RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Free Weekly E-zine Vol. 5, No. 16, 17 April 2002, Circulation: 941,372 (c) 1998-2002 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ Do not reply to this message. This is a post-only mailing. Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist RWR-Editor@rootsweb.com Certification: http://www.bcgcertification.org/certification/ RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ WorldConnect (family trees): http://wc.rootsweb.com/ Help Desk: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ ====================================================================== IN THIS ISSUE 1. Connecting through RootsWeb: Finding Missing Pieces; Burning Up the Wires 2. News and Notes (2a. RootsWeb Joins Elite; 2b. Focus on Volunteers 2c. New User-contributed Databases; 2d. Spotlighted Web Pages: New Jersey Colonial Families; ISTG Teams with Die Maus 3. New Mailing Lists 4. New Web Pages 5. New FreePages and HomePages 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: Rattling the Family Skeletons 7. What's New for Ancestry.com Subscribers 8. WorldGenWeb and USGenWeb 9. Humor: Occupational Epitaph 10. Submissions Guidelines; Reprint Policy; Subscribe or Unsubscribe Instructions; HelpDesk Contact ================================================================ 1. CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Finding Missing Pieces By Theresa Glover-Radke tradke7@comcast.net Thank you for providing this service. I posted an entry to the GLOVER surname list asking about my great-grandfather. John C. GLOVER left his wife and three children in 1908, and nobody ever heard from him again. After his death his youngest sister had kept in touch with his oldest son (my grandfather) but according to him, she was the only living relative. My family had often speculated on his heritage but we had no facts. Less than 24 hours after I'd posted to the GLOVER list, Cathie MEEKS replied. She said it was a real long shot, but she showed her grand- father as having a brother, John C., who had one known child. She said that her grandfather did not think too highly of this brother, and spoke of him as being "a wild one" so he could possibly fit the description I'd given. She also gave the name of the one child as James T. GLOVER, who died in Holiday, Texas, in the late 1970s, married to Lois Lee ROCHELLE. My grandfather, James T., was married to a Lois Lee, and they did live in Holiday, Texas when he passed away! We've since exchanged a ton of information and e-mail and I've been able to share with my family the entire story of our "missing" grandfather and his family. I had an old picture circa late 1800s of a group of people in front of a farm house, but I never knew who they were as I got it from my grandmother's estate after her passing. Cathie has a picture of the same house -- only 50 years later. One of the young children in my picture is her grandfather. He returned to the house 50 years later and had his picture taken -- standing in the same place. As it turns out, my great -grandfather (John C. GLOVER) and his mother (Nancy CUMMINS) along with his brother (Cathie's grandfather James N. GLOVER) and their baby sister ( Mae GLOVER) are in my picture -- just more evidence that we are in fact distant cousins! We're still trying to put together some more missing pieces of the puzzle, but at least we've closed an entire chapter of lost history. I have acquired some 15 letters written from Mexico between 1916 and 1919 from my great-grandfather to his youngest sister, Mae, in Meridian Oklahoma, and from them we hope to find clues to more answers. * * * Burning Up the Wires By Richard Kidder BARBER mexrick1@prodigy.net.mx RootsWeb.com proved to be a real gold mine for me. I am new to genealogy so when I finally got around to starting my research on my family (BARBER), a friend suggested that I do a search on your site. My first inquiry resulted in my contacting both Jean NAYLOR and Ken COX, who have done some research on my family. It turned out that Jean is a "half" relative (from a second marriage) and Ken is a second cousin once removed. Both were happy to share their information with me. Ken sent me (via e-mail) his complete research and, additionally, gave me the name and telephone number of a second cousin who has done extensive research on the family. After contacting my newly found second cousin, William L. BARBER, I obtained more names, telephone numbers and addresses. He also shared his research with me. Since I have a very small family, but now knew of about eight or 10 living relatives, I decided to telephone them all and introduce myself. They were all happy to chat with me and to share family stories. William even cleared up a 50-year mystery for me when he told me that the "Richard" BARBER that I had met in the 1940s was probably "Ezra Richard" BARBER. A telephone call to his daughter confirmed it. During further conversations with Ezra's daughter, Bethany K. D. (BARBER) PIERCE, I mentioned that my sister was living in Arroyo Grande, California. When Beth mentioned that, coincidentally, she used to live there too, I gave her my sister's address and telephone number. They have since met at least twice and learned that their children went to the same high school but, probably because they were a year apart, never met or found out that they were cousins. Thanks to RootsWeb, they have now met and we are now a connected family! 