ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 3, No. 46, 15 November 2000, Circulation: 721,084+ (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/ 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 (New Searchable Databases; Who Has the Data?; Electronic Cards from RootsWeb; Notable Kin; Pilgrims; WorldConnect Tip; Shaking Your Family Tree; RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees; Ask a Genealogist at RootsWeb; 1925 National Guard Register) 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 RootsWeb's WORLDCONNECT contains 47.7+ 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 NEW SEARCHABLE DATABASES AT ROOTSWEB. RootsWeb thanks all of the individuals and groups who contribute their data to share with the genealogical community. See the full list of contributors at http://userdb.rootsweb.com/contributors.html AUSTRALIA, NEW SOUTH WALES, Sydney. Rouse Hill Cemetery Inscriptions; 184 records; Gavin Nicholson http://userdb.rootsweb.com/aus/ ILLINOIS, LASALLE COUNTY. Delayed Birth Index 1858-1890 -- (surnames beginning with the letter A) 128 records; Jeremy J. Biros http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ IOWA, KEOKUK COUNTY, Sigourney. Pleasant Grove Cemetery (West Cemetery); 704 records; Becky Berg and Rhonda Lindemann http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY. Birth Indices (surnames DALTON, McCARTHY, MULLIGAN); 788 records; Regina Negrycz http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY. Death Indices (surnames DALTON, McCARTHY, MULLIGAN); 1,751 records; Regina Negrycz http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ OHIO. Central Ohio Death Certificates (selected surnames) 64 records; Charles A. McKinley http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ WASHINGTON, LEWIS COUNTY. Ethel Greenwood Cemetery 49 records; Pamelia Olson http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ * * * 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 * * * ELECTRONIC CARDS FROM ROOTSWEB: http://postcards.rootsweb.com/ E-mail FREE cards from RootsWeb to online family and friends. Thanksgiving Day cards have been added to the selection. See http://postcards.rootsweb.com/thank.htm * * * NOTABLE KIN. Descent of George W. BUSH, from the FAIRBANK family of Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/notable/bush.html * * * PILGRIMS. The story of Pilgrims who arrived in 1620 on the "Mayflower" is familiar to most Americans and to many others. Millions of cousins and descendants of this famous little group can be found in many parts of the world today. "The Story of the Pilgrims" is an excellent Web presentation at Plimoth-on-Web http://www.plimoth.org/Library/pilgrim.htm. One of the best books on the subject is PLYMOUTH COLONY: ITS HISTORY & PEOPLE, 1620-1691, by Eugene Aubrey Stratton, http://www.gene-stratton.com/. It is available in many libraries or can be purchased from the publisher, Ancestry.com, at http://shops.ancestry.com/product.asp?productid=2129&shopid=126 PLYMOUTH COLONY contains a series of essays on such topics as "Political Structure," "Morality and Sex," "Law and Order," and "Man and Master," plus more than 300 mini-biographies of these colonists with thousands of references as to where other information can be found. * * * WORLDCONNECT TIP: Finding Files on Your Computer http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ Since WorldConnect family trees are submitted in GEDCOM format, you must first locate the GEDCOM file on your computer before you can upload it to WorldConnect. Here are some tips from WorldConnect users that may help you in this process. Allen Dew suggests: To find a file in Windows 95/98/NT. (1) Open your Windows Explorer program. (2) Immediately hit the F3 key on the top of the keyboard or hold down the Control key while hitting the F key. (3) On the line labeled NAMED, type "*.ged" but without the quotes. (4) Click on FIND NOW button. You will get a list of all the files with a .GED extension and the complete path of where the file is located. You can use this to find any type of file. If you type in a keyword, you get a list of all files with that word in the file name. Using the keyword method, to locate a GEDCOM you named MYANCESTORS.GED type in MYANCESTORS as the keyword for which to search. Thera Schwenk-Hammond shares this suggestion: "This is a tip I learned as a newbie when I couldn't find files I had saved. The FIND function was a lifesaver. Instead of browsing through hundreds of folders using Explorer, click on START then FIND then FILES OR FOLDERS. In the window that pops up, make sure LOOK IN is set for your hard drive (usually C:) then under NAMED, type in whatever you named the file, even if you only remember one keyword. You may get more files than you wanted, but you will get the one you are looking for, and under IN FOLDER is the path. If you get a bunch of files, you click them on one at a time to see what they are. It is time-consuming, but a lot faster than going through all your files using Explorer." MAC users can find a file from the Desktop by pressing the COMMAND key (looks like an apple) and "f" key to start FINDER. Type in part of the file name and click FIND. On some MACs FINDER is now called SHERLOCK. * * * SHAKING YOUR FAMILY TREE (SYFT) by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG. Celebrating the expanding influence of technology in the practice of genealogical research, GENTECH, Inc. http://gentech.org/ recently announced it is offering two $1,000 scholarships in 2001. 