RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 6, No. 2, 8 January 2003, Circulation: 1,027,931+ (c) 1998-2003 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com Certification: http://www.bcgcertification.org/certification/ * * * Do not use your e-mail REPLY option to this post-only e-zine and do not send RWR subscription requests and modifications to the editor. Please see Section 9 below for help and e-mail addresses * * * TO FIND YOUR ANCESTORS AND COUSINS: Search for ancestors, cousins, and connections in WorldConnect: http://wc.rootsweb.com/ 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/ Learn how and where to find your ancestors: RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ RootsWeb's HelpDesk is for assistance in using RootsWeb sources -- not for doing your research or finding your ancestors: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ Password Central is for forgotten passwords, user IDs, etc. http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ ======================================================================= In This Issue: 1. News and Notes. (1a.Maximizing Searches on Message Boards; 1b. Tips from Readers: "Technology to the Rescue" 2. Connecting through RootsWeb: "Patience and Persistence Pay Off"; Bridging the Atlantic to Germany" 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, Notes, and Offers 8. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Great, Grand . . . Whatever"; "Cousins by the Dozens"; "He's Not My Cousin, He's My Brother!"; "No Dutch Uncles?" 9. Humor: "Protruding Family Resemblances" 10. RWR Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; Archives; Subscription Modification Instructions ====================================================================== 1. News and Notes: ------------------ 1a. MAXIMIZING SEARCHES ON MESSAGE BOARDS. Click on MESSAGE BOARDS tab at the top of any RootsWeb page or go to: http://boards.rootsweb.com/ You can search all of the message boards, only a particular category, or only one specific board by selecting the appropriate button, but it depends upon your location within the Message Board hierarchy. As your teachers use to tell you: Pay attention! To perform a simple search, type in a surname (last name), a keyword, or a phrase, and click GO! In all searches, keywords or phrases will be searched for the closest to the least exact match--in that order. For a more specific search click on the ADVANCED SEARCH link. A search of all boards is the default. Complete any or all of the items on the ADVANCED SEARCH form: --FIND MESSAGES CONTAINING: (list a keyword or phrase) --WITH SUBJECT CONTAINING: (searches only message subjects) --BY AUTHOR: (the posters' names will be searched) --POSTED IN THE LAST ____: (select a time period from drop-down menu) --WITH SURNAME: (searches only the Surname Box entries) also offers a check box to use a Soundex search. (For information about Soundex, a special index, see: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson9.htm). --WITH MESSAGE TYPE: (Select from the drop-down menu: All, Query, Bible, Biography, Birth, Cemetery, Census, Death, Deed, Immigration, Lookup, Marriage, Military, Obituary, Pension, or Will). Searches on the Message Boards support wildcards represented by an asterisk * or question mark ? following a minimum of the first three letters of the keyword (search term) or surname. You cannot begin a search request surname/keyword with an asterisk or question mark (wildcard) -- you can only use a wildcard after you have started with at least three letters prior to the asterisk or question mark. An asterisk is used to denote anywhere from zero to five missing or unknown characters while the question mark is used only when you are looking for exactly one unknown character. For example: a search for joh* will find John, Johns, or Johnson. However, a search for johns?n will find Johnson or Johnsen but will not find Johnston (because there is more than one missing or unknown letters). Searching for johns*n will, however, locate Johnston in addition to Johnson and Johnsen. You can show more than one question mark to represent more than one missing letter, with each question mark shown representing an additional missing letter. For instance: rob??son will pick up Robinson or Roberson but not Robertson. Searching for rob?son will only pick up Robeson or RObison, while a search for rob*son will find Robeson, Robson, Robinson, Roberson, as well as Robertson. You can extend your wildcard searches to include more than five missing or unknown letters by using a double asterisk **. Search operators you may use are: the plus (+) sign which may be placed in front of any word to indicate that this word MUST appear in a message for it to be considered a match, and the minus sign (-) which may be placed in front of any term you wish to exclude from a search. Do not include a space between the plus or minus sign and the word or name to which it applies. A search for '+jones john -paul' will return only those hits that contain the word 'jones' -- provided the word 'paul' does not also appear in the message. The word "john" may or may not appear in the message. Messages that include both 'john' and 'jones' would rank higher in degree of match (relevancy) than