RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 8 November 2006, Vol. 9, No. 45 (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/ * * * ROOTSWEB REVIEW ARCHIVES: Current and previous editions: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/2006/1108.txt http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ ========================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1. 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: NEWS, NOTES, AND SOME SITES WORTH SEEING NEWS: Digital Genealogist Debuts; Is Genealogy the Fountain of Youth?; DAR Lookup BOOK NOTES: Forensic Genealogy SITES: Food Books; Immigrants to Canada, USA Travel; RR in PA 1b. Tips from Readers: Grandpa's Name is Spelled -- How? 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Military Records Flesh Out Family Histories 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: Buffalo Roots Lead to France 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: Chilling Encounter in El Paso Ugly Americans: Oh Where Have Our Manners Gone? 7. Humor/Humour: Fast-working Romeo Foils Other Suitor 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ======================================================= IN THIS ISSUE: 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: NEWS, NOTES; SOME SITES WORTH SEEING DIGITAL GENEALOGIST DEBUTS A free sample of the first issue of a brand-new magazine, Digital Genealogist, is now available via a PDF download at: http://www.digitalgenealogist.com/ Edited by Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens, CG, CGL, a long-time editor of genealogical publications, Digital Genealogist, features articles on the use of technology. The magazine is delivered by e-mail in PDF format, allowing readers to click through the links in the magazine and explore the websites discussed by authors, as well as viewing the websites of advertisers. It will be published bimonthly and subscriptions are US$20 annually. * * * IS GENEALOGY THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH? Does researching your family tree keep you young? Ancestry Magazine wants to hear about it. Send the brief details (including your contact information) to editor@ancestrymagazine.com today. * * * 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: Forensic Genealogy, by Colleen Fitzpatrick, PhD. Forensic scientists and genealogists share the same goal -- to find out who was who, and who did what and when. In explaining how to analyze photographs, to mine databases, and to use DNA analysis to reveal family history, this book emphasizes the creative parts of an investigation over the mechanics. For more information, see: http://globalgenealogy.com/genealogy-general/resources/211001.htm * * * SOME SITES WORTH SEEING Food Books. Historical American cookbooks with an online sampling of some old recipes. http://www.foodbooks.com/recipes.htm Immigrants to Canada http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html Travel and Westward Expansion in U.S.A.-- 19th Century in Print http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/mncsptravel.html The Railroad in Pennsylvania with stories and images. All aboard! http://www.explorepahistory.com/story.php?storyId=19 * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Grandpa's Name is Spelled -- How? By Chris in Colorado I agree the census indices at familysearch.org and ancestry.com contain many errors ("Quental" for "Greenlee" is my favorite example), partly due to being computer-generated but largely due to bad handwriting, variant spellings, or poor microfilm. I found that "missing" Greenlee by searching on his first name and birthplace in the county where I was sure he lived in 1920. I just found a Mitchell family "missing" in 1900 by searching on known children's first names -- the enumerator wrote "Michell." Of course, this doesn't work quite as well if everyone in the family is named John, Mary, James, or William and they lived in a big city. If your library subscribes to HeritageQuestOnline and you can access it through the library's website, the indexing is supposed to be more accurate. However, the disadvantage is that mainly just names of heads of households are listed. If you do find an indexing error in Ancestry.com, please take time to click on the "View Record" button to the left of the name, then go to "Comments and Corrections" to enter an alternate (correct) name. This should help the next person (a new cousin?) searching for the same family. * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Military Records Flesh Out Family Histories When you begin your family history research, if you are like most of us, you were thrilled merely to learn the names of your ancestors back a few generations, to discover the dates they were born, married, and died; and to learn where they lived. When those basics are recorded, however, you will want to learn more information to flesh out what your ancestors' lives were like, their occupations and whether or not they ever served in the military -- and possibly saw active duty in war-time. If military records can be located they often provide insight into important events and commitments in your ancestors' lives. Military