ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 4, No. 30, 25 July 2001, Circulation: 851,206+ (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 DATA SUBMISSION FORM: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit.html New FREE DATABASES: http://searches.rootsweb.com/ ROOTSWEB's GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ SHAKING YOUR FAMILY TREE http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/ IN THIS ISSUE o News and Notes from RootsWeb (Searchable Databases; Who Has the Data?; Message from the RootsWeb Home Office; AfricaGenWeb Project; Fraudulent Lineages; Vital Records Online; Shaking Your Family Tree; RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees) o Connecting through RootsWeb o New Genealogy Mailing Lists o New Genealogy Web Pages o USGenWeb Archives o USGenWeb Census Project o Letters to the Editors o Humor o Reprint Policy; Back Issues; How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe RootsWeb's WORLDCONNECT contains about 73.5 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 CHEESBROUGH One-Name Study: deaths 1,142 records; Freda Lawson http://userdb.rootsweb.com/studies/ LAWSON One-Name Study: death/burials 923 records; Gerald D. Lawson http://userdb.rootsweb.com/studies/ LIST surname One-Name Study: deaths 501 records; John List http://userdb.rootsweb.com/studies/ * * * 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 * * * MESSAGE FROM THE ROOTSWEB HOME OFFICE by Jake Gehring, Executive Director Here are a couple of announcements this week regarding the new Message Boards system: We continue to adjust the layout of the search results screens in the new system in response to your feedback. The screen now shows the message title, author, date posted, the board on which it was posted, and a brief blurb from the message itself. This will often allow users to make decisions about the importance of individual messages to their search without viewing each message in full. The new system can now be used without enabling cookies in your Internet browser. This is not recommended, however, as any login or admin features will not be available if cookies are disabled. Users will still be able to read and post messages using the new anonymous post feature. In passing I would like to thank our RootsWeb staff, developers, and Help Desk volunteers for all their hard work in the past few weeks. This transition has been made much easier by the hard work of these good folks. A special thanks goes out the Message Board admins, who have not only given us great feedback and support during the switch, but also have been major supports to their individual boards in terms of answering questions, explaining the new system, and passing along comments. Thanks very much! * * * AFRICA GENWEB PROJECT http://www.rootsweb.com/~africagw/ Nathan Zipfel, Chairperson of the WorldGenWeb Project Advisory Board http://www.worldgenweb.org/ reports that they "have recently updated the entire AfricaGenWeb Project site and are working on getting resources online for all the countries. We have listed all the known African-related mailing lists. We are in need of Country Coordinators. If anyone is interested, they can contact me at nate@gte.net ." * * * FRAUDULENT LINEAGES QUESTION: Some time ago I saw published, in one of the genealogy newsletters, the names of some of the so-called genealogists who had compiled fake genealogies for various names. Do you know if Gustav Anjou was one of them? I am asking because my husband's aunt gave us a huge compilation of the DOTY line by Gustav Anjou, and in the back of my mind, I seemed to remember his name being on the list of the fake genealogists. Jacqueline Fortier Doty jadot@brainerd.net ANSWER: Among the material at the "Fraudulent Lineages" Web site http://www.linkline.com/personal/xymox/fraud/fraud223.htm is the reference "DOTY Family 929.273 A1 no. 543," which refers to a call number at the Family History Library. The reference is preceded by an explanation that appears in part below: The following 109 "genealogies" are found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. All but those marked with an asterisk are cataloged under Gustave Anjou, H. Anjou, or M. Anjou in the Author-Title Catalog. Only three of the of the "genealogies" were actually printed, the works on the FREEMAN, BLAISDELL, and SHAPLEIGH families -- and only the FREEMAN was actually published by Anjou -- the other two were later publishings of his original typescript. . . For additional information, see Myra Vanderpool Gormley's