2. NEWS AND NOTES ----------------- 2a. ROOTSWEB JOINS THE ELITE. RootsWeb.com has long been recognized as an influential website by many, both in and outside of the genealogical community. In February of 2000, RootsWeb.com was named "Best of the Best" in Forbes Magazine. The same year, it was voted "Best Genealogy Site on the World Wide Web" by readers of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter. And now, just this week, it has been honored as one of Time magazine's "50 Best Websites." http://www.time.com/time/2002/tech/best/complete.html Rather than focusing on site traffic, Time chose to honor sites it predicts will be the most useful for Internet users during the upcoming year. Sites were chosen in various categories including arts and entertainment, banking, travel, car shopping, and genealogy. With a combination of free information and the unique community and culture that has developed over the years, it's no wonder that RootsWeb was included. Thanks to all who support this growing and vibrant community, and congratulations for making RootsWeb.com one of the best sites. 2b. FOCUS ON ROOTSWEB'S VOLUNTEERS. Here's some volunteer appreciation messages received recently. "I'm constantly amazed at the exponentially growing world of records becoming accessible through the many hours RootsWeb volunteers so generously donate, providing the rest of us with information we need even without knowing how many of us are pleased to make use of their work. People are available to kindly offer their services for lookups, transcriptions, tutorials, managing message boards and/or mailing lists, whatever is needed. "It's because of selfless efforts like these that genealogical research progresses so rapidly throughout the world. How fitting to thank you all and celebrate what you do for us, with a month set aside for the occasion!" --Carol (Huffington) Menges jh-cj.menges@worldnet.att.net * * * "The service you volunteers have performed is priceless. You have opened doors to show us who and where our ancestors were, what sort of lives they led, and helped us to know who we are, the descendants of the humble or the mighty, the shapers of history in ways both large and small. "'Thank you' is a small term indeed, for the huge body of work you've donated, but our language does not provide a better term." -- Diane Altona daltona@san.rr.com Please feel free to express your appreciation by posting a message on the Volunteer Appreciation Message Board created specifically for this purpose. [2-line URL, please copy and paste carefully] http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r= rw&p=topics.rw.admin.volunteera 2c. NEW FREE USER-CONTRIBUTED DATABASES AT ROOTSWEB: ----------------------------------------------------- SEARCH vs. BROWSE. Search means to look for a specified word, term, or string of letters in a database. Browse means to be able to view all of the data therein in one place. The user-contributed databases at RootsWeb utilize search engines that enable you to search, but not to browse, those databases. Only if the submitter of the particular database also has the data on a browseable webpage, and if they included the URL (Universal Resource Locator) to that webpage in their database, will you be able to browse the data. The following user-contributed databases have come online recently: ENGLAND. PINCHBECK WILLS: Index of personal names (in progress) 4,406 records; Michael J. EDGOOSE http://userdb.rootsweb.com/uki/ U.S.A. CALIFORNIA. Monterey County. ED 11, 1910 census; 550 records; M Hellam http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ CALIFORNIA. Riverside County. Corona High School 1933 74 records; Ellen Applegate http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ IDAHO. Cassia County. Raft River High School Classes of 1950-54 82 records; Linda Smith http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ INDIANA. Cass County. Galveston City Directory 1937 373 records; B. Salmons http://userdb.rootsweb.com/citydir/ INDIANA. Clark County. 1850 census; DAILY and related surnames 392 records; P. Davidson-Peters http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ INDIANA. Clark County. 