ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 4, No. 31, 1 August 2001, Circulation: 852,751+ (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/ RWGUIDE 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 (Message Boards Advanced Search Option; Searchable Databases; Who Has the Data?; WPA Cemetery Listings and Indexes; Locating Theatrical Artists and Entertainers; 1880 Soundex; 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 74 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 MESSAGE BOARDS ADVANCED SEARCH OPTION http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=main&r=rw You can search the Message Boards by typing the name you seek in the SEARCH _________ window and choosing either ALL BOARDS or a particular board (a surname board, for example). Click on the ADVANCED SEARCH option to narrow those options to more specifics, including dates of messages you wish to check. For the latter, on the ADVANCED SEARCH page, in the window that says "POSTED IN THE LAST ________" choose one of these options: Anytime, Week, Month, 6 Months, Year. Use the FIND A MESSAGE BOARD window to locate a board by locality, surname or topic. * * * 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 * * * 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 * * * WPA CEMETERY LISTINGS AND INDEXES QUESTION: I believe I heard sometime back that a federal agency (WPA) did a census to cemeteries during the 1930s but I have had no luck finding where these records may be filed or if they can be accessed on line. Do you have any information? Duane Peterson duanep@astound.net ANSWER: During the Depression, the U.S. government funded the creation of cemetery listings and indexes by the Historical Records Survey division of the Work Projects Administration (WPA). Many of these were later published by others, including local genealogical and historical societies, while other results of this effort remain as card indexes, which are deposited at state and local archives and libraries. Probably the best and most comprehensive nationwide index that identifies published cemetery inscriptions is INDEX TO UNITED STATES CEMETERIES (Salt Lake City: Family History Library, 1988). While it is called an index, it does not index names of persons; rather it indexes cemeteries and identifies published transcripts that exist for them. Work on it was closed in 1985, so more recent acquisitions are not included. It is on 25 rolls of microfilm. CEMETERIES OF THE U.S.: A GUIDE TO CONTACT INFORMATION FOR U.S. CEMETERIES AND THEIR RECORDS, edited by Deborah M. Burek (Detroit: Gale Research, 1994), is arranged by state and subdivided by county, and cemeteries are listed alphabetically within each county with addresses and telephone numbers in many cases. Public libraries usually have this reference. "Research in Birth, Death, and Cemetery Records," is an excellent chapter by Johni Cerny in THE SOURCE: A GUIDEBOOK OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY, (Revised Edition), edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, Inc., 1997). http://shops.ancestry.com/product.asp?productid=1026&shopid=126 * * * LOCATING THEATRICAL ARTISTS AND ENTERTAINERS QUESTION: I have an uncle in Russia named Alex Lio Hoi Tshein. His aunt was Anna Pavlova. We have not heard from him for about 30 years. When they were very young, my mother and her family were theatrical artists all over Europe. He went back because his mother was from Moscow. I have contacted the Red Cross and have used many of your sites, but no luck yet. Can you advise me what are some sites available to us? Anna Carlson annafromhb@excite.com ANSWER: You might try visiting "The Circus, Theatre and Music Hall Families Page," Resources for Circus, Theatre, Music Hall, Vaudeville, Travelers, Gypsy-Romany, etc., which has a lot of information and links to resources in the U.K. and elsewhere: http://www.entertainer-genealogy.org.uk Other places to check include the "Circus Folk Genealogy Resource Page" at http://circusfolk.freeservers.com/ and "Circus World Museum" at http://www.circusworldmuseum.com/index.htm Look for links to resources and perhaps make contacts at the WorldGenWeb Project's Russian page: http://www.worldgenweb.org/ See the index to more than 23,000 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy mailing lists at http://lists.rootsweb.com/ Subscribe to lists of interest (surnames, localities, and any specialized lists you might find for entertainers, etc.) and then post queries to those lists as well as to the message boards (click the MESSAGE BOARDS link at RootsWeb's home page http://www.rootsweb.com/ ). Search WorldConnect http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ often as new information is added daily. Use Internet search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista, etc. to search for the names of interest. Anything