RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 26 April 2006, Vol. 9, No. 17 (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: "Street Name Contest Picks Winners" Book Notes: North Carolina Some Sites Worth Seeing: "Medieval Genealogy Updates" "U.K. Victoria County Histories and More" "Clues in U.S. Census Records, 1850-1930" "U.S. State Names and Meanings" "Some U.S. Naturalization Indexes and Records Online" 1b. Tips from Readers: "Why Not Share via Post-em Notes?" "Never Hurts to Re-check" 1c. Using RootsWeb: "Understanding the SSDI" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "One Small Leap Takes Reader on Incredible Journey" "Online Genies Aid in Finding Real Ancestry" 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Centennial History Unlocks Clue to Cornwall" "Guess Who's in my Family Tree?" "Murder and Mystery in Linn County, Missouri 7. Humor/Humour: "A Killing Job" 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ======================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1. EDITOR'S DESK: NEWS, NOTES; SOME SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: Street Name Contest Picks Winners U.S. street names are often the family names of local pioneers and might provide a clue to where some of your ancestors lived. Others suggest what might be or once was located there, such as "Distillery Road" or "Graveyard Drive." Recently more than 2,500 names were submitted to Mitsubishi Motors' "Wild, Weird and Wacky" street name contest There were lots of Deer Licks, Yankee, Doodles and Dandies, This-a-ways or That-a-ways, and even a This Ain't It Road. However, the winner was: Psycho Path, described as a "mad little private lane" in Traverse City, Michigan. Second place went to Divorce Court, (a "divisive boulevard," the judges said) in Heather Highlands, Pennsylvania and third was Farfrompoopen Road, which supposedly is the only way to get to Constipation Ridge in Story, Montgomery County, Arkansas. See the full story at The Car Connection website: http://www.thecarconnection.com/Shoppers/Drivers_News/ Street_Names_Contest_Winners.S241.A10053.html * * * BOOK NOTES: North Carolina Olde Mecklenburg Genealogical Society, Charlotte, North Carolina, announces publication of two new books. "Real Estate and Legal Notices from Charlotte, North Carolina Newspapers, 1848-1862," compiled by Glenn M. Cook and edited by Ellen Poteet, is a second volume of real estate and legal notices from the Charlotte Journal and the North Carolina Whig. These notices give precise locations of land for sale, reasons for many sales, lists of personal property, names of many estate heirs for Mecklenburg and surrounding counties. Includes a color map of roads and waterways; 224 pages, indexed, $22.50 (postpaid) before 15 May. "Dr. J. B. Alexander's Medical Ledger and Account Book, 1855-1871," transcribed by Ellen V. Poteet. Dr. Alexander's handwritten patient accounts give names and dates as well as medications with their costs. His household accounts list materials and costs for building his house and dates his horses and mules were foaled. Indexed; 134 pages; $13.50 (postpaid) before 15 May. Click on publications box at the society's website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncomgs/ * * * SOME SITES WORTH SEEING: MEDIEVAL GENEALOGY UPDATES http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/updates/update.shtml U.K. VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORIES AND MORE http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ CLUES IN U.S. CENSUS RECORDS, 1850-1930. http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/census/1850-1930.html U.S. STATE NAMES AND MEANINGS http://www.jimwegryn.com/Names/StateNames.htm SOME U.S. NATURALIZATION INDEXES AND RECORDS ONLINE http://home.att.net/%7Ewee-monster/naturalization.html * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Why Not Share via Post-em Notes? By L. C. K. Perry It bothers me when people with WorldConnect family tree files say, "Don't use Post-ems. Write directly to me." The thing about a Post-em Note is that everyone who looks at the tree can view it They can decide for themselves whether it is valid information. If you don't use a Post-em Note, but just write to the compiler of the WorldConnect tree, only he or she will have the information you are offering. Some people may object to having the comments of others on their WorldConnect trees. But the person who submitted the GEDCOM is allowed to delete other people's Post-em Notes on their tree. So why insist that communications be limited to only two people? Post-em Notes share the information with everybody. * * * Never Hurts to Re-Check By Marcy Rose in California, USA I am in possession of an old photograph taken about the turn of the century. In the photo was my great-grandfather, John Getsey COZAD, Sam TOWBRIDGE, and Ep and Till HARDESTY. These names are written on the back of the photo. I could never figure out who Ep HARDESTY was. I assumed a cousin. The 1880 U.S. census had an Essa HARDESTY born 1878, but that was as