ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 3, No. 20, 17 May 2000, Circulation: 613,585+ (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 (New Databases at RootsWeb -- WW I Civilian Draft Registration, Texas Death Records, Lindesberg, Orebro, Sweden Vital Statistics, Rockland Co., New York Naturalizations, Shaking Your Family Tree Columns Archives; Success Story Scrapbook; Stories of Veterans of WW II and Other Wars; RootsWeb in the News) o WorldConnect Tip: Advanced Options -- GEDCOM Tags o RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees 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 Humor o Reprint Policy; Back Issues; How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe * * * * * NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB NEW DATABASES AT ROOTSWEB. Four new (free as always) searchable databases and a collection of genealogical gold nuggets were added to RootsWeb's research treasures during the past week. o The WORLD WAR I CIVILIAN DRAFT REGISTRATION database contains 1,215,381 records reflecting 141,114 surnames of all registrants born 1872-1900 from about 15% of U.S. counties. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ww1/draft/ o The TEXAS DEATH RECORDS database contains 3,963,456 records reflecting 163,544 surnames of those who died in Texas during the period 1964-1998. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/tx/death/search.cgi o LINDESBERG, OREBRO, SWEDEN VITAL STATISTICS http://userdb.rootsweb.com/vitals/ o ROCKLAND COUNTY, NEW YORK NATURALIZATIONS http://userdb.rootsweb.com/naturalization/ o SHAKING YOUR FAMILY TREE (SYFT). Myra Vanderpool Gormley CG's Los Angeles Times Syndicate genealogy columns are now available at RootsWeb, conveniently organized and browsable, at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/ Read this week's column on "Ellis Island of the West" at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/curcolumn.htm * * * SUCCESS STORY SCRAPBOOK http://resources.rootsweb.com/~press/ Do you have a genealogical research success story you'd like to share with folks in your home town? To make it easier for a journalist to locate a genealogical human interest story (in which you and RootsWeb are the heroes, naturally) with a link to the audience for which she's writing, RootsWeb created the SUCCESS STORY SCRAPBOOK. To the original set of boards for each of the U.S. States have been added boards for Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Boards for additional countries will be added on request. Post your stories now and as they happen at http://resources.rootsweb.com/~press/ [Also please continue to send stories for "Connecting through RootsWeb" and "Successful Links" to rwr-editors@rootsweb.com.] * * * STORIES OF VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II AND OTHER WARS. Please post your war stories from any country and any era (this life only, please) at http://www.rootsweb.com/WWII/ [Note: this board is for international use.] * * * ROOTSWEB IN THE NEWS. RootsWeb was mentioned in an article that appeared in FLORIDA TODAY on 12 May 2000. **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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Only these options allow the living filters to process the GEDCOM. The first two items are #29 "Process Events as Notes" (YES or NO) and #30 "Other tags to treat as notes." If YES is selected in #29, events (EVEN tag) are treated as notes by the filters. Additional tags specified by you in #30 are also treated as notes. Item #27 allows you to remove notes for no one, the living, or for everyone (whether living or not). The treatment of the tags specified in #29 and #30 depends upon your selection in item #27. If you choose to remove notes for the living only, the tags will also be removed only if they apply to living individuals. The third item available for removing tags is #31 "Tags to Remove." Tags specified here are always removed completely, whether the individuals they apply to are living or not. In items #30 and #31 enter the tags you wish to remove with a comma between each one as follows: CAUS,BAPM,CONF By making use of these advanced options you can customize your file to include only the information you wish to display publicly while keeping your database intact. * * * *What is a GEDCOM? Learn the answer to this and your other questions about genealogical software options in ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES, Lesson 3: USING TECHNOLOGY TO DIG UP ROOTS, at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson3.htm Find WORLDCONNECT TIPS at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/tips/ and FAQs at http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help/wc8.html RootsWeb's WORLDCONNECT SUGGESTION BOARD and help are at http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/gedcom/ The WORLDCONNECT database now contains almost 31 million names. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ * * * * * ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES. Are you having trouble getting started? Do you feel like you're reinventing the wheel? Are you looking for a suggestion or two about research in a particular kind of records or in the records of a country other than the one you call home? There's no need to fear; RootsWeb's Guide is here. As shamelessly derivative as the physiognomies of its co-authors/compilers, those perennial adolescents, your editors and their henchperson, an award-winning author and 400 year old witch (rather, descendant of someone hanged as a witch about 308 years ago), RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees is guaranteed not to bore, if nothing more. While you're there, you might want to post a query about the origin and meaning of a name on the RWGuide Names GenConnect message board or a query about how you could begin breaching that brick wall on the RWGuide Queries GenConnect message board, both linked