RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 7 December 2005, Vol. 8, No. 49 (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/ =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. Editor's Desk: "Hearing Voices"; "Danish Emigrants" and "North Dakota Death Index Goes Online" 1b. Tips from Readers: "Gifting Descendants" "Taking Photography 101" 1c. Using RootsWeb: "Smell the ROSEes" 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb: "Bearing Witness" 3. New User-contributed Databases 4. New/Updated FreePages and HomePages 5. New at RootsWeb 6. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Considering Paper Preservation" "Latin Translations" "Thinking Outside Genealogical Box" "Avoiding Copyright Infringement" 7. Humor/Humour: "The Urge to Throttle" 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints =============================================================== IN THIS ISSUE: 1. NEWS, NOTES, AND SITES WORTH SEEING 1a. EDITOR'S DESK: Hearing Voices; Danish Emigrants; and North Dakota Death Index Goes Online HEARING VOICES. Thanks to Tim Weedon in the UK for finding this site -- BBC's "voices" -- a website for masses of lovely dialect voice clips: http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/index.shtml * * * DANISH EMIGRANTS. The Danish Emigration Archives were established in 1932 to "record the history of the Danes who emigrated and to maintain cultural bonds to those who have their roots in Denmark." The archives collections include private letters, manuscripts, diaries, biographies, newspaper clippings, photographs, portraits and more. A number of these resources are now available online. The website is presented both in English and Danish. The Copenhagen Police kept emigration lists from 1869 to 1940. Prior to 1868 there was a number of scandals where unsuspecting emigrants had been taken advantage of by Danish emigration agents. The Danish parliament passed stricter emigration regulations in May 1868, requiring the Chief of Police of Copenhagen to approve and monitor all emigration agents in the country and to authorize all overseas tickets issued in Denmark. All of the information from each ticket was then copied into a ledger. The ledgers comprise the 90-volume Copenhagen Police Records of Emigrants. There are two series of ledgers -- one for emigrants with direct passage from Copenhagen to the United States and the other those traveling indirectly via other European harbors to destinations overseas. You can access the Danish Emigration Database by clicking on the Database button on the home page. There are 394,000 records for the period from 24 May 1868 to December 1908. Mormon emigrants are included in the database for the period from 1868-1872 and after 1882. Mormon emigration records for the period from 1873-1882 are kept at the archives, but are not yet a part of the database. The data fields include name, occupation, age, last residence, parish, county, first destination of the emigrant from Denmark (city, state, country), contract number and date of registration. Information found in the records may include surname, first name, occupation, family status, age, place of birth (from 1899), last known residence, name of emigration agent, ticket number, ticket registration date, name of the ship (for direct passage from Copenhagen) destination, and possible cancellation of the ticket. The fields listed in the search results are in English. http://www.emiarch.dk/home.php3 * * * NORTH DAKOTA DEATH INDEX NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE. The time period covered is 1 January 1881 through 31 October 2005, with monthly updates. The website is maintained by the North Dakota Department of Health's Division of Vital Statistics. Many early deaths were not recorded and there are few deaths listed prior to 1900. The website is the result of an 18-month project by a committee composed of staff from the State Historical Society of North Dakota, the North Dakota State Genealogical Society (NDSGS) and the North Dakota Depart- ment of Health's Division of Vital Statistics. The website was made possible by funding and support provided by the NDSGS, which received an initial grant of $1,000 from the North Dakota Community Foundation. The NDSGS was then able to raise more than $2,000 in matching funds/ donations from other genealogical societies and genealogists from North Dakota and other states. The North Dakota death index website can be found at: https://secure.apps.state.nd.us/doh/certificates/deathCertSearch.htm Additional information about the NDSGS is available at its website, hosted by RootsWeb.com at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndsgs/ * * * 1b. TIPS FROM READERS Gifting Descendants By Carolyn Taby Larkins As gifts to nieces and cousins, I've used the sets of Russian dolls, where each figure opens up to reveal another, until they get too small. I write the name of the child on the bottom of the smallest doll, her mother on the next, her mother's mother on the third, then her grandmother's mother -- ending with the earliest mother for the maternal line I have documented. The larger dolls have room for much more information and I add marriage dates and spouses to them. To make the names visible, I "write" or "carve" the name with a pin and then use permanent ink to finish the job. These are definitely conversation pieces as well as reminders of history. * * * Taking Photography 101 By Rick Van Dusen Arnold Chamove is right about using your digital camera. However, on my long-awaited visit to the New York State Archives (3,000 miles from home), I learned the hard way some lessons about this: 1. Definitely use the macro setting. 