RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 17 August 2005, Vol. 8, No. 33, 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/ * * * RootsWeb HelpDesk http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ * * * =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. Editor's Desk: "Utilizing the DAR Message Board" "Topographical Dictionary of Ireland" 1b. Tips from Readers: "Planning Your Trip to the 'Old Country' "Including Name Variants" "Tracking Swedish Immigrants" 1c. Using RootsWeb: "Do You Know What's in Your GEDCOM?" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Crossing the Atlantic to Flanders" 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: "Falling for Fables" "WWII Letter Reunited Families and Neighbors" "Translating Names in Censuses" 8. Humor/Humour: "A Welcome Touch of 'Madness'" 9. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: Utilizing the DAR Message Board By Glenda Thompson, NSDAR Vice Chairman. VIS Committee The goal of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) is to promote patriotism, historic preservation, and education. Its headquarters are located in Washington, DC and occupies an entire city block near the White House. It is the largest group of buildings owned and maintained exclusively by women. More than 836,000 women have joined the DAR since it was founded in 1890. With 168,000 members in 3,000 chapters in all 50 states and District of Columbia, it also has international chapters in Australia, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and Untied Kingdom. Membership in the DAR honors and preserves the legacy of patriot ancestors. It is an opportunity to establish one's lineage and heritage as a descendant of a patriot of the American Revolution. The "DAR Patriot Index" records contain names of patriots (men and women) whose service from 1775-1783 has been proven for DAR membership. Would you like to know if your ancestor is listed with the NSDAR? A helpful group of organized DAR Volunteer Information Specialists (VIS) monitor the RootsWeb DAR Message Board every day and welcome lookup requests. They use the most current records as the previously published books are no longer up to date. They may be able to offer suggestions about where you might look for additional data. Include your Revolutionary War-era ancestor's first and last name, spouse's name (if known), dates of birth, death, and state of residence when posting your lookup request. You need not be interested in joining the NSDAR to request a lookup. http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p= topics.organizations.dar * * * TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY of IRELAND. This is a complete online text of the 1837 edition of Samuel Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/index.php * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS: Planning Your Trip to the 'Old Country' By Patricia Neidigh in Libby, Montana, USA If you are planning on embarking on a long-awaited genealogy trek to your ancestral homelands, I have a bit of advice. In May, I was fortunate enough to spend a week in Scotland and a week in England, where roughly 85 percent of my ancestors came from. I was nearly drooling, thinking of the records that I might be allowed to peruse in the Highlands genealogy files, located at the library in Inverness, and finally find some more records on my EDDIE, SEATON and McBAIN/McBEAN families. I was hoping to discover why my ancestor John EDDIE and his twin, William, were born at Cawdor Castle in 1814. (http://www.cawdorcastle.com/) Near Aberdeen, we were also going to tour Drum Castle (http://www.drum-castle.org.uk/) where some of my maternal ancestors resided for nearly 700 years. I was planning on leaving a genealogy showing my family's connection to the IRVINE clan for the current Laird of Drum. However, upon our arrival in Edinburgh, I discovered that my carefully prepared genealogy files were still sitting on my desk in Montana! The files were all on paper, so there was no possibility that they could be sent via the computer. My bit of advice for the future: PACK THE GENEALOGY FILES FIRST. * * * Including Name Variants By Susan Hopkins in Urbana, Illinois, USA Enjoyed the article on the fictitious Paula (Perfect) Stickler. As for me, I know that spellings and pronunciations of names can vary. It may even be that it is the owner of the name doing the varying. There may be a predominant or preferred or "right" way. However, that won't help me or others find that person in a record if it is something other than what I expect. So, if I find a name or nickname in multiple formats and I'm quite certain it is the same person I enter as many variations as my genealogy program will allow and separate the variations with a space and a slash. Thus A.C. / A.L. / Lincoln HUFFMAN and B.F. / Frank HUFFMAN. I don't know why old A.C. HUFFMAN changed his middle initial, unless it was to honor the fallen president, which is likely. I've documented the sources for all those variations. But I want the variations out where I, and others, will see them and know to look for him under different guises. He also will be searchable under all of those