RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 6, No. 18, 30 April 2003, Circulation: 995,754+ (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 send any subscription changes to the editor See Section 9 for guidelines and instructions ================================================================= In This Issue: 1. News and Notes. (1a. Spotlight on Volunteers; 1b. WC/AWT: Finding One Tree Within a Forest; 1c. Tips from Readers: On Seeing Better; 1d. Heard on the Mailing Lists: Creating Calling; 1e. Using Search Engines: Googling Your Ancestors; 1f. Errors Found in Records: Can You Top These?) 2. Connecting through RootsWeb: Finding Cousins; Making Friends; Gettysburg Police Turn to RootsWeb 3. New Webpages at RootsWeb 4. New RootsWeb Mailing Lists 5. New User-contributed Databases 6. New FreePages and HomePages (personal webpages at RootsWeb) 7. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: TO CAP or NOT to CAP?; Casting Bread Upon the Waters; Heeding an Old Saying; Working Together; Exposing Our Roots; Lighten Up, Grumps! Turning Up New Branches; Looking at the Bigger Picture; and Preserving My Tree 8. Humor: Blazing Error 9. RWR Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; Archives; Addresses; Subscription Modification Instructions; Advertising Contacts ================================================================== 1a. NEWS AND NOTES. Spotlight on Volunteers As April comes to an end, so does RootsWeb.com's Volunteer Appreciation Month. We thank everyone for their participation in showing appreciation to our many volunteers. The volunteers mentioned by name are only a fraction of those who donate their time and talent to this organization. We sincerely appreciate your dedication, and realize that RootsWeb.com would not be the same without you. For the past year, we have been spotlighting volunteers on a monthly basis, and will continue to do so. For the month of May, we spotlight Timothy Robinson, who has made a tremendous impact on the genealogical community. For more information on Timothy, please visit our Volunteer Spotlight Page. http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/spotlight/ * * * 1b. WC/AWT: FINDING ONE TREE WITHIN A FOREST. If you are searching for an ancestor in the combined WorldConnect/Ancestry World Tree database, but the person you are looking for has an impossibly common name such as John SMITH -- what to do? How can you find your John Smith within this veritable forest of John Smiths? Step 1. Start here to use WorldConnect global search: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi Step 2. Do you know the middle name or initial of your John SMITH? If so, include it along with the given name in the appropriate box. Do you know the birth/death place and/or date? Include the information you know. Use estimated or approximate dates if exact dates are not known using the menus provided for this purpose. Include information about the father, mother, spouse, if known. Step 3. Use the OMIT BLANKS (Birth or Death Place) option to exclude databases that do not include this information (meaning they are blank). If you have a database on WorldConnect that includes your John SMITH and you do not want your own data included in your search results -- use the SKIP DATABASE option. Or, as an alternate option, to easily locate matches for your John SMITH, find him in the family tree you submitted, or when you initially find your John SMITH using the above advanced search methods, click on the SEARCH WORLDCONNECT link that is located near the bottom of the page where your John SMITH's entry appears. This link will find any additional matching John SMITHs in the combined WorldConnect/AWT database. * * * 1c. TIPS FROM READERS. On Seeing Better Keep a pair of "drugstore" glasses that enlarge the type next to the computer. Use them when reading on the computer monitor instead of your bifocals -- it really works. --Colleen Casey CCasey5156@aol.com * * * Before you go to either the optometrist or the drugstore, measure the distance from your eyes to your monitor. Also, take a printout from your computer, stand back the distance you measured, and keep trying on glasses until you find the strength that works best for you. I find such glasses are also helpful when reading microfiche and microfilm. --Judith T. 1d. HEARD ON THE MAILING LISTS: Creative Calling I was looking through my grandmother's funeral "guest book" from the fifties and didn't really recognize any names. For some reason, I picked a particular man's name and looked up his phone number on the Internet. There was a listing and I called the number. The lady who answered the phone was the daughter of the man, who was now deceased. Turns out we have the same great-great-grandfather and we never knew about each other. I went to see her last summer and just adore her. I'm so thankful that I met her and we'll always stay in touch. We talk on the phone every week and e-mail almost daily. --LorraineinFL@aol.com on PAPHILAD-L@rootsweb.com [The PAPHILAD-L is a mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/PA/philadelphia.html] [Editor's Note: Heard a good tip on your mailing list? Share it with us by sending to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com] * * * 1e. USING SEARCH ENGINES: Googling Your Ancestors by Ted Pack tedpack@thevision.net http://www.tedpack.org/ This will be new and exciting to some of you. Others of you will wonder what I'll do next -- explain how to "dial" a telephone by pushing the little buttons? You can sometimes use a general search engine for genealogy. My favorite is Google, http://www.google.com but there are others -- AltaVista, Lycos, MSN, Dogpile, AOL. They all work about the same. The key is what they call an exact phrase, which you enclose in quotation marks. Let's assume you are looking for Eltweed Pomeroy and Malinda McCorkle, married in Pocatello, Idaho in 1888. This argument in the search engine: Eltweed Pomeroy Malinda McCorkle (without the quotation marks) means "show me all the pages that have the four words Eltweed, Pomeroy, Malinda and McCorkle on them". You might strike pay dirt right away; you might also get a page that listed Eltweed Smith, Pomeroy Murgatroyd, Malinda Smith and Ebeneezer McCorkle. This argument in the search engine: "Eltweed Pomeroy" "Malinda McCorkle" (with two sets of quotation marks) means "show me all the pages that have the exact phrases 'Eltweed Pomeroy' and 'Malinda McCorkle' on them". Given the rarity of the names, if you got a hit it would almost certainly be useful. However, if your ancestors are listed last name first, the argument above won't get them. You won't find them if they have middle initials on the page, either. This is a combination of exact phrase and any match: "Eltweed Pomeroy" Malinda McCorkle It says "show me all the pages with the exact phrase 'Eltweed Pomeroy' and the two words Malinda and McCorkle somewhere on the page." This argument would find a page with the sentence "Eltweed Pomeroy married Malinda, second daughter of Alphonse McCorkle ..." or "Eltweed Pomeroy married Malinda Q. McCorkle ...". General search engines are not perfect. They don't have a Soundex option, although Google will sometimes suggest alternate spellings for you. Some of them require a plus sign with each word or phrase, although Google doesn't. They work best for relatively uncommon names. If you are looking for John Smith who married Mary Johnson in New York City, you'll get a lot of hits, but your chances of getting the right one are slim. Most importantly and worth repeating, the phrase "Eltweed Pomeroy" is NOT the same as the phrase "Pomeroy, Eltweed" to a search engine. You get what you ask for. I usually try to use enough words and phrases in the argument that I get 20 hits or less. Quite often I don't get any, but I'd rather get a few of the right hits than a thousand wrong ones. In this case I would try all of these arguments: Four pairs of exact phrases: "Eltweed Pomeroy" "Malinda McCorkle" "Pomeroy Eltweed" "Malinda McCorkle" "Eltweed Pomeroy" "McCorkle Malinda" "Pomeroy Eltweed" "McCorkle Malinda" Four combination searches: "Eltweed Pomeroy" Malinda McCorkle "Pomeroy Eltweed" Malinda McCorkle "Malinda McCorkle" Eltweed Pomeroy "McCorkle Malinda" Eltweed Pomeroy And, just in case one of them was listed without a spouse, "Eltweed Pomeroy" Pocatello "Pomeroy Eltweed" Pocatello "Malinda McCorkle" Pocatello "McCorkle Malinda" Pocatello * * * 1f. ERRORS FOUND IN RECORDS: Can You Top These? Two-Day or 22-Year-Old Uncle Lived 25 Years in Community --Mary Lou Bartee t-bar@worldnet.att.net Just finished reading the RWReview that arrived yesterday and had to laugh at the death certificate that listed the inquest as being before the date of death. On March 16, 1928 my uncle, Martin GRAFF, was shot and died instantly in Titus County, Texas. His death certificate states he had lived in the community 25 years, was 22 years old, and was born March 14, 1928. How many mistakes can be made on one paper? There are no birth records to be found at the county or state levels. There is no marker on the grave either. I could cry. I am even told the court records from the trial the next February are no longer in existence, but I have not checked that out yet. We just know he was born between 24 June 1903 and 31 August 1909. * * * Mr. Mom --Bob Ferguson rwferguson@ualr.edu I joined the band of people who don't fully trust official records when, several years ago, I helped my mother do all of the paperwork to get her Social Security. We got a copy of her 1910 birth certificate from the State of Texas and it stated she was a male and was stillborn. Fortunately, she had sisters who provided affidavits that helped her get a new birth certificate. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Finding Cousins; Making Friends Just about one month ago, a gentleman in England e-mailed me after reading my signature line in one of my posts to the GLAMORGAN [Wales] Mailing List. Besides offering me inside information to life in Wales, the geography, language, etc., he mentioned that he had some aunts and uncles who came to America and the family lost touch. I offered to see what I could find out. One of his cousins was a professor and I traced him through various universities, eventually locating an obit. He was buried only about an hour and a half from where I live, so I drove down, took photos, visited the local historical society and public library and found wedding announcements and obits with pictures for him and his in-laws. The obit listed his children and, fortunately, his daughter married someone with an unusual name. I located the daughter in California -- called her up, explained who I was and what I was