RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 07 March 2007, Vol. 10, No. 10 (c) 1998-2007 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ * * * ROOTSWEB HELPDESK: Check here for announcements: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ * * * ROOTSWEB REVIEW ARCHIVES: Current and previous editions: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/2007/0307.txt http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ ============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Editor's Desk: News and Notes 1a. RootsWeb Has a New WorldConnect Server 1b. Ancestry.com Is Looking for Stories About Your Veterans 1c. NARA Proposes a Copy Fee 1d. The California Genealogical Society Changes Its Address 1e. Erie, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Society "Harvesting Your Heritage" Conference 1f. Using RootsWeb: Introducing Our New Editor and Columnists 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: I Threw a Rock 3. Bottomless Mailbag: The Trouble with Probert Veteran Information Overseas Canadian Veterans and the Maple Leaf Legacy Project 4. New at RootsWeb 4a. New User-contributed Databases 4b. New/Updated Freepages and Homepages by Individuals 4c. New/Updated Freepages and Homepages by Counties, States, and Genealogical/Historical Societies 4d. New Mailing Lists 5. Humor/Humour: Responses to Last Week's Humor/Humour Submission 6. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Editor's Desk: News and Notes 1a. RootsWeb Has a New WorldConnect Server RootsWeb is proud to announce a new addition to the RootsWeb family-- a new WorldConnect server! The old server was almost completely filled with the 400,000 trees and almost 480,000,000 names that you've uploaded over the years. The new server is both bigger and faster, so it should be ready to support our family tree needs for a long time. Try it out by searching and contributing trees at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com 1b. Ancestry.com Is Looking for Stories About Your Veterans For Honor and Freedom "Over There" With less than twenty-five World War I veterans living today, are the American servicemen who sacrificed for freedom in danger of being forgotten? Ancestry.com wants to know the stories of the Great War veterans in your family tree. How do you honor and remember them? How has your family history work increased your understanding of their service and sacrifices? We're also interested in stories about soldiers who served in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and more recent conflicts. Send entries of approximately 250 words to share@ancestry.com by 17 March 2007. Please include your name and phone number with entries. 1c. NARA Proposes a Copy Fee A notification to all U.S. genealogists. Two rules published in the Federal Register on Monday, 26 February 2007, relate to fees for reproductions of records at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). In the case of Civil War pension applications, the proposal is for a 338% increase! Here is the list of proposed increases: Type of record, Order form, Proposed Fee -- Passenger Arrival Lists, NATF Form 81, $25.00 -- Federal Census Requests, NATF Form 82, $25.00 -- Eastern Cherokee Applications to the Court of Claims, NATF Form 83, $25.00 -- Land Entry Records, NATF Form 84, $40.00 -- Full Pension File More Than 75 Years Old (Civil War Period), NATF Form 85 , $125.00 (a 338% increase from the present fee of $37.00!) -- Full Pension File More Than 75 Years Old (Non-Civil War), NATF Form 85, $60.00 -- Pension Documents Packet (Selected Records), NATF Form 85, $25.00 -- Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, NATF Form 85, $25.00 -- Military Service Files More Than 75 Years Old, NATF Form 86, $25.00 Both rules are open for public comment until 27 April 2007. There's much more information available in the Federal Register. The link to the proposed rule, with instructions for commenting is: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/E7-3160.htm The link to the interim final rule is: http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/E7-3162.htm 1d. The California Genealogical Society Changes Its Address The California Genealogical Society and Library has moved to new quarters. The new address is: California Genealogical Society 2201 Broadway, Suite LL2 Oakland, CA 94612-3017 Volunteers are working hard to reopen CGS in the new location as soon as possible. The books are on the new shelves awaiting shelf-reading, and supplies are being unpacked. The expected date for reopening is 8 March and an informal open house for members is planned for 10 March, with a formal gala open house to occur at a later date. More details will become available on the society's website: www.calgensoc.org 1e. Erie, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Society "Harvesting Your Heritage" Conference 9 June 2007 The Erie Society for Genealogical Research, Erie, Pennsylvania, is holding a 35th Anniversary Genealogical Conference, "Harvesting Your Heritage," on Saturday, 9 June 2007. It will be held at the Blasco Memorial Library from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The speakers will be James Beidler, Dick Eastman, and Stephen Morse. For more information, go to www.pa-roots.com/~erie/2007GeneConf.html or e-mail esgr2007@aol.com. 1f. Using RootsWeb: Introducing our New Editor and Columnists Dear RootsWeb Community, For the past several