RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 22 February 2006, Vol. 9, No. 8 (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: "RootsWeb's War Against Spam" New Weapon for Guestbook Owners Book Notes: Williams County, ND Cemeteries Sites: Rebuilding New Orleans Library 1b. Tips from Readers: "Finding Uncle Max" 1c. Using RootsWeb: "You CAN Get There from Here" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Crashing Through Czech Brickwalls" 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Running Out of Time" "A 43-year-old Mystery Solved" 7. Humor/Humour: "Black and White and Red All Over" 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ======================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1. EDITOR'S DESK: NEWS, NOTES; SOME SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: RootsWeb's War Against Spam NEW WEAPON FOR GUESTBOOK OWNERS. RootsWeb recently installed image verification on all guestbook post forms. A verification screen will appear with an image of a word. The poster has to enter that word into the box and click "submit" or the entry will not be posted. This should prevent the spambots -- computer programs used by spammers -- from posting to your guestbook. It also allows the poster to view what they typed and clear the form or go back to correct errors before submitting it. If you haven't checked your guestbook lately for spam, it's a good idea to do so. Use this URL to access the handy post removal tool: http://resources.rootsweb.com/~guestbook/cgi-bin/delete_record.cgi Forgotten the password for your guestbook? Go to Password Central at: http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ or click on PASSWORDS tab at the top of the RootsWeb Home Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/ * * * BOOK NOTES: NORTH DAKOTA. Rural Cemeteries of Williams County, North Dakota, titled "Gateway to the Past," was compiled and published by the Williams County Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 247, Williston, ND 58802. Cost is $30, plus postage and cost of CD is $10, plus postage. Copies can be ordered through Gloria Johnson, Box 247, Williston, ND 58802 and by e-mail: gjohnson@dia.net * * * SOME SITES WORTH SEEING: Kate Johnson writes: "Like so many people, my ancestors lived and were buried in New Orleans, in my case from about 1840 to 1890. The New Orleans Public Library has made my research so much easier by indexing birth, death records, putting obituaries online, and by making copies available at very little cost ($2). Its response time is great and many of my questions have been answered through its help. "They were, of course, damaged during Hurricane Katrina. A month or two ago I wanted to order some obituaries and discovered their "Friends of the New Orleans Public Library" campaign at http://nutrias.org/info/friends/friends.htm I sent a donation with my payment for the obits." RootsWeb Review readers may wish to contribute also. See: Rebuilding New Orleans Library: http://nutrias.org/ * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Finding Uncle Max By Martin Miller After some years of genealogical research, I could not find any record of my uncle, Max David SINGER, entering the country. Yet I knew he was here. He was listed in both the 1920 and the 1930 censuses. The Social Security Death Index listed him. But passenger lists showed Max’s, Morris’s, Marcuss’s, etc. -- none of whom were him. One rainy day I determined to find him. Knowing he was a teenager at arrival, where he came from, and the approximate date of his arrival, I decided to go to the New York Public Library to go through all the SINGERS to find Uncle Max. Earlier, I had found a Louis SINGER (his father’s name) who came in 1902, but it appeared that Max did not accompany him, although family lore said that he did. I wasn't 100 percent certain that Louis was my grandfather. There was also a record of Max’s mother, my grandmother, coming in 1905 with all the other siblings. After going through all the SINGERS on the passenger lists, I found only two who closely fit all the requirements. One was David Mendel SINGER, age 16. The ship’s manifest showed that his way was paid by his father whose address was 508 E. 5th St. in New York City. Referring to Louis’ manifest entry, he also had gone to 508 E. 5th St. I had my man! From there I looked up a citizenship application for David Mendel SINGER and there it was, sharing the same address as in the 1920 census with his wife and son. That wasn't the end. Two names above his on the manifest was a Sara SINGER, 21, who also went to 508 E. 5th St. There has never been a mention of an Aunt Sara, so I don't know whether I will ever find out who she was. But that's a project for another rainy day. * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: You