RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 22 March 2006, Vol. 9, No. 12 (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 USS Lagarto Families" "Surnames Originating as Insults" Book Notes: Middle Georgia Books Sites: Wisconsin Maritime Museum; Ellis Island, Castle Garden, and Steve Morse's One-Step Webpages 1b. Tips from Readers: "Going Sideways to go Backwards" 1c. Using RootsWeb: "Weighing Worth of the Internet" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Solving a Swedish Puzzle" 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Using Our Ears to Find Ancestors" "Politically Correctness in the Past" "Dancing in the Library" "Advertising for Ancestors" 7. Humor/Humour: Masticating Forebears" 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ======================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1. EDITOR'S DESK: NEWS, NOTES; SOME SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: Finding USS Lagarto Families. On or about 3 May 1945 the USS Lagarto, while on patrol in the South China Sea, was sunk with all hands onboard. The wreckage of this submarine was located last year and a committee organized an event to remember the Lagarto's crew. However, the committee is still looking for some families. Keith MacNeal writes that Nancy Kenney and Karen Duvalle have found 39 of the 86 families of the Lagarto crew, but hope to locate the others. Contact MacNeal (kmacneal@aol.com) for the names and hometowns of the crew members and for information on how you can help. The USS Lagarto was built in Manitowoc, Wisconsin during World War II. More is available at these websites: http://www.thaiwreckdiver.com/lagarto.htm http://www.dbfnetwork.info/lagarto/ http://www.dbfnetwork.info/lagarto/crew-list.html * * * "WEASELHEAD, DEVIL and DRUNKARD: Surnames Originating as Insults" -- an article by James Pylant -- will amuse and enlighten. It's about the history of our surnames and how oftentimes our ancestors were saddled with surnames originating as uncomplimentary nicknames. http://www.genealogymagazine.com/suorasin.html * * * BOOK NOTES: The Wiregrass Genealogy Society in the Middle Georgia area has published several Georgia-related books including: Dodge County Cemeteries (as of Sept. 2005), $53.50, plus $5 shipping. Bleckley County Cemeteries (as of 2002), $26.50, plus $5 shipping Bleckley County Marriages (as of 2004) $30, plus $5 shipping Details and order blanks can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~gawgs/ * * * SOME SITES WORTH SEEING: WISCONSIN MARITIME MUSEUM. Discover its library and archives. http://www.wisconsinmaritime.org/ ELLIS ISLAND: Contains more than 22 million names of passengers and members of ships' crews who entered the United States through Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924. http://ellisisland.org/ CASTLE GARDEN. If your ancestors arrived at New York prior to when Ellis Island opened, check this site where there are more than 10 million names of those who arrived between 1830 and 1892. http://www.castlegarden.org/ ONE-STEP WEBPAGES by Stephen P. Morse. Forms for searching ships passenger lists at Ellis Island, Castle Garden, and other U.S. ports. http://www.stevemorse.org/ * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Going Sideways to go Backwards By Blanche A. Liddell in New Plymouth, Idaho My great-grandmother, Ann Eliza MEAD, was born in Piqua, Miami County, Ohio in 1835 according to her obituary and death certificate. I searched everywhere I could think of to find her parents -- to no avail. She married my great-grandfather, Daniel J. IRONS in Aurelius, Ingham County, Michigan in 1853. After Daniel's death she married William McCORKLE. I hadn't paid any attention to that marriage since I wasn't related to William. But finally my daughter-in-law asked me if I had ever tried to get a copy of the marriage certificate for that second marriage. I thought, well why not, nothing else is working. So I sent for it and was totally amazed when I received that. There were the names of both sets of parents for both the bride and bridegroom, including the maiden names of the mothers! So, never discount that second marriage, even if it is not your line. Now I'm stuck again. Wish my daughter-in-law would come up with another good idea! * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Weighing Worth of the Internet Cora CRABTREE has been doing genealogical research just about forever. She doesn't let anyone forget her 41 years of experience in family history research either. Instead of the usual stories about walking five miles to school -- uphill both ways -- Cora likes to dazzle anyone who will listen with her tales of traveling hundreds of miles to dusty courthouse basements where she would plow through thousands of volumes of will books, deeds, and orphans