RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 17 May 2006, Vol. 9, No. 20 (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. 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: NEWS, NOTES, AND SOME SITES WORTH SEEING NEWS: Improving Message Boards; BOOK NOTES: Washington Territory Pioneers SITES: Scottish Digital Archives; English Folk Music 1b. Tips from Readers: Author! Author! 1c. Using RootsWeb: Delving Deeper into the SSDI 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: Mining the Gold in Cornwall 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: Creative Canadian Spelling Asking Permission to Copy Leaping Over Penmanship Problems Success and Failure in Ireland and New York 7. Humor/Humour: Finn Flouts Hitler 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ======================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: NEWS, NOTES; SOME SITES WORTH SEEING NEWS: IMPROVING MESSAGE BOARDS In the coming weeks the RootsWeb.com and Ancestry.com message boards will be updated. Every element of the boards is being improved -- from things you may not see, such as the technology that supports them, to things you see every day, such as the tools to keep track of new posts. One major change to the boards is the improvement to the board search. When the updated boards launch, search will be more powerful and give you more options to target your searches. This should help you find the information you are looking for more quickly and easily. Other new tools include the ability to edit your posts until they receive a reply, spell check when posting, and more delivery options for your notifications. Part of the overall update involves simplifying the way you manage your own contact information in your message board posts. Your "username" and "e-mail address" will replace your current "Post Name" and "Post E-mail" as the author and contact e-mail on all your posts. To thwart e-mail harvesters, your e-mail address will be encrypted just as it is now. You may wish to review your username and e-mail address(es) to ensure they are what you wish to display with your posts. To do this, go to: https://secure.ancestry.com/myaccount/changepassword.aspx View and update your account e-mail: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=myprofile&onok Learn more about the improvements to the message boards, including a sneak peek at the new look at: http://workshop.rootsweb.com/boards/announcement1.html BOOK NOTES: Washington Territory Pioneers The Native Daughters of Washington Territorial Pioneers, in association with the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, announces the publication of "Pioneer Dreams: Histories of Washington Territorial Pioneers." This unique collection contains material ranging from genealogical sketches to oral and written first-hand accounts of life during Washington's pioneer era. The stores are published as they were written, with the majority being published for the first time. Included in this 400-page, 8.5x11-inch softcover volume are 240 photographs that were donated by the members or their descendants. The histories cover the entire state and from about 80 different towns. The book costs $20 (plus $1.60 Washington sales tax and shipping of $5.60 for a single book). It is available for purchase at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center (509-664-3340; accepts MasterCard or Visa. Questions? Please contact Judy Artley at judyartley1@msn.com SOME SITES WORTH SEEING: SCOTTISH (DIGITAL) ARCHIVE NETWORK http://www.scan.org.uk/digitalarchive/index.htm ENGLISH FOLK AND TRADITIONAL MUSIC ON THE INTERNET http://web.ukonline.co.uk/martin.nail/Folkmus.htm * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Author! Author! By Ann McReynolds in Saint Louis I was trying to locate some people I met several years ago through the various Message Boards and wondered if RootsWeb HelpDesk could assist as their e-mail addresses are no longer good. The HelpDesk suggested that if they still had posts on the message boards, I could respond to them there as the posters might still be monitoring boards of interest. After writing to the HelpDesk, I kept trying to figure out how I could find one of these men, so I searched for his name on "All Boards" in the past year, and there it was. I wrote him, and he just wrote back. I thought you might like to hear that I finally realized I could search for the "author!" RootsWeb is such a truly remarkable resource. It must give you great satisfaction to be affiliated with the organization and also a lot of fun! * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Delving Deeper into the SSDI Q: My ancestor Florence SCHATTSCHNEIDER doesn't show up in an exact