months, since the former RootsWeb Review editor, Myra Gormley, left us for the wonderful land of retirement, members of the RootsWeb community have been wondering who would take her spot. As it turns out, it's a hard spot to fill. Not one, but three individuals will be taking over ownership of the new Review: an editor and two columnists. We would like to take this opportunity to briefly introduce ourselves to the RootsWeb community; look for a more detailed introduction to each of us in the weeks to come. JANA LLOYD, EDITOR Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com Jana Lloyd is the new editor of the RootsWeb Review. Jana has a B.A. and an M.A. in English from Brigham Young University and is currently working on an MLIS (Masters in Library and Information Science) from the University of North Texas. She has held various editorial positions at BYU and also worked in the BYU library archives for a year. Jana's interest in family history began when she was a graduate student and decided to write a personal essay on her ancestors from St. George, Utah, for a creative writing assignment. She spent a week in St. George living in a home owned by her great-great-grandfather and doing family history work. When she returned she found that one of her professors was editing for publication the diary of a nineteenth-century woman who had been a neighbor to some of her St. George relatives. She begged to jump on board the project as a research assistant and eventually became a co-editor. Digging through census records, cemetery listings, and local and family histories to identify names and places mentioned in the diary gave her genealogy fever. The diary, kept by Rhoda Ann Dykes Burgess from 1881 to 1900, will be published by Utah State University Press next year. MARY HARRELL-SESNIAK, COLUMNIST maryh@volunteer.rootsweb.com Mary will be writing a regular column for the "Using RootsWeb" section of the Review, to be published the first week of every month. She may also write some additional pieces for us. Mary is a technological, genealogical, and educational consultant from southern Florida (soon to be Texas). She has a B.A. in modern languages from Eckerd College and an MBA from the University of South Florida. She and her husband, Tom Sesniak, co-founded an early computer training/consulting center in Florida, for which she wrote coursework and conducted seminars. Because of her technological background, Mary was appointed to the Florida Department of Education Business and Technology task force to help develop curriculum frameworks. In 2006, the DOE appointed her to a committee to approve textbooks on a state-wide basis. Mary is passionate about genealogy and photography. She has been active in the south Florida genealogical community for years and served as the vice president of her county genealogical society in 2006. She also served as editor of their publication, "Imprints," and as their webmaster in 2005 and 2006. She has contributed extensive genealogical information to WorldConnect and other websites, is co-authoring a book about her ancestor--Daniel Miesse--who served under George Washington, has completed numerous photographic cemetery surveys, and is currently working on surveying Woodlawn Cemetery, an early cemetery for African Americans and the indigent in the Fort Lauderdale area (see findagrave.com for initial photos and data). JOAN YOUNG, COLUMNIST joan@volunteer.rootsweb.com Joan will also be writing a regular column for the "Using RootsWeb" section of the Review, to be published the second and fourth weeks of every month. Joan lives in southern New Jersey, where her maternal ancestors were among the original Quaker settlers dating back to the 1670s. She has a B.A. in Music and English from Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. After college, Joan worked for the federal government in a position that entailed evaluating vital records as well as writing training programs and instructing new employees--the perfect learning environment for a budding genealogist. After retiring from government work, Joan pursued genealogical research full-time, researching her own ancestry as well as doing research for others. From 1996 to 2002 Joan served as publisher and editor of a surname newsletter, "The Kiger Kounter," which was devoted to publishing genealogical information on the Kiger surname and its variants, as well as the original spelling Geiger. Joan served as a volunteer with RootsWeb from its inception and later worked as an employee at RootsWeb from July 1999 to July 2001. Her primary areas of interest and expertise are message boards and mailing lists. 