court records in her quest to locate original documents pertaining to her ancestors. Cora claims this is the only way to do genealogical research -- even today, with all the newfangled computers and the Internet. And, don't get Ms. CRABTREE started on the subject of the Internet! She says "Internet" in the same tone of voice reserved for things she perceives to be creations of the devil -- things like cell phones and iPods. Try to talk with Cora about doing genealogical research on the Internet and you almost can see smoke pouring from her ears as she expounds on the subject of how the Internet is the worst thing to ever happen to genealogy. "Just look at how rapidly incorrect data spreads on it," Cora says. "And, horror of horrors, once bad info begins to leap from person to person on the Internet there is no way to stop it. "Not only that," according to Cora, "but no one checks or lists their sources. They never give credit to those who supplied them with informa- tion either. This isn't genealogy," she snorts, "it is mythology!" Cora is so set in her ways that no one is likely to ever convince her that she is losing out on the best thing to ever happen to genealogical research. She will never know what she is missing. With the digitization of many original records, transcriptions, and indexing of data on both free and subscription Internet sites such as Ancestry.com, Familysearch.org, and RootsWeb.com, there's new records and improved search functionality coming along all the time. Anyone with a computer and Internet access (and in some cases a subscription) can search and find many of the records that previously required the lengthy and often expensive trips to distant courthouses and libraries. At the very least Internet resources, such as the individually compiled family trees found at WorldConnect (http://wc.rootsweb.com/), are a starting point. We always should verify our sources, regardless of where we found them, but the Internet often saves us the trouble of knowing where to look. Finding a family tree that cites or mentions an 1896 Sandusky, Ohio marriage record gives us a clue to where we might obtain a copy of the record -- and another locality in which to look. RootsWeb mailing lists and message boards at http://lists.rootsweb.com and http://boards.rootsweb.com respectively, provide us with a forum where we can post a query or request a lookup of specific information we seek. The Internet, while it creates a means by which all data (warts and all) is shared and spread rapidly, also provides us with the means to correct inaccuracies more easily than data published in a book or other fixed medium. Webpages can be edited quickly; family trees on WorldConnect can be updated in minutes; and through the give and take on a message board or mailing list, errors and omissions can be rectified. Even where it is impossible to have incorrect data removed from the Internet one can place the accurate data along side it or online somewhere -- so that researchers can decide for themselves what to accept and reject. Plus, many online resources make use of user-added notes or Post-em Notes (at RootsWeb) where you can attach a note explaining additional or corrected information. However, the greatest resource made possible by the Internet -- even with all of the databases, lists and boards, and family trees -- is not the data itself, but rather other people. The Internet enables us to find others interested in the same families and to share our research. Thanks to online connections we can discuss ways to resolve long- standing roadblocks by piecing together what each cousin knows or has found about his family history. What price can we attach to finding the person who holds our mutual great-great-grandparents' family Bible or making contact with a distant cousin in Australia who has a picture of your great-grandmother? You and I know such connections are priceless and would never happen without the Internet, but don't try to convince the Cora CRABTREEs out there -- they are not listening. Pity. 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CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB: Solving a Swedish Puzzle By Karen Spoentgen in Ventura, California, USA At long last I have solved a puzzle that was presented to me more than 20 years ago. I was told that one of my father's uncles died young in a car/train crash. Inez, dad's sister-in-law, was my last hope of learning anymore. This was after my own father's demise and that of his only brother who lived in Canada. I wrote my aunt and asked about it. She wrote back she would write about it after the holidays, but she thought it was in St. Louis. That letter never came. A year or so later, she died. My father mentioned little of anyone in the old country other than his parents. Yet an "uncle" had