ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 4, No. 22, 30 May 2001, Circulation: 839,151+ (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'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES (not just for newbies; methods and sources worldwide) http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ SHAKING YOUR FAMILY TREE http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/ DATA SUBMISSION FORM http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit.html New FREE Databases (check often) http://searches.rootsweb.com/ IN THIS ISSUE o News and Notes from RootsWeb (Searchable Databases at RootsWeb; Searching User Databases; Who Has the Data? Obituary Daily Times; Buried Treasure at RootsWeb; Free Electronic Postcards from RootsWeb; Shaking Your Family Tree; RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees; ISFHWE) 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 67.5 million entries and new GEDCOMs are added daily. Search WorldConnect and upload your own GEDCOM(s) to http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB 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 CORNWALL. St. Gorran Parish, Births and Marriages 1,434 records; John Whatty http://userdb.rootsweb.com/uki/ ENGLAND. Menheniot Parish Records, 1554-1849, Baptisms 70 records; Lyn Pollard http://userdb.rootsweb.com/uki/ IRELAND. Irish Church Records 822 records; Tony Riordan http://userdb.rootsweb.com/uki/ UNITED KINGDOM. GUBBINS (surname), Birth and Marriage Registers, 1837-1991; 5,587 records; Brian Gubbins, Gubbins Genealogy http://userdb.rootsweb.com/uki/ U.S.A. ALABAMA, Baldwin County. Montgomery Hill Baptist Church Cemetery 189 records; Janet and Dan Steadham http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ ARKANSAS, Monroe County, Zent. Henard Cemetery 74 records; Dale Stafford http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ FLORIDA, Hillsborough County, Alafia. Cedar Grove Cemetery 287 records; Daniel Hagin http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ FLORIDA, Hillsborough County. Bloomingdale Cemetery (HENDRIX surname); 50 records; Daniel Hagin http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ INDIANA, Harrison County. 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You can find user-contributed databases from the Searches page. http://searches.rootsweb.com/ Under the heading "User Contributed Records -- Databases," click on a database type to access a listing of the databases within that category as well as a listing of the contributors of the data; or click on "Regional Index" to browse (that is, read the names of) the databases by geographic location. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/regional.html On both the Category and Regional pages you will find links to the search boxes for the master databases. (NOTE: It is not possible to browse (that is, to read in one place at one time) every entry in any database unless a contributor has it on a Web page elsewhere, such as RootsWeb's FreePages.) * * * 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 * * * OBITUARY DAILY TIMES (ODT) INDEXES SIX MILLION (and counting). http://www.rootsweb.com/~obituary/ According to King Butler in a message dated 27 May 2001 and posted to GEN-OBIT-L@rootsweb.com, with publication of OBITUARY DAILY TIMES, Volume 7, number 243, the all-volunteer ODT has passed the six million records milestone. The six millionth record was indexed by "mumtax" and reads: O'BRIEN, Catherine ( ); 93; White Rock BC; Vanc Sun; 2001-5-16 The OBITUARY DAILY TIMES is a daily INDEX of published obituaries from around the world. It is distributed FREELY, often twice per day, by e-mail, and usually has more than 2,500 entries each day. You can search the database anytime. The ODT mailing list is intended primarily for family historians, researchers, and compilers. ODT does NOT have the actual obituaries. Regular contributors (volunteers) may request a particular obituary from another volunteer. For others, GEN-OBIT-L@rootsweb.com is an easy way to find a publication date of an obituary. One can then refer to the newspaper (at the library or directly with the newspaper itself) to obtain a copy of it. Subscribe to GEN-OBIT-L@rootsweb.com by sending a message to: GEN-OBIT-L-request@rootsweb.com In the body of the note write the single word: Subscribe If you are using Juno, or other similar e-mail-only service, instead of subscribing in the usual way, send a message to Walter Styles wstyles@erols.com and ask him to add you to his Juno list. 