from the RWGuide index page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/ * * * * * CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. Here are three things to share that have meant the world to me and my family. Since I was little I was told that my mother's father developed schizophrenia about a year after she was born and had been in a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts. I was told not ever to try to find him since he wasn't well and would be a burden. This was the story that my mother had been told and naturally she passed it on to me. After all these years and a change in attitude toward mental illness I decided it was time to find him. After several weeks of persuading, my grandmother gave me the last address where he was living with his mother 20 years ago. Don't always trust all of what you are told by relatives. My mother was conceived before the marriage. Between the wedding and when my mother was born, he had a nervous breakdown and received electric shock treatment at the psychiatric hospital. I was relieved that my grandfather wasn't schizophrenic since it seems to be hereditary, but I didn't know what shape he was going to be in if he was even still alive. His father had died in 1969, but my great-grandmother's death certificate or where she had been buried had never been found. When I made the call and asked if I had the right person and if he wanted to speak with me, my grandfather quickly passed the phone over to a woman who turned out to be my 102 year old great-grandmother! I was in shock. If you haven't found the death records, they could still be alive. I had the pleasure of introducing my mother, who was 52 years old, to her father and her grandmother for the first time. They are the sweetest, most wonderful people I have ever met. This began my family history passion. Time is so important. What if I had waited another 10 years? Don't wait. My great-grandmother looks like she'll be with us another 10 years, but you never really know. One more bit of success I'd like to share is that within a couple of months of starting online genealogy I joined some e-mail lists through RootsWeb. On the Nottinghamshire, England list, a wonderful woman named Debbie answered my request for help finding the parents of Ernest SMITH, the father of my recently found great-grandmother and the last of my ancestors to arrive in the U.S.A. (Most of the responses to my request were pokes at how naive I was asking for such a common surname as Smith.) With the name,birth date, and city of birth from my great-grandmother, Debbie found my Smith family and through census and vital records, took me back another generation. It's been a joy to give my great-grandmother details about her father's family in England. I want to thank RootsWeb for setting up these e-mail lists and Debbie who was willing to reach out and help. If you are a distant cousin descending from John, Mary, George, Hannah, or Allen SMITH, the children of George and Elizabeth (HUDSON) SMITH of Arnold, Nottinghamshire, U.K., or know anything of this family, please contact me. Heather Davis heather_bygrace@hotmail.com * * * I have been searching for 10 years for my wife's father's family. We knew his parents' name as well as some of his siblings. A 1910 census listed his father, Harry WARREN, Jennie (wife), and Alice and Ruth (daughters). By 1920 Harry was deceased. My wife's father abandoned his family almost 40 years ago, so we had little information other than census records. I did manage to secure a birth certificate for his sister Ruth. Using her date of birth and first name the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi produced records for 35 persons named Ruth born on that date in 1909. I sent for all of them. Returning from vacation this week I found mail from the Social Security Administration waiting. As my wife scanned the parents' names on the SS-5's she started to feel that again we would strike out. Coming down to the next to the last SS-5 her grandparents names stood out, Harry WARREN and Jennie SCOTT. Her aunt Ruth had married a man named BOGGS. Back to the SSDI and we learned that aunt Ruth had died in 1998 with the last known address of Warrington, Pennsylvania. We found just one BOGGS listed in Warrington and it turned out to be the wrong one. Again, dejection set in. I then posted to the Bucks County, Pennsylvania page. That evening I received a reply with a transcript of the obituary of Ruth WARREN BOGGS which named four children. The person who supplied this information is a distant cousin by marriage to one of Ruth's children. We found one of Ruth's children living only minutes away from us but no phone number could be found. It was back to the telephone search where we did find a listing for another child of Ruth's. My wife called and confirmed that this is the family she has never seen or spoken to in 60 years. Alice turned out to be a child from my wife's grandmother's first marriage (EVANS), the reason we could never find anything about her. We also learned that my wife's grandmother remarried a third time (SISON) and had a son from that marriage. Reunions are in the planning stage and information about families is about to be exchanged. This is one brick wall that has come tumbling down. Kudos to RootsWeb for this wonderful achievement. It could not have been done without you. Rich Nichols jarn6@IntNet.net * * * When I started researching my genealogy I was very committed and put a message under my family names on every message board I could find. It has finally paid off. I received an e-mail this week from a woman who said she knew my great-uncles and that one of them was her father. We swapped information and everything matched up. I started screaming for my mum and jumping up and down in front of the computer. We then started e-mailing each other with information about everyone's family, starting at the brothers. I was amazed when she told me that