ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 4, No. 4, 24 January 2001, Circulation: 759,533+ (c) 1998-2001 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?; WorldConnect; RootsWeb in the News; SSDI Update; U.S. Presidential Ahnentafels; Free Electronic Postcards; Ask a Genealogist; Shaking Your Family Tree; RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees; Australia Day; Ancestry's Product Watch Newsletter) 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 more than 55 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 AMERICA. PEFFLEY, PEFFLY, PEFLEY FAMILIES IN AMERICA -- Index 6,786 records; Jeffery G. Scism http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ CONNECTICUT, New Haven. Benedict Arnold's militia members, 1775 35 records; Byrne Stoddard http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ GEORGIA, Glynn County. Frederica: Colonial Fort & Town Every Name Index; 126 records; Debi McGee Cundiff http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ ILLINOIS, Knox County. Index to Portrait and Biography Album (1886); 925 records; Robert D. Miller http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ INDIANA, La Porte County. La Porte High School, 1919 Graduates 42 records; Michelle Gagner http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ INDIANA, Monroe County. WPA Death Record Index 1882-1920 7,859 records; Randi Richardson, INMONROE-L@rootsweb.com http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ KENTUCKY. Revolutionary War Pensioners 2,752 records; Sandi Gorin http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ MARYLAND, Baltimore. GILLEN-CULLEN Family Bible Death Records 20 records; Raymond H. Barley http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ MASSACHUSETTS. Death Index. TOLAND surname 335 records; Joseph F. P. Toland http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex County, Sudbury. List of American Revolution Supporters; 255 records; Pat Johnson http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ MINNESOTA, Stearns County, Sauk Centre. Obituary Index 1998-2000 391 records; Roxanne Moos http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ MINNESOTA, Wright and McLeod counties. Obituary Index 671 records; Roxanne Moos http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ MISSOURI, Jackson County, Kansas City. Center High School, 1967 Alumni List; 1,263 records; Debbie Wilcox http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MISSOURI, Polk County, Bolivar. Southwest Baptist College, 1967-1968; 1,044 records; Debbie Wilcox http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ NEBRASKA, Burt County. Decatur High School graduates, 1891-2000 2,740 records; John A. Byram http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ NEW HAMPSHIRE, Town of Strafford Death Records 1,649 records; Pamela McCauley http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ NEW JERSEY, Jersey City. World War I Armed Forces 1,289 records; Teecie Cozad http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ NEW JERSEY. 3rd Regiment, Gloucester Brigade, New Jersey Militia, War of 1812; 107 records; Kimberly Lingelbach http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ NEW YORK, Queens County. Richmond Hill High School Class of 1941 362 records; Arthur J. Searby http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ NORTH CAROLINA, Person County. Death Records 2,250 records; Donna Mathews http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ OHIO, Muskingum County. Company F, 122d OH Volunteer Infantry (Civil War); 110 records; Pat Asher http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ PENNSYLVANIA. Eastern Pennsylvania County Obituaries 60,170 records; Dalice Fadden http://userdb.rootsweb.com/paobits/ TEXAS, Parker County. Aledo High School Graduates, 1909-1973 859 records; Glenda Meyer http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ WISCONSIN, Clark County, York Township. York Cemetery Obituary Index; 265 records; Steven G. Lavey http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ * * * 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 other than your personal family tree (personal genealogies are best posted at WorldConnect http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ ) 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: Helping the World Find your GEDCOM (Family Tree) http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ Link your personal Web page to your WorldConnect family tree. Place a search box directly on YOUR page to allow visitors to begin a search of your family tree directly from your site. Find all the instructions and the code needed for the search box at: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/FAQ/wclinks1.html http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/FAQ/wclinks2.html Place a link directly to an individual in your family tree from a query or document pertaining to that individual on a GenConnect message board. Add Post-em notes where applicable to entries in RootsWeb databases that contain information about individuals in your file. Include links on those notes to the same individuals in your family tree. The possibilities abound. Locate any GenConnect message board from this page: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/ Locate RootsWeb databases from this page: http://searches.rootsweb.com/ See also RootsWeb Guide 3: Software and GEDCOMs http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson3.htm * * * ROOTSWEB IN THE NEWS: Presidential Roots on the Web. The 1 February 2001 issue of FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE highlights RootsWeb's U.S. Presidential Ancestor Tables at www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/presidents/: Ahnentafels, or ancestor tables, for all U.S. presidents, based on ANCESTORS OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS by Gary Boyd Roberts. Highlights are on the Web at: http://www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/feb01/pressites.html See the paternal side of George W. Bush's ancestry at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/presidents/prez41.htm For additional information about George W. Bush's maternal ancestors, visit the Presidential Ahnentafels at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/presidents/prez43.htm * * * SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX (SSDI) UPDATE. The December 2000 SSDI update is in place. 