RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 6, No. 37, 10 September 2003, Circulation: 947,592+ (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/ * * * Find your ancestors: WorldConnect: http://wc.rootsweb.com/ Search and post messages 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 to find your ancestors: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ * * * Do not send ANY subscription/e-mail address changes/requests/questions to the editor. She cannot help you. See Section 9 below for RootsWeb Review subscription guidelines and instructions or contact the RootsWeb HelpDesk for assistance. http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help.cgi =============================================================== In This Issue: 1. NEWS AND NOTES. 1a. "Giving: The Secret to Getting" 1b. "Speaking of Giving"; 1c. From the Virtual Desk of the Editor; 1d. Tips from Readers: "Naming Your Websites" 2. Connecting through RootsWeb: "Online Sources Lead Researcher to Sweden and Wales" 3. New RootsWeb Mailing Lists 4. New Webpages at RootsWeb 5. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 6. New User-contributed Databases 7. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Sorting Out Those Somebodys"; "Is That You, Jebez?"; "Indices (Indexes) and Transcribers"; "Thanks for Sharing"; "Names, Names, Names"; "Clearing Up a Mystery"; "Filling in the Blanks"; "Exploring Sources"; "Legitimate and Natural Issues"; "Knock. Knock . . ."; and "Male Problem" 8. Humor/Humour: "Address Unknown?" 9. RWR Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; Archives; Addresses; Subscription Modification Instructions =============================================================== 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. "Giving: The Secret to Getting" Most of us were taught that it is better to give than receive. It is certainly true that everyone feels good about helping others, but let's not kid ourselves -- we all also secretly hope that one day we will be on the receiving end. Genealogical research offers many opportunities to be on the giving end -- to offer data that you have readily available to others who might never come across it otherwise. Perhaps you have obtained a death or birth record, pension information or military service record for an ancestor. While these are publicly available records, others for whom your ancestor is merely of collateral interest might benefit from the information contained in the record, but they aren't sufficiently interested or do not wish to spend the extra money to send away for that record themselves. RootsWeb message boards and mailing lists provide an excellent way for you to permanently record the information you have obtained. It only takes a few moments to type out the information contained in a birth, death, or marriage record, and not much longer to transcribe the genealogical data from a pension or military record onto a message board or into an e-mail message to a mailing list where others will find it and benefit from your efforts. You can find information about mailing lists here: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ and you can subscribe to lists of interest directly from the list index pages. Message boards are located here: http://boards.rootsweb.com/ Use the FIND A BOARD search box or navigate through the index pages to locate a board for which your data is relevant. When you are considering what data you might transcribe for your genealogical good deed, remember that private family records to which the public does not have access, such as family Bible records, diaries, daybooks, photographs, and other "heirloom" type information handed down to you -- even the oral traditions and lore handed down from one generation to another -- can be of immense value to others who did not grow up hearing the stories and traditions or who do not have access to the family's private collection. In addition to preserving data that might otherwise be lost to future generations and making it accessible to those who wouldn't otherwise find it, there is the additional benefit of making contact with others. They, in turn, might have information for which you have been unsuccess- fully searching -- thus putting you on the receiving end of the good deed and rewarding you for your efforts. Often researchers who complain about not receiving answers to the queries they post on a mailing list or message board find that they do receive responses when they take the approach of offering data rather than asking questions. It could be the approach that is needed to help you break down your brick wall. * * * 1b. SPEAKING OF GIVING. Many generous people have given their time and efforts to the RootsWeb User-Contributed Databases. Recently the total number of records in these various databases passed the 11 million mark. For a list by localities that might be of interest to you, see: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/regional.html Have material (a few names or thousands) to share? Start here: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ * * * 1c. FROM THE VIRTUAL DESK OF THE EDITOR . . . Southern Life -- in the UK, not the USA or Down Under -- provides a look into the history and life of the people of England's Hampshire County and the nearby counties of Berkshire, Dorset, Isle of Wight, Surrey, Wiltshire, and West Sussex. It is well worth a visit even if you have no ancestral links here. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/ * * * Charles Hansen provides some excellent tips in his article, "General Courtesy," which appears in the September issue of Branching Out Genealogy Newsletter. (Note: This is a 2-line URL, please copy and paste all of it) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genealogylinks/ newsltr/2003/2003_09sep.html * * * The United States Army published The Stars and Stripes newspaper for its forces in France from 8 February 1918 to 13 June 1919. When it began publication American forces were dispersed throughout the Western Front, often mixed at the unit level with British, French, and Italian forces. The eight-page weekly featured news from home, sports news, poetry, and cartoons. This online collection, presented by the Serial and Government Publications Division of the Library of Congress, includes the complete 71-week run of the newspaper's World War I edition, and it's searchable. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html Visit the Stars and Stripes Museum/Library website at: http://www.starsandstripesmuseumlibrary.org/welcome.html * * * 1d. TIPS FROM READERS. Naming Your Websites By Patricia S. Patricia S. Concerning the article "Knock,Knock . . . Anybody There? I agree that it is frustrating to find a query on a message board that contains ambiguous information or information that should be posted on another board. But, even more frustrating and annoying are the webpages (personal home pages) titled things like "Kim's Kin," "Patti's Pages" or the most annoying of all "My Family"(listed under "M"), "Our Relatives" (under O") and the cutesy ones such as "Burt's Branches, Leaves, and Twigs." As a researcher who got a late start on find my family's roots (I also receive a discount on the before six dinners) I simply cannot access all those home pages, trying to glean surnames. Whenever I see one of the above mentioned home pages, I pass on by thinking to myself "Why in the world didn't they put their name on it"? So, as a suggestion to those who make up cute names for their homepages, please go back and put in some of your family surname. You just might have more people reading and contacting you. Don't make difficult for researchers to find the facts in all that "cuteness." If you are listed on the "K" board instead of "Kim's Kin" put your "K" surname in. (Kirkland Family--- Kim's Kin). We will all benefit. http://freepages.rootsweb.com/directory/genealogy.html 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Online Sources Lead Researcher to Sweden and Wales By Barbara V bv_ahp@yahoo.com First of all I want to thank all the hard working people at RootsWeb for providing us with so much material for our individual family research. Yesterday I spent from noon until 9 p.m. looking at census online and thanks to this wonderful site http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nd/cass/census/1900/31-01b.gif I was able to find my great-aunt, Christine JOHNSON, who was born February 1867 in Sweden, working in Fargo City, as a dressmaker, according to the 1900 census of Cass County, North Dakota. Then through following a maze of links starting from a mailing list -- I found my elusive "needle in a haystack!" in Caerwent, Wales. Since the 1970s I have been searching for a document that would give my Grand- mother MILLER's (maiden name DODD) handwritten list of DODD family names that show the DODDs come from Caerwent, Wales some credibility. This piece of information that I found is the closest I have ever been to proving the DODDs actually lived there. Thomas DODD was born 1744, so he would be the proper age to be signing witness to a wedding in 1781. Here is what I have found: From "J. A. Bradney, Registers of Caerwent 1568-1812" -- mention of Thomas DODD on May 29, 1781 signing as a witness to a marriage. This link is a photo of the ancient document from Caerwent parish. http://www.cefnpennar.com/caerwent/dscf0035.jpg There are about 38 photos like this and they are very clear for anyone doing research about their families from Caerwent, Wales. Thanks again to RootsWeb for keeping genealogy alive and spurring us all on never to give up in our quest. 3. New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- The following are Mailing Lists, not websites. For more information and an index to the more than 27,100 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and easy subscribing options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ MAILING LISTS. For an index to more than 27,200 RootsWeb- hosted genealogy mailing lists, visit http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ATZINGER BUCHANA COLQUIT GESSLER, GUENETTE ISMON JOLLIFF LINSTEADT MACKNEW, MUNDEN PINTZ SCHOLDERER, SHROAT, SYKOS YOUNIE NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS NMGENWEB -- List for NMGenWeb (New Mexico) county coordinators, volunteers, and researchers 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: The Fort McMurray Branch of Alberta (Canada) Genealogical Society (when online) will be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~abfmags/ Canada