spelling search of the SSDI either at RootsWeb or at Ancestry--why? A: The Social Security Administration limits surnames to 12 letters in the SSDI database and given names to nine letters. Names that exceed those length limits are abbreviated to show only the first 12 and/or nine letters respectively. Therefore, when doing an exact spelling search of the SSDI database for lengthy surnames either at RootsWeb (http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/) or at Ancestry, limit your search to the first 12 letters of the surname and nine letters of the given name. In this example, search for SCHATTSCHNEI and the results will be found. Q: I live in England and found a relative listed on the SSDI and would like to send away for the SS-5 (original Social Security application) information. However, it is difficult for me to pay in American currency. Are there other forms of payment that are acceptable to the Social Security Administration aside from checks and money orders? A: Yes. The Social Security Administration will accept a variety of credit cards in payment for SS-5 information. See the following page for a more complete explanation of the acceptable payment methods: http://www.ssa.gov/foia/html/foia_guide.htm#_Toc517745431 Q: I can't find my grandfather on the SSDI and I know he had a Social Security number and was receiving benefits when he died in 1958. A: The Social Security records were not digitized until 1962 and deaths prior to 1962 are generally not found in the SSDI database. However, this doesn't mean you cannot obtain information about this individual from the Social Security Administration as outlined here: http://www.ssa.gov/foia/html/foia_guide.htm Q: I can't find my father on the SSDI who died in 1964. He was a physician. A: Medical doctors were not covered under Social Security until 1965. Many other occupations were not covered under Social Security until the 1960s and even later. Your father's occupation could have been the reason he is not included in the SSDI. Q: My grandfather was not a U.S. citizen but he worked legally in the United States in an occupation that was covered under Social Security. Might I find him listed in the SSDI? A: It is possible, as some non-U.S. citizens are found in the SSDI listings, but by far, most listings are for American citizens. * * * * * * * * * * Advertisements * * * * * * * * * * Save up to 70%. Save more with 99-cent shipping per item! Enjoy savings of up to 70% every day with Blair.com clearance. Choose from hundreds of fashions for women, men and home. And save even more with 99-cent shipping -- each item, online only. Count on exceptional quality and customer service. Guaranteed. 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We knew where she and her husband lived in Victoria -- and we had her death certificate. Certificates from the (then) colony of Victoria were very good genealogically, being modeled on the Scottish system rather than the English. They gave parents’ names, father’s occupation, place of birth, etc. as clues to the next generation. From these we gleaned that she was born in Kea or Germoe, Cornwall, England and her parents were John RICHARDS, miner, and Jane ADDY. She gave her occupation as domestic servant. Armed with this information we scanned the IGI for Cornwall -- no luck. We extended the search to variations of her mother’s surname, such as the more common EDDY -- still no luck, although we found a John RICHARDS married a Jane EDDY in 1786, much too early for Jane, who was born about 1830. Cornwall is fairly well covered on the IGI so we felt she had to be there somewhere. Years went by and the IGI came to the Internet and the whole of England could be searched in one go. We were confident about Cornwall from family stories -- but still no luck. The first break came when the English census for 1851 became available on Ancestry.com. The census had been available before, but this was the first time a comprehensive search could be made. I went through all the Jane RICHARDS of about the right age, starting in Kea and Germoe. I didn't find anything that I could say was right, but did note down a 20- year-old Jane RICHARDS living with her uncle and aunt -- Luke and Mary VISICK and their family in Kea. The age was right, the place was right, and Jane had later had a son named Luke Mansell SANDERS, but there was nothing to connect this Jane RICHARDS with anything we knew about. Richards was just too common a name to be confident. And, she was described as a labourer at a mine, different from the domestic servant she put on her marriage certificate. When the 1841 census recently became available, I again searched all the Jane RICHARDS of about the right age, starting around