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://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ WHAT IS THE QUESTION? Before you can begin to search, you need to know what you are looking for. Genealogy is part history and part mystery. Genealogical research involves detective work and that is 99 percent of the fun for many of us. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson7.htm * * * ASK-A-GENEALOGIST AT ROOTSWEB. This week's questions and answers http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ask-a-genealogist15nov.html cover a wide range of subjects, among them research in Spain, Italy, Jamaica, Canada, England, Scotland, and the U.S.A., British Merchant Marines, Naturalization Records, North Carolina Regulators, the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road, and others. Before posting a new query, please read the GUIDELINES at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/askguidelines.html Ask-A-Genealogist at RootsWeb ARCHIVES http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/askarchives.html * * * U.S. MILITARY RECORDS, 1925: OFFICIAL NATIONAL GUARD REGISTER. This little-known database is available for free until 11/24 at http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4996.htm It is a listing of just the officers and sergeant instructors of the National Guard for all of the states and the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico in 1925, but it might be helpful in locating families around the time of the 1890 federal census, which for all practical purposes is not extant. Birth dates of these men range from 1862 through 1904, but about half of these soldiers were born between 1885 and 1895. Who knows, you might get lucky and find that missing link here. ** PAID ADVERTISEMENTS ** U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS IMAGES Have you seen the U.S. Federal Census Images at Ancestry.com? Now you can view original documents online! Ancestry.com continues the Census Images Project with 1920 postings for parts of MI, MA, MN and NM. Get access for only $39.95. 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This family befriended my great-grandmother and her children when her husband, John Prior ESTLIN, died in Point Edward in 1881. They were on their way from England to homestead in Manitoba when he became ill and died at Port Edward. The pictures of the TREEN family were among my grandmother's photos, and I'd like to see them returned to the descendants. Fran Aitkens aitkens@islandnet.com I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Fran Aitkens' posting regarding Mamie and Bertie TREEN from Sarnia, Canada and how she had pictures of them to give to a relative. Her grandmother's family lived next door to the TREENs in the 1880s. The two sisters died when they were teenagers and were buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine, in the plot with my grandparents. There is no headstone for them, but the cemetery records state when they were buried (1884 and 1888), and their ages. Up to this year I wasn't even sure they were relatives, but recently my cousin happened to mention that when my grandmother was alive she had said they were young cousins. This summer I searched for an obituary in the Portland newspapers. I did find a few brief lines connecting them to Canada, but I did not have hope of finding out more about them. Now, thanks to Fran, I have their photos, one of their father Horatio, and I know a little more about the family. It almost seems like they wanted to be found. I suspect their mother, Annie A. TREEN, may be a CLARK relation. Both Mamie (Mary N.) and Bertie (Roberta M.) were born in Portland. [Fran Aitkens' notice appeared in SOMEBODY'S LINKS NEWSLETTER, Vol. 2, No. 19, on 28 October 2000, which was e-mailed to about 6,400 subscribers. Back issues of SOMEBODY'S LINKS are in the searchable MISSING LINKS database at http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ To subscribe, send a new e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE to: Somebodys-Links-Newsletter-L-request@rootsweb.com SOMEBODY'S LINKS is one of more than 19,927 genealogy mailing lists hosted by RootsWeb. See index: http://lists.rootsweb.com/] * * * FOUND AFTER 144 YEARS by Alfred Turner Alsmaria@aol.com As a child growing up my grandfather told me stories about his oldest brother, Albert, who had been the most athletic of the family of eight. Albert died at the age of 28 while swimming in the Spokane River in Washington