RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 6, No. 26, 25 June 2003, Circulation: 982,840+ (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/ RootsWeb Review is a free weekly e-zine * * * Find your ancestors: Post 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/ WorldConnect: http://wc.rootsweb.com/ * * * See Section 9 below for RWR subscription guidelines and instructions Do not send any changes to the editor ================================================================= In This Issue: 1. NEWS AND NOTES. 1a."Finding Cousins with Crystal Balls and Instant Recall"; 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: "Locating Your Website"; 1c. "Scout's Project Returns Dignity to Old Cemetery"; 1d. "Dictionary of American Family Names" published; 1e. ERRORS FOUND IN RECORDS: "Eulalie? I Hardly Recognized You!" 2. Connecting through RootsWeb: "Linking Through a Legacy" 3. New Webpages at RootsWeb 4. New RootsWeb Mailing Lists 5. New User-contributed Databases 6. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 7. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Encounters Among Tattered Leaves Down Under"; "Knotholes in the Family Tree"; and "Forgotten Life Rediscovered" 8. Humor/Humour: "Your Ancestor Was a What?" 9. RWR Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; Archives; Addresses; Subscription Modification Instructions ================================================================== 1. NEWS AND NOTES. 1a. FINDING COUSINS WITH CRYSTAL BALLS AND INSTANT RECALL. Let's say you search the RootsWeb Mailing List archives at: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl for TheShipsList-L and find your long-sought immigrant ancestor. There it is -- information about your Octavius GUBBENWALDER's 1884 ship arrival at New York City -- posted in a two-year-old message. Then you do some more digging in the combined WorldConnect/Ancestry World Tree database at: http://wc.rootsweb.com/ and find Octavius, his siblings, and his parents, along with his place of birth listed in someone's family tree. In your excitement to contact your potential new-found cousins and discuss the demolition of what has been your GUBBENWALDER brickwall, you prepare an e-mail to send to the person who posted the message on the list all those years ago (crossing your fingers that your luck will hold out and their e-mail address will still be good). You also want to write to the WorldConnect submitter where you found Octavius. (WorldConnect submitters' e-mail addresses can be found on each page of their files.) Yippee! You are on a genealogical roll. But, before you send those e-mails, think about these things: --While the ship information about your great-grandpa is fresh in your mind, the poster sent the information to the list several years ago and may well have forgotten all about it. --Reread the message to which you are replying carefully -- does it say the information came from a book that the poster has and that he is not personally researching this family? Or was this information posted in reply to someone else's query about the GUBBENWALDERS' immigration to America and, in fact, might the other person be the one who has a personal interest in researching this family? --Take the time to make note of where you found the message in the archives and include the URL (address) of that message in your e-mail so that the person you are contacting may refer to it, if need be. Include the fact that you found the information in the mailing list archives and indicate to which list it was posted and when, or mention that you found the reference in their tree at WorldConnect. --Never assume that the person to whom you are writing will instantly recall a message he or she sent to a Mailing List years ago (or even last week) or remember that they had an interest in GUBBENWALDERS at the time. While Octavius is your great-grandfather, he might only have been of passing interest to the person you are contacting. For the submitter of the WorldConnect file, Octavius might be her great-grandaunt Brunhilda SENSENDERFER's third husband. So, make it clear who you are writing about and why, along with where you found the information, and the reason you believe the person to whom you are writing will be interested in discussing the family with you. Making connections with other researchers are exciting and rewarding aspects of genealogical research. Make a good first impression with your cousins (they just might have old pictures and the family Bible). Be clear and specific in your e-mail and don't expect the person you are contacting to be a mind reader or have a crystal ball. They might, but don't expect it. * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Locating Your Website Thanks to: Michael P. Klinosky mpk2@enter.net For those of you that have websites and want them to be found by people using search engines (e.g. http://google.com), check this out: http://w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/notes.html#recs * * * 1c. SCOUT'S PROJECT RETURNS