1860 census records; DAILY and related surnames 347 records; P. Davidson-Peters http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ INDIANA. Clark County. 1870 Census Records; DAILY and related surnames 115 records; P. Davidson-Peters http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ INDIANA. Hancock County. 1932 Maxwell High School 13 records; Pamela Lynch http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ INDIANA. Jefferson County. Madison Consolidated High School Yearbook 1967; 1,185 records; B. Salmons http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ INDIANA. LaPorte County. Isaac C. Elston High School, Class of 1963, Michigan City; 398 records; Richard Blissmer http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MICHIGAN. Delta County. 1925 Graduating Class Escanaba High School 123 records; Paul Christensen http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MICHIGAN. Delta County. 1928 Escanaba High School Graduating Class 120 records; Paul Christensen http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MINNESOTA. Freeborn County. St Mary's Cemetery, Newry and Geneva Townships; 753 records; Jim Cannon http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ MISSOURI. Taney County. 1924 Forsyth class roll 11 records; Linda Shumaker http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ NEW JERSEY. Bergen County. Mahwah Cemetery of the Ramapo Reformed Church 1,681 records; Richard Hrazanek http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ NEW JERSEY. Passaic County. Class of 1913, Public School No. 10, Paterson; 153 records; Susan Clark http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ NEW YORK. Chenango County. Methodist Pastoral Record of the Rev. Wilson Treible, 1875-1916; 585 records; Margaret Binning http://userdb.rootsweb.com/churchrecords/ NEW YORK. Ulster County. Bush Cemetery 78 records; Susan Elliott http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ OHIO. Cuyahoga County. Euclid Senior High, Class of 1953 371 records; Alan Hagy http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ OHIO. Cuyahoga County. West High School, Cleveland, 1961 alumni list 230 records; Robert L. Taggart http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ PENNSYLVANIA. Schuylkill County. McAllister's Methodist Cemetery 23 records; Charlotte Muskett http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ PENNSYLVANIA. Venango County. Oil City High School 1934 Graduating Class 267 records; Paul Christensen http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ SOUTH DAKOTA. Union County. Beresford High School Alumni (1902-1909) 71 records; Brian M. Hass http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ VIRGINIA. Fauquier County. 1869 marriage index, partial 236 records; unknown http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ WASHINGTON. Yakima County. Civilian Defense, Transportation Unit, 1942 78 records; Marilyn Morgan http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ WISCONSIN. Chippewa County. Stanley High School Class of 1928 56 records; David K. Lemke http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ WISCONSIN. Chippewa County. Stanley High School Class of 1929 45 records; David K. Lemke http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ WISCONSIN. Chippewa County. Stanley High School Class of 1930 51 records; David K. Lemke http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ WISCONSIN. Chippewa County. Stanley High School Class of 1931 53 records; David K. Lemke http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ WISCONSIN. Chippewa County. Stanley High School Class of 1932 44 records; David K. Lemke http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ WISCONSIN. Chippewa County. Stanley High School Class of 1933 63 records; David K. Lemke http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ WISCONSIN. Chippewa County. Stanley High School Class of 1934 190 records; David K. Lemke http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ WISCONSIN. Eau Claire County. Luther Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1939; 14 records; David K. Lemke http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ WISCONSIN. Racine County. 