RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 8 March 2006, Vol. 9, No. 10 (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: Civil War Grave Registration Database Book Notes: Alexander Family History; Laclede County, Missouri Publications Sites: St. Patrick's Day; OPC Rame Peninsula (Cornwall); Jackson County, Missouri Marriages 1b. Tips from Readers: "Searching for Roots Near and Far -- Mostly Far" 1c. Using RootsWeb: "Utilizing WorldConnect Wisely" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Erin Go Brah" 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Untangling Adolph and Edward" "Properly Named Minister" "Celebrating Same Birthday" "Success at Ellis Island Site" "Awash in WHITEs" "Doing the Genealogy Happy Dance" 7. Humor/Humour: "Crashing into Reality" 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ======================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1. EDITOR'S DESK: NEWS, NOTES; SOME SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: U.S. UNION SOLDIERS. Thanks to Dale Talkington for the information and link to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War's National Grave Registration Database website, which contains information on more than 367,405 Union soldiers. You can search for your ancestors and relatives, then if you wish, register and add any that are not yet listed.With an estimated 4.2-4.8 million Union soldiers this site does not have the names of everyone, but information you have about your ancestor's burial place may be of invaluable help to others and this ongoing project. http://www.suvcwdb.org/home/index.php * * * BOOK NOTES: "A Documentary of Scotch-Irish ALEXANDER Family History: The People, Places and Events Before 4000 B.C. to 2005 A.D." (Third Edition), by Sarah Alexander Culton, Ed.D. Details, price and ordering information can be found at: http://www.houseofalexander.com/ Laclede County, Missouri Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 350, Lebanon, MO 65536 has the following books and CDs available: Marriage CD Index (1849-2004), $15; Deed Book Index Vol. I, II, III (1848-1885) $12 each; Deed Book Index Vol. IV, V, VI, VII (1886-1902),$15; Early African-American Families of Camden and Laclede Counties, $20; Probate/Will book Index (1848-1955), $10; Add $2 postage on first book and $1 per additional ones. Contact Elizabeth Davis (edavis@advertisnet.com) to order and for information about other publications available from this society. * * * SOME SITES WORTH SEEING: IRISH. St. Patrick's Day: http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/stpatricksday/index.jsp ENGLAND. Online Parish Clerks (OPC) for the Rame Peninsula, Cornwall covering the parishes of St. Germans, Sheviock, Antony, Torpoint, St. John, Rame, and Maker. http://www.stoneyburn.ca/OPC_Web/index.php MISSOURI. Jackson County Marriage Index (from 1831); includes scanned copies of the marriage licenses. http://records.co.jackson.mo.us/search.asp?cabinet=marriage * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Searching for Roots Near and Far -- Mostly Far By Bob Hansen (Robert Hansen y Beltran) I've subscribed to "RootsWeb Review" for the last several years. I also subscribe to a couple of query lists. I'm always fascinated by the number of people out there who are looking for "Grandpa Bill" or "Uncle Joe" from Kentucky or Georgia, etc. Me? I'm not satisfied with the 10 or 12 generations I've discovered in some of my lines. It's not easy and takes persistence and dedication. First things first I have a complaint: It seems like most of the research hints and queries are dedicated to finding American-born ancestors. In my case, if I wanted to know about my American ancestors all I had to do was ask him. My father is my one and only ancestor who was born in America and I already knew the details. My grandparents were citizens of four different countries and my great- grandparents of six. That meant that I couldn't really get excited over the release of the 1920 U.S. census records. My second problem after finding the records was translating them. Nothing past my father was in English and it seemed like the scribes who made the entries I could find, were going to extraordinary efforts to develop the most elaborate and indecipherable handwriting possible. The third problem, because Grandpa and Grandma HANSEN were from Denmark and Norway respectively, was trying to find their families. My great-grandfather was named Hans HANSEN which must have been the name of every third male in Denmark in the 1800s. How did I overcome all of these impediments? Well, for one thing, I didn't look at the impediments as obstacles but rather as opportunities. Like any tree, it may take years but if you're patient, it will ultimately bear fruit. As you've so often recommended I started just by talking to the relatives and remembering what they say. It would always start with "where were you from and who were your