state. Albert joined the U. S. Cavalry at 18 and was sent West to "fight Indians." He had been discharged at 20 and remained in the western part of the country, where he met a young lady, married, had two children, and lived somewhere around Halfway, Oregon. That was all I knew about him, except I do remember when I was about seven or eight taking a letter addressed to Albert's son, Lewis, to the post office for grandfather. My grandfather died in 1941 and no more was ever heard from Lewis. In my father's later years, he started working on a family history, tracing his TURNER family back to 1740 when the first of his line came to America. I remember asking him if he had any more information about Albert. He replied that while his father had written to Albert's son Lewis, he had never received an answer. My father published his history of the family in 1977 and all members of the family received copies. Dad died in 1979 and I took over all his family history and research papers, which I let more of less sit on the shelf until after I retired. I got a computer in about 1983 and started putting the history into a family history program shortly after. Somehow it always bothered me that we had lost track of Albert and I made a number of attempts to reach his heirs to no avail. When I started with RootsWeb I kept checking for information on Albert or Lewis without results. Last month I was on Ancestry and decided to check there. Using their advanced search I got three hits on Albert. When I looked at them, two of the hits had Albert with the right wife. I knew I had hit the jackpot. I sent an e-mail to the holder of the Web site where the information was found, saying that I had information on his grandfather, I thought that we were cousins, and I would mail it to him if he would send me his address. This computer stuff is fast, but it took about a week before I received a reply and we exchanged family histories. Now I have learned the facts of Albert's death and that he had four children, not two. Now there are 47 new people to add to the family history. Persistence pays off. * * * * * MAILING LISTS. 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Note that the ~[tilde] before the account name is required. FOR EXAMPLE, to visit the Ashtabula County, Ohio Web page, go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohashtab/ U.S.A. mamgc -- Massachusetts Genealogical Council mecnewry -- Newry, Maine (city) mecsomer -- Somerset, Maine (city) nechurch -- Nebraska Church Records ohashtab -- Ashtabula County, Ohio okud2619 -- United Daughters of the Confederacy, Chapter #2619 (Lawton, Oklahoma) pahsc -- Historical Society of Carnegie (Pennsylvania) SOME NEW HOMEPAGES AND FREEPAGES ASSOCIATION OF AMATEUR HERALDS http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~heraldry/page_coa.html CALIFORNIA. Birth, marriage, and death records beginning 1894 extracted from Mountain View (Santa Clara County) California newspapers. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~godwin/mtnview/ CAROLINA ROOTS. HUDSON, WATKINS, HARRIS, GREGORY, WALL, SAFERIGHT, MORGAN, ROBBINS, TOMLINSON, and FRAZIER from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jentaylor/Genhome.htm HARRIS. Family in Wilkes and Guilford counties, North Carolina. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jentaylor/Harris.htm HOUSER, MUELLER, LABS, SCHURDEL, SCHUKAR, SASSE, RIECKMANN, etc. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monajo/ HUDSON. Hudson family in Virginia in 1600s, later in Anson County, North Carolina and Darlington County, South Carolina. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jentaylor/Hudson.htm HULL FAMILY ASSOCIATION. HULL, HOHL, HOLL surnames in America. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dhull/hfa/ MASSACHUSETTS. FIRST BURIAL GROUND OF WOBURN. Extractions, epitaphs, and photos. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~toni/Burial1.htm MASSACHUSETTS. FIRST BURIAL GROUND OF WOBURN (continued). Extractions, epitaphs, and photos. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~toni/Burial1a.htm MASSACHUSETTS. SECOND BURIAL GROUND OF WOBURN. Extractions, epitaphs, and photos. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~toni/Burial2.htm MASSACHUSETTS. SECOND BURIAL GROUND OF WOBURN (continued). Extractions, epitaphs, and photos. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~toni/Burial2a.htm McANDREW SURNAME IN IRELAND. Includes maps showing the distribution of the McAndrew surname in Ireland in the mid-1800s as listed in the Griffith Valuation Index. [Note two-line URL.] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dgarvey/McAndrew/ Ireland_McAndrew.htm PALMER. Also HALE, HALL, WILLS, DAVIS, PERDUE, and WITTEN. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dppalmer/ RESEARCHERS HOTLIST LISTINGS. Surnames from all over the world. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hotlist/ RHODE ISLAND. 