RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 25 May 2005, Vol. 8, No. 21, Circulation: 804,154+ (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 weekly RootsWeb Review. http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ * * * RootsWeb HelpDesk http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ * * * Search and share family trees at WorldConnect: http://wc.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/ * * * =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS AND NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. Editor's Desk: "Save Your Euros, Dollars, and Pounds" "SSDI Updates" "RootsWeb Meeting at NGS" "Order in the Court. Here Come De Judge!" "Mark Your Calendar: RootsWeb Meeting at NGS" "Honoring Contributors" 1b. Using RootsWeb: "Marge MESSER Takes Her Lumps" 1c. Tips from Readers: "Playing it Loose" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Genealogy and Some Divine Intervention" 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: "Grafting Family Trees" "Braking for Frogs" "Depositing Research in Libraries" "No Perfect Genealogies" 8. Humor/Humour: "In the Merry Month of May" 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: SAVE YOUR EUROS, DOLLARS, and POUNDS. Another variant of the so-called Nigerian scam e-mail is making the rounds again and fooling some genealogists. The e-mail may appear to be sent by a barrister, (attorney) representing the estate of some long-lost relative you never knew you had (your last name may be inserted into the e-mail message) who perished along with his family in a car or airplane accident recently. The scammer will claim to have gone to a lot of trouble to find you in order to give you a share of the (usually) millions of dollars available if you'll just forward your bank account information to him or send him some money. He may claim to have found you through RootsWeb. Do not respond to such scams. The country involved is not always Nigeria. Ghana, South Africa and other West African states are sometimes mentioned. Occasionally the scam operates from other countries, such as the Netherlands (Amsterdam), the United Kingdom (London), Spain (Madrid), or Canada (Toronto). The United States Federal Trade Commission has issued a consumer alert about this Nigerian scam. Americans who receive an offer via e-mail from someone claiming to need your help getting money out of Nigeria -- or any other country, for that matter -- forward it to the FTC at spam@uce.gov There are myriad variants of this scam -- including "winning notifications" from a lottery company, fake charities, and fake church scams. Ignore them all. Save your money for genealogical research. http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/nigeralrt.htm http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp * * * SSDI UPDATED RootsWeb now offers the most recent version of the Social Security Death Index (SSDI), which includes records through April 2005 This database contains several important bits of information on the more 75,163,608 persons whose deaths are on file with the U.S.'s Social Security Administration, including: social security number, date of issuance, state of issuance, date of birth, date of death, and last residence address of record. http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/ * * * ORDER IN THE COURT. HERE COME DE JUDGE! Lesley UEBEL, the listadmin for the Port Jackson Convicts List -- an Australian mailing list for those who are researching convicts who arrived in Port Jackson (Sydney, Australia) -- alerted us to what is possibly the first play enacted on a RootsWeb mailing list. "Take one irascible colonial governor, add a pinch of arrogant supreme court judge, a dash of impatient judge advocate, a sprinkle of pedantic colonial secretary and a soupcon of wily widow and you have -- 'Macquarie's Bent Lament!'" Uebel said. This play is a veritable sparring match in words as letters fly between all the characters. The widow of the judge advocate won't leave the home provided for her husband -- but her husband is dead! The new judge advocate wants the house. The supreme court judge is interpreting and writing, but is he the unseen hand behind the widow's letters? The colonial secretary -- is he more than just a go-between for the governor? And Governor Lachlan Macquarie -- what does he really want? The stars of the show are "PJ Listers" -- David COOKE, Russell KELLY, Lisa IRVING, Peter BURKE, and David GAUL who were asked to translate the original wording of these letters contained in the HRA (Historical Records of Australia) into today's language and phraseology. Even if you missed the "live" performances, you can catch it in the archives. The play started 16 May and can be found in the archives for the Port Jackson Convicts list at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS/2005-05 * * * HONORING CONTRIBUTORS The Wigtownshire mailing list, SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com, is extraordinary by any standards for its helpfulness, friendliness, and value. "It has many outstanding contributors," Tim WEEDON writes, "but I have to single out Diana HENRY for the Gold Medal for the remarkable work she does transcribing the BMDs from the Wigtownshire Free Press and doing lookups. Many listers send messages of appreciation of Diana but I feel that RootsWeb needs a more visible and permanent list of such heroes. In any case, Diana deserves mention for her remarkable contribution to the research of so many." We agree. Thanks, Diana. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE.html * * * MARK YOUR CALENDAR: ROOTSWEB MEETING AT NGS You are invited to attend a RootsWeb discussion meeting that is being held in conjunction with the National Genealogical Society (NGS) Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday, 2 June at 1 p.m. Since seating is limited, please help us plan for the right number by sending an e-mail to: trees@myfamilyinc.com with "RootsWeb meeting" in the subject line. Even if you can't attend the meeting we'd still like to hear from you. Send a message to trees@myfamilyinc.com with "RootsWeb" in the subject line, and share with us what you like about RootsWeb, anything you don't like, and any ideas that you have to make it better. Information about the NGS conference can be found at http://www.eshow2000.com/ngs/ * * * 1b. USING ROOTSWEB: Marge MESSER Takes Her Lumps The virtual ink was barely dry on Marge (GREENWOOD) MESSER's WorldConnect family tree http://wc.rootsweb.com/ when she began to receive e-mail from newfound cousins. However, they were not all of the friendly "kissing" cousin variety. Marge found herself on the receiving end of accusations that her research was sloppy to nonexistent. Mike MIDDLESWORTH, a NEWFIELD researcher, questioned Marge's sources. Sources? Marge was not sure what he meant by "sources" -- she had recorded what others told her and what she found in other genealogies previously submitted to WorldConnect and other online repositories. She hadn't given any thought as to where these people had obtained their information. Mike gently pointed out that before accepting on face value data she had found online she should have checked out the facts included in these user-submitted files. Mike explained that he had been researching his mother's NEWFIELD family history for a few years and had learned a few lessons along the way about blindly accepting user-submitted data as being correct. He had learned that, while helpful as a starting point, it was absolutely necessary to check out the source of the information to verify or disprove the online "facts." Mike further pointed out that some of the data in Marge's merged files was in disagreement with itself and/or incorrect on the face of it. For example, Marge's merged files indicated granduncle Nathan NEWFIELD had married when he was five years old -- based upon the birth year and marriage dates in the file Marge had copied. Marge discovered that there was quite a bit of obviously inaccurate data in one file in particular that she had downloaded and merged with hers. Marge learned from Mike that Sylvia SLACK was a notoriously poor NEWFIELD researcher and the data in her file, which she had plastered on every possible site online, had to be perused carefully with a magnifying glass before accepting a word of it. Oh dear! Marge had also merged information from Sylvia SLACK's database, which indicated granduncle Nathan NEWFIELD's wife, Myrtle MAKINSON, had her last child at age 74, two years after her death! Since Myrtle was not listed in the Guinness Book of Records, and a mother having a posthumous child was clearly out of the question, Marge began to realize that genealogy wasn't as simple and easy as copying ancestors from the Internet or quoting what your family members tell you. Other and more reliable sources apparently need to be examined. Marge gave it all some thought but when she opened the next e-mail in her inbox, she swore she could hear it screaming out at her. She could almost envision flames rising from her virtual mailbox. It was from another cousin, Prudence PROPER, who not only pointed out the same failings in Marge's research (or lack thereof) that Mike MIDDLESWORTH had previously noted, but Prudence also was livid over the fact that Marge had merged Prudence's GREENWOOD GEDCOM with her own and failed to give Prudence credit or even include Prudence as the source of her flawless research -- the result of 30 years of meticulous and painstaking record gathering. Prudence tartly stated that she was a highly experienced genealogist and had given detailed attention to consideration of conflicting evidence to arrive at some of the conclusions in her file. Marge hadn't realized that without attribution as to the source of the names, dates, and places she had obtained from Prudence's file the facts were not supported or substantiated by any evidence. As Marge put Prudence's harsh admonishments aside for a bit she moved along to the next e-mail in her inbox. Alas, it was from another unhappy cousin. This time, the message was from Hal HOGG whose father's mother was a MESSER. Hal was irate that Marge had included his data on the MESSER line in her family tree when she was not even personally related to this family. How dare she? Will Marge ignore her cousins? Throw in the family tree towel? Or will she decide to learn how to compile a worthwhile genealogy? Next week: Marge Makes Major Resolve * * * 1c. TIPS FROM READERS: Playing it Loose By Pat Almquist in Marshall, Texas, USA In researching genealogy, I have come up with three phrases: 1. "It's fun to find out where you came from, but it's infinitely more important to know where you are going when you leave here." 2. "The pot of gold is where you find it, not necessarily at the end of the rainbow." 