when someone looks for him in World Connect at RootsWeb. If I find a range of dates, especially if I'm unsure of which one is more likely to be correct, I'll record the range. In any case, I'll document the sources, the date each gives or implies, and my conclusions or speculations. * * * Tracking Swedish Immigrants By C. O. Stannard While I also found "Emily's Journey to America" and Lorna Brandt's response wonderful, my own Swedes seemed ambivalent about staying in America once they arrived. I always had been told that my grandparents took Dad, born 1907, to Sweden as a baby to "show him off." When I started researching, the Ellis Island site showed grandpa, who first arrived in the US in 1900, returned to Sweden in 1903 and arrived back in the USA in September 1904. When the family completed Minnesota's World War I "Alien Registration," grandpa listed only a 1909 arrival through Detroit via Quebec in company with my great-grandmother and an older great-aunt's family. My grandparents married in Isanti County, Minnesota in 1906 and all their children were born there. Another family story involves grandpa's youngest brother who wound up returning to Sweden for good. It seems his wife remained homesick for the old country and he finally tired of returning there to fetch her and stayed permanently. As a tailor, he did not form a permanent tie to the new land. However, the letterhead of his business in Skellefteå included the American flag. Minnesota Historical Society in Saint Paul has microfilm of the very helpful Alien Registrations as well as free databases of Minnesota deaths, 1907-1997, and births, 1900-1911 -- (http://people.mnhs.org/dci/Search.cfm) -- that takes you to the death certificate search, and there's a link to birth certificates as well as other Minnesota information). The book, "Letters from the Promised Land: Swedes in America, 1840-1914," by H. Arnold Barton, editor, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis for the Swedish Pioneer Historical Society, 1975, ISBN 0-8166-1009-6, reports on these new Americans in their own words. * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Do You Know What's in Your GEDCOM? Alex ARNOLD spent years meticulously adding names, dates, and places to his family tree. He refused to add an entry to this database until he felt that he'd adequately studied the source documentation and was confident the information was accurate. Where there was conflicting evidence about an event or individual in Alex's file he carefully weighed the evidence and recorded his conclusions along with all the sources in his genealogy program along with extensively detailed notes. Alex is a perfectionist in everything he does and his "hobby" of genealogical research is no exception. It wasn't until Alex had spent five years adding new data to his file and correcting the few errors he detected along the way, not to mention running the error-checking feature of his genealogy program every time he'd added new data or made any change to the database, that he was ready to place his nearly perfect family tree online. When he was ready to make the big leap and publicly display his database, Alex chose RootsWeb's WorldConnect as the perfect place to publish his perfect family tree. (http://wc.rootsweb.com/). Alex clicked on the "Start Here" link on the main WorldConnect page and uploaded his family tree. He reviewed it to be sure it was displaying the data exactly as he intended based upon his selections for the various display options on the Set-up page. Then he compared the entries in his database with other files he found in the huge combined WorldConnect/Ancestry World Tree program. While viewing an entry in his file for which he wanted to find matching data in other family trees, Alex clicked on the icon at the bottom of the page that says "Search WorldConnect." He found many a file that included the same ancestors he had included in his own file and assumed that the submitters of these other files had given as much time and effort in producing their trees as he had in researching his ancestors -- and it didn't take him long to realize that he could double and triple the size of his GEDCOM by downloading other related GEDCOMs and merging them with his own file -- thereby adding a vast number of collateral entries to his file. As Alex added merged files to his own, he uploaded his new enlarged GEDCOM, using the original usercode and password to replace his old original tree. Alex discussed some of the related WorldConnect files with the submitters by contacting them by e-mail and he learned that there seemed to be some sort of unspoken competition to see who could achieve the largest database in WorldConnect. Alex decided that this part -- building a huge file -- was easy. Soon Alex's original, meticulous, well-documented GEDCOM was bloated with files he had not examined personally, but Alex had achieved his goal of having one of the largest files in WorldConnect. Then one day out of the clear blue sky, Alex received an e-mail from Terry TRACKER who had been searching WorldConnect and found information about Benedict ARNOLD in Alex's file. Terry wanted to know all about Alex's connection to