ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 3, No. 16, 19 April 2000, Circulation: 601,834 (c) 1998-2000 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ RootsWeb.com, Inc., P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 Editors: Julia M. Case and Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG RWR-Editors@rootsweb.com RootsWeb HelpDesk: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ Advertising: rrti@rootsweb.com Media Contact: stwalsh@rootsweb.com TO UNSUBSCRIBE from ROOTSWEB REVIEW and MISSING LINKS, send any e-mail to rootsweb-review-unsubscribe@rootsweb.com. TO SUBSCRIBE, send to rootsweb-review-subscribe@rootsweb.com. Please do not reply to this message to unsubscribe or subscribe. IN THIS ISSUE: o News and Notes at RootsWeb (Spring Housecleaning on RootsWeb Home Page; WorldConnect Tip; Free Virtual Easter Cards from RootsWeb; RootsWeb Review and Missing Links archives are fully searchable; RootsWeb in the News; RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees and related pages; Design Contest Winner Donates Prize; Success Story Scrapbook; WW II Stories) o Marriage Counseling: Genealogists and Local Historians o Connecting through RootsWeb o New Genealogy Mailing Lists o New Genealogy Web Pages o GenConnect o USGenWeb Archives o Letters to the Editors o How Can the U.S. Census Help to Find Family? o Humor o Reprint Policy, Back Issues (search or download) * * * * * NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB SPRING HOUSECLEANING ON ROOTSWEB HOME PAGE. We recategorized and include many new links, making features easier to find and use. QUICK SEARCH. Search four of the most popular resources on RootsWeb from a single search box at the top of the home page. http://www.rootsweb.com SEARCH EVERYTHING. http://searches.rootsweb.com/ This template guides you through all major search engines on RootsWeb. A related page guides the user through all resources at RootsWeb that are browsable but not accessible using a search engine. Explore this new page. You might find treasures you've missed. http://searches.rootsweb.com/browse.html NEW MAILING LIST INDEX. http://lists.rootsweb.com/ This page makes it a breeze to find, join, or search a mailing list. Try it; you'll like it. * * * WORLDCONNECT TIP: HOW TO DOWNLOAD A GEDCOM While searching WorldConnect at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com you come across a GEDCOM that is of interest to you, and decide that you would like to download a copy. How do you go about doing this? GEDCOM submitters may allow a portion of their file to be downloaded, but not everyone chooses this option. On the standard set-up page, if the submitter has selected "yes," six generations of the GEDCOM may be downloaded. The advanced set-up page allows the submitter to specify the number of generations to be downloaded ranging from two to 10, and also allows for the inclusion of a message in the notes for each individual in the GEDCOM to be downloaded. To protect the databases of WorldConnect submitters, researchers are not permitted to download a GEDCOM in its entirety. If you would like to have a copy of an entire GEDCOM, you should contact the submitter privately. Many GEDCOM owners are willing to share their information on a personal basis. If the submitter allows downloading, you will see a clickable link that says "Download GEDCOM" on the pages of the database next to the link for adding Post-em notes. The information included in the GEDCOM you download will reflect the options the submitter has selected with regard to cleaning or removing the living. 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To start, visit: http://www.keen.com/web/pp.asp?PLID=607&URL=/web/default.asp **END PAID ADVERTISEMENTS** CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. Two days ago I found out my great-grandmother's maiden name. Yesterday, thanks to your RootsWeb family tree I found not only her parents but four generations back from there. I thank you again and will be putting my GEDCOM on your site also. Brenda Kidd Shufeldt jjbear@hitter.net * * * Thank you for your SSDI. Last week, I found needed birth and death information for three family members. Thank you for all your dedicated work. Yvonne Rkhalliday@aol.com * * * I love the RootsWeb information you e-mail me. I have learned so much through your information. I have found my husband's grandparents and we just found his great-grandparents' names. My father-in-law died in 1999 in an auto accident. When my husband was young he and his brothers were left at children's services and boy did that hurt. We found his father again and got to know him a few years before he was taken in the accident and it is important that we find his ancestors. His father always said he