those that only include 'jones'. If you search and get no matches, enter less information or search only by a surname or a keyword. Regardless of the case (upper or lower) found in the actual posts on the message boards, if you will type using all lowercase letters in the search box it will make your search case insensitive, and therefore yield the maximum number of matches. Too many matches? Enter additional data on the ADVANCED SEARCH page to narrow down your results. If the surname for which you are looking is also a common word (such as HILL) use the ADVANCED SEARCH link and search on the surname by typing it into the SURNAME BOX. This enables you to search only message board posts in which this "word" is used as a surname. Searching only on the surname field eliminates authors' names from coming up in your search results. Experiment with these various search options. You may be pleasantly surprised with the results, and start your new year off doing the "happy genie" dance. * * * 1b. Tips from Readers. Technology to the Rescue Thanks to: John W. Grace jwgrace99@yahoo.com A couple of years ago I purchased a document scanner and CD-ROM writer for my PC. Like many people, we used our CD writer to record music, but I soon found the CDs to be very useful as digital archives for genealogical information. The first things that I put on a CD were my descendancy charts. I maintain my charts in text files, and I found that it was easy to convert them into the HTML format that my Internet browser uses. I "write" the HTML-formatted charts onto a CD and whenever a relative with a PC asks for a copy of my chart, I give them a CD. The HTML format allows them to easily view the charts using their Web browser. Like many genealogy "nuts," I have hundreds of old photos, birth and death certificates and the like that I have collected through the years. Now I put scanned images of these onto CDs (usually in the .JPEG image format). I made some small changes in my HTML charts to allow the viewer to click on a link next to a person’s name and bring up a photo or other image associated with that individual. I include a few lines of informa- tion describing the image, any date associated with it, the source, etc. It works great, and only needs to be done once. I also have some recorded audio files that I have linked to my chart so that now we can not only see the family relationship on the chart and view their photo, but also hear their voice! It didn’t require a lot of technical knowledge either. I am now in the process of creating my "ultimate" CD-ROM. My plan is to scan just about everything that I have that’s scannable, and put it all onto CDs. I will then worry much less that a fire, flood or some other disaster will destroy my genealogical treasures. I put copies of my CDs in safe places, so even if the original documents are lost, at least I will still have digital images of them. It’s much more economical to create CDs (about 10 cents each) than it is to make photo copies. So my advice is: "scan everything!" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Patience and Persistence Pay Off --Patricia Bowmaster dpbow@gte.net I thought I'd hit the ultimate brick wall. I was trying to trace the family of my maternal grandmother, Ida Rose McLELLAN. From family records and her immigration application, I knew that she was born in Winnipeg. I'd learned from my mother the first names and birth order of grandmother's siblings, the name of her father, the maiden name of her mother, and that her father was a superintendent with the Canadian Pacific Railroad. I even knew the address in Winnipeg where grandmother lived as a child (from a saved letter sent to a favorite aunt). What I couldn't find was any official documentation. I'd sent to Canada for her birth registration -- none found. I'd spent hours reading microfilms of the 1901 Canadian Census for Winnipeg, Manitoba -- not there. Before his death, I'd asked my mother's brother what he could remember. He remembered being told as a child that his maternal grandfather was an orphan as a result of a fire and had been separated from his only sibling, a sister. I had posted a message on RootsWeb two years ago and had repeatedly searched RootsWeb for any information on grandmother's family. Early in December I received a message from a gentleman named Donald McLELLAN. He had an obituary for his granduncle, John McLELLAN, and thought my great-grandfather and his granduncle might be the same person. I regret- fully replied, including the information from my uncle, that we were probably not related. Fortunately, for me he e-mailed again with some additional information about his granduncle's children. He listed their names as Fred, John, Frank, Mrs. E. B. REYNOLDS, and Rose. Grandmother, always called Rose, had brothers named Fred, John, and Frank and a sister named Agnes. I made a hurried call to my mother to find out what Aunt Aggie's married name was. It was Mrs. E. B. REYNOLDS! Donald McLELLAN had also given me the middle initial of Fred McLELLAN. With that, I searched the 1901 Canadian census on Ancestry.com one more time. I found the whole family -- correct first names, correct birth date for my grandmother, correct birth order for the children. However, the last name had been spelled