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Stories in Stone page 16
How to interpret old gravestone art
City Directories—a Treasure
Chest of Information page 20
These directories have all kinds of
information for genealogists!
The Past in Motion page 24
How to preserve those valuable old
memories found on film
Controlling Bias in Genealogy
Research page 30
Don’t let your past affect your future negatively!
Using German Parish
Registers page 42
How to get the most from German
church records
Genealogical Research in
Alsace page 36
Do you have genealogy research in France
Net Family History page 87
The Best Scandinavian Sites on the Internet
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Contents Ja n ua ry/Fe b r u a r y 2009
History
Stories
Directories
Movies
Research
vo l u m e 63 Issue I
10 Musings and Gleanings
from the World of History
and Genealogy
by Richard Hooverson
Mr. Hooverson writes about Martin
Luther King Day; Military Decorations
and Insignia; an Ode to Oxen and
Deere; Push-Button Telephones; Who
Was Who When, and P.T. Barnum.
16 Stories in Stone—Cemetery
Iconology and Gravestone
Interpretation; A Genealogy
Research Tool
by Gaylord Cooper
Mr. Cooper writes about the
interpretation of gravestone art.
20 City Directories: A Treasure
Chest of Information
by Patricia Dingwall Thompson
City Directories are loaded with
genealogy. Patricia tells us where to
find the data and how to use it.
24 The Past in Motion
by Gregory Peduto
Gregory points out how to save your
old movies and electronic data.
30 Controlling Bias in Genealogy
by Robert Hennon
Our own biases have a distinct
relationship to our ability to do
successful genealogical research. The
late Robert Hennon points out how to
get around our natural inclinations.
On the Cover
The cemetery of
Pronsfeld, Rheinland-
Pfalz, Germany.
Photo courtesy of
James Derheim,
europeanfocus.com.
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Regular Features
7 Editorial
Notes from the editor.
8 Our Readers Write
Letters from our readers.
36 French Research
France and Alsace—A Beginner's Guide
— Glenn Lazarus
42 Germanic Research
Using German Parish Records
— Gail Blankenau
46 Relatively Speaking
The Duffields
— Craig Schulz
Honey's Mishap
— Kagan Hoffman
A Visit to England
— Ruth Knudson
52 Ancestor Stories for the Soul
The Quest for John Summers
— Peter Summers
56 Breaking Through
The Man Who Would be Found
— Nancy Ronning
60 Society Highlight
Saving Elmwood Cemetery
— Curtis Wolbert
62 Beginner’s Corner
Military Records: Follow-Up & Trivia
— Donna Potter Phillips
64 The Next Generation
The Museum We Call A Cemetery
— Starr Hailey Campbell
70 News to Peruse
News briefs for genealogists.
76 Computer Helper
CD-ROM Reviews
— Leland K. Meitzler
87 Net Family History
The Best Scandinavian Sites on the Net
— Jeffrey A. Bockman
Build it and They Shall Come
— William Norin
Online Genealogy for Beginners and Pros on
Dynastree
— Christian Richtscheid
118 On the Bookshelf
Description of new books for genealogists.
146 Bureau of Missing Ancestors
152 On the Horizon
Calendar of upcoming events.
162 Marketplace
Classified advertisements.
170 Surname Index
Entries indicate the first instance within an
article, entry, story, etc.
174 Advertiser Index
In the Next Issue
Musings and Gleanings from the World
of History and Genealogy,
by Richard Hooverson
Mr. Hooverson writes about Norwegian-
American research; advice for old farmers; lines
across the land; and drinking on the road.
Urban Genealogy—Exploring New York
Architectural Research, by Gregory Peduto
How to go about researching your ancestor’s
New York City place of residence or work.
The Internet Solves Another History Mystery,
by Thomas Fiske
Tom tells an intriguing tale another mystery
solved.
Kentucky Genealogy, by Gaylord Cooper
Mr. Cooper tells how to go about your
Kentucky research.
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On the Horizon
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Beginner’s Corner
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Society Highlight
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Special Collections Highlight
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affordable, helpful, and practical for their use.
Computer Tips
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Helpful information on using the Internet,
computers, or programs—as simple as a series
of keystrokes or as complex as scanning and
archiving old articles.
On the Bookshelf
Send us a copy of your genealogical or local
history book and we will list it in this magazine
along with the information you provide. We may
add our comments or edit yours, if we deem
it necessary. Do not expect critical reviews in
this publication. There are numerous scholarly
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From the Editor
Fo u n d e r s
Walter M. Everton (1876–1950)
George B. Everton, Sr. (1904–1996)
George B. Everton, Jr. (1930–1999)
Ev e r t o n Pu bl i sh e r s
President and Publisher
Walter Fuller
Executive Vice President/
Chief Technology Officer
Shirley Mercado
Ed i t o r i a l
Managing Editor
Leland K. Meitzler
leland@everton.com
Contributing Editors
Richard L. Hooverson
George G. Morgan
Horst Reschke
William Dollarhide
Donna Potter Phillips
Janet Elaine Smith
Jeffrey Bockman
Anne Hart
Hazel Mills—Roots Cellar
Starr Campbell—The Next Generation
Proofreader
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Genealogy in a Recession—
The Helper Goes Quarterly
It’s official—we’re now in a worldwide recession and it
looks like we’ve been in one for the last year. Seems some
key folks just didn’t realize it. We’ve worked very hard
to make the Helper the most comprehensive, invaluable
periodical in the genealogy industry, and we now need
your understanding and support with an adjustment we
must make to enable us to ride out the downturn and wait
for the cycle to turn up.
The publisher of the Helper, Walt Fuller, informed me this
morning that the Helper will now be a quarterly publication. It seems that income
is down dramatically and if Everton Publishers is to thrive in the future, changes
have to take place immediately. So—starting with this issue, the magazine will be
published as a Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall Periodical. To make up for the
change from bimonthly to quarterly, the magazine will be expanded—making an
already hefty periodical even bigger. This issue does not reflect that change, but
you’ll see it with the Spring issue. In fact, this entire issue is just as before, complete
with footers all saying Jan/Feb 2009. It’s not—it’s actually Winter 2009. The printer
has this issue ready to go—and we’re not going to hold things up by making
several hundred changes to plates that have already been burned. This editorial
page and maybe a few others will be the only pages reflecting the change.
Going to a quarterly periodical will allow substantial savings. Also, those of
us who work for Everton have agreed to substantial salary cuts. We’re committed
to see this through, recession or not. Again, we ask for your understanding
and support.
On a brighter note, when I filled my gas tank a couple days ago, I noted
that I paid precisely half the price per gallon that I paid just a few months ago.
In fact, as of this moment, gasoline is downright reasonable. No, it’s not the
29 cents per gallon of my youth, but still, a buck and a half per gallon seems
downright cheap. With the cost of gas down, it’s a good time to be thinking
about that genealogy road trip you’ve been putting off. Hotel rooms have not
dropped in price like gasoline, but with their traffic down, you can get some
pretty good deals on those too.
If you’re looking for back issues of the Helper, I now have copies available
for purchase at www.familyrootspublishing.com. I’ve only posted the issues
published since I joined the company in mid-2006, but that’s quite a collection
in itself. They sell for $7.50, postage paid, within the United States. Some issues
are in short supply, so if you’re looking to complete your collection, purchasing
sooner is better than later. As you know, the Net Family History section of the
magazine is worth the price all by itself. Family Roots Publishing has a new
website, with all kinds of genealogy-related items available.
Also, please note that www.genealogyblog.com is back. After a 5-month
nightmare, in which the former administrator of the site seems to have lost
the data, I’ve started over—with an even better site than the old one. For all
the latest genealogy news, check out GenealogyBlog every day. You may have
to replace the old address in your bookmarks and feeds, as any old extensions
to the primary address will give you an error message.
Speaking of new websites, the new Everton’s site (www.everton.com) is just
about ready to launch. There’s a good chance that by the time you read this
issue, it may be up and running. Everton is already hosting our Online Edition
of the Genealogical Helper on the site. Additional services and products will
be available soon, including the return of the Everton Library Online and an
online edition of the Handybook for Genealogists, 11th Edition. Check it out.
Until next time,
Leland K. Meitzler
Managing Editor
Leland@everton.com
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Our Reade s Write
I want to thank you for you generous
donation of magazines for my
LH/GENE DAY. They arrived on
Thursday last week. It was a great
success and attendees were also
grateful for the magazine. Hopefully
it will generate subscriptions
for you. We take it here at the library
and want to compliment you on the
quality of the magazine. It is one of
the best genealogy magazines we
take here in the library and I look
forward to every issue. I especially
look for Jeff Bockman’s articles since
I do know him. He was our keynote
speaker for our program a couple of
years ago and was keynote speaker
at my genealogy group’s workshop
last year.
Ann Flora,
Local History/Genealogy Librarian
Niles District Library, 620
East Main Street, Niles, MI
Ans: We’re happy to donate back issues
for society functions. Contact
Miste at miste@everton.com to request
issues for your society.
I am nearly 89 years old, Last Saturday
while at the small Atlanta
Center Cemetery in Saline County,
Nebraska, near the town of Milligan,
the caretakers asked about two
graves marked by cement markers
which my elderly uncle, Albert
Herndon, had placed to mark the
graves of a woman and a child who
died ca 1882 or 1883. This was done
in the late 1950s or early 1960s. The
caretakers would like to learn more
about the family to add to the history
of the cemetery. The graves are
in the lot owned by my great uncle,
Austin Sinclair Herndon.
The following story about the
family is as told to me when I was
a child:
In 1882 or 1883, a Mr. and Mrs.
McMahan were traveling west when
Mrs. McMahan became ill. I think
she had pneumonia and then died
in childbirth. The daughter lived for
a time. I do not know for how long,
but they were buried in separate
graves. My grandmother took care
of them. The husband and father
continued on the journey after his
wife’s death. I do not remember if
there were other children, and think
there were not.
My grandmother, Jane Herndon
(Mrs. Charles M. Herndon) kept in
touch with Mr. McMahan for a time,
I think. It is not known today if they
were friends before or just travelers
on the way west. There is no record
of a family connection. It is not
known how far west the family was
planning to go or why.
Any help would be appreciated,
Jane Taylor, 202 S. Alexander,
Clay Center, NE 68933
What happened to genealogyblog.
com The feeds have stopped, and
the website gives me an error... Are
you blogging elsewhere now
TG
Ans: This may sound crazy—but
I don’t know what happened to it.
Joe Edmon (who now lives in Honolulu)
had 100 percent administrative
control of both of my blogs.
Since he and I started them together,
I didn’t imagine that it would ever
be a problem. Anyway—something
went wrong. They went down and
after I flew to Honolulu and talked
with Joe, they were up again for
about three days... then down again.
A few days ago, he gave me my admin
rights and full ownership of the
name Genealogyblog.com—with no
communication whatsoever. So, I’m
still badgering him for the data, but I
think he must have done something
that caused him to lose it entirely—
and he doesn’t want to tell me, as it’s
about five years of my life.
The long and the sort of it is that
I think I will be forced to start over.
The blogs will be the same titles—
genealogyblog.com and germangenealogyblog.com.
I really don’t
want to start over, but I may have no
choice. I will have the blogs up and
running soon, one way or another.
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&
Musings Gleanings
FROM THE WORLD OF HISTORY AND GENEALOGY
By Ri c h a r d L. Ho o v e r s o n
President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Martin Luther
King, March 18, 1966; photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto;
Courtesy of Creative Commons, Wikipedia.
Martin Luther King Day
This day, marking the birth of Reverend Martin
Luther King, Jr., is observed on the third Monday
of January. Despite opposition by some prominent
politicians it became a federal holiday in 1983 and
in 2000 it was officially observed for the first time in
all 50 states.
Military Decorations and Insignia
If you have a photograph of an ancestor in uniform,
or have his or her old uniform, investigate any attached
medals, skill badges, branch and rank insignia,
shoulder patches, and unit crests. The colors
and pattern of the ribbons indicate what the medal
represents.
For medals awarded for merit, exceptional service
or valor, a citation was prepared describing the
reason for the award, including the date and place
of the action. These may be in the ancestor’s personal
papers. Tiny bronze-colored stars were placed
on the ribbons for each subsequent award (a tiny
silver-colored one replaces five bronze ones). Skill
badges (parachute, marksmanship, diver, expert
medic, driver-mechanic, expert
infantryman) and shoulder tabs
(Ranger, Special Forces) apply
to individuals, while campaign
and expeditionary medals
(Civil War, Mexican Punitive,
World War I Victory, Korean
Service, Army of Occupation
of Germany, Panama) and unit
awards (Meritorious Unit and
Presidential Unit Citation) apply
to a place and time of service.
None were authorized
for the Mexican War or earlier
wars. During World War I, the
81st Infantry Division was the
first to be authorized a shoulder
insignia, an olive drab patch
with the silhouette of a wildcat. In 1919, heraldry
was established as a separate function within the
Army staff.
Civil War regiments inscribed the names of their
battles on their national colors, and the Adjutant
General published a list of battles in the 1866 Army
Register (it contained lesser known actions and was
revised in later years). During World War II many
new insignia and medals were created for the quickly
expanding Army and 46 campaigns were added. Ten
more were added for Korea. Today’s Army flag carries
streamers for 178 named campaigns.
Search the Internet for “Military medals,” “Army
shoulder patches,” “Insignia collectors,” or “Army
campaigns.” Some websites specialize in foreign
militaria, particularly British, German, French, and
Russian. The Army Institute of Heraldry maintains a
website with images and information on campaigns,
and on insignia and awards in their order of precedence.
This is also available in the CD-ROM Essential
Guide to Heraldry, Image Files from the Army Institute of
Heraldry (2008). The Institute’s staff has a very limited
capability to respond to requests. The National
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Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis can
research a specific award for veterans and retirees.
A written request should be submitted, including
a copy of the discharge document, however a large
number of requests are received and a reply may
take time.
Ode to Oxen and Deere
The Bible admonishes “thou shall not covet thy
neighbor’s wife, house, field, servant, donkey or ox.”
Indeed, the ox was particularly esteemed, even worshiped,
because our Bronze Age ancestors depended
upon them to sustain life.
In Medieval England the length of a furrow that
a single ox could pull a plow before needing a rest,
about 220 feet, was defined as a “furlong” (Old English
furh and lang). A medieval acre was one furlong
in length by one chain (22 yards) in width. Today the
furlong is standardized as 660 feet, and the English
and U.S. mile are eight furlongs long.
In a “dead pull,” an ox is more than a match for
any horse, except for heavy draft horses such as
Clydesdales and Percherons. Defined today as an
adult castrated bovine, oxen were everywhere in
frontier America. They usually worked as a team in
a yoke and were trained to respond to the crack of
a whip, to their names, or to six simple voice commands
such as “Haw” (turn left) and “Gee” (turn
right). The “nigh ox” was yoked on the left-hand side
of the team, where the bullwhacker walked with his
goad, and the “off ox” was on the right-hand side,
away from the drover. Individual animals usually
were not shifted from their
trained position during their
15-year working life.
Mules, whose hooves are
harder that those of oxen,
were the other animal used
by teamsters in the Old West,
but because oxen were more
durable and steady in uneven
terrain, did not require complicated
leather harnesses,
could live off grass or sage,
and cost one-third as much,
they were ideal for pulling
Conestoga wagons along the
Oregon-California Trail. Two
yoke—that is four oxen—was
the minimum needed to pull a wagon, but three
yoke was the average. When an ox failed because
of thirst or overwork, it was butchered for meat,
sold for the prevailing price of beef and leather, or
abandoned to wolves. Peter H. Burnett, the first governor
of California, said, “The ox is the most noble
animal, patient, thrifty, durable, gentle, and easily
driven, and does not run off. Those who come to this
country will be in love with their oxen by the time
they reach here.” Only after 1850, when the trail was
more established, did horse teams become common.
Because oxen could move heavy wagons for half the
cost of horses or mules they were extensively used
on the Santa Fe Trail. The freighting company of
Russell, Majors and Waddell, which hauled supplies
from Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley in Kansas
Territory to Fort Union in New Mexico Territory,
owned 75,000 oxen during the 1850s-60s.
Oxen were prized on the Midwest frontier for
hauling huge sleds of logs and quarried stone and
for breaking prairie sod. They outnumbered horses
by a ratio of three to two until frontier farmers transitioned
to mechanized implements. George Easterly
invented an early reaper in 1844, and Cyrus McCormick
began producing a horse-drawn version in Chicago
in 1846. In 1847, a blacksmith named John Deere
set up a factory in Moline, Illinois, and sold handwrought
steel plows that combined the share and
moldboard in one piece. The self-scouring blades
enabled pioneers to cut clean furrows. By 1852,
Deere was producing 4,000 plows per year. By 1850,
Jerome Case was manufacturing threshers that
Four Yoke Oxen; Courtesy of foxearth.org.uk
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The Western Electric Model
2500MMG—produced in 1963, replaced
the Model 500 rotary phone.
could harvest a bushel in a minute. Early models
carried a man on a platform who raked the grain
into piles, while other men walked behind, binding
the cut grain with twine. Such mechanized equipment
depended on the faster gait of horses to turn
the working parts, and by 1870 horses outnumbered
oxen by a ratio of five to one. The Deere Company
went into the tractor business in 1918 when it took
over the popular Waterloo Boy Tractor. Their most
popular tractor, the two-cylinder Model A, began
production in 1934.
For additional reading see Drew Conroy, The Oxen
Handbook (1986) and also Oxen: A Teamsters Guide
(2008); and Terry James, In Praise of Oxen (1992).
Press 1 for English
When Western Electric introduced 10-key pushbutton
telephones for commercial use in 1963, replacing
rotary dial instruments, the Los Angeles Times
predicted that they would become common in five
years.
Who Was Who When
Sources that are collectively referred to as “biographical
compilations” are often under-utilized by genealogists.
Although they usually do not give in-depth
ancestries, emphasizing instead the subject’s family
and parents, they are valuable because: 1) they provide
glimpses into the day-to-day life in an ancestor’s
time and place; 2) point to expanded research on
other subjects, and 3) lead to other sources that are
cited in the footnotes.
Because research on a family line must begin
with a survey of what is already been done, these
sources should be checked early in the research process.
Many are available on CD-ROM and online to
paid subscribers. About seven million Americans
appear in some type of collective biography and an
ancestor who was less-than-famous and did not play
a role in big events may be one of them. If you cannot
uncover your specific ancestor, then see if there
is information about the ancestor’s relatives or associates,
or about another person who shared similar
experiences, such as in a fellow soldier in the same
regiment. Biographies are generally reliable, however
they are secondary sources in which the information
has been selected and edited. Autobiographies
present the author’s interpretation of his or her role
in events, with the advantage of hindsight. The main
biographic sources are:
• Bibliographies and indexes. A researcher must
first identify specific references that may contain
information on an ancestor. These include the
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI), a
multi-volume publication of Gale Research, the
most inclusive index, which is available on CD-
ROM, on microfiche and online; the American
Biographical Index and Archive, a complement to
the BGMI published by K. G. Saur, is available
on 1,842 microfiche; the Biography Index, published
by H. W. Wilson, is patterned after the
Reader’s Guide to Periodic Literature and is available
online as the Biography Index: Past and Present;
and The American Genealogical Biographical
Index (ABGI), an older index to family histories
and genealogical works; and the ARBA Guide to
Biographical Dictionaries, which includes reprints
of reviews that appeared in American Reference
Books Annual.
• Biographical encyclopedia. These large compilations,
which attempt to cover major personalities,
often contain scholarly essays: The Encyclopedia of
American Biography, also known as American Biography:
A New Cyclopedia, published in an Old
series (1916-33) with a separate index, and a New
series (1934-70) that is indexed in the BGMI; the
National Cyclopedia of American Biography, known
as “White’s Brief Lives,” published in 67 volumes;
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the Dictionary of American Biography (DAB), published
in 20 volumes (1928-85); and the American
National Biography (1999, 2002) in 24 volumes, the
successor to the DAB, which is available by subscription
online. Some compilations should be
used with caution, such as Virkus’ Compendium
of American Genealogy (1925), and Appleton’s Cyclopædia
of American Biography, an early work in
seven volumes (1887-1901) that contains some fictitious
people.
• Specialized directories. These are publications
about a specific ethnic group (the African American
National Biography Project, or Slovakia and the
Slovaks—A concise encyclopedia), a particular group
(Who’s Who of American Women, or the Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress), a university
(Sibley’s Harvard Graduates), or an ethnic group
(Rosholt, Ole Goes To War, Men from Norway Who
Fought in America’s Civil War).
• Occupational directories. These may be just a vita
giving an educational outline and a few biographical
facts, or they may contain details of an individual’s
schooling, apprenticeship, honors, and
career. Examples are: Heitman, Historical Register
and Dictionary of the United States Army, which
lists 60,000 commissioned officers from 1789 to
1903: or Norlie, Who’s Who Among Pastors in all the
Norwegian Lutheran Synods of America, 1843-1927; or
Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians; or the
Dictionary of Literary Biography; or the Biographical
Dictionary of American Science; or A Biographical
Dictionary of Railway Engineers. These can lead to
further research on a subject or a company, such
as the History of the Illinois Central Railroad Company
and Representative Employees.
• Local histories. If your ancestor was an early settler
in a town or county, or a politician, doctor,
dentist, lawyer, mortician, minister, banker, merchant,
lawman, or newspaper editor, he will be
included in these histories. Some, which are commonly
known as “mug books,” were speculative
publications that contain profiles supplied by the
subjects themselves.
• Biographical dictionaries. These one or two-volume
compilations contain short summaries that
are usually arranged alphabetically. Who Was Who
in America from Marquis, which is indexed in the
BGMI, has 122,000 entries of deceased individuals
who originally appeared in the current volumes
A typical local history, History of Buffalo
and Erie Co. [NY] with illustrations 1620-
1884, from the editor’s collection.
of Who’s Who in America. Some “vanity publications”
that expected individuals to order a copy
in order to be listed have titles such as “Roll of
Honor of…”, or “Outstanding Young Men of…”,
or “Personalities of…” They are not included in
standard indexes.
• Individual and group biographies. About 30,000
book-length biographies or autobiographies have
been published, many of which are of regional interest.
Group biographies, such as Strachey’s Eminent
Victorians (1918), interweave individual lives
and show how they interacted with each other
and with society. Biographical Books, 1876-1949 and
1950-1980 by the R. R. Bowker Company list U.S.-
published biographies.
• State and regional indexes. Many state libraries
and archives have created name indexes to
biographical sketches in their collections, such as
the card file “Wisconsin Biography Index” maintained
at the Wisconsin Historical Society, the
four-volume Genealogical Index of the Newberry Library,
or the 26-volume Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania
Biography.
Lesser-known types of biographical material are:
confessions written by persons sentenced to death;
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1878 advertisement for “P.T. Barnum’s Greatest Show
on Earth” Digital ID: cph 3a46039, Source: b&w film
copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-45853.
testimonials acknowledging a personal religious
view; funeral orations and eulogies; and diaries
and journals.
Strong biography collections are in
the Library of Congress and the Family
History Library. They are also in local
libraries in the General Reference and
Local History sections. Check www.
worldcat.org to identify libraries that
hold a specific book, and search the
Internet for “biography (-ic),” “compilation,”
“encyclopedia,” directory,”
“dictionary,” and the name of a state
or county, an occupation, a denomination,
or an ethnic group.
There’s a Sucker Born
Every Minute
This phrase, often incorrectly attributed
to P. T. Barnum (the “Prince of Humbugs”),
was probably first used during
a lawsuit over the Cardiff Giant that
arose after Barnum fabricated a replica
of the supposed petrified man and put
it on display his New York museum.
In days gone by, before radio, movies,
television and the Internet, our ancestors
were entertained and enlightened
by chautauquas, lyceums, minstrel
shows, vaudeville acts, traveling tent
shows, and dime museums.
Phineas Taylor Barnum began his
career in 1835 with Joice Heth, whom
he passed off as a 161-year-old former
slave of George Washington’s father
and “the first person who put clothes
on the infant George.” She told her fabricated
story in a room at Niblo’s Garden,
an outdoor garden-theater-saloon.
After her death (she was actually 80
years old) Barnum sold 1,500 tickets to
view her autopsy Barnum’s five-story
American Museum at the corner of
Broadway and Ann Street, opposite
St. Paul’s Chapel, was one of several
similar museums that had roots in the
city. In 1841, Barnum bought Scudder’s
American Museum, which he enlarged
and ballyhooed into a must-see spectacle.
A balcony band played free music during
the day and evening. The 25-cent admission drew
400,000 visitors a year from all classes of society. In
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1865, it burned to the ground and Barnum opened
his New American Museum between Spring and
Prince Streets.
Barnum expertly manipulated the penny press
to create controversy about his array of curiosities,
which included two-headed animals, a three-legged
man, dancing Indians, an aquarium with Beluga
whales, animals in cages, dioramas, wax figures,
busts of famous persons, new scientific instruments,
sleight-of-hand tricks, a flea circus, the fake mummified
Fejee Mermaid, Chang and Eng the Siamese
twins, two microcephalic Mexican boys, a mentally
impaired Negro man presented as a missing link
between man and beast, the seven-foot-tall Nova
Scotia giantess, the world famous two-foot-five-inch
General Tom Thumb, the tree under which Jesus’
disciples supposedly sat, an oyster bar, a rifle range,
and hot air balloon rides that were launched from
the rooftop.
Barnum also presented “respectable” entertainments
aimed at middle class sensibilities, including
popular National Baby Show competitions, and a
Moral Lecture Hall that offered a variety of speakers
and magic lantern shows, and an adaptation of
Uncle Tom’s Cabin. He organized the 90-concert tour
of Jenny Lind, the “Swedish Nightingale.” in 1850-51
(the top-priced ticket at her New York opening sold
for $225—almost $6,000 today). In 1870, Barnum organized
a traveling show that featured a menagerie,
caravan, and circus, and in 1874 opened a 10,000-
seat Hippodrome. He introduced his last superstar,
Jumbo the Elephant, in 1882.
Barnum built a pseudo-Oriental mansion called
Iranistan, and a Queen Ann-style mansion called
Waldemere, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the winter
quarters for his circus. When he died in 1891,
his estate was valued at $4 million. Barnum wrote
in his autobiography that he wanted his patrons to
“think, talk and wonder.” Indeed, some 38 million
customers came to his museums. Many spent the
entire day there.
The main Barnum archive is at the Public Library
in Bridgeport, also home to a Barnum Museum. For
additional reading see: P. T. Barnum, The Life of P. T.
Barnum, Written By Himself (1855, reprinted 2000), Bluford
Adams, E Pluribus Barnum: The Great Showman
and the Making of U.S. Popular Culture (1997); James W.
Cook, The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the
Age of Barnum (2001); Neil Harris, Humbug: The Art of
P.T. Barnum (1973); Miles Orvell, The Real Thing: Imitation
and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940
(1989); Benjamin Reiss, The Showman and the Slave:
Race, Death and Memory in Barnum’s America (2001);
and Irving Wallace, The Fabulous Showman; The Life
and Times of P. T. Barnum (1959).
Richard L. Hooverson, the owner
of Out of the Past , offers seminars
to societies and assistance to
authors of family histories. He is
a graduate of the University of
Wisconsin, a Fellow of the Texas
State Genealogical Society, and
a member of the Association
of Professional Genealogists.
His great-grandfather emigrated from Norway to
Wisconsin Territory in 1847. His special interests
are ethnic settlement patterns and social history.
He has presented over 300 lectures nationwide,
including conferences of the National Genealogical
Society and Federation of Genealogical Societies.
Address: 701 Lake Road, Belton, TX 76513; email:
haaver@vVm.com; Web: www.outofthepast.com.
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AAnyone looking into family history and wishing to find their roots quickly will find that long hours are
spent searching in graveyards and cemeteries for the graves of ancestors. However, finding the grave and
gravestone of the ancestor may often provide more questions than answers.
By Gay l o r d Co o p e r
The research involved in genealogy and family
history eventually leads to these cemetery visits and
gravestone reading. What was once considered a morbid
pastime has become a normal and important part
of the investigative process for genealogy research.
Cemeteries can tell us a great deal about our ancestors
and a wide range of information can be gleaned
from the words and icons carved on the headstones.
At the cemetery or graveyard the researchers find
themselves surrounded by a bewildering array of
monuments, statues, and gravestones of every size
and shape and often carved with all manner of flora,
fauna, and object. The beginner, and sometimes even
the experienced researcher, might wonder if any of
this has meaning other than just decoration.
While there is much ornamentation in cemeteries
and graveyards, the majority of what is seen, especially
on older stones, does have meaning and can
be used quite effectively to gather information about
our ancestors.
The many pictures and representations of birds,
beasts, and objects depicted on gravestones are collectively
known as icons. The word icon, for much
of western history, meant the painted depiction of a
religious object or the object itself, but over time it
has changed to mean any drawing or picture that
is widely and culturally recognized as representing
some larger idea. We all recognize the western cross
as a symbol of Christianity. Does anyone need to tell
us what the Golden Arches represent And everyone
knows what to do when they see an eight-sided red
sign at the end of a road or street. These symbols, or
icons, need no words. They are widely recognized
and come from our culture.
Icons were used for a reason. Hand carving a
gravestone was labor intensive and quite expensive
Flowers. This is the most common item that one
will find in a cemetery or graveyard. Fresh, live
growing, artificial, or as a carved icon. This appears
to be a Spring Beauty flower, meaning toward the
resurrection and renewal.
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Left: Thistle Flower—Emblem of Scotland. This
shows ethnic identity. This person was born in
Scotland.
Above: This stone shows the use of the word Consort.
It also is an example of a gravestone listing the
disease from which she died.
for those that commissioned the stone. The stone
carver used icons as a type of shorthand. Most carvers
charged by the letter and anything that helped
lessen the labor or expense of the project was welcomed.
Millions of words have been written about
the Christian religion. Not even a fraction of them
could be carved on the average gravestone. The Western
Cross, a widely recognized cultural symbol for
Christianity, was placed on the stone representing
the idea behind all those words.
The person whose grave the stone was to adorn
sometimes selected these icons in advance of death.
Usually, however, the surviving family chose them.
These carved icons or statuary, taken with epitaphs,
scripture, and other carvings, can often provide insight
into the nature of the person and his or her
family. The use of all this information is a genealogy
field and research tool called Cemetery Iconology.
Your ancestor’s gravestone, its size, shape, and
even composition can often give you an insight into
the culture in which your ancestor lived. Gravestones
can yield information about ethnic identity, religious
beliefs, and social organizations to which they may
have belonged. You can find information about relationships.
If you are searching for a female ancestor
before the mid-1700s, a gravestone may be the only
place you will ever find her name recorded. Gravestones
often provide information about more than
one ancestor, saving invaluable time on the part of
the researcher. Gravestones often list information
about your ancestor’s occupation, military service
and even diseases and epidemics from which they
may have died.
Gravestone symbols or icons can give much information,
but it is not as easy as looking at a picture
and comparing it to your ancestor’s gravestone. Cemetery
Iconology encompasses portions of the fields
of Botany, Geology, History, and Sociology. We must
consider the history, language and geography in the
study of gravestone symbols. A symbol used and
recognized in one place may mean something different
in another locality. We cannot attempt to read,
analyze, and define gravestone icons through 21st
century thinking and understanding. Medical terms
have changed. Language and references to occupations
may be quite different than what is understood
The terms cemeteries and graveyards are used interchangeably, but there
is a difference. Graveyards are burial places that have a connection to a
church. Cemeteries are burial places that have no such connection.
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Common Gravestone Icons & Symbols
Found in Cemeteries and Graveyards
Anchor—hope (“Hope is the anchor of the soul.”)
Angel—messenger between God and man; guide
Angel (flying)—rebirth
Angel (trumpeting)—a call to the resurrection
Angel (weeping)—grief
Arrows or darts—mortality, the dart of death
Birds—the soul
Coffins—mortality
Column (broken)—sorrow, life cut short
Cross—salvation
Dove—Holy Ghost
Father Time—mortality
Flame (burning)—life
Flower—the frailty of life
Flower (broken) —death
Garland—victory in death
Gourds—the coming to be and the passing away
of earthy matters; the mortal body
Hand (pointing upward)—ascension to heaven
Handshake—farewell to earthly existence
Heart—the abode of the soul; love of Christ;
the soul in bliss
Ivy—memory and fidelity
Lamb—Christ; the Redeemer; meekness; sacrifice;
innocence.
Laurel—victory
Lily—resurrection; purity
Palls/drapery—mortality
Pomegranate—immortality
Portals—passageways to the eternal journey
Rose—sorrow
Scallop shell—the resurrection; a pilgrim’s
journey; the baptism of Christ
Scythe—time or time cut short
Skull (winged)—the flight of the soul from the
mortal body
Skulls and crossbones—death
Sun (rising)—renewed life
Sun (setting)—eternal death
Sword—martyrdom; courage
Torch (burning)—immortality; truth; wisdom
Urn—mortality (a receptacle for the bodily remains)
Wheat—time; the divine harvest (often used to
denote old age)
Willow—grief
A government-issued military gravestone showing
military service and also illustrating the use of an
icon (the cross) to designate religious beliefs without
using words.
today. Even relationships, as defined one hundred
years ago, may be very different than what we are
familiar with today.
I teach seminars and give college classes in Cemetery
Iconology and the most frequently asked question
is about the word consort. The word has taken
on a not-so-flattering connotation today and more
than one researcher has been dismayed to find a
“consort” buried next to his or her ancestor. This
is an example of how language and words change
over time. When the word was routinely used, it
was understood to be an honorable title. A consort
is much more than simply a spouse. A consort was
a companion, lover, wife or husband, confidant, a
trusted advisor, and friend. It was and still is a royal
title. An important title of Prince Philip, the husband
of Elizabeth, queen of England, is Consort to
the Queen.
Cemetery Iconology teaches the skills of gravestone
cleaning, preservation, and repair. To be able
to read a gravestone we must sometimes clean it.
Cemetery Iconology also helps to give us an understanding
of the proper uses and ways of gravestone
rubbing, of photographing cemeteries, and
even the best lighting techniques and times of day
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Shaking Hands, Farewell. This is common in
older cemeteries and graveyards. It can mean simply
farewell to this earthly life or it can also show
a relationship that is suppose to transcend death.
Look closely at the cuffs. They will show gender
and the dominant one in the relationship—be
it husband to wife or wife to children—will be
clasping the other hand.
to photograph. Putting all this together gives the
researcher tools to identify, analyze, and use the information
that is found.
As with any tool, caution needs to be taken with
Cemetery Iconology. You will find mistakes occurring
on gravestones as they do in written records.
Carving a gravestone was labor intensive, so a carver
was not likely to throw a way a piece of work, especially
if it was near the end of the process, and start
over. Those that commissioned the stone usually did
not want to repeat the expense of a new stone, so
mistakes often stood uncorrected. An old adage in
genealogy research applies to gravestone iconology
as well. Just because it is written, on a page or on a
stone, don’t assume it is totally correct. Always check
and recheck your sources.
Cemetery Iconology and gravestone interpretation
may sound complicated, but most things sound complicated
until they are taken in smaller segments.
Cemetery Iconology is a research tool. As one
would not try to use a single tool to build a house,
one cannot expect to locate and study our ancestors
with just a single genealogy tool either. Cemetery
Iconology gives us an opportunity to learn more
about our ancestors. These were real people with
lives, loves, triumphs, and failures. It often allows
us to put a human face on the many names, dates,
and records we have collected.
Fraternal Order Marker. Fraternal orders sometimes
provide stones for their members. This one is Woodmen
of the World. The significance of this stone is
that these orders or associations usually keep excellent
records and can help you trace your ancestor.
Not all historical and genealogy records are written
upon paper or housed in museums. Cemeteries
and graveyards are open-air museums and repositories
of history. The 100 or even 200 year old gravestones
provide a lesson in history that is hard to find
anywhere else.
There is a tendency of those just starting on the
great ancestral trail to collect as many names, and
dates as possible and dutifully record them on the
proper genealogy form or computer program. The
names and dates relating to an ancestor are very important,
but getting to know our ancestors as real
people is also very rewarding. We should strive to get
to know our ancestors as the real people they were.
After all, they are family.
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City Directories:
A Treasure Chest of Information
IBy Pa t r i c i a Di ng w a l l Th o m p s o n
If your ancestor lived in a large city, perhaps you feel plagued by the “little fish in a big
pond” syndrome. You may look on with envy at others whose families settled in small towns
and rural communities, in counties that published biographical volumes of many “ordinary
folk” and with newspapers that feature wonderfully detailed obituaries and columns of quiet
social events, such as out-of-town visitors. In populous counties, it’s only the “big fish”
that get included in the books of biographies; an out-of-town visitor or a luncheon given to
honor a friend would never see the light of print, and obituaries are more often the domain
of the few “important” people. At most, we hope for a two-to-three-line death notice for our
ancestors who died in large metropolitan areas. But big cities do offer genealogists a rich
resource often not found in small towns and rural settings—the city directory.
The ancestor of our modern telephone
books, city directories were begun as early
as the 18th century in some locations and
typically contain names, addresses, and professions
of people who lived in those larger
metropolitan areas. Many researchers use
this tool to place a family in a given locale at a
particular time, especially as a substitute for
the 1890 census or to locate a street address
which can then help find an old family home.
But directories can also provide many additional
genealogical treasures, such as wives’
and children’s names, death dates, club memberships,
and even forwarding addresses for
our ancestors who moved.
When I find I have an ancestor who lived
in a particular location, my first question is:
Are there city directories available If so, I begin
five years before I expect to find the given
individual and search every year, generally
including five years after they are no longer
listed. I either make a photocopy of the relevant
pages containing all entries for the surname I
am researching, or transcribe the entries, being
careful to include everything listed. If I
am working with a relatively common surname,
obtaining all the information can help
determine members of the family who lived
together. In researching my Watson family
branch in St. Catharines, Ontario, I learned
that Alexander Watson, one of seven Watson
brothers, had been killed in the Northwest
Territories Riel Uprising in 1885. After locating
the name of his regiment, the 90th Winnipeg
Battalion, I contacted the Winnipeg Public Library
and asked if city directories were available
for the 1880–1885 time frame. I included
a check for a brief search and photocopying
and was delighted to receive pages from the
relevant years. Those city directory entries
helped me surmise that Alexander’s purpose
in going west was apparently not as a military
man to help suppress the rebellion (as I had
originally supposed), but rather as a young
man striking out on his own, because he first
showed up in Winnipeg in 1882, working as
a carpenter, following his father’s profession. 1
The city directories indicated (and I was later
able to confirm the fact with military records)
that he continued to pursue carpentry until
he volunteered for the local regiment in 1885
after the uprising broke out.
But the city directory gave me much more
information about this family. Among the
eighteen listings for WATSON in Winnipeg
in 1882 was a David Watson, also a carpenter.
I realized this must be Alexander’s younger
brother David because they both shared the
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Watson carpenter entries, from the
Winnipeg Alphabetical Directory, 1882
Watson family entries, from the
Winnipeg Alphabetical Directory, 1884
Watson family entries, from the Winnipeg
Alphabetical Directory, 1883
same address as well as profession. Both of these
young men had left their large family in St. Catharines
to make their fortune in the west, even though
David was only 14 years old at the time. By 1883,
another of the Watson brothers shows up in the Winnipeg
directory—J R Watson (John Randolph Watson),
also making his living as a carpenter and living at the
same address with Alexander and David. 2 Several
other John and J Watsons appear, but being able to
establish the common address and profession of these
young men is the factor which convinced me that they
are indeed my family.
By 1884, J R Watson is not listed, and I feel confident
that the eight other John and J Watsons in the
directory belong in a different family, because none
of them works as a carpenter or lives with Alexander
and David. 3 Those two brothers are listed in the directory
for the final time in 1885, and I presume that
following the death of Alexander on the battlefield,
David went home to his family in St. Catharines, for
he is enumerated with them there in the 1891 census.
Without the city directory entries, I would never have
known that David and John Randolph Watson also
had ventured west.
Other gems pop up in the directories as well. Researching
another of the eleven Watson children, I
located Angus Watson in the 1900 census in Rochester,
New York. Going straight for the city directories, I was
Watson family entries, from the
Rochester (New York) City Directory, 1916
able to confirm the name of his wife, Katherine, for in
1916, the Rochester directories began listing wives’
names. 4 And, to my delight, all of Angus’s children
began showing up in the directories, once they became
old enough to work themselves, but still lived at
home. Thus I learned that his son Angus A. worked as
a draftsman; his daughter Isabel E. did bookkeeping;
another son, Kenneth, worked variously as a clerk,
a wireman, and a radio repairman; and a third son,
Frederick, began working as a wireman and then became
a chauffeur. When Isabel stopped appearing at
the family address of 10 Anson Place in 1930, I had a
hunch she had married about that time, so I was able
to contact the county courthouse to request a marriage
search in a limited time frame (a search which produced
the marriage record I sought). Certainly some
of this information can be gleaned from censuses, but
not all of it, and this data isn’t cut off at 1930.
Although I had been able to locate Angus Watson
in Rochester via the 1900 U. S. census, he had other
brothers and sisters who had left St. Catharines by the
time the 1901 Canadian census was taken, and I had
no idea where they had gone. So when I began my
work with the Rochester city directories, I searched
for the rest of the missing siblings. I was rewarded in
the 1891–92 volume by finding Thomas Duncan Buchanan,
the husband of Angus’s sister Mary Ann Watson.
The Buchanans actually had moved to Rochester
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Dingwall piper entry, from the 1861
Toronto City Directory, by W. R. Brown
Buchanan family entries, from the
Rochester (New York) City Directory, 1894,
showing removal to Newport, RI
A second Dingwall piper entry, on the
following page, from the 1861 Toronto
City Directory, by W. R. Brown
Anne L. Dingwall entry, from the
Milwaukee (Wisconsin) City Directories, 1882,
showing her death date
before Angus, living at the address identified as “ft
Granger.” And in fact when Angus first appears in
the directory in 1894–95, he is listed as boarding at “ft
Granger pl.” In that same volume, I was surprised to
learn that the Buchanans had actually left Rochester,
for their listing read: “Buchanan, Thomas D removed
to Newport, R.I.” 5 Instead of dismay over my family’s
sudden disappearance, the city directory had actually
provided me with a forwarding address!
Note that the Rochester, New York city directories
1827-1899 are now online (free of charge) at the Monroe
County (NY) Library System website. Eventually
all directories through 1930 will be online at the site.
See: www.libraryweb.org/rochcitydir/citydirectoriestable.html.
Besides names of spouses and children who still
live at home, city directories can actually provide
specific dates of death, which may then help the researcher
to obtain genealogically rich documents
produced as a result of that death, such as probate
papers, the death certificate, an obituary, or cemetery
records. The Watsons’ aunt, Anne Lambert Dingwall,
was included in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1917 directory,
giving the important information: “Dingwall
Anne L (82) died Oct. 16 ‘16.” 6
Other genealogical treasures also await the researcher
in the older directories that sometimes
included much more than names, professions, and
addresses. My Dingwall ancestors immigrated to Toronto
from Scotland in the 1840s, so I, of course, looked
for Toronto directories. Some volumes are available at
the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, and I had
gathered all the listings from those. But then I made
the happy discovery of the Toronto Public Library
Digital Collections, found online at http://digit.tpl.
toronto.on.ca:8000/. York County and Toronto City
Directories from 1833–1881 have been digitized and
put on the Internet with a search engine. Many more
city directory volumes are available here than I had
been able to access in Salt Lake, but best of all is the
search engine. It searches everything included in the
directory, not just the alphabetical listings with home
addresses. Thus, by doing a search for DINGWALL in
the 1859–61 directories, I was led to scanned images
of the pages that contained National Societies, where I
found my immigrant third-great-grandfather Ronald
Dingwall included as a piper for both the Canadian
Highland Society and the St. Andrew’s Society. 7 He
hadn’t shown up in the alphabetical listing because
he was living in nearby Hamilton with his widowed
daughter-in-law. By this time, I had already accumulated
census enumerations, tax lists, and probate papers
for Ronald, but learning that he had played the
bagpipes for societies commemorating his homeland
was a very poignant discovery for me.
To find city directories in your own research, check
the online card catalogue for the Salt Lake Family
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History Library catalogue at www.familysearch.org/
Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset fhlc.asp to determine
what microfilms you can order to view at your local
Family History Center. But don’t stop there. Take
advantage of Ancestry.com’s online city directories,
available by subscription, that help fill the void of the
missing 1890 census. Write to local libraries and ask
what volumes they have in their collections. And don’t
be dismayed if your ancestors didn’t live in large cities.
Some medium and small sized towns have directories
as well. Check every year that is appropriate, and
be flexible about the dates you think would produce
results. Look for married daughters’ names, and of
course remember to check for spelling variations.
Finally, the lack of an entry doesn’t mean your ancestor
wasn’t in that location at that time. Another of
the Watson siblings, an unmarried daughter who followed
nursing, moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and lived there for over 30 years. Yet she appears only
sporadically, nine different times, in the city directories.
Sometimes, people had to pay a small fee to be
included. So keep checking for every available volume
that could reasonably turn up the individual or family.
I hope you uncover a gem!
End Notes
1 Winnipeg Alphabetical Directory, 1882, p. 198, courtesy of Centennial
Library, 251 Donald St., Winnipeg, Manitoba.
2 Ibid., 1883, p. 366.
3 Ibid., 1884, p. 299.
4 Rochester (New York) City Directories, 1916, microfilm (Woodbridge,
Conn.: Research Publications, 1980–1984), p. 1319, FHL 1,612,075.
5 Ibid., 1894, p. 117, FHL 1,377,397.
6 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) City Directories, 1917, microfilm (Woodbridge,
Conn.: Research Publications, 1980–1984), p. 438, FHL 1,611,776.
7 York and Toronto City Directories Pages, Toronto Public Library
Digital Collections, 8 February 2006.
Patricia Dingwall Thompson
has taught English for 37 years,
currently at Bozeman High
School in Bozeman, Montana.
She holds a Bachelor’s Degree
from Arizona State University
and a Master’s Degree from
Phillips University. She and her
husband Jim (who also teaches
English at the same school) became involved with
genealogy after a trip to Tricia’s ancestral village of
Dingwall in the Scottish Highlands in 1996. Tricia
is a board certified genealogist and has published
articles in The New Hampshire Genealogical
Record and Everton’s Genealogical Helper.
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By Gr e g o r y Pe d u t o
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As a viewable format, 8mm home movies are dead, deader than disco, the Dodo bird, and Latin combined.
The projectors of high school health classes and wood paneled basements of yore are now expensive,
cantankerous beasts with an unquenchable appetite for extinct light bulbs. Most folks simply have no
use for the dusty old reels cluttering up their attics and basements. Yet, to the family historian, these
antiquated films offer a portal to a bygone world inhabited by moving, and sometimes speaking images of
our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents. For these reasons, the preservation and conversion
of home movies to a viewable format is an important and delicate matter that can have serious repercussions
if not done correctly.
The history of the home movie began in the early
1920s with the development of non-flammable diacetate
Pathe 9.5mm and 28mm safety films. Professional
film at the time was a fickle and dangerous
beast. The flammable nitrate-based film stocks of
early motion pictures required an expert projectionist
to ensure fire free evening matinees.
Early safety films launched the first baby steps of
recreational film and enabled laypersons the chance
to screen their own home movies without literally
burning down the house. The early success of amateur
cinema inspired the expansion of other more
advanced film types and in 1923, Eastman Kodak
introduced the crown prince of home cinema, the
16mm tri-acetate safety film.
Because the 16mm quickly assumed the lead in
home picture formats, many people possess old
reels of 16mm, a type now considered a professional
choice. Unlike 8mm, 16mm has endured until this day
and is the primary preference of many independent
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filmmakers and television shows, such as Sex in the
City and Malcolm in the Middle, but the film type had
many detractions for the non-professional user.
16mm cameras were bulky, heavy, expensive,
and frequently required a tripod for usable footage.
Kodak realized that a simple film and camera
would alleviate many of the technical aspects of
16mm production. As a result, the company developed
the 8mm by splitting a standard 16mm film in
half. They then introduced the boxy art deco Kodak
Cine clockwork camera.
8mm, now known as straight 8 or regular 8, debuted
in 1935 and ushered in the epoch of the home motion
picture by drastically reducing the size of the camera
into a truly hand held object. Kodak slashed user costs
because the new smaller format required 75% percent
less film than 16mm. The company continued its innovations
and in 1936 introduced Kodachrome stock,
which allowed color motion photography. For nearty
30 years regular 8 dominated the scene, until its reign
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was shattered in 1965 by the introduction of Super 8,
a beefed up derivative of the straight 8.
Super 8 reduced the size of the 8mm sprocket holes
cutting user film costs by maximizing the usable size
of the film. The new format was incredibly popular.
Over 100,000 cameras were sold to U.S. servicemen
in Vietnam alone. These, new, spiffy high-tech cameras
incorporated many features like light meters and
magnetic sound printing. To facilitate easy loading,
a new quick-load plastic magazine was also introduced,
but film’s days were numbered.
Despite the great developmental strides made by
Super 8, film remained a complicated medium. Exposures,
apertures, and editing were difficult matters
that befuddled the average user. The introduction
of video camcorders in the 1980s addressed these
problems by greatly simplifying photography, but
there were many unforeseen pitfalls.
The great advantage film has over videotapes,
whether it is 16mm, 8mm, or Super 8, is archival
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durability. Stored under proper conditions, film can
last hundreds of years, whereas videotape shelf life
can be as short as a few decades.
The first step in conserving and untimely converting
film to a viewable format is identification. In addition
to preservation, identification of film can answer
many genealogical questions in regards to dating
movies. If the film is not labeled, unroll it until an
image on the stock is seen. Exposed film will always
have a visible image.
The width of a frame is a primary way to determine
film type. 16mm film should roughly be 5/8”
wide. Regular 8mm should be 5/16” wide, and Super
8 would also be 5/16” wide. The way to differentiate
between regular and Super 8 is by the size of
the sprocket holes. Standard 8mm sprocket holes are
quite large. In contrast, Super 8 sprocket holes are
smaller than the circumference of a toothpick.
9.5mm film is quite unusual in the United States,
but extremely popular in Europe. The presence of this
type may suggest that the footage was shot in Europe,
or at least the camera and photography equipment
was purchased there. This type of stock will have a
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square sprocket hole in the center between frames
rather than on its edge.
Original prints of movies should be protected at
all costs. Consider them master copies that are irreplaceable
heirlooms from which all other copies are
derived. Heat, light, and moisture are the principal
enemies of preservation. Heat causes decomposition
though desiccation, while light can fade and obliterate
the actual print. Moisture is one of the most
damaging contaminants, for it fosters celluloid devouring
mold.
Furthermore, reels should be stored in dark archival
enclosures or envelopes in moderate humidity
and at room temperature, the colder the storage the
better. A frost-free refrigerator kept slightly above
freezing makes an excellent storage place but steer
clear of the vegetable crisper. Environmental stability
is more important than temperature. Basements
and attics are horrible storage locations because these
areas can swing from freezing to sweltering depending
on the season. The extremes in temperatures and
humidity can literally stress materials to the point of
destruction.
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Never store film in a non-archival container, such
as, manila envelopes or common plastic bags. Nonarchival
containers are constructed of acidic materials
that can destroy precious heirlooms by trapping
them in a polluted environment. Also avoid plastic
bags because they contribute to high humidity.
Archival boxes and envelopes are inexpensive and
provide an alkaline reserve buffer that prevents contamination
by nearby items.
One of the primary signs of film decomposition
is the so-called “vinegar syndrome.” The syndrome
occurs when the acetate in the film breaks down
into acetic acid and releases a vinegary smell and
white powder. Afflicted home movies should be
segregated from other films in their own containers
because acetic acid fumes can actually accelerate the
destruction of nearby items. The vinegar syndrome
is an irreversible condition that will eventually destroy
precious memories. Infected materials need
to be refrigerated to slow the process of decomposition
and transferred to a digital medium as soon as
possible. Fortunately, videotapes do not suffer from
the vinegar syndrome, but they do have their own
unique storage rules.
VHS and BETTA tapes consist of magnetically
charged particles bound to a polyester backer with
a polyurethane binder. The tape’s magnetic encoding
necessitates that they be stored far away from
any magnetic fields, including the magnetic fields
produced by your television set.
All tapes should be housed in archival containers
at room temperature and in moderate humidity.
V o e e o o i
Never store tapes rewound, for rewinding imparts
inconsistent tight and loose spots throughout the
reels. Over time these inconsistencies contribute to
breakage. Furthermore, treasured tapes should never
be paused.
Like rewinding, pausing stresses the polyester
backer, and over time it can snap. All video recordings
are ephemeral products that will not last more
than a couple of decades and need to be converted to
digital format, but the conversion of both video tapes
and film to a modern viewable system should begin
only after properly archiving the original materials.
The Conversion Process
The various film-to-DVD conversion houses on the
Internet range from decent bargains to expensive ripoffs.
Even Hollywood grade film transfer companies,
like DuArt Film and Video, provide digital conversion
services from Super 8 and 16mm because these
film types are still used by avant-garde artists and
professionals. It is best to send talkies (sound films)
to a professional company like DuArt because most
Internet transfer houses are incapable of properly
synching speech to the motion of the footage. Film
owners can avoid much heartbreak and financial distress
can by arming themselves with information on
the process of updating to a digital format.
Film owners should always apply Stanford University’s
LOCKSS archiving maxim when transferring
precious memories to digital. In short, LOCKSS
stands for Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe. Applying
the LOCKSS system, it is best to have all motion pictures
digitized and placed on both an external hard
drive and a mini DV tape rather than just on a DVD
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optical disc. Optical discs are designed for viewing
rather than for archiving.
DVDs are extremely delicate objects that are only
capable of lasting about fifteen years. Moreover, DVD
movie files must be highly compressed in order fit
on the disc. The compression makes it impossible
to copy footage from the original DVD without an
enormous loss of resolution.
Better transfer options exist. Homemoviedepot.
com suggests that all movies should be copied to an
external hard drive. With a hard drive copy of movies,
family historians can burn an unlimited number
of high quality DVDs. These computerized films can
also be edited, scored, and manipulated with several
low cost home movie-editing programs.
Unfortunately, hard drives are delicate instruments.
A short drop or a computer virus can wipe
out an entire drive; therefore, mini DV tapes serve as
the perfect backup to computer hardware. A single
DV tape holds over 1,000 feet of filmed footage and
most transfer houses offer this option.
The conversion of film to Standard Definition (SD)
digital format should never exceed .10 to .15 cents per
foot of footage. High Definition (HD) conversions
are slightly more expensive and average around .20
cents per foot. Price is often dictated by reel size. The
transfers of several small reels will be more expensive
than one or two larger reels of equal length. Most
8mm and Super 8 reels come in three-inch four-inch,
five-inch, six-inch, and seven-inch spools.
Homemoviedepot.com and DigitalTransferSystems.
net are two of the most reputable and inexpensive
services available for use. These companies can easily
and inexpensively convert 8mm, Super 8, 16mm,
and VHS to DVD, a hard drive or a mini DV tape.
Furthermore, these businesses will clean the film and
repair any breaks for free. To order, simply fill out a
form on their website, bag up your film according to
the instructions and in 7-10 days you will receive a
digital conversion of your long lost movies.
Digitizing treasured home movies makes sense for
a variety of reasons. Copies serve as excellent backups
to original reels. In addition to genealogical research,
DVDs make excellent Christmas gifts that can be
burned and edited from the hard drive master copies
and handed out to relatives. So why not take the
plunge and breathe life back into deceased loved ones
The process is inexpensive and can provide a spark of
inspiration to an otherwise dull genealogical project.
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Controlling
Bias in Genealogy Research
By Ro b e r t D. He n n o n
Are you becoming frustrated with your genealogical research because you are not finding what you think
you should Feel like giving up If you answer “yes,” you are probably not alone.
AVolunteering as an attendant at my local Family
History Center for the past seven years, I became
interested in the kinds of remarks beginners to genealogical
research made when responding to help.
These statements range from strictly personal ones to
those gleaned from family members, teachers, books,
magazines, and various and sundry sources telling
them how to do genealogical research. Some of the
typical remarks are: “Why can’t I find my gggrandfather
His name has always been spelled that way,”
“I’m only interested in the census
to find where my great grandfather
lived,” “Deeds only show
where people live,” “I found it on
the Internet and it is not true,“ “I
found it on the Internet and it is
my family. I don’t need anything
else.” “I can’t read this stuff because
it’s foreign,” “I don’t really
need a birth certificate because I
know when they were born,” and
on and on. Some persons persevere
and eventually succeed, but
many never return to the Family
History Center. Why The answer can be found hidden
in the statements made.
Somewhere along the way to encouraging family
research, the beginner has been told to look for
certain information in this or that document, in this
or that way, and when their ancestor was not found
or they did not find the information they think they
should have, they tend to give up. What they have
been told began a process of setting biases that, unfortunately,
often leads to negative results, hence,
a turn-off to further work in genealogy. Making
the beginning researcher aware of these negative
biases and the influence on genealogical research,
Once you begin
to change the way
in which you view
your world, your
biases will begin
to drop away and
your research
skills will improve.
and some ways to minimize its effects will be the
thrust of this article.