close as I could come. Recently, re-checking the census through ancestry.com, I saw there's an Eppa V. HARDESTY, born 1878. I am delighted. I should have checked further. * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Understanding the SSDI RootsWeb hosts a full-featured version of the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) (http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/). Information in this searchable database comes from the Social Security Administration's Death Master File and is updated on a monthly basis when SSA forwards the previous month's updates of additions and corrections to RootsWeb. There is a lag period between the death of the individual and the time his name appears on the SSDI monthly update. Q: Who benefits from the use of the SSDI in genealogical research? A: Primarily it aids those researching ancestors or other family members who have died recently enough to be included in the Social Security system. It is an excellent starting point for new researchers working their way back from the current generation. It also is invaluable to experienced genealogists in helping to locate collateral lines. For instance, you may know that Uncle Sam's wife, Grace, died in 1995 and had worked for the local telephone company and was probably covered under Social Security. You want to learn her maiden name to add it to your family tree. Locating Grace in the SSDI and sending for the SS-5 record (from her original application for a Social Security card) will provide the information. Q: What time period do these records encompass? A: The Social Security data was first digitized in the early 1960s, beginning in 1962 and only a few deaths prior to this time are included in the online database. So don't expect to find Uncle Alfred in the SSDI if he died in 1942 or 1959 (for example). Q: Who is included? A: In the early days of Social Security (its inception was in 1937) not all workers were included in the system. Self-employed individuals, state, local, and federal government employees, teachers, and many other workers had their own retirement systems or worked in uncovered jobs and were not included in Social Security until much later. Railroad workers were covered by the Railroad Retirement Board and were issued 700 series Social Security numbers. Even today, not everyone is included in the SSDI -- only those whose deaths are reported to the Social Security Administration. The deceased individual didn't have to be receiving monthly benefit checks to be listed. Generally, the funeral director notifies SSA but, on occasion notification comes by means of a returned benefit check marked "deceased" or from another government agency, or perhaps a foreign office, if the individual died abroad. Q: What information can be learned from the SSDI? A: You can learn the date of birth and date of death as well and possibly the following locations: --State of issuance (the location of the Social Security office where a person obtained his card if prior to 1972 or the location of his ZIP code of record, if applied for more recently); --Residence at time of death (that's the address of record, but not necessarily where a person lived or died); --Death benefit (where a lump sum death benefit -- the burial allowance -- was sent). Keep in mind that ZIP codes given are those that existed at the time of the reported death and are not necessarily correct or the same as today's. ZIP codes have changed through the years. Do not assume that the state in which the number was issued was the state of birth or even the state of residency at the time. Don't assume your ancestor never lived in or applied for his Social Security card in a particular state. Q: What does the "Last Residence" column indicate when it is not a ZIP code? A: Those are internal codes used by Social Security to indicate how they were notified of the death and are irrelevant in your genealogical research. The actual place of death is not shown in the SSDI. Some records show where the "last benefit" was sent, but that is not necessarily the place of death or even the deceased's address of record either. Many elderly or incapacitated individuals have a representative payee who handles their benefit checks and many retirees have more than one residence -- a winter home in Florida, for example. Q: Doesn't the publication of Social Security numbers for deceased individuals expose them or their survivors to identity theft? A: No, in actuality, the exact opposite is true. Publication of the Social Security numbers for deceased individuals allows credit- issuers to check the listings and prevents these numbers from being used in identity theft. Once a person dies, his Social Security number can no longer be used as a means of identification. Q: What should I do if I find incorrect information listed in the SSDI? A: RootsWeb merely publishes (and makes searchable) a database that is created and maintained by the Social Security Administration. This means that in order to correct the database, the error must be reported to SSA, not