sponsored his entry to U.S. Though I have been to that man's grave I still do not know exactly how he fits into the family tree. But I do know he didn't die in a car/train accident. My puzzle was this: Who was the uncle by name? Where did he settle in this vast country? What time-period did he die? The next step was to go to Sweden and learn the names of all my father's uncles. As it turned out, Grandmother Ida had four brothers. My half sister Mary, who was born and raised in the old hometown of Halden, Norway, thought one of them had gone to America. I dismissed the thought when she said it as I had never heard of any of them coming to America. Indeed, were they not all listed in Halden in the 1900 census? No, Karl Alfred was not. Was he still in Sweden? One day I was looking at Norwegian ship records searching for my father's record and happened to put in the name "IDD," the name of their parish. I was stunned to see Ludvig and Otto HENDRICKSON were on their way to Wisconsin. That prompted me to search the ship record at Ellis Island, which I found. They stated they were on their way to see their brother Charles in Grantsburg, Wisconsin. Armed with that information, I was able to track down the 1900 census and then the 1905 State of Wisconsin census. I learned that Charles was a farmer in Grantsburg and had four children. The first two, the sons George and Arthur, were born in Minnesota. The second two, the daughters Lilly and Frances were born in Wisconsin. I could not find them in the 1910 census and for the next couple of years they seemed to have vanished. Incidentally, the 1905 state census shows brothers Ludvig and Otto in the household. It was a wonderful confirmation that I was on the right track. I have secured Charles (Karl's) immigration record, his petition for naturalization, the route he followed (through Hull, England), his naturalization paper as well as a photo of the ship he came over on. Still, it didn't solve the problem of the car/train accident. Where did he disappear to? I could find no trace in the census records of the family in 1910 Burnett County, Wisconsin though I searched Grantsburg and Marshland page by page. I found no record of them later on. At RootsWeb I searched the Burnett County, Wisconsin website and stumbled upon a reference to a land grant to Carl HENREIKSON (sic). I went to the government's website and pulled up a copy of that land grant. There is no doubt it is Karl Alfred HENRIKSON/HENDRICKSON/ HENREIKSON. He was granted 160 acres of Homestead land. That in itself was an exciting find as it brought history books to life. Charles's wife Hilda NORDBERG/NEWBERG had also emigrated from Sweden and had settled in Minnesota. They married there in Chisago County. I noticed one day that there is a county in Minnesota named "Saint Louis." I wondered if maybe they removed to Minnesota again. While doing a search of newspapers online, I saw a notice of an accident killing three men. Two of them were HENDRICKSONs. That intrigued me. I searched through the RootsWeb genealogy sites for a volunteer to look up the death records for me as well as the newspaper article. Two years ago, I received both in the mail from the woman. It was inconclusive. The men had the right names, they were Otto and Charles HENDRICKSON. Their dates of birth partially agreed with my prior information. Their father was listed as "O. HENDRICKSON," which is not consistent with my ancestor named Henrik JANSON. I did not have a positive identification. I searched the 1930 and the 1920 censuses looking for Charles' children. I had hoped I could find the sons and work backward to find the parents again. I was still stymied until a new resource became available. Now Ancestry.com had listed birth records for Minnesota. One of Charles' daughters had a less common name, Frances Aleda. I entered her name in the search as mother of a child. One baby, Barbara BENZ, came up. The father's name was George BENZ. I returned to the census and looked for George BENZ and Frances. I found them in 1930 Minneapolis, Minnesota and the information for Frances matched exactly the information I had for her. In 1920 Minneapolis, I found her again with her brother George. Now I had located two of the children. By the 1930 census George had three children of his own and Frances had the one daughter I had found in the birth record (though not in the census yet). Now that I had placed two children in Minneapolis, I was at a major breakthrough allowing me to suspect the car/train accident I had on record was indeed grandmother's brothers. With my new information and that information on the death records, I went back to the 1910 census. Using the information that the accident was in Edina, Minnesota I searched that township for all the HENDRICKSONs. Excitedly, I found the entire family in