RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 8 June 2005, Vol. 8, No. 23, 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, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. Editor's Desk: "Virtual Fishing for Ancestors"; Some Sites Worth Seeing 1b. Tips from Readers: "Smashing the Wrong Brick Wall" 1c. Using RootsWeb: "Discovering Roses among the Thorns" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Finding Fragmented Families" 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: "Fact-finding Is Fun" "Even Tanguay Made Errors" "Right Facts. Wrong Tree" "Explaining Blossoms and Months" "Tragedy Blamed on 1930 Census" "Some Strange Southern (USA) Customs" 8. Humor/Humour: "Here's a Heck of a Tale" 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: Virtual Fishing for Ancestors By Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com June was always a favorite month when I was growing up in Oklahoma because that is when "Papa" (my maternal grandfather) and I went fishing. We would get the old cane poles out, dig up some worms, fill a fruit jar with cold water, and pack a lunch (not necessarily in that order), and off we'd go down the hot dusty road. We'd bait the hooks, drop our lines in the water, and then sit on the tree-shaded cool banks of the creek and wait for the fish to bite. Virtual fishing for ancestors on the Internet is similar to the old- fashioned kind. First, you have to make some effort because the fish are not going to just jump into your fish box, and secondly, you need to bait your hooks and throw out some lines. One cousin found me via a GEDCOM I had shared with another cousin. It was a lucky bite for me. My family went to Arkansas and hers remained in Kentucky. I have information about the line that went West, but she recently found some old letters and tintypes that our families exchanged back in the 1880s and 1890s. A researcher contacted me because he discovered his Georgia ancestor listed on my website. He inquired about evidence regarding the parents of his ancestor -- I just happen to have a copy of the father's will that names all 10 children. If he hadn't been fishing, he wouldn't have caught that whopper. Another fellow replied to my message board query regarding certain German families in 18th-century Orange County, North Carolina with information about possible connections we might have. We both have done some additional digging and while we have not proven any cousinship yet, he provided me with copies of some church records and I had a few records that gave him new material and clues. However, it was a visit to this county's website via the USGenWeb (http://www.usgenweb.com/) that yielded my biggest catch. Knowing of a possible intermarriage between our families, I looked at a record there pertaining to a 1787 inquest into a death of someone of this (new-to-me) surname. Guess whose ancestor is on that list? Fish on! June is a great fishing month. I recently heard from a gentleman in Texas who has two complete generations of descendants of the brother of my Tennessee ancestor that have eluded me for years. I found him through WorldConnect one night while I was virtual fishing. Some of the best ways to fish for ancestors and its all free is to: --Build your personal genealogy website. RootsWeb offers free ones at http://accounts.rootsweb.com/ --Use WorldConnect. Create an account and upload your GEDCOM. http://wc.rootsweb.com/ --Post and update old messages on message boards and mailing lists. http://boards.rootsweb.com/ http://lists.rootsweb.com/ Bait your hooks. Get your lines in the virtual water and land some fish of your own. Then share your big fish tales with us. Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com * * * Some Sites Worth Seeing: Australia. Australian Medical Pioneers Index (AMPI). A database of more than 3,000 pioneer doctors, from the 1700s to 1875. Includes ships' surgeons, convict doctors; doctors registered, qualified in, or were residents of Australia or who visited in a professional capacity. Also includes an image gallery and more. http://www.medicalpioneers.com/ Germany. National German Military Grave Registration Service. This database contains the names of more than two million missing and dead German soldiers from World War I and World War II. It is in German. Tips for using: Nachname (surname); Vorname (first name); supplying a date of birth (Geburtsdatum) or death (Todes) is optional. Click on "Suche beginnen" to start a search. You then must register with your name and address to continue the search. On the registration form, the following items are required: Vorname (first name), Nachname (last name), Strasse Nr. (street and number), Land/Plz/Ort (country/postal or ZIP code/city). Click on "Zur Ergebniseite" to continue. On the next screen click "Suchanfrage ausführen." http://www.volksbund.de/graebersuche/content_suche.asp http://www.volksbund.de/graebersuche/ * * * Don't understand German? Try the Babel Fish Translator: http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn * * * A German Genealogical Word List is available from the Family History Library online at: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/guide/WLGerman.ASP * * * England. Sedgley Park Roman Catholic School (1763-1873) in Staffordshire has a history of the school, names of pupils, notabilities, and some interesting snippets. http://freewebs.com/sedgleypark/ * * * Why Bother? The Value of Documentation in Family History Research http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/19_kory.html?Welcome=988300764 A Cite For Sore Eyes--Quality Citations for Electronic Genealogy Sources http://www.oz.net/~markhow/writing/cite.htm Creating Worthwhile Genealogies for our Families and Descendants http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson12.htm * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Smashing the Wrong Brick Wall By Rebecca A. Smith in Mississippi My first cousin and I got bitten by the genealogy bug and inherited the work our great-aunts and her mother worked so tirelessly on years ago. We planned for and recently completed a trip to Connecticut and Rhode Island, which is where our ancestor, Edwin Stearns ROBINSON, came from along with his wife Julia Ann CLARK. They had migrated to Mississippi around 1837 to teach and minister. Through research done before we know most of their descendants, but nothing about their parents except for sparse clues in census, biography, marriage, and school records. Edwin was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut in 1812, but no birth record has been found for him. Julia Ann was born 16 Dec. 1817 possibly in Connecticut, but family tradition had her born in Worcester, Massachusetts. Before our trip, we had discovered that a John J. ROBINSON had married Ruth GARDINER. They were both of Rhode Island and had the following children: Emily, Elizabeth, Albert, Edwin, and Cornelia. No birth dates or locations were given for the children. We decided after some deducing that John's first wife (and first cousin), Abigail were married in 1794 and that after two children, (James and Mary Ann) she died in 1805, which put John and Ruth in the right time-frame to be our ancestor -- if they married soon afterwards. Edwin had said that his father was from Rhode Island and Edwin had given Providence, Rhode Island as his residence during his school years at Washington (Trinity) College in Hartford, and again when he and Julia Ann married in 1836. Armed with this knowledge and fairly confident we were looking in the right direction and at the right family we happily went to libraries and archives in Rhode Island and searched everything we could on Ruth GARDINER, daughter of Benjamin GARDINER and Elizabeth WICKES of Middletown, Rhode Island. We finally hit pay dirt at the Rhode Island Historical Society in Providence about a half hour before closing. Books on births deaths and marriages that I thought were dated too late to be of use were passed over for other literature. I finally picked one up and turned right to the death of Ruth ROBINSON of Providence, on 2 May, 1858 widow of John and daughter of Benjamin. We were able to get the obituary and other information that led us to her probate records in the Providence City Hall (a must visit place). You can imagine our excitement as we photographed all the records that the files contained! We finally got to one that mentioned Albert and Edwin (our Edwin had a brother named Albert). They were living in South Carolina in 1859 or 1860. This did not fit! My cousin then looked them up in the 1860 census records for South Carolina and found them. Edwin was indeed born in 1812, but he clearly was not our ancestor since ours was firmly ensconced as a Minister of the Gospel and teacher in Jasper County, Mississippi during that time. That was our last day in Rhode Island and we had run out of options. I guess the moral of this story is to leave your options open when searching. * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Discovering Roses among the Thorns Rita ROSE was just beginning to research her family history. She already compiled all family records she and other close family members could supply into a computer genealogy program. Now she had reached the point at which she hoped to be able to add to her growing family tree by finding connections in the RootsWeb's WorldConnect/Ancestry World Tree vast combined database. http://wc.rootsweb.com/ Rita typed in the names she hoped to find in the search box on the main WorldConnect page and found quite a few trees, which included some of her ancestors and collateral lines in the files there and added some generations to what she already had recorded. She knew she shouldn't accept user-submitted data such as that at WorldConnect at face value and some of what she found, on initial