abfmags -- Fort McMurray Branch of Alberta Genealogical Society New Zealand nzlsggb -- Gore Branch of New Zealand Society of Genealogists U.S.A. albcgs -- Baldwin County (Alabama) Genealogy Society amfra -- American Family Records Association (U.S.A.) flccgs2 -- Citrus County (Florida) Genealogy Society ilfchs -- Ford County (Illinois) Historical Society mnkcdar -- Keewaydin Chapter DAR (Minnesota) ncrcgs2 -- Robeson County (North Carolina) Genealogy Society njfhmchd -- Francis Hopkinson-Monmouth Court House Chapter DAR (New Jersey) ohghksar -- General Henry Knox Chapter SAR (Ohio) 5. New/Updated Freepages, Homepages, and WorldConnect Uploads ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 BOYD. Information pertaining to the BOYD, ADDISON, WHITED, WILSON, CLAPP, PHIPPS, HELTON, GILLESPIE, BOWLING, PLASTER and other related families. Most of these families are in and from Russell, Tazewell, Smyth, Buchanan, Grayson and Washington counties in southwest Virginia, Alamance, Ashe and Guilford counties in North Carolina, and Johnson and Hawkins counties in Tennessee. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~marcusboyd/ CANADA. Ontario. Genealogical Transcripts for Essex and Kent counties. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~essexandkentcountytranscripts/ COON DNA PROJECT. All volunteer, nonprofit group using DNA testing results to find connections among COON, COONS, KOONTZ, KOON, COONTS, COONTZ (and similar spellings) families. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coondnapage/ ENGLAND. West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser Newspaper Abstracts and Extracts. Searchable transcriptions of Cornwall and West Devon, news- paper, added to frequently as an ongoing project. Includes all published BMDs and stories with names and life, excluding politics. All reported court cases are transcribed, including Quarter Sessions, Coroner's Inquests, etc. Separated by year (starting in 1836). http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad/ FALLACE. A genealogy compiled by Regina Fallace. Surnames include BAILEY, CIESLAK, CONAWAY, HARRINGTON, HEFFELFINGER, NO RWOOD, TEACHMAN, URBANSKA, VANZILE, and YARBROUGH and information pertaining to descendants of: Curtis Adams CONAWAY of Sussex County, Delaware; Fred George HARRINGTON of New York; Martin HEFFELFINGER of Diegten, Switzerland; William NORWOOD of Millport, New York; David TEACHMAN of Bergen County, New Jersey; and Joshua YARBROUGH of Virginia. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~reginaf/ JOHNSON, CUPP, and CLOTIAUX Family History. From Louisiana to Texas; includes CRAIG, ASHLEY, JAMES, HOWARD, BAILEY, THORNHILL, MCCANN, and GOFF families. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jcplummer/clotiaux/ RED BIRD. Cherokee Chief Totsu'hwa of Clay County, Kentucky. Surnames include: ASHER, BENGE, BROCK, GILBERT, HENSON, JACOB, SAYLOR, TROXELL, TUDERS, and WILSON. [Caution: Copy/paste this 2-line URL] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brockfamily/ ChiefRedBird-byKBTankersley.html WOOD. Ancestry of John WOOD "Mariner," of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and "Little Compton WOODS" by Dorothy Wood Ewers and Bertha W. Clark. Also mentions the SHERMAN, WILBORE, ALEFOUNDER, RAINBOROW, SHAKESPEARE, WINTHROP, LAKE, and COGGESHALL families in connection with the Clothier's Guild. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rinewpor/JohnWood1.html 6. 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. U.S.A. PASSENGER LISTS: Emigrants from Pallagorio, Catanzaro, Italy; 389 records; Chris Spezzano Selected records of Italian immigrants with CACCIABAUDO, CACCIABANDO, or CACCIABONDO surnames; 28 records; Joseph Cacibauda http://userdb.rootsweb.com/passenger/ GEORGIA. Irwin County. Blacks buried at Paulk Cemetery 41 records; Jessie H. Paulk and Delma Wilson Paulk http://userdb.rootsweb.com/colored/ KANSAS. Lyon County. Americus. Americus Greeting, 1890-1898; 3,591 records; Americus Greeting, 1898-1903; 3,838 records; Robert and Lois Hodge for the Flint Hills Genealogical Society http://userdb.rootsweb.com/news/ MISSOURI. Iron County. Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church of Pilot Knob, baptisms 1861-1930; 958 records; Marcine (Amelung) Lohman http://userdb.rootsweb.com/churchrecords/ NEBRASKA. Douglas County. Omaha. Benson High School Alumni and Faculty, 1929; 243 records; Lori Hardow http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ PENNSYLVANIA. Adams County. Biglerville. 1948 telephone directory; 796 records; Deb Jones East Berlin. 1948 telephone directory; 110 records; Deb Jones http://userdb.rootsweb.com/citydir/ TEXAS. Cooke County. George Washington Diamond's "Account of the Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862"; 341 records; Jack Ware Index to "W. R. Strong's Memoirs, 1914"; 759 records; Jack Ware http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ VIRGINIA. Fredericksburg. Fredericksburg High School, Class of 1924; 38 records; Paula L. Delosh Charlottesville. University of Virginia, Master's Degrees in 1941; 29 records; Paula L. Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorting Out Those Somebodys By Suzi Plooster mplooste@du.edu Somewhere down the line that "Somebody" put into the blank space for a person's [unknown] name will end up as the last name! I would recommend NOT to do it. * * * Is That You, Jabez? By Jean Chapman Snow snowstar@earthlink.net While searching for my 3-great-grandfather, Ezekiel CHAPMAN, in the 1820 U.S. census, I was puzzled to find in the index four Ezekiels (actually two were Ezekiel D), all on the very same page for Camillus, New York state. How strange, I thought, until I saw the actual image. The four are listed one after the other, so probably lived next door, and may have been related (they're not mine). The handwriting is difficult, the image blurry, but I've almost puzzled out the names. They seem to be Ozehish (Ozehen?)D., Jabish, Ezekiel and Molish (Moded? or Modrd?) CHAPMAN. I do have a Jabez CHAPMAN in my line and that name is fairly common, so my guess is either the responder's diction was not clear or the enumerator's hearing was at fault. Whew! What a tangle for the poor transcriber! * * * Indices (Indexes) and Transcribers By Laura Pruden Raisndustbunys@aol.com First let me say thank you to all the hard-working transcribers who generate census indexes. Although not always accurate they are a great TOOL that have led to many brick walls tumbling into dust. I have had a subscription to Ancestry.com census images for about a year and couldn't be happier with it, warts and all. As I live in a rural area far from lending libraries and Family History Centers. Without on- line images, indexes, transcripts and message boards at my beck and call, I would be nowhere in my research. I think the general genealogical population already knows to use transcribed material as a TOOL to locate original source materials. And those who don't track down the original source are usually those still within the first few years of their research and will eventually learn the hard way to not to take transcribed materials at face value. Genealogy is a learning experience, not only in family history but also in patience and perseverance. Once the excitement of beginning research and finding oh so much info online instantaneously wanes, the researcher will take a long look at their research techniques, source citations, etc. and begin to do the painstaking work needed to create a quality family history. Human beings are quick to criticize, and often forget to say thank you to those who put in long hours providing the info we find erroneous. Please be forgiving and understanding, and most of all, remember to say thank you to those nameless and faceless people who work so hard to provide info online. I would also like to say to all the old timers and perfectionists, but be forgiving and understanding of the new or sort-of-new genealogist who is still in the bloom of excitement of finding so much so fast online. Be patient, they will eventually get past the initial rush of excitement and become a quality genealogist -- they just need time, patience, and some guidance. Thank you again to all of the hard-working people providing us with on- line info, I, for one, value you more than chocolate, and for me that is saying a lot. * * * Thanks for Sharing By Lori Jett ljett39@tds.net I would like to say a great big "thank you" to all the people who have worked so hard for years on their family trees and then posted that info on the Internet for others to share. Five of the eight lines I am re- searching on my family tree go way back and only because I found it already put together on the Net. It is really a lot of hard work to put these trees together and it is really so very exciting when you find a tree with thousands of entries already in place. This makes me put extra effort into sharing what I myself have found in my other lines so that someone else can feel that excitement when they open a tree of mine and find tons of their own relatives already put together. I always e-mail the person who has shared all their information on the Net and thank them for their efforts. Everyone should remember to thank the pioneer researchers who have blazed trails for us and always share what you have found also. * * * Names, Names, Names By Linda Ebersole BigGenealogyGirl@aol.com I found the "In Search of the Wild LNUs" to be a very good article. The only thing that was missing is noting the lack of a middle name. When you know someone only has a first and last name. Mary (n) (O'BRIEN) O'BRIEN -- (n) denoting no middle name -- O'Brien in soft brackets denotes her last name (at birth) is her last name when she married. * * * Clearing Up a Mystery By Carli Francies Erlkonigin1@aol.com Many thanks to Alma Robertson, who wrote in about the acronym NMI standing for "no middle initial." As someone who does have more than one middle name, it never occurred to me that the "NMN" in the middle of my great-grandmother's name on her death certificate very likely stood for "no middle name" instead of an actual series of names. Thanks for clearing up that small mystery! * * * Filling in the Blanks By Ellen Filler ellvf@ctcweb.net I am retired law enforcement. We used such initials as NMI, for no middle initial, NMN, no middle name, ULN, unknown last name, UFN, unknown first name, or just UNK for anything that we did not have information on. It seems that anytime, as I remember, that we ran into anything unknown we used