syndicated column, "Barking Up the Wrong Tree." http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/misc/syftbs000928.htm Also see RWGuide 12, "Creating Worthwhile Genealogies: Evidence, Sources and Citation," http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson12.htm VITAL RECORDS ONLINE QUESTION: Do you think you could do this type of thing [post vital records online] for the state of Georgia? It would be wonderful. Thanks. Shirley Barnes sdbarnes@bellsouth.net ANSWER: Contact the Georgia Vital Records Department and see about getting its vital records into a database. If you are a Georgia resident, contact your state senator or representative. RootsWeb is happy to host such records. We offer some California and Texas vital records now, which those states have released. The Minnesota death records are an effort by the Minnesota Historical Society. Many genealogists would love to see all the death records online; and then we want the marriages and births, right? * * * SHAKING YOUR FAMILY TREE (SYFT) by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG. Most genealogy programs help users to put basic family history material into a publishable format. However, if you've ever wished you could record your research results on a pre-designed computer template, you'll be pleased to learn that such specialized software is now available. Read this week's SYFT at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/curcolumn.htm SYFT columns are archived by subject and can be read online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/ * * * ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES (RWGuide) http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ Why You Can't Find Them http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson8.htm ** PAID ADVERTISEMENTS ** The July/August issue of FAMILY CHRONICLE is on the newsstands now or you can obtain a FREE trial copy by visiting http://www.familychronicle.com/ Articles include "Discovering Your Jewish Ancestors," "New England Roots," "Civil War Resources Online," "Finding Your Roots in Ireland," "Jewels of the Family History Library," "Genealogy on Your Pocket PC," and many others. 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GENEALOGY ANGEL by Lyn Cherry cherryL@chartertn.net In 2000, I came across a message on a CHERRY surname board from a woman whose aunt had been married to a paraplegic named Bud CHERRY. Her aunt had died and she had a photo album that she was trying to get to his family. He had died in 1960 and she was a child at the time and didn't know his family or where they lived. She was replying to a posting by another CHERRY genealogist. I wrote to her, but didn't hear back. I assumed that her e-mail address had changed. However, when Ancestry and RootsWeb merged their message boards, I came across that same message still there, and decided to try one more time. Eureka! I heard from her and we agreed it was the same Bud CHERRY. She then told me where he was buried. I thanked her for that information and mentioned that I happened to be going to the Los Angeles area and would look for his grave. That angel, Sandy, found the photo album and after I had left my home in Tennessee, e-mailed me her home phone number and address and invited me to come and pick it up. I went to her home today [Friday, 20 July 2001] and received a family artifact that was not even known to exist with photos back to the early 1900s. I want to thank Sandy and all those other angels out there who try to match "orphan" items up with families. I also want to thank RootsWeb and Ancestry for their wonderful work. I made a new friend and added more texture to our CHERRY family tapestry. A PHILADELPHIA STORY by Margaret Fisher marbry@ntlworld.com Thanks to RootsWeb, I am now in touch with distant cousins in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I have been trying for several year to make contact with the descendants of my great uncle, Michael BLEE, who was born 28 February 1865, in Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, and immigrated to Philadelphia in 1893. I needed to add his American family line to my family tree. My cousin was researching her husband's line and just happened to look on the message boards for her own maiden name and there she found my message. The e-mails are flowing back and forth over the lines sharing genealogical data and photos, and I am finding out all about my long-lost cousins and am one very happy researcher, thanks to RootsWeb. * * * * * 