ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 3, No. 19, 10 May 2000, Circulation: 609,909+ (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 DONATIONS HELP ROOTSWEB HELP YOU AND ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED. For details about support levels, benefits, and payment options (check or credit card), e-mail info@rootsweb.com or visit http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html Mailing address: RootsWeb.com, Inc., P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798. (Please write your e-mail address on all correspondence and checks.) IN THIS ISSUE: o News and Notes at RootsWeb (SSDI Update; Free Mother's Day Cards from RootsWeb; RootsWeb in the News; RootsWeb Update on Generations: Find Your Roots Webcast; Shaking Your Family Tree column) o WorldConnect Tip o Connecting through RootsWeb o RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees: Index o New Genealogy Mailing Lists o New Genealogy Web Pages o GenConnect o USGenWeb Archives o Letters to the Editors o Humor o Reprint Policy; Back Issues; How to Subsribe or Unsubscribe * * * * * NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX (SSDI) UPDATE. The April 2000 update of the SSDI is in place at RootsWeb with a total of 63,677,274 entries. This version reflects 1,502 records deleted and 183,028 new records added since the last update. The URL for the SSDI is http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi * * * FREE MOTHER'S DAY CARDS FROM ROOTSWEB http://postcards.rootsweb.com/md.htm * * * ROOTSWEB IN THE NEWS. RootsWeb is mentioned in a column by Michael Mills in the May 2000 issue of "American Philatelist" http://www.stamps.org/aps/SERVICES/AP/surfer.htm RootsWeb also appears in a CHICAGO SUN TIMES article at http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/gene07.html that reports the top February 2000 genealogy sites based on information from Nielson/NetRatings, which based its numbers on a random sample of 43,000 U.S. Internet users. What is not reflected in these figures is that although the last two top sites on the list, Cyndi's List and the USGenWeb Project, are hosted by RootsWeb, visits to those sites are not included in RootsWeb's count. ancestry.com 1,350,683 rootsweb.com 980,581 familytreemaker.com 639,887 genealogy.com 627,626 familysearch.org 468,975 familyhistory.com 401,159 cyndislist.com 294,640 usgenweb.org 142,054 * * * SHAKING YOUR FAMILY TREE (SYFT) by Myra Vanderpool Gormley,CG is available at RootsWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/ This week's column is about an essential tool for locating information about localities in Germany where your ancestors once lived. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/curcolumn.htm * * * GENERATIONS: FIND YOUR ROOTS WEBCAST, 17 May 2000, 5 p.m. PDT (18 May 2000, 12 MIDNIGHT Greenwich Mean Time). Log in at http://www.sierra.com/sierrahome/familytree/webcast/ Topics will include Myra Vanderpool Gormley's weekly "RootsWeb Report," an article review by genealogical author Bill Dollarhide, discussion of Scandinavian genealogy with special guest, Sarah Thorson Little, and possibly a surprise visit from a noted Norwegian genealogist. The columnists and guests will answer questions on air via telephone or in the online chat room. **PAID ADVERTISEMENTS** Just one of the tips in our FAMILY CHRONICLE article "25 Tips for Researching at Family History Centers" could help you with a breakthrough. Our article "Second Ancestors TV Series" outlines the 13 episodes in a new PBS TV series so that you can plan to see those episodes of most interest to your research. 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HERITAGE BOOKS, INC. 1540 Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie MD 20715 ********************************************* Have you started to store your family photos so that your future generations will be able to enjoy your research efforts? Do you store them in albums, scrapbooks or shoeboxes? Heat, humidity, light cause the deterioration of photos. The best way to display them is using FLIP ALBUM. Check it out at http://www.softflip.com/c/?x=rootswebrw_1 **END PAID ADVERTISEMENTS** WORLDCONNECT TIP: SEEING DOUBLE. What do you do when someone who finds your GEDCOM on WorldConnect notifies you that there are duplicate names in your file? You might have more than one version of your GEDCOM on file or there might be a problem within the genealogy file from which you created your GEDCOM. A good starting point would be to request any password(s) and user code(s) for your WorldConnect GEDCOM(s) from Password Central http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com If you have one user code, then you have one GEDCOM. If you have more than one user code, then you have more than one version of your GEDCOM on file with WorldConnect. Unless you intentionally have more than one GEDCOM in WorldConnect, you will want to remove the duplicate GEDCOM by going to the set-up page, using the user code and password for the older version of your file, and clicking on the "remove account" button (because this would be a duplicate you would not plan to reuse it). If you have duplicate names within one GEDCOM that generally needs to be resolved within your genealogy program. Once the problem is resolved, create an updated GEDCOM and upload it using the original user code and password so that it will overwrite the one containing the duplicates. The most common cause of this problem is downloading GEDCOMs and merging the information improperly or incompletely into your file. Consult the manual