RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 6, No. 46, 12 November 2003, Circulation: 941,133+ (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. Message Boards Hit High Mark; 1b. Grabbing Your Cousins' Attention; 1c. EDITOR'S VIRTUAL DESK: "UK Railways in 19th Century"; "Cool Tool: Birth Date Calculator"; 1d. TIPS FROM READERS: "Preserving Family History" 2. Connecting through RootsWeb: "Descendants of Best Friends Meet" 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: "Have You Lost Your Census?"; "Persistent Researcher Finds 'Burned' WWII Military Records"; "Handling Inquiries Properly"; and "Genes Will Tell" 8. Humor/Humour: "Making His Mark" 9. RWR Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; Archives; Addresses; Subscription Modification Instructions =============================================================== 1. NEWS AND NOTES 1a. HAVE YOU POSTED TODAY? Posts recently reached the 12.9-million mark on our 138,914 surname, locality, and topic message boards. http://boards.rootsweb.com/ 1b. Grabbing Your Cousins' Attention When you see a message posed on the mailing lists and message boards with a subject line such as: "HELP!!!" "Searching!" "Looking for "Genealogy!" "Desperate!" and even (no subject) -- what's your reaction? Shrug and move on? We all were newbies once upon a time, but if you want to get the most out of your queries, spruce up your subject lines. For even though you might draft your messages carefully and explain in detail what information you seek -- including the name(s) of the ancestor(s), where the individual or family lived, and a time frame, if your subject line doesn't grab the readers, you won't hear from anyone. The vast majority of browsers and subscribers take roughly one second -- that's right, one second -- to decide whether a message is of interest to them and whether they are going to read further. The decision whether to bypass or read the message is often determined by the subject line alone and not the message content. Digest subscribers (on mailing lists) often scan the subjects of the messages in a digest index to determine whether they are going to scroll through to read the actual messages. Subjects such as the ones listed above, no matter how many exclamation points are added, no matter how urgent your pleas for help, and no matter how many caps are used, do not inform the reader of the message content. They do nothing to "grab" anyone's attention. Experienced researchers often lament that they'd love to help more, but don't have the time to wade through messages that do not contain the foundation of genealogical research: names, dates and places. No one, except a close cousin, really cares how you are related to someone. Save those relationship explanations for private correspondence. A good subject line should provide the reader with information about the message to which it is attached. It should be concise but complete enough to explain who or what the message concerns, the time frame, and the location, if known. Abbreviate only where necessary due to a character limit, such as on the message boards, and remember that this is the Internet and the boards and lists have an international audience. Don't assume your Australian cousins know what you mean with American abbreviations. Add USA, UK, etc. Examples of good subject lines are: --Information sought about Joseph JOHNSON, b. 1862 in Frederick County, Maryland, USA --Census info needed for George HOLTON, 1901, Somerset, England --Peter BURNS m. Olive HAWKINS, 1879, Melbourne, Australia--need parents for both --Susanna, m. Johannes BENDER, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA, 1788--maiden name? --Need date and place of marriage of John SMITH and Sarah JONES-- lived Ohio, USA 1850 The reader will know at a glance if the above messages are of interest to them personally and also if they may have resources that might have the information. A reader who has a book on Ohio marriages in the 1850s may well read the message about John SMITH and Sarah JONES and look for the information even if he is not personally connected to this family. Other important tips about using a meaningful subject subject line are: --If you are replying to a list or board message and the subject of your reply changes from the one in the earlier message(s) in the thread, change/update the subject line accordingly, and --If you are a digest subscriber and replying to a message in a digest, be sure to change the subject to pertain to the actual message to which you are replying rather than leaving the digest name and number as the subject line. The subject line you create for your query is the "hook" that either draws the reader in or sends him on to the next message passing yours by. So, don't cry aimlessly for "HELP!!!!!" -- let the reader know what you are looking for at a glance with a meaningful, concise subject. * * * 1c. FROM THE EDITOR'S VIRTUAL DESK. "UK Railways in the 19th Century." A fascinating online look at the historical development of these railways, including its engineers, entrepreneurs, companies, and various locomotives, such as the Puffying Billy, Jenny Lind, and