was related to Daniel Boone and now I am on a search to find out. I love doing this. What a great reward to share anything I find on George Ashland SHERK married to Sybil Marie Sherk and then his great-grandfather Jefferson B. SHERK and great-grandmother Ella M. (JONES) Sherk. Thank you all. Tina Sherk In Oregon SHERKDUTCHGIRL@aol.com * * * * * MARRIAGE COUNSELING: GENEALOGISTS AND LOCAL HISTORIANS by Tony Fox For quite a while now I have been looking up Elizabethan wills and Feet of Fines for Essex (U.K.), and I also have access to the second edition of Morant (1768/1816). Occasionally, I have been transcribing wills of the same era from other counties. Also, periodically, I have access to the Inquisitiones Post Mortem (IPM) and Feudal Aids for England. As a local historian, and not a genealogist, please may I offer the following report and commentary, in case it can help the RootsWeb community. First, the number of requests has surprised me. I apologize to those still in the queue, some of whom have been waiting for six months or more. All searches are done by hand. Second, in an attempt to help people as efficiently as my free time allows, I have discovered that my output can be maximized by screening requests for specificity. If the inquirer has a parish name, a particular region of Essex, a group of parishes, a particular decade or two, a profession, or if the family name is unusual, then a complete search of the database usually requires finding relatively few hits in the 20 or so indexes or calendars. On the other hand, a vague enquiry for anyone named John Smith in Essex usually generates at least a hundred or more hits, requiring a long time to condense and send the information; remember that I have also to search Smythe, Smithe, Smithey, Smythey, etc. because it was an era when writing was phonetic, and members of the same family often spelt their names differently. My favourite example has a scribe spelling the same family name in three different ways in the same will. For a single available afternoon, I am often faced with the decision whether to use the time to help several people or just one, knowing that most of the information that would be generated for the one descendant of John Smith would almost certainly be irrelevant to his or her search. Third, the Feudal Aids are mostly pre-17th century, as are the IPM. Some people do not believe that there are apparently few family names in use in the 13th century. Also, some people miss the criterion "Elizabethan" (i.e., 1558-1603); the English are not yet using the term to refer to the era of the present monarch. Fourth, it has been frustrating occasionally to do a search, write it all up, and then attempt to send to a non-functional e-mail address. Having said that, we have had some successes. Transcription of some wills from NW Essex have led to the correction of first names under which they were indexed, and has been helpful to one family strewn between Essex, SW California, and Texas. A lineage of prominent Elizabethan lawyers, with a descendant in Scandinavia, has been straightened out; that genealogist probably has an article on a minor aspect of the national history of England, and a significant aspect of the county history of Essex, quite apart from his interest in his own ancestors, if he would only sit down and write it. Lastly, my own local history research (which centres on the parishes of Cranham and Upminster in south central Essex) has also benefited. One stray inquiry came about the Lords of the Manor of Kelvedon; a descendant had some notes from a deceased sister, but could not find where in Morant they had come from. There are two Kelvedons in Essex, one being distinguished as Kelvedon Hatch, and we found her ancestors there. Interestingly, one of these (the family used the primogenital name John for at least eight generations) had the advowson [In English ecclesiastical law, the right of presentation to a church or ecclesiastical benefice; the right of presenting a fit person to the bishop, to be by him admitted and instituted to a certain benefice within the diocese, which has become vacant. BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY, Sixth edition (St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co., 1990, 55-56)] at Upminster for a short while. John's younger brother was Lord of the Manor at Cranham. I got a lot more information about manorial ownership, and the inquirer got an entire junior family line for about a 300-year period, all from this single stray inquiry which was whether I could advise her on which version of Morant she should buy. I have kept count: in the last 12 months there have been 48 inquirers for whom I have been able to provide what looked to me like relevant information. Some 52 