RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 24 May 2006, Vol. 9, No. 21 (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: Jamestown Settlement Anniversary BOOK NOTES: Southwest Missouri Pioneers SITES: Texas Postmasters; Creeks; Civil War Camp Life; and Sons of Union Veterans National Graves Registration Database 1b. Tips from Readers: Not Carved in Stone 1c. Using RootsWeb: Top 10 Uses of WorldConnect You've Never Thought of 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: Tracking Relatives Way Out West 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: Eh? Check the Hoosegow A Yank in Tasmania Uncovering Roots in Texas and Kentucky 7. Humor/Humour: Heavenly Passport 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ======================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: NEWS, NOTES; SOME SITES WORTH SEEING NEWS: JAMESTOWN'S 400th ANNIVERSARY. A newly built replica of Jamestown Settlement's "Godspeed" will visit six major U.S. East Coast ports -- Alexandria (May 27-June 3); Baltimore (June 9-12); Philadelphia (June 16-19); New York City (June 27-July 6); Boston (July 14-19); and Newport (July 25-30) as part of the 18-month-long commemoration of the settling of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. The "Godspeed" will be accompanied by a "Landing Party Festival," featuring live music and family entertainment, historical displays and interactive educational activities, all free to the public. Detailed information about this celebration is available at: http://www.Americas400thAnniversary.com/ * * * BOOK NOTES: Southwest Missouri Pioneers OPENING THE OZARKS, 1835-1839: FIRST FAMILIES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI, by Marsha Hoffman Rising, CG, FASG, is a four-book set now available from the American Society of Genealogists, P.O. Box 1515, Derry, NH 03038-1515 for $189.95, plus $5.95 postage. After 17 years of researching the first 1,000 pioneers to buy federal land from the Springfield, Missouri land office, Rising has found the out-of-state origins of 854 of these men and women and has written personal accounts for each. The land office opened in June 1835 and the list goes through March 1839. The reference contains biographical sketches of these pioneers, complete birth-to-death records for many of them, as well as the first generation of their descendants, bringing many families down to the Civil War and afterward. Consisting of more than 3,000 pages in four volumes, this work not only describes the lives of these pioneers, but explains how Rising found their origins. A list of the pioneers covered can be found at the author's website: http://mhrising.com/ -- click on "Opening the Ozarks." * * * SOME SITES WORTH SEEING: POSTMASTERS and POST OFFICES OF TEXAS, 1846-1930 http://www.rootsweb.com/~txpost/postmasterindex.html CREEK INDIAN RESEARCHER http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~texlance/main.htm CAMP LIFE IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/ SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR. Search its National Graves Registration Database http://www.suvcwdb.org/ * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Not Carved in Stone By Barbara Barrett in Mounds, Oklahoma, USA I had always been interesting in family history growing up. My parents divorced early and I never knew that much about my dad's family. With the last name of EPPERLY I have never known any others but our family members. When visiting as a child I got to meet some of my dad's relatives in Oklahoma. I came back to Oklahoma from California at 15 years old to live with him and finally got to meet most of them. My dad didn't know that much about his parents or grandparents either. I met his mother in the fifties, but you never ask questions until it's too late. I wanted to find gravesites of my great-grandparents on the EPPERLY side. The Epp is pronounced like step. Everyone knew where George S. EPPERLY (1838-1924), my dad's grandfather, was buried -- at Peachland Cemetery, near Bengal, Oklahoma and assumed his wife, who survived him, was buried beside him in an unmarked grave. I had done lots of census work and traced back their paths from Virginia to Indian Territory before it became Oklahoma in 1907. Oklahoma is a unique state as it had plenty of people as early as the 1830s but most of them were Indians and few early vitals and census records exist. Most vitals on the "Intruders" (or white men) start about 1890. The EPPERLYs were in Indian Territory about 1898, settling on land freed up after the reorganization of many tribe