for your genealogy program for help in merging the duplicate entries. There are more than 30 million names in WorldConnect's database, and growing daily. Check for your links at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ * * * * * CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. Recently in a RootsWeb Review, I clicked on the OBITUARY DAILY TIMES http://www.rootsweb.com/~obituary/ for HODNETT. I didn't expect to find the obituary of a lost cousin from whom we had not heard in more than 15 years. The cousin had passed March 2, 1999. If it had not been for your listing this in the RootsWeb Review, we would have never known of his death. At least we now know in what vicinity the family maybe living. Thanks, RootsWeb. I enjoy your Reviews and all the information has been valuable to me as a new amateur genealogist. Judy Merricks judymerricks@mindspring.com * * * Today [5 May 2000], I logged onto your Web site and typed in the name of an ancestor and bingo up came a listing of all the places that your search engine found that name in. I clicked on World Connect and wow! there it all was. Information I have been looking for, some of which I have been looking for for so long that I had just given up hope of ever making a connection. I have spent all day getting information to add to my database. Because I started this project of finding my ancestors for my father, who is not well, and this was something he had always wanted to have, I will be forever grateful to RootsWeb for the assistance you have given me through your Web site. You have been putting in your newsletters about people finding genealogical treasures and where to put messages for them to be found by researchers, but the real genealogical treasure I have found has been http://www.rootsweb.com/ and all the other researchers out there who have been so willing to share information. I recently spent three days researching at the Iowa Genealogy Society and it can be very trying to make a connections sometimes with the data you can find. So any help I get from other researchers and from your Web site is absolutely wonderful. When I finally have all the data entered into my database, I intend to upload it to your WorldConnect project so it can be shared with all my relatives out there who I do not know, but are looking for the connections I have and will be able to benefit from it. Thank you for being there. You are a genealogical researcher's dream. Suzanne L. Sprouse ssprouse@prodigy.net * * * [This story was posted to RootsWeb's Success Stories board at http://resources.rootsweb.com/~press/] For several decades I have wondered whatever happened to my great-uncle Charles MACFIE (often referred to as "Naughty Uncle Charlie" by older members of the family). The only information I remember is that he had gone to South America and started a railway. His wife was Jessie, her surname possibly DUNCAN. When I realised the potential of the Web, I entered his name on a search engine and finished up on RootsWeb's WorldConnect http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/, and there was a Charles MACFIE, his father was Daniel MACFIE, but his mother was Spanish, not Scottish, "Portoda Caros," and his wife was Jessie, but her surname was HUMBERSTONE. He was born at an address in Scotland that seemed tantalisingly familiar. He had two children, Kenneth and Nora, both now dead. After a while, becoming more familiar with RootsWeb, I was emboldened to e-mail the filer of the GEDCOM. We kept getting stuck on the Portoda Caros name. Then I found some notes made 30 years ago talking to my grandmother about him, and there were the same two children, Nora and Kenneth. Rather late in the day I searched under "Portoda" and found that, of course, it isn't a name, it's Spanish for "for all" and "Caros" would translate as "dears." So I e-mailed the owner of the GEDCOM, Michael Outram, who was Jessie's great-nephew, and he has now sent me a copy of Charles and Jessie's wedding certificate -- [the wedding took place] in Chile, South America, and her father ran the railways there -- and a photo. I was so moved to see at last the photo of this shadowy relation, looking amazingly like his brother, my grandfather. And I realised why he was "naughty" -- he was in South America when he should have been fighting in World War I. Ironically, his son was killed in World War II. One thing this taught me -- trust family recollections. Thanks to RootsWeb -- there is no way in the world I would have solved this little mystery without you. Jennie Macfie cultfans@cableinet.co.uk Drumnadrochit, Inverness shire, U.K. * * * * * ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES: Index to 30 graphics- intensive interactive genealogy lessons (13 and 14 have music); links to lessons in HTML and PDF formats; instructions for printing lessons; links to RootsWeb Guide's special pages and message boards. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/ WHERE TO BEGIN? http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson1.htm WHAT'S IN A NAME? http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson2.htm USING TECHNOLOGY TO DIG UP ROOTS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson3.htm DEATH, TOMBSTONES, AND CEMETERIES http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson4.htm MARRIAGE RECORDS AND EVIDENCE http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson5.htm BIRTH RECORDS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson6.htm WHAT IS THE QUESTION? http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson7.htm WHY YOU CAN'T FIND YOUR ANCESTORS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson8.htm CENSUS RECORDS: SOUNDEX, INDEXES, AND FINDING AIDS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson9.htm EXPLORING THE SSDI (SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX) AND RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD RECORDS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson10.htm TAXING TALES http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson11.htm CREATING WORTHWHILE GENEALOGIES: EVIDENCE, SOURCES, DOCUMENTATION, AND CITATION http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson12.htm MILITARY RECORDS (worldwide) http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson13.htm MILITARY RECORDS (United States) http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson14.htm TRACING IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson15.htm NATURALIZATION RECORDS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson16.htm CHURCH RECORDS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson17.htm FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson18.htm HERALDRY FOR GENEALOGISTS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson19.htm CITY DIRECTORIES AND NEWSPAPERS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson20.htm IRISH, SCOTS-IRISH, AND SCOTTISH ANCESTORS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson21.htm FINDING ITALIAN AND HISPANIC ANCESTORS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson22.htm EXPLORING YOUR SCANDINAVIAN ROOTS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson23.htm CANADIAN, FRENCH-CANADIAN, ACADIAN AND FRENCH CONNECTIONS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson24.htm AFRICAN AMERICAN, NATIVE AMERICAN, JEWISH, UNIQUE PEOPLES http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson25.htm GERMANIC ANCESTORS (and AUSTRIAN, DUTCH, BELGIAN, SWISS, LUXEMBOURGER, and LIECHTENSTEINER) http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson26.htm POLISH, RUSSIAN, CZECH, HUNGARIAN, CROATIAN, SLOVAKIAN, etc. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson27.htm ENGLISH, WELSH, AUSTRALIAN, NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH AFRICA, etc. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson28.htm AMERICAN LAND RECORDS http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson29.htm COURT RECORDS: "Here Come de Judge" http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson30.htm * * * * * 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 would like to talk about the good old days, send your SUBSCRIBE request to BackToThePast-L-request@rootsweb.com NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS, GENCONNECT BOARDS, AND CLUSTERS Alesci, Anderson-KY-NC-TN-VA Beacham, Biser, Boddie, Breitenbucher, Bruffey Colsell, Cutress Danker Garemyn Hardy, Heus, Hurst, Husband Keeton, Kitney, Knuckles Loch Maring, Mazzeo, McMeem, Muncrief Paquin, Pickerin, Pint, Pitzer Rachmann, Reuss, Ruffing Sabers, Scharek, Schlekau, Schwede, Stauch, Stockford Tobergta, Trubee Wald Zoellers, Zumbach NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS CANADA CAN-ONT-OBITS -- posting of daily obituaries for Ontario U.S.A. NC-NEWSPAPER -- North Carolina newspaper PA-CIVIL-WAR -- Pennsylvania in the Civil War, soldiers and at home TXCASS-CCGS -- Cass County, Texas Genealogical Society TXCASS-CIG -- Cass County, Texas Computer Interest Group OTHER NEW MAILING LISTS BACKTOTHEPAST -- to talk about the way things used to be; see also http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sherry/BackToThePast/ BODWADMI -- Potawatomi language learning list BLACK-IRISH * * * * * 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 Web page of the Indiana Pioneer Cemetery Restoration Project for Miami and Cass Counties, go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpcrpmc/ CANADA nbduffer -- Dufferin Parish, New Brunswick nbstandr -- St. Andrews Parish, New Brunswick nbstcroi -- St. Croix Parish, New Brunswick nbstdavi -- St. David Parish, New Brunswick nbstjame -- St. James Parish, New Brunswick nbstpatr -- St. Patrick Parish, New Brunswick nbwestis -- West Isles Parish, New Brunswick U.S.A. aldekalb -- DeKalb County, Alabama alfamily -- Alabama Families cosummit -- Summit County, Colorado flhendry -- Hendry County, Florida gacampbe -- Campbell County, Georgia gadougla -- Douglas County, Georgia ilkm -- Keithsburg Museum (Illinois) inpcrpmc -- Indiana Pioneer Cemetery Restoration Project -- Miami and Cass counties itponca -- Ponca Agency, Indian Territory mdcpmbs -- The Coalition to Protect Maryland Burial Sites txbosque -- Bosque County, Texas txedwar2 -- Edwards County, Texas txhamil2 -- Hamilton County, Texas txkerr -- Kerr County, Texas WALES wlsgla -- Glamorgan SOME NEW HOMEPAGES AND FREEPAGES ADCOX, RAINWATER, WATKINS, INGRAM, MURPHY; kin to McGEE, HUNT, HOBBS, WALDEN, CHANEY, OVERMAN, HOPE; North Carolina, Arkansas http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cousins/ BEALE, CRAWFORD, KYLE, MCWILLIAMS, BRUBAKER, BARTON, of Juniata County, Pennsylvania from early 1700s onward. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~albeale/ BUTTERFIELD family history page. Links to other BUTTERFIELD sites. Butterfield data posted for those without a Web page. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~butterfield/ GEN-EDITORS is a place for genealogy/family history newsletter editors to share articles, fillers, and clip art that may be used by anyone, as well as to post links to genealogy columns, sites of interest to editors, etc. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bjstockton/editors/ KORDYBAN, KORDIBAN, KURDYBAN, KURDIBAN. For distributing and collecting genealogical information about any KORDYBAN anywhere. We think all KORDYBANs originally came from Ukraine. We know of KORDYBANs in the U.S.A., Canada, England, Germany, and Ukraine. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kordyban/ MOODY, CLEAVES, DOUTY. Tracking these families from New England through Wisconsin to Washington State. Early family photos. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~moody/ ST. LEGER, HEVENINGHAM, BROOKE, FIELD, DAVIES, FERRIOR from England, Ireland, and Wales. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heveningham/ * * * * * 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/ 8 May 2000 issue http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/2000/may/may8.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. * * * With regard to "ROOTSWEB IN THE NEWS. RootsWeb is mentioned in `Roots, Online,' an article by Lucrezia Cuen for ABC News.com. The story focuses on Americans searching for their roots in other countries, particularly the United Kingdom . . ." [RWR 3:18], I would just like to point out that the "stars" of the first bit if the video were Linda and Carrie Ames, the great-great-granddaughter and great-great-great-granddaughter respectively of Bishop John Rowberry, who emigrated from Herefordshire to the U.S.A. around 1841-2. The ABC crew spent two days filming, both at my home and then at the ROWBERRY Family Gathering which I organised, although I successfully managed to elude the cameras. Many of those who attended the Family Gathering, and came from the U.S.A., had made initial contact through RootsWeb, mainly through the MIDMARCH List. Therefore we made sure to tell them about you. Many thanks, Polly Rubery MIDMARCH-L@rootsweb.com (mailing list covering counties of Brecon, Hereford, Monmouth, Shropshire, Stafford and Worcester) rowberry@one-name.org http://www.newbury.net/rowberry/index.html * * * I always copy RootsWeb Review into a Word file and for those places where there are two-line URLs, I delete the line feed and any spaces between the two halves and then just click on the URL. Kinter D. Bernard, Jr. Kinter2@hotmail.com * * * Re the story in the latest RootsWeb Review (Vol. 3, No. 18) concerning the "chicken gun," you will be interested to know that this story circulates in aviation circles here on this side of the Pond but it's reversed, i.e., it's the British who send the instructions to thaw the chicken. "Two great nations divided by a common language." . . . thanks for your great efforts. Mike Greatorex, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England mgreato@jmgreatorex.freeserve.co.uk Looking for GREATOREX from Blyth/Notts, Sheffield/ Yorkshire, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * * * In the humor section of the last RWR, the joke about the chicken gun was funny, but partially flawed. The joke stated: "Scientists at NASA have developed a gun built specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields." The real story is: Engineers at Air Research Corporation in Phoenix designed a cannon to hurl chickens at speeds up to 300 MPH into jet engine intakes to simulate the engine's ability to survive ingesting large birds, especially during take-off. Subsequent usage by the U.S. Air Force at Luke A.F.B., west of Phoenix, was for windscreen testing, but both pre-dated the space shuttle by about 20 years. There is, however, another story tied to the machine shop (which shall remain unnamed) that got the contract to construct the cannon. After the completion and before delivery, they decided to test the cannon's ability to "shoot" a chicken. Six chickens were obtained and the first was loaded and fired in a direction that appeared to be safe. Unfortunately, chickens are not very aerodynamically designed, resulting in the chicken hooking to the left and ending up in the front yard of a house about 600 feet away. The local police arrived, summoned by the homeowner no doubt, before the second attempt, and said it was illegal to fire weapons inside city limits. After explaining the situation and re-aiming the cannon, the police allowed the test to continue. Before a third bird was loaded, someone from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals arrived on the scene. After much discussion the testing continued, with the agreement that the chickens were to be humanely killed, PRIOR to being used as projectiles. Tom Pfeifer tj54@goodnet.com * * * * * HUMOR. How to Identify Where a U.S. Driver is From. One hand on wheel, one hand on horn: Chicago, Illinois One hand on wheel, one finger out window: New York City, NY One hand on wheel, one hand on newspaper, foot solidly on accelerator: Boston, Massachusetts One hand on wheel, cradling cell phone, brick on accelerator: San Francisco, California. With gun in lap: Los Angeles. Both hands on wheel, eyes shut, both feet on brake, quivering in terror: Cincinnati, Ohio, but driving in California. One hand on latte, one knee on wheel, cradling cell phone, foot on brake, mind on ballgame: Seattle, Washington Two hands gripping wheel, blue hair barely visible above window level, driving 15 m.p.h. on the state highway and city streets in the left lane with the right blinker on: Hugo, Oklahoma One hand on wheel, one hand on hunting rifle, alternating between both feet being on the accelerator and both on the brake: Dallas, Texas * * * * * 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. 19, 10 May 2000. 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