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HOOK, LINE, & SINKER by Deanna Pratt PRATTTD@prodigy.net I have enjoyed RootsWeb for about a year, found wonderful links, fun tidbits, and helpful facts to make me think of another way to document my family history. What is even more fun is getting someone else hooked on family history. I have been watching all the comments and questions about the new Ellis Island Web site http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/ with interest. You see, my great-great-grandfather and his parents came over from England in about 1852 to New York. I know that they came before what we all know as Ellis Island and the great immigration times of the late 1890s and early 1900s. Thus, the new Web site is not in my date range. Oh, if only this new Web site had information about my ancestor. But, at work, you chat with co-workers and what their interests are, and I talked to Kathy, who is of Irish descent. After some conversations, and knowing that the new Ellis Island site would be launched mid-April, I told her about it. Kathy knew that her great-grandfather passed through Ellis Island, so it became a challenge. Along with the millions of people, she started to try to gain access to the new site. Yes, at lunch break, evenings, and even late at night, she kept getting the "site is busy" message. Persistence triumphed. About five days later, she got a hit. She found her great-grandfather and an uncle she had not even known about. Now her family plans to purchase a brick at Ellis Island in honor of her ancestor for Father's Day. A couple of days later, her husband bought her a genealogy program. Another one hooked! * * * A BIT OF ENCOURAGEMENT by Annie Lee iguanaacctg@wli.net I am in the midst of a discouraging search for my birth father. I found his name on my original birth certificate only two years ago. My mother had my records stamped "sealed" by a court clerk who was a friend of hers after what was a legal name change and not an adoption. I have never been able to get a copy of my birth certificate. I could not get a passport. I felt like a prisoner in my own country. I was told I would have to hire an attorney and sue my own mother for a copy of my birth certificate, as she was unwilling to help me. I could not bring myself to do that. A new position in my company required that I be able to travel out of the country on business. I had to have that birth certificate. A dear friend gave me the name of RootsWeb and I found a Web site that had the information I needed to make my request. A woman processing my request was a reader of yours (I found out later) and called me after I left a pleading message at the state office and gave me the name of a supervisor who, as she said, would be as "sympathetic" to my request as she was. I called the supervisor and told my woes to the secretary who answered. I didn't hear a thing for a week and figured that was a dead end, but then the supervisor did call back and told me he had retrieved a copy of my original birth certificate and about the legal name change. My records were indeed stamped "Adopted," however I was not adopted and the records were never really sealed. He said also that anybody with half a brain could have sent me my birth certificate at any time! He was able to send my birth certificate to me just in time for my business trip. Had it not been for one of your readers who was sympathetic I might never have found my birth name or the identity of my birth father. I have since subscribed to ROOTSWEB REVIEW and MISSING LINKS, at the suggestion of the nice lady who helped me (I never got her name). I have been to the NADLER name page several times and posted several queries but have not received any response. I get very discouraged and depressed because I don't know any of my history on my birth father's side. About the time I just can't take it anymore, I get your newsletters. People who are encouraged, and are encouraging to us beginners, and people who get their "miracle" piece of information and give the rest of us hope send in these wonderful accounts of their successes and failures and I am strengthened and hopeful. [See RWGuide 31: ADOPTION/ORPHAN RESOURCES http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson31.htm ] * * * * * MAILING LISTS. For an index to the more than 22,000 RootsWeb- hosted genealogy mailing lists, 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 a RootsWeb-hosted mailing list, send e-mail 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 the city of Basel, Switzerland, and its inhabitants, e-mail your SUBSCRIBE request to CHE-BASEL-L-request@rootsweb.com . NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS, GENCONNECT BOARDS, AND CLUSTERS