I was about to add 46 people to my family tree. The family lost touch after one of the brothers moved to Malta. Nearly all of his children are now in the U.K. One of the brothers has changed his name so we have to try and remember what it is. The thing is that finding this relative has helped. She has a greater knowledge of the family than I have. She also has her mother still, and between them they can name quite a few people I didn't know of. I phoned, e-mailed, faxed, and basically told anyone who would listen that I had finally gotten a bit further with my research. I walked around all this week with a massive grin across my face. Needless to say all my school friends think that I need to be committed to the nearest mental institute. I have given my family renewed hope that I will be able to find out where the family started off and where we have been. I'm enjoying myself, most importantly. Being the tender age of 16, I find that I get much hostility when I try to research my family tree. Now that in a year and a half, although I haven't gotten very far back, I have nearly 200 relatives on my tree, it is a pie in the eye for anyone who ever frowned upon me when I asked to see the birth certificates section in a library or the 1880 census. Just because I am young doesn't mean that I will not get pleasure out of genealogy. I'm lucky I have the rest of my life to research my family tree. [Amen. Eds.] Don't neglect the younger generation. We do like to know everything. Good luck with your trees, and if in doubt of anything, put a message on the message board -- you might be lucky, just as I have. Jennifer Sutton Jenni046@aol.com * * * * * 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 discuss your Canadian roots, send your SUBSCRIBE request to CANADA-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS, GENCONNECT BOARDS, AND CLUSTERS Delorey Effert, Ehinger, Ehr, Elwardt Felshaw, Franksen Haguewood, Hegarty, Heinlein Kear, Knipscheer, Kohnmann Liabel MacLaine, MacLaren, McGirr, McQuhae, Milnamow Neutze Sebelist, Shinnick, Simmons Talley-Surname, Tarasenko, Teresi, Tope Waterstraat, Watford, Wilman, Wingler NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS CANADA CANADA-ROOTS -- anywhere in Canada MEXICO MEX-TABASCO -- Estado de Tabasco U.K. EOLFHS-MEMBERS -- East of London FHS members list UK-NORTHEAST -- down-to-earth genealogy help and advice U.S.A. CO-WINDSOR-MUSEUM -- Windsor Museum data entry program volunteers (Colorado) GA-WEXFORD-FHC -- Wexford Neighborhood Family History Club (Georgia) NEADAMS -- Adams County, Nebraska * * * * * 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 Sussex, England Web, go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~engsxe/ ENGLAND engsxe -- Sussex MEXICO mexcoahu -- Coahuila mexsanlu -- San Luis Potosi U.S.A. caglenn -- Glenn County, California cahumbol -- Humboldt County, California flcbcdar -- Charlotte Bay Chapter NSDAR (Florida) laclaib2 -- Claiborne County, Louisiana nmcdcdar -- Charles Dibrell Chapter NSDAR (New Mexico) nyscdar -- Saratoga Chapter NSDAR (New York) tnclaib2 -- Claiborne County, Tennessee varockin -- Rockingham County, Virginia wastvgs -- Stillaguamish Valley Gen. Soc. (Washington) SOME NEW HOMEPAGES AND FREEPAGES CLIPS AND SNIPS: genealogical information from the ACADIAN RECORDER published in the 1800s in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sburns/ COLBY. Descendants and ancestors of Anthony COLBY (1605-1660) (to America 1630 on the ship "Arabella") and his wife Susannah (1610-1689); and most related family branches. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~colby/colbyfam Cotes d'Armor, France, Parish Register Index. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heirlooms CRANE, KEILLOR, KRATZMANN, KEILLOR, PENN, OLDENBURGH, SAMPSON, ERICKSON, BOLDERY, ZIETH, POPPLEWELL. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~keillor/ GENMAPS -- old maps of Great Britain for genealogists/historians http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genmaps/ GENTNER family of Wiesental, Baden, Germany who settled in western New York and the thumb of Michigan. Also covers other families who emigrated from Wiesental to western New York, and the FAFARD and LAFRAMBOISE families, early settlers in Quebec who married into the Potawatomi Indians. Other surnames include AMANN, BROOKS, KIDNEY, NENNO, SEIDER, SMITH, and WINTER. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~gentner/ LOHMANN research site/family groups [NOTE: two-line URL] http:// freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lohmann/~lohmann.index.html MONAGHAN in Bohola, Co. Mayo, Ireland and Belleville, New Jersey http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~monaghan/ ORGAN world wide name study http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~organ/ Ruth Ann's genealogy links pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ruthann/ * * * * * 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/ 15 May 2000 issue http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/2000/may/may15.