Benedict ARNOLD, a name synonymous with "traitor" in America. Alex's ARNOLDs had no connection whatsoever to the famous, or infamous, Benedict ARNOLD and he couldn't imagine why he was being asked this question. However, following the links provided in Terry's e- mail, Alex realized that Benedict's line had been added to his own as a result of a file he had downloaded and merged with his. Before Alex could decide what to do about this, he received an irate e- mail from Sir Geoffrey FITZALAN of Kent, England who wanted to know Alex's documentation and sources for comments in his notes on Sir Geoffrey's illustrious ancestor -- Bartholomew DE BADLESMERE, who, according to Sir Geoffrey, was born in 1275 in Chilham, Kent, England and died on 14 April 1322 in Canterbury, Kent, England. The cause of death was hanging -- Bartholomew was executed for participation in the Battle of Boroughbridge. This all meant nothing to Alex as he never heard of Bartholomew before this moment -- and the questionable notes being referenced were from yet another imported/merged GEDCOM. Alex soon realized that the voluminous notes on Bartholomew and others in the imported GEDCOMs might constitute copyright infringement of original content of the persons whose files he had unwittingly incorporated with his -- whether they contained accurate or erroneous information. This led Alex to further examine the files he had merged with his nearly flawless GEDCOM and he soon determined that some of them were the result of shoddy research and not on a par with his own work. What a mess he had on his hands now. It took Alex many hours and much hard work to reconstruct his original file but took him only a moment to realize that the size of a GEDCOM is not a reflection of its quality and that quality is what Alex valued most. While downloading others' GEDCOMs can be helpful, merging such files with your own and uploading them to WorldConnect -- especially where original notes are included -- is not the proper thing to do. Newbie and experienced genealogists can all learn from Alex's debacle and avoid the hazards he encountered. Take the time to check your GEDCOMS to ensure that only personally verified and documented research is included in them. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Crossing the Atlantic to Flanders By Ed Blomme Having successfully exhausted the LDS parish registers for the BLOMME clan to 1620 in Flanders (Belgium), I sat scratching my head where to go next as none of the direct family appeared to have crossed the ocean until yours truly did in 1956. The war years had interfered with family relations as travel, was not welcomed by the occupying forces, and so although father had family some distance away, and he died in the meantime, contact was lost. Immigrating to Canada in the 1950s and trying to make a living sort of reasonably precluded too much effort other than making sure the Canadian tribe became well settled. Until 50 years later, the genealogy bug bit. The family having expanded here to about 20 from the original four, also began to ask questions, and one of them was, "And how about your cousins grandpa?" A random answer on Belgium-Roots-L (mailing list) mentioned the easily accessible http://www.infobel.com/belgium/ phone book where I put in the name BLOMME and somehow remembered the name Pierre, linked to a town called Evergem, just north of Ghent (where I was born 73 years ago). So I wrote a short letter, asking if by any chance he remembered playing with a small cousin at the seaside in the late 1930s? He did! And he's arriving with his wife for a visit 10 days from now. And I thought 10 year ago there were no more thrills left in life. Not only that, my poor wife Olga is worried about the cooking, notwithstanding I swear to her that the BLOMMES are not "fuss pots" (after 52 years of marriage she tends to give me an argument about things like that, sometimes). I just wanted to share this with my genealogical friends out there. ======================== Advertisement ============================ ANCESTOR SEEKERS RESEARCH TRIP Salt Lake City, September 25-29 Spend four full days at the Family History Library (the world's largest) searching for your ancestors from the United States, Canada and the British Isles. Get help from professional genealogists in overcoming your brick walls. Meet others from throughout the U.S. and Canada who share your interest in genealogy! Call toll free at 877-896-0974 (9-6 MST) or visit http://www.ancestorseekers.com/rwr/ * * * BOOK NOTES. 