CAN Get There from Here Bea QUICK and Laura LEISURE have been friends since their high school days. Bea and Laura attended a few evening courses at their local Community College together now that both are retired and their children are grown and off on their own. One of the courses they enjoyed most was a beginner genealogy course. They were hooked instantly. Bea and Laura do much of their genealogical research on the Internet, mostly at RootsWeb; but they go about it in different ways. Bea likes to type in a surname or keyword and get instant search results, while Laura prefers to browse her way through the RootsWeb pages exploring links and topics as she goes. Both friends have learned a great deal from using RootsWeb but have one recurring problem -- they don't pay much attention to where within the RootsWeb pages they have landed when clicking through to search results or browsing aimlessly from one page to another. For this reason, they are never sure of the proper way to contact someone they find while searching/browsing who appears to be a cousin or to possibly have information they are seeking. The two friends felt as if they were trapped in that corny joke where the man asks the old farmer for directions and the farmer thinks for a time, scratches his head, and finally says "you can't get there from here." So just how do you reply when you find someone you'd like to contact while searching or browsing through the pages at RootsWeb? First, pay attention to where you are. How you contact someone depends largely upon where you find them listed at RootsWeb. If you find yourself in the mailing list archives at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ and browse to a message, or if you find yourself on a mailing list search page at: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl you may find a message and wish to reply to the person who posted the message to the list. Direct replies to archived list messages are not possible but you can attempt to contact the poster at the e-mail address found in the message. However, no attempt is made to update addresses in mailing list archives -- the archives represent a record of what transpired on a given list on a specific date and nothing more. If an address found in an old list message is no longer valid, RootsWeb has no record of current addresses. You can try searching for a more recent address, perhaps in later posts to the same list of interest to you, but there is no guarantee of locating the poster. If you wish to reply to a message you find on a message board, this can be accomplished by clicking on the Post Reply button while you are viewing the message on the board. Authors of posts on the message boards are responsible for keeping their addresses current. If the author elects to be notified and the e-mail address is current, he or she will be notified by e-mail of the reply. If you find the item of interest at WorldConnect (http://wc.rootsweb.com/), take note of the submitter name and address found near the top on each page of the family tree. It is the database submitters who are responsible for keeping their contact address current and, once again, RootsWeb cannot help you if the submitter has not kept his address current at WorldConnect. However, you do have another option -- you can attach a Post-em Note to the record and RootsWeb will attempt to notify the submitter that your Post-em Note has been added to his file. For the RootsWeb Surname List (RSL) http://rsl.rootsweb.com/ there is contact information included in the listings and you can contact the submitter by e-mail -- provided that the submitter has kept his contact information current. To contact the webmaster of a Freepages or Homepages site housed at RootsWeb or the webmaster of a volunteer project page hosted by RootsWeb, look for the contact address on the webpage. Bea and Laura concluded that no matter how you approach your research-- either by casual browsing as Laura prefers or by instantaneous searches such as Bea uses, if you pay close attention to where you are landing on the RootsWeb site, you will find that unlike the lost driver talking to the farmer -- you can get there from here. 