inquiries have been responded to immediately and negatively because the data cannot answer them (e.g., What do I have on everyone called John Smith in Cornwall in the 19th century? Answer: nothing. Try the Public Record Office at Kew). There are 22 people in the queue today, for whom it might be anticipated that there could be information that would be relevant to them. It is all completely voluntary. I have estimated that making an access database of the wills, that could be searched by name, parish or date, would take about 200 hours at the calendar level. Storing in a database the information contained in each will itself, i.e., beyond its location, would be an impossibly huge task. Faster might be to scan the transcriptions and link them to a 200-hour index (they were all transcribed by the late Dr. Emmison, a decade-long task, and an achievement that has not, as far as I am aware, been accomplished for any other county in England). But the storage needed for the resulting 10,000+ images would be well beyond an ordinary domestic computer, I should think. Even at an average of three wills to a page, there would be 3,500 scanned pages of text, and many wills are on more than one page, making retrieval more complicated. There would also be copyright issues: the Essex Record Office is not for profit, has published the hard copies using donations and public funds, and might very reasonably object. * * * MAILING LISTS. For an index to most genealogy mailing lists hosted by RootsWeb, visit http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW MAILING LIST REQUESTS. Please request new mailing lists at: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE from any RootsWeb-hosted mailing list, send an e-mail message with only the word SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the subject and the body of the message to [name of list]-L-request@rootsweb.com (for mail mode) or to [name of list]-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode). FOR EXAMPLE, if you are interested in the surname BARLEY, send your SUBSCRIBE message to BARLEY-L-request@rootsweb.com NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS, GENCONNECT BOARDS, AND CLUSTERS Barley, Blankley, Branning Callar, Chazanov, Cheuvront, Climer, Colfax, Cozine Degan Facemire Geffen, Gilpatric, Goodpasture, Goycoechea, Graupner, Gruebner Hanneken, Helmandollar Kable, Kahley, Kolesar Labarr, Lampman, Leray, Leviner McEnturff Manlove, Mannig, Marinaro, Mungary, Mutz Necessary, Nernes Patterson-Wesley, Petefish Raatz, Clan-Ramsay, Rippee Shereshevsky, Shough, Sizemore-Georgeall (descendants of George All SIZEMORE), Smouse, Spoerl, Stiemly, Stokka Toivonen, Toothman, Torsdottar Vautrin Walrath, Wojtowycz Zavelsky NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS CANADA CAN-SK-KAMSACK CAN-SK-KINDERSLEY CAN-SK-LLOYDMINSTER CAN-SK-SASKATOON IRELAND IRL-MAYO-KINAFFE-SWINFORD IRL-PALATINE SWITZERLAND CHE-CANTON-BERN -- Canton Bern, Switzerland U.S.A. LAJEFFDAVIS SCT-NECOAST -- Fishing villages from Nairn to the Southern boundary of Kincardine, including Aberdeen and their connection with the sea * * * * * NEW WEB ACCOUNT REQUESTS. Please see the instructions at http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi NEW WEB SITES. Some of these might not yet be accessible. If one that interests you isn't up yet, please check again in a few days or a week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~[account name]. Note that the ~[tilde] before the account name is required. FOR EXAMPLE, to visit the Monmouthshire, Wales Web page, go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~wlsmon/ AUSTRALIA ausnzwwi -- Australian and New Zealand WW I soldiers ENGLAND engngs -- Nottinghamshire Genealogy Society engwil -- Wiltshire U.S.A. ialeecgs -- Lee County Genealogical Society (Iowa) mdoffmd -- The Order of the First Families of Maryland mojpdar -- John Patterson Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (Missouri) nycatski -- Catskill Mountains Area (New York) nyhmap56 -- Haskell-Marston Auxiliary Post#56 (New York) nynassa2 -- Nassau County, New York pabtcdar -- Braddock Trail Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (Pennsylvania) pagrsnep -- Genealogical Res. Soc. of Northeast Pennsylvania tnrobert -- Robertson County, Tennessee WALES wlsmon -- Monmouthshire OTHER nametis -- Metis people -- mixed French and Native American families usepidem -- U.S. Epidemics SOME NEW HOMEPAGES AND FREEPAGES FAMILY IVY RESEARCH -- Professional genealogical research services, specializing in Metis genealogy, Clay County, Minnesota, and Alberta, Canada. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mumford/familyivy.html HASLEY_KING_HOOTER_LOWREY_NORDAN GENEALOGY. Family site with pictures and information on family including but not limited to HASLEY, KING, HOOTER, LOWREY, NORDAN, BOOK, GASPARD, BUTLER, LUTRICK, and STEWART families of Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennesee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and more. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lhasley/index.html MTGenWeb PHOTO ARCHIVES -- photographs of Montana, its life now and then, submitted by county coordinators and other friends of the MTGenWeb Project. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mtphotos/ O*T*RIDGE Genealogy. One-name study including OTRIDGE, OATRIDGE, and related variations (but not OUTRIDGE). http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~otridge/ POPE COUNTY, ARKANSAS -- Genealogy & Family Links http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jblaney/ TRAUT/TROUT(T)Family. Includes ABENDSCHON, ALBERT, DUNMAN, EAKIN, FOSTER, FIELD, FISHER, GRIMES, GWYNN, HUTCHISON, OVERSTREET, OBENSHAIN, PAGE, REDMAN, SINK, TAYLOR, TROUTT, TRAUT http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~troutt/~troutt/ WOOLUM, WOLLAM, ULM, ULLOM and all variations of the name. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kellygirl3398/ * * * * * GENCONNECT. RootsWeb hosts many surname GenConnect boards that are in need of people to maintain them. o For a complete list of adoptable GenConnect surname boards http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/surnames/adoptable/ o For the form to request to adopt a GenConnect surname board (the same form is used for surname mailing list requests) http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ Have you found a genealogical treasure, such as a photo album or an old Bible containing a completed family record page, that you would like to see reunited with its family? If so, in addition to submitting a notice for publication in the "Somebody's Links" section of MISSING LINKS or in the SOMEBODY'S LINKS NEWSLETTER (to subscribe, send e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE to: Somebodys-Links-Newsletter-L-request@rootsweb.com, you can read and post notices to the GenConnect SOMEBODY'S LINKS board: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/SomebodysLinks/ * * * * * USGENWEB ARCHIVES -- THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER contains the current USGenWeb Archives submissions from the last week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/ 17 April 2000 issue http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/2000/apr/apr17.htm USGW-ARCHIVES-ANNOUNCE-L is a read-only mailing list for weekly announcements of new updates and submissions to the USGenWeb Archives. To subscribe, send e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE in the body of the message to this address: usgw-archives-announce-l-request@rootsweb.com * * * * * LETTERS TO THE EDITORS may be posted to the GenConnect board at http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/RWR-LettersToTheEditor or e-mailed to RWR-Editors@rootsweb.com. * * * Recently I was contacted by a gentleman who had viewed my database on WorldConnect and was taking me to task for misspelling a surname and accused me of deliberately posting misinformation by refusing to change the way this particular surname was spelled in my database. . . Variations on the spelling of surnames is not "misinformation" -- they reflect a historical reality that change can and does occur over time. With names, the spelling changes can be deliberate -- for example, names that were Anglicized on immigration to the United States -- or accidental, such as letters being added or subtracted or misread when handwritten documents are transcribed. . . Whatever the case, it does not . . . mean the variant spelling is wrong. In fact, those variants can often help a researcher track a particular family line and its history. . . On my maternal line alone I have LINDEEN, LINDEN, LINDEIN; BURGESS, BURGES, BURGGESS, BIRGES; AKESON, AKKESSON, AKESSON, ATKINSON. Within these three families the name may be spelled differently but they are all the same family . . . When working with genealogists I always encourage them to check variant spellings. By sticking to only one spelling of the name you may be missing a whole world of family information. . . It is not within anyone's purview to tell someone they are wrong in how they choose to spell their own name. Christina Stopka trhf@eramp.net Librarian/Archivist Texas Ranger Research Center * * * Good Day. My name is Magda Nagel. South Africa is the place I call home. I am a keen genealogist. I want to congratulate you on the excellent work that you are doing. Although much of the information that you have doesn't apply to us, I keep everything just in case. Keep up the good work. Thank