2. Make sure you have camera set to take high-resolution photos. 3. Don't count on the tiny viewer to verify your pix are good; if possible, upload to a computer to see the images in large format. Not learned the hard way, but it would be a good idea to use a tripod. Before I try again to use the camera in this way, I'm going to do the following: 1. Make sure I know how to use the camera, change the settings, etc. 2. Practice with the camera, try different settings, distances, etc. 3. Be prepared to set the camera on a tripod and measure the distance to the object so it's the same as what worked in practice. 4. Have my laptop, camera software and cable with me to verify the pictures are good. BTW, I got one fairly good image. * * * 1c. USING ROOTSWEB: Using RootsWeb: Smell the ROSEes When Rhonda ROSE received an e-mail reply from her new-found cousin Ken KEYS, she thought all her prayers had been answered. Rhonda had just begun researching her family history when she stumbled upon Ken's GEDCOM on RootsWeb's WorldConnect and discovered to her amazement that she and Ken were close cousins (although they had never "met" until this recent cyberspace encounter). Ken was willing to share his data with Rhonda but let her know that he had no additional information beyond that included in his records. That was plenty good enough to suit Rhonda because she was starting from scratch -- knowing nothing beyond the names of her maternal grand- parents, the side of her family that she shared with Ken. Rhonda was sure that Ken's database held the key (so to speak) that would unlock all of her maternal family mysteries. Rhonda began pouring over the data Ken sent her and felt confident that it fit nicely into the little bit of knowledge she previously possessed -- the KEYS name was known to her, so learning that her great-grand- father Lionel KEYS had married Mary MNU seemed to fit right in -- but that name MNU sounded strange. To Rhonda's knowledge, her ancestry was largely English and the name MNU certainly didn't sound like any English surname she had heard before. Perhaps it was misspelled? To top it off Mary MNU's parents were listed in Ken's family tree as Frank LNU and Jane MNU. What did this mean? More strange sounding surnames and Mary having a different name than her father? Rhonda dashed off another e-mail to Ken to ask about these unusual surnames in his tree and to her surprise, Ken replied as follows: LNU, MNU are not real names, nor is FNU, which I also use in my family tree. They are acronyms. (Acronyms are combinations of the first letters/syllables in a group of words to form a new grouping of letters that can be pronounced as a word.) They are: First Name Unknown (FNU), Maiden Name Unknown (MNU), and Last Name Unknown (LNU). Rhonda laughed out loud when she read Ken's response about the strange surnames and she thought she should have figured that out for herself -- but it just didn't dawn on her these words/acronyms were anything other than surnames. Rhonda decided they must be first cousins to the mysterious UNK ancestors she had tracked down on her father's side of the family until she realized that UNK was short for "unknown." Researchers have used these acronyms and other symbols and abbreviations for years, with little or no uniformity from file to file, to indicate the unknown or missing names. The meaning of these acronyms is often unclear to new family history researchers (and occasionally even seasoned genealogists) and can be mistaken for actual names. This type of name confusion serves to reinforce the notion that while user-compiled genealogies are a valuable tool in research, you need to examine original records to verify or refute what the compiled records indicate. When possible examine the records for yourself. Also, when drafting your own family tree be careful in the use of acronyms and abbreviations that might have a clear meaning to you, but might confuse others who find your data and accept it as fact. While a ROSE by any other name might smell as sweet, as Rhonda can tell us, a LNU, FNU, MNU, or UNK in the family tree might only serve to send your cousins off searching in the wrong trees or bushes. 