inspection, didn't instill her with confidence. She found a couple of well-documented and sourced files that she felt she could use as a starting point in her research, but she also found quite a few trees with sloppy or incomplete information. She found trees for her ROSE line with children listed out of order, entries in location fields that didn't refer to places -- plus a host of other easily detected errors. She also found some records that were incomplete and listed no sources and others with omitted dates and locations. Her first instinct was to disregard the sloppy trees and not follow-up on the information included in them. Then she remembered what her mother always said about not throwing the baby out with the bath water and decided she'd contact the submitters. And, in the meanwhile obtain some vital records and census information on her own. Rita hit pay dirt on several of the questionable and sloppy-looking trees after receiving responses from the submitters, and she was able to add additional generations and a few new branches and twigs to her family tree. Vital records and census data also proved that although some of these trees contained errors or were poorly documented, they did include valuable information as well--once verified. Rita discovered that there truly were ROSES among the thorns that shouldn't be overlooked. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Finding Fragmented Families By Doug Storie Some months ago I posted a query in the Cook County, Illinois section of the message boards. I was seeking information about the man who had allegedly fathered a child, out of wedlock, with an aunt of mine back in 1922. All I had was a name and occupation. The baby, a girl, had been given up for adoption soon after her birth. Within a few weeks a kind soul provided me with the transcript of the man's Chicago Tribune obituary from 1946. This listed his occupation, wife, siblings, children, and parents. Another sent me a transcript of his World War I draft registration. From this I was able to assemble a bit of his family tree. I figured that was it and left it alone. The other day I received another e-mail. This was from the man's niece. She filled in details I had purposely left out. She had indeed heard of the baby and the resultant scandal during the Depression. She provided many details of the man's later family and resultant children. She even told me that one child was still living in the same town. We agreed that I should tread cautiously -- it would be a shock for anyone to learn that they suddenly had a half sibling out there. This would be especially true if they were elderly. I called the man's daughter and spoke instead to her daughter. When I mentioned the possibility of a half sibling for her mother there was silence. She took my number and said she would have her mom call me back. Within a few hours the phone rang. It was the man's daughter. She had heard of a possible half sister some time before. She and I spoke openly about this and other events. She admitted that her sisters were not ready to accept that their father had fathered an older sister before them. From this interview I was able to expand the "new father's" family to include my cousin, the daughter of the previously adopted woman. All the information, names, dates, locations, and a few photos have been sent to her. She was ecstatic to receive them. Another family connected -- thanks to the generous contributions of RootsWeb Review readers and RootsWeb.com contributors. ======================== Advertisements ============================ Enter to win a trip to your ancestral home land and research assistance from a professional genealogist from Ancestry.com and TNT. Watch INTO THE WEST, a 6-week television event from TNT -- Executive Producer Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Television. 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New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- MAILING LISTS. For an index to more than 29,100 RootsWeb- hosted genealogy mailing lists, visit http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS ALDERS BIDLEMAN, BINION, BUERMANN BROCK-DNA -- Discussing BROCK (surname) DNA projects CARDLE, CATTLES, CLASS, CREEN, CREWSE EHRICHS, ENEVOLDSEN, EVELEIGH FEATHERSTON, FERRILL, FINDEN GARGATE, GIGER, GREGERSEN HALCRO IMOE JOGAS KIESSIG, KIRMAN LOCHEAD MCFELEA, MIKKELSEN, MITTELMANN, MONEYMAKER ROWSELL SCHEIBLER, SCHOOLS, SCIARA, SHAPLEY, SHAPPLEY, SONNER, STERTZ THIFFAULT, THINNES, TONGUE, TREVENA WALDREN, WALLIN, WALTSE, WARNICK NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS None created this week. NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS None created 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 Night Group of the Tuscaloosa (Alabama) website is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~alngtgs/ U.S.A. alngtgs -- Tuscaloosa (Alabama) Genealogical Society, Night Group artcgs -- Tri-County (Arkansas) Genealogical Society flscar -- Society of Children of the American Revolution (Florida) ohcolum -- Columbiana County (Ohio) txwvgs -- Wimberley Valley (Texas) Genealogical Society vadvidar -- District VI (Virginia) DAR Organizations' Abbreviation Key: DAR = Daughters of the American Revolution 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 BRENNAN, CULLEN, MORRISON, McCABE, EGAN, GOLDSBURY, NOLAND, CRUSE, HECHT, MYERS, SAGAR, BUNCH, WALDO, COOK, LEHMAN, MEYERS, SCHLESINGER, LOEBENBERG/LABENBERG, and WECHSLER. Homepage for Jim Brennan. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brennanohio/ DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~conqueror/genealogy_html HALL GENESEEKERS OF CANADA. Canadian HALL and HATCH ancestry with particular emphasis on the descendants of Humberston HALL. Humberston married Leah BUTTERS, March 1816, at Haugham, Lincolnshire. They immigrated to Oro Township, Simcoe County, Ontario, about 1830. It is known that descendants migrated both west and south, into Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and the United States. William HATCH and Sarah Ann GANE (GAEN, GAIN) married about 1815 in southern England, probably in either Wiltshire or Dorsetshire. The HATCH family arrived in Oro Township around 1831. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~geneseeker/ MICHIGAN. Presque Isle County History/Family Page. Surnames include: ANKLUM, ARNSTADT, BERG, BERTRAM, BREGE, BRUDER, DOMKE, DRUCKENMILLER, FERGUSON, FLEMMING, GILDEN, HARDIES, HOEFT, HORN, KNOPF, LEGNER, MCALLISTER, MOLITOR, PELTZ, PINCOMBE, RIEGER, SCHAEDIG, SCHMIDT, SCHULTZ, TULGETSKE, UHL, URLAUB, WENZEL, ZINKE, and many others. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~confido/peltz1.html 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. U.S.A. Professional, Society, Religious Groups: General Electric and Its Subsidiaries -- Directors, Officers and Managers, 1946. 515 records; Susan Archer http://userdb.rootsweb.com/groups/ FLORIDA. Brevard County. Cocoa. Cocoa Tribune, deaths 1935-1939. 481 records; Jim and Bonnie Garmon http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ MISSISSIPPI. Lee County. Tupelo. Northeast Daily Journal, deaths reported January 2004. 352 records http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ NEW YORK. Essex County. Lake Placid. U.S. Olympic Skating Team, 1932. 10 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/groups/ New York City. Directory 1832-1833 for Cornell, Cornwall, Cornwell surnames. 66 records; Jodie Lutter http://userdb.rootsweb.com/citydir/ OHIO. Greene County. "History of Greene County, Ohio," by R. F. Dill -- Index of Vital Records. 790 records. "History of Greene County, Ohio," by M. A. Broadstone -- Index of Vital Records. 570 records; Virginia Mullins http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ VIRGINIA. Campbell County. Revolutionary War Pension Application -- David Callaham. 2 records; Don Trent 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fact-finding Is Fun By Sandra Ferguson I'm amazed at the tremendous anger expressed by Thom Stapleton of in his attack in last week's RootsWeb Review on genealogists who insist that documentation should be the basis of all our work -- and, suppose I must be what he calls a "snob." To me, the whole thing just seems so simple. I want to know who my ancestors are, and I can't know who they are if I don't document their relationship to me. Without documentation there is no way to know who is related to me and who isn't. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out, and I can never understand what the problem is with simply documenting your work. For me, it's part of the fun of this avocation -- formulating a theory, digging for proof, and finding it is a tremendous high, and those who simply take something and consider it fact are missing out on an integral and interesting part of the whole process -- the fact-finding! * * * Even Tanguay Made Errors By Jolynn Noel Winland in West Virginia, USA I would like to thank Thom Stapleton for stating so clearly what I (and probably many other "novice" genealogists) think about the "purity" of our genealogical files and where or how we get our information. I will gladly share with anyone the information that I have found on my NOEL line. I'll tell you where I found it. It will be up to you to decide the validity of the source and how you want to incorporate the information I have provided into your data. Notice that I did not refer to it as "my" information. It is not "my" information. It is information that is available to all. Do I have mistakes in my research? Probably. Ever checked out "Tanguay's Dictionary," which is one of the richest genealogical sources for French-Canadian research? Guess what? Tanguay made mistakes, too. Not many -- but he made some. I would imagine that dealing with the amount