The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. defines the
word “bias” in a number of ways, but the two listings
that pertain to genealogy research are: 1) “an inclination,
or propensity; predisposition towards; predilection;
prejudice,” and 2) “a swaying influence, impulse,
or weight, ‘any thing which turns a man to a particular
course, or gives the direction to his measures.’”
Now, I am not a psychologist or sociologist, but it
seems to me biases are acquired in
two major stages during our maturation
process, the pre-adult and
the adult stage. At what point we
leave the pre-adult and enter the
adult stage varies from person to
person. Generally, the transition
can be identified at the point when
we assume responsibility for our
own welfare. Even though most
of us assume this responsibility,
the biases imprinted upon us in
the pre-adult stage become major
factors determining the directions
our lives will take in the adult stage.
The pre-adult stage can be divided in at least two
sub-stages: the pre-school period and the post-school
period. Regardless of when the post-school period
begins, it is in the pre-school period that our principal
caregivers have the most impact on our perceptions
and expectations of the world. Our caregivers
teach us the rules and regulations on how to survive
in the world and these rules and regulations become
biases we cling to throughout our lives. As we begin
to break away from the immediate control of the
caregiver and enter some kind of formal educational
system we acquire additional rules and regulations
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from our teachers and peer group that become additional
biases in our lives. By the time we are ready to
enter the post-school stage we have already amassed
many predispositions that control how we interact
with and interpret our reality.
As the maturation process continues it too can be
divided into two stages: the employment stage and
the post-employment stage. In the employment stage
additional sets of rules on how to live come from
persons in our employment and all those outside
that we consider to be ‘experts’ such as doctors, attorneys,
service personnel, anyone that we seek out
for advice. This process continues throughout the
employment stage of our lives. Thus, by the time we
reach the post-employment stage, we have acquired
many prejudices, inclinations, and predispositions—
in a word, ‘biases’ that control much of our behavior
and that give shape, direction, order, and meaning
to our lives. In the post-employment stage, the age
of retirement, the cycle begins again with grandpa
or grandma passing their biases on to their grandchildren.
So it goes.
Taken collectively these biases control all our
behavior. There are good biases and there are bad
ones. The good ones permit us to live positively in
our world; the bad ones are detrimental to our wellbeing.
It is some of these bad biases that often get in
the way of successful genealogical research because,
taken collectively, they affect our ability to go beyond
the obvious purpose of any genealogical document
by restricting how we view the document. For example,
thinking that all U.S. censuses before 1850
only show heads of household, and rough ages and
number of persons in the household and nothing
more, or that land records show nothing more than
location of property and when it was purchased, or
that the tax records only show the amount paid for
a piece of property, or that letters are not very valuable,
and so on. These biases impose a predisposition,
inclination, or prejudice that limits our horizons. Putting
it another way, negative biases greatly stifle our
imagination for examining the complete data that
any given document contains. It seems to me that
we need as much imagination as we are capable of
bringing to bear on genealogical documents so that
we might reap maximum harvest of the information.
The negative biases we all have restrict this important
function of imagination by giving us a most narrow
vision of a particular document under study.
Negative biases affect our perceptions of reality
and, consequently, cause the beginner to approach
an item for research with a predisposition as to what
kinds of information can be expected from that
document. Identifying and controlling these biases
becomes an important prerequisite for achieving
greater satisfaction from genealogical research.
The question now becomes: how do we free ourselves
of these negative biases Not without some hard
work, but the work can be enjoyable and if performed
consistently over a period of time will expand our
world view and suggest new ways of doing research.
My solution involves a two step process: one, admit
you have biases and try to identify what they are and
where they came from, and, two, discover ways to
overcome these biases. Unless you can recognize biases
exist and are getting in the way of your research
you will not take steps to deal with them. The second
step involves playing of games. Yes, you read correctly.
Play games, but not just any game. Play games
that stretch your way of viewing the world in which
you live. Once you begin to change the way in which
you view your world, your biases will begin to drop
away and your research skills will improve. However,
there is a caveat and that is you still must understand
as thoroughly as you can the data contained in all
the document sources used in genealogical research,
what they are, where to access them, and what each
contains. So, what are these games
One game I like to play involves emptying the
junk box where I keep small items. Items I think I
might need some day, old keys, foreign coins, small
batteries, wood screws, and so on. We all have these
caches of small junk, maybe not in a box, but they
could be in kitchen drawer, a teacup, or bowl, just
about anywhere you store these kinds of treasures.
When you have located your small junk caches (it
should contain at least 20 dissimilar items) dump
them onto a flat surface. Now organize those objects
into some kind of meaningful arrangement. When
you have finished try to define the manner you used
in making your arrangement; was it based on “form,”
“function,” “color,” “aesthetic,” “value,” “chronological,”
“spatial,” “topically,” etc Whatever the manner
used, it reveals one of your predispositions toward
this group of objects. If you stop here and go no
further, the particular pattern of organization you
used becomes a negative bias because you probably
will perform all of your organizational tasks with
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other items or events in your life in the same manner;
therefore, you go through life never experiencing the
benefits of seeing the alternatives.
Now take the same group of objects and reorganize
them using another principle of organization, perhaps
from the list suggested in the above paragraph. When
you have finished your second organization, compare
it to the first. What did you find You should have
found that these same objects have taken on a new
meaning. In other words, you have expanded your
imagination by perceiving things about the objects
you had not noticed before. Repeat this organizational
process at least five more times using a different organizing
principle and then compare the results with
all others. This game played on a regular basis with
new objects will gradually increase
your potential for seeing possibilities
where you saw none before, in
a word; your imagination has been
stimulated and some of your biases
have been minimized.
Another game I like to play involves
the use of a sturdy chair.
Select one from your collection,
set it in an open space, and see if
you can discover at least ten different
ways that you can sit in that
chair. Again, the challenge here is
to stretch the use of your imagination
and thereby ridding yourself
of the negative biases that told you
the “proper” way to sit in a chair.
How many different ways to sit
did you discover If you could find at least five, you
have gone a long way in opening yourself to new
possibilities. If you found ten, super!
There are many games of this type. Some that I
still play are crossword puzzles. These puzzles force
you to look at words in completely different ways if
you want to be successful in the puzzle’s solution.
Crossword puzzles are found in most newspapers,
or in books found in bookstores. My local newspaper
also carries other games I play to keep my imagination
sharp. One is called “Jumble: The Scrambled
Word Game,” and the other “Celebrity Cipher.” Both,
if played on a consistent basis, cause one to see that
what is present is not all that meets the eye.
For those who have computers, some of the card
games (Free Cell and Spider) may be helpful. Also,
…open yourself to
all the possibilities
that a document
contains rather
than focusing on
only one aspect that
might have been
recommended by
some expert, book,
magazine article,
or family member.
playing bridge provides an excellent opportunity
to expand your vision. The card games mentioned
become very good entries to a process that requires
examination of a great many options in order to win.
Card games of pure chance will not work because
they do not force you to stretch in the same way that
the games mentioned do. The game of chess accomplishes
the same thing as card games.
I firmly believe playing all of these games will go
a long way in opening your mind to new possibilities
where perhaps none were perceived before. They will
help free you of some controlling biases that may be
impeding your genealogical research. The question
remains; How do we free ourselves from these negative
biases I can only provide you with how I freed
myself. Ridding me of the negative
biases that I suspected were
getting in the way began with
the recognition that I was dealing
with both mental and emotional
issues. The games suggested earlier
helped with the mental aspect
by providing me with the tools to
see that there was more than one
way to skin a cat, they expanded
my abilities for seeing things in
a different way than I originally
thought possible. The emotional
side was a little more difficult, but
eventually I was able to move away
from this issue by believing that
those who helped form some of my
biases did the best they could at
that time with the information they had. They really
meant no harm, but now times had changed. Having
worked through these two notions, I was now ready
to see how my genealogical research would change.
The first application I made of my new-found freedom
lay in the perhaps the most fundamental search
done in genealogy, the surname search. I came to
realize that perhaps my genealogy instructor was
correct when she told me that my last name was
not necessarily spelled in many records the way it
is spelled today. I dismissed her observation at that
time, but after going through the games, seeing that
other possibilities were possible, I at least thought I
could test her out. She suggested going to www.familysearch.org
and searching for my surname. I did,
and found quite a number of variant spellings that
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I had earlier told myself…”those
could not be my ancestors,” but
with further study, I found out
some of them were. Armed with
this information, I was then able
to find so much more than I had
in the past. This simple act of recognizing
that my last name could
be spelled in a number of ways
caused me to examine other documents
I had been looking for, but
was unable to find.
One of those records was a tax
record that would tell me when my
great-great-grandfather migrated
to Ohio from Pennsylvania. I had
found his named spelled the way
we do in later tax records but could
not find the name in earlier ones. I
remember seeing the name “Haning”
in an earlier tax record, but
had dismissed it as not being my
ancestor. However, the tax record
showed this person paying taxes on
the same property listed as in the
later records. I concluded that my
genealogy instructor knew what
she was talking about. “Haning”
was my ancestor after all. With
this new acceptance that surnames
were not always what they ‘should’
be led me to find a number of other
records that depended on recognizing
variant spellings.
I also started reading documents
more thoroughly than previously.
Census records have a wealth of information other
than head of household, wife, children, and reported
ages, but there is a need to read all the columns for the
other information they contain. In fact, all genealogical
documents should be read in their entirety and not
just skimmed. I recall a deed of my great-grandfather
dated 1838. It showed him purchasing land in Greene
County, Indiana. Had I not read it more carefully, I
would not have learned that he came first to Martin
County that is stated in the deed. Perhaps these few
examples will suffice to indicate the benefits of ridding
yourself of biases that might get in the way of
doing good, successful research.
Deed excerpt from the Clerk of Court, Bloomfield, Greene County,
Indiana, Book Vol. 1, 17 Nov 1868 - 17 Sept 1869, Page 5.
So, I hope you are beginning to see the thrust. I
want you to have a successful genealogical research
experience and you can if you open yourself to all
the possibilities that a document contains rather than
focusing on only one aspect that might have been recommended
by some expert, book, magazine article,
or family member.
In conclusion, I have tried to show how our negative
biases can prevent the beginning genealogist
from getting the most out of document research and
how minimizing some of these biases might permit
maximum gain from our research. Some methods
are suggested that may help eliminate some negative
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iases that you are carrying around. And I have tried
to indicate a possible way for these biases to be dealt
with. However, the method does require some selfdiscipline
if you are to experience success. The name
of the game is to get as much out of research as is
humanly possible. This also means getting the most
out of any one genealogical document.
Born in Bedford, IN and raised
in Bloomington, Robert Hennon
matriculated at Oberlin College,
Oberlin, OH in 1948, transferred to
Indiana University, Bloomington in
1950, earning a B.A. and M.A.T. in
1953 and 1954 respectively. Robert
taught speech and theater from 1955
to 1983. He retired as Associate
Professor of Speech and Theater from Indiana University
in 1983. Mr. Hennon became interested in genealogy
in 1995. He served as president of the Craven County
Genealogical Society, New Bern, NC from 2000 to 2005.
The Indiana Historical Society has also published his
articles in their genealogical publication, Connections.
Robert passed away July 28, 2008 in Bern, North Carolina.
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French Resea ch QUESTIONS ANSWERED
France and Alsace—
A Beginners Guide
By Gl e n n La z a r u s
Mary E. Leiper, 1905
She made me do it! The sweet young girl pictured
dancing with glee on the back of an electric horse-
SPart I: Find That Ancestor
less carriage 1 , vintage 1905, is my
first cousin once removed, Mary
E. Leiper, b. 28 May 1903 and d. 1
Feb 1990.
She may appear to be an innocent
angel, but in 1966 she sent me
a devilish letter 1 that contained in
part:
• Francois Joseph Latzerus (my
2nd great grandfather) “had at
least two brothers—one 6’ 7”
tall and the other 7’ 2”, who
were sentenced to the guillotine
for wrecking convent property
so it couldn’t be taken over during
some religious conflict, but
they escaped into Germany.
That is all I remember hearing
of them.” 2
• She related two uncles “…telling
about climbing the trees in the
orchard adjacent to their home
Uhlan Cavalry
to watch the Uhlans 3 riding into their village—
Runtzenheim—in 1870 to take over.”
• In 1880, due to dire economic conditions, one great
uncle and his friend, “flipped a coin to see whether
they would go to Africa or come to America …
America won.”
• My great grandfather, Andrew Lazarus, b. 17 Nov
1822 and d. 22 May 1912, “…used to tell how he
wondered what kind of a country he was being led
to (America in April 1881). Their spring planting
had been done before they left home. The nearer
they got to Buffalo (New York), the more snow
there was!” (The good news was that) “…the older
sons were hired the next day to help shovel snow
on the streets.”
Mary finished the letter with the Lazarus’ genealogy
as she knew it then. Several years later she followed
it up with a letter indicating that since I was
“…the only one interested in family history,” she
was entrusting me to continue it. 4 Although I was
in the U.S. Army at the time, and couldn’t devote
much time to family history—I was hooked! Also,
I didn’t realize it at the time, but the facts that the
good Jesuit fathers at Canisius High School in Buffalo,
New York (Tim Russert’s alma mater) crammed
Latin and German into my thick
cranium, and the U.S. Army did
the same with French, would give
me a good starting point for my
research in France and the Alsace.
Fortunately, today you don’t need
to be multilingual to do French
and Alsatian family history.
Let’s begin. As a starting point,
I am accepting as a given that
you have done your family history
homework on this side of the
“pond” before leaping to France
(records researched and documented,
family stories and interviews
collected, repositories and
cemeteries visited, etc.) What I
am about to propose is a little unorthodox
and will probably make
certified genealogists cringe, but
it worked for me and it may for
you too.
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I have noticed over the past several years messages
appearing on message boards to the effect:
“My great grandfather was _____(fill in the blank),
born in France about 1822. Can anyone help me find
my French roots” Although I find genealogists as a
group to be very helpful—and French genealogists in
particular to be wonderfully patient and friendly—
the secret to successful French genealogy follows
the realtor’s mantra: location, location, location. You
really need to know the city or village where your
ancestors resided.
If you believe that your ancestor came from
France, but you are unsure of the Region 5 (mainland
France has 22 regions—think of each as being
roughly equivalent to a separate state in the U.S.), and
96 departments—(think in terms of U.S. counties or
parishes).
the family in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA,
and stated his place of birth as being Germany. Germany!
What happened to France
OK, time out for a brief refresher on French and
Alsatian history. Metropolitan France is only slightly
smaller than the State of Texas. Tucked away in the
northeastern corner is the Alsace Region. It borders
present-day Germany and Switzerland, and runs
through the fertile Rhine River valley east of the
Vosges Mountains. Alsace is composed of two departments:
Bas-Rhin (literally Low Rhine) and Haut-Rhin
(literally high Rhine). Since the Rhine River flows
from south to north, Bas-Rhin appears on the map
above Haut-Rhin—logical, but confusing to some.
Haut-Rhin is bordered by Germany to the east and
Switzerland to the south. The connection with the
Swiss was particularly strong with the former free
city of Mulhouse not being absorbed until 1798. As
a result, those of you with Swiss ancestors may also
find you have an Alsatian connection.
Ever since the 1st Century BC, when Julius Caesar
conquered the area, Alsace has been trampled
by various military forces through the centuries.
From the Holy Roman Empire, through the Thirty
Years War (1618-1648), the French Revolution (1789) 5 ,
the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) and the two
Geographical Comparisons: French to U.S.
I suggest a visit to the following French website:
www.geopatronyme.com. Please don’t be intimidated
by the French language. In the center of the screen
is a box entitled “votre nom” (your name). Insert the
family surname that you are searching and click the
“valider” (validate) button. A screen appears that
shows the distribution of your surname by birth date
for a given time frame. To the upper left of the map
is a phrase “choissez la periode” (choose the time
frame) for anyone of four time periods ranging from
1891 to 1990. The map will then show the distribution
of that surname by department—the next smaller
jurisdictional area after the region. In the case of the
Lazarus surname, the chart for the time period 1891-
1915 shows 84 births in the Bas-Rhin Department,
followed by 21 in Haut-Rhin. These two departments
make up the Alsace Region. For illustrative purposes
I will focus on Bas-Rhin. It has only 527 cities and
villages (communes) to search through!
In my case, I was quite fortunate that good old
Mary Leiper had mentioned a village by name
“Runtzenheim,” and that my great grandfather emigrated
to the U.S. in April 1881. I found Andre in
the 1892 New York State Census and the 1900 and
1910 U.S. Federal Censuses. The combined census
data confirmed the 1881 immigration date, showed
Map of Alsace
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World Wars, Alsace has been the center of much carnage,
foreign occupation, shifting populations, and
annexation.
Prior to the Franco-Prussian War, most vital records
were kept in either French (civil) or Latin
(church). The annexation of Alsace by the new German
state following the Franco-Prussian War resulted
in all vital records being kept in German. After World
War I the process reversed when Alsace once again
became part of France and civil records were kept
in French. The process flip-flopped again in World
War II when Germany took over Alsace in 1940, and
finally reverted back to French when France and the
Allies recaptured Alsace in 1944.
French military records can be helpful in tracing
one’s ancestry. One little-known source that proved
helpful to me was a list of the recipients of the St.
Helena Medal. The medal was struck by Napoleon
III and awarded to the approximate 405,000 soldiers
of the Grand Army (French, Belgians, Dutch, Danish,
Irish, etc ) who served in the French military between
1792 and 1815 under Napoleon I. The key requirement,
other than service rendered, was that the recipient
needed to be alive in 1857. Due to a fire (isn’t
there always one!) there are no exact records. If you
believe that your ancestor meets the above criteria,
you can go to the website (www.stehelene.org/php/
accueil.phppage=9&lang=en) and enter a surname
in the blank on the left side of the page.
Screen Capture of the St. Helena Medal Web Page
By placing “Lazarus” in the search box, I found
three men by that name.
One was Francois Joseph Lazarus who was a brigadier
(corporal), in the 4th Battalion of the 1st horse
regiment. He was my 2nd great grandfather and resided
in Rountzenheim (note the different spelling—
French vs. German). Under “FAQ” (frequently asked
Screen Capture of the St. Helena Medal Web Page
questions), this site also suggests other French sources
to research. If you are fortunate enough to locate your
ancestor, a Google search will reveal opportunities
to purchase copies of the actual medal should you
be so inclined. Now, one problem was resolved for
me. Rountzenheim was definitely in France (except
during German occupation—chuckle). Honestly and
logically, my great grandfather Andre told the U.S.
Census enumerators that he came from Germany.
In the case of Alsace there are other resources
available to help the family historian:
• The Alsace Emigration Book, compiled by Cornelia
Schrader-Muggenthaler, 2 vols., Appolo, Pennsylvania,
Closson Press, c. 1989-1991. If you go
to www.worldcat.org and enter the identifying
data you can find a library near you to borrow
the book—possibly through interlibrary loan. The
subject class is: 944.38W2.
• The Baden Emigration Book: Including Emigration
From Alsace, 1992, by the same author, Cornelia
Schrader-Muggenthaler.
• Census of 1836. There are five CDs available for
parts of Alsace. King Louis-Phillipe I directed mayors
to carry out the first official registration lists.
You can obtain information on the CDs at www.
Census1836.com/descGeneralUK.htm. Residents
are grouped into families, names, first names, age,
religion, profession, civil status, and addresses.
These CDs are costly, and you may want to go online
to a message board to see if someone will do
a “look-up” for you if you think your relative lived
in one of the areas covered.
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• Message boards and Internet sites. Among some
that are in English and that are free are:
1. www.ancestry.com Click on Community and
key-in “Alsace” or the village name.
2. www.genealogylinks.net/europe/france/french
regions.htm#alsace Other French regions are
also mentioned.
3. http://ddebus.fr/alsareche.ht m
4. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com
5. www.cyndislist.com/france.ht m
6. www.geneanet.org—one of the best. This is
both a free and “Privilege Club” ($) site. You do
have to register via the “free subscription” block
on the right of the screen. Once registered, you
can enter a surname or location. You may find
other researchers tracing your surname. Many
are native French speakers but many are multilingual.
This site addresses surnames outside
of France too.
Part II: Tools to Help with Language
This part of the article hopefully will provide those
readers who do not read or write French, German,
Latin or Alsatian (yes, approximately 25 percent of the
population still speak and write in their own dialect)
some tools to assist in your genealogical pursuits. Before
even considering contemplating a trip to Alsace
for family history purposes (although the food, wine,
and beer make such a trip worthwhile of their own
accord), one should acquire some basic resources:
• A good French/English dictionary. I recommend
Cassel’s French Dictionary by Denis Girard (compiler),
Macmillan Publishing, Co., Inc., New York.
Approximate cost $20.40.
• A good Atlas of France. Michelin’s Atlas Routier
France and Blay-Foldex France Belgique-Luxembourg
Atlas Routier are both good. The latter has brought
out a 2008 version for 17.95 Euros. For more information,
Google “Blay Foldex.” Detailed maps of
Alsace are also available from both companies.
• Family History Library aides. The Family History
Library in Salt Lake City remains one of the best
resources available when it comes to beginning
French genealogical research. If you go to the Family
History Library Catalog (www.familysearch.
org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset fhlc.asp) and
click on “Research Helps” a drop-down window
allows you to choose either “Articles” or “Guidance.”
Choose “Articles” and on the left side of
the screen choose “Sorted by Place.” Select “F”
for France and you will see 14 very good reference
documents. Some are available as pdf images
that you can read and print from your home
computer; and others are available for purchase. If
your ancestors came from Alsace or another area
bordering present-day Germany, you can go under
the “G” list and see what is available for Germany
too. Under both, you will note a “Latin Genealogical
Word List.” I highly recommend this to help
with researching the multitude of church records
that you will likely encounter going back as early
as the 17th century. Another Family History resource
that can prove quite helpful is their “Portal:
France” (http://wiki.familysearch.org/en/France).
This is a great site, and one can easily spend hours
using the links and references listed on the Portal.
One example: under “Research Tools” in the center
of the page, click on “French Archives Online.”
Then, click on the “this website” link at the bottom
and you will see all of the departmental archives.
As might be expected, and not unlike the variances
experienced in going to different websites
for individual states in the U.S., the quality of the
various departmental archives varies. At the time
this article was drafted, the Bas-Rhin Archives in
Strasbourg was not available; however, some of my
French colleagues inform me that by the time you
read this, Bas-Rhin will be accessible online.
Now you are ready to jump into the “actes,” best
translated as “certificates” for births, baptisms, marriages,
and deaths. Ms. Clause in her July/August 2008
Everton’s Genealogical Helper gave some good starting
places. Earlier I mentioned the www.geopatronyme.
com website. Through links, there are transcriptions
of actes available for viewing—some for a fee. 6 Also,
don’t forget to use the Family Search Catalog. If you
place your ancestor’s village in the keyword search
box, it is quite likely you will find microfilms worth
renting for use at your local Family History Center.
Finally, good luck in your French and Alsatian research;
or as the French say, “bonne chance!”
Glenn Lazarus is both a retired U.S.
Army Lieutenant Colonel and a
Department of Defense Civilian who
was assigned to the Office of the U.S.
Secretary of Defense for International
Security Affairs. “Seduced” in 1966
by his first cousin once removed
into tracing his family history, he
has been enjoying genealogy and
Glenn Lazarus international travel. He and his wife,
at age 4 Monica, reside in North Carolina.
He may be contacted by email at lazgen33@gmail.com.
Endnotes
1. The Antique Automobile Association indicates that the vehicle
was electric, but without seeing the front of the vehicle exact
identification was impossible.
2. Talk about a brick wall! I can find no information about these
two “criminals” except that more information from Mary Leiper
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stated that they burned the convent’s furniture to keep it from
falling into the hands of an expected enemy attack from across
the Rhine. When the enemy attack didn’t take place, the French
authorities found them guilty of a “crime.” Oh, my son is almost
6’4” tall. Maybe there is something in the genes!
3. “Uhlan”—the name possibly comes from the Mongolian or
Tartar (Tatar) words “oglan” or “uhuan” meaning brave warrior.
The original Uhlan soldiers were Polish light cavalry that
served as reconnaissance forces and skirmishers. They fought
alongside French forces in the early 19th century. Bavarian
Uhlan regiments played a significant role in the Franco-Prussian
War of 1870-1871. Although I can find no documentary
proof, it is probable that the Uhlan cavalry that attacked into
Alsace was most likely a part of the 3rd Royal Bavarian Division
that went on to fight at Sedan where Napoleon III was
captured along with 104,000 of his soldiers. ((Wikipedia contributors,
“Uhlan,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, ht t p://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhlan (accessed August 11, 2008)). As
they approached Rountzenheim they may have been wearing
the traditional mortar board helmet, the “Chapka” and
carrying the long lances (almost 10 ft long) with pennants
attached—a sight that the small Lazarus boys would most
certainly remember for their entire lives.
4. This lady was really sharp! It wasn’t until many years later that
I found other relatives had received a similar letter. Looking
closely at my copy I found that it was a very good mimeographed
letter. She was determined that one of us would continue the
Lazarus family history!
5.
6.
The comparisons in the illustration are merely representative of
the situation on the ground in the late 19th century and do not
reflect present-day events. As of January 1, 2008, metropolitan
France is divided into 22 regions, 96 departments, 330 arrondissements,
3,883 cantons and 36,569 communes. In addition, there
are 2,568 intercommunal structures grouping 33,549 communes.
To make matters more confusing to the non-Francophile, these
intercommunal structures can be sub-divided into 14 urban
communities, 165 agglomeration communities, 2,384 commune
communities and 5 syndicates of new agglomeration. (Wikipedia
contributors, “Administrative Divisions of France,” Wikipedia,
The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative
divisions of France (accessed August 11, 2008), and the
official Embassy of France website at www.ambafrance-us.org/
spip.phparticle502.)
Using the previous example searching the “Lazarus” surname,
you note that looking under Bas-Rhin (Department 67), there
are 204 actes available between 1611 and 1884. To the right of that
information is a “plus d’infos” link. Clicking on that link shows
a sign-in page and also shows below exactly how many actes are
available in total for each department. You are then linked to a
French site www genealogie.com where you can register for free.
Unfortunately for some, the site is in French only. You will not
see actual actes but rather transcriptions. You can also learn about
other genealogists (primarily French) who are researching your
surname. There is a charge for certain access. Like many pay-forservice
genealogy sites, the more specific you can be with your
request, the greater likelihood you will get a match.
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Germanic Research QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Using German
Parish Records
By Ga i l Bl a n k e n a u
A large number of Americans who engage in family
history research have at least one German ancestor.
For those with Pennsylvania German ancestry,
American records start mainly in the 1700s. Yet, the
largest group of Germans immigrated to the United
States from 1840 to 1900, so it doesn’t take long for
researchers to jump back to the “mother country.” For
these relatively recent groups, German parish records
can be a veritable gold mine for family historians.
Many of them are available on microfilm through
Family History Centers across the country.
As always in genealogy, the real-estate mantra “location,
location, location,” applies here. In the case
of my husband’s family, my mother-in-law supplied
the names of the ancestral villages using old funeral
cards that were in her possession.
I first used the familysearch.org database to find
out which churches might have been the home parish
for these people. For example, I knew that one
ancestor was Anton Lienen, and that he was from
Westphalia. The International Genealogical Index
(IGI) showed Anton Lienen, son of Friedr. Lienen and
Christina Siweke was christened 19 May 1871, as a
Roman Catholic, Roemisch-Katholisch, Stuken Brock,
Westfalen, Preussen. This matched the birthdate and
place that my mother-in-law had given me. I then
ordered the parish records for Stukenbrock parish
and the fun began.
Working in German
There is a limited vocabulary needed for research—
obviously words like “birth,” “marriage,” and “death.”
The further back you go, the more likely you are to encounter
Latin as well. With a dictionary, it is relatively
easy to figure out what the records say. A good list of
German genealogy-related words is on the familysearch.
org website under the tab “Research Guidance.”
The most difficult part of German research is reading
the handwriting and/or the quality of the microfilm.
Some recorders had a fine clear hand, and
others did not. The more recent records are in modern
script, but the further back you progress, you will
encounter the dreaded German script. A good chart
for interpreting German script can be found on the
Yale website: http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/fraktur.htm.
As with English records, you need to learn the idiosyncrasies
of the writer. Notice how the clerk wrote
the “E” or the “F” somewhere else on the page and
make yourself a note.
Always copy the siblings’ records as well—a
good practice for any genealogical problem. There
are sometimes little differences and usages that will
give you the clue to break through to the next generation.
Parents die, the widow remarries, all this
needs to be noted. For example, in one ancestral record,
the mother was Marg. Weimans, for the brother,
the mother was called Marg. Weggemans.
Instead of original parish records, many researchers
choose to order the “Kirchenbuch Duplikat.”
These are transcriptions of the records for a parish.
Obviously, this is easier to use, as someone else has
already done the hard work of reading the handwriting.
However, this is not considered as reliable.
Transcription errors happen. In addition, most of
these books stop around 1800 to 1815. To go back
further, you’ll need those original records after all.
You may want to use them in tandem, starting with
the easy-to-read Duplikat, then confirming the information
and working beyond them in the original
records.
The Research—A Case Study
Consider the birth and christening record for Anton
Lienen of Stukenbroeck parish in Westphalia, Germany.
At the top is the title, “Geborne und Getaufte
im Jahre 1871.” This means “Born and Baptized in the
year 1871”(See Figure 1). The facing page continues
the title, “im Monat,” meaning “in the month of,”
followed by the page number (See Figure 2).
On p. 151 of the births and baptisms, the record is
in columns. Column one is the Taufname—Christening
name. Next is the Tag (Day) and Stunde (hour)
of the (Geburt) Birth. Vor und Zunammen und Stand
des Vaters (first and last name and occupation of the
father).
On the facing page is the same information for the
mother (See Figure 2). “Wohnort” is the residence of
the parents, followed by the day of the christening
(which is usually one or two days after the birth).
Next, is the name of the Pastor and last is the name
of the godparents.
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Figure 1—From FHL Film 1185778, Stukenbrok Parish, Heiraten “Marriages,”
Tote “Deaths” 1817-1874; Taufen “Baptisms” 1847-1874, p. 151-a.
Figure 2—Facing Page—From FHL Film 1185778, Stukenbrok
Parish, Heiraten “Marriages,” Tote “Deaths” 1817-
1874; Taufen “Baptisms” 1847-1874, p. 151-b.
For record number 19, Anton Lienen, was born the
18th, father was Friedrich Lienen, the mother was
Christina Siweke and they lived in Stukenbrock.
Anton was christened the 19th, and the godparent
was Anton Stallbories. In the hundreds of records I
have copied, the name of one of the godparents was
almost invariably the name of the child. In addition,
the baptismal sponsors were uncles, aunts, or sometimes
grandparents. Thus, every piece of information
in these records is important.
I then looked in the marriage index and found
Anton’s father Friedrich Lienen right away. These
Germanic Research
marriage records are invaluable.
Not only does the register entry
provide the names of the bride
and groom, but also their ages
and their parents’ names. If your
ancestor married someone from
another parish, that parish will be
named. Because the parents’ names
for both the bridegroom and bride
are given, it’s tempting to skip their
christening record and go on. Don’t.
Residences do change slightly, and
even the first name they go by.
For the marriage record (Figures
3 & 4), the facing pages are split up
for easier reading. The left page of
the register starts with the first
and last name of the bridegroom,
or “Brautigam.” Next, you see the
name and residence of the father
“des Vaters.”
In this marriage record, (See
Figure 3) it shows that Friedrich
Lienen’s parents were Ferd. (short
for Ferdinand) Lienen and Angela
Brockschmid. We then see the
bridegroom’s age, which is helpful
in pinpointing the birth record
in the next round, especially when
you have multiple men or women
with the same name. Friedrich’s
age was 44. He was quite a bit
older than his bride, and I immediately
suspected a prior marriage
for Friedrich, which turned out to be correct.
Sometimes, as in this record, a clerk went back
and put in a death date. In the column for “Vor und
Zurnahmen der Braut,” first and last name of bride,
notice that Christina Siweke has a black cross underneath
followed by a date. Crosses indicate deaths in
these records.
The facing page starts with information about the
bride’s parents (See Figure 4). Christina’s father was a
Heuerling (lives with a farmer as a hired hand, possibly
has a garden plot), named Conrad Siweke and the
mother was Theres Stallbories. Christina’s age was 22,
Figure 3—From FHL Film 1185778, Stukenbrok Parish, Heiraten “Marriages,” Tote
“Deaths” 1817-1874; Taufen “Baptisms” 1847-1874 , Stukenbrok Parish, p. 80a.
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Figure 4—Facing Page—From FHL Film, 1185778, Stukenbrok Parish, Heiraten “Marriages,”
Tote “Deaths” 1817-1874; Taufen “Baptisms” 1847-1874 , Stukenbrok Parish, p. 80b.
and a note under that has 11/12/1840. This was
Christina Siweke’s birth date. This is not normally
included in the marriage record. From the handwriting,
it looks like this date was added later. The next
columns that start with “Ob” simply show whether
the parents were “einwillig” consenting, to the marriage.
Witnesses in the last column were Ferdinand
Lienen and Christian Ernst. At first, I wondered what
relative Christian Ernst was, and then noted that his
name was in all the columns, so he was either the
priest or the clerk for the church.
Because Friedrich was so much older than Christina,
I checked an earlier marriage record for a Joh.
Fried. Lienen I saw in the index, and confirmed that he
had a prior marriage to an Elizabeth Reineke. How do
I know it was the same man Remember the column
for the parents’ names. Again, the parents were Ferd.
Lienen and Ang. Brockschmid of Stukenbrock.
Notice that in one record he was Friedrich, and in
the other, Johann Friedrich. It is extremely common
for Germans to go by their middle names. This is
an important point to remember when combing the
indexes for possible records.
I used these parish records in the same way to
trace this family back to a Johann Cord Lienen born
about 1700, who married Elizabeth or Ilsabein Brechman
7 Sept 1721 in Stuckenbrock. You will find that
the earlier records are more difficult to read and don’t
always include the breadth of information given in
the above example.
A Cautionary Tale or What’s in a Name
I used the Lienen example because that family was
relatively easy and straightforward. The Lienen name
carried back unchanged, although with the variant
spelling of Linen.
On another line, I did the same thing, happily hopscotching
back generation to generation until I hit a
huge wall. It was as if the Blankenaufulland family
had dropped off the face of the earth in that area. I
had successfully documented the family back to a
Heinrich Blankenaufulland. By researching further
about genealogy in Westphalia, I found my answer.
Sometimes, the last names of the children followed
the mother’s birth name, if she brought a farm to the
marriage. Thus, it’s the name that goes with the farm
is more important. I’m told that in German there’s an
expression he “married the farm.”
I found the right christening record in the Verl parish
by looking at the females of that surname. The
record I found said that Heinrich Blankenaufulland
was Joannes Henrikus, son of Christophorus Blankenau
fulland also known as Christoph Joann Vor der
Bruggen and Anna Catharina Blankenau fulland.
The Godparent was Joannes Henrikus Joann Vor der
Bruggen. Thus, the paternal line’s last name changed to
Blankenaufulland from Joan Vor Der Brueggen in that
generation. My husband’s surname is that of a female
ancestor. 1
To ensure I had the right person, I then checked
Heinrich Blankenaufulland’s marriage record to
Catharina Pollmeier, and his parents were listed as
Christoph Joann Vor Bruggen, Colon (Farmer) Blankenau
fulland, and Catharina Blankenau fulland. 2
I then located the marriage record for Christopher
Joann Vor Der Brueggen and Anna Catharina Blankenauffulland,
which took place in 1809. It showed
that he was a widower of Elizabeth Sonneborn, and
that Anna Catherina Blankenaufulland was a widow
of Heinrich Hansmeyer. She was a Kolona (a person
with a hereditary right to the leasehold from the
Count). 3
Christopher must not have had a lot of property
of his own, because when his wife Catharina Blankenauffulland
died, he married again to an Oelgeschlager
and became Colon (Farmer) Oelgeschlager.
I found Christopher’s death record under Christoph
Joan vor der Bruggen, Kolon Oelgeschlager. 4
This has repercussions for those interested in Y-
DNA studies using German surnames, as male descendants
of the surname Blankenaufulland would
match some Blankenaufullands, but not all of them,
and Joann vor der Brueggens, but not all of them.
If Christoph had children with his last wife, males
might also match some Oelgeschlagers. A further
complication is we don’t know if the Joan Vor Der
Brueggen surname was that of Christoph’s father or
if it was his mother’s birth name. It depends who
brought the farm to the marriage.
Protestant Records
So far, the records I’ve discussed have been Catholic
(Katholisch) records. The Protestant or Evangelisch
or Lutheran records are also good. However, at least
in the Westphalian parishes I investigated, they were
not as complete as the Catholic ones.
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When Friedricke Beckord married Johann Heinrich
Ruschkamp in the Wiedenbrueck Catholic parish, it
shows that the parents of Friederike Beckord, were
Fritz Beckord and his wife Catharina. 5 Fritz Beckord
was employed as a Court Messenger “Kreisbote” in
Wiedenbrueck. I could not find her parents further
back in these records, nor could I find a christening
record for Friedricke. However, I found the christening
record for Friedricke’s brother Johann Reinhard
Beckord. His christening record stated the same parents,
and that indeed, the Fritz Beckord was a Kreisbote
or court runner. It also stated that the “Vater ist
Evangelisch!” So, I turned to the Evangelisch church
records for the town of Wiedenbrueck and found the
christening record for Friedricke, another sister, and
the records for her parents.
Kresibote Fritz Beckord’s 1797 christening record
in the Protestant records showed his father was
Niklaus Beckord. 6 I found Nicolaus Beckord marrying
a Marg. Els. Weimans on the 15th November
1794. 7 This record simply gave their names and the
date, without all the information on parents, residence,
occupation, etc. This makes it more difficult to
sort out who is who, and it’s again very important to
note to ensure your dates make sense, and keep track
of the sponsors. Because the Weimans and Weggemans
name appears on several other records for the
Beckord family, this marriage looks likely.
I then found a 1766 christening record for Nikolaus
Beckord—the right period to be married in the
1790s—and Nikolaus’s father was listed as Eberd
(which is short for Eberhard). This was in 1766. 8
Because these records don’t have as much information,
it’s a bit harder to follow. I found several christening
records that looked like siblings. I found a
marriage record for a Johann Eberd Beckord who
married Anna Margr. Elsabe Kleikamp in September
1764. These are probably Nikolas’s parents, but
without the mother’s name on the christening record,
I can’t be sure yet. Because Nicholas named his first
son Johann Evert Beckord, I do think this will turn
out to be the right couple (Evart is yet another variant
of Eberd or Eberhard).
What does all this mean for the researcher Eventually,
you will need to branch out to probate records,
civil registrations and other documents, including
farm histories (a record that shows a chain of land
ownership), to ensure that your parish research is
sound.
Still, you will do well in the German parish records,
which are relatively easy to use, although
hard to read. With the aid of a German and Latin
dictionary, you will go back to around 1800 with
relative ease. In many cases, you will reach the 1700s
with persistence and an open mind. In the parishes
I’ve researched, the earliest records (around 1800
and before) are not indexed and are extremely hard
to read. The absence of an index for these early records
makes it difficult to progress—although
you can make
educated guesses as to which
years to check. In sum, if you
know where your German ancestor
was from and if the parish
records have been filmed by the
LDS church, you will add many
generations to your family tree.
Endnotes
1 FHL 1185458, Katholische Kirche Verl, Taufen 1663-1765, 1783-
1788, 1801-1821.
2 FHL 1185459, Katholische Kirche Verl, Taufen 1820-1848 Heiraten
1826-1859 Tote 1822-1836.
3 FHL 1185458, Katholische Kirche Verl, Heiraten 1663-1726, 1801-
1826.
4 FHL 1185224, Katholische Kirche Neukaunitz, Heiraten 1820-1859
Tote 1820-1855 Taufen 1832-1844.
5 FHL 1185222, Katholische Kirche Sankt Aegidius, Wiedenbrueck,
Taufen 1830-1866 Heiraten 1843-1874 Tote.
6 FHL 582300, Evangelische Kirche, Guetersloh, Taufen 1791-1810
Tote, Trauungen 1802-1811, p. 100, record 90.
7 FHL 582299, Evangelische Kirche, Guetersloh, Taufen 1754-1791
Tote 1741-1801 Trauungen 1754-1801.
8 Ibid.
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The
Duffields
I became interested in genealogy in 2001, when my
great-uncle William Walker died at the age of 92. He
did not have any children and my mother went to
his home and grabbed the old photo albums. There
were three old albums. I knew who the people in one
of the albums were, but there were many people I
couldn’t identify.
I had always been interested in genealogy even
as a kid. I remember asking my grandmother about
genealogy in the 1970s and she told me about her
grandfather. I had always remembered his name as
Newton Duffield (1852-1921). She had told me he was
very loving and was always there for her. I knew that
my great-grandparents were William Walker (1871-
1944) and Gertrude Duffield (1883-1972). I could pick
out their photos and such. I began to look through
the photos and found that some of the photos were
identified, including some of Newton. I also had an
identified photo of his wife Elizabeth Ellen Curry
(1858-1898). I began to look online for information
and soon found the parents, grandparents and greatgrandparents
of both Newton
and Elizabeth. I would have to
verify the information, but I
definitely had a start and was
getting hooked. I didn’t think it
would become a passion.
I posted some photos on the
USGENWEB website of the
Duffield Family on the Pocahontas
County website. There
were a couple photographs
that I decided were key photographs.
There was a photo
taken of Newton and his children
between 1899 and 1904 in
front of their home. There was
also a photo of a large group
standing in front of a “sugar
camp.” My great-grandmother
and some of her siblings were
identified. I wanted to know
who all the adults were. I knew
that John R. Duffield could not
By Cr a i g Sc h u l z
The Newton Duffield family in front of their home
in Pocahontas County—taken about 1900. This
was also the home of Newton’s grandfather
Abram who fought in the Revolutionary War.
be in the photo since my great-grandmother looked
about age 10-12 dating the photo 1893-1896. I could
pick out Newton and Elizabeth and some of their
children. The next day I received an e-mail from a
woman in Pocahontas County stating that he had
a letter written by Newton’s mother Rebecca Sharp
Duffield. She asked whether I would like a copy. I, of
course, answered yes and received a copy a couple
days later. This gave me more insight into the family.
The letter let me know that Hamilton, Sarah Jane,
and McKendrey had gone to the West. The letter also
made it clear that Hamilton Duffield was fighting in
the Civil War.
The Duffield sugar camp in Pocahontas County, WV about 1893. The adults, left
to right starting with the old woman in the hat are: Rebecca Sharp Duffield (1814-
1894), Nancy Duffield Ratliff (1857-1940), Newton Duffield (1852-1921), Elizabeth
Curry Duffield (1858-1898) and John Marcellus Ratliff (1845-1893). The man
kneeling in front is thought to be Civil War veteran Henry Duffield (1841-1903).
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Early on, I posted some queries
about the Duffield family. I
found out that there was a book
written in 1901 about the history
of Pocahontas County. In this
book, Abram Duffield (Newton’s
Revolutionary War veteran grandfather)
and John R. Duffield were
discussed. The book stated that
Newton’s parents were John R.
Duffield (1801-1885) and Rebecca
Sharp (1814-1894), who lived in
Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
The children of John R. and
Rebecca were: Hamilton (1837-
after 1860), Sarah Jane Duffield
Moore (1839-1879), Henry Wesley
(1842-1903), Andrew (1844-1846), Robert McKendrey
(1847-1922), John Emory (1849-1916), Newton (1852-
1921) and Nancy Ellen Duffield Ratliff (1857-1943).
I also learned from this book that Newton lived in
the home that Abram had lived in. Wow, my Newton
Duffield family photo had picked up historical significance.
Not only had my 2nd-great grandfathers
lived there, my 4th-great grandfather, who was a
Revolutionary War veteran, had lived there.
I was soon contacted by a man in Colorado who
saw one of my postings (I live in Ohio). He was a
great-grandson of McKendrey Duffield. He knew
about the life and times of their great-grandfather
Robert McKendrey Duffield and his brother John
Emory Duffield and sent me some information. I
sent them information about Newton and his family.
They told me that they were going to make a trip
to Pocahontas County. I decided
to meet them there. Over the past
couple years we have met there
three times. We have found many
historical findings. We have found
where the home in the photograph
stood and we know where the
sugar camp stood. We also have
found the trace in the creek where
John R. Duffield’s grist mill stood.
Parts of the mill were moved to
Babcock State Park in West Virginia
and still stand. The church
(built 1835) and school (built in the
1860s) these people used are still
standing today. They contacted
some of their relatives and found
a young photo of Robert McKendrey.
It turns out that he died a
terrible death getting run over by
his stagecoach, crushing his skull.
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I also found out that Robert used
his brother John as his banker.
When John died, Robert took all
his money out of the bank and
buried it on his land. This money
was wiped away in a flood.
I found a website for John Leslie
Moore a couple of years ago. He
was a great-grandson of Sarah Jane
Duffield Moore and had a photo of
her. He told me that he also had a
photo of John Emory Duffield. It
took me some time to get a copy
of this photo. John died a couple
of years ago and his son sent me
McKendrey Duffield a copy of the photo. John Leslie
Moore told me that his family had
passed down information that Hamilton Duffield
had died of fever in Kansas in the 1860s.
Next, I was contacted by a great-great-granddaughter
of Nancy Ellen Duffield Ratliff. This person
had a good deal of family information and had two
photos of her (young and old). I knew that Nancy
had come to Ohio with Newton in 1918. They were
two of the three that stayed in West Virginia into the
20th century, the other being Henry Wesley Duffield.
The young photo of Nancy helped to identify one of
the adults in the “sugar camp” photo. I knew that her
husband, John Marcellus Ratliff, died in late 1893.
Family information stated he was very tall. Perhaps
he was the tall man in the “sugar camp” photo. This
person had a crucial piece of paper in their belongings
stating birth and death dates of many members
of the John R. Duffield family. It gave me several
Sarah Jane Duffield (1839-1879)
John Emory Duffield
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Andrew, son of Abram Duffield
(Revolutionary War Veteran). I’m
not sure if it is a post-mortem.
pieces of data that I didn’t have including Rebecca’s
birth and death date, birth and death dates for Andrew
Duffield, the middle name of Newton, and
the birth date of Hamilton Duffield. Andrew Duffield
was written about in the history of Pocahontas
County. His death is chronicled by his strangling
in a crupper, as his mother sat nearby. I was sure
that Nancy Ellen had to write this piece of paper, as
only she would have known the information stated
in it.
Next, I sent away for the Civil War records of
Henry Wesley Duffield. This information gave me
information about Henry, including the fact that he
had been hurt by a boulder while building a well.
The bone was never set correctly and it led to problems
throughout his life. I did learn that he died
in 1903 in Pocahontas County. This led me to the
fact that Henry, Newton, and Nancy were the only
children of John R. Duffield that could have been
in the “sugar camp” photo. Hamilton, Andrew, and
Sarah Jane were dead by the 1890s. John Emory was
living in Iowa and Robert McKendrey was living in
Colorado.
I knew the “sugar camp” photo had Newton,
Elizabeth, and Nancy Ellen. I was going to have to
make assumptions that I will never be able to prove.
I knew that Nancy’s husband died in 1893 and knew
he was tall. I assumed that the tall man was John
Marcellus Ratliff. I figured that the old lady in the
hat could indeed be Rebecca Sharp Duffield. I knew
she lived until November, 1894. This person was
definitely an older woman (at least one generation
Nancy Ellen Duffield
Ratliff (1857-1940)
older than everyone else in the
photo). The only other adult was
the man in the front. I knew that in
the 1890s Henry Wesley Duffield
was mostly crippled. Maybe that
is why this man is not standing. If
this was a family photo (most of
Newton’s and Nancy Ellen’s children
are in the photo), then Henry
Wesley would have been in the
photo. This is another point that
cannot be proven, but I think the
odds are greater than 50 percent
that it is him.
At this point, I didn’t think
that any other photos could be located.
I received an e-mail from a
man stating he was a descendant
of Andrew Duffield (1803-1883),
a brother of John R. Duffield. A
photo of Andrew was attached.
I cannot tell if it was taken while
Andrew was alive or if the photo
was a post-mortem. I did know that Andrew was one
of three children. His brother, William, had died in
1842 when a tree fell on him.
The family story does not end there. I had always
wondered about the death of Abram Duffield. I
knew from his Revolutionary War pension that he
was born in 1763. The Internet stated that he died
in 1835 when his federal pension ended. I never believed
this. In 1835, Abram moved from Nicholas
County, Virginia to Pocahontas County. I think that
the government could not find him and assumed
he had died and ended his pension. There is more
evidence to support this. Abram was listed on the
tax records in Pocahontas County from 1835 to 1840.
He is also listed in the 1840 census in Pocahontas
County. There is no way that he could have died
in 1835. As I said earlier, the history of Pocahontas
County talks about a sermon given at Abram’s home
when the author was a child. The author of the book
was born in 1830 and would have only had been
five when Abram died, if he had died in 1835. I did
not think anyone could remember an entire sermon
from when they were five years old.
The home in the Newton Duffield family photo
was burned down in the 1930s. However, the location
is known. This home was only about 100 yards
from the Duffield family cemetery. When the WPA
did an inventory of the cemetery during the FDR
administration, there was a stone standing that read
A. D. 11/13/1842.
This is the earliest stone in the inventory of the
cemetery at that time. The stone is not standing now.
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John R. (1801-1885) and Rebecca
Sharp Duffield (1815-1894)
It has been surmised that since Abram’s home stood
so close to the cemetery and the rest of his family is
buried there, that this stone stands for Abram Duffield
11/13/1842. We know he was alive in 1840. This
was brought to the attention of the Sons of the American
Revolution. In June of 2008, there was a Revolutionary
War ceremony for Abraham Duffield (father
of John R. and grandfather of the rest of the people in
the story) in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Since
I knew many people from around the country were
coming in from around the country, I wrote a letter
to a family member I always believed had possible
family photos of John R. Duffield (1801-1885) and his
wife Rebecca Sharp Duffield (1815-1894). I had been
trying to meet with her for about four years to no
avail. Her great-grandmother (Nancy Ellen Duffield
Ratliff) was living with Rebecca when she died in
1894, so I figured anything that Rebecca had would
have gone to her when she died. Nancy Ellen died
in Warren County, Ohio in 1940 and only had three
living children at that time, a son in Pennsylvania
and two sons living in the county where Nancy Ellen
lived. One of those sons, Clinton, did not have
any children so I ruled him out. The other son, Celvin,
had two children (one who died with no children)
and the other was the mother of the person I
A photo of a young Rebecca
(possibly her wedding photo from 1835).
contacted. This woman’s mother died after a couple
of years living with her, so I figured she might have
some family items.
A week after writing the letter and a week before
the ceremony in West Virginia, I again called the
woman and she agreed to meet if I showed up at her
work. I agreed and went to meet her. She hugged
me and took me out to her car. She told me I could
have the photos since I was family and would care
about them more than she did and I was more than
happy to oblige. Many of the photos were turn of
the century photos. There were three prominent
hand-drawn 16” x 20” photos. One I quickly recognized
as a young Nancy Ellen in the 1870s. The
second and third I believe are her parents, John
R. (1801-1885) and Rebecca Sharp Duffield (1815-
1894), who I had always dreamed of their photos. I
took copies of the photos to the ceremony in West
Virginia the very next week for all the relatives. It
was a wonderful ceremony. After all these years, we
finally obtained photos of John and Rebecca and it
was the same week as the ceremony. Coincidence,
I think not!
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Honey’s Mishap
Esther Luek with Honey
By Ka g a n Ho f f m a n
T
There on Greensprings Avenue,
In a house not quite new,
Lived a girl of five,
Whose poor rag doll took a dive.
It was a day
That bullies came to play.
They took her doll
And ran away.
To the outhouse
Is where they ran.
The little rag doll
Tight in their hand.
Into the waste they threw her so fast.
The little girl cried
While they stood and laughed.
Into the house she ran for her mom
Who tried to keep the little girl calm.
Out she came with a great big stick
And she fished the rag doll out of the pit.
Kagan Hoffman is 13 years old and completed this poem
as an English assignment in 8th grade at New Windsor
Middle School, New Windsor, Maryland. He enjoys
lacrosse and video games. His mother, a family historian,
has gotten him interested in his family roots as well.
Into the wash water
The little doll went
And so far away the bullies were sent.
My great grandma didn’t think it was funny
What those bullies did to Honey.
She told this story until she was eighty-nine.
Now with this poem, I’ve made it rhyme.
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A Visit to England
By Ru t h Kn u d s o n
Stumbling up the depot steps of my first British town,
and bewildered at being hustled out of there because
the letter “r” pronounced me a foreigner (probably
Irish!), possibly concealing in all that untidy luggage a
hostile bomb, I first visited this land of my forefathers
in May of 1976. Sixty-one years old, five foot two, with
gray eyes and hair, I was ready to rent a small car,
then explore obscure spots from which ancestors had
sent Lesans, Thompsons, and Winslows—as well as
those named Allen, Andrews, Chilton, Dunlop, Grey,
Houghton, Mason, Morse, Packard, Potter, Taylor,
Van Swearingen, and Webster, to America.
Night was falling. Taxis waited. One young man
smiled a welcome at me and began carefully packing
the bags into his vehicle. His mother helped me register
at the hotel where she clerked. His father had written
a genealogical history of their town. Tomorrow
this young man would drive me up to Samlesbury,
home of the Southworths and a Houghton bride.
In 1623, Edward Southworth’s widow was about
to sail to Plymouth, Massachusetts, to wed her old
sweetheart, William Bradford. Fifteen years before,
her father, Alexander Carpenter of Wrington, Somerset,
had refused to let her marry the awkward young
Bradford; after all, Alice’s ancestors had been members
of Parliament for three centuries, back when
taxes were levied to hold off Robert Bruce! And there
was a great-uncle who was still called the most famous
town clerk of London…
Alice left her little boys with her spinster sister
in Somerset and met William,
now governor of Plymouth,
with delight.
I had flown from Chicago
over Ontario, enjoying follow
passengers whose speech had
the same Yorkshire ring as I hear
in the greetings of many Iowa
neighbors with British grandfathers.
We flew south. Someone
pointed out, beyond Lamish
Bay, the crumbling walls where
my Hamilton ancestors once
lived. Around here, my teenage
“pirate” ancestor, Allan
Dunlop, had gathered up the
wild pals that helped him kidnap
the crew of the Perundiall,
dump them along the coast, and
go skylarking around the Isle of Arran, gulping down
the contents of the ship’s wine bunkers. Then they
gave the ship back to its chilled crew. Allan married
a Montgomery and moved on to more excitement in
the furious Irish uprisings; his son died in Sligo and
now we are tracing our Irish ancestors.
From Banbury Cross, where all the Sunday bells
were pealing, which in my day had to suffer bombing
so that Winston Churchill’s breaking of the German
Codes could be kept secret, where in ancient times
some VIP’s wife rode naked through the streets as
told in nursery rhymes, I asked the way to Sulgrave
and went hunting Leeson land.
I found the parchment, a deed drawn up in 1610,
generations after the manor foundation had disappeared,
but before the landlords razed their English
village of 30 houses to enter the booming market
with a sheep pasture. There the Thames and Tims
families still mourned for old neighbors turned penniless
onto the road. They asked me back to tea and
listened to what happened to a few refugees who
made their way to America.
Elington Manor, long owned by the Stoteburys,
was by 1610 the home of the last Stotesbury and her
husband, Robert Leeson. The long-forgotten castle
of the Elingtons must have disintegrated in Norman
times. The parchment deed I found surrendered land
to Lawrence Makepeace. His grandmother was Mrs.
Lawrence Washington. Sulgrave Manor is now maintained
by the Colonial Dames of America.
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Ancesto Sto ies for the Soul STORIES FROM FAMILY HISTORY WORK
The Quest
For John
Summers
By Pet e r Su m m e r s
There he was, staring out of the photograph at me…
so formal, stiff, posed, and proud in his blue uniform
of the Union Army. I was looking at John Summers,
my great-granduncle, born in 1844 and killed on 22
May 1863 at the battle of Vicksburg.
Many of us have ancestors who fought in the Civil
War, so I am certainly not unique in that. But like all
events in genealogy, it seems, when you find one of
YOUR ancestors who was involved in that event, it
is special regardless of how many others have, over
time, made similar discoveries.
The Civil War was a textbook event for me: a
“head” event rather than a “gut” event, an intellectual
event rather than an emotional one. I had read
about it, studied it even, in school, but never really
felt personally connected to it. That is, until I discovered
John, my very first ancestor who fought and died
in it. That discovery started me on a years-long quest
to gather information about him and fill in missing
facts. I certainly am mindful that the “discoveries” I
made during my search were monumental as far as
I was concerned, but no more significant or validating
than those many of you have experienced if you
have undertaken similar and ultimately successful
searches. Written here are parts of my adventure I
would like to share with you, parts of which may
even be helpful if you are on a similar quest. This is
how mine went.
How It Started
In the mid-1970s I inherited a box of “stuff” that
my aunt had collected, which included photos and
family notes. Nestled in those was some sketchy information
about John Summers, who, according to
family lore, was killed during the Civil War. I was
not especially interested in genealogy then; in fact
the subject had not even seriously crossed my mind.