treaties after the Civil War. They settled in Choctaw Nation in areas down around the Winding Stair and Kiamichi mountains (http://www.shopoklahoma.com/talimena.htm). This area is south of where the infamous female outlaw, Belle Starr, lived in the Cherokee Nation. I found my granddad EPPERLY's brother's burial site close to Bengal and a sister's, Emma WILSON, who had moved west around Ti Valley nearer to Blanco in Pittsburg, County, Oklahoma. These are very rural areas and the Pine Top Cemetery where my dad's aunt Emma and her husband Richard were buried is off a dirt road about six miles from a blacktop highway. I looked at the Pine Top Cemetery book many times. There she is: "Wilson, Emma" (Rock) meaning I assume, a rock -- one of sandstone like so many early-day poor people used. Not even anywhere near her husband. As I looked at her entry for about the 50th time I see just below her "Rock" -- small size stone, OK, I'm thinking this may be one of her babies? Who knows? I looked just above her entry and read again for the 50th time "Plie, Mrs Grandma E." Yes, that's a period -- (Rock) meaning another rock sandstone. I knew I needed to get down there and take some pictures and started to close the book and in a hurry, said real fast to myself, "poor Mrs. Gramma E. Plie -- they didn't even know her first name." Gramma E. Plie, E. Plie -- and the hair raises up on the back of my neck. I made a fast call to my dad on my cell phone and asked him where was his Gramma EPPERLY living when she died? Well he wasn't sure, he was about 10 years old, but remembered his dad riding a horse over there for a funeral and bringing a back another pony for them. None of the family went as it was a two-day ride over. I am almost jumping for joy as I say, "I think I found Sarah, your Gramma EPPERLY." It all made sense to him, as they usually buried every one where they died back in the late 1920s. I am so excited about my discovery and the next weekend we had free, my husband and I made the trip, almost three hours down and three hours back and I have memories for a lifetime. In the photos Emma is next to her mother with rock stone markers. Sarah Jennie Shelton EPPERLY, born January 1, 1850 in Missouri, died April 23, 1928, will forever be known as Mrs Gramma EPlie. No period on the stone, just in the book. She was lost, but now she is found. So I tell everyone doing family history, nothing is written in stone. You can't rely on tombstones or cemetery books. They all can be wrong. I called the historical society in Pittsburg County and made sure it has the new correct entry for the book. Sarah Jennie would be pleased. * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Top 10 Uses of WorldConnect You've Never Thought of 1. You learn that grandaunt Matilda, who died years ago, was a member of the Huguenot Society and that she joined this heritage society based upon descent from an ancestor named Paul DECOU. You have not yet found the DECOUs in your genealogical research. Where do they fit into the family picture? 2. You have researched in depth your direct family history and would now like to branch out and learn more about your great-grandparents' daughters, who they married, and where they moved. You would like to try to find their descendants in hopes one of them has the family Bible. 3. You are planning a family reunion and want to invite as many new cousins as you can locate. 4. You don't know much about your grandfather's brothers and their wives who all remained in the "old country." You want to do some research on them and their lines. 5. You have reached a brick wall in researching your maternal grand- mother's line and your only clues are that your grandmother kept some old letters and newspaper clippings. Who are the people mentioned in the clippings and who wrote those letters your grandmother tucked away and saved? What's their connection to her and to your family? 6. You are at an impasse in researching your 4th-great-grandfather's mother's maiden name but you have located a baptismal record merely listing her as the wife of Johannes MOYER. However, a closer look reveals that the baptismal record lists the sponsors' names. Wonder if they might have been connected to the mother's family? 7. You have some old land records in which your elusive ancestor was purchasing land. You wonder about the names of the people listed as witnesses on the deeds and about the people named as owning the adjacent parcels of land. Wonder if there's any possible connection to the men from whom your ancestor was purchasing the land because the same names appear again and again in the deeds. 