1900 Directory of the First Baptist Church of Newport, R.I. Includes a list of former ministers who served the church from its formation in 1638 to the year 1900. [Long URL] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~censusresearch/ FirstBaptistChurch/Directory.htm SAFERIGHT. German family history dating to colonial period from Guilford County, North Carolina. [Note two-line URL.] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jentaylor/ Saferight.html THANKSGIVING. Start getting in the holiday mood with a visit to http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas/ WATKINS. WATKINS family from Henry County, Virginia to Stokes and Guilford counties, North Carolina. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jentaylor/Watkins.htm * * * * * 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. USGW-ARCHIVES-ANNOUNCE is a read-only mailing list for weekly announcements of updates and submissions to the USGenWeb Archives. To subscribe, send e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE to USGW-ARCHIVES-ANNOUNCE-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com. DAILY-UPLOADS-L is a read-only mailing list that announces every file uploaded or changed in the USGenWeb Archives. To subscribe, send e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE to DAILY-UPLOADS-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com * * * * * 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 I recently became interested in genealogy after the death of my mother. I began researching my husband's family as they have been in the South for a very long time. RootsWeb provided a lot of information for me. I was very lucky when I began mine, which is very tangled. Then came what I thought would be the toughest, that of my stepfather, who married my mother and adopted me. My dad passed away in 1984. He was African American and my initial search was fruitless. I took a break from my hobby and decided to clean out the garage at mom's. I found a VCR box with MHJ on the side of it (MHJ are dad's initials). Surprise! Everything I needed was in that box -- military records from Vietnam, photos, magazine articles, and the most beautiful record of all. My great-great-aunt had written my father a letter including names, birth dates, certified documents, and stories. Aunt Theodosia was the granddaughter of a slave. She was in her 80s when she wrote this letter. It was a wonderful surprise. Look around the house--you never now what you will find. Kathy Williams klw_92626@yahoo.com I have every issue you have sent, since I got involved with RootsWeb, and in one issue I found a lead that has sent me on a search in directions that I did not know existed. Not only have I found missing relatives and information, but also I have expanded my database by more than 500 names, with more coming in every day. People who do not know about you and your wonderful information are missing a blessing, and one of the most complete files I have been able to find on the Internet. Thank you so very much for all your efforts and be assured I will pass this information on to fellow researchers, and they too will be supporting you and yours. Thanks again charles.merritt2@gte.net [Re RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees http://rwguide.rootsweb.com ] I have been going through the site and have spent a morning so enlightened. Thank you. Edith Haynie vedithpauladventure@netutah.com [Re RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees http://rwguide.rootsweb.com ] Very nice site, loaded with information. Mary Burke haley2000@intellex.com I read ROOTSWEB REVIEW every time it plunks in my inbox. It is a fascinating service that never fails to inspire me to keep digging. The stories about the salt spoons are interesting to me (I have a photo of myself, my mother, her sister, their mother, and my son holding salt spoons from my great-grandmother's estate) and the discussion of grandmother's names is interesting as well. My great-great-grandmother VAN MILL was Grandma John, although her name was Hilda (I haven't been able to research past her father, Dirk SCHUTTE). Her husband's name was John (actually Nymand Jan, changed when he immigrated), and I've found records calling him Wayand, calling Van Mill VAMILL, and calling Hilda's father Dirk, Dick. I just keep digging. Thanks for the encouragement. Suzanne Stenson O'Brien suzzo@bitstream.net * * * * * HUMOR. Thanks to Sandra Naehrig snaehrig@magnet.ch who reports that she was reminded of this one when she read last week's tale of the birds and bees. This story reminded me of one that really happened in our family. While driving through the country we saw (and must have verbally identified) a bull. My much younger sister, about five at the time, announced proudly "I know all about the birds and the bulls." My mother and older sister and I waited expectantly for her to tell us what she knew. "You leave them alone and they leave you alone." * * * * * ROOTSWEB REVIEW and MISSING LINKS do not answer or publish queries. 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