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: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE from a RootsWeb-hosted mailing list, send e-mail with only SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the message body 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, to subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) the list for North Carolina cemeteries, send your message to: NC-CEMETERIES-L-request@rootsweb.com NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS Aaland Bancker, Barnetson, Benkendorf, Bonas, Bonfoey, Bozarth, Brodeck Cadwalader Daiber, Dockrell, Duesterhoeft, Duthie Grasier Harmel, Henbury, Hermansen, Hisle, Hobein, Hostettler Jeske Koefoeld, Kofoeld, Krenz, Kukatsch Laursen, Leadlay, Libenson, Liefke Mendum Nutbrown Peddie Renforth, Robenhurst, Roesner Sassman, Schuettler, Schulke, Sehr, Siede, Spidell, Spitzer, Stodghill Tarnow, Tiffney, Trever, Trevor VanHoosan, VanderLinden, Vondersmith, Vanderwyst Zenichowski, Zilesch NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS CA_GSNOCC -- Genealogical Society of North Orange County, California IL-MCGS -- Massac County, Illinois (hosted by the Massac County Genealogical Society) PA-BLOOMING-GROVE -- Blooming Grove settlement, a German Dunker settlement in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, established in 1804; and descendants NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS NC-CEMETERIES -- Research/discuss North Carolina cemeteries TX-ASYLUM -- researching those who were patients at one of the Texas State Lunatic Asylums (later known as Texas State Hospitals). SCT-GEN-MEDIEVAL -- Medieval genealogy in Scotland * * * * * NEW WEB ACCOUNT REQUESTS: 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 Seminole County, Georgia, see http://www.rootsweb.com/~gasemino/ U.S.A. arcraigh -- Craighead County, Arkansas arsearc2 -- Searcy County, Arkansas cagsnocc -- Genealogical Society of North Orange County California calvgs -- Lompoc Valley Genealogical Society, Inc. (California) casacram -- Sacramento County, California gasemino -- Seminole County, Georgia itdelawa -- Delaware Tribe (Indian Territory) kybreat2 -- Breathitt County, Kentucky kyhardi2 -- Hardin County, Kentucky kylarue2 -- Larue County, Kentucky kymeade2 -- Meade County, Kentucky momorga2 -- Morgan County, Missouri nvlyon -- Lyon County, Nevada nyne -- New England / New York (Northeast U.S.A.) okchocta -- Choctaw County, Oklahoma parths -- Robinson Township Historical Society (Pennsylvania) txcha -- Concordia Heritage Association (Texas) vtchitte -- Chittenden County, Vermont * * * SOME NEW HOMEPAGES AND FREEPAGES [Note: When your new RootsWeb FreePage is up and ready for visitors, please send a brief description (use the style shown below) and the URL to rwr-editors@rootsweb.com ] ANDREW nee' McFADZEAN, ANDREW, ATKINS, BAINES, BALBY, BASKERVILLE, BEDOW, BRANDON, BURNS (Glasgow (Lanarkshire) and Ayrshire, Scotland), CARR, CHRISTOPHER, FELLOWS, FLEMING nee' ALLAN, FLEMING, GLUCK, HARDY, HAZELL, HOGBEN, HOPE, HUELIN (Jersey and London, England), JOHNSTON, JOSEPH, KELLY, KRAJEWSKI, LAWRENCE (Canterbury -- 1812 onward), LEVY, LOSINSKA, MARSHALL, McKIE, MILLER, MORAN, NASH, PARKER (born FLEMING), PARKER (East London, England), PAYNE, PRICE, RENTON, ROBB, SAMUEL, SCASE, SCHILDER, SIMMONDS, SULLIVAN, SWAINE, SZWAJA, TURNBALL, TUSON, WATTS, WHITE, WILKES, WILLIAMSON, WOSTALL or WASTELL, YOUNG http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~parhuelaw/ BRAZZIL. A gathering of information on people surnamed BRAZZIL or any spelling variant. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genlists/brazzil/ COLE, BUCK, WEBSTER, POOR, ANDREWS, MELANSON, and other Oxford County and Hancock County, Maine families, and others. Large database contains information back to the 1600s immigrants. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~megen/ DEANE/DEAN. Mickey's Deans of Dorchester. DEANE/DEAM family from 16th-century England to Dorchester County, Maryland and beyond. Includes PARKS, TOLLEY, WOODLAND, LEWIS, et al. Database 3,400+ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dorchesterdeans/ DUNGAN ANCESTRY/GENEALOGY. Ancestry and genealogy of the DUNGAN family as first compiled by Alfred Rudolph JUSTICE; ancestry of Jeremy CLARKE of Rhode Island and DUNGAN Genealogy, publ. 1922. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mylines/ HEFFERNAN. Birth, death and marriage records. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genlists/heffernan/ HEISE. The Family of Ludwig Karl HEISE. HEISE (1802-1897) and his nine children came from Liebenau, Germany to Baltimore, Maryland in 1852. Includes pictures and 1897 newspaper articles. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mdheise/ LIZ AND BEA'S COOKBOOK and FAMILY FEASTS. Contains 93 recipes, anecdotes, and photos of our families; with hyperlinks to those genealogies and other sites mentioned in the book. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~dunnliz/Feasts/ LIVERPOOL PHOTOGRAPHERS. A database of Liverpool, England photo studios, to help you date photographs taken in this area. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~liverpoolphotographers/ LUNN family of Surrey, England, circa 1820 to the present. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tomrobin/Lunn.html PAGE family of London and Surrey, England, circa 1825 to 1960. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tomrobin/Page.html PENNSYLVANIA. Old Tyme Photos of northeastern Pennsylvania's people, places, events, documents, and more. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nepaphotos/ RYAN family of Ireland and Surrey, England, circa 1851 to 1980. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tomrobin/Ryan.html ST. JEAN MATTIA Family Photos. Includes database of names. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ange/ SPENCER. Descendants of William SPENCER. Includes an name index. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~george/ TANKERSLEY, COATES, GARRETT, BIXLER, BARNETT, STROPES, COATS. Biographies, memories, and events of the TANKERSLEY and COATES family homesteading in Oklahoma, beginning with 1889 land run. http://freepages.science.rootsweb.com/~chtank/ WHITWORTH family of London and Surrey, England, 1766-present. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tomrobin/Whitworth.html * * * * * 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 Please send submissions to Maggie at arc_rwr@yahoo.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 CENSUS-ANNOUNCE-L is a USGenWeb Census Project read-only mailing list for weekly announcements of updates and submissions to the USGenWeb Census Project. To subscribe, send e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE to CENSUS-ANNOUNCE-L-request@rootsweb.com For an online version, go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/nu/index.htm * * * * * 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 just want to say thanks for WorldConnect. What a great tool. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ . Since taking on the role of family historian, it has been a great way to refer quickly to my own notes when I wasn't at my home computer. But when I went home for a family reunion last week, it proved invaluable. Everyone at the reunion was going to be a descendant (or spouse) of my paternal grandparents. My family has been encouraging and very interested in the progress of the "Wall Family Tree Project" which started April of 2000. But as anyone who has spent much time studying family history knows, it can quickly become a confusing hodgepodge of names when you go back just a few generations. The visual impact of a pedigree chart was essential. Unfortunately, in the rush to the airport, and making sure I had all those other genealogical discoveries in my briefcase, I forgot the poster board. Without the chart, I wasn't going to be able to make all the documents I had gathered come alive for people. That's when RootsWeb came to the rescue. I went to the local library, used one of their computers to access my family tree on WorldConnect, printed out an Ahnentafel report for both of my grandparents, and after a quick trip to the store for poster board, was able quickly to create new charts, and was prepared for the reunion. I spent a good part of the day answering questions about the lives and origins of the people who were a part of our common heritage. Thank you RootsWeb. Randy Wall randywall@yahoo.com * * * Reading through the RootsWeb Review, Vol. 4, No. 29, dated 18 July 2001 I was startled when I got to the insert about The Grove, a very familiar name to me. I immediately clicked on the address http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~thegrove/ and was thrilled to find the history of not only The Grove, but also the surrounding area of Stanmore, England dating from pre-Roman times. It is quite lengthy and detailed and so I skipped through to the time when the MOUNTBATTEN and ASHLEY families were in residence, in the late 1980s to 1920s, which is what I was most familiar with