2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bearing Witness by Andrew in Australia It is magnificent when you manage to obliterate one of those long- standing brickwalls and doing it from the comfort of the desk chair makes it all the more enjoyable. Several years ago, my research had the widow Sarah LE PIPRE marrying in Western Australia in 1902 to George NIMMO with the certificate citing her parents as George SMITH and Ann DOPLE her age 48 [born ca 1854]. Reversing the emigration path, I have tied down her marriage to Horatio LE PIPRE in West Ham, Essex in 1881. All was going well. I purchased the certificate and progress stopped, nothing especially useful. I tried in vain to find the parents -- marriage trolling through the quarterly calendars of the records of the General Registry Office, however, no DOPLE, no DOEPPEL or other variations that I could think of. Trying all of London ... a little further afield. Nothing. Only decision to make -- park it. The FreeBMD project (http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/) to transcribe the English and Welsh BMDs starts at RootsWeb and while I am not a transcriber, I got involved early on helping the organisers in other ways. This flagship project offered a glimmer of hope for sometime. The years pass, the research remains parked (well it is my wife's family and it was SMITH). FreeBMD transcriptions progresses rapidly though in random patches of years, and meanwhile Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com/) starts to release the English census, and slowly it heads backwards from 1901 to my time of interest. 1901 -- -- 1891 -- 1881 (no help, though wasn't expecting any) -- 1871 (oh dear!) -- 1861 (agggh!) -- 1851 (ouch!), London and surrounding areas all a dead loss. Re-evaluation time: Clear the desk; clear the mind; select all the relevant paperwork. What do I definitely know? What is supposition? What may help this poor soul in this moment of desperation? Hmmm, witnesses to the marriage in 1881 (a census year) are Annie SMITH and John HODDER, forget Annie, look for John maybe he is a friend, a neighbour -- it's worth a go. Off to Ancestry, login to my UK subscription, and very quickly I get just the one hit in the locality, though he is older than I had hoped. He is old enough to be her father. Plough on, look at the image, and what do I see? John HODDER, Ann HODDER and Annie SMITH, the step- daughter, (all born Somerset). Excitement time, thoughts of "Eureka!" Time to multitask -- one browser window pointed at the 1871 census, with another pointed at FreeBMD. Simultaneously I find an 1870 marriage for John HODDER and Ann SMITH in the Axbridge registration district in Somerset and also in the same district, in the parish of Burnham, I get a census record for a HODDER family -- right parents with a Sarah HODDER (right age) and an Annie HODDER (right age). Looking pretty good, though not conclusive. Okay, I hope for luck and look for George, Ann and Sarah SMITH in the Axbridge area in 1861. Looking, looking, looking ... occupation, places of birth ... Bingo! EUREKA! I literally shout it (and wake my kids, oops). Quick, quick, check the 1851 census. A triumphant "Yes!" With purpose back to FreeBMD back looking for the parents' marriage in the area, and in 1843 there it is -- George SMITH and Ann POPLE, it has to be. POPLE = DOPLE -- I can understand an Australian not quite under- standing the Somerset accent. [Draw deep breath, settle down and review.] It looks good, it feels good. In the course of that one night, oscillating between Ancestry and RootsWeb, in the end, I managed to get Ann POPLE->SMITH->HODDER from 1851 census through to 1891 census, from her marriage in 1843 through to her death in 1892. Sarah SMITH's census records (though I still am not sure which one is she in 1881 census). All happened as I was able to locate the witness to the marriage in a census record, whereas without a full and handy index, I would never have bothered that route to my research. With all of this, I must extend to those many FreeBMD volunteers who have transcribed their little hearts out, my utmost gratitude. I am thankful that I have my UK subscription to Ancestry as the accessible series of censuses was unbeatable. Where am I now? Well, on that night I went off to a third site, the GRO, and ordered online Ann's two certificates of marriage and I am hoping they are in the airmail to me right now. I added the families to my family tree and updated my GEDCOM at WorldConnect (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/). So, if the family names ring a bell, I have left my muddy footprints (added notes) all over the census records and added my WorldConnect URL. ======================== Advertisement ============================ Request a Search for Your Ancestors at the Family History Library ANCESTOR SEEKERS researchers at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City will search this vast collection of genealogical records for your ancestors from the US/Canada, Ireland, Germany, Holland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Let them have the details and they will have one of them give you a FREE e- mail consultation If you commission ANCESTOR SEEKERS to do the work (there's no obligation to do that!) prices start from $50 US. For a FREE e-mail consultation visit http://www.ancestorseekers.com/research/rwr/ ====================== End Advertisement ============================== 3. 