RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 5, No. 51, 18 December 2002, Circulation: 1,029,698+ (c) 1998-2002 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com Certification: http://www.bcgcertification.org/certification/ * * * Post your genealogical queries on all relevant surname, locality, and topic message boards and mailing lists: Message Boards: http://boards.rootsweb.com/ Mailing Lists: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ Search for links, clues and connections in WorldConnect: http://wc.rootsweb.com/ RootsWeb's HelpDesk: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ RootsWeb's Password Central: Forgotten passwords, user IDs, etc. http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ * * * Do not use your REPLY option to this post-only e-zine and do not send RWR subscription requests and modifications to the editor. Please see Section 10 below for help/instructions and addresses ======================================================================= In This Issue: 1. News and Notes. (1a. 'Tis the Season; 1b. Updating Secrets of WorldConnect; 1c. Tips from Readers: "Genealogy Insurance" 2. Connecting through RootsWeb: "Picture This Gift" 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New Webpages at RootsWeb 5. New RootsWeb Mailing Lists 6. New FreePages and HomePages (personal webpages at RootsWeb) 7. Ancestry.com News and Notes: 1930 U.S. Federal Census Index Completed 8. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Dealing with a Peculiar Family Tradition"; "Americans: Watch Those Kinships" 9. Humor: "Perfect Occupation on a Frosty Morning" 10. RWR Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; Archives; Subscription Modification Instructions ====================================================================== 1. News and Notes: ------------------ 1a. 'Tis the Season . . . A Christmas Story, 1881. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilwayne/stories/xmas-1881.html Rekindling the Traditions of Christmases Past http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/19.asp My Last Real Christmas Tree; The Donder Affair; and Popcorn Stuffing from New Zealand: http://www.petuniapress.com/ A Genealogical Christmas Story http://www.ancestry.com/library/print/columns/george/3064.htm A Present for Your Descendants http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/3066.asp Christmas Around the World http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/ Christmas in Australia http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/australia.html * * * 1b. UPDATING SECRETS OF WORLDCONNECT. Discovered some new information on your families? Need to update, revise, or correct information on a GEDCOM that you submitted to WorldConnect? Has your e-mail address changed since you first submitted your file? Read on: Keep in mind that to update your WorldConnect files: --It is not necessary to delete the old file. --It is not necessary to create a new account (user code) Here's how to update your WorldConnect material: --Revise/update the data in your genealogy software program --Create a new GEDCOM --Go to the main WorldConnect page: http://wc.rootsweb.com/ --Click on the option that says: ALSO, GO HERE TO UPDATE OR CORRECT YOUR EXISTING FAMILY TREE Enter the user code and password for your existing GEDCOM that you wish to change (the same ones you used when originally uploading the GEDCOM). If you don't remember your user code and/or password, have them sent to you by e-mail from Password Central: http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ --if you have the same e-mail address. If your e-mail address has changed and you are not able to retrieve mail at the old one, you will have to contact RootsWeb's HelpDesk for your account information. http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help.cgi You can choose either the Standard or Advanced Set-up Page in updating your account. However, use the Advanced option if you previously used it, or if you wish to customize items not included on the Standard option. Choose the Advanced option if you submitted or last updated your GEDCOM before there was a choice of Standard and Advanced. CAUTION: If you see a message that says "you are about to create a new GEDCOM account. If this was not what you intended, click the Oops button" -- it means that you have NOT entered the exact user code and password you originally used for your existing account. Once you are certain you are viewing the Set-up Page for your existing WorldConnect account, specify the location of the new GEDCOM that you wish to upload in the appropriate box on the Set-up Page -- either by typing it in or browsing to it on your computer. A new file will overwrite the old one as long as you use the same WorldConnect user code and password. You do NOT need to remove your old GEDCOM before uploading your revised one. If you do not enter the path/location of a new GEDCOM in the appropriate box, WorldConnect assumes you wish to update the *options* for the existing GEDCOM rather than upload a new one. Your viewable WorldConnect file is a composite of the GEDCOM you upload and the *options* you select on the Set-up Page. These include your owner information, password, display options (selections), and download options. Unlike changes you make to the GEDCOM itself, changes in your selected options can be made without uploading a revised file (i.e. leaving the location of GEDCOM box blank). Probably