's family lived and asked her who I could contact to find out if there were any records of the burial at the Chandlerville Cemetery. She talked to the woman that takes care of the records and found out there was no record of the burial. But the woman suggested that since there were two plots that had been paid for by Samuel Ernest DYSON that I could put a marker on one of the empty graves for my baby brother. My Aunt Berdella also gave me other information that was important in my genealogy. This coming summer I am planning a trip to Chandlerville to have a headstone placed on my Baby Boy INGRAM'S gravesite. It won't be on his actual gravesite but our family knows where he is buried now -- thanks to Aunt Berdella. I can't stress enough the importance of asking questions of living people in your families to get information before they pass away. * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Subscribing and Unsubscribing to Mailing Lists Mandy MINDER is one of the many special volunteers who serve as administrators for RootsWeb mailing lists. Mandy enjoys directing the discussion on the lists she admins and helping others by providing a forum where they can discuss their research on the topics relevant to her lists. However, she has one pet peeve -- she's getting extremely tired of explaining over and over to her list members the proper method for subscribing to, and unsubscribing from, the RootsWeb lists. Mandy is at her wit's end trying to figure the best way to resolve this ongoing problem. This information is included in the lists' welcome messages and she has dutifully added clear directions in the list rotating taglines. From time to time she posts an administrative reminder on her lists. But, nothing seems to work -- people fail to save the welcome message as they are instructed to do and they ignore the taglines. What to do? Mandy flops wearily into bed with these thoughts still running through her mind. She drifts off to sleep and . . . Sam SEELESS (one of Mandy's most problematic list members) is in the hot seat on the TV game show "So you'd like to win a million" and Sam is all the way up to the million dollar question. The question that flashes on the screen is "what is the proper method to unsubscribe from a RootsWeb mailing list?" There are multiple choices: a) Stand on your head and count to 100? b) Hold your breath until turning blue? c) Click your heels together and say "Unsub me from the list!" d) Send a new e-mail to the list request address from your subscribed address with the word unsubscribe in the subject and message body. Beeeep! Time's up Sam! Sorry -- you lose! But you have a second chance to win a consolation prize of $1,000 if you can answer this question. "How do you unsubscribe from a RootsWeb mailing list if you can no longer send mail from your subscribed address?" Beeeep! Sorry Sam -- you're a loser! Mandy awakens from her dream with a satisfied smirk on her face. She thinks to herself that it serves Sam right to lose out on the money for not paying attention and learning the proper method to subscribe and unsubscribe to/from the lists. Just in case you might find yourself in the hot seat some day in the future and be asked these question, better pay close attention so that, unlike Sam, you can be a winner: To subscribe in mail mode to any RootsWeb list: send a new e-mail (not a reply to a previous e-mail) to LISTNAME-L-request@rootsweb.com (replacing the generic word LISTNAME with the actual name of the list to which you wish to subscribe. Example: SMITH-L-request@rootsweb.com). If you prefer digest mode, send your request to: LISTNAME-D-request@rootsweb.com instead. Note that a list's request address is used to send commands for subscribing and unsubscribing but the actual list address: LISTNAME- L@rootsweb.com is the one used for posting messages to a list (regardless of whether you are subscribed in mail or digest mode). To unsubscribe from any RootsWeb list send a new e-mail from the subscribed address to the appropriate request address as shown above -- L-request for mail mode and D-request for digest mode. Be sure to include the word SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE (as appropriate) to your request e-mail. If you can no longer send mail from your subscribed address (for instance you are unsubbing an obsolete address so that you can re- subscribe using a new address), contact the list admin by writing to LISTNAME-admin@rootsweb.com and let the admin know the address that needs to be unsubbed. * * * * * * * * * * Advertisements * * * * * * * * * * 99 Standard Shipping at Blair.com! Each item. Online only! Shop our entire line--you'll find thousands of great spring fashion values for women, men, and home ... plus, hundreds of clearance buys up to 70% off! http://microurl.com/747823653 * * * 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 USA/Canada, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. 