RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 31 May 2006, Vol. 9, No. 22 (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: RootsWeb in the Windy City BOOK NOTES: King George County, Virginia SITES: The 1718 Migration; Who Do You Think You Are? New Jersey Marriages; and 100,000 Wisconsin Tombstone Photos 1b. Tips from Readers: Making the News 1c. Using RootsWeb: Making Most of a Favorite Summertime Pursuit 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: Barking up the Wrong Tree 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: Using MapQuest to Pinpoint Ancestor's Residence Understanding Our Forebears Linking the World -- Genealogically Confronting Spelling Challenges 7. Humor/Humour: Getting Professional Help 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ======================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: NEWS, NOTES; SOME SITES WORTH SEEING NEWS: ROOTSWEB IN THE WINDY CITY If you are attending the National Genealogical Conference in Chicago, 7-10 June, put the RootsWeb Focus Group meetings on your calendar. Thursday: June 8, 2-3 p.m. (Delta Room A/B) Friday: June 9, 5-6 p.m. (Delta Room A/B) Then on Saturday, 10 June from 9:30-10:30 a.m. (S416) there's a session with Peter Drinkwater where you can learn tips and tricks for making the most of RootsWeb.com, the oldest and largest free genealogy site on the Web. From surname lists, mailing lists and message boards, to trees, volunteer projects and databases and everything in between, he'll talk about how RootsWeb can help you grow your family tree. NGS Conference Program http://www.eshow2000.com/ngs/conf_program.cfm Blog: Chicagoland Genealogical Consortium Hosts NGS Chicago 2006 http://ngs2006.blogspot.com/ * * * BOOK NOTES: Virginia King George County (Virginia) Historical Society, P.O. Box, 424, King George, VA 22485, recently published King George County, Virginia Cemeteries -- Volume II Private Cemeteries. It is available ($34.50 postpaid). Volume I Church Cemeteries also is available ($35 postpaid). The society's website has details and an order form at: http://www.kghistory.org/ http://www.kghistory.org/HistoricalSociety/gifts/orderform.asp * * * SOME SITES WORTH SEEING: THE 1718 MIGRATION: The Scots-Irish Journey to the New World: http://1718migration.org.uk/ WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? Celebrity Gallery and Jeremy Paxman http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/wdytya_celeb_gallery_01.shtml NEW JERSEY MARRIAGE RECORDS INDEXES (1666-1799 and May 1848 through 31 May 1867) http://www.njarchives.org/links/databases.html 100,000 WISCONSIN TOMBSTONE PHOTOS -- thanks to Larry and Linda Kopet and many other contributors to the WIGenWeb Project. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/wi/cemetery/ * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Making the News By Penny McCracken Many people probably already know this, but it is a new discovery for me! I was telling a friend about a time in 1951 when my father was working in a tunnel project in Santa Barbara, California. The tunnel blew up and my father was slightly injured. He had been warning them for months that some safety regulations were being ignored. They didn't listen, and sure enough, it blew up. He didn't come home and finally, I had to ask the landlady at our small auto court/converted apartments if I could use her phone. I called the police, and asked (in my 11-year-old little girl's voice) "Sir, has there been an accident at the Tecolote Tunnel?" Dead silence for a second, then the policeman asked carefully, "Why are you asking, little girl?" "Because my Daddy isn't home -- and he works there." He asked me if there was an adult nearby and then asked me to give her the phone. I heard her say "Oh! Oh. Oh, my goodness. Yes, I will watch her." Then she gave them our address. A police car showed up soon and the nice cop gently told me my father had been slightly injured, but would be home tomorrow -- they were keeping him overnight just to make sure that he was OK. The lady gave me dinner and I slept in our apartment. A large, gentle dog always slept at my side and nobody could have hurt me with her around. Dad came home the next day. He had helped a few men out and was as haunted looking as I've ever seen -- before or since. But he returned to work the next day -- with a broken tailbone. As I related this, I suddenly slapped my own forehead, and said "Hey, if a tunnel blew up, I bet the newspapers wrote about it!" I contacted the Santa Barbara library. The lady only took a few minutes to find the