RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 6, No. 41, 8 October 2003, Circulation: 946,231+ (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/ * * * 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/ Find and share your ancestors: WorldConnect: http://wc.rootsweb.com/ Learn how to trace your family tree: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ * * * SUBSCRIPTIONS: Do not send any subscription requests or e-mail address changes to the editor. Use these special e-mail addresses: RWR-on@rootsweb.com -- this adds you to the RWR Mailing List. RWR-off@rootsweb.com -- this removes you from the RWR Mailing List. If you need assistance please visit the HelpDesk: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help.cgi Search/download past issues of RootsWeb Review: http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ =============================================================== =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS AND NOTES. 1a. "Searching Tips for Difficult Names"; 1b. Items from Editor's Virtual Desk: "What's a Squire?" 1c. Tips from Readers: "Outmaneuvering the Soundex System" 2. Connecting through RootsWeb: "From Russia with Love" 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: "Killing Assumptions"; "Housewives and Ladies"; "Tracking Saints and Dits"; "Adding Middle Names"; "Exploring Possibility of Confirmation Names"; "Returning the Favors" and "No Infallible Sources" 8. Humor/Humour: "Family Matters" 9. RWR Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; Archives; Addresses; Subscription Modification Instructions =============================================================== 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. Searching Tips for Difficult Names Perhaps your surname search has led you EAST, WEST, NORTH or SOUTH -- searching HIGH and LOW in the SPRING, SUMMER or WINTER and has produced results that are FAIR, GOOD, or even the BEST. Your task may be LARGE or SMALL and you may even find yourself drawing a BLANK and staring at a BRICK WALL. When your search takes you to surnames such as these that also have a common usage you learn quickly to value resources and search engines that offer surname-specific searchable fields. The RootsWeb/Ancestry message boards and RootsWeb's WorldConnect/Ancestry World Tree provide such searchable so that your hunt for your ancestors doesn't take you in every direction of the compass and to all seasons of the year. However, not all of the databases at RootsWeb have a specific-surname search capability (alas, few things are simple and easy in genealogical research, but then hunting is half the fun!). Digging through those resources requires that you learn to make the best possible use of the search tools that are available. Mailing lists, by their very nature, with free-flowing text messages in sentences and paragraphs, do not offer specific fields or boxes for listing only surnames (when posting a message) such as would be needed to provide surname-specific searches. So how do you effectively search for difficult surnames when there is no surname field in the database? RootsWeb mailing lists are searchable on a list-by-list basis (a single list at a time -- one year at a time). When searching for your EAST surname, for instance, a good place to start is with the archives of the EAST surname mailing list. Messages posted to a surname list should all have some connection to the surname the list services and when looking at messages posted to that list you can reasonably expect that in most instances where the word EAST is mentioned, it is referring to the surname EAST and not the direction from which the sun rises. Another option is to browse through all of the messages in the archives by starting here: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ and typing in the list's name "EAST" (without the quotes). This enables you to access all messages ever posted to the EAST mailing list. You can then view the messages month by month. If EAST is a primary surname in your research, you probably will want to subscribe to the mailing list dedicated to that surname. You can subscribe to any RootsWeb mailing list whenever you like. All lists are completely free for you to join and you can unsubscribe at any time. Start here to find the list or lists of interest to you: They are arranged by surname, by locality and by various topics or categories. http://lists.rootsweb.com/ Now if you do wish to search the EAST mailing list archives for specific EAST family members or if you are searching for EASTs in the archives of a mailing list other then the EAST surname list (such as a locality list where your EAST family lived), start here: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and select the year you wish to search, typing in a keyword or search term for which you wish to receive results. Detailed instructions for selecting search terms and keywords to search the mailing lists archives at RootsWeb can be found in a previous issue of the RootsWeb Review at: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20021009.txt When searching mailing list archives of a list other than the specific surname list for your WINTER family make use of Boolean operators when possible. Mailing list searches support some Boolean operators commonly used by Internet search engines such as AND, OR, and ANDNOT to help you include or