RootsWeb. Where there are actual errors in the database SSA will make corrections. In the meantime, if you wish to make note of an error or add additional information to an entry in the RootsWeb SSDI database; while you are viewing the record, click on Add Post-em and attach a note to the entry. Adding a Post-em Note will not correct the original record but will allow other interested researchers to view the correction you have added. For more details on the SSDI and how to get the most out of it see RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees, "Exploring the SSDI and Railroad Retirement Board Records" at: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson10.htm * * * * * * * * * * Advertisements * * * * * * * * * * REQUEST A SEARCH FOR YOUR ANCESTORS AT THE FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY ANCESTOR SEEKERS researchers at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City will search this vast collection for your ancestors from the USA/Canada, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Russia, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. If you commission the work (there's no obligation to do that!) prices start from $52 (US). 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Visit http://www.ngsgenealgy.org/ or call 1-800-473-0060 for registration information. * * * * * * * * * * End of Advertisements * * * * * * * * * * 2. CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB: One Small Leap Takes Reader on Incredible Journey By Theresa Green in Sheffield, UK I was looking for any data on my great-aunt, a lady called Dorothy EYLDERS, born 1899, who somehow, unknown to any of us in the UK, appeared on your WorldConnect search engine. Dorothy was born in London as Dorothy TENNANT, and my mother, her niece, who was born in 1930 had loving memories of Dorothy from her childhood, but Dorothy disappeared and my mother always wondered what had happened to her. Having found a reference from your website to her death in 1972 in a town called Nederland, Texas, I could not help but wonder how she ended up there. So, not knowing anything else, I looked up Nederland on the Web and located its only "high school" -- I randomly picked a year, 1960, from the school's yearbook of graduates as I wondered if anyone might have known her, or if she might have had any family there. Having no idea of what to do really, I randomly clicked on one of the graduates for that year and cheekily decided to e-mail -- I had nothing to lose if there was no reply. A few days passed when suddenly, in my inbox appeared a message from the chap I'd e-mailed. I couldn't believe it when he said not only did he know Dorothy's children, but he also had known Dorothy from his childhood. He said Dorothy could be seen occasionally walking through town with her daughter, Pam! I'd no idea she had a daughter and as I e- mailed him and thanked him for his help, I was wondering if I could possibly find Pam. Another day or so passed when I had the most amazing e-mail. My new friend, Mr. BUSH, had done a bit of digging and sent me Pam's phone number, which was in the local book! We made contact and one of the most incredible stories I'd ever heard came to light. It involved Dorothy marrying a Dutchman, living in the Dutch East Indies and being captured by the Japanese in World War II. Pam spent her childhood in a Japanese POW camp. The story continues, as we are now in contact and loving every minute. Last time I spoke to Pam she introduced me to her brother, Gerrit (named after his Dutch father). It was the first time I have spoken to Gerrit, who's well into his 80s now. He told me that when the Japanese invaded, he managed to escape the country, (he was only 15 at the time) with the help of an American serviceman, who took him back to his homeland in Nederland, Jefferson County, Texas, and looked after him. At the first opportunity, Gerrit joined up and he told me his ship was sunk by a U-boat -- there were 20 survivors, who crammed themselves onto a life raft where they spent the next 45 days and when they were finally rescued there were only three of them left alive. He was rescued by a British submarine, which took them to the nearest port, Buenos Aires (a neutral country) and he spent the next month in hospital and was visited by Eva Peron! His story gave me goosebumps, Thanks to RootsWeb, I've been able to send Pam details of her mother's ancestry, which she knew nothing about and we are all really thrilled to have found each other. So thank you -- to you and your fantastic site. * * * Online Genies Aid in Finding Real Ancestry By Laura Hurst in Oregon It is amazing what the census records can do for you in your research. I am very green at this and am learning more each day. For 80 years my mother has been trying to locate a half brother. We have made posting, family trees, websites and talked to hundreds of researchers online. Recently (around St. Patrick's Day) we found that he was not a ROBERTS at all, but an O'NEIL and his family came from Ireland. After all this searching and