the Lancashire Witch: All aboard! http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/railways.htm * * * Cool Tool: The Birth Date Calculator is designed to determine a birth date when the age at death and the date of death are known. http://longislandgenealogy.com/birth.html * * * 1d. TIPS FROM READERS. Preserving Family History By Rusty Macon Weber RWNLK@aol.com I have been reading with interest the tips that have been coming in over the past couple of weeks. Hopefully, it will be a long time before this becomes a problem and I will have many more enjoyable years of research, but I would like to share with everyone my plans. My Dad's sister was sick for about 20 years before she died, so in her spare time she began doing some research on the family. Before her death in 1994, she made a four-generation tree chart on one of the forms put out by the post office and gave one to each of us in the immediate family. Shortly after my Dad died in 1999, I got my first computer and got out my copy of the tree and started work. Thanks to message boards like the ones on RootsWeb, I have made contact with many distant cousins. We have started collaborating on our family tree research. There have been two books published about our family, "Gideon Macon of Virginia and Some of His Descendants and Allied Families," compiled by Alethea Jane Macon and published in 1956, and then a revised and edited version of the same name was published by Arthur Jarvis Wood in 1979. There are more than 300 of us who work together on the MACON family tree, and we currently have close to 17,000 people in the tree. We have a family site at MyFamily.com where we share our information. We have a cousin that is a draftsman who prints out a tree chart that is almost 65 feet long, and some of these have been deposited in research libraries around the country. We have a national reunion every year where we gather for four days to actually get to meet some of the people that we communicate with all year long. We also have regional reunions where closer kin get together every year. These are usually only one day, but I go for several days so that I can get some research time in. We have started a quarterly newsletter with an address book of more than 600 who receive a copy. We have birth announcements as well as obits listed and even include photos. We have historical articles on our ancestors, but we also include interviews with some of our older living relatives so that their stories get told before it is too late. Recently we got to worrying about what would become of all of our records and research materials, so, we are in the process of forming a formal family society, which will be a lineal society along the lines of the DAR, Founders and Patriots, etc. This is a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. We are starting a library where all of our materials will be archived and will be a "one-stop shopping" sort of place for research on the descendants of Gideon MACON. Eventually we hope to be able to offer scholarships to family members. As for me and my relatives, I know where our records and research materials are going--to the Gideon MACON Society Family Research Center. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Descendants of Best Friends Meet By Kay Ohana kohana@aboutmontana.net One day while browsing through a message board, I came across a researcher looking for her grandmother’s family from Arkansas. She gave her grandmother’s name and stated that her grandmother’s sister had married a THRASH. It turned out the THRASH the sister married was my grandmother’s brother. We had a fine time exchanging information and our e-mails flew like crazy. We made arrangements to meet for lunch and as she had mentioned that her mother had been raised in the same town as my mother and had died as a young woman, I decided to bring my mother’s high school scrapbook and autograph book, thinking this researcher might find them interesting. She had no more than opened the first page of the scrapbook when she burst into tears. Because there was her mother’s name. My mother had documented all her friends and their activities throughout their high school years. In the autograph book were several notes and letters that her mother had written to my mother. Her mother, my mother and our grandmothers’ niece (daughter of my grandmother’s brother and her grandmother’s sister) had been best friends all through their high school years. In addition, loose in the scrapbook, was a duplicate high school calling card for her mother and a commencement itinerary for their graduation. This niece, our common cousin, now in her 80s, is still living and I made arrangements for them to contact each other. This cousin was delighted to find her cousin’s daughter and that side of the family has been reunited. I think it is a little less than miraculous that through the Internet, the daughters of best friends were connected more than 60 years after they had graduated from high school. And, that there were items in my mother’s scrapbook, which brought tremendous joy to a woman who lost her mother at a very young age. 3. 