3. "When you come to a brick wall, go through it. If you can't go through it, go over it. If you can't go over it, go around it. If you can do any of these, just sit there, working like mad all the while, and one day that brick wall will come tumbling down." This concerns the second one. For three years I had searched for my husband's maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Augusta PIEL. What an elusive lady! Since she was born in Holyrood, Kansas in 1886, I called both the county clerk in Ellsworth County and the Department of Vital Statistics for the State of Kansas and neither had a record of her birth. I wasn't even sure if her name was spelled PIEL or PEIL. But I printed out everything I found (in Kansas) on the Web that might possibly relate to her. I placed queries on every website I could find that might help me locate her. And one of those postings paid off. Nancy Taylor, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, saw my posting on GenForum and contacted me. When she told me who Elizabeth's father was, I nearly fell out of my chair. I had researched the names PIEL, PIELL, and PEIL in Kansas but no other name variations. Turns out I had already printed out the census info on her father for the years 1880, 1900, and 1910. In 1880 he is listed as Christian PEEL. In 1900 he is listed as Christ PEIL and in 1910 he is listed as Christ PIEL. And the daughter Lizzie who appears in the 1900 census is Elizabeth Augusta PIEL. When I mentioned this at my husband's mother's funeral in January of this year, someone said, "Oh, yes, I remember Aunt Lizzie." Since that time, I play it loose when looking for someone. If their name is Raymond, I look for Ray. Or if the name is James Thomas, I look for Jim, Thomas and Tom. If their name is Margaret, I look for Meg or Peggy. One or two fellows went by their first name on one census and by their initials on another. Researchers should "Play it again, Sam" with all the data they have collected. Go back over it, looking for dates and places that appear to be correct to see if you have missed some vital information because of a name variation. [Editor's note: See "Why You Can't Find Your Ancestors" http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson8.htm] 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Genealogy and Some Divine Intervention By Anthony Di Stefano My wife passed away in February and I've been going to the cemetery every month. In March I noticed a new grave next to my wife's in the next row with the surname of CORREALE, which was my grandfather's. Doing genealogy for many years, I took a mental note, but I had stopped researching since my wife had taken ill, and hadn't begun researching at that time. On Mother's Day, I took flowers to the cemetery. It's a new veterans' cemetery in Williamstown, New Jersey and spouses of veterans can be buried there. When I arrived, there was a woman standing at the CORREALE grave. I asked her if she was related. She replied that it was her mom. I asked her if she knew what part of Italy her CORREALEs were from. She replied, "Salerno," which is the province where my grandfather was from -- specifically, the town of Stella Cilento. I knew my grandfather Angelo CORREALE had a brother in the Philadelphia area but hadn't found enough information to identify him. She knew her grandfather, Nicola CORREALE had a brother Angelo living in Philadelphia, but didn't have any specific information. She had an interest in her family history but never did genealogy. We didn't make a connection then, but one key point of information I told her was that my grandparents owned Angelo's Candy Store in Philadelphia. We talked for over an hour and exchanged e-mail addresses. I promised to send her what information I had on CORREALEs and we departed. Two days later I sent the information I had, which included Angelo's, and Nicola's naturalization papers, census information, and the names of her grandmother, father and aunts copied from my grandfather's funeral memory book among other CORREALE information. However, she already knew the answer. After she left the cemetery, she called her father about our meeting, and he confirmed that his uncle Angelo had a candy store in Philadelphia. The information I sent her tied everything together. We are second cousins. We are both stunned by how