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Connecting Through RootsWeb: An Oldie but a Goodie Note: This "Connecting" story was resurrected from one of the RootsWeb Review's earliest issues, way back on 9 December 1998 ( http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/19981209.txt). We know many of you are enjoying the connections you've made through RootsWeb or Ancestry, so take a few minutes to write your story down and send it in--we all benefit from some warm fuzzies. "I Threw a Rock" By James Drumm I'm just so tickled; I have to tell the strange events that led me to he cemetery location of grandfather Ashford DRUMM, who brought his family to California in 1886. No one in my line has known his whereabouts since. I knew that my grandmother Constance Ruth Drumm was buried in "Woodlawn," wherever that was in the forbidding hodgepodge of Los Angeles County, and assumed her husband was there as well. I posted a query to the SOCAL-L mailing list and within an hour received an address and phone number in Santa Monica, where they had lived. I called the number and asked about "any Drumms." The man on the phone came up with James, Constance, Herbert, Pearle May, and Edna, gave me all the information on the phone, and said "Send me an envelope. I'll copy the cards." I had put this off for five years, and now in ten minutes I had three more people than I had looked for--my grandfather and his brother and his family, and my grandmom. Amazing. Heady stuff. But no Ashford. The 1900 census showed a Pomona home, with James and Constance, and her mother and sister, the RUTHs. No one seemed to know about cemeteries in Pomona, so I used a search engine and found three. I picked the "earliest" phone number, and BINGO! "No, we have no Alonzo Drumm, but Ashford, Mary Eber Drumm, and Henry are here, from 1896 to 1915. Tell me your address, I'll mail copies." I feel like I threw a rock 160 miles and hit his gravestone! Now I have e-mail from a person who was at Redlands Cemetery, not twenty miles from Pomona, and saw a Drumm marker from the 1800s, "and here's the phone number." I'll just bet it's the two children who died early. All this from SOCAL-L@rootsweb.com. I don't know why, but it's got me three feet off the ground. 3. 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------- The Trouble with Probert By Charles C. Henderson, Henderson, TX One of my father's younger brothers died in 1891 at ten months of age and was buried in the backyard of a school because the city of Naples, Morris County, Texas did not have a cemetery. The city fathers purchased a vacant city block and opened the Naples City Cemetery in 1892. The five burials in the schoolyard with their gravestones were transferred to the new cemetery with death dates of 1890 and 1891. My father's maternal relatives lived in Naples for many years. When my great-uncle Probert P. Story died at the early age of thirty- eight, he was buried in the new cemetery in 1893 along the west fence and near the gate--a choice location. His wife and children soon moved to Oklahoma where her parents lived. She did not place a gravestone on Probert's grave. The next family member to die, my great-great-grandmother, Martha Eliza Glass Story, was buried next to Probert in 1894. The family did not wish to place a gravestone on her grave unless there was one for Probert. They decided to wait to see if Probert's family would get one for him. Then my grandmother, Willie Story Henderson, died in 1896 and was buried next to Martha Eliza Story. The same problem existed. It seemed indecent to get a gravestone for Willie when the other two had none. The same dilemma continued when my great-aunt, Nancy Caroline Story, died in 1897, my great-grandmother, Safronia Jane Story, in 1898, my great-great-grandfather, Henry Jackson Story, in 1900, my great-aunt, Sallie Ann Story, in 1911, and my great-uncle, Daniel D. Buryman Story, in 1913. There they were, "side-by-side, all in a row," and nary a grave marker to be seen. There were sufficient funds to buy gravestones as the Story family was not poor, but they were faced with getting stones with the correct names and dates of birth and death for the whole bunch. The only remaining members of the Story family in Naples were Mettie Story and her sister Valerie Story Gallaway. They were daughters of Sam Houston Story, a brother of Saphronia Story and the son of Henry Jackson Story. They were first cousins, once removed, to my father. Valerie, who died in 1985 at the age of ninety-five, was the Story family historian and my mentor. Before my grandfather, Judge Charles M. Henderson, died in 1921, he had said he wished to be buried in Naples next to his daughter who died in childbirth in 1914. He had only a large iron-ore rock placed vertically at the foot of his grave. Mettie and Valerie were worried that without grave markers, someone else could be buried in the same area. Sometime between 1958 and 1962 they contracted to have a concrete curb built around the eight graves. It is 9' x 27 f'. in size with a base stone for a future large stone marked "STORY." There were never any records of who was buried in the Naples Cemetery until the Cass County Genealogical Society surveyed the cemetery in 1997 and they noted "several unmarked in curbed plot." Recently they have been notified that the nine unmarked graves now have appropriate markers with names and dates of birth and death. Valerie Story must be happy. * * * Veteran Information Overseas By Valerie Cumming valerie@vcumming.clara.co.uk Just to add to the discussion about sources of information for veterans (see http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/2007/0221.txt and http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/2007/0228.txt), I would suggest that you shouldn't forget to check out local sources in the locations where your veterans were based overseas. For example, I live near what was a small U.S. Air Force base during WWII and which is now a private airfield with a flying club. The owners and members have researched the history of the base and set up a small museum full of photos, names, flight details, mission details, etc.