8. Some old city directories and a county history book reveal that your ancestor was in a business partnership with a man named Joseph HOLTZ. The two men operated a grocery store together for many years. Were the men just business partners or is there a possible familial connection? Is it just a coincidence that your ancestor's brother married a woman named Mary HOLTZ? 9. You know that in Colonial times in America people usually migrated to new areas with other members of their community -- possibly with a church group, for occupational opportunities, or even the chance to acquire land in a frontier area. You have a few names of the neighbors in both in their old and new locations and you'd like to learn more about these families. Perhaps you might learn the names of some of your ancestors' wives' maiden names by tracking down these other families in the community? 10. You came across your great-grandfather's brother, Joseph BUCHER, on the 1860 census as a young man with his wife Lydia. There is a 12-year- old girl living with them named Barbara LEWIS. She is listed as a servant. Is she really or might she be related to the family? In the above situations the families about whom you would like more information probably are not families you wish to devote a great deal of time and effort in researching. However, if information is "out there" and others have already done some research on these families, it may well be worth your while to spend a few minutes searching for them and making note of any possible ties you may find to your ancestors. You may be able to fill in a few gaps or obtain clues as to where you might look next for the proof you need. These examples and many more like them are cases where it can pay big dividends to search the WorldConnect/Ancestry World Tree database (http://wc.rootsweb.com). Someone out there somewhere may already have found names, dates, marriages, or migration patterns of these families that have nebulous connections to yours that will enable you to leap over your research's dead-end. If so, we might hear you holler "Eureka!" We're listening. * * * * * * * * * * Advertisements * * * * * * * * * * WOW! [Internet Genealogy] is stupendous . . . Internet Genealogy is a real asset . . . This new product fills a real need for researchers and is well worth checking out! . . . I'll go out on a limb and say that Internet Genealogy will soon become the most widely read genealogy magazine . . . You've come up with a winning product . . . I am very impressed! The articles are excellent . . . 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I had postcards from her in Tucson, Arizona in the 1930s to my mother signed as "Aunt Bee" but I could not find her anywhere in the 1930 census. However, there was a Tom STEVENS with a wife Beatrice on it. Knowing that she used the name Bidelia from childhood through the 1900 census, I ignored this and continued to look. Finally, I contacted the library in Tucson and asked them to look to see if a Tom and Bidelia STEVENS were living there in the 1930s. They sent me a list that included only Beatrice, no Bee or Bidelia. Finally, I decided to find out who this Beatrice was, if for no other reason, to rule her out. The library gave me the website of Arizona’s genealogy site: http://genealogy.az.gov/ In searching that site, I found the death certificate for Beatrice E. STEVENS and was shocked to find that she indeed was my grandaunt -- giving my great-grandparents’ names correctly. What happened to make her change her name? This was her second marriage so maybe she wanted to get away from the first marriage by changing her name? She also changed her birthday from August 13, 1873 to August 10, 1880. Perhaps because her husband was born about 1882 and was 10 years younger than she? Then I turned to finding her brother, Andrew TULLY. My mom told me that one of the other aunts had told her that "he went to Colorado to the silver mines and we never heard from him again." I searched the 1910 and 1920 censuses and found him living in Ely, White Pine County, Nevada, working as a silver miner. Then, I wanted to find out where he was buried. I contacted a genealogist from the Nevada website at RootsWeb and she searched the cemetery lists and found nothing. I put it aside for a couple years, but finally contacted the researcher again after the 1930 census came out and he was not on it. I wondered where he might have disappeared. The family he lived with in the 1910-1920 time was still living there, but no Andrew. The researcher made a comment that many of the older folks