ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 3, No. 40, 4 October 2000, Circulation: 694,032+ (c) 1998-2000 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ ROOTSWEB REVIEW and MISSING LINKS are free, weekly e-zines Editors: Julia M. Case and Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG RWR-Editors@rootsweb.com Advertising: sbrenay@myfamilyinc.com RootsWeb HelpDesk: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ Ancestry.com: http://ancestry.com/help/support/main.htm Data Submission Form: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit.html New Databases (check often): http://searches.rootsweb.com/ IN THIS ISSUE o News and Notes from RootsWeb (Who Has the Data?; WorldConnect Tip; Shaking Your Family Tree; RootsWeb Guide to Tracing Family Trees) o Ancestry.com 14-Day Free Trial o MyFamily.com OFT Sweepstakes o Connecting through RootsWeb o New Genealogy Mailing Lists o New Genealogy Web Pages o GenConnect o USGenWeb Archives o House Histories: Reconstructing Your Ancestors' Daily Lives o Letters to the Editors o Humor o Reprint Policy; Back Issues; How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe RootsWeb's WORLDCONNECT contains 43.6 million names and new GEDCOMs are added daily. Search WorldConnect and upload your own GEDCOM(s) to http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB WHO HAS THE DATA? Does your state, province, county, parish, or church have a database available that has not yet been placed on RootsWeb and that you think would be of interest to genealogists and historians? Do you have a database that you would like to share that you think would be of value and interest to others? In most cases, RootsWeb would be proud to host them. Please use the data submission form to tell us about such databases: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit.html * * * WORLDCONNECT TIP: Duplication of Names in WorldConnect Searches Q. WorldConnect Searches would be easier if there was less duplication of names. Why are there so many duplicates? Why can't they be merged? A. Refine your search when you discover many name duplicates. To do this, use the Advanced Search option of WorldConnect Global Search on this page: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi This helps eliminate same-name individuals who are not actually the individual you wish to locate. If you have done that and still find duplication it means that many people have the individual you are looking for in their files. That is good news because it means that any one of those researchers might have discovered information you didn't know. Keep in mind that WorldConnect is not one huge master database but a collection of individual family trees that must remain separate and cannot be merged, because each file belongs to the person who submitted it. The files are the work of many thousands of individuals independently researching their family histories. If you have found duplicate entries within one individual's WorldConnect file you might wish to direct the submitter to WorldConnect Tip #9, which explains how to remove duplicate entries from a file. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/tips/tip-09.html RootsWeb Review's WorldConnect Tip-of-the-Week Storehouse: http://www.rootsweb.com/~review/tips/index.html RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees, Using technology to dig up roots http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson3.htm * * * SHAKING YOUR FAMILY TREE (SYFT). Censuses represent the most important and sought-after group of genealogical records in the United States. The information supplied therein allows researchers to determine family structure, ages, residence, occupation, and much more. However, watch out about making certain assumptions in your census research. See "Tally Up: Using Census Schedules" in Myra Vanderpool Gormley's "Shaking Your Family Tree" column this week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/curcolumn.htm SYFT columns are archived by subject and can be browsed at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/ * * * ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES (RWGuide) http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/ Not finding information you seek? Perhaps you are not asking the right questions or have not yet learned to frame your questions effectively so that others can help you. It is surprising how unprepared we are for communicating by e-mail, mailing lists, and query boards. Explore "What is the Question?" http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson7.htm * * * * * Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the No. 1 Source for Family History Online. Search more than 600 MILLION NAMES and trace your family tree today. Go to: www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11GC * * * * * ONLINE FAMILY TREE -- WIN A TRIP TO YOUR ANCESTRAL HOMELAND See http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/oft_sweepstakes.htm If you create a new Online Family Tree or update an existing one between October 4 and October 18, 2000, you will have a chance to win a trip for two to your ancestral homeland. In addition to this grand prize, there will be a weekly drawing for an Heirloom Family Tree (value up to $50). For more about Heirloom Family Tree, go to http://www.ancestry.com/heirloom/ The Online Family Tree is the Internet's first real-time collaboration tool that allows you and your family members to create a multi-user, password-protected family tree. You will receive one entry in the sweepstakes for every name in your file, so start contacting your family members. In addition to an entry for every name in your Online Family Tree, we'll double your entries if you submit the Online Family Tree to the Ancestry World Tree. One of the best ways to connect with others researching your family lines is by submitting a family file to the Ancestry World Tree where millions of visitors search for their ancestors every month. When you submit your family tree, your file will remain your own. You retain the right to change, update, or remove your file -- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week -- and, unlike another company, Ancestry.com pledges never to sell your data on a CD-ROM or charge anyone to search the Ancestry World Tree and view your information. Complete contest information is available at: http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/oft_sweepstakes.htm ** PAID ADVERTISEMENTS ** WOW! A new record at FAMILY CHRONICLE is causing us embarrassment. 