because my grandparents, Jeremiah and Emma WINDMILL, and my father, Ernest Benjamin WINDMILL, had all worked at The Grove in that time period. As I read on, suddenly my mother's name popped out at me, Mrs. WINDMILL who lived in Pinner, and she was quoted from an interview which took place in the 1980s when a local historian was writing a history of Stanmore and found out that my mother knew The Grove well because that's where my father was living when they were courting. I was in England at the time she was interviewed and have copies of the tapes, so reading her comments brought back many wonderful memories for me. I have lived in Olympia, Washington, U.S.A. for many years but still return to England every year. Thank you all at RootsWeb Review for the work you do. I'm sure my mother, wherever she is, is as thrilled as I am that she has appeared on your wonderful publication. Barbara O. Painter paintbrush.olympia@juno.com * * * Any time I find a map offered on one of the genealogy pages, I have to stop and look at it. No matter it has nothing to do with my search, I just love maps. However, when I recently took a break from my search for family in the southwestern part of North Carolina, I decided to take a look at my now home county, Catawba, just to see what they had to offer. Much to my delight and amazement, I found a complete set of maps for counties in North Carolina starting as far back as 1700 and going forward to 1912. As I went through the maps, I realized a mistake I was making in my searches as I was assuming that North Carolina started with all its 100 counties in place. I mean well -- duhh! The first map -- 1700 - shows only five counties. By 1740 there were 13 counties and by 1790, the time for the first real United States census, there were counties all the way across the state. But -- they weren't the counties we have today. Example, when I was searching the census, I was putting in Henderson County as that is where my ancestors had lived for many years and I was finding nothing. Well, as I looked at these maps, I realized that Henderson County was not formed until after 1840. Instead, I needed to be checking for Buncombe County [Ancestry's REDBOOK and Everton's HANDY BOOK are among the published sources that provide such information at a glance. Eds.] I'm sure these growth patterns must be true in other states as well. These maps have helped to make my search easier and I'm really thankful for the person (Derick S. Hartshorn) in Catawba County who took the time to include all this information. The NC County Maps can be found starting at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccatawb/nc1700.htm and going through 1912.htm It's been about 50 years since I studied geography and I finally realize how important it is to know the area and growth patterns of where you're looking. Nancy W. Huffman omarolaf@sandtech.net * * * * * Fredric Z. Saunders fzsaund@ix.netcom.com http://pweb.netcom.com/~fzsaund/free.html is the author of the original piece "Were Your Ancestors Beamed Down by Aliens? New DNA Evidence," a somewhat abbreviated and otherwise slightly modified version of which was published in this space last week. We are pleased to give credit where credit is due; any infringement on copyright was unintentional We regret that the author's identity was unknown to us prior to publication. HUMOR. Thanks to Jan Veacock janmveacock@yahoo.com, who writes: "With regard to the article on recitation of the pledge, my Cub Scout Pack ends each meeting with the Cub Scout prayer which begins: `Help me, O Lord, to serve Thee day by day.' The prayer is not formally learnt but seems to filter through to the children by some process of osmosis. This is probably why half the Pack says `Help me, O Lord, to surface day by day.' I must admit that there are times when I think the same thing. Along the same lines, a friend believed as a child that there was such an animal as a `week,' because of people who told her that she was as `slow as a wet week'!" * * * * * ROOTSWEB REVIEW and MISSING LINKS do not publish queries and the editors regret that they are unable to provide research assistance. You can subscribe to the relevant surname and locality mailing lists http://lists.rootsweb.com/ and then post queries to them. You can search all of RootsWeb's resources by starting at RootsWeb's home page http://www.rootsweb.com/. Search WorldConnect often, as new material is added daily (WorldConnect now contains about 73.5 million entries). 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