service records can bring your ancestors to life though they may have served long ago and far, far away. The challenge is to identify which military records exist and then figure out how to search for them. Perhaps you didn't even know your ancestor served in the military until you began to delve into the family history and stumbled across the information or an older family member told you how handsome your grandfather looked in uniform as he marched off to war. Now you'd love to find a photograph of him in his uniform and learn more about his wartime experiences. If you have found a hint that your ancestor might have served in the military, how can you go about obtaining military records? How can you learn where your ancestor served, and in what battles he may have fought? What would have happened if your soldier ancestor died overseas or at sea? What is the significance of the service medal that has been passed down in your family or his unusual uniform? You might find answers to such questions in the archives of RootsWeb's military mailing lists, on the military topic message boards, in RootsWeb's user-contributed databases, or in RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees. Mailing Lists. To find the RootsWeb military-related mailing lists, start here: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ and look under Other for the following categories: Military: 20th Century, Military: Aus-NZ, Military: Canada, Military: Canada Miscellaneous, Military: Europe, Military: Europe Miscellaneous, Military: Miscellaneous, Military: Naval, Military: UK, Military: US Civil War, Military: US Miscellaneous, and Military: US Revolution. As you probably can tell from the above, the military list topics run the gamut from BATTLESHIPS to WARBRIDES, and from the BOER-WAR to numerous U.S. Civil War lists. All are indexed on the above pages and all have links to the list archives where you can search or browse for information of interest. Message Boards. Military topic message boards may be found here: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.military These boards are categorized primarily by war and country with individual boards for a wide variety of subjects including branches of military service such as the Army and the Merchant Marines. An every- word search as well as advanced searches may be made either for all boards within the military topic boards from the above page, or for a specific board from that board itself. Surname searches are also enabled on the boards. User-contributed Databases. The military master database may be searched starting here: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ You must enter a surname (last name) to be searched but you can select from an exact match, a match of the beginning letters of the surname (you must enter at least the first three letters -- do not use wild cards, just enter the letters), and a "sounds like" match (Soundex). You may also narrow your searches by listing a given name (optional) and/or a war (optional). A list of all military databases that have been contributed, included in the above search of the master military database can be found here (click on Military Records): http://userdb.rootsweb.com/regional.html These user-contributed records listed on the above page are as diverse and varied as some World War I and World War II rosters, ships' crew listings, lists of soldiers in various training classes and lists of some who were killed in various battles. In addition, there is a separate POW-MIA master database searchable from this site: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/pow_mia/ Also see the RootsWeb Guides No. 13 (Military Records -- worldwide) and No. 14 (Military Records -- U.S.) at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson13.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson14.htm Nothing brings history to life as vividly as being able to place your ancestors at the scene of history in the making on the battlefield, helping to shape the world in which we live today. * * * * * * * * * * Advertisement * * * * * * * * * * GET HELP WITH YOUR BRITISH GENEALOGY BRITISH ANCESTORS will search the records of your English and Scottish ancestors stored in archives throughout England and Scotland, most of which are unavailable on the Internet. Friendly service, affordable prices and free research assessments. For a FREE! no-obligation research assessment visit http://www.britishancestors.com/ For help in finding ancestors from the USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Russia, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Italy, request a FREE! initial e-mail consultation from http://www.ancestorseekers.com/research/rwr/ or join us FEBRUARY 18-23 for our Seventh Salt Lake City Research Trip -- the ideal genealogy vacation! * * * * * * * * * * End of Advertisement * * * * * * * * * * 2. CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB: Buffalo Roots Lead to France By Sandee I asked my father, Frank Matthew HOFFMAN III, once what his grandmother's name was. He replied, "Gramma." After some initial sleuthing, I found learned that she was Alice Viola BENEDICT and she descended from two lines