the most common option change involves updating your e-mail address. Keep your e-mail address current for your WorldConnect account. This makes it easier for your cousins to find you. If your e-mail address changes and you have not updated it at WorldConnect, you might miss an important connection. Before you leave your old ISP or change your e- mail address, be sure that you have recorded the original user code and password for your account. If you need to request your account information from Password Central be sure to do it while you still can receive mail at your old e-mail address as that is where the information will be sent. Otherwise, you will need to contact the HelpDesk as indicated above. After completing the options to be changed and/or specifying the path of the new GEDCOM to be uploaded, click on the upload/update button to re- process the existing GEDCOM or upload the new one. Wait for the message confirming that the upload was successful if you were uploading a new GEDCOM, or that the current GEDCOM has been reprocessed if you are not. Have just a few minor corrections or updates to make to your GEDCOM? The easy thing to do is attach them to the appropriate individuals in your WorldConnect file by using Post-em Notes (user-added notes) rather than uploading a new file. That way you can wait until you have a sufficient amount of new and corrected information to warrant creating and uploading a new GEDCOM -- and have the time to do it. When you update your GEDCOM on WorldConnect, in most cases any Post-em Notes attached to your file are not disturbed. Post-em Notes are maintained in a separate database from your file. They attach to an individual's record in your file by means of that individual's ID number. Most genealogy programs do not renumber the individuals in a file when the database is amended, and provided this is true of your program, your Post-em Notes will still be attached to the correct individual in your file once your new file is uploaded. However, if you remove the record of an individual to whose ID number a Post-em Note was attached, the note will continue to exist, but it will not be attached to anything. It is recommended that you submit your intact (complete file) GEDCOM and allow WorldConnect's filters to display or hide data according to the options you choose -- deleting notes, sources, and/or specified GEDCOM tags, or even removing designated individuals from the information publicly displayed, should you choose to do so. Two copies of your GEDCOM are maintained on file at WorldConnect -- one for public display that includes only what you specify, and a second that is not displayed that contains all the data you submitted. The intact version of your file is available only to you should you ever need to download it to replace lost data on your own computer. It is a perfect off-site back-up for your previous GEDCOM. To learn about the options available on the Advanced Set-up Page when uploading a revised GEDCOM (the Advanced Set-up Page is not recommended for first-time submitters), see: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/FAQ/wcsubmit4.html You may upload as many GEDCOMs as you would like to WorldConnect. For example, you might prefer to submit separate family trees for your mother's JONES family and your father's SMITH line, as well as your spouse's BAKER and THOMPSON families. Many submitters have successfully uploaded multiple GEDCOMs. However, each GEDCOM must have its own unique submitter-selected user code (but you can use the same or different passwords for each account -- your choice). A word of caution though: If you upload a completely new and different GEDCOM using an existing user code, it will overwrite (erase) the previously existing file that has that user code, so pay attention to your WorldConnect user code(s). * * * 1c. TIPS FROM READERS. Genealogy Insurance Thanks to: Dave Johnston, davensjohnston@sprintmail.com Self-appointed Family Historian/Genealogist Using GEDCOM to put a copy your genealogical database online with WorldConnect is like buying a fabulous insurance policy for your data. Keep it current and should you ever (or when you lose) your hard drive, after your repair, you'll be able to get back all your genealogical data. Most insurance policies cost you money -- this one is free! What more could you ask for? The more current you keep your WorldConnect GECOM copy, the less data you will have lost. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Picture This Gift --Michelle Holland michelleh@ev1.net Last month I lost my Aunt Ruby to diabetes. She had lived a relatively long life, and will be greatly missed. She never married or had any children, but had lived many years with a man named Paul, who had children from a previous marriage. A few weeks later, my mother and I received a package from my second cousin that was packed with pictures. After sorting through all the photos, we found that we still had tons of pictures of people we could not identify. Because of my love of genealogy, I just could not bring myself to toss out these photographs, so I sat cross-legged on the floor and began the process of sorting and organizing them based on the people in them. Next I studied the little bit of handwritten information on the backs of some of them and came up with a list of names of most of the people in these pictures. I discovered they were pictures of Paul's children, and their children's, graduations, marriages, school photos, and there was even a marriage license. I posted the names of the people to the corresponding surname and U.S. state message boards with a brief explanation about how the photos came into my possession. Viola! A few weeks later, I received an e-mail and phone number from a nice woman named Sherri, who identified herself as Paul's niece. I called her immediately and she told me that she had just hooked up her home computer and one of the first things she did was navigate to RootsWeb, where she found my post. Thanks to RootsWeb, I found a home for these priceless memories. 3. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ --------------------------------------------- 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 any compiled lists of names or databases -- other than your personal family tree (genealogies can be posted at WorldConnect: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ ) -- that you would like to share and 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/ * * * The following datasets have come online recently (these are name searchable, but they are not browseable): AUSTRALIA. Ryerson Index -- additions since August 2002 16,228 records; Sydney DPS http://userdb.rootsweb.com/aus/ IDAHO. Idaho Deaths 1911-1915 13,276 records; Karen J. Lowe http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ IDAHO. Idaho Death Index 1916-1920 19,526 records; Vicki Barker and Idaho Department of Health and Welfare http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ ILLINOIS. Cook County. Death Index 1871-1916; TA surnames 88 records; Andrea Ackermann http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ MICHIGAN. Iron County. Mineral Hills Jubilee Historical Album, 1918-1968 471 records; Dale Safford http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Hillsborough County. 1973 Yearbook, Goffstown High School 159 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Hillsborough County. 1974 Yearbook, Goffstown High School 204 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ NEW HAMPSHIRE. Hillsborough County. 1975 Yearbook, Goffstown High School 188 records; Cindy Godbout http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ 4. New Webpages at RootsWeb Request a Free Web Account: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Some of these pages 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/~[accountname] Note that the ~[tilde] before the Web account name is required. Example: County Antrim, Northern Ireland website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nirantri/ CANADA abclgc -- Cold Lake and District Genealogy Club (Alberta) NORTHERN IRELAND nirantri -- Antrim U.S.A. garlcdar -- Robert Loughridge Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Chatsworth, Murray County, Georgia) ilobits -- Illinois Obituaries inwwhs -- Westfield-Washington Historical Society (Hamilton County, Indiana) macspenc -- Spencer, Worcester County, Massachusetts mocaschs -- Cass County Historical Society, Inc. (Missouri) momadiso -- Madison County, Missouri ncdursg -- Durham County Saving Graves Project, North Carolina ncmontg2 -- Montgomery County, North Carolina nmttgs -- Totah Tracers Genealogical Society (San Juan County, New Mexico) nvjcfdar -- John C. Fremont Chapter, National Society Daughters of American Revolution (Carson City, Nevada) vahchs -- Hanover County Historical Society, Inc. (Virginia) 5. New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Note: The following are Mailing Lists -- not webpages. For more information and an index to the more than 26,000 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and easy subscribing options, go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS APPERSON BIRSTON, BITTIKOFER, BROADBRIDGE, BUISSON CORNFORD, CORNING, COZARD GIESEKING LOPPE MACQUIRE, MCEWING, MCLEODS, MCQUIRE, MISER, MOWELL OGLEY PIEARS RODENBAUGH YEAMANS NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS ENG-YKS-LEEDS -- Leeds, Yorkshire, England NOR-BUSKERUD -- Buskerud (division), Norway SCT-MIDDLE-MARCHES -- Middle Marches area of Scotland until 1603 * * * To subscribe or unsubscribe to/from any RootsWeb-hosted Mailing List, send a plain text e-mail message with only the word SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the message body and the subject line to: [name of list]-L-request@rootsweb.com (for mail mode) or to: [name of list]-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode) 6. New Personal Freepages and Homepages at RootsWeb ---------------------------------------------------- Note: Comments and questions about any of these independently authored webpages should be directed to their respective compilers/webmasters. When your new, updated, or substantially revised personal pages located at RootsWeb (they will have "freepages" or "homepages" in the URL) are up and ready for visitors, please send the URL (Web address), along with a brief description, including the major pertinent surnames and what is available on your site, to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com * * * CORNWALL. St. Austell Parish, located in the south-central section of Cornwall, was originally part of the Hundred of Powder (Pyder). It is bordered on the east by Par, St. Blazey, and Luxulyan parishes, on the north by Roche, and on the west by St. Stephen in Brannel, St. Mewan, and St. Ewe parishes. Mevagissey is just to its south. It is about 14 miles east of Truro. There are transcriptions of parish marriage registers from 1565 now on at this website, as well as some baptisms and deaths, as well as maps, history, and photos of the parish. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staustell/ ENGLAND. History of The Grove, Stanmore, Middlesex, England. A history of the owners and occupiers of The Grove, traced back over 200 years. Evidence is backed by maps, census returns, photographs, land registry documents, etc. Includes: Joseph GILLOTT, Victorian penmaker the first producer of mass production pen nibs; Eliza BRIGHTWEN, Victorian naturalist and author; Edwina ASHLEY, wife of Lord Mountbatten; Mrs. Florence CUNARD, wife of Cunard director, GEC Marconi Defence Company, and BAE Systems. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~thegrove/ GORDON (surname) DNA PROJECT. A new DNA Project is in the works for the GORDON family. Check it out at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gordondna/ MARLOW and related families from the Wilkes County, North Carolina area. Includes deaths, deeds, marriages, photos, and wills. http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~bmbranches/ MILLER, BUSINGER, SLY, DIMICK, LONG, KINDERVATER, HOLZHAUER, AVERY, BRAND, LIMMER, MEEKER, and URBAN. Primary locality is Wood County, Ohio. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cataplin/ ROGERS, ASHDOWN, BURR, LUCK, FORDHAM, HAMMOND, FREEMAN, ELKINGTON (all of England) plus many other sub-branches.ROGERS in parish records of St. John the Baptist -- Hoxton, St. Saviour Southwark, 1861 and 1871 census Shoreditch, 1891 Census Nottinghamshire, Coventry, ASHDOWN births, marriages and deaths in NSW Australia; in Pigots 1839 Directory of Kent; in parish records of Tonbridge, East Peckham, Kent; and Chiddingstone, Kent 1861 census. Selected parish transcripts from Beckley, Ewhurst, Warnham, Shipley, and Horsham in Sussex. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rogers/ TEXAS. Texas heritage of surnames including: ADAMS, BEENE, BIBLE, BINCKELE, BOONE, BUETTNER, CARLYSLE, CHERRY, CLARK, CLEARY, COLLIER, COTTON, COX, DANIEL, DRISKILL, ELLISON, FRY, FULTON, FUTTERER, GIBSON, GRAF, GREER, GUNTER, HARDING, HARDY, HARKY, HEINZE, HENTSCHEL, HOOD, HUBENTHAL, KLINKSIECK, KRAKOWSKY, KUBITZ, LOVIT, LYERLY, MARTIN, MOORE, MOTZ, MROSZKE, MULLER, MYERS, OBENHAUS, PETKOW, PHEARS, PROFFITT, PYE, ROBERTSON, SCHIMAN, SCHLAEBERIN, SCHMIDT, SCHNEIDER, SCHOPPA, THOMAS, TIEMANN, TZCHIEDER, WEHMEIER, WHITE, WILSON, and ZOCH. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~danielcollier/ TRACY, DENNEHY Family Genealogy. Surnames include: BRETT, DARCY, DORE, GAINEY, HANLON, KEMPER, MAHER, McCARTHY, McGRATH, McLAUGHLIN, QUINLAN, and WEBER. The TRACY line has been traced to Watertown and Somerville, Massachusetts and to Borris, County Carlow, Ireland. The DENNEHY line has been traced to Somerville, Massachusetts http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tracyfamilygenealogy/ YOUNG, CLEAL, BARRETT, MULLETT, OATEY, MICHELL, ELLIS, JURY -- from London, Cornwall, and Ireland -- dating back to the 1600s, all researched from Melbourne, Australia with the help of the IGI, RootsWeb, Ancestry.com, and many individuals (some were complete strangers). Being prepared is a searchable database for passengers travelling to South Australia from 1836 to 1865, and a searchable database of burials in Phillack, Hayle, and surrounding districts in Cornwall from 1500s-1800s. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dicummings/Index.htm ===================== Paid Advertisements ======================= RISK-FREE BRITISH RESEARCH! BRITISH ANCESTORS offer a NO-FIND NO-FEE service. All researchers are UK-based with access to original records. 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News and Notes from Ancestry.com ----------------------------------- Ancestry.com completes the 1930 U.S. federal census index today -- ahead of schedule. The completion goal for this 124-million-name, every-name census index was the end of the year. This final update to the 1930 census index adds 33.5 million names, including all of Alaska Territory, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming, along with updates to some previously released states. * * * Old newspapers have been known to be a great resource researchers use to discover their ancestors. The Ancestry Historical Newspaper Collection gives subscribers access to articles from a variety of U.S. newspapers. This collection not only documents history, but also helps genealogists relate to the world their ancestors lived in. There was a time when "Letters to Santa" were printed by the dozen in newspapers. Although the tradition has stopped, the Ancestry Historical Newspaper Collection includes some of these letters -- documenting yet another part of our past and they way things use to be. Click here to view these letters, or support RootsWeb by subscribing: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?sourceid=3402&targetid=4141 8. From RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag [Editor's note: The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the editor or of RootsWeb.com]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dealing with a Peculiar Family Tradition --Susan Buce buce@gorge.net http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~buce Do you remember the first time you realized your family was not quite "normal"? I do. I was about 7 years old. It was December 24. After years of being