From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Feb 22 09:32:28 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1MGWSjb021380; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:32:28 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1MGWRr4019473 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:32:27 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1ME39FI006773 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:03:09 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1ME39lf006772 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:03:09 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k1MDrQFI006662 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:53:26 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1MGMYuw015965 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:22:34 -0700 X-Envelope-From: mscheffl@twcny.rr.com Wed Feb 22 09:22:34 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1MGMYjb015954 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:22:34 -0700 Received: from ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com [24.24.2.58]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1MGMWcI014270 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:22:32 -0700 Received: from 1070n (cpe-24-92-248-107.twcny.res.rr.com [24.92.248.107]) by ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k1MGMVOo004599 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:22:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <009d01c637cc$2c7db610$6801a8c0@1070n> From: "MScheffler" To: References: Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:22:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Researching back in time Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Many of us reached the point where we have immigrant ancestors traced back to early New England. Either we have done this ourselves, or we have found someone who shared the line. But how does one go back further into England or other countries when one cannot travel to search themselves? Much of the pre-immigrant ancestor information in shared databases is suspect. Excellent sources for new material of good quality are some of the premier genealogical magazines/periodicals which generally are published quarterly. Most libraries with genealogy collections susbscribe to several of these. It never hurts to go to the shelves, pick up the recent issues and read through the tables of contents. One never knows what they will find this way. Obviously an occasional glance may not turn up anything hopeful, but you never know when a particular surname will spark your curiousity as you scan the tables of contents. As an example, just a few days ago I received the Jan. volume of the NEHGR (New England Historical and Genealogical Register). These issues generally have some articles outlining new research by qualified researchers. Some issues I find little of interest. But this time out of 9 articles, I found one extending back in time one of my direct lines (Stephen GATES) and four others that had information on other families where I had some information in my database. So for those of you who are able to get out and to your local library for research, you may be surprised what good quality research you may be able to access. Photocopy the articles of interest, and you may find several hours worth of new information to add to your genealogy database. For those of you who cannot get out, it would not hurt to occasionally query a list as to what might be included in a particular volume of a periodical you are interested in. While the listings on table of contents pages cannot be published to a rootsweb list without retyping, anyone can receive an attachment to personal email of a quickly scanned page. Margaret Scheffler