we met and truly believe that our recently departed loved ones had something to do with this for this was no meeting by coincidence. Mathematically impossible! Too many things had to come into play for us to meet. My wife knew I loved doing genealogy and took great interest in what I would find on both our families. What are the chances that her mom and my wife pass away within a month of each other, are buried in the same cemetery next to each other, and we show up on the same day at the same time, and I'm doing genealogy and have enough family information to positively tie our families together? Our families came from Pennsylvania; she moved to South Jersey 20 years ago and her parents soon followed. I moved to the same community 18 years ago. Never give up hope overcoming those brick walls. ======================== Advertisements ============================ Research Your Scots-Irish Genealogy in Ireland This July Trace ancestors with genealogy workshop, local genealogy sources with staff assistance, historical sites, lectures, tours, folk music, museums, heritage groups, cultural presentations, town festival, parade, gorgeous countryside, shopping, free time for more research. Some customization to fit your schedule/budget. Flexible arrival/depart dates. Limited space. Contact us today! 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Call Toll-Free 1-800-490-7347 or click here. http://hoveround.imswebmktg.com/hoveround/unique/82403.php ====================== End Advertisements ============================== 3. New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Due to the list server upgrades, there are no new lists this week. 4. New Webpages at RootsWeb To Request a Free Web Account: http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Some of these webpages 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. For example, the Philip Livingston Chapter, DAC website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txplcdac/ U.S.A. malcdar -- Lexington (Massachusetts) Chapter DAR nysrwduv -- Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (New York) Tent DUVCW txgt1812 -- Gen. Edward H. Tarrant (Texas) USD 1812 txplcdac -- Philip Livingston (Texas) Chapter DAC vapcgs -- Patrick County (Virginia) Genealogical Society Organizations' Abbreviation Key: DAR = Daughters of the American Revolution DUVCW = Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War UDC = United Daughters of the Confederate USD = US Daughters of the War of 1812 DAC = Daughters of the American Colonies 5. 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 ENGLAND. Merseyside (updates). List of killed and wounded at Battle of Alma [Crimean War] September 1854; passenger lists of arrivals to Liverpool, September-October 1854. Click on "New Snippets." http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dadds/MERSEYSIDE.index.html HARTSOOK, BALL GENEALOGY. HARTSOCK, HARTSOOK: Washington County, Virginia, Overton County, Tennessee, Adair, Hart and Jefferson Counties, Kentucky; Alexander County, Illinois; Multnomah and Umatilla counties, Oregon. Other surnames include: NEELY, PEYTON, PAYTON, BALL, SLOPER, CROUSE, SHATTO, BEALL, CHANEY, STOCKTON, SHERMAN, and TRUMBULL. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hartsookballfamily/ "OUR FAMILY LINES." Large surname database featuring Scottish families who immigrated to Ontario, Canada ca 1910; Mayflower descendants. Scottish, Irish, English, German, Norwegian and Dutch names include: ALTENBERGER, BIGELOW, CHIPMAN, CLARK, CRITES, CREMEAN, ELKINS, FUSON, GILL, ESPIE, JOLLEY, LITAKER, LOWMAN, OWENS, ROBBROWAN, SEVERSON, SPAFFORD, SPOFFORD, TERREL, VEEDER, WEILER, WHITE, WILSON, WOOLWORTH, and WEST. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ourfamilylines/ 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. COLORADO. Otero County. Rocky Ford. First Baptist Church members, 1890-2004. 3,128 records; Delbert Spencer, church historian http://userdb.rootsweb.com/churchrecords/ DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Washington. National University Class of 1939, 293 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ MISSOURI. Dallas County. Plad Cemetery. 393 records; Laclede County. Mount Zion Cemetery. 204 records Jeff Mitchell http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ TEXAS. Gonzales County. Nixon. Nixon Cemetery, 2003-2004 burials. 21 records; Evelyn Wicke http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ UTAH. Davis County. Lakeview Cemetery. 91 records; Daniel Aaron Andersen http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ VERMONT. Bennington County. Readsboro. Selected land records, 1791-1827. 594 records; J. C. Streig http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deeds/ VIRGINIA. Spotsylvania County. Cortland District. School No. 6 Honor Roll students, 1902. 