bested by my brother, I turned my eye toward easier prey. I decided to pay my next-door-neighbor, and best friend, Janet a visit. When she answered the door I struck like a bolt of lightning. I was sneaky, fast -- and I GOT her! With smugness in my voice I shouted, "CHRISTMAS EVE GIFT!" Her reply was underwhelming. It was something along the line of, "Huhwha?" I was stunned. I had just pulled off a major coup, and my victim didn't even appreciate the fact. Then the realization hit me... she didn't KNOW about "Christmas Eve Gift!" I felt betrayed by my family, sent off into the world ill-informed -- and even worse -- loaded with "family-isms" that would only serve to make me a laughingstock with my friends. "Christmas Eve Gift" is one of those peculiar family customs shared in my BUCE branch of the family. It is best described as a game of verbal tag. (Or, depending on the enthusiasm of the participants, verbal warfare.) The only catch is that once you've been "gotten" you are out of the game with that person for the year, and you have to wait an excruciatingly long 365 days to catch them again. The rules of "Christmas Eve Gift" are simple: --It can only be played on Christmas Eve (which, by the way, begins at the first nanosecond past 12:00 a.m.) --You must say the words "Christmas Eve Gift" to them before they say it to you. --Any form of deceit or subterfuge is allowed, provided it assures you success. --Whoever "gets" someone first is the winner. Whoever "gets got" is not only a miserable loser, they are a miserable loser for an ENTIRE YEAR without a chance for redemption until the next year. We have the most trouble when indoctrinating new spouses who marry into the family. It takes 20 years or more to get them into the spirit of the game, and they never quite develop the competitive edge you get from the birth family. My brother was notorious for setting his alarm clock for 12:01 a.m. on Christmas Eve. He would tiptoe through the house, waking his unsuspecting victims, and hissing "Christmas Eve Gift!" It does not pay to shout in the dead of night, not until you've gotten the last victim sleeping in the house. It backfires too easily. If someone hears you "Christmas Eve Gifting" someone else, they will lie awake in their bed and the moment you slowly begin opening that bedroom door in the dark, they'll lash out and suddenly the "gifter" becomes the "giftee." As adults we have all taken the low road. On Christmas Eve, every one of us answers the phone "Christmas Eve Gift!" For those of us who have to work on that day, this leads to some embarrassment. I think we've all had an opportunity to explain to some poor unsuspecting customer or co- worker, "Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were a family member . . . no, it's just a family thing we do." For years now, I've been trying to figure out where this weird little custom originated. As far as I know, most people who observe this custom have roots in Oklahoma, but since I posted a webpage about it, I received a response from someone in Tennessee who says her family does it too. I have long wondered where this bizarre family custom comes from, and to what extent the game is played. Part of it is my curiosity, as a genealogist, to track a family custom down to its source. The other part of me figures that if I can locate others who play, there'll be a whole new herd of victims come Christmas Eve! * * * Americans: Watch Those Kinships --Ron Spiers rg.spiers@ntlworld.com The Oxford English Dictionary gives the definition of the word cousin as a child of one's uncle or aunt, also called a first cousin; a child of one's parent's first cousin is a second cousin. I am English and find the loose use of the word by, mainly Americans, for anyone with the same surname, even if there is no relationship at all, to be misleading. So why not use it correctly? 9. Humor: Perfect Occupation on a Frosty Morning ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks to: Robert F. Roseberry rosebud1@sunflower.com I love your Humor section. On the same census page as my 3rd-great- grandfather James ROSEBERRY in 1850 Franklin County, Indiana, I found a gentleman whose occupation is given as "Laying in Bed." He is John CHAPMAN, listed on the fifth line from the top of the page at this site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~smith/HTML/338B.HTM 10. Submission Guidelines, Reprint Policy, RWR Archives, Subscriptions ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The RootsWeb Review does not publish or answer genealogical queries, and the editor regrets that she is unable to provide any personal research assistance or advice. RootsWeb Review welcomes short (500 words or less) articles, humor, stories, or letters and reserves the right to edit all submissions. All mail sent to the RootsWeb Review editor is considered to be for publication; send in plain text (no html, stationery, or attachments) to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com * * * Search/download all back issues of RootsWeb Review: http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ * * * Do not send RWR subscription requests and modifications to the editor. Please use the following RWR addresses: RWR-on@rootsweb.com -- adds you to the RWR Mailing List. RWR-off@rootsweb.com -- removes you from the RWR Mailing List. * * * 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: Previously published in RootsWeb Review: Vol. 5, No. 51, 18 December 2002. * * * *