I kept the box, but paid little attention to it. I was in
the military at the time and moved frequently. I saw
that box only when I moved and had to account for
it in my household goods.
But regardless of my inattention to family history
then, I like to believe that the few scraps of information
I had about John and his death during that
defining period in our history was what ultimately
brought about my interest in genealogy in general
and in my ancestors in particular.
How It Continued (the Early Years)
It was several years before I dove into the box of
“stuff” to explore John. I was able to discern that he
lived in Wisconsin just before the War (thanks to Census
documents), and that he did not show up again
in the Census after the War. This led credence to the
belief that he was, indeed, killed during the War.
My sister about this time, now early 2001, discovered
she had a picture of John. She sent it to me, and
there he was, looking out at me and appearing as I
have described above. The existence of a photograph
raised my interest and curiosity considerably. My
sister also sent me some information a genealogist
friend of hers found that identified his unit, and on
a parallel track, I got the same information independently
from a publication titled Roster of Wisconsin
Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. That source
also said “killed in action, May 22, ’63, Vicksburg,
Miss.” And another source told me he enlisted as a
private on 20 January 1862 in Company A of the 14th
Infantry Regiment. I also saw where he had been in
seven engagements counting the one in which he
was killed.
The more information I got, the more interested
I became. And, although a tenuous link, I had seen
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combat as an infantryman, as had John. I felt a bond
forming between us as so often occurs between soldiers.
Corny as it may sound, it was very real to me.
And this is the point at which I thought the information
stopped. I assumed that he became one of the
approximately 300,000 Civil War dead whose bodies
were placed in various national cemeteries after the
War, 54 percent of which are listed as “Unknown.” I
assumed that John was one of these Unknowns.
How It Continued (the Later Years)
Time passed and then it was late in 2003. I was attending
a computer special interest group (called a
“SIG” by those in the computer world). This particular
group focused on using the Internet for genealogy.
The leader proved himself as helpful as he was
knowledgeable. When I mentioned my ancestor John
and Vicksburg, he set off to find if he was buried
there. We discovered that some cemeteries are administered
by Veteran’s Affairs, and some fall under the
National Park Service. The latter has responsibility
for the National Cemetery at Vicksburg because the
site is classified as a National Military Park.
After some searching around on the Internet, we
found the information we were looking for: a grave
number for John. I was flabbergasted! There was yet
more to the quest than I had imagined! And little did
I know at that time how exceptional it was for the
specific location of John’s grave to be known. That
was truly the exception rather than the rule at Vicksburg.
I vowed to go there.
How it Ended (Vicksburg)
It was now the summer of the next year, 2004. My
wife and I were taking a trip
through the Midwest and on the
way back home to Florida made
good on my vow: we stopped at
Vicksburg with the intent of finding
John’s grave.
A short history of the battle of
Vicksburg may be of value here.
It was a siege, actually, that lasted
47 days (from late May to early
July of 1863), and was punctuated
with nearly constant fights and
skirmishes between the Union
and Rebel forces. Based on John’s
date of death, it was one of these
Union assaults during which he
was killed.
The Military Park itself surrounds
the city of Vicksburg,
much as the Union forces did in
the summer of 1863. One end of
the park is anchored on the Mississippi River south
of the city. It runs east and north in almost a perfect
semicircle to terminate at the river north of the city.
A one-way road follows the outside of that semicircle
from south to north past the location of the Union
forces, and then doubles back concentrically on the
inside of the semicircle to trace the locations of the
Confederate forces.
The terrain is rough, following high bluffs above
the city, and is cut by severe gorges caused by drainage
to the river below. That terrain is cut again by the
remnants of trenches and barriers erected for protection,
assault, and defense. To the casual observer
the ground today is simply rough and wooded and
beautiful; to the person with some military experience,
the importance of terrain to tactics and strategy
is undeniable. One can see why the siege lasted as
long as it did; how the ground favors defense; how
the Union troops had to fight the rugged terrain as
well as the Confederate defenders.
A tape is available to guide the visitor along the
park road and explain the events that occurred there.
Should you visit the battlefield, I highly recommend
the tape. It takes you beyond the simple but undeniable
beauty of the park to the human struggle that
took place. It makes the ground “come alive” as it
describes various clashes and feats of heroism and
futility alike.
Each state with sons who fought there has erected
a monument to them. There are large state monuments,
some actually entire buildings, as well as
smaller markers to show where individual units
were located in the line. All told, there are over 1300
historic monuments and markers.
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Of course I was on the lookout for the Wisconsin
monument and the marker for John’s unit. And
there they were! The Wisconsin monument was huge,
towering hundreds of feet high, and it listed all of
the soldiers in all of the units from that state who
fought there. John’s name was among them, listed
with Company A of the 14th Infantry Regiment.
I can recall, even now, the eerie feeling I had
as I looked at his name there among those of his
comrades. The quest that began at some low level
of interest nearly 30 years prior was now building
to a crescendo that caused me to feel excited, nervous,
and also filled with awe and respect. Seeing
his name there caused me to feel connected to that
historic place and time in a way I never thought
possible.
One half mile further on I found the marker that
represented his unit’s place in the Union line. It was
approximately here, in an assault on 22 May 1863,
that my great-granduncle was killed.
How it Ended (The Cemetery)
The National Cemetery is at the northern end of the
park on a high bluff overlooking the river, and at the
place where the park road leaves the Union lines and
doubles back to follow the Confederate positions. It is
a large, tiered plot of ground that covers 116 acres.
To appreciate the cemetery, one has to know some
of its history. It is the final resting place of some
17,000 Union soldiers. This is the largest number of
Union burials among all of the national cemeteries.
(The Confederate dead are buried in cemeteries in the
city itself, or removed to other locations closer to the
soldier’s homes.) The Cemetery was not established
and made available for burials until 1866, three years
after the action at Vicksburg. All during the Civil War,
hasty burials were made near the places where battles
were fought. At the end of the War, those soldiers
were re-interred at national cemeteries.
Most of the soldiers buried at Vicksburg came
from temporary burial sites in Arkansas, Louisiana,
and Mississippi. Record keeping was not at its best
during wartime and grave locations were often lost,
and compounding that, the identities of those whose
bodies were fortunate enough to be recovered were
also often lost. In the south during the campaign
for control of the Mississippi River there was even
a further compounding problem: the River would
periodically overflow its banks and wash the hastily
dug graves away. It was often simply unidentified
piles of bones that were collected and buried at the
national cemetery.
At Vicksburg, 75 percent of the dead are unidentified:
almost 13,000 graves. I was suddenly very
thankful for the twists of fate that caused John’s
grave to be among the known. Those that are unknown
are marked with small rectangular blocks
of stone while the graves of those whose name is
known have traditional tablet-like headstones. It is
tremendously sobering to look over the cemetery
and see so few headstones. I could only imagine the
anguish of the families of those fallen soldiers, families
who never had the closure brought by burying
their loved ones, or of even knowing for sure where
their graves were located.
But John was among the known dead. This was
probably due to the fact that he was killed at Vicksburg
itself, ground controlled by a Union victory,
and ground high above the river and thus protected
from it.
The rangers at the visitor’s center were helpful
in locating his grave. I had the number on the
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headstone from the Internet searches, and they had
its general location on a map. It took only about 15
minutes of wandering the appropriate portion of the
cemetery to find the marker. His grave was one of
the few in that part of the cemetery that actually had
a tablet headstone; most of those around him were
the small, square blocks of the unknowns.
The marker was a simple one: it stated just his
name and his state. But I was satisfied. I was so
happy to have found his grave that I was not concerned
about what the headstone did or did not say.
As far as I know, I was the only member of his family,
extended or otherwise, to have visited his grave. I
felt tremendous satisfaction standing there, satisfaction
in ending a quest that was, for me, 30 years in
the making, and for John a full 140 years. I felt the
satisfaction of connecting with my family in general
and John in particular; I felt the satisfaction of
a soldier connecting with another soldier who had
made the ultimate sacrifice. And I also felt satisfaction
at making a personal connection to one of the
defining periods and events in our nation’s history.
The Civil War was now more real to me than ever
before: it had moved from my head to my gut, from
my mind to my heart.
Afterthought
My interest in the genealogical world has grown over
the years that this search for John was conducted.
My database of ancestors and offspring has grown to
just short of 8000 names. My list of research contacts,
many of whom I now count as family, and even more
I now number as friends, has also grown, to my great
joy. And at the heart of it all, at its center, is this one
quest…is my great-granduncle… John Summers.
Peter Summers is a graduate
of West Point (Class of 1967)
and after more than 20 years
in the Service, is currently
teaching at the University of
South Florida in Tampa. He also
teaches many genealogy- and
computer-related classes, and
was recently honored by being
elected the president of the Pinellas
Genealogy Society of Pinellas County, Florida. He
has been working on his genealogy since 1972.
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Breaking Through SUCCESS STORIES WITH "BRICK WALL" SOLUTIONS
The Man Who
Would be Found
By Na n c y Ro n n i ng
It was about a week after he died in 1969, that I went
to my father’s apartment in Brooklyn, New York to
clear out his things. Because of a family situation I
really didn’t know him very well, and I knew little
about his family, except that his mother’s family had
come from Kildare in Ireland, and that her maiden
name was Kelly. But there, in that top, right hand
drawer of his chest on chest dresser, I found two
things. I found a ladies’ pocket watch, and the Civil
War discharge of Anson Kelly, private in the 17th
New York Regiment, born in Dublin, Ireland. Anson
Kelly was my father’s mother’s father—my greatgrandfather.
Life intervened. I married, had children, they grew
up and I grew older. Anson Kelly remained in the
background until a high school assignment brought
a question from my elder daughter. “I have to write
about an ancestor for History class,” she said. The
paper was due at the end of the semester. I quickly
wrote to the National Archives for Anson Kelly’s
military records and found that he had enlisted in
New York as a drummer boy after being rejected
in New Jersey “on account of my youth.” He fought
in the stalled Peninsular Campaign, and was shipped
to David’s Island to recuperate from illness due to
exposure during the long rain filled days and nights
on the muddy ground of tidal Virginia. The paper
got an A-, and more years passed. Anson Kelly was
shelved, if not forgotten.
When my daughter and her sister were both in
college and I was left with only the family dog, Anson
Kelly surfaced in my consciousness. Perhaps he
wanted to be found!
I began to look into genealogy, took a beginner’s
course, and joined the NYG&B. I found Anson Kelly
in the census at the New York Public Library (no Ancestry
at that time) and at NARA in New York City.
I am ashamed to admit it, but it was at that time that
I really read and reread every word of the pension
file, and finally, in 1998, sent to Trenton, New Jersey
for Anson’s death certificate. His cause of death was
blocked out (as per New Jersey regulations), but his
place of burial in Camden, New Jersey, was clearly
listed as Saint Patrick’s Cemetery.
By now, it was the age of the Internet, and I looked
for Saint Patrick’s Cemetery on the net. Nothing! How
Anson Kelly’s Civil War Service Discharge
could a cemetery in a major city be missing I joined
a New Jersey listserve and repeatedly asked for the
location of Saint Patrick’s. Nothing. Until one day I
received a response that explained that Saint Patrick’s
originally had been located behind the Cathedral in
Camden, but in order to make room for a new building,
all the bodies were moved to Calvary Cemetery
in Cherry Hill.
In the best tradition of the “Genealogy Road Trip,”
I packed the camera and headed for Cherry Hill. The
woman in the cemetery office was very kind, but
“No, there is no record of an Anson Kelly.” Unwilling
to get right back in the car, I roamed around for
a while and was about to leave when two cemetery
workers passed by and asked what I was looking for.
When I replied that I was looking for Anson Kelly,
but he was not buried there, one of them replied,
“Sure he is. I put a flag on his grave every Memorial
Day. The VFW people won’t do it because the Civil
War wasn’t a foreign war. But I don’t think that’s
right, so I do it.” I was amazed. How did he know
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Anson Kelly’s headstone
so much about Anson Kelly He led me to a beautiful
headstone, engraved with shamrocks and bearing
the regiment number and the names of children
buried with him.
How could this not have been in the records
The worker said that he had some old books from
the transported graves, and we checked, but Anson
Kelly’s name was not in that book either. There is
absolutely no record of Anson in any cemetery. And
I found him. Perhaps he wanted to be found.
From his pension record and census I really knew
a great deal about Anson Kelly—his children’s
names, his many ailments, his widow’s petitions.
The New Jersey Historical Society provided sparse
obituaries from the Camden Telegraph and the Review.
Both gave the date, his address, and said “suddenly.”
It was time to move on, and I moved my investigations
to his ancestors from Kildare. I was pretty
much finished with Anson—or so I thought. That
changed one day in 2007 when the Reference Librarian
from the Ridgewood Public Library announced
at the monthly meeting of the GSBC that she had a
trial subscription to NewsBank, a database that has
backfiles of many newspapers.
I sat down and typed in “Anson Kelly,” a great
name for searches because it is so unusual. Up
popped two hits, both from February 2, 1898, with
headlines which began “Smothered in Mud “(The
Philadelphia Inquirer), and “Found Suffocated in
Anson Kelly’s death—from The Philadelphia Inquirer
newspaper. From Early American Newspapers,
an Archive of Americana Collection,
published by Readex (Readex.com) a division of
Newsbank, and in cooperation with the American
Antiquarian Society. Used by Permission.
Mud” (Daily State Gazette). The long headlines of The
Inquirer continued “Sick Man Met Death in a Camden
Swamp” followed by “Anson H. Kelly Wandered
From Home While Suffering From Grip. Dog Found
the Body.” A man walking his dog reported that the
dog had run off and returned with a man’s hat in
his mouth. Upon investigation the man found the
body of Anson Kelly, face down in the mud. “Suddenly!”
The article described Kelly as a night shift
employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad whose job
was to supervise the floats used in transporting
freight cars between Camden and Philadelphia. Poor
soul! Amazing that the dog found him! Amazing
that I found this when I had thought my newspaper
research finished with his obituary. Perhaps he just
wanted to be found.
Once again, I was finished with my Anson Kelly
research, and headed off on a TIARA trip to Dublin
to research his ancestors. I was in the National
1969 Discharge Found
1991 Military Records Requested
1998 Death Certificate Requested
2000 Gravestone Located
2007 Cause of Death Discovered
2008 Baptismal Certificate Discovered
2008 Twin’s Existence Revealed
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Archives of Ireland, and having no luck finding
any of the wills that appeared so tantalizingly in
indexes, so I waited my turn and had a consultation
with one of the wonderful Irish Genealogy experts
who are there for all the patrons. She was so
kind. She did a quick family tree, and I mentioned
Anson’s name as my direct link with the Kellys of
Kildare. She assured me that there were no wills
left, and I thanked her, and returned to the main
room. Not five minutes later she appeared behind
me, exclaiming that she had found Anson’s Baptismal
certificate. We rushed back to her office, and she
showed me the entry in Irish Origins. She couldn’t
pull up the entire entry, but if I went online and paid
five Euro, I could get it. I just about ran across town,
headed to the hotel basement, put my two Euros into
the slot for my minutes of computer use, my credit
card number into Irish Origins, and there it was
“Baptized on September 20, 1844… twin brother of
Thomas Gifford.” Twin Twin! Thirty-nine years after
I found his discharge, I found his Baptismal certificate
and his twin brother. Anson really wanted
to be found.
There is one last odd thing about the revealing
of Anson Kelly. Recalling the blank in the “cause of
Death” space on the New Jersey death certificate,
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in Trenton, I got the index for Camden, for
1898, and confidently scrolled to where Anson’s certificate
number must be. Nothing! “Can’t be. It must
be here!” Nothing! I checked the year before and
the year after. Nothing! I approached the research
assistant, told her that I must be ‘microfilm mad,’
and asked her to find the certificate in the index. She
could not. This made no sense. I had a copy of the
certificate at home. I had gotten it by mail from Trenton
seven years before. This was getting surreal.
Determined, I abandoned the index, went to the
drawer, and pulled the reel of certificates where I
hoped Anson’s might be, and started going through
them, one by one. It didn’t take long. There it was.
Cause of death, exposure. I again called my helpful
assistant to show her what I had found. She was
amazed, rechecked the index, and found nothing.
How the original researcher ever found it remains a
mystery. He or she must have gone beyond the index
and searched the same way that I did. How wonderful
and diligent a public servant! Without that certificate
I would never have known the name of the first,
long gone cemetery, and so the second, etc. Perhaps
the lesson in all of this is that indexes are imperfect;
perhaps it is that the books should never be closed;
perhaps that vital records don’t tell the whole story.
Or perhaps it says that Anson Kelly was just a man
who would be found. I wonder if twin Thomas Gifford
Kelly is also such a man.
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Society High ight SOCIETIES IN THE NEWS
O
Saving
Elmwood
Cemetery
By Cu r t i s Wo l b e r t
On 4 October 2008, six members of the Otoe County
Genealogical Society met at the Elmwood Cemetery
in Nebraska City, Nebraska to try and save what remained
of the 152 year-old cemetery. The cemetery,
once a burial ground for some of Nebraska City’s
founding settlers, is now all but forgotten, except for
the one lone gravestone that remains standing on the
remote hill in the northwest part of town.
The cemetery, started in 1856 with the burial
of William J. Anderson, a child who died some 18
months before the founding of Nebraska City, fell
victim to Nebraska’s growth and prosperity in the
late 1880s. In 1886, the southern half of the cemetery
lay in the path of the Missouri Pacific railroad’s rightof-way,
and those bodies that lay in the path were
exhumed and relocated to Wyuka Cemetery in Nebraska
City. The bodies buried to the north of the
tracks were left in place, soon to be forgotten by the
town they helped establish.
Discovered back in June by Otoe County Genealogical
Society president, Curtis Wolbert, and vice
president, Linda Worrall, they found that the only
stone left standing in this abandoned cemetery was
that of Joseph M. Tolle, buried there in 1883. All of
the other stones had either fallen over, were buried
below the fertile soil, or were shattered by years of
neglect. Given the fact that the cemetery holds some
of Otoe County’s and Nebraska City’s founding settlers,
made it imperative that the society restore and
preserve what remained of this historical cemetery.
Society members Curtis Wolbert, Linda Worrall,
Linda Sedlacek, Kay Busekist, Duane Arends, and
Cyndi Wolbert, began work on the cemetery in the
early morning hours, clearing out the tall grass that
had literally swallowed up the fallen gravestones
there. Armed with pitchforks and shovels, the members
then began searching for fallen stones, and any
clue that might assist them in locating where these
‘forgotten settlers’ might have been laid to rest.
Society members were ultimately able to locate
and re-erect the gravestone of Elizabeth Snowden,
33 year-old mother, buried beside her two infant
Cleaning Up Elmwood Cemetery, Nebraska City, Nebraska
children, Maggie Belle; age one year, and her tenday
old son, Ensign. The fallen stone of 8-month old
Samuel F. Tolle, son of J.W. Tolle, was also located and
re-erected in its rightful place, beside his father, J.W.
Tolle. In addition, the gravestone of Union Civil War
veteran, William T. Hughs, killed in action on 25 January
1863, was found buried some two inches below
the fertile farm soil. Hughs’ stone, though cracked in
several places, was preserved by the members and
will be erected at a later date. The area around the
cemetery was roped off to try and preserve the abandoned
cemetery.
Future efforts by the society will include a fund
drive to try and erect a chain-link fence and gate
around the cemetery, and also repair the gravestones
that have broken throughout the years. The society
will also be contacting the Sons of the Union Veterans
of the Civil War (SUVCW) and Department of Veteran
Affairs to try and obtain a GAR marker for Hughs.
Curt Wolbert, Duane Arends, Linda Sedlacek,
Linda Worrall, and Kay Busekist
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Beginner’s Corne BASIC HELP TO GET YOU OFF TO A QUICK START
Military Records:
Follow-Up & Trivia
ABy Do n n a Po t t e r Ph i l l i p s
As a follow-up to my article in the Sep-Oct 2008 issue
(“Women’s Roles in U.S. Military History”) I heard
from two very enthusiastic researchers.
Mary Louise Jesek Daley emailed that “my husband
and I belong to an organization called Society for
Women and the Civil War. The mission of this group is
to promote the research and education about women’s
roles during the Civil War. Our membership includes
authors, independent and affiliated researchers,
scholars of all disciplines, genealogists, archivists,
museum professionals, librarians, students, historians,
teachers, re-enactors, and living historians. We
discuss and research and present information on topics
relative to the study of women and the Civil War.
For more information, go to our website, www.swcw.
org. Here you will find resources and books available
to continue any personal research and discover some
really neat roles that women took on themselves to
the credit of their gender.”
Mary Louise went on to explain, “Before 10-12
years ago, women’s history and especially the role
of women during the American Civil War, was very
seldom discussed. Yet, contemporary accounts tout
the energy, help, and guidance of women during the
Civil War period in a variety of roles that they chose
to undertake. Today there is so much scholarship
coming out of many sources, many of them unlikely
and nontraditional sources. Men and women are
finding their own ancestor’s involvement, writing
about this and sharing that information.”
Thanks, Mary Louise, for the follow-up and for the
website where we can learn more.
Another follow-up was shared with me by Nancy
Leathers, a long-time friend in Pullman, Washington
(75 miles south of Spokane). Nancy told me of a
favorite book, All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of
the Civil War, by Elizabeth D. Leonard. The jacket of
this book states: “These are the fascinating stories of
the women who worked as spies, as daughter of the
regiments, or, disguised as male soldiers to play their
heroic part in the Civil War. Historian Elizabeth D.
Leonard has combed archives, memoirs, and histories
to unearth the stories of the hidden and forgotten
women who risked their lives for the blue or gray.”
This book was published in 1999, is 368 pages in
length, and has 65 pages of footnotes and 17 pages of
bibliography. I did a search for it at www.abebooks.
com and found that I could order a copy for under
$5.00. Just might do that!
Now for some “military trivia.”
Did you realize that there is military information contained
in the U.S. Federal Census records Pulling the
following from a handout by Miriam Robbins Midkiff
here in Spokane, I share a list of possibilities with you:
• 1840 census—lists Revolutionary War pensioners
and their widows.
• 1890 census (remnants) —asked whether was a
Union or Confederate soldier, sailor or marine, or
widow of such a person.
• 1890 Union Veterans Schedule—lists Union veter-
ans and their widows.
• 1900—first census to list active-duty personnel.
• 1910—lists military and naval personnel in the Philippines,
in hospitals, aboard ships and at stations.
• 1920—lists overseas military and naval population.
• 1930—lists whether a person was a veteran and
from which war or expedition.
Miriam’s handout mentions other, lesser-known
State Censuses that contain military information:
• 1777 Rhode Island Military Census—all males
over age 16 able to bear arms.
• 1863 Georgia Military Census—all males, including
children; included name and age, indicated whether
they owned a rifle, shotgun, horse and tack.
• 1885 Dakota Territory Veterans Census—name of
veteran, whether Union or Confederate service
and Civil War state.
• 1907 Alabama Confederate Veterans Census—all
persons in Alabama receiving a pension for Confederate
service.
• 1911 Arkansas Confederate Veterans Census—lists
several points of identification for veterans.
• 1917 Connecticut State Military Preparedness
Census—lists all males and all nurses; lists several
points of identification.
• 1921 Alabama Confederate Veterans Census—
taken by mail; original forms available at the Alabama
Department of Archives and History.
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Civil War were read in the House of Representatives
by Joseph G. Cannon and are as follows:
• Those 10 years and under—25
• Those 11 years and under—38
• Those 12 years and under—225
• Those 13 years and under—300
• Those 14 years and under—1523
• Those 15 years and under—104,987
• Those 16 years and under—231,051
• Those 17 years and under—844,891
• Those 18 years and under—1,151,438
The article continued:
• Those 21 years and under—2,159,789
• Those 22 years and over—618,511
• Those 25 years and over—46,626
Boy Soldier of the Civil War
• 1935 and 1945 South Dakota State Censuses—
information collected on index cards and houses
at the State Historical Society in Pierre, SD; being
indexed by FamilySearch.
You might have to do a bit of research to access
these various censuses, but if you are facing a brick
wall with your military-serving ancestor, the task
might be worthwhile. For more information, check
out Dollarhide’s Census Substitutes and State Census
Records, Volumes 1 & 2 for even more censuses with
military information, as well as data detailing where
to locate and access them. See: www.familyrootspublishing.com.
Here is even more interesting trivia:
According to an article in the Colville Examiner, Colville,
Stevens County, Washington, for October 19, 1918, the
Civil War fighters were mostly boys. “Surprise is often
expressed that there are so many veterans of the Civil
War still living. The fact is that the war was fought,
at least on the northern side, by boys. Of the 2,159,798
enlisted there wee only 46,626 who were over 25 years
old. The official figures of the age at enlistment in the
“It will be noticed from this statement that
the greatest number of enlistments were of boys
18 and under. In a great number of cases these
boys became officers before they were 20, some
of them even reaching the rank of captain. The
methods of war have so changed that in future
armies there must be a far greater portion of
mature men. There must be a large number who
can handle the intricate, complex, and deathdealing
machinery and engines of destruction.
But as far as the Civil War was concerned, the
fighting was done by boys. And there are still
400,000 of them alive.” (Remember, this newspaper
article was dated October 1918, so 400,000
veterans were alive in 1918.)
Keeping the statistics chronicled in this newspaper
article, to know that so many different census
records have information on these veterans takes on
a newer and bigger importance.
Good luck finding information on your patriotic
ancestor of any gender and of any age.
Donna Potter Phillips writes from
Spokane where she is an avid reader,
gardener, birdwatcher, traveler, and
grandmother of eight. She is active
in her state and local societies,
and is a Past President of Eastern
Washington Genealogical Society
(EWGS) and Past Vice-President
of WSGS. Since 1985 she has
written for newspaper genealogy
columns, family newsletters, and magazines—the
Genealogical Helper, Heritage Quest Magazine,
Ancestry, Family Chronicle, Internet Genealogy and
Genealogy Bulletin; as well as assisting with he Salt
Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library.
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The Next Generation A COLUMN FOR KIDS
By Sta r r Ha i l e y Ca m pbe ll
One of the most interesting and addicting parts of
genealogy or family history is visiting the cemetery.
Some people wonder about our seemingly weird obsession
with cemeteries. It is the final resting place
of your ancestor. If you think about the funerals and
burials you have attended, think about the people
that would have attended your ancestor’s burial.
When I look at my grandfather’s grave, I know that
my grandmother stood there with her children. I
never saw my grandmother stand. She was crippled
with arthritis by the time I was born.
My nephew is one of the very few family members
that still live in the little town in Kansas where my
grandparents lived. When he goes to the cemetery, he
can feel closer to his great grandparents and it gives
him and opportunity to tell his children about their
2nd great grandparents.
There may be other family buried next to, or in
the same cemetery as your ancestor. My grandfather,
grandmother, aunt, and father are all buried in the
same cemetery, but for various reasons are not next to
one another. Sometimes there is a family relationship
listed on a headstone. Sometimes you will find a married
or maiden name on a headstone. Sometimes there
are entire sections in a cemetery devoted to a family.
Sometimes there are markers on or by a headstone
that can lead us other places for more genealogical
information. When I saw my 2nd great grandfather’s
headstone, there was a marker next to it with the letters
“GAR.” It didn’t take me long to find out that
stood for Grand Army of the Republic, an organization
that was for Union veterans of the Civil War.
Knowing that, I was able to find his Civil War pension
records and therefore find out a lot more information
on him and his children, and siblings. Most
wars have some information on the men and women
who served in those wars.
Other symbols on or near a headstone also tell of
membership in different organizations, such as the
Elks, Freemasons, Modern Woodman of America,
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Odd Fellows, Knights of Columbus, and Veterans
of Foreign Wars. Some of these organizations might
have information on your ancestor.
Modern Woodmen of America was founded in
1883 by Joseph Cullen Root in Lyons, Illinois. It is a
fraternal organization that offers life insurance, and
other services. Up until the mid 1970s they offered
a small grave marker. The grave markers were 7.5
by 20 inches, made of solid aluminum and designed
so that a small American flag could be inserted and
held by two loops on the back of the marker. While
the tree stump monument or headstone was popular,
the society itself did not provide them or any monetary
assistance for them. For more information go
to: www.modern-woodmen.org.
Joseph Cullen Root also founded Woodmen of the
World in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1890. It provided life
insurance and other services.
One of the most enduring physical legacies of
the organization may be the number of distinctive
headstones erected in the shape of a tree stump.
This was an early benefit of Woodmen of the World
membership, and the headstones can be found in
cemeteries across the nation. This program was
abandoned in the 1920s as being too expensive. See:
www.woodmen.org.
Founded in about 1868, the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks or more commonly just the
ELKS lodge, is a fraternal organization. The ELKS
organization strives to serve the
communities in which there are
lodges. See: www.elks.org.
Freemasonry is the oldest and
largest worldwide fraternity. Freemasonry
has developed into a
worldwide fraternity emphasizing
personal study, self-improvement,
and social betterment via individual
involvement and philanthropy.
See: www.msana.com and www.
freemasonry.org.
The Order of Knights of Pythias
is an international, non-sectarian
fraternal order, established in
1864 in Washington, D.C., by Justus
H. Rathbone and was the first
fraternal order to be chartered by
an Act of Congress. See: www.
pythias.org.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
(VFW) traces its roots back to 1899
when veterans of the Spanish-
American War (1898) and the Philippine
Insurrection (1899-1902)
founded local organizations to
secure rights and benefits for their service. Many arrived
home wounded or sick. There was no medical
care or veterans’ pension for them, and they were left
to care for themselves. In their misery, some of these
veterans banded together and formed organizations
with what would become known as the Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States. After chapters
were formed in Ohio, Colorado and Pennsylvania,
the movement quickly gained momentum. By 1915,
membership grew to 5,000; by 1936, membership was
almost 200,000.
You can also find grave markers that say Ladies
Auxiliary VFW. Its members are
• Wives
• Widows
• Mothers
• Foster and stepmothers (who have performed
the duties of parent)
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• Grandmothers
• Daughters
• Granddaughters
• Foster and stepdaughters (who attained that
status prior to the age of 16 and for whom the
duties of parent were performed)
• Sisters, half sisters, foster, and stepsisters (who
attained that status prior to age 16)
...of persons who were or are eligible for membership
in the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United
States. Members must be citizens of the United States
and at least 16 years old. See: www.vfw.org and
www.ladiesauxvfw.org.
There are several different types of cemeteries.
They are:
Church Burial Yard—These were the first cemeteries
in our country. In Europe, the elite were buried
under the church’s stone floor. Since these cemeteries
are affiliated with a church, the church will often
have burial records.
Family Burial Plots—These are on private property
and may be difficult to locate. Many genealogical
societies have knowledge of these cemeteries. Also,
check on USGenWeb.org for possible locations. One
of my family’s cemeteries is in the middle of a pasture.
Before you make a run to the gate, you need to
check to be sure where the bull is! There very often
are no records of burials in these cemeteries in anything
other than an obituary or family Bible.
Country Cemetery—These are the cemeteries you
see on the highways of America. They often contain
mail order and homemade stones. A lot of my family
is buried in country cemeteries.
Elite Garden—The garden type cemetery began in
the early 1800s. Mt Auburn in Massachusetts was the
first. These cemeteries have a park-like atmosphere.
They have paths and benches, ponds and foliage. They
were the place where people picnicked, and took their
Sunday strolls before Public Parks were made.
Ordinary Urban Cemetery—These might look
like “stone yards.” They have rows and rows of
tombstones with straight paths and very little foliage.
They are usually found in the middle of cities.
These usually will have a sexton’s office that holds
the records.
Veterans’ Cemetery—These are for the honorably
discharged and their families. Arlington is the most
well-known. Not all military cemeteries are National
Veterans Cemeteries. There are also State Veteran
Cemeteries.
For more information, check out the Department
of Veterans Affairs National Cemeteries at ht t p://
www.cem.va.gov. The VA’s National Cemetery Administration
maintains 125 national cemeteries in
39 states (and Puerto Rico) as well as 33 soldiers’ lots
and monument sites.
For burial locations of veterans and their family
members in VA National Cemeteries, state veterans’
cemeteries, various other military and Department
of Interior cemeteries, and for veterans buried in
private cemeteries when the grave is marked with a
government grave marker, go to http://gravelocator.
cem.va.gov.
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Memorial Park—These are flat
grassy lawns with barely visible
evidence that people are buried
there. The tombstones are flat and
flush with the ground. These too,
will often have an office where records
of burials are kept.
Potter’s Field—Where the unknown
or the unwanted are buried.
The probable origin of the
term “Potter’s Field” as meaning
a public burial place for poor
and unknown persons is a passage
from the Gospel of St. Matthew
(27:3-8): “Then Judas, which
had betrayed Him, saw that he was
condemned, repented himself, and
brought again the thirty pieces of silver
to the chief priests ... and they took
counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field to bury
strangers in.”
Take the time to check out the composition of the
stone. A marble or granite stone with a very early
date on it probably was not the original headstone.
Know the history of the cemetery you are searching.
If the first burial was in 1880 and your ancestor
died in 1870 they probably aren’t going to be buried
there.
Be sure as you are researching in cemeteries that
you are very careful. Old stones will break easily
and need to be cared for. Rubbing headstones
is against the law in some states. You will need to
check this out. While it is true that shaving cream
will make a headstone easier to read, it is also true
that the emollients in the shaving cream will get
into the pores of a headstone, no matter how well
you wash it, and may accelerate the deterioration of
the headstone. A good source of information is The
Association of Gravestone Studies at http://www.
gravestonestudies.org.
The symbolism on the headstones can be very interesting
and very beautiful. Following are several
recommended websites:
• Symbols Found On Gravestones: www.michiganparanormalencounters.com/gravestone
symbols.htm
• Meaning of Gravestone Symbols: http://www.
browncountytexasgenealogy.com
• The Cemetery Club: http://www.thecemeteryclub.com
• Gravestone Art: http://www.gravestoneart.com
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Today’s symbolism is very different from the
past. While lamb, baby shoes, and other things were
used to represent a child’s death in the past, today
you will find four wheelers and Scooby Doo on children’s
headstones. Today it is more common to use
symbols on headstones to represent a person’s life
or their hobbies.
Also remember that the ground in a cemetery can
be very uneven, even if it well cared for and covered
with beautiful grass. Be very careful of old graves as
they can collapse and leave you somewhere you are
not ready to be!
Last but not least, be sure to always have your cemetery
kit with you. Happy hunting!
The Sharon DeBartolo
Carmack Cemetery Kit
Taken from Cryptic Clues in the Bone Yard, by permission
of the author (to be used with parental supervision
if necessary)
1. Brightly colored tote bag—easy to spot when you
go off and leave it at a grave.
2. Carpenter’s apron—you can put all your cemetery
tools in it so you don’t have to carry the tote bag
around the cemetery
3. Bug Spray—Off Yardguard is good “The true cologne
of a genealogist”
Connie Casilear Mitchell
Genealogical Records Researcher
Lower Shenandoah Valley/VA./WV
163 Stuart Drive, Winchester, VA 22602
dmitchellkids@aol.com • 540-667-4444
Published Hampshire and Hardy County, WV records
4. Sun Screen—Always remember to practice “safe
sun”
5. Wet Wipes—You will be getting down and dirty
6. Knee pads—Gardener’s knee pads or just a patio
chair pad will work fine
7. Garden Shears—You may need to clip away some
grass or weeds
8. Whisk Broom—For cleaning off the grass
clippings
9. Paper Towels
10. Spray Bottle—filled with “ WATER ONLY”
11. Soft nylon bristle brush or nylon pot scrubber—
For cleaning off the headstone if needed
12. Rags
13. Camera
14. Film
15. Sidewalk Chalk WHITE ONLY—To chalk the
Headstone for a better photo
16. Non Fusible Interfacing—For making a rubbing
17. Crayons or Rubbing wax—For making a
rubbing
18. Masking Tape—For holding the fabric on to the
Headstone to make a rubbing
19. Scissors—For cutting the fabric
20. Sun Reflector—the silver kind for your car
windshield
21. Garbage Bags
Starr Hailey Campbell is a
past director for the Federation
of Genealogical Societies,
Administrative Assistant for the
Utah Genealogical Association
2001-2005, Program Chair for the
UGA 2003 Conference, Chair of
UGA 2004 Conference, Assistant
Director of Salt Lake Institute of
Genealogy 2003 & 2004, National Publication Chair
for FGS 2004 & 2005 conferences, Program Chair
FGS 2005, and a speaker at national, regional, and
local conferences and family history fairs. Chair of
FGS’s youth committee, founder of FGS’s Youth award,
Recipient of FGS’s George E Williams award 2004
and the FGS President’s Citation 2005. She has been
instrumental in the creation of 2001-2005 Resolution
from the Salt Lake County Council in support of
October has Family History month, Director of the
Magna, Utah East Stake Family History Center,
member of the Magna Town Council, President
of the Magna Arts Council and Board Member of
the Oquirrh Hills Performing Arts Alliance. She is
the author of Youth in Family History, and the
children’s genealogy series “The Adventures of
James.” A two-time breast cancer survivor, she is
also the mother of three and grandmother of four.
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This section of the Genealogical Helper is meant to keep
our readers up to date on the latest news affecting the genealogical
community. It is drawn from numerous resources,
not the least of which is Everton’s own Genealogy Blog
(www.genealogyblog.com). We scan papers, newsletters
and websites looking for information. We also invite our
readers to submit news releases, announcements, calls for
papers, awards, records releases, records closures, exhibits,
discoveries, and so forth. Submit items for this section to:
leland@everton.com, putting “News to Peruse” in the Subject
Heading. All submissions are subject to editing.
Co m p il e d by Le l a n d K. Mei tz ler
Gulf Coast State Histories Slated
for Online Access—Houston
Public Library Joins FamilySearch
in Digitization Effort
Salt Lake City, Utah, June 24, 2008—Thousands of
publications that capture the diverse histories of
Gulf Coast states will be accessible for free online.
FamilySearch and the Houston Public Library announced
a joint project today to digitally preserve
and publish the library’s vast collection of county
and local histories, registers of individuals, directories
of Texas Rangers, church histories, and biographical
dictionaries. The digital records will be
available for free online at FamilySearch.org and
HoustonLibrary.org.
“Houston Public Library has one of the top 10
genealogy libraries in the nation and a very strong
Gulf Coast and international collection,” said Susan
D. Kaufman, manager of Houston Public Library’s
Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research.
“Visitors come from all over the country to visit the
library. Researchers will benefit from the convenience
of online access to the collection targeted under the
joint venture with FamilySearch,” added Kaufman.
In 2007, FamilySearch announced its plans to create
the largest and most comprehensive collection
of free city and county histories online. Over 23,000
digital publications have been made available online
since then. The addition of Houston Public Library
and its collection furthers that goal.
Under the agreement, FamilySearch will digitally
preserve thousands of Houston Public Library’s historic
publications collection and provide free access
to the images online. The targeted publications range
in date from 1795 to 1923.
Submitting a News Brief
See News to Peruse guidelines on page 4.
The new digital collections published online will
have “every word” search capability, which allows
users to search by name, location, date, or other
fields across the collection. The search results are
then linked to high quality digital images of the
original publication. Users will also be able to just
browse or read the publications as digital books online
if they prefer.
The digitization efforts have already begun, and
publications are now viewable online. Texas records
are the first publications targeted by the initiative,
followed by other Gulf Coast states. The project will
take up to five years to complete.
Digital publications will be noted and hyperlinked
in the Family History Library Catalog at Family-
Search.org as they are digitized. The growing collection
can be accessed currently at FamilySearch.org
(go to Search Records, and then Historical Books).
“We are honored to be part of such an important
and beneficial initiative with a world leader like
FamilySearch,” said Kaufman. “The digitization
and online publication of Houston Public Library’s
historic collections will help increase the inquisitiveness
of library patrons and create a heightened
sense of awareness of the library’s resources—which
then brings customers back more often with more
research questions. It’s a win-win for everyone,”
Kaufman added.
FamilySearch is providing the computers, scanners,
and camera operators required to complete the
project. FamilySearch previously announced projects
with Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne,
Indiana, Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee
Library, and FamilySearch’s own Family History Library
in Salt Lake City.
The Houston Public Library’s Clayton Library Center
for Genealogical Research is also a FamilySearch
Affiliate Library. That means local patrons have access
to millions of microfilms from FamilySearch’s vast
genealogical collection in Salt Lake City, Utah. Patrons
can order research material from FamilySearch
through the library and use the library’s film readers
and copiers to further their genealogical efforts.
—Courtesy of Paul Nauta, FamilySearch
Incline Software Releases
Ancestral Quest 12.1
Salt Lake City, Utah, November 12, 2008—Today,
Incline Software, LC announced the full release of
Ancestral Quest 12.1. AQ 12.1 has been released in
phases since July 2008, when AQ 12.1 entered the first
phase of a roll-out, wherein it was made available to
a limited number of users of both AQ and PAF. As of
today, AQ 12.1 is available to all users.
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All of the new features introduced in Ancestral
Quest version 12.1 are designed to aid a user in comparing
and synchronizing local databases with the
Family Tree database of new.FamilySearch.org, a system
being developed by The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints (LDS). The Family Tree database
claims to have roughly 500 million lineage-linked
records, and these records become directly accessible
to users of AQ 12.1 through these new features.
An adjustment has also been made to the way a new
user can try Ancestral Quest. AQ 12.1 now provides
a 60-day free trial of the program with all features
fully unlocked.
Because new.FamilySearch.org is still being developed
and tested by members of the LDS church, its
Family Tree is currently only available to a relatively
small number of people. The new features of AQ 12.1
require access to the FamilySearch system through
their secure system, and therefore can only be used
by those who have access to new.FamilySearch.org. In
the coming weeks and months, as new.FamilySearch.
org is made available to a growing number of individuals,
those users will also be able to use the new
features of AQ 12.1. Incline Software understands
that the Family Tree feature of new.FamilySearch.
org will eventually be available to the general public,
and therefore that the new features of AQ 12.1 will
eventually be functional for all users.
These new features benefit not only users of Ancestral
Quest, but also users of Personal Ancestral File
(PAF), because the PAF program of the LDS church
is based on an older version of AQ. AQ 12.1 is a FamilySearch
certified PAF add-in. It will allow a PAF
user to synchronize his/her local PAF data with the
Family Tree of new.FamilySearch.org. Once installed
Ancestral Quest will appear on the Tools menu of
PAF 5.2, and the PAF user merely needs to click on
that menu item to start AQ 12.1 to synchronize their
PAF data with FamilySearch.
The new features to access new.FamilySearch.org
require an ID and password that must be obtained
from new.FamilySearch.org. If a user can obtain an
ID and password for new.FamilySearch.org, the user
can take advantage of these new features in AQ 12.1.
Otherwise the user will still enjoy all the features of
AQ 12.0.
Users of AQ 12.0 can download AQ 12.1 for free.
Users of older versions of AQ will be able to download
an upgrade for $19.95, or upgrade on a CD for $22.95
plus s/h. New users can download the 60-day trial
for free, then purchase an activation code for $29.95
or order the software on CD for $34.95 plus s/h.
To find out more about Ancestral Quest or Incline
Software, visit the website at www.ancquest.com.
—Courtesy of Gaylon Findlay, Incline Software
The Palatine to America
Library Relocating
The Palatine to America Library has been closed. Our
collection is being relocated to the Columbus Metropolitan
Library in Columbus, Ohio. It is anticipated
the Palatine Collection will be available for use again
sometime in the first quarter of 2009.
—Courtesy of Odell Miller,
President, Palatines to America
APG Announces Election Results
Westminster, Colo., November 21, 2008—The Association
of Professional Genealogists (APG), the
world’s leading professional organization of family
history and related professionals, announced
the results of its 2008 election. Ten board members
were elected to two-year terms for 2009-2010. Two
nominating committee members were elected to
one-year terms.
Region 1: West: Trish Hackett Nicola, CG (Washington)
is currently a Region 1 director on the APG
Board and chapter representative for the Puget
Sound Chapter. Trish is on APG’s Chapter Activities
Committee. Mary Penner (New Mexico) chairs
the APG Publications Advisory Committee. She has
been awarded research grants from the Kansas State
Historical Society and the State Historical Society
of Missouri. Her articles appear frequently in the
Ancestry Weekly Journal and in many genealogical
magazines.
Region 2: Midwest: Billie Stone Fogarty (Oklahoma)
is president of the Oklahoma Genealogical
Society and vice-president and program chair of
the Oklahoma Home & Community Continuing
Education Genealogy Group. She belongs to the Genealogical
Speakers Guild and teaches continuing
education classes. Paul Milner (Illinois) is co-author
of A Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering your English
Ancestors and A Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering
your Scottish Ancestors, and is a well-known speaker
and author.
Region 3: Southeast: Donald Moore, CG (Virginia)
is a Board-certified genealogist with an interest in
colonial Virginia research. He is past president of
the Virginia Beach Genealogical Society, vice president
of the Virginia Genealogical Society, and editor
of its newsletter. C. Ann Staley, CG (Florida) is
a professional genealogist, consultant, instructor,
and lecturer at local, state, and national levels. She
is a board member of the Federation of Genealogical
Societies.
Region 4: Northeast: Amy E.K. Arner (Pennsylvania)
is a researcher specializing in Western
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Pennsylvania, the president of the Great Lakes Chapter,
and a proofreader for the APG Quarterly. Karen
Mauer Green (New York) holds an M.A. in Museum
Studies and specializes in Huguenots, New York, and
the Mid-Atlantic area. The owner of Frontier Press
Bookstore, she has served APG as a trustee and regional
vice-president.
International Region: Eileen M. O’Duill, CG (Ireland)
specializes in international probate research
and has lectured at national conferences in the United
States and in Ireland. Jan Gow (New Zealand) is a tutor,
lecturer, and presenter at the local, national, and
international level since 1985, and served on the APG
and New Zealand Society of Genealogists boards.
Nominations Committee: Donna Moughty
(Florida) has chaired the Professional Management
Conference from 2005–2008, is treasurer of the Genealogical
Speakers Guild, and a delegate to the Federation
of Genealogical Societies. David E. Rencher, AG,
CG, FIGRS, FUGA (Utah) is employed by the Family
History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints as the Director of the Planning and
Coordination Division. A noted authority on Irish
research, he is a past-president of the Federation of
Genealogical Societies and of the Utah Genealogical
Association and a Fellow of the latter.
The Association of Professional Genealogists
(http://www.apgen.org), established in 1979, represents
over 1,800 genealogists, librarians, writers,
editors, historians, instructors, booksellers, publishers,
and others involved in genealogy-related businesses.
APG encourages genealogical excellence,
ethical practice, mentoring, and education. The organization
also supports the preservation and accessibility
of records useful to the fields of genealogy,
local, and social history. Its members represent all 50
states, Canada, and 26 other countries.
—Courtesy of Kathleen W. Hinckley,
CG, Executive Director, APG
Volunteers Discover Fun Facts
Transcribing Historic Canadian
Censuses—Completed
Indexes Will Be Free Online
Ontario, Canada, November 19, 2008—Family-
Search International announced its plans to make
the indexes to available Canadian censuses accessible
online for free with the help of online volunteer indexers
and an agreement with Ancestry.ca. The first
censuses completed will be those from 1861, 1871,
and 1916. Online volunteers are needed to help transcribe
select information from digital images of the
historical documents into easily searchable indexes.
The completed indexes will be available for free at
www.familysearch.org.
Famous Canadians in the 1916 Census
What do Art Linkletter, Sir William Samuel Stephenson,
and Elvina Fay Wray have in common They all
have ties to one of the three provinces that make up
the 1916 Canada Census, and some lucky volunteer
may experience the thrill of transcribing their information
for the free online index.
1. Arthur Gordon Kelly (Art Linkletter) will be
found as a four-year-old child at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
He was abandoned as an infant and
then adopted and raised by a preacher. He hosted
House Party and People Are Funny both on radio
and later on newfangled television, and he is best
remembered for his interviews with children on the
television show Kids Say the Darndest Things. His
adoptive parents were Fulton John Linkletter and
Mary Metzler.
2. Sir William Samuel Stephenson was a Canadian
soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, spymaster,
and a British intelligence specialist during World
War II. Stephenson is best known by his wartime
intelligence codename of Intrepid and is considered
by some to be one of the real-life inspirations for
James Bond. He was born William Samuel Clouston
Stanger, January 23, 1897, in the Point Douglas area
of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
3. Elvina Fay Wray was born September 15, 1907, on
a ranch near Alberta to Elvina Marguerite Jones and
Joseph Heber Wray and will most likely show up as a
nine-year old-child in the 1916 census. She made her
film debut in Gasoline Love (1923), but it was her lead
role in The Wedding March (1928) that made her a star.
She became a cult figure after her role in King Kong
(1933), as the beauty captured by a giant gorilla.
Getting Involved
Interested volunteers can begin helping immediately
by registering online at familysearchindexing.
org, downloading the free indexing software, and
selecting the 1916 Canada Census project. A digital
image of a census page will appear. Volunteers simply
type in the data highlighted on the computer
screen and save it online. It takes about 30 minutes
to complete one census page, and volunteers have a
week to complete it if need be. Volunteers only need
to be able to read, type, and have Internet access to
participate.
“The 1916 census was selected first because it is
the most recent and smallest of the three censuses
targeted in the first phase. It included three of the
western provinces (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and
Alberta) and has about 1.7 million names—so it will
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not take long to complete,” said Stephen Young, FamilySearch
project manager.
There are other hidden benefits to volunteering.
Volunteers become familiar with historical documents,
the valuable stories they can conceal, and
their usefulness and application to genealogical
research.
Indexers do not need to worry about their skill
level at reading censuses. Each census page is transcribed
by two different indexers. Any discrepancies
between the two entries will be arbitrated by a third
indexer. The result is a highly accurate, free index
of tremendous value to family history enthusiasts.
Young says the more online volunteers that help, the
quicker the free census indexes will be available online
for all to enjoy and benefit from.
One indexer recently commented, “I am intrigued
with how the people come alive for me as I index. I indexed
a household… containing a family with young
children, grandmother, maiden aunt, and a couple of
unmarried siblings. They had five servants, and I visualized
a well-to-do household; the married son working
maybe as a lawyer or doctor, taking care of his
extended family. I see both sad and happy stories.”
FamilySearch manages the largest collection of genealogical
records worldwide. In 2007 it announced
plans to begin digitizing and indexing its collection
for broader, online access—starting with popular collections
like Canadian censuses. FamilySearch has
digitized the 1916 Canada Census and is seeking online
volunteers to help create a searchable index for
it and other census and non-census Canada projects.
The 1861 and 1871 censuses will be next.
Libraries and Archives Canada (LAC) owns and is
providing the digital images for the Canada census
projects.
—Courtesy of Paul Nauta, FamilySearch
The No. 1 Rated Genealogy
Software In The UK Is Now
Available At 1500 Target Stores
West Hartford, Connecticut, November 12,
2008—Family Historian 3, the highest rated family
tree software in the U.K. is now available in the
United States and Canada. This top rated software is
initially being distributed in the nearly 1,500 Target
stores nationwide.
“Enteractive is thrilled to be bringing what is simply
the best genealogy software product in the world
to the U.S. and Canadian consumer,” Howard Luxenberg,
president of Enteractive, stated.
Due to its easy to use features and product quality,
Family Historian 3 has won major awards and
recognition from the top reviewers including Windows
XP Magazine, Family Tree Magazine, Which
Computing, Univadis and others.
Family Historian 3 was named “Winner” and
“Editor’s Choice” by Windows XP Magazine in its
August 2007 review of Family Historian, Family Tree
Maker, Roots Magic, and Legacy genealogy software.
The editors said that Family Historian 3 was “packed
with features, but the charts alone put this package
in a class of its own.” In this comparison of the top
products, Family Historian was declared the “Allround
winner.”
Personal Computer World gave Family Historian
3 an overall rating of 5 Stars (out of a possible 5)
and said “The range of features and sheer ease of
use makes Family Historian an excellent tool for any
genealogist” in its May 2006 review.
Family Tree Magazine (www.familytreemagazine.com)
said “The best genealogy package just got
better” in its review in July 2006.
Which Computing (www.which.co.uk) rated
Family Historian as the “Best Buy” and gave it the
highest overall rating in its July 2008 comparison of
the top 10 genealogy applications.
Univadis (www.univadis.co.uk) rated Family Historian
3 a “Strongly recommended” product and said
“The programme is brilliant and dead easy to use
and is ideal for beginners and experts alike.”
Australian Family Tree Connections said “With
the release of version 3 Family Historian has become
one of the best, if not the very best, in its class.”
In an indication of the powerful features and ease
of use of Family Historian 3, the producers and researchers
of the very popular BBC TV genealogy
series “Who Do You Think You Are” use Family Historian
3 as their family tree application of choice.
Product Features
According to Luxenberg, “This is a quality product
that manages to combine ease of use with a remarkably
rich set of features.” The following are just a few of the
important product features of Family Historian 3:
• 100% compatible with GEDCOM 5.5, the standard
for shared genealogical data
• Lets you easily create beautiful family trees,
CDs/DVDs & websites
• Family trees can include data, photographs,
even video files
James Standridge
Revolutionary War Soldier and His Descendants
Hard cover, 656 pages, full name index, $77
(postage included)
Frances L. Jones, 1078 St. Leo Dr., Cahokia, IL 62206
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• Diagrams are interactive, so you can work
visually
• Unique “All relatives” diagram shows all
descendants and all ancestors (and their
spouses)
• Bonus features: Six month subscription to
WorldVitalRecords.com and CD Book “Getting
Started in Genealogy Online”
Enteractive Distribution also announces a new
web site to provide useful information to consumers
and genealogists. This new website: ht t p://fam i-
lyhistorian3.ning.com provides modern consumer
features such as a product blog, updated news about
the product, discussion forum, store locator, FAQ,
product support groups, and easy to use customer
support features.
Family Historian 3 runs on Windows Vista, XP
Home and XP Professional, 2000, ME and 98.
—Courtesy of David Lifferth
Southeastern Indiana
Genealogy Society Launches
First Families Program
The Jefferson County (Indiana) Genealogical Society
introduces a First Families Program to honor the
founding families of the county.
Madison, November 1, 2008—The Jefferson County
Genealogical Society is sponsoring a lineage program
specifically aimed at discovering and honoring the
founding families of Jefferson County.
The program recognizes three categories of early
settlers. Frontier Families are those who blazed the
trail into the wilderness, settling in the county on or
before 7 August 1820. Founding Families, those who
settled here before 1 June 1860, drove the county’s
major growth period and brought it prosperity and
national prominence. First Century Families, those
who settled here before 11 February 1911, helped
move the county into the modern era.
Applicants to the program must prove their direct
descent from an early settler as well as that settler’s
residence in the county before one of the category
dates. Applicants need not be current residents of
the county. Those who apply before 15 April 2009,
and are approved by the evaluation committee, will
be eligible to participate in the Madison Bicentennial
Founder’s Day Parade. All approved applicants will
receive a certificate and lapel pin to commemorate
their achievement.
The Jefferson County Genealogical Society encourages
those with an interest in family history to
make the effort required to document their personal
connection to the pioneers of this county. Compiled
applications will be archived by the society for the
benefit of other researchers, and
the preservation of this link to our
past. A book honoring the founding
families is planned.
For more information about
the First Families program, visit
http://www.jeffersoncountygenealogicalsociety.org.
For more information about the
Madison Bicentennial, visit: htt p://
madisonbicentennial.com.
About the Jefferson County
Genealogical Society
Founded in 1998, the primary purpose
of this organization is to preserve
information of genealogical
value and to encourage and assist
others in gathering genealogical
information. Membership is open
to everyone with payment of annual
dues. The meeting schedule
and topics are posted at ht t p://
www.jeffersoncountygenealogicalsociety.org.
—Courtesy of Annette Harper
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Ed i t e d by Le l a n d K. Mei tz ler
Send us your genealogical or local history CD-ROM and
we will do a thorough review of the electronic publication,
publishing the review in this section of The Genealogical
Helper. Send your CD-ROM publication to the CD-
ROM Editor, The Genealogical Helper, PO Box 830,
Bountiful, UT 84011. Then, send an email attachment
to Leland@everton.com with the CD-ROM title, author,
copyright date (including original copyright if an electronic
reprint of an old book or publication), item number (if any),
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the CD-ROM can be purchased. Include your website as
well as physical address if applicable. Descriptive material
is welcomed, and may or may not be used within the
review. CD-ROMs received will become the property of
the reviewer upon publication of the review.
Genealogy Books on
CD-ROM—Volume 1
The following is a correction to the phone
number for Stemmons Publishing. We published
extensive information in the Nov-Dec 2008
Helper about this CD-ROM set.
Compiled by Stemmons Publishing, 2007; Published
by and available from Stemmons Publishing Co., PO
Box 612, West Jordan, UT 84084; Phone: 801-254-
2152 (Mon-Fri 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. MST); $30 each plus
$10.00 for p&h. Utah residents add 6.25% sales tax.
Order the full set of 10 CDs for only $119.00, plus
$15 p&h. See: www.stemmonspublishing.com.