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These are must see and bookmark Web sites. You'll like em! Also linked at http://www.genealogy-mall.com ** END PAID ADVERTISEMENTS ** CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. My grandmother lived with our family until her death in 1950. She had two brothers who moved to Ohio during World War II and my family looked for them for years. Their last name was TOOMEY. About 10 years ago, I got a Cincinnati phone book and called every TOOMEY there. No luck. Then came RootsWeb. In February, I found George Harper of Cincinnati, my long-lost second cousin, who had been orphaned when he was three. He had searched for relatives all his life but didn't know where in Kentucky to look. In May, I found Gil Thurman of Dayton through the Nicholas County, Kentucky mailing list. He knew his relatives originated in Nicholas and Robertson counties and knew their last names but couldn't find us (of course our last name is not TOOMEY because my grandmother married a RAMEY). In June, George Harper found his first cousin, Bill TOOMEY. We all met for the first time three weeks ago at a family reunion. I felt like I had known George, Gil, and Bill all my life. George was so overwhelmed that he could hardly speak. At last he had a family. We shared photos and family stories. If it hadn't been for RootsWeb I might never have found my cousins. I can't thank you enough. Sandra Griffett sandy.griffett@sylvania.com * * * Thanks to RootsWeb and all the other wonderful resources available to me, I was able to find my father, about whom my mother had keep a secret until her death. And although he had died I have been able to find all his family, talk with them for the past year through e-mail, and this October will meet them for the first time. I was raised by a great-aunt and because of the times was not told anything about my parents until at age nine I met my mother for the first time when my grandfather died. Through the years I was unable to get any information about my birth father. I finally located his nephew on the Web and through him got in contact with my father's only sister, who until now had only suspected I existed. My mother left my father when she became pregnant and only called them once to say I was born, but due to the circumstances they did not know if it was the truth. I not only located his sister but also found out that his family is the only one in the U.S.A. with the name LAIBEN and they are quite a large group. I have also gotten photos and documents going back the early 1800s on all his ancestors back to Germany, when he came over, where he made his first home, what war he fought in, . . . everything. They meet once a year -- the whole family -- and for the most part they are located in the same area as the first LAIBEN began in the U.S.A. Now that my great-aunt has passed for some time and all but one of her children are gone, I am alone with only my husband and my two sons. But thanks to RootsWeb I have located a whole family including a half brother. I cannot thank you enough, coming from an only child raised by many, related to none. D. Laiben Troulliet DDT217@cs.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). 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AL-CEMETERIES CA-CEMETERIES CENTRAL-KY -- for posting genealogical queries and answers FL-PAHOKEE -- collecting history and data from current and past Pahokee, Florida residents KYARCHIVES -- for donating original source material for the KyArchives NY-LONGISLAND -- all Long Island counties PA-SW-OBITS -- southwestern Pennsylvania obituaries WAJCGS -- Jefferson County, Washington Genealogical Society ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS US-SLAVE-TRADE -- discuss and exchange history and genealogical data regarding those involved in the transportation and selling of slaves in the Americas before the Civil War. * * * * * NEW WEB ACCOUNT REQUESTS. Please see the instructions at http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ 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 WorldGenWeb page for Costa Rica, go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~criwgw/ AUSTRALIA ausygs -- Yarram Genealogy Society COSTA RICA criwgw -- Costa Rica WorldGenWeb FINLAND finwgw -- Finland WorldGenWeb POLAND pollubus - Lubuskie U.S.A. codeeds -- Colorado Deeds Project flhcdar -- Halpatiokee Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Florida) himigrat -- Hawaii Migrations Project iabiog -- Iowa Biographies Project inmarion -- Marion County, Indiana maclynn -- Lynn, Massachusetts (city) macnando -- North Andover, Massachusetts (city) njsrhps -- South River Historical and Preservation Society (New Jersey) nvmigrat -- Nevada Migrations Project nyahs -- Almond Historical Society (New York) okcemete -- Oklahoma Cemeteries WALES wlsblaen -- BlaenauGwent wlsmgy -- Montgomery wlspem -- Pembrokeshire SOME NEW HOMEPAGES AND FREEPAGES ATWOOD. ATWOOD family with connections to almost 13,000 ATWOODs, who have New England origins. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~genesis/atwood.htm BILL and SUE'S GENEALOGY. Includes ELLISON, HUGHES, COLLINS, MUIR, HUDELSON, STEWART, WALL, HUBLER, BEST, and BLANCHARD. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bpcslc/ CANTRELL COUSIN PROJECT. CANTRELL, CANTRILL, CANTRALL, CANTWELL research in America, the United Kingdom, and Australia. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cantrellcousin/ EMMONS. EMMONS family of south-central Indiana and allied lines: QUINN, WININGER, QUALKENBUSH, LEWIS, JONES, and HOWERTON. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~emmonsfamily1/ FRAZIER. Isabell (FRAZIER) HAWORTH was born in Warren County, Iowa on December 4, 1858, the oldest child of Quakers, Joseph and Clariss (JOHNSON) FRAZIER. She married Jacob HAWORTH. They moved with their five children and Isabell's parents to Los Angeles County, California where they remained. Localities include Whittier, Los Angeles County, California; Carlisle, Warren County, Iowa; Buck Creek, Tippecanoe County, Indiana; Alba, Jasper County, Missouri; Cassville, Berry County, Missouri; and McDonald County, Missouri. Also JOHNSON, GROOMS, COLE, HARPIN, PLUMB, HOLLINGSWORTH, WRIGHT, and CLOSE. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~isabell/ HANCOCK and MILLER family history in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania includes associated families of DANDO and CARL. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~spyoung/ SCHNAKE/SCHNACKE. Researching this surname worldwide. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~schnake/ * * * * * 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/ * * * * * USGENWEB ARCHIVES -- THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER contains the current USGenWeb Archives submissions from the last week. Back issues of THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER are archived at www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/ 2 October 2000 issue www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/2000/oct/oct2.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 * * * * * HOUSE HISTORIES: RECONSTRUCTING YOUR ANCESTORS' DAILY LIVES "Luther Tibbetts bought a farm." These simple words begin a tale that unfolds for more than a century. It includes celebrations of births and weddings, somber seasons of death, happy moments of newlyweds and aging couples lounging on the porch swing, stepmothers and maiden aunts preparing picnics on the lawn, children roller skating down the lane, and fathers building a garage to fit the new family car. All are details to a story. A family saga? No, the history of a house. Houses and the land they stand upon have histories, just as individuals and families do. Family historians can learn a variety of things when tracing the history of a house, ranging from new perspectives on land records, in particular the function and significance of the chain of title, to a greater understanding of the key role of physical surroundings in the lives of their ancestors. Read the entire article by George Ryskamp in ANCESTRY Magazine's online archive (September/ October 2000 Vol. 18 No. 5) http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/ancmag/2347.asp * * * * * LETTERS TO THE EDITORS. Please send letters and all submissions as plain text e-mail messages (no attachments or html) to RWR-Editors@rootsweb.com The 9/28/2000 issue [RWR 3:39] related Mr. Crump's happy ending to the unintended deletion of his primary family genealogy file, to WorldConnect http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ Readers may like to know that there is an alternative to such a situation when they have NOT submitted their GEDCOM to WorldConnect. And note that Mr. Crump had DELETED, his file -- not lost it through reformatting the disk. Reformatting erases the entire file and it is really lost. However, when a file is deleted, all that happens is that the first character in the filename is changed. Various utility programs, such as Norton's Utilities, will search for such files and let you restore the initial character to the file name, thus "restoring" your "lost" file. Doug McClure, Henderson, Kentucky cdm@henderson.net * * * Thanks to [RootsWeb], I finally got the Mountie! While visiting some relatives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, I was shown an old letter from George Donald(son) HERON of the NWMP (North West Mounted Police) stationed at Fort Walsh, NWT. In a 4 December 1881 letter (delivered from Fort Walsh, near Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, via Ft. Assinbine, Manitoba to Ottawa, Ontario) he wrote that he had visited Fort Calgary, NWT and Fort Shaw, Montana. His CO was Capt. COTTON who commanded 125 men. In the rest of the letter, he inquired about his family and relatives. George Donald HERON was born in 1857 and was the son of George HERON and Mary Ann CLIFFORD of Gloucester township, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada. I found his death and birth dates in the California [Death Index, mentioned] in RootsWeb Review: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi [Information obtained from this source was:] [Name, Last, First, Middle] HERON GEORGE DONALDSON [Birth Date, Mother, Father, Sex] 07/13/1857 CLIFFORD HERON M [Birth Place, Death Place] CANADA SAN BERNARDINO [Death Date, SSN, Age, Residence] 12/17/1941 84 yrs I just wanted to thank RootsWeb for this valuable resource. Now, if only I could find his descendants in California . . . Bob Mackett, Calgary, Alberta, Canada bobmackett@hotmail.com or bmackett@home.com * * * I am new to the computer but I have been searching for family roots for three months. Today [1 October 2000] I used your [GenConnect http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/] Web pages for the first time. I must say I have learned more in three hours here than searching other boards for three months. Thank you so much for all the wonderful information I have learned tonight. I will be back many times to do some more tracing. Valerie ViceGloria@aol.com * * * Just wanted to say I think your site is a boon for anyone searching roots. You all do a remarkable job. From a "newbie," still learning the ropes. Lu Buerkle lub@digital.net * * * * * HUMOR. Thanks to Frances Terry who sent this item from "Jest a Minute" in VFW Magazine, to which it was apparently submitted by Paul Barber of Westchester, Illinois. A fellow was invited to an old friend's house for dinner. The host preceded every request to his wife by calling her "honey," "sweetheart," "darling," "my love," etc. The guest was impressed since the couple had been married almost 70 years. While the wife was in the kitchen, the guest remarked how nice it was that he still called his wife those pet names. "To tell you the truth, I forget her name about 10 years ago," his friend replied. * * * * * 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. 40, 4 October 2000. RootsWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/ BACK ISSUES OF ROOTSWEB REVIEW and MISSING LINKS are fully SEARCHABLE. Search all or download a specific issue by following the links at http://www.rootsweb.com/~review/e-zine.html A paid advertisement in ROOTSWEB REVIEW or MISSING LINKS should not be construed as an endorsement of the product or service. 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