--all of them about U.S. Air Force veterans. * * * Canadian Veterans and the Maple Leaf Legacy Project By Sue Visser, Ontario, Canada Reading about the tragic fire in a storage warehouse that destroyed many U.S. WWII military records made me wonder if Canadian esearchers are aware of two valuable resources. Not only are Commonwealth records available online with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, but the Maple Leaf Legacy Project has also been created to photograph every Canadian war grave in the world. More than 92,000 war graves have been photographed to date. My husband and I feel honoured to be among the volunteers for this project. We are helping to photograph war graves in southern Ontario. More volunteers are needed to complete this very worthy task worldwide. To give you an idea of the size and scope of the Maple Leaf Legacy Project, here are some of the numbers. Some are approximate: 115,000 Canadians died in WWI and WWII; 82,000 of these have known graves; 30,000 of these have no known grave and are remembered on large memorials. 516 Canadians died in the Korean War. 104 Canadian peacekeepers have died in the cause of peace since WWII. 74 countries have Canadian war graves. 51,953 Canadian war graves rest in 861 cemeteries in France. 18,516 Canadian war graves rest in 222 cemeteries in Belgium. 17,000+ Canadian war graves rest in almost 2,700 cemeteries across Canada. 12,623 Canadian war graves rest in 1,208 cemeteries in the United Kingdom. 5,963 Canadian war graves rest in Italy. 5,755 Canadian war graves rest in the Netherlands. 3,223 Canadian war graves rest in Germany. 529 Canadian war graves rest in Hong Kong. The Vimy Memorial in France commemorates 11,172 Canadian war dead with no known grave. These panels of names were all photographed in July 2001. War cemeteries throughout the world have been completed in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Faroes Islands, Gambia, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Morocco, Myanmar, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, and Turkey. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website is http://www.cwgc.org/ The Maple Leaf Legacy Project website is http://www.mapleleaflegacy.org/ 4. New at RootsWeb 4a. 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. No New User-contributed Databases at RootsWeb. 4b. New/Updated Freepages and Homepages by Individuals To Request a Free Web Account: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- 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, the title of the website, the name of the author, and a BRIEF description of the site, including major surnames, 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 * * * EDDIES NEWS EXTRACTS. By Eddie Connolly. This website contains extracts of many birth, marriage, death, and other announcements taken from early newspapers in Belfast, Ireland. Newspapers include the "Belfast Telegraph," the "Northern Whig," the "Irish News," the "Belfast Newsletter," and more. It also contains extracts from the Registers of Deceased Seamen, mainly related to Northern Ireland but also to the Shetlands and Orkneys. A recent addition is the names, etc. of almost 25,000 members of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland who fought in WWI. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~econnolly/ * * * THE LONG FAMILY OF TULSA, OKLAHOMA. By Neil A. Boyer. This website focuses on Clarence Ray Long (1889-1935), a muckraking journalist, prolific writer, and liberal intellectual who lived in Tulsa. It includes the ancestry of Clarence and his wife, Odie Deeta MCLAUGHLIN. Featured surnames on the site include PARKER, VANDERFORD, LONG, THOMPSON, MCCLURG, and RALSTON, of western Pennsylvania. Also, the MISCY/MISEY family of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~boyerlinks/parker_long/index.html * * * OUR FAMILY. By C.C. This website contains information about the THURMAN, MCAFEE, DERRYBERRY, CROWDER, and PONDER families with a Hopkins County, Texas, connection. A few related surnames include BROMLETY, WHATLEY, and CHENOWETH. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~thurmanmcafeecrowder/ * * * OLD-SMITH GENEALOGIES. By Gayle Old-Smith. This website includes five major family groups, family DNA results, and broken branches (brick walls). The primary surnames are OLD, COONCE, JESTER, WILLIAMS, HANSEN, KEESLER, SHELTON, WANN, INGHAM, FORBES, HUNT, EGE, SMITH, MILLARD, CLAYTON, EDWARDS, RICHARDSON, JENKINS, and LUNSFORD. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~oldsmith/index.html 4c. New/Updated Freepages and Homepages by Counties, States, and Genealogical/Historical Societies To Request a Free Web Account: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Some of these Web pages 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] DAR=Daughters of the American Revolution USGW=USGenWeb AAGP=African American Griots Project U.S.A. ild3cdar -- District 3 (Illinois) Chapter DAR kykpcdar -- Kentucky Path Chapter DAR mobcghs -- Barry County Genealogical and Historical Society (Missouri) ncalber2 -- Albermarle County (North Carolina) USGW ncpamli3 -- Pamlico County (North Carolina) USGW txccarro -- Carrollton-Farmers Branch Town Site (Texas) USGW txdaagp -- Dallas (Texas) AAGP wappcdar -- Peter Puget (Washington) Chapter DAR ENGLAND englanca -- Lancashire (England) 4d. New Mailing Lists To 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/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS No New Surname Mailing Lists. NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS NEW-ENGLAND-IRISH -- This list is for the discussion of the history, culture, and genealogy of the Irish who settled and/or lived in the New England states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, and New Hampshire. NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS FTM-TECH -- For advanced discussions on Family Tree Maker (FTM). 