Pennsylvania Vital Records
1700s-1800s—From The
Pennsylvania Magazine
of History and Biography
and the Pennsylvania
Genealogical Magazine
By various authors; 2008; Item #GPC7172; Published
by and available from Genealogical Publishing
Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-
1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $39.99 each with
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryland
residents. ISBN: 9780806397214. See: http://www.
genealogical.com/products/7172.html.
This set of 10 CD-ROMs makes up a massive genealogy
library of 705 books. Altogether, there are over
60,000 images, making up 230,643 pages. According
to the compiler, the value of the book collection is
over $7000.00. The following listings are a Contents
by Subject listing, followed by a CD-ROM by CD-
ROM listing of the titles found on each disk. Note
that the title is followed by the year of publication
of the original volume. To speed your search, check
out the Contents by Subject listing first. Note that
since these are made up of PDF files, they will run
on most any computer, PC or Mac.
Submitting a Website Highlight
See Website Highlight guidelines on page 5.
Submitting a Software Highlight
See Software Highlight guidelines on page 5.
Originally published in three volumes by the Genealogical
Publishing Company, this is a collection
of every article about births, baptisms, marriages,
and deaths that ever appeared in The Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography and the Pennsylvania
Genealogical Magazine. Referring to more than
87,000 individuals, Pennsylvania Vital Records is
one of the largest bodies of Pennsylvania source
materials ever published. The records date from
1701 to 1882 and cover all regions of Pennsylvania.
For the period prior to 1820, they offer researchers
one of the best opportunities for making ancestral
connections in Pennsylvania. The records in this
collection were extracted from church registers,
court records, records of local officials, ministers’
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records, newspapers, and gravestone inscriptions.
For your convenience, a name index spans all three
volumes.
System Requirements: You must have a CD-
ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must
use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0
or higher), which is available as a free download at
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher
(Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from
www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).
Loyalists in the
American Revolution
By various authors; 2008; Item #GPC7144; Published
by and available from Genealogical Publishing
Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-
1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $39.99 each with
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryland
residents. ISBN: 9780806397115. See: http://www.
genealogical.com/products/7144.html.
The term “Loyalist” is generally applied to those
colonists who sided with the British during the
Revolutionary War. Also called “Tories,” Loyalists
came from all social classes and occupations and
by some estimates made up as much as one-third
of the colonial population. The Loyalist cause was
strongest in the southern colonies, in Georgia and
the Carolinas, especially, and in the mid-Atlantic
colonies, particularly New York and Pennsylvania.
Sentiment against the Loyalists led to various
proscriptions and restrictions, but it was the confiscation
of their land and property that led to the
creation—unintentionally, of course—of some of
the most useful Revolutionary War-era genealogical
records available today.
The 13 volumes of records produced in this Family
Archive CD contain some of the most useful
works ever published on Revolutionary War Loyalists.
Originally published or reprinted by the
Genealogical Publishing Company, they cover a
broad spectrum of information pertaining to the
identification of individual Loyalists. From land
records to pension records, from orderly books to
diaries, from recruitment lists, muster rolls, and
pay lists to biographies and lists of United Empire
Loyalists, these volumes variously provide the
following information: name, country or place of
origin, occupation, names of family members and
friends, location and value of confiscated property,
civilian service rendered during the war, military
service (rank, company, regiment, place of service,
dates of enlistment and discharge, etc.), date of migration,
place of settlement, certificates, petitions,
and claims for compensation, evidence of character,
statements of witnesses, and a host of other details
that could lead the researcher to his Loyalist
ancestor.
In both narratives and records, there is a profusion
of genealogical detail, which is here presented
in a convenient, easy-to-use CD, complete with an
electronic name index. Listed below are the books
included on this CD:
1. Loyalists and Land Settlement in Nova Scotia, by
Marion Gilroy
2. The Loyalists in North Carolina During the Revolution,
by Robert DeMond
3. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American
Revolution (2 vols.), by Lorenzo Sabine
4. Orderly Book of the “Maryland Loyalists Regiment,”
by Caleb Jones
5. Orderly Book of the Three Battalions of Loyalists Commanded
by Brigadier General Oliver De Lancey
6. Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary
War (3 vols.), by Murtie June Clark
7. United Empire Loyalists. Enquiry into the Losses and
Services in Consequence of Their Loyalty (2 vols.),
by Alexander Fraser
8. The Old United Empire Loyalists List
9. The Loyalists of Massachusetts: Their Memorials,
Petitions, and Claims, by Edward Jones
System Requirements: You must have a CD-
ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must
use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0
or higher), which is available as a free download at
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher
(Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from
www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).
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Virginia Military Records:
Colonial Wars, Revolutionary
War, War of 1812
By various authors; 2008; Item #GPC7121; Published
by and available from Genealogical Publishing
Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-
1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $39.99 each with
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryland
residents. ISBN: 9780806397085. See: http://www.
genealogical.com/products/7121.html.
Virginia was the stage for some of the most momentous
events in American military history. In fact,
American military history began with the establishment
of the Virginia militia in the 17th century, and
Virginia’s achievements in the various theaters of war
can be traced in a straight line to the decisive Battle
of Yorktown more than a century later. Immediately
after the Revolution, and both during and after the
War of 1812, Virginia continued its historic contributions
in men and material, culminating, of course, in
the great battles of the Civil War. So enormous was
Virginia’s contribution in manpower, in fact, that a
record of early Virginia soldiers is nothing less than
a directory of Virginia’s early residents!
This Family Archive CD contains a definitive collection
of books dealing with the military records
of Virginia in the colonial wars, the Revolutionary
War, and the War of 1812, all published originally by
the Genealogical Publishing Company. For persons
interested in tracing the descendants of Virginia soldiers
and who wish to understand the magnitude of
Virginia’s contribution to the American cause, this
CD is invaluable. Naming 275,000 members of the
militia and the established army, all of whom can
be instantly traced by means of a single electronic
index, this CD is one of the most powerful and versatile
tools in the entire arsenal of early American
genealogical research.
The books included on this CD are the undisputed
favorites in their respective fields, and collectively they
provide an unparalleled body of genealogical research
materials. From Lloyd Bockstruck’s Virginia Colonial
Soldiers to John Gwathmey’s Historical Register of Virginians
in the Revolution to the monumental Muster Rolls
and Payrolls of Virginia Militia in the War of 1812, they
cover the entire spectrum of Virginia’s early military
history. Based primarily on original record sources
such as muster rolls, payrolls, bounty land warrants,
and pension applications, it is possible to follow a soldier’s
entire military career from the date and place
of his enlistment, to the battles and skirmishes he was
engaged in, to his mustering out, while also gleaning
details regarding his age, place of birth, place of residence,
occupation, marital status, rank, bounty land
awards, and names of spouse and children. The following
is a list of the books included on this CD:
• Virginia’s Colonial Soldiers
• Virginia Colonial Militia, 1651-1776
• List of the Colonial Soldiers of Virginia
• Revolutionary War Records. Virginia Army and
Navy Forces with Bounty Land Warrants for the
Military District of Ohio, etc.
• Virginia Soldiers of 1776. 3 vols.
• Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution
• Records of the Revolutionary War
• History of Virginia’s Navy of the Revolution
• Catalogue of Revolutionary Soldiers and Sailors of
the Commonwealth of Virginia
• Muster Rolls and Payrolls of Virginia Militia in the
War of 1812. 2 vols.
• Virginia Military Records from The Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography, The William and
Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler’s Quarterly
System Requirements: You must have a CD-
ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must
use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0
or higher), which is available as a free download at
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher
(Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from
www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).
The Encyclopedia of Quaker
Genealogy 1750-1930
By William Wade Hinshaw, 2008; Item #GPC7192;
Published by and available from Genealogical
Publishing Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD
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21211-1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $59.99 each with
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryland
residents. ISBN: 9780806397382. See: http://www.
genealogical.com/products/7192.html.
This Family Archive CD contains all six volumes
of William Wade Hinshaw’s renowned Encyclopedia
of American Quaker Genealogy, originally published
between 1936 and 1950. Containing approximately
500,000 entries, the Encyclopedia—for all its massive
and carefully compiled data—had a flaw: it did not
contain an every-name index. Instead, each volume
had a separate surname index, making searching for
individuals somewhat tedious. With this CD, however,
that problem is finally laid to rest, for in this CD
we have images of the pages from all six volumes of
the Encyclopedia, along with a complete electronic
name index that allows you to search all six volumes
quickly and effortlessly! Not only that, but the original
published volumes had a retail value of $440.00.
This CD version, therefore, is both a greatly improved
research tool and a blockbuster of a bargain!
Almost no class of records, religious or secular, has
been kept as meticulously as the monthly meeting
records of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
The oldest such records span three centuries of
American history and testify to a general movement
of population that extended from New England and
the Middle Atlantic states southward to Virginia, the
Carolinas, and Georgia; then west to Ohio, Indiana,
and Illinois. The importance of these records cannot
be overstated. Not until recently have the vital
statistics of Quakers been recorded in civil record offices.
Thus, for more than two centuries, the only vital
records identifying these people are to be met with
in the Quaker records themselves. Fortunately, the
monthly meeting records contain extensive lists of
births, marriages, and deaths, as well as details of the
removal of members from one meeting to another.
(The monthly meeting, during which vital statistics
are recorded, is in fact, a business meeting.)
Painstakingly developed from these monthly
meeting records, Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia of American
Quaker Genealogy is the magnum opus of Quaker
genealogy. In its production, thousands of records
were located and abstracted into a uniform and intelligible
system of notation. The data gathered in these
volumes of the Encyclopedia are arranged by meeting,
then alphabetically by family name, and chronologically
thereunder.
System Requirements: You must have a CD-
ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must
use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0
or higher), which is available as a free download at
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher
(Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from
www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).
Maryland Settlers
and Soldiers
By various authors, 2008; Item #GPC7521; Published
by and available from Genealogical Publishing
Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-
1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $39.99 each with
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryland
residents. ISBN: 9780806397788. See: http://www.
genealogical.com/products/7521.html.
Consisting of the most authoritative books ever
published on Maryland in the colonial wars, the
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Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812, as well as
books containing newspaper abstracts, church records,
records of marriages and deaths, tombstone
inscriptions, and census records, this Family Archive
CD contains a true cross-section of the records of
some 325,000 early Maryland settlers and soldiers,
all accessed through a single electronic index.
From Gaius Brumbaugh’s celebrated Maryland
Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County and Church
(2 vols.), which includes the famous 1776 census of
Maryland as well as records of naturalization and
oaths of loyalty, to abstracts of marriages and deaths
from early Maryland newspapers by Robert Barnes
and Thomas Hollowak, to the exhaustive lists of
Maryland soldiers in the Revolution found in such
books as Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of
Maryland Troops in the American Revolution, 1775-1783,
this CD has something of interest for virtually every
family researcher.
Like other CDs, it is designed to simplify genealogical
research by combining the images of pages
of selected volumes published by GPC with a single
name index that allows you to search all the volumes
quickly and effortlessly. A search on a single name
will turn up all references to that name found in any
of the following volumes:
• Maryland Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County
and Church (2 vols.)
• Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of Maryland
Troops in the American Revolution
• Maryland Revolutionary Records
• Revolutionary Records of Maryland
• Orderly Book of the Maryland Loyalists Regiment
• Marriages and Deaths from the Maryland Gazette,
1727-1839
• Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers,
1796-1816
• Index to Marriages and Deaths in the “Baltimore
Sun,” 1837-1850
• Index to Marriages and Deaths in the “Baltimore
Sun,” 1851-1860
• A Record of Interments at the Friends Burial Ground,
Baltimore, Maryland
• Marriage Licenses of Caroline County, Maryland,
1774-1815
• Index of Marriage Licenses, Prince George’s County,
Maryland, 1777-1886
• The British Invasion of Maryland, 1812-1815
• Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington
County, Maryland
• Civil War Burials in Baltimore’s Loudon Park
Cemetery
System Requirements: You must have a CD-
ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must
use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0
or higher), which is available as a free download at
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher
(Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from
www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).
Pilgrim Genealogies and
Histories 1600s-1900s
By various authors, 2008; Item #GPC7023; Published
by and available from Genealogical Publishing
Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-
1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $39.99 each with
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryland
residents. ISBN: 9780806397078. See: http://www.
genealogical.com/products/7023.html.
The Pilgrims, those redoubtable figures of early
American history and legend, arrived in New England
between 1620 and 1650 and are believed to be the
ancestors of about one-third of all Americans living
today! This is a big statement, but perhaps it explains
why there is so much interest in the Pilgrim Fathers
and why so many books have been written about
them. From William Bradford and Edward Winslow
to John Winthrop and Increase Mather, an entire library
has grown up around them, and no small part
of this literary contribution has a genealogical component.
Already several CDs have appeared which
place particular emphasis on Mayflower genealogy,
among them Mayflower Vital Records, Deeds, and Wills,
by Susan Roser, and Genealogies of Mayflower Families
from The New England Historical and Genealogical
Register. In addition, at least one other CD covers a
wider spectrum of early New England genealogy,
namely, the Genealogical Dictionary of New England,
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by notable authors such as James Savage and Walter
G. Davis.
This present Family Archive CD, Pilgrim Source
Records and Genealogy, complements the CDs mentioned
above and contains many of the most important
books ever compiled on Pilgrims and their
descendants, rendering it a formidable library in itself.
Linked by a single electronic name index, the
following books are now instantly accessible on this
one outstanding CD:
• The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers,
by Charles Banks
• The Planters of the Commonwealth… 1620-1640 , by
Charles Banks
• The Winthrop Fleet of 1630, by Charles Banks
• Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Immigrants
to New England, 1620-1650, by Charles
Banks
• The Mayflower Reader, by George Ernest
Bowman
• Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families , by William
T. Davis
• Signers of the Mayflower Compact, by Annie
Haxtun
• History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters,
by Leon C. Hills
• A Catalog of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers
of… Connecticut, by Royal Hinman
• Mayflower Pilgrim Descendants in Cape May
County, New Jersey, by Paul Howe
• Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriages
for Two Generations After the Landing, by John
Landis
• Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons
and Daughters of the Pilgrims
• Sixteen Hundred Lines to Pilgrims of the National
Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
• Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors, by Elizabeth
Rixford
• Families Directly Descended from All the Royal
Families in Europe and Mayflower Descendants,
by Elizabeth Rixford
• Records of Plymouth Colony: Births, Marriages,
Deaths… 1633-1689, by Nathaniel Shurtleff
• The Truth About the Pilgrims , by Francis Stoddard
• Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of Plymouth Colony,
by Alexander Young
System Requirements: You must have a CD-
ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must
use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0
or higher), which is available as a free download at
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher
(Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from
www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).
Lineages of Hereditary Society
Members, 1600s-1900s
By various authors, 2008; Item #GPC7506; Published
by and available from Genealogical Publishing
Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-
1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $39.99 each with
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryland
residents. ISBN: 9780806397573. See: http://www.
genealogical.com/products/7506.html.
Patriotic and hereditary societies require that all
persons applying for membership to their organizations
provide proof of descent from a particular
person living at a particular time during a particular
event. By virtue of their own stringent requirements,
hereditary societies such as the Daughters of
the American Revolution, the Sons and Daughters
of the Pilgrims, the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne,
the General Society of the War of 1812,
and the Colonial Dames of America have become
repositories of a class of records that document the
pedigrees, or lineages, of their members. Over the
years these lineage records have grown into a formidable
body of genealogical data, much of which
has been published in the form of lineage books,
pedigree charts, membership rosters, and indexes.
In the process of linking society members to a colonial
forebear, a Revolutionary War patriot, or a
descendant of the Emperor Charlemagne, or some
similar personage, these published lineage records
provide a wealth of detail few other records can
rival: name of ancestor, dates of birth and death,
name of wife, colony or state of residence, and
names of descendants, to mention only a few of
the most significant details.
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The best of these lineage books have been published
by the Genealogical Publishing Company, and
they are all now available on this CD, which also
contains an electronic index to all 440,000 persons
named! Like other CDs, it is designed to simplify
genealogical research by combining the images of
pages of selected volumes published by GPC with
a single name index, which allows you to search all
the volumes quickly and effortlessly. A search on a
single name will turn up all references to that name
found in any of the following volumes:
• Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne’s
Descendants. 3 vols.
• Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons
and Daughters of the Pilgrims. 3 vols.
• Index of the Rolls of Honor (Ancestor’s Index) in the
Lineage Books of the National Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution. 4 vols.
• Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors of Members
of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII
Century. 3 vols.
• The Roster and Register of the General Society of the
War of 1812. 3 vols.
• Ancestral Records and Portraits: Colonial Dames of
America. 2 vols.
• Founders and Patriots of America Index
• Some Colonial Dames of Royal Descent
• The Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry, Lineage
of Members
• Ancestor Lineages of Members Texas Society/National
Society Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century
• Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors and War Service
• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial
Governors
• Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Delaware,
Register of Members
System Requirements: You must have a CD-
ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must
use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0
or higher), which is available as a free download at
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher
(Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from
www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).
Egle’s Notes and Queries of
Pennsylvania, 1700s-1800s
#GPC7019; Published by and available from
Genealogical Publishing Co., 3600 Clipper Mill
Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-1953. Phone: 800-
296-6687. $39.99 each with $4.00 for shipping
plus 6% sales tax for Maryland residents. ISBN:
9780806397054. See: http://www.genealogical.
com/products/7019.html.
This CD offers unprecedented advantages and
savings to anyone undertaking research in central
Pennsylvania. Comprising a total of twelve
volumes, Egle’s celebrated Notes and Queries is the
most important multi-volume work on the genealogy,
biography, and history of central Pennsylvania
ever published. Included in its nearly 5,000 pages
are a vast number of genealogies, family sketches,
and biographies, as well as extensive lists of early
settlers and soldiers of the various wars, including
the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War,
and the War of 1812. In addition, the work encompasses
an impressive array of genealogical source
records—early wills, church records, marriage and
death records, tax lists, and lists of early immigrants
and frontiersmen.
For fast and easy access, all names mentioned in
the twelve volumes of Egle’s Notes and Queries are
available on this CD via a single, electronic index,
which is based on the renowned two-volume index
prepared by the Decatur [Illinois] Genealogical Society
in 1982 and 1986. As a point of interest Notes
and Queries was originally published between 1879
and 1895 as a series of newspaper columns in the
Harrisburg Daily Telegraph, then carried forward and
published in five annual volumes between 1896 and
1900. The columns (and offprints of the columns
which appeared in pamphlet form) were reprinted
in seven volumes between the years 1894 and 1896;
thus, with the five annual volumes for 1896-1900, the
complete set of Notes and Queries that appears on this
CD totals 12 volumes.
System Requirements: You must have a CD-ROM
drive, and in order to read the CD you must use either
the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0 or higher),
which is available as a free download at www.
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genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher (Family
Tree Maker software can be ordered from www.
FamilyTreeMaker.com).
Index of Wills & Marriage
Licenses for Dublin
Diocese Up to 1800
Compiled by Dr. J.J. Digges, 2008; Published by
and available from Flyleaf Press, 4 Spencer Villas,
Glenageary, County Dublin, Ireland. $28.00
U.S. includes shipping ($28.75 Canadian). ISBN:
978-0-9539974-8-0. See: http://www.flyleaf.ie/
Wills%20CD.htm.
A Minimum IBM Compatible Pentium 90 Mhz with
16MB RAM. Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 or higher is
needed, available to be downloaded free at www.
adobe.com.
Gone From Texas
Compiled by Patricia Pate Havlice, 2008;
Published by and available from Berrish Books,
9427 Amberjack Dr., Texas City, TX 77591. $29.95
plus shipping. ISBN: 978-0-615-25894-2. email:
kareneb1@verizon.net.
This CD-ROM is an index of wills, marriage licenses,
and other applications to the Consistorial Court of
Dublin Diocese, serving the counties of Dublin,
Wicklow, and part of Kildare, from 1200 to 1800. It
covers about 40,000 people, and was compiled by Dr.
J.J. Digges. It was originally published as an appendix
to the 26th Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public
Records of Ireland (1895).
At this period many of the legal functions which
are now the duty of a civil Probate court were performed
by the Church of Ireland. This included proving
wills and regulation of marriages for all religious
denominations. The index names almost 40,000 people
and the year of the court judgment of each. An
address is given for some 8,000 of the people listed,
and trade, status or other personal information is
provided for approximately 4,000.
System Requirements: You must have a CD-ROM
drive, and Windows 98; 2000; NT 4.0, XP or higher.
This CD-ROM contains the entire 2,479-page book of
Gone From Texas—all in PDF. The CD is fully word
searchable, and is also in Alphabetical Order. The volume
is a necrology listing more than 130,000 deaths
that occurred from January 1, 1880 to December 31,
1900 of people who died in Texas, Texans who died
outside the state, and people who lived in Texas for
a time, but died somewhere else.
The index was created from information extracted
from news articles, funeral notices, cards of
thanks, and mortuary reports from the following
newspapers:
• Dallas (Daily) Times Herald
• Houston (Daily) Post
• Galveston Daily News
• San Antonio Express
Entries are coded by newspaper followed by date,
page, and column, enabling the researcher to request
the article on interlibrary loan from your local library.
The entries include:
• Name
• Age or birth year
• Nicknames and stage names where available
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• Maiden names of married women
• Names of former husbands
Many entries have references to more than one
day’s paper. The PDF file format enables one to search
alternate spellings, maiden names, possible misspelling,
and aliases.
Searching for Dollarhides in the index, I found
the Francis Dollahite family entries. Dollahite
is often a variant spelling of Dollarhide.
System Requirements: You must have a CD-ROM
drive. Runs on both IBM compatible and Mac operating
systems. Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 or higher is
needed, available for free download at www.adobe.
com.
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Genealogy Sites
This issue of the Helper continues a comprehensive review of websites on the Internet, those with the greatest value to
family historians. The Net Family History (NFH) magazine within a magazine allows in-depth coverage relating to
genealogical research on the Internet. (Note the black bleed at the edge of each page so you can thumb directly to the NFH
pages). Each issue includes a new edition of Everton’s Best Rated Genealogy Sites, featuring reviews written by the NFH
editors. We are presenting annotated lists of genealogy websites, overviews of specific categories of websites, new resources,
and major updates to existing websites. Websites featured in Everton’s Best Rated Genealogy Sites, in our opinion are of
great value to genealogists. There is no rating system, but the fact that a website is mentioned places that website among
the top websites online. Any website selected for review in Everton’s Best Rated Genealogy Sites, is granted an award
and a logo that can be included at the site to recognize it as one of the “Everton’s Best Rated Genealogy Sites.”
The Best Scandinavian Sites on the Net
By Jeffr ey A. Bo c k m a n
We continue our look at foreign countries by moving
up to the Scandinavian countries of Denmark,
Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland. While it is
impossible to cover everything about researching
within a single county in an article, let alone several,
I have attempted to provide some basic information
about the various records that are available or in
some cases the lack thereof.
The intent of this series is to look at websites that
provide access to images of real records. There are,
however a few “non-image” sites that have also been
included, such as indexes to or transcribed data from
civil, parish or other official records where the documents
are not available online or are only available
for a fee.
Getting Started
One of the best places to learn about the various
records and their availability when starting to do
research in a new county is to review the Research
Outlines at:
Family Search
www.familysearch.org—Free Site: www.family
search.org/Eng/Search/RG/frameset rg.asp
They provide information about the history and
availability of Church records, Civil Registration,
Court Records, Census Records, Probate Records, Immigration,
and many others.
Pick the first letter of the country or location of interest
and look for the “Country Research Outline.”
Also check to see if they have produced a version
of their new publication titled “Finding Records of
Your Ancestors, Country” for the country of interest.
These are downloadable and printable files that
include sample images of the various record types.
World GenWebProject
www.worldgenweb.org—Free site
Another good place to learn about a new location
is the local GenWebProject site. These are volunteer
projects and the content can vary greatly but they
can provide information about local records and
resources along with links to online or transcribed
records. Start at the World GenWebProject and then
select the region, the country, and then finally the local
sites. They should also have links to helpful local
organizations and any online records.
Major Issues
On the good side, there are wonderful church/parish
records in these countries. The FamilySearch “Finding
Records” guides show samples of the various parish
records with translations of the column headings. Unfortunately
you will need to know which parish your
ancestors lived in to be able to find and use them.
Some of the challenges to researching within Scandinavia
are the lack of fully indexed countrywide censuses
to help you find exactly where your ancestors
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Country Ended Language male female Son Daughter
Denmark 1860 Danish sen datter Anders Hansen Anna Hansdatter
Finland 1880-1921 Finish npoika ntytar Anders Hansnpoika Anna Hansntytar
lived, the fact that a few of the boundaries with neighboring
countries have changed over the years, that
their languages are not very familiar, and that the
Patronymic naming system was used extensively.
Location
You need to find your ancestor’s town of origin. Work
from Known to Unknown. Check every U.S. record to
see if there are clues to their place of birth. You really
need to know the name of the county, village, parish,
or even farm. Check the U.S. Census records for the
year of arrival and see if they were naturalized. Later
passenger lists, immigration, and naturalization records
often contain the village name. The U.S. Federal
naturalization records of a spouse may contain the
arrival year and village of birth of their spouse. A
foreign census index or an emigration record may
also provide their birthplace.
If your ancestors arrived before their birthplace
was required, then check the records of any younger
siblings or later family arrivals to see if they may
have provided a clue.
Swedish sson dotter Anders Hansson Anna Hansdotter
Norway 1875-1900 Norwegian sen datter Anders Hansen Anna Hansdatter
Sweden 1875-1901 Swedish sson dotter Anders Hansson Anna Hansdotter
Iceland Still in use Icelandic son/sson sdottir Anders Hanson Anna Hansdottir
Table 1
machine language translation later in this article. You
may want to consider having two browser panels running
at the same time, one with the actual website and
one with the translator. Text can be cut and pasted or
images transcribed into the translate window.
Patronymics
Rather than using a family surname, a child’s surname
shows that they are the son or daughter of their
father. In Table 1 above the father is Hans and his
children are Anders and Anna.
Boundaries
Historical maps help to determine the geo-political
boundaries at a particular point in time. Regional
maps are good because they show the position of a
Language
Some of the websites have English versions, look for a
British flag. Even then, all of the pages are not translated
and the images of any records or newspapers
will be in the native language.
As the boundaries changed, the language of the
official records may also have changed.
Two websites that can help to translate Scandinavian
words or even an entire webpage are:
• Google Language Tools: www.google.com/language
tools
• Majstro Multi-language translator: www.majstro.
com/Web/Majstro/sdict.php
These translations will not be perfect, but they
can give you an idea of the content. If you are trying
to communicate with someone using machine
translated text, I strongly recommend that you copy
the suggested translated version and then translate it
back to the original language to see if the meaning is
anything close to the original. Out of necessity, and
for a little humor, I have included a few examples of
1523 Map
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country or a territory in relationship to the surrounding
areas.
University of Texas
Perry-Castaneda Library—map collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical
A map of Scandinavia in the time of Gustavus Vasa
(790K) Map 17 is contained in the Cambridge Modern
History Atlas, 1912. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
historical/ward 1912/scandinavia 1523.jpg
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
www.DavidRumsey.com
This collection has over 18,460 online maps.
“The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
has over 18,460 maps online. The collection
focuses on rare 18th and 19th century
North American and South American maps and
other cartographic materials. Historic maps of
the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also
represented.”
To find maps, choose Directory, Browse by Lists,
Select “Where.” Choose Scandinavia or go to ht t p://
www.davidrumsey.com/directory/where/Scandinavia/
to view links of the 46 maps.
A Google Image search for ”scandinavia site:www.
davidrumsey.com” returns 138 images.
Denmark
Family Search Research Outline for Denmark
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/frame
set rg.aspDest=G1&Aid=&Gid=&Lid=&Sid=&Did=
&Juris1=&Event=&Year=&Gloss=&Sub=&Tab=&
Entry=&Guide=Denmark.ASP
Finding Records of Your Ancestors
in Denmark 1834 to 1900
B&W: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/
images/36577 Denmark Finding Ancestors.pdf
Color: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/
RG/images/36577 Denmark Finding Ancestors
color.pdf
Record info: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/
search/RG/frameset rg.aspDest=E&Juris1=137
Denmark GenWebProject
http://www.dis-danmark.dk/dis-english.asp
http://dis-danmark.dk—in Danish
For links to reference works concerning the individual
parishes select: Amt-herred-sogn portalen
(county-district-parish)
http://www.e-bachmann.dk/genealogy/dis-danmark.dk
http://www.e-bachmann.dk/genealogy/dis-danmark.dk/index
en.php—in English
ArkivalierOnline
www.arkivalieronline.dk—Free site
The Danish State Archives
http://www.arkivalieronline.dk/English/default
.aspx—English
“Parish registers and population censuses are
being digitized by The Danish State Archives
Filming Centre in order to make them accessible
via the Internet. The digitization project is
primarily scanning microfiches and microfilms.
There is no fixed timetable for the launch of each
parish register and population census on the
Internet, as this is a continuous process.
The parish registers and population censuses
will be displayed as pictures of the original records.
The pictures show that many records are
marked by poor storage conditions, poor ink
quality and general wear and tear—a state of
affairs that is irremediable. No registers have
been compiled in which to search for personal
names, occupations, addresses, etc.“
Church books (kirkebøger)—Images
“All Danish parish registers older than 1892
are included in the digitization project. The
end year may, however, differ for South Jutland
(North Schleswig) because the local parish registers
were kept according to different rules in
the period 1864-1920, when South Jutland was
under German administration.“
Census (folketællinger)—Images
The following population censuses are accessible via
the Internet: 1787, 1801, 1834, 1840, 1850, 1855, and
1860. The following population censuses will become
accessible in the future: 1845, 1880, 1890, and 1916.
Any other population censuses are not included in
this project. It should be noted that only population
censuses taken within the Kingdom of Denmark will
be made available at this site.
System Access
In order to be able to view the Church and Census
images your PC needs to be running at least Windows
XP with Service Pack 2 and Java version 6, update
10.
ArkivalierOnline requires a free registration
(brugerregistrering). On front page of www.
arkivalieronline.dk select ny burger, then on next
page select Opret ny burger.
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Fill in your Given Name, Surname, Address, Zip
code, Town (and state) to the right, Country (Land),
and finally email. Then Check “Oprette” and Click
Send.
Your password will arrive in your email within
minutes. Use your email address and the password to
log in. You can change your personal info, password
included, after logging in by selecting “brugerprofil”
(User profile).
(Confirmations), V-Viede (Marriage), and D-Døde
(Death).
After selecting the desired book, it is a bit of trial
and error to locate the correct record type and date.
There is a color code next to the Opslag (poster) number
to show which pages have been viewed.
Finding the Parish
The good news is that all of the older parish records
are available online for free; however, you do need
to know the parish in order to find the desired records.
It also helps to know the exact date of an
event. Review U.S. vital records, military, immigration
and naturalization records for clues. I have
been able to locate the images of several records
after finding the dates and places from IGI entries
at FamilySearch.com.
The Danish Demographic Database, listed next,
can possibly locate individuals in census records that
often provide the birth parish and timeframe as well
as the necessary details to narrow down the search
for a census record image. One record can often provide
the necessary information such as birthplace,
age, or home to help locate other records.
Parish Registers—Images
Click on Søg i kirkebøger (Search in parish registers)
Select the desired Amt (County), Herred (Alle is
for All), and Sogn (Parish). A list of the available records
will then appear.
1858 Births in Trinitatis, Kobenhavn
Birth entries show the Entry number, the Date,
Child’s full name, Christening Date (in church or at
Home), Parent’s Names, Mother’s Age, and the names
of the Godparents. The Patronymic naming system
was in use until 1860. There was a transition period
as people began to use family surnames.
1858 Marriage Record for Lorenz Christian
Neuhaus and Regina Oelund
List of Records for Kongens Lyngby
The Keys for the codes that appear at the top of
each column are: F-Fodte (Birth), K-Konfirmered
Marriage entries contain the Bride and Groom’s
name, age, occupation, and residence along with the
two Bondsmen, and the marriage date. The last entry
is if the marriage was performed in the church
or at home, and if it was done at home, the date that
permission was given.
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Census Records—Images
Click on Søg i folketælling (Search in population census).
Browsing the census records is actually a more
accurate description. First, select the årgang (Year),
then the Stedbetegnelse (Place Name), and finally
the Gade (Street) and then Click “Hent oplysninger”
(Download information). The viewer window will
open with a list of pages. It becomes a bit of trial and
error at this point to find the desired page.
1880 Census record
In the 1880 Census there are three pages for each
place. There is a summary page, then the Hovediste
with the list of people and a Tillaegsliste (Supplementary
list). The Hovediste page contains the place
name (parish, town or farm), the Family enumeration
number, the Person’s enumeration number, their
full name, sex, age, marital status, creed, birth place,
and status in the family. At the beginning of one of
the 1845 census there is a place name index telling
the range of pages for each town. Some useful terms
are: Kvarter—Town quarter, Købstad—Town, Amt—
County, Herred—District (formerly a judicial district),
and Sogn/Landsogn—Parish/rural parish.
Danish Demographic Database
www.ddd.dda.dk—Free Site
www.ddd.dda.dk/ddd en.htm—
in English (but not all databases!)
The Danish Demographic Database (DDD) allows you
to search for people in the indexes of various Census,
Emigrant, Probate, and Immigrant databases.
CENSUS/Folketaellinger—Index
1769-1921 Census Search
http://ddd.dda.dk/d4/dddweb/asp/dddform uk.asp
http://ddd.dda.dk/dddform uk.aspsit=2
Only the 1787, 1801, 1834, 1840, 1845, 1850, 1855, 1860,
1880, 1890, 1906, and the 1916 censuses are available
at the site. It does not include the 1870, 1901, 1921,
and 1925 censuses. This is a work in progress and
all entries for the available years have not yet been
entered.
A search can be done for all years or for any single
year but it can only be done for a single county at a
time. The screen must be reset in order to choose
another county. The advanced search says that you
can select multiple counties, but it caused an error
whenever I tried it.
Click “Søgning efter personer” to search for a
person.
Enter Navn = Name (minimum 3 letters, blank
separator, “_” replaces 1 char, “%” is wildcard), Amt
(County) must be selected, “Alle aldre” = All ages.
Køn: = Sex. Then Click “Søg” to search.
Searching by name is a little different with this
system. It gives the choice of “contains”, “=” (equals),
and “starts with.” The default is “contains.” After
entering a search for Neuhaus, it returned entries
with Neuhaus as a middle name along with a number
of entries for Neuhausen. I changed the search
to equals Neuhaus and nothing was returned. I then
noticed that this is not a surname search, but a full
name search.
Search results of contains Bockman in Kobenhavn
Emigrants
Emigrant database (1868 - 1908)—Index
http://www.emiarch.dk/home.php3l=en in English
While there are no images at this site, the information
provided can be used to possibly locate the images of
passenger lists or immigration records at other sites
such as the Hamburg records at www.Ancestry.com,
Castle Garden (www.castlegarden.org), and Ellis Island
(www.ellisislandrecords.com).
Details about the database were found on the Information
page: “Emigration lists compiled by the
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Copenhagen Police from 1869 to 1940. These lists give
the name, last residence, age, year of emigration, and
first destination of the emigrant from Denmark. The
records are made available for the years 1869 to 1908
(394,000 emigrants). The Danish Emigration Data
Base compiled by the Danish Emigration Archives
and The City Archives of Aalborg.
The Danish emigration material and the database
Following a number of scandals in which unsuspecting
emigrants were conned by Danish emigration
agents, The Danish parliament passed more stringent
regulations on May 1, 1868. According to the new
law, The Copenhagen Chief of Police was to approve
and monitor all emigration agents in Denmark and
authorize all overseas tickets made out in Denmark.
This was to be done whether an emigrant would be
traveling directly from Copenhagen to the United
States or indirectly via another European harbor for
destinations overseas. As an extra measure of control,
all the information from each ticket was copied down
in ledgers, and thus became the Copenhagen Police
Records of Emigrants. A total of 90 thick volumes
were compiled, containing the same type of information
for every emigrant. In spite of the care taken,
the records are time-consuming to use and, in fact,
there are two series of ledgers—one for emigrants
who had direct passage from Copenhagen and one
for those who had indirect passage. In each series,
the emigrants are listed year by year in roughly alphabetical
order according to the first letter of his or
her surname.
The Danish emigrant database
Although difficult to use in their original form, the
uniform nature of the police records made this material
a natural choice for electronic data processing.
Initial efforts to code the material were made
by Kristian Hvidt when data processing was still in
its infancy. Unfortunately, these first efforts did not
include personal or place names. Personal names are,
however, a prerequisite for dealing with genealogical
queries and for making a person to person comparison
with the American passenger lists. In 1990,
therefore, the Danish Emigration Archives began
compiling a database including all the information
provided in the police records for all Danish emigrants.
To date we have stored data for 394,000 persons
who emigrated from May 24, 1868, to December
1908. For each emigrant, 13 items of basic information
have been taken from the records: surname, first
name, occupation, family status, age, place of birth
(from 1899), last known residence (Danish emigrants,
aliens only country-name), name of the emigration
agent, ticket number, ticket registration date, name
of the ship (only for direct passage from Copenhagen),
destination and possible cancellation of the
ticket. Added to this are 11 sets of codes to assist in
making searches.
Source: The Provincial Archives of Sealand, Copenhagen
Police Records of Emigrants 1868-1940: no.
21-58 Direct emigrants; 198-248 Indirect emigrants;
59-196 Ships sailings with passenger lists.”
To Search the Database, first Click on Databases.
On the search screen at www.emiarch.dk/search.
php3l=en there are a variety of options including
parts of a name or occupation, the person’s age, or
their destination.
Immigrants
Search Results for Bockman
Indvandrerhistoriske databaser—Index
Immigrant Historical databases
http://ddd.dda.dk/immibas/htm/immibaslink.htm
The following databases can be searched and may
provide a person’s birth date and birthplace.
Arbejdsophold 1812–1924—Index
Working holidays 1812–1924
http://ddd.dda.dk/immibas/immibas1.asp
The following are Google translated text.
“The Native people who have been working
visit in Brunswick County, Copenhagen County
(not Copenhagen and Frederiksberg), and most
of Los Angeles. The database comprises some
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107,000 items and is based mainly on Chief protocols
of issued residence papers and parish bailiff
the servant protocols for the years 1875-1924.
In Brunswick County is also the church books to
and departure lists 1812-1875 (urban 1812-1854)
included, but not the other areas. How servant
protocols exceptionally goes further back than
1875, these included.”
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Rasmussen
The following is the translated and transcribed
entry for:
Surname: Rasmussen, First name: August, Birth
Date: 00.00.1819, Arrival: 00.00.1835,
Arrival: Tjenestekarl, Arrived from (country):
Sweden, Arr. from the (local): Vixjöl,
Birth: Sweden, Tj. / Oph.sted (region): Frederiksborg
County Tj. / oph.sted (parish): Sct. Marie
Source number: 1100902
Indfødsretstildeling 1776 - 1960—Index
Naturalization Award 1776 - 1960
http://ddd.dda.dk/immibas/immibas2.asp
“Persons who have been granted citizenship.
The database is nationwide and includes 50,317
entries. The database built from 1776-1849 to a
record of naturalization Patents and from 1850-
1940 at the comments on the draft laws naturalization.
Please note that from 1898 achieves
incapacitated wife and children automatic citizenship
when the man gets the allocated. This
means that married women and children do not
appear in the database, although they have obtained
citizenship. Widows who have applied independently
and received naturalization should
normally be sought during their married name.
Furthermore, it must be pointed out that after
1914 persons acting in the base, which have not
obtained citizenship, because they have not met
the condition—within a year—to show that they
are released from their former citizenship.
When as a result of a search for a final stand:
The Law of xx xx xxxx Item number / pag. xxx
Supplement x, it means that he has been granted
citizenship with the law in question under the
serial number (before 1850 listed on the page).
Appendix (A, B) means that information must
be found in the Official Journal of Parliament in
Appendix A and Appendix B.
Serial numbers may differ slightly from the
final bill—especially up in 1930-40s, because
the serial numbers that—after 1915—is used in
the database are those persons have entered in
appendices and not them, they are Having entered
into the final bill.
Immigrant Museum—Bodenstown Museums—is
usually not in possession of additional
information beyond what is in surcharges to
parliament Journal of the minutes of naturalization
Patents. If you wish further information,
those sought in individual applications for
naturalization in the Public Record Office.”
Deportees 1875-1919—Index
http://ddd.dda.dk/immibas/immibas3.asp
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“Persons who were deported from Denmark
1875-1919. The table includes 31,000 items, but
some people are shown several times. The database
is based on police internal journal of Police
Intelligence. Most expulsions occurred after
foreign law either without injunction (in Copenhagen
quoted as Home Delivered) or with tumbler,
i.e., with and without an obligation not to
return to the country. Some are deported after
a criminal offense.”
Kirkebilleder
http://dis-danmark.dk/kirkeimg/list kirker.asp
Navn=A—Free Site
Once you have found the family’s parish then you
will want find a photograph of the church. This
site contains a collection of photographs of all the
churches in Denmark.
Select the first letter of the church’s name and select
from the list. The sort order of the selection list
can be changed to list them by Parish (Sogne) or by
location (Herreder).
Esbjerg Arkive
http://www.eba.esbjergkommune.dk—Free site
This archive on the west coast of Jutland has three
collections of photographs that can be found under
Links and then Billeddatabaser.
Search results for Rasmussen
Odense billeder
http://museum.odense.dk/odensebilleder/billed
start.asp
Herreder=Haderslev
Danish Probate Index
http://ddd.dda.dk/dprob/soeg skifte.html—Index
The index to probate records from Thisted, Viborg,
Aalborg, and Randers counties of Denmark was
made by volunteers at the Family History Library in
Salt Lake City over the period of over 20 years. This
index can provide the name of the farm or parish
where they lived at the time of their death along with
the name of their spouse or a parent, and possibly
their occupation.
“Odense City Museum has a large collection
of old photographs, drawings and more from
New Jersey. Picture located physically on Bymuseet
Coins Farm, Overgade 48, New Jersey.
We are in the process of digital image collection
and will eventually make the images available
here on the Internet site. The images may be
used freely for non-commercial use in newspapers,
magazines and printed matter, stating:
Source: Odense City Museums.”
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There are currently 9,885 images in the database.
The other two collections are the Danske billeder and
Fotograf Tønnies samling (Aalborg).
Ancestry.com
http://www.ancestry.com/search/locality/dbpage.
aspxi=d&tp=1652381&p=5071—Subscription site
At present there is nothing for Denmark except for
a reference to “Sous le masque de “William Shakespeare”:
William Stanley, VIe comte de Derby”
which is a book in French that contains references to
Danemark.
Finland
Family Search Research Outline for Finland:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/
Search/RG/guide/Finland.ASP
Finding Records of Your Ancestors
in Finland Before 1900
Color http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/
RG/images/Finding Records Finland 36687.pdf
Finland GenWebProject
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~finwgw/
This site only has some basic information and a number
of links.
A little history
In 1808-1809 Sweden lost Finland to Russia. In 1917,
Finland became independent from Russia.
In Eastern Finland, fixed family surnames that
often ended in “nen” were used.
The Genealogical Society of Finland
HisKi project
http://hiski.genealogia.fi/hiskien
This site has transcribed and indexed church records.
From their Instruction link:
“The data included in the history books
has been put into a database and standardized
so that searches are possible. The data
is intended only for searches and not to replace
the original history books or their handwritten
copies (“black books”). The data may
include mistakes and all information should
be checked from the original source. Note that
the database does not include events from the
20th century. Read also the more detailed instructions
for using the books of christened,
married and buried as well as of those who
have moved in or out.”
Selecting Alajärvi showed that the following records
were available:
• Christened (1754-1756, 1758-1762, 1764-1855, 1857)
• Married (1754-1863)
• Buried (1754-1864)
• All (1754-1864)
• Statistics (1754-1864)
HisKi Project homepage
Alajärvi Christened: Search results for Anna
Institute of Migration
Siirtolaisuusinstituutti
http://www.migrationinstitute.fi/emreg/rekisteri e
.php—Subscription site
The “List of Databases” at http://www.migrationinstitute.fi/emreg/sr
faq2 e.php includes:
Passenger lists (318,000 records)
“The passenger lists from the Finland Steamship
Company give information on emigrants
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from Finland, mostly through the port of Hanko.
Most of these are Finnish emigrants, but the
database also contains information on Russian
passengers who went through Finland. The passenger
lists covers the following periods: 1892-
1896, 1899-1914, 1920-1939, and 1949-1960 (original
sources of information cover only rather small
part of all the emigrants after 1949).”
Passport records (197,000 records)—Index
“The passport records are based on the lists
kept by the provinces and magistrates from the
beginning of the 1800s to 1920. At the beginning
of 2005 the following areas and time periods
were available in the database:
• Hanko / Hangö town magistrate, 1900-1903
• Häme province, 1903-1904
• Kristiinankaupunki / Kristinestad town magistrate,
1890-1891 and 1900-1901
• Kokkola / Gamla Karleby town magistrate,
1899-1902
• Kuopio province, to Russia: 1890-1899, and to
overseas countries (incl. America): 1900-1915
• Mikkeli province, 1914-1915
• Oulu province, 1897-1922
• Turku and Pori province, 1899-1905
• Vaasa province, 1896-1904
• Viipuri province, to America: 1906-1909
More than 100,000 records are still to be entered
in the database.”
There are also other records:
• References to books and newspapers
• Register of Australian Finns
• Register of New Zealand Finns
• Finnish Russians 1930-1950
• Other online databases
• Records from the Archives of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
• Other databases of the emigrant register
There is a limited free search at http://www.migrationinstitute.fi/emregfree/nimihaku
e.php.
The results from the free passenger list search for
Bockman were:
Last name First names Date
Bockman Frank 08.06.1910
Bockman Isak . .9999
Bockman Johan 08.04.1902
Muisti
http://www-db2.helsinki.fi/muisti/muisti.muisti
haku.haku sivup kieli=e
Details on a portrait of Robert E. A. Bjorkenheim
This is a joint database of digitized national material
of libraries, archives, and museums.
You can search by keywords or select items from
an extensive “Title list” that included portraits, photographs,
and a variety of items.
National Library of Finland
Digital Collections
http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/index.html—Free site
“Vast numbers of newspapers, periodicals,
small printed items, and books contained in the
rich collections of the National Library of Finland
have now been digitized to form a fascinating
material that throws light on the past and
present as parts of our national identity. The
opportunity to browse through and search this
material is now within the reach of scholars,
students and all users of the Web.”
Newspapers—Images
The National Library digitizes all newspapers published
in Finland 1771-1890. The Newspaper Library
will contain 165 titles and approximately 900,000
pages.
The Search page is at: http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/
sanomalehti/secure/query.html.
There are links to several newspapers from 150
years ago today.
Ephemera—Some Images
The Ephemera Collection contains approximately
three million printings. The materials, publications
associated with the activities of various communities
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and organizations, consist primarily of guidebooks,
instructions, membership lists, invitations, menus,
and telephone directories. Printed products related
to communications, such as programs, exhibition
catalogues, brochures, time schedules and calendars,
have been placed in the Ephemera Collection.“ One of
the major collections is the images of the Industrial
price lists 1810-1944.
Ancestry.com
http://www.ancestry.com/search/locality/dbpage.
aspxi=d&tp=1652381&p=5086
Finland Country Study
http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspxdbid=3356
“Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,
Inc., 1998. Original data: Solsten, Eric, ed.. Finland,
A Country Study. Washington, D.C.: Library
of Congress, 1988.
Lying largely within the Arctic Circle, the
hardy people of Finland share much in common
with both their Scandinavian and Russian
neighbors. This country study unfolds to
the researcher these and other facts about this
frigid land. Prepared by the Library of Congress
and completed in 1988, this database provides
the researcher information on Finnish culture,
economics, politics, and history. Regardless of
research experience, this database is designed
to illuminate significant aspects of the nation.
Although not a searchable list of names which patrons
of Ancestry.com have come to expect, this study is for
those attempting to understand the larger context in
which their ancestors lived.”
As they stated above (my italics) research is more
than just looking for information by a name. Learning
about the history of an area, the political events,
and stories about other people living in the same
time and place gives one a better understanding of
their ancestor’s lives. These are often the tools that
can help get past brick walls.
Norway
Family Search Research Outline for Norway:
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/
frameset rg.aspDest=G1&Aid=&Gid=&Lid=
&Sid=&Did=&Juris1=&Event=&Year=&Gloss=
&Sub=&Tab=&Entry=&Guide=Norway.ASP
Finding Records of Your Ancestors
in Norway 1827 to 1900
B&W: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/
RG/images/36578 norway finding ancestor.pdf
Color: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/
images/36578 norway finding ancestor color.pdf
Norway GenWebProject
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wgnorway/
I would like to thank Jerry at the Norwegian American
Genealogical Center & Naeseth Library www.
nagcnl.org in Madison, WI for his recommendations
for the three main Norwegian research sites: Digital
Archives, University of Tromso, and Norway Heritage
Hands Across the Seas.
Digital Archive of Norway
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/index-eng.htm
“Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives) is the Norwegian
National Archives’ channel for publication of
digitized archive material in the form of images,
transcribed texts, and databases. The publication
includes archive material both from electronic
sources and traditional paper sources, that are
either digitized from an original or a microfilm.
The digitized material is processed in the National
Archives (Riksarkivet), the regional state archives
(statsarkivene) or in our digitizing units. Some of
the material is also produced through external cooperation.
The Regional State Archives of Bergen
is responsible for the daily management of Digitalarkivet,
as well as being chief editor of the internet
site.” Their “How to” page is at http://digitalarkivet.
uib.no/sab/howto.html.
The language is Norwegian, but there are some
pages with English versions. Many of the search result
pages do not have English versions and any text in the
returned data fields and images is in Norwegian.
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Parish Registers (Kirkebøker)—Images
http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb read
Information about the parish records can be found at
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/sab/howto.html#Parish
registers Kirkebøker .
“The Digital Archives is proud to present a
new Internet service for browsing digitized parish
registers, launched on 8th November 2005.
The registers are digitized from microfilm and
then indexed. The registers are not published
before they have been indexed. The images are
indexed at page level. This means that you can
easily find the first page of a register, as well as
the start of a list of records, or the start of each
year in this list. From this point you can browse
through the pages in the register or through a list
of records, even though the records are scattered
around in the original parish register. Please notice
that you cannot, however, search on single
records and names in the digitized material.
The microfilm department of The National
Archives holds close to all parish registers
Results from selecting Oslo and Aker
delivered from the priests´ office to The Regional
State Archives, i.e., nearly 11,000 registers
with a total of 1.85 million microfilmed pages.
According to our plan, all the material will be
published within 2007. The digitized material
will interact with the databases in The Digital
Archives eventually, but in the mean time you
find the digitized parish registers here.“
Census Returns (Folketellinger)—Index
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/sab/howto.html#Census
returns Folketellinger
“National censuses were taken in 1769, 1801,
and every tenth year from 1815, up to and including
1875. From 1890 (1891) a population census
has been taken every tenth year. All census
returns from 1900 and earlier are available for
inspection. They are all located in the National
Archives, except for the 1875 and 1900 returns,
which are kept in the regional archives.
From a genealogical point of view, the best
census is from 1801, because it lists the individual’s
name, age, occupation, and family status.
The census returns from 1865 onward are also
useful because they provide information about
each person’s place of birth, etc. Some of the
figures given (in particular those regarding age
or year of birth) can be rather inaccurate. The
other records provide mostly statistical data.
The 1769 census, however, includes some name
lists, mostly from northern Norway, and the
1815-45 returns give lists of persons in a few
scattered parishes. For 1870 and 1885 there are
census returns only for towns. These records
are kept partly in the National Archives and
partly in the regional archives.”
1801—http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/Web-
Meta.exeslag=vismeny&katnr=1&emnenr=2
1865—http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/Web-
Meta.exeslag=vismeny&katnr=1&emnenr=3
1853 Banns for Aker Search Result for Bockman
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together with the local sheriffs and mayors. In
each counting ward it was the schoolmasters or
especially selected persons who went from door
to door, and penned the actual census lists.”
An example of the registration form used can
be found at http://digitalarkivet.no/dok/1900/
skj1900-3.htm.
Detailed List for the Household
1875—http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/Web-
Meta.exeslag=vismeny&katnr=1&emnenr=4
“On this page you can search in the entire
1875 census for Norway, notice however that
the census is not yet complete. Nearly all of the
material has been registered by The Norwegian
Historical Data Centre (NHDC) and they have
concentrated most of the registration work on
the census lists from the north of Norway. If you
look in the menu to the left you will see a list of
all the counties represented in the census. You
can open up a county by clicking on the name
and then get a list of municipalities available
in the census.“
1900 Household result
Photo album of farms in the 1900 census
“December 2005, a new feature was introduced
in the Digital Archives. One can now submit
digitized photographs of farms in the 1900
census. In connection with this feature, a photo
album was established so that you can browse
the different photos without having to search in
the 1900 census. But there is a link in the album
between the farm photo and the respective farm
in the census list, so that one can find information
on the farm and household. When browsing
the census lists in a municipality in the 1900
census, all the lists with submitted photos, will
be marked with an icon of a house.”
List Databases with submitted photos
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/WebMeta.exe
slag=visrss
There are 1490 items listed.
1875 Result for Neuhaus
1900 Census
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/WebMeta.
exeslag=vismeny&katnr=1&emnenr=5
The census of 3 December 1900
“The royal resolution of 8 August 1900 proclaimed
that a general census was to be held
for the night before 3 December 1900. The aim
was to acquire a detailed survey of the whole
of the Norwegian population. People were to
be registered with the place of residence at the
time of registration. In the rural areas it was
the vicars who were responsible for the census
1900-telling for 1115 Helleland
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Property/Real estate
Digitized Real Estate Registers
“This material consists of mortgage books,
which contains written copies of official stated
public documents sorted chronological after
their stated date. It also consists of registers,
which are short descriptions and locators to
the mortgage books, sorted by property. The
registers and mortgage books are located at the
Archives by local officials.
This service provides three different entries to the
material.
Property: “Use this entry if you know whole or
parts of names and/or real estate reverence numbers.
This entry has at this stage a limited coverage and
only works for registers younger than 1880.”
Register: “Use this when you don’t find your information
by using the property entry. By eyeball
reading the registers (you need to understand and
read handwritten Norwegian text) you may find your
references and then use this to look into the mortgage
book. The coverage does at this stage not include the
whole country.”
Navigate in the material by selecting county,
district court area (or bailiff area), perhaps administrative
district and mortgage register. To find the
desired property, one needs to browse the mortgage
registers, but sometimes the alphabetical property
indexes in front of the registers are useful. Follow
the reference in the mortgage registers to the mortgage
protocols. Currently, only Hedmark, Oppland,
Buskerud, Vestfold, Telemark, Hordaland, Bergen,
and Sogn og Fjordane counties are represented in
this entrance.
Mortgage book: If one knows which office (sorenskriver,
etc.), mortgage protocol and page number
to find a desired property (for instance from Infoland),
one can navigate to the specific protocol by
selecting county and office, and the lookup the exact
page by writing the page number. Currently, only
Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Vestfold, Telemark,
Hordaland, Bergen and Sogn og Fjordane counties
are represented in this entrance. Search or navigate to
the desired property in the mortgage registers by selecting
county, municipality (anno 1960), farm name,
farm unit name, or farm number/farm unit number.
Follow the reference in the mortgage register to the
actual document in the mortgage protocol. Project
status: Indexed: 6,708 books and registers, Indexed:
2,617,533 pages, Digitized: 4,300,542 pages.”
The Digital Inn
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/WebMeta.exe
slag=vispensjonat—Free site
In the Digital Inn you will find databases that are
made by either organizations or persons outside the
National Archives. The contributor is responsible
for the content in the databases, and (s)he holds the
copyright to the data. The Digital Archive offers only
an Internet-based publishing tool, and shall not distribute
the material in any other way than through
the Digital Inn. Nevertheless, the Digital Archive is
the editor of the Digital Inn, making sure the material
is of an appropriate quality for the users. The
contributor may withdraw his/her databases at any
time. Likewise, the Digital Archive may reserve itself
from publishing the databases.
In the Digital Inn you will find a list of all the contributors,
and you must visit the rooms to see with
databases they have made. However, the databases
are also available through the access “Source categories”
and the geographical accesses. The databases
from the Digital Inn will be distinguishable by a DP
in front of the link.
Digital Books
http://da2.uib.no/cgi-win/webbok.exe
There is a link to 255 digitized books. A few examples
are:
• 15. Norske folkelivsbilleder—Norwegian life photos
• 26. Bergens Adressebok 1924-1925
• 32. J.C.L. Lengnick: Personalhistoriske bidrag—
J.C.L. Lengnick: Personal History contribution
Numbers 77 through 84 for are Heimstavnsforklaringar
i Bergen 1854-1883
These are books for requesting poor support in Bergen
from 1854-1883.
Google’s translation:
”Home spell Right is a concepts that have been
central in fattigpleia far in the eighteenth time.
Very easily defined as the impoverished district
where one in naud case was entitled to poor supported,
but the rules for how long one had to be
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Faculty of Social Science at the University of
Tromsø (UiTø). Our main aim is to computerize
the Norwegian censuses 1865 onwards together
with the parish registers and other sources from
the 18th and 19th centuries.”