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 27,400 RootsWeb- hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ABBS BERNHOFT, BLOYE, BORGERS, BRAMPTON, BROUSSEAU BLOYE-UK -- The BLOYE surname in the United Kingdom CABLEY, CAITLIN, CLOUSTON, COSKERIE HAUSMAN, HOATSON KLUCKER, KRESSLEY, KRIGBAUM LACKLAND, LAZAR MACGINTY, MACHEN, MCANTY, MOLTER, MUSTARD PEEKEY, PLAWK SETTLEMOIR, SPENNY TUNTLAND WALKER-UK-NORFOLK -- The WALKER families originating in Norfolk, United Kingdom ZITZER NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS CAN-DEERFIELD-ATTACK-1704 -- Companion list to http://www.historic-deerfield.org/ CELTICQUEST -- For participants of the Celtic Quest Research Trip to Dublin, Ireland ITALY-ARBERESH -- The Italian people with Arberesh in their roots MI-MEMORIES -- Genealogical reminiscing about their families in Michigan NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS NOR-AKERSHUS -- Akershus, Norway 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. 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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 BLACKMORE. BLACKMORES of Bath and London, England, and Hamilton, Ontario Canada and the various side branches from Bath and other areas in Somerset that moved to London and eventually on to Canada. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~easton/blackmore/blackmor.html McKEMIE. This site is devoted to the research and preservation of the genealogical history of the surname McKEMIE. It is dedicated to supporting anyone interested in their McKEMIE (and all spelling variants) family history and acts as a bridge between the various families, both stateside and worldwide. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mckemie/onenamestudy/ STORMS. STORMS Family of New York, Ohio and Michigan. Researching Isaac STORMS and descendants; migrating from New York to Ohio and Michigan. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~storms1/ ======================= Paid Advertisements ======================== CHRISTMAS CARDS JUST LIKE GRANDMA USED TO SEND Remember the beautiful Victorian Christmas cards grandma used to send? Mabelle's Post has reproduced them for you. Regularly $12 per pack of 15, now just $10 for RootsWeb Review subscribers through 11/21/03 at: http://www.mabellespost.com/rootsweb.html =================== 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. These are not Web pages where you can browse for a name -- these are databases that are searchable. They are not necessarily comprehensive, inclusive or complete and might be only a part of an on-going project. U.S.A. Marriage Records (multiple states and counties); selected marriages culled from newspapers and county records; 1,962 records; Cheryl Harris http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ MINNESOTA. Freeborn County. Members of Old Settlers' Association, 1882; 250 records; La Crosse Area Genealogical Society http://userdb.rootsweb.com/groups/ Winona County. Members of Old Settlers' Association, 1897; 596 records; La Crosse Area Genealogical Society http://userdb.rootsweb.com/groups/ MISSOURI. Iron County. Arcadia. Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church of Pilot Knob--Marriages 1861-1930; 204 records; Marcine (Amelung) Lohman http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ OHIO. Perry County. Pay lists for the county's Civil War soldiers, 1861-65; 1,448 records; Carol Knight for Perry County, Ohio http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ TEXAS. Cooke County. Bible Records. Jack Ware Arnold Family Bible--24 births, 2 marriages, 6 deaths; ca 1813-1935 Clapp Family Bible--12 births, 1 marriage, 5 deaths; ca 1837-1915 Cunningham Family Bible--9 births, 5 marriages, 2 deaths; ca 1893-1974 Dennis Family Bible--17 births, 2 marriages, 2 deaths; ca 1804-1903 Duffy Family Bible--5 births, 4 marriages, 3 deaths; ca 1848-1929 Gladney Family Bible--22 births, 11 marriages, 6 deaths; ca 1840-1937 Henderson Family Bible--4 births, 1 marriage, 1 death; ca 1859-1895 Hobbs Family Bible--9 births, 7 marriages, 3 deaths; ca 1853-1925 Hurst Family Bible--19 births, 2 marriages, 8 deaths; ca 1820-1963 Reece Family Bible--10 births, no marriages, 2 deaths; ca 1873-1917 Ware Family Bible--12 births, 3 marriages, 11 deaths; ca 1824-1921 Weaver Family Bible--17 births, 2 marriages, 4 deaths; ca 1823-1875 Wooldridge Family Bible-11 births, 9 marriages, 7 deaths; ca 1852-1933 Wyatt Family Bible #1--11 births, 8 marriages, 13 deaths; ca 1857-1981 Wyatt Family Bible #2--11 births, 4 marriages, 2 deaths; ca 1876-1932 http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Have You Lost Your Census? By Fran Bolton Jfrbol@aol.com I was pleased to see my contribution to RootsWeb Review, titled "Humor, Humour," appear in the Nov. 5 issue. Afterward, I received several e- mails advising me I had quoted the NUMBER OF YEARS a couple had been married incorrectly -- that the column I quoted from was actually their AGE at the time of marriage. They were confusing the 1910 census I quoted from, with the 1930, not realizing they had different column headings. Since the column headings on the reproduced census pages can