postings, a couple very nice ladies (Cindy ROBERTS and Doneva SHEPARD) sent us some census records (and some photos) showing his mother, her family (and many generations of her family) and her husband "Henry O'NEIL" in many census records and in the 1880 census in Sonoma, California, where they are married. Cindy had seen my postings and was following my struggle and traced him through his mother. We did not know his father's name at that time. In the 1900 census still under O'NEIL we found Sarah O'NEIL, widowed and head of household and living next door to her mom and dad, but guess who was living with her? There we found (grandpa) Alfred Henry O'NEIL at the age of 19 and he was an O'NEIL, for sure. Then in 1910 we found Alfred and his first wife, Mary, with a son (age 5) living near there. Grandpa told us of an auto accident that had taken the life of his first child. After seven years and the death of the child this marriage ended. Later and still in 1910 we found Alfred Henry O'NEIL living with his mom and married to a Rose or Rosie now. He told us there were two children of that marriage (a girl and a boy). The boy was born about 1921 (Alfred Henry O'NEIL Jr.) and that marriage ended (this is the boy we have been looking for, as we heard the daughter died) shortly after his birth. We have a photo of Rosie O'NEIL and the little girl and grandpa O'NEIL. But little else is known about that family. Except they lived in the Russian River Township in West Windsor Precinct of California and then in San Francisco, California from 1910 through 1921. In 1920 census we found Sarah remarried and in San Francisco. In 1922 Alfred changes his name to ROBERTS and he moves to Washington (state) where he meets grandma CROSBY and they marry and have two children. They obtained Social Security Numbers when they first came out under the name of ROBERTS. He died in 1940 in an auto accident and everyone thought he was a ROBERTS, until now! He left behind a widow and two teenage children. They are all gone now, except mom and she may never have known about the O'NEIL family name, if Doneva had not helped us prove his mother's family and then Cindy helped us find the O'NEIL links. Thank you all so very much for helping, sharing, and caring. * * * 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/ ---------------------------------------------- No new databases this week. 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 ALASKA. Matanuska Susitna Valley. Cemetery, obituaries, and census information for south central Alaska. Specifically 1900-1930, including a lot of Alaska Natives' genealogies. http//freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coleen/south_central_alaska.html RICHARDSON FAMILY OF WESTERN NEW YORK. Descendants of Jonathan RICHARDSON -- primarily of Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, and Allegany counties in New York. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sarakath/richardson.html U.S. 1860 CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA SLAVEHOLDERS. Alphabetical listing of all slaveholders in this schedule with the number of slaves held. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/sccharlestonalpha.htm U.S. 1860 SLAVE SCHEUDLES. For the 1860 slave schedules, enumerators were instructed to provide the names of all slaves age 100 years or more. The Decennial Digest reports there were 1,570 slaves age 100 and up on these schedules. Using the 1860 slave census index at Ancestry.com, 1,555 such slaves have been found and they are included in the table. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/slave100up.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. flfgwcar -- Fifer George Weissenfels Society (Florida) CAR ohmhs -- Middletown Historical Society (Ohio) oknarp -- Native American Research Project (Oklahoma) wikchs -- Kewaunee County Historical Society (Wisconsin) Key: CAR--Children 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 29,800 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ADEN, ALDERETE EMBLOW GATLIFF, GEITZ, GEVAUX HOFFINE, HOPER KLIPPERT McGONIGLE, MARTH, MONTEZUMA (includes MOCTEZUMA), MUCHMORE PURTZER ROAR, RORER SCHOLLE, SLIMP ULAND VACURA NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS CANADA--Province of Newfoundland and Labrador CAN-NF-BONAVISTA-BAY-- Bonavista Bay CAN-NF-BURIN-PENINSULA--Burin Peninsula CAN-NF-CENTRAL--Central Newfoundland CAN-NF-CONCEPTION-BAY-NORTH--Conception Bay North CAN-NF-FORTUNE-BAY--Fortune Bay CAN-NF-NORTHERN-PENINSULA--Northern Peninsula CAN-NF-PLACENTIA-BAY--Placentia Bay CAN-NF-STJOHNS--St. John's CAN-NF-SOUTH-COAST--South Coast CAN-NF-WEST-COAST--West Coast 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centennial History Unlocks Clue to Cornwall By Dorcas in Arcadia, California, USA In 1972, my great-grandfather’s Bible was given to me. Written on the note pages following the concordance, were several lists of three generations of family births, deaths, and marriages. One of these, I was particularly interested in. It was a notation for my