Kea and Germoe. Very soon I came up with a John RICHARDS, miner and wife Jane, with children including a Jane of the right age, living in Germoe. I checked the baptisms of the children back to the IGI -- no luck with John and Jane, but the names and ages matched exactly to a couple named John and Jennifer RICHARDS. Jennifer known as Jane -- hmmmm. Could have been an indexing error, but two separate transcriptions of the Germoe registers had come up with the same answer, so probably correct. Now I had two couples -- Luke and Mary VISICK; and John and Jennifer RICHARDS. If the 1851 Jane was the right one, this would have to mean that Mary VISICK and Jennifer RICHARDS were sisters. The IGI soon confirmed this -- John RICHARDS married Jennifer SYMONS in 1825 and Luke Mansell VISICK married Mary SYMONS in 1830. Marriage dates were consistent with children's ages at census time. Jane had named her son Luke Mansell SANDERS after her uncle Luke Mansell VISICK. Bingo! To double-check, I looked for Jane’s siblings in the 1851 census -- her mother Jennifer (Jane) was there as a widow, living with two of her brothers. Yes, right one. So the real story came out. Jane was the daughter of John, a miner and Jennifer (Jane) SYMONS, baptized (and probably born) in Germoe. Her father died sometime between the 1841 and 1851 censuses. Her mother was too old to realistically remarry, and was then supported by two of her brothers, who went down the mines like their father before them. There probably wasn't enough money to support Jane in the household as well, and she went to live with her aunt and uncle in Kea. Her uncle, as a schoolmaster, was better off, but she was still expected to work. When she got the opportunity she went to Australia to marry and raise a family. Her sister-in-law had married someone named SYMONS in Australia earlier in the 1850s -- perhaps an arranged marriage? So why the wrong information on the certificates? She had no reason to lie about anything as far as I can see, unlike some of my other relatives. The only thing I put it down to is a combination of ignorance and misunderstanding. She either genuinely believed she was born in Kea, or instead of being asked her birthplace was asked "where are you from?" As for Jane ADDY/EDDY, I think the Jane EDDY we found in 1786 is relevant somewhere -- I would like to think she was asked "father?" to which she replied "John RICHARDS" and when asked "mother?" mistakenly thought they were asking for John RICHARDS' mother’s name. But this would be too easy/ The motto -- be persistent, check and cross-check, and always look out for newly accessible records that might help your cause. * * * 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. COLORADO. Prowers County. Lamar. Union High School alumni. 1944; 74 records. Delbert K. Spencer http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ ILLINOIS. Cook County. Chicago; James H. Bowen High School alumni. Class of February, 1940; 154 records. Lynn Bernhard http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ Livingston County. Chatsworth. St. Patrick's Cemetery; Meister burial records; 13 records. Lynn Bernhard http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ PENNSYLVANIA. Crawford County. Meadville High School alumni. 1952; 210 records; William Cunningham http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ VIRGINIA. Orange County. Orange High School alumni. 1925; 13 records. Paula Lucy Delosh 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 CARPE DIEM! Personal family history of some DAY, ALLEN, WILLIAMS, and KLEIN families. Other surnames include: LONGFIELD, GOODRICH, ROSELAND, and more. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~carpediem/ MANSON, GERRY. This website has information on Grothr MANSON (1754-183) and Christina GERRY (1758-1841) who lived in Caithness, Scotland, and their descendants who went to USA and Canada. Other surnames include: ROSS, STEVEN, MILLER, HOPPER, and HUMPHREYS http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~geo2man/ TEXAS TRAILS. Features many cemeteries located in north Texas with 10 recently added cemeteries. Located in Montague County they contain more than 3,000 names, which include some of the earliest settlers. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~texastrails/index/ 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/~xxxxxx [accountname] U.S.A. arclay2 -- Clay County (Arkansas) caracdar -- Riverside Aurantia (California) Chapter DAR flgsnb -- Genealogical Society of North Brevard (Florida) njfrhs -- FitzRandolph Historical Society (New Jersey) okhcsg -- Haskell County Saving Graves (Oklahoma) okmcsg -- McIntosh County Saving Graves (Oklahoma) okocsg -- Okmulgee County Saving Graves (Oklahoma) sdmags -- Mitchell Area Genealogical Society (South Dakota) Key: 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 29,800 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS BEINTEMA DEMPKE MCQUINN (includes variations such as McQUIN) PETTIFORD NEW ETHNIC OR SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS SCOTCH-IRISH-CULTURE -- Northern Ireland Y-DNA-HAPLOGROUP-I -- DNA issues involving Y-chromosome DNA determined or predicted to be haplogroup I and its subsets (i.e., I1a) including relevant queries or discussions of the genealogical significance making use of related genealogical, archeological, historical and biological studies or theories. NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS CANADA CAN-ONT-ONTARIO -- Ontario County (1852-1974), which is comprised of Mara, Rama, Whitby, East Whitby, Thorah, Brock, Reach, Scugog, Pickering, Uxbridge, and Scott Townships, located in southern Ontario. CAN-ONT-LINCOLN -- Lincoln County, located in the Niagara region of Ontario. CAN-ONT-RUSSELL -- Russell County, which traditionally comprised of Russell, Cambridge, Clarence, and Cumberland Townships, located in eastern Ontario. CAN-ONT-WELLAND -- Welland County, which is located in the Niagara region of Ontario. FRANCE FRA-PAYS-DE-LA-LOIRE-MAYENNE -- Pays de la Loire for anyone with ancestors with origins in Mayenne. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wialhn/French/Mayenne-chat.html GERMANY DEU-POMMERN-BUETOW -- Kreis Buetow (Bütow), Pommern. 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Creative Canadian Spelling By Eleanor (Paice) Newsome After reading the item in your RootsWeb Review of 3 May about Lacrissa Annie SINKLER actually being Lucretia SINCLAIR, I was reminded of a humorous incident regarding my mother back in the 1960s. We were in downtown Montreal shopping one day and having purchased a rather large item, mother requested that it be delivered to her home. When asked her name, she replied "Mrs. PAICE." The salesclerk started to write, then stopped and asked mother "How do you spell that?" Mother said slowly, "P-A-I-C-E," at which point the salesclerk looked at her with raised eyebrows, wrote PACE on the form, and said to my mother, "Everyone knows that's not how you spell PACE!" * * * Asking Permission to Copy By Linda Cole In regard to copying professionally created photos, in my experience, some photo companies are quite willing to let you have even relatively "young" photos copied -- if you ask. I called Olin Mills (http://www.olanmills.com/history.asp) a couple of times for permission to have some 10-year-old pictures of my parents copied. I promptly received a letter of permission from them. Armed with that, the photo shop had no qualms about reproducing my pictures. It never hurts to ask. I wouldn't try to do that with pictures of very recent vintage, however. * * * Leaping Over Penmanship Problems By Karan Nicolaisen My great-grandmother came over from Norway and died in Atchison, Atchison County, Kansas. No record could be found of her although her son and daughter-in-law were buried in the same cemetery. Her name was Miliane Josefine JORGENSEN We ended up driving to Atchison to look at the records ourselves and there she was -- plain to us, but the people at the funeral home had misread her given name as William because it was an unusual name and in poor handwriting. We checked the headstone while we were there and it was correct. One of her sons, Nils NICOLAISEN, went to Australia and died there and we knew he was buried in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. My brother scoured the local cemetery records with no success -- then one day I stumbled across an online entry in the database for the cemetery in Melbourne for a Milo NICOLAISEN. Could that possibly be him? All relevant information matched. My brother called the cemetery office and it took a closer look at the record. Yes! It turned out that because it was an unusual name and written in an old-fashioned florid style it had been misread. The lady at the office very kindly had it altered in the database for us, so that is another mystery laid to rest. * * * Success and Failure in Ireland and New York By Bob Wilson (wilso127@yahoo.com) in Beaufort, South Carolina, USA The search for information on the life of my father's mother's grandfather began about 10 years ago, when I realized that his name appeared on a marker in a family plot in one of the oldest burial grounds in Newburgh, New York, the town where I myself was born more than 70 years ago. His name was Archibald WISEMAN and according to the marker, he was 40 years old when he "died at sea, May 9, 1853." At about the same time I noted this, a posting appeared