DIGNITY TO OLD CEMETERY. Thanks to: Dan Reese ReeseDP@aol.com This Eagle Scout has created a fantastic project. It is a great idea that I'd like to see catch on. http://tennessean.com/local/archives/03/06/34508978.shtml * * * 1d. DICTIONARY of AMERICAN FAMILY NAMES, edited by Patrick Hanks. This outstanding three-volume work contains more than 70,000 entries, with comparative frequencies, linguistic and historical explanations. Hanks, a professor at Brandeis University and the former chief editor for Current English Dictionaries at Oxford University Press, has been researching the geographic distribution, meaning, and origin of surnames since the 1970s. This dictionary is the result of more than a decade of painstaking research by 25 consulting editors and covers the family names of almost 90 percent of the U.S. population. It surveys each name by detailing its meaning, nationality, alternate spellings, common forenames, and frequency of use. Genealogists will be delighted to find a "Forebears" comment for many surnames with such entries as: "SPOCK. Americanized form of Dutch Spaak, a metonymic occupational name for someone who made spokes for wheels, from Middle Dutch spaak 'spoke'. FOREBEARS. The American pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903-98) was of Dutch descent; his ancestors, whose name was Spaak, were early settlers in the Hudson River valley of New York." This surname reference set is one you will want to tell your librarians about, and many family historians will find it invaluable for their genealogical research. DICTIONARY of AMERICAN FAMILY NAMES (2,816 pages, hardcover in three volumes, 8 1/2x11; ISBN 0-19-508137-4) is now available ($295 + shipping) from Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, NY, NY 10016. http://www.oup-usa.org/ * * * 1e. ERRORS FOUND IN RECORDS: "Eulalie? I Hardly Recognized You!" By Sharon Fowler owls_nest_too@yahoo.com I read with interest the discussion of the name Eulalie, as it appears several times in my ancestry. Recently while researching one Eulalie in particular, I found her in the 1870 U.S. census for St. Louis, Missouri listed as a male, age 74, named Dullhy D. St. Vrain. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Linking Through a Legacy By Clare McKillop cmck@nildram.co.uk Subscribers to the McKILLOP Mailing List have long listened to me whingeing on about my brickwall. It's bugged me for 10 years, ever since I inherited my grandfather's research. I started the McKILLOP list [ http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/m/mckillop.html ] in an attempt to flush out some relatives, and whilst I have been delighted to see other list members making connections, no one knew anything about my dear John. I really needed to know where he was born. Family stories said we left Scotland during the Clearances, [The Highland Clearances: http://site.yahoo.com/np/higclear.html] but the activities of later generations pointed to Irish origins, and it could be both. John was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy who drowned when the Royal George sank in 1782. I traced his career and pension payments to his widow using the Public Record Office in London and found some information regarding her remarriage from the IGI [International Genealogical Index], but he was a complete black hole as far as information was concerned. There didn't seem to be anything on record regarding his joining the Navy, and I checked every pay and muster book for every ship he served on to see if he had filled in the column for place of birth without success. He recorded the details of his crew but not himself. Did he not know where he was born? Was there a reason for hiding the detail? Then there was a reader's tip and link in the RootsWeb Review (RWR6:21, 21 May) to the website www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk. It had two McKILLOPS. William, master of His Majesty's Works in Portsmouth (about 1806) and Richard, lieutenant in His Majesty's Navy (about 1813). I had long known about Richard but had never been able to make any link. William seemed the best prospect, right geographical area, plausible dates, but a quick scan of the will didn't list any other known people. Richard's will, however, was a revelation. He had a brother called John, a lieutenant in His Majesty's Navy, and he leaves a legacy to J.McB. McKILLOP (my 3g-grandfather) for the bringing up and education of his son Robert McKillop (my 3g-uncle). He left a legacy for the relief of the poor in Glenarm, County Antrim, and he names two sisters, Jane and Peggy. So it appeared that not only had I found out at least where John possibly came from but some siblings too. I couldn't believe it. I had spent so much time, money and energy trawling filthy old bug-ridden records without any success, and I could swear I had checked all the will lists at the PRO but here was the information, downloaded for £3 to the comfort of my own spare bedroom. Now that the excitement has worn off I can see that I have jumped to a couple