RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 15 March 2006, Vol. 9, No. 11 (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: "Finding Homes for Orphan Heirlooms" Book Notes: "New England Court Records: A Research Guide for Genealogists and Historians" Sites: Archivegrid; Inflation Calculator 1b. Tips from Readers: Devil IS in the Details 1c. Using RootsWeb: "What Goes Around, Comes Around" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" "Digging Up DURRANTs" 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Proper Name Contestant" "Uncovering Scots in Ireland" "Scottish Roots with Irish Branches" "Solving the Adolph and Edward Mystery" 7. Humor/Humour: "Chuckling in Iowa" 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ======================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1. EDITOR'S DESK: NEWS, NOTES; SOME SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: Finding Homes for Orphan Heirlooms By Lane Maxwell I would like to know if there is a clearinghouse for locating the "rightful heirs" of lost documents. I recently bought a photo album containing about 100 captioned photographs. I would like to give the album to the rightful owner, if possible. From the captions, I have assembled a substantial amount of clues, which I hope could assist in locating this person. About half the photos are from Farson, Sweetwater County, Wyoming in 1938 and 1939 and concentrate on a CCC Camp [Civilian Conservation Corps; http://www.cccalumni.org/states/index.html] there. It appears that Frank [--?--] was an Army officer who was stationed at a post in Farson (the CCC utilized Army personnel, but there may have been an Army post there) in 1938. He and his wife seem to have been newlyweds and they bought a new car -- a coupe -- and traveled around the area. The wife calls the dog "Duchess CHRIST" -- could that have been their surname? Doc and Dorothy SMITH could have been in the same circumstances and probably were military acquaintances. I published the information on my website, but I need a better way to get the word out": http: //freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~scrapbook/familycharts/fotofolioindex. txt [Editor's Note: Starting with the May/June issue of Ancestry Magazine, Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak will have a new column called "Found." She is on the prowl for orphan heirlooms and invites readers to submit information about them through her website: http://www.honoringourancestors.com/HiQFM/apply_orphan.html How it works. Smolenyak will do the detective work to locate descendants of the original owner and the person who wrote kindly returns the item to the "rightful owner." Then she shares the research trail so others can do the same or perhaps, pick up a tactic or two for their own research. Read about earlier orphan heirloom rescues here: http://www.honoringourancestors.com/library_orphan.html] * * * BOOK NOTES: "New England Court Records: A Research Guide for Genealogists and Historians," by attorney and award-winning author Diane RAPAPORT. Discover ancestors and trace New England history in court records from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Whether you are a novice researcher or an experienced genealogist, this book will help you to research court records with confidence. Published in February 2006 by Quill Pen Press, ($29.95); 488 pages, softcover. Order online at http://www.QuillPenPress.com/ or by phone (USA toll-free) at 866-784-5573. * * * SOME SITES WORTH SEEING: ARCHIVEGRID. Launched by the Research Libraries Group, it contains nearly a million archival collection descriptions held by hundreds of libraries, archives and museums. A search result page includes a list of archive collections, a summary of the archives and archive locations that are represented in the collections, as well as a search box that enables the user to limit a search to a particular date range, an archive and/or the location of the archives. The description of each collection includes a title, the name of the archive, and some brief information from its description. Free access until 31 May. http://archivegrid.org/web/jsp/index.jsp INFLATION CALCULATOR (U.S., 1800-2005). Compares dollar value to previous years. Was your ancestor a rich man or poor man? http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Devil IS in the Details By Bill Strouse When I interviewed my parents years ago with a tape recorder I obtained many facts. But alas my stupid error was to not ask my father what his grandfather's first name was. (He knew him). Many facts were provided though, including that he was a physician, had a brother who was in the Spanish-American War and had a sister who went to California along with that brother. When it became possible to search the California deaths, by surname or maiden name for