doing, confirmed that she was who I thought she was, and passed the info on to the gentleman in England. Now these two cousins are busy sharing info, and I have a new friend. What goes around comes around. I have received wonderful help from strangers I have met through the various mailing lists. Without their help, I would be back at square one. --Mona Everett cowpost@msn.com (Seeking Davies/Davis/Rees/Reese in So. Wales 1800-1850 and Baltimore, MD, 1845-1900; looking for Gill and Kelly families in Baltimore late 1700s onward; also interested in coppersmelters; GlamFHS #5862) [Editor's Note: To find a locality mailing list like this, go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ and select "International" and then Wales, or the country and its specific locality of interest to you, and follow the instructions for subscribing] * * * Gettysburg Police Turn to RootsWeb: Little Emma Grace Coming Home --Vee L. Housman housman@adelphia.net PADUTCH-LIFE-L This morning I received a letter from the Gettysburg Police Department and they said that even though the Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania can't locate a record as to where the remains of little Emma Grace ESSICK (1876-1878) may have eventually been buried there, the cemetery has already taken the stone. It will be placed on the plot where her parents (Muhlenburg Keller ESSICK and Sarah Virginia HOUDESHELL) are buried. Included in the letter was the initial Police Report about the incident when Emma's small tombstone was turned over to the local police a year ago. In the report it was also mentioned that I spoke to Chief Sease (Cumberland Township) because I knew they had recently found similar stones, which they are still holding. He said the Adams Historical Society has old burial records if needed. But it looks like the Gettysburg Police Department went one step further and when the historical society couldn't find a record of Emma Grace's burial, the police turned to RootsWeb! [See last week's RootsWeb Review for original story] ======================= Paid Advertisements ======================== Sylvan Learning Center Personalized programs to help your child with homework. 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Example: The Kiowa County, Oklahoma page can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okkiowa/ CANADA onwspl -- Whitchurch-Stouffville Public Library (Births, Marriages, Deaths from Stouffville, Ontario) ENGLAND engsurry -- Surrey, England Wills Project U.S.A. alnwmw -- Northwest Alabama "Most Wanted" (covering Lauderdale, Colbert, Limestone, Lawrence, Franklin, Marion, Winston, Lamar, Fayette, Walker, Pickens and Tuscaloosa counties) flwfgs -- West Florida Genealogical Society (Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida) gafhgsr -- Federation of Historical and Genealogical Societies and Resources (Georgia) iamcpcrp -- Mitchell County Pioneer Cemetery Restoration Project (Iowa) misccfhg -- St. Clair County Family History Group, Inc. (Michigan) mtcarbon -- Carbon County, Montana mtgolden -- Golden Valley County, Montana nellcgs -- Lincoln-Lancaster County Genealogical Society (Nebraska) okkiowa -- Kiowa County, Oklahoma orsgs -- Siuslaw Genealogical Society (Florence, Lane County, Oregon) txrchc -- Robertson County Historical Commission (Texas) txrcfch -- Roll Call: Friends Of Camp Hearne (World War II German POW Camp located in Hearne, Robertson County, Texas) 4. 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 26,700 RootsWeb- hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and easy subscribing options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS CAN-QC-GORETWP -- Gore Township, Argenteuil County, Quebec, Canada ENG-NTH-OUNDLE -- The Oundle area of Northamptonshire England (villages include Apethorpe, Armston, Ashton, Barnwell All Saints, Barnwell St. Andrew, Benefield, Blatherwycke, Bulwick, Cotterstock, Deene, Deenethorpe, Fotheringhay, Glapthorn, Great Weldon (1837-96), Hemington, King's Cliffe, Lilford cum Wigsthorpe, Little Weldon (1837-96), Luddington, Lutton, Nassington, Oundle, Pilton, Polebrook, Southwick, Stoke Doyle, Tansor, Thorpe Achurch, Thurning, Wadenhoe, Warmington, Winwick (1837-95), Woodnewton, and Yarwell) MS-GULF -- The Mississippi Gulf Coast (counties include George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, and Stone MS-JACKSON-Metro -- The Jackson, Mississippi, metropolitan area (includes parts of Hinds, Rankin and Madison counties) MSDELTA -- The Mississippi Delta region (including Tunica, Coahoma, Quitman, Bolivar, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Washington, LeFlore, Carroll, Holmes, Yazoo, Issaquena, Sharkey, and Humphries counties) NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS AUDAS BLAISDELL, BLEUEL, BOULCOTT COATH CLARK-IN -- The CLARK surname in Indiana CLARK-KS -- The CLARK surname in Kansas CLARK-OH -- The CLARK surname in Ohio CREEL-AL -- The CREEL surname in Alabama CREEL-MS -- The CREEL surname in Mississippi DORWIN EKERS DOUGLASS-DOMINI-DESCENDANTS -- Descendants of Domini Douglass and his wife Mary Warner FIGIEL HOOPS LAHIFF, LANGREHR, LATTER, LOMAS NEGLEY OARD PELTOLA RATENBURG SCHNELTEN, STUNSTON NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL-INTEREST MAILING LISTS ENG-THAMESWATERMEN -- The Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames NA-INDIAN-TRADERS -- Descendants of Indian Traders NWP-ADMIN -- Communication between the Northwest/Plains States Coordinator; Representative Rep, and the SCs of the 12 states of that area TX-HOUSTON-LIGHT-GUARD -- The Houston Light Guard and the men who belonged to the unit in the late 1800s 5. 