McLILLAN. From the census, I was able to get birth dates for grandmother's siblings. Between the census and what I learned from Donald McLELLAN, I have gained two generations. Thank You! to RootsWeb and to Donald McLELLAN. [Editor's Note: Vowels are most likely to fall victim to spelling gremlins in surnames. Don't overlook your ancestors because of spelling variants. See: RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees: Why You Can't Find Them http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson8.htm ] * * * Bridging the Atlantic to Germany --Ruediger Kemmler, Munich, Germany. r_kemmler@gmx.de As I'm very interested in the emigration waves that occurred from my hometown area in Germany, I have extracted more than 1,400 names of emigrants from the church records and posted them on WorldConnect. When I started genealogy research three years ago I used RootsWeb.com, Ancestry.com, and the familysearch.org sites to find out more about the family name of KEMMLER and other family members. In most cases submitters had KEMMLER ladies in their pedigree who had married into other families, but my core lines hadn't be explored so far. Luckily I found very fast relationships to cousins in the United States. This experience, together with the information retrieved from the book "Die Auswanderung auf den Härten," hooked me into doing to an emigration project. Beside my continuing local research for the name KEMMLER I started research for the name and the spelling variations (KEMLER, KIMLER, KÄMMLER) on a worldwide basis. After my first experiences where I encountered the difficulties to find the right locations I decided to post my emigrants regularly on WorldConnect. So at least if somebody has name and birth date, he can find the entry and I can help further. In addition I have created a personal website that provides maps, addresses, historical information and also some pictures about the way of life today and in former days. This website is entirely in English, with only some entry pages in German and French. On this website you can also find all my emigrants. These pages are updated frequently. With these two measures I hope, that any researcher who has a KEMMLER link will contact me and we will be able to establish a network of data and share information. In the meantime my core database has more than 12,000 entries mainly from the former Kingdom of Wuerttemberg, thereof are about 1.900 KEMMLER and 1,440 emigrants and another 800, mainly KEMMLERs, in a second database, where I'm collecting the data, which doesn't match so far. The high number of emigrants results in the transcription of the church records of my hometown and the neighboring towns of Wankheim, Maehringen, Immenhausen. Jettenburg, and Kusterdingen. So far I have found about 95 percent of the emigrants listed as families in the book. The advantage of my database is, that I have also the information about the children, if they emigrated with their parents. These emigrants are not limited to KEMMLER, there also other very common names of our area like BADER, BAUER, BRAUN, DIGEL, GRAUER, MAIER, OTT, RIEHLE, SCHETTLER, WALKER, and WANDEL to list some of them. So if you find an entry of interest in my database, contact me, because normally I can provide more information on this person and his ancestry. Please see: Emigration from the Haerten Area on WorldConnect: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=%3A2350731 Ruediger Kemmler's Genealogy Homepage: http://home.nexgo.de/r.kemmler/ 3. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ --------------------------------------------- The following datasets have come online recently (these are name searchable, but they are not browseable): U.S.A.: Book Indexes: Index to the Congregational Church in Minnesota 1,887 records; Charles G. Deutsch http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ Military Records: Army Air Force Technical Training Course, Murray State College,Tishomingo OK, March 1943 427 records; Betty Ulrich Cooper http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ Military Records: U.S. Army 3156th Signal Service Company Roster; WWII--1945; 161 records; Tom Brown http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ Obituaries: Selected Obituaries, Louisiana, Illinois, and Virginia 55 records; Kate Johnson http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ ALABAMA. Dale County. Dale County Alabama 1830 Census Index 301 records; Robert Bellamy http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ ARKANSAS. Newton County. Hasty Cemetery 128 records; Amanda Yarborough http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ CALIFORNIA. Santa Cruz County. Watsonville High School, 1916 Manzanitas; 319 records; Janece Carter Streig for the Pajaro Valley Historical Association http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ INDIANA. Tippecanoe County. Selected Tombstone Data -- West Point Cemetery; 38 records; Dale Smith http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ OKLAHOMA. Oklahoma County. Sunny Lane Cemetery Section 15, Del City 414 records; Jim Woodruff http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ PENNSYLVANIA. Fulton County. 