females, I entered a search for a male and a female with the maiden name the same, who were born in Indiana. Up popped two persons with the same parents. The male was a Spanish-American War veteran. Using this information, (the parents' names) I was able to find the family in the 1870 census and solve the puzzle. Now I have been able to trace my ancestors back to one who was in the Revolutionary War and farther back into Germany. Sometimes the seemingly insignificant details can be the clue you need. Keep a record of EVERTHING. * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: What Goes Around, Comes Around "What goes around, comes around," Sharon MOORE's granny use to say. Sharon feels the old saying correctly describes what happens when you place family history data online at RootsWeb's WorldConnect (http://wc.rootsweb.com/). She doesn't need convincing that uploading her family tree in GEDCOM format to an online repository is a good idea. Sharon learned early on as a budding genealogist that through sharing what she knew with others she was likely to find others also willing to share with her. This enabled her to correct errors in her file. It also resulted in other interested researchers and cousins joining her in research projects and acting as sounding boards for ideas about where to look to break down those annoying brick walls we all run into. Her cousins helped her to evaluate what evidence she had uncovered -- especially when that evidence included conflicting or confusing information. It is so easy to get tunnel vision when working alone on your family tree. Fresh eyes can see things yours are overlooking. Sharon found a third cousin in her MASKER line who had a photo of their mutual great-great-grandfather, Morris MASKER. She had never seen a picture of this ancestor before meeting her cousin through her WorldConnect family tree. The contact information included on her WorldConnect pages had led the cousin to Sharon and she was delighted to, at long last, see what Morris looked like. Why, as it turned out, he evidently was the ancestor from whom Sharon probably inherited that little dimple in her chin. Over the years since Sharon first uploaded her family tree to World- Connect she has been able to make contact with researchers who added quite a bit to her maternal lines, families that Sharon hadn't known much about at the time she submitted her original GEDCOM. Maiden names and dates of marriages were about all she started with and in some cases she was even lacking the maiden names. On more than one occasion Sharon found a Post-em Note on her file with detailed information about the ancestry of female ancestors whose maiden names she didn't know. Sharon had Morris MASKER's mother listed only as Mary [--?--] in her data (indicating that she didn't have Mary's maiden name). A distant cousin, Barry BRIDGER, found Morris in Sharon's family tree. Barry had Morris MASKER listed in his database as a result of Mary BRANCH (Morris' wife) being in his file. Mary was the sister of his ancestor Basil BRANCH. How our family lines entwine! However, her friend, Hilda HOLDER, tried to convince Sharon that she was wrong to share her information with others by placing it on the Internet. "What if there are errors in the file that others pick and use and, worse yet, what if they quote you as the source?" Hilda fretted. Hilda also feared that her years of hard work would be stolen by others if her data was put online. Sharon reminded Hilda that, while it was her choice what to do with her research, hiding it away and keeping it private wouldn't provide her with any opportunity to make contact with others who could point out errors and add new data to her file. Granted, others may copy your genealogical information when you place it online, but Sharon reminded Hilda that we don't "own" our ancestors anyway. Moreover, we can't own facts -- we only discover them. So, anyone could independently also discover the same information that Hilda has found. To Sharon's way of thinking Hilda was risking the possibility that her research eventually would die with her or get thrown away by her uninterested family members. All of her hard work could be destroyed in a hurricane, a fire or flood. What is the value in all the work and research if not to pass it along and share it with others? Hilda's concern about any errors in the data is also inconsequential as long as Sharon keeps her own database updated and accessible to the public. We can never stamp out errors -- online, in books or in other resources, but we can make certain that the most current, complete and correct information is out there publicly for researchers to find along side any outdated inaccurate data. Sharon knows that no matter whether you want to fill in missing BRANCHes, unmask the MASKERs, or make contact with cousins seeking more on the MOOREs, It is far better to be a sharer than a HOLDER. 