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 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The following databases have come online recently. They are searchable, but not browseable. CALIFORNIA. San Joaquin County. Manteca Union High School Alumni, Manteca, 1925; 34 records; Elizabeth Jay Davis http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MISSOURI. Putnam County. Abstract of Title for Block 21 Lots 2, 3 and 4,; Livonia; 38 records; Shari Smith http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deeds/ MISSOURI. Saint Louis County. 1940 Normandy High School 213 records; Cindy Detlefsen http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MISSOURI. Saint Louis County. 1942 Normandy High School 246 records; Cindy Detlefsen http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ OREGON. Clackamas County. Yoder Grade School Alumni, Yoder; 1936-1938; 120 records; Byron Schriever http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ OREGON. Clackamas County. Yoder Grade School Alumni, Yoder; 1939-1942; 129 records; Byron Schriever http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ VIRGINIA. Spotsylvania County. Obituaries from the Virginia Herald Newspaper (1788-1804), Fredericksburg; 259 records; Paula L. Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ WEST VIRGINIA. Nicholas County. Frame and Justice Families in Birch River Cemetery; 54 records; Ginny Blankenship http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ U.S.A. Military Records: Various. 144 records; Paula L. Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ 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 CINDY'S OLD PHOTOS. Old photographs of the USA from the early 1900s. Includes historical and military photos taken by J. E. CONNETT. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~findingyourfamily/cindy.html RAINEY/RANEY DNA PROJECT. Established to identify the different lines of the surname worldwide and to create a databank of DNA profiles of male RAINEY/RANEY descendants. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raineydnaproject/ SARSFIELD. "A Brief Sarsfield Family History," co-written by Norman Sarsfield and Brian Sarsfield, is about the two main Sarsfield families in Ireland from the mid-12th century up to modern times. It concerns the Sarsfields of the Dublin and Cork (Viscounts of Kilmallock) lines and includes several references to Patrick Sarsfield, the 1st Earl of Lucan and an Irish national hero. It could be of special interest to anyone with a Sarsfield connection in their own line even though it may not be to one of these families, and also to anyone with an interest in the Williamite/Jacobite wars at the end of the 17th century, in which Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan, played a significant part. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~n1b2sarsfield/ SHELLEY. Traces the descendants of Hartwell and Wealthy McArthur SHELLEY through four generations, grouped by each of their 11 children in New York, Illinois, Kansas, and Washington and Oregon. Surnames: SHELLEY, BROWN, MEAD, DAVIS, GEE, BENSON, MIDDLETON, STONE, CHARLES, and STEWART. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hartwellshelley/ 7. 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To CAP or NOT to CAP? This falls under the "you can't please all the people all the time" category, but in response to Herb E's comment on capping surnames, it is not always laziness that causes people not to cap. I am dyslexic. Reading long e-mails or board messages can be difficult for me at the best of times, but people who routinely veer from standard capitalization (first letter capitalized, others in lower case) increase my comprehension difficulties enormously, especially if they have many words or names capped. Far from attracting my attention to names, it often causes me to loose track of what is being said. In my opinion, if you wish to capitalize a surname once to draw attention to it, great, but please don't do it over and over again or for every surname in a paragraph filled with surnames . . . --Alaine Keisling NEPAgenealogy@yahoo.com * * * Casting Bread Upon the Waters I really enjoy the RootsWeb Review. I am one who loves to document my research and include notes and sources which I freely share. By doing so I have been blessed a hundred times over by people contacting me regarding their family. Because I have typed in obits, census info, historical data, etc, many have learned new things about their ancestors that I had but they may never have known. What a joy it has been to me over the years to meet so many wonderful cousins who are so willing to share their data with me along with the request that I include it in my database. I have discovered the truth of the adage that when we "cast our bread upon the waters" it comes back buttered. It actually has been a delight to me (and the ultimate compliment) to be searching for information and find that someone has used ME as their source. Thank you for making it possible to have a site where we can share and preserve