ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Free Weekly E-zine Vol. 4, No. 50, 12 December 2001, Circulation: 903,705+ (c) 1998-2001 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist RWR-Editor@rootsweb.com Advertisement: Scott Brenay sbrenay@myfamilyinc.com YOUR GENEALOGY DATA IS AT RISK--IS YOUR COMPUTER VIRUS-INFECTED? Free Online Virus Scan: http://housecall.antivirus.com/pc_housecall/ Viruses, Trojans, and Worms: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/virus.html =================================================================== IN THIS ISSUE News and Notes (1a. Ancestry Family Tree; 1b. 1920 Census Index Installment; 1c. English Ancestors; 1d. Free BMD; 1e. Spotlight on Distinctive Web Pages; 1f. New User-contributed Databases 1g. RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees; 1h. Shaking Your Family Tree; 1i. December Postcards; Paid Advertisements) 2. Connecting through RootsWeb 3. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag 4. New Mailing Lists 5. New Web Pages 6. New FreePages and HomePages (Web sites) 7. USGenWeb and WorldGenWeb 8. Humor 9. Submissions Guidelines; Reprint Policy; Contacts, Subscribe or Unsubscribe Instructions; Back Issues; Missing Links: "One More Reason Why I Would Make a Lousy Crook." ================================================================ 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1.a. AFT. Ancestry.com announces the launch of Ancestry Family Tree (AFT) -- a new service for family historians that combines the personalization and ease of family tree software with the depth, speed, and power of the Internet. AFT is an innovative combination of tools that opens a whole new world of discovery and possibilities! WITH ANCESTRY FAMILY TREE YOU CAN: --Organize all your family history information in one convenient gathering place. --Zero in on your ancestors in Ancestry.com's valuable databases as they are entered (or downloaded) into the family tree software with the software's powerful search tool. --Attach important files, documents, and photos to your online tree, making a comprehensive history your family will cherish. --Easily share your family tree with other family members around the world via the Internet, and collaborate online! AFT files are also automatically searched and once located and verified, whole branches of your family tree can be automatically imported into your tree. The software is intuitive and easy to use. Here's how it works: 1. Members can download the software FREE at Ancestry.com. 2. Enter a name to start with, in the space provided in the software's simple interface. For increased results, add parents' names as well. 3. Once you've entered this beginning data, AFT immediately begins searching more than 1.2 billion records at Ancestry.com and returns likely matches for each. Results are ranked for accuracy, so it's easy to find the right data. Ancestry.com is also launching a new membership option to allow AFT users to view search results directly from the software. All paying Ancestry.com subscribers automatically receive membership benefits to allow this functionality. Memberships are available to non-subscribers for only $19.95. This unique membership will allow users to view and import Ancestry World Tree search results directly into AFT. The membership also comes with 14 days of access to Ancestry's subscription databases and a $20 discount for members who decide to become annual subscribers. Finally, new members will also be able to create a premium site on MyFamily.com (a $19.95 value). There's never been a better way to do your genealogy online. When you subscribe to Ancestry.com, you can access over a billion searchable records-and now you can download Ancestry Family Tree software FREE. Download your own copy of Ancestry Family Tree today: http://aft.ancestry.com/ A new Message Board for AFT users also has been created. Visit the AFT Message Board at: [2-line URL] http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p= topics.software.ancfamtree 1b. 1920 CENSUS INDEX INSTALLMENTS. Ancestry.com has now begun releasing installments of the 1920 U.S. federal census with the first one being an index to Manhattan, New York. All extant indexes available at Ancestry.com for the years 1790-1850 have been linked to the images. Indexes are also being created to cover the remaining census years. The posting of census images, with the exception of some illegible scans, which represent only a fraction of a percent of the individual enumerations is complete. These pages are currently being rescanned for quality ,and will be posted as they become available. This collection includes more than 425 million names on 10 million images from 1790 to 1920. Ancestry's Census Images Online collection is a huge step forward for family historians who are researching their American roots. It allows you, as a subscriber, to view -- original census images from the comfort of your homes. To subscribe to Ancestry.com's Images Online and/or Ancestry.com databases, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribeplanstx.asp?sourcecode=1380 For more information: http://www.ancestry.com/search/io/main.htm 1c. ENGLISH ANCESTORS. Looking for ancestors from England? The exclusive Pallot Marriage and Baptism Indexes at Ancestry.com are just where to start. Focusing primarily