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By 2005, I had narrowed it down to County Monaghan, but this was based on very flimsy, almost comical, evidence: Rosemary CORRIGAN, my first cousin once removed [1C1R], had recalled in a letter to me, dated February 2004, a long-ago conversation with her Uncle Will CORRIGAN, which went something like this: Uncle Will: So, what did your sister name the baby? Rosemary: Kevin. Have you ever heard of that name? Uncle Will: Yes, my mother's family [the Fays] was from Cavin [Cavan/Kevin]! My father's family [CORRIGANs] was from Monaghan -- they were adjoining counties. In her letter to me, Rosemary concluded "I don't believe otherwise he would have heard of the two counties." I agreed. Apparently instead of "Kevin" he was hearing "Cavan," which (I gather) must be pronounced with the accent on the first syllable. I personally felt that this conversation was too funny to be invented and that most likely the CORRIGANs WERE from Monaghan, but fully realized that such "evidence" would not be accepted by any self-respecting genealogist. The matter rested there until March 2005. I had sent away for the death certificate of another CORRIGAN descendant, Mary O'ROURKE LYNCH, in order to clarify a problem about her identity. When it came back, in addition to clarifying the original issue, I was thrilled to find that it indicated "County Monaghan, Ireland" as the birth place of her mother, Rosa CORRIGAN O'ROURKE, who was my great-grandfather Thomas CORRIGAN's sister. It was enough evidence for me to finally record on the family tree that the CORRIGAN branch was indeed from County Monaghan. As often pointed out, it is important to investigate not only our direct ancestors, but also their siblings. That was part of the reason for my success, but in addition I have to thank RootsWeb, which through another cousin, Carol MORGAN, first made me aware of the O'ROURKE branch of the CORRIGANs. And last of all, a little luck helps -- I certainly did not expect to find such detailed information about the mother of Mary LYNCH on Mary's death certificate. Though Kentucky death certificates did formerly include information about one's parents' birthplaces, the ones I had up to then only mentioned the country--Ireland, not the county. * * * Digging Up DURRANTs By Richard Durrant in the UK I had been tracing my family history for 10 years and had taken my DURRANT family name back to the 1730s, finding them all in Hertfordshire, England where my family still lives today. I had exhausted my search backwards on the DURRANT name. The next progenitor could have been one of three William DURRANTs, so I thought it was time to "put meat on the bones," so to speak, and try to find living families that are related to me through distant granduncles, etc. I knew that my family originated from Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, so I started by looking up people with the DURRANT name in nearby villages to Bovingdon in the local telephone directory. I telephoned George DURRANT, who lived in Chipperfield, about three miles from Bovingdon. I started our conversation by saying how I was tracing my family history and seeing if there may be a link between him and myself. I asked George, who was in his late seventies, if he could name his father and his grandfather, which he did. From this information I could see that his grandfather was a cousin of my great-grandfather, BINGO! I had scored with my first hit! I told George that I had quite a lot of information about his family and he was interested enough to invite me over to meet him and his family. I gave George copies of birth certificates, census returns, etc. and a family tree showing him how we were related. He in turn gave me a copy of a photograph of his grandfather and his family taken as a group. I was able to tell George that the photo had been taken in 1912, as it was taken at the christening of their youngest child. During the evening George told me that over about five years he had received letters from America from a lady called Donna SORENSEN. He said that he always replied to her letters, as she asked him questions about the DURRANT family, asking him about auntie so-an-so and uncle Tom, etc. He also said that in one of Donna's letters she had told him that she was related to the DURRANT family, but George didn't know how she was related, but as he said, she always writes such nice letters. George gave me Donna's address and I wrote her a letter, saying how I was interested in how she was related to me. I sent her a pedigree chart going back to the 1700s. Donna replied saying how her grandfather, John DURRANT had immigrated to America in 1861 and set up home in Utah. She also said that her grandfather had written his life's story about his life in England and that