of Thomas and Mary (BRIDGUM) BENEDICT, step- siblings who came to America in 1638. However, my major problem was my great-grandfather, Frank Matthew HOFFMAN Sr. The family story was that he was born in Buffalo, New York and that his father, mother, and little brother all died when he was five years old; that he was taken in by his grandmother and after she died when he was eight years old (ca 1886), he was reared by various family members until he became of age. Another story was that his family was originally from Alsace- Lorraine (France) and that he was a butcher by trade. Nothing more was really known, just a few rumors such as his father had been a hatter in New York City and that his mother was from Sweden -- name unknown. His death certificate was not correct, it had the wrong birth year, and it did not match his headstone date either. His father's name was listed as Frank, mother unknown. On occasions we made family trips from California to Connecticut to see the grandparents and cousins and I thought back to one time, when I was 16 years old, when I asked my great-grandmother how she met grandpa. She clammed up, but finally said, "He was a neighbor boy when I was living in New York with my sister, and was an altar boy." This line of the family was not Catholic. I found this family in the 1880 Buffalo, New York census. Great- grandfather's father was John (not Frank), age 23, peddler, born in New York, his father and mother were born in Lothringen; his mother, Sarah, age 19, was born in New York, her father and mother were born in Scotland (not Sweden). There was Frank, son, age 2, b New York. So, where is Lothringen? A kindly checker from Germany at the grocery store told me it was the German name for the Alsace-Lorraine area. Ah, a match! Being brave, I ordered the Catholic Church records from Buffalo at the local Family History Center, but which films to order? I just chose a few and was wished for some good luck. I had posted a note on RootsWeb Alsace-Lorraine Board asking for any hints or clues and a kind soul sent me a list of five "possibles" who had immigrated, but I had nothing to tie them together with. While waiting for the films to arrive, I searched RootsWeb again for Buffalo, and found a posting from a kind lady, Joan Sambrotto, that stated she had the necrology lists for Buffalo, and was offering to do lookups. I inquired with what little information I had, and Joan opened her bag of information and helped me locate information I would never have had access to or knowledge of, going as far as walking the cemetery and sending plot maps with names of the entire extended family that immigrated ca 1854. Two brothers had married two sisters. My line was Francois (Francis, Frank, Franz) HOFFMANN (Hoffman, Hofman), who married Marguerite KIRCHMANN. His brother Samuel married her sister Catherine KIRCHMANN. Sam and Catherine immigrated in 1852, Frank and Marguerite immigrated in 1854. The name Nicolas HENRY and wife Anna Maria, kept cropping up in the research also. I later learned that after Samuel died, Catherine married widower Nicolas HENRY. I got lucky. The St. Louis Roman Catholic Church records I had ordered were the correct records for this family, and films showed the marriage of Nicolas and Catherine. Vital records were not required until 1880 and New York did not comply until 1888. I was unable to find any records on my great-grandfather's mother's passing. I searched for all Sarah's born ca 1861 (per the 1880 census) and the only one that matched was a Sarah PATTERSON, born in Buffalo, parents both born Scotland. They were not Catholic, so no marriage recorded by the Roman Catholic church for my John and Sarah. Also, no vital records located, nor any death or burial records for Sarah. But I found her parents and siblings and am confident she was the mother of my great-grandfather. She was so young and may have died in childbirth. His father, John, remarried and did not die until 1906 -- another hole shot in the family lore! His HOFFMAN grandmother, Marguerite, did not die until 1904 -- yet another legend disproved and Sarah's mother, Agnes (ROGERS) PATTERSON, was last spotted in the 1910 census, living with her sister. So much for family tales. Four years ago I was contacted by a man who lived in Normandy, France. He is a World War II history author and was writing a book about the 101st Airborne, Co. E, 2/502 PIR [Parachute Infantry Regiment] that jumped into Normandy on 5 June 1944 -- the night before D-Day. He was featuring my father in the book and asked for any information I could offer. He also was involved in building a museum in Carentan to honor those that fought to liberate France. He asked for photos of my father as he was having a mannequin carved with my father featured in the museum. I gathered up material. Fortunately, my father had kept all of his military and related papers in a big box. It took some doing to piece it all together in chronological order, but this was for something pretty special! My father dedicated his life to the 101st Airborne and the war was never over for him. While putting this all together, I realized that the areas in France and Belgium where my father fought were