exclude words you do or don't want to appear in your results. Search for the surname, WINTER, along with another word or words that will help narrow down the results to include your family only, such as WINTER and Delaware or WINTER and England if your family lived in those places or WINTER and clockmaker, if that was your ancestor's occupation. You can also exclude the most common false hits you would expect to find in a search by using search terms such as WINTER andnot season or WINTER andnot weather. Also, use full names enclosed in quotes such as "John D. WINTER" or "Catherine WINTER" to narrow down the results to your WINTERs only. One helpful aspect of the interactive searches of RootsWeb mailing lists when looking for difficult surnames is the fact that the search engine does not return results based upon strings of letters. Results are returned only for words that match your criteria. This means that if you are searching for EAST, you do not receive "hits" for similar surnames such as EASTER, EASTWICK, or EASTERLY (surnames which include the string of letters "east"). However, using what's called a trailing wildcard search, you have the option of including these similar surnames in your search, if you wish. You do this by searching on the search term: East* (asterisk). Mailing list archives searches (unlike message board searches) are never case sensitive so it makes no difference whether you search for east*, East* or EAST* -- the results you receive will be the same. Searching a database that has no surname-specific field, such as the RootsWeb mailing list archives, need not leave you staring at BRICK WALLS. With a little planning you can make the BEST of the situation, obtain GOOD results and avoid searching HIGH and LOW aimlessly. You might even fill in your BLANKs. * * * 1b. ITEMS FROM THE EDITOR'S VIRTUAL DESK. What’s a Squire? From Christine M. Burton thehoyan@bellsouth.net Question. A friend and I had a discussion about the title, "Esquire." Both of us read somewhere that the title "Esquire" before a name meant That person was a lawyer. I am a reader. I'll read anything. If I can't Find a good book, I'll resort to reading cereal box and canned good labels, but what I really like are classics, such as, David Copperfield and Tale of Two Cities. I also enjoy a well-written "who done it" especially one by a British author (they seem to have made of the genre a science). In all those novels, I have continually met fictional "esquires" and never got the impression that any of them were lawyers. The impression I got was that they were men of importance in their communities, but not royalty. My friend expressed the opinion that the title of esquire may be one applied only to American lawyers. Could you or some of your readers shed some light on this? I've found several "esquires" in my family tree and if they were lawyers it's news to me, but then, just their names amounts to "news to me." Answer: Esquire was "the title given to any owner of a large tract of land. It was also the title given to a Justice of the Peace, but as nearly every lawyer in Colonial America at one time became a J. P., the title ultimately devolved on all lawyers. The word was originally squire from the Latin scutarius -- 'shield-bearer.'" (Richard M. Lederer, Jr., Colonial American English (Essex, Connecticut: A Verbatim Book, 1985) page 80. However, like with so many things we learn in genealogy, there are other meanings, so one must take the time and locality into consideration for how this term might apply in a particular situation. For example, esquire also: --Refers to a man or boy who is a member of the gentry in England ranking directly below a knight. --Is used as an honorific usually in its abbreviated form, especially after the name of an attorney or a consular officer: John Doe, Esq.; --Used in medieval times for a candidate for knighthood who served a knight as an attendant and a shield bearer. --Refers to an English country gentleman; a squire. (archaic) -- from the Middle English esquier, from the French escuier.] Black’s Law Dictionary points that the term esquire, as used in the United States, is different from its usage in English law. It says: "In English law, a title of dignity next above gentleman, and below knight. Also a title of office given to sheriffs, serjeants and barristers at law, justices of the peace, and others. In United States, title commonly appended after name of attorney; e.g. John J. Jones, Esquire." * * * 1d. TIPS FROM READERS. Outmaneuvering the Soundex System By Jim Castellan james.castellan@bigfoot.com Usually the most difficult name-spelling variant to struggle with is when the first letter is incorrect. When the fully transcribed 1880 census became available, I finally tracked down my Alanson FERGUSON as an old widower living in New York City with his married daughter. Her last name was DATER. I naturally checked the original image and it sure looked like DATER although the last vowel could have been an "a" or "o" and the last old script "r" could have possibly been "n" with an abbreviated ending pen stroke. But after looking for DATER/DATON (or variants like and DAIT* or DAYT*) and not finding any likely candidates I surmised the first letter was probably incorrect. There is a reason the Soundex links various consonants together, one grouping being letters "d" and "t." So I tried TAT* and quickly located my