be difficult to read (especially if you wear bifocals and/or can't turn you head sideways) I use a blank form for each census year to use as a quick reference to see how the column headings changed from year to year. [Editor's Note. Column #15 of the 1930 U.S. census asked "age at first marriage." In the 1910 and 1900 censuses (columns 9 and 10 respectively) it asked "number of years of present marriage." Wish they had asked for the name of former spouse, too. You can download (free) U.S. Census (1790-1930) Extraction Forms here:] http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/census.htm * * * Persistent Researcher Finds 'Burned' WWII Military Records By Rusty Macon Weber RWNLK@aol.com I have been trying to obtain a copy of my Dad's discharge from the Army for World War II. Well, I've always said "never say never," and I've always had a "do it or die trying" attitude. I am nothing if not persistent (some might say stubborn or hardheaded). I was told that due to the fire in St. Louis military repository on 12 July 1973 that all of my father's records were lost. [Note: 2-line URL] http://www.archives.gov/facilities/mo/st_louis/ military_personnel_records.html I had a copy of his Separation Qualification Record, but not the actual discharge itself. In my search, I have made contact with the Alumni Association of the 26th Yankee Division, the 328th Infantry Association, and some of the veterans that he served with, and also other descendants of veterans from these organizations. One of the descendants that I made contact with was in the same boat that I was in and had been able to obtain a copy of his father's discharge from the local NARA branch because his VA (Veterans Affairs) records had never been returned to St. Louis, so I thought that I might give that a shot since Dad had spent a year in the VA hospital in Atlanta in 1955-56. He would have had to have proven that he was a veteran, right? I contacted the NARA branch in Atlanta. They wouldn't tell me if they had any records for Dad, but said that I could request them and they would search, but the request would have to be routed through the VA Hospital and told me what form had to be filled out for the request. I contacted the VA Hospital in Atlanta and it assured me that it would be happy to make the request on my behalf, but it had never heard of the form that NARA said the request should be submitted on. I have a friend who works in the local VA Hospital and told her my problems. She assured me that she would see what she could find out. She enlisted the assistance of some of her friends who works in medical records at the local VA. They had never heard of the form that NARA was requesting either and tried to find out about it. Finally, they sent me a different form through my friend saying that should get me the records that I was requesting. I filled them out and sent them in through the VA hospital, but got a notice that the request was on an incorrect form. Now, do they send me a copy of this phantom form? No! I still couldn't find one of these forms. I turned to the VA Records Administration for assistance http://www.aac.va.gov/vault/benefits.html and gave it a call on October 7th. There was a very helpful young man on the other end of the line that looked my Dad up in his computer and told me that they did indeed have a "jacket" on him, but without pulling it he didn't know if it would have 1 page or 20 pages. He told me to fax them a copy of my Dad's death certificate with a signed request for a copy of his records and that I should hear something back in about a month. About an hour later I got a fax that was a copy of my Dad's Discharge. I was elated. (I did the genealogy happy dance, and that is not a pretty sight!) And I thought that was that. That must have been the only thing in his "jacket." Well, I got a surprise in today's mail. I got a package about an inch thick. In it was a copy not only of the Discharge paper that had already been faxed, but a copy of my parents' marriage license, a copy of my mother's divorce records from her previous marriage, surgery notes, hospital summary report, reports from every X-ray he had ever had made while in the service and since being discharged to the time of his admission to the VA hospital, including his dental X-rays. It even had a copy of the fax that I had sent them including the copy of his death certificate and the signed copy of the request for a copy of his records and a note that they were recording his date of death on their records. This would truly be a genealogical find if I didn't already have copies of the other records of genealogical significance, but for someone else, that may not already have some of these records, what a windfall that would be -- and I got them all for FREE! And, you see, persistence DOES pay off. * * * Handling Inquiries Properly By a. sharp Stemmatis@aol.com People who post messages on bulletin boards or mailing lists, or those who place family information in other public areas should have an expectation of receiving inquiries with respect to what they have posted. The inquiries they receive are likely to be inversely proportional to