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. Blount County. Richey Family; 30 records; Boone County Historical Society http://userdb.rootsweb.com/deaths/ CALIFORNIA. "They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush" book index; 487 records; Lori J. Wicks http://userdb.rootsweb.com/bookindexes/ DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Washington. Alumni list 1910, Columbia and Children's Hospital Training School; 17 records; Alumni list for Chevy Chase Seminary and College, 1910 graduates, 19 records; Alumni list for Fairmount Seminary, 1910; 16 records; Alumni list for Mount Vernon Seminary, 1910; 31 records; Alumni list for Friends School and Eastman School, 1910, 12 records; Alumni list 1910, Capital Institute and Clark Training School, 15 records; Alumni list for Martha Washington Seminary, 1910; 8 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ KANSAS. World War I Draft Registration 5,360 records; Smoky Valley Genealogical Society http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ MARYLAND. Frederick County. Brunswick. Class of 1936; 69 records; Jim Dixon http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ VIRGINIA. Military Records from Virginia from WWII 47 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/military/ VIRGINIA. Fairfax County. Alumni lists from Gunston Hall, graduating in 1910; 11 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ VIRGINIA. Frederick County. Fort Loudoun Seminary graduates, 1910; 8 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ WEST VIRGINIA. Jefferson County. Alumni list for Powhatan College, 1910; 20 records; Paula Lucy Delosh http://userdb.rootsweb.com/alumni/ * * * SHARING OPPORTUNITY. Does your alma mater, old military unit, church, parish, province, county or state have material available that you think would be of interest to genealogists and historians? Do you have any compiled lists of names or databases (other than your personal genealogy) that you would like to share and that you think would be of value and interest to others? In most cases, RootsWeb would be proud to host such material. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/submit/ 4. 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 GERMAN ANCESTORS. This bilingual (German and English) webpage features ABENDROTH and RICHTER families from Saxony and HAACK and HAUSCHILD families from Mecklenburg, western Pomerania and Prussia. Includes numerous links to various HAACK families from Germany. Deutsche Vorfahren von Colin und Di Rilley (mit deutschen Text) Abendroth, Haack, Hauschild und Richter families von Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Preußen und Sachsen. Klicken Sie auf 'Links' wenn Sie mehr Information nach Haacks suchen. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~niloc/Abendroth_and_Haack_FrontPage.html PENNSYLVANIA. Washington County, Washington (aka Little Washington). Genealogy, family history documents and newspaper data e.g., birth, death, marriage notices, obituaries, missing persons, adoption and guardianship, probate and deed notices, and surname-only items. Includes links for biographies, family trees, and histories. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~florian/ PLUMSTEAD AND ASSOCIATED FAMILIES: Contains a search engine to look for anything on the website. Also has (Quaker) monthly meeting minutes for selected families; the constructed passenger list for the ship "Welcome," on which William Penn sailed; a court transcript of the trial of William Penn; the martyr of Frances Hobson; a transcription of the certificate of removal for the HEALDs when they came from England and a transcription of the will of Mary BANCROFT. Surnames include BUSHOUSE, DOEHRING, JACKSON, RISSER, SCHROEDER, SENNE, THAYER, VON BEHREN, and WIRTH. Quaker families are: BEESON, COPPOCK, HEALD, HOBSON, HOLE, HOLLINGSWORTH, MENDENHALL, PLUMSTEAD, POTTS, ROSS, and WATT. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fplum/ 5. New 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] FRANCE fraverdu -- Verdun U.S.A. kyknott4 -- Knott County (Kentucky) nyssccar -- Schuyler Society (New York) Chapter CAR orlccsar -- Lewis and Clark (Oregon) Chapter SAR CAR--Children of the American Revolution SAR--Sons of the American Revolution * * * New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb Request a New Mailing List: http://resources.rootsweb.com/adopt/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- MAILING LISTS. 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 29,500 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists and for easy subscribing (joining) options go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS BEACOM CHILDREE COWLING KREMITZKI (KREMNITZKI) McNICHOLAS SCHEVE NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS IRL-BELFAST-CATHOLIC -- Researching Catholics in Belfast, predominantly West Belfast and discussing the historical context in which ancestors lived, even if the discussion might give a political dimension. NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL INTEREST MAILING LISTS GENERATIONS-USERS -- For those using the Generations genealogical program (previously Reunion for the PC). HUTTERITES -- For the discussion and sharing of genealogical information regarding the Hutterian Brethren, a religious group living in communities in North America. 6. 