illusive prey with the surname TATON which is pretty far from DATER. So consider the Soundex groupings when groping for an incorrect first consonant. The ear often hears them interchangeably. Also, imagine what the script of the initial letter from the time period might have been like as the eye can also play tricks. I was stalking another illusive family ancestor, Hannah FORD. I had very good family documentation that she lived in St. Louis (Missouri) around 1900. But no luck with the 1900 census Soundex under any FORD. The reason was she had been Soundexed under TORD, a surname that really doesn't exist (at least in the online U.S. phone directory I checked). But the WPA [Works Project Administration] Soundexer wouldn't have been concerned with that -- only what the eye saw. And looking at the original census image, the capital script "f" looked very much like a capital script "t" as the last part of the pen stroke was abbreviated without any "crossing hook." [Editor's Note: For more information, links, and a Soundex converter, please see the following:] http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/lesson9.htm http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/census/soundex.html http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/soundexconverter/ 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- >From Russia with Love By Lora Carter loraken@quik.com During World War I my father served with the American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia, 1918-1920. He married a Russian woman. I had the date and spent many years trying to get a copy of the record. I put "marriage in Russia" on the RootsWeb message boards and was given a tip by a gentleman in Russia to e-mail the State Historical Archives of Russian Far East, which is: rgiadv@online.vladivostok.ru In just a few days I got an answer in Russian. Then I had it translated. There were many marriages and if anyone else is searching in this area I hope this information helps. 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 27,300 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ACHENBACH BUCKMINSTER CREAL CREEL-KY -- The CREEL surname in Kentucky DEAN-JOSEPH -- Descendents of Joseph Dean (b. 1831, Haselbury Plucknett, Somerset, England) ELLERMEIER FERGUSON-DNA -- Genealogical discussions of the FERGUSON surname DNA testings ISGRIGG KEITER MANZENBERGER, MARESCH, MATHERLY, MUSTIN OUIMET PALMER-GEORGIA -- The PALMER families in or from Georgia RAHIER, REANDEAU, RIEBELING, ROOKARD, ROSSA SHERFEY WABEL, WALCZAK, WASILEWSKI, WHITTED, WORSEY NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS AUS-VIC-SURNAMES -- Surnames with origins in Victoria, Australia OH-OLD-SCHOOLS -- Genealogical or historical interest in the Ohio one-room schools, teachers, and their students 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 Bonner County, Idaho website can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~idbonne2/ Canada onnip -- Nipissing District, Ontario U.S.A. ctclisb -- Lisbon (city), New London County, Connecticut ctcwinds -- Windsor (city), Hartford County, Connecticut gagordo3 -- Gordon County, Georgia idbonne2 -- Bonner County, Idaho inpcrpel -- Elkhart and LaGrange (Indiana) Pioneer Cemeteries massgs -- South Shore (Massachusetts) Genealogical Society mostegen -- Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri tncjrcd -- Chief John Ross Chapter (Tennessee) DAR tnshelb2 -- Shelby County, Tennessee txrwcdar -- Rock Wall Chapter (Texas) DAR 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 AUSTRALIA. Photographs (many with names) of students and teachers at Chillingham Public School, northern N.S.W, Australia, from the period 1906 to the mid-1970s. The site is fully searchable, and is an on-going student project. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tumbulgum/chillingham/ BEDINGFIELD. Contains back issues of a newsletter devoted to the surname BEDINGFIELD in any spelling variation. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bedingfieldnewsletter/ BROOM(e), GREEN(e). DNA Projects. These two DNA projects are open to those who wish join or sponsor testing of their kin carrying the BROOM(e) or GREEN(e) Y-chromosome. Results thus far are posted: http://freepages.genealogy.RootsWeb.Com/~jwg3/bromdna.htm http://freepages.genealogy.RootsWeb.Com/~jwg3/greendna.htm FOREMAN. Foreman family across the South (USA), 1740-1840. Site covers the movement of several FOREMAN families from South Carolina to Texas ca 1740-1840. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~foremanfamily/foremanfam.html HAGARTY. Birth and christening records -- index for the surname HAGARTY/HAGERTY/HEGARTY and other spellings in all counties of Ireland from the early 1800s through 1906. [Note: 2-line URL] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lamizzee/HAGARTY/ VitalRecords/Ireland/ HAMILTON. Hamilton Heritage: Scotland to America. Tracing the roots of the Scottish clan Hamilton from early era to present day. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pahamilton/ MARTIN, MEYERS. Surnames include MARTIN, MEYERS, DENISON, CAPRON, RITTER, AUSTIN, TEFFT, BAEL, SCHALLER, KNITTLE, FRESON, and TOEPP. Two MARTIN families married in 1737 in Rhode Island. One family (Bartholomew MARTIN) goes back to Rhode Island 1711. The other (Edward MARTIN) can be traced back to England 1610. The MEYERS family came from Oberseebach (Seebach), Alsace, France around 1849 to Verona, Oneida County, New York. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~martinandmeyers/ NEW YORK. Yates County. From Stafford C. Cleveland's "History and Directory of Yates County, New York," published in 1873. Includes more than 19,000 individuals in the database. Cleveland often included information as to where people lived before settling in Yates County and also where their descendants went after they left the locality. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bbunce77/ PENNSYLVANIA. Chester County. Aunt Carrie's Scrapbook's contains about 100 pages from an old family heirloom scrapbook with vital records information about families in eastern part of the county between ca 1870 and 1912. It covers mostly the areas around Spring City, Phoenixville, and Pottstown and is an ongoing project. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~scrapbook/ ======================= Paid Advertisements ======================== What better way to celebrate your family, than locating and claiming your lost family fortune? You may have an insurance policy or inheritance that may be unclaimed. The Foundmoney CEO and Web site was featured on the "Oprah" show and has been helping thousands of families just like you since 1993. Find out instantly http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=3164&sourceid=1188 =================== End of Paid Advertisements ===================== 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. MICHIGAN. Washtenaw County. 1923 University of Michigan; 899 records; Dani Shubert http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MONTANA. Silver Bow County. Butte. Mt. Moriah Cemetery; 14,943 records; Linda Albright on behalf of Vicki M. Miller and Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ NEW YORK. New York Death Index, Miscellaneous Entries 1915-1960, Vol. 2; 46 records; Banai Lynn Feldstein http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ VIRGINIA. Staunton (Independent City). Roster of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation, Inc.; 16 records; Paula L. Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/groups/ 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Killing Assumptions By Sherida Childers jchilders@farmerstel.com I had to respond to Janet Miller's letter. I, too, have to reiterate to document, document, document. While researching my HARDY Line I came across the names of Simon HOPKINS and his wife Mehitable (Hardy) HOPKINS in a WorldConnect tree. I found their names listed several times by different researchers all giving the death dates of 1870 for both of them. I was about to type this in until I happened to look in the 1880 census for Waupaca County, Wisconsin (the place listed as death place) and found them both still living. I wrote to one of the people who had posted the 1870 death date and asked him where he got his information. He said he didn't know and just "assumed" that everyone else's information was correct without verifying it. He was very pleased with the information that they were still living 10 years later. * * * Housewives and Ladies By Colyn Blundell colyn.blundell@btinternet.com Reference the letter from Fran Bolton about farmers' ladies, entitled "Census Humour" in the RootsWeb Review, there may, in fact, be a reasonable explanation for farmer's wives being classed as “ladies." At one time, and certainly in the UK within my 60 years, a woman of a "certain reputation" was usually described as a "housewife" in the newspaper reports on court cases when she was summonsed for prostitution. The census enumerator was probably used to this terminology, hence used the description "lady" to protect the reputation of the wives. * * * Tracking Saints and Dits By Cyndi Sweet Mama.CAS@comcast.net I would think that the surname, ST. JOHN, would be unusual enough for searches. That is not quite true. I tried a search on Louis ST. JOHN. I get every John born in St. Louis, married at St. Mary's with a witness named Louis, or buried at St. Matthew's leaving a son Louis. I also get every paper out of St. John's University. A solution is to find a unique spelling for genealogy. The most successful spelling is StJohn with no space or punctuation. I have found the name spelled Saint John, SaintJohn, St. John, St.John, St John, St John (two spaces), and StJohn. Don't even mention programs that are case-sensitive! I love search engines that will allow you to include the first three letters. Since this family is French-Canadian, I also have to search under St- Jean and the other spellings with "Jean" instead of "John." The French- Canadians have such a thing as a dit names. They change their surnames often, using "dit" in between the two names. I had to look under "G" for "Guerin dit St-Jean," 'under "M" for "Martin dit St-Jean" and the other dit names used with St-Jean. Guerin turned out to be correct. Searching an index is another problem. The traditional placement of the name is as if "Saint" were spelled out, so ST. JOHN would be between SAILOR and SANDERSON. Some programs do not accept the period, so ST JOHN is just before STANTON. Some place the punctuations at the end of the alphabet, so then ST. JOHN is between STUDDARD and SUESS. One clerk had spelled out SAINT JEAN for my illiterate 2great- grandfather, Antoine. The next person listed it in the index as 