on the London area, this collection spans from 1780 to 1837 and has linked images to view and verify the entry. Each slip identifies the parish where the ceremony was celebrated, the names of the participants, and the date of the event. Pallot Marriage Index http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3239&sourceid=1380 Pallot Baptism Index http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3240&sourceid=1380 Other databases from England http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3241&sourceid=1380 1d. FREE BMD. Word from Dave Mayall of the Free BMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ project is that a number of improvements have been made to FreeBMD, including: --Search screen -- Forenames. Has been changed to behave in the same way as other genealogy searches. A search for a single forename will now find all names that begin with that name unless an exact match is requested. --Search screen -- Record Counts. The long-standing error which caused the number of records to be overstated has been fixed. --Complex searches -- Count. The error which meant that count would produce a result even though the final search would be too complex has been rectified. The complexity limit has been relaxed from 1 million to 2.5 million. --Transcribers Knowledge Base. A number of questions have been presented more clearly. -- +PAGE lines. Due to the concern expressed by large numbers of transcribers who hadn't realised that they should have been adding a closing +PAGE line to their files, and who have many files without it, a facility has been added to file management which will allow users to add +PAGE lines to the end of all files that don't currently have it. 1e. SPOTLIGHT ON SOME DISTINCTIVE WEB PAGES AT ROOTSWEB. [Editor's Note: Have you found some unique and valuable genealogical records posted on a Web site that is hosted by RootsWeb.com? If so, please let us know about it via e-mail: RWR-editor@rootsweb.com and don't forget to include the complete URL.] ENGLAND. Lincolnshire. Teachers, headmasters and headmistresses of various recognized schools in this locality (in alphabetical order). http://www.rootsweb.com/~englin/schoolteachers.htm OHIO. Seneca County. Clinton township, St. Joseph’s cemetery. Burial listing of 6,500+ burials, plus some photos of tombstones. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ohio/seneca/st_joe1.htm PENNSYLVANIA. Chester County. Inhabitants Accused of High Treason in 1778. Includes a June 17 list of "traitors," British sympathizers/collaborators. This was published immediately after the winter the British had occupied Philadelphia. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/chester/court/treason1778.txt 1f. NEW USER-CONTRIBUTED DATABASES AT ROOTSWEB: ----------------------------------------------- The following datasets have come online recently: CALIFORNIA, Calaveras County. Peoples Cemetery 252 records; Bob Stoker http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ MICHIGAN, Mecosta County. Ferris Institute College Prep. School, 1917-1920, A-C/P-T, Big Rapids; 295 records; James Cyr http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ NEBRASKA, Saunders County. Early Saunders County Marriages 460 records; R. J. Black for the Saunders County Museum http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ NEW YORK, Genesee County. St Joseph Cemetery 9824 records; Leilani Spring http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ OREGON, Multnomah County. 1936 Franklin High School, Faculty & Seniors Index; Portland; 192 records; Patricia L. Dunn-Hanning http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ TEXAS, Fannin County. "A" marriages 96 records; Kimmie Shelton http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ TEXAS, Parker County. Spring Creek Cemetery--Weatherford; PITTILLO surname; 11 records; Joan Bassham Bohn http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ RootsWeb thanks all of the individuals and groups who contribute their data to share with all of 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 databases -- other than your personal family tree (genealogies should be 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. See the guidelines, tutorial and examples of data formats for user-contributed data: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/guidelines.html Please use this submission form: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ 1g. ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES. Finding your ancestors is more than typing in a name in a search engine. Learn how to research and to use the records where the information you seek may be -- in places and records perhaps you have never thought to look. http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ Looking for ancestors in England, Wales, Australia, New Zealand or British ancestors in South Africa or India? http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson28.htm 1h. SHAKING YOUR FAMILY TREE. What will most please the genealogists on your holiday shopping list? Books are perfect presents, of course. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/syft/curcolumn.htm 1i. DECEMBER VIRTUAL POSTCARDS. Winter Solstice (December 21) http://postcards.rootsweb.com/ws.htm Christmas (December 25) http://postcards.rootsweb.com/xmas.htm Kwanzaa (Begins December 26) http://postcards.rootsweb.com/kwa.htm ********************PAID ADVERTISEMENTS**************************** The Dec/Jan issue of HISTORY MAGAZINE is on the newsstands now but you can obtain a FREE trial copy by visiting http://www.history-magazine.com/ Articles include "The History of Anthrax," "1730s a Decade of Political Change," "A Nostalgic Look at the Trolley Era," "One-Room Schoolhouses," "Legend of the Sea Serpent," "Evolving Trends in Women's Hairstyles," and many others. HISTORY MAGAZINE articles cover the social conditions that affected the lives of our ancestors. Check out our Web feature "This Day in History" by visiting http://www.history-magazine.com/ ************************************************************* The Nov/Dec issue of FAMILY CHRONICLE is a special Genealogy on the Internet issue. 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Find out instantly. http://7341.foundmoney.com/ ********************END OF PAID ADVERTISEMENTS******************** 2. CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- HO! HO! HO! AN EARLY CHRISTMAS PRESENT By Sherri Hadley Rice SherriRice@personalcomputer.net Every week I read RootsWeb Review as soon as it arrives in my e-mail. I enjoy the amazing stories of people finding family connections through RootsWeb, always wishing I would be so lucky. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine I would be writing to thank you for just such a thing. More than three years ago, I left a Post-em note on the name of my 3rd-great-grandfather, Simon HADLEY (1810-1896) stating I had a group picture of his children, which I would be glad to share. Time passed, I moved, changed e-mail addresses, and forgot all about it. After returning from my Thanksgiving trip, the most incredible surprise was waiting for me in e-mail. Carolyn Johnson Bergeron, of Portland, Oregon had gone to considerable effort to track me down, find my new e-mail address, and send me a picture of my 4th-great- grandfather, Jacob HADLEY (1786-1873)! I couldn't believe my eyes when I opened the photo attachment. She had found the picture in the photo album of her great-grandparents and thought I might like to have the picture. My Jacob was the father of her 2nd-great-grandfather, Jonathan HADLEY (1811-1883). As Webmaster of the Hadley Society Photo Gallery http://www.hadleysociety.org, I am used to "finding" ancestors and helping to make connections for others, but this is the first time I've been the lucky one. Carolyn scanned the entire photo album and has graciously shared all its contents with the Hadley Society. Sadly, many pictures were not identified, so they will be posted in our "hUH?" (Unknown Hadleys) gallery. She was, however, able to identify one of her "unknowns," as there was already a picture of her on the Web site. We are, of course, hoping someone will recognize, and be able to identify some of these unknown photographs. This wonderful surprise would not have been possible were it not for RootsWeb, and I can't begin to thank you enough. You have facilitated another incredibly fantastic connection. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and I wish you all a blessed holiday season. [Editor's Note: This is an appropriate time of year to count our blessings and remember to thank all those who have shared information and helped us find our relatives, "lost" links, old pictures, and family Bibles. This past year the May 1800 marriage Bible of my 4- great-grandparents turned up in the attic of a cousin who scanned the genealogical information and shared it. I learned about this found treasure thanks to a RootsWeb surname mailing list. What connections have you made or what treasures have you uncovered via RootsWeb this year? Send your story for possible publication to: RWR-Editor@rootsweb.com ] 3. FROM ROOTSWEB REVIEW'S BOTTOMLESS MAILBAG -------------------------------------------- AN INTERESTING 1772 VIRGINIA WILL by Ella Winsbro (RWR 4:47, 21 Nov. 2001) continues to generate comments from RootsWeb Review readers. Read on: KEEPING THE PEACE. In regards to the "Virginia Will" where the father passed the Bible to each child for a certain amount of time. I thought this was a wonderful story. Imagine a family that treasured the Word of God so much as to do this. I am an interim pastor at a small church, and I plan to use this as an illustration in my sermon this Sunday. But, my first thought was that the father could not choose which child to leave the precious record to. This family Bible would have contained all of the family story: births, deaths, and marriages. It would have been a treasure. They would own the Bible that their parents had carefully taken down and penned each child's birth in. All of the important events of a lifetime were there. I can only imagine the fight would have ensued had this been my family Bible with the siblings left to decide who would get it. A 100 years would pass and we still would not be speaking. I think that it was the only fair thing the father could do. He saw to it that each child would get the Bible in two-year increments. This probably wasn't the first time he had had to keep the peace in the family. --Ron Williams rwilliam@intercall.com ETHNICITY PLAYS CRUCIAL ROLE IN UNRAVELING THE PAST. The comment in RootsWeb Review 5 Dec. 2001 regarding JOHN HOOFMAN'S WILL (21 