15 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ WEST VIRGINIA. Kanawha County. Dawes Mountain. Mount Hope Cemetery, 177 records; Greg Green http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ 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]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Grafting Family Trees By Phyllis Reed My cousin was one of the first Korean adoptees and his adoption was given a big write-up in the newspapers at the time. Although it was not easy for him, he became successful in business and then turned his attention to the separated families on both sides of the world. He (Thomas Park Clement) wrote "The Unforgotten War: Dust of the Streets," a book that tells about some of his experiences and works with the Korean adoptee organization that has located many children and birthparents around the world including the U.S., South and North Korea. Sometimes it is harder to find the G.I. fathers who do not bother to look for their children than it is to find the birth mothers in spite of the tremendous upheaval at the time and current political barriers in the two Koreas. Whether or not the soldiers died in Korea, they might have been the only ones who knew (or suspected) that they fathered a child. Many of us could have Korean half siblings without even knowing it. It is vital for us to keep these lines of communication open no matter what our respective countries' political difficulties with each other. We all deserve the same information available to us no matter where our mothers were living when they gave birth. Our family tree has many "grafts" on it that have greatly enriched our family. Some are interested in their origins and some are not, but at the very least, medical information needs to be made accessible. It's time to decriminalize births out of wedlock. * * * Braking for Frogs By Vanette Hamilton in Missouri, USA In the 1880 census (Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania) I found John BRENNEMAN, age 29, whose occupation is listed as: Frog Crossings. I thought the transcriber might have misread it, but I looked at the image again carefully and that is indeed what it looks like. The "F" is written with curlicues, but it looks the same as in the gender column. Other occupations on that page and the two adjoining include laborer, carpenter, servant, stone mason, machinist, fireman, railroader, iron stamper, nail feeder, and running furnace, so they are no clue as to what frog crossing is. At least not to me, although even today there is a frog, which is part of the switching mechanism of railroad tracks. Maybe some of the readers knows what a frog crossing job was in the 19th century. * * * Depositing Research in Libraries By Sharon Rowe This is in response to the item about where to deposit your precious research materials. I am a public library director who has worked as a professional genealogical researcher. I also have been researching my family for more than 30 years. As the author said, many public libraries simply do not have the space for genealogical manuscript collections. The public library that I oversee has a nice genealogical book collection, thanks to a special fund established years ago for that purpose. However, our "family files" consist of a few drawers in a filing cabinet. We have serious humidity and climate control problems, as do many libraries. I would recommend researchers find a facility that has archival storage capabilities. Unfortunately, this would rule out many local libraries. We are in the process of extending our microfilm collection since that is a more durable format than paper--when humidity is an issue. We have been fortunate to receive a large donation of local court records on microfilm. With the advent of digital cameras, this sort of preservation may be more feasible for local researchers. * * * No Perfect Genealogies By Fred Martin I think too often people rely on what is printed in respectable publications and society newsletters, etc. Especially if the writer has lots of credentials and initials after his or her name [postnominals]. No matter who it is and how respectable they may be, the information needs to be verified. I am currently battling the Mayflower Society over just such an article in the Mayflower Quarterly . . . So researchers need to verify all information to their own satisfaction and absolutely not take anything for granted just because the source was deemed reliable. [Editor's note: Credentials and Postnominals in Professional Genealogy: http://apgen.org/organization/policies/postnominals.html Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Postnominals: http://apgen.org/resources/aa.html] 8. Humor/Humour: In the Merry Month of May ----------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to: (several kind readers) This epitaph supposedly found in Massachusetts, Tennessee, and Scotland. Beneath this stone, this lump of clay, Lies Under Peter Dan'els, Who, early in the month of May, Took off his winter flannels * * * Found a humorous sign or entry in census, parish, church, etc. records? Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ----------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIPTIONS. 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