Census—Index only
http://www.rhd.uit.no/folketellinger/folketellinger
e.aspx
Basic search and then clicking on the house image
shows the domicile information.
Cover of Heimstavnsforklaringar i Bergen 1854-1856
An 1854 entry
Advanced Search lets you choose what fields you
would like displayed.
http://www.rhd.uit.no/folketellinger/folketellinger
avansert e.aspx
at a location before students were home right
spelling has varied from two to three years. In
those cases there was doubt about where a person
had Stavn home, it should put forhøyr of
vedkomande to decide this question. Normally
contains heimstavnsforhøyra information on
each and when vedkomande was born, parents
who were, of any spouse and children, each vedkomande
had Budd and about all the places
he or she had worked. Because of rules that one
could acquire a new home Stavn, it was very
important to all of the tidfesta hendingene it was
requested. Heimstavnsforhøyra appear in this
way that life stories, with a number of information
that is not possible to find elsewhere.”
The Norwegian Historical Data Centre
University of Tromso
http://www.rhd.uit.no/indexeng.html
“The Norwegian Historical Data Centre
(NHDC) is a national institution under the
Purchasing Census Images
http://www.rhd.uit.no/folketellinger/ftlst e.html
“The list below shows the price in Norwegian
kroner (NOK) for the paperback editions of the
censuses. The books contain records of all the
persons in each household and indexes of first
name, surname, birth place, and farm name.
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The censuses can also be ordered in electronic
format. The digital products are 50 percent of
the price of the printed products.”
Parish registers
http://www.rhd.uit.no/kirkebok/kirkebok sok
e.aspx—Transcribed records
You will need to search the Funeral, Baptism,
Marriage, Confirmation, and Migration records
separately.
The records include:
• Asker (1814-1878)
• Malvik (1823-1893)
• Bardu (1851-1877)
• Balsfjord (1856-1883)
• Ringebu (1821-1859)
• Skjerstad (1849-1894)
• Målselv (1863-1884)
• Skjervøy (1899-1909)
• Strinda (1818-1823)
• Sørfold (1791..1900)
• Malangen (1858-1886)
For a detailed list of the records and time periods
that are included see: http://www.rhd.uit.no/kirkebok/rkbok
e.html.
Norway Heritage
http://www.norwayheritage.com—Free site
information contained varies by the time period and
the data source but they may contain clues as to where
the passenger lived and if married. Viewing the list of
passengers will show who they traveled with.
Passengers on the s/s Oder in 1968
Ancestry.com
www.ancestry.com—Subscription site
Access to Ancestry.com’s foreign databases is available
to World Deluxe Members and Ancestry Library
Edition users. The following databases can be
accessed from the list of all databases for Norway
at http://www.ancestry.com/search/locality/dbpage.
aspxi=d&tp=1652381&p=5173.
Stavanger domkapitels protokol, 1571-1630
http://www.ancestry.com/search/
db.aspxdbid=29710—in Norwegian
Norway-Heritage Hands Across the Sea contains
transcribed Passenger Lists, Information about
ships, shipping lines, and ship schedules. Their ship
images and schedules were covered in my article
They Came On This Ship in the May/June 2007 issue
of the Helper.
Passenger Lists
The pre-1875 passenger lists can be searched by
name and once selected the transcribed ship list
can be viewed. Actual images of the ship lists may
be available at the destination or transfer port. The
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Source: Original data: Stavanger domkapitels protokol,
1571-1630. Christiania: Aktieselskabet Thronsen
& Co.s Bogtrykkeri, 1901.
This publication is searchable and there is an index
(register) starting on page 1a.
• Church History: records and registers for Norway,
Rogaland, Stavanger
• Table of Contents
• Title page
• Front matter
• Stavanger Domkapitels Protokol 1571-1630
• Register
Norwegian Connections
http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx
dbid=49274
“Source: Original data: Jacobson, Judy. Norwegian
Connections. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical
Publishing Co., 2005.
As she has done in a number of her other
publications (e.g., Southold (Long Island) Connections,
and Detroit River Connections),
genealogist and librarian Judy Jacobson has
universalized an individual family history by
giving it broader significance as an example of
settlement patterns. In this case, her focus is
upon her husband’s Norwegian ancestors, the
Jacobsons, and others who left the Arctic circle
fishing communities like Arberg, Harstad,
Moen, and Fredriksberg, commencing with the
outbreak of the American Civil War, for homesteading
and other opportunities in Minnesota,
North Dakota, and other states of the Great
Plains. Although many Norwegians emigrated
for religious and political reasons, the author
reminds us economic dislocation in Norway—
owing to the uncertainties of the fishing and
mercantile industries—reached such proportions
that approximately 200,000 Norwegians
emigrated in the 1880s. By the turn of the century,
Norwegians represented the largest ethnic
group among the 183,000 persons living in
North Dakota.
After providing the reader with ample background
on the history of Norwegian immigration,
Mrs. Jacobson turns to her principal
objective: to record the genealogies of families
from the Arctic fjords. In this context, she sheds
light upon the unusual naming practices that
make identifying Norwegian ancestors difficult.
For example, Norwegian children typically did
not take their father’s surname, and surnames
were in fact derived from the father’s given
name. This phenomenon helps to explain why
the book ends with a given-name index and a
surname index (as well as with indexes of subjects
and place names). This important lesson
in Norwegian onomastics is followed by detailed
genealogical and biographical accounts,
drawn from primary and secondary sources, of
the following families: Eide, Eidissen, Erichsen,
Frostad, Gjertsen, Hemmingsen, Ingebrigtsen,
Jacobson, Johansen, Pedersen, Rasmussen, Sagan,
Seversen, and Simonsen. Rounding out this
fascinating volume are illustrations of various
Norwegian communities of origin, several genealogical
appendices, and an extensive list of
sources.”
Sweden
page 161 - Rasmussen Family
Family Search Research Outline for Sweden:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/
guide/Sweden.ASP
Finding Records of Your Ancestors
in Sweden 1860 to 1920
B&W http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/
images/36579 Sweden Finding Ancestors.pdf
Color http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/
RG/images/36579 Sweden Finding Ancestors
color.pdf
The following sites are also helpful to learn about
Swedish research:
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Tracing Your Swedish Ancestry
This 47 page book by James E. Erickson and Nils
William Olson contains images of sample records.
It can be downloaded in pdf format at: http://www.
swedenabroad.se/SelectImage/15063/tracingyourswedishancestry.pdf.
Rötter
www.genealogi.se/roots/
This genealogy portal for the Federation of Swedish
Genealogical Societies is also a rich source of Swedish
genealogical information.
Sweden GenWebProject
http://www.rootsweb.com/~swewgw/
There are numerous links, guides, and discussion
boards.
Counties
Sweden is divided into 21 counties (län). Counties
and their borders were established by law in 1634.
An interactive map of the counties where you put
the mouse on the county name and it highlights the
county can be found at http://www.genline.com/databasen/swedens
lan.php.
Genline’s – Sweden’s Counties Geographically
Language
The following list of Swedish terms was found at
ProGenealogists http://www.progenealogists.com/
sweden/language.htm.
• Birth—född(e)
• Illegitimate—oäkta
• Christening—döpt(e)
• Engagement/Banns—lysnings
• Marriage—vigd(e), gift(e)
• Death—dödde
• Burial—begravd(e)
• County—län
• Parish—socken, församling
• Year—år
• Month—månad
• Day—dag
• Clerical Survey—husförhörslängd
• Moving in—inflyttning
• Moving out—utflyttning
• Probate/Inventory—bouppteckning
‘’y’’ is always used as a vowel and pronounced
“I”.
‘’AA’’ and ‘’aa’’ are pronounced as in ‘’awe.’’ (Å and
å are the letters in Sweden.)
‘’Æ’’ and ‘’æ’’ are pronounced like in “air.” (Ä and
ä are the letters in Sweden; but they can be AE or ae
in plain text on the web.)
‘’Ø’’ and ‘’ø’’ are pronounced like in ‘’earl.’’ (Ö and
ö in Sweden; but OE or oe in plain text.)
‘’j’’ is pronounced just like the consonant ‘’y’’ is
said in English.
Records
Fortunately between the Church and Civil records
there should be a record of every birth, marriage, and
death. Unfortunately you need to know the county
and parish or town where an event took place and
the approximate time period in order to be able to
find it.
Civil Records
Civil Registration began in 1860. The records for
birth, marriage, and death are similar to the Church
Records.
Church Records
In 1527 the Evangelical Lutheran Church became
the official state church of Sweden. Parishes of the
church were organized throughout the country. In
most places, parish record keeping started in 1686
following an official decree issued by the King of
Sweden to do so.
Parish records are the primary research source
for the years from 1686 to 1860. They usually include
the traditional sources such as Births (Fodde) actually
Christenings, Communion (Conformation), Marriages
(Vigda), and Deaths () actually burials. They
can also include other records such as: Household
Examination, Moving In, and Moving Out records
as well as Church Accountings.
Genline has the largest collection of digitized
church records. Ancestry also has some available.
The church record descriptions listed below the Genline
samples comes from Ancestry and give a good
overview of what the various records contain. In addition
to those described below there may also be:
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Communions (Kommunionslängd)
A person’s first communion, or confirmation, usually
took place in their adolescent years (between 14 and
18 years of age). These records may list:
• Individual’s name
• Residence
• Birth date or age
Other Parish Records:
• Accounting (Kyrkoräkenskaper)
• Releases (Avlösningslängd)
• Wives assisted by the church (Kyrkotagna hustrur)
• Miscellaneous (Miscellanea)
Genline
http://www.genline.se—Subscription site
http://www.genline.com—in English
There is a computer program “Genline Family
Finder” that needs to be downloaded. There are versions
for both Windows and Mac users. Users can
then access the Swedish Church Records archive as
a test user and demo their service. As a test user you
have access to a few selected counties of the Swedish
Church records archive.
The “Work from known to unknown” rule really
applies when doing this type of research. If you know
the date and place for an event, then look it up first.
It will tell you the name of the farm so that you can
then locate the household examination register. If
the dates are not known, then locating the household
examination register will help you to learn the dates
and places of various events for the various family
members in order to locate the records.
Once the application is launched then select the
county or parish. A list of records will appear. Once you
select one of them then a second list will appear with a
list of pages. Some of them will be identified as an index,
a table of contents, blank or normal. After selecting
a page it will appear in the main window. Click on the
left most magnifying glass icon to make the selection
panel disappear so that you can view the record.
“Our archive contains images of the original Swedish
Church Records from the 16th to the 20th century.
These include births, marriages, deaths, and
household examinations (similar to a yearly census)
records.” There was a detailed review of Genline by
Michael John Neill on page 92 of the January/February
2007 issues of Everton’s Genealogical Helper.
It should be noted that Genline does not contain
information on people that were born after 1897 due
to Swedish law and that it cannot be searched by
family name. Once the place is known then a feature
called GIDx allows searches by place names such as
parish, village, or even farms to find other household
examination books.
Anyone can view a list of the records that are currently
available for the 2,687 parishes at http://www.
genline.com/databasen/walk3.php. There is a household
extraction form with English titles that can be
downloaded at http://www.genline.com/resources/
extractionforms.php.
List of Records for Kinne-Kleva in Skaraborg County
Household Examinations/Clerical Surveys
(Husförhörslängd)
“Household examinations, or clerical surveys, are
the result of a law given in 1686 that required ministers
to keep records of the members of their parish,
stating where they lived and whether they knew the
catechism. Although this law was given in 1686, the
majority of these records don’t begin until the early
19th century. In the earlier years clerical surveys were
taken yearly and in the later years, the same entry
in a register may have been used for several years.
This record type is one of the most useful among the
parish records because it allows you to continually
follow an individual or family from year to year.”
Information listed in these records “may include:
• Individual’s name
• Residence
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bride.” Information that may be listed on a marriage
record includes:
parish Vimmerby landsforsamling in the County Kalmar
• Whether able to read, write, or recite the catechism
• Birth date and/or place
• Marriage date
• Occupation
• Moving dates and/or places
• Death date
Births/Christenings (Födde/Döpte)
• Names of bride and groom
• Marriage date
• Ages
• Whether single or widowed
• Residences
• Occupations
• Parents’ names
• Birthplaces
• Names of witnesses
Deaths/Burials (Döde/Begravne)
Fodelsebok (Births) for 1897 in Kinne-Kleva
in Skaraborg Count
“Birth information generally began being recorded
in christening records in the 18th century. Christenings
were to take place within a few days of the birth.
Therefore, even if no birth information is specifically
given in a record, it can be approximated.” Christening
records usually list:
• Child’s name
• Parents’ names
• Place of residence
• Christening date
• Birth date
• Names of godparents
• Names of witnesses
Marriages (Vigde)
“Marriages generally took place in the parish of the
“Death information generally began being recorded
in burial records in the 18th century. Burials were to
take place within a few days of the death. Therefore,
even if no death information is specifically given in a
record, it can be approximated. Burials were recorded
in the parish in which the burial took place, which is
not necessarily the same parish in which the death
occurred.” Burial records usually list:
• Deceased’s name
• Burial date
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• Death date
• Burial place
• Age of deceased
• Residence
• Cause of death
Moving Records
“Moving records were used to keep track of individuals
and families moving in and out of the parish.
Although they begin in some areas in the 1700s,
they are generally more complete beginning in the
1800s.” These records are organized chronologically
and usually list the following:
• Individual’s name
• Occupation
• Marital status
• Name of parish/village moving from
• Name of parish/village moving to
Moving In (Inlyttningslängd)
parish Vimmerby landsforsamling in the County Kalmar
Moving Out (Utflyttningslängd)
Moving Out - Card
Unknown Parish
If the parish where they lived is unknown there is
still some hope. Hopefully a census or emigration
records can provide the birth parish.
Arkion
www.arkion.se—Subscription site
Click on English in the title bar. This site is mostly in
Swedish but it has a few English sections.
SVAR provides information about the Swedish archives
and is provided by the Department of the National
Archives. It lets you locate the original records
that are in public archives. There is a subscription
service for access to databases with scanned images
and/or indexes. Information is also provided about
purchasing records on microfiche.
A search of the archives for “Scanned images”
yields 3,546 documents. These can be selected by
county or archival institution and also by type: general,
fire insurance, court, church, and military.
Census Records—There are indexes for the entire
1890 and 1900 census as well as for part of the 1870
1854 Kinne Kleva Utflyttningslängd
Census 1890 - Västernorrlands län or Anders Bäckman
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and 1880 censuses. The 1890 Census index provides
the person’s parish of birth.
There is a free demo of the 1890 census search for
the County of Västernorrland and Sollefteå parish. A
search for Bockman found an Anders Bäckman.
ANNO 1890. The Swedish Census 1890
http://www.foark.umu.se/census/y/index.htm—
Free site—Index only
PDF and OCR files and organized in alphabetical
order by family name which reference the
church book volume and page number where
you can find the original record entry.
The information contained in these registers
will assist you to locate the entries for people in
Genline’s Swedish Church Records archive.“
A guide for using the Stockholm City Archives can
be downloaded from Genline at http://www.genline.
com/downloads/Stockholm City Archives.doc.
The Roteman Archives contains population records.
“The Roteman Institution was established under
a government ordinance from November 10, 1876,
as well as a decision of the Stockholm City Council
from June 1, 1877. On January 1, 1878, Stockholm was
divided into 16 wards, called rotar, with about 8,000
to 10,000 inhabitants each. Every rote was assigned
one roteman who administered the work of the Roteman
office. This roteman population registration system
was in operation for nearly 50 years (1878–1926).
By 1926, when the system was abolished, the number
of wards had increased to 36 due to the population
increases and to the incorporation of two suburban
parishes into the city.”
The 1890 Census for the counties of Norrbotten,
Västerbotten, Västernorrland, Jämtland, and Värmland
can be searched at this site. This data displayed
is similar to the SVAR.
“For the 1890 Census the population was registered
in their home parishes with name, year of birth,
parish of birth, gender, occupation, and marital status.
In 1994 ARKION (a division under the National
Archives of Sweden) started a project of digitizing
the Swedish Census of 1890. The five counties from
the Census 1890—about 800.000 persons, have been
made accessible on the Internet by the Research Archives
at Umeå University.
It is possible to search for persons or groups of
persons by the following variables: home parish,
residence, first name, last name, year of birth, parish
of birth, occupation, marital status, and gender.” An
exact search for Backman did not find the Bäckman
entry however a partial search for “ckman” did.
Stockholm City Archive
http://www.ssa.stockholm.se—Free site
http://www.ssa.stockholm.se/en/—English
“If you do not have the date and year of birth
for an ancestor in one of the parishes in Stockholm
then use the free registers at Stockholm
City Archives. These registers are available as
Search the Roteman Archives:
http://www3.ssa.stockholm.se/Rotemansarkivet/
Search.aspx
There is an English option available.
Search results for Anderson
Stockholm population registers 1800-1881—Fee
based
“This is a population register for the timeperiod
1800 to 1881. Stockholm City Archives
currently transfers the printed or handwritten
registers into digital form.
The digital registers contain the following
information:
• Year of record
• Last name
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• Title in Swedish
• Additional information included in the registers
• Parish or district
Important note: These digital registers only
indicate the presence of a record. The records
themselves are currently only digitally available
for four years (1835, 1845, 1860 and 1870). The
rest is not yet available in a digital format. They
can only be accessed directly at the Stockholm
City Archives or as ordered copies (as paper or
digital copies created after a request).”
Ancestry.com
www.ancestry.com —Subscription site
A current list of their records for Sweden can be
found at: http://www.ancestry.com/search/locality/
dbpage.aspxtp=1652381&p=5216.
Värmland, Sweden, Parish Records,
1661-1895 (in Swedish)—Free Index
http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspxdbid=1194
“Original data: Värmland, Sweden, Parish
Records, 1661-1895. Microfilm. Emigrantregistret/Kinship
Center, Karlstad, Sweden.
About Värmland, Sweden, Parish Records,
1661-1895
This database contains Lutheran parish records
from some 81 parishes in the county of
Värmland in Sweden. The overall collection
covers the years 1661-1895 and includes records
such as births/christenings, marriages, deaths/
burials, communions, household examinations,
and moving records.
This database contains Lutheran parish records
from some 81 parishes in the county of
Värmland in Sweden. A list of the parishes
included in this database can be seen in the
browse table below. The overall collection covers
Värmland, Sweden, Parish Records,
1661-1895 > Alster > Döde (Deaths) > 1860-1869
the years 1661-1895. However, for each parish the
years covered may vary. While most parishes
began keeping records in 1686, some parishes
started earlier than this time and others started
later. In some cases, parish records have been
either lost or destroyed and so some may not
exist for a given year.”
Swedish Emigration Records, 1783-1951
(in Swedish)
http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx
dbid=1189—Index
While there are no images, this database may provide
the place of origin for an immigrant.
“Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,
Inc., 2007. Original data: EMIGRANTEN
POPULÄR 2006 is a coproduction between
Emigrantregistret in Karlstad and Göteborgs-
Emigranten in Göteborg.
This collection contains various Swedish
emigration records from 1783-1951. Specifically
it includes the following five databases:
1. EmiHamn: Passengers traveling to North
America (with a few to Argentina, Australia,
Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Germany, New Zealand,
Norway, and Russia) from:
• Göteborg, 1869-1951 (1,135,888 records)
• Hamburg, 1850-1891 (21,708 records)
• Helsingborg, 1929-1950 (413 records)
• Kalmar, 1881-1893 (3,338 records)
• Köpenhamn, 1868-1898 (56,127 records)
• Malmö, 1874-1928 (165,876 records)
• Norrköping, 1859-1922 (8,545 records)
• Stockholm, 1869-1940 (34,887 records)
2. EmiLarsson: Written letters to the agents
Larsson Brothers & Co, 1879-1911 (consisting
of 50,000 letters from the emigrants and about
12,000 answers from the Larsson Brothers). The
original letters are bound into 109 volumes. The
Larsson Brothers archive in Göteborg is the only
emigrant agent archive in the world. The reference
code for each record gives reference to
the actual letter held at the county archive in
Göteborg.
3. EmiPass: Passport holders from 1783 to
1860, compiled from original records kept at the
county archive in Göteborg (16,012 records)
4. EmiSal: Passengers from the Swedish
America Line, 1915-1950 both to and from
America (242,000 records)
5. EmiSjo: Sailors who were listed in the
sailor houses in Göteborg, Lysekil, Marstrand
Strömstad, and Uddevalla and who are recorded
as discharges, escapees, or dead outside
of Europe, 1812-1930 (16,996 records).
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similar to the US’ GNIS database. There are 104, 449
locations online and about 300,000 in the database
offline. Use “Sök I Databasen” to start a search
Riksskatteverket
http://www.skatteverket.se/folkbokforing/
sverigesforsamlingargenomtiderna/forteckning
.4.18e1b10334ebe8bc80003999.html—Free site
The Swedish Tax Agency’s (Riksskatteverkets) catalogued
list of the Swedish parishes throughout time
(svenska församlingarna genom tiderna). Click on
the first letter and then scroll down.
Search results for Bockman
Information available in these records will
vary according to database and original record
type. The following is a list of the type of information
that may be found among these records:
• Name (given and surname)
• Age and/or birth date
• Birthplace
• Gender
• Occupation or title
• Residence or place of origin
• Emigration date
• Destination
• Port of departure
• Ship name
• Database name (EmiHamn, EmiLarsson, Emi-
Pass, EmiSal, or EmiSjo)”
Sverige Atlas
http://www.sverigeatlas.se—Free site
Want to find the exact position of your ancestors’ village
and home This link is an atlas giving the geographical
positions in Latitude and Longitude. It is
Parishes starting with “K”
Google Translation of the entry for Kall:
Cold 232,104
Pastoratskod: 101,304 Province: 1810 Västernorrland,
1810-05-07 Jämtland County. Breakdown:
utbrutet and incorporated Husa utility
chapel assembly. Parish: former possibly Åre,
1316 own, probably mid-1300s-1928 During Field,
1928-05-01-own. PARISH CATECHETICAL
MEETING Length: (1695) and 1805—Födelsebok:
1688—Miscellaneous: some people to
the 1941 church book in The Field patchwork
assembly.
Iceland
Results for Kinne-Kleva
Finding Records of Your Ancestors
in Iceland 1835 to 1900
B&W: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/
RG/images/36693 iceland finding ancestor.pdf
Color: http://www.familysearch.org/
eng/search/RG/images/36693 iceland
finding ancestor color.pdf
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~islwgw/
This is a very basic page with some links.
I can honestly say that Iceland is not a country that
often comes to my mind. Working on this article did
prove to me that the human brain does store a wide
assortment of anything away that you would never
think you would need or use again.
As the patronymics chart at the beginning showed,
the practice is still in use in Iceland. Once at a holiday
party, I was talking to someone who had been visiting
Iceland frequently for business. He told how his
contact had adopted a boy and gave him the normal
patronymic name. Several years later he and his wife
were finally able to have their own son and the adopted
son’s name was changed so that the biological
son could have the correct name. I also recalled seeing
something on television a number of years ago
about a nationwide genealogical database for Iceland
that was being used along with medical research.
After a bit of searching I was able to locate a website
that gives some information about the projects current
status. Here is a portion of it that gives “The
Good News”:
Share Your Ancestors
http://www.grapevine.is/Home/ReadArticle/
Share-Your-Ancestors
by Ian Watson
“Iceland’s genealogy is nearly done. “Finishing”
a whole nation’s genealogy would be
unthinkable in North America or Western Europe,
where one looks back at previous centuries’
populations as incomprehensible, surging
masses of migrating humanity. But, as so often,
Iceland is a little different from some other parts
of the world.
You may have heard that Iceland has unusually
good genealogical records dating all the
way back to the saga age, and that Icelanders can
trace their ancestry to the Vikings. The truth is a
bit less romantic. The earliest detailed record of
every single Icelander is the 1703 census. Most
Icelandic church records date only from 1785.
The majority of lines fade into the darkness of
time as one tries to trace back through the 1600s.
Most Icelanders who lived in the year 1600 did
not leave a record of even their names for posterity.
The only memories that survive are of the
wealthy, learned, or notorious. “
He then goes on to give “The Bad News”:
Íslendingabók is connected to the net (www.
islendingabok.is), and any Icelander can sign up
for a free username and password. Many have,
and find Íslendingabók fun to use, despite the
fact that they are not allowed to see everything
in it. If you have a password, you are allowed to
see a list of all other Icelanders’ names and birthdates.
You can view full information on everyone
who shares a great-grandparent with you. You
can also ask the computer to find out whether
you have a common ancestor with any given Icelander—if
you do, the computer will show you
the lines of descent to both people. And you can
see all information on individuals born before
1700, including their full ancestral charts. One
way Icelanders commonly use Íslendingabók is
to see how closely prospective boyfriends or girlfriends
are related to them or if they are related
to notable Icelandic persons, such as Björk or the
Prime Minister. Another is simply to find out
about people’s families and to answer the Icelandic
question of “hverra manna ert þú”—“who
are your people” Between the online Icelandic
telephone book, the National Registry (open to
anyone with an Icelandic bank account), the online
index of Icelandic newspaper obituaries, and
Íslendingabók, it is possible to find out a lot about
peoples’ families in Iceland.”
Unfortunately Icelandic censuses, church records,
and the like are not publicly available either.
National Archives of Iceland
www.archives.is
http://www.archives.is/index.phpnode=english
Censuses were taken in 1703, 1762, 1801, 1816, 1845
(the first to include birthplace), and 1885.
Searchable 1703, 1835 & 1870 Census
http://www.skjalasafn.is/manntol/index.phpb=1&
cmd=nyleit—Free site
The 1703 census is probably the first census in the
world that lists the population of a whole nation including
name, age, and status of every individual.
1870 search for people named Hans
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The number of Icelanders in the spring of 1703 totaled
50,366 individuals.
Searching the 1870 census by name, returns a list,
selecting a person will then show the Farm/Household.
The information returned includes their Name,
Gender, Age, Marriage, Class, Farm, Parish, and
County.
Timarit.is
http://timarit.is/lang=4—Free site in English
They have a large section of digitized publications.
Morgunblaðið is a newspaper that has online copies
from 1913 to 2000.
You can select date range month, date, and page
number. A DjVu plugin is suggested but the pages
can be viewed without it but there is no navigation
or zooming tools.
Morgunblaðið—2 November 1913 page 2
Visit us at
www.everton.com
www.halfdan.is
www.halfdan.is—Free site
The Emigration from Iceland
to North America
http://www.halfdan.is/vestur/vestur.htm—in English
Information and advice is given on Icelandic genealogy
research along with a variety of links.
1816 Census
http://www.halfdan.is/vestur/census.htm—Index
The 1816 census of Iceland is available in PDF format,
selectable by location. It contains the Name, Age, Parish,
Home, Place of Birth, Status, and Occupation.
These PDF files can be saved. Use the binoculars icon
to search through a document for a name.
Summary
The Scandinavian countries all have wonderful
collections of church records. However, access to
them is different in each country. Census records,
if they are available, are used more to locate a person
and/or their family in order to find where they
lived and where they were born in order to be able
to locate the various parish records. The volunteer
projects that are connecting photographs of churches
and farms to the various records really add a nice
new dimension to research and are a good example
of what can be done. Sweden will be joining Norway
in this effort.
Posting queries on both Surname and Location
sites might help you get in touch with other researchers
who have already obtained copies of civil, church,
or family records and might be willing to share.
Until the Danish census record indexes are complete,
I guess I will be spending quite of bit of my
“free time” Søg i kirkebøger and Søg i folketælling
looking for my Bockmans and Neuhauses at the Danish
Archives.
Jeffrey A. Bockman is a genealogical
lecturer and writer from Naperville,
Illinois. He presented at the 2008
OGS, 2007 BYU, 2006 NGS,
2003, 2001, and 1998 FGS
Conferences. He is active in society
and conference management. He
was a frequent feature writer
for Heritage Quest Magazine.
He is the author of the book
Give Your Family A Gift That Money Can’t Buy
/ Record & Preserve Your Family’s History.
His website is at www.JeffBockman.com.
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Build It and They Shall Come
By Wi l l i a m No r i n
SThe Field of Dreams, in Dyersville, Iowa; Courtesy of Wikipedia, and used under GNU Free Documentation License
Some of you will recognize this expression from the
movie, “Field of Dreams,” staring Kevin Costner, one
of my all time favorite sports films. In the movie,
Costner plays the part of an Iowa farmer who hears
a voice telling him, “Build it and they shall come.”
He heeds the advice and builds a regulation baseball
diamond in the middle of his Kansas cornfield.
Eventually, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other long deceased
members of the old Chicago Black Sox ball
club come out of the cornfield and start playing ball
on the newly built diamond.
I have been a genealogist for 23 years and during
that time I have stumbled through many old cemeteries
fighting off mosquitoes and nearly tripping on long
stringy weeds. I have strained my eyes to the limit attempting
to read endless rolls of blurred U.S. Census
microfilm and I have traveled great distances in order
to uncover deeds, naturalization records, and vital
statistics housed in ancient county courthouses.
Now much of that reaching out to find relatives is
past and cousins are contacting me instead. I receive
an average of 20 hits a day on my webpage, ht t p://
www.geocities.com/norins, and every other morning
there is usually one or two email messages from
people who want to know if I might be related to them.
This has all happened due to the fact that I have built
an infrastructure by placing my URL on 35 different
search engines, 50 different home pages and in seven
different surname databases.
In addition, The Cape Breton Genealogical Society
has scanned a 300+ page family history that I have
written and I have made it available as a link on my
webpage so that people can do detailed searches of my
ancestry. I also have a Family Tree Maker GEDCOM
link that people can search.
I have a list of cousins “I Met on the Net.” This list
currently contains the names of 56 “new” kinfolk. This
past week I found someone on Gen Forum, a genealogical
bulletin board, a rooter who is also researching
Gillises on Prince Edward Island. I contacted her
and learned that her third-great granduncle, Duncan
Gilles, and my uncle Donald Gillis, were brothers.
This contact, Clair Bigelow, lives in Boston and has
provided me with names and vital statistics for 145
additional relatives—information I am still entering
into my database.
I have built this comprehensive infrastructure and,
even though Shoeless Joe Jackson may not be with
them, a bunch of cousins are coming regularly to play
in the ballpark.
Shoeless Joe Jackson;
Courtesy of Wikipedia,
and used under GNU Free
Documentation License
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Online Genealogy for Beginners
and Pros on Dynastree
By Ch r i s t i a n Ric h t s c h e i d
Genealogy has been our passion for a long time. Recently
however, genealogy has become a popular leisure
activity even for those who have not yet been fascinated
by tracing family roots. One reason for this is the fact
that the search for ancestors has become a lot easier and
more fun than before through the Internet.
Those people who had been deterred by the required
efforts can now easily type in their last name in search
engines on the Internet and find out a lot about their
ancestry. Adding their knowledge to the family tree or
the genealogical database is now easier than ever.
The completely cost-free website Dynastree (www.
dynastree.com, formerly known as ht t p://itsourtree.
com) lets people create their family tree online, invite
relatives and add genealogical information. The easyto-use
interface conceals a powerful genealogical tool
that can be used by both professional and hobby genealogists.
For those who already have collected and
stored genealogical data, the website offers the family
tree import in GEDCOM format. GEDCOM (GEnealogical
Data COMmunication) is the standard format
for genealogical data (file ending .ged).
To start a family tree, the user begins by adding his
relatives, entering all the known information in the
persons’ profiles. The relatives’ email addresses can be
entered directly into the persons’ profiles and everyone
is invited automatically. When the relative logs onto the
family tree, he can add additional family information,
invite further relatives, and so on and so forth. Thus,
the family network grows virally and the genealogical
knowledge of possibly hundreds of more or less distant
relatives is collected playfully and easily.
The viral growth factor is the key advantage of
online genealogy tools. No other type of genealogical
research offers the same amount of knowledge
combined with the speed and data quality. Sharing
genealogical data with relatives, friends, and other
genealogists means fast-paced first-hand expansion
of the genealogical research results. There are several
websites on the Internet that offer genealogical
services with varying qualities and prizes. While
other genealogy sites can cost up to $30 per month,
the Dynastree services are offered completely for free
and the features offered so far will always be a professional
genealogical tool that is free of any costs.
In a family network featuring active members from
all parts of the world, one can start a photo album,
upload your scanned photos and mark relatives and
ancestors in the pictures. Of course, the entire family
network remains private so that only your relatives
can see your family tree, the information it contains,
and the photo albums. So if someone from the Polish
part of the family has some old pictures of his greatgrandfather,
he can just upload the photo and mark his
great-grandfather in the image. The more documents
the family uploads, the more common ancestors might
be found, of course. To illustrate the development of
the family, Dynastree automatically shows entered
birthplaces in an interactive map of the world.
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To facilitate the communication between relatives
all around the world, Dynastree offers family friendly
communication features. Just like any other common
web email service, every user gets its own inbox and
family mail features. The recipients are quickly selected
from a list of all active members and friends
of the family. As a special service, Dynastree offers
automatic reminder e-mails for all kinds of events in
the family such as birthdays, wedding anniversaries,
or obits. That way, one cannot forget any important
dates concerning the family.
To make sure that such personal and partly private
information like biographies cannot be read by
complete strangers (very distant relatives can easily
be completely unknown to others in very large
family trees) Dynastree offers a detailed but easyto-use
rights management. This allows every user
to determine who of the family tree can see which
detail of information in his profile (e.g. depending on
how close the familial relationship is). In addition to
a multilingual communication platform for family
members, Dynastree offers a forum for genealogists,
a blog, and an information center containing valuable
information on ancestry research.
Dynastree was founded in 2007 and is supported
by SAP founder Hasso Plattner. Dynastree offers its
software in eight languages besides English: German,
Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese,
French, Spanish, and Dutch. The global concept of
the network is a crucial factor to successful online genealogy.
As migration led to the distribution of families
all over the world, the nine languages Dynastree
supports help finding relatives abroad. For the future,
Dynastree plans further expansion to other countries
such as Russia and Turkey.
The success all around the globe has been overwhelming:
So far, 60 million profiles have been added
to six million family trees. Every week more than
100,000 new family trees are created. The entire database
is searchable available for free so that genealogists
can search for distant relatives and ancestors with a
mouse click. The found persons can be contacted directly,
if they accept it in their rights management.
The complete tree data can be downloaded in GED-
COM format and one can load the family tree in the
also completely cost-free professional desktop software
that has recently been released. The “Dynastree
Home Edition” offers all the easy genealogical editing
on the home PC or even on a portable USB drive. That
way, the family tree can be taken anywhere, shown
in family reunions, or shared via email.
Dynastree co-founder Daniel Groezinger explains:
“Like Google’s strategy of turning the expensive
Keyhole software into the free Google Earth, we decided
to offer software that is usually pricy—for free.
This applies to the web as well as the desktop version
of our software.”
While Dynastree´s web and desktop software are
free, the company will add premium services soon.
From the first quarter of 2009 on, poster printouts of
family trees can be ordered. Layout elements such as
background images, colors, and profiles frames will
be completely customizable. As every family tree has
its specific sizes depending on the number of generations
and number of relatives entered, not every
poster size can be suitable for the tree, so Dynastree
offers various formats.
The family trees that are created on the network
can of course contain duplicate information. Once the
tree has been built and relatives or ancestors are found
through the search option, the next logical stage is to
merge the two structures to create one common family
tree. The developers are currently working hard on
what is, according to the founders’ vision, an important
step towards the world’s largest family tree, one
single tree including hundreds of millions of profiles
and eventually showing the familial relationship to
virtually everyone.
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SCo m p il e d by Le l a n d K. Mei tz ler
Send us a copy of your genealogical or local history book
and we will list it in this magazine along with the information
you provide. We may add our comments or edit yours,
if we deem it necessary. Do not expect critical reviews in
this publication. There are numerous scholarly periodicals
that can do that for you. Send your book to the Book Editor,
The Genealogical Helper, PO Box 830, Bountiful,
UT 84011. Then, send an email attachment to Leland@
everton.com with the title, author, copyright date, physical
dimensions, number of pages, hard or soft cover, index
or none, item number (if any), and ISBN (if any), cost of
book, shipping cost, and location where the book can be
purchased, and finally a full description of the book—in
that order. Include your website as well as physical address
if applicable. Books received will be placed in the Everton
Library Collection in Logan, Utah upon publication of the
announcement.
Genealogies and Family Histories
The Keeney Family from Coast to
Coast; an Informal History of the
Ancestors and Descendants of George
Keeney of Newport, Rhode Island
Compiled by Karyl Keeney
Hubbard and Sandra Keeney
Pattok, 2008. Published by
Gateway Press, 6x9; 330 pp,
softcover, fully indexed. Order
from Karyl Hubbard,
824 Pan Vista Dr. Omak,
WA 98841, or Sandi Pattok,
2114 Island Dr. Hastings, MI
49058. $35.00 postpaid.
The history of the family
line of George Keeney, born
Newport, Rhode Island, 1766.
Includes his line back to William Kenie/Keeney of
New London, Connecticut and follows the family
through Ontario, Canada, Michigan, and California.
Includes source notes, some illustrations, maps,
charts, family pictures, bios, and obituaries.
The Hausmann, Petri, Fleischmann,
Ahner, Neunuebel, Oeth, Boehm,
and Schlegel Families
Compiled by Priscilla Wright Hausmann; 2008;
11x8; 226 pp, hardcover, indexed. LOC# 2008928233.
Send check for $56.00, which includes postage, to
Priscilla W. Hausmann, 1311 Stonewood Circle,
West Bend, Wisconsin 53095.
How-To
A genealogy of these local
families who came to America
in the mid 1800s. Contains a
large photo gallery and large
addenda. Probably the only
published genealogy containing
these local names from
Washington and Ozaukee
Counties, Wisconsin. Published
in 2008 by Tennessee
Valley Publishing Company.
A Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering
Your African-American Ancestors
By Franklin Carter Smith &
Emily Anne Croom; 2003; Reprinted
2008 by GPC; 8.5x11;
256 pp; softbound. Order from
the publisher at: Genealogical
Publishing Company, 3600
Clipper Mill Road, Suite 260,
Baltimore, MD 21211; or www.
genealogical.com; GPC5455;
ISBN: 9780806317885; $34.95
plus $4.00 p&h.
How do you approach the unique challenges of
African-American genealogy How can you make
the most of your research time and effort Join expert
genealogists Franklin Carter Smith and Emily Anne
Croom to explore successful strategies for getting
started and moving beyond the basics.
Using examples, illustrations, and case studies, A
Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering Your African-American
Ancestors shows you how to
• Gather and preserve your family’s special oral
and social history
• Research census records, especially the important
1870 census
• Use African-American-specific sources, including
the Freedmen’s Bureau and Freedman’s
Bank records
• Work with and evaluate county and federal
records.
This book is unique because it includes methods
for successful research in slavery-era records as well
as strategies to help you identify your ancestors’
slaveholder and slaveholding family. Case studies
from various states and time periods tell the stories
of real families whose lives were recorded in public
records that you too can use. Discovering your family
history can be a powerful experience that also allows
you to create a special legacy for your loved ones.
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The Sleuth Book for Genealogists
By Emily Anne Croom; 2000;
Reprinted 2008 by GPC;
8.5x11; 290 pp; softbound;
Order from the publisher
at: Genealogical Publishing
Company, 3600 Clipper Mill
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;
GPC1221; ISBN:
9780806317878; $34.95 plus
$4.00 p&h.
What do you do when you hit the proverbial brick
wall Try gleaning advice from literary sleuths like
Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, and Hercule Poirot.
That’s what expert genealogist Emily Croom helps
you do in The Sleuth Book for Genealogists, which
blends literary methods of deduction with genealogical
expertise.
Using the sleuths’ acknowledged expertise in the
deduction arts, The Sleuth Book will invigorate your
genealogical research, helping you to
• Determine your research goal
• Organize what you know
• Practice “cluster genealogy” research
• Document your research
• Decide whether you’ve answered your research
questions.
Case studies and research examples throughout
the book—including case studies of an Illinois Civil
War Veteran, a former Mississippi slave, and a Tennessee
farm wife, among others—illustrate genealogical
sleuths in action, taking you step by step through
the process of solving frustrating research problems.
Appendixes include an introduction to genealogy
fundamentals and a practical, detailed guide to citing
your sources.
The Beginner’s Guide to Using Tax Lists
By Cornelius Carroll; 1996;
Reprinted 2002; 8.5x11; 64
pp; softbound. Order from
the publisher at: Clearfield
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.
genealogical.com; CF9201;
ISBN: 9780806347073; $17.50
plus $4.00 p&h.
Tax lists are one of our
most valuable, if often neglected, sources of genealogical
information. Tax lists can refer to personal
property tax lists, tithables, poll lists, land tax lists,
and rent rolls. They usually divulge the names of
heads of households and other males aged 16 or over,
as well as valuations of slaves, cattle, horses, other
types of personal property, land taxes, and notes of
interest. They can be used not only to trace a family’s
migration and its taxable property, but also to
prove parentage when no other records are available.
Tax lists place individuals in a particular place at a
particular time and indicate the amount and type
of property owned. They may also indicate the relationship
of individuals in a household and their
approximate ages.
The Beginner’s Guide to Using Tax Lists is Cornelius
Carroll’s primer for making the best genealogical usage
of tax lists. At the outset the author differentiates
between tax lists, quit rents, tithables, militia lists,
censuses, and similar records and the laws that applied
to them. Then, by focusing on the tax lists of
Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee,
he demonstrates how tax lists can be used for determining
parentage, birth and death dates, indentured
servitude, slavery, manumission, and racial status.
They can be used, in conjunction with other records
to help determine the parentage of a female, the date
of a marriage, migration routes, and the accuracy
of family traditions. Mr. Carroll has also included a
list of dates of county formation for the four states
referred to above and a number of sample tax lists
in order to expose researchers to the legal and other
factors affecting the ages and classes of people who
were taxable at any given time.
A Pocket Guide for Genealogists—
Second Edition
By Judy Jacobson; 2003; Reprinted
2007; 5.5x8.75; 281
pp; softbound. Order from
the publisher at: Clearfield
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.
genealogical.com; CF9411;
ISBN: 9780806352190; $29.95
plus $4.00 p&h.
Unlike a textbook or howto
book, which genealogists
should consult prior to venturing
upon a research trip, A Field Guide for Genealogists,
by Judy Jacobson, is the perfect book to take with
you once you have embarked. Consider the following
scenarios: (1) You’re doing research in a courthouse
when you come across a term in a will that you don’t
understand; (2) You run across an old photograph
of people who are supposed to be your ancestors,
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but you just can’t place the subjects of the photo; (3)
You find your great-great-great-grandmother’s death
certificate only to learn that she died from a disease
you’d never heard of. The latest title from the prolific
Mrs. Jacobson is designed to remove not only the
foregoing stumbling blocks but also to answer thousands
of other practical questions that quite naturally
arise during the course of research.
A Field Guide for Genealogists is a veritable encyclopedia
of solutions for situations that can arise in
research. For example, to return to the problem with
the photograph, the Field Guide includes sections on
the basics of dating photographs and identifying
historical eras from hairstyles or clothing. Similarly,
legal terms found in genealogical records are identified
in one of the several glossaries compiled by Mrs.
Jacobson. Other lists cover antiquated names of diseases
and calamities, as well as units of measurement
used in bygone days. There are glossaries of genealogical
terms, nicknames, surnames, place names,
and occupations. The author has prepared a section
on problems to anticipate at the county courthouse,
offers hints for deciphering old handwriting, discusses
different types of calendars, and has incorporated
time lines of American history, migration, and
transportation. Other topics covered are the range of
records at the National Archives, the evolution of the
U.S. census, what to look for in museums, American
ethnic groups, finding information in museums, using
library vertical files, and much more—all from
the practical standpoint of solving a problem on site.
In fact, short of carting around an entire library of
reference books on your next research trip, Judy Jacobson’s
Field Guide for Genealogists, in scarcely 300
pages, is the closest thing we know of in the way of
an all-purpose manual to help you once you’ve arrived
at your destination.
Back to the Beginning—Remarkable True
Stories of Adoption Searches & Reunions
By Ava Friddle, Judy Andrews,
Kristen Hamilton,
with Joe Bardin; 2008; 6x9;
203 pp; softbound. Order
from the publisher at: Research
Etc., Inc., 8390 E.
Via De Ventura #F110-184,
Scottsdale, AZ 85258-3188; or
www.BackToTheBeginning
Book.com; CF9411; ISBN:
978-0-9816412-0-1; $18.95
plus $4.00 p&h.
Adoption Searches are
unique to each person involved. Some clients simply
want medical histories. For others the stakes are much
higher: a daughter seeking to understand the trauma
her birthmother went through at the time of relinquishment;
a son wanting to set the record straight
on his own family history; a birthfather who never
even saw his daughter when she was born, but never
forgot her; a birthmother who wanted reassurance
that she did the right thing when she placed her child
for adoption 21 years ago. This book offers not only
true stories that touch the heart, but invaluable experience
in understanding the dynamics of adoption
reunions from the perspective of all those involved
in the Adoption Triad. The authors of this book operate
a licensed P.I. firm in Scottsdale, Arizona specializing
in adoption searches. I found the stories to
be very compelling—and not only interesting, but
educational from the standpoint of one interested in
the research process. I highly recommend this book
to my readers.
Death Matters—History—Humor—Advice
By Richard H. McHugh;
2008; 5.5x8.5; 180 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Heritage Books,
Inc., 100 Railroad Ave., Suite
104, Westminster, MD 21157;
Phone 800-876-6103; Fax 410-
871-2674 or www.heritagebooks.com;
M4557; ISBN:
978-0-7884-4557-6; $21.50
plus $7.00 p&h.
Death Matters attempts to
cover three subjects: history,
humor, and advice. A brief history of McHugh Funeral
Homes weaves its way through the narrative.
Man’s care of the dead from the time of the Cro-
Magnon man to the present is discussed. The final
chapter examines the use of pre-planned and prepaid
funerals in our time. There is an abundance of
humor that the author remembers from his and his
forebears’ service in the ambulance-funeral business.
This is a very interesting read…
Germany
Map Guide to German Parish
Registers Volume 14—Kingdom
of Bavaria I—Unterfranken
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2007; 201 pp; softbound; indexed;
Item # FR0027; ISBN: 978-1-933194-16-5. Order
from the publisher at: Family Roots Publishing Co.,
PO Box 830, Bountiful, UT 84011; 801-992-3705; Fax:
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815-642-0103; www.family
rootspublishing.com/store/
product view.phpid=26;
$34.95 plus $4.90 p&h; Visa
and MC accepted on the website;
library purchase orders
also accepted at the website.
This volume is also produced
in a hardbound edition at
$65—see the website for details
and ordering. There is a
town index at the website—just type the name of
your town in the search engine to find its location.
Published by Family Roots Publishing Company,
Volume 14 of the German Map Guide series was published
in the summer of 2007. Written in English
by Kevan Hansen, the volume, listing 1,872 Unterfranken
places, was principally written to help family
historians resolve where their family may have
gone to church—and left vital records behind that
may be seen today (many available on Family History
Library microfilm). This is the 14th of a series of
45 volumes, covering all of Germany. The series is
still in process. Note that Bavaria (including the
Pfalz, found in the Rhineland III Volume 13 book) is
covered in its entirety in nine volumes, plus an index
(Map Guides 13 through 23). Even the smallest places
are listed in this series—some with as little population
as one person! These places are as of about 1870.
If the place existed prior to that date, it will most
likely be listed. If the place was named after that date,
the chances drop.
Each volumes of the series does the following:
• Identifies the parish where an ancestor worshipped
based on where they lived.
• Gives the FHL microfilm number for the family’s
parish records. However, it should be noted
that very few of the Bavarian records have been
filmed, so not many FHL film numbers are
given.
• Identifies nearly every city, town, and place that
included residents.
• Visually identifies church parishes for Lutherans
& Catholics in each district.
• Identifies adjoining parishes in case an ancestor
attended an alternate parish.
• Aids in area searches, particularly across district
or regional borders.
• Provides visual identification of search areas in
which to look for a family.
• Helps in determining proximity of one area to
another.
• Aids in determining reasonable distances of
travel from one area to another.
• Identifies population centers in each parish.
• Identifies archives, repositories, and other
resources.
• Aids in identification of the location of minority
religions.
Map Guide to German Parish
Registers Volume 15—Kingdom
of Bavaria II—Oberfranken
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2007;
228 pp; softbound; indexed;
Item # FR0029; ISBN: 978-1-
933194-18-9. Order from the
publisher at: Family Roots
Publishing Co., PO Box 830,
Bountiful, UT 84011; 801-
992-3705; Fax: 815-642-0103;
www.familyrootspublishing.com/store/product
view.
phpid=27; $34.95 plus $4.90
p&h; Visa and MC accepted on the website; library
purchase orders also accepted at the website. This
volume is also produced in a hardbound edition at
$65—see the website for details and ordering. There
is a town index at the website—just type the name of
your town in the search engine to find its location.
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Published by Family Roots Publishing Company,
Volume 15 of the German Map Guide series was published
in the summer of 2007. Written in English by
Kevan Hansen, the volume, listing 3,218 Oberfranken
places, was principally written to help family historians
resolve where their family may have gone to
church—and left vital records behind that may be
seen today (many available on Family History Library
microfilm). This is the 15th of a series of 45 volumes,
covering all of Germany. The series is still in process.
See the information on Volume 14 above for details
about what the books will do for the researcher.
Map Guide to German Parish
Registers Volume 16—Kingdom
of Bavaria III—Mittelfranken
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2007;
190 pp; softbound; indexed;
Item # FR0031; ISBN: 978-1-
933194-20-2. Order from the
publisher at: Family Roots
Publishing Co., PO Box 830,
Bountiful, UT 84011; 801-
992-3705; Fax: 815-642-0103;
www.familyrootspublishing.com/store/product
view.
phpid=28; $34.95 plus $4.90
p&h; Visa and MC accepted on the website; library
purchase orders also accepted at the website. This
volume is also produced in a hardbound edition at
$65—see the website for details and ordering. There
is a town index at the website—just type the name of
your town in the search engine to find its location.
Published by Family Roots Publishing Company,
Volume 16 of the German Map Guide series was published
in the fall of 2007. Written in English by Kevan
Hansen, the volume, listing 2,646 Mittelfranken
places, was principally written to help family historians
resolve where their family may have gone to
church—and left vital records behind that may be
seen today (many available on Family History Library
microfilm). This is the 16th of a series of 45 volumes,
covering all of Germany. The series is still in process.
See the information on Volume 14 above for details
about what the books will do for the researcher.
Map Guide to German Parish
Registers Volume 17—Kingdom
of Bavaria IV—Oberpfalz
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2007; 242 pp; softbound;
indexed; Item # FR0033; ISBN: 978-1-933194-23-3.
Order from the publisher at: Family Roots Publishing
Co., PO Box 830, Bountiful, UT 84011; 801-
992-3705; Fax: 815-642-0103;
www.familyrootspublishing.com/store/product
view.
phpid=29; $34.95 plus $4.90
p&h; Visa and MC accepted
on the website; library purchase
orders also accepted
at the website. This volume
is also produced in a hardbound
edition at $65—see
the website for details and
ordering. There is a town index at the website—just
type the name of your town in the search engine to
find its location.
Published by Family Roots Publishing Company,
Volume 17 of the German Map Guide series was published
in the winter of 2007. Written in English by
Kevan Hansen, the volume, listing 4,465 Oberpfalz
places, was principally written to help family historians
resolve where their family may have gone to
church—and left vital records behind that may be
seen today (many available on Family History Library
microfilm). This is the 17th of a series of 45 volumes,
covering all of Germany. The series is still in process.
See the information on Volume 14 above for details
about what the books will do for the researcher.
Map Guide to German Parish
Registers Volume 18—Kingdom
of Bavaria V—Schwaben
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2008;
218 pp; softbound; indexed;
Item # FR0035; ISBN: 978-1-
933194-25-7. Order from the
publisher at: Family Roots
Publishing Co., PO Box 830,
Bountiful, UT 84011; 801-
992-3705; Fax: 815-642-0103;
www.familyrootspublishing.com/store/product
view.
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p&h; Visa and MC accepted on the website; library
purchase orders also accepted at the website. This
volume is also produced in a hardbound edition at
$65—see the website for details and ordering. There
is a town index at the website—just type the name of
your town in the search engine to find its location.
Published by Family Roots Publishing Company,
Volume 18 of the German Map Guide series was published
in February of 2008. Written in English by
Kevan Hansen, the volume, listing 3,643 Schwaben
places, was principally written to help family historians
resolve where their family may have gone to
church—and left vital records behind that may be
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seen today (many available on Family History Library
microfilm). This is the 18th of a series of 45 volumes,
covering all of Germany. The series is still in process.
See the information on Volume 14 above for details
about what the books will do for the researcher.
Map Guide to German Parish
Registers Volume 19—Kingdom of
Bavaria VI—Niederbayern I
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2008;
209 pp; softbound; indexed;
Item # FR0037; ISBN: 978-1-
933194-27-1. Order from the
publisher at: Family Roots
Publishing Co., PO Box 830,
Bountiful, UT 84011; 801-
992-3705; Fax: 815-642-0103;
www.familyrootspublishing.com/store/product
view.
phpid=31; $34.95 plus $4.90
p&h; Visa and MC accepted on the website; library
purchase orders also accepted at the website. This
volume is also produced in a hardbound edition at
$65—see the website for details and ordering. There
is a town index at the website—just type the name of
your town in the search engine to find its location.
Published by Family Roots Publishing Company,
Volume 19 of the German Map Guide series was published
in March of 2008. Written in English by Kevan
Hansen, the volume, listing 4,779 Niederbayern
places, was principally written to help family historians
resolve where their family may have gone to
church—and left vital records behind that may be
seen today (many available on Family History Library
microfilm). This is the 19th of a series of 45
volumes, covering all of Germany. Note that Niederbayern
is covered in two volumes, 19, and 20. The series
is still in process. See the information on Volume
14 above for details about what the books will do for
the researcher.
Map Guide to German Parish
Registers Volume 20—Kingdom of
Bavaria VII—Niederbayern II
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2008; 198 pp; softbound; indexed;
Item # FR0039; ISBN: 978-1-933194-29-5. Order
from the publisher at: Family Roots Publishing
Co., PO Box 830, Bountiful, UT 84011; 801-992-3705;
Fax: 815-642-0103; www.familyrootspublishing.
com/store/product view.phpid=32; $34.95 plus
$4.90 p&h; Visa and MC accepted on the website;
library purchase orders also accepted at the
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website. This volume is also
produced in a hardbound
edition at $65—see the website
for details and ordering.
There is a town index at the
website—just type the name
of your town in the search
engine to find its location.
Published by Family Roots
Publishing Company, Volume
20 of the German Map Guide
series was published in May of 2008. Written in
English by Kevan Hansen, the volume, listing 4,527
Niederbayern places, was principally written to help
family historians resolve where their family may
have gone to church—and left vital records behind
that may be seen today (many available on Family
History Library microfilm). This is the 20th of a series
of 45 volumes, covering all of Germany. Note that
Niederbayern is covered in two volumes, 19, and 20.
The series is still in process. See the information on
Volume 14 above for details about what the books
will do for the researcher.
Map Guide to German Parish
Registers Volume 21—Kingdom
of Bavaria VIII—Oberbayern I
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2008;
210 pp; softbound; indexed;
Item # FR0041; ISBN: 978-1-
933194-31-8. Order from the
publisher at: Family Roots
Publishing Co., PO Box 830,
Bountiful, UT 84011; 801-
992-3705; Fax: 815-642-0103;
www.familyrootspublishing.com/store/product
view.
phpid=33; $34.95 plus $4.90
p&h; Visa and MC accepted on the website; library
purchase orders also accepted at the website. This
volume is also produced in a hardbound edition at
$65—see the website for details and ordering. There
is a town index at the website—just type the name of
your town in the search engine to find its location.
Published by Family Roots Publishing Company,
Volume 21 of the German Map Guide series was published
in June of 2008. Written in English by Kevan
Hansen, the volume, listing 5,171 Oberbayern places,
was principally written to help family historians resolve
where their family may have gone to church—
and left vital records behind that may be seen today
(many available on Family History Library microfilm).
This is the 21st of a series of 45 volumes, covering all
of Germany. Note that Oberbayern is covered in two
volumes, 21, and 22. The series is still in process. See
the information on Volume 14 above for details about
what the books will do for the researcher.
Map Guide to German Parish
Registers Volume 22—Kingdom
of Bavaria IX—Oberbayern II
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2008;
250 pp; softbound; indexed;
Item # FR0043; ISBN: 978-1-
933194-33-2. Order from the
publisher at: Family Roots
Publishing Co., PO Box 830,
Bountiful, UT 84011; 801-
992-3705; Fax: 815-642-0103;
www.familyrootspublishing.com/store/product
view.
phpid=34; $34.95 plus $4.90
p&h; Visa and MC accepted on the website; library
purchase orders also accepted at the website. This
volume is also produced in a hardbound edition at
$65—see the website for details and ordering. There
is a town index at the website—just type the name of
your town in the search engine to find its location.