grandparents and did you know them?" I didn't limit myself to my parents and grandparents but would go as far as my dad's and mom's uncles and cousins and even my grandparents' cousins -- if I could find them. Talk to everyone and remember everything and write it down. Grandma HANSEN had arthritis, so couldn't get around much. I took it upon myself to mail her letters for her and stand over her as she received pictures and letters from Norway. I'd look at old pictures from both her and grandpa's family and ask "who" they were? Since both grandpa and grandma came from small farming communities and I knew the names of their parents and some siblings, it was fairly easy to find them and begin the trek backwards. Records in Norway and Denmark are extensive and available through the LDS (Mormon) Family History Centers. Besides, genealogy and family histories are popular in Norway and Denmark and many records are available on the Internet. In Norway, they even publish farm histories that give data on the various farm families in a locale. My major problem with them was that the names seem to be spelled inconsistently. One ancestor of mine had his name spelled three different ways in the same history -- the author assumed they were three different people -- but it wasn't too hard to figure out the truth. I only had one significant problem in chasing down my Grandpa HANSEN. We really didn't know how or why he came to the United States. I did, however, have his citizenship papers so I thought it would be a piece of cake to go over to San Francisco and get his original application. I went to the courthouse, paid my money and identified the location of the file. When the clerk went to get it -- it wasn't there. It had been misfiled and couldn't be found. Such is life. * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Utilizing WorldConnect Wisely Betty WISE has been uploading GEDCOMs to WorldConnect for several years now (http://wc.rootsweb.com). She takes the information in her family tree quite seriously. Betty is always careful to use the original user code and password when uploading an updated or corrected GEDCOM so that she doesn't create a duplicate file and accidentally leave the old one behind. Using the same user code and password ensures that Betty's updated data will remove the outdated file she wants to replace. Betty knows that she has to be careful with her tree because her GEDCOM contains a lot of information about living relatives including Betty's grandaunt Martha who will be 102 next month. Betty's data include lots of personal notes that she doesn't want in the publicly displayed file but which she does want to include in the GEDCOM she uploads. Why? Because Betty knows that WorldConnect is the perfect off-site backup for her data and for that reason she wants her complete unedited GEDCOM stored for her on the RootsWeb server in case she should need to replace her data in the event of catastrophic loss. While Betty has never been a victim of fire, theft, or natural disasters she knows there could always be a first time. She also knows that in the event of some unforeseen tragedy her data would be safe at World- Connect -- unlike backups that are maintained in her house or on her own computer. There is another "secret" about WorldConnect that Betty puts to good use. She knows that WorldConnect's superior living filters will protect the living relatives' privacy based on the cut-off date she selects on the advanced Set-up page when choosing her options. She sets the date in item 24 to 1902 so that even grandaunt Martha is listed as living with all personal information suppressed from public view. Knowing that she has taken precautions to protect the living on the tree as publicly displayed at WorldConnect, Betty takes her knowledge of the features of WorldConnect one step further. She knows that after uploading a new or updated tree, she has overnight or possibly longer to review all the data to make certain it is publicly displayed as she wants it and before the world can find her new file through a search at WorldConnect. During this lag time she checks the information listed for all her living family members and any other special options she has established before the updated GEDCOM is included in WorldConnect searches after the overnight updating process. This feature gives Betty an added sense of security in knowing she can find and fix any errors before searchers are likely to find the data. In checking her living family members in her newly uploaded tree Betty noticed that using the 1902 cut-off date to accommodate the removal of personal information for grandaunt Martha has resulted in one undesirable side effect. Other individuals in the database who were born after 1902 and who are deceased (but for whom Betty has no specific death information) are being erroneously listed as living. Betty hadn't anticipated this and she would prefer that these entries