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Brand-new mailing lists can be found under OTHER/MISCELLANEOUS until moved to their proper categories. For information and an index to the more than 29,350 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS BAKER-DNA, BEH, BRALY BUNKER-DNA -- Discussing BUNKER (surname) DNA research EISCHBERGER, EISCHPERGER, EMBLETON HENZ JANUSZEWSKI KRINER MOLLENHOUR ORTEGO WILLIAMS-GA -- Discussing WILLIAMS (surname) in the state of Georgia 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 URL of the Cornwall Parish of Gerrans website is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~enggerop/ ENGLAND ~enggerop -- Parish of Gerrans (Cornwall) ITALY ~itaavell -- Avellino Province ~itacamp2 -- Campania U.S.A. ~arsalin2 -- Saline County (Arkansas) ~miocdar -- Onagomingkway (Michigan) Chapter DAR ~tnmtgs -- Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society Key: DAR — Daughters of the American Revolution 5. New/Updated Freepages and Homepages -------------------------------------- Can your cousins find your website at RootsWeb? Has it ever been mentioned here or do you have a new, updated, or substantially revised website at RootsWeb (it will have "freepages" or "homepages" in the URL)? Send the URL (its Web address), along with a brief description, including the major pertinent surnames and what is available on your site, to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com AMREV-HESSIAN MAILING LIST WEBSITE -- to help researchers of so-called Hessian (German mercenary soldiers) ancestors. After the American Revolution, an estimated 3,000 to 6,000 Hessian soldiers stayed behind in the new U.S.A., either properly discharged or deserting before departure of troops. Many of the Hessians who stayed in America settled around Lancaster and Reading, Pennsylvania, and Frederick, Maryland. Others remained in Canada -- the majority of them Brunswickers. http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ CANADA. Nova Scotia Cemetery Signs. Photos of cemetery entrance signs from cemeteries submitted by volunteers. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cemsigns/ns/index.htm GILLOCK. The Gillock Book. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillock/ Gilpin History and Genealogy http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ PETERSON, ERICSSON, LJUNGVIST. An updated website, which now includes Gustaf Fredrik LJUNGQVIST, b. 1876 in Helgona Södermanlands län, Sjöman (sailor). The LJUNGQVIST family left Sweden for Boston ca 1903. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~swedishroots/index.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~swedishroots/ericsson.htm WALDOCK, GOODCHILD. WALDOCK, INGHAM, KRUGER, MARSHALL, GOODCHILD, FRANKLIN, BRIDGMAN, BLAIR, PALMER, and ABERCROMBIE families from England, Scotland, and Germany to Australia, Canada, and USA. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~waldock/ 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. ALABAMA Covington County. Red Oak Baptist Cemetery; 385 records. The Rev. Clyde Northrop http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ Jefferson County. Liberty Minter Cemetery; 1,021 records. Robin Miner http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ MISSOURI. Howell County. Pine Grove Cemetery; 514 records. Lisa Budd http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ PENNSYLVANIA. Bedford County. Last Will and Testament of Jacob Kintzy-Kinzey, 1849; 1 record. Marjorie E. (Kinzey) Eddinger http://userdb.rootsweb.com/courtrecords/ TEXAS. Bexar County. Edmund L Bacon and Josephine Beckmann Bacon White Family Cemetery; 13 records. Lachlan Sims http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ VIRGINIA. Albemarle County. University of Virginia 1928 graduates summer quarter; 30 records. Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ WISCONSIN. Sauk County. Sauk. 1971 obituary of Lewis W. George; 1 record. Randell Hanna http://userdb.rootsweb.com/obituaries/ WEST VIRGINIA. Jefferson County. Knights of Pythias, 1928; 19 records. Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/groups/ 7. FROM ROOTSWEB REVIEW'S BOTTOMLESS MAILBAG [Editor's note: The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the editor or of RootsWeb.com]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Falling for Fables By Sue Emerson Please don't make the same mistakes that our family has done for generations. I started my research on the MAGRUDER family many, many years ago. The traditional lore was that our common ancestor, Alexander, b. 1610, who was the only immigrant to the U.S. from Scotland, was taken prisoner at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 and sent to this country via Barbados as a prisoner and ended up as an indentured servant. According to this lore, the MAGRUDERS were originally MCGREGORS/ MACGREGORS, and had their name proscribed for war crimes, so they changed it to MAGRUDER. This is so infused in the thinking of the MAGRUDERS that I started looking around to see what I could find. I obtained copies of all of the American Clan GREGOR yearbooks and started there. Of course, they also promulgated the fantasy of MAGRUDERS being McGREGORS. After years of research, I went to Scotland where I was able to peruse ancient documents and some not so ancient documents. What I found out was the American Clan GREGOR Society had contacted a Mr. McGREGOR in Scotland in 1913 and asked him to solve the dilemma once and for all. He responded in a letter that stated that the MAGRUDERS were not McGREGORS. There were quite a few reasons why the MAGRUDERS could not be McGREGORS, among which there is no mention anywhere of any marriage banns or land purchases, land rentals, any business dealing between the MAGRUDERS and McGREGORS. The McGREGORS lived in the Highlands and the MAGRUDERS