of conclusions. All through the will Richard describes relationships: My brother John, my friend William BEATTY, My sister Jane, but J. McB is not described as "my nephew." There is another John McKILLOP serving as a lieutenant at the same time, so perhaps he is the brother. But Richard must have known J. McB, and he took pity on a young man raising a family and left him £100 -- a significant sum in 1813. My initial assumptions may be wrong but I wouldn't have missed the feeling when that brickwall seemed to be falling for anything. ======================= Paid Advertisements ======================== NO-FIND NO-FEE OFFER FROM BRITISH ANCESTORS "I never thought I could obtain so much information at so little cost"--(JB, Connecticut) UK-based researchers will search British archives for birth and marriage records of your English and Scottish ancestors (1813-1950). Also census, church and other records. In most cases we can offer a NO-FIND NO-FEE service -- we find your ancestors or you pay nothing! 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For more information and an index to the more than 26,900 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and easy subscribing options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS SHIPS_FROM_ENGLAND -- The emigration via ships from England (emphasis will be on ships to the British Colonies of North America, but other destinations will also be topical for research and discussion) NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS CAN-NB-MIRAMICHI -- Pioneer families who settled along the Miramichi River,New Brunswick, Canada NH-HILLSBOROUGH-AMHERST -- Amherst, Hillsborough, New Hampshire NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ALDINGER, AMRHEIN BAIRNSFATHER, BASCH, BELBECK, BURGART CHAYER CLARK-KY -- The CLARK surname in Kentucky CLARK-MO -- The CLARK surname in Missouri DERSCH FLITCROFT GASSETT HAMMILL, HILDEBRANT, HOLADAY, HOSHAW, HYNDSHAW KETTERLING, KISHPAUGH LAYFIELD NALLS, NUSSBRUCHER PASHEN, POISSON, POWDITCH ROSEWARNE SHEVLIN, SWARTLEY TETTEMER WILDRICK 5. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The following user-contributed databases have come online recently. They are searchable, but not browseable. AUSTRALIA. Greville's Post Office Directory, 1872, New South Wales. 59,134 records; Kathy Pearson and Helen Castle http://userdb.rootsweb.com/aus/ NETHERLANDS. Dutch Census 1947. 675 records; Geurt Bor http://userdb.rootsweb.com/dutch/ WALES. Census Transcriptions, 1881-1901, Dolgellau and District. 10,625 records; Alwyn ap Huw Humphreys http://userdb.rootsweb.com/uki/ U.S.A. Alumni Lists: Manhattan High School, 1924, Manhattan, Kansas. 162 records; S. Wiser http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ PENNSYLVANIA. Free Blacks, 1790 census. 455 records; Constance Cole http://userdb.rootsweb.com/colored/ WISCONSIN. Saint Croix County. Index to "Bits and Pieces of Hudson History"; 660 records; Roxanne Munns http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ WISCONSIN. Saint Croix County. "Index to Historic Hudson Revisited: An Architectural Tour"; 52 records; Roxanne Munns http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ WISCONSIN. Saint Croix County. Index to "Hudson 1900-1909: A Rail-River Town"; 517 records; Roxanne Munns http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ WISCONSIN. Saint Croix County. "Index to Hudson in the Early Days"; 702 records; Roxanne Munns http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ WISCONSIN. Saint Croix County. "Index to Willow River Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions, Hudson"; and county deaths, 1870-1879; 1,223 records; Roxanne Munns http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ 6. New/Updated 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 HAWN. HAWN FAMILY PAGE. Includes link to HAWN tree at WorldConnect. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hawn/ MADEIRA ISLAND. MADEIRA EXILES. Genealogical and historical research of Dr. Robert Reid KALLEY's about the religious exiles (ca 1846-1856) from Madeira who settled primarily in Illinois, Trinidad, Antigua, St. Kitts, Jamaica, and Demerara (British Guyana). http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~madeira/ MORGAN. The Morgan Society (England and Wales). http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~morgansociety/ OKLAHOMA. TULSA. "Growing Up With Tulsa" is now online. This book has been reprinted with permission of Harry SCHAD, son of the author. The book was written and self-published by Blanche Opal (KERN) SCHAD, the daughter of Emma Justine HARRISON and Charles Wesley KERN, who removed from Saunders County, Nebraska to Indian Territory in 1893 and settled in what is now Tulsa, Oklahoma. This is the story of her family and about growing up in Tulsa from territorial days to statehood and through two world wars. Includes some photos. http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/tulsa/ SARSFIELD. Recently updated. This is an ongoing project to collect information on many Sarsfield individuals and families who became scattered worldwide before the end of the 18th century. By then the name had spread to Spain and Portugal, Madeira, Argentina and France. In addition to branches in many counties of Ireland, others arose in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. There are also records of individuals in the West Indies, the continent of India and elsewhere. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~n1b2sarsfield/ TEXAS. TEXAS TRAILS. Thousands of names, including many German surnames, for researchers with Texas roots. Features a complete survey of Cooke County cemeteries with hundreds of pictures; also includes a survey of pictures of historic Belknap Cemetery in Young County. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~texastrails/index/ WORLD WAR II. The History of Battery "A," 137 Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Bn.,including battery roster, with some photos of the 608th Military Police Battalion, Leyte, Philippines 1945. http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~jaystern/ WRITING CONTEST. All family history writers, professional and amateurs, are invited to compete in the Southern California Genealogical Society (SCGS) 2003 Writing Contest. Entries must be received between 1 Nov. and 31 December 2003; no entry fee. Details at: http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/4thWC.htm 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Encounters Among Tattered Leaves Down Under By Chris Hannan (nee Eacott) channan@bigpond.com Coincidences seem to be the norm for most genuine researchers. Although we call these many experiences coincidences, my personal feelings are that our ancestors want us to "find" them and learn about them. The following is one such experience had by a distant cousin of mine with the surname JEFFERY. (Please note that the different spellings of JEFFERY are shown as recorded). He was on holiday interstate and having a love of books he wandered into a second-hand book store and began browsing. He lifted one very old book titled "A Burglar's Life: A Classic of the Convict Days." It was the life story of an English convict sent to Australia in the 1800s. He had in his hand, one of a first edition published in 1893. This was interesting in itself, but upon opening the book, his attention was caught almost immediately by the photograph of an elderly gentleman supported by two walking sticks and the name of the gentleman given on the page below the photograph was Mark JEFFREY. The opening lines of the first chapter, were; "I was born at Wood Ditton, near Newmarket, Cambridgeshire on the 31st day of August, 1825, so that I am now in my 68th year." This was most interesting as my cousin's great-grandfather Luke JEFFERY was born at Wood Ditton in Cambridgeshire. Flicking the page, Mark JEFFREY talks about being forced to leave home at age 14 because of frequent beatings by a drunken, abusive father, and taking with him his younger (by two years) brother Luke. A few more paragraphs and my cousin was soon to find Mark listing his whole family including the names of his parents. A brief flick through the pages revealed that this was the story of Luke's and Mark's life together and how they had eventually become involved in the burglary of a farm house which saw them being convicted and sent to Australia. My cousin soon realised that this was not just a rare find as far as a first edition goes, this was a record of his own 2-great-grandfather Luke up until the time he was convicted and the life story of his great- granduncle, Mark JEFFREY. In the book, Mark mentions nothing more of Luke following their capture so we are not able to ascertain whether he was aware of what became of him. Maybe as the elder brother and having encouraged Luke to leave home with him in the first place he felt a certain amount of guilt for their final fate. Mark's life as a convict was extremely harsh and perhaps the thought that his brother may be enduring the same harshness because of the choices he had encouraged contributed to his never mentioning him again. From the book we learned that Mark was sent to Tasmania or Van Dieman's Land. He never married or produced any offspring that we are aware of. We already knew that Luke was convicted at Cambridge in 1848 for his part in the burglary, was sentenced for 15 years and arrived in Western Australia on the "Scindian" on 1 June 1850. We also knew from trial transcripts that Luke had a brother named Mark who had taken part in the same burglary and both had been convicted. Luke met and had four children with my great-grandaunt, Elizabeth EACOTT. From the book we learned that two of their daughters were named after Luke's and Mark's sisters -- Tamar and Emily. Luke was listed in the convict records as an unmarried labourer, semi-literate and Protestant. A Ticket of Leave was granted on 8 June 1851 and a Conditional Pardon on 7 Oct 1861. Apart from what was on available records, we had known nothing of Luke's early