is possible. * * * 1880 SOUNDEX QUESTION: Myra's article about the Soundex index to the 1880 census, which appeared in today's [28 July 2001] SEATTLE POST- INTELLIGENCER, raises the question whether the same limitation as to families with children under age 10 applies to the CD set of the 1880 Census recently made available by the LDS. Or did the LDS redo the index so that every person is listed, including all families where there are no children under age 10? It would be important for researchers to know whether there is such a limitation of the LDS set. T. Grant Maple tgmaple@foxinternet.net ANSWER: The 1880 U. S. census and national index set of CDs created by the LDS is not based on the government's Soundex index, but is a complete index, which makes it quite valuable. Please see my column about it for full particulars. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/nettech/syftmg010606.htm Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG * * * SHAKING YOUR FAMILY TREE (SYFT) by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG. "Tools for finding ancestors in U.S. censuses." 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Whether you are a brand new genealogist or a seasoned expert, THE SOURCE has the answers, now on sale for $39.95. http://shops.ancestry.com/product.asp?productid=1026&shopid=126 ** END PAID ADVERTISEMENTS ** CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. MESSAGE BOARD CONNECTIONS by David John Wilson, Hertfordshire, England davidjwilson@waitrose.com Thanks to RootsWeb, I am now catching up on decades of family history from cousins that I have now made contact with in Connecticut and Georgia, U.S.A., and our 75-year-old English cousin is once again able to correspond with the family she lost contact with towards the end of WWII. This comes about due to 13-year-old Albert Frank ALDERMAN departing from Geddington, Northamptonshire, England in February, 1903 on the vessel THE CEDRIC. He went to live with his maternal uncle in Clinton following the death of both parents; leaving his older siblings in Northamptonshire. Albert duly married and raised a family in the U.S.A., maintaining correspondence with his family back home. One of his daughters followed suit with correspondence to cousins in Kettering, Northamptonshire. Marriage and WWII both conspired against what had been frequent correspondence and all contact was lost from the late 1940s until just this July, when thanks to RootsWeb message boards, I was able to locate our U.S.A. family branch. Mail and photos are now flowing thick and fast as one really happy family try to catch up. FAMILY TREE by Thomas G. Crouthamel, Sr. croutsr@mindspring.com After getting so much enjoyment reading about other peoples' trials and triumphs in doing their family trees, I finally had to write about mine. In 1886, Harry Rohr CROUTHAMEL married his second cousin, Martha Trauger CROUTHAMEL. From this union came 10, eight of whom lived (there was a 12-year age difference between the eldest and the ninth kid, then 12 years later, oops, along came the youngest. The first grandchild arrived two months after the youngest child had arrived) married, and had a big bunch of kids, my cousins all. Fortunately, someone had researched and published the CROUTHAMEL tree starting with Andreas, who arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1754. The tree presumably was accurate up to my cousins' arrival, subsequent marriages, and children. My job was easy. I just had to contact all my cousins and update the tree. It took a while, but the job got done. However, that was not the fun part. The Harry Rohr CROUTHAMEL family was fairly closely knit and throughout the years had held reunions sometime around the fourth of July. My mother died in 1992 at the age of 90. At her funeral, a bunch of cousins stood around and we talked over memories and funny happenings among our families at the reunions and at other times. I said something like, "Jeez, someone should write all of these stories down; otherwise they'll all be lost." Six months later, I wrote down a bunch of my memories. I photocopied my memories, sent a copy to all of my cousins, and asked (told!) them to write up their memories, and to complete their family trees. It took a while, but what ended up was a 160-page book, HARRY ROHR CROUTHAMEL, & HIS KITH & KIN, "an anthology of stories, tall tales, outright lies (not one proven) and foibles about Harry Rohr CROUTHAMEL and his family. All of the 22 authors (cousins all) are of course, part and parcel of HRC's kith and kin." What a fun task. And how some of the stories varied. One cousin lost a leg in WWII. The story I wrote as I remembered it said one thing, his brother-in-law's story differed, and his wife told still a different version. All three versions are in the book. Others told stories about our grandparents and their parents and