items and she copied and mailed them to me. My father's name was in two of the articles. They are now in my album -- a nice narrative to add to the genealogy. So, if you can think of an event in your life that was fairly dramatic, I'll be willing to bet that you can find newspaper accounts of it. * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Making Most of a Favorite Summertime Pursuit It's that time of year again in the Northern hemisphere when a genealogist's thoughts turn from the mundane chores of the workaday world to summer recreation. And we all know what that means for a family history researcher -- a chance to visit old cemeteries to search for the graves of our ancestors. You can jump-start your plans to locate the cemeteries where your ancestors are buried and obtain directions in finding the way to these often well-hidden places with the aid of many resources found at RootsWeb. There are a variety of mailing lists where cemeteries can be discussed and you can find a list of these lists indexed here: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Cemeteries/ There are message boards devoted to cemeteries and you will find those located here: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p= topics.cemetery You can check to see if a cemetery of interest to you and/or the name of an ancestor you've been looking for is included in the RootsWeb User- contributed Databases by searching here: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/contributors.html#Cemetery%20Records The volunteer USGenWeb Tombstone Project database, which is housed at RootsWeb, includes many American cemetery listings and can be accessed at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/registry.html Foreign cemeteries (non-USA) are located here: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/foreign.html Use these resources to find your ancestors in cemetery databases and post queries on mailing lists and message boards to request directions from locals familiar with the long-forgotten sites. That way you'll be prepared to set out for a summer of exploration that only another genealogist could appreciate. Don't forget to pack the digital camera before you leave so you can upload the photos and story of your latest genealogical discoveries when you return from your summertime adventures. * * * * * * * * * * 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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I knew her father, James Philip MURPHY, moved around England somewhat in his work as a headmaster and minister. I found her on Free BMD (http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl) -- Florence Susan MURPHY, b. 1879, Cheadle, Staffordshire, England. She shows up in the 1881 census with her father, James MURPHY, mother, Elizabeth, and sister Mary E. A., at Farley, Staffordshire, England. In 1891, she is again with her family (a young brother, Frederick G., is on this census record) in East Budleigh, Devon. In 1901 mother Elizabeth, Florence, and Fred are in Plymouth, Devon, James MURPHY having passed away while a minister of the Congregational Church at Ivybridge, Devon. I knew from family oral history that Elizabeth, Florence, and Fred had immigrated to Canada in 1912 along with Mary E. A. (MURPHY) ANDREWS and her two children, one of whom was my father. According to my father, Percy ANDREWS, the MURPHYs lived in Regina, Saskatchewan for a while. Florence married a Claude AUSTIN and moved to Edmonton, Alberta. Elizabeth, her widowed mother, moved soon after and lived with them until her death in 1931. We owned a picture of the AUSTINs pushing a baby carriage. It was signed, Claud and Flo, then a name that is indecipherable -- possibly a child's name -- then Edmonton. Because there had been a sharp disagreement in the family, no real effort was made to locate the AUSTINs until the next generation began doing genealogy! There was no trace of any Claude or Florence AUSTIN in Edmonton. Or Regina, for that matter. We had only a brief announcement of Elizabeth MURPHY's death in Edmonton, January, 1931. Survivors' names were not given. Hoping I'd learn where Elizabeth was buried I contacted Alberta Genealogical Society to ask for a look-up of Elizabeth's obituary. Very shortly, I received a report from the society giving the details of Elizabeth's burial. The account was paid by a Mrs. C.W. ALSTON. My reaction to that was that the funeral home has misspelled Florence's name. After all, a person from England might well pronounce AUSTIN as ALSTON. But I had to change my tune when the society sent