Nov. 2001) that the mention in the will to his "two Great Bibles" identifies them as an English Bible published in the 1500s, etc., and valuable in 1772 as 200 year-old antiques is, at least in this case, an erroneous assumption and possibly misleading to others. John HOOFMAN is more usually spelled John HOFFMAN or HUFFMAN. He was among a group of 12 men and their families brought from Germany to Virginia in 1714 by Governor Alexander Spotswood to work iron ore deposits. They formed the colony called Germanna. John HOFFMAN probably spoke (and read and wrote) only German all his life. The Bibles were surely written in the German language. In one of John's Bibles was written (in German): "This Bible was sold to me as part of my paternal inheritance, which I received from Eysern in Nassau-Siegenschon. My brother Wilhelm HOFFMAN bought it in for me, and I paid him the same amount, namely, 10 Thaler of the Realm from my Inheritance." (Genealogies of Virginia Families v. IV, from Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1981, p. 61) The chapter in the above reference on John HOFFMAN was written by one of his descendants, Dr. John W. WAYLAND, one of Virginia's most productive historians. Four pages including the above paragraph and Bible entries of family births, deaths, and marriages were copied from one of the Bibles by an intermediate descendant, and Dr. WAYLAND had it translated from the German. My husband is a descendant of John HUFFMAN'S youngest child. I have a copy of the will as recorded in Culpeper County, Virginia. As is very common in documents and letters of earlier centuries, capitalization is haphazard and incorrect by today's standards. For example, the recorded will says: "I Give my two Great Bibles amongst my nine Sons as I have by my last Wife Mary . . ." In this context, it is quite likely that "Great Bibles" referred to their size, as in "large Bibles." The capitalizations may or may not have been in the original will -- all that is available today is what the county clerk copied into the will book. John HOFFMAN did marry twice, as was surmised. One son and one daughter from his first marriage and all 12 children (9 sons followed by 3 daughters) of his second marriage were all alive and in the area when John HOFFMAN wrote his will. His 10 sons were listed by name (and each inherited several hundred acres) but, as mentioned, the will later says the Bibles were to rotate among his "nine" sons. Why he did not include his oldest son (by his first wife) is unknown, and it is safer not to speculate. --Ruth Dunlap rdunlap@tsf.net * * * CENSUS INDEXES REPORT. I recently conducted a nationwide search to determine which repositories have a complete set of census Soundex/Miracode indexes for 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920. To my surprise, only eight repositories reported having a complete set. They are: The Library of Congress; the National Archives (including its branches); the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City; the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana; the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; the Clayton Library branch of the Houston Public Library in Houston, Texas; Heritage Quest of Bountiful, Utah, and the Sutro Library branch of the California State Library in San Francisco, California. A ninth repository, the Western Reserve Historical Society Library in Cleveland, Ohio, has a complete set of census Soundex/Miracode indexes through 1900. It is attempting to complete its collection for 1910 and 1920, and has ordered the indexes soon to be available for 1930. To my knowledge, no other repositories are even attempting to obtain a complete set of census Soundex/Miracode indexes. --Will Else will_else@compuserve.com 4. NEW ROOTSWEB MAILING LISTS ----------------------------- (Editor's Note: The following are mailing lists not Web pages) For an index to the more than 23,500 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy mailing lists and easy subscribing options, visit http://lists.rootsweb.com/ TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE to/from any RootsWeb-hosted mailing list, send plain text e-mail with only the word 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) NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS: BREIGAL DUNBAN FRAPE GARRAH, GUILIANTE JAMOUNEAU LEINENWEBER MARQUAND, MARSEGUERRA PEI-SURNAME-LIST -- Announces updates to the Prince Edward Island surname list POPPLETON RECKERT THAXTER WAYBRIGHT, WHITISH, WITZIG NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS Clan-Cairns Clan-Cargill Clan-Carmichael Clan-Carnegie Clan-Cathcart Clan-Cleland Clan-Cockburn Clan-Colville Clan-Craig Clan-Cumming Clan-Currie Clan-Dalrymple Clan-Donnachaidh Clan-Dunbar Clan-Dunlop Clan-Forsyth Clan-Galbraith Clan-Galloway Clan-Gayre Clan-Gow Clan-Guthrie Clan-Haliburton Clan-Hannay Clan-Hope Clan-Hunter Clan-Irvine Clan-Jardine Clan-Kincaid Clan-Leask Clan-Lennox Clan-Little Clan-Lockhart Clan-Lumsden Clan-Maccorquodale Clan-Maclellan Clan-Macmicking Clan-Macthomas Clan-Maitland Clan-Majoribanks Clan-Melville Clan-Middleton Clan-Moffat Clan-Moncrieffe Clan-Mowat Clan-Pollock Clan-Pringle Clan-Rollo Clan-Rutherford Clan-Scrimgeour Clan-Seton Clan-Smith Clan-Turnbull CORNISH-ANCESTORS -- Announces updates to the Cornish Ancestors Web site