1912 membership of First Methodist Episcopal Church, Racine, 441 records; Marie Hosdil http://userdb.rootsweb.com/churchrecords/ WISCONSIN, Waupaca County. Clintonville High School Class of 1934, Clintonville; 65 records; David K. Lemke http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ RootsWeb thanks the individuals and groups who contribute their material 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, church, old military unit or alma mater have material available that you think would be of interest to genealogists and historians? Do you have compiled lists or databases -- other than your personal family tree (genealogies can 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/ Questions? Go to RootsWeb Help Desk: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ 2d. SPOTLIGHT ON SOME DISTINCTIVE WEB PAGES AT ROOTSWEB ------------------------------------------------------- COLONIAL FAMILIES TO NEW JERSEY HOME PAGE. Not all of the early settlers of New Jersey came directly from Europe. Between 1660 and 1750 many removed to New Jersey from other colonies, such as Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York. In many cases the progenitor of the family in North America never lived in New Jersey, but his children, grandchildren, or great-grandchildren were early settlers there. See the "Family Journals" for descendants of: Thomas BAKER, Edward DOTY, Edward SHIPMAN, George SUTTON, and John MARTIN. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~colonialfamiliestonewjersey/ IMMIGRANT SHIPS TRANSCRIBERS GUILD (ISTG). The combined efforts of ISTG and Die Maus Genealogical Society of Bremen, Germany offers transcribed ships manifests departing from Bremen and Bremerhaven, Germany for various years -- 1820s-1950s. Search by year or search by name of ship: http://istg.rootsweb.com/bremenproj/bremenproject.html 3. NEW ROOTSWEB MAILING LISTS ----------------------------- [Editor's Note: The following are NOT Web pages--they are mailing lists.] For more information and an index to the more than 24,500 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy mailing lists and the subscribing options, please go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ACHAMMER, ACHHAMER, ACHHAMMER, ADAMI BALTIMORE, BRASSER COHORN, COLGAN, CORGAN DENUEL, DOROTHY GOSLEE, GOSLEY, GREENBUSH HOLLOWBREAD, HUCKELL JOBIN KNIEWEL MEHM, MOORMANS QUESNEL SATCHER, SINNETT, STRENGTH THEOTISTE WECKER, WITHEROW NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS CAN-ONT-CENSUS-1871 -- A place for requesting lookups and for posting errors, oddities and irregularities of the 1871 Census of Ontario CUTLER-USA -- The Cutler surname in the United States GRAVIS-TX -- The GRAVIS surname in Texas (USA) HALL-WV -- HALL family of Mercer County West Virginia -- a large family "originating" in Virginia and ending up in West Virginia. HUGHES-WALES -- The HUGHES surname in/from Wales HUSE-ENG -- HUSE descendants from England LA-NATIVEAMERICAN -- Discuss the history and genealogy research of the Native American in Louisiana (USA) LEGAL-ENGWLS -- Discuss the legal aspects of family history research within England and Wales. Such aspects would include copyright, database rights, data protection, and privacy NA-IROQUOIS -- Iroquois (Six Nations) and allied tribes in both the United States and Canada NY-CAN-NY -- This is a list for those in Canada researching ancestors in New York State and conversely, those in New York state looking for ancestors in Canada OH-BMD -- To announce BMD archives data for Ohio ROBERTS-CANADA -- The ROBERTS surname from/in Canada STANTON-UK -- The STANTON surname in the United Kingdom TOWNCRIERS-UK -- Research of towncriers throughout the UK, their livery, customs, responsibilities, etc. TX-CEMETERY-RESEARCH -- Moderated List focusing on gathering location and historical data for all Texas cemeteries NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS AUS-VIC-CENTRAL -- Central Victoria, Australia, which is defined as that central area of Victoria immediately north-east, north and west of Melbourne (but not including Melbourne and its suburbs). CAN-PQ-RAWDON -- Rawdon, Montcalm County, Quebec, Canada DEU-LINDENFELS -- Lindenfels area of Germany ENG-HAM-PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT -- Portsmouth, Portsea and the parishes of Gosport and Alverstoke, Hampshire, England To subscribe or unsubscribe to/from any RootsWeb-hosted mailing list, send a plain text (not HTML) e-mail message 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) To request a new mailing list: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ 4. NEW WEB PAGES 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. AUSTRALIA nswballi -- Ballina, New South Wales CANADA onpeterb -- Peterborough County, Ontario U.S.A. fljgscf -- Jewish Genealogy Society of Central Florida gafloyd -- Floyd County, Georgia ilhamcem -- Hamilton County, Illinois Cemeteries lalafour -- Lafourche Parish, Louisiana lastjame -- St. James Parish, Louisiana lastjohn -- St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana mauhs -- Upton Historical Society (Massachusetts) nddcnews -- Dickey County, North Dakota Newspapers 1880-1930 scander2 -- Anderson County, South Carolina To request a free Web account: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ 5. NEW PERSONAL FREEPAGES AND HOMEPAGES AT ROOTSWEB --------------------------------------------------------------- [Note: When your new personal webpages at RootsWeb are up and ready for visitors, please send the URL (address) along with a brief description, but do not abbreviate localities to: rwr-editor@rootsweb.com ] Comments and questions about any of these independently authored webpages should be directed to their respective compilers/webmasters.] BOYD FAMILY WEB SITE. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~clanboyd/ CONNECTICUT. The 1937 Terryville High School Yearbook; contains photos and comments about classmates, plus information about its 1934-1935-1936 alumni, and some faculty members. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cribbs/terryville_ct/ CRINER. Devoted to the study of the CRINER family and related lines including but not limited to: HEFLEYs, DICKEYs, MARTINs, PELLHAMs, DAVISes, REDDELLs, BLACKWOODs, and SEXTONs. Localities: Germany- Virginia-North Carolina-Tennessee-Alabama-Georgia-Mississippi-Arkansas- Oklahoma-Missouri. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~crinerfamily/crinerfamily.htm DAILEY DIGGER. Researching DAILEY, LETHRUD, PEDERSEN, JOHANSEN, SYVERSEN, McCALMANT, MASTERSON, BRUNSON, HARTER, PEALER, FORD, BLIZZARD, VINSON, and more. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~longtermlo/ ENGLAND. PANNAL, Yorkshire-- a pictorial history of a 10-century-old village. Includes St. Roberts church, Pannal Hall (and the BENTLEY family), schools, houses, industries and personalities. Many photos from early 20th-century postcards published by the author's great-great-aunt Lydia WARD (nee WILKS). http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bentleygt/pannal/ GIRLING FAMILY RESEARCH NEW ZEALAND. Purpose is to share info and make contact with other genealogists, particularly, but certainly not limited to, those researching family of Ann GIRLING, who came with her family to New Zealand about 1883. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~girlingnz/ GRATTON MARSHALL GENERATIONS. Surnames include: MARSHALL, HILL, ROBERTSON, DOUCH, WOOD, McDOWELL, SALTMARSH, GRATTON, JOHNS, LAMB, and McEWAN. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~leda/ GREAT GENEALOGICAL FRAUDS. A history of several spectacular "estate inheritance" frauds from the 19th century, in which the victims were told they were the heirs to great estates in England or elsewhere: Humphrey JENNINGS, Richard TOWNELEY, Martin OTT, and others. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tmark/GeneFrauds.html HELTON GENEALOGY. Includes surnames: ALCARAZ, BEDFORD, COLLINS, EBERMAN, GOATS, HELTON, HIXON, O'SHEA, OWEN, RISNER SPLAWN, STEELE, WALSH, and WILSON. Major localities include Giles and Wayne counties, Tennessee; Ellis County, Texas; Clatsop County, Oregon; and Marin County, California. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~zengirl/ HILTON. The HILTON family originated in England and then in 1686 William HILTON immigrated to America. Over the past several hundred years different branches of the family have migrated to: New York, Virginia, Ohio, and Nebraska. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hilton34/ LARSON, MORGAN. Genealogy depository for the Larson/Morgan Conglomeration. Includes: census images, cemetery photos, maps, document scans, and Ahnentafels. Surnames: LARSON, MORGAN, MELIN, GOREE/GAURY, WILL, HANSON, BRADFORD, MYERS, TIETJENS, COTTON, PATTILLO, ALLEN, LØKEN, MATTSON, PINDERS, SILER/SYLER, SLOAN, ENGSTROM, GERZMOKINSKY, and NORIN. Primary locations include: Douglas, Otter Tail, and Polk County, Minnesota; Rapides and Grant parishes, Louisiana; Franklin County, Tennessee; Orange County, Texas; Rutland County, Vermont; Stjørdal and Lånke, Norway; Trelleborg, Sweden; and Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~larsonmorgan/ MAULTs FROM NEW JERSEY. Family data and pictures of MAULT family that immigrated to Paterson, [Passaic County] New Jersey from Ireland in mid-1800s. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mault6861/ RANDALL FAMILY ANCESTRY. The descendants of Christopher RANDALL, and our family tree, by S.M. Randall-Friday. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~randallancestry/index.html SCOTCH-IRISH AND ULSTER SCOTS FAMILY RESEARCH; also provides support to the Scotch-Irish mailing list. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~merle/ TRUEBLOOD Family in America. Contains the contents of the book "The Trueblood Family in America" by Bula Trueblood Watson, copyright 1964. Also any and all updates submitted to Donna BEELER, granddaughter of Bula TRUEBLOOD WATSON. Old family photos, documents and tombstone photos, as well as some obituaries. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dbeeler/Trueblood.html ************************PAID ADVERTISEMENTS************************ SAVE $100s on the genealogy books found on these indexed CDs: VIRGINIA GENEALOGIES AND BIOGRAPHIES http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.cfm?ID=7550 MARYLAND GENEALOGIES AND MARRIAGES http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.cfm?ID=7195 MASSACHUSETTS GENEALOGICAL RECORDS http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.cfm?ID=7526 IRISH IMMIGRANTS TO NORTH AMERICA http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.cfm?ID=7257 Are you SCOTCH-IRISH? Click on the link below for "The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania" and nine other Scotch-Irish books or CDs at http://www.genealogical.com/ http://www.genealogical.com/search_gen.cfm?Cat_ID=SI Visit the GENEALOGY WAREHOUSE. 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Obtain your copy by visiting http://www.history-magazine.com/ **********************END OF PAID ADVERTISEMENTS********************** 6. FROM ROOTSWEB REVIEW'S BOTTOMLESS MAILBAG -------------------------------------------- Rattling the family skeletons By IKThomson piper@uq.net.au My experience is that you must be prepared for many surprises when you start researching your family background. In fact, my dear old mother warned me in the mid-1980s, when began my investigations, that I might discover a few family skeletons. For example. My maternal grandmother, whose maiden name was SHREWSBURY, was a typical middle-class Englishwoman of the late Victorian era. She'd lived in India for 30-odd years before coming back to Chiswick, then a very staid suburb of London. This is when I knew her in the 1930s. A precise person, who, like many people of her generation, lived by a strict set of rules never to be broken. A few years back, to my amazement, I discovered her father, Edward SHREWSBURY, who captained large sailing vessels, had married a 17-year- old girl in Sydney in 1852. The girl's name was Eliza WARD and further research revealed her to be the granddaughter of a notorious female convict named Mary LONG who'd arrived in Australia on the "Lady Juliana" with the Second Fleet in 1790. Mary, when an 18-year-old, had been sentenced to death for assaulting a lady in a street off Covent Garden and stealing her gold locket. Fourteen months later in 1788, this sentence was commuted to a public whipping and transportation to Australia for the term of her natural life. Even when she arrived in Sydney, Mary still wasn't prepared to settle down. As a result of her behaviour, she was sent to Norfolk Island where she was twice flogged for assaulting another woman and using improper language. At that time, the commanding officer described her as "the most abandoned woman on the island." Later, she was allowed back to Sydney however, because of a further misdemeanours, the governor sent her back to Norfolk Island stating she was "a particularly troublesome woman." Finally, Mary settled down with another Second Fleet convict, James WARD, on a property on the Hawkesbury River north of Sydney and there they produced three fine sons, all of whom were successful. The oldest son, also named James, was my 2-great-grandfather, and he became a master mariner. Possibly this is how his oldest daughter, Eliza, met Edward SHREWSBURY, then commanding clipper ships on the Australian run. Eventually, Edward took Eliza back to England where they set up home in a large London house with several servants. This is where my grandmother was born. When I knew her in the 1930s, nothing was ever said about her Australian background. Hardly surprising. Today, in this country, it is quite something to have a convict ancestor particularly one who came here in the First or Second Fleet. In fact, my oldest son, a lawyer in London whose office once looked down upon Covent Garden, quite enjoyed telling his clients that his 4-great-grandmother was convicted of mugging a lady in the street below. How times change. Looking back, whilst my grandmother was a strict disciplinarian, obviously learnt from her father. She also had a tremendous determination shown up when she refused all efforts to get her to go to the public air raid shelters in London during the Second World War. Only an Edwardian lady could have used the excuse, "The people using the shelters are so common and far too familiar." Did the determination come from her mother's side? There is no doubt Mary LONG was a very determined person and perhaps she did have some reason to fight authority. Although I have never studied genetics, I believe the more we know about our ancestors, the more we know about ourselves. 7. 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