RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 30 March 2005, Vol. 8, No. 13, Circulation: 811,065+ (c) 1998-2005 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ * * * Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com Certification: http://www.bcgcertification.org/certification/ * * * Keep informed about the latest news, new databases, webpages and mailing lists at RootsWeb. Subscribe to the free weekly RootsWeb Review. http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ Search/download past issues of the RootsWeb Review: http://e-zine.rootsweb.com/ * * * Is your e-mail address up-to-date at all RootsWeb sources? http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ * * * Search and share family trees: WorldConnect: http://wc.rootsweb.com/ Learn how to find your ancestors: http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ Post and read 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/ RootsWeb HelpDesk: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS AND NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. Editor's Desk: "Boston 'Pilot' and 'London Gazette' Online" 1b. Using RootsWeb: "Tracking German Ancestors" 1c. Tips from Readers: "Searching in Western Australia" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Welding Some Broken Links" 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: "Lost in Translation?" "Canadian Funeral Home Records Provide Details" 8. Humor/Humour: "Changing Names" 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. Editor's Desk: Boston "Pilot" and "London Gazette" Online "Missing Friends" -- an Irish database -- is now available online. Boston College has posted a database of newspaper advertisements for Irish immigrants that were published in the Boston "Pilot" from October 1831 through October 1921. The advertisements were paid for by persons looking for family and friends who had lost contact. Many of them contain important genealogical details. The website, Information Wanted: A Database of Advertisements for Irish Immigrants Published in the Boston Pilot, can be found at http://infowanted.bc.edu./ More information can be found in an article from the "Boston Globe" at "The Irish Immigrant Past Gets Tie To Today" (Boston Globe). http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/03/17/the_irish_immigrant_past_gets_tie_to_today/ * * * "The London Gazette," first published in 1665, is the oldest, continuously published newspaper in the United Kingdom and probably the world. Its 20th-century archive can be searched and viewed online. http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/generalArchive.asp?webType=0 * * * 1b. USING ROOTSWEB: Tracking German Ancestors Trudi WEAVER began to feel a bit like Sherlock Holmes as she delved deeper into the various resources she found on the Internet, especially at RootsWeb. She was also learning that the family "stories" Mrs. METZGER reported having been told as a child were not all standing up when examined in the cold light of factual evidence. Last week Trudi learned that Mrs. METZGER's ancestors could not have arrived at Ellis Island as she had thought if they came into New York harbor in the 1870s because Ellis Island didn't open until January 1, 1892. It was much more likely that the families arrived at a place called Castle Garden. And, it was a common misconception that Germanic (and other) surnames were permanently changed by immigration officials upon arrival in America. In reality, the names were added to ship lists at the port of embarkation, usually by people familiar with the names and the language. Trudi learned quite a bit about names at: http://uscis.gov/graphics/aboutus/history/articles/NAMES.htm She discovered that many Germanic names were associated with the occupation of the original family member to use the name. A surname dictionary revealed that METZGER meant "butcher" and ZIEGLER meant "brick or tile maker." She also determined that her own surname of WEAVER was associated with a trade and originally might have been WEBER. Another lesson Trudi learned was that the stories were not unique to Mrs. METZGER's family. These were rather common "tales" of how Germanic surnames were deliberately changed or about there being a history of German nobility based upon a surname beginning with "von." Von can mean nobility in a German surname, but it may merely mean that an ancestor originally came from one place and moved to another where he was then subsequently referred to as being from or "von" his previous residence. Trudi was also having a great time in her volunteer position at the local library and she quickly found that it had an impressive genealogy section, which included passenger ship indexes and other fascinating resources. Obviously not everything was available on the Internet, so she explored her library for more information. Trudi asked Mrs. METZGER to bring her photos and family letters to the next "story hour" now that Trudi had some idea of what to look for in the way of clues to assist her research. A few of the photos were taken by professional photographers and the addresses of the businesses were listed on the backs of the pictures as were the dates. The letters gave her information she could use in posting queries to locate living family members in Germany. She followed links on the RootsWeb homepage and learned about message boards http://boards.rootsweb.com/ where she could post queries. She found that there were surname and geographic boards where she could attempt to find Mrs. METZGER's cousins. She also found topic lists and boards involving immigration and emigration http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.immigration and ship passenger lists of those arriving at U.S. ports http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.immigration.us Exploring RootsWeb's mailing lists, Trudi discovered German locality lists for the places mentioned in Mrs. METZGER's letters and on her photos. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/ In order to post a query on the lists Trudi knew she had to first subscribe to the free lists, but she also ascertained that she could access browseable and searchable mailing list archives for these locality lists from the index pages above even without subscribing to the lists. Perhaps someone had already posted information about Mrs. METZGER's families. She was in luck! She was pretty sure she had located family members posting to the message boards and lists--the names and dates matched. With Mrs. METZGER's permission, Trudi scanned a few of the family photos and posted them directly to the relevant boards as attachments, something she was able to do on the message boards but not on the lists. Trudi e-mailed a few board and list posters and anticipated their replies. She eagerly waited to see if anyone would recognize the faces in the photos. Following a possible lead she found in the mailing list archives to a GEDCOM (GEnealogical Data COMmunication) file, she explored that tree posted on WorldConnect: http://wc.rootsweb.com/ She e-mailed the submitter of the tree because the families listed seemed to tie in with the von der LINDT and ZIEGLER families. There had apparently been several intermarriages between the two families. Trudi decided that this genealogy thing was really fun. While she waited for replies and responses to her queries for Mrs. METZGER, she decided to learn more about her own family history. Next week: Crossing the Atlantic and Surprises Galore * * * 1c. Tips from Readers: Searching in Western Australia By Kaye O'Reilly in Victoria, Australia I can't believe it was only been four months since I started looking for James MILLIGAN. On the 7th September 2004, I confirmed he died and was buried in Western Australia. The fact that James wasn't buried, with his wife Catherine, in the Bunyip Cemetery, had sparked my curiosity. What had happened to him? I put a request for any information regarding James and Catherine MILLIGAN of Iona, on the RootsWeb, Gippsland list. Doug and Ken, answered my query. While neither had any information on James and Catherine they both gave support with tips and encouragements on finding James and provided me with information on some of my other MILLIGANs. I talked to the older members of my family and no one knew or remembered James and Catherine, The "olds" (older relatives) were only young children when their grandparents died. I checked all the deaths in the Victorian BDM's for any James MILLIGAN. The only one to fit was a chap in Castlemaine who died in 1923. I bought his death certificate but was unfortunate in that it had UK, UK, UK -- unknown -- in just about every space. It did, however, say he had died in the Benevolent Home. I then checked the Castlemaine Benevolent Home records. At a pinch, their James could have been my great-great-grandfather. If so, it would have meant he had left granny, after she had had his 11 children, and "ran off with another woman," -- highly unlikely. As this James was buried in the Castlemaine Cemetery, a phone call was put in to their secretary. He told me that James was buried in a public grave and as 1923 was in the middle of the Depression, it was conceivable that the family didn't collect the body due to the expense involved, also, I thought, unlikely. I checked the N.S.W. and South Australian death records, there was one possible in N.S.W. but no age was given. I put a note on the Internet, again, in a RootsWeb list, covering Australia and New Zealand, looking for information on a death of James MILLIGAN, born in 1849, in any state. One reply had a James MILLIGAN in a West Australia cemetery, but no other info was available on him. I e-mailed the cemetery to see if I could find out who purchased the burial plot, but as yet, I have had no reply -- then there were a few replies from N.S.W. wanting information on my MILLIGANs in general. I rang the Bunyip Cemetery trust and found the area Catherine was buried in and also the information that her son Fred was buried in the same plot. I had hoped that James had just "dropped" off the index. He's not there. I needed to place the last known "sighting" of my James. There is a James MILLIGAN, most likely my ancestor, in a pioneer photo in Denise Nest's book, "Call of the Bunyip." Then I have an old photo of a couple in their 80s, happily sitting on a step together. "Mr. and Mrs. MILLIGAN, 1924," is written on the back, but