the very same areas his ancestors were from. Staying in touch with the author in Normandy, by chance one day I sent him the "short list" of my father's ancestors, who turned out to be from Carling, Moselle, Lorraine, France (via Saarland). He was very excited about finding this information and asked me where I got it all from and I explained about doing the genealogy. Two weeks later, I received a package in the mail from him. He had called the civil records people and ordered some official records for me. French "Family Books" are extensive and all of the information I worked on in Buffalo has turned out to be exact. The list of five "possibles" also fit perfectly. Best of all was the finding that Nicolas HENRY had married Anna Maria KIRCHMANN -- the sister of Marguerite and Catherine KIRCHMAN who married the HOFFMANN brothers! Nicolas HENRY became blind, and it appears Catherine married her brother-in-law in order to care for him. I now have this family line back to the mid-1500s. Without the generous aid and knowledge of Buffalo given so freely by Joan Sambrotto, I don't believe I could have linked this family. She dug as deeply as I and together we worked this out. My eternal gratitude to her and I am fortunate to have her as a friend. * * * What's your story? Have you made a big breakthrough this year? 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 (short ones preferred) to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 3. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb 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. ALABAMA. Henry County. Watson marriages, 1821-1901 122 records; S. Watson http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ CALIFORNIA. Imperial County. El Centro. Central Union High School, Class of 1950; 181 records; Dave de Beaux http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ CONNECTICUT. Hartford County. Cemetery data; 447 records; David Gordon http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ ILLINOIS. McLean County. Cooksville. Blue Mound Township, Blue Mound Cemetery, 424 records; Jill Kastello http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ LOUISIANA, Bienville Parish. Carolina Cemetery; 438 records; Little Hope Cemetery; 193 records; Maxine Blake Morgan http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ MARYLAND. Frederick County. Brunswick, Class of 1934; 66 records; Jim Dixon http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MINNESOTA. Traverse County. Wheaton. Wheaton High School; , Class of 1932; 52 records; Carrie White http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MISSOURI. Iron County. Death index (1857-present); 9,172 records; Marcine Lohman for the Iron County Genealogy Society http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ MISSOURI. Jackson County. Kansas City Times; 10 September 1965; 21 records; Carrie White http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ NEW YORK. Erie County. Buffalo Courier. Partial index, 30 June 1891; 144 records; Don W. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/news/ TENNESSEE. Shelby County. Memphis. Messick High School, Class of 1927; 29 records; Tommy Michaels http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ WISCONSIN. Ozaukee County. 1905 state census for the county; 17,491 records; Mary Saggio http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ 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 * * * If your genealogical or historical related site is located somewhere other than at RootsWeb.com, you can add the link here: http://resources.rootsweb.com/~rootslink/addlink.html * * * BELTON, BREWER, DALEY, EMMONS, KEHO, LAUT, LEDDY, MCBREARTY, RICE, SANDERS and VILLARREAL -- Genealogy Page of Anna Villarreal Garbis. Includes obits, newspaper articles and more. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~annagarbis/ ENGLAND. DE ASTON SCHOOL (founded 1863), Willingham Road, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. A history website -- includes indexed photographs of pupils from 1890s onward. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~deaston/ ENGLAND. NEWSPAPERS. Recently added are two early copies of the London Gazette (1690s), two St. James's Chronicles (1775), one Bonner and Middleton Bristol Journal (1779), three copies of Berrows Worcester Journal (1780), two Ipswich Journals (1803 and 1811), and 11 copies of the Windsor and Eton Express (1830s and 1840s). A historical note is a few lines from 13 Jan 1780, reporting the death of Capt. James Cook at the Island of O'why'he in 1779. Copies of a few documents such as deeds, agreements, and obligation bonds from various counties and various dates (mainly 18th and early 19th centuries) have been added. Use the Freefind Search Box to locate references on webpages, then use Ctrl F to locate the precise reference. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutillieul/ * * * 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. azsbcusd -- Simon Bradford (Arizona) Chapter USD fleicdar -- Estero Island (Florida) Chapter DAR injenni2 -- Jennings County (Indiana) kslyon -- Lyon County (Kansas) tnohcusd -- Old Hickory-Nickjack (Tennessee) Chapter USD txcbenwh -- Ben Wheeler (city, Texas) txcedgew -- Edgewood (city, Texas) txcedom -- Edom (city, Texas) txcfruitv -- Fruitvale (city, Texas) txcwills -- Wills Point (city, Texas) txpjhusd -- Private Jacob Holley (Oklahoma) Chapter USD wamhcdar -- May Hutton (Washington) Chapter DAR wvwhp -- Wilderness Historical Project (West Virginia) Key: DAR--Daughters of the American Revolution USD--National Society United States Daughters of 1812 * * * New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- For information and an index to the more than 30,000 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ No new mailing lists were reported 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chilling Encounter in El Paso By Emilie Garcia in Port Orchard, Washington I was interested in the story in the recent newsletter about the couple whose baby had lost a shoe at a cemetery, and when they went looking for the shoe, it was found on the grave they had been looking for and had passed by. I had a similar experience a few years ago when my husband and I went from our home in Washington state to meet his 94-year-old aunt in El Paso, Texas. He had not seen this aunt or visited that town in 50 years, and was surprised that I had found her by calling all the people living in that town with her husband's name. I had hoped to find a son of hers with the same name. It turned out my husband's cousin had died years before, but his Aunt Lola was still alive (and still is at 97). We took her to the historic Concordia cemetery in El Paso where I knew my husband's grandfather Primitivo (Aunt Lola's brother-in-law) was buried. She knew that he had been buried in the same plot with his mother, Marciana, my husband's great-grandmother and Aunt Lola's mother-in-law that she never knew since Lola had been only a small child when Marciana died. We walked to a large old tree, where Aunt Lola remembered "Marcianita's" grave was, but she hadn't been there in years and was having trouble finding it. It was difficult for her to walk around the gravelly, scrubby, sandy earth that most cemeteries in the Southwest have, and she was using a cane. Everyone had split up and they were walking some distance from the tree, somewhat giving up on the notion we would find the grave, but Aunt Lola stood steadfast near the tree, saying "I know it is somewhere around here." When I turned to look at her, she was resting one elbow on the back of a tall headstone. As I approached her from the front of the headstone, my eyes were drawn to the name on a small plaque on the worn slab under that tall headstone: "Primitivo-----", and above his name, barely visible on the older slab due to the wear it had taken from sandstorms since 1912 was the name incised on the slab -- "Marciana----". I felt chills, thinking, Marciana and her son had wanted to be found, and caused Aunt Lola to stop and rest her elbow on that stone so that we could find them. * * * Ugly Americans: Oh, Where Have Our Manners Gone? By Coryn Cornelissen in Zaandam-Holland Last month I received a request from one of your readers regarding a posting of mine in RootsWeb Review in 1998. Over the years I have been approached by quite a few Americans regarding research in Holland. This has probably to do with the fact that I at one stage searched in the U.S. for some of my relations who moved there over a hundred years ago and so my name appeared on quite a few lists. . As genealogy is a hobby of mine I have never minded visiting archives, answering questions etc. for the people that approached me. As a matter of fact I was approached by more than one person last month and I spent a few hours getting the answers together for them. As they are always families that I am not connected to I do not have these data handy in my computer. Now in Holland when we do something for people (for free), especially something that takes some time and effort, we have a habit of thanking people. Neither of these people last month even took the trouble of thanking me for the information I sent them. This has happened to me quite a few times. I wonder why? Is it not a custom in the U.S. to thank people for their time and effort? Do not take me wrong. I am sure not all Americans are like that. With quite a few Americans I have built up long-lasting friendships and we have been writing to each other for years -- from Texas to Hawaii, from Colorado Springs to New York. So just a tip from someone in Holland. If you do ask someone for help, please remember to thank them for their efforts, It will be appreciated. * * * 7. Humor/Humour: Fast-working Romeo Foils Other Suitor --------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Carol, who write: In the Ancestry.com "10,000 Vital Records of Central New York, 1813-1850," I found the following entry: Henry TYROL married Calista WRIGHT in Hillsdale (after a courtship of 30 minutes "with her former gallant calling to pay his addresses during the ceremony")--(8-11/4/29) * * * Found a funny or "proper name for the job" in old records or an amusing entry in census, parish, church, etc. records? Send them to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 8. 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