1920 Fulton County Census Index (Ayr/Belfast Township) 620 records; Scott L. Byrd http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ * * * Who Has the Data? Does your state, province, county, parish, church, old military unit, or alma mater have material with a few names or thousands of names available that you think would be of interest to genealogists and historians? Do you have a list of names or a database that you think would be of value and interest to others? In most cases, RootsWeb would be proud to host it. Such user databases are other than your family tree since family trees can be posted at WorldConnect: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ See the guidelines, tutorial and examples of data formats for user- contributed data. Large or small files are welcome. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/guidelines.html Please use this submission form: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ 4. New Webpages at RootsWeb To Request a Free Web Account: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Some of these pages might not yet be accessible. They are created by volunteers, so 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: British Columbia Genealogical Society website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~bcgs/ CANADA bcgs --British Columbia Genealogical Society GERMANY deutg --Germany Transcribe Group U.S.A. arsma --Southern Memorial Association (Confederate Cemetery caretakers at Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas) flcthono --Thonotosassa, Hillsborough County, Florida fltcdar --Tampa Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Hillsborough County, Florida) iltazewe --Tazewell County, Illinois moccgs --Cass County Genealogical Society (Missouri) msahgp --Mississippi American History Genealogy Project msholmes --Holmes County, Mississippi nericchs --Richardson County Historical Society (Nebraska) nybhccar --Bemis Heights Chapter, Saratoga Springs, New York, National Society Children of the American Revolution ohalncem --Allen County, Ohio Cemetery Records pacalahs --California Area Historical Society (Pennsylvania) 5. New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- For more information and an index to the more than 26,100 RootsWeb- hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and easy subscribing options, go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ New Surname Mailing Lists: ARSENAULT, AUSTREW BAILES, BREARLEY, BUIS COCKING, COLLUMS, COLWATER, COLYOTT, CONTE, CRAWFORTH, CUFF COLE-UK -- The COLE surname in the United Kingdom DENZER, DOUT ELGIE FORKNER GADOW, GOMER, GONTERMAN, GULEN HAUB, HEAVIN, HEMANN, HIMMELSBACH, HINZ, HOLTHOUSE HOLLAND-UK -- The HOLLAND surname in the United Kingdom JASINSKY KEEPERS LUKOMSKI MCCAMMACK, MCMUNN, MORSS, MOURIK, MYHILL NARKATES ODD PERCIC, PLUMIER, PROUGH REDINGER, ROUGEMONT, RUGGIERO SCARBROCK, SCHON, SINFIELD, SPITTY, SPORTS, STALLMAN TRAFTON, TRAYFORD WALBOURNE, WHITESEL, WHITTY, WRATTEN ZINKE, ZWICKER New Regional Mailing Lists: UK-BURBAGE -- Village of Burbage, Wiltshire, United Kingdom 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 AMERICAN RIVERS and WATERWAYS. American migration was often by way of rivers and waterways. These are as important to study as are the early roads and trails. This nicely done site also links to related web pages. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gentutor/rivers.html BLUMENFELD. Surnames included are BAUM, BLUMENFELD, GOLDSTEIN, GOLDSTONE, KLEIN, KRUTCH, MAGNUS, MEYER, NEUMAN, SAMTER, and SILBERMANN. This website pertains to a branch of the Blumenfeld family that goes back to Simon Isaak BLUMENFELD from Mitau, Courland (now Jelgava, Latvia) who was born in 1770. Descendents of S.I. BLUMENFELD may be found on at least four continents. Includes information about the author's great-great-grandfather Joseph and his son Mendel. Joseph moved to Hamburg and Johanna immigrated with her sister to New York in 1888 and married in 1892. The site contains some unique material, including a family history written in German in 1943 that references a Hamburg newspaper article about Simon Isaac BLUMENFELD printed in 1825 and provides some family pictures and additional treasures. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blumenfeld/ FITZPATRICK. Pertains to more than 100 Fitzpatricks -- descendants of Michael Fitzpatrick (born in Ireland about 1799) who immigrated to New Brunswick, Canada about 1826. Other surnames: LEVESQUE, NOWLAN, PHELAN, DONOVAN, MCMAHON, YOUNG, HARRINGTON, COX, and MURDOCH. Descendants are found in New Brunswick, Oregon, Massachusetts and other regions. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fitzpatricklevesque/ GRIFFIN. Anywhere, anytime -- this is a site that lists those who search for their GRIFFIN ancestors and a short list of those ancestors. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~griffin/ ======================= Paid Advertisements ======================== $30 OFF a Hooked on Phonics Program Special Limited Time Offer! Click here to get $30 OFF a Hooked on Phonics program, the #1 trusted name in teaching children to read. Hooked on Phonics will improve your child's reading in 4 weeks, guaranteed. Designed for children age 3 and up. CLICK HERE NOW TO SAVE $30! http://psstt.com/1/c/169129/86259/232802/232802 * * * FREE Inventors Kit from Inventors Helpline! Want to turn your ideas into success? Get a FREE Inventors Kit form Inventors Helpline. CLICK HERE! http://psstt.com/1/c/169129/73876/232802/232802 * * * Lower your payments up to 50% today! 