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]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Considering Paper Preservation By G. Waring Recently a reader (Valerie Nichols) stated that she kept copies of her genealogy on CDs and left instructions for her CDs to be donated to the local historical society. Given the way technology changes and has changed, I would recommend creating a hard copy of the genealogy and giving a copy to the historical society now! We cannot assume that our relatives will value our research and the libraries and historical societies have been great stewards of paper copies through the years. * * * Thinking Outside Genealogical Box By Joanne Huntsberry in Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA When researching my FRAVEL family line some years ago, I knew they were from Woodstock in Virginia but couldn't find some information. Finally I wrote to the postmaster and asked him to give my letter to a FRAVEL who knew their family history. He did and I met a long-lost cousin who filled me in quite well. Another time while looking for Southern MURRAYs, COBBs, GODWINs BEANS, BOWENS and others. I wrote to the editor of a Knoxville newspaper that my grandfather had sold as a young boy. It was still in business. I told him that my family was going to visit Grainger County, Tennessee soon for the first time. I wondered if the TVA [Tennessee Valley Authority] Project was really worth the heartache and departures of families in the area. They had some of the best bottomlands farms and always worked with the annual floods, like planting melons in the rich soil deposits afterward. The editor made a column of his answers and distant cousins started writing to me. One had four different family histories. * * * Avoiding Copyright Infringement By Lori McLeod Wilke http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~formyfamily/ I found the article on copyrighting in last week's RootsWeb Review very timely and worth a little bit more spotlighting. Recently, I found a privately owned online database that contained the names of some of my direct line ancestors. Interested to see what information was contained there for my family members, I surfed on in. Imagine my surprise to see that the page concerning my great-great- grandfather was identical to the page on my website! When I say identical, I do mean identical; someone had copied and then pasted my page into this database. As I began to look at other individuals in my family, I found more and more pages that had also been copied and pasted. I stopped counting at 53 pages. My website contains some information that is considered to be part of the public domain such as birth, marriage and death dates, transcrip- tions of obituaries etc., but the majority of my individual webpages are made up of my essays regarding what is known of my ancestors' daily lives, their relationships with families of the area, both related and non-related and other events both historical and personal. And those original essays are copyrighted. The owner of that database had attempted to copyright my essays. I initially wrote the owner and asked him to simply properly source me as the author of those essays and give a link back to my website for updated information, but after 10 months with no action on his part, I had to resort to a legal cease-and-desist letter and insist that the essays be removed. I can imagine that some of you are wondering why the upset? There are two reasons: First, I spent hours writing those essays and creating a website and publishing it to the Internet and I did not appreciate someone else trying to claim it by copyright as their work. Secondly, and more important for genealogical reasons, this gentleman did not research my family and in fact could give me no clue as to how or where he even got the information i.e. whether he himself copied and pasted it in or if it was submitted to him by someone else. Since he was not researching my family, his database was unlikely ever to be updated with more current or accurate information. In fact, those pages on his database contained quite a bit of now outdated information and many other mistakes (such as two gentlemen being combined into one person). This difficult situation could have been avoided completely had the database owner simply given proper sourcing credit and a link to the page where he found the information. Had this been done, viewers of his database could have been pointed toward my webpages, which are constantly being updated with new information. All would have been OK. Copyright aside -- all genealogical researchers should remember to place the Web address (URL) and title page information in their research notes, not only to give proper crediting, but to enable themselves and others to be able to backtrack to ensure that the information is always the most current and accurate. 7. Humor/Humour: The Urge to Throttle ---------------------------------- Thanks to: Claudia Glass I've gotten many chuckles over "Killing Causes" found in some October editions of RootsWeb Reviews (from Steven Weyand Folkers and Charlotte Broun). One report I've found relating to our family says the father was "seized in his demesne" -- which always made me wonder how he was seized? With seven children born between mid-1779 and late 1791, could be he was "seized" by his wife and throttled? * * * Found a humorous sign or entry in census, parish, church, etc. records? Send to: Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com 8. Subscriptions, Submissions, Advertising, Reprints ----------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIPTIONS. 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