Published by Family Roots Publishing Company,
Volume 22 of the German Map Guide series was published
in September of 2008. Written in English by
Kevan Hansen, the volume, listing 4,620 Oberbayern
places, was principally written to help family historians
resolve where their family may have gone to
church—and left vital records behind that may be
seen today (many available on Family History Library
microfilm). This is the 22nd of a series of 45 volumes,
covering all of Germany. Note that Oberbayern
is covered in two volumes, 21, and 22. The series is
still in process. See the information on Volume 14
above for details about what the books will do for
the researcher.
Map Guide to German Parish
Registers Volume 23—Kingdom
of Bavaria X—Gazetteer & Master
Index to Volumes 13-22
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2008;
256 pp; softbound; Item
# FR0045; ISBN: 978-1-
933194-35-6. Order from the
publisher at: Family Roots
Publishing Co., PO Box 830,
Bountiful, UT 84011; 801-
992-3705; Fax: 815-642-0103;
www.familyrootspublishing.com/store/product
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phpid=92; $34.95 plus $4.90 p&h; Visa and MC
accepted on the website; library purchase orders
also accepted at the website. This volume is also
produced in a hardbound edition at $65—see the
website for details and ordering. There is a town
index at the website—just type the name of your
town in the search engine to find its location.
Volume 23 of the German Map Guide series was
published in November of 2008. Written in English
by Kevan Hansen, the volume is an index to all the
towns found in Bavaria I-IX, as well as those listed in
the Pfalz section German Map Guide Volume 13. The
book gives the name of the town, and the Bavarian
province in which the town is found, as well as the
book and page number(s) where data on that town
can be located. This is the 23rd of a series of 45 volumes,
covering all of Germany. The production of the
series is still ongoing. Note that Bavaria is covered in
its entirety in nine volumes, plus this index that also
covers the Pfalz, found in Rhineland III, Volume 13.
Even the smallest places are listed in this index and
series—some with as little population as one person!
These places are as of about 1870. If the place existed
prior to that date, it will most likely be listed. If the
place was named after that date, the chances drop. Researched
and compiled from the text and footnotes of
many old gazetteers and maps, this volume is the most
complete Bavarian gazetteer ever compiled, and can
act as a stand-alone gazetteer of Bavaria, with or without
the rest of the German Map Guide series. Volumes
covering Hessen, Mecklenburg, Schleswig-Holstein,
Oldenburg, Württemberg, Hessen-Nassau, Rhineland,
and Bavaria are now complete. See the description for
volume 14 above, as well as the website, www.familyrootspublishing.com,
for more details on the series.
Ireland
Irish Gravestone Inscriptions—
A Guide to Sources in Ulster
Edited by William O’Kane
& Eoin Kerr; Originally published
in 1999; Reprinted 2008;
5.5x8.5; 57 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Clearfield Company, Inc.,
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite
260, Baltimore, MD 21211;
or www.genealogical.com;
CF4309 ISBN: 9780806316161;
$12.50 plus $4.00 p&h.
Heritage World of County
Tyrone, Northern Ireland, has
surveyed the gravestone inscriptions for almost 900
cemeteries across the northern part of Ireland. The
great majority of these cemeteries are located in Northern
Ireland, although the figure includes a substantial
number from two other Ulster counties, Donegal and
Monaghan, as well as several from County Louth.
The survey encompasses cemeteries of all religious
denominations as well as those administered by local
district and borough councils. In each case, there
is an exact transcript of all gravestone inscriptions,
together with a simple plan of the cemetery.
Information pertaining to these cemeteries can
be acquired from Heritage World either as an index,
giving county, parish, person, cemetery name, date
of death, and denomination, or as a full gravestone
inscription. These details can be supplied for any
name in a particular cemetery, parish, or county.
This book lists all cemeteries surveyed to date by
Heritage World. Arranged by county, all 900 cemeteries
are listed by the civil parish in which they are
located, together with their religious denomination.
In brief, then, this is a guide to the 900 cemeteries
surveyed in the nine counties of Antrim, Armagh,
Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Louth, Monaghan,
and Tyrone, with pointers for the researcher
to follow for acquiring full details of individual
gravestone inscriptions.
Pocket Guide to Irish
Genealogy—Third Edition
By Brian Mitchell; 2008; 7x10;
83 pp; softbound. Order from
the publisher at: Clearfield
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.
genealogical.com; CF9240
ISBN: 9780806353852; $16.95
plus $4.00 p&h.
The third edition of Brian
Mitchell’s Pocket Guide to Irish
Genealogy is, page for page,
perhaps the best book on genealogical research in
Ireland ever written.
By skillfully blending case studies, maps, charts,
and his own mastery of the subject, Mitchell has
managed to convey the basics of Irish genealogical
research in scarcely 80 pages. Following introductory
chapters on the background of research on the
American side, the author describes the nature and
uses of all significant record sources in Ireland, including
but not limited to civil and parish registers,
gravestone inscriptions, wills, the Griffith’s Valuation,
tithe books, the 1901 and 1911 censuses, newspapers,
hearth money rolls, the registry of deeds, estate
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records, and ordnance survey memoirs. Another important
chapter explains the differences between the
various administrative divisions of Ireland, knowledge
of which is critical in tracking down all available
records on Irish ancestors. The Third Edition
includes a new chapter on “Irish Genealogy and the
Internet,” which discusses all the principal websites
for conducting Irish research online. Mitchell has
also totally overhauled and updated the book’s two
concluding chapters, which cover Ireland’s major genealogical
record offices and heritage centers. The
critical chapters furnish the addresses and phone
numbers, hours of operation, contact persons, and
major record holdings and databases of the organizations
that are central to Irish family history. Enriched
by the author’s experience as a professional geographer,
genealogical researcher, and director of an Irish
heritage center, the Pocket Guide to Irish Genealogy is
an outstanding value!
Tracing Your Donegal
Ancestors—New Edition
By Helen Meehan & Godfrey
Duffy; 2008; Published
by and available from Flyleaf
Press, 4 Spencer Villas,
Glenageary, County Dublin,
Ireland. $23.00 U.S. includes
shipping ($24.00 Canadian).
ISBN: 978-0-9539974-9-7. See:
www.flyleaf.ie/donegal.htm.
Donegal families are an
interesting mix of native
Irish families and of Scots-
Irish who came to the county
from the 17th century. The county experienced a
high level of emigration both to North America and
also to Scotland and North of England. This new
and greatly expanded edition sets out the range of
Donegal genealogical sources available to the family
history researcher. It devotes a chapter to each source
type explaining what information each contains, and
where each record can be accessed. Common names
in the county include O’Neill, O’Donnell, Bonner,
Barr, Bradley, Duffy, Friel, Gormley, O’Kane, Gallagher,
Harkin, McBride, McCafferty, McDaid, Patton,
Morrissey, Ward, Sweeney. It is also one of the
counties which experienced a high level of emigration
to North America and elsewhere.
Irish Emigrants in North America
By David Dobson; 2008; 5.5x8.5; 120 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher at: Clearfield Company,
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;
CF9976 ISBN:
9780806353937; $18.50 plus
$4.00 p&h.
Emigration from Ireland to
the Americas started in earnest
during the early 18th century.
In 1718 the first successful emigration
from Ireland to New
England occurred, laying the
foundation for the large-scale
settlement of colonial America by the “Scots-Irish.”
This work is the seventh installment (and the fourth
volume) in a series compiled by Mr. David Dobson
that documents the departure of thousands of individuals
who left Ireland for the promise of the New
World between roughly 1670 and 1830. As many as
half of the immigrants referred to here disembarked
at Canadian ports in Ontario, while most of the rest
entered North America through New York, New Jersey,
Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina.
Part Seven is based mainly on archival sources in
Canada, Denmark, England, Ireland, Scotland, and
the U.S., together with contemporary newspapers and
journals, a few published records, and some gravestone
inscriptions from both sides of the Atlantic. In
the majority of cases, Mr. Dobson’s transcriptions provide
some or all of the following: name of passenger,
date of birth, name of ship, occupation in Ireland, reason
for emigration, and, sometimes, place of origin in
Ireland, place of disembarkation in the New World,
date of arrival, number of persons in the household,
and the source of the information. Here is an entry
that is typical of those found in the volume:
LITTLEWOOD, ANN, from Drummond, parish of
Tamlaght Finlaggan, emigrated from Londonderry to
St. John, New Brunswick, on the 196 ton brig Ambassador
in April 1834 [RIA].
Scots-Irish
Scots-Irish Links 1575-1725—Part Seven
By David Dobson; 2008; 5.5x8.5; 122 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher at: Clearfield Company,
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com; CF9904
ISBN: 9780806353920; $18.50 plus $4.00 p&h.
During the 18th century, as many as 100,000 Scottish
Lowlanders relocated to the Plantation of Ulster
(Northern Ireland). Within a few generations, the
descendants of these Ulster Scots emigrated in substantial
numbers across the Atlantic, where, as the
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Scotch-Irish (Scots-Irish), they
made a major contribution to
the settlement and development
of colonial America.
This is the sixth volume
(seventh part) in a series
compiled by Mr. Dobson to
identify the Lowland Scots
who migrated to Ulster between
1575 and 1725—many
of whose progeny may have
emigrated to America. For
this volume, Mr. Dobson relied
on primary source material found in the Public
Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast, and in
the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh. He
has supplemented those findings with research into
secondary sources in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast,
and in the library of the University of St. Andrews,
Scotland. These are sources, by and large, that Mr.
Dobson has not consulted for the previous volumes
in this series.
As with previous volumes, each listing provides
the inhabitant’s name, occupation, place of residence,
a date, and the source. In some instances, Mr. Dobson
gives quite a bit more, for example:
CAMPBELL, JOHN, ordained as a Presbyterian
minister at Carncastle, Ireland, on 2 May 1677, a minister
at Loudoun, Ayrshire, from 1685 to 1689, then
he returned to Ireland as minister at Carncastle from
1690 to 1714, returned to Scotland, husband of Agnes
Cunningham. [F.3.120]
In all, Mr. Dobson has uncovered an additional
1,500 Lowland Scots who re-settled in Ulster, and
many of their progeny would cross the Atlantic.
Scotland
Scotland During the Plantation of
Ulster—The People of Ayrshire 1600-1699
By David Dobson; 2008;
5.5x8.5; 139 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Clearfield Company, Inc.,
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite
260, Baltimore, MD 21211;
or www.genealogical.com;
CF9018 ISBN: 9780806353913;
$19.50 plus $4.00 p&h.
The people who moved
from Scotland to Ireland in
the 17th century overwhelmingly
originated in southwest
Scotland. This region includes Ayrshire, from whose
ports originated some of the earliest trading voyages
to the New World. The opportunities in Ulster
and Ayrshire’s close proximity to Ireland, however,
discouraged transatlantic emigration. While many
moved for good economic reasons, others fled from
religious persecution. Those who settled in Ulster
were the forefathers of the Scotch-Irish.
This book is the second volume in a series designed
to provide information on Scottish communities
that participated in the Ulster exodus and for
which parish registers are virtually non-existent. The
Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotland are
the backbone of genealogical research in Scotland,
but in the case of Ayrshire, for example, only eight of
46 extant registers date from before 1650, the earliest
dating from 1638. This work partially fills that gap
and uses sources generally not available to American
researchers with Scottish forebears, most of them
primary sources in the National Archives of Scotland
in Edinburgh and other sources, such as the Commissary
Courts of Glasgow and Edinburgh, the High
Court of the Admiralty, burgh records, Register of
Deeds, Retours, customs records, and a handful of
published sources.
While Mr. Dobson makes no claims for comprehensiveness,
this book does identify more than 1,800
17th-century residents of Ayrshire who may have
figured in the exodus to Ulster. Each such individual
is identified by name, occupation, at least one date
(e.g., burgess of Ayr, 1607, or testament, 1662), and
the source of the information. In many cases, the
entries also identify the resident’s parents, spouse,
or offspring; vessel(s) traveled on; additional dates;
and more. Researchers with Boyd, Campbell, Cochrane,
Cunningham, Dalrymple, Ferguson, Fullarton,
Hunter, Kennedy, Montgomery, Muir, or Wallace
lines should note that these families were much in
evidence in Ayrshire in the 17th century.
The first volume in this series, The People of Dumfries
and Galloway, 1600-1699, is arranged in the same way as
this second volume. The major families in the Dumfries-
Galloway region were Gordon, Irving, Johnston, Kennedy,
Maxwell, McKie, McLellan, and McDowall, and
many others are featured in this volume.
The Clans, Septs & Regiments
of the Scottish Highlands
By Frank Adam—revised by Sir Thomas Innes of
Learney; Originally published in 1970, reprinted
2008; 5.5x8.5; 624 pp; softbound. Order from the
publisher at: Clearfield Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore, MD 21211; or
www.genealogical.com; CF40 ISBN: 9780806304489;
$52.50 plus $4.00 p&h.
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This is the eighth edition
of the standard work on the
Highland clans, the most accurate
account of Scottish
clans, tartans, and fighting
regiments ever published.
This particular edition features
an alphabetical list of
Scottish family names arranged
according to the
clans with which they were
associated.
An authoritative and beautiful
book, ranging across the entire spectrum of
Scottish history and culture, it is primarily an encyclopedia
of Scottish clanship, devoted, in the main,
to a discussion of the following subjects: Scottish
Highlands, Highland garb, the tartan, Highland
surnames and titles, Highland regiments, coats of
arms in the clan system, Highland chiefs and chieftans,
badges of clans and families, and lists of clan
septs and dependents. Nowhere in print is there as
complete an account of the Scottish Highlands in all
these aspects.
The work was originally published in 1908, with a
second edition in 1924 and a third in 1934. The late Sir
Thomas Innes of Learney edited and revised it from
the fourth edition (1952) to the eighth edition of 1970.
American Indian
Eastern Cherokee By Blood 1906-1910—
Volume VII Applications 21,881-26,099
Transcribed by Jeff Bowen;
2008; 5.5x8.5; 288 pp;
softbound. Order from the
publisher at: Clearfield Company,
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;
CF9927 ISBN:
9780806353890; $31.50 plus
$4.00 p&h.
Between May 1905 and
April 1907, the U.S. Supreme
Court authorized the Secretary
of the Interior to identify the descendants of Eastern
Cherokees entitled to participate in the distribution
of more than $1 million authorized by Congress. The
purpose of the authorization was to settle outstanding
claims made under treaties between the U.S. government
and the Cherokees in 1835-36 and 1845.
On May 28, 1909, Mr. Guion Miller, representing
the Interior Department, submitted his findings with
respect to 45,847 separate applications for compensation
(totaling about 90,000 individual claimants).
Miller qualified about 30,000 persons inhabiting 19
states to share in the fund. Ninety percent of these
individuals were living west of the Mississippi River,
but all of them were considered to be Eastern Cherokee
by blood, that is, descendants of the Cherokee
Nation that had been evicted from Alabama, Georgia,
North Carolina, and Tennessee in 1835. (Mr. Miller
submitted a supplemental report in January 1910 that
resulted in another 610 eligibles.)
Volume VII represents an additional 4,200 applications.
Mr. Bowen culled every shred of genealogical
value from the applications, which in every case
provides the application number, applicant’s name
and city of residence, number of other persons in
the applicant’s family, references to family members
found in other applications, and the disposition of
the application. In some instances, Mr. Bowen has
supplemented the core elements found in the abstracts
with references to other family members by
name, relationship(s), and dates of birth and/or death.
In a number of cases, these applications refer to the
origins of Native Americans other than Cherokee
(Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Slave, etc.). Mr. Bowen
notes these connections in the index to each volume,
in parentheses, next to the individual’s name.
Eastern Cherokee By Blood 1906-1910—
Volume VIII Applications 26,100-30,199
Transcribed by Jeff Bowen;
2008; 5.5x8.5; 286 pp;
softbound. Order from the
publisher at: Clearfield Company,
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;
CF9928 ISBN:
9780806353906; $31.50 plus
$4.00 p&h.
Between May 1905 and
April 1907, the U.S. Supreme
Court authorized the Secretary
of the Interior to identify the descendants of Eastern
Cherokees entitled to participate in the distribution
of more than $1 million authorized by Congress. The
purpose of the authorization was to settle outstanding
claims made under treaties between the U.S. government
and the Cherokees in 1835-36 and 1845.
On May 28, 1909, Mr. Guion Miller, representing
the Interior Department, submitted his findings with
respect to 45,847 separate applications for compensation
(totaling about 90,000 individual claimants).
Miller qualified about 30,000 persons inhabiting 19
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states to share in the fund. Ninety percent of these
individuals were living west of the Mississippi River,
but all of them were considered to be Eastern Cherokee
by blood, that is, descendants of the Cherokee
Nation that had been evicted from Alabama, Georgia,
North Carolina, and Tennessee in 1835. (Mr. Miller
submitted a supplemental report in January 1910 that
resulted in another 610 eligibles.)
Volume VIII represents an additional 4,100 applications.
Mr. Bowen culled every shred of genealogical
value from the applications, which in every case
provides the application number, applicant’s name
and city of residence, number of other persons in
the applicant’s family, references to family members
found in other applications, and the disposition of
the application. In some instances, Mr. Bowen has
supplemented the core elements found in the abstracts
with references to other family members by
name, relationship(s), and dates of birth and/or death.
In a number of cases, these applications refer to the
origins of Native Americans other than Cherokee
(Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Slave, etc.). Mr. Bowen
notes these connections in the index to each volume,
in parentheses, next to the individual’s name.
Eastern Cherokee By Blood 1906-1910—
Volume IX Applications 30,200-34,185
Transcribed by Jeff Bowen;
2008; 5.5x8.5; 283 pp;
softbound. Order from the
publisher at: Clearfield Company,
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;
CF9929 ISBN:
9780806353968; $31.50 plus
$4.00 p&h.
Between May 1905 and
April 1907, the U.S. Supreme
Court authorized the Secretary
of the Interior to identify the descendants of Eastern
Cherokees entitled to participate in the distribution
of more than $1 million authorized by Congress. The
purpose of the authorization was to settle outstanding
claims made under treaties between the U.S. government
and the Cherokees in 1835-36 and 1845.
On May 28, 1909, Mr. Guion Miller, representing
the Interior Department, submitted his findings with
respect to 45,847 separate applications for compensation
(totaling about 90,000 individual claimants).
Miller qualified about 30,000 persons inhabiting 19
states to share in the fund. Ninety percent of these
individuals were living west of the Mississippi
River, but all of them were considered to be Eastern
Cherokee by blood, that is, descendants of the Cherokee
Nation that had been evicted from Alabama,
Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee in 1835. (Mr.
Miller submitted a supplemental report in January
1910 that resulted in another 610 eligibles.)
Volume IX represents just under 4,000 applications.
Mr. Bowen culled every shred of genealogical value
from the applications, which in every case provides
the application number, applicant’s name and city of
residence, number of other persons in the applicant’s
family, references to family members found in other
applications, and the disposition of the application.
In some instances, Mr. Bowen has supplemented the
core elements found in the abstracts with references
to other family members by name, relationship(s),
and dates of birth and/or death. In a number of
cases, these applications refer to the origins of Native
Americans other than Cherokee (Choctaw, Seminole,
Creek, Slave, etc ). Mr. Bowen notes these connections
in the index to each volume, in parentheses, next to
the individual’s name.
Military
American Militia in the
Frontier Wars, 1790-1796
By Murtie June Clark; Originally
printed in 1990; Reprinted
2008; 5.5x8.5; 393
pp; softbound. Order from
the publisher at: Clearfield
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.
genealogical.com; CF1001;
ISBN: 9780806312774; $38.50
plus $4.00 p&h.
This book is a compilation
of the records of the state militia
organizations that were authorized and paid by
the federal government to fight in the Indian Wars
from 1790 until 1796, shortly after Anthony Wayne’s
legendary victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
More specifically, it is a transcription of the muster
rolls and pay rolls of the state militia troops who
were paid to protect the frontier or who fought alongside
federal troops in the various frontier campaigns.
In addition, it contains data on some of the militia
troops called out to quell the Whiskey Rebellion, the
infamous western Pennsylvania tax revolt of 1784.
From the records of the Adjutant General’s Office
located in the National Archives, Murtie June Clark
compiled data from the surviving federal records of
the militia organizations of the following states and
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territories: Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Ohio Territory,
Pennsylvania, Southwest Territory (modern
Tennessee), and Virginia. Named in these records,
with dates of enlistment, rank, and other items of
information, are militia troops participating in St.
Clair’s defeat in the Northwest Territory, Anthony
Wayne’s expeditions, the Whiskey Rebellion, the
Battle of Fallen Timbers, and a host of campaigns in
areas north of the Ohio River, in the Miro District of
Tennessee, on the Holston and Cumberland rivers,
and in innumerable skirmishes along the Oconee in
Georgia and in various other places. Enhancing the
basic text is an index of names, a chronology of events
from 1783 to 1796, and a bibliography!
Civil War Stories: Tales of Everyday
Soldiers and Civilians, Volume I
By Greg M. Romaneck with
Erin Elizabeth Romaneck;
2008; 5.5x8.5; 316 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Heritage Books,
Inc., 100 Railroad Ave.,
Suite 104, Westminster, MD
21157; Phone 800-876-6103;
Fax 410-871-2674 or www.
heritagebooks.com; R4598;
ISBN: 0788445987; $29.00
plus $7.00 p&h.
Between 1861 and 1865 the
United States was divided by a bloody conflict that
claimed over 630,000 lives. During those terrible
years Americans killed one another, burned cities to
the ground, and marched across the land as if they
were a pestilential cloud of locusts. That conflagration
has come down through the years to be known
as the American Civil War. Yet, despite the fact that
thousands of books and articles have been written
about the people, places, and things that made up
the Civil War, it remains all too easy to forget that its
participants were everyday people. Civil War Stories
is a two-volume social history that narrows the focus
onto the lives of these everyday soldiers and civilians.
Each chapter tells the story of an individual or a topic
in the pantheon of Civil War history that impacted the
lives of common soldiers or civilians. Readers of this
work will meet refugees, slaves, infantryman longing
to return home, and the cost of America’s bloodiest
war. Written by a researcher who has published
numerous articles and books on the Civil War, and
who spent 12 years engaged in living history events
of that era in America’s past, Civil War Stories offers
a unique, up close and personal look at perhaps the
most influential portion of the American saga.
Civil War Stories: Tales of Everyday
Soldiers and Civilians, Volume II
By Greg M. Romaneck with
Erin Elizabeth Romaneck;
2008; 5.5x8.5; 282 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Heritage Books,
Inc., 100 Railroad Ave.,
Suite 104, Westminster, MD
21157; Phone 800-876-6103;
Fax 410-871-2674 or www.
heritagebooks.com; R4599;
ISBN: 0788445995; $27.00
plus $7.00 p&h.
Between 1861 and 1865
the United States was divided by a bloody conflict
that claimed over 630,000 lives. During those terrible
years Americans killed one another, burned cities to
the ground, and marched across the land as if they
were a pestilential cloud of locust. That conflagration
has come down through the years to be known
as the American Civil War. Yet, despite the fact that
thousands of books and articles have been written
about the people, places, and things that made up
the Civil War, it remains all too easy to forget that
its participants were everyday people. Civil War Stories
is a two-volume social history that narrows the
focus onto the lives of these everyday soldiers and
civilians. Each chapter tells the story of an individual
or a topic in the pantheon of Civil War history that
impacted the lives of common soldiers or civilians.
Readers of this work will meet refugees, slaves, infantryman
longing to return home, and the cost of
America’s bloodiest war. Written by a researcher who
has published numerous articles and books on the
Civil War, and who spent 12 years engaged in living
history events of that era in America’s past, Civil
War Stories offers a unique, up close and personal
look at perhaps the most influential portion of the
American saga.
From Providence to Fort Hell—
Letters from Company K Seventh
Rhode Island Volunteers
By Robert Grandchamp; 2008; 5.5x8.5; 174 pp;
softbound. Order from the publisher at: Heritage
Books, Inc., 100 Railroad Ave., Suite 104, Westminster,
MD 21157; Phone 800-876-6103; Fax 410-871-
2674 or www.heritagebooks.com; G3743; ISBN:
0788437437; $21.00 plus $7.00 p&h.
On September 6, 1862 the Seventh Rhode Island
Volunteers was mustered into the service of
the United States for three years. The Seventh was
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incorporated into the Army
of the Potomac and joined
the First Brigade, Second Division,
Ninth Corps. They
would fight with this unit
from the horrors of Fredericksburg
to the garrison of
Fort Hell before Petersburg.
Along the way, the regiment
fought engagements in Mississippi
and Kentucky and
would return to Virginia in
1864. Here the men from the
Seventh Rhode Island Volunteers would face constant
danger from Spotsylvania to the North Anna,
Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Poplar
Spring Church. One of the ten companies in that regiment
was Company K. Found in collections throughout
Rhode Island these transcribed and edited letters
tell of a community of men at war. Here are the vivid
accounts of battles and leaders, of fatiguing marches,
and horrible illness as the men recorded it in letters
home to their families. These letters reflect a critical
moment in this nation’s history as these farmers
and mill workers turned their backs from home and
went south to fight in the Civil War. Carefully preserved
through the generations these letters allow
the veterans of the Seventh Rhode Island to speak.
From these simple words, penned on faded pieces
of paper the past is brought to life. These letters are
presented to the reader exactly as the soldier wrote
them, along with historical narrative, identification
of those mentioned in the text, a roster, images, and
bibliographical notes.
The Civil War in TEXAS and
the SOUTHWEST
By Colonel USA (Ret) Roy F.
Sullivan; 2008; 5.5x8.5; 150
pp; softbound. Order from
the publisher at: Heritage
Books, Inc., 100 Railroad
Ave., Suite 104, Westminster,
MD 21157; Phone 800-
876-6103; Fax 410-871-2674
or www.heritagebooks.com;
S4370; ISBN: 0788443704;
$19.00 plus $7.00 p&h.
“The contributions of the
Texas Navy to the Republic
(of Texas) were more important than contemporaries
understood. During the critical first months of revolution,
the Navy fought off blockaders, interrupted
Mexican supply lines, and provided the opportunity
for victory at San Jacinto. Later, aided by American
and French quarrels with Mexico, it prevented a seaborne
or sea-supported attack of Texas. And finally,
in 1843 the Navy thwarted a well-organized full scale
invasion of Yucatan which, if successful, would have
led inevitably to reinvasion, possibly reconquest of
Texas.” Many people have never heard of the Republic
of Texas, nor know that the “Lone Star State” was
its own nation for ten years after winning independence
from Santa Ana at San Jacinto. Texans were
on their own, struggling to create a new republic in
the mold (and shadow) of the United States. A navy
was needed—a strong and feisty one—to defend 600
miles of Texas Gulf coast from a strong and aggressive
Mexico which wanted Texas back. To defend themselves
Texans had three navies. The Impromptu Navy
was a collection of hearty individuals and small craft
curbing Mexico’s harsh authority along the coast. The
First Navy blockaded Mexican ports, seized shipping
carrying arms and munitions to Mexican armies and
reduced Mexico’s powerful navy to an escort role.
The Second (and last) Texas Navy’s sailing ships confronted
Mexico’s state-of-the-art warships, defeated
them, preventing Mexico’s blockade of its rebellious
Yucatan and Tabasco provinces while forcing Santa
Ana to an armistice with Texas.
Abe Lincoln Afloat
By J. C. Ladenheim; 2008;
5.5x8.5; 82 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher at:
Heritage Books, Inc., 100 Railroad
Ave., Suite 104, Westminster,
MD 21157; Phone
800-876-6103; Fax 410-871-2674
or www.heritagebooks.com;
L4558; ISBN: 0788445588;
$13.50 plus $7.00 p&h.
In 1828, Abe Lincoln, a
gangling 18-year old Hoosier
farm boy, made the first of
two 2,500 mile journeys down and up the Mississippi
River, which he undertook at no small risk to
life and limb. The youth marveled at the hazards of
navigation, the strange plants and animal life, the
crime and bustling commerce encountered along the
great river and the slave plantations emerging from
the wilderness. He visited a great city, heard foreign
languages spoken, saw foreign flags, and watched in
distress as men and women were sold off by pitiless
auctioneers. He returned home by steamboat, realizing
every boy’s prayers, and thereafter held himself
out as an experienced river man. The author, a retired
neurosurgeon, has been a lifelong Lincoln student
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and a former president of the Abraham Lincoln Association
of Jersey City, the oldest Lincoln society in
the United States.
Delaware
Orphans’ Court Proceedings of New Castle
County, Delaware—April 1761-July 1777
By Margaret Dealyne Mealy;
2008; 5.5x8.5; 285 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Colonial Roots,
17296 Coastal Highway,
Lewes, DE 19958; 800-576-
8608; 302-644-2798; www.
colonialroots.com; D3031;
$31.00 plus $6.50 p&h.
Contains detailed abstracts
from Books D and E. These
records reveal not only the
names of minors (girls under
age 18 and boys under 21) but the names of the
guardians which could be the mother, father (in the
case of property left to the children by one other than
the father), and husbands (when married to a girl under
18). Other information includes the name of subsequent
husband of the widow, accountings by the
executors or administrators of the estate, valuations
of the land, and division of the land. The eldest son is
specified since he received two shares to his siblings’
one share. Example of an entry (condensed): Richard
Dinniss and his wife Hannah, late Hannah Coates, one of
the daughters of Mary Coates, late Mary Hale, set forth
that Mary Hale married John Coates, late of Philadelphia,
bricklayer. She died seized of 282 acres; her husband died
soon thereafter. Her children are named along with the
husbands of her daughters. A deceased daughter is also
named. A wealth of information.
Orphans’ Court Proceedings of New Castle
County, Delaware—April 1778-July 1787
By Sarah Deakyne Burke;
2008; 5.5x8.5; 255 pp; softbound;
Order from the publisher
at: Colonial Roots,
17296 Coastal Highway,
Lewes, DE 19958; 800-576-
8608; 302-644-2798; www.
colonialroots.com; D3032;
$28.50 plus $6.50 p&h.
Contains detailed abstracts
from Book F. These records
reveal not only the names
of minors (girls under age 18 and boys under 21),
but the names of the guardians which could be the
mother, father (in the case of property left to the
children by one other than the father), and husbands
(when married to a girl under 18). Other information
includes the name of subsequent husband of
the widow, accountings by the executors or administrators
of the estate, valuations of the land, and
division of the land. The eldest son is specified since
he received two shares to his siblings’ one share. Example
of an entry (condensed): Richard Dinniss and
his wife Hannah, late Hannah Coates, one of the daughters
of Mary Coates, late Mary Hale, set forth that Mary Hale
married John Coates, late of Philadelphia, bricklayer. She
died seized of 282 acres; her husband died soon thereafter.
Her children are named along with the husbands of her
daughters. A deceased daughter is also named. A wealth
of information.
Maryland
History of Frederick County, Maryland—
2 Volumes
By T. J. C. Williams and
Folger McKinsey; Originally
printed in 1910; Reprinted
2008; 5.5x8.5; 1,724 pp; softbound.
Order from the
publisher at: Clearfield Company,
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;
CF6410; ISBN:
9780806380124; $140.00 plus
$4.00 p&h.
If the genealogist would
identify the perfect county history—one containing
equal parts of history and biography, and enough
genealogy to make the blood race—Williams’ History
of Frederick County, Maryland would surely be his/her
choice. The history of Braddock’s campaign, the local
events of the Revolution, John Brown’s raid nearby,
the old National Road, the earliest American railroad
and its opening to Frederick, and the great events of
the Civil War are all covered in the first volume of
this monumental work. Of particular interest to the
genealogist are the 1790 census of Frederick County
and the roster of Maryland Troops in the French and
Indian War.
The second volume, the “Biographical Record of
Representative Families,” is really worth pausing
over, for it contains no fewer than 1,100 biographical
and genealogical sketches, in most cases supplied
by the subjects of the sketches themselves. Each
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sketch attempts to establish the origins of the subjects’
forebears, giving the dates and places of their
birth, marriage, and residence, and facts concerning
their immigration to and settlement in this country
(most were of German or Scotch-Irish extraction). The
authors then describe the subjects’ family members,
place of residence, education, religion, occupation,
and life and times in Frederick County, which in earlier
years comprised the entire area of Western Maryland.
And what we are left with finally is not only
an understanding of the rise and progress of a great
county and its people, but also a clear perception of
the county in the great genealogical chain.
Every-name Index for the Two Volumes of
History of Frederick County Maryland
Compiled by Patricia A.
Fogle; Originally printed
in 2002; Reprinted 2008;
5.5x8.5; 220 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Clearfield Company,
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;
CF9780; ISBN:
9780806351902; $26.50 plus
$4.00 p&h.
For all of its magnificence,
this irreplaceable work has a major shortcoming—
it lacks an every-name index. Now, thanks to the
prodigious efforts of Patricia A. Fogle, Clearfield
Company is proud to announce the publication of
a complete name index to Williams and McKinsey’s
History of Frederick County, Maryland.
Like the work it is based
upon, the index is divided into
two parts. The index to Volume
I (the historical narrative) takes
up the first third of Mrs. Fogle’s
effort, while the remaining two
thirds cover the genealogical
sketches in Volume II. All told,
the researcher will find more
than 40,000 individuals named
in this index. All individuals or
libraries who currently own the
History of Frederick County, Maryland
will want to purchase Mrs.
Fogle’s finding aid as an invaluable
companion to the original
volumes. Those researching Frederick
County who do not own the
History but can gain access to the
base volumes will also want to keep Mrs. Fogle’s
Index on hand, since it unlocks an enormous number
of links to the county’s past.
Abstracts of the Testamentary
Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of
Maryland—Volume I: 1658-1674—Libers:
1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F, 2, 3, 4A, 4B, 4C
By V. L. Skinner, Jr.; Originally
printed in 2004; Reprinted
2008; 5.5x8.5; 310
pp; softbound. Order from
the publisher at: Clearfield
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.
genealogical.com; CF9859;
ISBN: 9780806352602; $29.50
plus $4.00 p&h.
The Prerogative Court was
the focal point for probate for
colonial Maryland. A judge and various clerks staffed
the court. All matters of probate went directly to the
Prerogative Court, which was located in the colonial
capital. Eventually administration of probate was delegated
to the several county courts; however, many
documents related to probate continued to be filed
at the Prerogative Court and not in the corresponding
county.
The work at hand consists of abstracts of Prerogative
Court of Maryland records for the period 1658
to 1674. Mr. Skinner has combed through administration
bond, will, inventory, administration account,
and final balance entries to produce this collection.
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The abstracts are arranged in chronological order by
court session, and in every instance they give the
names of the principals (testators, heirs, witnesses,
administrators, and so forth). In many cases we also
learn the details of bequests, names of slaves, appraisers,
and more. In all, Mr. Skinner identifies some
6,000 17th-century Marylanders whose existence and
activities would otherwise remain hidden in some
rich but very obscure records.
Abstracts of the Testamentary
Proceedings of the Prerogative
Court of Maryland—Volume IX:
1700-1703—Libers: 18B, 19A
By V. L. Skinner, Jr.; 2007;
5.5x8.5; 283 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Clearfield Company, Inc.,
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite
260, Baltimore, MD 21211;
or www.genealogical.com;
CF9971; ISBN: 9780806353449;
$29.50 plus $4.00 p&h.
This is the ninth volume in
V. L. Skinner, Jr.’s popular series
of transcriptions of 17thcentury
Maryland probate
records. Volume IX of Abstracts of the Testamentary
Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland (1700–
1703) marks the first one in the series whose coverage
is confined solely to the 18th century.
The Prerogative Court was the focal point for
probate in colonial Maryland. A judge and various
clerks staffed the court. All matters of probate went
directly to the Prerogative Court, which was located
in Annapolis, Maryland’s colonial capital. Eventually,
administration of probate was delegated to the
several county courts; however, many documents
related to probate continued to be filed at the Prerogative
Court and not in the corresponding county.
It should be noted that the Prerogative Court was
also the colony’s court for equity cases—resolution
of disputes over the settlement and distribution of an
estate. (Beginning in 1674, inventories and accounts
were recorded in a separate series.)
Volume IX consists of abstracts of the records for
the period 1700 to 1703. Mr. Skinner has combed
through administration, bond, will, inventory, administration
accounts, and final balance entries to
produce this collection. The abstracts are arranged
chronologically by court session. For the most part,
the transcriptions state the names of the principals
(testators, heirs, witnesses, administrators, and so
forth) as well as details of bequests, names of slaves,
appraisers, and more. Beginning with the previous
volume in this series, it is interesting to note,
the Prerogative Court no longer assigned appraisers
for the assessment of individuals’ property. In
all, this volume refers to roughly 7,500 residents of
the Province of Maryland at the outset of the 18th
century.
Abstracts of the Testamentary
Proceedings of the Prerogative
Court of Maryland—Volume X:
1704-1707—Libers 19B, 19C
By V. L. Skinner, Jr.; Originally
printed in 2007; Reprinted
2008; 5.5x8.5; 256
pp; softbound. Order from
the publisher at: Clearfield
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.
genealogical.com; CF9972;
ISBN: 9780806353487; $29.50
plus $4.00 p&h.
This is the tenth volume
of Abstracts of the Testamentary
Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland
(1704–1707), by V. L. Skinner. By now readers of this
excellent series know that the Prerogative Court
was the focal point for probate in colonial Maryland.
A judge and various clerks staffed the court.
All matters of probate went directly to the Prerogative
Court, which was located in Annapolis, Maryland’s
colonial capital. Eventually, administration of
probate was delegated to the several county courts;
however, many documents related to probate continued
to be filed at the Prerogative Court and not
in the corresponding county. It should be noted that
the Prerogative Court was also the colony’s court for
equity cases—resolution of disputes over the settlement
and distribution of an estate. (Beginning in
1674, inventories and accounts were recorded in a
separate series.)
Volume X consists of abstracts of the records for
the period 1704 to 1707. Mr. Skinner has combed
through administration, bond, will, inventory, administration
account, and final balance entries to
produce this collection. The abstracts are arranged
chronologically by court session. For the most part,
the transcriptions state the names of the principals
(testators, heirs, witnesses, administrators, and so
forth) as well as details of bequests, names of slaves,
appraisers, and more. In all, this volume refers to
roughly 7,000 residents of the Province of Maryland
between 1704 and 1707.
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Abstracts of the Testamentary
Proceedings of the Prerogative Court
of Maryland—Volume XI: 1703-1704,
1707-1709—Libers 20, 21 (pp. 1-206)
By V. L. Skinner, Jr.; Originally
printed in 2007; Reprinted
2008; 5.5x8.5; 292
pp; softbound. Order from
the publisher at: Clearfield
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.
genealogical.com; CF9973;
ISBN: 9780806353579; $29.50
plus $4.00 p&h.
Readers of this excellent
series know that the Prerogative
Court was the focal point for probate in colonial
Maryland. All matters of probate went directly to
the Prerogative Court, which was located in Annapolis,
Maryland’s colonial capital. The following
documents were filed with the court: administration,
bond, will, inventory, administration accounts, and
final balances. Eventually, administration of probate
was delegated to the several county courts; however,
many documents related to probate continued to be
filed at the Prerogative Court and not in the corresponding
county. It should be noted that the Prerogative
Court was also the colony’s court for equity
cases—resolution of disputes over the settlement and
distribution of an estate.
Volume XI contains abstracts of the records for
1703-1704 and 1707-1709, as found in Libers 20 and
21. As such, it overlaps chronologically with Volume
X, which deals with the years 1704-1707. The abstracts
are arranged chronologically by court session. For
the most part, the transcriptions state the names of
the principals (testators, heirs, witnesses, administrators,
and so forth) as well as details of bequests,
names of slaves, appraisers, and more. In all, this
volume refers to roughly 8,000 residents.
Abstracts of the Testamentary
Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of
Maryland—Volume XII: 1709-1712—Libers:
21 (pp. 207-347), 22 (pp. 1-147)
By V. L. Skinner, Jr.; 2008; 5.5x8.5; 292 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher at: Clearfield Company,
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com; CF9994;
ISBN: 9780806353654; $29.50 plus $4.00 p&h.
Readers of this excellent series know that the
Prerogative Court was the focal point for probate
in colonial Maryland. All
matters of probate went directly
to the Prerogative
Court, which was located in
Annapolis, Maryland’s colonial
capital. The Prerogative
Court was also the colony’s
court for equity cases—resolution
of disputes over the
settlement and distribution
of an estate. Volume XII contains
abstracts of the records
for the period 1709 to 1712, as
found in Libers 21 and 22. Mr. Skinner has combed
through administration, bond, will, inventory, administration
account, and final balance entries for
these years. The abstracts are arranged chronologically
by court session. For the most part, the transcriptions
state the names of the principals (testators,
heirs, witnesses, administrators, and so forth) as well
as details of bequests, names of slaves, appraisers,
and more. This volume refers to more than 7,500
residents.
Abstracts of the Testamentary
Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of
Maryland—Volume XVI: 1721-1724—Libers:
25 (pp. 88-135), 26, 27 (pp. 1-140)
By V. L. Skinner, Jr.; 2008;
5.5x8.5; 300 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Clearfield Company, Inc.,
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite
260, Baltimore, MD 21211;
or www.genealogical.com;
CF9951; ISBN: 9780806353944;
$29.50 plus $4.00 p&h.
The Prerogative Court was
the focal point for probate in
colonial Maryland. All matters
of probate went directly
to the Prerogative Court, which was located in Annapolis,
Maryland’s colonial capital. The Prerogative
Court was also the colony’s court for equity cases—
resolution of disputes over the settlement and distribution
of an estate.
Following is a representative abstract from these
volumes:
Summons to Samuell Heigh & his wife executrix
of John Israell (BA) to show cause why
they don’t take LoA on his estate, or grant administration
to another on behalf of the children.
Date: 10 November 1724.
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Volume XVI consists of abstracts of the records for
the period 1721-24, as found in the remainder of Liber
25, Liber 26, and the first 140 pages of Liber 27. The
abstracts are arranged chronologically by court session.
For the most part, the transcriptions state the
names of the principals (testators, heirs, witnesses,
administrators, and so forth) as well as details of bequests,
names of slaves, appraisers, and more.
Abstracts of the Testamentary
Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of
Maryland—Volume XVII: 1724-1727—Libers:
27 (pp. 141-402), 28 (pp. 1-101)
By V. L. Skinner, Jr.; 2008;
5.5x8.5; 289 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Clearfield Company, Inc.,
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite
260, Baltimore, MD 21211;
or www.genealogical.com;
CF9952; ISBN: 9780806353951;
$29.50 plus $4.00 p&h.
The Prerogative Court was
the focal point for probate in
colonial Maryland. All matters
of probate went directly
to the Prerogative Court, which was located in Annapolis,
Maryland’s colonial capital. The Prerogative
Court was also the colony’s court for equity cases—
resolution of disputes over the settlement and distribution
of an estate.
Following is a representative abstract from these
volumes:
Summons to Samuell Heigh & his wife executrix
of John Israell (BA) to show cause why
they don’t take LoA on his estate, or grant administration
to another on behalf of the children.
Date: 10 November 1724.
Volume XVII resumes with page 141 of Liber 27
and pp. 1-101 of Liber 28. The abstracts are arranged
chronologically by court session. For the most part,
the transcriptions state the names of the principals
(testators, heirs, witnesses, administrators, and so
forth) as well as details of bequests, names of slaves,
appraisers, and more.
Catholic Families of Southern Maryland—
Records of Catholic Residents of St.
Mary’s County in the Eighteenth Century
Compiled by Timothy J. O’Rourke; Originally
published in 1981; Reprinted 2008; 5.5x8.5; 153 pp;
softbound. Order from the
publisher at: Clearfield Company,
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;
CF4337; ISBN:
9780806311067; $21.00 plus
$4.00 p&h.
“St. Mary’s County is
where it all began,” writes
Thomas Spalding in the introduction
to this book. “There
was established the first
Catholic parish, the first Catholic school, the first
community of religious men in English-speaking
America.” Moreover, St. Mary’s residents played a
key role in the development of the Catholic Church
throughout the whole of America, providing the
spearhead of the westward expansion of Catholicism.
In 1785, for example, the first of many Catholic
families from St. Mary’s crossed the mountains
to find land in Kentucky, while a few years later,
driven by economic necessity, others migrated to
Georgia, Missouri, Louisiana, and Texas. So great
was the number of St. Mary’s Catholics who moved
to Kentucky, in fact, that a diocese was created for
them in 1808.
These early families left a mighty progeny, and
those of us today who seek ancestral connections
will welcome the appearance of this book, for here
are collected many of the earliest surviving records
of the Catholic families of St. Mary’s County,
Maryland. The most significant portion of the work
contains the marriages and baptisms from the Jesuit
parishes of St. Francis Xavier and St. Inigoes,
which, in the case of baptisms (1767-1794), give the
names of children, parents, and godparents, and
the date of baptism; and in the case of marriages
(1767-1784), the names of the married partners and
the date of marriage. Other records include congregation
lists (1768-1769), rent rolls (various dates),
births (various dates), subscribers to the Oath of Allegiance
(1778), militia lists (1794), and voters’ lists
(1789-1790). Taken together, these records comprise
an indispensable reference source and represent
the most complete collection of such materials in
print.
Maryland Genealogies—Two Volumes
From the Maryland Historical Magazine; Originally
published in 1980; Reprinted 2008; 5.5x8.5;
1097 pp; softbound. Order from the publisher
at: Clearfield Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore, MD 21211; or www.
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genealogical.com; CF3735;
ISBN: 9780806308876; $110.00
plus $4.00 p&h.
This work contains all the
family history articles published
in the Maryland Historical
Magazine from its inception
through 1976. Most of the articles
begin with the first member
of the family in Maryland
and trace descendants in the
male line down to the early
18th century. Since they have
been largely inaccessible to the researcher, we have
excerpted these articles in entirety and rearranged
them in this comprehensive two-volume work, adding
an introduction by a noted Maryland genealogist
and personal name indexes.
The consolidated articles—nearly 100 in number—
now form a reference work of a type long needed
in Maryland genealogy, with the range and scholarly
authority demanded by the researcher. Following
is a list of the families named in the titles to the
various articles: Abington, Auld, Ball, Bartlett, Belt,
Berry, Bladen, Blakistone, Bonvile, Brengle, Briscoe,
Brooke, Caile, Calvert, Chew, Christison, Churchill,
Clements, Cohen, Coplestone, Croker, Cromwell,
Dent, Dixon, Dorsey, Dunn, Egerton, Ellicott, Elliott,
Emory, Fairfax, Faris, Fox, Foxworthy, Frisby, Fritchie,
Frith, Gary, Gerard, Gist, Goldsborough, Gordon,
Gough-Carroll, Hall, Harrison, Harwood, Haskins,
Hausil, Hawley-Halley, Highland, Hollyday, Hungerford,
Hynson, Jones, Kemp, Key, Lambdin, Lane,
LeCompte, Lee, Levis, Linthicum, Lloyd, Loockerman,
Lowe, Lowndes, MacKeeles, Marsh, Merryman,
Monroe, Morgan, Murdock, Neale, Owens-Owings,
Pearce-Levy, Pennock, Plater, Poe, Price, Pritchett,
Randall, Ridgely, Rigbie, Rockhold, Sewall, Sharpe,
Skinner, Smallwood, Smith, Snead, Sparrow, Sprigg,
Stansbury, Stevens, Stewart, Sweetser, Tasker, Taylor,
Tilghman, Todd, Webb, Weems, West, Winchester-
Owens-Owings-Price, Wise, Wrightson, and Young-
Woodward-Hesselius.
Cecil County, Maryland Marriages
References 1674-1824
By Henry C. Peden Jr. & Veronica Clarke Peden;
2008; 5.5x8.5; 358 pp; softbound. Order from the publisher
at: Colonial Roots, 17296 Coastal Highway,
Lewes, DE 19958; 800-576-8608; 302-644-2798; www.
colonialroots.com; D1674; $35.00 plus $6.50 p&h.
This book is a comprehensive compilation of
marriage references, actual and implied, in Cecil
County, MD for its first 150 years from 1674 when the
county separated from Baltimore
County through 1824.
It is much more than just
names and dates. In many
instances the reader will find
births and deaths, names of
parents, children, and other
relatives, places of residence
and burial, military service
information, and places of
residence and burials. These
marriage references were
gleaned from licenses, land
records, probate records (wills, accounts, inventories,
and distributions), bibles, church records, tombstone
inscriptions, newspapers, military records,
and family histories. Marriages were also found in
nearby New Castle County, Delaware and in Chester
and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania. It should be
noted that in some cases the dates of marriage are
precise dates while in other cases, due to the lack
of actual marriage records, they are approximate or
undetermined.
New Jersey
East New Jersey Land Records,
1702-1717 (Books H, I and “Little K”)
By Richard S. Hutchinson;
2008; 5.5x8.5; 223 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Colonial Roots,
17296 Coastal Highway,
Lewes, DE 19958; 800-576-
8608; 302-644-2798; www.
colonialroots.com; D4557;
$26.50 plus $6.50 p&h.
This series covers the
counties of Essex, Middlesex,
Monmouth and Somerset.
However, some Bergen Co.
deeds are recorded, while others make references
to Bergen Co. names within the deed’s description.
Hutchinson’s latest volume also includes 19 wills,
five intestate filings, and one declaration of intention
to marry. In addition, the author has also added
an addendum—a reprint of “A Further Account of
New Jersey, In an Abstract of LETTERS Lately Writ
from thence, By Several Inhabitants there Resident”
(London, 1676). The period of this latest book, 1702 to
1717 is the general period of recording, not the date of
the actual transaction (land sales, conveyances, mortgages,
powers of attorney, etc.) that oft times predated
the dates of the books. One is able to follow ownership
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of land from parents to their children and their children’s
spouses in many of the conveyances.
East New Jersey Land Records,
1766-1772 (Books D3, E3 and F3)
By Richard S. Hutchinson;
2008; 5.5x8.5; 243 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Colonial Roots,
17296 Coastal Highway,
Lewes, DE 19958; 800-576-
8608; 302-644-2798; www.
colonialroots.com; D4558;
$27.00 plus $6.50 p&h.
This series covers the counties
of Essex, Middlesex, Monmouth,
Morris, Somerset, and
Sussex. The period of this latest
book, 1766-1772 is the general period of recording,
not the date of the actual transaction (which includes
land sales, conveyances, mortgages, powers of attorney,
etc.) that often times pre-dated the date of the
books. One is able to follow ownership of land from
parents to their children and their children’s spouses
in many of the conveyances.
North Carolina
Mecklenburg County, North
Carolina—Abstracts of Early
Wills 1763-1790 (1749-1790)
By Brent H. Holcomb; Originally
published in 1980;
Reprinted 2008; 5.5x8.5; 101
pp; softbound. Order from
the publisher at: Clearfield
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.
genealogical.com; CF9138;
ISBN: 9780806345956; $17.50
plus $4.00 p&h.
The will abstracts in this
volume, 1749-1790, are based
on the oldest Mecklenburg County wills of record, as
well as upon the extant returns of wills and estates
of the North Carolina Secretary of State. While the
length and contents of these abstracts vary, most of
them provide the name of the testator, date of the
will, names and relationships of all heirs to the estate
(sometimes with ages given or inferred), contents of
the estate, names of executors, and, usually, the date
of probate.
Caswell County, North Carolina
Marriage Bonds, 1778-1868
Compiled by Katherine
Kerr Kendall; Originally
published in 1981; Reprinted
2008; 5.5x8.5; 101
pp; softbound. Order from
the publisher at: Clearfield
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.
genealogical.com; CF9200;
ISBN: 9780806312767; $21.50
plus $4.00 p&h.
Caswell County, North
Carolina was created from Orange County in 1777,
and is today adjacent to Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
Mrs. Kendall has abstracted all 5,700 extant
marriage bonds for Caswell County from 1778, the
date of the earliest bond, to 1868, when North Carolina
changed the requirements of its marriage law.
Each entry herein identifies the bride and groom, the
date of the bond, and the name of the bondsman or
witness. Contains a name index to brides, grooms,
bondsmen, witnesses, and other persons named in
the bonds.
North Carolina 1850 Agricultural
Census—Volume 1
Transcribed and compiled by
Linda L. Green; 2008; 8.5x11;
202 pp; softbound. Order
from the publisher at: Heritage
Books, Inc., 100 Railroad
Ave., Suite 104, Westminster,
MD 21157; Phone 800-876-
6103; Fax 410-871-2674 or
www.heritagebooks.com;
G4571; ISBN: 0788445715;
$28.00 plus $7.00 p&h.
These agricultural census records name only the
head of the household; however, they do yield unique
information about how people lived. Often, individuals
who were missed on the regular U.S. census will
appear on the agricultural census. Six of the agricultural
census’s original 48 columns are transcribed
here: name of owner, improved acreage, unimproved
acreage, cash value of farm, value of farm implements
and machinery, and value of livestock. This volume
covers the counties of: Alamance, Alexander, Anson,
Ashe, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Buncombe,
Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camden, and Carteret. A
surname index augments the records.
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Macon County, North Carolina—
Marriages—1829-1939
By James E. Wooley; Originally
printed in 1984; Reprinted
2005; 5.5x8.5; 156 pp;
softbound; Indexed; Order
from the publisher at: Southern
Historical Books, 375
West Broad St., PO Box 1267,
Greenville, SC 29601; 800-
233-0152; Fax 864-233-2349;
http://southernhistoricalpress.com;
ISBN: 0-89308-
342-9; $25.00 plus p&h.
Macon County was formed
in 1828 from Haywood County, and Haywood was
formed in 1808 from Buncombe. Macon County
is in the Western section of North Carolina and is
bounded by the state of Georgia and Clay, Cherokee,
Swain, and Jackson Counties, N.C. This book contains
approximately 7,000 marriages in this 110-year
period and is arranged alphabetically by groom. An
index of brides is included. Also included are the
names of the clerks, registrars, justices of the peace
and ministers of the gospel who performed these
ceremonies. On a marriage bond could be found the
names of the groom and his bondsman, the bride,
the witness, and the date the bond was issued. The
marriage may have taken place the same day or a
week or more later. In 1868, bonds were discontinued,
although marriage licenses and certificates had
been issued for many years. Only after 1851 was the
J.P. or minister required to return the license to the
Clerk of the Court’s office. According to the 1868 law,
the marriage licenses were to be kept in the Registrar
of Deeds Office, and the age, race, residence, and
place of marriage were to be recorded with the other
information.
Orange County, N.C. Abstracts of the
Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter
Sessions of: Sept. 1752-Aug. 1766
By Ruth H. Shields; Originally printed in 1965; Reprinted
2005; 5.5x8.5; 183 pp; softbound; indexed.
Order from the publisher at: Southern Historical
Books, 375 West Broad St., PO Box 1267, Greenville,
SC 29601; 800-233-0152; Fax 864-233-2349; http://
southernhistoricalpress.com; ISBN: 0-89308-456-5;
$30.00 plus p&h.
Orange County was created in 1752 from Granville,
Johnston and Bladen Counties with Granville having
been formed from Edgecombe County. Rowan County
was formed as the western boundary of Orange in
1753. Counties formed from
Orange were Guilford and
Randolph in 1770 with Rockingham
taken from Guilford
in 1785, Chatham in 1770 with
a small portion of it taken to
become part of Wake County
in 1770, and in 1771 Caswell
County was taken from Orange
with Person County
taken from Caswell in 1792.
The court was held four times
a year and heard such cases of
assault, batteries, trespass, all breaches of the peace.
They held authority of administration in intestate
estates and orphans, granted license to build water
gristmills, to taverns and ordinaries, and to build
and maintain public ferries. The court also appointed
Constables and Overseers of Roads, and named the
men who lived within the bounds to keep them in
repair, as well as recommending three persons to the
Governor, of whom one was made Sheriff, as well
as imposing taxes for roads, courthouses and goals,
appointed all county officers, civil and military, all
lists of Jurors and probates of Wills. These records
are extremely valuable for the researcher, especially
if an ancestor died intestate (without a will), and in
some instances a person may be listed in these court
records and nowhere else in the county records.
Abstracts of Haywood County,
North Carolina Deeds 1808-1838
By Bill Eddleman; 2005;
6x9; 282 pp; hardbound; indexed.
Order from the publisher
at: Southern Historical
Books, 375 West Broad St.,
PO Box 1267, Greenville,
SC 29601; 800-233-0152; Fax
864-233-2349; http://southern
historicalpress.com; ISBN:
0-89308-807-2; $35.00 plus
p&h.
Haywood County was created
in 1808 from Buncombe
County, N.C. It was an important migration path
for early settlers moving into Tennessee, Georgia,
and South Carolina. Deeds are GREAT sources for
genealogical research due to the many and varied
family members that are mentioned. Not only will
the reader find the deed transaction itself, but often
times such things as: marriages, relinquishment of
dower, divisions of family farms among heirs, and
remarriages of widows are just a few of the matters
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you can anticipate finding within records of deeds.
Another very special note, the author has included
a slave index to help those persons researching their
African American lines. This book should make a
GREAT EDITION to everyone’s library who has family
in Western North Carolina.
History of Surry County, North Carolina
By J. G. Hollingsworth; Originally
printed in 1935; Reprinted
2005; 6x9; 288 pp plus
new index; hardbound. Order
from the publisher at: Southern
Historical Books, 375
West Broad St., PO Box 1267,
Greenville, SC 29601; 800-233-
0152; Fax 864-233-2349; http://
southernhistoricalpress.com;
ISBN: 0-89308-748-3; $35.00
plus p&h.