192,351 new records were added and the new total is 65,089,493. See http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/ * * * FREE ELECTRONIC POSTCARDS FROM ROOTSWEB. Cards for all occasions are available for you to send to online family and friends at http://postcards.rootsweb.com/ New this week: Groundhog Day Cards (2 February is Groundhog Day) http://postcards.rootsweb.com/ghog.htm * * * U. S. PRESIDENTIAL AHNENTAFELS (Ancestor Tables). Contrary to misinformation that has appeared in the national media recently, Barbara Pierce Bush, the mother of President George W. Bush, is not a descendant of Franklin Pierce, the 14th U.S. president. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/presidents/prez14.htm All of President Pierce's children died young and unmarried. However, the former First Lady and the 14th president are related, as both are descendants of Thomas Pierce Jr., an early Massachusetts settler. She also descends from English royalty. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/presidents/prez43.htm * * * ASK-A-GENEALOGIST AT ROOTSWEB. Learn how to find your ancestors by reading the advice of the genealogists, who this week answer questions about Cherokee ancestors; the SSDI; a Swedish, French, and Belgian ancestor; finding grandpa's military records; British conscripts from Ireland in the Revolutionary War; birth parent search; Statue of Liberty engineer; Oklahoma grandpa; spouseless relationships; language barrier; Southern French roots; untangling FTM files; 1925 New York arrival; German ancestors; and the British Merchant Navy in World War II. http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ask-a-genealogist.html Before posting a new query, please read the GUIDELINES at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/askguidelines.html Perhaps your question has already been answered -- check at http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/askarchives.html * * * SHAKING YOUR FAMILY TREE (SYFT) by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG. Most American name-change stories are apocryphal. That is, they were developed later to explain events hidden in the mists of the past. Read this week's SYFT column, "Changing of Names at Ellis Island" at 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/ English, Welsh, Australian, New Zealand, South African http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson28.htm AUSTRALIA DAY is the anniversary of the first British settlement in Australia. Formerly known as Foundation Day or Anniversary Day, it has been observed since about 1817, and has been a public holiday since 1838. It is observed on 26 January, if that date falls on a Monday; otherwise it is observed on the first Monday thereafter (29 January 2001). May 1787, Departure. ". . . At 4 a.m. fired gun and made the signal to weigh, weigh'd and made sail, in company with the HYAENA frigate, supply armed tender, six transports and three store ships, at 9 fired a gun and made the sign'l for the convoy to make more sail." With these words the logbook of HMS SIRIUS http://home.vicnet.net.au/~firstff/sirius.htm recorded the departure of what is known today as "The First Fleet." The 11 ships of the fleet under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip RN took their leave from Portsmouth, England early on Sunday, 13 May 1787, bound for a virtually unknown shore half a world away. Aboard were 750 convicts bound for Botany Bay, where they would establish the first European settlement on Australian soil. See Australia's First Fleet--1788: Founders of a Nation http://www.shoalhaven.net.au/~cathyd/designs/ffstory.html On 26 January 1788, a shipload of convicts arrived briefly at Botany Bay (which proved to be unsuitable) and then at Port Jackson (which later became the city of Sydney). The establishment of an Australian prison colony was to relieve crowding of British prisons, but Australian genealogists who can trace back to any of the 2,600 convicts who arrived in New South Wales on the first three fleets, which were made up of 27 vessels that arrived between 1788 and 1791, are eligible to join various genealogical groups with special "First Fleet" interests, including First Fleet Fellowship Vic Inc. http://home.vicnet.net.au/~firstff/welcome.htm See also Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild's "The Compass: Australia Arrivals" [TWO-LINE URL] http://istg.rootsweb.com/ newcompass/non_am_pass/nonam_pass/index_australia_arrivals.html * * * Everyone loves a bargain and being the first to know about one. If "Bargain Hunting" is your game, you will want to be the first to know about special offers, new products and great bargains on genealogical products that are available to those who subscribe to Ancestry's Product Watch's weekly newsletter. 