which Mr. and Mrs. MILLIGAN? There weren't any other MILLIGAN couples, in that time frame, that we know of. I checked with Denise Nest (through a third party) and she had no notes on the MILLIGANs. I took a trip to the state library in Melbourne and read the Garfield newspapers for the time around Castlemaine, James's death, hoping for his obituary, no luck. I checked for Catherine's obituary in May 1926. I not only found her obituary but a piece on Catherine as an old pioneer of the Bunyip district, unfortunately it didn't mention if James was alive or had predeceased her. While there I ran the film reels for Tasmanian BMDs and viewed James and Catherine's marriage record. In 1873, Tasmanian marriage records only listed the parties' names, ages, status (bachelor/spinster) occupations, date and place of marriage and their witnesses' names. No places of birth, or parents' names, are given, making it harder for us to go backward in our research. Catherine's birth entry was there and her parents' marriage record. Great-grandfather, Charles MILLIGAN, was named after Catherine's father, Charles HOPKINS, and Catherine was named after her mother, Catherine GLENNARD. A check of the Wonthaggi coal mine records had brought forth a 1935, newspaper clipping, my great-grandfather, Charles MILLIGAN's death notice. In it, it states, "son of the late James." Catherine died as a married woman, in 1926, so I had my time frame, 1926-1935. Now to the public records office to check probate records. There were two for Catherine, one in 1926 and another in 1935. Perhaps this would answer the mystery. Basically, the first will wasn't administrated, because the executors had died. In 1935, Fred, Kate (son and daughter) and Annie (James Francis Seymour's wife) applied to have the matter cleared up. Those papers gave me a lot of answers. The relevant facts were: 1926: The Will of Catherine MILLIGAN, Iona, married woman. Catherine died at Iona on the 6th of May and left her husband surviving. That the husband of the said deceased was at the time of her death a British subject by birth. She purchased the land about 13 years ago with money given to her by her husband James MILLIGAN. Catherine married James MILLIGAN at Sorrell in the State of Tasmania on the 5th Day of April 1873. The land was: Part of allotment 24 Section M, Parish of Koo-Wee-Rup East, County of Mornington, and being the land described in certificate of title Vol. 3175, Folio 742874, with 6-room, weatherboard house. 1935: The second probate: Will and in the Estate of Catherine MILLIGAN, late of Iona--Widow deceased. Intestate. Rule to administer, dated 15th August 1935, left unadministered by John Dowd, since deceased. Interest in her estate upon her husband James MILLIGAN, who is now deceased. Mable Rose Gummow of Attfield Street South Fremantle, W.A. [Western Australia] John MILLIGAN whose present address I have not been unable to ascertain, Frederick Hobart MILLIGAN of Iona, Vic., Catherine Christina Fielder of Iona, Vic., and Ann MILLIGAN (wife of JFS) of Wonthaggi, Vic. With the information that James's daughter lived in W.A. I went back to the RootsWeb list to see if I could get some extra information regarding the James MILLIGAN buried in Fremantle. The information I had was James MILLIGAN who died 4.11.1931, was buried 6.11.1931 in South Fremantle Cemetery, Roman Catholic section, age 85. So far, so good, but not enough, to make him mine. I found the W.A. deaths for those times were on microfiche, but I had no access, also I didn't know what the index would show. Parent's names wouldn't help me nor birth place. Back to the list. I received this reply from Chris: There may have been death notices in the West Australian newspapers, which are on microfiche at the Alexander Library in Perth on the 3rd floor. I pointed out that as I lived in Victoria I wouldn't have any chance to check those papers, Chris replied: "When I get a chance I'll go and check the newspapers for death notices. Well an offer to good to be true, I would have to wait and hope Chris didn't forget about me. It was the 25th of August when I requested the West Australian lookup, through my RootsWeb list, and the 27th when Chris made his offer. 10 days after what a delightful surprise to open my mailbox and see this: "Hello Kaye, Hope you haven't given up on me. Went into the library this morning. I'm sure he is your James. This is what I found. The West Australia Paper, Thurs., Nov 5th 1931. MILLIGAN: The friends of the late Mr. James MILLIGAN, husband of the late Catherine MILLIGAN formerly of Cora Lynn, Victoria are respectfully invited to follow his remains to the place of inter- ment, the RC Cemetery, Fremantle. The funeral will leave the residence of his daughter Mrs. M. Gummow, 217 Ashfield St., S. Fre- mantle, tomorrow Fri., 11.30 o'clock arriving at cemetery 11.50 a.m. The West Australian, Fri., Nov 6th, 1931. On Nov 4th 1931 at the residence of his daughter Mrs. M. Gummow, 217 Ashfield St., Fremantle, James, husband of the late Catherine, father of Mable (Mrs. Gummow) late Gwalia, Catherine (Mrs. A. Fielder) Charles, Fred and John MILLIGAN, age 85 years. On Nov 4th at 217 Ashfield St., Fremantle, loving grandfather of May (Mrs. Beasley) Edie (Mrs. Dunning), Walter and Bob, great- grandfather of Thelem and Bobbie. Hope this helps. Chris Dods, Perth, W.Aust Saying "Thank you, Chris," doesn't seem enough, but thank him I did along with Doug and Ken, and Leonie who had given me some information on Catherine and Annie. Visiting the MILLIGANs I have taken trips to Carrum Downs, Wonthaggi, Pakenham and Inverloch. I have met and talked to relatives and MILLIGANs who were no relation at all. (I phoned all the MILLIGANs in the Wonthaggi area) I have furthered my MILLIGAN tree with some more aunts, uncles, and cousins and had some much-needed exercise walking the Bunyip and Wonthaggi cemeteries. Sadly, there is no headstone for Catherine at Bunyip. I still intend to check the W.A. death of James, as soon as I can get access to the microfiche, where I just might find his birth place and parents names. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Welding Some Broken Links By Katherine Traynham in McLean, Virginia, USA In 1999, I was up a little late--on the Internet doing random genealogy searches. To tell the truth, I was missing my mother and great-aunt and was thinking about the old stories they would tell about my great- grandmother who had spent a childhood in Kansas. It was a romantic story, for she had been born in 1872 and then trekked out to Kansas with her parents, aunts and uncles, and even her old grandfather Jake GAMBER. They settled in Osborne County with other Pennsylvania transplants from Lancaster. My great-grandmother learned to read there, had a friend named Lillie for whom she named a daughter, and learned to love flat places. In 1884, her mother died, along with children numbers 5 and 6 within just a few months of each other. My great-grandmother was only 12 years old when a childless aunt and uncle decided they were leaving Kansas and taking her along with them. She had no idea they were never coming back. She never saw her father or brothers again, but she told that story to her children and grandchildren and even us great-grandchildren knew the names of her parents, grandparents, and the brothers she longed to see again. She died not long after World War II began and I wasn't born until a decade later, but I knew her story. I even had the photo album that had been carried back from Kansas when her aunt and uncle brought her to Tennessee. When I put "Talmadge" and "Kansas" into a search engine that night, I was doing what I had been doing for several years since the popularity of the Internet had exploded -- just blindly searching, but having no idea anyone might be looking for me. But this night, up came a message from a Phil TALMADGE who was searching for TALMADGE families in Penn township of Kansas. Surely, I thought, those Lancaster citizens moving to Kansas wouldn't have named their township "Penn", would they? I started an e-mail to Phil, with "I hope you will tolerate a long story -- my great-grandmother Ella May was taken from Kansas at age 12 and never saw her brothers again. Their names were . . ." and then I went to bed. Only pure hope made me check e-mail early the next morning. My great- grandmother had been dead for more than 50 years and it was unlikely I'd find relatives out West who even knew of her. I began to weep when I read, "I could hardly believe my eyes as I read what you wrote. I am the grandson of Reuben Walter TALMADGE, your great-grandmother's brother. He searched for her all his life." Reuben was only four years old when his sister was taken, yet his father made sure he knew her name and the circumstances of her leaving. Even just before his death, after several strokes, Reuben was still telling his grandson he wished he had been able to find her. His obituary mentioned her by name and that an aunt had taken her to Tennessee. In seconds, we had put back together a family broken apart in 1884. Phil died earlier this year. He and I never got to meet in person, but for several years we shared our family history and found some amazing stories that proved true and led to more stories and a few more mysteries. We felt we were meant to "meet," to find each other, and to finish the story of a brother and sister who hated not knowing what had happened to the other. I miss him so much, but I know he has now gotten the whole story, first hand. I'm just a little jealous. * * * Do you have an online or other "connecting" story to share? Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com ======================== Advertisements ============================ GET A FREE RESEARCH ASSESSMENT FROM BRITISH ANCESTORS Looking for ancestors from England or Scotland? All our researchers are located in Britain with access to original records. Let us have the details and we will have one of them give you a FREE research assessment. If you commission us to do the work (there's no obligation to do that!) our prices start from $70 US. Learn more about our BRITISH ANCESTORS RESEARCH TOUR IN SALT LAKE CITY! 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New/Updated Freepages and Homepages -------------------------------------- Has your website ever been mentioned here or do you have a new, updated, or substantially revised website located at RootsWeb (it will have "freepages" or "homepages" in the URL)? 