either UNK or U plus other initials. Sometimes it was hard for us to decipher reports as some officers made up their own. * * * Exploring Sources By Terry K King tkking01@gwise.louisville.edu My mother's parents were divorced when she was young and she lost touch with her father and therefore his family who lived in another state. When I started researching our family tree, I knew nothing other that her fathers name, grandfathers name and some names of aunts and uncles. When I went on the Internet, I found some information right away. Someone had already put in a lot of time and effort on her grandmother's side. There was information dating back to the 1700s, but I could find nothing past her grandfather. However, I knew that one of her aunts had married a STOCKTON and that her father's family had lived in the Jamestown, (Fentress County) Tennessee area. I looked in the Internet white pages [an online USA telephone directory] for Jamestown, there were no listings for CANTRELL -- my grandfather's name, so I sent a letter to everyone with the STOCKTON name. Someone from a different line gave their letter to my mother's cousin's wife and she wrote to me back. We exchanged letters and pictures for several months. My mother and I recently visited them, and while they could not provide us with my grandfather's parents' names, we gathered a lot more information. We found out about two aunts who died young that we didn't know existed and . . . we found out where family members were buried, and visited most of the cemeteries. Jamestown also has a corner of its library that is dedicated to genealogy. There was so much information we didn't know where to start. We decided to get organized and make future trips to gather information. This will also give a chance to visit our new relatives. I took a chance when I sent out those letters, but what did I have to lose other that postage? When I received that first letter back, I was so exited. Maybe this will help someone else to take a chance and receive their "gift." * * * Legitimate and Natural Issues By Karen Duggan kduggan@coastalnet.com I have read with interest the discussion of abbreviations used to document people and places unknown that we inevitably encounter in our genealogical research. I have encountered a situation that has not been discussed so far -- the children of single mothers and/or unmarried couples. I am researching my Hispanic family line and in the parish registers the priest often records the status of a child as either an "hijo legitimo" (legitimate child) for married couples or an "hijo natural" (natural child) of a single mother or unmarried couple. In order for my genealogy program to print out the children of a single mother on a family descendents list I have had to create a "place holder" record for the missing father. This record is created using the mother's maiden name and the notation "hijo natural" (or "hijos naturales" for more than one child) in place of the first name. This allows the children to be linked to their parent in the database with the place holder becoming, in effect, a "marriage" record without referring to any one person. If the mother marries at a later date, the place holder keeps these children from becoming "lost" as the program will default to only listing the children born to the married couple. This is my solution -- does anyone know of another that is more widely used or accepted? * * * "Knock. Knock..." By WDonald491@aol.com Very valid points on postings. I would make another though -- when you get a query, RESPOND! Whether I have any information at all or not, if I get any kind of query regarding a post I have made or responded to, I make sure that I respond. Many times I write to sources that sound like they might be searching the same lines that I am and get absolutely nothing in return. If the e-mail returns through "mailer-daemon" at least I know something. If it doesn't return and I hear nothing what am I to think? That the poster is rude? Too busy (then why post at all?) Dead? I doubt they perceived my query as "spam" since I always include the heading I am responding to and many times the date of the original posting and its location. That query from a beginner that you didn't respond to just MIGHT be able to assist you, no matter how experienced you are, in breaking down one of your own brickwalls. * * * Male Problem By M.Burton mjcburton@hotmail.com Thank you so much for suggesting that people use "daughter" or "son" in place of "Male" and "Female." Having tried to research the surname MALE, I second the suggestion. I get all kinds of hits I don't want when I search, (you can imagine, I'm sure, the kinds of things that might pop up) and at least if people use your suggestion, it would help a little. 8. Humor/Humour: Address Unknown? ------------------------------------ Thanks to: Michael Leonard leonard@neb.rr.com At our local funeral home families are given the opportunity to chose the music they would like to enter the service to. One family requested the Elvis Presley hit "Love Me Tender." The day of the funeral arrived and the music started. Unfortunately the wrong track number was entered into the CD player and the family walked in to "Return to Sender." 9. 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