cousins. Grandma was short, but round. A cousin wrote: "One time Granddad was asked, `How could you live with such a fat lady?' Granddad turned around, walked over, kissed Grandma on her forehead, and then returning to the questioner, asked, `What fat lady?'" Everyone should (must) compile such stories about their family. I received an e-mail forwarded on by my brother that concerned a WWII ID bracelet with the name of my cousin Edgar, who died when the plane in which he was the co-pilot crashed on 20 April 1944. The e-mail stated that the sender, Adam Austin, had found the bracelet in a box which had been his grandfather's, had been handed down to Adam's father, and following his father' death, Adam had received the box and its contents. Adam wanted to return the bracelet to Edgar S. CROUTHAMEL or his family. I contacted Edgar's younger brother, and Adam returned a bracelet lost for 57 years to the family of Edgar. People who are interested in genealogy are the NICEST people. I have used the RootsWeb Social Security Death Index (SSDI) http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/ often to obtain death dates for family and friends. Thanks RootsWeb. My wife's father's family emigrated from Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. I (finally) got through to the Ellis Island Web site. Unfortunately, my wife's uncle John died a couple of years ago at the age of 94, and her father, Matthew, recently died at the age of 97. We could have had major fun with the information from Ellis Island. Government records NEVER lie, do they? The records list Bautista (John) and Marilino (Matthew) as female. What you never knew about your relatives! * * * * * MAILING LISTS. For an index to the more than 23,000 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 the WorldGenWeb Project's monthly newsletter/e-zine, send your message to: WORLDGENWEB-REVIEW-L-request@rootsweb.com NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS Atkinson-UK Ball-UK, Beckstead, Bedic, Brettmeister, Bruen, Buchtel Clasper, Cobley, Cowpers, Cudworth Dacre, Drey Edwards-Scotland, Eggler Frease, Furt Gerndt, Galceran, Gladman, Goushill, Gunter-Maryland Herning, Holand, Howse, Hurning Jaffray Kast, Kehrli, Kneidl, Knudtson, Kretz Langdon-UK (LANGDON families that originated in UK and either stayed there or immigrated to Australia or New Zealand), Luallen, Lute McNairn, Maygrove, Molines Rippel, Ruderer, Ryse Sandner, Schone-Maryland, Spashett, Spinning, Stanborough, Stonard, Superfisky, Suring Touchet Unitas Welby, Westermaier, Wierman NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS AUSTRALIA Campbelltown-FHS -- The Campbelltown Family History Society, New South Wales, Australia DEUTSCHLAND (GERMANY) DEU-FRANKENLAND -- Eine Mailingliste fuer deutschsprechende Familienforscher und Historiker fuer die Gegend die man heute mit Franken bezeichnet. Genealogical or historical interest in the area known as Franken in central Germany (Bavaria). The language for the list is strictly German. DENMARK DNK-BORNHOLM -- County Bornholm, Denmark SCOTLAND SCT-BANFFSHIRE -- Banffshire, Scotland SCT-NAIRNSHIRE -- Nairnshire, Scotland NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS AR-RAILROADS -- railroads and railroad workers in Arkansas CENSUS-LOOKUP-VOLUNTEERS -- for volunteers doing lookups for U.S.A. state census lookup mailing lists IRISH_CONVICTS -- Researching those who emigrated from Ireland as convicts TX-CW-10thCav -- Discussion list of the 10th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War WORLDGENWEB-REVIEW -- WorldGenWeb Project monthly newsletter/ e-zine highlighting resources available through WorldGenWeb * * * * * 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 Marshall County, Alabama, see http://www.rootsweb.com/~almarsha/ CANADA onmanito -- Manitoulin District, Ontario U.S.A. almarsha -- Marshall County, Alabama calosang -- Los Angeles County, California casandie -- San Diego County, California casantab -- Santa Barbara County, California caventur -- Ventura County, California cootero2 -- Otero County, Colorado ilstclai -- St. Clair County, Illinois intipton -- Tipton County, Indiana kygchs -- Green County Historical Society (Kentucky) manergc -- New England Regional Genealogical Conference (Falmouth, Massachusetts) ncmoore -- Moore County, North Carolina nyalban2 -- Albany County, New York ohfcghs -- Franklin County Genealogical and Historical Society (Ohio) paorph -- Western Pennylvania Orphans scmccorm -- McCormick County, South Carolina * * * 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 ] ALLEN, ANDERSON, BAKER, CHURCH, HUDSON, JENSEN, JOHNSON, NORTON http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/ BALDING, BALDWIN, BOYCE, BRENT, BRIGGS, BROWN, CARPENTER, CARTER, CASTLE, CORNELL, COWDEN, CUNNINGHAM, EDMONDS, EWING, GOODRICH, GORRELL, JAMES, JAMESON, JONES, KEEN, KIRK, LANE, LEWIS, MCALISTER, McALLISTER, McKINNEY, MILLER, O'REILLY, OCHERSONE, PIERCE, PURCELL, REILLY, ROWLAND, SANFORD, SIMMONS, STEVENS, WARFIELD, and WOODWORTH. Includes photos. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nancyhphillips/ CALIFORNIA. OAKHILL MEMORIAL PARK in San Jose, Santa Clara County. The oldest secular cemetery in California, organized in 1847. Many pioneers and prominent early citizens are buried on these lovely grounds. About 200 records are now available as part of an ongoing cataloguing project. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oakhill/ HAURY, SCHAAFF, ZINCKGRAFF, FINCK, WOHLGEMUTH, STAUFFER, SCHMIDT, KUNDEL, NEBER, ORTH, WIDMER, MEYER, FISCHER KINNEY, DAVID, SMITH, McKINZIE, McKENNON, REEVES, JAMES McGARITY, CUPP, RUTLEDGE, TAYLOR, WILLIAMSON, PARKS, MITCHELL, LINDSAY, and JACKE. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fredhaury/ KAISER. From Hadamar, Nassau, Prussia. Beginning with Johann Adam KAISER, born in 1735, and following the descendants of his six children in Germany and America. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~skdulcich/ KELLOGG. Louisiana KELLOGG pioneers, particularly those in northwest Louisiana, including birth, death, and burial data. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jkellogg51/ NEW ZEALAND. Funeral notices from New Zealand newspapers, 1848-1940s http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~funeralnotices/ Funeral.html [TWO-LINE URL] OHIO. Mansfield (Richland County) High School Class of 1922 Commencement Program. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~censusresearch/ Commencement/Commencement.htm [TWO-LINE URL] PENNSYLVANIA. Old time photos of northeastern Pennsylvania people, places, documents, tombstones, family groups, events, and more. Search for photos relating to your ancestors or submit your photos to share with others. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nepaphotos/ RAYMOND, WISER. Genealogy of Cleve RAYMOND and Anita WISER. Contains information about John, William, and Richard RAYMENT, original immigrants to New England circa 1653; George Rumneymarsh WISER, a grandson of NANAPASHEMET, the Grand Sachem of the Massachusetts Federation of American Indians in the early 1600s. Also includes personal histories of many Mormon pioneers and early Utah settlers. Other surnames are PITCHER, THOMPSON, HENDRICKS, HAMMER, and SMITH. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymondfamily/ RICHARDSON, LEACH, BEAN, MILLER, JONES, TEMPLETON, BARR, and KNIGHT families from Tennessee, Alabama, Illinois, Scotland, and Ireland. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamajr/ VILLARREAL, KEHO, LAUT, RICE, LEDDY, DALEY, EMMONS, GARBIS, BELTON, MEAD, and McBREARTY. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~annagarbis/ WINDSOR, HUNT. Includes related surnames: PAINE, ORMAN, KENNWELL, HORNBUCKLE, and SIMPSONS. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~windsorhuntgenealogy/ home.htm [TWO-LINE URL] * * * * * 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 average two to three hours a day on RootsWeb and have visited virtually every corner of it. In my research for Herbert Adams, author of the upcoming book TUFTS KINSMEN, I monitor a number of the surname and locality message boards daily, use the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/ several times a day, and can hardly wait to see what new "goodies" I find at WorldConnect http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ each day. I have personally contacted the majority of people who have posted the TUFTS surname and have been able not only to obtain new information but also to fill in many blanks for many people along the way. To RootsWeb, a long overdue thank you for providing such a WONDERFUL, comprehensive site for research. Sandi Bellefeuille rjsbell@home.com Thank you for FreePages. Since I uploaded the files for http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bookofjared/, I have received several thank you messages for the posted information. But the following is the best reason for sharing one's information at FreePages http://freepages.rootsweb.com/. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Eleanor Hall is surely an angel. Our search for the woman known only as Naomi is over. I am a descendant of Joseph and Naomi LOVETT. Naomi, born August 9, 1763, married Joseph LOVETT, born September 10, 1754 in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. His father Daniel LOVETT and mother Ann (BROWN) LOVETT came with their family to Loudoun County, Virginia in the late 1700s. Daniel LOVETT died there in 1785/86. Now I have another family in my tree! Laura Franks I also need to give the family of Eleanor Hall a big thank you for allowing me to scan and post this information. I am about a third of the way through Volume 3 of BOOK OF JARED and will be posting it in the near future. Which reminds me, this has been a great rewarding experience. With all of those "OUT of PRINT" books out there, what a way to share them. David C. Abernathy DaveA@SchmeckAbernathy.com http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dcabernathy/ [Editors' Note: Out of print does not mean that a book is in the public domain. Be sure the copyright has expired before you copy and publish such works.] Recently a new link was submitted to the list [Cyndi's List at http://www.cyndislist.com/ ] for a Web site regarding heraldry: http://www.araldis.com/ Since that time, several people have written to me telling me that the Web site is entirely in Spanish, with no English translation available on the site. I have written back to each person explaining that the Internet is global, therefore many languages will appear on Web sites around the world. The part that baffles me most is why I would have to explain this. I would hope that we would all know the Internet is international. It is global. And Web sites exist on the *World Wide Web.* When you find a site that appears in another language, scan the Web pages on that site for an English translation (look for a link, or a graphic depicting a U.S. or U.K. flag). If unavailable, visit an online translation service for further help. See Cyndi's List -- Languages & Translations http://www.CyndisList.com/language.htm Cyndi Howells cyndihow@oz.net Thank you for your recent article about Anjou and the links to the First Families pages on Fraudulent Lineages [RWR 4:30]. http://www.linkline.com/personal/xymox/fraud/fraud223.htm I am researching the DICKMANN (German/Prussian) family and did come up against a brick wall because of lineage associated through a recently self-published book by the KLAUS family. KLAUS was one of the names listed as having a possibly fabricated lineage. Related by marriage, the descendants had done some "homework" by visiting actual parishes in Germany two years ago, but the names and dates of the DICKMANN family just didn't jive with the census information. We had a phantom ancestor who was not listed with a completely different person as the patriarch of our family. With your article, I must now go back and question the remaining KLAUSes to see how they obtained their information about the DICKMANNs that they published in their book. This explains why my information doesn't agree with theirs and why my information gathered from legitimate sources (actual recordings of wills and marriages) seems to be correct. This only highlights that no one should ever be after a quick fix in buying the junk proliferated by companies advertising your name and heraldry. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention. Chriss Dickman cdickman@kings.k12.ca.us [See Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG's archived Shaking Your Family Tree columns, "Barking Up the Wrong Tree" http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/misc/syftbs000928.htm and "Genealogical Frauds: Traps for the Imprudent" http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/misc/syftbs950126.htm ] * * * * * HUMOR. HOW TO TELL IF YOUR MOM ALWAYS LIKED YOUR BROTHER BEST by Richard A. Pence richardpence@pipeline.com http://www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/ You've heard the one about Sally Apple. She first married George Penn. After George died, she married Samuel Dowdy. Now her tombstone reads "Sally Apple Penn Dowdy." Some names seem to invite fun. Once, while on a business trip to Oklahoma, I met a lawyer named Lawrence Derryberry. Naturally, everyone called him Larry. Larry Derryberry. All I have to do is think of that name and it sends me into flights of fancy. Who did Larry Derryberry marry? Was it Terry Kerry, the daughter of Harry and Mary? And did they name their kids Jerry, Barry, Gary, Merry, Carrie, and Perry? Plus the youngest, who had the misfortune to be born shortly after the demise of his maternal grandfather and thus became Harry Kerry, the son of Larry and Terry Derryberry. I ran across this one the other day: Doris Morris. Do you suppose her parents were Loris and Cloris Morris? Did she marry Boris Norris? Was Horace Morris Norris their son? What about Louise Bries? Or James Ames? And who were the parents of Mark and Clark Dark? Or John, Don and Ron Conn? Were Jay and May Day the parents of Ray and Kay? Things like this can keep you awake at night. I'm not at all sure of the significance of any of it, except that if your name is Jason and your older brother is George, it could be a sign your mom -- Mrs. Mason -- always liked your brother best. * * * * * ROOTSWEB REVIEW does not publish genealogical queries and the editor regrets that she is 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 74 million entries). 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