Surry County was formed
from Rowan County in 1771. At the time of it creation
it was surrounded by Iredell, Rowan, Stokes, Wilkes
counties, N.C. and to the North by Henry county, VA.
The time frame of this book concentrates on the Colonial
& Revolutionary era, with such topics as frontier
life, Indians, trade & transportation, labor, farming,
politics, education, newspapers, and religion—all
important in the development of the county. These
types of HISTORY books are can be very helpful in
your research. They can help one develop ideas or
pathways to those missing ancestors by showing the
customs and traditions of local residents. This is very
important in trying to figure out what signification
factors were prevalent in the county, such as floods,
draughts, matters of economic prosperity, matters of
governmental intrusion or influence, or one of any
number of things that might cause a person to stay or
move on. The author has also included numerous lists:
muster rolls of soldiers who served in the War of 1812,
the detached Militia organization of 1814, pensioners
in Surry County of 1840 Revolutionary or Military
services, Pensions issued to Surry in 1833 for services
in the War of 1812, Mexican War veterans, numerous
Civil War Companies including commissioned & noncommissioned
officers and privates, and Veterans of
the Spanish-American War and WWI.
Duplin County, North Carolina
Court of Pleas & Quarter
Sessions 1784-1787 (Vol. 1)
By Leora H. McEachem; Originally printed in 1978,
1979 & 1980; Reprinted 2005; 5.5x8.5; 118; Indexed;
softbound. Order from the
publisher at: Southern Historical
Books, 375 West Broad
St., PO Box 1267, Greenville,
SC 29601; 800-233-0152; Fax
864-233-2349; http://southernhistoricalpress.com;
ISBN: 0-89308-808-0; $23.50
plus p&h.
Duplin County was formed
in 1750 from New Hanover
County, NC. It is located in
the Southeastern section of
the state and is surrounded by the counties of Jones,
Lenoir, New Hanover, Onslow, Sampson, and Wayne.
In these abstracts, one will find local office holders
being appointed, the levying and expenditure of local
taxes, selecting & summoning of juries, licenses being
granted to operators of taverns, as well as deeds
& bills of sale being acknowledge by the grantor. The
Court also oversaw a wide range of matters involving
estates, including probate of will, settlements of
estates, and appraisements, as well as matters dealing
with bastardy, and many other valuable bits of
information.
Pennsylvania
The German and Swiss Settlements
of Colonial Pennsylvania—A Study of
the So-Called Pennsylvania Dutch
By Oscar Kuhns; Originally
printed in 1900; Reprinted
2008; 5.5x8.5; 276 pp; softbound;
indexed. Order from
the publisher at: Clearfield
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.
genealogical.com; CF9723;
ISBN: 9780806351353; $28.50
plus $4.00 p&h.
Just who are the “Pennsylvania
Dutch” When and why
did they emigrate to colonial America Who founded
their various colorful communities, and what was
their style of life If you’re looking for answers to
these and related questions about the Pennsylvania
Dutch, you’ll find them in Oscar Kuhns’ classic
treatise, The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial
Pennsylvania.
In scarcely 200 pages, Professor Kuhns has surveyed
the factors that compelled roughly 100,000
emigrants from the Palatinate, Wurtenberg,
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Zweibrucken, and other principalities in southern
Germany to settle in Pennsylvania between 1683 and
1776 and establish a new way of life in their adopted
homeland. The author pinpoints the different waves
of colonial Germans and Swiss and illustrates the
pivotal roles played by such personalities as William
Penn, Francis Daniel Pastorius, and Henry Melchior
Muhlenberg in helping launch communities in Philadelphia,
in Lancaster and Berks counties, and ultimately
throughout Pennsylvania. The entire process
of immigration is captured in vivid descriptions of
(often unscrupulous) immigrant recruitment, the
difficult passage across the Atlantic, indentured servitude,
and settling on the land. Most of these immigrants
were farmers, and their customs and manners
are recounted in an examination of housing, provisions,
agricultural methods, superstitions, and so
forth. There is a chapter on language, literature, and
education and a separate appendix on German family
names. Perhaps the most informative chapter in
the book covers the extraordinarily diverse religious
life of these Protestant Germans, which, while dominated
by the Lutheran and Reformed churches, also
accommodated Moravians, Mennonites, Brethren,
Dunkards, Seventh-Day Baptists, Schwenkfelders,
and others. Concluding as it does with a chapter on
the Revolution, in which we discover which Pennsylvania-Germans
were patriots and which were
pacifists, The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial
Pennsylvania is one volume that will hold the interest
of Americans of colonial German descent from
cover to cover.
South Carolina
Edgefield County, South Carolina
Deed Books 42 and 43
Abstracted by Carol Wells;
2008; 5.5x8.5; 238 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Heritage Books,
Inc., 100 Railroad Ave.,
Suite 104, Westminster, MD
21157; Phone 800-876-6103;
Fax 410-871-2674 or www.
heritagebooks.com; W4509;
ISBN: 078844509X; $24.50
plus $7.00 p&h.
The deed book abstracts
in this volume were gleaned
from documents that were recorded between 1826
and 1829. In addition to the names, dates, and land
descriptions one would expect to find in such records,
these deed abstracts also reveal names of
children and neighbors, ties to other areas, clues to
family wealth (or lack of), names of wives, mothers,
slaves, previous spouses, kinship, etc. These pages
contain deeds of trust for protection of wives and
small children from a husband’s financial troubles;
prenuptial agreements; depositions; powers of attorney
connecting different places; sheriff sales to partition
estates or settle lawsuits, which often include
the names of slaves. Chains of title reach back to the
18th century original grantees and list the names of
subsequent owners. The names of witnesses, adjoining
landowners, heirs, churches, branches, creeks,
bridges, and ferries are included. The deeds are presented
in original page number order with a full
name index.
People and Professions of Charleston,
South Carolina 1782-1802
By James W. Hagy; Originally
printed in 1992; Reprinted
2008; 5.5x8.5; 112 pp; softbound;
indexed. Order from
the publisher at: Clearfield
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.
genealogical.com; CF9135;
ISBN: 9780806313238; $19.50
plus $4.00 p&h.
This publication affords
us as close a glimpse of the
population of Charleston, South Carolina during the
last quarter of the 18th century as we are likely to
come by. Professor Hagy has compiled all the names
and other pertinent genealogical information that
can be found in the Charleston city directories of
1782, 1785, 1790, 1794, 1796, 1801, and 1802 and in
the federal censuses for Charleston for 1790 and
1800. In assembling his data, the author has chosen
to respect the integrity of his sources, thus the
contents of each directory or census are arranged
in a separate alphabetical sequence, preceded by a
brief commentary concerning the methods used by
the original compilers in producing the directory or
census in question. In the case of the city directories,
the names of inhabitants are followed by their occupations
and addresses; for the censuses of 1790
and 1800, only the names of the heads of household
appear. Since a given individual may appear/disappear
in as many as nine different listings spanning
a 20-year period, the People and Professions of
Charleston affords genealogists the rare opportunity
of tracing the mobility or migration of a given ancestor
at very close range. While this work cannot
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claim to include every resident of Charleston for the
period under investigation, it nonetheless identifies
over 13,000 persons who lived and/or worked there
between 1782 and 1802.
South Carolinians in the Revolution With
Service Records and Miscellaneous
Data—Also Abstracts of Wills, Laurens
County (Ninety-Six District) 1775-1855
By Sara Sullivan Ervin;
Originally printed in 1949;
Reprinted 2008; 5.5x8.5; 230
pp; softbound; indexed. Order
from the publisher at:
Clearfield Company, Inc.,
3600 Clipper Mill Road,
Suite 260, Baltimore, MD
21211; or www.genealogical.com;
CF1690; ISBN:
9780806301044; $24.00 plus
$4.00 p&h.
Assembled in this work
are the names of the men and women who rendered
Revolutionary service in South Carolina, with proof
collected from various sources and brought together
for the first time by a competent compiler. Heading
the list of contents is the South Carolina Pension
Roll. Also included are the following: Names of Officers,
Continental Establishment; Medical Men of
the American Revolution; Men of General Sumter’s
Brigade; Revolutionary Prisoners; South Carolina
Women of the Revolution; Ancestral Roll of the
S.C.D.A.R.; Additional Rolls of Military Companies;
Soldiers of Other States; and Genealogies of Families
Descended from S.C. Revolutionary Soldiers.
The abstracts of Laurens County wills run 40 pages,
name thousands of persons, and are arranged in
alphabetical order by the name of the testator.
Tennessee
Earliest Tennessee Land Records
& Earliest Tennessee Land History
By Irene M. Griffey, CG; Originally printed in
2000; Reprinted 2008; 6x9; 506 pp; softbound. Order
from the publisher at: Clearfield Company, Inc.,
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore, MD
21211; or www.genealogical.com; CF9404; ISBN:
9780806350417; $52.50 plus $4.00 p&h.
Once in a generation, someone compiles a genealogy
reference work that instantly becomes a standard
in its field because it aggregates a vital collection of
records in one place, explains how those records
originally came to be, and, in
the process, promises to save
its users hours of toil. Earliest
Tennessee Land Records and Earliest
Tennessee Land History, by
Irene Griffey, is such a book.
The State of Tennessee was
established, essentially, from
land ceded to the federal government
by North Carolina.
Clouding the various land
cession laws that transferred
the title of land from North
Carolina to the United States south of the River Ohio
(a territory) and then to Tennessee was the requirement,
however vaguely defined, that North Carolina
Revolutionary soldiers’ promise of land for military
service be honored. Among other things, this requirement
resulted in the inclusion of hundreds of
footnotes to the Tennessee land laws that spelled out
the land transfer process. In the first portion of this
book, Mrs. Griffey has done an extraordinary job
of sifting through and organizing the legal history
of the early Tennessee land laws so that genealogists
may be able to grasp their substance. Among
other things, researchers can now understand when
and why the various county land offices were established,
the six-step process for obtaining a land
grant, the differences between military and other
types of land grants, and, of course, how to use early
Tennessee land records.
The bulk of this remarkable volume, however,
consists of abstracts of some 16,000 of the earliest
Tennessee land records in existence, arranged in
a tabular format. For each record we are given the
name of the claimant, the file number, the name of
the assignee (if any), the county, number of acres,
grant number, date, entry number, entry date, land
book and page number, and a description of the
stream nearest to the grant. A separate listing of assignees,
with the corresponding claimant and file
numbers follows in a separate table. The volume concludes
with a lengthy appendix consisting of maps
and a detailed chronology of Tennessee’s land statutes.
All of which makes Mrs. Griffey’s new book the
most important contribution to Tennessee genealogy
in recent memory.
Virginia
Families of Grace through
1900—Remembering Radford Volume I
By Joanne Spiers Moche; 2008; 5.5x8.5; 568 pp;
softbound. Order from the publisher at: Heritage
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Books, Inc., 100 Railroad
Ave., Suite 104, Westminster,
MD 21157; Phone 800-
876-6103; Fax 410-871-2674
or www.heritagebooks.com;
M3744; ISBN: 0788437445;
$48.00 plus $7.00 p&h.
The risk and adventure of
settling field and forest so
different from their motherlands,
shaped by political
and economic events that
offered both constraint and
opportunity, set the context for a group of travelers
to become a community. And so it was, through
triumph and tragedy, old social customs mixed
with new cultural venues and a community was
formed. European ships full of courageous, hopeful
individuals found their way across the Atlantic
Ocean to the shores of the North American continent.
The English embraced Virginia’s shoreline in
1607. More would come, from many countries, to
bond together and call themselves Americans. This
is the story of one of those American communities:
Radford City, Virginia. Her history and the history
of the Radford family for whom she was named are
woven through these pages. The Radford family’s
Episcopal Church history and parishioners shed
additional light on the friends and activities of early
residents. Inside is a historical and genealogical
journey through those histories. From the first Native
American settlement to the early years of the
Radford City’s 1892 incorporation, over 800 family
surnames and 50 illustrations of ordinary people
in extraordinary times bring the New River City’s
past to life. This book is their applause. Radford
City is their legacy.
Westmoreland County, Virginia
Orders 1758-1761
By Pamela S. Pearson; 2008;
5.5x8.5; 338 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Colonial Roots, 17296
Coastal Highway, Lewes,
DE 19958; 800-576-8608;
302-644-2798; www.colonialroots.com;
D7525; $32.00
plus $6.50 p&h.
A faithful transcription
of the orders. Includes court
orders for administration
and inventory of estates;
acknowledgment of deeds, dower rights, bills of
sale; appointments of officers, juries, attys., guardians,
etc.; establishment of roads, mills, ferries, &
ordinaries.
Genealogical and Historical Notes
on Culpeper County, Virginia
By Raleigh Travers Green;
Originally printed in 1900;
Reprinted 2008; 5.5x8.5; 314
pp; softbound. Order from
the publisher at: Clearfield
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.
genealogical.com; CF2330;
ISBN: 9780806379579; $32.50
plus $4.00 p&h.
The chief printed genealogical
source for Culpeper
County, this work comprises a reprint of Dr. Philip
Slaughter’s History of St. Mark’s Parish and a genealogical
history of the county itself, including
an important section entitled Notes for Genealogists
which contains marriage records (1781-1825)
and abstracts of wills (1749-1821). The book further
includes numerous genealogies—many worked
through five generations—colonial military lists,
Civil War musters, and a great variety of miscellaneous
information, all indexed in one alphabetical
sequence.
English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records
Compiled by Louis des Cognets,
Jr.; Originally printed
in 1958; Reprinted 2008;
5.5x8.5; 380 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Clearfield Company,
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;
CF1430; ISBN:
9780806309293; $38.50 plus
$4.00 p&h.
Since its publication in
1958 this work has been regarded as an important
source-book for colonial Virginia genealogy. It contains
transcriptions of numerous historical documents
and provides a great deal of out-of-the-way
information pertaining to Virginians of the 17th
and early 18th centuries, much of it previously unknown.
It is the product, in fact, of the compiler’s
researches into the by-ways of the Public Record
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Office in London, in particular his investigations
of the reports sent from Virginia to the Colonial
Office—an investigation into the very marrow of
Virginia history.
Among the documents copied and recorded here,
such as lists of colonial officials, naval and militia
officers, petitions, French refugees (1700-1702) and
lists of ships leaving and arriving at Virginia ports,
three groups of records in particular deserve to be
singled out: (1) The Present State of Virginia (with
respect to individual counties), which gives county
acreage, number of tithables, and names of sheriffs,
burgesses, coroners, justices, clerks, surveyors,
and ministers; (2) Patents for Land, 1699-1737 (with
gaps), giving the name of the patentee, date of the
patent, county, and acreage; and (3) The Rent Rolls
of 1704, which supply the names of thousands of
property holders in 20 Virginia counties! “No student
of colonial Virginia history, biography and genealogy
can afford to be without this source book.”
—Milton Rubincam, National Genealogical Society
Quarterly.
Related Families of Botetourt
County Virginia—Revised Edition
By J. William Austin, II
and Rebecca H. R. Austin;
Originally printed in 1977;
Reprinted 2008; 5.5x8.5; 435
pp; softbound. Order from
the publisher at: Clearfield
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.
genealogical.com; CF9373;
ISBN: 9780806350233; $42.50
plus $4.00 p&h.
The central Virginia county
of Botetourt was formed from Augusta County
in 1769. Botetourt County is the parent county, in
part, of Allegany, Bath, Craig, Fincastle, Montgomery,
Roanoke, and Rockbridge counties in Virginia.
Published originally in 1977 and revised expressly
for the Clearfield edition, Mr. and Mrs. Austin’s
compendium of 48 family histories was fashioned
together from a variety of primary and secondary
sources. Among other things, the compilers made a
careful study of Botetourt County marriages, wills,
deeds, and death records from microfilm available
at the Virginia State Library, as well as Botetourt
County records housed at the county clerks’ offices
in Fincastle (Botetourt County), Salem (Roanoke
County), and Lexington (Rockbridge County). The
end result is an extensively annotated collection of
early Botetourt families, many of whose progenitors
were born in the 18th century. The families included
in the volume, in the sequence in which they appear,
are: Adams, Ammen, Austin, Beckner, Blount,
Bowyer, Burger, Coffman, Crowder, Dempsey, Deisher,
Fellers, Finch, Firebaugh, Flaherty, Hannah,
Howell, Jopling, Kessler, Leftwich, Linkenhoger,
McFerran, Noffsinger, Obenshain-Sweetland,
Peck and Dill, Poague, Rinehart, Ritchey, Saville,
Simpson, Sizer, Slusser, Stoner, Switzer, Wilhelm,
Wood, Border, Bane, Etzler, Crush, Hypes, Layman,
Lunsford, Young, Garland, Bolton, and Haden, and
some virtually indecipherable. The authors have indexed
the names according to the variant spellings
so as to draw no inferences that may be erroneous
as to the identity of that person. It is advised that
the researcher refer to the photostatic or microfilm
copy for verification. Spelling of geographic locations
vary widely also, as does the handwriting.
To verify place names, one should check a modern
topographic map for the closest approximation.
Like most vestry books, Albemarle Parish's recounts
parish business, such as payment and exemptions
of levies, appointment of collectors, processions
of land, construction of churches, and so on. While
it does not contain many references to blood relationships,
it has the virtue of placing individuals
in Albemarle Parish in the 18th century. Given the
scarcity of Sussex County records for the period under
investigation, researchers should welcome the
opportunity to investigate the roughly 6,500 Surry/
Sussex county inhabitants identified in this meticulously
transcribed and indexed work.
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Seeking Joseph Orio, Orion, Oryon, Horio b ca 1791 Alsace-
Lorraine France, d ca 1879, Caledonia, Racine Co WI. Spouse:
Mary Frances (unk) Dai (spouse’s 2nd m) m 1835-1840, NY/
NJ. Children: stepchildren: Julius Dai, b. ca 1834, NY/NJ;
Margarita (Margaret) Dai b 12 Dec 1835, NY/NJ. NOTE: have
data on Margarita’s desc. Names and place of residence of
ancestor’s parents unknown. Family religion was Catholic.
Ancestor was a farmer.
%%
Contact: Carole Haas, email: cjhaas@msn.com. Address:
13320 44th Draw NE, Saint Michael, MN 55376. Phone:
763-497-0000.
Researching family of Fannie May (Mae) Taulbee Dunn
b 21 May 1898, Breathitt Co KY d May 1990 Wolfe Co KY.
Spouse: William Jessie Dunn m 15 Aug 1917. Children: Sanford
Dunn b 16 Sep 1931; Menifee Dunn b 18 Feb 1926 d 8
Jan 2005; George Dunn; Sally Dunn (McQuinn); Opal Dunn;
Marcus Dunn. Ancestor’s parents were George Washington
Taulbee & Emily Jane Banks.
%%
Contact: Wanda Gardner, email: wlgardner@road
runner.com.
Looking for Henry Adams b 21 Aug 1820 Mahoning, Armstrong
PA d 19 Nov 1890 Mahoning, Armstrong PA. Spouse:
Julianna Bish m ca 1841 Armstrong PA. Children: John b ca
1840 PA; Miner Franklin b ca 1842 PA; Thomas William b 1
Mar 1844 PA; Margaret b ca 1846; Philip Miles b ca 1848 PA;
Miron b ca 1850 PA; Silas Jackson b 28 May 1851 PA; Mary
E b ca 1852 PA; Henry Campbell b ca 1854 PA; Susanna b ca
1856 PA; Christina b ca 1858 PA; Patience b ca Sep 1859 PA.
Ancestor’s parents were Samuel S Adams and Susanna E
Corbet (Sorbet-Shorbet). Family religion and ancestor’s occupation
unknown.
%%
Contact: Joan M. Evans, email: maury1b@gmail.com.
Phone: 830-895-1695.
Need info on William H Barr b May 1851 PA d unknown.
Spouse: Patience Adams m date and place unknown. Children:
Harry J b Apr 1876 PA; Ida May b 1878 PA; Minney b 29 Feb
1880 Mahoning, Armstong, PA; Mary Ellen b 27 Sep 1882 PA;
Charles b May 1885 PA. Parents place of residence and names
known only as mother Sarah. Ancestor was a coal miner.
%%
Contact: Joan M. Evans, email: maury1b@gmail.com.
Phone: 830-895-1695.
Researching Sarah Cole b 5 Jun 1805 Barbour VA d 13 Oct
1867 WV. Spouse: Daniel Bartlett m 25 Apr 1822 Harrison,
VA. Children: John b 13 Feb 1823 VA; Eppa L b 30 Mar 1825
VA; Joshua W b 17 Nov 1826 VA; William E b 5 Nov 1828 VA;
Nancy b 27 Jan 1838 VA; Daniel Jr b 4 Feb 1841 VA; Martha
Jane b 11 Aug 1844 VA; Barnes T b 18 Mar 1848 VA; Mary E b
23 Nov 1849 VA. Names and place of residence of ancestor’s
parents unknown. Ancestor was a housewife.
%%
Contact: Joan M. Evans, email: maury1b@gmail.com.
Phone: 830-895-1695.
Researching Cleophus Cole b Feb 1882 Barbour, WV d 1950
where Spouse: Lily Jane Strader m 4 Nov 1903 Barbour, WV.
Children: Carroll E b 24 Sep 1905 Barbour, WV; Cleophus b
ca 1905 WV; Elizabeth b ca 1910 WV; Eugene G b ca 1913 Barbour,
WV; Willard b 17 Nov 1914 Barbour, WV; Opal b ca 1918
Barbour, WV; Virginia b 10 Sep 1918 WV; Willus; Gordon E b 6
Feb 1922 PA; Fred Charles b 8 May 1927 PA. Names and place
of residence of ancestor’s parents were Eppa D and Elizabeth
(Bartlett) Cole. Ancestor was a railroader.
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Seeking Jacob Anderson Defenbaugh (Deffenbaugh, Diffenbaugh,
Dieffenbaugh) b 8 Mar 1845 OH d 8 May 1899
Memphis, TN. Spouse: Miranda Elizabeth Neise m 14 May
1872 Lima, Allen, OH. Children: Frank E b 15 Mar 1873 IN;
Cora May b 3 Mar 1875 Goshen, IN; Viola b 4 Aug 1878 Goshen,
IN; Ina Mae b 25 Sep 1881 Goshen, IN; Harry Elmer b 14
Dec 1886 Ottawa, KS; Charles Oscar b 18 Apr 1892. Ancestor’s
parents were John and Phoebe (Ozias) Deffenbaugh. Ancestor
was a cabinetmaker.
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Looking for info on Robert Dirimple b 11 Mar 1815 ENG d 6
Nov 1884 Battle Creek, MI. Spouse: Isabella McFall m place and
date unknown. Children: Eliza b 1839 Battle Creek, MI; John b
1840 Battle Creek, MI; John b 1843 Battle Creek, MI; Samuel b
1846 Battle Creek, MI; Robert b 1848 Battle Creek, MI; George
b 12 Jan 1850 Battle Creek, MI; Charles b 1852 Battle Creek, MI;
Robert b 28 May 1855 Battle Creek, MI; Isabella b Aug 1856 Battle
Creek, MI; Isabella b 1858 Battle Creek, MI. Name of ancestor’s
parent was Samuel Dalrymple. Ancestor was a mason.
%%
Contact: Joan M Evans, email: maury1b@gmail.com.
Looking for Ollie (Oliver) William Leopard b 12 Apr 1906,
Shreveport, LA d 1959 Houston, TX. Spouse: Anisi Ann Yount
m date and place unknown. Children: Ollie William Leopard,
Jr. b 1928; Charles Henry Leopard b 31 Oct 1930. Family
religion was Protestant.
%%
Contact: Charles Leopard, email: charlesleopard@
earthlink.net. Address: 3995 Villa Lake Rd., Powder Springs,
GA 30127. Phone: 770 222-4570.
Seeking John Joseph Hannan b 09 Feb 1887 Dundee, SCOT
d 18 Jul 1962, Rochester, NY. Spouse: Theresa Marie Lewsley
m 23 Nov 1911 where Children: Emily Teresa b 26 Apr 1913
Patterson, NJ; John Joseph b 20 Dec 1917 Patterson, NJ; Leo
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Daniel b 24 Feb 1921 Rochester, NY; Teresa Gertrude b 7 Aug
1926 Rochester, NY; Raymond Francis b 27 Dec 1928 Rochester,
NY. Ancestor’s parents were Daniel Hannan & Annie
Sebastian. Family religion was Roman Catholic. Ancestor
worked for Rochester Telephone.
%%
Contact: Kevin Hannan, email: kphannan@gmail.com.
Address: Smyrna, GA 30082. Phone: 770-431-0637.
Researching Eliza Quilter Fleming b ca 1830 IRE d 1897 Wallingford,
CT. Spouse: William Fleming m ca 1845-1850 Unknown
where. Children: Richard b 1848/1850 MA or CT; Mary
b 1854 CT; Catherine b 1856 CT. Ancestor’s parents were James
Quilter and Mary (unknown). Family religion was Roman
Catholic. Ancestor was a housewife. Source: Census, birth,
marriage and death records of Wallingford, CT. Church and
Cemetery records. Seeking anyone following the Quilter surname
especially in New England or Ireland. Did Eliza marry
William Fleming in Ireland or New England Her children
Richard m Mary O’Neill 1873 N ENG; Mary m Henry Jones
1766 Wallingford CT; Catherine m John Hennessy 1878 Wallingford.
CT. Eliza was a widow when she d 1897. Have been
unable to locate any info on d of husband William Fleming.
Cannot find this family anywhere on the 1880 census. Eliza is
bur in the “Catholic Cemetery” on Colony Street Wallingford,
CT, but no record can be found for William. Seeking anyone
following these families, any help would be appreciated.
%%
Contact: Ruth Smith, email: familyhistoryseeker@
msn.com. Address: 11306 Frankstown Rd., Pittsburgh, PA
15235. Phone: 412-731-1146.
Looking for Mary O’Leary O’Neill b 1860 IRE d unknown.
Spouse: George Edward O’Neill m 4 Apr 1883 East Haddam
CT. Children: George Wm b 1884 CT; Joseph R. b 1886 CT;
Loretta b 10 May 1891 CT. Names and place of residence of ancestor’s
parents unknown. Family religion was prob. Catholic.
Ancestor was a housewife. East Haddam m records: Census
records all after her d. Looking for parents and siblings of
Mary O’Leary and any information on her d which appears to
have been between 1891 (birth of last child) and 1896 (husband
remarries). By the 1900 census he has moved his family to
NYC area, remarried and has started a second family. Would
love to know what happened to Mary O’Leary and make any
connection to this family in the East Haddam area.
%%
Contact: Ruth Smith, email: familyhistoryseeker@
msn.com. Address: 11306 Frankstown Rd., Pittsburgh, PA
15235. Phone: 412-731-1146.
Seeking Nicholas Justin b ca 1732 d 2 Jan 1804, Canterbury,
CT. Spouse: Sarah unknown maiden name m date and place
unknown. Children: George b 1761 Canterbury, CT, m Lucy
Galusha 1786, d. 1828 Canterbury, CT; Charles b ca 1754, William
b ca 1759; plus additional children. Need any other info
available on this family.
%%
Contact: Candy Rypczyk, email: Rypczyk@hotmail.
com. Phone: 518-624-3888.
Researching Dennis Denis Gleason Gleeson Gleson b unknown
d 1871/1872. Spouse: Mary Conley m 15 Mar 1867
Harford Co MD. Children: Eliza Jane b. 8 Feb 1868 York Co
PA, m 30 Jun 1887 Carroll IA d 4 Aug 1952 Carroll IA. Would
like any info available on this family.
%%
Contact: Marvin Kennebeck, email: railfank@gmail.
com. Phone: 608-223-2907.
Looking for John McClelland b 1813, Dublin, IRE d 23 Jun
1886, MD. Spouse: Emily Jane Low m 20 Jun 1837, Baltimore,
MD. Children: Thomas b 1843 MD; Charlotte b 1849 MD; William
b MD. Need any info available for this family. Ancestor
was a cabinet maker.
%%
Contact: Charles Cuffley, email: cuffcuffley08@yahoo.
com. Phone: 410-975-0767.
Seeking Anna Mae Chatterton b Jan 1897 Baltimore, MD d
May 1949, Baltimore, MD. Spouse: William D. McClelland m
date and location unknown. Children: Brooksie b Jun 1915
MD; Catherine b Jan 1918 MD; Mary b 1920 MD. Ancestor’s
parents were John Chatterton & Annie Leahy Requesting
any info available.
%%
Contact: Charles Cuffley, email: cuffcuffley08@yahoo.
com. Phone: 410-975-8767.
Looking for Cecelia K. Hockman b Jan 1859 VA d Oct 1910
Baltimore, MD. Spouse: Charles F. Cuffley m date and place
unknown. Children: James b Nov 1880 MD; Grace b Dec
1881 MD; Annie b Mar 1883 MD; William b Mar 1891 MD;
Raymond b Aug 1893 MD. Ancestor’s parents were Isaac &
Cecelia Hockman Ancestor was a housewife.
%%
Contact: Charles Cuffley, email: cuffcuffley08@yahoo.
com. Phone: 410-975-8767.
Researching Charles Francis Knipple b May 1873 Frederick
MD d unknown. Spouse: Mary Anna Hahn m date and
place unknown. Children: Donzie b Mar 1894 MD; Frances
b Mar 1896 MD; Charles b May 1898 MD; Grace b 1904 MD.
Ancestor’s parents were John & Frances Knipple. Ancestor
was a laborer.
%%
Contact: Charles Cuffley, email: cuffcuffley08@yahoo.
com. Phone: 410-975-8767.
Seeking Catherine Elizabeth Ford b Oct 1853 Buckeyetown,
MD d July 1924 Frederick, MD. Spouse: Jacob Michael Hahn
m unknown. Children: Jacob b Apr 1880 MD; Jerome b Oct
1890 MD; Nettie b Jul 1875 MD. Ancestor’s parents were Joseph
Ford & Julia Dean
%%
Contact: Charles Cuffley, email: cuffcuffley08@yahoo.
com. Phone: 410-975-8767.
Would like any info on Eleanor Barr McConkey b July, 1811,
Allegheny City, Pittsburgh, PA d 3 Feb 1901 Snowden Twp,
Allegheny Co PA. Spouse: Robert McConkey m 23 Mar 1837
Allegheny City, Pittsburgh, PA. Children: Elizabeth, b 1837
m Alex Douglas; Margaret b 1840 m John Wandlass; Martha
b 1841; William b 1843 m Margaret Simpson; David b 1844.
Ancestor’s parents were William Barr and Margaret Bryson.
Ancestor was a housewife. Info from Census, BMD, Obits.
Eleanor (Elinor) and Robert McConkey lived in Snowden
Twp, Allegheny Co PA. She d 3 Feb 1901. I am hoping to make
contact with any member of this family. I have been given a
drawing of a family quilt that has been described as “individual
patches made by many family members and friends
and signed by each individual person,” then put together by
Eleanor and her daughter. I have been told that this quilt still
exists was handed down through the family of daughter Elizabeth
McConkey McMichael. Does anyone know of or have
this family quilt I would so love to have just a photo of this
heirloom. I am descended from Eleanor Barr’s brother, William
C. Barr. I was given photos of some very lovely stitched
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samplers that were done by this same family. Hoping to make
a connection to this Barr-McConkey family.
%%
Contact: Ruth Smith, email: familyhistoryseeker@
msn.com. Address: 11306 Frankstown Rd., Pittsburgh, PA
15235. Phone: 412-731-1146.
Looking for Jane McConville Keeney b ca 1855 possibly
PA d unknown. Spouse: Patrick Keeney (Kenny, Kinney)
m 25 Nov 1875 Allegheny Co Pittsburgh, PA. Children: Edward
b 1877 Pittsburgh; other children unknown. Family
religion was Catholic. Info from census, 1880 (only one found
on it) marriage record 1875 Allegheny City; Baptism record
where they are Godparents to my Duffy family 1879; City
Directories to 1890. Her marriage record lists her as Jane
McConville. The census of 1880 has Jenny and the baptism
record as Johanna. (record keeping not all that great back
then, was it). On the 1880 census they are living on West
Carson St on Pittsburgh’s South Side. They lived next door
to my family, Patrick Duffy and his wife Sarah McConville
was Jane her sister Also living with them were Edward and
Sarah McConville who were the parents of Sarah Duffy.
The family is found in the City Directories of Pittsburgh up
to 1890, but cannot be found on the 1900 census. I have not
found a Jane, Jenny, or Johanna on any earlier census, even
thou I have found Edw & Sarah (who I believe may be her
parents) and my own Sarah McConville Duffy. So who was
Jane McConville Keeney Where did they go I know that
Patrick Keeney was the son of Hugh and Alice Keeney, he
was born in Pittsburgh abt 1852. Looking to make a connection
with anyone following the McConville’s and Keeney’s
from Allegheny Co PA.
%%
Contact: Ruth Smith, email: familyhistoryseeker@
msn.com. Address: 11306 Frankstown Rd., Pittsburgh, PA
15235. Phone: 412-731-1146.
Seeking Benjamin Sampson b 7 Apr 1799 Hardin Co. KY d 19
Sep 1877 Mo. Spouse: (1) Elizabeth Neff (2) Mary Clinkenbeard
(3) Anna Latta m (1) 12 Apr 1821 Hardin Co. Ky. (2)6 Aug 1844
Buchanan Co. Mo. (3) 10 Jun 1852 Buchanan Co. Mo. Children:
(1) Berli Dene b 18 Oct 1822 Hardin Co. KY; (2) Richard Masterson
b 11 Mar 1824 KY; (3) Harriet Susan b 9 Apr 1829 Hardin
Co. KY; (4) Martha M. b KY. Need info on parents. Ancestor’s
occupation was probably millwright and farmer. Info from
Wills, probates, census, county histories in Buchanan Co. Mo.
Census for KY. 1790, 1800, 1810 Census for Indiana 1810,1820.
Benjamin had sibling named John (B: Jan 1802 Danville, Ky.).
Possible siblings James, Glenn, Martha (Eliza).
%%
Contact: William Sampson, email: bsampson2@
comcast.net. Address: 7208 Perry Court West, Brooklyn Center,
MN 55429. Phone: 763-566-4085.
Researching family of John Henry Hathaway, (Jack Hathaway)
b 16 Sep 1831 where d Oct. 6, 1914, Fort Supply, Woodward
Co., OK. Spouse: Alice VanSkike McMillan Hathaway
m 19 Nov 1876 Saline Co., MO. Children: John William b 3 Oct
1877 Palmyra, MO; Robert Thomas b 3 May 1880, Howard Co
MO; Charles Henry b 31 Jul 1882 Howard Co MO; stillborn son
b 29 Oct 1890 Center, Ralls Co MO; Martha “Dolly” (McMillan)
Sparrow b 1874 d 1955. Brothers Jimmie, Henry. Ancestor’s occupation
was cut timber, made railroad ties, farmer.
%%
Contact: Michael Hathaway, email: poetry man61@
earthlink.net. Address: 522 E. South Ave., St. John, KS 67576-
2212. Phone: 620-786-4955.
Need info on Caroline Sarah Sherby b 20 Sep 1914 Newark NJ
d 9 Feb 1958 Willowick OH. Spouse: William George Moore
m ca 1937 where Children: Carol A b 31 May 1938 Cleveland
OH; Robert O b 28 Jul 1943 Cleveland OH; Sharon L b 9 Feb
1947 Cleveland OH; Richard A b 18 Feb 1950 Cleveland OH.
Would appreciate any info available on this family.
%%
Contact: Jerry Nordstrom, email: jerrynord@frontier
net.net. Address: 4183 Rt 13, Truxton, NY 13158. Phone: 607-
842-6803.
Looking for Sophia Hatt b ca 1830 NY d unknown. Spouse:
William Smally m ca 1835. Children: Ann b ca 1835; Harriet
b ca 1839; William b ca 1840; Nancy b ca 1844; May b ca 1843.
Ancestor’s parents were William and Hannah (Spear) Hatt.
Ancestor’s occupation was housewife. Hatt family tree that
was brought to the Hatt reunion in Lansing, MI, 17 August
1992, at that time in possession of Violet Boettcher, Lansing,
MI. Searched 1850 census, Deerfield Twp., Livingston Co. MI.
Sophia is living with her husband and children, as well as
William Hatt, whom I believe was her husband. For about 25
years I have been researching William Hatt (born circa 1758,
England, died after 1810, NY) and his descendants. One of
his sons was William Hatt b (ca 1786, NY d Feb 1861; Howell
b Livingston Co, MI), who was m to Hannah Spear (ca 1790,
NY d 1828, near Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co. MI). This William
and Hannah had six children: William, Jr.; Sofia; Melisa;
Sampson; John “Jack”; Sarah; Polly. This query will primarily
concentrate on Sophia. She appeared on a hand-drawn family
tree that was brought to the Hatt reunion in 1992. Other than
that, I had no record of her. I recently found a census record
of Sophia and William Smally, in Deerfield Twp., Livingston
Co., MI, with William Hatt living in their household. Since I
didn’t know Sophia’s husband’s name, I knew nothing abut
her. This particular census doesn’t list relationships, but I believe
William was Sophia’s father. If anyone knows anything
about William and Sophia (Hatt) Smally, or their descendants,
I would really appreciate hearing from you.
%%
Contact: Debra Eddy, email: eddyb@voyager.net. Address:
2521 W, Needmore Hwy., Charlotte, MI 48813. Phone:
517-543-3021.
Looking for Jonas Bastian/Bastin b 28 Apr 1831 PA d 12 Oct
1891 PA. Spouse: Eliza, Elizza Ann Smith m unknown, PA.
Children: LaRue (Bastian) Albright; Stephen Bastian; George
S. Bastian; Anna S. Bastian; Thomas Bastian. Ancestor’s parents
were probably Thomas and Sarah (). Family religion was
Lutheran/Reformed.
%%
Contact: Dianne Newman, email: kdnewman@
voyager.net. Address: PO Box 262, Waters, MI 49797-0262.
Researching Jacob A. Schmoyer/Smoyer b 11 Nov 1870, Lower
Macungie, Lehigh Co., PA d unknown. Spouse: Annie, Anna,
Bastian m 1895, Lower Macungie, Lehigh Co., PA. Children
unknown. Ancestor’s parents were prob. Elias A. Schmoyer/
Mary E. Albright. Ancestor’s occupation was prob. laborer.
%%
Contact: Dianne Newman, email: kdnewman@voyager.net.
Address: PO Box 262, Waters, MI 49797-0262.
Seeking Oliver Charles Rohrbach/Rorbach b ca 1850, Berks
Co., PA d 10 Oct 1908 PA. Spouse: Priscilla Croll m 01 Oct
1878, PA. Children: Catharine Caroline b 13 Oct 1879; Ivah C.
b 7 Jan 1881; Estella C. b 20 Apr 1887; Florence Ann b 24 Sep
1891. All were born in the Topton, PA area. Ancestor’s parents
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were Jacob Rohrbach/Caroline (); John Croll/Catherine De-
Long. Ancestor’s occupation was Oliver was a miller, brother
to Cyraneus Rohrbach.
%%
Contact: Dianne Newman, email: kdnewman@
voyager.net. Address: PO Box 262, Waters, MI 49797-0262.
Searching for Henry Partee b 1830 () Tiffin Township, Defiance
Co OH d aft 1870. Spouse: Mary Gier (b 6 Aug 1830
Defiance OH) m 17 Aug 1851 Defiance OH. Children: Emery
b 1854; Jacob b 1856 Defiance; Joseph b 1860; William b 1861;
Sherman. Ancestor’s parents were Joseph Partee and Clarinda
Kibble. Ancestor’s occupation was railroad worker. Already
searched Rootsweb, HeritageQuest, and Ancestry.com.
Record found was the date of his wedding. Last records found
of Henry Partee show him living in Toledo OH ca 1872 working
for the Michigan Southern Railroad possibly working as
a fireman. Would appreciate any information from records
of Henry Partee after 1872 particularly where/when he d.
Willing to share any records that I currently have.
%%
Contact: Helene Jewell Short, email: jnt3937@yahoo.
com. Address: 5441 Rockport St., Columbus, OH 43235.
Phone: 614-670-7831.
Seeking Daniel McKee b Ireland d Columbiana Co OH.
Spouse: Rachel Wellington (Willington) m April 29,
1813/1816 Children: Delilah (m George Jewell); Fisher b
1829; Daniel b 1834; Clem b 1844; William b 1850. Searched
Rootsweb, HeritageQuest, and Ancestry.com. In need of records
regarding his birth place and date, parent’s names,
date and location of death and date of his arrival in America.
Willing to share any information concerning Daniel McKee
that I currently have.
%%
Contact: Helene Jewell Short, email: jnt3937@yahoo.
com. Address: 5441 Rockport St., Columbus, OH 43235.
Phone: 614-670-7831.
Seeking Fredericca Schmidt (AKA Henrietta Schmidt or Henerika
Schmidt) b unknown d 1 May 1917. Spouse: Gottlieb Haug
(Gottlieb Houck) m 21 May 1841. Children: Frederich b 1875;
Julia b 1878; Rudolph b 1880; Otto b 1883 (Married Clara Partee).
Have searched Rootsweb, HeritageQuest, and Ancestry.com.
Have not found much information. Interested in date and location
of her birth, date and location of arrival in America (if she
was born abroad) and her parent’s names. Will be willing to
share any information that I currently have for her.
%%
Contact: Helene Jewell Short, email: jnt3937@yahoo.
com. Address: 5441 Rockport St., Columbus, OH 43235. Phone:
614-670-7831.
Need info on Henry Schmidt b unknown d unknown. Need
name of spouse/ m date and place. Children: August J. b ca
Aug 1872 possibly in Auglaize County OH August m Bertha
Fisher ca 1897. Have searched Rootsweb, HeritageQuest, and
Ancestry.com. Have not found much about Henry. I believe
his wife may have been b in OH but not sure if this is correct.
HeritageQuest census shows that August J. Schmidt’s father
(whom I am seeking) was born in GER and his mother was
b in OH. Not fully sure that his name was Henry. He could
have lived in Auglaize Co OH or Clark Co OH. Would be
very grateful to know where and when he was b, names of
his parents, who he m and where and when he d. Do not
have much info to share regarding this search but willing to
share what I have.
%%
Contact: Helene Jewell Short, email: jnt3937@yahoo.
com. Address: 5441 Rockport St., Columbus, OH 43235. Phone:
614-670-7831.
Looking for info on Francis Newton Raymond b 10 May 1849
Rochester, NY d 18 Jan 1919 Perryton, TX. Spouse: Martha
Jane Start m 1874 Parker Co TX. Children: Robert Benjamin
b 19 Aug 1875 Decatur, TX; Alice Edith b 19 Aug 1877 Bowie,
TX; Tallulah Belle b 9 Apr 1880 Jacksboro, TX; Edward Marion
b 11 Oct 1883 Rising Star, TX; Bertha Mae b 27 Mar 1888
Rising Star, TX; Ora Lee b 7 Feb 1891 Rising Star, TX; Laura
Viona b 14 Nov 1893 Rising Star, TX. Ancestor’s parents were
Francis and Mary Raymond. Family religion was Christian
Church. Ancestor’s occupation was Mercantile Store Owner
and Wheat Farmer.
%%
Contact: Joyce Ogle, email: jaogle@earthlink.net. Address:
1101 Sparrow Dr., Decatur, TX 76234. Phone: 940-627-
5583.
Seeking info on Joseph T. Hazel, Jr. Father Joseph E. Hazel,
Sr. Last known address was Queens, NY. Would appreciate
hearing from any one with knowledge of Joseph T. Hazel, Jr.
whereabouts.
%%
Contact: Mary Lee Mattison, PO Box 39642, Rochester,
NY 14604. Phone: 585-482-5893.
Searching for living male descendants of Richard Allen (Allin)
b 26 Jan 1641, St. Mildred’s Parish, Canterbury, ENG d
1725 New Kent Co VA. Some descendants are Drury, Drewry,
Young, Josiah and Robert. The authors of Allens of the Southern
States wish to establish a benchmark DNA for Allens from this
line in the US.
%%
Contact: Norma or George Miller, email: glanem@
adelphia.net. Address: 1455 Superior Ave., Apt. 320, Newport
Beach, CA 92663.
Looking for Anthony Fox (Fuchs) b 5 Dec 1842 Loebschuetz,
Prussia d 30 Jan 1904 Utica, NY. Spouse: Cynthia Gielle m
date and location unknown. Children: Anthony Peter Fox,
Jr. b Oct 1873; Francis J. Fox b Jan 1884; Mary E. b Jan 1877;
Adam F. b unkn.; Mathew J. b Dec 1880; Charles G. b 19
Sep 1886, all in Utica, NY. Ancestor’s parents were Anthony
Fuchs and Mariae Catharinae Lister. Anthony served in war
of 1866 (Kings War) and immigrated in 1868. Left several
sisters in Prussia.
%%
Contact: Edward J. Fox, email: Foxie-1@earthlink.net.
Address: 242 Holiday Park Blvd., Palm Bay, FL 32907.
Looking for Wheldon (Whelden) b 1834 Washington Co NY d
1877 Butler Co IA. Spouse: Harriet Annette Sheldon b Cushman
10-2-1828 m 8 Nov 1848 Boone Co IL. Children: Vernon
b 5 Apr 1858; Ida Florence b 11 Apr 1851. Ancestor’s parents
maybe were Henry Gabriel and Margaret John.
%%
Contact: Pam Wheldon, email: wetzelcreek@hotmail.
com. Address: 108120 E 72nd Ave., Deer Trail, CO 80105.
Phone: 970-386-2278.
Seeking John Snider b 23 Dec 1778 Stokes Co NC d 8 Apr 1852
Bartholomew Co IN. Spouse: Hannah Kasner m 15 Dec 1803
NC. Children: Cornelius b 10 Mar 1810, NC; Catherine b 12
Sep 1804, NC; Wm. Jeremiah; Eliza; Mary; 2 unknown children;
John C. b 25 Jan 1825 Stokes Co NC. Ancestor’s parents
were Moravians, lived in Stokes Co NC. May have been a Rev
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soldier from SC or some connection with Joannes Snider who
arrived in ship Molly in 1727.
%%
Contact: Erma Heckman, Address: 5970 Nixon St., St
Charles, IA 50240.
Need info on Ethan Blodgett b VT 28 Nov 1799/ d MA 14
Jan 1875. Spouse: Lois Aldrich b 10 May 1797 d 14 Jan 1870 m
date and place unknown. Children: Sophia b 5 May 1829 d
6 Jan 1913. Would like any info available on this family. Was
parent serving in the Rev. War
%%
Contact: Dr. William B. Thiel, email: wbthiel88@
netzero.net. Address: W 352 N 5292 Lake Dr., Oconomowoc,
WI 53066-2513.
Need bur and grave sites of Joseph Maheu family. (Joseph
Maheu name was Americanized to Mayhue ca 1830). Joseph
was b 20 Aug 1779 sur Richelieu, QUE, bap across the river
at St. Charles sur Richelieu, QUE on this date, d unknown
but ca 1840-1848 at Vergennes VT or NW PA. Spouse: Marie
Amable Oligny dit Lavergant b 8 Jan 1788 Laprairie, QUE m
25 Feb 1805, St Luc QUE, Richelieu River Valley, Montreal,
CAN. Children: Marie Catherine b 8 Dec 1806, St Denis sur
Richelieu, QUE; John B. sic Jean Baptist b 1814 on board ship
on Lake Champlain migrating to Vergennes, VT; Mary b 1816
Vergennes, VT; Harriet b 15 Jul 1817, Vergennes, VT; Susan b 12
Mar b 1819 Vergennes, VT; Charles b 1828 Vergennes, VT. Ancestor’s
parents were Pierre Denis Maheu and Marie Josephete
Verrieur m 27 Jan 1772 St Denis sur Richelieu, QUE. Marie
Catherine was left to become a nun in either VT or QUE. Need
religious order and religious name, d date and gravesite.
%%
Contact: Frederick E. Mayhue, email: jmayhue@
access995.com. Address: PO Box 9999, AJ-1401, LaBelle, PA
15450.
Seeking Charles Harry Chumley (Chomesky) b 21 Nov 1896,
Atlanta, GA d 9 Oct 1976 Fulton Co Atlanta, GA. Spouse:
Dorothy Laird m 13 Jul 1963. Ancestor’s parents were Jacob
Chomesky and Sarah Goldberg. Mr. Chumley had two sisters
and three brothers all living in Atlanta, GA.
%%
Contact: Ms. Dorothy Chumley, email: jwilho@tds.net.
Address: 2260 Cherring Ln., Dunwoody, GA 30338. Phone:
404-247-7844 (Cell).
Looking for Titus Gordon Vespasian Simons b 15 Apr ca
1771/1773 MA CT d 13 Dec 1851 Kendallville, Noble Co, IN.
Spouse: Sylvia Jackson m date and location unknown. Children:
Solomon Austin b 1785, Warren Co PA; Louisa Levina
Simons Smith b 12 Nov 1798 Warren Co PA; Titus Augustus b 4
Aug 1804 Warren Co PA; David S b 18 Aug 1806 Warren Co PA.
Ancestor’s parents date of m and place of residence unknown.
Any info on this Simon family would be greatly appreciated.
%%
Contact: Glen Simons, email: gsimons@cinci.rr.com.
Address: 28 Miami Lakes Dr., Milford, OH 45150.
Researching Florence Imogene Blount b 10 Aug 1888 St.
Thomas, Jamaica d 8 Jun 1968 NY. Spouse: James Burnett Corbett
m 22 Oct 1919 NY. Children: Etta b Aug 1910 US Panama
Canal Zone; Vincent b Feb 1917 Spanish Canal Zone; Virginia
b Sep 1920 US Panama Canal Zone. Ancestor’s parents were
Helen Tilly and Samuel/or Robert Blount. Any info available
for this family would be greatly appreciated.
%%
Contact: Jerilyn Wharton. Address: 140-12 De Krutf
Place, Bronx, NY 10475.
Looking for a connection between Fred VonHof listed on the
1920 Census in Ypsilanti Ward 5, Washtenaw Co., MI, and
Wilhelm (William) VonHofe on the same Census in Webster,
Washtenaw Co MI. William (my father) had four children
with his wife Louise b 1917; 1918; 1920; 1921. Fred’s wife had
a child in Aug 1919. I need any history on Fred’s family including
that child.
%%
Contact: Mrs. Frieda Risvold, email: FritzyRitzy@hotmail.com.
Address: 1210 S 244th Pl., Seattle, WA 98198-3895.
Seeking the Yerby, Irby, Yearby, family. John Yearby sailed
on the ship Neptune to ME to work off a sentence for stealing.
He arrived with Thomas Penny in 1743. He ended up in NC at
Barton Creek. Need any info on this family available.
%%
Contact: Arlene Yearby, email: absimono sbc@global.
net. Address: 302 Moore St., Dexter, MO 63841. Phone: 573-
614-4100.
Correction:
Would like to find info on Felix McHugh b IRE d IRE dates
and places unknown. Spouse: Bridget Moran () McHugh m
date and place unknown—prob IRE. Children: Mary b IRE;
(Alexander) Felix b IRE; Bridget b IRE. Felix was from near
Sligo, IRE. Bridget Moran McHugh was a widow, immig to
CAN ca 1841 with son and two daughters. Mary m John Kilgallen;
Bridget m Patrick Regan. Alexander Felix McHugh
b 20 Aug 1812, d Ottawa 14 Jan 1900.
%%
Contact: John H. Wilson, email: jwlson@sbeglobal.net.
Address: 1212 W El Paso St., Fort Worth, TX 76102.
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Index by Place
The following listing is in four
parts: Genealogy Related Seminars,
Workshops, Conferences,
& Institutes; Genealogy Related
Research Tours; Genealogy
Cruises and Family Reunions.
Genealogy Related
Seminars, Workshops,
Conferences, &
Institutes
United States
Alaska, Anchorage
April 18, 2009
Arizona, Sun City
February 21, 2009
Arkansas, Hot Springs Village
March 21, 2009
Arkansas, Little Rock
September 2-5, 2009
Arkansas, Marshall
June 5-6, 2009
California, Brea
March 14, 2009
California, Burbank
June 26-28, 2009
California, Burbank
June 11-13, 2010
California, Escondido
March 7, 2009
California, Palm Springs
January 31, 2009
California, San Diego
January 10, 2009
California, Santa Rosa
April 25, 2009
California, Whittier
February 28, 2009
Colorado, Denver
January 24, 2009
Colorado, Denver
February 20-21, 2009
Florida, Daytona Beach
January 24, 2009
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The following listing is in four parts: Genealogy Related Seminars, Workshops,
Conferences, & Institutes; Genealogy Related Research Tours; Genealogy
Cruises; and Family Reunions.
See the separate sidebar “On the Horizon Index by Place” to locate events
specific to your area, then go directly to the event listing by its date.
Genealogy Related
Seminars, Workshops,
Conferences, & Institutes
January 10, 2009—
San Diego, California
San Diego Genealogy Society is
holding their annual seminar
and luncheon Saturday, January
10, 2009 at the Handlery
Hotel, 950 Hotel Circle, San Diego,
CA. The featured speaker
is well-known genealogist Lloyd
Bockstruck who will give presentations
in both the morning
and afternoon. For more
information please see: www.
rootsweb.com/~casdgs.
January 12-16, 2009—
Salt Lake City, Utah
The Utah Genealogical Association’s
2009 Salt Lake Institute of
Genealogy will be held at the
Radisson Hotel. The Institute offers
a week of in-depth instruction
by expert genealogists in ten
courses:
Course 1: American Records & Research:
Focusing on Localities.
Course 2: Research of the Gulf
South—Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana,
Arkansas, and Texas.
Course 3: English Research.
Course 4: Research in German
Speaking Areas.
Course 5: Colonial American
Research.
Course 6: Effective Use of the
Internet.
Course 7: Hispanic Research: Discovering
Your Ancestors in
Spain and Latin America.
Course 8: Beyond the Library: Research
in Archives, Courthouses
and Manuscript Collections.
Course 9: (Course full) Skill
Building for Professional-Level
Research.
Course 10: Genealogical Problem
Solving.
For more information or to enroll
online, see: www.infouga.org.
January 16-20, 2009—
Auckland, New Zealand
The New Zealand Society of Genealogists
will host their 12th
Australasian Congress on Genealogy
and Heraldry. For more
information, see: www.affhocongress2009.org.
January 24, 2009—
Denver, Colorado
The History Section of the Reference
and User Services Association
(RUSA) invites librarians,
library staff, and the public to attend
“Behind the Genealogy Reference
Desk,” a one-day institute
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday,
Jan. 24, 2009, at the Denver Public
Library, held in conjunction with
the ALA 2009 Midwinter Meeting.
Participants will learn from
local genealogy experts about how
such resources as the Colorado
Rail Museum and the Colorado
State Archives can assist coast-tocoast
family history researchers.
Speakers will also address ways
to overcome the challenges of
closed-record environments. Onsite
registration will be available
at the following rates: $115, RUSA
members; $135, ALA members;
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$160, non-members; $85, students
and retirees. The price includes
lunch and a tour of the Colorado
Historical Society Stephen Hart
Library and the Colorado State
Archives.
Details and registration instructions
are at the event’s website:
www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/
rusa/events/index.cfm. The Institute
presenters will be: Janice
Prater, genealogy librarian, pastpresident
of the Colorado Genealogical
Society and editor of the
International Society for British
Genealogy and Family History’s
quarterly publication; Charles
Albi, director emeritus of the
Colorado Rail Museum, Golden
(Colo.); Jose Esquibel, expert on
colonial New Mexico and author
of Royal Road: El Camino Real from
Mexico City to Santa Fe; Dr. Wendel
Cox, western bibliographer,
Denver Public Library and author
of A World Together, a World Apart:
the United States and the Arikaras,
1803-1851; Rebecca Lentz, director
of the Stephen Hart Library, Colorado
Historical Society; James K.
Jeffrey, genealogy specialist at the
Denver Public Library and president
of the Colorado Council of
Genealogical Societies.
January 24, 2009—
Daytona Beach, Florida
The Volusia-Flagler Council of
Genealogical Societies is sponsoring
their annual 2009 Genealogy
Seminar, with speakers George
G. Morgan and Drew Smith of
Aha! Seminars, Inc. Their topics
will be “The Genealogist as CSI,”
(George G. Morgan); “Where is the
Book with My Family In It,” (Drew
Smith); “The U.S. Naturalization
Process & Documents: 1790-1954,”
(George G. Morgan); and “The
Genealogy Guys Podcast” Live,
(George Morgan & Drew Smith).
Find the registration form at:
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~f
lvcgs/2009SemRegFinalMay16200
8wht.pdf.
January 24, 2009—Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada
Royal Roads University is sponsoring
a 1-day seminar with Dave
Obee. The seminar is entitled
“Writing about Local and Family
History: It Doesn’t Have to be
Boring!” The program runs from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost is $90 + GST.
For more information, see: www.
royalroads.ca/continuing-studies/
PEOI1554-Y08.htm.
