RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 9 August 2006, Vol. 9, No. 32 (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: Summer Lull Equals Lookup Opportunity BOOK NOTES: Cemeteries of Staten Island, New York SITES: Boston Pilot's Missing Friends Database; 1846-1851 Arrivals in New York; Ulster Historical Foundation 1b. Tips from Readers: Loving Thy Ancestor's Neighbors 1c. Using RootsWeb: Finding the Way to Ancestors 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: And the Walls Came a Tumblin’ Down! 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: Just Ducky Perfectly Named Staff Diligence Pays Dividend Look, but Don't Touch Wandering Ancestors Annoy Researcher 7. Humor/Humour: Rich Uncle or Poor Speller? 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ======================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: NEWS, NOTES; SOME SITES WORTH SEEING NEWS: Summer Lull Equals Lookup Opportunity Need a DAR Lookup? Do you think you might have an ancestor who served in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)? Would you like to know whether your ancestor is listed with the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) in the "Patriot Index"? A helpful group of organized DAR VIS Volunteers monitor the RootsWeb DAR Message Board every day and welcome lookup requests. Include your Revolutionary War-era ancestor's first and last name, spouse's name (if known), dates of birth, death, and state of residence When posting your lookup request. You need not be interested in joining the NSDAR to request a lookup. http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.organizations.dar * * * BOOK NOTES: The Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences recently published a book about Staten Island cemeteries past and present. It's called "Realms of History: The Cemeteries of Staten Island." The author is the Institute's Curator of History, Patricia M. Salmon. The book focuses on local cemetery culture from a historical perspective and it builds on the earlier work of three Staten Island historians -- William T. Davis, Charles W. Leng, and Royden W. Vosburgh. It covers a variety of cemetery-related subjects, including the burial grounds of Native Americans, slaves, African-Americans, and immigrants and homestead, religious, and non-religious graveyards. More than 75 burial grounds were researched. Emphasis is on their development and history and the abandonment of some of them. Tombstones as folk art, cemeteries as nature preserves, and graveyard desecration are also discussed. "Realms of History: The Cemeteries of Staten Island" contains more than 300 pages and includes about 200 images. It's available for $25 (plus $2 tax). E-mail giftshop@statenislandmuseum.org or call 718-727-1135. * * * NEW BOOKS? Has your historical or genealogical society published cemetery or marriage records or some unique records? Have you published a family history? Tell us about it in a brief e-mail -- in plain text (please, no attachments, flyers, or catalogs). Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com and include your full name and e-mail address in the text. Announcements of books and products are provided as a community service. * * * SOME SITES WORTH SEEING: The Boston Pilot. From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a "Missing Friends" column with advertisements from people looking for "lost" friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. The database is now searchable -- see "Information Wanted." http://www.bc.edu/centers/irish/studies/ Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York from 1846-51. This database contains about 604,000 names of person who arrived during this time period -- many were Irish famine immigrants. See "Most Popular" box. http://aad.archives.gov/aad/ Ulster Historical Foundation, Irish and Scots-Irish Family History Research. It has some free databases worth checking, especially if your families were from County Antrim or County Down. See "Online Databases." http://www.ancestryireland.com/ * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Loving Thy Ancestor's Neighbors By Edmond Spaeth in Fishkill, New York, USA Awhile back I was helping a genealogy contact from Washington (state) research an immigrant ancestor. The contact was hoping to find when and on what ship the immigrant had arrived in the United States. Well, I never did unearth that fact, but I had looked at an 1860 census of New Rochelle, Westchester County New York where he had been residing at the time and found out some other interesting details about the ancestor and his neighbors. On that enumeration the ancestor's occupation was listed as a gardener. On the 1870 census, this same ancestor had not moved as he