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Within less than 24 hours he e-mailed me back. In the next two weeks, he sent me eight pages of family tree data, four more e-mails, and we had a phone call that lasted more than an hour and a half. Finally, in the last postal delivery before Christmas, a large envelope arrived containing photos (one of a person who looked like my husband's brother but was more than 100 years old), shipping records, the birth certificate of his great-grandfather, and a book he has written. We are trying to get down to meet him. We are so looking forward to meeting a whole lot of family members we didn't know. All thanks to RootsWeb and the amazing team that works so tirelessly to bring families together, make dreams come true, and bring back hope. REAL ROOTS by Nina nina1@cableone.net ELDER, RICKEL, UPHAM, BEST, JOLLY, MILLER, OSBORNE, PARRES -- names I never thought I would be related to. Thanks to the GenConnect surname message board, I was contacted by a man who was able to put me in touch with people who had known my birth mother, Serena ELDER, for whom I had been looking, knowing only her maiden name and where I was born. I had been adopted and had not begun my search until my parents died in the 1980s. Through very exciting events that followed, I met the man, Stanley, and his parents, who had known Serena, and then I met Shirley and her sister Harriet, who were nieces of Serena's first husband. Shirley even had some pictures of Serena and told me lots of personal memories, as she had lived with Serena and her uncle Raymond UPHAM when she was a teenager. I learned that some similarities I had with my birth mother were not only physical, but also we both had a love for photography and had our own dark rooms, we were both teachers, and we both had been married three times. Stanley also had a cousin in Missouri, Kay, who remembered Serena and told me what she remembered. Kay asked Emma Mae UPHAM, who was Raymond's second wife, and she verified that I was truly the daughter who had been adopted out as Serena was unwed and it was kept a secret from most of the family. She talked to me on the phone and said she knew about me, as Raymond had told her that Serena was always sad on Mother's Day and my birthday. This was all very emotional for me and I have since learned about Serena's parents, the ELDERs and RICKELS. A kind lady, Ricki, answered my query about the RICKELS family and she had information clear back to the 1600s. She told me we had great-great-great-grandfathers who were brothers. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would have so much genealogy to pass on to my two daughters. Thanks to RootsWeb and Ancestry.com I now have real roots. * * * * * 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 of the more than 20,000 RootsWeb-hosted mailing lists, send an e-mail message with only the word SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the subject and the body of the message to: [name of list]-L-request@rootsweb.com (for mail mode) or to [name of list]-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode). FOR EXAMPLE, if you are interested in gold rushes, send a SUBSCRIBE request to GOLDSEEKERS-L-request@rootsweb.com NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS, GENCONNECT BOARDS, AND CLUSTERS Affolter, Armstrong Blackledge, Bookser, Bowhay, Braceland, Brault, Bredbeck, Breiner, Brown-MO Cliburn, Collins-James (descendants of James COLLINS) Dasey, Dawbin, DeGaugh, DeGross, DeMoully, Desjardins Eichhorn, Emmers Fellens, Feyer, Fiegl, Fralix Garbett, Gastmeier, Geandreau, Gepfert, Gesselbauer, Glettler, Gudelius, Gutelius Haber, Havnar, Hemby, Henney, Hentgens Keagy, Kio, Kleeberger, Korab Latture Mangrum, Mannin, Martensen, McDanal, McMurphy, Meece, Mondschein, Mott-Moses (descendants of Moses MOTT), Mower, Mulda, Muldar Overshiner Paciora, Perreault, Plueckhahn, Pomper, Porritt, Prefer, Provine Rench, Rickenbach, Robles Sansoni, Schneggenburger, Semon, Sibiski, Skelding, Suchland Thurtell, Tieben, Tolentino, Trattner Weiderholdt, Wilson-David (descendants of David WILSON and Sarah PRIEST) NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS AUSTRALIA AUS-QLD-NUNDAH-DIST -- Nundah district, Queensland AUS-VIC-HEATHCOTE -- Heathcote, Victoria ENGLAND ENG-SRY-WSFHS -- West Surrey Family History Society IRELAND IRL-TIPPERARY -- County Tipperary, Ireland Genealogy (Ireland Genealogy Projects) NORTHERN IRELAND NORTHERN IRELAND U.S.A. GA-ELBERT-CO -- Elbert County, Georgia TX-CIVIL-WAR -- Ancestors who fought in the Civil War from, lived in, or applied for pensions from or in Texas TX-EARLY-LEADERS -- Early political officers (appointed and elected) in Texas TX-REVOLUTION -- Ancestors who fought in the Texas Revolution against Mexico (1835-1836) TX-WOOD-CEM -- Cemeteries in Wood County, Texas ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS GOLDSEEKERS -- Focus on the people involved in the various Gold Rushes, centered in North America, but any place/time where a Gold Rush occurred is fair game HUNTINGTON-DISEASE -- Huntington's Disease/Huntington's Chorea/hereditary chorea * * * * * 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 Web page for POINTers In Person (PIP), go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~itappcnc/ Web space account names ending in a "2" or "3" indicate there probably is another Web space account for the same area. This happens because RootsWeb.com hosts Web sites for many projects. ARMENIA armwgw -- Armenia WorldGenWeb CANADA mbinterl -- Interlake Region, Manitoba IRELAND irlcav2 -- County Cavan, Ulster (Northern Ireland) ITALY itappcnc -- POINTers In Person, Chicago North Chapter U.S.A. caalhn -- California American Local History Network fllcgs -- Lee County Genealogical Society, Inc. (Florida) gaelbert -- Elbert County, Georgia gahart -- Hart County, Georgia gawilke2 -- Wilkes County, Georgia incass2 -- Cass County, Indiana inmiami2 -- Miami County, Indiana lastmary -- St. Mary Parish, Louisiana mimecost -- Mecosta County, Michigan ncschgs -- Steele Creek Historical and Genealogical Society (North Carolina) nvlander -- Lander County, Nevada nvwashoe -- Washoe County, Nevada nynassau -- Nassau County, New York ohlths -- Lake Township Historical Society (Ohio) pabutle2 -- Butler County, Pennsylvania scmarlbo -- Marlboro County, South Carolina txkusa -- Texarkana USA Genealogy Soc. (Texas and Arkansas) SOME NEW HOMEPAGES AND FREEPAGES ARMY WORLD WAR II 931ST SIGNAL BATTALION (AVN)(SP). 