'Jean, Antoine Saint. I was lucky to find that one. * * * Adding Middle Names By Terry Leaman terry@leaman.freeserve.co.uk http://www.british-genealogy.com/mailman/listinfo/ENG-DEVON http://www.leaman.freeserve.co.uk/1861-web-site/main.htm I have come across the addition of strange middle names twice in my own family here in Devon. My grandfather was baptised, and his birth in 1883 registered as plain Lawrence HOOPER. However, when he married my grandmother he suddenly became Lawrence John Percy Warrington HOOPER. This is so far the only time, that I have found, where he has used all these additional names. The only other record of these extra names appears on a birth certificate for Percy HOOPER, son of Lawrence's brother Arthur, who was baptised Arthur John HOOPER. The birth certificate gives Arthur's name as Arthur John Percy Warrington HOOPER. Again this is the only record of Arthur using these additional names. Where these names came from I have no idea and nobody alive today can offer any explanation. * * * Exploring Possibility of Confirmation Names By Hannah Anstey Hannaha100@aol.com Lisa Taylor's "More Than Just Names" reminded me of a couple of similar occurrences of appearing and disappearing middle names in my own family tree. The one that immediately springs to mind is the puzzle of my great-grandmother Catherine who was born and died as plain Catherine but was married as Catherine Theresa. This threw me for a while as I'd never heard or seen the Theresa mentioned before, until I remembered that she was Roman Catholic and it is (I think) a common practice in the Catholic Church to take a saint's name as an extra confirmation name. I now suspect that the middle name Theresa was her chosen confirmation name (of course, after Saint Theresa). It may well have been the fact that she was married in the church that caused her to acknowledge her confirmation name on the register. Of course I don't have any proof that this is the case, but it seems to me the likeliest solution. I hope that this helps somebody else who's puzzling over a middle name that has appeared, seemingly out of nowhere. There are quite a few "Saint" indexes online, such as: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm * * * Returning the Favors By Angela May ladyhawthorne@ev1.net In response to Gene Ewert and the tossing of genealogy info, I too have told my family and friends and will put it in my will also, if no one in my family wants this data (and I am not married nor do I have children), then a copy of each notebook goes to 3 genealogical libraries I have used and have chosen. Since I do not live where my families came from, the Clayton library here in Houston is the one I use most. But I have used the small room filled with info in Abingdon, Virginia where my mother's family is from and will have another copy sent to the one in Tennessee where my dad's family is from. There are still relatives living in those places and even if the ones I know are not interested, perhaps their descendants will be. On another note, I would like to say that I have never run into rude responses from other genealogists, even if my questions were dumb or vague. I have received more info through these stabs in the dark than I could ever find on my own. I am most grateful and always remember to tell the giver this and give back when I can. Some newbies have responded to queries I have posted and even if I cannot help them with their family line, I have sometimes been able to offer advice as to places and procedures of searching. Others helped me, the least I can do is help others. Besides I make new friends that way. * * * No Infallible Sources By Jack Ott Jackott@aol.com Janet Miller brings out some very good points in "Who Really Hangs Upon Your Tree?" (last week's RootsWeb Review). It brought to mind a similar situation that I experienced while researching my SOMMERS/SUMMERS ancestors. I came across a book that had been written in the early 1900s by a descendant of the first immigrants of a German family with this surname who arrived and settled in Pennsylvania in the mid-1700s. I learned that many other genealogists had used this book as a source and reference for their own family histories. Being a "newbie," I did the same. It was much later that some very good and experienced people who had been researching the family for many years pointed out some of the errors and inconsistencies in the author's data and conclusions. Through further research and analysis it became obvious that the book did not present the correct history of my SUMMERS ancestors. The moral of this story is that, even though a family history book was written 100 or 200 years ago, it should not be considered an unquestionable or irrefutable source. 8. Humor/Humour: Family Matters ---------------------------------------- Thanks to: Luke Gassien yourhomedecor@sympatico.ca Q: Why did the genealogist's wife leave him? A: He was spending too much time with his family. (I know--you kinda hear that gong sound in the background, don't ya?) 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. All mail sent to the RootsWeb Review editor is considered to be for publication -- send in plain ASCII text (please, no attach- ments) to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com * * * ROOTSWEB REVIEW ADVERTISING CONTACTS: Ad Sales Operations Mgr. 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