January 31, 2009—
Palm Springs, California
The Palm Springs Genealogical
Society will sponsor their annual
seminar, featuring Forensic Genealogist
Colleen Fitzpatrick. For
information, e-mail: info@palm
springsgensoc.org or phone Carol
Glow at 760-323-0250.
February 7, 2009—Boerne, Texas
The Genealogical Society of Kendall
County, Texas is sponsoring
their Annual Seminar from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. at the Boerne Convention
and Community Center, 820
E. Adler Rd, Boerne, TX.
Dr. George K. Schweitzer, PhD,
ScD, will be the speaker at this 5th
Annual Seminar. Dr. Schweitzer’s
topics will include the Civil War,
German Genealogical Research,
and Genealogy in the Southeastern
US. Registration information
will be available on the website no
later than October 2008. For more
info and registration, see: www.
rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txgskc/
seminar.htm.
February 14, 2009—
Secaucus, New Jersey
The Hudson County Genealogical
Society is hosting a seminar
featuring Megan Smolenyak, who
will be presenting “Trace Your
Roots with DNA.” With amazing
swiftness, “genetealogy” (the marriage
of genetics and genealogy)
is graduating from pioneering
research to standard practice. But
what is it exactly and how can we
Florida, Port Charlotte
February 28, 2009
Illinois, Moline
April 18, 2009
Illinois, St. Charles
February 28, 2009
Indiana, Mishawaka
March 14, 2009
Kansas, Topeka
April 25, 2009
Kansas, Wichita
June 20, 2009
Louisiana, Lake Charles
October 16-17, 2009
Louisiana, Baton Rouge
April 18, 2009
Massachusetts, Waltham
April 26, 2009
Michigan, Kalamazoo
March 28, 2009
Michigan, Midland
October 15-17, 2009
Missouri, Jefferson City
August 7-8, 2009
Missouri, St. Louis
May 2, 2009
Nevada, Las Vegas
April 4, 2009
New Hampshire, Manchester
April 22-26, 2009
New Jersey, Secaucus
February 14, 2009
New York
2010
North Carolina, New Bern
March 14, 2009
North Carolina, Raleigh
May 13-16, 2009
Ohio, Cleveland
October 14-17, 2009
Ohio, Huron
April 2-5, 2009
Pennsylvania, Lancaster
April 25, 2009
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Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
August 2-7, 2009
South Dakota, Rapid City
September 9-14, 2009
Tennessee, Knoxville
September, 2010
Texas, Boerne
February 7, 2009
Texas, Houston
March 21, 2009
Texas, Plano
April 18, 2009
Utah, Bountiful
March 7, 2009
Utah, Provo
July 28-31, 2009
Utah, Salt Lake City
April 28-June 5, 2010
Virginia, Virginia Beach
March 28, 2009
Washington, Seattle
March 7, 2009
Washington, Seattle
May 16, 2009
Washington, Spokane
September 11-13, 2009
Wisconsin, Middleton
April 3-4, 2009
Wisconsin, Neenah
October 2-3, 2009
Canada
Alberta, Edmonton
April 18-19, 2009
Alberta, Medicine Hat
June 14-21, 2009
British Columbia, Kelowna
April 25-26, 2009
British Columbia, Surrey
March 7, 2009
British Columbia, Surrey
October 19, 2009
British Columbia, Victoria
January 24, 2009
British Columbia, Victoria
February 21-28, 2009
use it to further our genealogical
endeavors Come hear one of the
co-authors of Trace Your Roots with
DNA discuss her own and others’
experience launching and managing
a DNA project, including such
considerations as test and vendor
selection factors, privacy, and
convincing others to participate.
It will be held from 11:00 a.m. to
1:00 p.m. at the Secaucus Public
Library. For more information,
see: www.hudsoncountynjgenealogy.org/events/2009-02-14
event.
html.
February 20-21, 2009—
Denver, Colorado
The Colorado Genealogical Society
will host their annual seminar,
featuring Dr. Thomas H.
Shawker and Patricia O’Brien
Shawker. On Friday, February 20,
2009, Dr. Shawker will address
the society’s regularly scheduled
meeting on “Your Genealogy and
Your Health” at Christ the King
Lutheran Church, 2300 S. Patton
Ct., Denver. On Saturday, February
21, he will present “DNA Testing:
the Very, Very Basics and Race
Ethnicity,” and “Ancestry: DNA
Testing.” Patricia Shawker will
speak on “One Family’s Footprint
in the Federal Records and Before
Statehood: Territorial Records.”
Friday’s presentation is free and
visitors are welcome. Saturday
is an all-day event at the Central
Denver Public Library, 13th &
Broadway, Denver, with a materials
fee of $30 per person. For more
information, see: www.cogensoc.
us/cgsevents.htm.
February 21, 2009—
Sun City, Arizona
The West Valley Genealogical Society
of Youngtown, Arizona is
sponsoring their annual seminar,
to be held at the First Presbyterian
Church, 12225 W. 103rd Ave., Sun
City, Arizona, from 8:30 a.m. to
2:30 p.m. The speaker will be Laura
Prescott, professional researcher,
writer, and speaker; regular columnist
for Ancestry, contributing
editor for New England Ancestors,
as well as a contributor to Genealogical
Computing and NGS News
Magazine. Laura will speak on
“Finding the Unexpected in Unexpected
Places.” For more information
and registration, see: www.
azwvgs.org.
February 21-28, 2009—Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada
Royal Roads University is sponsoring
a three-day class in Discovering
Your Family History.
Dave Obee will be instructing.
Hours during the three days are
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The course will
cover using the Internet, geography,
the census, civil registration,
newspapers, immigration records,
military records, and much more.
For more information, see: www.
royalroads.ca/continuing-studies/
PEOI1555-Y08.htm.
February 28, 2009—
Whittier, California
The Whittier Area Genealogical
Society (WAGS) will once again
hold its annual day-long seminar
Saturday, February 28, 2009. The
speaker will be Curt B. Witcher,
manager of the Historical Genealogy
Department of the Allen
County Public Library in Fort
Wayne, Indiana. Mr. Witcher is a
former president of both the Federation
of Genealogical Societies
and the National Genealogical
Society.
February 28, 2009—
Port Charlotte, Florida
The Southwest Florida Genealogy
Research Group is sponsoring a
seminar featuring Baerbel Johnson.
The title of the program is
Putting Flesh on the Genealogical
Skeleton. Topics will be “Marriage
Laws and Customs in Germany,”
German Research on the Internet,”
Strategies for Solving German Research
Problems,” and “Internet
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Resources for Locating the 19th
Century German Emigrant.” It will
be held at the St. James Episcopal
Church, 1375 Viscaya Dr. from 8:00
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. For more information,
see: www.rootsweb.ancestry.
com/~flggrg/.
February 28, 2009—
St. Charles, Illinois
The DuPage County Genealogical
society is sponsoring their 34th
Annual Conference featuring
Everton’s Genealogical Helper Managing
Editor, Leland K. Meitzler.
Mr. Meitzler will speak on “The
Witness,” “Using Tax Records,”
“Chasing Women,” and “Your Ancestor
Was Not Lost in the Courthouse
Fire.” Contributing Editor,
Jeff Bockman will speak on “They
Came in Ships,” and “Drilling
Down for DNA.” Tracks are also
planned on Chicago research as
well as Allen County Public Library
research. The Conference
will be held at Hilton Garden Inn,
4070 East Main St., St. Charles, Illinois.
See www.dcgs.org for more
information.
March 7, 2009—
Escondido, California
The Escondido Family History
Fair will be held at the Escondido,
California South Stake Center,
2255 Felicita Road. Genealogical
Helper managing editor Leland K.
Meitzler is scheduled to speak up
to four times during the day. For
more information, see www.family
historyfair.org.
March 7, 2009—
Bountiful, Utah
The annual South Davis Regional
Family History Fair will be held
at the Bountiful High School. For
more information, see: www.devclean.com/famhistfair/index.html.
March 7, 2009—
Seattle, Washington
The Pacific Northwest Historians
Guild will hold its annual
conference at the Seattle Museum
of History and Industry.
The theme is the centennial of the
1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
(AYPE). The World’s Fair
took place in Seattle from June 1 to
October 16, 1909. For more information
go to their website above
or check out their flyer at: www.
pnwhistorians.org/News/PacN-
WHisGuildFlyer.pdf.
March 7, 2009—Surrey,
British Columbia, Canada
The British Columbia Genealogical
Society & the Surrey Public
Library will sponsor an all-day
seminar with Megan Smolenyak.
Megan will speak on: “Trace Your
Roots with DNA;” “Reverse Genealogy:
Techniques for Finding
Your Lost Loved Ones;” “Introduction
to Ancestry.com;” and
“Cases That Made My Brain Hurt.”
For more information, see: www.
bcgs.ca.
March 14, 2009—
Brea, California
The Genealogical Society of North
Orange County will present a
one-day seminar featuring Stephen
Morse, speaking on “One-
Step Webpages: A Potpourri of
Genealogical Search Tools,” to be
held at the Brea United Methodist
Church, 480 N. State College
Blvd. The hours will be from 8:00
a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For more information,
see: www.gsnocc.org/gsnocc/
seminar09pg1.html.
March 14, 2009—
Mishawaka, Indiana
The South Bend Area Genealogical
Society’s annual “Michiana Genealogy
Fair” for 2009 will be held
at the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris
Public Library, 209, Lincoln Way
East. Genealogical Helper Contributing
Editor, Jeff Bockman, will
be the featured speaker. Jeff will
be speaking on “Using Maps for
Genealogical Research” and “No
Birth Certificate, No Problem.”
Ontario, Oakville
May 29-31, 2009
Ontario, Ottawa
March 27-29, 2009
Ontario, Ottawa
September 18-20, 2009
Saskatchewan, Regina
April 23-26, 2009
England
London
May 3, 2009
New Zealand
Auckland
January 16-20, 2009
Scotland
Aberdeen
April 25, 2009
Stirling
June 19-21, 2009
Research Tours
see page 160
Illinois, Galesburg
March 9-14, 2009
Utah, Salt Lake City
January 12-16, 2009
Utah, Salt Lake City
May 14-21, 2009
Utah, Salt Lake City
October 5-9, 2009
Utah, Salt Lake City
December 6-12, 2009
Genealogy Cruises
see page 161
Eastern Caribbean
January 10-18, 2009
Family Reunions
see page 161
Rusagonis, NB, Canada
(Calkins)
Apr 30-May 2, 2009
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Over 20 genealogical materials
vendors and exhibitors will also
be present for attendees browsing
and assistance. For more information,
see: www.sbags.org or email:
WHMinish@aol.com.
March 14, 2009—
New Bern, North Carolina
Craig Roberts Scott, CG, will provide
a four-part workshop “Overcoming
Brick Walls.” The talks
include: Service Not Found: Finding
Your Ancestor in the Military;
Maiden Name Not Found: Finding
Your Female Ancestors; Land
Not Found: Finding Your Ancestor
on the Ground; and Where Oh
Where: Using the Internet to Solve
Brick Wall Problems. This workshop,
to be held at the Broad Street
Christian Church, New Bern, is
cosponsored by the North Carolina
Genealogical Society and the
Craven County Genealogical Society.
For more information, see:
www.ncgenealogy.org.
March 21, 2009—
Hot Springs Village, Arkansas
The Village Genealogical Society
is sponsoring their “2009 Spring
Family History Workshop” featuring
Michael John Neill, M.S. Topics
of the all day workshop will
be “Researching the Entire Family,”
“Problem Solving Applied
to Genealogy,” “I Found it; Now
What,” and “Tried and Tested
Tidbits.” Workshop hours are 9:00
a.m.-3:30 p.m. Registration fee $35.
For registration form and details,
please call Jeanette Frahm at 501-
922-9220, e-mail J44F65@yahoo.
com or visit http://pages.sudden
link.net/hsvgs/.
March 21, 2009—
Houston, Texas
The Houston Genealogical Forum
will present “Antebellum Military
Records” with Craig Scott as
speaker. For more information see:
www.hgftx.org or send an e-mail
to: programs@hgftx.org.
March 27-28, 2009—
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The Ottawa Branch of the Ontario
Genealogical Society and the Ottawa
Public Library will present
their 26th Gene-O-Rama at the Ben
Franklin Place, 101 Centrepoint
Dr. The Gene-O-Rama will include
Marketplace, Internet Search
Room: free Internet searching of
library resources, including Ancestry.com
(provided courtesy of
the Ottawa Public Library) Computer
Demonstration Room with
informal access to CD collections,
databases, and genealogy software
packages. Assistance will be
available in all computer rooms.
For more information, see: www.
ogsottawa.on.ca/geneorama/.
March 28, 2009—
Kalamazoo, Michigan
The Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical
Society will sponsor their
2009 Spring Conference, featuring
Paula Stuart-Warren. Topics will
be “NUCMC & Its Cousin: Keys
to “Lost Ancestral Records;” “Tho’
They Were Poor, They May Have
Been Rich in Records;” “Organizing
Your Genealogical Materials;”
and Finding Ancestral Places of
Origins.” The hours will be from
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For more
information, see: www.rootsweb.
ancestry.com/~mikvgs/spring
conference.html.
March 28, 2009—
Virginia Beach, Virginia
The Virginia Beach Genealogical
Society is sponsoring their
2009 annual conference, WHO &
WHAT: TELL ME ABOUT IT©,
featuring John Philip Colletta,
Ph. D. John is speaking on four
topics: “Lesser-Used Federal Records,”
“Libraries, Archives, &
Public Records Offices: Understanding
Resource Repositories,”
“Effective Interviewing,”
and “Turning Biographical Facts
into Real-Life Events: How to
Build Historical Context.” The
program will be held at the Virginia
Beach Central Library, 4100
Virginia Beach Blvd. Map: ht t p://
tinyurl.com/2bpv84. Doors open
at 8:30 a.m. Colletta starts at 8:55
a.m. and runs until 4:30 p.m. The
venue closes at 5 p.m. See: www.
genealogyjohn.com; and ht t p://
www.rootsweb.com/~vavbgs/ for
TELL ME ABOUT IT©, exhibitors,
VBGS and offerings.
Early Registration is recommended.
Please reserve your spot
by sending $35/$40* today with
Registration Form to VBGS 2009
Annual Conference, PO Box 62901,
Virginia Beach, VA 23466-2901,
well before late date of March 16,
2009*. VBGS members pay $35*
and benefit yearlong from our ongoing
classes, excellent speakers,
& newsletters, not to mention the
added goods we provide for our
members. Nonmembers pay $40*.
And we invite you to join VBGS.
Late & at-the-door registrations
add $5*. Registration, membership
forms, and details at www.
rootsweb.com/~vavbgs/. A number
of restaurants and fast food
places are near. Lighter snacks
and drinks are available throughout
the day. Brown bag your lunch
and use your saved time with exhibitors
and vendors. Contact:
VBGS http://www.rootsweb.com/
~vavbgs—information posts as
available. J. B. Wright 757-495-0672
or Jwright73@cox.net.
April 2-5, 2009—
Huron, Ohio
The Ohio Genealogical Society
will sponsor their 50th anniversary
conference at the Sawmill
Creek Resort and Convention
Center, 400 Sawmill Creek. It is
entitled: “Digging for Gold: Finding
our Family Nuggets.” For more
information, see: www.ogs.org/
conference2009/.
April 3-4, 2009—
Middleton, Wisconsin
The Wisconsin State Genealogical
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Society will sponsor their Gene-A-
Rama, to be held at Madison Marriott
West, 1313 John Q. Hammons
Dr. The featured speaker will be
Christine Rose. For more information,
see: http://wsgs.org.
April 4, 2009—
Las Vegas, Nevada
The Clark County, Nevada, Genealogical
Society is sponsoring
a seminar featuring Dr. George
K. Schweitzer. For more information,
see www.rootsweb.ancestry.
com/~nvccngs/.
April 18, 2009—
Anchorage, Alaska
The Anchorage Genealogical Society
will present a seminar featuring
Megan Smolenyak, speaking
on: “Introduction to Ancestry.
com,” “Reverse Genealogy: Techniques
for Finding Your Lost
Loved Ones,” “Find that Obituary
Online Newspaper Search”
and “Cases That Made my Brain
Hurt.” For more information, see:
www.anchoragegenealogy.org/
seminar.htm.
April 18, 2009—
Moline, Illinois
The Rock Island County Illinois
Genealogical Society and the Scott
County, Iowa Genealogical Society
will sponsor the 35th Annual
Quad Cities Genealogical Conference.
The featured speaker will be
Curt Witcher. The seminar will be
held at the Moline Viking Club,
1450 41st St. For more information,
see: www.rootsweb.ancestry.
com/~ilbgsrim/news/AnnualGen
Conference.html.
April 18, 2009—
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
The Louisiana Genealogical and
Historical Society will sponsor
their annual seminar, to be held
at the Embassy Suites Hotel. For
more information, see: www.
rootsweb.ancestry.com/~la-lghs/
seminar.htm.
April 18, 2009—
Plano, Texas
The Genealogy Friends are sponsoring
an All-Day Workshop, featuring
Naomi Taplin and Alan
Lefever from the Texas Baptist
Historical Collection, speaking on:
“Preserving Precious Memories.”
Bring your own family treasures
and learn how best to preserve
them. The seminar will be from
9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Plano
Bible Chapel, 1900 Shiloh Road.
Pre-registration is $38.00 - $45 at
the door. Contact: Brenda Kellow,
President, The Genealogy Friends,
PO. Box 860477, Plano, TX 75086-
0477; GenFriends@Genealogy
Friends.org; www.Genealogy
Friends.org.
April 18-19, 2009—
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
The Alberta Genealogical Society
Conference will take place. For
more information, see: www.abgen
soc.ca.
April 22-26, 2009—
Manchester, New Hampshire
The 10th New England Regional
Conference “Discovering Family
Treasures,” will feature speakers
Megan Smolenyak, Tom Jones, and
Jim Hansen. More information or
to register, see: www.nergc.org.
April 23-26, 2009—Regina,
Saskatchewan, Canada
The Saskatchewan Genealogical
Society will sponsor their 40th
Anniversary Showcase Genealogy
Conference. For more information,
see: www.saskgenealogy.com.
April 25, 2009—
Santa Rosa, California
The Sonoma County Genealogical
Society is sponsoring an all-day
seminar with Lloyd Bockstruck.
He will speak on “Court Records
for Genealogical Research,” “Colonial
and States Statutes: Overlooked
Sources for Genealogical
Research,” “Bridging the Atlantic:
Finding Your Ancestral Home,”
and “Substitutes for Birth and
Death Records.”
This will be the 17th all-day session
sponsored by SCGS. It will be
held in the Harry A. Merlo Theater
at the Wells Fargo Center for the
Arts, Highway 101 at River Road.
Pre-registration is highly recommended
to reserve your seat
for this event. Price of admission
for pre-registration is $20 for
members of the Sonoma County
Genealogical Society, $25 for nonmembers.
Admission at the door,
beginning at 8 a.m., will be $30.
Send your reservations to Registrar
Audrey Phillips, 96 Eastside
Circle, Petaluma, CA 94954-3609.
Questions about registration can
also be directed to her by phone
at 707-763-4492. Other questions
about the seminar should be directed
to Lois Nimmo, program
chairman, e-mail: loisnim@scb
global.net or phone 707-537-1684.
For more information, see: www.
rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cascgs/
bockstruck2.htm.
April 25, 2009—
Indianapolis, Indiana
Pamela K. Boyer will be the featured
speaker for the Indiana
Genealogical Society’s 20th Anniversary
Conference. Other speakers
will be Dr. Jack Early, Curt
Witcher, Bennie McRae, Dr. Alan
January, Kevin Flanagan, Dona
Stokes-Lucas, and Ron Darrah.
For more information or to register,
go to www.indgensoc.org/
conference.html or write to 2009
Conference, Indiana Genealogical
Society, PO Box 10507, Ft. Wayne,
IN 46852-0507.
April 25, 2009—
Topeka, Kansas
The Topeka Genealogical Society
and the Kansas State Historical
Society are sponsoring the 37th
Annual Conference. John Phillip
Colletta will be the featured
speaker. The seminar will be held
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at the Kansas State History Center,
6425 SW Sixth St. For more information,
see: www.tgstopeka.org/
conference.html.
April 25, 2009—
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Sponsored by the Lancaster Mennonite
Historical Society and
the Lancaster County Historical
Society, the 2009 Lancaster Family
History Conference will take
place at the Eden Resort Inn. The
theme of the conference is Roots
on the Move! Stories of Immigration.
The keynote speaker will be
Barry Moreno, director of Ellis
Island Memorial Library. Immigration
will be the topic of the keynote
lecture. He will also present
classes on: “Stories from Ellis Island,”
“Women and Immigration,”
and “Children and Immigration.”
On Friday April 24, there will be
a special motor coach tour to Ellis
Island.
April 25, 2009—
Aberdeen, Scotland
The Aberdeen & NE Scotland
Family History Society will be
hosting the 20th Annual conference
of the Scottish Association of
Family History Societies. It will be
held at Kings’ College Conference
Centre in historic Old Aberdeen.
For more information, see: www.
scothist.org.
April 25-26, 2009—
Kelowna, British Columbia,
Canada
The Kelowna and District Family
History Society will sponsor a
seminar featuring Rick and Sandra
Roberts. For more information,
see: www.rootsweb.ancestry.
com/~bckdgs/.
April 26, 2009—
Waltham, Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Genealogical
Council is sponsoring their
annual seminar. The speakers
are sponsored by NEHGS of
Boston. Lecturers include Michael
LeClerc, speaking on “Online
Resources for New England
Research.” Josh Taylor of NEHGS
will give two presentations on
“Essential Tools for Genealogists:
What to Buy and How to Buy It!”
and “Genealogical Networking in
Today’s World.” Ann S. Lainhart
will give two lectures on “State
Census Records” and “Massachusetts
Institutional Records
at the State Archives.” The program
includes specialized topics
such as “Researching Parish Records
in Portugal” and “Recovering
the Lost History of Annie
Londonderry: An Idiosyncratic
Search for the World’s First Female
Sports Star.” Additionally,
there will be two lectures from
New England History Festival
founder John Horrigan, including
“Great American Fires of the
19th Century” and “Winters of
the Revolution.” For more information,
email: mbrophy@brophy
gen.com.
May 2, 2009—
St. Louis, Missouri
The St. Louis Genealogical Society
is sponsoring their annual
Family History Conference, to
be held at the Maryland Heights
Community Centre. The featured
speaker will be David Rencher
AG, CG, FIGRS, FUGA, Director
of Records and Information Division,
Family and Church History
Department of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
This organization has taken on
the project to convert the Church’s
vast collection of microfilmed
records into indexed digital images,
which will then be made
available on the Internet. David’s
current assignment promises to
transform the way genealogists
access original documents pertaining
to their family history research.
For more information on
the conference, see: www.stlgs.
org/fair.htm.
May 3, 2009—
London, England
Fair Promotions, Ltd, in cooperation
with Family History Societies
and related groups will hold their
event at the Barbican Exhibition
Centre. For more information, see:
www.thefhevent.com.
May 13-19, 2009—
Raleigh, North Carolina
The National Genealogical Society
is sponsoring their annual conference
to be held in Raleigh, North
Carolina. The conference hotel is
the Raleigh Marriott City Center,
501 Fayetteville St., Raleigh,
NC 27601. For more information,
see: www.ngsgenealogy.org/
Conferences/2009/.
May 16, 2009—
Seattle, Washington
The Seattle Genealogical Society
is sponsoring their annual Spring
Seminar, with John Philip Colletta
as their featured speaker. For more
information, see: www.rootsweb.
ancestry.com/~waseags/.
May 29-31, 2009—
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
The Ontario Genealogical Society
will sponsor their annual conference,
entitled “From the Printed
Page to the Digital Age.” Kory
Meyerink will be the featured
speaker. For more information,
see: www.ogs.on.ca.
June 5-6, 2009—
Marshall, Arkansas
The Searcy County (AR) Historical
Society is sponsoring the
Twentieth Annual North Arkansas
Ancestor Fair at the E H
Building, County Fairgrounds.
Friday (9:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.): Arkansas
History Commission Staff
present programs on: Baptist Records;
land platting & legal descriptions;
using newspapers in
genealogical research; gleaning
information from photographs.
Friday evening (6:30 p.m.): Mixer-
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Dinner to meet kin & start ancestor
hunting. Saturday (9 a.m.-3
p.m.): Genealogical Swap Meet
with family historians and genealogical/historical
societies
from north Arkansas counties.
For more information, see: www.
ancestorfair.us or contact James
Johnston, 2333 N East Oaks Drive,
Fayetteville, AR 72703; 479-442-
3691; Johnston@ipa.net.
June 14-21, 2009—
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
The International Convention of
Germans from Russia, sponsored
by the American Historical Society
of Germans from Russia will
be held with Leona Mann and
Mabel Kiessling co-chairing the
convention. For more information,
see: www.ahsgr.org/convention.htm.
June 19-21, 2009—
Stirling, Scotland
Homecoming Stirling 2009 is a
three-day Family History Conference
for those interested in Scotland
or with Scottish connections.
It will be held in Albert Halls,
Dumbarton Road, in Stirling.
For more information, see: www.
homecomingstirling.com.
June 20, 2009—
Wichita, Kansas
The 2009 conference presented
by The Kansas Council of Genealogical
Societies, Inc. and The
Wichita Genealogical Society,
featuring Megan Smolenyak, is
scheduled at the Spiritual Life
Center in Wichita, Kansas. Sessions
include: “Trace Your Roots
with DNA,” “Welcome to Roots
Television,” “Reverse Genealogy,”
and “Find That Obituary: Online
Newspaper Research.” Early registration:
$45.00, if received by
May 30, 2009. Late registration:
$50.00. Contact kscouncilgensoc@
juno.com for details or visit the
website at: http://skyways.lib.
ks.us/genweb/kcgs/.
June 26-28, 2009—
Burbank, California
The Southern California Genealogical
Society will sponsor their annual
SCGS Jamboree. The Southern
California Genealogy Jamboree
and Resource Expo is a three-day
gathering of genealogists, family
historians, experts, novices, exhibitors,
vendors, genealogical society
leaders, speakers and others
who are interested in tracing their
roots. The 2009 Genealogy Jamboree
is expected to draw over 1200
participants. There will be more
than 75 presentations and panel
discussions, over 30 lecturers, a
room full of exhibitors and vendors,
and plenty of opportunities
to network and socialize.
For more information, see: www.
scgsgenealogy.com.
July 28-31, 2009—
Provo, Utah
The annual Conference on Family
History and Genealogy will be
sponsored by BYU.
August 2-7, 2009—
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Jewish Genealogical Society of
Greater Philadelphia will host the
29th annual IAJGS International
Conference on Jewish Genealogy.
It will be held at the Sheraton Philadelphia
City Center Hotel at 17th
and Race Street. For more information,
see: www.jewishgen.org/
jgsp/2009Conference.htm.
August 7-8, 2009—
Jefferson City, Missouri
The Missouri State Genealogical
Society will sponsor their annual
conference at the Capital Plaza
Hotel with featured speaker, Julie
Miller, CGSM. Julie Miller is a
Certified Genealogist with more
than 30 years of genealogy experience.
She is a newspaper columnist
for the Broomfield Enterprise
and is on the Board of Directors
for the National Genealogical Society,
Association of Professional
Genealogists, and International
Society of Family History Writers
and Editors. Ms. Miller is the
President of the Colorado Chapter
of the Association of Professional
Genealogists and Past President of
the Colorado Genealogical Society.
For more information, see: www.
mosga.org.
September 2-5, 2009—
Little Rock, Arkansas
The Federation of Genealogical
Societies Annual conference will
be held at the Little Rock Statehouse
Convention Center. It is
titled “Passages Through Time.”
For more information, see: www.
fgsconference.org/index.php.
September 9-14, 2009—
Rapid City, South Dakota
The annual seminar of the Germans
From Russia Heritage Society
will be held in Rapid City.
September 11-13, 2009—
Spokane, Washington
The Eastern Washington Genealogical
Society is sponsoring
the 2009 Washington State Genealogical
Society’s State Conference
at the historic Davenport
Hotel. The featured speaker will
be Megan Smolenyak. The fourdiamond
Davenport Hotel will
be the venue for the meetings,
vendors, and meals and is offering
special accommodations package.
Single and double-occupancy
rooms are $155 per night, triple
are $165, and accommodations for
four are $175 per night. The hotel
now is taking reservations for
that weekend. For more information,
see: www.rootsweb.ancestry.
com/%7Ewasgs/.
September 18-20, 2009—
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The British Isles Family History
Society of Greater Ottawa will
sponsor their annual seminar.
For more information, see: www.
bifhsgo.ca.
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October 2-3, 2009—
Neenah, Wisconsin
The Wisconsin State Genealogical
Society will sponsor its annual
Fall 2009 Seminar, with featured
speaker, Michael John Neill. It will
be held at the Best Western Bridgewood
Resort Hotel & Conference
Center, 1000 Cameron Way. For
more information, see: http://wsgs.
wetpaint.com.
October 14-17, 2009—
Cleveland, Ohio
The annual Seminar of the Czechoslovak
Genealogical Society International
will be held in Cleveland.
October 15-17, 2009—
Midland, Michigan
The Michigan Genealogical Council
is sponsoring their annual seminar
with the Thursday afternoon
and evening of October 15 including
tours of Midland County Historical
Society facilities. On the
following two days, 16 speakers
with 32 sessions in four tracks will
be featured. Thirty vendors & societies
are expected to exhibit. A
banquet & lunches with speakers
are planned. For more information,
see: www.rootsweb.com/~mimgc/.
Email: faeae@chartermi.net.
October 16-17, 2009—
Lake Charles, Louisiana
The Southwest Louisiana Genealogical
and Historical Library’s
second “Branching Out in Genealogy”
Seminar will feature Carolyn
Earle Billingsley. For more details,
see: www.calcasieu.lib.la.us, or
email: gen@calcasieu.lib.la.us or
phone 337-437-3490.
October 19, 2009—Surrey,
British Columbia, Canada
The Annual Tri-stake Family History
Conference will be held.
April 28-May 5, 2010—
Salt Lake City, Utah
The National Genealogical Society
is sponsoring their annual
conference to be held in Salt Lake
City, Utah. For more information,
see the following website (when
it launches): www.ngsgenealogy.
org/Conferences/2010/.
June 11-13, 2010—
Burbank, California
The Southern California Genealogical
Society will sponsor
their annual SCGS Jamboree. The
Southern California Genealogy
Jamboree and Resource Expo is
a three-day gathering of genealogists,
family historians, experts,
novices, exhibitors, vendors, genealogical
society leaders, speakers,
and others who are interested
in tracing their roots. The 2010
Genealogy Jamboree is expected
to draw over 1200 participants.
There will be more than 75 presentations
and panel discussions,
over 30 lecturers, a room full of exhibitors
and vendors, and plenty
of opportunities to network and
socialize.
For more information, see: www.
scgsgenealogy.com.
September, 2010—
Knoxville, Tennessee
The Federation of Genealogical
Societies will hold their annual
conference in Knoxville, with a
strong emphasis on genealogy on
the Internet.
2010—New York State
The New York State Chapter of the
Palatines to America will sponsor
the 300th anniversary celebration
of Palatine immigration to
America.
Genealogy Related
Research Tours
and Retreats
March 9-14, 2009—
Galesburg, Illinois
The Carl Sandberg College is sponsoring
the 11th Annual Genealogy
Week, with Michael John Neill,
MS. Michael will speak on “Using
Ancestry.com;” “Using Footnote.
com;” “Using FamilySearch.org;”
“Using Land Records;” “Genealogy
Problem Solving;” and
“Using Non-English Language
Records.” The classes run from
9:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, covering
one topic per day. For more
information, see: www.rootdig.
com/sandburg.html.
May 14-21, 2009—
Salt Lake City, Utah
Michael John Neill will sponsor
his annual Salt Lake City Family
History Trip. For information, see:
www.rootdig.com/slctrip.html.
October 5-9, 2009—
Salt Lake City, Utah
The International Society for British
Genealogy and Family History
will take place in Salt Lake City,
Utah. For more information, see:
www.isbgfh.org.
December 6-12, 2009—
Salt Lake City, Utah
Do You Want to Make Gigantic
Leaps in Locating Your Ancestors
Do you have brick-wall problems
in your genealogy research If so,
plan on joining with The Genealogical
Helper Managing Editor, Leland
K. Meitzler, and Donna Potter Phillips
at the 25th annual Salt Lake
Christmas Tour to the Family History
Library this December.
The Salt Lake Christmas tour is
known for having the highest percentage
of professional researchers
per attendee of any Salt Lake
research tour.
Why December Early December
is an ideal time to come to the Family
History Library. The library isn’t
crowded, as it is at other times of
the year. The festivities in Salt Lake
City are underway and the Christmas
Tour Family is waiting with
open arms for you to join them.
By joining us in Salt Lake City
on a Salt Lake Christmas Tour,
you will be in the right place—
at the right time—to locate more
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ancestors than you may have ever
found before.
For more information, see: www.
SaltLakeChristmasTour.com, or
call 801-949-7259.
January 16-20, 2009—
Otahuhu, New Zealand
The 12th Australasian Congress
of Genealogy & Heraldry will be
held in Auckland at Kings College,
Golf Avenue, Otahuhu, Auckland,
New Zealand. The theme is “Preserving
the Past for the Future.”
For more information, see: ht t p://
www.affhocongress2009.org.
Genealogy Cruises
January 10-18, 2009—
Eastern Caribbean
Irish genealogy is one of the most
difficult research topics in family
history. To make it a little easier,
The Irish Ancestral Research Association
(http://tiara.ie) is organizing
an Irish genealogy cruise in
January 2009. You do not have to
be a member to join the cruise. We
want to create an opportunity for
everyone to learn how to research
Irish families.
This trip will focus on Irish
research. All speakers have presented
at national genealogical
conferences and are recognized
as knowledgeable in their fields.
There will be two tracks. Track
1 will have lectures on basic resources
and techniques for Irish
research. Track 2 will focus on
more advanced topics and is intended
for those with experience
in using Irish records. The first
thirty registrants will be given
a one-hour private consultation
with one of the professional genealogists
on the program.
SPEAKERS:
• Valerie Adams, Public Record
Office of Northern Ireland,
Belfast
• Mary Ellen Grogan, TIARA,
Boston
• George B. Handran, expert on
Griffith’s Valuation, Boston
• Michael J. Leclerc, New England
Historic Genealogical Society,
Boston
• Gregory O’Connor, National
Archives of Ireland, Dublin
• Eileen and Sean O’Duill,
Dublin
SHIP: Royal Caribbean, Independence
of the Seas
This is Royal Caribbean’s newest
ship. Independence is a sister
ship to Freedom of the Seas. If you
watch the Travel Channel, there is
an hour-long program on Freedom
of the Seas hosted by Samantha
Brown. Independence will be a
large ship, but it will have something
for everyone from the Conference
Center to the FlowRider
surf simulator.
ITINERARY: Eight nights in the
Eastern Caribbean.
Cruise begins and ends in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, with day
visits to: San Juan, Puerto Rico;
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas;
Philipsburg, St. Maarten; and
Royal Caribbean’s private beach
at Labadee, Haiti. The lectures are
scheduled for the three “At Sea”
days. They will not conflict with
opportunities to visit the ports.
For detailed information on
the cruise, go to the TIARA website
(http://tiara.ie) and click on
“Trips.” For more information,
contact Mary Ellen Grogan at me
grogan@ix.netcom.com.
Family Reunions
Apr 30-May 2, 2009—
Rusagonis, New Brunswick,
Canada
The Calkins Family Association
is sponsoring its 5th tri-annual
International Calkins Family
reunion to be held in Syracuse
NY Apr 30th, May 1st, and 2nd,
2009. The invitation is extended
to all descendants of our original
ancestors, Hugh and Ann Calkins,
who landed in North America in
1638. Thursday evening: meet and
greet with refreshments. Friday:
all day bus tour of historical places
in the area, including lunch. Saturday:
morning workshop, catered
lunch afternoon, business meeting
and evening banquet with Gary
Boyd Roberts as the guest speaker.
For information and costs, contact
Minnie Frese, 509 Rusagonis Rd.,
Rusagonis, New Brunswick, Canada
E3B 8Z3, phone 506-357-3841.
Email: minmin@nbnet.nb.ca.
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Surname Index ENTRIES INDICATE THE FIRST INSTANCE WITHIN A STORY, ARTICLE, ETC.
A
Abernathy 167
Abington 137
Adam 127
Adams 15, 144,
146, 161, 164
Agar 165
Ahner 118
Albi 153
Albright 148
Aldrich 150
Allen 51, 149
Allin 149
Alt 163
Ammen 144
Anderson 60
Andrews 51, 120
Arends 60
Arner 71
Auld 137
Austin 144
B
Babb 162
Bachmann 164
Backman 108
Bäckman 108
Baker 13
Ball 137
Bane 144
Banks 81, 146
Bardin 120
Barnes 80
Barnum 2, 14, 15
Barr 126, 146,
147, 148
Bartlett 137, 146
Bastian 148
Bastin 148
Beckner 144
Beckord 45
Belt 137
Benjamin 162
Berry 137
Bigelow 114
Billingsley 160
Bish 146
Bitz 162
Bladen 137
Blakistone 137
Blankenau 3, 42, 44
Blankenaufulland 44
Blodgett 150
Blount 144, 150
Blue 163
Bockman 3, 87,
91, 96, 112, 155
Bockstruck 78,
152, 157
Boehm 118
Boettcher 148
Bolton 144
Bonner 126
Bonvile 137
Border 144
Bowen 128, 129
Bowker 13
Bowman 81
Bowyer 144
Boyd 127
Boyer 157
Bradford 51, 80
Bradley 126
Brechman 44
Brengle 137
Briscoe 137
Brockschmid 43, 44
Brooke 137
Brooks 162
Brown 132
Bruce 51
Bruggen 44
Brumbaugh 80
Bryson 147
Buchanan 21, 22
Burch 162
Burger 144
Burke 132
Burnett 11
Busekist 60
Buzzard 163
C
Caesar 37
Caile 137
Calkins 161
Calvert 137
Campbell 3,
64, 68, 127
Cannon 63
Carmack 68
Carner 162
Carpenter 51
Carroll 119, 137
Case 11
Casilear 68
Ceely 166
Chatterton 147
Chew 137
Chilton 51
Chomesky 150
Christianson 166
Christison 137
Chubenko 167
Chumley 150
Churchill 51, 137
Clark 77, 129
Clarke 137
Clause 39
Claypoole 162
Clements 137
Clinkenbeard 148
Closson 38
Clouston 72
Coates 132
Cochrane 127
Coffman 144
Cohen 137
Cole 146
Coleman 162
Colletta 156, 157
Conley 147, 163
Connor 165
Connors 166
Conroy 12
Cook 15
Cooper 2, 16
Coplestone 137
Corbet 146
Corbett 150
Costner 114
Cox 153
Croker 137
Croll 148, 149
Cromwell 137
Croom 118, 119
Crowder 144
Crush 144
Cuffley 147
Cunningham 127
Curry 46
D
Dai 146
Daley 62
Dalrymple 127, 146
Darnall 163
Darnell 163
Darrah 157
Davis 81
Deakyne 132
Dealyne 132
DeBartolo 68
Deere 11
Defenbaugh 146
Deisher 144
De Lancey 77
DeLong 149
DeMond 77
Dempsey 144
Dent 137
Derheim 2
des Cognets 143
Dieffenbaugh 146
Diffenbaugh 146
Digges 83
Dill 144
Dingwall 2,
20, 22, 23
Dinniss 132
Dirimple 146
dit Lavergant 150
Dixon 137
Dobson 126, 127
Dod 163
Dollahite 84
Dollarhide 23, 63, 84
Dorsey 137
Drage 167
Drewry 149
Drury 149
Duffield 46,
47, 48, 49
Duffy 126, 148
Dunlop 51
Dunn 137, 146
E
Earle 160
Early 157
Easterly 11
Eastman 24
Eberd 45
Eberhard 45
Eddleman 139
Eddy 148
Egerton 137
Egle 82
Eichler 165
Eide 103
Eidissen 103
Elington 51
Ell 164
Ellicott 137
Elliott 137, 163
Emory 137
Epperly 165
Erichsen 103
Erickson 104
Ernst 44
Ervin 142
Esquibel 153
Etzler 144
Evans 146, 162
Evart 45
F
Fairfax 137
Faris 137
Fellers 144
Felsberg 168
Ferguson 127
Finch 144
Findlay 71
Firebaugh 144
Fisher 149
Fitzpatrick 168
Flaherty 144
Flanagan 157
Fleischmann 118
Fleming 147
Fogarty 71
Fogle 133
Ford 147
Fox 137, 149
Foxworthy 137
Fraser 77
Frese 161
Friddle 120
Friel 126
Frisby 137
Fritchie 137
Frith 137
Frostad 103
Fuchs 149
Fullarton 127
G
Gallagher 126
Galusha 147
Gardner 146
Garland 144
Gary 137
Gerard 137
Gielle 149
Gier 149
Gilbert 162
Gillis 114
Gilpatrick 168
Gilroy 77
Girard 39
Gist 137
Gjertsen 103
Gleason 147
Gleeson 147
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Gleson 147
Goldberg 150
Goldsborough 137
Goodrich 168
Goodrick 168
Goodridge 168
Gordon 127, 137
Gormley 126
Gough 137
Gow 72
Grandchamp 130
Green 72, 138, 143
Grey 51
Griffey 142
Grogan 161
Gwathmey 78
H
Haas 146
Haden 144
Hagy 141
Hailey 3, 64, 68
Hale 132
Hall 137
Halley 137
Hamilton 51, 120
Handran 161
Hannah 144
Hannan 146, 147
Hansen 120,
121, 122, 123,
124, 125, 157
Hansmeyer 44
Harkin 126
Harper 74
Harris 15
Harrison 137
Hart 153
Hartig 164
Harwood 137
Haskins 137
Hathaway 148
Hatt 148
Haug 149
Hausil 137
Hausmann 118
Havlice 83
Hawley 137
Haxtun 81
Hays 164
Hazel 149
Heckman 150
Heigh 135, 136
Heitman 13
Hemmingsen 103
Hennessy 147
Hennon 2, 30, 34
Hesselius 137
Heth 14
Highland 137
Hills 81
Hinckley 72
Hinman 81
Hinshaw 78, 79
Hockman 147
Hoffman 3, 50
Holcomb 138
Hollingsworth 140
Hollowak 80
Hollyday 137
Holmes 119
Hooverson 2,
3, 10, 15
Horio 146
Horrigan 158
Houck 149
Houghton 51
Howe 81
Howell 144
Hubbard 118
Hughs 60
Hungerford 137
Hunter 127
Hutchins 162
Hutchinson 137, 138
Hynson 137
Hypes 144
I
Ingebrigtsen 103
Ingram 162
Innes 127, 128
Irby 150
Irving 127
Irwin 164
Israell 135, 136
J
Jackson 114, 150
Jacobson 103,
119, 120
James 12
January 157
Jarren 165
Jeffrey 153
Jensen 167
Jesek 62
Jewell 149, 166
Johansen 103
Johansson 50
John 149
Johnson 10, 154
Johnston 127, 159
Jones 72, 77, 137,
147, 157
Jopling 144
Josiah 149
Justin 147
K
Kasner 149
Kaufman 70
Keeney 118, 148
Kelly 56, 57,
58, 72, 163
Kemp 137
Kendall 138
Kenie 118
Kennebeck 147
Kennedy 127
Kenny 148
Kerr 125, 138
Kessler 144
Key 137
Kibble 149
Kiessling 159
Kilpatrick 168
King 10
Kinney 148
Kirkpatrick 168
Kleikamp 45
Knipple 147
Knudson 3, 51
Kodak 24
Kolb 166
Koogler 167
Kovacevic 164
Kropp 164, 168
Kuhns 140
L
Ladenheim 131
Lainhart 158
Lair 165
Laird 150
Lambdin 137
Lambert 166
Landis 81, 163
Lane 137
Larsson 109
Latta 148
Latzerus 36
Lawson 167
Layman 144
Lazarus 3, 36, 38, 39
Leahy 147
Leathers 62
Leclerc 161
LeClerc 158
LeCompte 137
Lee 70, 137
Leeson 51
Lefever 157
Leftwich 144
Leiper 36, 37
Lentz 153
Leonard 62
Leopard 146
Lesan 51
Levis 137
Levy 137
Lewsley 146
Lienen 42, 43, 44
Lifferth 74
Lincoln 131, 132
Lind 15
Linkenhoger 144
Linkletter 72
Linthicum 137
Lister 149
Littlewood 126
Lloyd 137
Lohmeyer 166
Londonderry 158
Loockerman 137
Low 147
Lowe 137
Lowndes 137
Lowry 163, 167
Lucas 157
Luek 50
Lunsford 144
Lupole 167
Luxenberg 73
M
MacKeeles 137
Maheu 150
Majors 11
Makepeace 51
Malcom 163
Mann 159
Marple 119
Marsh 137
Mason 51, 166
Mather 80
Mattison 149
Mauer 72
Maxwell 127
Mayhue 150
McBride 126
McCafferty 126
McClelland 147
McConkey 147, 148
McConville 148
McCormick 11
McDaid 126
McDowall 127
McEachem 140
McFall 146
McFerran 144
McHugh 120, 150
McKee 149
McKendrey 47, 48
McKie 127
McKinsey 132, 133
McLellan 127
McMichael 147
McMillan 148
McQuinn 146
McRae 157
Mealy 132
Meehan 126
Meitzler 70, 76,
118, 155, 160
Merlo 157
Merrill 167
Merryman 137
Metzger 162
Metzler 72
Meyerink 158
Midkiff 62
Miller 71, 128,
129, 149, 159
Mills 74, 146
Milner 71
Mitchell 68, 125, 126
Moche 142
Monroe 137
Montgomery 51, 127
Moore 47, 71,
148, 162
Moran 150
Moreno 158
Morgan 137, 153
Morrissey 126
Morrow 167
Morse 51, 155
Moughty 72
Moulton 167
Muggenthaler 38
Muhlenberg 141
Muir 127
Murdock 137
Myers 166
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N
Naeseth 97
Nauta 70, 73
Neale 137
Neff 148
Neill 105, 156, 160
Neise 146
Neuhaus 91, 112
Neuhausen 91
Neunuebel 118
Newman 148, 149
Nicola 71
Noffsinger 144
Nordstrom 148
Norin 3, 114
Norlie 13
O
Obee 153, 154
Obenshain 144
O’Brien 154
O’Connor 161
O’Donnell 126
O’Duill 72, 161
Oelgeschlager 44
Oeth 118
O’Kane 125, 126
O’Leary 147
Olson 104
O’Neill 126, 147
Orio 146
Orion 146
O’Rourke 136
Orvell 15
Oryon 146
Owens 137
Owings 137
Ozias 146
P
Packard 51
Partee 149
Pastorius 141
Pate 83
Pattok 118
Patton 126
Pearce 137
Pearson 143
Peck 144
Peden 137
Pedersen 103
Peduto 2, 24
Penn 141
Penner 71
Pennock 137
Penny 150
Petri 118
Phillips 3, 62,
63, 160, 162
Phillipson 164
Piccirillo 167
Pitman 163
Pittman 163
Plater 137
Poague 144
Poe 137
Poirot 119
Pollmeier 44
Posehn 166
Potter 3, 51, 62,
63, 160, 162
Prater 153
Prescott 154
Price 137, 168
Pritchett 137
Q
Quilter 147
R
Radford 143
Rafford 58
Randall 137
Rasmussen 93, 103
Rathbone 65
Ratliff 46, 47, 48, 49
Raymond 149
Reed 162
Regan 150
Reineke 44
Reiss 15
Rencher 72, 158
Rich 164
Richelieu 150
Richtscheid 3
Ridgely 137
Rigbie 137
Rinehart 144
Risvold 150
Ritchey 144
Rixford 81
Robbins 62
Robert 149
Roberts 158, 161
Rockhold 137
Rohrbach 148, 149
Romaneck 130
Ronning 3, 56, 58
Root 65
Rorbach 148
Rose 157
Roser 80
Rosholt 13
Rotherham 163
Rubincam 144
Rumsey 89
Ruschkamp 45
Russell 11
Russert 36
Rypczyk 147
S
Sabine 77
Sagan 103
Sampson 148
Saros 165
Saur 12
Savage 81
Saville 144
Schaffner 162
Schlegel 118
Schmidt 149
Schmoyer 148
Schrader 38
Schulz 3
Schweitzer 153, 157
Scott 156, 167
Scudder 14
Sebastian 147
Sedlacek 60
Seversen 103
Sewall 137
Shakespeare 95
Sharp 46, 47, 49
Sharpe 137
Shawker 154
Sheilds 139
Sheldon 149
Sherby 148
Sherwin 164
Shorbet 146
Short 149
Shurtleff 81
Sibley 13
Siciliano 3
Simon 150
Simons 150
Simonsen 103
Simpson 144, 147
Siweke 42, 43
Sizer 144
Skinner 133, 134,
135, 136, 137
Slaughter 143
Slusser 144
Smallwood 137
Smally 148
Smith 118, 137, 147,
148, 150, 153
Smolenyak 153,
155, 157, 159
Smolenyk 157
Smoyer 148
Snead 137
Snider 149, 150
Snowden 60
Solsten 97
Sonneborn 44
Sorbet 146
Southworth 51
Sparrow 137
Spear 148
Speck 162
Spiers 142
Sprigg 137
Staley 71
Stallbories 43
Standrige 73
Stanger 72
Stankiewicz 166
Stanley 95
Stansbury 137
Start 149
Statler 162
Stemmons 76
Stephenson 72
Stevens 137
Stewart 137
Stoddard 81
Stokes 157
Stoner 144
Stotebury 51
Stotesbury 51
Strachey 13
Strader 146
Stuart 156
Stumpp 41
Sulgrave 51
Sullivan 131
Summers 3, 52, 55
sur Richelieu 150
Sweeney 126
Sweetland 144
Sweetser 137
Switzer 144
Szabolics 165
Szepes 165
T
Taplin 157
Tasker 137
Taulbee 146
Taylor 51, 137, 158
Thames 51
Thiel 150
Thompson 2,
20, 23, 51
Thorndale 23
Thronsen 103
Tilghman 137
Tilly 150
Timman 167
Tims 51
Todd 137
Tofte 168
Tolle 60
Tonelli 163
Turner 162
V
Van Swearingen 51
Verrieur 150
Virkus 13
VonHof 150
VonHofe 150
W
Waddell 11
Wadlington 162
Wagner 162
Walker 46
Wallace 15, 127
Wandlass 147
Ward 126
Warren 156
Washington 51
Watson 20, 21, 111
Wayne 130
Webb 137
Webster 51
Weems 137
Weggemans 42, 45
Weimans 42, 45
Weir 163
Wellington 149
Wells 141
West 137
Wharton 150
Whelden 149
Wheldon 149
White 167
Wilhelm 144
Williams 68, 132
Willington 149
Wilson 12, 150
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Surname Index
Winchester 137
Windle 166
Winslow 51, 80
Winthrop 80
Wise 137
Witcher 154, 157
Wolbert 3, 60
Wood 144, 162
Woodward 137
Wooley 139
Worrall 60
Wray 72
Wright 118
Wrightson 137
Wyatt 162
X
Xavier 136
Y
Yearby 150
Yerby 150
Young 70, 73, 81,
137, 144, 149
Yount 146
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Numeric
1739 Publications 163
A
ADN Genealogical Research 164
ALE Group 163
American Descendants of Lawrence
Pearson Rotherham, Yorkshire,
England 1642–2005 163
American Historical Society of
Germans from Russia 41
Ancestry Records, RHB, LLC,
Larry Tonelli 163
Anthony Adolph 164
Anundsen Publishing Company 55
Arphax 69
AskAGenie.com 49
Aviation Archaeology 163
B
BCG Genealogical Standards
Manual, The 123
Berrish Books, Gone
From Texas 162
Buzzard and Alt Families 163
C
California Research,
Margaret Posehn 166
Canada Genealogical Research
Library and Archives
of Canada 165
Carl Elliott Books 163
Carolina Maps 167
Central New York Research,
Cindy Drage 167
Chicago, Illinois Research,
Kim Stankiewicz 166
City Directories 165
Colonial Roots 84
D
Daniel Dod Family in
America 163
Darnall, Darnell Family Vol. II,
The 163
Dear Myrtle 15, 150
Diane Kropp 164
Die Pommerschen Leute 165
DMK Heritage 164
Dogwood Printing 121
E
Eastman’s Online Genealogy
Newsletter 86
England and Wales Research,
Raymond Foster 164
European Focus 40
European Workbook 162
Everton Publishers 1, 50, 58, 59,
85, 176, Back Inside Cover
F
Family Chronicle 9, 117
Family Roots Publishing
Company 75
Footnote.com 6
G
Geneabase 162
Genealogical Publishing
Company, Inc. 23, 74
Genealogical Records Researcher;
Connie Casilear Mitchell 68
Genealogical Research in Germany,
Ulrike Bachmann 164
Genealogical Research,
Mark Adams 164
Genealogical Society of
New Jersey 167
Genealogy on Television 163
Genealogy Publishing Service 164
Genealogy Services, Mary
Lynn Felsberg 168
Genline.com 45
Genoom.com 113
German Ancestors,
Volker Jarren 165
German Translation, Ann
C. Sherwin 164
German Translation & Research,
Jutta Epperly 165
German Translations,
Karin Ell 164
Getting Personal with Your
Ancestors, Irene P. Lambert 166
Gilbert Gallery 162
Goodrich Family Association 168
Great Britain & U.S. Research,
Eileen Rich 164
Guide to Genealogy
Research, Francis Pittman
Malcom 163
H
Hans Landis, Swiss Anabaptist
Martyr in Seventeenth
Century Documents 163
Historica 165
Historical Research Associates 164
Hungarians and Germans,
Martha R. Conner 165
I
Illinois and Midwestern
Research, Ronald Kolb 166
Illinois Death Record Searches and
Genealogical Publications 166
Iowa Research, Jim
Christianson 166
Irish/European Union 165
K
Kansas Council Of Genealogical
Societies, Inc. 51
Kirkpatrick Association, George
M Kirkpatrick 168
L
Lancaster County
Connections 162
Lineages 28
LiveRoots.com 34
M
Massachusetts Document
Retrieval Service 166
Minnesota Reearch, Darlene
C Joyce 164
Minnesota Research,
Authentic Origins 166
N
National Institute for
Genealogical Studies 151
New Jersey Genealogical Research,
Michelle L. Chubenko 167
New Jersey Newspaper Searches,
Dennis Piccirillo 167
New Jersey Research, John
E. Rendfrey 167
New Mexico Research,
Charles L. Jensen 167
Northeast Professional Genealogy,
Rev. Dr. Robert L. Rafford 58
Northwest Arkansas Research,
Marcia Connors 166
North West Missouri Genealogical
Society, Atchison County 166
O
Ohio-Pennsylvania Research,
Mary Scott 167
Ohio Research, Henry
R. Timman 167
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Advertiser’s Index
Oregon Newspaper Research,
Gregory Toftdahl 167
Oregon Research, Leslie
Lawson 167
Osage County, Kansas Historical
& Genealogical Research 166
Ozarks Genealogical
Society, Inc. 166
P
Pennsylvania/Delaware,
Mary Fitzpatrick 168
Pennsylvania Genealogy
Monthly 167
Photorepair.com 49
Pitman/Pittman Newsletter 163
Plaistow, NH Vital Records,
Mary Ellen Moulton 167
POINTers, The American Network
of Italian Genealogy 165
Professional Genealogy
Research 165
R
Reed Genealogy 162
Revolutionary War Soldier
and His Descendants,
James Standridge 73
RMB Genealogical Services 165
Roots Magic 35
S
Salt Lake Christmas Tour 61
Salt Lake Plaza Hotel Front
Inside Cover, 34, Back Cover
Scotia-Hypernia Books,
Nina Hutchins 162
Sojourn of the Ingrams,
Gladys Ingram 162
South Carolina Magazine of
Ancestral Research, The 168
South Central Texas Research,
Holly Heinsohn, B.A.,
M.A.I.S. 168
Southern California Research,
Liz Stookesberry Myers 166
Southern Genealogy 167
Speck & Benjamin Reed
Families 162
S-T Imaging, Inc 29
T
Tapping Your Roots; Lisa E.
Morrow Koogler 167
Tennessee Family Finder 168
Texas Research, Diane
Tofte Kropp 168
That Metzger Family & Others,
That Wadlington Family &
Others, Donna Metzger 162
The Past Lane, Cheryl
Abernathy 167
Tracing a Legacy 165
Transcription—Diaries, Service
Letters, College Letters,
Priscilla Weir 163
Translation and Paleography,
Peter D. Hays 164
Translator of German, French,
Dutch, Gordon Hartig 164
V
Val’s Roots Professional
Genealogy Services 165
Virginia and Genealogy 168
Virginia Genealogical Research,
Don G. Price 168
W
Washington, D.C. and North
Virginia, Greg Mason 166
Washington, D.C. Research,
Sandra L. Ceely 166
West Central Missouri Genealogical
Society and Library, Inc. 167
White’s Genealogy Services 167
Will-Britt Books 133
Y
Your Family in History 163
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