you. Magda Nagel Magda.Nagel@za.eds.com **PAID ADVERTISEMENTS** ************************************************** How do you please the oldest person in your life? Especially when they say they don't need anything? http://www.eldergift.com When their life is filled with limitations? http://www.eldergift.com That's how. "I love you, Mom" ************************************************** NEW ON-LINE GENEALOGICAL LIBRARY http://www.heritagebooks.com/library Try It Today! HERITAGE BOOKS, INC. 1540 Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie MD 20715 ************************************************** ARE YOU HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME TRYING TO FIND YOUR FAMILY CENSUS INFORMATION OR DO YOU JUST WANT A COPY OF THE ACTUAL CENSUS RECORD? Getting the document means that information on the individual's neighbors is also shown. 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With every purchase RootsWeb gets a 10% donation. * * * HOW CAN THE U.S. CENSUS HELP FIND FAMILY? by Kim Mullin, Genealogy.com Since 2000 is a census year, most of us are familiar with the modern census process: receive a form in the mail, fill it out, send it back, consider yourself counted. The United States government began collecting census data in 1790, and has done so every 10 years since that date. Of course, in the early years, it wasn't so easy. Census enumerators had to go door-to-door collecting information from each family. That still happens today, but only if you are tardy in returning your form. WHY GENEALOGISTS LIKE THE CENSUS. Why is it that genealogists depend so much on the census? Because it can provide us with such a wide variety of information that's helpful to our family research, depending on the census year. The earliest censuses only give an outline of a household's members, categorizing individuals into groups by age and sex, free or slave. In these censuses, the heads of household are the only names we see. However, this information still can help us monitor the changing composition of a family. In 1850, the census began to list every individual by name, which gives us a clearer picture of how a family changed over the years. That's also the point when the Census Bureau began to collect more and more information about each individual, such as birthplace, occupation, education level, marital status, race, and birthplace of parents. All of this adds up to interesting snippets for our family histories, as well as useful clues for discovering more about previous generations. READING BETWEEN THE LINES. In addition to information next to our ancestors' names, the census tells us where a family lived at a particular time, so we have a good idea of where to start looking for additional records. We can also determine who a family's neighbors were. Census takers went from house to house, so the names listed next to your ancestors' names are neighbors, who might have been relatives. Families don't have to have the same name to be related. It's a good idea to copy information for the families that are listed above and below your ancestors, as you may later learn that they are members of your family. SOME USEFUL URLs. To learn exactly what sort of information was collected each year, take a look at "Every Ten Years" http://www.genealogy.com/13_every.html. From 1790 through 1920, you will find a detailed list of what you can expect to see on a census form. And, to help you keep that information organized when you are researching with the census, be sure to print a set of census abstracts from http://www.genealogy.com/00000061.html. Census abstracts are blank forms which mimic each year's census forms. As you carry out your census research, you copy the information you find onto these forms. This helps ensure that you don't miss any important information. **END PAID ADVERTISEMENTS** HUMOR. Thanks to David Rowan, Salt Lake City, Utah rowandw@mindspring.com who says, "This is my own story." The main street in Logan, Utah has several old homes that have been converted to businesses. One of them sells cemetery monuments, samples of which are displayed out in front. As we drove past one day my four-year-old daughter exclaimed, "Wow, they sure have a lot of dead people in THEIR yard!" * * * * * PERMISSION TO REPRINT articles from ROOTSWEB REVIEW is granted unless specifically stated otherwise, PROVIDED: (1) the reprint is used for non-commercial, educational purposes; and (2) the following notice appears at the end of the article: Written by [author's name, e-mail address, and URL, if given]. Previously published by RootsWeb.com, Inc., RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Genealogy News, Vol. 3, No. 16, 19 April 2000. 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