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He and my grandmother, Anna (HOFBAUER) DVORAK, divorced in 1934 in Omaha, Nebraska and my grandfather disowned his three children because they chose to live with their mother. My mother was a junior at Benson High School in Omaha at the time and stayed close to her mother and her HOFBAUER relatives, shying away from her DVORAK relatives. From the family grapevine I was told my grandfather, Louis, had been married three times and fathered another son with his third wife, Dorothy, in 1944 in Portland, Oregon. I started in earnest to research my DVORAK family in 2000. I knew that my great-grandfather was named Nathan and my great-grandmother was named Louisa SEMIN. I interviewed my mother and aunt, wrote letters to all DVORAK family members and to Butler County Historical Society and courthouse. I scoured the Huntington Beach, California public library’s genealogy section, census records and the local LDS Family History Center to find out more information. I gathered quite a bit of data including birth, marriage and death certificates as well as family photos. I posted messages on RootsWeb and joined the Butler County, Nebraska, Nebraska Czech, and Czech mailing lists. The Butler County list administrator was very helpful and created a webpage for me from the information I provided about Nathan and Louisa DVORAK. I was happy to have the exposure on a webpage but was frustrated when I was informed by the Czech list that Nathan was not a Czech name. I didn't know what to do at this point. Then along came "cousin" Wayne SISEL in Minnesota who visited my DVORAK/SEMIN Web page (http://www.rootsweb.com/~nebutler/joseph_semin.html) and e-mailed me that we shared a great-grandfather Josef SEMIN -- Louisa’s father. He knew about Louisa and Nathan and had a copy of their marriage certificate that he shared with me. Nathan DVORAK married Alosia "Louisa" SEMIN 16 August 1891 in David City, Butler County, Nebraska. His father was listed as Ignac; his mother was not listed. Now I knew his father’s name and it was a Czech name. The book, "A History of Czechs in Nebraska" names the first settlers coming to Brainard in 1875. Both Ignac DVORAK Sr. and Joseph SEMIN Sr. are mentioned. The Brainard [Butler County] Nebraska centennial book, 1878-1978 -- Brainard’s First Hundred Years -- tells that Ignac DVORAK SR. drew the plans for the building of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Brainard. I was moving forward. My brick wall started to come down faster when "Cousin" Jim FUXA of Louisiana (from the Czech list) answered my plea for information. Jim told me he had a belated Christmas present for me early 2001. His gift was my great-grandfather’s Czech name -- Ignac Jr. Jim’s ancestor, Marie DVORAK, was the sister of Ignac Jr. "Nathan" and she had kept family records and passed them down to her descendants. These records said Ignac Jr. was known as Nathan or Nick. Jim had in his possession a family photo of Ignac Sr. with his wife, Theresia, and children, which he agreed to share with me. I already had a photo of Nathan as an older gentleman from my mother, so now I could compare his youthful picture with his mature one. Jim had hired a Czech genealogist to do research in the Moravian archives and was willing to share that research with me as well. I now had my direct line DVORAK family back to Matej -- born about 1672 in Pistina, Bohemia. Armed with all this new information I wanted to widen my search and to fill in the gaps on known ancestors. Leo Baca's books on Czech immigrants was being discussed on the Czech list and members of the list who owned the books agreed to do look-ups. I asked for a look-up of the Ignac DVORAK family. On page 36 of Vol. VIII appeared "DWORAK, Wenzel 19, Ignac 36, Theresia 35, Ignac 7, Mat 6, Marie 4, and Thomas 11/12 sailing from Bremen, Germany to Baltimore, Maryland from Pistina, Bohemia, arriving 19 June 1869." Reading the general discussion on the Czech list I learned I could get a copy of the actual passenger list by e-mailing the Enoch Pratt Free Library (http:www.//pratt.lib.md.us/). It was recommended to ask for the ship arrivals posted in the "Baltimore Sun" [newspaper] too. I e-mailed the library and in a short time I received both documents in the mail. Ignac Sr. and Wenzel listed their destination as La Crosse, Wisconsin. Jim and I were in constant e-mail contact during this time. He had a photo in his possession of a family taken in La Crosse. Jim had mailed the photo to his SOUKUP relatives in La Crosse to see if anyone could identify the family. The photo was shown at a local genealogy meeting and a Wisconsin DVORAK descendant said her mother was one of the little girls in the photo and she identified everyone in the picture. The man in the photo was identified as Wenzel DVORAK. Wenzel, the 19-year-old traveling with Ignac and his family, turns out to be his younger brother. I went to switchboard.com and looked up all the DVORAKs in La Crosse, and mailed a letter to each telling them about myself and my research. A few weeks later I received a long-distance call from William DVORAK of La Crosse telling me that Wenzel was his grandfather. William mailed me the genealogy research done by his cousin--Betty LAMB HYDE. Betty had also done research through the Moravian archives and had a copy of the marriage certificate for Ignac and Wenzel DVORAK's parents. Ignatz DVORAK married Marie KOPITOVA on 28 February 1832 in