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By Joyce Heide in Lindenhurst, Illinois Finding my Christina JOHNSON in Sweden became a quest. It seemed as if I were looking for a needle in a large haystack. I started with very little information. My grandmother didn't exactly lie -- she reinvented history. The information in her mother's obituary was not exactly correct. The date for her birthday was wrong as well as the location of where her son was born. With all of this misinformation I didn't have any luck finding her roots in Sweden. Then I got the idea of tracing my great-grandmother's brother. Surely, he didn't need to reinvent the truth. His obituary gave better information. While visiting the Swedish Library at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, we found the police records from Gothenburg, Sweden. Every person leaving the country had to report and register. Carl JOHNSON and Karolina NELSON left 1 November 1 1886, for Odebolt, [Sac County] Iowa. The records for 1889 indicate that on 9 August Christina FRANSDOTTER JONSON, age 29, from Sodra Vi, registered her intent to emigrate, along with two-year-old son, Anders, (Sigfried) to Odebolt. Patronymics were common in Sweden until the late 1880s. This meant the child's last name was the father's first name with a "son" or "dotter" on the end. Every child whose father's name was John would have a last name of JOHNSON or JONSDOTTER. But with the added name of FRANSDOTTER I had another clue. This information along with the information that her brother was born in Sodra Vi, Smland I began ordering rolls of microfilm from the Family History Library. I could find no information in Marma, in northern Sweden, where Sigfried supposedly was born. I did, however, find Carl's birth record. He was born in Sodra Vi on 15 March 1859 and baptized 20 March. His mother's name was Johanna JONSDOTTER. On 9 August 1859, Johanna Marie JONSDOTTER married John Fredrik SAMUELSON. He was a farmhand and she was a maid. Knowing her parents' names made it possible for me to connect the Christina who was born 29 December 1860, in Sodra Vi, with the Christina allegedly born 7 January 1861 and that was how I found her birth record. Parish records list each person, where they were born, married and died, members of their family, which parish they came from and where they went. In searching the 1880-84 records, I at last found Karl Oskar Franson JOHANNSON, Kristina FRANSDOTTER, and Ida Louisa FRANSDOTTER. Without seeing the name of Christina FRANSDOTTER in the police record I wouldn't have associated that name with her. Thus, I finally located Christina and her family in Sweden! * * * 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. ALABAMA. Jefferson County. Cluster Springs Cemetery; 373 records; Robin K. Miner http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ Morgan County. Minute Books 4 and 5; 16 records; David H. Lowery http://userdb.rootsweb.com/courtrecords/ CALIFORNIA. Sonoma County. Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa Memorial Cemetery (partial list); 91 records; Lori J. Wicks http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Washington. Sidwell Friends School, 1920 alumni list; 9 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ KENTUCKY. Boyd County. Bear Creek. Kirk Family Cemetery; 41 records; Eugene Laben Kirk http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ OREGON. Clackamas County. Bolton School, 1912; 28 records; Sasha Tucker http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ PENNSYLVANIA. Susquehanna County. Methodist marriages; 1,482 records; Harry Biesecker for the Susquehanna United Methodist Church http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ Methodist Baptisms; 1,972 records; Harry Biesecker for the Susquehanna United Methodist Church http://userdb.rootsweb.com/churchrecords/ VIRGINIA. Albemarle County. University of Virginia, 1917 alumni lists; 53 records; King George County. School No. 3 1892 alumni list; 35 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ 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 BOYD, LONG. Covers the line of John BOYD who married Margaret (Ginny) LONG in 1731 in Boston, Massachusetts and follows his descendants on their westward migration to Vermont, New York, Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa, and further points west. New obituaries, pictures, and data have been added. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~confido/bkindex.htm SAWYER AND TIETBOHL GENEALOGY. Provides links to several pages of SAWYER and TIETBOHL family history and genealogy listings--Europe to the United States, 1636-1900. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fjt32/SAW/ 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. azmwwduv -- Margaret Warner Wood DUVCW (Arizona) ilzgs -- Zion Genealogical Society (Illinois) kssppa -- Sunflower Pioneer Power Association (Kansas) macacton -- Acton (town) (Massachusetts) orclack2 -- Clackamas County (Oregon) tncemete -- Cemeteries (Tennessee) vacemete -- Cemeteries (Virginia) wibayfi2 -- Bayfield County (Wisconsin) KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS: DUVCW -- Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War * * * 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/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS CRUSETURNER GERRIE, GRANATO, GRISEDALE HAWKIN McCOMMON, McTIGHE OBERST STOPANI, SWIHART TURGEON VOGELEY NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS AUS-VIC-ARCHITECTS -- Lives and families of architects, engineers or surveyors who operated in Victoria, Australia, plus buildings or structures for which they were responsible. ENG-NBL-MORPETH -- Morpeth and surrounding areas of Northumberland County approximating the civil registration district, including the townships of Ashington, Bedlington, and Lynemouth ENG-LAN-OLDHAM -- Oldham and surrounding