Elizabeth's obituary from the 30 January 1930 issue of the Edmonton Journal. Elizabeth MURPHY was survived (among others) by two daughters -- Mrs. C.W. ALSTON, Edmonton, and Mrs. A. ANDREWS, Armstrong, British Columbia. AUSTIN. ALSTON. We had been barking up a misspelled tree for 50 years! Now that I knew Florence's correct name, I obtained Henderson's Directory records for her in Regina for several years; her marriage to Claude in Regina, Saskatchewan; a 1963 Edmonton directory listing for Claude W. and Florence ALSTON obtained through a look-up service on the Edmonton Message Board at RootsWeb; a very nice picture of Claude and a write-up regarding a memorial award to honor his memory as the man largely responsible for the formation of Edmonton Builder's Exchange in 1930. I was also able to obtain obituaries for Claude (May 6, 1975) and Florence ALSTON aka Molly, (May 8 1877) from the kind folks at the Edmonton Message Board at RootsWeb. The obituaries contained the names of Florence and Claude ALSTON's two children. I hope, someday, to find the children or grandchildren of my no longer lost Great-aunt Flo! * * * 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. OHIO. Monroe County. Marriages. 1918-1924; 1,742 records; Scott L. Byrd http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ VERMONT. Chittenden County, Winooski; contributors to St. Francois Xavier Church, 1868-1880; 863 records; Philip Cochran http://userdb.rootsweb.com/churchrecords/ 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 TEACHMAN. Information on the TEACHMAN family who came to America circa 1745. The family first settled in north-central New Jersey/south-central New York. Other surnames include: CONGER, BOARD, MILLER, REESE, POTTER, JENKINS, GARRISON, CONKLIN, REOCK, and RHINESMITH. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~lizzie1950/ 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 [insert the accountname] U.S.A. caventu2 -- Ventura County (California) codac -- DAC (Colorado) macsomer -- Somerville (Massachusetts) macwestf -- Westford (Massachusetts) moafamer -- African American Griots Project (Missouri) wvcccfhr -- Cabell County (West Virginia) Cemetery and Funeral Home Records Key: DAC -- Daughters of the American Colonies * * * 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/ No new mailing lists were created this week. 6. FROM ROOTSWEB REVIEW'S BOTTOMLESS MAILBAG [Editor's note: The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the editor or of RootsWeb.com]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Using MapQuest to Pinpoint Ancestor's Residence By Bill Lawson My Swedish grandfather LOFSTROM came to America in 1890. I traced him to Hamburg then to Liverpool, New York City, and finally to Boston. He settled in Boston, and went to work for the public library as a bookbinder. He was there till his death in 1918. My query to the Boston Public Library yielded no information. I tried to find him in the 1900 census, using his name Konrad August LOFSTROM, but failed. Family lore said that he built a three-decker on Tower Street, Boston, in 1905. So I reasoned he must have lived nearby in 1900 and liked the area. I printed out a MapQuest detail of surrounding streets, then I went through the Enumeration Districts (EDs) listed in the census and wrote the EDs on the map near Tower Street. I then went down each census page of all those EDs looking for grandpa and his family. YEEESSSS! There he was -- his name spelled LUFFSTROM but with the correct names for his wife and children -- on Fresno Street. While studying the MapQuest detail of Tower Street, Boston, I noticed at one end of that street was a huge cemetery. Were my grandparents buried there? An inquiry to the cemetery yielded not only a positive answer, but the complete burial records of both of them -- in 1910 and 1918! [Editor's Note: The "L" on the surname was written by the enumerator so it looked something like an "S" and that's how the name was indexed -- as SUFFSTROM. However, a search in the 1900 census index at Ancestry.com using just the given name of Conrad (born in Sweden) in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, reveals this ancestor -- Conrad SUFFSTROM, a bookbinder, living at 17 Fresno Street in Boston.] * * * Understanding Our Forebears By Peter Fifield Wells In the 1850 census for Pittston, Maine, I found my great-great grandfather Franklin FIFIELD and his wife, Abigail, with children Susan and Frank. Considerable research revealed that Abigail GOODWIN, whose intent to marry Franklin was recorded in Pittston on 12 