provide complete information and not imply that these deceased family members are still living. By including the notes for these entries (as Betty had done for all of her deceased family members) others viewing her file will realize that these people are deceased but the year of death is not known. So Betty decides to reprocess her new GEDCOM by setting the cut-off later -- to 1920, which will allow information for those born 1920 or earlier, but for whom no entry is listed in the death field, to be included with full information in the publicly displayed tree. Betty will still be able to remove all information about her aged grandaunt by entering the identification number for Martha found on her entry in the tree -- in Martha's case the ID number is I122, in item 36 on the advanced Set-up page. Betty uses WorldConnect to best advantage, sharing her tree with others, and yet protecting the data concerning living relatives. You might say that Betty is wise in more than name only when it comes to making the most of all the features of WorldConnect. * * * * * * * * * * Advertisements * * * * * * * * * * Ancestor Seekers Fifth Salt Lake City Research Trip June 11-16 2006 Join others from throughout the USA and Canada for the ideal genealogy vacation. 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CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB: Erin Go Brah By Warren McLean in Australia Having spent most of my 69 years on earth firmly believing that my paternal forebears were Scottish, a view my father, and his father also seemed to share, I had been trying, for the latter half of my life, to uncover details of that proudly Scottish heritage, starting with my great-grandfather -- Sidney Hugh MacLEAN. We had his marriage and death certificates from the local state archives, both documents showing he was born in Australia, that his parents were William Nevin MacLEAN and Mary Ann BROWN. While his stated age indicated that he was born somewhere around 1863, a search of state archives for a period five years each side of 1863 failed to turn up any record of his birth and we have been at our wits end ever since, lately tending to think that he might have been born in another state or even overseas. Recently, my wife was going back over some old family records when she came across a letter written to my mother by Gwen MacNEILL, a cousin of my father. It was written in 1990, shortly after Gwen's husband, Alan, passed away. Alan and my dad were great pals in their earlier years and Alan had been best man at my parents' wedding. In the letter, she mentioned her two children, a son and a daughter, by name. It occurred to me that, since the letter was almost 16 years old, she might also have passed on and, purely out of idle curiosity, I made one of those spur-of-the-moment decisions to find out. I called the son who, after introducing myself and explaining my connection and interest, told me his mother had passed away last year and referred me on to his sister, who was keeper of the family records. The sister -- last seen some 60 years ago -- was delighted by my call and said she had some old photos of her dad and mine -- and a birth certificate for a William Hugh MacLEAN, whose parents were named as William and Mariann BROWN. I received a copy of that particular document a few days ago. It is, undoubtedly, the birth certificate of my great-grandfather, since it names a sister -- Sarah Elizabeth -- of whom we had been aware but there was also a brother, Frederick Orr, about whom we were entirely ignorant. The certificate tells us that William Hugh was born in 1858, not 1863, though why he changed his name is anyone's guess. But here is where I received the biggest shock of my life. William Nevin MacLEAN, my great-great-grandfather, was born in Belfast, Ireland. Mary Ann BROWN, my great-great-grandmother, was born in Dublin, Ireland and they were married in St. Peters, Dublin. I guess I will have to quickly rethink my allegiances and turn out for St. Patrick's Day. Incidentally, my parents were married on St. Patrick's Day! * * * 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. CONNECTICUT. Fairfield County. Monroe. Chalk Hill Middle School. Class of 1976, 6th grade, 326 records; 7th grade, 326 records; 8th grade, 344 records; Michele Oltra http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ NEW YORK. Genesee County. Batavia. Daily News, 1942/43; 8,802 records; Leilani Spring, Volunteer of the Genesee County, NY Historian http://userdb.rootsweb.com/news/ NORTH CAROLINA. Cemetery Records. Martin and Edgecombe counties; 300 records. Edgecombe County.99 records. Pitt, Martin, and Edgecombe counties; 843 records; Annette Roebuck http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ TENNESSEE. Madison County. 