had many of the same neighbors, but was now listed as a coachman. With the occupations listed thusly, I suspected the ancestor was employed by a wealthy private family to manage their garden and then later to drive their personal coaches as he became a more trusted and loyal employee. On both of these censuses, one of the ancestor's near neighbors was a John DYOTT whose occupation was listed respectively as tragedian and actor. My first thought was that DYOTT would have been the neighbor who would have had the wherewithal to afford to hire a private gardener and then a coachman. I was going to leave it at that, but further reading of items about DYOTT and a trip to the New Rochelle Public Library revealed facts to counter that assumption. I discovered, because of his fame, that DYOTT's domicile whereabouts was known and that he lived on Church Street in the heart of New Rochelle, a fact none of the censuses heretofore had stated. Perhaps, I now could pinpoint the ancestor's location on a detailed map, possibly from a Beers Atlas. Then with further sleuth work in the local history room of the New Rochelle Public Library, I utilized old 1868 local city street maps, which had marks indicating residences and other buildings along the streets as well as identifying owners or occupiers of the properties. The ancestor was not named on this particular large sheet map. However, by comparing the order of the census taker's route and the layout of identified residences on the 1868 map of that area of New Rochelle, I deduced that the ancestor's true employer was most likely the property owner of the large estate behind the ancestor's abode and who also owned the ancestor's abode on Church Street. The estate owner was not the actor, John DYOTT, but Oliver CUTTS, a shipping merchant, of a long- standing Maine ship-owning family, who had been enumerated on totally different sheets of the respective censuses from the ancestor so the census would not have readily revealed that fact to me. According to the map Oliver CUTTS' residence, with a large circular drive, faced Centre Street, a street which paralleled Church Street to the west, while the ancestor's gardener's/coachman's cottage faced Church Street. Since the occupation of tragedian and actor seemed so unusual as an occupation, I was very much intrigued by this one neighbor John DYOTT -- regardless if he was the ancestor's employer or not. Via simple research on the Internet, I came away impressed by the revelation of DYOTT's worldly status. He was a world-renowned Shakespearean actor, having performed for world leaders of the day, including Queen Victoria. Yet, the most stunning revelation about John DYOTT is that he was a leading actor in the play "Our American Cousin" that was being performed on the night of 14 April 1865 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. when another renown actor so unabashedly upstaged him by assassinating President Abraham LINCOLN who had been enjoying the stage presentation with his wife and others from their box seat. We all remember the actor and assassin, John Wilkes BOOTH, but John DYOTT's name has been lost to most people other than possibly local New Rochelle history buffs. A few years after that tragic event John DYOTT retired from the stage to help his brother publish a newspaper. So don't look at the census merely for your ancestor's whereabouts, but look at the neighbors, too, for there may be other intriguing stories lurking thereabouts. I am quite sure that there were ripple effects from the 1865 events in Washington, D.C. that were felt or talked about in that particular New Rochelle neighborhood for years afterward and that my genealogy contact's elusive gardener or coachman ancestor knew a great deal about them. The immigrant ancestor was Martin HAUS/HOUSE from Hesse-Darmstadt (now Germany). He later moved west to Nebraska with his family. Over the years, my genealogy contact's family had heard stories that Martin HAUS/HOUSE had served in Napoleon's elite guard (a fact that could be true because during Napoleon's reign Hesse-Darmstadt was under his control), but they never knew about Martin's close connections to other historic events here in the United States until I had unearthed same. * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Finding the Way to Ancestors Remember the old song from the 1950s about Constantinople becoming Istanbul? "So if you've a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul." Another line from that song tells us, "Even old New York was once New Amsterdam." This song wasn't written about genealogical research but it very well could have been. Next to name spelling variations, changes in geographic designations -- due to boundary alterations, towns being renamed, and