February 1843, was his third wife and Franklin B. was their only known child. By 1860 Franklin was alone again and there was no sign of Abigail or her son Franklin B. in any federal census through 1870. Franklin B. FIFIELD married Abigail CUMMINGS on 9 April 1870 in either Lowell or Westford, Massachusetts (the marriage was recorded in both places). Their first two children were born in Lowell. The State of Massachusetts took censuses in 1855 and 1865. In going through the 1865 census I discovered Franklin B. in Lowell living with another family. Then, taking a close look at the family he was living with, I realized that the wife was his mother, who had remarried. Nathan G. UPHAM, now her husband, appeared unmarried in the 1860 federal census. There was no marriage record and I found no divorce record for Abigail and Franklin in either Maine or Massachusetts. The Pittston, Maine vital records indicated that Franklin had yet a fourth wife and child there in 1870. Nathan died before Abigail and she appeared in the Lowell city directory and then disappeared again. But now I had another name to look for her under and I proceeded to search diligently for death records in Massachusetts where she last lived and finally in New Hampshire where son, Franklin B., had moved. That last search hit the jackpot. Abigail (GOODWIN) (FIFIELD) UPHAM died in the state hospital in Concord, New Hampshire, suffering from senility. She had come there from Ashland where son Franklin B. had raised the rest of his family. The death record named her parents. Vital records from the town of Litchfield in Maine plus the town history gave her ancestry, which even said she had married Nathan UPHAM but made no mention of Franklin FIFIELD. The history of Franklin FIFIELD is unenviable; his first and third wives left him and remarried, his second wife died and he disappeared from the records while in his 50s. Franklin's father also died in his 50s and, in spite of having been left the family farm and the instructions to care for his mother, was obviously not up to the task. Then I realized that one of Franklin B.'s sons was an alcoholic and died in his 50s. My conclusion is that the pattern of Franklin and his father, Jonathan FIFIELD, of Salisbury, New Hampshire also fit that of alcoholics and this helps to explain my trouble in tracing that part of my ancestry and the reason for the lack of any family oral history passed down to us from that branch. * * * Linking the World -- Genealogically By Helen Robinson in Adelaide, South Australia http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/robinson/ I have just been reading with much interest the RootsWeb Review and the following article caught my attention. It was titled "Old 'Peppercorn' Deed Links Genies in U.S. and Scotland," by Joe Hay in Hampton, Virginia and was the story of an old deed belonging to the family of James BUXTON of Edinburgh, Scotland, who is the great-great-great-grandson of Thomas BUXTON. I was fascinated and a little envious that a document belonging to his family had come back into his possession after being lost for so many years when the name of Thomas Fowell BUXTON leapt out of the page at me. With my attention totally focused I read on about Thomas Fowell BUXTON who died in 1845. He had 10 children and 23 grandchildren bearing the surname BUXTON. He was succeeded by his son Sir Edward North BUXTON, who was in turn followed by four more Sir Thomas Fowell BUXTONS. It was the eldest son of Sir Edward North BUXTON -- Sir Thomas Fowell BUXTON the second baronet of Warlies Essex and Colne House, Cromer, Norfolk and his wife Catherine, nee GURNEY who in 1895 was offered the position of Governor of South Australia. Sir Thomas Fowell BUXTON was born 26 January 1837 at West Ham, Essex, England; he was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College Cambridge. In 1858 he succeeded his father; apart from the baronetcy, he also inherited landed interests and a partnership in the brewing firm of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co, where he worked until 1889. On the 12th of June 1862, Buxton married Lady Victoria Noel, they had 13 children with 10 surviving infancy. Like the Earl of Kintore -- Sir Algernon Hawkins Keith-Falconer before him -- he faced many problems, the main one being the Premier of South Australia, C. C. KINGSTON, who had requested that local government should be more involved in the choice of governor. KINGSTON was infuriated by the Imperial Government's nomination and set about making the incoming governor's position most unattractive in the