1850 Census Records for Allen McCord family; 6 records; R. Hardin http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ 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 ENGLAND. PHILLACK AND HAYLE OPC (Online Parish Clerks) WEBSITE. Genealogical and local historical information to assist family historians with an interest in Phillack and/or Hayle in Cornwall. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~phillack/ OUR MATERNAL AND PATERNAL ANCESTORS: 300 YEARS OF HISTORY IN AMERICA. Surnames include: BENNETT, BISHOP, BLEADSDALE, BOOKER, BRACKEN, BROWN, CAMPBELL, CARTER, CHILDRESS, CLEMENS, CLEMENTS, CUMMINGS, DEMOS, DICKSON, DOUGLASS, DOWDLE, EADES, GARDNER, GOODE, GREEN, KERR, LINEBERRY, LUNGSLOW, McVICKER, MORELAND, NEELEY, PINNELL, RHODES, ROBERTSON, ROSS, ROWEN, SCRUGGS, SHEPERD, SHINKLE, TODD, WADE, WALKER, WEBB, WRIGHT, and YARBER. The website pertains to the families that begin in Albemarle, Fluvanna, Henrico, Nelson counties of old Virginia about 1700 and their migrations across the country to California. Other localities include South Carolina, Maryland, Tennessee, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Texas, and Oklahoma. Also includes pictures, vital records and military documents; plus there's sections devoted to research tools and guidelines for genealogical research, and links to our 3 major family databases at RootsWeb. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tqpeiffer/ WAUGHTEL and WILCOX Genealogy and Family History. . http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~waughtel/index.htm 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. albtcdar -- Birmingham Territory (Alabama) Chapter DAR flcemet2 -- Cemeteries (Florida) flvfcgs -- Volusia Flagler County Council of Genealogical Newsletters (Florida) gacemet2 -- Cemeteries (Georgia) moacc -- Andrew County Cemeteries (Missouri) mosslsar -- Spirit of St. Louis (Missouri) Chapter SAR ncyancey -- Yancey County (North Carolina) nyags -- Adams Genealogical Society (New York) paphilad -- Philadelphia County (Pennsylvania) paschs -- Sullivan County Historical Society (Pennsylvania) txfloyd2 -- Floyd County (Texas) txjpsha -- Jollyville-Pond Springs Historical Association (Texas) utemery -- Emery County (Utah) wadpw -- Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington (state) wvcemete -- Cemeteries (West Virginia) KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS: DAR--Daughters of the American Revolution SAR--Sons of the American Revolution * * * New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ALDRUP BACKES CRONYN GAMMAGE, GUNSOLUS JENCKS, JUBBER MACERA PALLADINO RAJSKI SANDYS, SHYCHUK TREVETT, TUNBRIDGE WIGHAM NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS RSA-EC-Transkei--Transkei area of Eastern Cape province, Republic of South Africa NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS IADATA--USGW announcement list for new files added to IAGenWeb Archives MOTION-PICTURE-ANCESTORS -- Genealogical research of ancestors who worked in the movie industry, covering all aspects of workers from actors and directors to janitors -- for any motion picture company, from any location. POLICE-SHERIFFS-DEPUTIES-USA --Genealogical research and history of police officers, sheriffs, and sheriffs' deputies in the USA. 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Untangling Adolph and Edward By Frederick Reed I was working on the SPIEGEL branch of the family, which is the paternal side of mom's family. We do not know much about her father, Edward SPIEGEL since he left her mother when she was a child. Some members of the family said that Edward was adopted, others said they never heard such a thing. I decided to trace back the family on Ancestry.com. I first found Joseph and Alvina SPIEGEL living in Newark, New Jersey and they had a son, born the same year as Edward, only listed as Adolph. I presumed then he must have changed his name later on in life. I found the family again on a New Jersey state census report for 1905 that I had sent away for and this time he was listed as Edward. The family had moved to Hoboken, New Jersey. Next step was the 1910 census. I located the family again and this time he was listed as Adolph. It seemed very confusing, but what I found next really had me shocked. In the 1920 census, the family was still in Hoboken with son, Adolph, and this time, the census taker had noted that Adolph was the adopted son. He was listed as single. Knowing my mother's parents married in 1919, I wondered how that could be? I put in a search for "Edward SPIEGEL" in 1920 census and got a hit. Edward SPIEGEL was living in Jersey City, New Jersey with his wife, Helen--my grandmother! How could that be? I could understand the flip-flopping of the names over the years, but how can there be an Adoph and an Edward listed, if indeed it was the same person? Since Edward/Adolph was adopted, I cannot get a birth certificate to help clarify things at least a little bit. At first, I thought perhaps they were twins (since the birth date was the same for both on the census reports) but they never appear