from Nevada went to Salt Lake City, Utah, to retire where they had old folks' homes. I had seen an Andrew TULLY residing in Salt Lake City, but once again had ignored it thinking he had died in Nevada. So, I went to the website of Salt Lake City and found on its cemetery search where he was buried. I contacted the cemetery and it gave me the site for death certificates in Utah. I sent for the death certificate, which confirmed that he indeed was my granduncle and had died in Salt Lake City at the age of 81 after falling and breaking his hip. After years of looking, I finally found both of my relatives after contacting people familiar with the areas to have them tell me the local customs. * * * 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/ 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 KELLEY CONNECTIONS -- more than 20 years of researching from Maine to California. Other surnames include BARKER, DOUGLAS(S), DUMOND, HARBORD, KELLER, McKENNEY, OAKLEY, TROTT, and VAIL. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kelleyconnections/ ORANGE. Latest discovery takes the ORANGE family who came to London from France around 1680s back to their ancestors in Bolbec, France and to 1550. Another project is the COULTHARD family from Westmorland, England. Website contains history, research information, and useful links. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~orangesearch/ 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. casanber -- San Bernardino (California) ctgjthm -- Governor Jonathan Trumbull House and Museum (Connecticut) iljaghs -- Jacksonville Area Genealogical and Historical Society (Illinois) inlgchs -- LaGrange County Historical Society (Indiana) macayer -- Ayer City (Massachusetts) macwakef -- Wakefield City (Massachusetts) nyocdar -- Orleans (New York) Chapter DAR scmbcdar -- Mary Boykin Chesnut (South Carolina) Chapter DAR txmcthc -- Mills County Texas Historical Commission waccdar -- Cascade (Washington) Chapter DAR 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 BRADFORD-NC (sorting out the Bradfords of North Carolina) COMMONS, COXHEAD DEBENEDETTO FORMSTON, FOUCAR HEMPEL KITT OSTRYE RUHMPOHL WALLON NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS ENGLAND ENG-SFK-WOODBRIDGE -- England, County Suffolk; Woodbridge registration district, including the parishes of Alderton, Alnesbourn Priory, Bawdsey, Boulge, Boyton, Bredfield, Brightwell, Bromeswell, Bucklesham, Burgh, Capel St. Andrew, Charsfield, Clopton, Culpho, Dallinghoo, Dallinghoo Wield, Debach, Falkenham, Felixstowe, Foxhall, Great Bealings, Grundisburgh, Hasketon, Hemley, Hollesley, Kesgrave, Kirton, Levington, Little Bealings, Martlesham, Melton, Nacton, Newbourne, Otley, Pettistree, Playford, Purdis Farm, Ramsholt, Rushmere (1837-95), Shottisham, Stratton Hall, Sutton, Trimley St. Martin, Trimley St. Mary, Tuddenham, Ufford, Waldringfield, Walton, Westerfield (from 1895), Witnesham, and Woodbridge. NEW ETHNIC OR SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS MORRISITES -- USA religious sect (a Mormon apostate/break-away) 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eh? By Laura Dague In the summer of 1955 Anita, a friend of our family, was in a department store. She met one of her friends there and they began chatting. Her married friend was pregnant. Anita asked what she was going to name the baby. Her friend replied, "Diane." The fans in the store were so loud that Anita misunderstood. When Anita became pregnant that fall she decided to name her baby the same name her friend had given her baby -- Cheyenne! Of course, both families were amused when they met each other again. * * * Check the Hoosegow By Pam Hawley Can't find Robert HENDRICKSON in the census? According to a newspaper article in the Review from Decatur, Illinois on December 20, 1890, HENDRICKSON was arrested and charged with refusing to answer the questions of a census enumerator. HENDRICKSON also assaulted the enumerator when he urged Robert to give the required information. Makes you wonder what he was hiding or hiding from. * * * A Yank in Tasmania By Yvonne Cooper in Tannum Sands, Queensland, Australia When checking a convict record from the Tasmanian Archives CON23/2, I found an unfortunate American who may be someone's brick wall. Convict No. 839, William JOHNSON, 5-foot, 5-3/4 inches tall, complexion brown, hair black woolly, eyes dark brown, age 32, blacksmith. Tried at Hobart Town, 18 May 1835, Sentence 7 years, Ship from Europe "Hope" 1827. Ship to Colony (Tasmania) was recorded as "Castaway." Native place--New York, North America. Mermaid