on RootsWeb's WISEMAN Message Board from a fellow in Ballymena, North Ireland, who was looking for connections to an "Archie WISEMAN," about 20 years old, who had left a tiny townland called Ballywatermoy in County Antrim in 1833, "bound for America." This data was published in the "County Antrim Ordnance Survey Memoirs of 1833." This information had already been submitted to the WISEMAN Family Association in the U.S. I subsequently learned, by my Ballymena contact (whose mother was a local WISEMAN) several years before. A kind lady with great U. S. census look-up skills and resources checked out the 1840 data for me, and found an "Achabad" WISEMAN living there with a young family, as well as a James WISEMAN and family. James and much of his family are in the same family plot in Newburgh as Archibald's marker and I am sure that the two were brothers, because the names of their deceased children in the shared plots bear the same or similar ancestral family name references, most notably the Christian name Samuel and the family surname DUNLAP, which was my grandmother's middle name. I later found out, through the kindness of another intrepid looker- upper, that an Archibald WISEMAN had come over on a voyage from Liverpool to New York on the Bark "Lanark" in September of 1838. I also learned that Archibald did not appear in the index for the 1850 U.S. Census, but my intrepid lady friend found him there anyway, correctly recorded as Archibald, whose children included an 8-year-old daughter named Elizabeth, which jibed with the name and age of my grandmother's mother. Archie's trade was listed there as a "brewer." (At that time, there was a major brewery named Beveridge's in Newburgh, which did a large business in the Mid-Hudson Valley.) Through some further research, I found that, several years ago, a man now living in Upstate New York had transcribed and published a pamphlet listing all of the marriages recorded by the minister of a Reformed Presbyterian Church in Newburgh between the years of 1835 and 1865 -- and learned that an Archibald WISEMAN had married a Susan CLYDE at that church on Christmas Day, 1838. In the meantime, because of further postings and submissions I had made to the Message Board and to the Family Association, I was contacted by a professional genealogist in New Jersey in the hire of a man who appeared to be another direct descendant of Archie and Susan's (via Elizabeth's younger brother, Samuel Dunlap WISEMAN). Now we fast-forward to today. Two weeks ago, my eldest son and I traveled to County Antrim, Ireland, where our family contact there graciously toured us through several local church graveyards near Ballywatermoy. In the adjacent village of Cullybackey, we saw the ruins of an old homestead where a man named Patrick WISEMAN (who we believe might have been a nephew of Archie) lived until he died there in 1917 I even was able to obtain a published photo in his old age of Patrick, which appears in a memoir written by a former long-time Mayor of nearby Ballymena. This tale has not yet ended. I continue to seek evidence that Archie's father in Ireland was named James, that his mother's maiden name was Margaret DUNLAP, and that her father's name might have been Samuel DUNLAP or DUNLOP. And the biggest mystery of all continues. What were the circumstances of Archie's death at sea 153 years ago? Was he a seaman then or was he a passenger? There were no major ship disasters recorded for that date, or even close to that date, on either the Atlantic or the Pacific, so I believe that he might have been a passenger headed either to or from Ireland to visit his ancestral family, and who took sick and passed away on board. The search goes on! 7. Humor/Humour: Finn Flouts Hitler -------------------------------- Thanks to: Alicia Koski Marshall TESTAMENT OF OLD KORRI (translated) --By Elias Korri (brother of Matti Korri), Connaugt Station, Ontario and published in a Finnish newspaper there during World War II March 2nd was my 70th birthday and so I hereby give my last will and testament. For my boys I leave the whole Province of Vaasa in Finland except places of Vilumaki (Coldhill), Nalkamaki (Hungerhill), and Kuolemankorpi (Deathbackwoods), since my boys have nothing to do with these places. [Note: These are mythical towns in Vaasa] If I will survive with government food rations, so my old age funds, (Vilumake, Nalkmake and Kuolemankorpi) can be given to Hitler in Germany. While there is no gold in Finland, at the moment, Hitler steals all the church bells. But if those three places would make Hitler happy perhaps he would leave the church bells alone. * * * 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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