Edina, Hennepin County, Minnesota. There was Charles, wife Hilda, and children -- George, Arthur, Lilly and Frances. In addition, there was brother Otto living with them. It was the missing piece of the puzzle. The entire family was indeed living in Edina in 1910, just four years before the two HENDRICKSON brothers were killed in that awful accident with a third man, John SPECHT. The puzzle has been solved. A great deal of further documentation was found for me in Minneapolis by a wonderful volunteer who had access to the archives and secured obituaries and death records for me. I had started out not knowing any relations had even come to America, to knowing that an uncle was killed in a car/train crash somewhere at some time in a hundred-year span. What a puzzle and it took two years from the time I had the news articles and death certificates in hand to prove the connection to the family. I learned not one but two uncles were killed in the crash. Now if I only could find out what happened with their 160 acres of land in Wisconsin and why did they leave? On another note, one of my husband's ancestors married into a line with the surname SPECHT. (Catherine SPOENTGEN married a Franz SPECHT). They came to Wisconsin together in 1861. Could the SPECHT man who was killed with the HENDRICKSONs be a relation of my husband's by a weird coincidence? Only time and research will tell. * * * 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/ ---------------------------------------------- SHARING OPPORTUNITY. Does your alma mater, old military unit, church, parish, province, county or state have material available that you think would be of interest to genealogists and historians? Do you have any compiled lists of names or databases (other than your personal genealogy) that you would like to share and that you think would be of value and interest to others? In most cases, RootsWeb would be proud to host such material. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ The following databases have come online recently. They are searchable, but not browseable. Search: To look for specific data or occurrence of text in a file. Browse: To view the entire contents of a file or a group of files. ALABAMA. Jefferson County. Friendship Cemetery; 470 records; Robin K. Miner http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ CALIFORNIA. Kern County. "Bakersfield Californian" 2005 obituaries index; 5,258 records; Sharon Dulcich http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Marriage records in the DC area; 162 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ KENTUCKY. Henderson County. 1889 tax records; 1,366 records; Frank Boyett http://userdb.rootsweb.com/tax_voter/ NORTH CAROLINA. Pitt County. Wainwright Cemetery records; 41 records; Annette Roebuck http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ OKLAHOMA. Osage County. Hominy. 1923 Hominy High School Yearbook, 180 records; Lucinda Helmes http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ PENNSYLVANIA. Butler County. Divorces, 1801-1922; 188 records; Elaine Oswald http://userdb.rootsweb.com/divorces/ Marriage licenses, 1801-1922; 1,484 records; Marriages, 1801-1922; 6,460 records; Elaine Oswald http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ PENNSYLVANIA. Crawford County. Meadville. 1953 Meadville High School alumni; 241 records; William Cunningham http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ Schuylkill County. Pine Grove. U.S. armed forces veterans buried at the Salem-Hetzel's Union Church Cemetery; 165 records; Richard Madenford, for the Salem Hetzel's Cemetery Board http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ TEXAS. Harris County. Humble. 1921 Humble High School Annual; 88 records; Lucinda Helmes http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ VIRGINIA. Louisa County. Louisa High School, 1984 graduates; 184 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ VERMONT. Morey family in Vermont, 1790-1840; 94 records; C. Trier http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ WISCONSIN. Polk County. Saint Croix Falls. Saint Croix Falls High School, 1932-33 students and staff; 181 records; Chris Stannard 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 MacVEY, McVEIGH, McVEY. Genealogy and origins of the family -- a sept of Clan MACLEAN. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mcvey/ UTAH PIONEERS, A lineage-linked database of Utah Pioneers and the U.S. Mormon Battalion. There's an alphabetical list of battalion members at bottom of home page. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db= ldshistorical&id=I1 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. casmcdar -- San Miguel (California) Chapter DAR fldade2 -- Dade County (Florida) macemete -- Cemeteries (Massachusetts) meahs -- Anson Historical Society (Maine) mibcgsac -- Berrien County (Michigan) Genealogical Society, Aloma Chapter ncbeafor -- Beaufort County (North Carolina) nvsca -- Senior Center Association (Nevada) nywdcdar -- William Dawes (New York) Chapter DAR ohadams2 -- Adams County (Ohio) pawccdar -- Washington Crossing (Pennsylvania) Chapter DAR scspart2 -- Spartanburg County (South Carolina) vtcemete -- Cemeteries (Vermont) KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS: DAR -- Daughters of the American Revolution * * * 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 29,700 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ SURNAMES: ANTON BARB BUZZA CASTELLANO, COLLINGRIDGE FYVIE HARPIN KAFFENBERGER LABIENIEC, LESSER, LIPTAY MARRUJO PROTZMANN RAGSDALE-DNA (includes RAGSDELL, RAGSDILL, RAGDALE, RAGSDAL), ROSIE SETTLERS-SURNAME, SIEBELIST, SPEHR TUINSTRA VALK 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Using Our Ears to Find Ancestors By Cheryl Harmon Bills I knew my 3-great-grandfather, Alpheus HARMON, had to be in Erie County, Pennsylvania in 1820, but he just wasn't listed on the census although his brothers were. I decided to go through the census one more time name by name and say each name aloud. I came to one entry Elfyus ARMAN and although my eye wanted to skip over it, saying the name aloud made ALL the difference! There he was -- just a few doors away from his brother and of his future wife's father, Charles VAUN. No wonder I could not find him in the index! Yet, he was exactly where I knew he had to be! [See "Why You Can't Find Them" for tips about the slippery "H" in names at http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson8.htm] * * * Politically Correctness in the Past By Mary McCall Deane During World War I there was a lot of anti-German feeling in the United States and elsewhere. Remember that the British royal family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (the surname of Victoria's husband,) to WINDSOR somewhere in this time period. And it did not adopted Prince Phillip's surname of Mountbatten, previously Battenberg, for the same reason. An adopted war orphan, old enough to have known his name, may have used his German name and his American name interchangeably throughout his life. We have seen similar circumstances with "no Irish need apply" and "no Poles need apply" for jobs. The Americanization of our ancestors' names probably occurred more often than we realize. * * * Dancing in the Library By Melissa Swoager in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, USA I got a real kick out of Sharon Blais' article on "Doing the Genealogy Happy Dance!" We often tease my mother about a time when she was the only family member willing to research our lineage and did her own dance. My mother (Dixie Lee SWOAGER, charter member of the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society) was in a county library by herself when she found our version of the Rosetta Stone. She looked around, noticed how many people were there, turned the page of her notebook and wrote, "WOW!!!!!" across the page. She calmed down long enough to get the necessary pages photocopied, labeled, and sourced -- and within the year, was teaching me how to experience a few "WOW!!!" moments of my own. * * * Advertising for Ancestors By Susan Dwyer in Auckland New Zealand I scroll through each RootsWeb Review and read of the joy of fellow searchers discovering long-lost cousins. I wait patiently for it to happen in my search. I joined surname lists and area lists and followed leads suggested by listers who answer my queries. Other listers searched through their resources to try and find another small piece of information that might be the vital piece to make the breakthrough for me. So many are prepared to go that extra mile for a fellow searcher even though it does not advance their personal search. All these wonderful people have helped in my 12-year search for a cousin who contacted me two weeks ago. Thank you so much for all the opportunities I have had to advertise on your lists. Now, I would be interested in any sightings of records of Rose Elizabeth DISNEY who immigrated to the United States in 1919 . . . 7. Humor/Humour: Masticating Forebears ---------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Stephanie Wright in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA Recently I've started researching my WISHAM peripheral lines through RootsWeb, which put me in contact with Rollin. I must admit that I have to agree with his assessment of one of his ancestor's names: "Rachel B. CHEW, born in 1818, was daughter of Constant CHEW and Martha EWING." It makes one stop and think, what made these parents think that that was the name to pick? * * * 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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