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 BOATRIGHT, BOATWRIGHT. The purpose of this website is to help facilitate the family research. Includes various spellings. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ngcrawford/boatright/index.htm LYKINS. Has more than 74,000 family members with families dating back to the 1600s. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lykins/lykins.htm 6. New User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ ---------------------------------------------- The following databases have come online recently. They are searchable, but not browseable. Search: To look for specific data or occurrence of text in a file. Browse: To view the entire contents of a file or a group of files. ENGLAND World War I and II veterans reported in London Times, 1943; 244 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/uki/ U.S.A. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Washington. Saint Elizabeth Insane Asylum, employees, family and inmates, 1880; 1077 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/groups/ CALIFORNIA Monterey County. 1910 Census, Enumeration District 5; 807 records; Enumeration District 7; 408 records; Enumeration District 8; 485 records; M. Hellam http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ GEORGIA Pierce County. Aspinwall Cemetery; 37 records; Lake Chapel Primitive Baptist Cemetery, 11 records; Offerman. Foster Cemetery; 37 records; Wayne County. Big Creek Primitive Baptist Cemetery; 463 records; Ashley Dietrich Murray http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ INDIANA. Orange County. Marriages, January 1920-June 1933; 4,048 records; Robert E. Lane http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ MARYLAND. Cecil County. 1860 Census, Tyson surname (partial); 97 records; Laura Garrett Ladkau http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/ MISSISSIPPI. Lee County. Tupelo. Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal obituaries, January 2005; 547 records; L. P. Stephens http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ NORTH CAROLINA. Guilford County. Greensboro. Greensboro Female College Class of 1903; 16 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ TEXAS. Gregg County. Longview. Pine Tree High School Class of 1954; 57 records; Pat Almquist http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ VERMONT Bennington County. Readsboro. Amidon, Bailey, Chapman, Dodge, Fairbank, Grout, and Puffer marriages, 1795-1930; 128 records; J.C. Streig http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ Selected death records; 90 records; J.C. Streig http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ Caledonia County. Danville. Clerk's Marriage Index, 1771-1998; 3,852 records; Robert H. Goss http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ Waterford. Marriage Index, 1778 through May 2004; 2,806 records; Robert H. Goss http://userdb.rootsweb.com/marriages/ Birth Index, 1748-2004; 2,751 records; Robert H. Goss http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/ Death Index, 1767 through May 2004; 3,687 records; Robert H. Goss http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ VIRGINIA Bath County. Millboro. Millboro Public School students, 1904; 33 records; Fredericksburg (Independent City); College Class of 1907; 10 records; Newport News (Independent City); Newport News High School Class of 1911; 14 records; Powhatan County. Belona. Powhatan Institute Class of 1911; 13 records; Richmond (Independent City). Oak Grove Public School students, 1911; 108 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ Richmond (Independent City). Bankers, 1903 and 1911; 92 records; Country Club of Virginia, 1935 Juniors and Senior Golf Team; 32 records; Male Orphan Asylum, 1880; 62 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/groups/ Spotsylvania County. World War I and II veterans from this locality as reported in the London Times; 11 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost in Translation? By Joan Alyea I noticed this surname in the 1900 Colorado census: NEW YEARS, Henry; wife Mary, both were born in Mexico. I wonder if the name was actually "Nuevo Ano," which is Spanish for "new year"? * * * Canadian Funeral Home Records Provide Details By Shirley Beresford in Windsor Ontario, Canada In response to the writer suggesting asking the funeral home for a copy of their record for your relative, the funeral homes in our community also include place of birth, birth date, names of parents, how long in our country, in addition to who paid for the funeral. 8. Humor/Humour: Changing Names ------------------------------- Thanks to: Glenda Prowse in Australia It amused me to come across a marriage record from October 25, 1892 in Potsdam, New York, where Miss Catherine DIVINE married Jas. POWERS. Would she have been known as Catherine DIVINE-POWERS? * * * Thanks to: Susan Daily While looking up Indiana, USA marriage records online at Ancestry.com, I came across the following couple who were married 7 September 1892 in Pike County: Lovie McATEE and Willoughby LOVELESS. 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