she had a copy. Donna also said that she did not think that we were related. John DURRANT had been my brick wall for 10 years, he was my great-great- grandfather's younger brother who disappeared after the 1861 census. When I looked at her pedigree chart, past John DURRANT, all of her descendants matched mine. I could not believe that she could not see it! So, I wrote her another letter, but she replied in a very strange way. How could I get her to see that we were related? In those days we could only communicate by writing letters -- the Internet was a thing of the future. Through a genealogy magazine I managed to find a researcher in Salt Lake City and I wrote her a very pleading letter asking her if she would mind getting in contact with Donna to see if she could explain to Donna that I was a member of her DURRANT family and ask her to send me a copy of John DURRANT's history at any cost. After about five weeks I received a letter from the researcher saying that she had contacted Donna and made her realize that Donna was related to me and that Donna promised to send me a copy of the history. My researcher also took it upon herself to dig into John DURRANT's history for me, and sent me family group sheets of the John DURRANT Family written by family members in the 1960s. About a week after this I received the copy of John's history from Donna. A little later that year I received a letter from my researcher saying that Donna SORENSEN had passed away. She was 85 years old, perhaps this is why Donna could not see the connection. My researcher also said that she would be coming to England later that year, and she bought with her many LDS family group sheets of my DURRANT family of America, and it is from them that I started to make contact with many of my newfound family. I spent three years researching John DURRANT's life history that lists jobs and farms in Bovingdon, his journey to America by sailing ship and his trek across the Plains with a wagon train, setting up home, having three wives and being put in jail twice for polygamy. Whenever we go and see my American family we try to see other parts of the USA on the way. Last year we flew into New Orleans two days before Hurricane Katrina hit -- but that's another story on how we escaped! John' DURRANT's history can be read thanks to RootsWeb at: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~thegrove/ * * * 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. GEORGIA. Cook County. Daniel Family Cemetery. 9 records; Jan Bennett http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ NORTH CAROLINA. Pitt and Edgecombe counties, rural cemeteries. 378 records; Annette Roebuck http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ Pitt County. Cemetery, Road 121. 6 records; Annette Roebuck http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ SOUTH CAROLINA. Anderson County, Long Family Bible. 46 records; Gary E. Maner http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ TENNESSEE. Madison County. Marriage, Rome McCorry, Julia Ann Jones, 2 records. Marriage, Sarah Jones, Julius Alexander, 2 records. R. Hardin http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ 1850 Census, District 2, Westbrook family, 6 records. R. Hardin http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ WISCONSIN. Racine County. Marriage, Christian P. Bastiansen, Ann M. J. Lundstrom. 2 records; David Bastian http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ U.S.A. Military Records: Company M, 44th U.S. Vol. Infantry, Philippines 1900-1901. 103 records; Donna Grass 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 ENGLAND. NEWSPAPERS. Recently added: Mercurius Pragmaticus (1647), Post Boy (1709), Tatler (1709), Post Man (1711), Flying Post (1715), London Gazette (1723, 1746), Daily Courant (1728), London Daily Post (1735), Popes Bath Chronicle (1762), St. James Chronicle (1775), and General Evening Post (1776). Webmaster Richard Heaton writes, "My latest shot from a blunderbuss through the history of Britain, Europe, and America includes: Mercurius Pragmaticus, published in December 1647, during the week in which Parliament prohibited traditional Christmas celebrations, and has all the atmosphere of the English Civil War (Charles I being held on the Isle of Wight at this time); The London Daily Post (1735) includes Advertisements from Hogarth for Prints of his famous Rake's Progress; while the St. James Chronicles (1775) have some interesting comments on the advantages of marriage in Scotland over England, due to the apparent ease of divorce in Scotland; and the General Evening Post (1776) includes very enjoyable reports/stories/letters covering General Howe, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and of course, George Washington. It also includes the report of combined British Army and Navy operations to capture Forts