areas of Lancashire County. approximating the civil registration district PERU SINGAPORE NEW ETHNIC OR SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS NAME-CHANGE -- Families have changed their surname for a myriad of reasons. Official documents may show the name change, sometimes not. For discussion of the reasons and processes, the techniques to research these changes, and the effects on family history research. PODCAST-- For users of the Precision Genealogical Tools software application (http://www.precisiongenealogicaltools.co.uk/) PGT-USERS -- Precision Genealogical Tools 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bestowing Unlucky Names By Bev Symons One of my first major genealogical projects was to delve into my husband's KRAUTER family tree. The exceptional record keeping of the Wrttemberg churches meant that I was able to view documentation from the 17th and 18th centuries. I began to practice the Stterlinschrift and was eventually able to make out many of the entries. Naming traditions were interesting and I found a whole family of sons whose first names were Johann but who were known by their middle "call names." I noted the tradition of naming a child by the same name as a child who had died. I was horrified, however, when one of the mothers kept calling her children Totegeburt. How could she have been so insensitive as to keep giving her children such an obviously unlucky name -- each child she named Totegeburt died! My husband laughed and explained that the word Totgeburt meant "died at birth" (stillbirth). Ah. * * * Encounter in Yorkshire By Arthur Evans On reading the article on someone finding photos of up to four generations reminds me of a wonderful experience some 12 years ago. Researching the BINNS family in the Yorkshire dales area someone mentioned that a Norman BINNS knew a bit. His 60-something-year-old daughter-in-law took me to see this 92-year old. I introduced myself to him and said my mother was a BINNS. He replied in his Yorks dialect, "dos te know who I am?" I replied "Yes Norman Binns." He then said, "Aye I'm Norman, son of Joseph, son of John, son of Nathan, son of Timothy, son of Abram." I was quite stunned and he continued, "Timothy had one leg shorter than tother and walked with a limp." He proceeded to show photographs and culminated with painting of Nathan dressed in a full-length leotard sitting on a chair arms folded saying this is my great-grandfather, he was a prize-fighter (went round villages taking on all-comers). I sat and talked over cups of tea for four hours listening to tales of his life and wish that I had recorded these wonderful moments. Sadly he passed away a couple of years later so never got to see him to say that I had confirmed through all the census returns (which took some doing, pre-computer days) that his genealogy was correct and that he was who he said he was. He did say he did go to the USA to visit relations (showed me his Stetson) and that on the flight over he met the pilot who was called BINNS. * * * Canadian Researcher Reads Between the Lines By Coleen Christensen I was trying to find my grandfather in the 1881 Canadian census. I knew his birth year -- 1871 -- and the names of all of his siblings, yet none of my searches at the LDS site turned them up. Finally I extended the birth year by two years and checked every William McCONNELL or variation thereof that turned up. When I found the family, I finally was able to figure out why they had stayed so well hidden. My great-grandfather had died a few years before. His wife, Ellen, was listed as "Mollie." (No one in the family has any idea where THAT came from). Alexander was spelled "Aleandrie"; Eliza was "Elizia Jane"; George was "Gorge F."; Jessie was "Jassey E."; and Charlotte was "Sharlett F." But my grandfather and his sidekick younger brother were "William J. A." and "Thomas M." -- McCONNOL! Anyone want to guess which two family members talked to the census taker that year? * * * Belaboring a Point By Frank Hanosek in Belgrade, Montana, USA Having children born on the same date one or more years apart didn't strike me as all that unusual. My story may be a bit different. My first son Francis John was born on Labor Day, September 7, 1964 and then my fourth son Charles Brian was born on Labor day, September 7, 1976. So, my wife, Shirley K. Hanosek, and I spent two Labor Days in labor with great results. 7. Humor/Humour: Compact WWII Model ------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Diane Broch, who writes: In searching a name in World War II, I cam across this Name: Charles J Barnett Birth Year: 1846 Nativity State/Country: Virginia State: Virginia County or City: Roanoke Enlistment Date: 22 Jun 1940 Enlistment State: Virginia Enlistment City: Keyser West Component: Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men) Education: 3 years of college Civil Occupation: Projectionist, Motion Picture Marital Status: Single, without dependents Height: 52 Weight: 655 I don't know if this was someone's idea of a practical joke, but I copied and have had a lot of laughs from this 94-year-old person who was listed as 52 (inches?) in height and weighing 655 (pounds?). * * * Found a "proper name for the job" or humorous sign, amusing entries in census, parish, church, etc. records? Send them to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 8. 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