our genealogical treasures! --Cheryl Harmon Bills cherylb@ida.net * * * Heeding an Old Saying My dad told me a saying that was to be of help to me as I grew up. His well-remembered words were: "Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see." As a genealogist I add to this: "But store the information away for latter comparison." --Phyllis Snook psnook47@earthlink.net * * * Working Together I've been reading the debate back and forth on sharing information and one thing no one has considered is the disabled. If people didn't share their information, I would have to stop doing my family research. I'm disabled and not likely to get back to my ancestors' original states. I have to send for birth/death/marriage certificates and subscribe to whatever genealogy service that is affordable. I freely share what I have by e-mailing copies of documentation that I have sent for, including family photos. I also (after receiving their permission) put people in contact with each other, who may be better able to help each other. I have noticed that I have found errors in sources that are quoted religiously by others and on contacting the source of the misinformation and offering to share purchased documentation freely, I never receive a reply. It seems to be taken personally. Check every source for yourself and use Internet information as a new direction. We should remember this isn't about us personally, put aside the gripes and complaints, and work together. --D. L. Clark dlsclark@otelco.net * * * Exposing Our Roots I have had a genealogy website for several years. It was one of the smartest genealogical things I have done. I get e-mails all the time, which often result in more information and more people to add to my tree and sometimes the sender is correcting my information. Since some of it came from sources that are not reliable is no reason not to post it -- eventually someone will find it and let you know that you made a mistake. I welcome all corrections and I take the blame for all of the errors. My family tree has grown from about 60 people in May of 1973 to more than 1,650 and still growing. Because of my website I just found out I have relatives in Australia. The quest goes on. --James Blair jbb1@attbi.com http://home.attbi.com/~jbb1/ * * * Lighten Up, Grumps Another perspective on "Sharing Selectively" (last week's RWReview): Just as "Once something has been 'published' too many people assume the information is proven FACT," those of us who have experience know nothing is fact unless and until it is proven. Shared information, proven or not, can be valuable as a lead to other proven and/or provable information . . . Newbies can be a delightful (and fresh) addition to our genealogical family, if the "grumps" don't insult them and squash their enthusiasm. --Cathy Parisi cmdparisi@aol.com * * * Turning Up New Branches I have been reading all the letters where people do not want to share their hard work they have done collecting data on their ancestors. I know how they feel, I was pretty mad when I found my GEDCOM spread all over the Internet with all references to me stripped out. I wanted to stop sharing also, but what I did was post an updated GEDCOM to WorldConnect, so those that want to connect with the author of the data can find me. About a month ago a cousin connected via my WorldConnect file, and she is related to one of the lines I had almost nothing on. Sharing will get you a lot more than hiding your data. --Charles Hansen CHARLES_HANSEN@prodigy.net * * * Looking at the Bigger Picture No one in my family is interested in the family research I'm doing. It would just go in the trash can so maybe if it is put online someone out there will pick up parts of it, and it will help them in their search. --Doris King dory_10_16@yahoo.com * * * Preserving My Tree After months of working on the Salmon Family Tree, with the aid of RootsWeb, Ancestry, census records, and family members. I made nine copies of everything including some pictures different ones had passed along to me. I purchased some inexpensive report folders and sent each one a copy of the information I had compiled, plus pictures. Granted some are now probably stuffed in drawers and some have been tossed, but I am in hopes that when somebody in the future starts a family tree search one of these will come to light and help that person. --Roberta Magruder donmagruder@cox.net 8. Humor: Blazing Error -------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Laura Raisndustbunys@aol.com In the "Wright County Reporter," Dows, Wright County, Iowa, Thursday, February 9, 1928, Volume XXXIX, No. 42, Page 8, Columns 1 and 2: After a long and glowing account of her life, the last line in my Great- Grandmother's obit reads: "Mrs. Oleson was BURNED in the cemetery by the church." That's one shocking typo! 9. Submission Guidelines, Reprint Policy, RWR Archives ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 * * * 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. 18, 30 April 2003. RWR Archives: http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ * * * SUBSCRIPTIONS: Do not send any subscription requests to the editor. We have special e-mail addresses for this purpose. Send your requests to: RWR-off@rootsweb.com -- this removes you from the RWR Mailing List. RWR-on@rootsweb.com -- this adds you to the RWR Mailing List. * * * *