Austin-UK Bangham, Barrett-UK, Baumers, Bockoven, Burton-Essex-UK, Buttolph-UK Clemence-Cambridge-UK, Crane-UK Day-UK, Deatley, Dingess, Drewry-UK Fryatt, Fryett Hanen, Hanheen, Hannin, Hanning, Hanon, Hasler-UK, Hurril-UK Milbourn-Essex-UK, Mowthorpe, Mottershead-UK Nemecek, Nier Ohanain, Ohannain, Ouellet Pawsey-Essex-UK, Payne-UK, Pond-Cornwall-UK Richmond-UK Swan-Suffolk-UK Taggerty Warren-Suffolk-UK, Whitehead-Essex-UK, Wilkes-UK Young-UK NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS DEUTSCHLAND (GERMANY) DEU-BODENSEE -- Cities around Bodensee Lake and surrounding areas in Austria, Germany and Switzerland). English and German. DEU-REGIO -- Ancient Rhenan-Alemanic cities in Alsace, Baden and Nordwestschweiz. English, French and German. SWITZERLAND CHE-BASEL -- City of Basel and its inhabitants. English, French, and German. CHE-LUZERN -- City of Lucerne/Luzern in German Switzerland. English and German. CHE-ZURICH -- City of Zurich in German Switzerland. English and German. U.S.A. NC-CABARRUS-GS - Cabarrus County Genealogy Society (North Carolina) NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS ALSATIAN-RHENAN-NOBILITY -- Alsatian-Rhenan area nobility AMREV-CAMP-SECURITY -- Revolutionary War POW camp security BALTIC-NOBILITY -- Baltic area nobility ONE-PLACE-STUDY -- For those who are actively involved in or about to begin a project of studying a single parish or parishes * * * * * NEW WEB ACCOUNT REQUESTS. Go to: 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 the independent city of Staunton, Virginia, go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~vacstaun/ GUYANA guycigtr -- Chinese in Guyana: Their Roots U.S.A. iawashin -- Washington County, Iowa ilacdar -- Alliance Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Illinois) mechiram -- Hiram, Maine (city) vacstaun -- Staunton, Virginia (city) * * * SOME NEW HOMEPAGES AND FREEPAGES [N.B.: When your new RootsWeb FreePage is up and ready for visitors, please send a brief description and the URL to rwr-editors@rootsweb.com ] CANADA. For those researching in Peel County, Ontario. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~peelcounty/mailing.html DAWSONs OF ARKANSAS. Includes state census entries, marriage records, funeral records, and much more. Mortality Schedules and additional marriages will be added soon. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dawsonsofarkansas/ DUMAS-MORRIS FAMILY. We are researching many surnames, including BALL, CLOW, CRICK, DUMAS, KENDALL, MORRIS, PARK, PARSONS, ROCK, and SCHOONOVER. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ronnadumas/ HACKSTOCK FAMILY. Surnames include HACKSTOCK, HANCOCK, JACKSON, LEWIS, McCLURE, McCULLOUGH, PATRICK, PEASE, RHOADES, SCHREINER, and WITHROW. Collection of scanned, original documents that are available for online viewing. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hackstock/ HOLMER. HOLMER families originating in Seneca County, Ohio. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~holmer/holmer.html HUTCHINSON. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cathutch/ KAT'S ROUTE TO ROOTS. TURNER, LAWRENCE, BENNETT, FOX, KEEFER, SADLER, STONE, NEAL, GROVES, HAYES. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jstkat/ McMAHAN. Ancestors of Eunice Verna McMAHAN including MCMAHAN, MILES, HAMPTON, HAWKINS, MILES, STEPHENS, SIMS, and RUDD. U.S. locations include Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Texas, and Cumberland in England. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pzebe/EVM.htm OHIO. Mansfield, Richland County. Program of Senior class play "The Black Terror" performed at Mansfield High School on 1 June 1934. [TWO-LINE URL] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~censusresearch/RCOI/ ClassPlay/ClassPlay.htm O'MARY Genealogy Homepage. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~somary/gene.html REGINA'S ANCESTORS. Includes families in Westmoreland and Richmond counties, Virginia; Worth County, Missouri; Lexington, Kentucky; Brewer, Maine; Noble and Gallia counties, Ohio; and New Brunswick. Included are CADLE (Livingston County, Missouri), MASTERSON (Virginia, Kentucky), HEARN (District of Columbia, Ohio, and Missouri), BARRY (Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Maine), McCOSH (Scotland, New Brunswick, and Maine), JADWIN (Virginia), CRITCHER (Virginia), BLACK (Missouri, Oregon), WEIGART (Kentucky, Missouri), DYE (New Jersey, Ohio), et al. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rbarry4145/ SCHOEN. Joseph SCHOEN family of Seneca county, Ohio. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~holmer/schoen.html TEXAS. The ongoing Texas cemetery transcriptions and photos of rural cemeteries in Trinity, Walker and Houston counties. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gonetotexas/ cemetery.html [TWO-LINE URL] UNKNOWNPIC. I have 300 glass plate negatives that I am having printed at the rate of 10 per month, as at $5 each this is all I can afford. I have 20 on site at present. These were taken by a Doctor HENDRON of Bell County, Kentucky, when in 1898 he got out of medical school and took a trip out through the west photographing places and people. These were taken also in Bell and in Kentucky. If you can name the places or people please let me know. C. Richard Matthews crmatthews@tcnet.net http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unknownpic/ U.S.A. SHIP ARRIVAL RESOURCES. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~northing/immig/ usa_ships.html [TWO-LINE URL] VOLKER HAUS GENEALOGY. Primary surnames include AYERS, AYRES, BOLLHEIMER, JACKSON, MacKENZIE, McKENZIE, MITCHELL, VOLKER, VOELKER, WEGER, and WILLIAMS. Information on the 60th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~volker/ WAUGH FAMILY TREE. The personal story of Kenneth Ian WAUGH. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~garfatfamilyassoc/ arfat/story2.html [TWO-LINE URL] WICKERSHAM. WICKERSHAM genealogy, photos and links. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~wicker/ WYNBISSINGER, WYBENSINGER. Henry WEINBISSINGER family, with roots in Alsace, France. The family settled in Bellevue, Huron County, Ohio. [TWO-LINE URL] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~holmer/ weinbissinger.html * * * * * GENCONNECT. For a complete list of adoptable GenConnect surname boards, go to http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/surnames/adoptable/ For the form to request a GenConnect surname board, go to http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ * * * * * USGENWEB ARCHIVES. THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER contains the USGenWeb Archives submissions in the last week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/index.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 For an online version, go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/USGW-ARCHIVES-ANNOUNCE/ 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 as plain text e-mail messages to rwr-editors@rootsweb.com I must tell you that, thanks to the combined resources of RootsWeb and Ancestry.com, in the last year, while researching the names RENK, PAGEL, SCHROEDER, BITTMAN/N, STOOLMILLER, and JORGESON/JORGENSEN, I have located three previously unknown third cousins in Washington, New Jersey, and Virginia. In addition, I have corresponded with others who have given suggestions or have indicated possible links, as well as one incredible man in Norway who e-mailed me information from the Norwegian national archives which provided me with three new generations of a family that had previously only provided me with brick walls. It is obvious that the number of people using these resources has skyrocketed -- only to our benefit. Thanks. Jean Roberson JeanR92237@aol.com I do not always keep up reading ROOTSWEB REVIEW and MISSING LINKS as well as I should, but was delighted this afternoon to read in RWR 4:21 about Pat Smith's find of the U.S. Town and County Locator http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi I had received 12 pages of family information yesterday to enter into my genealogy program and I too was dreading looking up the counties. Thanks ROOTSWEB REVIEW and MISSING LINKS for the assistance you give to many of your readers. Beverly Miner bminer@wcnet.org I've been interested in genealogy for about two or three years. I had filled in most of my father's side, but was still searching for my maternal grandfather's family (he was adopted). I knew my grandfather's mother's name was Emily GRUGEN, and that her parents were John and Mary (CERWEIC) GRUGEN. Thanks to RootsWeb, a cousin of my grandfather's read one of the numerous messages I posted about the GRUGENs. She contacted me, and it looks like I might finally have the puzzle pieces put together. Thanks again, RootsWeb! Tuffy89@cs.com A short note to thank you for your help with brick wall stories. Stories are still trickling in and we have gone over the 100 we wanted, so RootsWeb does it again. Ron Wild ronwild@familychronicle.com I, too, am grateful for RootsWeb. I have been able to locate others who have been so very generous with sharing their lists of relatives. Some of the families go back to the 1600s. 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