5. Humor/Humour: Some responses to last week's Humor/Humour submission, which contained a list of "strange" last names found by an anonymous reader: A. As you get into foreign names and understand the translations, you can also get a laugh. For example, from the Czech: Cibulka--little onion Kapusta--sourkraut Prochazka--a stroll Pecenka--roast Hruska--pear Slepicka--little chicken Kratochvila--pastime Svoboda--freedom Sedlak--farmer Novak--newcomer Chalupa--cottage Cerny--black Ruzicka--small rose Hlava--head Huba--mouth --Anonymous B. Anonymous had the name "La Flesh" in his or her list of strange names. It is actually a misspelling of "La Fleche" (there is a circumflex over the first "e" in Fleche that I don't know how to make). Anyway, it means "the arrow or shaft." It may have started as a name for an arrow-maker or some other craft that makes straight shafts. --Charnee Smit C. Whilst reading last week's RootsWeb Review, I noticed that you put the name of "Bowser" on your list of strange names. I can't tell you the meaning of this name, but I can tell you that my husband's grandfather married a lady with this last name after his first wife (my husband's grandmother) passed away. This is a name I have often seen on census rolls in the western Pennsylvania area. --Kathleen Marcucci D. I noticed the last name "Worst" was on the list of strange names in last week's RootsWeb Review. Yes, "Worst" is a last name. My husband's mother was Nellie M. Worst. Nellie and her sister, Mabel, lived in Otsego, MI. They were the "Worst girls in Otsego." --Nancy De Haan Channells E. "Bratt/Bradt" is a German name. There is a Bradt/Bratt family association. I don't think they think their name is funny. They were early settlers in New York and are ancestors of my husband. --Pat Anibal F. I noticed that "Yawn" was listed as a strange name in last week's RootsWeb Review. There are probably about 200 of us in Texas (at least), but Georgia has more than any other state. The name is derived from the German "Jahn," and there are at least fourteen other spellings. "Yawn" is often in the comics and whenever I see one, I send it to my granddaughter in "Yankee Land." --Robert B. Yawn G. I would like to submit my own surname to this list--"Heiney." I am proud to be the great-great-great-granddaughter of Fanny Heiney. She married her first cousin, making her by today's practices, Fanny Heiney-Heiney. --Larry Heiney H. Speaking of strange and/or interesting names, my great- grandmother's married name was Hatcher. She had an incubator for eggs and sold chicks. --Louis Robertson I. Here is an odd name for your lists: "Finder Binder." The "Randolph Leader Newspaper" (Randolph County, Alabama), issue of Wednesday, 6 June 1900, records that a woman by the name of "Finder Binder" was shot in the arm "one half mile south of town Friday evening." If there were cars back then, no matter how good a driver she was she would always be a Finder Binder. --Joyce Rowe J. In a small rural church near where I live, a Reverend Sinn was replaced by a Reverend Heydt. I won't identify the location because the parishioners are still sensitive about the coincidence. Many insist that the later preacher actually used an "Hi" pronunciation, instead of the "Ha" sound we were first given. --Linda Irvin-Craig K. Speaking of interesting names, while doing research on the Levi Chapman family from Mackinac Island, Michigan, I found Levi listed as a lighthouse keeper in the 1880 census. He and his wife married in 1861 and had nine children by 1879--every two years like clockwork. His wife's name was Harriette Jane Chapman; however, the census enumerator wrote her name down as "Harried Jane." After that many children, all of whom were still at home, maybe "Harried" was more appropriate. --Mary Watkins L. My wife's grandfather had a very unusual series of names: Didi Gano Swango Shrout. He was named for the doctor who came to his mother's bedside and delivered him (this was back in the 1920s). The doctor's name was Didi Gano Swango. It would certainly be intriguing to determine the significance, if any, of the names that the good doctor had. --Garry Bell M. I have an ancestor named Thankful Mills who married Oliver Lord. She was then known as Thankful Lord. --Ron Mills, NH N. Some years ago when running a mail-order business from home, I received a catalogue request from a "Mrs. Graves." There is nothing too unusual about her name, but her address was on "Cemetery Road!" --Robert Meikle O. My grandmother was named "Harriet Ada." On the 1881 census for England she is recorded as "Darrictada." --Ian Sheppard. P. The favorite odd name I have run across is "Strange Backhouse." --Mary Fallon Richards * * * 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. We also welcome other humorous genealogy- related submissions. 6. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ------------------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIPTIONS. 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