governmental shifts -- probably create the greatest roadblock for genealogists attempting to gather documentation about their ancestors. Are you researching German ancestors from Luützelstein in Alsace? Look for them in La Petite-Pierre as that is what the town is called by the French. The Alsace-Lorraine area has, at various times, been under French or German control. Many of its towns have both German and French names depending upon which documents you are looking at and when they were recorded. Pity the poor family historian attempting to gather documentation about her ancestors from Monmouthshire in England or is that Monmouthshire in Wales? The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica describes the county as part of England, but notes that whenever an act is intended to apply to Wales alone, Wales is always coupled with Monmouthshire. Even today when Monmouthshire is considered to be part of Wales, there are political discussions about letting Monmouthshire decide whether it should be a part of England or Wales in the future. U.S. research locations can be murky -- suppose you are trying to find information about ancestors who moved from Adams County, Pennsylvania, to Rockingham County, Virginia. You might need to look in Augusta County, Virginia if the records you need are for a period before the formation of Rockingham County. Ditto for your ancestors while living in Adams County, Pennsylvania, prior to 1800. You are going to have to look for them in York County, Pennsylvania. And what if you are looking for very early settlers in "the lower three counties of Pennsylvania" which, in case you didn't know, refers to the State of Delaware. Going back even earlier, some of the earliest documents from the 1600s can be found in Albany, New York, from the period when Delaware was a part of New Netherland. And then there were the border disputes between Virginia and south- western Pennsylvania and New York and northwestern Pennsylvania, not to mention Maryland and southern Pennsylvania before the Mason-Dixon Line resolved that issue permanently. Land tended to "move" from one place to another without so much as a seismic catastrophe. Many times our ancestors "moved" without ever setting foot outside their homes or leaving their farms or jobs. One of our most important research goals in locating our ancestors and finding all relevant documents about them must be to learn the geographic locations and political boundaries of the places they dwelled during the time they lived there. Will we find our ancestor's will in York County, Pennsylvania or Adams County? Were our Pennsylvania ancestors paying taxes (and appearing on tax lists) in Pennsylvania or maybe New York, Maryland, or Virginia? In what county (or state) will they appear on the census? Study the history and geography of the places your ancestors resided and establish a time line for where to look for records based upon boundaries and governmental entities in effect at the time. Usually you will find records in the county, town, or state in which your ancestors lived at the time of the recorded event but you may have to resort to looking in several counties or states (or even countries) to be sure you haven't missed any records housed in the other archives and courthouses. Locality mailing lists and message boards at RootsWeb can be a valuable resource for you to ask questions about jurisdictions and boundaries during a period when you ancestors lived in a specific geographic area. To find the locality mailing lists of interest to you click on Mailing Lists on the tab at the top of any RootsWeb page. Select USA or International. For message boards click on Message Boards on the tab at the top of any RootsWeb page. Then use the Find a Board search box or select the appropriate link under Localities. So the next time you hear the song "I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet" remember that it might not be the earth you feel moving -- but rather a change of boundaries that effect where you need to be looking for your ancestors' records. Cast a wider net and don't be tied down by county, state, or even national borders when those borders or governmental bodies may have changed over the years without your ancestors ever having moved. * * * * * * * * * * 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, Australia, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Italy. If you commission the work (there's no obligation to do that!) prices start from $52 (US). 