of data that he dealt with would certainly lend itself to a mistake or two. If he had listened to the naysayers of today, those volumes may well not have ever been written -- or published -- and a great wealth of French-Canadian history would have been lost to us all. [Editor's Note: See "Tracing Your French-Canadian Ancestry" at http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=6830] * * * Right Facts. Wrong Tree By Jerry Hogan Crabtree My wife's sister's husband was told by his mother on her deathbed that the man who raised him (and whose name appears on his birth certificate) was not his biological father (and she named the biological father). Had a "genealogical purist" done a family tree for my brother-in-law, the results for the paternal line would have been completely wrong! An elderly lady correspondent of mine recently opined "Can we be absolutely sure of anything?" She is also right on target. Personally, I prefer those who use logic and common sense to produce family trees, and I'll wager that their results are more often correct than those of the purists. [Editor's Note: Major differences among genealogists seem to be: --Understanding that it is not whether our information is correct [even primary official records contain incorrect information], but recording where we obtained our information, and not being defensive when someone questions where we got it. --Whether or not to share and/or publish our trees as we go (with or without including our sources) or wait until it 100% accurate. --Mistakenly thinking we "own" our ancestors and genealogical facts pertaining to them and can claim copyright to discovery of same; --That being related somehow is a prerequisite to compiling a family's genealogy or in obtaining any information about the family. -- Being unreceptive or hostile to learning how to create a quality family tree to leave for our families -- one like a fine piece of furniture that will be a treasure to pass down for generations.] * * * Explaining Blossoms and Months By Tony Saunderson in Northamptonshire, England. "Ne'er cast a clout 'til May be out." The May referred to is May blossom and not the month of May. May blossom is the white flower of the hawthorn bush. The flowers come out when the weather is sufficiently warm, the date of which varies from year to year and according to location, and is therefore an indication of when winter clothing can start to be removed. This usually occurs sometime during the month of May, which is why hawthorn blossom is known locally as May. In southern England the hawthorn can blossom in April and as late as early June in Scotland. It often grows in hedgerows and is a wonderful sight heralding the start of Spring. * * * Tragedy Blamed on 1930 Census By Jerilyn Marshall I was doing research in old newspapers today and happened upon this story distributed by the United Press and published on April 4, 1930 in some newspapers. This headline and article appeared in the Waterloo Daily Courier (Iowa, USA). I wonder whether this happened before or after the enumerators came? WOMAN ENDS LIFE, FEARING CENSUS TO REVEAL FALSEHOOD Allentown, Pa. -- (U.P.) A middle-aged spinster committed suicide Saturday because she feared census enumerators would discover that she falsified her age on naturalization papers 20 years ago. The body of Erma Schank, 48, was found on the sidewalk in front of her home apparently crushed in a fall from an upper story. She told friends recently that she feared deportation because she gave her age as 24 when she came from Czecho-Slovakia in 1909. * * * Some Strange Southern (USA) Customs By Sue Brooks My daughter was born in the late 1960s and all the little ones wore sleeveless undershirts through the winter. I remember all the "old" people fussing because I didn't keep the undershirt on until May was over. They said it would make the child sick. And we live in South Carolina where temperatures sometimes reach the 90s in May! But the one I still don't understood was why they said we couldn't have ice cream after eating fish? My husband grew up in Virginia and was told the same. 8. Humor/Humour: Here's a Heck of a Tale ----------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Kathie Marynik My mother-in-law's maiden name is HECK; her father emigrated from Germany when he was young. The following newspaper article was found among his papers when he passed away: 'Heck' of a Wedding Is a Scoop, by Heck! Frankfurt -- The other day, in the village of Elchesheim near Rastatt, Baden, Otto Heck was wed in the local Catholic church to Philomena Heck, née Heck. The witnesses were a Herr Heck and a Frau Heck, and the pastor was Father Heck. The two mothers-in-law of the bride and 'groom, respectively, were née Hecks, too, without being related one to the other. To top it all, the reporter who first came across this story is Hans Heck. 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