Washington and Lee. Click on the FreeFind Box at the top and use Ctrl F when in the relevant page to find the reference of your choice. Access the index via: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutillieul/index.html 5. New at RootsWeb To Request a Free Web Account: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Some of these webpages might not yet be accessible. They are created by volunteers, so if one that interests you isn't up yet, please check again in a few days or next week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~[accountname] GERMANY deugemei -- Gemeinde Stemwede [Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia)] U.S.A. arlrchs -- Little River County Historical Society (Arkansas) idcemete -- Cemeteries (Idaho) kyfootst -- Kentucky Footsteps Site macchelm -- Chelmsford City (Massachusetts) ohlcgs2 -- Licking County Genealogical Society (Ohio) oklchgs -- Latimer County Historical and Genealogical Society (Oklahoma) wasmd -- Society of Mayflower Descendants (Washington) * * * 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Proper Name Contestant By Alan Thompson Many years ago as a youth I attended a church camp in the Missouri Ozarks. There I met a minister (aka a parson) whose last name was Parsons and whose church was located in Parsons, Kansas. I am terrible at remembering names, but I've never forgotten Parson PARSONS from Parsons, Kansas. * * * Uncovering Scots in Ireland By George L. Trigg in New Paltz, New York, USA Warren McLEAN, who wrote about finding that the ancestor he had believed to be Scottish was born in Belfast, may not be as far off as he thought. A substantial fraction of the population of Northern Ireland is descended from Scots who migrated -- the well-known Scots-Irish. He may find when he goes back another generation or so that this is the basis for the tradition that the ancestor was Scottish. * * * Scottish Roots with Irish Branches By Mickey Burns My family is also Scotch-Irish on my father's side, Robert Elton BURNS (born 25 Jan 25,1902 in Tennessee). Even though the BURNS family considers itself purely Scottish because our ancestors originally came from Scotland. Then later they were moved to Ireland. But these fiercely Scottish people remained Scottish in every way possible. Even when they crossed oceans and came to the U.S. they still identify themselves as Scottish. They never fully accepted that they were Irish, even after many generations of living there. So, Warren McLEAN, you are Scottish. Your ancestors just spent time in Ireland but always retained their Scottish culture and traditions. Random House Webster's Dictionary says, "The term SCOTCH-IRISH is standard in the U.S. for the descendants of the Ulster Scots in America." Ulster, a province in Ireland, is the area where many Scots settled. So, you were told right, your family is from Scotland. [Editor's Note: For more about Scotch-Irish/Ulster Scots, see this RootsWeb's guide: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson21.htm] * * * Solving the Adolph and Edward Mystery By Susan Daily Regarding "Untangling Adolph and Edward," (last week's RootsWeb Review) I just uncovered yesterday the 1900 U.S. federal census image for a married Patrick O'NEIL, with wife and son, when all this time I was wondering why he was listed with his parents as single, with the rest of his brothers and sisters in Warren, Rhode Island. I knew Patrick had a son born in 1899, but I just assumed the first 1900 census was correct. Perhaps it is no mystery--someone in the parents' household may have assumed they were to list everyone and did so. 7. Humor/Humour: Chuckling in Iowa ------------------------------- Thanks to: Molly Harrington I was researching my mother's JUDD line at the Iowa Genealogical Society. One of her uncles was David JUDD and I knew that David's wife's name was Minnie, but I didn't know her maiden name. Searching the index of a history of Lucas County, I found David JUDD. Turning to the page in question, I found a pretty extensive biography of Minnie's family -- and David was mentioned as Minnie's spouse. Minnie's father's name was in the heading of the biography: Elijah MART. It took a few minutes to sink in -- my granduncle David married a Minnie MART. * * * Thanks to: Donna Meszaros I found the following in the Sioux Valley News, published in Correctionville, [Woodbury County] Iowa. 9 July 1903, page 1. An old document found in the Woodbury County records, contains the following emphatic explanation: "This deed is made in place of a deed executed by and between the same parties for the same property in 1859, which had never been recorded and was burned in Chambersburg,[Franklin County] Pennsylvania on July 30, 1864, by the Damned Rebels." * * * 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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