931st Signal Battalion (Aviation)(SP) attached to Army Air Force in World War II. Reunion information; list of members. http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~army931sb/ Bill and Sue's Genealogy. ELLISON, HUGHES, LOVEJOY, COLLINS, HUDELSON, TAYLOR, HUBLER, NEWBERRY, TOWNSEND, STEWART. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bpcslc/ HUMPHREY-McCLURE Connection. Genealogy of George Wayne HUMPHREY and Shirley Ann MCCLURE. Surnames include: ALTMAN, KRAMER, KREIDER, NICEWARNER, MARCH, KELLY, FULTON, REED, HART, WINTER, and FRANCE. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~whumphrey/ NEW JERSEY BIOGRAPHIES PROJECT. New Jersey biographies; part of the U.S. Biographies Project. [NOTE TWO-LINE URL] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~leherdahl/NJ/ njmain.html SWEDISH ROOTS. PETERSON (as the name was spelled in Canada) and ERICSSON surname research from Sweden. PETTERSSON (as the name was spelled in Sweden) from Floda, Sweden, dates starting 1816. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~swedishroots/ THEUBER Family Home Page and Database. Includes THEUBER, SPACEK, HEIN, CABRON, KUBENA,MURAN, FRAITIER, VESELKA, COUFAL, SABRSULA, and HAJDIK. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~theuber/ U. S. CENSUS SPREADSHEET WEB PAGE. Provides a free spreadsheet for organizing U. S. federal census data. Includes census years from 1790 through 1920, plus the 1880 through 1920 Soundexes. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~minder/ * * * * * 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 in the last week. Please send submissions to Maggie at arc_rwr@yahoo.com. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/index.htm The 19 January 2001 issue was sent to 4,295 subscribers. An online version is available at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/2001/jan/jan19.htm 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 http://www.rootsweb.com/~mosulliv/cemeteries/baker/ is the URL of a Web page that displays one of the cemeteries I have placed on CD. I've been into computer genealogy for six years now. As everyone does, I started with my family and just never stopped. My database now contains 46,600 people and is geared toward Sullivan County, Missouri. When I was a boy and went to the country church just two miles up the road from where I grew up on a farm in Sullivan County, the two small cemeteries were in good shape. 40 years have gone by and now it looks nothing like it did. This started me thinking -- what better way to preserve the cemetery than in pictures. I started making CDs of the local cemeteries around where I grew up. A copy of each was sold to the three local libraries so the public could use them as well. The photographs were taken in rows so my steps can be retraced in the future in case one of those little metal markers is pulled up and thrown away. The CDs are written in HTML just like a Web page on the Internet, so every modern computer can use them. The pictures were taken with a video camera and each picture was taken off the tape with video capture. Look at the Web page and see what you think. Steven L. Pfeiffer stevep@grm.net or stevep@nemr.net I have been doing some poking around on both RootsWeb and the USGenWeb Project homepages lately, and found some contributors who have information on some of the surnames I'm currently researching. One of those contributors actually turns out to be a first cousin of mine, and has been very generous in e-mailing me not only vital statistics on my great-grandparents, but also some personal stories about that family and my great- grandfather's siblings. It has been a wonderful New Year's gift! I just wanted to send my thanks to all of the contributors who take the time to post genealogical information on the Web for all of us to enjoy. Margie Pasini malayfield@hotmail.com I have been doing genealogy now for about six months and of all the places to get information that I have tried, RootsWeb is no doubt the best. Every time I try a different source, I go right back to RootsWeb. Thank you for being there to help us find our families. Carol Ballard carolballard@softcom.net I would just like to say "Thank You" for the great FREE genealogy site. I'm totally disabled and 65 years of age and am on a very limited and fixed income. Therefore your site is of exceptional help to me in doing searches. I see quite a few other sites where nearly everything has $$$$ attached to the assistance they offer. That's OK, if you've got the means to buy the help. I've built my own computer from donated parts and programs, so I appreciate your site as it helps me to search out my roots. I know others in my physical and financial position appreciate your FREE site. 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