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Images for Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Cornwall, Kent, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and most of the Channel Islands are also now available, with plans to publish new census images each week. Corresponding indexes will be released over the next few months, with hopes to be completely imaged and indexed by mid-2003. The 1891 England and Wales Census brings the total names available to subscribers of the U.K. & Ireland Collection to 100 million. Click to view a free sample, or support RootsWeb.com by subscribing today. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?sourceid=1380&targetid=4052 * * * LEARN ONLINE. http://www.myfamily.com/isapi.dll?c=home&htx=gentraining Class fees ($29.95 per class) include a 30-day subscription to Ancestry.com (including online census images). HOW TO WRITE YOUR FAMILY HISTORY & NEWSLETTER CLASS. Starts January 14. Learn how to write your family's story and newsletter with help from family history expert, Cindy Rowzee. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3559&sourceid=481 INTERMEDIATE GENEALOGY RESEARCH CLASS. Starts January 15. Are you beyond the basic research of your family tree? This new class, taught by George Morgan, will teach you how to research beyond the basics. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3668&sourceid=481 ITALIAN RESEARCH CLASS. Starts January 16. Finding my 'Famiglia': This class offers information on the hidden truths in death records, how to interpret birth records, how to locate possible relatives, basic interpretation, how to find where the records are, and much more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3729&sourceid=481 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Great, Grand ... Whatever Regarding your editor's note from RWR:5:52, 25 December 2002 in re: Some kinship purists wonder why so many genealogists refer to a "great-aunt" or "great-uncle" when they really mean a grandaunt or granduncle -- the sibling of one's grandmother or grandfather? Years ago when my daughter was young, she produced her own solution to the confusing titles she heard Mary being called. Her grandpa called her simply Mary. Her dad called her Aunt Mary. Her cousin called her Grandma. We tried to call her Great-Aunt Mary and Grand-Aunt Mary, but my daughter created her own title for her: Aunt-Grandma Mary. This has become a family title used on both sides, by many of the cousins, and Mary LOVES it. --Bennett, Leslie S leslie.s.bennett@lmco.com * * * Cousins by the Dozens In reply to Rick Van Dusen's observations regarding "British reserve" at being addressed as "Sugar" and "Honey," I would point out that in the UK, depending on location, he might be addressed as "Love, Darling, or M'duck." I would like to think that maybe we are not as reserved as some Americans think and that we are truly "cousins" in any interpretation or usage of the word. --Barry Hall BarryMaryHall@aol.com> * * * He's Not My Cousin, He's My Brother! The exchange about the kinship term "cousin" reflects our approach to kin terminology based on the nuclear family, generational, and blood relationship. We should be so thankful that it is simple. How about doing genealogy among the Crow Indians, now living in Montana, their aboriginal kin system ignored these principles of nuclear family and generational differences. In Crow, mother's sister's children were called "brother" or "sister." After all mother's sister was also called "mother" and therefore her children had to be brothers and sisters. Mother's brother's children were called "son" or "daughter." If you were male, you would call mother's brother's spouse "wife." Clearly if you had a wife/husband relationship, then the offspring would be your children. I won't even go into the father's side of the equation where the father's sister's male child is called "father." --Lathel F. Duffield OsiO@aol.com * * * No Dutch Uncles? I would add to this "Auntie/Uncle" discussion: Back in the OLD days, when the Vikings/Normans settled in merry old England, and where their descendants most likely remain to this day, the custom of referring to the male and female friend of the family is, even today in modern Sweden, for the young children to use the word "Tant," pronounced tah- nt, for female relatives and friends, and "farbror" (far-bror), which translated means father's brother, for male relatives and family friends. In most cases, doing this is not required, but those children who are taught to be polite, do it. --John Grimes carolned@pon.net 9. Humor: Protruding Family Resemblances --------------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Stan Hingston stanhingston@sasktel.net There is a family trait on my grandmother's side of a prominent posterior known affectionately as the "Ross Rump." Replying to a question on its history, my mother innocently replied: "Oh, it goes back a long ways." 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. 6, No. 2, 8 January 2003. * * * *