together as young children. Guess this will remain a mystery. * * * Properly Named Minister By Douglas Cotts Forrest CHURCH is senior minister of All Souls Church (Unitarian) in New York City. His father was the late Senator Church of Idaho. See his biography at:: http://www.allsoulsnyc.org/whoweare/ministers/forrest.htm * * * Celebrating Same Birthday By Joan Carlisle The letters "Rare or Common Happenings" (RootsWeb Review, 8 Feb.) and "Stranger Than Fiction" (RootsWeb Review, 4 Jan.) about three sons within the same family who were born on the same date on three different years were interesting. My three children were all born on 8 May -- in three different years. It's a blessing and a wonder, but it does happen. * * * Success at Ellis Island Site By Diana Thornton I have been searching for my grandfather's arrival records in the Ellis Island database since it first came on line. I writhed in anticipation, trying to find a good time to gain access since it was busy most of the time. Little did I know that my frustration would continue for another few years. Try as I might, I could not find him. I knew that Jurgen RATAJESAK had arrived in August of 1912 and I knew that his brother Gustav had arrived aboard the "Kaiser Auguste Victoria" in 1910, but I couldn't find him either or any of the nine brothers and sisters or the parents. I returned to the site and attempted every variation of the name I could think of. Finally, Ellis Island linked to Steve Morris's site. I typed in Jur and RATAJESAK and came up empty handed. Then I used the sounds- like feature and just typed in the letters RATA for the surname and the year of arrival. The entry 13 August 1912 shows Ludwig and Katerina RATAGOSAK and children: Furgan, Margrethe, Wilhelm, and Paul. I sent for and received a picture of the ship "Cincinnati" and the manifest. I am still excited. I have since found his brother, Gustav, (with a different transcription spelling altogether) and two sisters. I am still looking for two brothers and one sister but I'm confident that I will find them too. * * * Awash in WHITEs By Kim Houlding in Madrid, Iowa, USA I was scanning a site a few years ago and decided to look up my grandmother's family that had come from Italy. I looked up RANALLO and got nothing. I tried her mother's maiden name -- SAN MARTINO. Still nothing. So I thought I'd try my grandfather, who reportedly was part Native American. I tried WHITE -- 8,000+ hits. I narrowed it to George WHITE, still more than 2,000 hits. I flipped through a few pages. On about the fourth page, Claude WHITE leaped off the page. He had a Davenport, Iowa location. I recognized it as my grandfather's brother's name. I heard most about him as "Jumbo" (all the boys had nicknames). I sent a message that I thought that he may have been my granduncle. Not knowing who wanted the information, I didn't want to say too much. I received a lovely contact from a distant cousin, Shirley LEE from Zumbrota, Minnesota. We corresponded through e-mail for a couple of years. She sent me priceless family information. I lost her e-mail (computer crashed) and have to send a snail-mail note to reconnect. But what could have been the chances of finding someone by looking for a common-name relative under those circumstances? * * * Doing the Genealogy Happy Dance! By Sharon Blais I recently smashed my brick wall and I am doing the "Genealogy Happy Dance!" I had been searching for my paternal WALLACE geat-great-grandparents for many years. I recently found my great-grandfather and great-grandmother WALLACE's marriage license by searching on Ancestry.com for her unusual maiden name (RUMMLING) instead of his very common last name--WALLACE. I found them (in the "wrong" state but not too far away) but with both their exact names and hers being so usual, it has to be them. I sent away for a copy of their marriage license from the county clerk and to my delight it had their names and names of both sets of their parents! The names of her parents were also a perfect match for what I already have. I have e-mailed my cousins with the new information and they are doing the "Genealogy Happy Dance" too! Thanks for all the wonderful tips and stories. They really helped. 7. Humor/Humour: Crashing into Reality ---------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Angie Miller I recently learned the name of my great-grandmother's first cousin, who had remained elusive for years. I was eagerly adding her family's 1920 census record to my collection, when I noticed that her husband's profession was listed as "chauffeur." Since they were living in Los Angeles, California, I immediately pictured a glamorous job -- transporting celebrities in a fancy car to luxurious places. My bubble soon burst though, when I saw in the next column that the industry he was employed in was "oil truck." * * * 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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