great-great- grandfather, John LASKEY AUNGER. My grandfather had told me that his father, Edwin Henry AUNGER, and grandfather, John LASKEY, were from Canada. The notes in the Bible said that John LASKEY was born in Cornwall in 1832, but didn't’ say where. At that time, I had little contact with any of the family in Canada. But I contacted my half first-cousin-twice-removed in Foxboro, Ontario, and we both started inquiring. Several years went by with no solution to this problem. Then she found a centennial history of a Masonic Lodge in her area. In this small book, it told about John LASKEY, who had served seven terms as master of this lodge. It said that he was from Coldnocket, Cornwall. For several months, I searched atlases and gazetteers in local libraries, with no success. Armed with the new information, I visited the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. After a day of searching on my own, I finally asked for help. At first the library clerk had no more success than I. Then she decided to look in a different source. She went to a printed index to the Cornwall census of 1841. Sure enough, there was a Coldnocket listed in St. Clether Parish. Going to the microfilm of the Census (there were no computers then), I found John LASKEY, his siblings and parents. This gave me the needed data to find four more generations of his ancestors. * * * Guess Who's in my Family Tree? By Vanette Hobbs Hamilton I was quickly skimming the article by Penny McCracken in RootsWeb Review (Vol. 9, No. 15) but came to attention when I saw the names "Johannes FLINNER, wife Anna MINNICK." I went to my database and sure enough there was Johannes (John) FLEENOR and wife Anna MINNICK, both born in Germany. My FTM (Family Tree Maker) program calculates relationships, so I was able to find that their great-grandson David FLEENOR, Sr. married one Matilda HOBBS, who is my half 2nd-great-grandaunt! I suppose if one collects enough ancestors, it's bound to happen. * * * Murder and Mystery in Linn County, Missouri By Brenda (btroost@juno.com) Louis COOPER was born about 1820, most likely in Pennsylvania, and is said to have been of Pennsylvania Dutch heritage. In 1842, in Tazewell, Virginia, he married Elisa ASBERRY/ASBURY, daughter of William and Mary "Polly" ASBERRY/ASBURY. On February 2, 1843 a son named George William COOPER was born to this union. Like many pioneer families from Tazewell, in spring 1845, the family removed to Linn County, Missouri, accompanied by Elisa's sisters, Dorcus SAYERS and Louisa/Lavicci ASBERRY. Elisa died either in route or or shortly after they arrived in Missouri and George William COOPER was given to Louisa to raise. Family lore passed down through the next generations is fuzzy in regards to Louis. He is said to have returned East and possibly started a new family. But when George William COOPER was still a lad, Louis is said to have returned to Linn County to visit his son. But George William was summoned to Louis' grave instead. The legend says that Louis rode into a homestead in the middle of the night, very ill, and died by dawn. It was suspected that he had been poisoned. It was said that Louis had a nice horse and saddle like that of a man who had money, but no money was found on him or in his possessions. It was said Louis was buried near Yellow Creek, but existing family has never been able to locate a grave or find concrete evidence that confirms the story. Proprietors of a general store in Garner, a town once located in North Salem Township, once told the story about a man fitting Louis' description, but the exact details have long since died with the store owners unless there are folks from the area who can remember it. After doing a lot of research, family members stumbled onto the story about the Benders Inn. Seems a family by this name ran an inn on property that was on the Old Bloomington Trail in North Salem Township, in Linn County, Missouri during the 1850s, the timeframe that Louis is said to have died from poisoning. The Benders were a notorious family who would kill unsuspecting travelers for their money. They later moved on to Kansas and continued their killing spree, again preying on weary, unsuspecting travelers. Could Louis have been a victim of the Benders? If you have any information about the Garner General Store, The Benders Inn, the Benders, Old Bloomington Trail, or other related Linn County history, please contact me. 7. Humor/Humour: A Killing Job ------------------------------- Thanks to: Anne Leggett McDonald Found in the U.S. 1880 federal census in Union District, Ritchie County, West Virginia (WV): Goodwin, Cassander, 63, keeping house (occupation) born WV -- Henry H. 56, husband, dead (occupation) PA PA PA, Mason, Barbara, 14, does house work (occupation) WV WV WV Henry's entry has been rather firmly lined out by a later hand! * * * Found a "proper name for the job" or humorous sign, amusing entries in census, parish, church, etc. records? Send them to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 8. 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