PRIMITIVE-BAPTIST-ROOTS -- Companion list for the PRIMITIVE BAPTIST ROOTS message board at [2-line URL] http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p= topics.religious.primitivebaptist.primbaptist-roots NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS Ecuador, South America SA-ECUADOR Puerto Rico PUERTO-RICO TO REQUEST A NEW MAILING LIST: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ 5. NEW WEB SITES AT ROOTSWEB ---------------------------- 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 next week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ [account name] Note that the ~[tilde] before the Web account name is required. U.S.A. meocrhs -- Old Canada Road Historical Society (Maine) vaemcusd -- Eliza Monroe Chapter of United States Daughters of 1812 (Virginia) vtcbarne -- towns of Barnet, Sutton, and Waterford, Vermont wiwcgs -- Waukesha County Genealogical Society (Wisconsin) TO REQUEST A WEB ACCOUNT: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ 6. SOME NEW HOMEPAGES AND FREEPAGES ------------------------------------ [Note: When your new personal Web pages at RootsWeb are up and ready for visitors, please send a brief description (use the style shown below) and the URL (address) to: rwr-editor@rootsweb.com ] Comments and questions about any of these independently authored Web pages should be directed to their respective compilers/webmasters. CAVALIERS and COSSACKS. 700 years of family history told in images and family trees. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chatsol/ HART, LITTLE and RUSSELL families of Canada (Ontario, Newfoundland/Labrador, and Nova Scotia) U.S.A. (New York State) England, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Links for "Home Children" searches and lost URLs. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tweetybirdgenealogy/ JENNY'S FAMILY FOREST. Includes CASE, COURSEY, EILERS, MARTIN, MITCHELL, ONKEN, PINSON, PITTMAN, RENKEN, ROBERT, RUPERT, TURLEY, VANDIVER, WORMER, and more. Families from Germany, France, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and all over the U.S. (mainly California, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, and Virginia) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jennycase/home.html MICHIGAN. Saginaw County. 1953 School Daze, Brady Center. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~confido/daze1and2.htm SIMPSONS. SIMPSON, WILLSHIRE, MANKELOW and WATTS family histories. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~duncansimpson/ WILLIAMS Family Southern Roots. Includes the surnames: SORTERS, SORTER, SARTOR, ORSAK, BENNETT, BIRD, STOCKSTILL, QUINNEY, ROLIN, ROLLIN, CARRAWAY, CLACK, BOLLING, IRWIN, LATHAM, GROSSMAN, WILLIAMS, POOL, FANNIN, COLLINS, CONLEY, PARKER and many more. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sorters/ 7. USGENWEB and WORLDGENWEB ---------------------------- The USGenWeb Project http://usgenweb.org/ is one of the several volunteer genealogy projects and many of its states and county Web pages and mailing lists are hosted by RootsWeb. THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER contains the USGenWeb Archives submissions in the last week. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/ 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/ The WorldGenWeb Project http://worldgenweb.org/ is one of the several volunteer genealogy projects hosted by RootsWeb. It publishes a monthly newsletter. To subscribe to WorldGenWeb Review, send a plain text e-mail message to: WORLDGENWEB-REVIEW-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM with only the word SUBSCRIBE in the body of your message. 8. HUMOR: NO YULETIDE CAROLING EITHER. Thanks for sending this groaner goes to Amy Johnson Crow amy@amyjohnsoncrow.com A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as they moved off. "Because," he said, "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer." 9. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES, REPRINT POLICY, SUBSCRIPTION, and HELP ----------------------------------------------------------------- ROOTSWEB REVIEW does not publish or answer genealogical queries, and the editor regrets that she is unable to provide research assistance. Subscribe to the relevant surname and locality mailing lists http://lists.rootsweb.com/ and Message Boards http://boards.rootsweb.com/ and post queries to them. Explore RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees where you will find answers to many of your research questions: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ Use all of RootsWeb's free search engines and resources: http://www.rootsweb.com/ SHORT ARTICLES, STORIES, OR LETTERS SUBMITTED FOR CONSIDERATION FOR PUBLICATION IN ROOTSWEB REVIEW should be sent to rwr-editor@rootsweb.com as a plain text e-mail message (do not send attachments; they will not be opened). We reserve the right to edit all submissions. PERMISSION TO REPRINT articles from ROOTSWEB REVIEW is granted unless specifically stated otherwise, PROVIDED: (1) the reprint is used for non-commercial, educational purposes; and (2) the following notice appears at the end of the article: Written by [author's name, e-mail address, and URL, if given]. Previously published in RootsWeb Review: Vol. 4, No. 50, 12 December 2001. 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