life, little of his family and nothing of what had become of his brother Mark. Now we had the full story. My cousin was able to obtain a copy of the same book for me, however it is a later edition, having been published in 1968. I consider it one of my greatest treasures. * * * Knotholes in the Family Tree By Bob Henderson Bobhenderson5@cs.com In the course of researching my ancestry I have come across what I call "genealogical knotholes" in the family tree. These occur when two descendants of a couple marry after a few generations and can complicate matters when trying to decide my relationship to individuals (or to myself for that matter). Moses BUTLER, a great-grandson of Daniel GOODWIN and Margaret SPENCER, married Keziah NASON, 2-great-granddaughter of Daniel GOODWIN and Margaret SPENCER. Their daughter, Lois BUTLER was my 2-great- grandmother, which makes Daniel GOODWIN both my 5th- and 6th-great- grandfather on the paternal side. In due course, my grandfather, a descendant of Daniel GOODWIN, came from Massachusetts to a small town on the east coast of Florida, married my grandmother and produced my father in 1903. The story gets a little more complicated when I go to my mother's line. According to a book on the GOODWIN's in America, there are two branches of the family descended from two brothers born in a small village in Suffolk, one of whom immigrated to Massachusetts (my paternal line) and the other to Virginia. At least it is a variation on the famous "three brothers" theory. My mother's great-grandfather, James GOODWIN, was born in Virginia in 1790 and moved to Georgia and then Alabama, where his daughter Virginia GOODWIN was born. She married James CRAWFORD and they eventually moved to western Florida, where my mother was born in 1906. Unfortunately, due to a plethora of James GOODWINs born in Virginia around 1790 we have been unable to trace that line any further as yet. Now, if the connection between the GOODWINs of New England and the GOODWINs of Virginia is true, then my mother and father were cousins in some degree and my mother was possibly a several times great-grand- daughter of my 5th- and 6th-great-grandfather's brother, which would make her my cousin as well and my father would also be my cousin. The question I have is, if both my father and mother are my cousins, then who am I? * * * Forgotten Life Rediscovered by Lisa Hendrickson pebblepup@comcast.net http://mywebpages.comcast.net/pebblepup/genealogy1/index.htm The family, when they spoke of Jennie at all, said that she had died in a corset factory fire when she was 16, and that she had died on Christmas day. One of her nieces, born years after Jennie died, said that she had never heard of her Aunt Jennie and that her father, Jennie's younger brother, had never mentioned her. It was later learned that the facts had shifted with the telling and retelling of the story. Her true story is that Jennie Louisa MCTAGGART was born on 25 December 1885 (Jennie L. MCTAGGART, according to Michigan state death certificate). She was 14 or 15 at the time of the 1900 census and living in Detroit, Michigan. She worked as a shoe cementer for the Witchell Shoe Company in their factory in there. She was at work the day the factory caught fire and burned. No doubt terrified, she leaped from a window and struck some telegraph wires before falling 40 feet further to the ground. She spent many weeks in the hospital following the fire, but never really recovered from the mental trauma. She took a job with the D. W. Ferry Company and was working there on the 26th of November when there was an explosion in the Penberthy Building. According to newspaper accounts of 2 December 1901, an unnamed person rushed into her workplace and "announced loudly that there had been an explosion at the American Corset Co. Factory, and that her sister was killed." Jenny apparently screamed loudly, dropped her work and ran all the way to her home on Michigan Avenue where her mother reassured her that her sister was alive and well. Unfortunately, the shock and mental strain proved too much for poor Jennie. She collapsed and remained very ill until late on the 30th of November when she died. She was buried on the 2nd of December 1901. She was just 16 years old. 8. Humor/Humour: Your Ancestor was a WHAT? -------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Patrick Stone pstone8@msn.com The 1880 U.S. census lists a certain boarding house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The place seems respectable enough; it houses a real estate dealer, a lawyer, a private secretary, an agent for type writer [sic], bookseller, cloth merchant, and a silverware dealer. But the landlady (who presumably provided the information for the enumerator) seems to have found one occupant less than upright -- she listed poor Emil VON CUNDECK's occupation as "Unknown -- Probably Swindler!" 9. Submission Guidelines, Advertising Contacts, Reprint Policy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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