the village of Straz nad Nezarkou near Pistina, Bohemia. I then learned that Betty was the woman who identified the people in the photo sent by Jim that was passed around at the La Crosse genealogy meeting. Wenzel’s descendants shared photos and genealogical data on their branch of the family with me and my genealogy files stored in my Family Tree Maker program kept growing. The home that was purchased by Wenzel DVORAK in La Crosse was still owned by the family. I had the good fortune to meet my La Crosse relatives in June 2001 when my husband and I traveled to a grandson's wedding in Cascade, Iowa. William told me that La Crosse was only about four hours away and invited us to spend a night at their home. Bill drove us all over La Crosse with a running commentary on DVORAK history. He and his wife shared their guest room with us and treated us to outstanding hospitality. New documents and information kept flowing my direction. I obtained copies of Ignac and Wenzel’s Declaration of Intent for citizenship from the State of Wisconsin and copies of obituaries in both Brainard and La Crosse. It was exciting learning all about my DVORAK ancestors. But, even with all my successes I was still anxious to know more about my grandfather Louis B. DVORAK’s life. I knew that he died in Portland, Oregon. I joined the Multnomah County, Oregon list and posted a request asking for direction in obtaining information on Louis’ third marriage and the name and location of my half uncle who is two years younger than I. Diane GONTHIER, of Oregon, answered with a RAoK (random act of kindness) -- she e-mailed me copies of Louis and Dorothy’s obituaries. She also went to the Multnomah County Courthouse and had the divorce papers and Louis’ probate records mailed to me. I learned that the son was two years old at the time of the divorce and his name was Louis B. DVORAK Jr. Diane helped again by finding uncle Louis’ address for me. I wrote to my half uncle telling him who I was and the purpose of my letter. He willingly provided details of his life and family but was not interested in knowing anything about his father. His mother told him very little and after the divorce he never saw his father. I owe my success to RootsWeb -- without which I would never have been able to crash through my DVORAK brickwall. The ability to be in contact with fellow researchers across the world is amazing. Thank you all! * * * Tell us how you smashed through your brickwall. 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/ ---------------------------------------------- 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. Springhill Cemetery; 1,559 records. Maxine Blake Morgan http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ MINNESOTA. Ramsey County. Saint Paul. St. Adalbert's Catholic Church; 75 records. Pat Soika http://userdb.rootsweb.com/churchrecords/ NEBRASKA. Kearney County. Minden. 1909 Presbyterian Church dedication -- names mentioned; 20 records. Sasha Tucker http://userdb.rootsweb.com/churchrecords/ PENNSYLVANIA. Crawford County. Meadville. Meadville High School, 1954 alumni; 246 records. William Cunningham http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ VERMONT. Rutland County. Chittenden. Pension file affidavits of Orange Phelps; 6 records. 1853, 8 records; 1871, 7 records. Graham H. Phelps http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ 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 NEW JERSEY. THE ORANGE BREWERY OF ORANGE. A detailed look at the 78-year history of the brewery and information pertaining to the WINTER family from Bayern, Germany that built, owned, and operated it beginning in 1901. Also includes a history of their first brewery, the M. Winter Brothers Brewing Company of Pittsburgh, 1883-1899. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~orangebrew/ NEW YORK. CENTRAL NEW YORK FAMILIES. Includes vital records (deaths and marriages) plus Civil War veterans' death records of Oneida, Jefferson, Broome, and Herkimer counties (from 1865 and/or 1875 New York state censuses), plus 600 early burials from St. Peter's Catholic Church in Rome (Oneida County). Burials listed from 1837 through 1882. This was an Irish Catholic church. The records include name of deceased, age at death, date of death, parents' names, if known, section of cemetery where buried and occasional comments may include date of birth, place of birth, and/or military regiment. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cnyfamilies/ 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. azecdar -- Estrella (Arizona) Chapter DAR flcfccgs -- Volusia Flagler County Council of Genealogy Societies (Florida) flhuguen -- Huguenot Society of Florida idbffhc -- Bonners Ferry Family History Center (Idaho) incemete -- Cemeteries (Indiana) inhendr2 -- Hendricks County (Indiana) kycemete -- Cemeteries (Kentucky) nymcdar -- Mohegan (New York) Chapter DAR ortmbdar -- Tabitha Moffatt Brown (Oregon) Chapter DAR KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS: DAR -- Daughters of the American Revolution * * * New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- No new 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Out of Time Cindi Schmerber I have been working for the last several years on sorting through my parents 60-plus years' worth of family photos and slides. I've video- taped my father talking about his World War II experiences and will soon sit both of them down to talk about how they met, married, and started our family. Together we have sorted, dated, identified, and begun scanning the photos and my seven surviving siblings received the first of many CDs to come as their Christmas gifts this past year. It was especially touching to one sister, who lost all of her childhood, marriage, and her children's photos when her house burned. I was also fortunate enough to get cooperation from a surviving aunt and uncle to be allowed to scan their family photos for inclusion. (A sister had our home movies converted to VHS some years ago, and we will soon transfer them to DVDs and a niece who works in the television industry will compile all of these into one format for my parents' upcoming 60th wedding anniversary.) It is an ongoing process, and I was also determined to do the same thing with my husband's mother and stepfather (the only father he has ever known). His mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease about four years ago, and is currently in a nursing home unable to recognize anyone. When she was first diagnosed, though, we sat down with her and identified all of their family photos, while her memory was still clear. My plans were to finish with my family, then sit down with a video camera to tape my husband's stepfather telling his story. He was a born raconteur, able to take the most mundane, everyday incident and turn it into something vivid and funny. He didn't need to use everyday incidents, though, because he served as a policeman in several small south Texas towns from the early 1950s through the 1980s, witnessing social changes that affected people in some amazing ways. His stories of his first days as a policeman included one absolutely hilarious story of two white cops having to go into a purported black brothel to investigate a report of a white man visiting the establishment -- a situation which, at that time and place, could have been socially explosive. How the men used humor to diffuse the situation had every person who ever heard the story -- black and white -- laughing until tears ran down their cheeks. In preparation for the planned recording, and to help my father-in-law cope with the loneliness and depression of my mother-in-law no longer being there with him, I had persuaded my father-in-law to begin writing down his stories in a notebook. But still, I waited too late. On the morning of January 8 of this year, my husband and son found my husband's stepfather dead. A massive stroke or heart attack had taken him unexpectedly from us. Now there will never be any visual record of his wonderful stories. I feel blessed that I have five or six of his stories, written in his hand, but it can never compare to what we could have had. So I agree with Mr. Maxwell -- don't wait to get those stories and tales of your family! None of us is promised tomorrow and only God knows how long we have here on this earth. Give your future family members the greatest gift you possibly could give them -- the chance to know the real persons that your family consists of NOW. * * * A 43-year-old Mystery Solved By Lillian Arends Just wanted to say "thank you" -- one of your homepages for Canada helped me fill in a lot of blanks that we have had on our family tree -- like who was who and where they came from. We have been wondering where in England our STRUTTS were born and thanks to you, we can now research in Norfolk, England. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 7. Humor/Humour: Black and White and Red All Over ---------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Susan Daily in Missouri, USA While transcribing Diocese of Ardagh, Cloone Parish, County Leitrim church records from microfilm, I found the following entry in the midst of the Baptisms of 1876: "31 Aug. -- Good-bye Red Pen." With microfilmed records in black and white, it was eye-opening to realize the parish priest had been using a red pen all along! Kind of gives new meaning to Scarlet Letters! * * * 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. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ----------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIPTIONS. 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