lived in the Lowlands. I met a cousin in Scotland who was researching MAGRUDER and McGRUTHER (which is his name) and he was convinced that the MAGRUDERS were originally McGRUTHER/McGROWTHER/McGROUTHER (we all know how the spellings changed over the years). When I returned from Scotland, my cohorts and I arranged for DNA testing of a MAGRUDER, a McGRUTHER, and a McGREGOR. The MAGRUDER and McGRUTHER were closely related and were not related at all to the McGREGOR. This pretty well cinches it. Ironically, there was a John Smith MAGRUDER, b. 1767 who married Eleanor HALL, and who, in 1820, changed his children's names from MAGRUDER to McGREGOR by Act of the Maryland congress. Alas, those McGREGORS are really MAGRUDERS and have no connection with the McGREGORS whatsoever. I wish to get the point across that just because it was written many, many years ago, that does not make it correct and should not be promulgated (wrongly as it turns out) until one does their own research. Too many people copy what is already there and do not independently find or search for the truth. Don't let this happen to you. * * * WWII Letter Reunites Families and Neighbors By Karol Harding While sorting through my mother-in-law's few papers, I can across a letter from an old neighbor from where she grew up in Clackamas, Oregon. The letter was from a young man named Jack McFARLANE Who had just enlisted in the service and was postmarked Shanghai, 1941. In it he comments on Christmas presents received, their friends, and the fight his unit had just engaged in. He talked about trying for his first promotion. He also mentioned that since shipping was so expensive he wasn't going to mail anything home, but would bring a trunkful when he came home in 1942 or 1943. This was interesting enough that I wondered if Jack still had family somewhere, and would really love to have a copy of this letter. So I searched out an SSDI listing (http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/) and found that Jack survived the war and died about 1987 in Mesa, Arizona. Looking for living McFARLANEs in Mesa, I found only five and one of them named Jack. According to my mother-in-law Jack had a brother who named his son "Jack." Sure enough, Jack McFARLANE in Mesa was the nephew. When I finally got Jack Jr. on the phone the story turned out to be even more interesting and poignant. Jack McFARLANE Sr. was caught up in the Bataan Death March and was a Japanese prisoner of war for 3 1/2 years. At the time Jack Jr. was born, his brother wasn't sure he'd ever see Jack again, so he named his son Jack. The happy ending is that Jack did make it home, and was a 20-year Marine, attaining the rank of Master Sergeant. [Editor's note: Read more about the Bataan Death March at: http://history.acusd.edu/gen/st/~ehimchak/death_march.html and the Bataan Rescue at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bataan/] * * * Translating Names in Censuses By Sue Moran While researching my CLIFTON line recently, I noticed two names in the index that were, to say the least unusual. Indeed, they were unusual enough to warrant investigation. The first was Pezckel CLIFTON, whom I encountered living in 1800 in Louisburg, Franklin County, North Carolina. Thinking this was a rather odd name, I used the magnifying feature to examine it and, sure enough, there was Ezekiel. In examining this enumerator's handwriting on other pages, I discovered that his capital E's look very much like P's. (I didn't take the time to locate an Elizabeth, but I shudder to think what form her name took through the person indexing that census). The second name in an index was "Iafunt" -- child of Thomas and Nancy CLIFTON, living in Downingsville, Grant County, Kentucky in 1870. A quick look at the siblings' names in the census revealed nothing unusual. Why, then, would these seemingly sensible parents name their baby girl "Iafunt?" Wonderful things, these magnifiers -- it turned out that she had not yet been named, hence the misleading "Iafunt" [Infant]. In this same genre, a friend in Colorado spent many hours trying to find her great-grandfather Andy, but to no avail -- until she realized that the lower-case "u" in the name Audy was really an "n". It was common at one time to write "n's" with a sag in the middle instead of the two "humps" used today. So the next time you're having trouble finding that elusive ancestor, check out the odd names. He just might be hiding behind one of them. 8. Humor/Humour: A Welcome Touch of 'Madness' --------------------------------------------- Thanks to: Elisabeth Burton Transcribing an 1891 census piece for Sussex [England], I came across a family with the following children: --Agripina Beatrice Rose --Melanethon Malcolm Frederick --Fenelon Theodore Longfellow, --Selwynia Portia Cornelia. As you can imagine the entries did not fit easily into the space provided on the form. The mother's name was Jane. Across the page someone had scrawled "This family must be mad." I wish my ancestors were as mad -- I'm usually chasing people with names like William, John, George, or Mary. * * * 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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