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. * * * Thank you for your much needed help. Yours is the only site where I was able to locate my grandmother's SSN. This means so much to me in my genealogical search. I am trying desperately to find the connection to the Cayuga tribe through the SCOUTENs. My Grandma wouldn't talk about it when she was alive, and two weeks before she died 23 years ago, she confided in me what tribe she was from. I didn't know then how much it would mean to me now. I am in tears, I am so happy just to be able to find out who her parents are. I've got a long way to go, but thanks so much for your help. [This was sent to RootsWeb staffer Nancy Trice.] ejtaylorrobarge@aol.com * * * Having just renewed my annual contribution, I thought this was an appropriate time to let you know why my wife and I think RootsWeb is so important and worthy of financial support. We both have our family genealogies on the WorldConnect site http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ and update them regularly. As a result we have received information about our families that we might never have learned about otherwise. I suppose that we are rather parochial, like a lot of folks; certainly the thought never crossed our minds that people all over the world have access to WorldConnect (I know, "WorldConnect" means just that, but it still never crossed our minds). Then we received an e-mail from someone in England who accessed my wife's WorldConnect GEDCOM because she saw her ancestor's surname there. This is a 4th generation descendant of the same family as my wife. She has a very large amount of information, including documents and photographs, and has sent some of them to us. We are in the process of doing the same for her. So we suggest that everyone who uses RootsWeb consider what they have been able to learn about their families through this access, and then make the largest contribution they feel comfortable with. We really need this organization to continue and to expand. Ed and Helen Voorhees ehv@compuserve.com * * * I have found your lesson guides http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide to be informative and very helpful and have printed out a few for personal reference. I noticed at the local Family History Center there are hand-outs for beginners and hand-outs to help in other areas such as census, naturalization, and military records . . . [but] they do not have as much information as is covered in your 30 lessons. . . Thank you for all the wonderful resources at RootsWeb. I have been baby-sitting my granddaughter on weekdays for the last several years and been unable to get out to do much research at the genealogy library so have been so grateful for all the research I've been able to do at home using RootsWeb as the springboard. You people are all incredible! Kathleen Petersen gkpetersen@utah-inter.net * * * After reading the story of the "chicken gun" and the responses in the next RWR, I had to write. These stories brought back some fond memories. My father was very active in the "Bird Strike Project" (if I remember correctly, the logo was a duck in goggles flying directly into the viewfinder) in the 1970s. He was one of the engineers who created the new composite windshields which are now in use. One of the funniest things was that they filmed the experiments and I can remember my dad bringing home one of those films and showing it to us. Of course, kids have a high gross-out tolerance but we thought these films were hilarious, particularly when shown in reverse! Cheers to all those who worked to make flying safer and thanks for the smiles. Tara West Mooney mooneyta@swbell.net * * * Subject: The Chicken Gun. In about 1976, when I was working at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, one of our consultants, who worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio for what was then known as the Air Force Materials Laboratory, told us the chicken gun story. The story was that they were testing the durability of a jet engine to bird strike and ingestion. After a few preliminary tests, the researchers turned the test over to the technicians. The idea was to shoot a frozen turkey out of the gun at the turbine and see if the intact screening was adequate to prevent the engine being destroyed upon ingesting a large bird such as a pelican (which often plague near-shore fields). The technicians soon came back with horrifying news -- the engine had been destroyed. The researchers discovered the problem -- the technicians hadn't thawed the turkeys. In the meantime, however, they had destroyed an engine. So the researchers, compounding an already difficult situation, shut the facility down for the few days to figure out how to proceed. THEN it occurred to them that they should clean up the facility. What a mess -- rotting turkey all over. . . I should note that the existence of the chicken gun (actually, bird strike gun) itself is not in question. Once it was used with thawed chickens and turkeys, but now is used with a standard gelatin "bird" of the size of concern. It is a standard test for qualifying new designs and retrofits. The gelatin is a lovely red, so that the result looks appropriately gross. This projectile test is used frequently in my field (high-performance composite materials) to determine the impact resistance of wing leading edges, windshield replacements, etc. The improved performance of composite materials over metals in this test is one reason that composites are often used to replace metals in aircraft. Linda L. Clements clements@sierra.net * * * * * HUMOR Subject: Eureka! I appreciate your weekly visits to my desk through ROOTSWEB REVIEW I enjoy reading about how people find lost relatives in the most unlikely places. And now I'm sure I'm hot on the trail. I think I've found my grandmother in Hugo, Oklahoma! [Humor: RWR 3:19] Thanks again for a great resource. Gene Ewert, Neodesha, Kansas gkewert@hit.net [Humor: RWR 3:19] Re the ". . . blue hair . . ." from Hugo, Oklahoma: This driver can be found in Tucson, Arizona during the winter months, but in addition there is a compass mounted on the windshield. Richard Williamson, Tucson, Arizona RRW122433@aol.com * * * * * 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. 20, 17 May 2000. RootsWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/ BACK ISSUES OF ROOTSWEB REVIEW and MISSING LINKS are fully SEARCHABLE at http://search-rwr.rootsweb.com/ and may be DOWNLOADED from ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/ and ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/mlnews/ TO UNSUBSCRIBE from the free weekly genealogy e-zines, ROOTSWEB REVIEW and MISSING LINKS, send any e-mail to: rootsweb-review-unsubscribe@rootsweb.com TO SUBSCRIBE, send to rootsweb-review-subscribe@rootsweb.com