the amount of documentation they include in their postings. They should expect a researcher to ask for the basis of a "fact" they assert on the Web. I find, however, that when I send an e-mail or post a reply asking about something publicly posted that many of these people are hostile and rude. Perhaps they are embarrassed that they just copied Uncle George's GEDCOM and posted it without a clue as to the basis of the evidence behind it. Perhaps they are just curmudgeons or nosy. I have received responses such as, "Who ARE you to ask me these questions?" Of course, they do not answer the questions. One person recently implied that she would not answer the questions without my proving what family connection I had to the persons inquired about. What was my "motive" for asking for sources? I felt like writing back, "To get the answer, you twit!" (but did not). One person refused to share sources behind a posted GEDCOM, stating that if I wanted to know, I should do my own research (which is what I thought I was doing when I asked for the county, will book, and page, so I could view it myself.) These responses raise several issues. First, I value quite highly my privacy. I do not use my full name on postings (and still receive plenty of spam). I do not give out my address and telephone number to people I do not know. I certainly will not put that information out on the Web. Requests or demands that I satisfy the curiosity of someone before that person will share sources is both an invasion of my privacy and wholly inappropriate. My posting history on the bulletin boards is available and covers a wide range of collaterals as well as main lines. Anyone may read the queries or postings. To more than that no one is entitled. Second, it should not matter who asks the question -- a relative, a curious Web surfer, a writer, or a professional genealogist. The important thing is the question and the answer. Does it aid both parties in obtaining an accurate picture of a family? Does it clarify infor- mation that other researchers might benefit from? In most cases, my queries contain specific questions supported by specific references to sources the other person may not have seen. They seek to check for sources I may not have seen, particularly if the resulting conclusion differs from mine. Third, the purpose of posting information on the Web is supposedly to exchange information -- sharing. How many millions of person hours have been wasted by many different people searching for information others already found, when so much information remains unresearched? The advantage to cooperation is that it yields a mutual benefit. Granted, there are those who post information as an ego booster or those who seek to impress by having the biggest database. (Like the person who boasts several hundred thousand names, but copied them all from Ancestral File without checking any of the data. No wonder the mother died 10 years before her child was born). This benefit seems to have been lost on those who have responded to queries in a petulant way. These last two points bring home the first. People should not be con- cerned about WHO asks the question, but about the question itself. A thought-provoking question by Spiderman or the Masked Maurader is fine with me. If someone points out new evidence, I am grateful. If someone shows me a flaw in reasoning, I wonder why I didn't think of it. Who it is that asks is none of my business. I respond with what I have, and never demand a pedigree or other personal information from the other person. * * * Genes Will Tell By Allene Taylor Turner algatur@msn.com I read with interest about finding interesting facts on old military records. For years I had wondered why I, in a family of brown- and hazel-eyed relatives, had blue eyes. After sending for and receiving records of my great-grandfather's Civil War records I now know why. His muster records listed him as 6 feet tall with dark hair and blue eyes. There was even a copy of his marriage record when he applied for his disability pension and the names of all of his children and whether they were still living at home. Also, there was a notation that he had been reported missing in action and had been a prisoner of war at Andersonville Prison and escaped. 8. Humor/Humour: Making His Mark --------------------------------------- Thanks to: Valorie valb@babcock.co.za Mr. Schwartz was the oldest of seven children, so he had to quit school and work to help support his younger brothers and sisters. He never learned to read, so when he married and started a checking account, he signed his checks simply "XX". Eventually he started his own business, which immediately prospered. He soon was a very rich man. One day, he got a call from his bank. "Mr. Schwartz," said the banker, "I need to ask you about this check. We weren't sure you had really signed it. All these years you've been signing your checks 'XX', but we just got one that was signed with three XXXs." Mr. Schwartz answered, "No problem, my friend. It's just that since I've become so wealthy, my wife thought I ought to have a middle name." 9. 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