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CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB: And the Walls Came a Tumblin’ Down! By Diane Ricksecker Richey in Sandy, UT, USA 2006 has been a phenomenal year genealogically speaking and it is all because of RootsWeb. What I knew: Gustave Elise MENTHE, my 2nd-great-grandmother, was born 1838 in Berlin, Germany to Carl Theodor MENTHE and August Albertine BLUEMNER. Carl Theodor MENTHE was a master silk weaver. Simon Friedrich "Fritz" KREBS, was born 1818 in Langensalaza, Thuringia, Germany and went to Berlin to learn the silk weaver trade from Carl Theodor MENTHE. There he met and fell in love with the young Gustave Elise MENTHE. Carl Theodor MENTHE asked "Fritz" to go to Borås, Sweden and start a textile institute. When Elise was old enough to marry, Fritz returned to Berlin, married her and they settled in Borås. One of their sons, my great-grandfather Rikard Emanuel KREBS, born 1871, came to America and eventually settled in Portland, Oregon. What I wanted to know: In September 2005 I submitted a query to the surname database at RootsWeb seeking information on Sophie MENTHE, the sister of my Elise. I knew that Sophie was born in 1844. In 1856 Sophie left Germany and came to America with the HOWE family. Several years later she married Berthold, one of the HOWE sons. They lived in Winona, Winona County, Minnesota from 1856 until their deaths. Who were Sophie’s children and grandchildren? What happened to her descendants? No one replied and I forgot about the query. What I found out: On 8 January 2006 I received an e-mail from Hans- Jürgen MENTHE. He introduced himself by saying that he lived Berlin, Germany and that his 2nd-great-grandfather, Gustav Traugott MENTHE, born 1833, was an older brother of Sophie and Elise! Several other siblings of Sophie and Elise have been identified by Hans- Jürgen. He and I have exchanged family trees, family photos, histories of our direct line ancestors, and developed a great friendship. He has introduced me to his cousins in Norway and Germany. I have told him about cousins in Sweden and America. His information and interest in our family has led to many more discoveries that have made at http://www.ancestry.com/ and http://www.familysearch.org/ In May I heard from another cousin, Susan SANDERS who is the 2nd- great-granddaughter of Sophie. Hans had found Susan when she placed a query at RootsWeb about Sophie’s daughter, Emma HOWE. Hans contacted Susan and told her about me. Now we are a trio of family historians who have never met but have 2nd-great-grandparents who were siblings. From Hans we have learned about the family who stayed in Prussia and "met" 2nd-great-grandchildren of other siblings. From Susan and me, Hans has learned about the families who immigrated to Sweden and America. Our trees and friendships have blossomed this summer. In September Susan and I will meet. Next year I will meet Hans in Berlin. The result: Thanks to RootsWeb we all have a richer knowledge about our ancestors and their lives. On top of that we have far more photos and family history to pass down to our descendants than any of us could have ever hoped for. Best of all, we have stretched our hands and our hearts across the ocean to become a united family again after 150 years of separation. * * * 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/ GEORGIA. Berrien County. Nashville. Nashville High School, 1929 and 1930 graduates; 40 records; Becky Taylor http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ ILLINOIS. McLean County. Evergreen Cemetery. Anchor/Colfax; 27 records; Jill Kastello http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ LOUISIANA. Bienville Parish. Wimberly Cemetery. 366 records; Maxine Blake Morgan http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ NORTH CAROLINA. Pitt County. Bethel. Pinelawn Cemetery; 662 records; Annette Roebuck http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ 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 FAMILY TWIGS. Surnames include: ALEXANDER, BROCK, BEARD, BOHALL, HINES, HOVIS, JAYNES/JANES, MARTIN, MORGAN, and SANDLIN in many U.S. locations. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~familytwigs/ FERNÁNDEZ. (Spain). Pagina de los sucesores de Francisco Fernandez del Pino Burgos Leon Don Francisco Fernández del Pino I Conde de Pinofiel y Vizconde de Solis nacido en Antequera, España. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pinofiel/ SCHANDER. Ancestors and relatives of Anna-Karin Schander, mostly in Sweden. Names include: LANDAHL, RYDBERG, JUNGNER, STRINNHOLM, SCHANDER, NIKLASSON, OLSSON, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~annakarin/annakarinscandersfamilyweb/annakarinschandersfamilywebsiteindex2.html SOULE SEARCHIN'. A genealogy of the descendants of Aaron SOLES (b. ca 1812, Ontario, Canada) and Catherine BELFOUR. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~backntyme/ 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] ENGLAND engggfhg -- Great Grimsby Family History Group ITALY itacolli -- Colliano (town in Province of Salerno) U.S.A. akanchor -- Municipality of Anchorage (Alaska) akkenai -- Kenai Peninsula Borough (Alaska) indchs -- Delaware County Historical Society (Indiana) ohbcaihs -- B.C. Algonquian Indian Historical Society (Ohio) okgcgsrc -- Green Country Genealogical Research Club (Oklahoma) orclcdar -- Crater Lake (Oregon) Chapter DAR wagfha -- Genealogy and Family History Alumni (Washington) wiporta2 -- Portage County (Wisconsin) 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/ No new mailing lists were created. 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just Ducky By James Blair in Cypress, California, USA A few blocks from my house is a park with a small pond and about 100 ducks and seagulls. A few years ago I went down to feed the ducks, which I did about once a month. Among them was a rather unusual duck that I had never seen before. It was larger than the rest of the ducks and would eat out of my hand. I searched the Internet for hours with all different kinds of entries; duck red head, duck red cap. I was getting nowhere and then I thought that because of its size maybe it was a goose. Many more hours of searching with no results. Finally I entered "web bird." This brought up http://www.web-birds.com/ -- a site about the 5th Air Force. My uncle was a fighter pilot and ace in the 5th AF during World War II so, of course, I took a look at it. I went through the various fighter groups and when I opened the 348th fighter group I found my uncle, S. V. BLAIR, in the 341st fighter squadron. He indeed was an ace having shot down seven Zeros. I contacted the webmaster for this site and got my uncle's military biography. Overall, it was a great find. Oh, the duck! It was several months later that I found out it was a Muscovy duck. * * * Perfectly Named Staff By Paul LeValley In the 1960s, we had the perfect staff at Boy Scout Camp Holaka near Lapeer, Michigan. We had Henry COOK in the kitchen, Bill BROOKS on the waterfront, and Greg PEACOCK in charge of nature (a position formerly held by Bob WHITE). But I never could convince Ed POTTER that he should move to handicrafts. * * * Diligence Pays Dividend By Maureen J. Chicoine in San Bernardino, California, USA I had found my great-grandmother, Virginia RAYMOND, in all the U.S. censuses (1850-1930) except for 1880. I tried under various spellings of her married name (CHICOINE), which is often misspelled. No luck. Then as I was scrolling through families in the small town of Highgate, Vermont looking for someone else there she was -- listed under the name of REYMO (the French pronunciation of her maiden name) as were her children from her two marriages (BOUVIER and CHICOINE). I am unsure why the census taker did this or whether she was known by her maiden name and a neighbor provided the information and he just assumed all the children had the same last name. Proves that it is worth going through census page by page as it can be full of surprises (luckily this was a small town). It also may be worth searching for a woman by her maiden name -- just in case. * * * Look, but Don't Touch By Carla White in Oklahoma, USA In reference to the recent letters on unlocking files containing information about ancestors confined to state institutions, my husband and I were given a rare opportunity one time, while we were visiting a county courthouse doing genealogical research. The courthouse employee led us into a large, room-size walk-in safe and while gesturing around at the walls filled with books she said, "There are the probate records, those are the land records, and over there are the adoption and insane records, but, of course, you can't look at those!" She then left the room, with us sitting there, mouths agape! This actually happened to us on two different occasions -- in two different courthouses in two different states. Maybe we look exceptionally honest -- or dumb. Go figure! * * * Wandering Ancestors Annoy Researcher By RBeda Biggs Coffey While researching our MAHAFFEY family in Ohio, we got very tired of them moving from Brown County to Adams County and back. We later discovered they did not move at all. The county line did. Records had to be researched in both counties even though the family stayed on the same farm for years. 7. Humor/Humour: Rich Uncle or Poor Speller? ---------------------------------------- Thanks to Rita Hallett, who writes: In the death records of an ancestor of mine, it says he died of "new money disease." At first I thought what could this be? Then I laughed and said it as they probably did -- pneumonia. I sure wish it had been "new money." * * * 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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