and crucifix on right arm, anchor above elbow on left arm. He was executed 18 February 1836. Line below is nearly illegible but appears to read "5th Feb. 1836 to be hanged." He seems to have survived a shipwreck only to be hanged. * * * Uncovering Roots in Texas and Kentucky By Karen J. Hall, a Virginian in North Carolina I started researching my family tree in 1999 during an Internet course at Salem College. I typed in my mother's maiden name WINESETT and received a hit. It took three months for my mentor and me to figure out where our line fit in the family tree, with my grandmother's help, of course. Once starting the family tree, my husband's family wanted me to search their lines. One of the lines to be searched was the EMBRY family. They knew back to great-grandfather EMBRY, Benonie and his first wife, Laura COATS. She died in 1901 and he married her sister, Sallie COATS. They were from Butler County, Kentucky. Using message boards I met an EMBRY in Kentucky who told me about the family reunion held each fall in Morgantown, Butler County, Kentucky. After conferring with my mother-in-law we decided to attend. The reunion was a dream come true. After demonstrating to these strangers that we were in fact family, they began opening up and shared just enough information to guide us to our next step. One lady would give me a snip of info and walk off. Twenty minutes later she would give me another snippet. Finally, she said, "I knew Benonie! He lived beside my father. He killed my daddy's sheep!" Once she got that far they began telling us he had children still living and where all of the family cemeteries were. Through verbal stories we knew that Benonie and Laura and Sallie were from Butler County, Kentucky. That is all that we knew other than it wasn't far from Owensboro. We knew that Laura possibly died in child birth but were not sure of this. Thanks to the Internet I found the cemetery in Grayson County, Texas that she where she is buried. She and Benonie moved there in the 1890s. They had Ben David "Dave" and a daughter, Minnie, that we knew of and possibly the baby that died. Our stories said that after Laura died Benonie left the children with his sister in Grayson County, Texas and went back to Kentucky. Dave was about 15 when Laura died. He was probably comfortable with his surroundings and did not want to go to Kentucky. The first reunion was in 1999. In April 2006, we went back and visited with family in our line. The first reunion was not our direct line, but we discovered that Benonie had children by Sallie who were still living. We went back and met my mother-in-law's great- grandaunt Dorene and we met more cousins! That will not be our last trip. It was as if we had known them all our lives. We discovered that Benonie and Sallie where married in Grayson County, Texas not Kentucky. She was only 15 when she married him. They lived in Texas for almost 10 years before moving back to Kentucky. We still have questions. They lived in Texas for 10 years, what happened in those years? How many children did Laura have? From what we discovered Laura had at least two more children than previously known and Sallie had two or three children herself who were born in Texas. Did Sallie finish raising Laura's children? We also learned that Laura and the baby died from typhoid fever. Last summer, after 30 years, my mother-in-law and her sister were able to find Minnie's grave and her family. She is buried one county over from where she was born in Texas. Since then I have been in touch with her grandson and he is helping fill in the pieces of that family. In the past two months we have found a little more on Benonie's sister who moved to Texas. Her name was Sarah EMBRY and she married Plato COATS in a double wedding with Benonie and Laura. She had at least two sons, Plato and Oma. Now we want to find their descendants. My advice is not to give up. It may take years, but keep looking. We're still asking questions and finding answers. It has been so much fun! One more thing, if you have elderly family members, take the time to sit and talk to them and see what they remember before they are gone. With Internet access you can discover lots of info, but nothing beats finding out from someone that remembers. 7. Humor/Humour: Heavenly Passport ------------------------------- Thanks to: Bill Dollarhide It is a known fact that Saint Peter checks all your Family Group Sheets for accuracy before you are allowed to enter the Pearly Gates. * * * 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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