hope he would withdraw his acceptance. KINGSTON's government abolished the vice-regal expense allowance and demanded that subordinate posts be filled locally. They reduced the governor's salary by $#163;1000. BUXTON refused to withdraw and arrived in Adelaide on the 29 October 1895. KINGSTON applied many petty economies on the new governor including charging him customs duty on his wife's invalid carriage, Lady Victoria was crippled by a spinal condition in 1869. BUXTON's gentle and unassuming friendliness disarmed all radical critics. KINGSTON finally admitted that BUXTON was the most genial, sociable and common-sense governor to inhabit Adelaide's Vice Regal mansion. During his time as governor he regularly visited with inmates of gaols, the Home for Incurables (Julia Farr Centre), the lunatic asylum and destitute refuges. He met with aboriginals and was genuinely interested in their culture. The BUXTONs also worked tirelessly to simulate Adelaide's musical, religious, educational, and charitable organizations. They both served on numerous committees and donated large sums of money to drought victims. Lady Victoria was the first president of the Church of England Mothers' Union in Adelaide and founded several working-girls clubs. They brought Government House nearer to the people than ever before. Here is where my husband's ROBINSON family connection enters the picture. In August 1890 my husband's grandfather, Luke George Mansfield ROBINSON, arrived in Australia to take up an appointment at Government House Adelaide as a military orderly for the Governor of South Australia -- the Earl of Kintore, Sir Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer. During the Earl of Kintore's time in office (1889 to 1895) he had to deal with five changes of ministry before KINGSTON succeeded in June 1893 forming a government which lasted to December 1899. During the time my husband's grandfather, Luke George Mansfield ROBINSON, served at Government House Adelaide from 1890 to 1898, Sir Thomas Fowell BUXTON was made governor of South Australia and ROBINSON served as his military orderly until Sir Thomas Fowell BUXTON returned back to England due to his wife Catherine's ill health. In September 1899 Luke George Mansfield ROBINSON enlisted with the 3rd NSW Imperial Bushmen in the rank of Squadron Sergeant Major for service in the South African Boer War. During his time in the 3rd Imperial Bushmen he saw action in Mafeking and then into the Western Transvaal. In the next three months he rode over 550 miles (885 km.) living in the open and was under fire several times. In 1900 he was commissioned to lieutenant and re-assigned to the 6th NSW Imperial Bushmen. Luke George Mansfield ROBINSON returned to Australia in September 1902 aboard the "America" to Sydney. He was awarded both the Kings and Queens South African Medals of Service and four bars -- Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Rhodesia and Transvaal. * * * Confronting Spelling Challenges By Jeanne Kuenzer Hlavac I was a beginner when I began with the 1850 U.S. census. My family arrived in 1847 so they should be listed. Fortunately they lived in a small town. I began my search. Finally I finished the entire town and didn't find them! How could I have missed them? Many of the listed occupations were quarrying. Back at the beginning again, I looked for anything to do with quarries and followed that line back to the name. I almost missed it! His wife and all the children's correct names were listed. My great- grandfather's name was spelled KURTZEIGER instead of KUNZER. I suspect the language was the problem, because a KURTZ worked at the quarry and boarded with the KUNZERS. Great-grandmother most likely didn't know the language very well and misunderstood the census taker. When the 1880 index was available, I put in the disk and searched for my family. They were not listed. Impossible! I put in the name of a long- ago neighbor my family had mentioned, brought up the page and discovered my great-grandfather's name was spelled GUENZER instead of KUENZER. No one else will find his name in the future because those neighbors are long gone. 7. Humor/Humour: Getting Professional Help --------------------------------------- Thanks to: Terry Garrard In last week's RootsWeb Review humor section, Bill Dollarhide was credited with saying, "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." What I want know is, if you fail his test, does he help you correct the errors? * * * 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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